Protest over Japanese emperor cartoon in Vanity Fair
Washington asserts it will lodge representations over a Vanity Fair caricature showing the Japanese emperor pulling a jinrikisha with a Nobel prize sign. Artist William Gropper says he is amused and expects no government reply, noting prior responses from Germany and others.
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Washington
Hiroji Sako
Hull
Phillips
State Department
Vanity Pair Magazine
Japan
New York
William Gropper
Vanity Fair
Germany
Hirohito
New Masses Cal
Attacker to Face Death in North Carolina Case
Sheriff L M Sheffield reports George France is the man sought for the assault and robbery of an elderly white woman near Leaksville. State police say France confessed to beating Mrs F Guy Ash with an electric iron and faces electrocution. NC offered rewards totaling 1450 dollars.
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Charleston
L. M. Sheffield
Rockingham
County
N. C
George France
Leaksville
H. N. Rexroad
State Police Criminal Identification Bureau
Sheffield
Ash France
Rexroad
France
North Carolina
F. Guy Ash
Eighteen Die Over August Weekend In Pennsylvania
The Associated Press reports eighteen people died in Pennsylvania during the first weekend of August. Five fatalities occurred on railroad tracks, five in streams including two young girls, and eight from automobile accidents.
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Associated Press
Pennsylvania
Relief at a Low Cost for Malarial and Seasonal Ailments
An advertisement promotes Glenn's Pain-Well Tonic as a constitutional remedy for malarial troubles, summer colds, and hay fever. It claims the tonic supports the whole system amid aches, pains, poor appetite and constipation, presenting it as a cost effective treatment option.
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Glenn
Witchcraft claim fuels shooting scare in local report
Police investigated a claim that a witch craft ritual led to a fatal shooting. Mrs Waldijan described fireball formations she and her husband allegedly anchored with a hammer. Authorities pursued leads as the case unfolded.
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Mrs. Welle
Despondent Gambler Kills Son Then Wounds Himself
Chicago police say Felix Smorowski 40, shot and killed his sleeping son Raymond 6 and wounded himself amid gambling losses. Stepson William Savage 21 states Smorowski had borrowed $500 after a run of bad luck and whispered I was just tired of living before the tragedy. Smorowski's injuries were not serious.
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Chicago
Felix Smorowski
Raymond
William Savage
Smorowski
Billy
Leftists In Marseille Street Fight
Four Royalists suffered buller and club wounds as clashes with Leftists erupted after a Royalist meeting of about 10 000 at Roque Marine. Police routed the combatants as the street battle ended.
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Marseille
France
Bu Es
Roque Marine
More Troops Ordered To Strike Torn Mill Town
Columbia Aug 5 1946 Up Additional national guardsmen were ordered to the Pelzer mill district as Governor Johnston set a hedge of troops around the zone declared insurrection. Adj Gen J C Dozier said a Clinton coast artillery battery of three officers and 65 men led by Capt Walter A Johnson and Battery F of the 115th field artillery from Abbeville with one officer and eight men were sent for relief duty in the strike area.
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Columbia
D. C
Pelzer Mill Village
Olin D. Johnston
James C. Dozier
Coast Artillery
Clinton
Walter A. Johnson
115Th Field Artillery
Abbeville
Hog Prices Reach New High on Chicago Market
Hog on the hoof prices rose in Chicago livestock markets with prime medium weight hogs selling at 11.35 per hundredweight, a seasonal peak unseen since August 9, 1930 when 11.40 was paid. Sheep and lamb trade was also brisk as Washington predicted tighter fed lamb supplies and improving demand would push prices higher over the next ten months.
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Chicago Mart
Chicago
Washington
Relief claim for BISMA-REX at Rexall stores
An Kansas man reportedly tried BISMA-REX at a Rexall Fountain and experienced rapid relief before leaving the store. He then returned to purchase the largest size bottle at Grafton Drug and Chemical Co, or at The Rexall Store 16 W Main.
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Kansas
Grafton Drug & Chemical CO
Sunan Paul E
Malone Pharm
Rexall
W. Main
Unions Battle Reds as AFL Plans Expulsion
Atlantic City August 5 William Green president of the American Federation of Labor announced a militant drive to expel communists under Moscow orders from unions. The council will consider actions on the communist problem including amalgamated avowedly communist groups and the International Fur Workers union. Hugh S Johnson may confer on relief wage protests. John L Lewis was absent and aims to unite mass production industries under industrial unionism.
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Atlantic City
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Federation
Moscow
Johnson
Green
Interna
Tional Fur Workers
Hugh S. Johnson
NRA
New York Work Relief
Council
Condemned Man Taken to State Penitentiary for Hanging
Mercer county officers brought Craft Belcher aged 26 of Princeton to the state penitentiary for execution on September 20 for the murder of Myrtle Taylor 19 of Princeton. He is the first white man sentenced to die in Mercer county.
Quiz Daughter Of Slain Man In Pittsburgh
Dorothy Sampson, 20s, told police how she hid behind a barn door to escape bullets that killed her father Charles H. Thon, 62, on a Penn Township farm. She and her mother Ida Thon, 85, were detained as detectives described a bootlegging dispute and gunfire in the dark during the incident.
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Pittsburgh
Dorothy Sampson
Charles H. Thon
Penn Township
Thon
Sampson
Ida Thon
Roosevelt to veto pension bill for Spanish American War veterans
President Roosevelt indicated a veto of the bill restoring full pension payments to Spanish American War veterans. Veterans Administrator Hines and budget chief Bell presented the measure to Roosevelt, noting no provision to raise the $45,000,000 estimated cost. Roosevelt offered no comment pending study of the report.
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Washington
Aus
White House
Fi Hines
Daniel Bell
Roosevelt
Hosey and Bell
Ry Vive
Adamisty
Hines Wroid
Card of Thanks for Seth Devers Family
The Devers family thanks friends and neighbors for kindness during the illness and death of husband and father. Seth Devers also appreciates floral tributes and car use. Mrs Seth Devers and children.
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Seth Dever
Seth Devers
Greece Moves to Crush Striker Rebellion Amid Unrest in Crete
Athens reports a state of siege on Candia Crete as strikers clash with army and police. Dozens are wounded including policemen while the harbormaster calls for naval aid. The government deploys two destroyers soldiers and planes to restore order as night falls with rebels still holding positions.
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Athens
Candia 'Eraklivion
Crete
Bakopan
Former state official indicted by Logan grand jury in 1933
Par don Attorney Frank TDi investigated the case of CL W ok former S trate charged who is under a ty Washington Cook who served in the Ty ndelphia district indicted the Logan county grand juy in 1933 and left the state after he was released on bond Governor H. G. Kump's secret aid said the ed Hill to learn whether the probability of conviction justifies returning the man from Washington state.
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West
Charleston
Frank Tdi Investi
CL Wok
Strate
Washington
Cook
Tyndelphia
Logan County
H. G. Kump
Ed Hill
Washington State
First National Named As Board Depository
First National Bank of Grafton was designated as the depository for four West Virginia liquor stores under the Liquor Commission. The Flemington store uses First National Bank as depository, Philippi’s bank handles the Uihook store, and Kingwood’s Albright National Bank serves the Sipgwead store.
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First National Bank of Grafton
West Liquor
Agencis
West Virginia Liquor Commisssion
Flemington
Aridvepart
Fir National Bank of
Philippi
Grass Root Republicans Meet To Plan Against New Deal
Chicago August meeting of the Republican Grass Rooters gathers fifty delegates from midwest states to organize at county and district levels. The group aims to hinder the New Deal, work with the national organization, and push for state campaigns with no candidate discussions. States represented include Iowa Illinois Indiana Wisconsin Minnesota South Dakota Nebraska Kansas Missouri and Oklahoma.
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Chicago
Boagtof Gahenad
Iowa
Springfield
Committee of 40
Spangler
Illinois
Indiana
Wisconsin
Minnesota
South Dakota
Nebraska
Kansas
Missouri
Oklahoma
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Wola
Reole
Gambler
Son
Inarseille Street Fight
State Penitentiary
Quiz
Zenge
Mandeville Zenge
Walter J. Bauer
Kirksville
J. Andy Zeng
Canton
Central Press Associaton
Greece
First National
Iar
C.P
Inicago
Eerie
Harry Huff
Josephine McKim
Gene Sarazen
Lester Stoefen
Lou Gehrig
Charles F. Ryder
G. E. Goodwin
Eemumieakemiosn Emo J
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TWA
Fashion Demon
Emily M. Boyl
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
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