Briton dies after plunge in Tokyo police HQ
Veteran correspondent Melville Cox died after a plunge from the Tokyo police headquarters second floor while being examined. One of eleven Britons arrested on secret charges by Japanese authorities, Cox’s death is reported in the Japanese capital. In Jersey City, Mrs. Batti Bruno faces charges for shooting her estranged husband in a New York City apartment after demanding more money for support.
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Melville Cox
Tokyo
Central Presa
Jersey City
N. J
Batti Bruno
New York City
Murray to Deliver Memorial Address at XIT Ranch Reunion
Former Oklahoma governor William H Murray known as Alf Alfa Bill will give the XI memorial address in Dalbart Texas, opening the fifth annual XIT Ranch reunion. Murray, Texas native, began his law career in Fort Worth 45 HOSTS Bay.
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William H
Bill) Murray
Oklahoma
Dalbart
Texas
Murray
Fort Worth
Bay
Candidate Willkie Visits a Western Beet Farm
A fragmented report mentions candidate Willkie visiting a western sugar beet farm. The piece mixes satirical and surreal notes about nations and events, with playful, non-literal lines about Lithuania, Astonia, Romania, and rumors of world powers, ending on a quip about roasting ears.
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Willkie
Zadok Dumbkopf
Oldest Female College Grads Noted in 1805 Conferral
Frances Berglehaus of Sumner Washington at ninety six is described as the oldest woman to earn a college degree in 1805 from Iowa Wesleyan, the first college to confer degrees on women.
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Britain
Mediterranean
Malta
Fort Jezetra
Circle
Rome
Valetta
Sliema
Tigne
Grand Harbor
Frances Berglehaus
Sumner
Wash
The
Towa Wesleyan
Sallege
Torpedo Inventor Demonstrates Robot Rocket and Torpedo
J Robert Fish of Springfield Massachusetts plans a public demonstration of his robot rocket and torpedo claimed to steer automatically toward targets by sounds from the target. The event will be witnessed by government officials and this inventor promotes his devices as precise weapons. Madame Genevieve Rabouis a noted French political commentator is shown arriving in New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cordell Hull
inter-American Conference of Foreign Ministers
Havana
Cuba
Hull
Western Hemisphere
Central Prese
J. Robert Fish
Springfield, Mass
Central Press
Genevieve ‘Vabouis
France
Nera
Mel Tells and Europe Swings in The Times
A collage of quirky notes and reader thoughts from a European desk. References span Stalin and Hitler playing ball, a Baltic or Balkan debate, a glamor queen atop the dollar, a cottage with marked hot and cold taps, and spelling quarrels over Estonia. Also includes college pilots using watermelons as mock bombs and jokes about tax laws and aging boxers.
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Stalin
Hitler
Baltic
Balkan
Grandpappy Jenkins
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Mexico
Andy
Trabazadg
C. P
Juan Andrew Almazan
F.R.O.C
Mexico City
Manuel Avila Camacho
Cony Island
Mrs. Battina Bruno
William H. Murray
Winnah
Arlene Combs
Educational Alliance
New York Lower East Side
Arlene
Ping
Astonia
Soviet Union
Rumania
Africa
Sudy
West Virginia
Japan
China
United States
Berlin
Churchill
England
Winston Churchill
Channel
Frances Bergletisus
J, Robert’ Fish
Genevieve Tabouis
Wallace
Secretary of Agriculture
Vi F. Dent
Vray
Roosevelt
Patna
Henry Agard Wallace
Mel
Pee Walter
Estonia
Estho- Bint
Europe
Cochran Ga
Jack Dempsey
Wallace’ Hopper
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