European envoys seek solution to Mediterranean crisis
European diplomats, facing the League of Nations assembly and a Mediterranean powers conference, wage intense activity over protecting merchant shipping and warships from submarine and air attacks. Britain leads mediation with France, Italy’s stance unclear, Russia fears bellicose moves for Franco. Convoy protection and Spain’s civil war impact top talks. report from London.
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J. GC. Stark
London
League of Nations Assembly
Germany
Rhineland
Streeter
Mediterranean
Italy
Benito Mugsolini
Francisco Franco
Santander
Il Deuce
France
Britain
Ethiopia
Geneva
Valencia
Spain
League
Russia
Franco
Soviet Union
Hesrest
Tarjerdo
Tragic Iron Lung Drama Strikes Denver Children
Physicians race to treat two children with infantile paralysis as two iron lungs arrive from Chicago and Toronto. Maybelle and Shirley, among the stricken, rely on the equipment while the medical team alternates care to save both.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fienth
Mayheife Quicault
Shirlay Hrasise
Chicago
Toronto
Denver
Maybelle
Shirley
Central Press
Weather showers across Tennessee Kentucky and Virginia forecast
Weather outlook shows showers today in Tennessee with a cool spell Sunday night. Kentucky will be mostly cloudy with showers Sunday and likely in the southern portion Monday, followed by cooler air. Virginia remains mostly cloudy with showers Sunday and likely in the south Monday, bringing cooler temperatures.
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Tennessee
Kentucky
Virginia
New CIO Opposition Looms at Mead Plant
President Roosevelt on Labor Day urges sanity and reason to resolve labor disputes. He notes both sides have made mistakes and calls for the conference table to replace strife as strikes sweep the country. First formal statement since the steel strikes and Washington talks.
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CIO
Mead Plant
J. Harold Oliver
Rhodeshind
Roosevelt
Gorblic
Long Island Sound
Washington
Mead Employees Plan Union Amid TWOC Friction at Mead Mills
More than 100 Mead mill workers pledge to join a newly formed Mead Employees Association to bargain collectively. The group follows a disbandment of the company union and faces scrutiny as the TWOC meets for Mead employees while the NLRB plans hearings on Wagner Act violations allegations against the rival Borden Mills union.
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Committee For Industrial Organization
Wingsport I
Borden Employee Association
Mead Corporation
Mead Employes Association
Mead
Texte Workers Organizing Committee
T.W.O.C
W. G. Hart
Mill Council
Ang
THOC
Borden Mfills
Borden Association
National Lator Relations Board of
Atlanta
Evading Taxes Case Ties Torrio to Capone Network
Government indicts Johnny Torrio, Capone's former partner, charging failure to pay taxes and conspiracy spanning 1922 to 1935. Torrio, detained in White Plains in 1936, faces up to 12 years in prison and fines up to 30 000 if convicted.
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New York
Johnny Torria
Swarhy
al Capone
Chicago
Capone
Alcatraz
Torri
Yorrin
White Plains
Labor Leaders End First Day Of Labor Day Holiday
Labor leaders paused labor friction for Labor Day. John L. Lewis urged millions of new members for the CIO as William Green touted record union membership at 4 607 000. Lewis criticized Roosevelt era policies and urged peace with justice amid steel strikes and farm-worker solidarity.
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Washington
Sert
Eaders
Sumcoon
Young Militant Committee
Industrial Organization
John L. Lewis
Rear of Progress
William Green
American Federation of Test
Green
Lewis
Jabar
Roosevelt
Jabor
Tabor
Lewis’ c
IBRA
Insurgents Lose On Aragon Front In Spain Drive
Government troops report driving insurgent defenders from Belchite and threatening Zaragoza as loyalists push into Aragon from the northeast and south. Insurgents claim the Aragon offensive was halted and accuse government air forces of heavy losses amid shifting fronts along the Biscayne coast.
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Hendaye
Erontier
Bay of Biscay
Gijon
Spain
Aragon
Belchite
Zaragoza
Spanish City
Old
Madrid
Biscayne
Records fall at national air races led by Wittman
Steve Wittman of Oshkosh Wisconsin dominated the Cleveland event earning a Greve qualifier and a 100 mile race win at 243 mph. Roger Don Rae Detroit and Art Ghester Los Angeles posted 242 and 231 mph respectively. Fuller's Bendix flight from Burbank set a 258 mph pace for 2.042 miles, signaling strong American pace in the international race context.
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Devon Francis
Associated Press
Cleveland
Sept
Steve d. Wittman
Oshkosh
Wis
National Air Stages
Amult
Brite Wittman
Mark Broken Tey
Roger Don Rae
Detroit
Art Ghester
Los Angeles
Wittman
U. S
Winconsia Farm
America
Mishale Detroyat
France
Nail
United States
Frank Fuller
Burbank
Calif
Fuller
Japan declares policy of cooperation with China and Manchukuo
Tokyo reports Foreign Minister Hirota outlines Japan's aim to compel China to mend its ways and to pursue a policy of cooperation with Manchukuo and China. He accuses China, especially the Nanking government, of spreading warfare while urging Chinese statesmen to act in line with Japan's aims. The five day session opens with debates and a plan to vote 592 million dollars for campaigns in China. Emperor Hirohito reads a throne address detailing the China conflict.
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Tokyo
Japan
Chine
Koki Hirota
China
Manchukuo
Hirota
Nanking
Pus
Fapeg
Fumilmara Konoye
Hirohito
Battle to block Tennessee vote on repeal continues
Nashville, Sept 4 The fight to stop Tennessee's Sept 23 referendum on repeal proceeds. Attorney Jay G. Stephenson said he will seek review by a member of the state supreme court of Chancellor Howell's ruling that the election may be held legally. The high court reconvenes after a summer break, four days after the referendum date.
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Nashville
Tenn
Tennessee
Jay G. Stephenson
State Supreme Court
R. B.C. Howell
High Court
Chan Gellor Howell
de ‘Eree
Stephenson
Fired police head to seek Senate probe of FBI methods
Matt Leach, dismissed as Indiana state police captain, accuses FBI officials of foolhardy methods in the hunt for criminals linked to the Brady gang and Dillinger era cases. He calls for a United States Senate investigation of J Edgar Hoover’s techniques and accuses federal officers of failing to cooperate. Leach had led state police since 1933 and says actions in Mooresville pushed citizens to report sightings of outlaws in Indiana.
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Indianapolis
Matt Leach
Indiana
Federal’ Bureau of Investigation
Department of Justice
Leach
John Dillinger
A. Brady
United States Senate
J. Edgar Hoover
FBI
Don F. Stiver
al Brady
Clarence Delhover
Clarence Lee Shafter, Jr
Indiane
Piqua
Ohio
United States Senate J
Edgar Hoover
Dillinger
Mooresville
Ind
Lightning strikes golf outing killing four Pittsburgh men
A bolt at Longue Vue Country Club struck a group of four Pittsburghers and their four caddies during a round. Two men Lewis Hicks Jr and AR Little died, along with two caddies Donald Wetmore and Michael Tuminella. Three others were injured as rescuers fought to revive them. Baum provided the most detailed account. The University of Pavia was founded in 825.
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Pittsburgh
Baum
Moise
Ald
Remmy
Kelly
Hite
Inland Battle Turns Against China Invaders
Shanghai dispatch reports a Japanese air raid on the West Station area of the Shanghai Hangchow railway killing and wounding over 40 Chinese civilians. The attack coincides with a naval blockade expansion along the Chinese coast and renewed battles in Amoy Ningpo and Shanghai front lines.
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Shangrat
Shanghai-Hangchow
International Settlement
Kiyoshi Hasegawa
Chinwangtao
Pakhoi
Gouta
Tsingtao
Shantung
Tiua
Wengkong
Macau
Associated Press
Shanghai
Japan
China
Amoy
Ningpo
Chekiang Province
United States
Liho
Woosung
Russia
Tokyo
Asbestos Heir Tommy Manville Files Fight to End Marriage
New Rochelle New York September reported Tommy Manville heir to asbestos fortune hires lawyer Frank B. Devlin to seek separation from wife number four Marcelle Edwards after a two day advertising spree. Devlin was chosen after a casual estate visit following a mutual friend’s referral.
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New Rochelle
N. Y
Tommy Manville
Marcelle Edwards
Manville
Frank B. Devlin
Yonkers
Tommy
Devlin
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FDR
Partner OF Capone
Count von Hagenburg
Bnta
Tir
Steve Wittman
Hoover
Jim Edger Hoover
Paul V. McNutt
University of
Pavia
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