Royal Visit Opens in Ottawa Amid Cold Rain
King George VI and Queen Elizabeth arrive in Ottawa for a two day tour amid cold drizzle and cheering crowds. The blue and silver royal train reaches Rideau Station at 10 am EST while the northern lights light the sky. The Queen appears at the platform and waves as guards are inspected and the procession departs toward Rideau Hall.
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Ottawa
George
Elizabeth
Canada
United States
North American
Montreal
England
Queen Elizabeth
Rideau Hall
Guard of Honor
Cameron Highlanders of
Lewis
Bicycle rider injured in head lacerations near Moulton
Herbert Hoover Hanna suffered head lacerations when struck by a car while riding a bicycle three miles west of here at 8 o clock last night. He was taken to Benevolent Society Hospital and discharged after emergency treatment. The car driver was identified as Mr Matthews.
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Herbert Hoover Hanna
Moulton
Here
Benevolent Society Hospital
Brown
Matthews
Aviatrix Hilda Yen to Continue Crusade by Road Tour
Miss Hilda Yen, Chinese aviatrix whose plane crashed near Prattville three weeks ago, told a Montgomery audience she would press on with her campaign to aid war-ridden China. She plans to continue the tour by automobile until her plane is repaired.
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Montgomery
Ala
Hilda Yen
Prattville
China
Chicago WPA profits witness says Chicago profits
Witness E W Erickson testified before a House WPA investigation that Chicago kept 45231 in petty cash from salvaged demolition material on May 1 and that old privately owned buildings were demolished using WPA labor at no cost to owners. The committee flagged double credit for salvaged material and possible fraud. Governor Baldwin urged continued WPA but shifted administration to states.
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Washington
Chicago
E. W. Erickson
House Committee
Erickson
Taber
Rep. Ludlow
Raymond E. Baldwin
Connecticut
Malaria Clinic Schedule Revised Across TVA Screening Areas
County health officials announced changes to malaria clinic times and locations in TVA screened areas from Oak Grove to Oak Forest and Echols home. Clinics operate Tuesday to Friday in listed homes, churches, and schools with tests and treatment provided by the Tennessee Valley Authority and the county health department.
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County Health Department
Tennessee Valley Authority
Priceville
Talucah
Oak Grove
Oak Forest
Echols
Robert Collier
Houser
Carl Owens
Winton
Mt. Moriah
Grizzard Hone
Negro School to Present Two Plays Tonight and Monday
The Carver school junior and senior first grades perform The Cruise of the Trundle Bed tonight under Wilson and Cashin. Fourth and fifth grades stage What's the Matter With Sally on Monday night May 22. Molly Be Jolly, an operetta, was presented May 10 with W E B Loving directing.
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Carver School
Ninth Year Girl Rescues Friend From Drowning in Pool
In Mobile Alabama on May 19 a 9 year old girl Mary Austin saved her 8 year old friend Mary Frances McCrary from drowning at a municipal pool. McCrary sank in deep water while unable to swim and was pulled to shore by Mary and Norman Pittman a Spring Hill College student who helped bring them ashore. Frances was revived by artificial respiration.
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Mobile
Ala
Mary Austin
Mary Frances McCrary
Mary
Mary Frances
Mary Francis
Norman Pittman
Springhill College
Family of Three Dies in Waterfront Fire in Punta Gorda
A waterfront blaze in Punta Gorda, Florida, killed John Henry Willis and his wife Rosa Lee and their 18 year old son Edwin. Bertha Lee Bagwell, Rosa Lee’s sister, survived with shock after leaping from a second story apartment as flames engulfed a large building housing two fish companies and a cold storage plant. The fire burned about three hours before containment with damages estimated near 150000 dollars.
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Punta Gorda
Fla
John Henry Willis
Punta Gorda Fish Company
Rosa Lee
Edwin
Willis
Bertha-Lee Bagwell
Municipal Spier
Junta Gorda Fish Company
A. Miller
P. B. Huguenin
Florida Lights and Power Company
Hard Is Elected Group's Chairman
James Hard of Birmingham Alabama was elected chairman of the Central Regional Conference of the Civic Service Assembly of the United States and Canada. He is personnel director of Jefferson County Alabama Civil Service Board and former state comptroller under Miller. Kenneth Pennebaker of Michigan was vice chairman and Kenneth Beggs of Wisconsin secretary treasurer.
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Chicago
James Hard
Birmingham
Ala
Civic Service Assembly
United States
Canada
Hard
Jefferson County
Civil Service Board
Miller
Kenneth Pennebaker
Michigan
Kenneth Beggs
Wisconsin
Hunger striker convicted in Oklahoma murder case
Roy Murphy, 40, a farmer from Enid, was found guilty today of murdering his brother and sister-in-law after a three week hunger strike. The verdict issued the death penalty. Murphy claimed self defense for his brother Harry and said a stray shot killed his sister-in-law during a dispute over an oil field. A glucose treatment ended his hunger strike before a sanity hearing, after which he was deemed sane and the murder trial proceeded.
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Enid
Okla
Roy Murphy
Murphy
Harry
Britain Offers Peace Policy as World Tensions Rise
Prime Minister Chamberlain proposed a long term peace policy in the Commons while Jewish protests in Palestine turn violent and Franco celebrates a Madrid parade. Lloyd George and Attlee pressed a firm line, urging Soviet inclusion and warning against concessions. In Madrid 140,000 Franco troops staged a victory show as Japan seeks a role in the Shanghai Settlement despite Western resistance.
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House of Commons
Palestine
Holy Land
Francisco Franco
Madrid
Chamberlain
David Lloyd George
Clement R. Attlee
Britain
Lloyd George
Attlee
Lloy George
Soviet
Russia
Jerusalem
League of Nations
Spain
Franco
United States
International Settlement Council
Shanghai
Tokyo
Japan
International Settlement
Hillsboro Man Newton Thompson Here on Business
Newton J. Thompson of Hillsboro route 1 was in town this morning on work related business.
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Newton J. Thompson
Hillsboro
Bond Refused For Suspect In Murder Ring Case
Anan, sought as a professional widow in the eastern insurance murder ring, was held without bail for grand jury action on a murder charge. Judge McDevitt denied freedom but allowed three co defendants to await further hearing. Mastro, a barber, held for another hearing. Peppe held on $25,000 bail. Investigators questioned Carina through the night and noted possible new trails in the case.
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Sae
Nan
New York
Harry 8
McDevitt
Rose Carina
Antonio Mastro
Carina
Federal Bureau of Investigation
James A. Kelly
Pietro Stea
Stea
Cir- Kelly
Mastro
Joseph Peppe
Kelly
Peppe
Morris Bolber
Paul Petrillo
Mary Gagliardi
Dora Sherman
Charles H. Hersch
Sherman
Kelley
Convicted Slayer Dies in the Electric Chair at Tucker
Abred Pug Dickson, 35, meat cutter, executed at Tucker Prison Farm Ark for the September 8 robbery murder of Eldon Cooley a Hot Springs grocery firm official. He claimed innocence as Fred Arnell 18 of Louisiana was hanged for raping a white woman in Texarkana on March 30. Dickson was the second man executed for Cooley's slaying after Joseph Smokey Joe Anderson.
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Arnell
Dickson
Cooley
Joseph “Smokey Joe” Anderson
Dry Morgan County Pays Nearly Five Thousand In Liquor Taxes
Morgan County with a dry status reports 4766.22 in state liquor taxes for the past year ending May 1938 records show funds earmarked for old age assistance, dependent children, and public welfare. April welfare figures cite 333 old age cases, 118 dependent children, six blind persons, and 19 mentally or physically handicapped individuals aided.
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Morgan
County Board of Revenue and Control Office
County Department of Public Welfare
Anti Semitic Plot Yarn Unmasked In Hearing
Washington May 1844 The house committee on un American activities issued subpoenas for George Van Horn Moseley and other figures tied to an anti Jewish campaign amid alleged revolutionary fears. Testimony centered on a New York club waiter who purportedly overheard confidential discussions and was said to have fed provocative material to military and political circles.
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Washington
House
George van Horn Moseley
New York
Tex
Tes- Hamilton
James Erwin Campbell
Owensboro
Dieshmas
Campbell
Moseley
Lst
Dies
Atlanta
Fourth Corps
New York National Guard
America
Army Engineers Reserve
Dudley Pierpont Gilbert
Gilbert
Army Reserve
American Legion
Pace Faster Tuscaloosa Industrial Activity In May
Industrial activity in Alabama rose above the 1938 level in May, with gains noted in 16 of 11 business sources published in the May issue of the Business News by the University of Alabama Bureau of Business Research.
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Tuscaloosa
Ala
Alabama
The
Business News
Bureau of Business Research
University of Alabama
Demopolis Dam Planned on Warrior Tombigbee Route
Washington May 19 The omnibus rivers and harbors bill authorized a high dam near Demopolis Alabama on the Warrior and Tombigbee system to cost 6 750 000 replacing low dams 4 5 6 and 7 The project totals 83 728 100 for nationwide river and harbor works awaiting future appropriations The dam would ease lock clearance shorten Alabama steel center to Mobile port trips and a nearby Tuscaloosa project replaces three low dams Mobile harbor channel project included first cost 57 000
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Washington
Demopolis
Ala
Senate
Mobile
Birmingham
Alabama
Steel Center
Tuscaloosa
Verde Island Sinks After Powerful Quake Off Manila
Verde Island about 100 miles south of Manila is reported quaking and sinking with evacuees leaving for the Batangas coast. Governor Vicente Onedo cites limited details while Father Miguel Selga of the weather bureau says there is no volcanic eruption risk and attributes the sinking to tectonic quakes and sea water acting on limestone.
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Manila
Verde Island
Vicente Onedo
Batangas Province
Batangas
Luzon
Mindoro
Pasage
China Sea
Sibuyan Sea
San Augustin
San Agapito
Miguel Selga
Weather Bureau
Postal workers elect Vickery as convention president
In Gadsden Alabama on May 19 W O Vickery of Birmingham was elected convention president as the Alabama Federation of Allied Postal Workers began a two day meeting. More than 400 delegates were expected for tonight’s banquet led by D C Springfield state president. Other officers named were M H Kidd of Sheffield vice president and L E Clayton of Birmingham secretary.
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Gadsden
Ala
W. O. Vickery
Birmingham
Alabama Federation of Allied Postal Workers
D. C. Springfield
M. H. Kidd
Sheffield
L. E. Clayton
Power hearing set on Tennessee utilities sale to TVA
The Federal Power Commission schedules a hearing for May 29 on an application by the Tennessee Utilities Corporation to sell facilities of the Tennessee Electric Power Company and the Southern Tennessee Power Company to the Tennessee Valley Authority. The deal involves 25 municipalities and 11 rural cooperatives.
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Washington
Federal Power Commission
Tennessee Utilities Corporation
Tennessee Electric Power Company
Southern Tennessee Power Company
Tennessee Valley Authority
Tennessee
Justice Dept to Investigate Harlan County Violations
Attorney General Murphy and Henry Schweinhaut will travel to Harlan county Kentucky to assess possible civil liberties violations connected to the McMahon case. FBI agents have been in the area for 30 days as part of the inquiry.
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Washington
Murphy
Brien McMahon
Justice Department
Criminal Division
Harlan County
McMahon
Henry Schweinhaut
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Optimism Higher in Kentucky Coal Talks Amid Tensions
In Harlan County Kentucky optimistic federal and state negotiators opened talks to settle a strike dispute between the Harlan County Coal Operators Association and United Mine Workers after gunfire and dynamiting. Lynch mines of United States Coal and Coke Co a U S Steel subsidiary signed a two year contract without a union shop clause.
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Birmingham
Ala
Alabama
Iron and Steel
United Mine Workers of America
CIO
Harlan
Harlan County Coal Operators Association
United Mine Workers
CTO
Lynch Mines
United States Coal and Coke Co
United States Steel Corporation
John L. Lewis
Lynch Corporation
Wiley Jones Resident of Falkville Route 2 Noted
Wiley Jones, a resident of the Falkville Route 2 community, appeared today in the local record or event context.
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Wiley Jones
Falkville
Weather update with river level and showers
Tennessee river gauge stood at 20.3 feet and falling. Temperatures ranged from 65 to 87 degrees with 0.02 inch rainfall. Alabama may see scattered showers tonight with moderate southerly coastal winds. Tennessee expects occasional showers tonight and Saturday with a temperature change.
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Tennessee
Alabama
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Mass
Baldwin
Rep
Cannon
Associated Press
Germany
Bond
G-Men
Morgan County
Mildred Black
Louisiana State Normal College
David Scott
Postal
Vickery
Kentucky
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