O Connor attacks Roosevelt on dictatorship charge
New York representative John J. O Connor pledges to fight the administrations purge he calls an escalator to dictatorship. He says the president seeks only yes men in Congress and warns Americans against giving up their legislative branch. He faces James H Fay in a Democratic primary bid for a ninth term.
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New York
John J. O'Connor
United States
Roosevelt
O'Connor
James H. Fay
Internal Revenue
America
Preacher Gets Life Sentence in North Dakota Case
Rev Hero Janssen Evangelical Lutheran pastor at Krem is sentenced to life imprisonment after pleading guilty to poisoning his 16 year old housemaid Alma Kruckenberg and burning the parsonage to hide the crime. He claims the devil overwhelmed him and expresses sorrow to his wife and two sons. The victim was from the Kruckenberg family near Krem 60 miles north of Mandan.
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Mandan
N. D
Hero Janssen
Krem
Alma Kruckenberg
H. L. Berry
Janssen
Floyd Sperry
Mercer County
John Kruckenberg
Mendan
Sperry
James Austin
Two Men Electrocuted at Texas Prison Amid Murders
At Huntsville Texas two inmates were executed in the state penitentiary. Gollan H Morgan of El Paso killed his wife with a soda bottle and was put to death followed by Jesse Polance, who sang a song about a San Antonio girl before his execution for fatally shooting a bus driver during a holdup.
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Funtsville
Tex
State Penitentiary
Gollan H. Morgan
el Paso
Jesse Polance
San Antonio
Polance
British protest over arrest of Vienna passport officer
Ambassador Sir Neville Henderson demanded a full and speedy explanation from Germany after Captain Thomas Kendrick, 13 year Vienna passport officer, was seized by Gestapo at the German Swiss border. Kendrick’s wife was allowed to return home as Berlin promised an inquiry, with Bond officials hoping for his early release.
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London
Germany
Thomas Kendrick
Vienna
London Foreign Office
Neville Henderson
Kendrick
Gestapo
Henderson
Foreign Office
Berlin
Viscount Halifax
Yorkshire
Metropole
Five Kilgore Residents Escape Injury In West Monroe Crash
Three people were slightly hurt and five others escaped injury when a pick up truck’s steering wheel broke and it crashed into a curb on North Trenton Street West Monroe Friday morning after 10. The injured were W B Malone and his mother Mrs Mary Malone both of Kilgore Texas Magnus Mc Gee 14 year old niece of Mr Malone who was cut on the face and others were treated at Riverside sanitarium and released Jeff Howard was the driver. The other four passengers names were not disclosed.
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North Trenton Street
West Monroe
Kilgore
Tex
W. B. Malone
Mary Malone
Magnus McGee
Malone
Riverside Sanitarium
Jeff Howard
Wallace Delorette Killed at New Orleans Station
Wallace Delorette a 64 year old flagman was killed when he fell under a backing locomotive at Union Station in New Orleans. Reported he stumbled and fell on the track severing his head and left arm in the accident.
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New Orleans
Wallace Delorette
Union Station
Delorette
Ouachita Tax Books Closed After Strong 1937 Collection
Ouachita parish tax office filed for a quietus on the 1937 roll after reporting one of its most successful tax years. Audit by the supervisor of public accounts is nearing completion with a decision expected soon. Total 1937 collections reached 216 312 06 dollars, about 98 57 percent of charged taxes, with state taxes at 251 049 06 and parish taxes at 577 124 14, totaling 828 173 20. Assessed parish property value stood at 43 658 894 dollars, ranking Ouachita high among peers, with 8 341 taxpayers and 3 988 home stead exemption filers.
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Ouachita Parish
Baton Rouge
Buy Southern slogan urged by Bankhead in Alabama
Senator Bankhead urged “Buy southern!” as a slogan for Dixie economic improvement. He spoke to the Alabama state convention of municipal officials in Anniston and denied the region seeks prosperity at others’ expense, arguing a favorable trade balance would solve southern economic problems.
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Anniston
Ala
Bankhead
Dixie
Alabama Democrat
Japan Recruits 1.6 Million as Soviet Talks Stalemate
Tokyo action to mobilize 1.6 million men signals possible rapid reinforcements for China war. Diplomatic talks in Moscow and Tokyo on a joint Siberian Korean frontier commission failed after a month. A truce on August 11 set up a two nations two each commission to demarcate the Changkufeng area. Troop withdrawals and Soviet occupation on the opposite bank are noted.
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Reiman Morin
Tokyo
Soviet Russia
Siberian
War Office
Japan
China
Foreign Office
Moscow
Changkufeng
Changkufeng Hill
Russia
Tumen River
Jail Sentence For Wife Of Noted Bandit Bird
Baltimore August 19 Judge Samuel K Dennis sentenced Mrs Barbara Bird wife of Charles Bird to 30 days in jail after conviction as an accessory in one of his seven recent holdups He cited her motherhood and noted she would be released before her second child’s birth Bird and his wife were implicated after he pleaded guilty and received 4542 years in prison Charles Bird Jr age 14 months remains with his parents in Cleveland
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Baltimore
Samuel K. Dennis
Barbara Bird
Charles Bird
Dennis
Charles Bird, Jr
Cleveland
Death Takes Last of Old Comedy Team
Seta uket New York August 19 McIntyre and Heath famed vaudeville duo dies at 85 in Long Island after a career from 1874 to 1934. Heath death follows partner Jim McIntyre after a life of touring Chicago London New York Sells Brothers Circus Barnum and Bailey Weber and Fields Georgia minstrels and the Ham Tree routine born in Texas.
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Setauket
N. Y
McIntyre and Heath
Thomas K. Heath
Long Island
Jim McIntyre
Heath
McIntyre
Connecticut
Texas
Chicago
London
New York
Sells Brothers Circus
Coon Buck
Tony Pastor
Barnum and Bailey's Circus
Weber
Fields
Georgia Minstrels
Sweitzer
Canadian People See United States as Brothers
DeWitt MacKenzie notes Canadian admiration for Roosevelt’s pledge to defend Canadian soil and a rising sense of unity with the United States. He reports Canadians now view the two nations as one, aligned by shared ideals and mutual defense, with stronger ties since earlier cooling attitudes.
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United States
DeWitt MacKenzie
Associated Press
New York
Roosevelt
Canada
Dominion Long
Thief Steals Glasses At Identification Convention Exhibit
An unauthorized visitor at an Identi fication convention stole four magnifying glasses and three cloth identification devices from a crime prevention exhibit. In LaPorte Indiana detectives report the incident amid other local notes.
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International Association For Identification
Robert Cooke
George Backer Tells 10 Quit In Georgia Senator Race
Edgar B. Dunlap, Georgia attorney for the Reconstruction Finance Corp, resigns from his RFC post at the request of Claude E. Hamilton Jr. He supported Senator Walter F George but urged defeat of George in the primary and backed opponent Lawrence Camp.
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Atlanta
Walter F George
Georgia
Edgar B. Dunlap
George
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
SEC
Claude E. Hamilton
RFC
Washington
Barnesville
Lawrence 5
Camp
Dunlap
Governor Leche Back in New Orleans After Trip
Governor Richard W. Leche returned to New Orleans from a trip to New York and Washington and visited his Covington country home. He met Democratic leaders led by National Chairman Farley and conferred with Washington officials on the proposed union station project and drainage of swamp lands in St Bernard parish. He said he would call a meeting of local supporters to push government backing.
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New Orleans
Richard W. Leshie
New York
Washington
Covington
Farley
New Orieana
St. Bernard
Ache
Czechs Offer Sudeten Autonomy Plums in Political Deal
Prague reports Premier Milos Hodek outlined a plan to grant limited political concessions to the Sudeten German minority as a means to ease tensions. The move follows talks with British mediator Viscount Runciman and discussions about appointment of local officials and ant long-range governance roles.
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Praha
Mlan Hodes Todey
Viscount Runciman
Trouee
Lavue
Runciman
Mae
Konrad Quarter
Bodenbach
Asch
Rumburg
Bruen
Trautnesu
Railroad Administration
Ministry of
State planning body wins approval for Louisiana project list
Baton Rouge announces final approval of WPA and PWA plans totaling over 3 million dollars for Louisiana works. Projects include LSU Monroe sewerage, Lake Charles trade building, Monroe water extension, Jefferson Parish paving, and a Shreveport hangar addition, with multiple school, street, and utility improvements statewide.
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Baton Rouge
Public Works Administration
PWA
BTL
Monroe
Lutehier
Plauchevillie
Aveyelies
Clinton
East Feliciana Pariah
Laue Wiana Normal College
Natchitoches
Natchiteches
Red River
Thibodaux
Houma
Tion
Alexandria
Franklinton
Smith Hall
Louisiane State University
Ade Te
Alter
Convent
St. James
Vivian
Alfred Filhiol Dies in Caddo Parish
Alfred Filhiol died suddenly of a heart attack in Shreveport. The death was reported in Monroe on Friday. He was the husband of Mrs Estelle Filhiol and father of Sally M. Clawson, who serves as secretary.
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Alfred Filhiol
Caddo
Monroe
Shreveport
Alfred Ferr
R Filhiol
Estelle Filhiol
Sally M. Clawson
Widow of Novel's Chief Figure Dies Alliance
Mrs Julee Sandon widow of a pioneer figure from Alliance Nebraska died last night after a rapid illness. Doctors had not completed a prognosis when her condition worsened and she passed away.
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Los Angeles
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Harry Bridges
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Thomas E. Dewey
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Death Takes
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Leche
Orleans
Louisiana Tech
Keowwiage
News- Star
Morning World
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Sur-Way
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Monroe and
Weet Monne
Carey Holmes Weat Monroe
Brown's Food Store
Montom
Messina’s Food Store
Walker's Grocery
Montos
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