Daladier orders French air and ground forces to shoot raiders
Premier Edouard Daladier inspected defenses on the Spain frontier and ordered artillery and air forces to shoot down any planes threatening French territory. He announced day and night border patrols and warned the public of a grave war menace while noting only a small number of anti aircraft units are near the frontier.
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Perpignan
France
Edouard Daladier
Spain
Pemier Daladier
Toulouse
Barcelona
7 Ae
Cerbere
Ae Pebclaia
Fifth Drowning Victim in Kanawha River Case
A 14 year old boy, the fifth drowning this season in Elk river area near Kanawha Valley Ice company, was found and pronounced dead after a boat rescue attempt failed. Coroner James E. Roberts ruled accidental drowning. The body was taken by Barlow ambulance. the victim lived with aunt Miss Mora Breedon on West Washington Street and leaves parents, three brothers, and other relatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elk River
Kanawha Valley Ice Company
James E. Roberts
Barlow
W. A. Breedon
Sissonville
Quillen Quote on Flying and Newspaper Fame
Willie Willis Robert Quillen expresses a whimsical wish to fly one of "them things" to gain attention in the papers and make Mary regret her yesterday scornful reaction. The fragment hints at ego, fame, and social dynamics.
Bombers Rake Spanish Ports Killing Many in Attacks
Insurgent bombers struck coastal areas of Spain killing and wounding for days, with Valencia Alicante Segorbe among the hardest hit. Ships damaged include the British freighter Thorpehaven and the English Tanker, while the Victoria hotel at Alicante was destroyed and several consulates damaged. A British envoy reported no military targets in Granollers where casualties occurred earlier.
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Madrid
Valencia
Alicante
Mediterranean
Segorbe
Thorpehaven
Thurston
Victoria
Teruel
T. H. Leche
Spain
London
Granollers
Barcelona
Bombardment of Canton Continues as Japanese Raid City
Canton's residents flee as Japanese air force strikes the city for the twelfth day. Three attacks hit Canton's power station and waterfront, triggering power outages and mass evacuation along rail and riverfronts. Japanese navy warns raids will intensify while urging Chinese authorities to end anti Japanese stance.
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Canton
Naokwai Nomura
Navy Special Service Section
Shanghai
Harlan Murder Is Told in Trial
In London Kentucky on June 71 a federal trial heard two witnesses describe how union organizer Lloyd Clouse was shot by Harlan county deputies near Verda on April 24, 1937. Jasper Clouse and Lloyd Ward testified that deputies halted the Clouse brothers and opened fire as they turned. Lloyd Clouse died. no prosecutions followed.
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London
Harlan County
Harlan
Jasper Clouse
Lloyd Clouse
Verda Salaga
Lloyd Ward
Clouse
Lloyd
Whem
Hotel Clerk Fasts Fifteen Days Says God Prods
Chattanooga, June 7. A 35 year old hotel clerk Luther Hill remained in his room after 18 days without food. He told reporters the fasting was commanded by God and that he was not seeking a hunger record. He cited Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth as his reason.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Tennessee
Luther Hill
Hill
Dean Noe
Window smash prompts police protest at unsafe sporting goods store
Chicago on June 7 report says a sporting goods store window was broken three times and $750 worth of merchandise stolen. Manager Karl W. Keefer responded by posting signs declaring the shop unsafe to attract thieves away from valuables. Police are protesting this approach.
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Chicago
Karl W. Keefer
Keefer
Belleville Mayor Cancels Fish Fry After Lake Sights Fish
Belleville May or George Remnsnider called off a city fish fry after hearing Carbondale lake offered fish. He invited the council and city staff to dinner and returned with a four inch fish.
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Il No Alibia Belleville, M
George Remnsnider
Carbondale Lake
Peacock in mirror fight at Zon ends with canvas cover
In Philadelphia on June 7 a peacock attacked its mirror image in a penny scale display at Zon. The bird charged repeatedly while wings fluttered and neck arched. A keeper finally draped the mirror with canvas to end the scene.
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Philadelphia
Peacock
All Is Harmonious As Leaders Pledge Support to Gillette
Washington June 7 AP Administration aides voiced backing for Sen Guy Gillette after his Iowa Democratic primary win President Roosevelt called the renomination a sound system of party government WPA head Harry Hopkins initially favored Wearin then endorsed Gillette saying he hopes for Gillette’s reelection Postmaster General Parley and Agriculture Secretary Wallace pledged service to Gillette’s campaign and James Roosevelt sent congratulations to Gillette as a friend of Wearin
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Gillette
Hopkins
Farley
Wallace
Iowa
Washington
Guy Gillette
Roosevelt
Otha Wearin
Giltone
WPA
James A. Parley
Sec. of Agriculture
Henry A. Wallace
Democratic National Committee
Jaws
James Roosevelt
Wearin
FDR Seeks 50000 for G-Men Kidnap Investigation
President Roosevelt asks Congress for a emergency 50000 appropriation to finance FBI efforts in the Jimmie Cash kidnapping case in Princeton Florida. The House committee limits funds and requires use of next year’s FBI budget to restore staff, affecting several offices and tightening current operations.
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FDR
Washington
INS
Roosevelt
Congress
Jimmie Cash
Princeton
G-men
FBI
Alaska
Hawaii
Puerto Rico
Hartford
Conn
Phoenix
Riz
First cash ransom bill linked to James Cash Jr. case
Reported discovery of the first bill from the ten thousand dollar ransom paid for five and a half year old James Bailey Cash Jr. deepens hopes the money trail will lead to kidnappers. Federal and local probes stall while a Miami Daily News note ties a three dollar bill to a Jacksonville filling station operator. Police questioned two officers traveling via Tallahassee before release.
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Miami
Fla
James Bailey Cash
Miami Daily News
Jacksonville
Tennesse
Florida
Inter Qvere
Acar Tallahassee
Con- Guerd
Gemen
Shrinners Parade Opens Shrine Convention in Memorial Coliseum
In Los Angeles a thousand Shrine Nobles paraded before Imperial Potentate Walter Sugden as the 6th annual Shrine convention opened. The Olympia torch was lit for the first time since 1932, signaling the start of the session. Officials will decide the 1939 convention city and elect officers.
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Los Angeles
Calif
Robert A. Heffert
South Victor In Wage-Hour Compromise
Washington June 7 AP Administration forces on wage hour bill tentatively capitulated to a southern bloc seeking lower minima in Dixie. Senate conferees approved a payroll plan treating north and south alike for two years with 25 cents hourly minimum first year and 30 cents second. After two years advisory industry boards would raise to 40 cents when feasible, aiming to appease southern industry demands for regional differentials while keeping a nationwide floor. The action was 44 to 3 but subject to reconsideration and Borah dissented.
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Washington
Dixie
North
Senate
Sen. Borah
Ida
Panhandle Men Tour Charleston Visit
About 60 to 75 Eastern Panhandle men travel to Charleston for the fourth annual all West Virginia tour. They join a luncheon at noon with Lions and Kiwanis at the Daniel Boone hotel, meet Gov. Holt at the capitol, then depart for Huntington. Delegation leaders include Henry T. McDonald Storer College Harpers Ferry and W H White Shepherd College Shepherdstown others are Clarence E. Martin Martinsburg J R Poland Martinsburg E E Church Keyser and Lee Bushong Charles Town with a youth orchestra from Panhandle high schools accompanying by auto.
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Charleston
Shepherd College
Shepherdstown
Clarence E. Martin
Martinsburg
American Bar Association
J. R. Poland
E. E. Church
Keyser
Lee Bushong
Charles Town
Tle
Panhandle
Adjournment Date Now Set For June 15
Washington June 7 All plans for adjournment of congress Saturday were abandoned as leaders pushed the quitting goal to June 15 Differences over the 3 722 000 000 spend recovery bid and wage hour legislation plus the 274 228 729 final deficiency bill prompted the delay Senate and House conferees will meet Thursday on the recovery bill and final action may push into next week The House debated the deficiency bill carrying 35 802 000 for navy expansion 94 285 404 for the commodity credit corporation 50 000 000 for funding illegally collected processing taxes and 40 561 886 for social security taxes to be returned to 13 states and two territories Rep Taber assailed the New Deal spending saying this session may go down as the greatest spendthrift in history with appropriations totaling 13 452 901 375.
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Washington
INS
Congress
House
Senate
Barkley
Bankhead
Roosevelt
Senate House
Commodity Credit Corporation
Rep. Taber
New York
Appropriations Committee
Navy program funds head bill sparks major appropriations
A 274 million dollar appropriations bill passed through the house including 35.8 million set to start construction of 19 navy vessels and yard improvements. It funds two 35,000 ton battleships, two light cruisers, eight experimental ships, and seven auxiliaries while rejecting a war aircraft carrier and a 3 million dirigible. The measure also restores Commodity Credit corporation capital and refunds social security taxes. Senate action meanwhile approves 450 million for the war department.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
Navy
Beer License Complaints Probed in Renewals
Beer license renewals face a proactive probe as a small black notation after a dealer’s name signals potential closure pending tax department investigation. Licenses expire June 36, with 1,800 to 2,000 renewal applications under review and 1,500 to 1,800 more expected this month. The licensing division sorted dealers by county and flags complaints for substantiation that could block renewal.
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Tax Department
Miller Awarded Third Annual Boys State Governor Post
Will Miller of Charleston was elected governor of the third annual Boys State. He headed the Federalist ticket and defeated William Bates of Clarksburg, with oath administered by Judge Haymond Maxwell. Federalists captured the legislature, 11 senate seats to 9 and 21 house seats to 16. Miller plans morning appointments, and the supreme court term opens Wednesday under Circuit Judge Hakley Kilgore.
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William Bates
Clarksburg
Judge Maxwell
Jackson's Mill
Will. Miller
W. 3. Miller
Charleston
Boys' State, Inc
Miller
Haymond Maxwell
State Supreme Court
Selature
Senate
House of Delegates
Supreme Court
Hacley Kilgore
Beckley
Schowe Wins In Nitro Vote
Voters in 19 West Virginia towns including Nitro and Smithers cast ballots for mayor and council seats. In Nitro C F Schowen won mayor with 241 votes, over incumbent Earl H Cooper 251. James Roark 122. A. Lewis reelected recorder 326 to O M Crow 252 and W Le Wintz 13. Five council seats filled: J H Rimmer 612 Hermon Jones 601 J E Waldorf 593 L H Kessel 569 Joseph W Stamm 453 Seton Jack Smith 416. A zoning ordinance approving building restrictions passed 402 to 160. Dunbar approved a three year extra levy 261 to 141 to raise 5500 annually for police and fire. Mayor Melton Maloney said two full time firemen will be added to improve insurance rates, projected 10 percent cut. Levy rates: class one 6 25 cents, class two 12 5 cents, class four 25 cents. Also Pineville mayor Otis L Allen reelected to second term 160 to 93 over Dan W Cook. councilmen reelected. Welch Republicans swept all offices.
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West Virginia
Nitro
Smithers
Oficers
C. F. Schowen
Earl H Cooper
James Roark
A. Lewis
O. M. Crow
W. le Wintz
J. H. Rimmer
Hereman Jones
J. E. Waldorf
L. H. Kessel
Joeseph W. Stamm
Seton Jack Smith
Dunbar
Palice and Dire
Melton Maloney
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Frontier Defense
Fleses Te
Boy
Eugene Breedon
Willie Willis
Robert Quillen
Nippons
Organizer
U.S
China
Col
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr
U. S
Marilyn Chu
Harry Hopkins
Works Progress
Lester J. Dickinson
J. Edgar Hoover
Shriners
South Victor
Lions
Nue Cleus
Taber
R-N. Y
Schowe
Dunbar Levy
Pineville
Otis L. Allen
Peoples Party
Dan W. Cook
Citizens
Cook
Welch
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