Mussolini Says War Not Needed Says Axis Aids Peace
Premier Mussolini told 50,000 in Turin that Germany and Italy can solve Europe’s problems without war while denouncing the democracies as waging an economic war against them. He opened a tour of Piedmont military sites and public works, warning that the Rome Berlin axis is allied and would repel any attack.
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Turin
Italy
Mussolini
Hitler Beievurope
Germany
Rome- Berlin
Vittorio Veneto
Piedmont
Paris
Il Duce
France
Tunisia
Savoy
Franice
Europe
Britain Eyes Moscow Reply On Alliance Effort
London reports a Russian answer expected this week to Britain and France on a collaboration plan as London plans to tackle Palestine with a controversial postwar framework. The government prepares to lay out Holy Land policy in the Commons Tuesday after talks with Arab and Jewish leaders.
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London
Britain
Moscow
Quotation Reflects Tense Interaction In Street Dialogue
A fragment captures Willie Willis remarking on a confrontation and his view of a younger person as a nuisance while asserting approval of having someone present. The tone suggests street talk and interpersonal conflict.
Hitler Inspects Western Front Fortifications Near Aachen
Hitler accompanied by top generals visited German defenses along the western frontier near Aachen. The inspection, framed as a demonstrative show of strength, came as Mussolini touted the Rome Berlin axis and signals a shift of focus to eastern Europe as Germany builds a steel fortified line and a potential eastward emphasis.
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Berlin
Germany
Hitler
Mussolini
Turin
Italy
France
Fuehrer
Aachen
Cologne
Wilhelm Keitel
Roosevelt Hull Said Unneutral
Rep. George Holden Tinkham of Massachusetts plans to introduce a House resolution censuring President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Cordell Hull for alleged neutrality violations in European and Asiatic clashes. The measure argues the U S must reassert genuine neutrality to avoid war and asserts the president and Hull are leading the nation toward war.
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Washington
INS
Roosevelt
Sec
Cordell Hull
George Holden Tinkham
Massachusetts
House
Congress
U. S
Europe
Hull
Doctors Study Revolutionary Health Plans
At the American Medical association meeting in St. Louis May 14 doctors consider the Wagner bill offering tax paid or tax aided medical care. Projections show 40 to 60 million Americans could become eligible for federal medical assistance with funds rising from 92 million in 1940 to 199 million in 1942 plus state contributions. Critics point to control by three federal officials over funds and services.
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ST. Louis
American Medical Association
U. S
Congress
Roosevelt
Lipstick Clue To Kidnapping In Bakersfield
Traces of lipstick on a blue 1937 coupe registered to Amelia Earhart’s estate and used by the kidnapers of George Palmer Putnam point to a female involvement. The car found near the partly built Bakersfield store where Putnam was abducted. investigators fingerprinted the vehicle but found no clear clues. The abductors left a newspaper, rope and tape absent, and rain washed away prints. Putnam described two kidnappers, one large and one small, who demanded the names of anonymous authors of his anti Nazi book.
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Bakersfield
Calif
Amelia Earhart Putnam
George Palmer Putnam
Putnam
North Hollywood
Poundmaster N. C. Wilson
Los Angeles
Hitler
Roosevelt Library Offer Moves to Fast Track in Congress
Congressional leaders plan immediate action on a bill to create the Franklin D. Roosevelt library using the president’s papers books and an expansive 12 acre tract from his Duchess County estate The Hyde Park site will become a national shrine housing the documents and artworks for public use after congressional approval and acceptance of the offer by the president.
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Roosevelt
Washington
INS
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Congress
Hyde Park
N. Y
Kent Keller
Ill
House Library Committee
Duchess County
Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Taylor wed in San Diego
Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Taylor married in San Diego at the Whelans home just after midnight to avoid a 13th wedding date. Municipal Judge Phil Smith officiated with Zeppo Marx’s wife as matron of honor and Buck Mack as best man.
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Barbara Stanwyck
Robert Taylor
San Diego
Calif
Thomas Whelan
Hollywood
Phil Smith
Zeppo Marx
Buck Mack
Miss Stanwyck
Taylor
Frank Fay
Dion Fay
Barrymore Seeks Ideal Woman To Be Wife No Five
Chicago report says 57 year old John Barrymore, a famed stage and screen star, seeks an ideal woman to become his fifth wife. He compares a husband to a stamp collector and aims for a mate who blends traits of his four prior spouses, the current fourth suing for divorce. Names of the four former wives are Kathleen Harris, Mrs Leonard Thomas, Dolores Costello, and Elaine Barrie Barrymore.
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Chicago
John Barrymore
Kathleen Harris
New York
Leonard Thomas
Dolores Costello
Elaine Barrie Barrymore
Roosevelt opposes radio liquor ad ban in Texas network plea
Elliott Roosevelt, son of the president, asks Vice President Garner and Senators Sheppard and Connally to defeat the Johnson bill banning alcoholic beverage ads on radio. He calls the bill un democratic and un American, warns of job losses and broader press advertising limits, as the senate committee reported it favorably.
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Washington
INS
Elliott Roosevelt
Garner
Sen
Sheppard
Connally
Texas
Roosevelt
Johnson
Colorado
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
U S Plans Crop Price Pegging to Support Markets
Washington reports the administration will again peg major crop prices using commodity loan provisions under the farm act to bolster wheat cotton and corn prices. Loans and quotas may restrict sales with penalties if marketings exceed set limits as officials weigh ample wheat supplies for a possible marketing quota referendum.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Wallace
Burgunder Admits Staying Salesmen Killings
Phoenix May 14 county attorney said Robert M. Burgunder Jr 22 a college student confessed to shooting two automobile salesmen April 29 in a desert gulch after tying their hands. He was brought from Johnson City Tenn and told officers and a court reporter the full tale including who he shot first and where. A .25 caliber pistol and five empty shells were found. the gun remained in the car glove compartment.
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Phoenix Ariz
County
Atty
Richard F. Harless
Robert M. Burgunder
Arizona
Johnson City
Tenn
Harless
Lon Jordan
Burgunder
Globe, Ariz
Temple Teacher College
Jack Peterson
Ellis Koury
Koury
Peterson
Keury
Three Big Issues Bar to Early Adjournment in Congress
Washington May 14 The three big issues neutrality taxes and the Wag ner labor relations act blocked any early adjournment of Congress. The first session of the 75th congress may be the most lavish in peacetime with seven to ten billion dollars already appropriated. A test of neutrality act proposals will come this week in Senate and House committees split among factions. The Florida canal project of 200 million dollars will be debated as the session continues with war department business on the agenda.
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Washington
INS
Congress
Senate
House Foreign Affairs
Foreign Relations Committee
House
Lewis Asks WPA Boost
John L. Lewis and CIO call for a $2.2 billion WPA relief program to fund about 3 million jobs next fiscal year while Roosevelt proposes $1.75 billion for relief. Lewis argues 3 million jobs is the minimum of safety and seeks removal of the means test plus worker organizing rights and socially useful projects.
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Washington
INS
John L. Lewis
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Congress
CIO
Lewis
Roosevelt
WPA
Farm Security
Taylor
House Appropriations Committee
American Federation of Labor
AFL
AFL High Command
GOP
William Hutcheson
Matthew Woll
John Hamilton
Opening of 37 Harlan Mines Planned Today
Harlan Ky May 14 The United Mine Workers leader calls 6000 miners to stay away from reopened mines under national guard protection. Troops mobilized to escort workers back to work. officials say most of the 42 mines may reopen with guards, while some wait and see.
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Harlan
INS
Chandler
William Turnblazer
United Mine Workers of America
Turnblazer
George S. Ward
Harlan Operators’ Association
Ward
Slaying in Harlan as National Guard Moves In
In Harlan Kentucky on May 14 one miner Treed Bates 35 was killed at Yancey and a man shot on a main street. Brig Gen Ellerbee Carter ordered 200 additional national guard troops to the county. Deputy Chad Nolan said Bates was shot in front of Walter Rowe's home and that the incident stemmed from a drunken brawl with Rowe jailed.
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Harlan
Yancey
Ellerbee Carter
National Guard
Chad Nolan
Treed Bates
Harlan Fuel Company
Walter Rowe
Nolan
Rowe
Charles Guthrie
Peru Girl Gives Birth To Boy in Surreal Case at Five
In Lima a 5.96 pound boy was delivered by cesarean to Lina Medina an Indian girl stated to be five years old. Doctors call it a unique world medical case with the mother healthy though the girl shows signs of sexual maturity.
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Lima
Peru
Hipolito Larrabure
Lima Maternity Hospital
Larrabure
Geraldo Lozada
Alejandro Busalleu
Lina Medina
Larra
Bure
Retrepo
Kanawha coal miners return as more firms sign union contracts
Two more Kanawha field coal companies signed union shop pacts with the United Mine Workers, bringing relief as about 88,000 miners resume work across West Virginia after seven weeks idle. Milburn By-Products and Orlando Coal joined five others, with 38 of 45 Kanawha firms still unsigned. Blizzard said more signings expected. a 2 p.m. operators meeting outlined future policy as cleanups and inspections began for reopening.
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Kanawha Field
United Mine Workers
Milburn By-Products Company
Orlando Coal Company
Kanawha
William Blizzard
UMW District 17
Blizzard
1006 McKell workers stay out for contract
Luigi Gugolatta CIO field representative says 1006 McKell Coal and Coke employees refused to return to work without a signed contract. He claims the company never agreed to a contract and that miners acted on orders from New York headquarters. The three-mine operation on Loup Creek in Fayette and Raleigh counties did not join the two-year wage pact signed yesterday.
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Mount Hope
Luigi Gugolatta
CIO
McKell Coal and Coke Company
Gugolatta
New York
McKell Company
Loup Creek
Fayette
Raleigh
West Virginia
Coal Mine Shutdown Ends? Union Drive and Resumption Hinted
Blizzard demands written pact as 2000 Gary miners see UMWA drive secure majority. Major coal counties including Fayette McDowell Mercer Raleigh Logan Marion Monongalia report readiness to resume with 25,000 C&O empty cars rolling and rail lines revived. Many miners owe money but steady work expected for weeks.
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Carter Coal Company
Coalwood
Carette
McDowell County
McKell Coal and Coke Company
Fayette County
Raleigh Coal and Coke Company
Raleigh County
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company
Dehue
Logan County
then-Pocahontas Coal
Fayette
McDowell
Mercer Counties
Kingston-Pocahontas
Blizzard
Gary
UMWA
Logan
Mercer
Raleigh
Marion
Monongalia
Ohio
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
Norfolk and Western
Virginian
Baltimore and
New York Central
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Willie Willis
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Western Front
Czecho-Slovakia
Switzerland
Belgium
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Tinkham
Medical Association
George Putnam
Ruby Stephens Fay
Arlington Spangler Brugh
California
Hedy Lamarr
Ruby Fay
Arlington Brugh
Barrymore
Fdr
Elliott
U.S
Gilad
Ship Canal
Chandler Telephones
Holt
C. E. Ball
Gg Oy
Hazard
Hazard Operators’ Association
U. S. Coal and Cokepany
U. S. Steel
McKell
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