Polish Papers Accuse Nazis of Intrigue and Demands
Polish newspapers accuse Germany of long running intrigue aimed at cutting Poland from the sea through a corridor wall. Foreign Minister Beck is expected to demand extra guarantees for Polish rights in Danzig during a Sejm address, with talks on a Polish protectorate over the Free City possible but uncertain.
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Warsaw
Germany
Poland
Joseph Beck
Danzig
Reich
Adolf Hitler
Foreign Office
Beck
Gazeta Poleka
Alfred Rosenberg
World Union Urged as Methodist Churches Seek Unity
Bishop Frederick D. Leete of DeLand Florida predicted a near world wide union for Methodist branches in the United States and Europe. Conference speakers from Canada and Chicago urged unity while detailing Alaska mission work and the Metlakta community's salmon industry and schooling initiatives.
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Kansas City
Frederick D. Leete
DeLand
Fla
United States
Leete
America
England
Canada
Gordon A. Sisco
United Church of Canada
E. B. Aubrey
University of Chicago
B. L. Myers
Myers
Edward D. Kohlstedt
Philadelphia
Metlakata
Alaska
William Duncan
Duncan
Dr. Myers
Rockefeller heir plays tennis at Chicago without tuition card
David Rockefeller, grandson of John D. Rockefeller, appeared at the University of Chicago student tennis courts with no tuition card. After signing his name on the registrar, he was allowed to play despite failing to pay the 15 cent fee.
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Chicago
University of Chicago
David Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller
Young Rockefeller
Mason accuses Roosevelts of stop Garner program
Representative Mason of Illinois rails against a stop Garner plan he says unites New Dealers labor leaders and radicals to block Garner from the Democratic nomination next year. He cites an alliance of radicals and northern Negroes aiding the effort.
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Washington
Mason
Illinois
U S Ponders 12 Mile Limit Along Coasts
Washington May 2 4 The state department studies a 12 mile territorial waters zone beyond the three mile limit to boost defense and fishing rights. Senate Foreign Relations Chair Pittman says peacetime gains exist but international questions complicate the move. He notes a treaty or proclamation could extend the limit and recalls the 12 mile treaty with Britain during Prohibition for rum patrols.
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Washington
State Department
United States
Pittman
Nevada
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Great Britain
Capitol Hill
Senate
Earthquakes in Northern Japan Cause Fatalities and Destruction
A sequence of strong quakes and related fires and floods killed at least 19 people and damaged about 1000 homes 300 miles north of Tokyo. Nine houses in Aikawa were swallowed by the sea, with many locales reporting water mains breaks and reservoir collapses.
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Tokyo
Here
Aikawa
Japan
Funakawa
Akita
Oga Peninsula
Bath
England
Haile Selassie
Addis Ababa
Washington State Department
Government sues Elmer Candy for 20000 damages
The government filed a civil suit in New Orleans charging violation of a federal trade commission order. It seeks 20000 damages over candy shipments packed to resemble lottery prizes. The suit accuses Elmer Candy Company Inc of offering prizes for differently colored chocolate centers.
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New Orleans
Elmer Candy Company, Inc
Federal Trade Commission
Lead in hunt for Pendergast aide as disappearance probes widen
FBI agents take lead in the search for E L Schneider once secretary for eight Pendergast companies. U S District Attorney Milligan questions whether the aide died by action or foul play while investigators probe income affairs and a second indictment of T J Pendergast for income tax evasion. A sedan with notes suggesting self harm was found on a Missouri river bridge near Kansas City.
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Kansas City
E. L. Schneider
T. J. Pendergast
United States
Maurice M. Milligan
Pendergast
F. B
Aid
Schneider
Missouri River
Here
Milligan
Wyandotte County
Kansas
Atlantic Ocean Maginot Line Theme in U S Caribbean Talks
Irving Brant warned the House Foreign Affairs Committee that Hitler and Mussolini may seek South American expansion and urged neutrality law revision. President Somoza called the Atlantic a maginot line and pledged Nicaragua’s support for the Monroe Doctrine as he visited Baton Rouge and LSU.
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Washington
Irving Brant
St. Louis Star Times
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Hitler
Mussolini
South America
New Orleans
Anastasio Somoza
Nicaragua
United States
Baton Rouge
Richard Leche
Louisiana State University
Roosevelt
Somoza
Rae Kaplan Named LSU Beauty Queen for Yearbook Page
Rae Kaplan a pretty brunette sophomore from Alexandria was chosen by a national artist as LSU beauty queen. Her image will appear in Gumbo the LSU yearbook and she will head a court including Pansy Baker Rose Mary Bennet Carolyn Collins Anne Greenlee Jena Jackson Margaret John Nancy Naff Catherine Walker with other Baton Rouge and New Orleans contestants.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana State University
Rae Kaplan
Alexandria
Choggn
Pansy Baker
Rose Mary Bennet
Bastrop
Carolyn Collins
Laurel
Anne Greenlee
Shreveport
Jena Jackson
Margaret John
New Orleans
Nancy Naff
Lake Charles
Catherie Walker
Plain Dealing
Pulitzer Prize Winners and Police Standoff News
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings wins the Pulitzer for The Yearling as Columbia trustees announce drama and history prizes. In Wheeling a rookie officer helps nab four crime suspects linked to 100 offenses, with a $50,000 bond each, after a series of robberies. Senate panel approves Leon Henderson for the securities commission slot.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Alonzo Hixenbaugh
Elmer Hehr
Washington, Pa
United States Navy
Albert Custer
Delores Castle
Billy Love
Tulsa
Okla
Hehr
William Montgomery
John W. Fox
Pittsburgh
Dave Rogers
James Borne
Detroit
Eugene Booth
James Mulane
Bloomfield
N. J
United States
Texas
Missouri
Custer
Neosho
Pulitzer Prize Award To Lochner Finds Him Busy
Louis P. Lochner chief of the Associated Press Berlin bureau won the Pulitzer prize for distinguished service as a foreign correspondent On May day in Berlin he heard speeches by Adolf Hitler Goering and Goebbels He said the prize is a solemn obligation to interpret the news impartially to the American public Lochner 52 born in Springfield Illinois graduated from Wisconsin in 1915 served on Henry Ford peace ship He joined AP Berlin in 1924 and has written much front page foreign news
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New York
Marijorie Kinnan Rawlings
Florida
Cross Creek
Hawthorn
Fla
Louisville
Rochester
N. Y
Gal Young
Columbia University
Abe Lincoln
Illinois
Robert Emmet Sherwood
Eugene O'Neill
George S. Kaufman
Frank Luther Mott
University of Iowa
School of Journalism
Carl van Doren
Benjamin Franklin
John Gould Fletcher
Arkansas
Miami
Daily News
Louis P. Lochner
Associated Press
Berlin
Germany
Adolf Hitler
Field Marshal Goering
Goebbels
Lochner
A. P
Washington
Springfield
Ill
University of Wisconsin
Henry Ford
Europe
Hitler
Congress in Row Over WPA Aid by States
Washington May 2 A major controversy grows in Congress over how much states and cities should contribute to fund WPA projects A Senate committee backed Byrnes plan requiring at least one third of project costs from state and local governments Critics say cities cannot bear such costs Roosevelt opposes fixed percentages and Congress weighs relief funding and the fate of the PWA program
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Washington
Congress
Roosevelt
Senate
Byrnes
South Carolina
Vandenberg
Michigan
Taft
Ohio
Barbour
New Jersey
United States Conference of Mayors
WPA
Greatness of Nation Lauded by Milwau kee Economist
Carl Taylor, a Mil waukee economist, delivered a patriotic address at Ouachita Parish High School in Monroe Town Hall. He warned that only 17 years separate Mussolini’s rise, 6 years since Hitler, and noted recent European upheavals suggesting Americans should defend democratic ideals and the nation's past greatness.
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America
Carl Taylor
Milwaukee
Stirling
Monroe Town Hall
Ouachita Parish
Mussolini
Hitler
Spain
Albania
Slayer of Two in France Guillotined
In Rouen on May 2 a young man named Andre Vittel aged 18 was executed by guillotine at dawn for killing his sister in law and her nephew. The mother of the slain girl witnessed the ceremony and cried out for revenge as the blade fell. Vittel drank rum and smoked a final cigarette before departing in the death wagon guarded by mounted mobile guards.
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Rouen
France
Andre Vittel
Vittel
Notable youths and WPA tales headline regional news
Flashes report Grace Hoppers, 17, armless since birth, earning a high school diploma while mastering crafts and farm chores. Tulsa excerpt tells of Car L. Rice describing a divorced couple seeking remarriage but broke. Santa Fe items note a Navajo lashing a government thermometer after failed weather magic.
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Piney Creek
N. C
Grace Hoppers
Tulsa
L. Rice
WPA
Real Brains in Poisonings May Be Bared in Philadelphia Case
Philadelphia reports suggest the mastermind behind a poison ring may still be unknown. Dr. Petrillo, jailed for one murder, claims he named a physician as the brains who mixed the deadly witchs brew. Police hold 13 suspects, with ringleaders named as Bolber Valente and Mrs Carina, while Carina remains at large.
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Philadelphia
Herman Petrillo
William J. Connelly
Philadelphia Record
Petrillo
Connelly
Morris Bolber
David Brandt
James Kelly
Bolber
Cesare Valente
New York
Rose Carina
Seaboard States
Valente
Carina
Roosevelt Sets Course to Capital After Royal Visit
President Roosevelt rested after five days entertaining royal guests from Norway and Denmark. He ordered his special train prepared to return to Washington by late afternoon. Crown Prince Frederik and Princess Ingrid of Denmark attended a dinner, then opened Denmark's pavilion in New York. Crown Prince Olaf and Princess Martha of Norway hosted a prior ceremony at the Rhinebeck post office dedication, where the prince laid a cornerstone for a new building and the president praised the prince as a member in good standing in the union.
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Hyde Park
N. Y
Roosevelt
Norway
Denmark
Washington
Crown Prince
Frederik
Princess Ingrid
New York
Olaf
Princess Martha
Rhinebeck
British to Expel More Than 50 Nazi Agents From England
London reports say the British home office with Scotland Yard will expel over fifty Nazi agents from England within a fortnight. The list includes notable figures such as Dr Gottfried Rosel and other high ranking Nazi organizers. Expulsions come amid ongoing surveillance of Nazi activities in Britain. London also discussed forming an agreement with the Soviet Union as part of broader European policy moves.
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British
Home Office
Scotland Yard
England
Star
Unr Kingdom
War Office Intelligence Department
Chamberlain
House of Commons
Britain
Russia
Ireland
Adolf Hitler
Samuel Hoare
United Kingdom
O. G. Karlowa
E. P. Himmelmann
Fraulein
Anna Joanna Wolf
Sir Samuel
Gottfried Rosel
National Zeitung
Essen
Hermann Goering
Dr. Rosel
Hitler
Voelkischop Beobachter
Berlin
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