Direct Roosevelts Order Sparks Swift Protest Note
Iran defense forces bring 300 rebel prisoners into a bombarded city as planes attack and evacuees flee. Roosevelt orders U S protest to Madrid and to the insurgents after a US destroyer Kane was bombed but unharmed. Madrid claims key victories in Guadarrama and Toledo while rebels press toward Madrid airports.
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Associated Press
Iran
United States
Madrid
France
Roosevelt
Middle-West
State Department
Spain
Kane
Guadarrama
Toledo
Badajoz
Foreign Legion
Morocco
Burgos
Wilmarth Ickes dies at foster father's Winnetka home
Wilmarth Ickes 37 foster son of Secretary Harold Ickes was found dead with a pistol on his chest in his foster father's Winnetka residence. Police called it self induced. no note found. He had recently suffered headaches and was under a doctor's care. The wife and three children were en route from Mackinac Island.
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Chicago
Wilmarth Ickes
Secretary of the Interior
Harold J. Ickes
Winnetka
Harold Lewis
Erick Magnuson
Ickes
Magnuson
Mackinac Island
Mich
Winnetke
Two Infantile Paralysis Cases Reported In Monroe
Ouachita parish health department reports two infantile paralysis cases in Monroe. Dr. G D Williams urges precautions, notes no preventive serums, recommends home isolation, hygiene, nasal spray use, sterilization of utensils, and avoiding crowds to curb possible spread.
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Monroe
Health Department
G. D.williams
Ouachita Parish
Williams
U. S. Public Health Service
Alabama
Tennessee
Heaith Department
Arul
W. C. Bell
Pardon petition seeks compensation for Gus Langley
A North Carolina petition asks the legislature to compensate Gus Langley who twice escaped execution and proven innocent. Langley, 33, painted the warden’s quarters in prison, claimed innocence in a 1930s Asheville holdup murder, and was freed by executive clemency after tests showed he could not have traveled in time.
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Ashebord
N. C
Gus Langley
Langley
Morris Plains
N. J
B. F. Brittain
Asheville
Wilmington
Edwin Gill
Woman Accused in Death of Father in Salinas
Frances Soto, 28, is in Salinas County Jail accused of fatally shooting her father Rafael Stokes 52 after he wounded her husband Nash Soto 28. District Attorney Anthony Brazil said the gun was snatched from Stokes.
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Salinas
Calif
Frances Soto
Anthony Brazil
Rafael Stokes
Nash Soto
Orleans Woman 160 Stil Waiting For Lover Slain in Civil War
New Orleans August 31 Seventy five years is long to wait for love. Alice Pezende now 100 recalls becoming engaged in 1861 to a Washington artillery soldier killed in battle. She has kept her vow not to remarry, celebrating with a party and a French toast to her long departed fiancé.
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Orleans
New Orleans
Alice Pezende
Alice
Washington Artillery
Miss Alice
Henry B. Curtis
Seven Violent Deaths Reported in Deep South Region
Over the weekend seven people died in Louisiana and Mississippi from violence and accidents. Annie Gill, 36, poisoned herself in Archibald Louisiana. J A Tognotti, 60, shot himself in despondency at a Shreveport hospital. Mattie Palmer, 65, Jonestown Mississippi and R L Carr of Memphis were killed in a wreck near Clarksdale. An auto crash near Leland took another life.
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Annie Gill
Archibald
Shreveport
J. A. Tognotti
Leland
Miss
Mattie Palmer
Jonestown
R. L. Carr
Memphis
Clarksdale
Airlines Break Carrying Records
The Bureau of Air Commerce reports July passenger totals at 110 690, up 13 273 from June and 25 144 from July last year, marking the highest carrying figures on record.
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Washington
Bureau of Air Commerce
Bureau
Robert Allen Ends Life In Apartment Revolver Tragedy
Robert E. Allen fifty five formerly ran a major NE Louisiana electrical equipment business and died at his 105 South First Street apartment after a self inflicted firearm wound. His funeral was held at Mulhearn with Rev. Ernest Holloway officiating and interment at Riverview burial park. His daughter Elizabeth witnessed events as Hunt Arant aided entry after the shot.
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Robert E. Allen
Louisiana
South First Street
C. P. Gray
Mr. Allen
Mulhearn Funeral Home
Ernest Holloway
First Presbyterian Church
Riverview Burial Park
Allen
Posses Seek Two Bright Brothers After Three Die
In Yreka California Aug. 3 posses from the town and border region hunted two armed brothers John H Bright 3 Coke T Bright 30 for the clubbing and shooting deaths of three men sparked by a horse tether dispute. Officials warned the fugitives carry high powered rifles as they fled into the Siskiyou mountains after the killings near Horse Creeks.
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Yreka
Calif
California
Oregon
John H. Bright
Coke T. Bright
Horse Creeks
Siskiyou
Opposition to Bridge Removed
Governor Leche announced the sole opposition to the Mississippi bridge at Baton Rouge has been withdrawn. E. T. Rothrock of Houston said no objection would be made to proposed clearances, following statements by 3. Piser of Consolidated Chemical Industries. Louisiana Chemical Co plans a $7,000,000 rail highway bridge and had threatened to protest the war department.
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Baton Rouge
Richard W. Leche
Mississippi
E. T. Rothrock
Houston
Tex
3. Piser
Consolidated Chemical Industries, Inc
Louisiana Chemical Company of
Rothrock
Texas Chemical Company
Louisiana Chemical Company
Louisiana Highway Commission
War Department
Last-Minute Briefs: Deaths and Disasters Across Cities
A child dies from injuries after a dynamite blast that killed her parents and damaged a hotel in Tliua na Lower California. The Vatican reports 162 churches burned in Spain. Flooding in Raymndville Texas leaves water 3 to 4 feet deep. Snow falls in Edensburg Pa as a rainstorm passes. In Atlanta a 13 year old's pencil eraser is found embedded in a removed tonsil after a prior sore throat and tonsillectomy.
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Tliuana
Lower
Calif
Marie Madrigal
Atlanta
Billy Mosher
Typhoon Ravages Korea Kill Toll Rises to 1516
Seoul reports the death toll from the recent typhoon climbs to 1,516 as restoration work continues and communications are restored across affected areas.
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Seoul Korea
Korea
Anthrax Outbreak Hits Cattle Near Monterey on Black River
Ferriday Louisiana August 31 The Black River area near Monterey reports an anthrax outbreak among cattle with about two dozen animals killed Dr John Schreiber Concordia Parish health officer urges stock owners to vaccinate cattle immediately to prevent further losses
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Ferriday
Monterey
Black River
John Schreiber
Concordia Parish
Woman Reports Assault by Two Men in Shreveport
In Shreveport Louisiana police report a middle aged woman said she was assaulted Saturday night by two men. The investigation was opened after she came forward today with details of the incident and possible suspects.
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Shreveport
PRP
Pauline Dionne Visits Sisters in Callander
Pauline Dionne aged three made her first real visit to the quintuplet sisters in Callander Ontario. The nursemaids and family watched as the sisters touched Pauline’s hair and cheeks during a shy, joyful reunion across the road from the Dionne home.
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Callander
Pauline Dionne
Pauline
Dionnes
Dionne
Derby planes depart Hot Springs for Dallas in sixth lap
Thirty three contestants in the Ruth Chatterton air derby left Hot Springs for Dallas this morning. Annette Gipsom from Mineola New York returned after a faulty fuel gauge forced a stop near the Oklahoma border. She resumed after the plane was inspected. Miss Chatterton's plane was the last to depart at 11 45 am.
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Hot Springs
Ark
Ruth Chatterton
Mussolini Promises Eternal Peace Amid Europe Arms Race
Avellino Italy August 31 Premier Mussolini addressing cheering crowds said mobilizing 8 million troops is possible within hours. Observers read his remarks as a signal against Hitler Stalin moves and as a show of resolve to defend Italy’s East Africa gains amid rising European tensions.
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Avellino
Italy
Mussolini
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Joseph Stalin
Russa
Reichsfuehrer
Trauce
France
Spain
East
Africa
Ethiopia
Louisiana Observes Birthday of Long
Louisiana marks the birthday of Huey P. Long with a state holiday proclaimed by Governor Leche. Stores and county offices close in memory of the slain dictator born in a log cabin 43 years ago as a memorial service sounds taps at his grave near the state capitol.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana
Huey P. Long
Richard W. Leche
Long
United States
Senate
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