Wars: Three War In Foreign and Near East Notes
War In The Far East Hankow region sees Japanese advance and rail cuts as refugees flee toward the Canton area. In the Near East, 20,000 British troops and police in Paris push against Arab rebels amid calls for independence and foreign policy debate in Palestine. In the West, a brief Ebro front update from Hendaye notes ongoing skirmishes as Spain's civil war evolves.
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Hankow
Yangtze River
Kow - Peiping
E - Canton
South China
Anton
Canton
Itish Hongkong
Can
Near East
U. S
Washington
Britain
Holy Land
Hull
Palestine
Itaiy
Paris
Spain
Hendaye
France
Ebro
Europe Struggles Post Munich as Nations Reassess Powers
As Europe mops up after the Munich meeting Germany pledges to return all reservists by Nov 1. Czechoslovakia seeks German advice on Hungary’s demand and Romanians support moves against Prague. Hungary doubles arms, seeks Polish aid, Romania reshapes war ministry, France tightens radio censorship, Britain revises home defense, and Bulgaria faces a Macedonian minority issue amid martial law for a day and a police clampdown on revolutionaries.
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Europe
Munich
Germany
Czechoslovakia
Hungary
Slovakia
Ruthenia
Poland
Rumania
France
Britain
Bulgaria
Greece
Yugoslavia
Imro
Yordan Peyeff
Sofia
Boris
Ruth Etting linked to two husbands amid LA gunplay scandal
Nebraska born blues singer Ruth Etting faces legal turmoil as second husband Alderman is hospitalized after a gun incident at Etting’s Los Angeles home. Ex-husband Snyder has jail time and claims of a kidnap plot. A separate suit seeks 150000 in love-theft damages.
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Ruth Etting
Nebraska
Martin
Col
Gimp”) Snyder
Myrl Alderman
Tijuana
Alderman
Miss Etting
Los Angeles
Snyde
International and national health and policy events listed
Upcoming events include a national conference of vene real disease officers in Hot Springs Arkansas on Sunday October 23. Federal wage hour standards take effect on Monday October 24. International Red Cross meeting begins in Geneva Switzerland and the National Export Congress in Mexico City. National Academy of Sciences meets in Chapel Hill North Carolina. Presidential election in Chile and American Public Health Association convention in Chicago on Tuesday October 25. Navy Day on Thursday October 27 marks the 20th anniversary of Czechoslovakia and the 16th anniversary of the Fascist march on Rome. Deadline for the fact finding board report on the proposed railroad wage cut.
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Hot Springs
Ark
International Red Cross
Geneva
Switz
National Export Congress
Mexico City
National Academy of Sciences
Chapel Hill
N. C
Chile
American Public Health Association
Chicago
Czechoslovakia
Rome
Debate quotes reveal Wheeler Smathers rift on Senate independence
Senator Burton Wheeler predicts a more independent Senate in the coming session while not opposing all administration bills. Senator William Smathers scorns Wheeler’s liberal stance, joking that the western liberal has “stayed east too long.”
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Burton K. Wheeler
D-Mont
Senate
Charlie McCarthys
William H. Smathers
D-N. J
Far West
Burt
Labor Leaders Battle Over CIO AFL Split at Conventions
Labor leader John L. Lewis threatened to resign CIO chairmanship if William Green quit as AFL president. Green pledged a response at the AFL convention in Houston where he was reelected to a 15th term. Perkins offered a peace plan with a 13 member commission to set terms.
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John L. Lewis
CIO
William Green
AFL
Green
Houston
Tex
Labor
Perkins
U.S
Pittsburgh
In Short Approved A PWA grant to help Chicago build a subway
A sweeping roundup lists approvals and appointments across politics arts and society including a PWA grant for Chicago subways various awards and notable events such as paroled German tennis star Baron Gottfried Von Cramm and the death toll from midair crashes and natural disasters.
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PWA
Chicago
Charles A. Lindbergh
U. S
Treasury Department
Baron Gottfried von Cramm
Eell
Montgomery
Ala
Detroit
Japan
Spain
Karl Hofer
Germany
Phyllis Hussey
Jamaica
James A. Mollinson
Katherine R. Fell
Philadelphia
Edward Lyddon Lycett
Emmanuel Poppen
Columbus
American Lutheran Church
Fred M. Douglass
Toledo
International College of Surgeons
Benes
Czechoslovakia
University of Chicago
John Harlan Amen
Brooklyn
N. Y
Nathaniel C. Terry
Navy
E. C. Segar
Frank Allee
Delaware
Lord Stanley
Karl Kautsky
Karl Marx
John Barrett
Prince Hiroyoshi Fushimi
Prince Arsene Karageorgevich
Yugoslavia
Roosevelt reexamines defenses amid world tensions
The president said defenses are under review with aides outlining larger army and navy budgets, new mass production planes, and private utilities spending to power wartime and economic recovery. Bernard Baruch warned of German threats in South America as New Deal debates and Eucharistic congress news fill the week.
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Roosevelt
America
Army
Navy
Bernard Baruch
World War Industries Board
Europe
United States
Germany
South America
Latin America
Jew Baruch
New York
Christ
New Orleans
Pius XI
Hoover
Hartford
Conn
Congress
Wallace
Midwest
Alfred M. Landon
Illinois
Ickes
Spies: Four Of "Weston" Case Split From Ring
A New York passport clerk received a call from a man posing as under secretary of state ordering 50 passport blanks. The ensuing investigation tied Rumich, 32, to a ring seeking U S navy carrier designs. Johanna Hofmann, 26, aided by others, was found with a code list and $1,000 offer. Fourteen more indicted. four jailed by grand jury. Rumrich pleaded guilty and testified, describing dummy photos and a gas pen plot. The case links Berlin led espionage to the alleged broad spy network and a forged Roosevelt signature letter to obtain carrier data. Defense calls the defendants dupes.
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New York
Mr. Weston
Weston
FBI
Rumrich
North River
Europa
la Femme
Johanna Hofmann
U. S
Erich Glaser
Mitchel Field
Long Island
New York City
Otto Hermann Voss
Farmingdale
L. L
Secret Service
Air Ministry
G-Man
U. S. Coast
U.S
Lamar Hardy
Berlin
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Chiang Kai-shek
Nanking
Mufti
Syria
Meawhile
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Jerusalem
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Estine
Palese
Pale
Buerckel
Joseph Buerckel
Hitler
Austria
Vienna
Kurt Schuschnigg
Thedore Cardinal Innitzer
Vassiliy K. Bluecher
Red Army
Congressional Committee
Rep
Martin Dies
Texas
Minnesota
Farmer-Labor Party
Joseph Stalin
American Federation of Labor
Communist Party
Joseph G. Strecker
Supreme Court
Harry Bridges
West Coast
Dies Committee
Strecker
Troubled
Dublin
Jack Doyle
London
Pace
the Golden
Tom
Great Britain
Irving
Political Report
Gordon R. Kamman
University of Minnesota
American College of Surgeons
Weather Report
Gulf of Mexico
Montana
Lazar Kirichenkoff
Palmerton
Panama Canal Zone
Guenther Gustav Rumicch
Rumich
Louisville
Times
Miss Hofmann
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