U S Moves to Discourage Investment in Japanese Enterprises
The administration intends to discourage American investment in Japanese linked development firms in China. State Department correspondence from 1927 shows policy remains unchanged. Officials say such credit would threaten American enterprise and competition, despite proposed loans spent in the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
State Department
Tokyo
China
Ald Communications
Department
United States
Japan
Beme
Pilot Relates Freak Speed Record Flight Tale
Second Lieutenant Troy Keith, army pursuit pilot at Barksdale field, described losing oxygen at 28 000 to 29 000 feet and plunging throttle open for 19 000 feet at an estimated 625 mph, the fastest human travel. He regained control at 9 000 feet and climbed back to 33 000 feet in a Curtiss P 36 A fighter noted as the army’s fastest straightaway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shreveport
Troy Keith
Barksdale Field
Army
Buffalo
N. Y
Keith
Nine Men Charged in Bombings Tied to Ulster Threats
London police guard courts as nine men face charges linked to recent bombings aimed at driving Britain from Ireland. Officials say threats target power stations bridges and munitions plants, with security tight around the Duke and Duchess of Kent's Belfast visit postponed.
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London
Liverpool
Ireland
Ulster
Duke and Duchess of Kent
Old Bailey
Bow Street
Newcastle
East End
Bow Street Court
Belfast
Northern Ireland
Plans Proceed for Evacuation of TVA Properties
Private power industry moves to sell more than 110 million dollars in TVA related property as government financed projects advance. The Tennessee Electric Power Company deal, an 80 million dollar agreement with Commonwealth and Southern, marks a major step in resolving the private property disputes to let TVA power proceed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Tennessee Valley
TVA
Tennessee Electric Power Company
Commonwealth & Southern Corporation
Japan says Guam fortification would not threaten Pacific
Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai told the diet that fortifying Guam would weaken US defenses and that Japan attached little importance to such reports. He said there is no tension with the United States, and implied no threat if Guam is fortified. Washington had noted calls to fortify Guam.
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Tokyo
Mitsumasa Yonai
Diet
Guam
United States
Pacific
Yonai
Japan
Koki Hirota
Aleutian
Hawaiian
Washington
Government 10 go to Valencia in final stand
In London a Spanish government statement says Negrin's government will move to Valencia before week’s end and will resist to the end. Britain and France weigh recognizing Franco’s regime as Spain’s official government, with Italy and Germany backing insurgents if recognition stalls.
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Government
Valencia
Great Britain
France
London
Juan Negrin
Francisco Franco
Spain
Franco
Germany
Italy
Rome
Virginio Garcia
Mussolini
Galeazzo Ciano
Il Giornale Ditalia
Gayda
Federal Judge Manton to face probe in grand jury
Judge Martin T. Manton resigns from the federal bench and will appear before a special grand jury investigating his business affairs. No charges have been filed. Dis trict Attorney Thomas E. Dewey accuses him of loans totaling 439000 from parties with cases before the court. Judge Edwin T. Thomas of Connecticut also will be questioned.
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New York
Martin T. Manton
United States Court of Appeals
Roosevelt
Manton
Grand Jury
Thomas E. Dewey
Dewey
United States
Gregory F. Noonan
Edwin §. Thomas
Connecticut
Judge Thomas
Noonan
Santa Barbara
Cristobal
Canal Zone
Vaccine rush to flood area in eastern Kentucky
The Kentucky state health department rushed typhoid vaccine for 250000 residents in flood stricken eastern Kentucky counties. Emergency health stations were set up as Red Cross teams distributed food bedding medicine and clothing. Officials warned pneumonia posed the greatest risk despite immunization and no epidemic was feared.
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Louisville
Kentucky State Health Department
Kentucky
P. E. Blackerby
Ohio
Licking
Cumberland
Big Sandy
Sheridan Connolly
Red Cross
Lexington
Gas mask protest on gas-motor train in Ardsley
Nine men and one woman rode the 8:31 a.m. Putnam division train with gas masks protesting gasoline powered cars and a coal stove heating the car. The demonstrators carried a sign asking why go to France to be gassed and cited fumes causing nausea on the daily trip to New York City.
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Ardsley
N. Y
Putnam
New York Central Railroad
France
Warren Benedict
Dobbs Ferry
New York City
Britain Faces Gloomy Palestine Talks Over Partition
London factions convene to resolve the Arab Jewish struggle in Palestine. Arabs balk at talks with Jews and split on procedure, rejecting the partition plan. Britain weighs full administration or a united Arab state as Mussolini looms in regional politics.
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London
Britain
Palestine
Holy Land
Solomon
United States of Arabia
Chamberlain
St. James Palace
Mussolini
Libya
Egypt
Iraq
Saudi Arabia
Yemen
Trans-Jordan
Flashes In The News From Around The Nation
A nightly roundup with oddities from Indiana Illinois Utah Nebraska and beyond. Highlights include nitroglycerin truck convoys in New Harmony Indiana using ambulances as a safety screen and a hospital unable to stop autographs for 18 year old Emileu Whitehead whose plaster cast drew 300 signatures. Police in Salt Lake City test stink bomb evidence from a restaurant bombing and Creighton University editor Vincent Thillen seeks a prom date through an editorial prompting many calls from coeds.
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Logansport
Ind
Emileu Whitehead
Salt Lake City
Omaha
Ned Vincent Thillen
Creighton University
Thillen
LaGuardia backs Amlie for Interstate Commerce post
New York mayor Fiorello LaGuardia endorsed President Roosevelt's nomination of Thomas R. Amlie to the Interstate Commerce Commission. He wrote Amlie is a good American and patriotic as Senate hearings continue and disputes over Amlie's past affiliations surface.
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Washington
LeGuardia
New York
Roosevelt
Thomas R. Amlie
Interstate Commerce Commission
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
Amlie
LaGuardia
Johnson
Colorado
Fiorello LaGuardia
Senate
Walter
Floyd H. Roberts
Virginia
Roberts
Vir
Ballet Of Supreme Court Faces A Step Or Two Of Ill
Washington report notes the Supreme Court ballet is off beat with new members. Justice Frankfurter fumbles his robe and ties while others settle in. An attache says they will improve in a few months as the nine justices assemble at noon.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Justice McReynolds
Justice Brandeis
Stone
Black
Justice Black
Justice Frankfurter
Alleged Communist Protests Evidence in Deportation Case
Joseph G. Strecker of Hot Springs Ark told the Supreme Court that the evidence is insufficient to sustain a deportation warrant accusing him of belonging to a Communist party that sought to overthrow the government The government appeals from the fifth circuit seeking his deportation under a 1918 statute banning members of organizations advocating overthrow by force or violence Whitney North Seymour Strecker’s counsel filed his brief ahead of arguments expected Friday.
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Washington
Joseph G. Strecker
Hot Springs
Ark
Supreme Court
Communist Party
Whitney North Seymour
New York
Strecker
High Court
Fifth Federal Circuit Court
Military committee backs most of Roosevelts $552 million defense program
The House Military Committee approved major portions of the administration defense bill authorizing 300 million dollars for new planes and 32 million in educational orders. The measure would expand the army air corps to 5500 planes and provide equipment funding while allowing manufacturers to learn military needs. Chairman May said action would move to the floor for immediate consideration.
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Washington
May
Kentucky
House Military Committee
Roosevelt
Army Air Corps
War Department
Congress
O C Groups for 1939 Named by Chamber of Commerce
Chamber of Commerce announces 1939 committees led by A O Evans with groups covering Aviation Advertising Agriculture Budget Civic affairs Conventions City beautification and Executive duties. Notable members include Benny Oakland Harry Schroeder Bob Harmon Max Moses Thomas Fraser Lee Hodges and H M.
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Chamber of Commerce
A. O. Evans
Benny Oakland
Grady Hicks
Travis Oliver
C. E. Faulk
C. H. McHenry
A. E. Montgomery
J. L. Warren
A. V. Miller
Harry Shroeder
Sam Orchard
Sam Davis
Alston Prophit
Ben Bicknell
J. C. Liner, Jr
Ray Cole
Ivy Jordan
Louis Faulk
Bob Harmon
J. B. Lindsey
M. S. Biedenharn
H. R. Hodges
D. L. Bornman
Louis Casper
Lee Hodges
C. C. Boardman
W. H. Anders
Joe Marx
H. M
Guards Raid Rankin Gold Coast Area Again
Jackson Mississippi February 1 The Rankin county gold coast began a third national guard raid this week as Major T B Birdsong led thirty enlisted men and six officers in the operation. Captain Ralph Holister’s Jackson company helped clear a tourist camp cabin with three slot machines and cash and a cafe shed with five old machines and multiple liquor cages. All machines and liquor were destroyed.
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Jackson
Miss
Rankin County
Gold Coast
National Guard
T. B. Birdsong
Ralph Holister
Birdsong
Roosevelt asks immediate consideration of WPA emergency funds
President Roosevelt told Congress there is an emergency in relief and urged quick action on a new $150 million appropriation for WPA for five months. He outlined potential massive rollbacks and warned that without more funds employment could fall from 3,000,000 to below 1,000,000 people by June.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
White House
WPA
Work Progress Administration
Legion Denies Vigilante Role in Jersey City
William G. McKinley of Jersey City national executive committeeman of the American Legion says the group will not act as a vigilante to suppress visitors. He calls remarks attributed to a Jersey City legion officer misquoted and distorted. Ezra Nolan warns that veterans will be forced to give lessons in democracy to Roger Baldwin Morris Ernst and Norman Thomas amid civil liberties clashes with Mayor Hague's administration.
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Trenton
N. J
William G. McKinley
Jersey City
American Legion
Legion
McKinley
Jersey City Legion
Ezra Nolan
Albert Quinn Post
Roger Baldwin
Morris Ernst
Norman Thomas
Frankl Hague
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U. S
Centir
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Louisiana
Dave Ellison
Artha Ann
Baton Rouge
Associated Press
New Harmony
Mattoon
Ill
Indiana
Steve Hobbs
Ballet
Butler, Roberts
Reed
House
William B. Ardery
O. C
Evans
Rankin
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