Milligan Accuses Vote Fraud in Kansas City Fight
St Louis Feb 1 AP Senator Harry S Truman says he will oppose the reappointment of U S District Attorney Maurice Milligan, Kansas City vote fraud prosecutor, amid claims Milligan condemns persecution not prosecution. Milligan warns corruption of ballots could alter national policy and pledges vigilance in federal enforcement free of politics.
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W. J. Pendergast
Truman
Missouri
Milligan
Bennett Champ Clark
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Soviet Triples Coast Defenses Raised in Five Years
Soviet coast defenses have tripled over the past five years, with mobile batteries added and coast defense guns increased one and a half times, navy commissar Smirnoff reported in Pravda. He said the navy has grown in both quantity and quality, notably the submarine fleet.
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Russia
Communist Party
Pravda
Peter Alexandrovich Smirnoff
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Wright on Stand Near Collapse in Murder Trial
In Los Angeles on February 1 AP reports Paul Wright nearly collapsed on the witness stand while recounting his life and the alleged killings of his wife Evelyn and John Kimmel. He details World War I service, TB illness, sanatorium care, and wartime stress affecting his nervous system as he testifies about the November living room tragedy.
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Evelyn
John Kimmel
Wright
Jerry Giésier
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Wis
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Glesler
France
Bill of rights for BGE aims to curb hate psychology
Benjamin H. Namm, head of a Brooklyn department store, proposed a threefold bill of rights for workers, employers, and consumers at the National Retail Dry Goods Association convention. He urged fair wages, reasonable hours, safe conditions, and anti sweatshop practices, plus consumer protection from misrepresentation and interference. The plan, meant to ease labor tensions, comes as retail hiring declines and trade drops below last year. George W. Taylor of Wharton School commented on the current labor relations situation.
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Benjamin H. Namm
Brooklyn
National Retail Dry Goods Association
Namm
Nanim
George W. Taylor
Whartonschool
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Small Business Men Meet in Washington to Seek Capital
Washington February 1. About 500 representatives of the nations small business men will press for a new capital source at an open Commerce Department meeting before sending a delegation to the White House. They favor wage hour laws and discuss fair trade, prices, monopolies, social security, government research, housing and small industry development.
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Morgenhau
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Auto Union
Richard ‘T'. Frankensteen
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Draper
Jesse H. Jones
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RFC
Federal Reserve
New York Stock Exchange
Greatest Mass Migration From Yangtze River Towns
From Hankow China, a vast migration begins as thousands flee Japans undeclared war. Refugees travel by foot wheelbarrows rickshaws and carts toward the interior. An Ichang Hankow highway rush job aims to ease congested docks as Yangtze water levels drop.
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Associated Press
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Japan
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Wuchang
Hanyang
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Yangtze Gorges
Chungking
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Spain's Civil War Expands to Mediterranean Seas
The war widens beyond Spain as a British ship sinks after torpedo attack, eleven dead blamed on insurgents. In the Orient, Japanese and Chinese forces clash over the corridor linking invaded areas, with Litvinoff warning the League of Nations on the need for coercive action. Britain deploys four destroyers to locate the submarine Endymion. Conflicting reports arise from North China fighting near Mingkwang and Pengpu as each side claims gains.
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China
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Orient
Japan
Maxim Litvinoff
Russia
League of Nations
Great Britain
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Mingkwang
Nanking
Tientsin-Pukow
Pengpu
Starves 19 Days The Japanese Drive From Nanking To Suchow
A partial report describes Japanese forces forcing a march from Nanking to Suchow along the Chunghai line, a key junction on China's main east west railroad, amid severe supply strain and advancing fronts.
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Nanking
Suchow
Chunghai
China
Cor
Fragmentary World News Snippet Reflects Data Oddities
A partial passage notes massed troops in a distant region, cites Holland as the world's highest soap consumer per capita with the United States second, and lists several European and Asian nations. It also gives earthquake speeds of 470 to 530 feet per second, suggesting a miscellaneous fact collection from a periodical page.
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