Trade Pact With Russia Raises European Tensions
International turmoil grows as reports claim a new trade agreement between the Soviet Union and Germany. Troops mobilize near Poland. Belgium and Britain push peace efforts while Britain, France seek Moscow accord. In Asia Japan threatens Hong Kong and China tensions rise near Shanghai and Tientsin.
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Commuarhut
Russia
Naz
Germany
Bor
Reich
Great Britain
France
Moscow
Chamberlain
London
Poland
Danzig
Warsaw
Britain
Hongkong
China
Shanghai
China Coast
International Settlement Police
Tientsin
New York Milk Shortage Forces Peace Parley
New York City's milk supply halved as a week-old strike tightens. Mayor LaGuardia calls farmer and distributor representatives to a peace parley while upstate clashes and milk dumping spark violence. Supply to metro area drops from 4.49 million to 2.2 million quarts. groceries face shortages though hospitals and public institutions are promised steady provision.
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New York
New York City
LaGuardia
Fears of War Stimulate Boom in Air Industry
Washington reports a surge in defense orders expanding employment in aircraft plants and shipyards with army navy and foreign orders. wage earners in plane manufacturing rise from 24 739 in January to 35 925 by June. Navy yards plan 13 000 new civilian workers by January 1 bringing totals toward 100 000 end of 1941.
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Labor Department
Navy
France
Army
Army Ordnance Department
Seventh LSU board member resigns in wave of changes
Baton Rouge reports the LSU board of supervisors loses its seventh member after resignations by Judge J Hugo Dore and Associate Justice John B Fournet. Dore chaired the 15 round robineers in 1929 who pledged to oppose impeachment charges against Huey P Long. The university hospital bears Dore’s name. living-honor rules require removal. Seven board members, plus ex officio Leche, have resigned since Dr. Smith’s departure amid LSU irregularities.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana State University Board of Supervisors
James Monroe Smith
Earl K. Long
J. Hugo Dore
Ville Platte
John B. Fournet
State Supreme Court
Dore
Huey P. Long
University Hospital
Smith
Leche
Leche, An Ex Officio Member, Have Resigned Since Dr. Smith
Injured Monroe Baseball Player Remains Unconscious
Dr W L Bendel vice-president of the Monroe Baseball club said Frank Hackney second baseman was unconscious this morning after a skull fracture from a hit at Greenville Mississippi Saturday night. The club president and secretary will travel to Greenville this afternoon and Mrs Hackney remains at his bedside since Sunday.
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W L. Bendel
Monroe
Frank Hackney
Greenville
Miss
Bendel
Hackney
Jacadaphesiaen
Saul Adler
Monroe Club
Donug Johnson
Flood Devastates Alabama Farms Prompt Emergency Plan
Floods along the Alabama and Cahaba rivers cripple cotton and corn in the Black Belt as thousands of refugees are helped by Red Cross and government relief. P O Davis coordinates an emergency conference of farm agents in Montgomery, with typhoid vaccinations and road repairs under way. Enterprise and farm agents from 18 counties prepare future plans amid disaster name.
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Selma
Ala
Alabama
Cahaha
Gulf
Red Cross
South Alabama
P.O. Davis
Alabama Agriculture
Montgomery
Black Belt
Davis
C. W Warburton
National Extension Service
Washington
Farm Security Administration
The
Two Auto Drivers Feared Dead Found Safe in New Orleans Area
Aug 21 report says both men feared dead after cars were found abandoned. Emile Lanaux, 26, missing two weeks, recognized in Covington and returned to New Orleans. Nathan Silverman, vice president at a brokerage firm, identified from a submerged car near Pass Manchac. Frank Kiefer, firm president, confirmed Silverman’s safe return.
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New Orleans
Emile Lanaux
Pontchatoula
Covington
Gaston Lanaux
Highway 51
Pass Manchae
Nathan Silverman
Frank Kiefer
Silverman
Youth Echo Talk Of Other Persons Medical Mystery
Nine teen year old Francis Magner in Medina New York can involuntarily echo others speech duplicating words with no perceptible pause. Dr Carleton F Scofield of the University of Buffalo reports tests show Magner reproduces spoken lines word for word after hearing them. Magner says he can do this without looking and only when he can hear the speaker.
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Medina
N. Y
Francis Magner
Carleton F. Scofield
University of Buffalo
Scofield
Magner
Cerberus
Stylian Cave
Airtight murder case notes four wife deaths in Oklahoma
County Attorney Bill Steger claims an airtight case against John Story 60 charged with murdering his third wife in a fire at a smokehouse last August 23. Story, arrested after similar accidental deaths followed, denied intent, saying latch caused the blaze. Insurance payouts exceeded two thousand dollars per death as neighbors debated the tragedy. A coroner had ruled the death accidental.
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Durant
Okla
Bill Steger
John
Story
DeQueen
Ark
Joe
de Queen
Frank
Gainesville
Tex
Charley
Peoria
Steger
g@latch
Flashes In The News Aerial and Farm Mishaps
A nurse in Titusville reports a fly landing on a horse named Lee Peebles barn causing the tail to be torn from a threshing machine and halting operations. In Cranbrook a parachute jumper named Bat McKenzie crashed through a greenhouse but escaped unharmed landing among tomatoes. Secretary Gallienne muses over chamber of commerce excess in Huntington Beach California.
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Titusville
Lee Peebles
Cranbrook
3B. C
Bat” McKenzie
McKenzie
Cancer patient hopes to try frozen sleep treatment
Max Harlan a 42 year old farmer from Stockport Ireland is undergoing tests at Temple University Hospital to determine eligibility as medical science’s first regular patient for the frozen sleep cancer therapy. If qualified he may begin lowering his body temperature to near 80 degrees as doctors Fay and Smith report hopeful skin cancer results and plan to supervise the trial.
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Philadelphia
Temple University Hospital
Shedical Science
Max Harlan
Stockport
Hopital
Temple
Temple Fay
Lawrence W. Smith
Dr. Smith
Grand jury in Ouachita hears nine witnesses on third page
The Ouachita parish grand jury heard nine witnesses this morning before a noon recess. District Attorney Frank W. Hawthorne said the panel has not yet determined if it will report by week’s end. One indictment has been reported against Dr Harvey Dillon for embezzling institute property.
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Ouachita Parish
Frank W. Hawthorne
Hawthorne
Harvey Dillon
Louisiana Training Institute
Harvey H Benoit
P. A. Poag
Aherne and Fontaine Tie the Knot in California
The British stage star Brian Aherne and Hollywood actress Joan Fontaine wed yesterday in Del Monte California. Fontaine aged 21 and Aherne 37 were both single before marriage and were attended by Fontaine's sister Olivia De Havilland.
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del Monte
Calif
Brian Aherne
Joan Fontaine
Olivia de Havilland
Miss Fontaine
Aherne
Minerals Head Fatally Shot At His Home
Dr. J A Shaw director of Louisiana mineral division and oil czar was found fatally wounded at his New Orleans home with a revolver nearby He died after surgery Coroner says self-inflicted Shaw testified in Dallas last Thursday complicating a federal probe into a conspiracy to violate the hot oil act involving former Governor Lewhe and hotel owner Sey mour Weiss Prosecution of the alleged conspiracy continues despite Shaw’s death
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New Orleans
J. A. Shaw
Louisiana
Shaw
Minerals Division
Louisiana Conservation Department
Baptist Hospital
C. Grenes Cole
Richard W. Lewhe
Seymour Weiss
Patent Longeirs
Freeman W. Burford
Texas
Judd Savage Awaits Charge After Marion Shooting
Judd Savage of Marion, wounded in a shooting that involved Monroe detective L G Parker, remains under medical care at St Francis sanitarium awaiting any charges. Parker sustained a head wound and was treated. no charges have been filed yet as investigators review the assault case linked to the incident at Nora Chandler’s residence on Breard Street.
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Judd Savage
Marion
St. Francis
L. G. Parker
Monroe
Savage
Parker
Vaughan-Wright-Bendel
D. J. Bedsole
Nora Chandler
Breard Street
Bedsole
Kuhn seeks right to answer charges at Dies committee
Fritz Kuhn leader of the German American Bund demands permission for Bund leaders to respond to charges by Helen Vooros who testified about immoral conduct at Camp Nordland. He telegrams Congressman Dies calling for subpoenas for Bund figures and says Vooros testimony would crumble under cross examination.
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New York
Fritz Kuhn
Bund
Dies Committee On UN
Frederick Vandenbergh
Brooklyn
August Klapprott
Camp Nordland
Gustave J. Elmer
Vooros
Ardoin Shortage Seen At 3500 In Lake Charles
W A Cooper says shortages in the accounts of Okay Ardoin, once Lake Charles tax official, may reach 3500 over the past two years. Ardoin was discharged and released on bond after an embezzlement bill of information was filed. Eight auditors work on 1937 and 1938 records. A N Duke now heads the office.
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Okay Ardoin
Lake Charles
Ardoin
Cooper
A. N. Duke
Educators to Visit Cities at Northeast Junior College Banquet
Northeast Junior college prepares a Monday banquet at 7 30 p m inviting all Monroe and West Monroe civic clubs. Honored guests include Dr Paul Hebert LSU president Dean F C Frey Col Troy H Middleton and Dr B F Mitchell and Dr Daniel Borth. The gathering aims to acquaint the public with LSU plans for the coming year. Dean Calvert expects large turnout and civic leaders will give a hearty reception.
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Northeast Junior College
Monroe
West Monroe
Paul Hebert
Louisiana State University
F. C. Frey
Agricultural Department
Troy H. Middleton
B. F. Mitchell
State University
Daniel Borth
C. C. Calvert
Transient's Quick Action Saves Boy
In New Orleans on Aug 21 a passing transient saved 12 year old Arthur Michell after his leg was crushed by a freight train. The man applied a tourniquet stopping the bleeding. Doctors at Charity hospital amputated the leg and the boy's left big toe. Police did not obtain the helper's name.
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New Orleans
Arthur Michell
Charity Hospital
Five billed in big bond refund deal in New Orleans
Federal grand jury indicts Abra ham L. Shushan and four others in a Orleans levee board bond refunding scheme alleging a total $496 000 fee and individual shares of $132 740 to Shushan and $99 550 to Newman and Harris with further payments to Miller and Waguespack. The case coincides with the death of government witness Dr J A Shaw amid graft prosecutions in Louisiana.
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New Orleans
Abraham L. Shushan
Louisiana
Huey P. Long
Orleans
Newman, Harris and Company
Herbert W. Waguespack
Henry J. Miller
Clarence A. Lorio
Bate En Rouge
James Monroe Smith
Louisiana State University
Lorio
Smith
South
Theovernment
Wagnerpieie ™ Ns
Shushan
J. A. Shaw
Shueshan
Richard W. Leche
Seymour Weiss
Newman
Harris
Charles Futere
Miller
Waguespack
Model Husbands and Safe Driving on the Highway
The author advises young women seeking marriage to choose a sane working model husband who drives safely without alcohol or bravado. He warns against thrill seekers and slowcourteous drivers who threaten safety with reckless habits. The piece urges waiting for mature behavior and emphasizes sane driving as safe driving.
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Apollo
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