Baldwin Quits Post as Chamberlain Forms New Government
King George VI issues decree barring Wallis Warfield from royal title after marriage to Edward VIII. Baldwin resigns to pursue pig-keeping, knighthood and earldom awarded. Chamberlain forms coalition cabinet with Simon as chancellor and Hoare as home secretary.
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George VI
London
Stanley Baldwin
Wallis Warfield
Arthur Neville Chamberlain
Stan
Mrs. Warfield
Edward VIII
Duke of Windsor
John Simon
Chamberlain
Baldwin
Samuel Hoare
Admiralty
Alfred Duff Cooper
Leslie Hore-Belisha
Transport
Oliver Stanley
The
Board of Trade
Walter Runciman
Windsor to Fight Wallis Title Decree Heard
Monts France May 28. The Duke of Windsor rejects the decree denying Wallis Warfield the royal title and any potential heirs. A close associate says the duke will not accept the decision as final and is ready to fight.
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Windsor
Monts
France
Duke of Windsor
Wallis Warfield
London
George VI
Oldest Mother Dies at 105 in Memphis
Mrs. Mary N. Rice, touted as the nation s oldest mother, died at 105 in Memphis Tennessee after a week with a heart attack and gradual decline. Two daughters, Mrs Alfred Dockery 71 and Miss Nannie B Rice 77, were at her home. The title was awarded by the Golden Rule foundation in a nationwide survey.
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Memphis
Tenn
Mary N. Rice
Alfred Dockery
Nannie B. Rice
Golden Rule Foundation
Goebbels Threatens Expulsions Over Catholic Clergy
Berlin May 28 Dr Paul Goebbels replying to Catholic criticism of the Nazi regime warned of broad expulsions of Catholic clergy. He invoked the 1934 blood purge to illustrate cleansing measures and accused Catholic institutions of moral decay, urging persecutions amid a charged rally.
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Berlin
Woman Seized After Chaining Son To Tree While At Work
East Liverpool Ohio May 28 Mrs Pearl Pugh 44 Chester West Virginia pottery worker jailed for grand jury investigation after leaving her 13 year old son Daniel chained to a tree while she worked The boy freed himself and accused his mother saying she would beat him if he ran away He was padlocked with a dog collar to a 30 foot chain
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East Liverpool
Pearl Pugh
Chester W. Va
Daniel
Floyd Lyons
Lyons
Treasury probes tax evasion as revenues fall
Washington reports treasury officials prepared civil and criminal actions against evaders after a Treasury survey found serious tax avoidance by wealthy individuals. President Roosevelt urged legislation to strengthen the revenue system as March tax collections dropped 17 percent below estimates to 700 million dollars. House Ways and Means chair Doughton blamed evasions for low revenues and signaled further prosecutions.
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Treasury
Washington
Roosevelt
Justice Department
Capitol Hill
Doughton
D.-Nc
House
Ways and Means Committee
M. Vel
Mexican oil strike seeks aid from president as 18 000 workers walk out
In Mexico City and Cuernavaca, both sides appealed to President Lazaro Cardenas over the 400 million dollar oil strike. Peaceful picketing marked day one with 18 000 workers walking out after months of failed talks.
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Mexico City
Mexico
Lazaro Cardenas
Cuernavaca
Confederation of Mexican Workers
Cardenas
Acquittal in week of five murder trials frees Homer Thompson
In Williamson West Virginia on May 28 Homer Thompson was acquitted of fatally shooting his friend Sherman Crum in a restaurant fight from November 14. The acquittal followed a separate trial in which 19-year-old Johnny Blair was convicted of second degree murder for killing neighbor Fitzhugh Weiss.
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Williamson
W. Va
Homer Thompson
Thompson
Johnny Blair
Fitzhugh Weiss
Nolan
Sherman Crum
Crum
Quintuplets Turn Three Amid Radio Birthday Bash
Dionne quintuplets celebrate their third birthday in Callander Ontario with a radio broadcast and cake and candy only in oatmeal and exercise. Dr Allan Roy Dafoe hosts the celebration and turns 53 tomorrow. Mahoneys from St John New Brunswick send congratulations.
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Callander
Oliva Dionne
Allan Roy Dafoe
Marie
Emilie
Cecile
Yvonne
Annette
St. John
N. B
Canada
Mahoneys
O'va
Tulsea 22 Nominees for City Board Primary
Five candidates will be elected to the city directorate on Tuesday July 6. Yesterday was the filing deadline with five entries from districts 1 3 4 and 5 M C McNeal and C Snyder filed in district 1 William H in district 3 James Harold Martin in district 4 and Emanuel Chuell in district 5 McNeal a Bluefield resident at 88 College avenue is a Bluefield Grocery Co salesman and brother of Magrate W W McNeal Snyder a Daily Telegraph veteran lives at 641 College avenue and is son of Norfolk and Western foreman John W Snyder Col Thomas long noted Bluefield businessman served on the old Beaver Pond district school board Martin an attorney of Bluefield lives at 1204 Princeton avenue and has practiced law since graduation Chuell is a Wayne street property owner.
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M. C McNeal
C. Snyder
William H
James Harold
Martin
Emanuel Chuell
Mr. McNeal
Bluefield
College Avenue
Bluefield Grocery Com Ec
Magrate
W. W. McNeal
Snyder
Daily Telegraph
John W Snyder
Highland Avenue
Norfolk and Western
Cintbet
L. Bailey
Leedens
Col. Thomas
Beaver Pond
James Harold Martin
Princeton Avenue
Wayne Street
Roosevelt fights house revolt over relief funding pressuring WPA scope
President Roosevelt personally works to quell a House revolt over relief policy arguing a $1.5 billion request for next year would mean fewer jobs for the unemployed. He says earmarking $505 million through WPA would employ about 630,000, while other channels would yield far fewer.
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Washington
Roosevelt
House
Works Progress Administration
PWA
Rayburn
Texas
Representative Beiter
D-Ny
Public Works Administration
Congress
Mayor Speed of Va Side Succumbs at 55
Bluefield Virginia mayor W H Speed 55 died in Huntington Veterans Hospital after a week of treatment following a paralytic stroke. Survived by wife Pearl Williamson and children Virginia Mae Speed Harold Speed. He served on Bluefield council for about three years and led as mayor. He was a telegrapher for the Norfolk Western Railway for 37 years.
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W. H. Speed
Bluefield
Veterans Hospital
Huntington
Norto — Western Railway
Miners End Sit Down at Superior Coal Mine
Gillespie Illinois May 28 More than 350 coal miners who occupied Superior Coal company No 4 mine at Wilsonville surfaced after 200 hours ending a sit down strike in support of a share the work plan Led by John Fisher Progressive Miners of America the group declared the stay down strike terminated but vowed to continue pressure Officials and company had reached a deadlock and Fred Pfhaler president said he would not reenter negotiations until the mine was evacuated
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Gillespie
Ill
Superior Coal Company
Wilsonville
John Fisher
Progressive Miners of America
Fred S. Pfhaler
Evanston
Bloodhounds Fail To Track Burglars At Sharp Store
Huntington West Virginia May 28 police report bloodhounds failed to locate burglars who entered the Sharp department store for the third time in recent weeks and left with twenty nine collars.
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Huntington
W. Va
Sharp Department
Body of CCC Youth Drowns at Pembroke Not Recovered
Earl M. Brown 19 of Sarasota Florida a Pembroke CCC enrollee remains missing after drowning while swimming near the New River highway bridge in Pembroke around 6 p m Thursday. Roanoke Radford life crews and Appalachian Power workers had dragged the river for over a day seeking the body.
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CCC
New River
Earl M. Brown
Sarasota
Fla
Pembroke
Roanoke
Radford
Glen Lyn
Appalachian Electric Power Company
Young Brown
New River Highway Bridge
Farmer Charged in Death of Wife in Tennessee
Woodbury Tenn May 28 John W Davis 65 year old farmer charged with murder in the death of his wife Jodie who had helped pull a mule plow over a garden plot for weeks denied responsibility for injury to the woman A coroner s jury found illegal operation caused death rather than overwork Davis to have a preliminary hearing tomorrow Sheriff J T Smith said the farmer denied the charges He says he didn t have anything to do with it James Jones chief deputy sheriff noted the woman and her children pulled on a hickory stick attached to the plow while Davis pushed and guided it The wife aided with the tying operation after her death the sheriff investigated the theory that overexertion caused the death but autopsy showed blood poisoning from an illegal operation"}
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Woodbury
Tenn
John W. Davis
Jodie
Davis
J. T. Smith
Heriff Smith
James Jones
Valencia Bombed by Rebel Planes Leaves City in Ruins
Valencia faces a dawn bombing that killed about 200 people and destroyed at least 50 buildings. The attack hit the Red Cross hospital and the British freighter Pinzon in the harbor as Franco’s air force, based in Mallorca, sought to terrorize the government in temporary Valencia.
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Valencia
Mallorca
Red Cross Emery Hospital
Madrid
Franco
Pacarie
Ian Franco
Juan Negrin
Hedilla Exiled as Franco Tightens Grip in Insurgent Spain
Reports from the Franco border claim Manuel Hedilla, former Falange leader, was seized and exiled on treason charges as Franco consolidates power April 19. Basque sources say government troops killed 200 insurgents around Bilbao and recaptured positions near Orduna while the Basques set fires to retreat.
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Hedilla
Hendaye
Francisco Franco
Spain
Falange
Manuel Hedilla
Franco
Germany
Bilbao
Oduna
Orduna
Bailey Named Before Roosevelt for Mountain State Emergency Director
Washington May 28 The name of Ernest L Bailey former West Virginia road commissioner went to dent Roosevelt today for approval as national emergency council director in the Mountain state Bailey a Charleston consulting engineer since leaving the road commission would succeed F Witcher McCullough who resigned to become secretary of the Bituminous Coal commission
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Washington
Ernest L. Bailey
West Virginia
Dent Roosevelt
National Emergency Council
Mountain
Bailey
Charleston
Road Commission
F. Witcher McCullough
Bituminous Coal Commission
Mercury Steady Near Mid-Summer Highs
Charleston temperatures stayed in the mid summer range today with readings between 86 and 88 degrees. The mercury rose from 61 at 5 a.m. to 88 by mid afternoon, according to official thermometers in the region.
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Charleston
W. Va
Marching Strikers Charged By Police In Steel Walkout
Multiple cities report labor unrest as 70 000 workers idle amid a steel walkout. Police disperse pickets and one man is struck while two union members accuse police of firing on them. The fight involves the Workers Organizing Committee and Republic Steel amid government scrutiny and ongoing union demands.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Youngstown
Ohio
Steel Workers Organizing Committee
Cummings
Washington
Department of Labor
Cleveland
W.O.C
Republic Steel
S.W.O.C
Republic Corp
Progressive Mine Union Joins AF of L in Illinois
The American Federation of Labor accepts the Progressive Miners of America into its ranks in Illinois amid protests from the Illinois Federation of Labor. William Green, AFL president, notes the Progressive charter covers current members and others who join, while UMW leader John Lewis remains in position and Green resists comment on further action.
Cantors Powells Ideal Movie Couples Says Expert
Paris novelist and marriage expert Mme Alexandra Roubenjansky said American men make superb husbands and that the ideal Hollywood marriage is Eddie Cantor and Ida Cantor. She predicted a future union for Dick Powell and Joan Blondell and noted a world-wide search for the perfect marriage.
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Hollywood
Mme
Alexandra Roubenjansky
Paris
New York
M. Eddie Cantor
Ida Cantor
M. Dick Powell
Mile
Joan Blondell
Mme. Roubejansky
China
Federal probe urged over steel strike coercion charges
Union leaders led by Philip Murray pressed General Homer Cummings to investigate alleged coercion at Republic Steel and Youngstown Sheet and Tube. Amid clashes near South Chicago plant and a plane dropping food, about 70 000 workers stayed idle as talks aimed at a settlement.
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Murray
Cummings
Youngstown
Republic Steel Corp
Chicago
C.so. Steel Workers Organizing Committee
Republic
Inland Steel Corp
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co
Republic Corporation
Niles
Iles
Martin Davey
Columbus
S.W.O.C
Executive Mansion
Regional Labor Relations Board
Cleveland
S.w.oc
Buffalo
Centon
Ana Aren
Campbell
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company
Youngstown Sheet and Tube
Republic Steel Corporation
Roosevelt
Herbert Hoover
Canton
Monroe
Mich
Lake Michigan
Lake Erie
Philip Murray
W.O.C
Homer Cummings
Inland Steel Company
Three Workmen Die in New York Tunnel Blast
In the Lincoln tunnel under the Hudson between New York City and Hoboken New Jersey three Port Authority workers were killed and four injured. Officials said the blast occurred near the Hoboken entrance during tunnel construction and may have been premature. The victims named were Clarence New York, Salvatore Patti, and Jack Lacey.
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New York
Iaj
Hudson River
New York City
Hawken
N. J
Port of
S Authority
Joay
Sone
Rossthority
Clarence New York
Salvatore Patti
City
Jack Lacey
Port Authority
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Tulsea
M. C. McNeal
William C. Snyder
Wm. H. Thomas
James H. Martin
Mayor Speed
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Flance
Martin L. Davey
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League of Weirton Steels
C.so
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AFOL
Illinois
Lewis Union
Green
Cincinnati
American Federation of Labor
William Green
A. F. of L
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Progressives
Joseph Ozanio
Illinois Federation of Labor
State Federation
Lewis
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Coshocton
United Mine Workers Policy Committee
Powells
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