Verdun memory illuminates Duke of Windsor broadcast
An American ambulance driver recalls Verdun in 1916 near Hill 274 on the Meuse front. He describes night visits, exploding artillery, munitions mules, and a mule braying beside a dead passenger, reflecting on war’s folly and civilization’s stubbornness.
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Roosevelt proposes 14 interdepartmental bureau transfers
President Roosevelt announces a second government reorganization plan to Congress. It envisions 14 interdepartmental bureau transfers and consolidations aimed at saving about 1.25 million dollars annually, with execution under the new reorganization law and a note that further plans may come in the next session.
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House
Two Hands Show Her Faith in Hard Slum Life
A dying girl in a crowded slum, long caretaker of siblings since age twelve, speaks of showing God her two work hardened hands rather than church membership. Her quiet faith echoes the saying that she has done what she could, and that such faithful service matters more than worldly comfort.
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Slumland
Curtsey To Royalty Visits Bring Strain On Buttons
In the east region Arthur Baer notes the habit of curtseying to visiting royalty. He quips the practice strains back suspender buttons and boosts good neighbor policy with light humor about summer fairs and chins on the carpet.
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Arthur “Bugs” Baer
Senate Approves 638 Million Farm Fund in Quiet Session
The Senate advanced a large agricultural package totaling 338 million dollars for parity payments and surplus disposal. Treasury Secretary Morgenthau warned deficits may grow, urging tax measures to offset higher spending while noting bipartisan concerns over the bill’s overrun. The plan directs funds to corn cotton wheat and rice producers as part of a broader farm relief measure.
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Coal Talks End With Plan to Meet Again in New York
Washington AP The White House conference on soft coal to extend labor contract talks concluded with John L Lewis signaling a Wednesday return to New York for further negotiations. Secretary Perkins and mediator role noted as 460 000 miners remain idle across 26 states amid stiff disagreement.
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Cedar Rapids teen faces reckless driving charge
Glen J. Klingaman 17 of 305 Seventh Street NE was charged after backing into two boys, Paul Kirk 14 of 829 B Avenue NE and Milo Webb 19 of 839 B Avenue NE, injuring Kirk with a bruised face and sprained back and Webb with a bruised leg after an altercation with Dale McDaniel as a passenger. Hearing set for Wednesday.
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Shaver Park
Candid Camera Photos Inside The Gazette
The panels of candid camera photographs will appear on inside pages of The Gazette starting today. Turn to page 5 for today's pictures.
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Jury Declares Carpenter in Arizona as Charley Ross
In Phoenix a jury found Gustav Blair a 93 year old carpenter to be Charley Brewster Ross, the kidnapped child from Germantown Pennsylvania in 1874. Defendants did not contest. default judgment entered. Blair sought only to establish his identity, not inheritance, amid long contested family claims.
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Phoenix
Charley Ross
Germantown
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Walter L. Ross
Sophia Ross
Marian K. Ross
Anne C. Ross
Christian K. Ross
C A. Rodgers
Charley
Walter Ross
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Extraordinary Defense Powers Granted to Polish President
Parliament granted President Ignacy Moscicki extraordinary powers in all military and economic matters to strengthen defense until November 1. The Sejm acted unanimously for full national unity during the emergency as Vladimir Potemkin arrived in Warsaw for talks on Russia’s role in the security front.
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Joseph Beck
Romania
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Factors in Coal Strike Explained in Q and A
Des Moines AP outlines factors in the national coal strike. About 460000 miners quit, with 7000 to 8000 town miners affected. Negotiations deadlocked since March 14. contract expired March 31. Key issues include the closed shop and fines for illegal strikes, with UMW demand to require Appalachian agreement workers to join UMW. Operators propose a checkoff system.
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Roosevelt Uses Radio to Deliver Government Information
President Roosevelt said radio is the only medium in some communities for factual unbiased government information. The remark came via an electrically transcribed interview distributed to about 150 stations by the national emergency council as part of a campaign to inform the public about federal activities.
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National Emergency Council
Walter M. Jeanes Dies In London After Brief Illness
Walter Michael Seagraves Jeanes 50 a British political figure and World War II veteran died in a London hospital after a brief illness. He served in France and the British army and earned the Legion of Honor cross and Croix de Guerre. Mrs Jeanes, visiting at the Safely home in this city, received word of his death.
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Threats Target Hope Diamond Owner's Daughter
Investigators assign a special detective detail to Evalyn McLean and her mother after kidnap threats mailed to Mrs Evalyn Walsh McLean, owner of the Hope Diamond, triggered protection upon their Washington visit to New York.
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Evalyn Walsh McLean
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Maquoketa Native To Be Methodist Bishop Of Iowa
Iowa’s uniting conference assigns J Ralph Magee native of Maquoketa to Des Moines as bishop from St Paul. Bishops Oxnam of Omaha to Boston and Magee’s long career includes pastorships in Sioux City and Seattle and presidencies at Hamline University.
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Omaha
Firemen Rescue Infant Locked Inside House
Firefighters from No 6 rescued an eight month old girl, Mary Carol Byrne, who was safe in her kitchen high chair after a wind blew the back door shut and locked her mother, Mrs Paul Byrne, out at 17380 Fifth Avenue SE. The fire team entered via a second floor window and noted there was no danger. Captain Lew Mikulecky led the team.
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Gray of the Union Pacific Dies at 71 in Washington Hotel
Carl Raymond Gray former president of the Union Pacific for 17 years and later vice chairman of its board died in a Washington hotel room from a heart attack after six months on the Presidents committee of six aiding railroad rehabilitation. He was 71 and had recently traveled to Washington for legislative business.
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Roosevelt
Hearings Ordered on War Referendum Proposal
A Senate judiciary subcommittee ordered public hearings on a bitterly disputed resolution requiring a popular vote before any declaration of war. Hearings will start Wednesday in Washington.
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Senate Judiciary
Four Nations Reject Hitler Security Pact Offers
Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, and Finnish foreign ministers met in Stockholm and declined Germany's offer of reciprocal non aggression treaties to neutralize its northern flank, while Denmark hesitated due to a shared border. Poland faced possible talks with Pope Pius VII to ease tension with Germany over Danzig after discussions among Sandler, Munch, Koht and Erkko.
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Peter Munch
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Pope Pius XII proposes five power Vatican conference
The Pope invites France Great Britain Poland Germany and Italy to a Vatican conference to settle the Polish German dispute centering on Danzig and offers mediation for the French Italian dispute through Cardinal Maglione. France and Great Britain favor direct Vatican mediation while Germany and Italy are receptive, with axis nations in a military pact.
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15000 Strawberry Plants Sold in Gazette Ad
J Reysa of Rockford road SW reports selling 15000 strawberry plants after placing a Want Ad in The Gazette from April 30 to May 7. About fifty people answered the ad. Premier strawberry plants Mas Ritodon Everbearing. Dial 3-2360. Hundreds buy plants and nursery stock daily under classification 34 in The Gazette Want Ad section. Dial 2-1121 to place an ad.
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