Giant Clipper Plane Safe In Lisbon Port
The Atlantic Clipper, first trans Atlantic press flight preparing for regular service, landed in Lisbon harbor at 8 44 P M from Horta Azores. The 1 050 mile leg took seven hours 31 minutes with thirty persons aboard during the preview flight.
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Portugal
INS
Horta
Azores
Port Washington
N. Y
Marseille
France
New York
Great Circle
Lovely Island
Fayal
Walter R. Oesting
F. A. Hermanson
French Sub Being Hunted At 365 Feet
Paris dispatch reports French naval officials locating the sunken submarine Phenix about eight miles northeast of Cam Ranh bay. They place the depth at 365 to 375 feet and note a flat seabed with no rocky ledges. Search continues with one sister sub Espoir returning to Saigon.
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Paris
Phenix
Cam Ranh Bay
Chinese Sea
Espoir
Hope
Saigon
Working Wives Is Zonta Topic
Delegates at the 19th annual Zonta International meeting in White Sulphur Springs weigh whether married women should hold jobs a key discussion. Dora E. Neun of Rochester will lead a forum on recent legislation as part of the program along with talks on aeronautical engineering and the Amelia Earhart Memorial fund. Harry Collins Spillman of New York will present a speech on fortifying democracy at the base.
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Zonta International
Association of Business and Professional Women Executives
Dora E. Neun
Rochester
N. Y
Amelia Earhart
Harry Collins Spillman
New York
Spirit of Tolerance poster campaign by council members
Katharine Hepburn posed for the Spirit of Tolerance poster for nationwide distribution as part of the Council Against Intolerance in America. Members include Governor Lehman Monsignor John A Ryan Ickes Fosdick Glass and William Allen White.
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Council Against
America
Katharine Hepburn
McClelland Barclay
Spirit of Tolerance
Lehman
John A. Ryan
Ickes
Fosdick
Glass
Wm. Allen White
Veteran Actor Eddie Healey among five dead in Edgewood fire
Fire in a four story Edgewood apartment building in Providence left five dead and 25 injured. Eddie Healey retired vaudeville star leaped from a fourth floor window as flames spread. Police later recovered two bodies believed to be Mr and Mrs William Booth. A missing maid and several others were unaccounted. Firemen said most injuries resulted from jump from upper floors.
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R. I
Edgewood
Eddie Healey
Healey
Healey and
Cross
William A. Booth
Racket Named Discontinued In West Virginia Postage Shuffle
The National Geographic Society notes changes in the U S postal guide as four Edens end their mailing addresses with one town in California Kentucky Montana and Washington among others including Truth Ark Coin Ky Frugality Pa Racket West Virginia and other colorful migration era names are being dropped.
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INS
National Geographic Society
U. S
Edens
California
Kentucky
Montana
Truth
Ark
Coin
Frugality
Ala
Boiling Point
Ore
W. Va
Wyo
Colo
Flood
Love
Lie Detector and Dog Aid Baby Murder Probe
Authorities credit a lie detector and a mongrel dog named Rags with guiding them to the solution of baby Haldon Fink's death. Mrs Velma Baker Fink allegedly confessed to throwing her ten week old son into Green creek after a quarrel with her mother.
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Haldon Fink
Velma Baker Fink
Green Creek
Myers
Bergdoll Assets Seized and Turned Over to Mrs Bergdoll
The government delivered over 150000 dollars in cash and securities seized from Grover Cleveland Bergdoll to his wife Mrs Grover Cleveland Bergdoll in New York. The assets were placed with her attorney Harry Weinberger as property of Mrs Bergdoll. Bergdoll faces a five year military sentence after returning from exile in Europe. The fate of about 500000 dollars seized by the alien property custodian remains unresolved.
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New York
Grover Cleveland
Bergdoll
Europe
Harry Weinberger
Bomb Wrecks Prague Cafe In Jewish District
A bomb exploded early today at a cafe frequented by Jews in Prague, injuring 19 people and shaking a Jewish neighborhood. Authorities linked the blast to intimidation of Jews, noting prior bombings and a 10 pound device found nearby. Police placed guards at synagogues as investigations continue.
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Prague
Mrs. Lindbergh Receives Amherst Honorary Degree
Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh received Amherst College’s honorary Doctor of Letters during the 118th commencement. She is the former Anne Spencer Morrow and was the sole woman among seven honorary degree recipients as 197 seniors graduated.
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Amherst
Mass
Charles A. Lindbergh
Amherst College
Dwight W. Morrow
Anne Spencer Morrow
Smith College
Agar duo win prize for comedy “Ducks and Drakes”
Herbert Agar editor of The Louisville Courier Journal and wife Eleanor Carroll Chilton won first prize in a contest by the Coach House theater Oconomowoc Wisconsin. The $250 award for best comedy will be staged in early August. Agar is a Pulitzer winner and Mrs Agar is a novelist and short story writer.
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Chicago
Herbert Agar
Louisville Courier-Journal
Eleanor Carroll Chilton
Coach House Theater
Oconomowoc
Wis
Marjorie Montgomery Ward Baker
Agar
Hitler Will Guard Danzig Says His Aide
Goebbels told a cheering Danzig audience that the Free City is German and cannot be altered by diplomacy. He praised Hitler as an artist and called foreign politicians mere hand workers while insisting union with Germany is inevitable.
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Danzig
Paul Joseph Goebbels
Goebbels
Hitler
Adolf Hitler
Reich
Fuehrer
Albert Forster
Forster
Germany
Neutral Bill Defeat Seen
Sen. Clark of Missouri predicted public reaction would defeat administration efforts to repeal the arms embargo of the neutrality law. He said his bloc could filibuster but preferred debating on merits and beating the bill. The National Council for Prevention of War and eight groups urged defeat, calling repeal unneutral.
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Clark
Washington
Roosevelt
Supreme Court
Missouri
National Council For Prevention of War
Congress
Man 34 seeks Chinese wife through New York police
Ken P Hess of Oklahoma City asks Police Commissioner Valentine to act as matrimonial agent for a Chinese wife. The letter, mailed June 10, arrived at the New York Police Department, detailing a former soldier with no police record and monthly income of 80 dollars seeking a spouse.
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INS
New York City
Ken P. Hess
Oklahoma City
Okla
Valentine
Joseph J. Donavan
Bureau of Criminal Identification and Correspondence
Blockade in Tientsin Deepens Amid British Isolation
Fifteen hundred Britons remain confined within the British and French concessions in Tientsin as the Japanese blockade enters its sixth day. Gen. Hamma of Japan vows tighter isolation unless Britain ends aid to China, while British Cabinet talks of possible reprisals and U S France keep contact on the Far Eastern crisis.
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Hamma
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Britain
Foreign Affairs Committee
London
France
Sec
Hull
Washington
Gen. Hamma
Paris
La Follettes Praised by Murphy in Wisconsin
Atty General Frank Murphy called the La Follettes the finest political stock in the nation, at a Madison luncheon for the La Follette memorial. He praised Bob La Follette Jr and his brother and implied Wisconsin Progressives should rejoin the New Deal.
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Wis
INS
Frank Murphy
la Follettes
U. S
Robert M. LaFollette Sr
Philip F. LaFollette
Robert M. LaFollette, Jr
Ten Killed By Tornado Near Minneapolis
A tornado struck north and west of Minneapolis late today killing at least 10 persons and injuring 63. The dead include Mrs Anna Freeman and James Bradley of Minneapolis, Ellen Freeman, H Graat of Anoka, and Fred Zimmerman of Champlin. Cars were swept away as families traveling home after an outing perished in the storm. The Anoka area saw 75 houses demolished.
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Minneapolis
Here
Anoka
Anna Freeman
James Bradley
Ellen Freeman
H. Groat
Fred Zimmerman
Champlin
Mr. Cyrin
Ed Morrissette
N. S. Israel
Emil S. Johnson
Zimmer
Passage of Tax Bill Is Held Sure
Washington dispatch reports administration leaders forecast the House will pass an unaltered tax revision bill tomorrow night. Rep. Robert Doughton will bring the bill to the floor after noon, with Democrats planning quick passage. Senate Finance Chairman Pat Harrison will convene, likely Wednesday, to hear Morgenthau and Hanes as urgency to enact before June 30 grows.
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Washington
INS
House
Robert Doughton
North Carolina
Ways and Means Committee
Pat Harrison
Mississippi
Senate Finance Committee
Sec
the Treasury of
Morgenthau
John W. Hanes
Three Major Bills Pressed For Action By June 30
Congress faces a deadline of June 30 to act on three key measures tax revision WPA appropriation and presidential monetary powers. Senate night sessions likely as only 10 working days remain and bill passage urgency grows due to expiring nuisance taxes a depleted WPA fund and limits on the gold content dollar and foreign exchange fund. The social security act amendments and embargo repeal proposal are pushed aside while Roosevelt pushes for the neutrality bill.
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Congress
Senate
Roosevelt
Britain Braces for War as Japan Seizes Tientsin
London reports Sir Roger Keyes declaring the Japanese blockade of the British concession at Tientsin amounts to a war declaration by Japan Germany and Italy. Prime Minister Chamberlain scheduled to outline policy in Commons amid talk of recalls and possible economic reprisals.
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INS
Tientsin
Britain
Japan
Germany
Italy
Roger Keyes
England
Neville Chamberlain
House of Commons
Foreign Affairs Committee
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Chamberlain
Robert Leslie Craigie
Tokyo
Admiral Keyes
Zeebrugge
Ostend
Hornsey
Roger
Portsmouth
Far East
Soviet Russia
British Foreign Office
East Asia
Time Is Scrambled For Clipper Riders
NBC aboard the Atlantic Clipper reports passengers felt time warp as the plane flew at 159 mph toward the sunrise. George Hicks and crew describe waking near midnight then daylight a few hours later aboard the fast flying boat.
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National Broadcasting Company
George Hicks
NBC
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