Roosevelt signals on third party run in 1940 race
Washington dispatch analyzes whether President Roosevelt would back anti new deal conservatives or stay silent in 1940. Key figures Senate Logan and Thames D-Okla weigh in on party unity, platform goals, and possible third term hints. Roosevelt condemns straddle platform while urging liberal progress.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Devoerst
White House
Hyde Park
N. Y
Young Democrats
Pittsburgh
Democratic Party
Thames D-Okla
Oklahoma
Garner
Logan
Panama Canal Nears Impregnable Defense Plan
The Panama Canal, opened 25 years ago, is to be fortified against air raids. Congress orders an ironclad defense with expanded anti air measures and a larger army garrison from 14,000 to 21,000, plus a new third fleet of locks to speed wartime transit.
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Panama Canal
U.S
Congress
Canal
Sis
Tropical disturbance moves toward Florida coast
A tropical disturbance of minor intensity moved toward the Florida east coast, likely inland near Palm Beach by mid afternoon. Advisory showed the center 100 miles east southeast of Palm Beach, moving west northwest at about 11 mph. Coast warnings were scaled back south of Miami as residents evacuated and buildings readied storm shutters.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Florida
Weather Bureau
Palm Beach
Daytona Beach
Key West
Miami
Nassau
Baheman
Saturday Radio Schedule of August 12
A dense list of radio programs and times from KWK KWR KWH and related stations. Includes early birds, Progran pointers, Hollywood A L Band, 4-H Club, Cincinnati Reds vs St. Louis Cardinals, and late night dance segments with news and market updates throughout the day.
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KWK
Grady Cantrell
Cincinnati Reds
St. Louis Cardinals
KWR
Rainbow Trio
Ray Schmidt
KWH
Mystery Explained in Irwin Elevator Lockup
Fred Ruhs of Irwin found his grain elevator locked with machinery running at full blast. The seared body of a sparrow explained the incident as the bird supposedly touched a switch, causing it to throw, then fell onto electrical contacts and was electrocuted.
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Irwin
Fred Ruhs
Ruhs
Delay Hearing Of Use Struck Girls Sliver West Palm Beach
Fearing mob violence police delay arraignment of Charles Jefferson on abducting two Miami high school girls killing one and holding the other for three days. A confession followed. Ruth Dunn was found slain near Palmetto underbrush as Jean Bolton, after being released, recounted three days of confinement and binding in a coupe. Jefferson’s multiple aliases and past jobs were outlined by investigators.
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Fila
Charles Jefferson
Miami
Jefferson
W. E. Roebuck
Ruth Frances Dunn
Jean Bolton
Boca Raton
Miss Bolton Yesteday
Jefferson's
Dunn
Palmetto
Fla
E. W. Wleicher
Owas Herbert William Goddard
Goddard
Tom Cochran
Tom Ashwell
Miami Federal Theater
T. J. Whitney
Pennsylvania Reformatory
Theater Guild
Fed
Frances Ruth Dunn
Palm Beach
SLAIN FLORIDA GIRL AND CHUM IN MIXED CAREER TALE
An article fragment outlines a Florida murder linked to a man with a varied career across media and theater in cities including Cincinnati New York San Francisco and Miami. It notes he was unemployed at Boca Raton when tested by authorities and lists a long FBI file including a 1926 San Francisco arrest as a U S Army deserter and a two year sentence.
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Etal Theater
Miami
WLW
Cincinnati
New York
Denver
West Coast
Motion
Paramount
San Francisco
Examiner
Call-Bulletin
Boca Haton
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Jefferson
Goddard
Presidio Military Prison
Homeless Jews Seek Palestine Across Danube and Sea
Refugees pour into Constanza and Braila as 483 Jews from Hungary and former Austrian territories reach Sulina for passport checks. The Tiger Wulf sails with 850, Lisel 800 passengers face detention after a mutiny and surrender. The British six month Palestine immigration ban follows large scale illegal arrivals.
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Romania
Britain
Palestine
Hungary
Germany
Danube River
Sulina
Braila
Danube
Betar” Organization
Haifa
Prisoner history spans multiple states and aliases in 1927 1939 arrests
A man born in 1908 faced 19 years in Pennsylvania for criminal assault in 1927 and was later arrested in Wichita Kansas in 1930 for vagrancy and sent back to Pennsylvania under the name Goddard. He later appeared in Helena Montana in 1939 as Cochran on charges of intent to defraud the federal government, was turned over to Denver authorities, and placed on five years probation for impersonating a federal officer.
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Pennsylvania
Wichita
Kas
Goddard
Helena
Mont
Cochran
Deniver
Hva
Central repair shop to be built for CCC and forestry service
Construction of a $50,000 central repair shop for the Civilian Conservation Corps and the Forestry Service will start about Sept 1, as announced by W B Orr of the U S Forestry Service in Rolla. Night fatalities have risen about 71 percent over the last eight years, and there are about 25 260 000 automobiles in use in the United States.
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Rolla
Mon
Civilian Conservation Corps
Forestry Service
W. B. Orr
U. S. Forestry Service
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