Naval buildup seen as looming clash in global power
Admiral Leahy warns world politics threaten more than in 1918 as U S nears massive 1939 naval appropriation. Bill totals 553 million funds 22 ships including two battleships and eight destroyers with talks of 750 million yearly future spends.
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Sam
W. D. Leahy
Naval Operations
House of Representatives
Treasury
Post Office
Roosevelt
America
Paris
Japan
Britain
United States
France
Italy
Germany
Ireland Britain seek unity while Northern vote pending
In a tense postwar context Eamon De Valera pressed Britain for support on Irish unity as Northern Ireland faces a pivotal vote next month. Churchill and Chamberlain discussed trade and defenses, but no agreement emerged though enough progress was claimed for further study. Separately the U S state department queried the USSR about Mrs. Rubens and espionage arrests involving Mrs Robinson.
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Northern
Ireland
Eamon de Valera
Eire
Free State
Britain
de Valera
Chamberlain
England
U. S. State Department
Russia
Marie Rubens
U.S.S.R
Donald L. Robinson
France's Radical Turn in Blums Return Sparks Five Day Crisis
In 1936 France the cabinet of Camille Chautemps collapses as radical socialists seize control with 18 of 20 ministers. Blum, a Socialist, resumes leadership after failed bids. Across Europe turmoil grows with Yugoslav propaganda ties to Nazi efforts, rising antisemitism in Romania, stalled Russian parliament, and Britain weighing Ethiopia policy.
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Leon Blum
France
Blum
Camille Chautemps
Chautemps
Georges Bonnet
Remier
Bonnet
le of Nations
Germany
Yugoslavia
Premer Stoyadinovitch
Hitler
Joseph Goebbels
Romania
Carol
Russia
Stalin
Michael Kalinin
Vyacheslaff
Molotoff
Council of Commissars
Japan
Sweden
Geneva
Italy
Ethiopia
Russians purge over sexualized Treasure Island edit
Fragment discusses film censorship and political edits in Soviet cinema. It notes substitution of Jennie Hawkins for Jim Hawkins in Treasure Island to add sex appeal and mentions Irish revolutionary tagging. Observers claim purges targeted excess and warned by Stalin to avoid overreach.
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Treasure Island
Jennie Hawkins
Jim Hawkins
Ris Bnumialeky
Stalin
Foe
Chinese and Japanese clashes widen across war zones
The week saw Chinese counter-attacks and guerilla tactics jolting Japanese forces as both sides maneuver near Suchow and Hankow. Heavy fighting and entrenched lines west of the Yangtze, with hundreds of Russian-built planes in Nan’ewe, marked a broad, chaotic theater amid international tensions and reports of Spain’s conflict drawing focus.
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Aive
Suchow
Apanese Regic Rairoad
Yangtze
Yunnan
China
Indo China
Nanchang
de- Hankow
Nane Veo
Desharing
War and Ereby
Chiang Kaiek
Ime
Ina
Tokyo
Amor
Prophetic protest ignites guards in tabernacle scene
A graybeard self styled prophet and three servants were seized by police after a protest at the Latter Day Saints Tabernacle in Salt Lake City last Sunday. The man sprayed gas and stood in a ring of fire before being ejected. He said he wished to protest church leadership. Separately at St Hyacinthe Quebec 100 boys slept in a five story Sacred Heart boarding school dormitory when a fire broke out early Tuesday. Dozens escaped but tallies reported 47 dead or missing and 21 injured including teachers.
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Salt Lake City
Tabernacle
Sacred Heart Poarding School
St. Hyacinthe
Que
Fire destroys Higore oil depot causing huge losses
A two hour blaze at Aavel oil depot burned an estimated 0.000 worth of oil and damaged buildings. After twelve frantic hours smoke and feverish winds delayed firefighting while about 0,000 sightseers arrived to view the scene.
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Higore
Nam Hoi fugitive boy returns to foster father in New York
An adopted boy born Joseph Rinehart in New York City 19 years ago rejoined his foster father Fung Deng after 15 years in Nam Hoi revealing his birth name. He arrived wearing a western suit and spoke no English. Mrs. Edith Mae Cummings and Mrs. Julia Barker of Detroit are charged with real estate fraud linked to Kentuckians. Barker faces murder charges after Cummings was found dead in a ravine and Barker claimed Cummings threatened her.
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Nam Hoi
Fung Deng
Fung Kwok Keung
Joseph Rinehart
New York City
Irehan Tung Deng
Long Island
Funk
U. S
America
Edith Mae Cummings
Julia M. Barker
Detroit
Washington Justices Shrink as Reed Nominated for Court
Washington Supreme Court faces potential quorum issues after Justice Sutherland retires and Justice Cardozo falls ill leaving seven on the bench. Solicitor General Stanley Reed, 53, is named by FDR to fill the vacancy, with senators weighing his record on New Deal cases.
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Supreme Court
Sutherland
Cardoza
Stanley Reed
Roosevelt
Igh Court
NAAA
TVA
NPWA
America
Holding Businesses and Political Pressure in Washington
A flood of prominent figures visit the White House as Roosevelt weighs holding company reforms and federal policy shifts. Wendell Willkie proposes power company stakes in Tennessee Valley, while lawmakers, bankers, and labor leaders urge tax relief, anti monopoly steps, and coordinated relief programs.
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House
Ways and Means Committee
Sam
Frank Gann
James H. R.well
Doris
Washington
New York
Cleo
Detroit
San Francisco
Terrific gales strike Bris Isles with 33 deaths reported
A turbulent sequence of storms battered Bris Isles resulting in thirty three fatalities. A father and son perished in a chair incident in Boston tied to a torch in a U S flier. Mexico's President Carden pushed tariff moves to defend the peso. notables mentioned include Ex-Congressman Hull of Iowa and Mrs Bernard Ruhe in Kansas City banking circles.
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Bris Isles
Boston
U. S
Mexico
Carden
George Hubert Wilkins
Hull
Iowa
Bernard Ruch
Russell Hart
Paiges Fru Fruit Co
Mper
Kansas City
Labor union talks drift to loose federation proposal
Maritime unions meeting in San faced a split over a unified CIO AFL path as Sailors' Union of Pacific backed a looser federation while Joseph Curran chaired the conference. Portland papers halted by printers strike and unrest abroad left workers idle in Vera Cruz and Stockholm.
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CIO
Atlantic, Pacific
Gun Wreneteco
Gulf
San
Sailors’ Union of Pacific
AFL
Joseph Curran
National Maritime Union
Portland
Ore
Mexico
Vera Cruz
Puerto Rico
Stockholm
Sweden
Infant deaths rise with income gap at Washington talk
Miss Josephine Roche told a Washington conference that 168 per 1000 babies in families earning 500 dollars or less die versus 30 per 1000 in families earning 3000 dollars. Speakers blamed ignorance of care, poor access for the poor, and uneven doctor and nurse distribution.
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Josephine Roche
Treasury
Washington
Nforees
International notes mix events across nations
The bulletin lists AFL executive council meet in Miami, Australia marks a nopgussentenniel founding, U.S. Steel quarterly report, the International Cotton Congress in Cairo, Canadian parliament opening, Ex Kaiser Wilhelm turning 79, Frida show in Chicago, Roosevelt birthday events, and Admiral Claude C. Bloch becoming U.S. fleet commander in chief.
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AFL
Miami
Australia
Nopgussentenniel
U . S. Steel Corp
Motes International Cotton Congress
Cairo
Kaiser Wilhelm
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