Britain silent on ship losses as Spain truce talks advance
London reports indicate Britain overlooks two more merchant ship sinkings by rebels while pursuing a Spain truce and early operation of the Rome pact with Italy. Prime Minister Chamberlain says no retaliation and a potential armistice for Spain remains unlikely.
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Queen Elizabeths Mother Dies at 76 in London
The Countess of Strathmore wife of the Scottish Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne died in London at 76 with King George VI and the queen at her bedside. Born Nina Cavendish-Bentinck she was mother to Queen Elizabeth. Her death may affect the forthcoming state visit to France as the royal court contemplates mourning.
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Countess Babs Guards Son Amid Kidnap Threat Rumors
London reports say American heiress Countess Barbara Hutton safeguarded her two year old son Lance after a letter threatened his safety. Her Danish husband Count Court Haugwitz-Reventlow reportedly is away as Scotland Yard denies a kidnap plot. Private guards monitored a large Midlondon estate where the nanny and staff kept watch over the child.
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Countess Renounces Citizenship and Court Visit Sparks Case
A countess appeared at Bow Street court this afternoon seeking a court order related to a threatening letter and possible child custody issues amid a marital rift. She had renounced United citizenship last December 16, with her attorney Sir Patrick Hastings stating details of the court order are temporarily unavailable for legal reasons.
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Lawyers Slain in Court Room in Los Angeles
In Los Angeles on June 22 two attorneys, R. D. McClaughlin and J. Irving Hancock, were shot dead in a superior court room. Arthur Emil Hansen, 38, confessed to the killings after Commissioner Kurtz Kauffman had ruled against him in a land case. Hansen, captured after fleeing, reportedly said he acted because the lawyers had cheated him out of everything he owned.
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R. D. McClaughlin
J. Irving Hancock
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Final Totals in Montana Rail Crash Raise Missing Toll
Milwaukee railroad officials in Miles City indicated the final toll from the Olympic bodies recovered may be 48. They added four names to the missing list and said they have good evidence another person was lost, bringing the missing to 11 among unidentified dead.
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Federal Gash 19 ladled out as spending being forecast
Washington reports the Public Works Administration is distributing federal cash to hundreds of cities and towns as part of the Roosevelt era relief program. Commerce Secretary says economic skies are clearing with inventories down nine percent from a year ago, signaling better business by fall.
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Cloudburst Deluges Pilot Rock in Oregon Town
Torrential rains flood Pilot Rock Oregon pouring five feet of water through the town. Stores and most houses inundated but no lives lost. Residents flee after a warning from Mrs Hans Nielson. Damage estimated at fifty thousand dollars as more flooding reported on East Birch Creek toward the town center.
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Knox and Thorpe Attack New Deal in Editors Meeting
White Sulphur Springs W Va June 22 A big propaganda machine is used to exploit the federal government with reprisals for critics Colonel Frank Knox charges before the National Editorial association After the banquet Editor Merle Thorpe asserts a revolution is underway Despotism dressed in benevolence is still despotism He says propaganda agencies operate in all states to spread the gospel of the new movement and warns of penalties for prominent critics
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Knox Criticized by Governor Holt
West Virginia Governor Homer A. Holt rebuked Col. Frank Knox for a political speech at a supposed non political news gathering in White Sulphur Springs. Holt apologized for hosting a guest who would attack the administration, while affirming free speech rights for Knox and the press.
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Chicago
Roosevelt Sends Commission Abroad to Study Labor Relations
President Roosevelt dispatched nine officials from business labor education and government to England and Sweden to study employer employee relations. The group includes Gerard Swope and Charles R. Hook for business, Robert Watt for labor, Lloyd K. Garrison and Marion Dickerman for education, and William Ellison Chalmers William H. Davis Anna M. Rosenberg for government. The mission aims to observe practices in two countries with laws on the books, not to rewrite U.S. labor policy.
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Sweden
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New York
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Louis Victory Sparks Riot in Cleveland Negro Quarter
Police fought a riotion in Cleveland after Joe Louis defeated Max Schmeling. Tear gas cleared crowds as injuries mounted at a charity hospital and at least one man was shot. Police reported bricks, knives and missiles as fighting erupted at a busy intersection.
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New Peace Efforts Reported in Sino Japanese War
Shanghai reports of fresh peace moves to halt the Sino Japanese conflict amid Japanese air strikes on Swatow and rising friction at Nanking and Shanghai. Emissaries from the north China provisional government meet Chinese officials under Chiang Kai-shek while Japan hints at pressuring Chiang to disappear. The U S S Asheville remains on station off Swatow as American interests await developments.
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Cleveland councilmen propose 5 million lottery to aid relief
In Cleveland on June 22 two city councilmen proposed a five million dollar lottery to fund relief for the hungry and homeless. Picketers outside a relief office pressed for food and rent aid while banks were urged to buy 1939 sales tax notes to restart food orders. The plan would offer fifteen percent of gross as cash prizes and be voted on under suspension of rules at the next council meeting before summer recess.
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Clark L. Mack
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Raymond J. Taylor Gested
Louis Knocks Out Schmeling in 2 Minutes
Joe Louis, the Dusky Bomber, avenges a 1936 loss by stopping Max Schmeling in 2 minutes 4 seconds of the first round at Yankee Stadium. Hailed by 80,000 fans, Louis lands a swift left and devastating rights to secure a decisive technical knockout, matching Dempsey’s 1923 Polo Grounds finish for speed.
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