Chamberlain Says Britain Seeks Safety Zones To End Bombings
June 14 1941 Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain told the House of Commons that Britain plans no retaliatory action for bombings of British shipping in the Mediterranean. He outlined two proposals, safety zones at harbors and a Spanish government proposal to allow British ships to use a port outside military zones. The plan faces opposition as several ships have already been sunk and the response from London was awaited.
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London
Neville Chamberlain
House of Commons
Britain
Mediterranean
Chamberlain
Meless
Iig
Hinds
Clement R. Attlee
Ber
Labor
Massengill Ordered to Federal Court in Bristol Tenn
Samuel E. Massengill of Bristol Tennessee, a drug maker, has been ordered to appear at a federal court hearing in September to face charges of violating the Pure Food and Drug Act. Deputy U S Marshal J Herman Goode reported the arraignment in Bristol where Massengill pleaded not guilty and was released on $25,000 bond. The case concerns Massengill’s company manufacturing an elixir of sulfanilimide, a drug linked to multiple deaths last year.
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Johnson City
Samuel E. Massengill
Bristol
Tenn
U. S
J. Herman Goode
Goode
Massengill
J. Baumgartner
Autos Here to Stay?
Chester residents reported today that the horseless buggy is here to stay as workmen began remodeling a carriage shed into a garage at the Frieds Quaker Moeeling House, roughly a century ago in the town.
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Chester
Weather brief predicts warmer spell across regions
Weather notes show Virginia expect fair conditions tonight with increasing clouds and warmer by midweek. Kentucky forecasts partly cloudy nights and Wednesday with a slightly warmer trend. Local western portland area potential warmer tonight with unsettled conditions tomorrow.
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Warner
Adrian man held in Mann Act case over teacher kidnaping
Larry van der Cock cattle buyer of Adrian Michigan was arrested on Mann Act charges after being sought for the kidnaping of Lucille W 22 rural school teacher. Detectives say she described a four day trip through five states and fights with his advances.
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Larry van der Cock
Adrian
Mich
Lucille W . 22
van der Cock
Miss Wilson
Assorted Crime and Political News From Miami to Louisville
In Miami, Franklin Pisree McCall pleaded not guilty to kidnapping a Princeton boy for a $20,000 ransom after a grand jury charged 21 year old James Bailey Cash Jr. with the crime. witnesses included the victim’s father and federal agents, and a confessed abduction on May 28 is cited. In Louisville, Gov. Chandler warned of a new special session to enforce the 1938 voter registration act amid claims of a “boss controlled election machine” resisting purgation rules. officials dispute copying records due to an injunction, and political figures deny obstructing fair election efforts ahead of the August 6 primary.
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Miamt
Fla
Franklin Pisree McCall
James Bailey Cash. Jr
Princeton
George A. Worley
Cash Senior
McCall
Louisville
A. B. Chandler
Jefferson County
Alhen W
Barkley
Lennie McLaughlin-Shackelford Miller
Dems
MebLaughlin
Louisville Democratic Organization
Miller
Chandler
State Board of Election Commissioners
Jefferson County Purgation Board
Louinville
Walter B. Huffaker
Louisville Board of Registration Commissioners
Convicts Settle Grudge By Death in Kentucky Prison
EDDYVILLE Ky June 14 Two prison inmates a horse thief 23 and a twice convicted murderer 41 died in a jailhouse death with one decapitated in a cell and the other wounded as guards faced a blood smeared scene at the penitentiary Warden Buchanan reported the two men had been cellmates for seven months and the incident followed friction over transfers and access to a weapon.
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Eddyvillee
Cleyton Sloan
Charles H. Smith
Jease
Weimon
One Highball Will Warm Fingers Claim by Physicians
A Mayo Clinic exhibit from Rochester doctors shows alcohol raises finger skin temperature briefly, suggesting a warming effect. Experiments indicate cooling system activity reduces heat loss after a drink, with similar timing to a meal.
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Mayo Woundstion
Rochester
Minn
Bayard
Woreton
Charles Sheard
M. D. Williemy
Mayo
Noted Star Gazer Plunges to Death in San Francisco
William Wallace Campbell, famed astronomer and former UC president, killed himself by leaping from a third story window in his apartment building. Coroner reported five notes. son Wallace cited ill health. Campbell had lived with his wife since retirement. body found after neighbors heard a crash.
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San Francisco
William Wallace Campbell
T. B. W. Leland
Leland
Campbell
Wallace
Campbbell
University of California
Lick Observatory
Wallace Campbell
Dr. Campbell
Silent stalemate over Shelby registration books in Tennessee
In Nashville and Memphis, Browning foes and backers kept plans quiet as Abe Waldauer held the Shelby county registration books. He seeks to purge illegally enrolled names, while state leaders debate legal custody after the state supreme court ruled the books should be with the pro Browning election commission. Waldauer expands inquiry as observers warn potential mass removals from a list near 100000 names amid ongoing supplementary registration efforts.
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Nashville
Shelby County
Shelby
Abe Waldauer
State Board of Elections
Waldauer
Browning
Roy Hi. Beeler
Megat Browning
State Supreme Court
Shelby County Election Commission
pro-Browning Shelby Commission
Memphis
Flood Devastates Chinese Villages Along Yellow River
Japanese dispatches claim up to 140000 Chinese civilians drowned as Yellow River floods widen across northern Henan. Chungmow area hardest hit with three feet of water, many villages inundated. Japanese engineers aided by Chinese farmers race to repair breaks, hampered by Chinese troops.
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Shanghat
Yellow River
Henan
Chungmow
Chengenow
Japan
Lunghai Railway
China
Three men shot to death in Pennsylvania gang slayings
A stranger collapsed dying at a roadside tearoom in Tamaqua Pa and two more bodies were found in a nearby field. Police suspect a gang killing with victims dumped from a car. Names Biscetti and Starace tied to Philadelphia, while the unidentified man died at the tearoom. Blood tracks and a bloody hat marked the crime scene.
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Tamaqua
Pennsylvania
Louis Buono
Peiceman
Lester Lucasland
Buono
Peter Bisceitti
Gusting Starace
Philadelphia
Bis‘cietti
Starace
Biscietti
Detroit
Donald R. Richberg
NRA
Mae
Advertising Federation of America
Richberg
Information flow aided by teletype to anti-union case
Washington June 4 The Justice Department maintains constant contact with the London Kentucky anti union conspiracy trial via teletype systems. Teletype machines connect Assistant Attorney General McMahon and his aides in Washington with his temporary London office, enabling immediate access to needed records and data.
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Washington
Justice Department
London
McMahon
Hugh Fischer
Chesapeake Corporation Votes to Dissolve Amid Control Change
Baltimore June 14 acting swiftly after three new directors were named the Chesapeake Corporation board voted to dissolve the corporation at the earliest practicable moment. The move followed a regular meeting of the Middle Holding Company of the Van Sweringen rail empire with a prior special session where a group led by Guaranty Trust Company of New York took control from Robert R Young Cleveland financier.
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Baltimore
Chesapeake Corporation
van Sweringen
Guaranty Trust Company of
New York
Contro i 3
Robert R. Young
Cleveland Financier
YOUNG
Galtimore
Chesspeake Corporation
Centrol
Ferguson denies special session for grand jury
Circuit Judge Shelburne Ferguson said he would not call a special Sullivan county grand jury to indict 12 poll tax fraud defendants and Clifton Shoemaker, charged with first degree murder, noting no open dates until August and a regular September session. Shoemaker is held without bond in Bristol jail awaiting circuit court in September. Barker and Frazier deaths linked to the case occurred May 31. In Japan, the public batch is an unofficial clubhouse.
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Shelburne Ferguson
Sullivan County
Grand Jury
Clifton Shoemaker
Ferguson
Shoemaker
Bruce Barker
Het
Circuit
Greeneville
Hawkins County
Law Court
Kingsport
Atv Court
Bristol
Cook's Valley
Barker
George M. Frazier
Last Minute News Flashes Corn Exports Favorable
Export demand for American corn appears assured for at least a year after the Argentine crop was reported at about one half normal production. Rail loans may gain approval as the Senate Banking Committee favors liberalized government rail funding, with expected passage. The proxy battle for Chessapeake Corp ends with Young losing control and dissolution of the holding company. Sheriff Griffin reports a puzzling message from a News Department claiming three suspected bank robbers are in custody at an undisclosed location.
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Chicago, Inc
Sherite
Victims of Plane Crash Recovered Near Yosemite
Nine victims died when a TWA airliner crashed March 1 on a mountainside. Bodies were brought to Wawona by mule train through snowbound terrain. Hearses moved the deceased to Fresno. Only fuselage and tail pieces remained identifiable. Route’s highest point searchers found wreckage yesterday led by HO Collier, a 24-year-old Fresno man who located the scene. The crash site lay near Buena Vista Crest within 100 feet of the peak.
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Yosemite
Calif
TWA
Wawona
Fresno
HO. Collier
Buena Viste
El«Bt
Slayer Confession Ties Paducah Suspect to Syracuse Slaying
Lawrence Gough, 31, seized in Paducah and brought to Syracuse, allegedly confessed to police that he killed Laura Krenrich, 38, a beauty operator, by hitting her with a pipe during a quarrel and stuffing her body into a trunk, according to Police Chief W. E. Bryant.
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Paducsh
Lawrence Gough
Syracuse
N. Y
Laura Krenrich
W. EB. Bryant
Paduceh
Gough
Minister Refuses to Perform Union Wedding Sparks Family Rift
An Episcopal minister declined to wed 18 year old Andrea Luckenbach and 22 year old William Dobbs citing a principle about marrying across social and financial lines. The bride’s father Commodore Edgar Luckenbach opposes the match, while the bride’s mother says the ceremony will proceed as planned. Luckenbach heiress stands to inherit $1 million from her mother’s estate in three years. The groom is a butter and egg salesman and amateur rider. The minister, Rev. William Grimes of St. Pauls in Great Neck, Long Island, said disapproval from authorities did not cause his decision. The exact venue and time were not confirmed.
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New York
PEC
Andrea Luckenbdach
William Dobbs
William Grimes
St. Paul's Episcopal Church
Great Neri
Long Island
Grames
Andrea
Edgar F. Luckenbach
Henry Reston
Forest Hills
Luckenbach
Andres
Miss Luckenbach
Andrea Marie Fenwick Luckenbach
Toronto
House Passes Compromise Wage Hour Bill in 269 to 89 Vote
The House approved the compromise wage hour bill, setting minimum wages for interstate industry from 24 cents rising to 49 cents over seven years. The measure, supported by Speaker Bankhead, faced Republican attempts to block final action and featured provisions for industry wage floors and collective bargaining exemptions. Additional items included railway unemployment measures and a broad anti trust inquiry plan, with discussion on RFC loans and labor reforms.
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Washington
House
Senate
White House
Bankhead
GOP
Representative Taber
R-N.y
Taber
National Labor Relations Board
Tabor
Norton
D-N. J
House Labor Committee
William P. Connery
Massachusetts
Labor Committee
Lawrence Connery
Finance Committee
RFC
Pro
Path Chambers
House Rates Committee
John L. Lewis
C.S
Capitol Hill
Bainhead
Sitdown Boss Moves Plant To Columbus Georgia
Walter L. Fry, Detroit manufacturer of automobile vent covers, announces relocation of manufacturing operations to Columbus, Georgia, citing insurmountable labor and policy problems. Headquarters remain in Detroit. the business faced years of strikes and interruptions amid weak profits.
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Columbus
Georgia
Detroit
Walter L. Fry
Roosevelt
Frank Murphy
Michigan
Fry
Lac
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