Pension and politics shift as France golf champion crowned
Dick Chapman of Greenwich Conn won the international amateur golf championship of France by defeated Jacques Leglise 5 and 4 in the 86 hole final. In Washington the House opened debates on Social Security Act amendments with Sabath praising the administration and Rich challenging funding questions. Roosevelt named Leahy to govern Puerto Rico and Noble to be undersecretary of commerce. Senate approved a two year extension of devaluation authority to defend the stabilization fund amid housing authority funding debate.
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Chapman
Dunkelberger
ST. Germain
France
Dick Chapman
Greenwich
Conn
Jacques Leglise
Washington
House
Sabath
D-Ill
Democratic Party
Rich
R-Pa
Leahy
Roosevelt
Senate
William D. Leahy
Puerto Rico
Edward J. Noble
Senate Banking Committee
Tydings
United States Housing Authority
Wagner
USHA
Fatally Injured Teenager From Raleigh in Greensboro Crash
Miss Mildred Catherine Hester 16 recently moved from Raleigh to Greensboro. She was fatally injured about 5 30 this morning when the automobile she rode in struck a bridge abutment near the city’s northern edge. Princess Kate Fazil, American born wife of Egyptian prince Ibrahim Fazil, fined 125 dollars in London for drunken driving after witnesses said she taunted a police doctor.
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Greensboro
Dune
Mildred Catherine Hester
Raleigh
London
Kate Fazil
Prince Ibrahim Fazil
Egypt
Briton held after Shanghai clash near Pootung
In Shanghai the 45 year old British mill employee P R M Tinkler was held incommunicado by a Japanese landing party after a clash in the Pootung industrial section across the Whangpoo River. In Easley South Carolina Ruby Lee Bowling, 22, a textile worker, was slain after being slashed in the throat arms and body while fleeing for her life.
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Shanghai
R. M. Tinkler
Pootung
Whangpoo River
Easley
Supreme Court refuses Belk Brothers appeal in tax case
June 6. Attorney General Harry McMillan said the U S Supreme Court refused to consider Belk Brothers Company of Charlotte's appeal from a state supreme court ruling that the firm must pay the North Carolina chain store tax.
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Raleigh
Harry McMullan
United States Supreme Court
Belk Brothers Company of
Charlotte
Supreme Court
North Carolina
Braddock Signs to Fight Farr in London July
James J Braddock former heavyweight champion accepted terms to meet Tommy Farr of Wales in a 15 round bout at Earl s Court Stadium London on July 1st Officials announced after terms were agreed. Gustave Gamelin French general met British military leaders in a reception upon arrival for staff talks.
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Braddock-Farr
New York
James J. Braddock
Tommy Farr
Wales
Earl's Court Stadium
London
Gamelin
Maurice Gustave Gamelin
Navy
Airforce
North Carolina Building and Loan League to Meet Here
The annual convention of the North Carolina Building and Loan League will be held in Wrightsville Beach from June 27 to 29. Members from the league and local entities will discuss industry topics and standards during the three day gathering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wrightsville Beach
North Carolina Building and Loan League
Pennsylvania Lad Rescued After Plane Sinks Off Cape Cod
Cheston Eshelman, 22, from Carlisle Pennsylvania, parachuted or landed on Georges Bank after flying a two seat high wing monoplane with 175 miles fuel from Camden New Jersey. Fishermen aboard the trawler Villanova pulled him from water before the craft sank 40 fathoms deep. The rescue was reported by the trawler Triton. Eshelman may have planned a flight toward Europe. He was uninjured and had limited flying experience.
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Chatham
Mass
Cheston Eshelman
Carlisle
Georges
Boston
Villanova
Eshelman
Camden
N. J
Triton
Europe
Cape Cod
Edward Walz
Walz
Corrigan
Walt
Massachusetts
University of Florida Aeronautical School
Glenn L. Martin
Clipper Arrives in Marseille on Transatlantic Mail Run
The Pan American flying boat Yankee Clipper reached Marseille today on its regular Transatlantic mail run after a seven and a half hour flight from Lisbon Portugal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marseille
France
Lisbon
Portugal
Capital Prepares For Royal Visit
Washington gears for a two day pageant honoring the King and Queen of England. Flags line Pennsylvania Avenue from Union Station to the White House as decorations go up with coats of arms. Secretary Hull and Sir Ronald Lindsay head to Niagara Falls to greet the royals arriving from Canada. Organizers expect up to half a million sightseers along a two mile route with window space selling for up to 30 dollars. The procession features thousands of troops and multiple bands as an American President and a British sovereign ride together through the capital.
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John M. Hightower
Washington
Pennsylvania Avenue
England
Union Station
White House
United States
George Rex Elizabeth
Hull
Ronald Lindsay
Niagara Falls
Canada
Capital Police
Secret Service
Nicaragua
Navy
Royal visit begins as King and Queen cross into United States
Within 36 hours King George VI and Queen Elizabeth will cross the Niagara border to start a four day tour of Washington New York and Hyde Park welcomed by Secretary of State Hull. Their royal train rested at South Parry Ontario before continuing toward Toronto and Niagara peninsula with excursions including a mine drop and a veteran miner Bennett who walked 300 miles to meet the Queen.
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South Parry
George VI
Queen Elizabeth
Canada
Niagara Falls
United States
Cordell Hull
Washington
New York
Hyde Park
Georgian Bay
Ontario
Toronto
Niagara Peninsula
Winnipeg
Sudbury
David Bennett
Glamis
Loos
Fergue Bowes-Lyon
Bennett
Cuba Bars Jews on St Louis Refugees After Deadline
President Bru announces 907 Jewish refugees aboard the liner St Louis are barred from Cuba as the noon deadline passes without acceptance of a temporary haven on the Isle of Pines. The shipheads back toward Hamburg while Cuban officials reject further delay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Havana
Federico Laredo Bru
Germany
St. Louis
Cuba
Isle of Pines
Hamburg-American Line
New York
Hamburg
Havana Harbor
Change in neutrality urged by Undersecretary Welles
Sumner Welles called for a revision of the neutrality law while staying within its spirit to avoid aiding aggressors. He proposed three phased policy including keeping our military strength ready to defend the hemisphere and offering international cooperation as outlined in Roosevelt's appeal to curb European aggression. The remarks were prepared for a Columbia University alumni luncheon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Sumner Welles
Alumni Federation of Columbia
Free-Lance Miner Dies After 11-Hour Rescue in Shamokin
In Shamokin Pennsylvania a 21 year old free lance miner died from exposure and shock after rescuers pulled him from a coal hole fifty feet deep following a rock and timber fall. Leonard Ridlinger who gasped I feel all right was pulled to the surface after an eleven hour effort that avoided a new rock fall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shamokin
Leonard Ridlinger
Wallace Eyes 1940 Dem Nomination Amid Roosevelt Third-Term Talk
Washington reports say Secretary Wallace of Agriculture may seek the Democratic presidential nomination but would not risk his name unless Roosevelt does not run again. Appleby has toured Iowa and midwestern states sounding out Wallace delegate support while Garner seeks delegates to unite the party.
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Washington
Capitol Hill
Wallace
Agriculture Department
Congressional Friends of the
Roosevelt
Congress
Iowa
Paul H. Appleby
Appleby
Des Moines
Henry C. Wallace
Harding
Nelson G. Kraschel
White House
Henry Wallace
Vandenberg
Reich
Garner
Three RAF fliers killed as bomber crashes at Kinshardy
London reports three Royal Air Force fliers died when their bomber plunged into the sea off Kinshardy Scotland. The year 1939 records seventy RAF accidents causing 125 deaths. 1938 had 118 accidents and 218 deaths.
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London
Royal Air Force
Kinshardy
Scotland
Negro CCC Camp Sought for Marshville Town
Mayor Myron Green announced the town board and residents are pursuing a Negro CCC camp to be located in Marshville after it was moved from Monroe. The action reflects local interest in federal employment programs for Black workers.
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Marshville
Myron Green
Monroe
Lost Aviator Gives Mars As Destination
Cheston L. Eshelman piloting a Luscomb plane NC 22070 forced down 175 miles east southeast of Boston at 7:30 a.m. EDT and gave Mars as his destination. He was rescued by the fishing trawler Villanova's crew as the plane sank. he is uninjured aside from shock and exhaustion. The report was wirelessed from Pitcairn Airport, Philadelphia. Capt. Bjartmars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Villanova
Associated Press
Cheston Eshelman
Cheston L. Eshelman
Luscomb
Pitcairn
Philadelphia
Boston
Mars
Bjartmars
Irish Leader Russell Held by U S Agents in Michigan
Sean Russell reputed chief of staff of the outlawed Irish Republican Army was arrested entering the United States by false statements. Federal officers kept him incommunicado in Detroit and prepared to detain him until the royal train passed. Russell faced a $5,000 bond with the King and Queen due in Windsor, Ontario.
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Detroit
George VI
Elizabeth
United States
Sean Russell
Irish Republican Army
Russell
John L. Zurbrek
U. S
Washington
Chicago
Canada
Windsor
Detroit River
Niagara Falls
Scotland Yard
America
England
Joseph McGarrity
Philadelphia
Michigan Central Railroad
McGarrity
Ald
Hunger March Start in Moscow Claims Witness
Charles H. White, a self described former Communist and WPA worker, testified to the House committee that the 1932 35 national hunger march on Washington began in Moscow. He said Herbert Benjamin helped plan it during visits to the Soviet capital and that he organized the Ohio delegation.
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Washington
Charles H. White
Communist Party
House
WPA
Moscow
New York
Herbert Benjamin
Workers Alliance of
White
College of Professional Communists
Russia
Ohio
Police arrest 45 year old man on bike near Duchess of Kent car
London police detain Ledwedge Vincent Lawlor a 45 year old steel worker after a shotgun incident near the Duchess of Kent’s automobile. He claimed gun permit and was held for a week. no motive determined, Duchess unharmed. Police also note a broken window at Princess Royal’s home as possible linked act.
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London
Vincent Lawlor
Duchess of Kent
Lawlor
Belgrave Square
Robert Tice
Scotland Yard
Tice
Princess Royal
Countess of Harewood
George VI
Japan protests Soviet invasion amid Manchoukuo clashes
Tokyo reports a formal protest to the Soviet consulate in Harbin demanding an immediate discontinuance of hostile actions after a month of border incidents. Near Changku feng Japanese and Soviet forces exchange shellfire with casualties reported, as Tokyo refines its European policy.
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Tokyo
Russia
Manchoukuo
Domei
Hsinking
Harbin
Changkufeng
Hunchun
Asahi
Korea
Siberia
Lake Bor
Shiro Osawa
Shimonoseki
Japan
Baron Kiichiro Hirakanuma
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Oxford Group
C. P. R. Winser
Oxfordshire
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Clipper
Border
Caribbean
E. H. Dedrick
William Schroeder
Dedrick
Bernard H. Sandler
Florida
de Bru
King George
Welles
Hitler
Mussolini
Iowan
Cons
Michigan
Witness
Charles St. Bernard Dinsmore Walton
Workers Alliance
Cannon
D-Mo
Fiorello H. la Guardia
Walton
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