Britain Urges Germany Not To Annex Memel After Nazi Victory
Prime Minister Chamberlain told the House of Commons that Britain and France have protested to Berlin over possible Memel annexation following local elections. He noted Memel's status under the 1924 statute and said the British charge d affaires joined the French ambassador in urging Germany to respect Lithuania's possession and the Memel statute.
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London
Great Britain
Germany
Reich
Chamberlain
House of Commons
Britain
France
Berlin
Italy
Japan
Lithuania
Richmond Area Police Close In On Escaped Convict Roy Kelly
State and Henrico County officers converged on a stretch west of Richmond as they hunted Roy Kelly, the escaped Carolina convict suspected in a roadside inn robbery and two-vehicle killings in North Carolina. Police tracked his movements after a black sedan was seen crossing the Ninth Street bridge into North Richmond and fled when shots were fired at a state trooper.
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Kelly
Ichmond
State
Henrico
Richmond
Roy Kelly
Carolina
Enrico County
Maggie's
Bery
Ninth Street Bridge
North Carolina
Hoey 61 Yet Fights Age With Humor At 80Promise
Hoey, age 61, celebrated at the mansion with a birthday cake of 21 candles. He joked he is not admitting to being older than 21 years and quipped about age milestones, saying he won’t worry about age until nine years from now.
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R Hoey
Extire
Wage dispute in High Point delays federal power project
The Public Works Administration reported it sought Labor Department figures on prevailing wages for High Point North Carolina after city and labor groups failed to agree on wage scales for a federally funded municipal power project. The city proposed 30 cents an hour while organized labor pushed 47 cents. Officials expect swift resolution once the Labor Department sets the local rate.
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Washington
Public Works
Labor Department
High Point
PWA
Labor Cement
Igh Point
Memel Decrees End Lithuanian Police Powers
The pro Nazi Memel directory boasts a smashing victory in parliamentary elections and decrees the end of Lithuanian police powers in the former German territory.
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Memel
Lithuania
Seven Injured in Asheboro Wreck Near Randleman
Special to The Enterprise reports Lenford Jenkins of Greensboro jailed on reckless driving charges after a collision near Asheboro left seven injured. Jenkins passengers Garland Jackson Brandon Hobbs and Luther Irvin were also detained or hospitalized, with Ethel Lowe Inez Lowe and Edward Minz among the injured from Greensboro and Randleman.
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Asheboro
Lenford Jenkins
Greensboro
Garland Jackson
Brandon Hobbs
Jenkins
Luther Irvin
Ethel Lowe
Randleman
Inez Lowe
Edward Minz
France Keeps Actions in Tunisia Secret Amid Tensions
In London Prime Minister Chamberlain said Britain is not bound to aid France against Italy. In Tunis the French high command ordered secrecy over Tunisian force activities while signaling readiness for Italian moves. Police say Italian fascists may have set a fire at the Italian club to provoke clashes.
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Tunis
Tunisia
Italy
North
Africa
Walsh Signals Opposition to Armament Plans
Senator David I. Walsh chairman of the Senate Naval Affairs Committee said he would oppose armament building tied to revival of arms industries or used to address unemployment. He warned of a growing movement to turn the defense program into a spending campaign and urged guidance by nonpolitical expert military opinion.
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New York
Senate Naval Affairs Committee
David I. Walsh
Gaston Means Dies Failing to Reveal Lindbergh Hoax Funds
Springfield Missouri dispatch reports Gaston B. Means died at 58 after a heart attack following gall bladder surgery. The famed con man, known for the $104000 Lindbergh baby hoax, refused to disclose what happened to the money given by Evelyn McLean. He died with his secret unresolved, surrounded by family.
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Springfield
Gaston B. Means
United States Medical Center
Evelyn
Cq) Welsh McLean
Washington, D. C
Charles A. Lindbergh
Means
Julie Means
Billy
Afton
Brandon W. Means
Concord
N. C
Frank Means
Providence
R. J
J. F. Goodman
Mary Belle
Kate Means
Pene
Italian editor says France must cede French Somaliland to aid Ethiopia
Virginio Gayda, editor of Giornale D Italia, declares Italy needs French Somaliland for Ethiopian development. He accuses France of hindering Italian colonial interests by keeping Djibouti, the Addis Ababa railway terminus, out of Italian influence and alleges French arming of Tunisia.
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Rome
Italy
Ethiopia
Virginio Gayda
Mussolini
Gayda
France
Tunisia
Suez Canal
Djibouti
Addis Ababa
Red Sea
Pembroke Frowns on Giving Wallie Curtsy in London
The Countess of Pembroke, famed etiquette expert, opposes curtsying to the Duchess of Windsor. She would drop a curtsy only if the Duchess becomes royal highness. She says she scolded Lady Diana Cooper and Mrs. Euan Wallace for curtsying to the wife of the former King Edward in Paris.
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London
Countess of Pembroke
Duchess of Windsor
Sunday Dispatch
Pembroke
Earl of Pembroke
Diana Cooper
The
Admiralty
Euan Wallace
Board of Trade
Edward
Paris
Rin aGamwa
Japanese Drive In Shansi Hit By Guerrillas
Shanghai dispatch reports 6000 Japanese killed in Shansi province by Chinese guerrillas as the Eighth Army presses a harassment campaign after preceeding offensives. Chinese forces also claim gains on the Sinkiang river and west of Hankow with other guerrilla successes across Anhwei Chekiang Kiangsu.
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Shanghai
Shansi
Sinkiang River
Hankow
China
Eighth Army
Wutaisha
Wutai Mountain
Fourth Army
Anhwei
Chekiang
Kiangsu
Sayre Praises Trade Agreement At Cotton Conference
Francois B. Sayre, assistant secretary of state, lauded the Anglo American trade pact as a remedy to post Munich defeatism. He warned crop restriction harms national income and urged free trade to expand American cotton exports, stressing barrier lowering benefits to the cotton industry and national economy.
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New Orleans
Francois B. Sayre
American Farm Bureau Federation
Sayre
Crop Control Will Continue says Leaders
AP dispatch reports Administration leaders confident that a full repeal of crop restrictions would fail after referenda approved cotton marketing controls but rejected quotas for rice and flue cured tobacco. Secretary Wallace praised the cotton victory and urged quotas to bolster benefit payments while noting the farm program will continue for producers of all crops.
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Washington
Wallace
Legion Fight for More Jobs in Peace Time Campaign
The American Legion mobilizes over a million members in a nationwide effort to stabilize employment and create more jobs for workers over 40. The employment committee will conduct an educational program through 11,498 posts, targeting the 25 largest employers in each state and urging employers to save on state unemployment funds.
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Indianapolis
American Legion
Legion
Jack Crowley
Rutland
Brazilian Will Head Group At Work On Plan
Alf Mello Franco former Brazilian foreign minister was elected chairman of the Pan American conference committee organizing peace. The group, including Alf Landon as US member, begins shaping a regional security instrument while debating Venezuela’s aggression proposal and coordination of American actions.
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Andrue Berding
Lima
Peru
Alfranio de Mello Franco
Brazil
Organization of Peace
Alf M. Landon
United States
Americas
Peace Committee
Venezuela
Jose Maria Cantilo
Argentina
Missouri Negro Gaines Granted Law School Admission
The Supreme Court ruled the University of Missouri Law School must admit Lloyd L. Gaines, a St. Louis Negro, arguing his rejection violated equal protection. The decision, delivered by Chief Justice Hughes, reverses the Missouri Supreme Court ruling. Justices Butler and McReynolds dissented.
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Washington
Supreme Court
University of Missouri Law School
Lloyd L. Gaines
St. Louis
Gaines
Missouri
Lincoln University
Corrigan the Flying Hero Earns 75000 in 3 Months
Hollywood reports Douglas Corrigan the so called wrong way flier has earned 75000 in three months while starring in a film and authoring a memoir. He plans a 15 city tour to promote his book and rents his second hand monoplane to the San Francisco World's Fair, while continuing to manage his finances and flying career with no ghost writer.
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Hollywood
America
Douglas Corrigan
Santa Claus
United States
Stundeys
Corrigan
Ireland
Bay
G Men Join Kelly Hunt in Virginia and Carolinas
Federal agents and state police search for Roy Kelly 29 an escaped North Carolina convict linked to the killings of two officers and wounding of Virginia trooper Edward Schecht. A Burlington gun battle killed sheriff Roy Huffman and another officer. Kelly and another man fled in a car. Police pursued leads including Paul Dell held in Florida to be returned to North Carolina for serving a ten year sentence.
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Dee
Roy Kelly
North Carolina
Virginia
Edward Schecht
Charlotte, N. C
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Burlington
Kelly
Roy Huffman
Lloyd BE
Thomas
Stuart
Paul Dell
Florida
Dell
Huffman
Ato County
N. Cy
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