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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1939
Page
1
Street battles raged as Miaja’s government fought to hold Madrid against Communist units amid a civil war within a civil war. Reports from Paris said Miaja sought a three week armistice via direct talks with Nationalists as Franco’s forces eyed Madrid.
The Spanish Republican fleet arrived at Bizerte, Tunisia, surrendering to neutral France after fleeing Cartagena. A Fas cist spokesman in Rome demanded France hand over the fleet to Gen. Franco and warned Italy away from Sicily. Eleven ships with about 3,000 sailors entered the North African port in parade formation.
The joke notes wonder about the name studio couches. It observes they are rarely used except as kid couches when guests occupy the better beds.
Protests by AE age residents in Lee led to Ellen Tilton Holmson leaving town after she wore slacks and sandals, reflecting local dress code tensions.
Rajkot March 7 Mohandas K Gandhi ends a 98 hour fast that began after goat milk with orange juice as the viceroy Linlithgow mediates a dispute over an advisory council on democratic reforms. The 69 year old leader loses weight while his action prompts regional mourning, business shutdowns, and global telegrams of support.
In Harrisburg on March 7, Pennsylvania's Robert Lee Jacobs 28 said on the senate floor he has drawn three paychecks this session and earned none. He proclaimed that ninety nine of every hundred lawmakers are liars and that the chamber determines job allocations.
West Virginia legislators push toward adjournment by Saturday noon as the rules committee places remaining administration bills on final action track. The budget bill and garnishee measures advance for final passage in both chambers, with other administration and prison industry bills targeted for quick approval amid ongoing conference and caucus work.
Elliott Roosevelt, son of the president, told the FCC that radio suffers censorship of fear. He argued that renewal of licenses every six months restricts free speech and urged a law allowing broadcasters to operate without fear, warning that totalitarian states control both press and radio. He said free speech is mainly an American boon.
SAN FRANCISCO March 7 INS Adolph Hitler successor already chosen Capt Fritz Wiedemann said he has taken over his former post Manfred von Killinger must remain secret Wiedemann denied Hitler dead or ruled by a double he praised friendship with Americans while warning the Pacific coast is not a Nazi trouble zone he adds he seeks to foster cross ideology ties replacing the consul general sent back to Germany after the Vancouver explosion labeled by him as Communist work
Treasury Secretary Morgenthau posts placards in his department urging callers to have substantive business ready. The notices reflect the administration’s recovery push and aim to deter needless interruptions.
Conferees from both houses approve a $62,488,000 budget bill three days before the constitutional end of the session. The compromise reduces general relief by $300,000 and reallocates funds, including $50,000 for primary counties school aid and merging $6,000 for a cow barn with $7,000 for Reyman Memorial farm barns. The report was withheld until today for adoption.
Maria Gable obtained a four minute desertion divorce from Clark Gable in Las Vegas. Judge William E. Orr signed the decree after hearing the charge, clearing the way for the Hollywood star and Carole Lombard to marry.
President Roosevelt announced plans to send a new relief needs message to Congress next Monday and indicated no immediate push for the full 150 million relief bill. He discussed studying business deterring taxes, potential repeal of undistributed profits and capital gains taxes, and rejected debt-limit changes for now.
President Roosevelt asserted the neutrality act may have encouraged threats of war as the Senate approved most of the arms program. Admiral Leahy hinted at a push for a larger fleet after Tokyo signals. The president opposed a national referendum before war and noted joint army navy war games planned for mid April.
Washington March 7 report that House Rules Committee backed a congressional probe into organized rings smuggling aliens into the United States. Rep Dickstein and Rep Schilte said ship captains signed foreigners as crew and aliens vanished after arrival. They cited rings in Cuba dumping Europeans to Florida and in San Francisco for Asiatics. Secretaries Perkins and the labor department faced criticism over enforcement.
Callander Ontario March 7 Canadian Press Oliva Dionne father of the Dionne quintuplets says he is not in favor of accepting the Ontario government invitation for the five girls to travel to Toronto in May to meet King George and Queen Elizabeth He would delay replying until consulting Mrs Dionne Dr Allan Roy Dafoe also seems cool toward the plan The invitation would send Emilie Yvonne Annette Cecile and Marie by special train under guard to Toronto to meet the king and queen on May 22 during their Canadian tour Dionne said he cannot see why the visit cannot be arranged at the nursery locally
Secretary. Roosevelt is the job slated for Col. Edwin M. Watson, FDR's military aide, when he retires soon from the army.
Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter voiced serious doubts on Congress power to strip tax immunity for government officials and allow reciprocal state and federal taxation. Separately CIO leader John L Lewis proposed forming a new American Congress of Labor to unite CIO AFL and railroad unions, a plan AFL peace negotiators rejected, urging continued talks toward a negotiated settlement under President Roosevelt.
Chicago youth Frank Calinde, 17, who believed his mother would welcome him home, was returned to Bridewell jail after escaping with fellow inmate Stanley Budkins. He was serving a one year term for mobile law violation.
Dr George Crile of Cleveland announced at the Southeastern Surgical Congress that operating on the abdominal brain the celiac ganglion could relieve heart conditions. The procedure cuts nerve fibers to slow heart and organ activity, potentially reducing high blood pressure and angina.
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