German Press Attacks Czech In New Frontier Incident
June 1 AP report says Berlin papers condemn Czech actions after a cafe brawl in Eger left two Sudeten Germans wounded. Berlin dailies accuse Prague of provocations while some minimize the event as drunken Czech misbehavior. Czech parliament plans to raise compulsory military service from two to three years.
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Berlin
Czechoslovakia
Eger
Germany
New Nachtausgabe
London
Paris
Praha
Nachtausgade
Land
France
Accused Slayer Remains Calm in Shirley Woodburn Case
Lindberg Heist, 15, accused of murdering six year old Shirley Ann Woodburn, appeared calm in court as prosecutors say he confessed to stabbing the girl in a wooded area after an alleged immoral advance. Police report he claimed narcotic influence from a cigarette given by a man and that fear of disclosure prompted the attack.
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Cincinnati
Lindberg Heist
Shirley Ann Woodburn
Jranville Court
Dudley Miller
Lindy
Shirley
Antonny
John Woodburn
Unmac
Elizabeth
Boy crushed to death at abandoned mine entrance
Charleston report says thirteen year old Leonard L. Ramey of Blakeley died when slate collapsed at an abandoned mine entrance near his home. Matt Lanham and a son found the body with legs visible beneath nearly a ton of slate.
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Charleston
W. Va
Leonard L. Ramey
Blakeley
Matt Lanham
Savings and Loan Tax Case Heads to High Court
A Kanawha circuit court injunction halted West Virginia property taxes on assets of three Charleston federal savings and loan associations and 18 similar entities. The case questions whether such institutions are taxable like ordinary corporations or enjoy federal protections under the Home Owners' Loan Act. The matter may go to the state supreme court for resolution.
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Kanawha
Savings and Loan Associations
Charleston
W. Va
Supreme Court
Julian F. Bouchelle
Bouchelle
Charleston Federal Saving & Loan Association
The
Empire Federal Saving and Loan Association
First Federal Savings and Loan Association
State Tax Department
Clarence W. Meadows
Guffey Reunites With Pennsylvania Democratic Leaders
Democratic state chairman David L. Lawrence said Senator Joseph F. Guffey is back with the Pennsylvania Democratic organization after a split in the recent primary. A state committee meeting is planned for June 14 to cement the union and back the Earle Jones ticket. Lawrence noted peace talks with Guffey have cleared the air and Guffey will aid the fall campaign.
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Harrisburg
David L. Lawrence
Joseph F. Guffey
Pennsylvania
Guffey
Lawrence
Earle-Jones
Washington
Congress
Guffer
John L. Lewis
C. S
Thomas Kennedy
State Committee
Charles Alvin Jones
Governnor
Earle
U. S
Harlan Trial Motion Denied in Labor Conspiracy Case
In London Kentucky on June 1 a defense motion for a mistrial in the Harlan labor conspiracy case was overruled by Federal District Judge H Church Ford. Charles I Dawson challenged testimony from a Nen Coal Co former manager who implied union involvement could affect his health care. Police also reported arrests of two former deputies Lee Hubbard and Merle Midleton and an additional man Sammy Thomas on federal conspiracy and suborn perjury charges.
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London
Harlan
H. Church Ford
Charles I. Dawson
Ath Harlan
Nen Coal Company
Dawson
Isom
Har Central
Lee Hubbard
Merle Middleton
Thether Man
Sammy Thomas
Ages
Harlan Coatras
GOST DATA DECISION OF ROGG WILL STAND
The coal commission refused to rescind its decision to disclose production cost data from soft coal operators for setting minimum bituminous coal prices. Nine operators from Pennsylvania Ohio and West Virginia sought to keep the material confidential arguing disclosure would hurt them. The commission said figures would not be public until operators had chance for further steps. Some coal men expected court actions to restrain publication.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Pensylvania
Ohio
West Virginia
Hull Demands Japan Release American Property In China
Secretary of State Hull urged Tokyo to evacuate American properties and permit U S nationals to return to posts in Shanghai and other cities now occupied by Japanese forces. He questioned Japan's peace excuse and noted Americans and missionaries seek access as hundreds wait for permission.
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Shanghai
China
University of Shanghai
Washington
Japan
Hull
Tokyo
United States
Theii Ue
Nanking
State Department
Northern and
Southern Baptist Missionary Societies
Britain Outlines Twofold Peace Plan For Europe
London reports Britain’s cabinet mapped a plan to curb war dangers in Spain and Czechoslovakia. It calls for an armistice between Spanish factions and talks on Czechoslovakia’s German minority issues.
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London
Europe
Spain
Czechoslovakia
Adolf Hitler
Neville Chamberlain
Anthony Eden
Lease of Commons
Britain
Opanton Rebels Advance Swiftly
Spanish insurgents push from Teruel toward Valencia reversing government lines to about 12 miles from Valencia province. Aldehuela near Teruel relinquised. on the Teruel Albocacer front they broke through mountains reaching Golosa high ground. Franco appears to head the coastal left wing as insurgent tide grows.
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Hendaye
France
Teruel
Mediterranean
Valencia
Aldehuela
Albocacer
Golosa
Franco
Loyalists win in air battle over front
Madrid reports Spanish government pilots engaged Italian and German Insurgent planes high above the eastern front. An official communique says a large number of foe aircraft were challenged and 12 were shot down. The government claims five of its planes were lost in the fight.
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AIR Madrid
Eastern Front
House Approves New Food and Drug Bill
The House passed a reform bill to modernize the food and drug act, prohibiting misbranding, mandating testing before release, and letting the secretary define standards of identity. It would raise penalties and allow appeals to U S district courts from enforcement orders, despite opposition from Secretary Wallace.
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HOUSE
Washington
Senate
Wallace
U. S
Secretary of Agriculture
State Odd Fellows conclude encampment
Martinsburg West Virginia June 1 The grand encampment of state Odd Fellows elevates C K Schoolcraft of Parkersburg to the grand fraternity today and chooses Parkersburg for the 1939 meeting Schoolcraft succeeds W T Wilson of Philippi who becomes representative elect
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Martinsburg
W. Va
State Odd Fellows
C. K. Schoolcraft
Parkersburg
Parksburg
Schoolcraft
W. T. Wilso
Philippi
Doctor Leaps to Death From Allegheny Bridge
Pittsburgh June 1 Dr B Booz 60 a Negro physician drove into rush hour traffic and vaulted 65 feet from an Allegheny River bridge to his death on the sidewalk below authorities said the leap occurred during morning congestion.
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Pittsburgh
B. Booz
Allegheny River
Florida boynap probe widens as ransom shoebox found
Federal investigators study stained paper and a crude area map near the shoebox where Jimmy Cash’s $10,000 ransom was paid. A search of groves, pits and ditches expands with volunteers from Legion posts to W P A workers.
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Princeton
Fla
Jimmy Cash
Palmetto
Florida Peninsula
Miami
M. F
Cape Sable
Florida
D. C. Coleman
G. J. Stocks
Huntington
N. Y
Everglades
E. J. Connelley
Washington FBI
James Bailey Cash
American
Cash
Fram
Ments
Braxton
Florence Braxton
Communists Said To Hold Key CIO Posts And Influence
A legislative committee charged that communists control the National Maritime Union and key CIO positions. They alleged efforts to direct transport and labor to paralyze the country in war, warn against radical leadership, and claim the Communist influence across groups in Boston and Massachusetts.
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Boston
National Maritime Union
Committee For Industrial Organization
Communist Party
C.N. O
Civilian Conservation Corps
International Defense Association, Inc
Husetts
Remington Rand workers strike at four cities over high court order
About 6 000 employees at Middletown Connecticut and Elmira Syracuse and Titan conduct brief standup strikes in four cities in protest of the Supreme Court's refusal to review a National Labor Relations Board order reinstating 4000 1936 strikers. The Remington Rand Employees Association is not affiliated with a national union.
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Aian, N
Remington Rand Company
United States Supreme Court
Middletown
Rand Com
Labor Relations Act
James H. Rand, Jr
Remington Rand Employes Association
Truck Drivers Strike Closes Pittsburgh Area Bakeries
About 1,400 truck drivers at 35 southwestern Pennsylvania bakeries walked out at midnight, halting freight in a 60 mile radius and imperiling bread for 15,000 independent merchants and many homes. The union demanded seniority rights a closed shop and use of union labels on all droppers.
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Pittsburgh
Pennesylvania
George E. Frazier
A. F. of L. Bakery Truck Drivers Union
Coast Guard, Police Search For Levine Kidnapper Head
In New Rochelle New York June 1 authorities used a coast guard cutter and a private launch to drag a stretch of Long Island Sound seeking the missing head of kidnapper Peter Levine whose mutilated body had washed ashore the prior day.
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New Rochelle
N. Y
Coast Guard
Long Island Sound
Peter Levine
Senate splits on For's stand over spending bill
President Roosevelt urged swift enactment of a 3.247 billion spending lending bill without strings to avoid hindering quick project start ups. supporters say letter argues against earmarking while conservatives see it as endorsement of earmarking. battle centers on relief funds and political use claims.
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Washington
Senate
Roosevelt
Capitol Hill
Congress
Adams
Kiwanians Meet at Mountain Lake Southwest Virginia Event
About 350 Kiwanis members from eight third division clubs and two West Virginia clubs gathered at Mountain Lake Giles County for the largest inter-club meeting of its kind. Delegations from Princeton Athens and Bluefield attended led by Charles H. Archer and Robert T. Peters. Frank Walters of Roanoke presided at the banquet. Rev E E Northen gave the welcome and a baritone solo followed.
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Capital District
Kiwanis International
Mountain Lake
Giles County
Narrows Club
West Virginia
Virginia
Princeton-Athens
Charles H. Archer
Kiwanis Clubs
Bluefield Kiwanis Club
Robert T Peters
J. Hudson Huffman
Kiwanis Clu
Ctwood
Coeburn
Marion
Norton
Radford
Roanoke
Salem
Narrows
Frank Walters
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Tain
Geoffrey Lloyd
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House of Commons
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Lloyd
Samuel Hoare
Home Secretary
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Robert Reynolds
Spice
Hancock
Reynolds
Opanton
CIO
WPA
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George H. Goodman
Brady M. Stewart
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A. B. Chandler
Alben Barkley
Barkley
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Bakeries
Levine
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Bluefield
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