New Madrid Girl Saves Sisters From Drowning Car
A 12-year-old girl Dorothy Tidwell recounted rescuing her three sisters from a car that rolled into the Mississippi River near New Madrid Missouri. She swam with Norma Lee to safety while Virginia tried to hold the bumper, Billie Jean cried and baby Anta was feared missing before bystanders pulled the father from the water.
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New Madrid
Dorothy Tidwell
Dorothy
Liam
Virginia
Billy Jean
Norma Lee
Billie
Billie Jean
Lee Tidwell
Anta
Wng
Busy Week Ahead of President Roosevelt
President Roosevelt heads home to Wilmington with hundreds of unsent bills awaiting action after signing over 130 over the weekend in Washington. Weather delays and a rowing regatta disrupted his Wilmington Tercentenary remarks. He plans to travel by train to New York, receive the Swedish royal family, then motor to Hyde Park, and attend ceremonies in Gettysburg and Spate.
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Roosevelt
Wilmington
Del
B.S.T
Washington
Ronsevelt
Poughkeepsie
New York
Hyde Park
Jettysburg
Jeffeln
Candid Camera Fiend Suffers Bad Injury in Chase
Salt Lake City June 27 A candid camera man Jack Bartlett 46 of Tucson Arizona was hospitalized after a motorcycle patrolman agreed to a head on shot. Bartlett attempted to dodge as a vehicle approached causing a brain injury in the crash.
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Salt Lake City
Jack Bartlett
Tucson
Afiz
Olsson
Bartlett
Vissan
Oisson Bartlett
Governor Urges Focus, Not Politics, at Work
Santa Fe New Mexico June 27 Governor Clyde Tingley told statehouse employees to pursue political activity in the coming campaign if needed but not let it hinder their duties. He warned he would seek resignations of any worker found engaging in political work while on duty and then returning to the desk.
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Santa Fe
N. M
Jp— Travernor Clyde Tingley
Statehouse
Closest Close-up in A Farewell to Arms at Rio Theater
A report notes a notable close-up in the Ernest Hemingway adaptation starring Gary Cooper and Helen Hayes now showing at Rio theater. The two-inch proximity is described as an all time record, with Cooper’s eyes mirroring Hayes as he leans to kiss her in the frame.
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Helen Hayes
Gary Cooper
Rio Theater
Miss Hayes
Ernest Hemingway
Miss Ayes
Cooper
Seabmt O Hata and Clark Gable to Star in Gone With the Wind
Norma Shearer and Clark Gable named leads for the film version of Gone With the Wind set in Cadiz Ohio and Montreal Quebec. David Selznick vows to begin grinding on the project by Christmas as Miss Shearer wins the coveted Georgia barn role after spending about eight million testing hopefuls. Margaret Mitchell praised the pairing as a grand team.
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O-Hata
Ther
Butler
Norma Shearer
Montreal
Quebec
Clark Gable
Cadiz
Margaret Mitchell
Shearer
Gable
Old Boys in Gray Reach Gettysburg Reunion Observance
Gettysburg Pa Tuesday features Dr Overton H Tentil of Los Angeles greeting James Robert Paul of Charlotte DC, the lone surviving member of Stonewall Jacksons 42d Infantry. They affirm unity as veterans tour the battlefield and 70 nearby communities where thousands of aging comrades will reside during the week-long event.
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Gettysburg
Overton H
Atentil
Los Angeles
James Robert Paul
Charlotte
D. C
Stonewall Jackson
Two Young Men Convicted of Attempted Blackmail in Kidnap Murder
In White Plains New York on June 27 a jury convicted Werner Fred Luck aged 23 and Edward John Penn aged 18 of attempted blackmail in the kidnapping murder of Peter Lavine. County Judge Frank Cornell remanded the North Pelham youths to jail and would impose sentence in a few days. The crime carries a prison term of three and one half to ten years. Authorities said Luck and Penn were whistlers and knew nothing about the kidnapping.
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White Plains
N. Y
Fred Luck
Edward John Penn
Peter Lavine
Frank Cornell
North Pelham
Luck
Penn
RFC LOANING FUNDS TO GAy UP UTILITIES
Washington June 87. The Reconstruction Finance Corporation lenders funds to municipal utilities to end private and public utility competition. First loan of 5 890 000 to Knox County Tennessee Public Service Company marks a new program sequence under TVA municipalities. Directors Lilienthal and Wiltshire discuss large dam area deals and a proposed 140 million Nebraska project for RT money.
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Jesse H. Jones
Knoxville
Tennessee Public Service Company
Knox County
R.F.C
Tennessee Valley Authority
Publc
WANA
David Lilienthal
Wendell Wiltikle
Cam Monwealth
Southern Corporation
Jones
Bonneville
Grand Coulee
Columbia River
Fort Peek
Montana
Nebraska
P.W.A
FIOD IN NEW MEXICO Floods threaten Lake McMillan dams shutdown
In Carlsbad New Mexico on June 27 AP reports reclamation service crews rushed engineers and men to the Lake McMillan and Lake Avalon dams as rampaging flood waters from swollen streams poured over the spillways and endangered structures.
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FIOD
New Mexico
Carlsbad
N. M
Reclamation Service
Lake McMillan
Lake Avalon
Budge Rudge Reaches Wimbledon Semifinals in All England
Don Budge storms into the Wimbledon semifinals, defeating F Cejner 6-3 6-0 6-3 as Helen Jacobs Allee Marble and Mrs Sarah Palfrey Fabyan join Helen Wills Moody in quarterfinals. Ferenc Punnec beats Bon McPhail 6-1 6-2 6-1 to reach later rounds. Miss Jacobs quashes seed doubts.
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Eng
Don Rudge
California
Hodge
Ferenc Puncec
Yugoslavia
Bon McPhail
England
Budge
H. W
Bunny) Austin
Heaner Henkel
Germany
Anatin
Max Ellmer
Switzerland
Henkel
Bark Ladislaus Hecht
Czechoslovakia
Miss Jacobs
Lawn Tennis Association
Percy Scriven
Helen
Pegey
Fabyan
Dorothy May Bundy
Santa Monica
Calif
Dorothy
Fabian
Young schoolteacher rewarded for deed in NEA banquet
Misa Virginia Sappington, 19, received an honorary life membership in the National Education Association at a banquet in the Astor hotel after she fed 22 children from her one room country schoolhouse near Chetopa Kansas just before it was demolished by a tornado on March 30. She told 200 educators the experience was more exhausting than the disaster.
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New York
Misa Virginia Sappington
National Education Association
Chetopa
Kan
NEA
Astor Hotel
Pullman Company Seeks 5 Percent Fare Increase
Washington June 27 The Pullman company received permission from the Interstate Commerce Commission to raise its charges by 5 percent as soon as it files new price schedules and gives 30 days notice. Earlier the commission heard eastern railroads plead for higher coach fares arguing the gap to Pullman rates was too large.
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Washington
Pullman Company
Interstate Commeree Commission
All Star lineups named for annual game of majors
New York June 27. The sixth all star game at Redland Field in July 6 features American and National league selections. National league list includes Vander Meer Derringer Hubbell Lee Turner Brown Hartnett McCormick Herman Hack Vaughan Durocher Lavagetto Cuc cilello Medwick Martin Goodman Ott Moore Leiber Waner. Manager Bill Terry. American league list features Grove Ruffing Gomez Kennedy Allert Feller Dickey Farrell Fork Grover. Manager Joe McCarthy. Coaches Fletcher and Baker. Batting practice pitchers Feete and Shulte. Traitt et Painter listed.
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New York
Redland Field
Sineinnali
Joe McCarthy
Bil Terry
Johnny Vander Meer
Ernie Lombardi
Reds
Terry
McCarthy
Joan Vander Meer
Paul Derringer
Cincinnati
Carl Hubbell
Bill Lee
Chicago
Jim Turner
Boston
Mace Brown
Pittsburgh
Leo Hartnett
Gordon Phelps
Brooklyn
Frank McCormick
Billy Herman
Stanley Hack
Floyd Vaughan
Leo Durocher
Harry Lavagetto
Tony Cuccinello
Hoston
Joy Medwick
Rob Grove
Charley Ruffing
Vernon Gomez
Vernon Kennedy
Detroit
Johnny Allet
Bob Feller
Cleveland
Buck Newsom
St. Louis
Bill Dickey
Rick Ferrell
Washington
Rudy Fork
Jimmy Foxx
Joe Cronin
Charley Gehriiger
Hank Greenberg
Detoit
Red Rolfe
Lou Ge
Swedish royalty attends Delaware ceremony in goodwill display
President Roosevelt and Prince Bertin of Sweden dedicated a monument to Sweden’s early settlers in Delaware as rain fell. Crown Princess Louise and Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf sent regrets. the event affirmed a century and a half of Sweden United States friendship and the pledge of ongoing goodwill between nations.
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Del
United States
Sweden
Roosevelt
Prince Bertin
America
Delaware
Louise
Peter Minuit
Gustaf Adolf
Berti
Kangsholm
New York
Former Los Angeles Policeman Sentenced
Two former Los Angeles police officers Earle B. Kynetta and Roy Alten were sentenced to indeterminate terms at San Quentin for their roles in the bomb attempt on Private Detective Harry Raymond. A new trial had been dropped by the judge.
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Los Angeles
Earle B. Kynetta
Roy Alten
Harry Raymond
San Quentin
Drep
UHL SERVGE EXAMS ANNOUNCED BY BOARD
The United States civil service commission has announced open competitive examinations for several positions. Applications must be filed by July 28 in Washington, D.C. with openings in home economics, aquatic biology, chemical engineering, and cotton classing, among others, across the Bureau of Fisheries and other agencies. Full information available from J. D. Gough, secretary, U.S. Civil Service Board of Examiners.
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United States Civil Service Commission
Civil Service Commission
Washington, D. C
Colorados
States
Bureau of Home Economics
Department of Agriculure
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Department of Agriculture
J. D. Gough
U.S. Civil Service Board of Examiners
Mockery Made Up Marriage Ceremony In Cleveland
In Cleveland on June 27 a ceremony performed by 8 year old Rev Charles E Jayues Jr for Clifton Hoffman and Mrs Florence Brinkham Hoffman was described as a staged experience for the world’s youngest ordained minister. The couple had earlier wed Nov 20 1936 by Rev Sidney Correll now of Dayton, with consent for a second ceremony at church leaders’ request for the boy minister’s first marriage.
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Cleveland
Charles E. Jayues, Jr
Clifton Hoffman
Cleveland Church of the
Dayton
Ohio
Sorrell
Mereland Church
Hoffman
Newspaper Guild in California on Strike
A temporary restraining order was issued by a Superior court prohibiting picketing of stores advertising in the Hollywood Citizen News. The Los Angeles Newspaper Guild members had picketed 166 stores despite the injunction as a hearing was scheduled for Friday in the ongoing labor dispute with management.
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Los Angeles
Hollywood Ciuizen News
Los Angeles Newspaper Guild
C.1.0
Bolivia and Paraguay Ready for War Again
Buenos Aires reports a fresh threat of war between Bolivia and Paraguay over the Chaco wilderness. Six neutral nations seek to avert a breakdown in boundary talks aimed at ending a century long dispute.
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Bolivia
Paraguay
Buenos Aires
YPI
Bolgia
Chaco
Italy
Pat Harrison Favorite: 1940 Favorite Son Endorsement
Jackson Mississippi June 27 Pat Harrison Mississippi's senior senator and long time democratic leader in Washington was placed in the list of 1940 favorite sons today when the state democratic executive committee endorsed him for the presidency. The resolution signaled endorsement of the state party and may have instructed Harrison's 18 delegates to vote for him at the national convention. Committee members withheld comment. Toronto June 27 Phil Zwick of Milwaukee scored a ninth round technical knockout over Dr Ville Drouillard of Windsor in a 10 round bout at Maple Leaf Gardens. Zwick weighed 125 and Drouillard 231/16.
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Jackson
Miss
Pat Harrison
Mississippi
Washington
Democratic Executive Committee
Bly
Toronto
Phil Zwick
Milwaukee
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