Violence erupts as France braces Bastille Day
Amid Bastille Day week, France faces fresh violence with leftist strikes and police tensions. Paralyzing occupations hit Paris area defense plants. Captain Moreau was wounded in Algeria. factory attacks reported in Bordeaux and Angouleme as Interior Minister Salengro orders restrained policing.
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Algeria
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Bordeaux
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Echo de Paris
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Mont Lucon
Toulouse
Grenoble
Mezieres
Roger Salengro
Fernand Laurent
Deladier
Chamber
Daladier
Paralyzed Woman Faces Death Row in Egg Nog Murder
In Sing Sing a 36 year old mother, Mary Frances Creighton, awaits execution for the egg nog murder of Ada Applegate. Doctors report paralysis from fear and she is nearly speechless as appeals fail and Gov Lehman weighs a reprieve.
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Ossining
N. Y
Mary Frances Creighton
Sing Sing
Mrs. Creighton
Herbert Lehman
Applegate
South Dakota Farm Woman Faces Drought With Resolve
Aberdeen from UP reports Mrs. Earl Webster, a wealthy farmer’s wife, manages a 15 000 acre operation amid drought and grasshoppers. She stresses thrift, regular effort, and outside interests, while guiding her family and local Democratic party role through hard years.
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Aberdeen
S. D
Earl Webster
Webster
Iowa
Soviet Trade Pact Extended One Year
Secretary Hull announced a one year renewal of the Soviet American special trade arrangement valid to July 13, 1937. The USSR pledges a minimum 30 million dollars in U S goods and will share tariff concessions from 13 of 14 treaties plus future ones. Moscow notes 12 months purchases to July 12 total seven million more than guaranteed, suggesting higher Soviet purchases next year. An odorless onion is cultivated by the Chinese.
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Russia
Loy W. Henderson
N. H. Krestinski
State Department
Death Valley Scotty longs for heat outside Los Angeles
Death Valley Scotty, known for tales of gold strikes, arrived in Los Angeles and said he wants to return to Furnace Creek where temperatures reach 130 to 135 degrees in the shade. The 200 pound veteran has spent over thirty years in Death Valley and joked about the cooler East Coast weather.
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Death Valley
Scotty
Degert Rat
Furnace Creek
Johnson County 4 H Show Plans Set for Aug at UI Stadium
Special to The Gazette Iowa City reports county 4 H club members meeting to plan exhibits for the Johnson County show. The event, one of the largest of its kind, will be held at the University of Iowa stadium August 19 to 21.
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Silence surrounds Solon’s slaying in Chicago
State Representative John M. Bolton, a Democrat from the Second district, was killed in his car on Thursday amid alleged ties to the Capone syndicate era. Capt. Charles J. McGurn warned of ballot-stuffing and rackets as motives, while Bolton’s associate Albert J. Prignano had earlier faced threats from the syndicate. Bolton lay in state at a neighbor’s home as investigators probe whether retaliation or political tensions drove the crime.
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Albert J. Prignano
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Rede
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Cherpick
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Johnnie
Landon Appeals to Women Voters Says Natalie Couch
Miss Natalie Couch of New York, visiting Topeka to meet Governor Alf M. Landon, says women will be organized to canvass down to election precincts. She says Landon appeals to women voters and is honest, sincere, and businesslike. Women in New York are planning meetings and house to house canvasses.
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Topeka
Kan
Natalie Couch
New York
Alf M. Landon
Newsmen
Landon
Couch
Miss Couch
New Austro German Accord 15 Revealed
The article reports an accord between Austria and Germany with concessions attributed to Hitler. It notes Schuschnigg’s cabinet shifts and new appointments Guido Schmidt as foreign minister and J Edmund Glaise Horstenau as minister without portfolio. Both figures are described as non Nazis but close to Germany.
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Hitler
Austria
Guido Schmidt
Foreign Office
J. Edmund Glaise-Horstenau
Gov Landon’s Pet Trout Bolivar Dies at Estes Park
Gov Alf Landon’s pet trout Bolivar, a 3.5 pound resident of a stock pond near the Landon ranch, died during his vacation at Estes Park Colorado. Maggie On, the family's cook, was unable to fetch for the table but later did bring in a fine catch from the pond. The biggest of all was Bolivar.
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Alf M. Landon
Bolivar
Landon Ranch House
Kansas
Maggie
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