King And Queen Get Rousing Welcome At National Capital
British and Japanese tensions surfaced as Tokyo reported relations near breaking point amid friction in China. Incidents included a British cruiser firing on a Japanese transport plane east of Hongkong and British officers arrested by Japanese troops at Kalgan. Strang negotiations with Moscow were set to speed up three power collaboration.
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Britain
Tokyo
London
Russia
Great Britain
France
China
Admiralty
Asahi
United States
Cornei
Hongkong
Shanghai
Sounds
Kalgan
Tientsin
Strang
William Strang
Foreign Office
Moscow
William Leeds
Chamberlain
House of Commons
Francisco Franco
Sae Anglo-Jap
Alvin Rix Faces Murder Charges After Family Slaughter
Alvin Rix, 21, refused an attorney and waited in jail after the killings of his parents Mr and Mrs Glenn Rix and his brother Carl 13. He waived examination on second degree murder charges as grand juries plan further action. He reportedly said I’m sorry for you and the baby and described a triggered rage during a dispute over a grandfather’s $1000 bequest.
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Fergus Falls
Minn
Alvin Rix
Glenn Rix
Carl
Rix
J. ©. Henkes
Alvin
Farmers Adopt Safer Program in South Dakota
South Dakota farmers joined the 1932 and 1938 Agricultural Conservation programs planting hundreds of thousands of acres in soil conserving and forage crops. Alfred R. Barnes states the effort included contour farming and strip cropping with thousands of acres of range land reseeded and new forage supplies near record levels to buffer droughts and pest outbreaks.
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South Dakota
Alfred R. Barnes
Chaiman
AAA Committee
Pisa
Barnes
Srdgran
Joan Menzel to Be Dismissed From Hospital This Week
Seven year old Joan Menzel of Oldham South Dakota to be released within a week from New Rochelle hospital after responding to a deep x ray therapy for Wilms tumor Physicians planned six months observation and recording of her recovery alongside Harold Holt a Pennsylvania boy who also recovered by the same method at the New Rochelle hospital.
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New Rochelle
N. Y
Joan Menzel
Oldham
S. D
New Rochelle Hospital
Wilms
Harold Holt
Pennsylvania
Holt
Avep
Sioux Falls Band To Play For King In New York Saturday
Sioux Falls Washington High School Band will perform in New York City for the king and queen of England. Directed by Arthur R. Thompson the 89 members, averaging just over 16, will give a two hour concert at 11 AM after a 3,200 mile trip from Sioux Falls. The band was named official by New York World's Fair officials for the event.
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Sioux Falls
Washington
New York City
Arthur R. Thompson
Thompson
Wire
Aid
Slowx Falls
Capitol
Washington, D. C
70000 Return To Their Jobs In Detroit Strike End
Seventy thousand automobile workers returned to jobs in 16 Detroit factories marking the end of Briggs Manufacturing Co and Graham Paige Motors strikes. Eight Chrysler plants reopened along with Briggs and Graham Paige facilities after a new CIO UAW contract.
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Detroit
Briggs Manufacturing& Co
Graham-Paige Motors Corp
Chrysler Corp
Briggs
Graham-Paige
United Auto Workers Union
CIO
Cio-Uaw
Emil Mazey
Briggs Cio-Uaw
Briggs Planta
Homer Martin
CIOAW
Quick Action Urged to Save Crops from Grasshopper Plague
Northwest farmers press Washington for a $2,417,000 federal appropriation to continue poison bait programs as funds near exhaustion. Leaders from Northwest Crop Improvement Association and state chambers urge urgent action to prevent losses across the Dakotas Montana Wyoming and Minnesota.
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Ses
Minneapolis
Washington
North Dakota
B. G. Groom
Northwest Legislative
Nye
North Dakota Republican
Agricultural Department
Senate
Murray
Montana
FR. Rohner
Bureau of Entomology
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Pierre
Bushfield
Wyoming
Minnesota
Colorado
Nebraska
Northwest
Thos
Congress
Grasshopper Belt
Russell Released From Detroit Bond Approved For IRA Leader
Irish Republican Army leader Sean Rus sell was released from federal custody in Detroit as John L. Zurbrick the district immigration director received notice that a $5,000 bond had been approved.
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Russell
Detroit
Sean Russell
Irish Republican Army
Ackie VI
Windsor
Bulow Plans Western Flair For King and Queen Visit
South Dakota Senator William J. Bulow will wear a white ten gallon hat with a cut away coat to a warden party for the king and queen of England at the British embassy. He jokes that if the king dislikes it he can jump in the lake. The event aims for a stylish mix of formality and western atmosphere.
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Bulow
King
Washington
Jurce
South Dakota
England
William J. Bulow
Civil Service Committee
Hag
Kay. Bulow
Chan Gurney
Palm Beach
Gurney
C Lee Named To Fill B F Patton's Unexpired School Board Term
C Lee credit manager for Standard Oil in South Dakota will fill the unexpired term of Blake F Patton on the Huron board of education. Patton’s term expires July 1940. Lee, 40, has four children and has been active in PTA work. he takes seat at July meeting.
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C. Lee
B. F. Patton
QO. C. Lee
South Dakota
Standard Oil Company
Blake F. Patton O
Huron Board of Education
W. C. Peterson
Patton
Petergon
K. R. A. Buchanan
R N. Campbell
Mason City
Iowa
S. W. Keck
Lee
Beach Avenue
Huron
Hudson
Wis
Jefferson School
Retail Merchants Pick Sioux Falls For 1940 Convention
Mitchell June 8 Members of the Retail Merchants Association of South Dakota chose Sioux Falls as the site for their 1940 convention after wrapping up the forty second annual gathering here. Gene Flack of New York spoke at the annual banquet, addressing about 250 officials on display methods merchandising and cooperation among retailers.
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Mitchell
Retail Merchants Association of
South Dakota
Sioux Falls
Gene Flack
New York
Flack
Marco Polo
Former State Supreme Court Justice J H McCoy Dies in Longview
Judge James H McCoy aged 83 longtime Huron native and former fifth judicial circuit Aberdeen judge died Memorial Day at Longview Washington He served on the state high court from 1909 to 1921 and later practiced in Huron before moving to Longview where he lived on an apple orchard Surviving relatives include daughter Selah and son James C McCoy both in Longview His wife died while he resided in Pierre as a supreme court member.
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Associated Press News
Longview
Wash
Supreme Court
James H. McCoy
Fomerly
Huron
McCoy
Marshall County
Fifth Judicial Circuit
Aberdeen
Haney, Wilmarth
Coast
I Crawford
Hepburn Chases Burglar From Town House
Katharine Hepburn revealed she chased a burglar from her New York townhouse after he awoke her on Monday evening. Her shouted question unsettled the man, who dropped pearl necklaces and a jewel case before fleeing. Hepburn pursued him in a dressing gown as her butler and cook arrived. the intruder escaped in a waiting car.
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Katharine Hepburn
New York
Miss Hepburn
Roosevelt Hosts King George Reception in Washington
King George and Queen Elizabeth visit Washington for a royal tour amid mass crowds estimated at 400000. President Roosevelt greets the royal couple at Union Station and leads a parade to the White House with military honors and fanfare.
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Roosevelt
King George
Britain
Hull
George
Canada
Union Station
B E. i. Watson
United States
White House
Mrs. Roosevelt
Marine Band
Mr. Roosevelt
Capitol
Circe
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