Navy to Lead Auxiliary Merchant Flotilla Under Plan
The United States plans a $2 billion, 10 year program to build 5,000,000 tons of new auxiliary vessels, launching one ship every 15 days through 1939. By plan end the fleet will rank first in military efficiency and speed, outperforming Japan, France, Italy, and Germany in tonnage. Each ship can be converted for naval use with gun emplacements and refueling facilities.
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Washington
INS
U. S
Commission
High Commission
Great Britain
Japan
France
Italy
Germany
Maritime Commission
Chester
Athletic Events Slated at Lincoln Junior High Playground
Boys and girls will compete in contests at Lincoln junior high school playground at 3 p m today under Union mission. Prizes include baseballs caps a bicycle horn fountain pen and more. Rev Fred Brown and William McGarrahan lead events. Similar contests are set for Fruth school tomorrow at 2 p m and Bigley school tomorrow at 4 p m.
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Lincoln
Union Mission
Fred Brown
William McGarrahan
Mission
Fruth School
Bigley School
Kanawha Library Reports Record Book Loans
Mrs. E von Schlecendahl announced in the annual report that all Kanawha county library departments increased loans. The main library lent 117 301 books, Crescent library 5 385, bookmobile 22 886, Garnet branch 14 653, totaling 160 225.
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Kanawha County Public Library
E. von Schlecendahl
Board of
Crescent Library
Garnet
Probable Rotary Nominees Named for Cleveland Convention
White Sulphur Springs June 14 The names of three men considered likely nominees for Rotary International president at Cleveland were disclosed by a high source. Amos Squire Ossining NY Richard C Hedke Detroit and Walter D Head Montclair NJ were listed as official nomination candidates from the convention floor.
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White Sulphur Springs
Rotary International
Cleveland
International Assembly
Amos Squire
Ossining
N. Y
Richard C. Hedke
Detroit
Walter D
Montclair
N. J
Squire
Westchester County
U. S
Foreign exhibitors bemoan high costs at New York Fair
At the New York World’s Fair foreign exhibitors complain that labor union troubles push building and operating costs up to 100 percent over estimates. Dr. Neil Van Aken says unions push Amer ican workers, while some governments may abandon their exhibits after 1939. Some charges include extortion and sabotage claims, though not proved, as exhibitors warn of reduced or halted participation if the fair continues.
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New York
Neil van Aken
Foreign Commissioners’ Club
Fair Corporation
Slanderer of Nazis Freed, Ordered Out
William Bardwell Curts, a University of Munich student from Oakland California, jailed by Nazi police for writing alleged slanderous verse, was released and ordered to leave Germany immediately. He was arrested in Heidelberg weeks earlier for the hotel register verse.
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Berlin
INS
William Bardwell Curts
Oakland
Calif
University of Munich
Germany
Curts
Heidelberg
Student Love Parties In Montebello Under Probe
In Montebello California reports say love parties involving about a score of junior and senior high students are under investigation after 20 year old Wynisha Malletta was arrested on suspicion of contributing to the delinquency of minors. Ages range from 11 to 17 with two high school youths also arrested on suspicion of attack. The parties reportedly occurred in a vacant hotel building beside a shoe shop run by Malletta’s husband. The woman denies involvement.
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Montebello
Cal
INL
Wynisha Malletta
Malletta
Federal commission seeks more control of telephone industry
The federal communications commission asked Congress for broader authority over the telephone industry, criticizing Bell system practices. In New York, AT&T president Walter S. Gifford called the commission's investigation ex parte and one sided.
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Washington
Bell Telephone System
Federal Communications Commission
Congress
New York
Walter S. Gifford
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Hurricane Warning Near Apalachicola Moves North
The Weather Bureau warned of a hurricane of moderate intensity located 150 miles southwest of Apalachicola Florida at 4 30 p m EST The storm was moving north northeast at about 12 miles per hour and posed a potential threat to nearby coastal areas.
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Apalachicola
Fla
Band to Lead Charleston Bicycle Parade
South Charleston high school's band directed by A. E. Raspillaire will lead Charleston's safety parade through downtown tomorrow at 2 30 p m. The parade assembles at Montgomery Ward's store in the Daniel Boone hotel building with Ward's co sponsoring the event with The city.
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South Charleston High School
A. E. Raspillaire
Charleston
Montgomery Ward
Daniel Boone Hotel
Ward's
Girl Scout Troop Tours Farms and Museum Visit
Girl Scout troop No. 2 toured Mount Vernon Dairy farms and Morgan's Museum in Winfield led by Mrs. W. T. O'Farrell. D. E. Bish of Ward's chaired the event offering 10 prizes for bicycles with traffic safety decorations. A parade route ran from the store along Summers to Virginia Capitol Lee Broad Capitol Washington. Entry list rose to 157 and could reach 200 by tonight. blanks available at The Gazette or Ward's sports department.
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Girl Scout Troop No. 2
Mount Vernon Dairy Farms
Morgan’s Museum
Winfield
W. T. O'Farrell
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Edwin Cox
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Sly
I. Duce
Caesar
Hollywood
Douglas C'wrone
Corrigan
Young Fdr
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr
Hyde Park
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Queen Elizabeth
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Virginia
Polly Peabody
Hepburn
Marion Houghton Hepburn
Katharine Hepburn
Thomas N. Hepburn
West Hartford
Conn
Ellsworth Strong Grant
Horace Grant
Bachrach
Bobby Burns
Lapitol Dt
New Orleans
the Weather Bureau
Fleischmann
The
Fleischmann Distilling Corporation
Peekskill, N.Y
Mammoth
Nin Atco
Aste
Harry Price
O. J. Morrison
General Electric
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