Attorney Is Slain By Common-Law Wife in Quarrel
Patricia Holbrook, 34, shot and killed her common-law husband William Holbrook, 42, a former assistant county prosecutor, in front of the Benton Harbor police station after a quarrel. She fired four shots, two hitting his head, minutes after he brought her to the station to detain her. A murder charge was filed against Holbrook, who had purchased the pistol weeks earlier in South Bend.
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Benton Harbor
Mich
Patricia Holbrook
Westin
Holbrook
Harvey
Berrian County
Bill
Kimmel
Ind
Murphy
Snyder
Alderman
Miss Etting
National Broadcasting Studios
Hollywood Lake
Supreme Court Grants Review of Communist Party Deportation Case
The Supreme Court granted the federal government's petition to review a Fifth Circuit ruling that membership in the Communist Party is not by itself grounds for deporting an alien. The circuit court had ordered Strecker's release from threatened deportation on habeas corpus, though deportation was ordered for Strecker born in Austria for admitted Communist Party membership in 1932 and 1933.
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Washington
U.P
Supreme Court
Fifth Circuit Courts of Appeals
Communist Party
United States
Circuit Court
Joseph George Strecker
Hot Springs
Ark
Strecker
Austria
Roosevelt greets 30th Civil Service Assembly message on merit
President Roosevelt opened the 30th annual Civil Service Assembly of the United States and Canada in Washington with a pledge to secure adequate funding for merit system improvements. He said well selected trained supervised personnel with opportunity for advancement are key to effective government administration.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Civil Service Assembly
United States
Canada
Refuge of Jews in Holy Land Limited
Al Easterman of The Daily Herald reports that Britain abandons partition plans for Palestine following the Woodhead Commission findings. The government will curb Jewish immigration and restrict sale of land to Jews in Palestine.
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Holy Land
London
Daily Herald
Palestine Authority
al Easterman
Woodhead
Palestine
Jraud
Roosevelt to Discuss Relief with Hopkins in Hyde Park
President Roosevelt, back home for a week, opened relief talks with Harry Hopkins, head of WPA, receiving reports of rising business conditions and fewer applications for federal aid. The discussions will extend to politics and national defense later in the week.
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Hyde Park
N. Y
Roosevelt
Harry Hopkins
WPA
Garner May Lead Drive Against Roosevelt Opponents
Southern conservatives turn to Vice President Garner to lead legislative battles in Congress and 1940 nomination fights. The move targets New Deal deficits and policies while shaping agendas on agriculture relief business railroads and the national economy as Roosevelt weighs a potential third term.
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Washington
Garner
Roosevelt
James A. Farley
American Magazine
Farley
Supreme Court
Wheeler
Labor Divides on Candidates in Columbus Race
In Columbus both governor candidates, Republican John W. Bricker and Democrat Charles Sawyer, received labor endorsements. The Cincinnati Building Trades Council AFL affiliated with 17 craft unions backed Bricker, while Teamsters official Milton Doll urged all laboring people to support Sawyer.
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Columbus
John W. Bricker
Charles Sawyer
Cincinnati
Cincinnati Building Trades Council
American Federation of Labor
Bricker
Milton Doll
Teamsters Joint Council No. 26
AFL
Sawyer
Girl Retracts Charge of Criminal Assault
Florence Risser an 18 year old stenographer at Bowling Green Junior High today admitted to police that her earlier report of being kidnapped and assaulted by an unknown man was false. Police Chief Carl Galliher said she accompanied the man and submitted voluntarily.
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Bowling Green
Florence Risser
Carl Galliher
Miss Risser
Man Dies After Fight. Suspect Held by Police
Lawrence R. Dalier, 27, was detained by Wooster police as they probe the death of Harry McCann, a laborer, who was found dying in a downtown alley Saturday. Coroner A J Hartzler ruled the death from a brain blood clot. Dalier admitted knocking McCann down during a fight.
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Wooster
U.P
Lawrence R. Dalier
Harry McCann
McCann
A. J. Hartzler
Dalier
Ohioans Win Degree at National Future Farmers Convention
Six Ohio youths were conferred the degree of American Farmer the highest honor in the Future Farmers of America at the national convention in Kansas City.
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Kansas City
Future Farmers of America
Ohio
Hollywood Scandal Deepens Over Ruth Etting Marriage
Hollywood reels as Ruth Etting faces a potential murder trial after her ex husband Moe Snyder claims no prosecution. Meryl Alderman, Etting’s current husband and musician, is in fair condition from a gunshot wound. The case hinges on rival accounts of the shooting and alleged kidnapping at the National Broadcasting Studios and Etting’s Hollywood home.
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Hollywood
U.P
Ruth Etting
Meryl Alderman
Miss Etting
Martin (Moe) Snyder
Lawyers join Labor's Anti Amendment Fight
Lawyers who oppose the appointive judiciary amendment in Ohio align with organized labor in the anti amendment drive. State Federation of Labor secretary Thomas J. Donnelly and Ohio Committee for Industrial Organization president John Owens pledge backing from both labor branches.
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Columbus
A.P
Ohio State Bar Association
Ohio
Organized Labor
Thomas J. Donnelly
State Federation of Labor
John Owens
Ohio Committee For Industrial Organization
Rival Stabbed Man Dies After Beer Parlor Incident
In Columbus 21 year old Robert J Heiser died in hospital from stab wounds inflicted by a jealous suitor of 36 year old Ruth Valentine. Police held 38 year old Fred Jewell for questioning.
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Columbus
Robert J. Heiser
Ruth Valentine
Heiser
Valentine
Fred Jewell
Galati Trial Opens in Murder Charge in Youngstown
The Galati murder trial began in Youngstown with the examination of a special venue of 75 prospective jurors for the case against Thomas Galati regarding Roy Happy Marino's killing.
Health Board Closes 100 Year Old Spring
MACEDONIA O. U P For the first time in 100 years a spring at the corner of Shep hard Road and Route 82 near here was under lock and key. The watering place a landmark to thousands of people in Cuyahoga and Portage counties was ordered closed by the Portage County Health Board.
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Macedonia
U.P
Shephard Road
Route 82
Cuyahoga
Portage
Portage County Health Board
Japs Drive Up Railroads To Seize Canton
Japanese mechanized forces advanced along the Hong Kong to Canton railroad and prepared to land thousands more troops. Reports say the line was severed north of Shumchun, about halfway between the two cities, as Tokyo predicted Canton and Hanoi fall soon. Forty Japanese warships and transports were reported off Swa Tow.
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Hong Kong
U.P
Canton
South China
Shumchun
Hankow
Swatow
British forces battle Arabs in Palestine violence rises
British military authorities reported six Arab rebels killed and 300 captured in Palestine Sunday as raids on post offices and mail vans continue. The Provisional Arab Government is cited in censoring mail. Jewish leaders accuse Britain of surrendering to rebels amid reinforcements from India Egypt and England.
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Jerusalem
Palestine
India
Egypt
England
Labor Opposes 15 Percent Wage Cut in Rail Labor Case
Charles M. Hay for 18 railroad labor groups argued before President Roosevelt's emergency fact finding board that a 15 percent wage cut would be unjust to workers harmful to the industry and a threat to the national economy. He was to be followed by Tom Davis for the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and J. Carter Fort for the Carriers' Joint Conference Committee representing 139 Class I railroads.
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Washington
Charles M. Hay
Roosevelt
Hay
Tom Davis
Minneapolis
Brotherhood of Railroad
J. Carter Fort
World Church Meeting Opens in New Orleans
Catholics from around the world descend on New Orleans for the eighth National Eucharistic Congress. Cardinal Mundelein arrives by special train with papal legate and a large group of clergymen and laymen. Nearly 100000 pilgrims registered for ceremonies. More than 100000 received Holy Communion across 55 churches as a record. Congress opens Tuesday.
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New Orleans
George Cardinal Mundelein
Chicago
Middle West
Hoover and Alf Landon Lead GOP Speaking Campaign
The Republican National Committee selects former President Hoover and Alf M. Landon to head the GOP speaking tour ahead of the upcoming general elections next month.
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Hoover
Landon
Washington
Republican National Committee
Alf M. Landon
Editors Laud American Privilege of Free Press
The American Society of Newspaper Editors praised the free press for hour-by-hour coverage of the European crisis, noting U S readers were more informed than publics in dictatorial nations. President William Allen White cited Czechom crisis coverage as an example.
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Chicago
American Society of Newspaper
Fiditors
United States
Society
William Allen White
Emporia, Kan, Gazette
Europe
Double Price System Gets FD Approval
Washington officials report a tentative two price system to aid surplus farm products through a means tested government subsidy. President Roosevelt approved a study led by Secretary Wallace to extend price supports for low income groups buying clothing and food, modeled after LaGuardia milk distributions.
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Washington
U.P
Roosevelt
Wallace
New York
Fiorello H. LaGuardia
Four Germans Held as Spies in Panama Canal Area
Four Germans a woman and three men were held for investigation on charges of taking photographs of a fortified Panama Canal zone. Cameras were confiscated after a sentry statement that the group claimed they had no cameras when asked. Later sightings near Galeta Island tied them to photographs of Fort Randolph defenses.
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Panama
U.P
Panama Canal
Post Exchange
Galeta Island
Fort Randolph
Czechoslovakia
Hungary
Slovakia
Ruthenia
Berlin
Walther Funk
Balkans
Reich
Bulgaria
Turkey
Yugoslavia
Rome
Italy
Panama City
United States
Panama Canal Zone
Hong Kong
Japan
Hit-Skip Injures Three at Gas Station Crash
Police search for a hit-skip driver after a car struck three pedestrians on the East Liverpool Youngstown highway. Mr and Mrs Scott Bailey aged 60 and Raymond Franklin 24 were hit stepping from a car owned by John Davis. Mrs Bailey in serious condition. All were treated and discharged.
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Liverpool
Youngstown
Scott Bailey
Raymond Franklin
John Davis
Bailey
Franklin
Hold Youths in Slaying Of Hobo Companion
County Attorney says Don Gallaway 21 Mansfield Ohio and Gary Ames 14 Wilmington Massachusetts will be arraigned Tuesday for the slaying of a train companion near Kearney Nebraska. The youths confessed the shooting with robbery as motive. They boarded the train at Odessa with H. A. Billings of Chicago identified as the victim.
Cincinnati Manufacturer Heads Jewish Aid Group
Oscar Berman of Cincinnati chaired a newly formed Ohio Jewish committee to aid the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee in helping distressed Jews in central and eastern Europe.
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Cincinnati
Jewish Aid Group
Columbus
U.P
Oscar Berman
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
FACING GERMANY AND BRITAIN A CRISIS OF PEACE OR WAR
Report of Nazi plans after Munich Four Power Conference with forecasts of German air supremacy and colony demands. Britain braces for a firmer policy, rearmament, cabinet changes, and unity with the United States against aggression. Churchill urges U S Britain alliance while Arab revolts complicate the Holy Land and Britain's empire. Czechoslovakia backs German pressure on Hungary as martial law is declared along the frontier.
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Joe Alex Morris
United Press
Great Britain
Nazi Germany
Fuehrer
Adolf Hitler
Munich
London
Germany
Europe
Hitler
Neville Chamberlain
Winston Churchill
America
United States
Britain
British
Tanganyika
Reich
The
Holyland
FCC split over WLW power cut plan
A FCC sub committee urged denying Crosley Radio’s WLW its 500 kilowatt experimental license. The panel said WLW’s dominance hurts smaller nearby stations’ ability to win ad revenue, despite WLW being the sole U S station authorized above 50 kilowatts.
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Washington
U.P
Federal Communications Commission
A. M. Craven
George Henry Payne
Norman S. Case
WLW
Crosley Radio Corporation
Cincinnati
Two Die Two Hurt in Crash Near Coshocton
Glen Clark and Riley Addy of Birds Run were injured as two others, Beryl Ross and Beryl Lawrence of Kimbolton, were killed when a four man car traveling to Newark for Davey Tree Surgery Co side swiped a parked car hit a tree and ended in a vacant lot Sunday night. Clark suffered a fractured collar bone and Addy minor bruises and cuts.
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Coshocton
Glen Clark
Riley Addy
Birds Run
Beryl Ross
Beryl Lawrence
Kimbolton
Newark
Davey Tree Surgery Co
Clark
Addy
Newspaper advertising shows rise toward 1937 levels
UP-Media Record said newspaper advertising linage rose last month to within 11 per cent of September 1937 total. An analysis of 52 cities indicated the upturn would continue through 1938 with total advertising for the balance of the year seen at 93 to 94 per cent of the 1937 figure for the same period.
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New York
Up—Media Records
Ohio Declares Navy 4 to 11 American Legion Week
Governor Davey proclaimed Navy 4 to 11 as American Legion Week in Ohio. He cited the Legion education program for enduring peace and its effort to promote civic values across the state.
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Columbus
U.P
Davey
Navy
American Legion
Ohio
Legion
Nazis Plot New Attack on Austrian Church Property
In Vienna a Nazis party article titled Rich Church, Poor People stirred speculation on the fate of Roman Catholic church property in Austria. The piece followed a Nazi secret police expulsion of Franciscan monks who had occupied a Salzburg monastery for 150 years.
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Vienna
4U.P
Austria
Salzburg
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Rumrich
Erich Glaser
Air Corps
Otto Herman Voss
Seversky Airplane Factory
Johanna Hoffman
Inset
Europa
Filmland
Man
Health Board
Lazar Kirchenkoff
St. George's Greek Orthodox Church
Palmerton, Pa
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