Britain weighs new Soviet pact and Hitler non aggression bid
London reports Britain considering a five or ten year Anglo French Russian alliance from Moscow via Ambassador Maisky while evaluating Hitler’s Reichstag offer for non aggression pledges. Cabinet will weigh extending guarantees to the Baltic region and peace implications of Hitler’s speech. Conscription bill to be introduced as Northern Ireland draft is postponed to avoid irish crisis.
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William Hillman
London
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Great Britain
Moscow
Ivan M. Maisky
France
Romania
Hitler
Germany
Poland
Rumania
Greece
Russia
Lithuania
Esthenia
Finland
Belgium
Holland
Switzerland
Fuehrer
Danzig
Neville Chamberlain
Northern Ireland
Eire
England
Scotland
Wales
House of Commons
Chamberlain
Eamon de Valera
Britain
Berlin
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Mussolini Orders Increase in Italian Army
Premier Mussolini announced a further expansion of Italy s army to 1 250 000 men with more equipment and stronger frontier fortifications and coast defenses. The plan, part of a 10 year budget, is described as a response to British French efforts to form a Europe wide alliance.
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Rome
Mussolini
Virginio Gayda
Il Giornale D'Italia
Il Duce
LaGuardia Presses for Salary Reforms in Albany
Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia testifies before the senate judiciary committee urging fair consideration of two bills to let New York City revise "ridiculous" salaries paid county court judges. Former Justice Clarence J. Shearn sits nearby, seemingly unconcerned.
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Fiorello H. LaGuardia
New York
Senate Judiciary Committee
Albany
N. Y
Hizzoner
Supreme Court
Clarence J. Shearn
LaGuardia
Poland defies Hitler threat over Danzig demand
Poland mobilizes its 1.3 million strong army near Danzig and plans an air force display as it rejects Germany's demand for the free city. Polish authorities, while silent on French protection plans, pledge no cession of customs or port rights and warn of possible march if Danzig joins the Reich.
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Warsaw
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Poland
Europe
Danzig
Germany
Hitler
Reich
Foreign Ofce
League of Nations’ Authority
Mother's Drinking Gambling Upheld
Pittsburgh April 29. County Court Judge Samuel J. McKim ruled that occasional drinking and penny ante gambling do not make a mother unfit. He retained custody of four year old son to Mrs William Gourdie, rejecting father's claims the home environment with her mother was improper. Mrs Gourdie said she drinks a highball and plays rummy for pennies, with the most she ever lost in a month being fifty dollars.
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Pittsburgh
Samuel J. McKim
William Gourdie
Restless Sleeper Severed Artery In Sleep
Lincoln Camm, 42, of Oakland, Calif., was sleeping when he tossed awake and thrust his arm through a window, severing an artery. He survived after receiving immediate medical aid.
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Oakland
Calif
Lincoln Camm
Russians May Still Reach New York for Fair Opening
Moncton reporters report two Soviet airmen forced down on Miscou Island hope to reach New York for the world’s fair opening. Rescue attempts paused by weather. an amphibian plane may be used at dawn. Brig. Gen Kokkinaki injuries minor. co pilot Gordienko uninjured.
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Moncton
N. B
INS
New York
Miscou Island
Joe Anderson
Canadian Airways
Moscow
Vladimir Kokkinaki
Mikhail Gordienko
Flett
Anderson
New Deal and Business Clash Over Democratic Control
Wall Street leaders warned of open hostilities between business groups and administration allies in a bid to shape the 1940 Democratic national convention. The fight centers on Roosevelt's administration, the New Deal faction, and Leon Henderson's SEC role, with several top financiers summoned to Washington after May 15 to testify.
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New York
Democratic Party
Wall Street
U. S. Senate
Roosevelt
Leon Henderson
Securities and Exchange Commission
Henderson
SEC
National Economic Committee
Sev
Eral
Financial World
Washington
George Whitney
J. P. Morgan and Company
Edward R. Stettinius
U. S. Steel Corporation
Walter S. Gifford
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Floyd L. Carlisle
Consolidated Edison Company
Wendell L. Willkie
Commonwealth and Southern Corporation
J. Howard Pew
Sun Oil Company
Suit Ties Up German Funds
In Chicago a suit by Jacob Chankin, former Berlin fruit importer now in Chicago, seeks an accounting from Deutsche Bank of Berlin for funds on deposit in Chicago banks. An attachment freezes all Deutsche Bank funds in Chicago banks, with banks to answer by May 15. The case, rivaled by penalties on Jewish-owned fortune, could trigger more actions in Illinois courts.
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Chicago
INS
Germany
Deutsche Bank
Berlin
Jacob Chankin
Reichbank
Chicape
Beache, Nele
Chankin
Illinois
First National Bank of Chicago
Continental Illinois
President Reviews World's Fair Talk in Hyde Park
President Roosevelt, in Hyde Park, reviews his speech for the New York World's Fair opening. The address could reference Hitler’s Reichstag remarks but is not to be seen as reigniting world security debates. He will travel to New York for a luncheon, deliver the speech, then return to Hyde Park to greet Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Martha.
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Hyde Park
N. Y
INS
Roosevelt
Olav
Martha
Norway
New York
Adolf Hitler
Fair Ground Federal Building
Crown Prince
Frederik
Hot Dog Renamed Red Hot at Churchill Downs Derby
Louisville reports that Kentucky Derby visitors will see hot dogs renamed red hot at all 75 refreshment stands. Howard Gray in charge of concessions says the change aims for a more esthetic image and avoids the term hot dog.
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Louisville
Churchill Downs
the Downs
Howard Gray
Lewis Charges Wagner Labor Act Conspiracy
John L. Lewis accuses the American Federation of Labor amendments to the Wagner act of being prepared with CIA backing by manufacturers. He asks senators to examine Green and AFL leaders for collusion with corporations as hearings open, deepening labor strife ahead of Roosevelt urged peace.
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Lewis
Washington
INS
John L. Lewis
American Federation of Labor
National Association of Manufacturers
A. F. of L
Senate Labor Committee
William Green
Green
Roosevelt
Federation
Miners Seek Relief Probe Over Jobless Benefit Denial
The United Mine Workers urge a federal investigation into Ohio's denial of unemployment benefits to idle miners awaiting a new wage contract. UMWA District 17 leader Blizzard warns miners not paid since old contract expiration may not share federal commodities unless issued by outside state authorities. Director Garnett seeks 15 carloads of food from Federal Surplus Commodities to aid-needy per statutory rules.
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United Mine Workers
William Blizzard
Umwa District 17
Lee Pressman
CIO
Department of Public Assistance
Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation
Garnett
Blizzard
Social Security Board
Queen Shenandoah XVI Crowned at Winchester Festival
Queen Shenandoah XVI Genevieve Garner of Amarillo Texas toured Shenandoah apple orchards during the Winchester Virginia festival. She held a scepter in a bloom filled setting as the annal celebration crowned her queen while Miss Garner is described as granddaughter of Vice President John N Garner.
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Aviv
Shenandoah XVI
Winchester
Genevieve Garner
Amarillo
Tex
John N. Garner
Neutrality Act Study Speeded by Hearings
Two congressional committees pushed to a swift windup of neutrality act hearings as the cash and carry provision nears expiration. House Foreign Affairs may hear Hull Swanson Woodring Hopkins. Senate Foreign Relations scheduled to close hearings next Saturday with Pepper Colby Walsh and Wright testifying. Witnesses largely favor amendments for an impartial isolationist stance toward belligerents.
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Washington
INS
U. S
Bloom
New York
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Hull
Swanson
Woodring
Hopkins
Pittman
Nevada
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
George Wharton Pepper
Pennsylvania
Bainbridge Colby
Edmund J. Walsh
S. J
Georgetown University
Herbert Wright
Showdown Between Miners Operators Seen in Days
In New York AP April 29 a possible peace or war looms as John L. Lewis calls to end the Gilbert and Sullivan opera and operators offer a new compromise. The stalemate has idle 338,000 miners in the Soft Coal region and could trigger a broad stoppage May 4 or 5 affecting 150,000 more in 14 states.
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Lewis
New York
United Mine Workers
John L. Lewis
UMW
FDR May Answer Hitler Over Radio
President Roosevelt may reply to Adolf Hitler in a fireside chat over the radio, as discussed in usually informed congressional circles today.
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Hitler
Fdr
Washington
Roosevelt
Adolf Hitler
C of C Drafts Six Reforms for 27th Convention
The U S chamber of commerce unveils six reform recommendations after months of study by its committees. The agenda targets government taxation limits and monetary policy in a militant stand. Secretary Hopkins and Senators Harrison Byrd and Burke along with Representative Barton will speak at the convention opening in the city.
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Washington
INS
U. S. Chamber of Commerce
Hopkins
Harrison
Byrd
Burke
Bruce Barton
West Virginia Forecasts Balanced State Budget In Red Ink Beaten
State finish fiscal year June 30 with black balance in general revenue fund Budget Director H Isaiah Smith said after trimming receipts and expenditures. It will be the fourth straight balanced year following six years of growing deficits prior to 1936. Departments trimmed spending as tax revenues faltered amid weak business conditions.
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General Revenue Fund
H. Isaiah Smith
West Virginia
Smith
Board of Public Works
Roosevelt targets 4 million back to private work by mid 1940
Roosevelt aides say recovery signs prompt a goal of returning 4 million persons to private employment by mid 1940, with about 1.25 million workers from private employers and relief rolls. Deadlock in coal and mining delays arming and production, but officials expect a spring upturn and an expanded steel order base. Plans include revising wage hour rules, starting pension payments in 1940, tax changes, and consolidating procurement agencies under a top Rooseveltan reorganization. Admiral Peoples is favored to head the new federal works agencies including PWA and related bodies, with a vote anticipated on the reorganization plan soon.
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Washington
INS
Roosevelt
United Mine Workers
House
Federal
Treasury
Congress
Admiral C. J. Peoples
PWA
V S. Housing Authority
Bureau of Public Roads
Peoples
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Reichstag
Senate
Labor
C. of C
Admiral Peoples
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