Swanson Navy Secretary Dies at Rural Camp
Claude A. Swanson, 77, secretary of the navy since 1933, died at the Blue Ridge camp in Rapidan Virginia after a cerebral hemorrhage. Assistant Secretary Charles Edison acts as secretary with mourning for ships and navy yards through Aug. 7 as President Roosevelt considers Edison for the post.
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Swanson
Navy
Washington
Claude A. Swanson
Roosevelt
Senate
Capitol
Blue Ridge Mountain
Rapidan
Congress
Charles Edison
Edison
Lloyd C. Stark
Missouri
Naval Academy
Rep. Cannon
Stark
Rapidan Camp
Hoover
White House
Luke H. Swanson
LSU Engineer Held For Fraud
George Caldwell a former LSU construction engineer was arrested on a federal warrant charging diversion of WPA material and labor to private use. He was taken after leaving the grand jury room where investigators probe improper WPA use at the university amid a governor linked two percent commissions.
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New Orleans
George Caldwell
Louisiana State University
Caldwell
Federal Grand Jury
State University
Paul M. Hebert
Earl K. Long
James Monroe Smith
Cleveland Torso Slayer Suspect Confesses to Slaying
Frank Dolezal, a 52 year old bricklayer described as heavily muscled, admitted to the torso murder of Florence Polillo and claimed involvement in at least two other torso killings. He guided investigators to disposal sites and gave details of the slayings and body parts scattered around Cleveland Lake Erie.
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Frank Dolezal
Cleveland
Ohio City
Martin L. O’donnell
Florence Potillo
Lake Erie
O'Donnell
Rose Wallace
Edward W. Andrassy
Polillo
Andrassy
Wallace
Florence Polillo
East 49Th Street
Nine Month School Term Ensured for West Virginia Counties
The West Virginia Board of School Finance forecasts a nine month term for all counties but urges reserve funds of 7.5 percent of total to cover potential money shortages. If achieved next year this marks a first for many counties under the new 1939 foundation program, with state aid at 45 percent of a basic program and counties funding the rest via 1938 tax assessments.
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Board of School Finance
West Virginia
H. Isaiah Smith
Boards of Education
Smith
Japanese Mob Storms British Tokyo Embassy
A Tokyo mob attacked the British embassy as politicians blamed Britain for actions in China. Police blocked entry while crowds shouted withdraw from Asia. Bombs also fell near Chungking sites and the British gunboat Falcon was damaged in an air raid.
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British
Tokyo
Falcon
Chungking
Admiralty
Asia
England
Chiang Kai-shek
Hachiro Arita
Seishiro Itagaki
Arita
Britain
St Francis Nurses Move to New Home
Nurses vacate quarters to a temporary Laing apartments stay as work begins on a $100000 addition to St Francis hospital. The plan includes space for about 60 nurses an 80 bed ward a recreation room chemical laboratory laundry diet kitchen and other facilities. Permit issued by inspector George B Hendricks. Also approved a $50000 building for West Virginia Coal and Land company at 41st street and MacCorkle avenue.
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St. Francis Hospital
Laing
George B. Hendricks
West Virginia Coal and Land Company
41St Street
MacCorkle Avenue
Hendricks
Romania Feels German Threat in Southeast Europe
Rumanians fear a German push to form a pro axis bloc with Bulgaria Hungary and possibly Yugoslavia as Berlin shows overt support to Sofia. Kiosselvanoff visits Berlin and meets Prince Paul amid German maneuvers and talks of Dobruja gains.
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Ope
Sofia
Kiosselvanoff
Prince Paul
Bled
Yugoslavia
Bucharest
Fuehrer
Hitler
Bulgaria
Black Sea
Dobruja
Rumania
Nazis Order Closing Of Three Protestant Theological Schools
Berlin July 7 Three Protestant theological schools were ordered closed by Oct 1 as part of a Nazi effort to pressure the church. Bernhard Rust Education Minister announced the move tying it to a Nordland article claiming theology is without value. The closures affect Heidelberg University and the Universities of Leipzig and Rostock.
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Berlin
Germany
Bernhard Rust
Parkway Stretch Opening Scheduled Tomorrow
Kanawha parkway will be opened to cars to Park avenue tomorrow morning on a travel at your own risk basis as on state highways under construction. The remainder of the western section will open after Stellhorn and Beightler consent. Police will assign a motorcycle patrolman to prevent violations and curb work continues with safety installations in progress along the route.
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Kanawha Parkway
Park Avenue
Dawson
Stellhorn and
Arab Chiefs in Pay of Foreign Interests
Confessions from eight Arab rebel chieftains in Palestine claim they served foreign interests for fixed remuneration and fomented revolts, according to a manifesto issued by the colonial office in London.
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London
INS
Palestine
Colonial Office
Coup fears rise as Danzig arms for possible Nazi coup
Warsaw dispatch reports Gazeta Polska warns of German-backed moves to annex Danzig. The paper cites 2000 Hitler Youth arrival, arming of free corps, and mass citizen callups as Poland braces against potential anschluss and seeks guard against internal coup d etat.
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Warsaw
INS
Danzig
Free City
Reich
Gazeta Polska
Free Corps
Poland
Germany
Parole Board Frees 28 Prisoners Including Ida Young
Governor Holt granted parole to 28 inmates including Elmo Peek from Logan county and Ida Young of Kanawha county. Young received 15 years for second degree murder in June 1935 while Peek was sentenced in June 1934. The action followed the old parole board’s recommendation as the system was reformed July 1 under a 1939 act.
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Holt
Elmo Peek
Logan County
Ida Young
Kanawha County
Miss Young
Peek
Social Security Paid Out Nine Hundred Million So Far
The federal social security system has paid out $844,649,116 in three years four months of operation and collected $1,483,813,860 in taxes. Most receipts were invested in government bonds in a reserve fund for old age insurance benefits. Expenditures come mainly from congressional appropriations from general funds.
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Washington
Congress
Britain Delays Danzig Warning to Hitler Amid Warsaw Talks
London reports show Prime Minister Chamberlain warned Hitler to keep hands off Danzig but the move was postponed at Warsaw's request. Polish policy demands insist Danzig stay outside the Reich under Polish customs jurisdiction and be safeguarded for minorities. Britain says it will not influence Warsaw's handling of the crisis.
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London
INS
Neville Chamberlain
Hitler
Danzig
Warsaw
Reich
Warsaw-Berlin
Poland
Britain
Airplanes forbidden over Hitler retreat at Berchtesgaden
Berlin July 7 an official decree orders all airplanes forbidden to fly over Berchtesgaden and surrounding areas until further notice. The measure aims to spare Hitler the disturbance of aircraft noise and to prevent accidents at his Berchtesgaden retreat.
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Berlin
INS
Hitler
Berchtesgaden
34 Senators Sign to Fight Neutrality Act
Washington July 7 AP The administration bid to revise the Neutrality Act ends in gloom as 34 senators announce readiness to filibuster. Leaders warn a long fight, with as few as one or two votes deciding the outcome. Pittman says he will press ahead, while embargo repeal remains the administration goal.
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Washington
Pittman
D.-Nev
Foreign Relations Committee
Senate
Baby Succumbs To Rare Disease
Baby Stephen Geison died at five months from Oppenheim's disease, a rare diagnosis with only 150 prior cases on record. Born paralyzed in limbs and dependent on diaphragmatic breathing, he lived under care at a major New York hospital despite widespread hopes and medical certainty of an early death.
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New York
INS
Stephen Geison
Science
Baby Gieson
Oppenheim
Little Stephen
Sammy Gieson
U. S
Canada
100000 WPA Workers Quit in Hours Protest
WPA workers nationwide walk out over a 130 hour a month rule with reports of large regional participation and some returns to work. In San Francisco Alameda County more than 2000 quit, Philadelphia AFL builders vote for a July 20 strike unless the rule changes.
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Associated Press
WPA
Washington
Col. F. C. Harrington
Building Trades Council
The
Workers Alliance
San Francisco
Alameda County
Calif
Philadelphia
AFL
Pennsylvania
Nationwide heatwave bakes regions from New England to the Midwest
Heat metastasized across the nation with highs in the 80s and 90s. Rain cooled sections from Iowa to Nebraska while 20 deaths were attributed to the abnormal warmth. Iowa and neighboring states reported fatalities and cities such as Augusta Maine reached 95. In Florida heavy rains refreshed pockets of the coast.
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Prairie States
Midwest
West Virginia
New England
Augusta
Massachusetts
Vermont
New York State
Emporia
Kan
Iowa
Nebraska
Minnesota
Dakotas
Papillion
Neb
Heatwave Drives West Virginia Temperatures to July Highs
A Huntington man collapsed on a hot day as readings neared 90s across West Virginia. W. H. Strickler fainted downtown near the Ohio border but was not seriously harmed. Huntington recorded 94.5 degrees the highest July reading, while Charleston reached 96 by five in the afternoon.
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Huntington
West
Ohio
W. H. Strickler
Charleston
Seventy-Five Gassed at Utica Pool in Chlorine Incident
In Utica New York seventy five people including fifty children were overcome by chlorine gas from a nearby storage tank. Victims were treated at Faxton hospital with three described as in serious condition. About fifty more expected to remain overnight while others were released after inhalator treatment.
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Utica
N. Y
Addison C. Miller
Faxton Hospital
William Rubin
New York City
Leonard Nunno
Clarence Mosher
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Robert Quillen
S. R. Gerber
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Chiang
East Asia
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Kentucky
Morehead
Ellis Henson
Europe
Budapest
Eur
Hans Frank
Nicholas Iorga
Carol
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Magnolia
Logan Lifer
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University of Chicago Observatory
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