Windsor lauded by French chiefs for wartime address
Verdun France May 9 The Duke of Windsor and his American born duchess ended a World War I battle sector tour with a plea broadcast urging mankind to avoid a global crisis. He spoke as a soldier of the last war and urged a return to normal conditions while acknowledging current anxieties and jealousies shaping international relations.
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Verdun
France
Duke of Windsor
Meuse Department
Paris
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Moscow
London
Britain
Rome
Mussolini
Italy
Stockholm
Sweden
Norway
Denmark
Finland
Adolf
Five More Graves to Be Opened in Insurance-Murder Ring
Philadelphia detectives report orders for opening five more graves as they probe an insurance-murder ring. Investigators say the scheme may have used widows as agents to target prospective husbands, with at least 22 people held and 11 widows identified, including Rose Carina, the ring's alleged "kiss of death" member who left four husbands dead.
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Philadelphia
Charles F Kelley
Rose Carina
Five Injured In Orleans Blasts In Financial District
Five people were hurt in two underground explosions in New Orleans financial district. Fire Chief John Evans says gas in electrical conduits caused the blasts. One man, B. F. Jameson, 57, was thrown from a manhole top and seriously injured. Al Duffy was trampled. A. J. Bisson, 67, injured. Police reported two more hurt. second blast lifted another manhole cover on Union Street.
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New Orleans
Financial District
John Evans
Union
Carondelet
B. F. Jameson
al Duffy
United Methodists Consider Unified Mission Boards in Meet
In Kansas City May 9 United Methodism’s 900 delegates advance plans to form a 30 member financial commission and unify foreign home and women’s missions under one board. A minority seeks autonomous women’s missions. another favors separate boards for foreign home and women’s missions. A general world service and finance commission would oversee benevolences and funds with 16 regional and at large members.
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Kansas City
United Methodism
General Commission On World Service and Finance
General Administration Fund
Episcopal Fund
Bilbo Fears Cotton Plan Dictatorship
Sen Bilbo of Mississippi warns that a cotton export subsidy proposed in the Senate would make Secretary Wallace a supreme dictator of world cotton prices. He says the plan grants final subsidy power without government checks and could trigger an international trade war, lowering prices from eight to six cents per pound.
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Washington
Bilbo
Mississippi
Senate
Wallace
Cotton
Bankhead
Democrat
Alabama
United States Treasury
Dictators Labeled Deviated Personalities At Conference
Dr. Richard H. Hutchings told a psychiatric association that dictators possess deviated personalities driving reason to wrath. He warned such minds permeate bodies politic and cited a schizoid mystic type retreating to the mountain top to fuel national turmoil, urging U.S. mental hygiene in public affairs.
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Stephen J. McDonough
Associated Press
Chicago
Tom-Tom
Hutchings
Roosevelt Seeks White House talks to end coal mine shutdown
John L. Lewis blames the Roosevelt administration and the labor department for the soft coal stoppage affecting 469,000 miners in 26 states. Secretary Perkins says operators violated collective bargaining ethics and that a coal crisis will be announced soon as the government acts to move coal.
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Washington
Roosevelt
White House
New York
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Labor Department
Labor
Perkins
Miss Perkins
Coal Commission
Mr. Roosevelt
Twin Cities to Host 17th United Spanish War Veterans Camp
Details completed for the 17th annual encampment of the United Spanish War Veterans and auxiliary to open sessions Friday in the Twin Cities. Joint registration at Hotel Virginia at 8 am. opening at 10 am with greetings from city officials and veterans leaders.
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United Spanish War Veterans and Auxiliary
Department
Hotel
Virginia
R. W. Germany
Kip S. Moore
Charles W. Moore
H. H. Benoit
Monroe
H. M. Williams, Jr
West Monroe
J. Lloyd Warren
Ouachita Parish
George D. Holland
Chamber of Commerce
T. F. Moore
Veterans’ Hospital
Alexandria
Arthur
Thompson Wood Lee Auxiliary No. 10
Alma McKee
Helen Flynn
Spanish War Auxiliary
Department of Louisiana
Eighth Husband Seeks Annulment in Arizona Marriage
Billy L. Graves plans to seek an annulment of his marriage to Nina de Milo Canfield Monroe Martin Colton Graves in Yuma Arizona. Graves cites annoyance from late wife’s post nuptial calls from Darrell Lynn Colton as trigger.
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Los Angeles
The
Examiner
Billy L. Graves
Nina de Milo-Canfield- Martin- Monroe- Martin-Colton- Graves
Yuma
Ariz
Graves
Darrell Lynn Colton
Drowned Man Report Rooted in Nickel Quest
The Monroe fire department ended a 107 hour river search for a man said to have jumped from the Illinois Central bridge last Thursday night. It concluded the report was prompted by a youth, Johnny Bullock, who climbed to retrieve a nickel from a pier, risking his life and causing the false missing person report.
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Ouachita River
Illinois Central Railroad
Monroe Fire Department
Johnny Bullock
Cypress Street
West Monroe
Battery Department
Monroe Electric Company
Bullock
Hull urges doctors at world congress to pursue lasting peace
Secretary of State Hull appeals military physicians from Germany, Italy, Britain, France, Poland, Romania and others to join in an international appeal for an end to war. He envisions an order based on justice, law, and human dignity and calls for peace through dialogue and mutual respect.
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Washington
Secetary
Hull
United States
George S. Messersmith
Knights of Pythias elect state officers at Alexandria
Knights of Pythias elect state deputy K P Arnault Jr of New Orleans at the annual meeting in Alexandria with Lake Charles chosen as next convention site. Other officers named include J C Chenevert New Roads as state secretary T J Robichaux Jeanerette state treasurer Louis S Prejean Baton Rouge advocate P E Juneau Lafayette warden G A Zernot Marksville Alfred G Robichaux Thibodaux insurance delegates and several associate delegates. The Catholic Daughters of America also met and selected Houma for their 1940 meeting with Miss Zilda Lauve Alexandria resigning as secretary and Mrs Olga Firman succeeding her.
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Alexandria
Pi—M P. Arnault, Jr
New Orleans
Knights of Columbus
Lake Charles
J. C. Chenevert
New Roads
T. J. Robichaux
Jeanerette
Louis S. Prejean
Baton Rouge
P. BE. Juneau
Lafayette
G. A. Zernot
Zilda Lauve
Olga Firman
Plane crash kills 18 in Guayaquil downtown
A military plane crashed and exploded in downtown Guayaquil killing 18 people including both pilots. The crash caused fires and damaged several houses as residents watched in shock.
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Guayaquil
Ecuador
Natatorium Opens Sunday for Bathing Season in Monroe
The R D Swayze natatorium at Forsythe Park will open next Sunday at 5 am for public use. Monroe officials say the facility, one of the region’s finest, will operate with a full staff including three lifeguards a police officer a matron and attendants. The 1 500 000 gallon pool is kept pure by filtration and chemicals and a concession will rent bathing suits towels soaps and locks.
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Louisiana
C. R. Tidwell
Monroe
R. D. Swayze
Forsythe Park
Tidwell
Natatorium
Young Lambert May Go On Air In New York Talk
Dr Charles Smith of West Monroe hesitates to accept a radio invitation for George Cooter Lambert the West Monroe boy who lost both legs in a train wreck last November to appear on the We The People program. A wire from George S Scofield of New York requests the appearance and asks for Lambert to travel May 14 with all expenses paid and a detailed newspaper account in his words.
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C.harles Smith
First Methodist Church
West Monroe
George “Cooter’ Lambert
New York
Cooter
We the People
George S. Scofield
Madison Avenue
New York City
Roosevelt Says Last Reorganization Plan for Session
President Roosevelt says this will be his final government reorganization proposal to Congress this session. The plan covers 14 interdepartmental transfers and consolidations, projected to save about $1.25 million annually, with an effective date of June 24 for the merger of multiple agencies into three new federal bodies.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Judge Lauer Resigns Post In New York
Albany N Y May 9 The resignation of Supreme Court Justice Edgar J Lauer effective June 15 ends a legislative probe into his alleged smuggling participation The inquiry followed a federal accusation and involved Mrs Lauer and radio comics Jack Benny and George Burns Motives and outcomes are outlined with other participants fined or imprisoned
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Lauer
New York
Albany
N. Y
United States
Supreme Court
Edgar J. Lauer
New York City
Justice Lauer
Lehman
Jack Benny
George Burns
Rosa Weber
Adolf Hitler
Benny
Burns
Albert N. Chaperau
John T. Cahill
Court Recognizes Blair As Kidnaped Charley Ross
Phoenix May 9 The Maricopa county superior court recognized Gus tave Blair 69 as Charles Brew ster Ross the kidnap victim in Germantown Pa His claims of identity followed a long legal battle and a default judgment against Walter Sophia Marian and Anne Ross Blair said the recognition could lead to radio and film contracts and spoke of his sacrificed home and hunger to prove his right The case centers on the famous unsolved abduction and Blair vowed no recovery against the family.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Gustave Blair
Maricopa County
Charles Brewster Ross
Germantown
Walter L. Rass
Blair
Walter
Sophia
Marian
Anne
Christian
Sarah Ann Ross
G. A. Rodgers
Carpenter
Charley Ross
Vatican Seeks Peace Talks With Many Powers
Vatican news reports papal envoys urge governments toward peace through normal diplomacy. Britain and France defer to Poland on Pope Pius XII's proposed talks to ease the Danzig tension. Germany notes the Vatican initiative as a possible mediation, while other capitals host mixed responses.
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Vatican
Pius XII
Paris
France
Britain
Poland
Germany
Danzig
Baltic
Holy Father
Berlin
Pius
Foreign Office
Butler
House of Commons
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