Senators Clash Over Roosevelt Policy in War Debate
Washington April 13 Senator George warning will not lead nation to war sparks isolationist reaction as he denounces Roosevelt foreign policy and opposes giving power to name aggressors. Senator Bridges introduces a resolution condemning inflammatory statements amid mounting European tensions and upcoming Pan American Union speech.
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Roosevelt
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George ‘D. Be Hy
Warm Springs
George
Bridges
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Veneeae
Mich
Leee Ca
Poe
Congress
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Pan-American Union
Miners' Aid Hopes Dim Amid West Virginia Shutdown
Charleston April 13 AP Hopes of federal commodities for idle West Virginia miners dimmed as Public Assistance Director Garnett reiterated the state cannot provide relief for those out of work due to the bituminous shutdown. Blizzard asked Governor Holt to seek food and clothing for destitute miners, citing a commodities official who said aid requires state request.
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W. Va
West Virginia
A. W. Garnett
New York
William Blizzard
United Mine Workers District 17
Holt
A Commodities Corporation
Commodities Corporation
Garnett
Commodities Corpora
Blizzard
Mines closed by Clinchfield amid union drive
Clinchfield coal company ordered its mines shut through Saturday as about 1000 United Mine Workers from Virginia Kentucky and West Virginia sought to organize the mines. A nonunion Negro miner Robert Hoard was shot during a parade by picketing miners and several cars were stoned causing arrests for drunken and disorderly conduct.
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Clinchfield Coal Cor
Lee Long
United Mine Workers
G. D. Buchanan
Robert Hoard
Clintwood
W. C. Carr
State Police
Dickenson
Senate approves election fraud bill 15
Washington April 13 Senate quick unanimous approval of a bill to curb pernicious political activity with fines and up to one year in jail. The measure targets federal elections including president and electors with hopes to extend to primaries and conventions if House action allows. Senator Hatch notes surprise and readiness to attach to relief funding.
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Senate
House
Hatch
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Ee A Poveere
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Lurid Testimony In Florida Love Theft Suit
James Edgar of Detroit renewed his $300000 love theft suit against Lewis E Mallory III of Harry Duke in a Miami Deauville hotel suite case. Testimony described hotel room intimacies watched by a six man jury as witnesses recounted earlier trials. Mallory and Kathryn Crawford denied the charges while Crawford's stage name is used.
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Miami
Fla
James Edgar
Detroit
Lewis E. Mallory
Harry Duke
Mallory
Miami Beach
Deauville
Edgar
Kathryn Crawford
Florida
Fascists Cheer as Albania Accepted as Italian Crown Realm
Mussolini said Italy would march straight ahead as a 50 000 strong Fascist crowd chanted on to Paris. The Albanian constituent assembly invited King Vittorio Emanuele III to crown in Rome, formalizing the conquest amid Anglo French pledges in the Mediterranean.
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Mussolini
Italy
Paris
Grand Council
Albania
Vittorio Emanuele III
Mediterranean
Vittorio Emanuele
Il Duce
Achille Starace
Palazzo Venezia
France
Tunisia
Corsica
Savoy
Nice
Clain
London
Romania
Greece
John Metaxas
Count Ciano
Grecian
Lad Dies After Reluctant Stab Wound Disclosure
In Brooklyn a 12 year old named Jack Grant died after being accidentally stabbed by a playmate throwing a knife at a billboard target. He bled to death on his stoop as companions urged him to tell his mother and his father rushed home to find the knife still in his chest.
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New York
Jack Grant
Brooklyn
Women Arrested For Hinder Non-Union Mine Work
Fifteen women are jailed in Pineville Kentucky for attempting to halt operations at the Coleman Fuel company mine in Red Bird by placing stones and wood on mine cars. County Attorney Walter B Smith says they conspired to molest property and were released on bond under five thousand dollars each.
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Pineville
Walter B. Smith
Coleman Fuel Company
Red Bird
Kentucky
Appalachian
Coleman
Comedian Ed Wynn Ordered to Pay Maintenance
In New York on April 13, state supreme court ordered comedian Ed Wynn to pay 150 dollars weekly as temporary alimony to his second wife Frieda Mierse Wynn. She had sought 250 dollars weekly maintenance in the separation case.
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New York
Ed Wynn
State Supreme Court
Frieda Mierse Wynn
Toy Gun Bandit Given 20 Years
Leland Ritter Rebert a 48 year old Mississippi ex convict who used a toy pistol in a bank robbery was sentenced to 20 years in Atlanta penitentiary by Judge George W. McClintic in Charleston. He robbed the First National Bank here of 1021 dollars, was captured three minutes later and the money recovered.
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Leland Ritter Rebert
Bluefield First National Bank
McClintic
Charleston
Mississippi
George W. McClintic
U. S
Atlanta
Robert
First National Bank
Mississippi State
Fred Alex
Mitchell Receives Months Term In Wounding Case
Mercer County Circuit Court Judge John M. McGrath sentenced Bluefield youth Mitchell to six months in jail and a concurrent term of two months on a separate charge after a jury found him guilty of unlawful wounding in the June incident on East Princeton avenue. Mitchell had sought a sanity hearing, was pronounced sane, and later argued newly discovered evidence warranting a new trial. He claimed self defense after Dawson was shot in the leg during the arrest attempt. Mitchell was committed to jail following the proceedings.
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Daitchel
Kenneth
Bluefield
John M. McGrat
Mercer
Mitchell
McGrath
Dawson
Princeton Avenue
N and W Stockholders Reelect 11 Directors
Roanoke Va April 13 Stockholders of Norfolk and Western Railway re elected 11 directors at their annual meeting today The board will meet in Philadelphia April 25 for election and appointment of officers Directors include P Bush A J County S L Slover J G Hanes M W Clement W J Jenks W 8 Franklin C D Young and E R Johnson
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Roanoke
Norfolk and Western Railway Company
Philadelphia
P. Bush
Columbus
A. J. County
SL. Slover
Norfolk
James G. Hanes
Winston- Salem
N. C
M. W. Clement
W. J. Jenks
C. D. Young
E. R. Johnson
28 Die and 50 Hurt in Mexico Rail Crash
Mexico City April 13 Officials of the worker operated railway said a Guadalajara bound train ploughed into the rear of a standing train from Laredo on the Laredo Guadalajara line 140 miles north of Mexico City. The collision killed at least 28 people and injured 50 as repairs were underway on a defective air brake line.
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Mexico City
Laredo
Guadalajara
Mexican National Railware
Pay Row Halts Upstate Trucks in Clarksburg
In Clarksburg West Virginia 75 drivers walked out at midnight halting motor trucking after 3 weeks of failed wage contract talks with 15 companies. Only out of town trucks operated as unions seek 30 hour weeks and long distance pay with a 100 mile threshold. No disturbances reported.
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W. Va
International Brotherhood of Re Teamsters and Helpers A
West Virginia
W. B. Crawley
A. R. Carmichael
Chester Lyons
Carmichael
The
State Motor Truck Association
Lyons
Germans Reject British Peace Pledge as Worthless
Berlin asserts Britons mislead Europe with assurances and fear that British policy risks drawing all of Europe into war. Nazi officials question England’s ability to aid Greece or defend against a German invasion and condemn English panic tactics and false alarms.
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Berlin
Germany
Greece
Romania
Europe
Chamberlain
Moscow
Turkey
England
Reich
Nazi to Stage Games Off Spain
Berlin reports that several German fleet units have sailed for exercises in the Atlantic off the Spanish coast. Britain and France were informed. officials caution the maneuvers are not tied to the international situation. Six cruisers two 10,000 ton pocket battleships destroyers and submarines reportedly departed Kiel.
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Berlin
Britain
France
Germany
English Channel
Fiotillas
Kiel
Police Guard Lindbergh as He Arrives in New York
More than 100 policemen were assigned to protect Col Charles A. Lindbergh on his arrival in New York aboard the liner Aquitania. Police called the move customary but noted tension in Europe.
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New York
Charles A. Lindberg
Aquitania
Europe
Britain and France Stand Behind Greece and Romania
London and Paris pledged full military support to Poland already, extending commitments from the Baltic to the Aegean as anti aggression measures widen. Chamberlain Daladier and Halifa x pledged to back Greece and Romania against any threats with Malta dispatches and talks to add Soviet Russia and Turkey to the alliance.
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Associated Press
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Great Britain
France
Rumania
Greece
Germany
Italy
Poland
Baltic
Europe
Iide
Daladier
Paris
House of the Lords
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Chamberlain
Russia
Turkey
Airline workers strike at Newark city airport
About two dozen members of the Air Line Mechanics International AFL walked out at 12 01 am at the eastern airlines terminal in Newark in a wage dispute described as the first system wide strike in airline history. A plane arriving from Washington was moved by a tractor before the deadline and later stored away by a foreman not in the union.
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Air Line Mechanics Association, International
AFL
Eastern Airlines
Newairport
A. P. Martin
Washington
Jule Neuenhaus
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