Five killed in backshooting on Indiana farm
Five persons were found dead with bullet wounds in the back on a farm eight miles southeast of Aurora Indiana. Police chief H B Mains said the victims were Johnson Agrue about 65 his wife their son William about 30 a brother Leo about 25 and Bessie Breadon 12 a niece. Coroner Harry Moon said the shooting appeared to be murder and they were removed to Lawrenceburg.
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H. B. Mains
Harry Moon
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Mains
Johnson Agrue
William
Leo
Agrues
Bessie Breadon
Red Cross War Relief Aid Totals 35 Million On May 1
The American Red Cross announced that its aid to nations in Europe and the Orient reached 35,015,599 dollars as of May 1. Of that total, 15,798,546 dollars had been sent to Great Britain.
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Washington
American Red Cross
Europe
The
Orient
Great Britain
Palisades Defined As West Bank Of Hudson River Range
The Palisades form the west bank of the Hudson River from near Haverstraw New Jersey to Weehawken New Jersey.
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Palisades
Hudson River
Haverstraw, N. J
Weehawken, N. J
Aliens Held in Southeast and West as Roundups Continue
In Jacksonville Florida W W Eyster says about 150 German and Italian aliens are held in the district with some 100 seamen under U S marshal prosecutions. Two German aliens were arrested recently in Jacksonville. San Francisco police and immigration agents are conducting a secret roundup. Seattle reports ongoing vigilance. Portland notes no arrests.
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Eyster
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Georgia
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Alabama
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Immigration Service
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End of (Continued from Page One) Labor Negotiations
Work stoppages persist across eight states as AFL and CIO machinists seek higher wages and union recognition. Northern mines see a 1 dollar daily raise, southern mines and shipyard workers demand more, with the Defense Mediation Board and Secretary Forrestal negotiating reopenings. A 1700 machinists strike is closing 11 yards. Vandergrift plant restorations succeed as Steel Workers CIO and United Engineering agree, pending union ratification.
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Defense Mediation Board
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Roosevelt
Southern
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CIO
San Francisco
Navy
James Forresta
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Mediation Board
Steel Workers Organizing Committee
United Engineering and Foundry Company
U S Leaders Debate Seizure of French Colonies in Hemisphere
At a press briefing Secretary Hull and lawmakers weighed options over taking or seizing French colonies like Martinique amid Berlin Vichy cooperation. Senators Reynolds Taft Lee Wheeler pressed for cautious steps, with calls to use or counter German ties and even seek an Anglo American pact.
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Hull
State Department
Reynolds
United States
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Berlin
Murray
Clark
Manrique
Taft
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Martinique
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D-Okla
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Japan
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Ponuer
Senator Predicts German Strategy Targeting U S
The senator told reporters after meeting President Roosevelt that Germany may pursue encirclement to strike the United States. He cited a potential move to seize Dakar on the West African coast to open a spearhead for demoralizing South American cooperation. He said the idea was not discussed with the President.
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Roosevelt
Germany
United States
Dakar
West African
Hitler
South America
Vichy Hints on France German Armistice Terms
The piece notes American circles in Vichy await France's concessions to Germany while Petain pledges to honor French honor. It mentions no French action against British attacks on Syrian airfields and cites armistice clauses as covering such landings.
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Vichy
France
Germany
Marshal Petain
FDR warns on totalitarian rule and need to defend democracy
The speech decries a world dominated by totalitarianism as ruinous to mutual benefit and trade. It argues only democratic leadership can rebuild a liberal world economy, urging Americans to defend principles and persist in cooperative economic policies with allies.
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United States
World Committee
Axis and Allied Moves Across War Fronts
Reported British and Axis actions unfold from North Africa to the Middle East as pepper and others weigh convoy safety and American aid. Soviet and Iraqi diplomacy blends with Iran borders and Turkish non belligerence as Berlin predicts a new turning point. UK raids on the French coast persist and civilian losses rise.
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Joseph Stalin
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Roosevelt
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Carl Sandburg To Speak At U N C Finals
CHAPEL HILL May 17 Carl Sandburg famed American poet and writer will deliver the commencement address at the University of North Carolina June 10 The universitys fifth finals begin June 8 with the baccalaureate by Canon Theodore Otto Wedel The program includes Class Day Parents Day Alumni Day and the commencement exercises Sandburg, Pulitzer prize winner for his Lincoln biography, is a native of Galesburg Illinois and now lives in Harbor, Michigan.
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Carl Sandburg
University of North Carolina
Theodore Otto Wedel
Washington Cathedral
Washington, D. C
Abraham Lincoln
Sandburg
Galesburg
Harbert
Mich
Quiet Attap Diplomacy Signals Brewing Moves
Tokyo May 17. A discreet silence at the foreign office surrounds high level talks as Yosuke Matsuoka meets Axis envoys and others to study policy on the China affair. Notable sessions include Grew and Craigie, Ott, Smetanin, and Wohl. A near consensus among government, army, and navy on China policy emerges while U.S. fate in the war looms large in Tokyo press.
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Iraq
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Ankara
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Yosuke Matsuoka
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England
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Robert Leslie Craigie
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Nanking
Eiki Tojo
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Stimson
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America
Friction Over Syria Bombings Baffles Allies
Reports from Beirut and Cairo say General Henri Dentz protested British raids on Syria and Lebanon while Vichy officials deny German occupation of Dakar. London sources hint France may surrender West Africa’s Dakar to Germany, with German agents active in French possessions for years.
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Jean Darian
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Lebanon
Henri Dentz
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Japs Arrested Smuggling Tool Bits Out of America
Federal agents arrested two Japanese men, Gizo Ugeno and Shiro Higuchi, for trying to smuggle 3,600 tool bits hidden in milk cartons aboard the Asama Maru hours before its departure to the Orient. They face export violation charges under the National Defense Act of 1910. bail set at $10,000 each.
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Shiro Higuchi
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EF. F E. Wlliams
Break in Dutch Japanese talks as final memos outlined
Sources say economic negotiations between the Netherlands East Indies and Japan have reached a critical stage with final memoranda exchanged. Disputes over supplying vital products and transit to Germany slow talks while Dutch and Tokyo officials dispute legal questions around the London emigre government. The situation coincides with renewed Pacific tension and possible Dutch moves toward French Indochina and Burma. The article notes the black bass is a sunfish, not a true bass.
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Police Probe Seizure of Whiskey Near Emerywood Club
Police investigate seizure of about 140 pints from an abandoned 1931 Chevrolet near Emerywood Country Club. Six cases were found with five or six pints missing while ownership of the car remains undetermined.
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Emerywood Country Club
Legislature Disapproved by North Carolina Bar Association
GREENSBORO May 17 The North Carolina Bar Association adopted a resolution urging its new president to press for rule making authority for the state supreme court to reform courts. The move came during the 42nd annual meeting at Sedgefield Inn with Judge W C Harris addressing the closing banquet and several reports on legal topics presented by prominent attorneys from Greensboro Durham Charlotte and Raleigh.
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General Assembly
North Carolina Bar Association
State Supreme Court
Sedgefield Inn
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Harris
C. Richard Wharton
Henry Bane
Durham
Charles W.tillett
Charlotte
L. S. Spurling
Lenoir
Edward L. Cannon
Raleigh
Charles H. Miller
John M. Robinson
R. O. Everette
Supreme Court
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Rocky Mount
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Gastonia
Robert V. Braweley
Winston-Salem
Charles H. Robertson
United States Collector of Internal Revenue
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Obert H. Barton, Jr
Richmond
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The
American Bar Association
Croats Set To Crown Duke Of Spoleto In Rome
A Croat delegation heads to Rome to crown the Duke of Spoleto as Croatia’s sovereign, envisaging alliance with Fascist Italy. King Vittorio Emanuele to host the ceremony and sign frontier and trade agreements establishing Croatia within Italy’s sphere. The move follows Croatia’s declaration of independence from Yugoslavia.
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Duke of Aosta
Italy
Ethiopia
Tomislav
Joannes XII
Ante Pevelic
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Albania
Montenegro
Pennsylvanian Freed In Highway Killing
Harry A. Erb of Ridgeway Pennsylvania was exonerated by a coroner's jury for the death of J. Fletcher McCulloch aged 70 who was struck by Erb's car eight miles southeast of Greensboro. The driver had slowed then advanced when McCulloch crossed the road. McCulloch died within an hour and Erb's vehicle rolled into a ditch.
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Harry A. Erb
Ridgeway
J. Fletcher McCulloch
Erb
McCulloch
Eric
Fayetteville
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