Fortifications Reported Along France Spain Border
Basque authorities in Bilbao say refugees report German supervised artillery batteries and trenches rising along the Irun to border area. French officials seek an inquiry as picket troops move to enforce non intervention.
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Paris
France
Pyrenees
Bilbao
Francisco Franco
Irun
Mount San Marcial
Guipuzgoa
Valencia
L’humanite
Germany
Reich
Russia
Spain
San Sebastian
Tub Slayer to Die in Electric Chair Week of April 4
Major Green, 33, was sentenced in Queens to die in the electric chair at Sing Sing during the week of April 4 for bludgeoning to death Mrs. Mary Robinson Case, bride of a year. The court, led by Judge Charles S. Colden, heard Green’s muted responses as the battered body was found in her apartment bathtub.
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NEW York
Major Green
Mary Robinson Case
Sing Sing
Queens County Court
Charles S. Colden
Green
Colden
Mrs. Case
Chinese Convict Seventy in Narcotics Drive
In Nanjung near Shanghai seventy residents were convicted of habitual narcotics use and sentenced to be shot under China’s hard line anti narcotics campaign. Police arrested about 2000 others and crowded jails. Temples were used as temporary detention centers as the crackdown expands. No execution date was announced.
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Shanghai
Nanjung
Nantung
Peiping
McKinley Minstrel Show Set To Open At Eight
The Merry Macs group from McKinley high school will perform a minstrel show at 8 this evening in the school auditorium. Proceeds fund band uniforms for the entire McKinley school district.
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McKinley High School
McKinley
Harrowing shotgun funeral tale told of Indiana pastor
Rev. William N. Vincent of Fort Wayne and a Coe College alumna figure in a grisly burial scene. A nightshirt clad man with a shotgun interrupted the service in a cemetery, shouting threats. The minister calmed him, and the intruder was later taken to a hospital.
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Indiana
COE
Edgar Allen Poe
William N. Vincent
Fort Wayne
Ind
Third Presbyterian Church
Mr. Vincent
Coe College
Cedar Rapids
Velma Nona Troyak
Adolph Troyak
Sixth Avenue SE
Ship Blast Kills Seven in San Clemente Drill Area
Seven sailors died in a ship blast amid San Clemente island drill exercises. Captain C N Hinkamp of the Wyoming called it a terrible accident as the fleet, including army, navy, and marine personnel, responded. Admiral Hepburn ordered an inquiry to be held aboard the U S S New York.
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C. N. Hinkamp
Wyoming
Fleet Marine Force
Quantico
United States
San Clemente Island
Pacific Battle Force
Army
Navy
Marine
Arthur J. Hepburn
U. S. S. New York
Colorado
Associated Press
U. S. S. Wyoming
Maneuvers
California
Relief
Winant Resigns as Security Chairman
Former chairman Winant resigns from the Public Security board citing desire to speak for the act and noting the board has passed early organizational hurdles. He suggests consolidating agency functions and says amendments are ready for Congress as states already cooperate under public assistance unemployment and old age programs. The President says Winant will pursue personal matters for a period.
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Winant
Republican Party
Congress
Roosevelt Court Plan Called Mildest Form Yet
Senator Ashurst said the president's proposal to enlarge the Supreme Court is the mildest form offered to fix the federal judiciary. He argued Roosevelt does not seek to pack the court or influence constitutional decisions. Senator Copeland reported receiving about 30,000 letters protesting the plan and asked for relief from the flood of correspondence.
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Washington
INS
Roosevelt
Supreme Court
Ashurst
Arizona
Senate
Congress
Royal S. Copeland
New York
Copeland
Posal
Iowa House Committee Backs Liquor-By-Drink Bill
Des Moines Iowa AP The Iowa house committee on liquor control Friday recommended passage of a revised liquor by the drink bill It would replace the present system by creating a state package liquor monopoly and allow buffets under strict administration The measure is a new vehicle but closely follows H F 100 by Rep Phil Roan It provides for local option and strict licensing with high permit fees.
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Des Moines
Iowa House Committee On
Three Felons Escape Jackson Michigan Prison
Three armed robbers fled the Jackson state prison after scaling walls and forcing a farm boy from his car. They wrecked two vehicles near Jonesville and Quincy, then commandeered a tow truck to drive toward Indiana as police from Michigan and Indiana lock down the highway in pursuit. Heavily armed guards and troopers pursued the trio, who were identified as John Scofic, 26 Alvin Mott, 18 and Ray Rusch, 19.
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Jackson, Mich
INS
Jackson State Prison
Indiana
Michigan
John Scofic
Alvin Mott
Ray Rusch
Jackson
Jonesville
Quincy
Indiana Line
Three Rivers
Mich
Scofie
Mott
Rusch
Peguy Amuses All Except Rubinoff in Newport News Tale
Miss Garcia testified about excursions with Rubinoff in Newport News and Bedford Virginia in 1933. She recalled adulterous flirtations and his evasive marriage question, his flattering compliments and a famed sketch incident. The courtroom scene included laughter at a recess as remarks about being excited drew smiles.
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Rubinoff
Miss Garcia
Tillie
Fats” Waller
Halprin
Bill to Combat Insects and Plant Diseases Passes Senate Panel
Senate agricultural committee approved a bill by Senators Wheeler and Gillette to create a 5 million dollar permanent fund. It would aid drought states in the Midwest and West with grants for emergency epidemics and a long range control program under the agriculture department. Within Maine there is an 800 acre desert.
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Washington
Senate Agricultural Committee
Burton K. Wheeler
Montana
Guy M. Gillette
Iowa
Agriculture Department
Baldwin Seeks To Strengthen British Security
Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin outlines a three month push to realign security through Anglo American cooperation and a western European pact to replace Locarno. Parliament approves a 2 billion dollar bond to fund rearmament with the air force leading the growth.
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Baldwin
London
Ins
Stanley Baldwin
Pacific
Washington
United States
America
Britain
House of Commons
No. 10
Downing Street
Neville Chamberlain
Germany
Italy
France
Belgium
House
Ice Mint Foot Comfort Test Promises Quick Relief
Advertisement promotes Ice Mint as a one day foot solution. It claims cooling relief from odors and stinging pains of corns and callouses and invites readers to test the product by buying at a drugstore. It asserts users will feel rested feet after a single day of use.
Nine Big Ten coeds vie for Northwestern ball queen title
Nine contestants from Wisconsin Purdue Iowa Ohio State Northwestern Indiana Minnesota Chicago and Illinois gather in Chicago for Northwestern University charity ball’s queen contest. One top contender Miss Michigan Marcia Connell is barred for policy reasons.
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Chicago
Northwestern University
Marcia Connell
University of Michigan
University of Wisconsin
Dorothy Jean Clifton
Badger University
Purdue University
Jane Russell
Purdue Union
University of Iowa
Mary Comstock
Delta Delta Delta
Ohio State University
Betty Galloway
Kappa Alpha Theta
Caroline Pope
Delta Gamma
Indiana _ University
Yvonne Debruton
University of Minnesota
Joyce Keer
University of Chicago
Jean Jacobs
University of Illinois
Dorothy Clark
Kappa Kappa Gamma
Sociology Department
Northwestern university settlement benefits queen selection
Carl Ed creator of Harold Teen and George Petty Esquire artist will choose the queen. Gypsy Rose Lee agrees to a modified version of her famous strip tease as part of the entertainment.
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Northwestern University
Carl Ed
George Petty
Esquire
Gypsy Rose Lee
Deadlock in Sitdown Strike Amid Union Fight
Spokesmen refuse outside organizer meeting while CIO influence is disputed. Court orders for 91 strikers ignored as deputies storm the plant with tear gas and a battering ram. Deputy Harold Scheskie injured by a premature explosion. workers barricade inside as police surround the $1.5 million plant.
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Corps of Police
Husky
Harold Scheskie
World Going to Rowdies Warns Dr Krumbine
Dr Miles H Krumbine a Cleveland minister told a Union College sermon in Schenectady New York that ideals are essential to a healthy life like spark plugs to an automobile and that the world’s destiny is moving into the hands of rowdies.
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Schenectady
N. Y
Miles H. Krumbine
Cleveland
Union College Memorial Chapel
Krumbine
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Evan C
Slim) Lambert
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San Francisco Bay
PEGUY
Newport News
Bedford, Va
Maine
Edward J. Trumble
United States Marine Corps
Alexandria
Northwestern
Fonteccio
CIO
Aitchison
Swiren
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Waukegan
Gazette
Philadelphia
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