Roosevelt Says Republicans Bet On Jobs War and Welfare
President Roosevelt urged that a Republican anti New Deal coalition in Congress gambled private industry would absorb three million workers on relief and two million more off PWA. He warned this would push business over a precipice and blamed bipartisan Democrats for backing the risk.
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Hyde Park
N. Y
INS
Congress
Roosevelt
Europe
House
Senate
PWA
Congressional Coalition
Hitler
Mussolini
Berlin
Rome
WPA
Stinker Willis Declares Legal Ambition Despite Tough Talk
Willie Willis proclaims he will become a great lawyer though critics doubt his intellect. The remark suggests confidence amid skepticism about his honesty and strategic cleverness.
Sophie Tucker Faces Union Row Over AFL Action
Sophie Tucker vents over being barred from work as Actors Equity SAG and RAO suspend her. The singer decries treatment by fellow actors and plans a fair hearing as Hollywood names rally against her in New York amid AFL sessions.
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New York
Sophie Tucker
American Federation of Labor
Equity
Screen Actors’ Guild
American Federation of Radio Artists
Miss Tucker
Katherine Cornell
Helen Hayes
Talullah Bankhead
Sophie
Ralph Morgan
Stage Actors Guild
Ann (Oomph) Sheridan
Jean Muir
A. F. of L
Tucker
Kenneth Thompson
American Federation of Actors
Par
Midelburg Granted 122750 for Lee Street Lot in Condemnation
A government condemnation panel awarded Charles A Midelburg and others 122750 for 22199 square feet and a garage on Lee street as part of Charleston's new post office site project. Total site value reached 473280, higher than earlier appraisals. McMillion Motors, Inc. received 2350 for lease loss due to the plan.
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Charleston
Charles A. Midelburg
Lee Street
Midhelburg
McMillion Motors, Inc
Alterations Planned for Knight Building Remodeling at Quarrier and Hale Streets
The Knight building at Quarrier and Hale will undergo about 75 thousand dollars in alterations including new elevator plumbing heating and sprinkler systems. H b Agsten and Sons received the general contract with completion targeted by January 5. Carson's millinery will occupy the corner store and offices will fill upper floors after redecorating while J Hunter McClintic represents owner Mrs Hal Knight.
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Knight
Quarrier and
Hale Streets
Irving H. Bowman
H. Rus Warne
H. B. Agsten and Sons
Quarrier Street
H. O. Baker Furniture Company
Hal W. Knight
Carson’s Millinery Concern
J. Hunter McClintic
Charleston
LaGuardia and Randolph place nickel on Roosevelts third term
Mayor LaGuardia wagered a nickel that Franklin D. Roosevelt would not seek a third term. He said the bet was with Representative Jennings Randolph of West Virginia.
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New York
F. H. LaGuardia
Roosevelt
Jennings Randolph
W. Va
Broad Strides Forward Are Taken By Aviation
The Civil Aeronautics Authority marks its first anniversary with a record year of progress. In 12 months aviation safety traffic private flying facilities foreign line extension and certified pilots and planes all surged beyond prior expectations. By 1941 the nation will have about 70 000 licensed aviators outside military service.
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Civil Aeronautics Authority
Washington
INS
Robert H. Hinckley
Hinckley
Authority
The
Air
Union Leaders Face Choice of Democracy or Dictatorship
West Virginia Governor Homer A. Holt told AFL unions to choose democratic methods or face public judgment as labor leaders in Wheeling clash with CIO critics. Francis Dillon warned of a future coal-digging leader, while Holt defended his stance during the Appalachian mine shutdown and relief debates.
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Wheeling
American Federation of Labor Unions
West Virginia
Homer A. Holt
Holt
CIO
Labor
America
Francis J. Dillon
State Federation of Labor
United Mine Workers of America
State Industrial Council
House of Labor
Progressive Mine Workers of America
Dillon
Appalachian
AFL
Red, White Roses Clue in Slaying
Camden New Jersey August 8 a bone crushing strangler sought after for strangling Wanda Dworecki 17 the daughter of a Polish Baptist minister detectives traced a possible motive through letters from boyfriends and florists a diary of threats and a prior abduction four months ago by two men in a car the coroner said death resulted from strangulation with a grip powerful enough to fracture the breast collar bone a rain soaked corsage marked the crime scene.
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Camden
N. J
Wanda Dworecki
Walter Dwerecki
Auburn
Salem County
Franklin Johnson
O. W. Saunders
Attorney E. W. Knight Dies at 73 in West Virginia
Edward Wallace Knight, 73, Charleston attorney, banker and Virginian Railway official, died at a Ronceverte hospital after illness at his summer home. Services set for 2:30 p.m. at Kanawha Presbyterian Church with burial in Spring Hill cemetery. Knight, longtime Virginian Railway general counsel, was a pioneer in West Virginia’s prohibition repeal movement and the senior member of his law firm.
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Edward W. Knight
West Virginia
Ronceverte Hospital
Brown, Jackson and Knight
Charleston
Edward Wallace Knight
Tuscawilla
Lewisburg
Kanawha Presbyterian Church
Spring Hill Cemetery
Knight
Virginian Railway
New Hampshire
Newport
N. H
Edward
Hannah E. (White) Knight
Dartmouth
George S. Couch
Smith and Knight
Col
Benjamin H. Smith
Isaac N. Smith
Knight and Couch
James F. Brown
Malcolm Jackson
Brown
Jackson
Kanawha Valley Bank
Central Trust Company
Virginian Electric, Inc
the Trust Company of
Norfolk, Va
National Bank of Commerce and
Borah Calls Supreme Court Decisions Frightful Errors
Senator William E. Borah labeled recent Supreme Court rulings as frightful errors though not revolutionary, asserting they will be righted in time. He defended President Roosevelt's judiciary reform claims and contrasted with Senator Burke's opposition during a heated exchange on court changes.
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Washington
INS
William E. Borah
Congress
Supreme Court
High Tribunal
Idaho
Nebraska
Borah
Senate Judiciary Committee
Britain Conducts Massive Air Raid Drill Across Empire
Britain used 1,300 warplanes and 60,000 air defense troops in a giant nighttime air raid drill. Invading bombers were detected by listening posts, with two bombers reported down in the North Sea and one in a Yorkshire field. Renewal of mimic war begins at dawn with King George reviewing 133 ships’ reserve fleet as major maneuvers resume.
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London
Britain
Air Ministry
France
Germany
Walton
Naze
Aldebury
North Sea
Yorkshire
Southampton
Portsmouth
King George
Royal Air Force
England
British Isles
Air Force
Manila Baby With Heart Outside Chest Lives On
In Manila’s Tondo district a seven pound infant born with the heart exposed on the chest continues to breathe and thrive. Doctors debate whether to operate to place the heart inside the thoracic cavity after X rays show the cavity underdeveloped. The baby named Mary Heart is fed by eye dropper and shows normal breathing with a strong heartbeat.
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Manila
Tondo
Mary Heart
Five Danzig Citizens Arrested Over Spy Film Screening
The Polish press reported that five Danzig residents were arrested for traveling to Gdynia to view the American film Confessions of a Nazi Spy. The movie has shown in Poland for weeks and drawn packed crowds.
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Warsaw
Danzig
Gdynia
Poland
Kanawha County approves 1939 40 budget figures
Kanawha County Court, acting as levying body, sets the 1939 40 operating budget at 830 545, down 17 852 from last year. Major cuts include prisoners feeding funds to 35 000, relief to 150 000, and building allocations for a county garage. Levy total rises to 731 413 while receipts drop 112 200 from prior year despite valuation gains.
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Kanawha
Jackson’s Mill
Fort Lee
Fairgrounds
Dunbar
Court House
Germany Orders Nationwide Registration for War Readiness
Berlin orders a broad registration of all Germans aged 5 to 70 to map talent, training, and fitness for wartime work. Jews included, cards filed in Berlin August 13 to 19. Misinformation persists that no war is planned, while steps include pre military Hitler Youth training and restricting gasoline sales.
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Berlin
Danzig
Poland
Wilhelm Frick
Germany
Adolf Hitler
Army
Hitler
Hay Fever Sufferers Face Tough Season
Chicago August 8 INS Oren G Durham chief botanist for Abbott laboratories and 23 year hay fever researcher cites public works as the cause predicting a harsher season. He argues more ground disruption leads to more weeds pollen and greater suffering for sufferers.
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Chicago
INS
Oren G. Durham
Abbott Laboratories
Duck-Billed Dinosaur Proves Tough and Armor Like a Battleship
Smithsonian researchers based on a Canadian Alberta mummy of a duck-billed dinosaur report the creature had an armorlike hide up to a sixteenth of an inch thick and would have made excellent leather. Some back muscles had ossified tendons, a handicap for an old animal, a condition still seen in aged turkeys.
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Smithsonian
Washington
Smithsonian Institution
Alberta
Canada
The
Charles W. Gilmore
Mr. D
30 U S Fear Harmed by Japs In Kaifeng Mission
Shanghai dispatch reports anti American demonstrations in Kaifeng with 30 American missionaries including 15 nuns and four priests. A courier from Chengchow sought to determine fate of the mission with Kaifeng under Japanese control while nearby towns faced disturbances.
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Shanghai
Kaifeng
Chengchow
Henan
Peiping Chronicle
Hwohsien
Kiehsig
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Robert Quillen
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U. S
Green
Moses
E. W. Knight
Supreme Tribunal
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