Roosevelts Fireside Radio Policy Shifts With Hatch Act
President Roosevelt seeks a third term strategy built on fireside chats while the Hatch Act imposes strict limits on political spending and federal employee activity. The act targets state and municipal workers funded by federal money and tightens individual and organizational contributions and campaign advertising.
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Washington
A. Felix du Pont
United Mine Workers
Carl A. Hatch
N. M
Report Spy Foiled at Norfolk Navy Yard Bomb Sight
An apparent spy tried to enter the aircraft building at the Norfolk Navy Yard to steal the secret bomb sight. He was driven off by a sentry after a scuffle, as naval intelligence and local police hunted the suspect. The building houses gunnery gear and the world’s most accurate bomb sight.
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Norfolk
INS
United States
U.S Navy Yards
Navy Yard
Window
Funeral services for E. Dale Wells
Funeral services are set for E. Dale Wells 26 of 424 Eighth Avenue SW who died Friday night after being overcome at the Honeymead Products plant. The Trinity Methodist church Third Avenue and Fifth Street SW will host the service Monday at 2 30 p.m. Rev W Glenn Rowley and Rev Glenn McMichael will co conduct burial in Cedar Memorial cemetery Readiness for attendance prompted the Honeymead plant to close from noon to Spain Monday so employees could attend.
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E. Dale Wells
Eighth Avenue
Honeymead Products Company
Trinity Methodist
Prelate Urges Americans to Walk From Third-Term Advocates
Denver church leader Monsignor Hugh L. McMenamin denounces Franklin D. Roosevelt's third term bid as a threat to democracy. He calls on thinking Americans to organize against a potential dictatorship, arguing the draft and continued power show greed over service and jeopardize constitutional foundations.
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Prelate
Denver
INS
Roosevelt
United States
Hugh L. McMenamin
Immaculate Conception
Saturday Nicht
Monsignor McMenamin
Long's Peak
Washington
Jefferson
America
Reich Blames F. O. R. for British Stand
Reich officials reject the British Reichstag speech as not representing the people and call it the voice of a plutocratic clique. German communique reports widespread air raids on shipping and targets from south England to Scotland, sinking a 5,000 ton merchant ship and damaging three others. It notes civilian injuries in northern and western Germany and records a 27 to 3 air superiority ratio for English over German planes. The fuhrer met with Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano for courtesy talks before axis decisions were finalized in Berlin and Munich. Diana was to return home Saturday.
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Lor
Berlin
England
Scotland
Germany
High Command
Hitler
Fuhrer
Galeazzo Ciano
Mussolini
Munich
Diana
Beating in Greene Square Leads to Arrest in 1930s City
Painter Bill Hansen 38 of 910 Tenth Avenue SW was beaten in Greene Square with a one and one half inch lip gash and facial wounds. Ed Slim Reed 38 of 888 Center Point Road NE was arrested after witnesses say Reed attacked Hansen from behind following a drink. Reed has prior drunkenness and disturbance arrests. Hansen received stitches and possible ear drum injury.
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Bill Hansen
Tenth Avenue
Greene Square
Ed “Slim" Reed
Center Point Road
Verle Taylor
Fourth Avenue
Reed
Hansen
George Starry
Davenport Woman Stricken by Heat Stroke in Tri Cities
Mrs. Christian Boetger of Davenport was taken to St Anthony's hospital after a heat stroke suffered on the street. It is the first reported case of the season in the Tri-City area.
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Rock Island
Christian Boetger
Davenport
St Anthony's Hospital
Tri-City
Heat Spur String Of Evening Incidents In City
Police blamed the night’s troubles on heat as patrolmen raced to multiple calls and drunks. Sergt. Frank Hrabetin filed a report detailing afternoon incidents, including a canvas torch prank at Grant high school where three youths about 14 used kerosene on tarpaulin and ignited it before fleeing north on Fifth street. firemen contained the blaze with little damage.
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Frank Hrabetin
Grant High School
Second Avenue
Fifth Street
F M. Tincher
Tincher
Armed Emergency Guard Formed to Protect New York City
Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia and Police Commissioner Valentine plan an armed emergency corps to guard New York City against saboteurs in a national crisis. Police seized weapons will equip the unit, including rifles machine guns sawed off shotguns and revolvers. The defense unit will recruit retired police and firemen.
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New York
INS
Fiorello LaGuardia
Lewis J. Valentine
New York City
Doctor Hurt When Car Hurdles Curb At City Intersection
Dr. L. A. Kessler suffered minor hip and back injuries when his car collided with another and jumped the curb at the northeast corner of the Third Avenue SE and Nineteenth Street intersection. The other driver, Samir Vishek, was going west as both cars, each traveling about 20 mph, skidded.
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Third Avenue SE
Nineteenth Street
L. A. Kessler
Greenwood Drive
Kessler
Samir Vishek
Twenty-first Avenue
Third Avenue
John Stodola
German broadcast denies Rotterdam civilian death toll
The German wireless broadcast to the Netherlands denied that 30 000 civilians were killed in Rotterdam during the invasion. It claimed only 619 civilians died in May, a figure stated in the message heard by the National Broadcasting Company in New York.
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New York
National Broadcasting Company
Rotterdam
Netherlands
Navy Plane Crashes Into Potomac During Test Flight
A naval observation seaplane developing motor trouble plunged into the Potomac river after takeoff. Pilot Lieut S A Johnson sustained back injuries while Donald E Ross escaped unharmed. The crash occurred near the highway bridge as they attempted an instrument test flight. Salvage work began at once.
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Washington
INS
Potomac River
Lieut. S. A. Johnson
Donald E Ross
Bureau of Standards Employe
Johnson
Woman Faces Charge Of Shoplifting After Scuffle With Clerks
A 40 year old woman refused to give her name and concealed a green sweater at the Weisner ten cent store. She was stopped after a scuffle with clerks and brought to the station where she was booked as Mary Roe on shoplifting charges. Store manager M Robbins said charges would be pressed.
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Weisner
First Avenue E
Stout
Mary Roe
M. Robbins
Robbins
McNutt May Take Key Campaign Post for Roosevelt
Reports circulated Saturday that Paul V. McNutt FSA head and Chicago convention cheerleader may be chosen as a top campaign aide. Some sources said Roosevelt plans to appoint him as personal campaign manager for the new deal effort.
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Washington
LLP
Paul V. McNutt
Chicago
McNutt
Roosevelt
Hoosier
Missing Boy Sought In Woods Near Beachwood
More than 400 searchers aided by two navy blimps scoured woods around Beachwood New Jersey for three year old Craig Bender missing since Thursday. Authorities and the boy’s father speculate he strayed or may have been hit by a vehicle and moved away from the area.
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Beachwood
INS
Navy
Craig Bender
Jern
Question Two Negroes After Fight With Man
Two Negro youths Raymond Wilson and Al Carr were brought to the police station for questioning after a confrontation with William Frendle. Wilson admitted striking Frendle when he insulted Wilson's wife. Frendle, bleedings noted, declined pressing charges and was sent home.
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Raymond Wilson
Ninth Street
al Carr
Thirteenth Avenue
Wilson
William Frendle
Elishth Street
Frendle
Arms plan to employ 2,500,000 unemployed
The CIO estimates 2.5 million jobless would find work in 12 months due to rearmament. It projects 6.4 billion dollars in defense spending this year and 10.748 million unemployed, requiring 15 to 20 billion annually to employ all.
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Washington
CIO
A New Variation Of An Old Theme
Dallas AP report on Emmett F. Blackmore Jr who sought admission to the army air corps after being told he was too tall. He then practiced a deliberate slump to reduce height by an inch and a half. Now he enters the final phase of training at Kelly Field in San Antonio.
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Dallas
Emmett F. Blackmore, Jr
Army Air Corps
Blackmore
Kelly Field
San Antonio
Willkie Backed by Alfalfa Bill Murray in Telegram
Oklahoma City AP dispatch reports William H. Murray known as Alfalfa Bill pledged support for Wendell Willkie in a telegram to the Republican nominee. Murray, who sought the 1932 Democratic nomination, endorses the 1940 candidate.
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Oklahoma City
William H “Alfalfa Bill" Murray
Wendell Willkie
United States seeks peaceful solution in Martinique air dispute
The United States pursues a diplomatic path to resolve the British French clash over 100 U S planes aboard the French carrier Bearn in Fort de France harbor Martinique. Acting Secretary Welles meets British and French envoys as tensions rise over pre armistice sales arrangements and potential to widen the war. British fears a forceful seizure and a German raider sighting add to the regional alarm.
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Washington
United States
Bearn
Fort de France
Martinique
Sumner Welles
France
U. S Navy
Welles
Lord Lothian
Count Rene de Saint-Quentin
Lothian
Great Britain
St. Barthelemy's Island
Champion Holstein Cow Tops Life Time Milk Record
Sonia Aggie Sadie Vale a 13 year old registered Holstein held in Ionia Mich is named all time life time producer by the Holstein Friesian Association of America with 230,723 pounds of milk including 7,350 pounds of butterfat. She surpassed the former record of 228,880 pounds on June 19 and extended her lead to July 15.
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Brattleboro, Vt
Holstein Friesian Association of America
Sonia Aggie
Sadie Vale
Ionia State Hospital
Ionia
Mich
la Vertex
University of Nebraska
Man Held After Girl's Child Immorality Claim
Police detained Carl Gatrell 46 of 836 Second Street NW after an 11 year old girl reported he lured her to his home with ice cream and made immoral advances. Neighbors alerted police. detectives planned charges of contributing to the delinquency of a minor or a similar count. The girl was examined and found not permanently injured.
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Carl Gatrell
Second Street
Garrell
Gatrell
Dutch Deny German Captives Mistreated
Netherlands East Indies interned Germans received food and sleep accommodations equal to Europeans serving with Indies forces, the Dutch legation said. The governor general reportedly noted health is carefully guarded and some German seamen are in better condition than at internment.
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Washington
Netherlands
Netherlands East Indies
Indies
Holland
Legation
Railroad Worker Killed by Train Near Le Mars
AP reports Jim Hervert a railroad section worker at Akron was killed instantly when struck by a train. He had reportedly been released by his foreman Friday and his mother lives in Cleve.
Police In Quandary After Hearing Two Tell Their Tales
A troubled night left deputies puzzled as Mrs Florence Burlingham alleged abduction after a two- man steering away from home while a separate driver claimed a Negro leapt from the car and fled. The crash occurred on Fortieth Street SE near Mount Vernon, sending Burlingham to Mercy hospital with cuts and bruises.
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Sheriff's Office
Florence Burlingham
Third Street
Mercy Hospital
Mount Vernon Avenue
Fortieth Street
Seth Hendryx
Jim Smith
Burlingham
Gerald McVey
Thirty-third Street
McVey
Smith
Daniel van Arsdale
Fifth Street
Fourteenth Street
Bever
Third Avenues
van Arsdale
Forty-third Street
Harlan Snyder
New York Man Threatens Leap From Fourth Floor Window
Police and a crowded Midtown street race to stop 35 year old James Kerrigan as he barricades his room and menacingly announces a jump. After an hour officers trick the door and Kerrigan is found exhausted and taken to hospital for observation.
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New York
INS
Fred Havinghorst
34Th Street
James E. Kerrigan
Fred
Havinghorst
Kerrigan
German Hungarian Trade Pact Signed in Budapest
A German Hungarian trade agreement was signed in Budapest on Saturday. Doctor Carl Clodius signed for Germany and Doctor Alfred Nick for Hungary. The pact covers foreign trade quotas for one year starting August 1 and marks the Reich negotiating for conquered territories. It also includes Hungary's commerce with Poland's protectorate Belgium Holland Denmark and Norway.
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Budapest
Hungary
Belgium
Holland
Denmark
Norway
Carl Clodius
Third Reich
Alfred Nick
Cotton Ed Smith Declines to Vote in November
Senator Cotton Ed Smith of South Carolina said he would not vote in the November election after boycotting the Chicago Democratic Convention. He condemned the event as a humiliation to every American and opposed what he called a third term mess.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Chicago
Roosevelt
Army
Washington
Franklin D Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt
America
Columbia
S. C
Cotton Ed” Smith
Willkie
Smith
Germany May Feel Effects Of Scanty S E Europe Crop
In Budapest AP reports southeastern Europe faces lean harvests. Romania may yield 1.63 million metric tons vs 5 million normal, signaling reduced exports to Germany. Germany may need to import about 2 million tons. Yugoslavia and Hungary also face import needs.
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Germany
Europe
Budapest
Bucharest
Romania
Hungary
Yugoslavia
Bulgaria
Belgrade
Reed makes revolt decision after Chicago meeting
After the Chicago meeting Reed indicated a list of invited supporters including Bainbridge Colby Joseph W Bailey Lee Merriwether Sterling Edmunds and J B Ely while declining to state views on the Democratic ticket. He noted earlier opposition to the New Deal and private praise for Wendell Willkie. Governors and party figures expressed mixed stances as switch talk spread post convention.
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Chicago
Reed
Burke
Bainbridge Colby
Wilson
Joseph W. Bailey
Dallas
Texas
Lee Merriwether
St. Louis
France
Sterling Edmunds
Evetts Hailey
Houston
Tex
Jeffersonian Democrats
Joseph B. Ely
Massachusetts
Wendell Willkie
Roosevelt
Willkie
Ellison D “Cotton
Ed” Smith
South Carolina
Irvin S. Cobb
Vance McCormick
Pennsylvania
Stephen F. Chadwick
Washington State
American Legion
Roland Hill
Washington, D. C
Junior
New Dealers' Club
Lawrence E. Nelson
Utah
Charles A. Farwell
New Orleans
Sam Houston Jones
Louisiana
Wallace
Two Fort Ethan Allen soldiers escape guardhouse sparking gun duel
Major J. K. Mitchell and Private Bernard Bevans were wounded in a flare up after two soldiers fled detention at Fort Ethan Allen in Morrisville Vermont. Bevans and Private G E Sweetser captured after exchanges of gunfire. Melendy lightly wounded.
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Morrisville
Edmund L. Gruber
Fort Ethan Allen
J. K. Mitchell
Bernard G. Bevans
Ninth Quartermaster Regiment
Horace G. Melendy
Gruber
Bevans
G. E. Sweetser
Mitchell
Fort Hospital
Fort
Pursuit Ends in Cemetery Capture After Gun Battle
Soldiers aiding the pursuers cornered the fleeing man near a cemetery after a gun battle in which Melendy and other officers arrived to help.
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Mitchell
Melendy
Women Burned In Pleasure Cruiser Explosion Off Long Island
A 38 foot cruiser exploded and caught fire four miles off Peacock Point Long Island sound injuring nine people including three women and six others. The victims suffered second degree burns and were rushed to North Country Community Hospital in Glen Cove. The fire drew a crowd of over 3 000 spectators as investigators sought the unknown cause.
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New York
INS
Peacock Point
Long Island Sound
Walter Swim
Skipaki
F Trubee Davison
Davison
North Country Community Hospital
Glen Cove
L. I
Anna Rosenberg
Buffalo
Pauline Boorstein
Manhasset
Lois Gerson
Detroit
Boorstein
Manhasset Bay
Stehli’s Beach
Mexico moves to universal compulsory military training
President Lazaro Cardenas sent a bill to Congress to require universal compulsory military service for all physically fit Mexicans aged 18 to 45. He urged the move amid world turmoil and the need for reserves to defend institutions and territory. The plan accompanies a bill creating a supreme national defense council.
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Mexico City
Lazaro Cardenas
Congress
Mexico
Cardenas
War Ministry
Supreme Council of National Defense
MBS Blacklisted By Nazis Over Hitler Speech
The Mutual Broadcasting System was banned from broadcasting in Germany and German-controlled Europe after Dr. Otto Dietrich, Hitler’s press chief, ordered a blacklist. Pacific coast stations had cut off Hitler's 95 minute talk, prompting MBS to report the incident and justify its handling to Dietrich.
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New York
Mutual Broadcasting System
Otto Dietrich
Adolf Hitler
Dietrich
Berlin
MBS
Germany
Europe
Pacific Coast
Hitler
Arthur Whiteside
Whiteside
Crusade Urged Against Nazism by Cardinal Hinsley
London Catholic leader Arthur Cardinal Hinsley called for a Saturday crusade against the rank paganism of nazism. The appeal from the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster urged widespread participation and action.
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London
Arthur Cardinal Hinsley
Westminster
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