Engineman blamed for Akron rail wreck with 43 dead
Investigators say engineman Thomas L. Murrough ignored orders on the Hudson Akron line causing a head on crash between a gasoline electric doodlebug coach and a 13 car freight train near Akron Ohio. The wreck killed 43, trapped many in a burning coach, with five children among the victims. The doodlebug crew allegedly failed to sidetrack at Silver Lake as required and did not secure clearance from the freight crews.
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Akron
Here
Thomas L. Murrough
L. M. Wolcott
Cleveland
Pennsylvania Railroad
Murrough
Wolcott
Silver Lake
Murtough
EB. W. Smith
Prominent French Figures Listed by German Broadcast
Berlin reports a long list of French citizens deprived of citizenship and property by the Ptain regime. It includes two Rothschilds, Edguard and Maurice, with other notable financiers, industrialists, and journalists. The broadcast notes their departure between May 10 and June 30 and mentions Baron Maurice De Jarr and Baron Houbod among others.
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Berlin
Riid
France
Petain
Rothschild
Vichy
Canada
Edguard
Maurice
Senate
Cere
Maurice de Jarrived
Montresl
Robert Deschild
Britain
Hdoubd
New York
Clipinet
Eee
Baron Maurice
Sone
Industri
Journ Oat
Es 1 Mayer
Lazare’ Freres
Eduard Jonas
Pariis
Louis
Enski
Prance’s
Srikeey
Two Italian U Boats Sunk by British Air Power
Cairo reports British Royal Air Force raids near Kassala Sudan caused severe damage to concentrations and posts after two days of combat. Rome confirms slight damage. Meanwhile British planes sunk two Italian submarines in the Mediterranean last month, a fact unreported until now.
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Cairo
Egypt
Kassala
Sudan
Roya Air Force
RAF
Rome
Mediterranean
Grafton Sentinel invites Mrs Grayson to Strand Theatre showing
The Grafton Sentinel invites Mrs L C Grayson of Riverside Drive to tonight's cinema program featuring Termezz o A Love Story with Leslie Howard at the Strand Theatre and Dr Kildare's Strange Case with Lew Ayres and Lionel Barrymore at the Due Theatre.
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The
Grafton Sentinel
L. C. Grayson
Riverside Drive
Leslie Howard
Strand Theatre
Dr. Kildare
Lew Ayres
Lionel Barrymore
Due Theat
Nazis Aim to Wreck Ports in Dover and Britain
Berlin observers said Germany has drafted dive bombing plans against the British Isles and could repeat the Dover attack at other key ports. Dover harbor was reported sunk and dock facilities wrecked while Britain prepares for rapid changes in port arrangements to keep trade flowing amidst the blockade.
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Berlin
Germany
British Isles
Dover
Fof
English Channel
Britain
England
London
Ronald H. Cross
Reichsmarshal
Hermann Wilhelm
Long Separated Father And Son Are Reunited
MARTINSBURG Aug 1 A father and son both believed the other was dead were reunited at Darkesville Berkeley county after more than 20 years apart Hollis Henry now of Terre Haute Ind left home in 1918 to join the army His father John Henry moved his residence and the son did not learn of his location Hollis returned this week and friends guided him to his father
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Martinsburg
Darkesville
Berkeley County
Hollis Henry
Terre Haute
Ind
John Henry
Victim of Locomotive Collision Passes Away
J. C. Hylton a 38 year old fireman for the Chesapeake and Ohio railway died in a Pikeville hospital from burns suffered when two locomotives collided at Allen last Sunday. He was sprayed by escaping steam after the wreck which derailed both engines and two freight cars.
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Pikeville, Ky
J. C. Hylton
Chesapeake & Ohio Railway
Allen
Hylton
France Not Resigning From League of Nations
VICHY France will not resign from the League of Nations despite an indifferent attitude. A French foreign office spokesman said France recognizes the value of certain technical services and will remain in the international body.
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Vichy
France
League of Nations
League
Firemen blast walls in Camden blaze search for missing
In Camden New Jersey firemen used dynamite to blast fire seared walls at the R M Hollingshead plant as they search for seven missing after a $2,000,000 blaze that destroyed four blocks. Two were confirmed dead, 21 injured in hospitals, 67 houses burned leaving 124 families homeless as crews worked through the night amid fumes and debris.
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Camden
N J
R. M.hollingshead Company
State's Best Talent To Present Fair Program
Charleston august 1 West Virginia’s top musical talent assembled for a special world’s fair broadcast in New York Saturday from 12 to 1 pm EST Governor Homer A Holt will head the state group and deliver a short address at the outdoor court of peace Eleanor Steber the 23 year old soprano signed to a Metropolitan contract after a spring contest will headline The Lions quartet and Marion Smith of Bluefield have four numbers on the program William McDougle of Bluefield will be the piano accompanist for the quartet members Joe Wilds Otis Bivens Dick Morgan and Frank Roberts
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Charleston
West Virginia
New York
Columbia
B.S. T
Homer A. Holt
W. C. Handlan
Wheeling
Eleanor Steber
Metropolitan Opera
Lions Quartette
Marion Smith
Bluefield
William McDougle
Joe Wilds
Otis Bivens
Dick Morgan
Frank Roberts
Lover's Lane slaying baffles Dartmouth investigation
Irene Perry 22 of New Bedford is believed strangled in the wooded lane slaying. A 31-year-old New Bedford millhand was questioned and released with a verified alibi. The body, found under a tree, had been dead about a month, autopsy pending final cause of death.
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Dartmouth
Mass
Irene Perry
New Bedford
Edward J. Harrington
Warrington
John
Irene
Ventnor Pier Destroyed By Fire In New Jersey
The Ventnor municipal pier, built in 1927 for 130000 dollars, was destroyed today by a fire of undetermined origin. Firemen from Margate and Atlantic City helped battle flames reaching 100 feet high as spectators gathered on Absecon Island. The pier stood at Cambridge avenue on the boardwalk.
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Ventnor
N. J
Ventnor Municipal Pier
Margate
Atlantic City
Abseconsland
Cambridge Avenue
Japan to protest Britain blockade on Europe
Japanese Ambassador Mamoru Shigemitsu in London will certainly protest Britain's latest blockade of Europe. Domei reports Japan will not accept the measure that threatens Japan's trade with Spain, Portugal and other neutral countries.
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Tokyo
Mamoru Shigemitsu
London
Britain
Europe
New Japanese State Adopts Stern Policy
Tokyo reports Premier Fumimaro Konoye unveiled a plan for a new Japanese state built on totalitarian rule at home and an independent foreign policy. The regime seeks centralized power and aims to expand dominance southward into French Indochina and the Dutch East Indies under a yen-based bloc.
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Tokyo
Fumimaro Konoye
Japan
Indo-China
Dutch East Indies
Asiay
Aircraft Workers Delay Strike For Ten Days
Seattle August 1 Union employees at Boeing Aircraft three Seattle plants voted to delay a threatened strike for at least ten days to seek a settlement. They opposed wage cuts in lower brackets and authorized their negotiations committee to pursue talks with the company. The mass meeting occurred an hour and a half before their self set midnight deadline, and a telegram from Secretary of Labor Perkins urged postponement.
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Seattle
Boeing Aircraft Corporation
Labor
Perkins
Crippled British Vessel Alcantara Reaches Rio for Repairs
The British armed merchant cruiser Alcantara, heavily gunned and damaged in a sea fight with a German raider in the south Atlantic, limped into Rio de Janeiro harbor. It is to dock at Vienne island yards for repairs as British warships continue the pursuit. An embassy statement said the battle occurred near Trinidade within the American neutrality zone and both ships were hit.
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Rio DE Janeiro
South Atlantic
Vienne
London
Trinidade
Alcantara
Windsors Board U. S. Liner Bound For New York City
The Duke and Duchess of Windsor travel as Captain and Mrs Wood aboard the Excalibur to New York, sailing this evening and due Aug 9. They proceed to the Bahamas where he assumes the governor post, accompanied by Maj. Gray Phillips and aides Capt George Wood and Capt Vyvyan Drury, in a voyage contrasting with royal past.
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Windsors Board
U. S
New York City
Lisbon
Portugal
Duke and Duchess of Windsor
Wood
New York
Bahamas
Gray Phillips
de Camp
George Wood
Vyvyan Drury
Wheeler silent on age limits in new draft plan
In Washington Aug 1 Senator Wheeler D Mont maintained his opposition to conscription despite a senate military committee move to limit registration to men aged 21 to 30. He said the Burke Wadsworth plan still fails to satisfy his objections to compulsory training. The bill would call out the guard and officers reserve for a year of intensive training while House action approved a nearly five billion dollar addition to the preparedness fund for a two ocean navy.
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Washington
Senate
Wheeler
D.mont
Senate Military Committee
Pakses Wheeler
National Guard
Barkley
House
Roosevelt
Supreme Soviet Opens Session on Baltic States and Romania
The Supreme Soviet began its session to receive Latvia Estonia and Lithuania and to discuss foreign policy by Premier Vyacheslav Molotov. The Baltic states are formally incorporated into the Soviet Union following earlier parallel actions by new Communist parliaments.
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Moscow
Supreme Soviet
Latvia
Estonia
Lithuani
Rumania
Soviet Union
Vyacheslaff Molotoff
Poland
Russia
Half Billion Fund Is Approved After Fight
The Senate banking committee approved an 800 million dollar fund proposed by President Roosevelt to aid Western Hemisphere economic conditions from war. The measure would raise Export-Import Bank capital and lending authority from 200 million to 700 million. Chairman Wagner noted a split among members and a Taft minority report. supporters included Barkley Bankhead Maloney Radcliffe Smathers Miller Koene Wagner.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Senate Banking Committee
Wagner D.-N. Y
White House
Taft
Ohio
Wagner
Barkley
Di-Ky
Bankhead
D.-Ala
Willkie Will Stump South in Presidential Campaign
Wen dell L. Willkie plans a stumping tour through the south during his Republican campaign. Governor Payne Ratner bets he will carry Kansas. Roosevelt and a Democratic sub committee discuss a new party chairman with Wal ker McNutt and Crowley floated. Kansas opposition in Tennessee Virginia Ohio. McNary to give five or six major campaign speeches.
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Associated Press
Colorado Springs
Wendell L. Willkie
South
Payne Ratner
Kansas
Washington
Roosevelt
Frank Walker
Paul V. McNutt
Leo Crowley
Nashville
Tenn
Kenneth McKellar
Prentice Cooper
House
Columbus
Ohio
George White
Willkie
McNary
Oregon
Mullins High Athlete Killed In Auto Wreck
Mullens Aug 1 17 year old Mullens High school athlete John T C Durham was killed when struck by a car near Timann. Two companions were slightly injured. State Trooper J H Griffith said driver Manuel Montelor claimed he was blinded by the lights of another vehicle.
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Mullens
John
T.C. ) Durham
Timann
Durham
Mullens Hospital
J. H. Griffith
Manuel Montelor
Ohio Co Relief Ends As Finances Revised
Athens August food orders for 6200 relief clients were withheld two weeks as county finances were updated. Merchants complained they could not collect for food already provided. Officials later resumed orders after identifying additional funding sources.
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Ohio Co
Athens
Ster
Etlands Aig
Nazi Raiders Active Again Strikes Hit Britain Coast
London reports indicate renewed Nazi raids on Britain with coastal areas and harbor facilities targeted. The ministry of home security says bombs caused slight damage and no casualties while three Nazi ships were downed and planes reported shot down inland and at sea.
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London
Britain
Arpa
Ministry of Home Secrity
Abia
Ce ‘Thames Estuary
Portagof
Cardiff
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J. Clarence Barton, Jr
Federal Reserve
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Alfred E. Smith
Mullins High
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