Hitler Mussolini Tour Frontiers as Europe War Tensions Rise
London dispatch reports Soviet Russia rejected Britain’s plan to bring the U S into the front while careful signals show a wider European crisis. Hitler and Mussolini toured the Franco Italian border with Paris talks underway as Mussolini opened a Fiat plant in Turin and warned that no issues justify war yet urged solving political knots.
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Italy
Germany
Europe
Iron Lunger Seeks Miracle in Lourdes Pilgrimage
Fred Brite Jr a 28 year old infantile paralysis patient confined to an iron lung sails from Miami with his parents and nurses on the Nor mandie to Lourdes France. He hopes for spiritual and possible physical aid from miracles at the shrine and will return via Le Havre to New York and Chicago after visiting the world fair.
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Miami
Fila
Fred Brite, Jr
New York
Lourdes
France
Miami Beach
Normandie
Fred
Chicago
Divine Providence
le Havre
Young Suite
China
Pacific
Mother's Day picnic ends in two deaths in Visalia
A large Mother's Day outing in Visalia, California, turned fatal when the top of a giant oak snapped, killing Cecil Griffis of Lindsay aged 38 and Mrs. Dale King of Dinuba. Twelve others were injured as the 55-foot tree collapsed onto a picnic area, with park police citing possible wind strain.
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Cecil Griffis
Lindsay
Dale King
Dinuba
Tippin
Judge Reeves Fills Vacancy In Ouachita District Court
Exhumation of six more bodies ordered as part of a wide murder for insurance ring probe. District Attorney Kelley asked Coroner Hersch to examine victims for poison traces while mass trials of 24 suspects are prepared in Philadelphia and surrounding states.
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Charlies F. Kelley
Charles H Hersch
Dominick Caraffa
Herman Petrillo
Philadelphia Record
Petrillo
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Delaware
Senate boosts hundreds of items in agriculture bill
A group of senators faces a rare fight over the 1.218 million dollar agriculture appropriation as the Senate raises more than 100 items without any cuts. With no increases to offer in trade, the expected horse trading with the House breaks from the usual pattern. Veteran employees call the situation unprecedented.
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Washington
Senate
House
Owsley Heads to Hamburg for New York Voyage
United States Minister Alvin Mansfield Owsley and Mrs. Owsley departed Copenhagen for Hamburg to board the newly launched Manhattan bound for New York.
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Owsley
U.S
Copenhagen
Denmark
United States
Alvin Mansfield Owsley
Man learns mother died two weeks earlier at hospital
Bradford Pa May 15 William Taylor brought a Mother's Day bouquet to Warren State hospital and found his mother Mrs Jennie Taylor had died April 29. An investigation showed her body was sent to Philadelphia for anatomical study and the relatives were not informed due to an oversight.
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Bradford
William Taylor
Warren State Hospital
Taylor
Jennie Taylor
Anatomical Board
Philadelphia
Roosevelt Opens Tax Records To Dies For Un American Inquiry
President Roosevelt released federal income tax records to House Un American Activities Committee chair Martin Dies. Treasury order allows the committee to inspect returns with written lists and submit relevant information to the house. Public hearings may be held in Los Angeles Pittsburgh New York and Chicago.
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Roosevelt
Martin Dies
House Committee
Treasury
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House
Congressional
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Pittsburgh
New York
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Slaying of Waterloo couple sparks chase in Illinois
A gunman killed Hattie Grosse 21 and Willard Wetzler 23 en route to a dance near Waterloo Illinois. Sheriff Curran led a large posse hunting the suspect who fled south toward Monroe county after a car followed the Mitchells. Town mobilized 2300 residents amid fears of trouble if captured.
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Ill
Illinois
Hattie Grosse
Willard Wetzler
William J. Curran
Monroe County
Miss Grosse
John Mitchell
Mitchell
Wetzler
O. H. Kleyer
Bill to amend wage hour law under attack
Washington May 15 strong farm bloc opposition threatened administration plans to rush wage hour amendments through the house. Farm organizations argued the changes would intensify hardships for agriculture and urged defeat of the measure.
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Washington
House
Labor Committee
Norton
New Jersey
Elmer F. Andrews
Wagehour
American Farm Bureau Federation
Andrews
Robert Taylor Marries Barbara Stanwyck in Surprise Elopement
Hollywood May 15. Robert Taylor wed Barbara Stanwyck in a secret elopement to San Diego. The couple said they planned a honeymoon for next summer and will soon begin work on new film projects with Hedy Lamarr, then proceed to Payette Lake Idaho for another production.
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Hollywood
Robert Taylor
Barbara Stanwyck
San Diego
Taylor
Hedy Lamarr
Payette Lake
Idaho
Six-Pound Baby Born To Five-Year-Old Indian Girl
Lima Peru May 15 An Indian girl said by physicians to be five years old has given birth to a six pound baby at the Lima maternity hospital The baby a boy was delivered in a 35 minute Caesarean operation yesterday morning The infant and mother were reported in excellent condition Lina Medina the girl born September 23 1934 according to parents but doctors questioned the birth certificate noting teeth indicate she is under six The birth occurred near Pisco where the family lives and the hospital said the pregnancy was only recently discovered by doctors
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Lima
Peru
Lima Maternity
Gerardo Lozada
Algendro Busalieu
Lina Medina
Hipolito Larrabure
Lima Maternity Hospital
Lina
Larrabure
Pisco
Lozada
Dr. Larrabure
Kentucky Troops And Miners Clash
In Harlan Kentucky a clash between coal miners and state troops guarding workers returning to the pits left Claude Howard with a deep head gash after a pistol strike. A car with five bullet holes prompted early reports of gunfire. later found to be boys firing from inside. Guardsmen blocked 3000 miners en route to picket duty as mine operations paused until the next day.
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Harlan, Ky
Claude Howard
Baxter
Harlan-Wallins
National
Roy W. Easley
National Guard
Howard
J D McGee Dies in West Monroe Funeral Rendered
Joshua Davis McGee 77 a longtime Ouachita parish resident died at 10 40 am Sunday at his home 2301 Trenton Street West Monroe The funeral was at his residence Monday 4 pm Interment Hasley Cemetery Dixie Funeral Home directed Pallbearers named Honorary pallbearers included West Monroe Baptist church deacons He was born in Sylacauga Alabama to Virginia Oden and Benjamin Franklin McGee He was active in timber real estate and the Western Star lodge No 24 He married Fannie Warren in 1891 who died in 1895 then Mary Henrietta Bethard in 1898 He is survived by his wife eight children a niece and a nephew and other relatives.
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Ouachita Parish
Trenton Street
West Monroe
Hasley Cemetery
Dixie Funeral Home
J. F. Jones
Bert Coverdale
Henry Sholars
C. Thomas Munholland
F. L. Jones
Jesse Heard
James McCormick
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McGee
Fannie Warren
Douglasville
Tex
Mary Henrietta Bethard
White Sulphur Springs
Mattie M. Stewart
Warren B. McGee
Katie E. McGee
George O. McGee
Gladys M. Brownlee
Mary Etta Brown
Shreveport
Donald W. McGee
Cotton Valley
Jeanette Mahaffey
Robestown
Anna Grant
Eros
Harry McGee
Hotel Fall Kills Tampa Stunt Flier
Clarence McArthur of Tampa died from injuries after falling six floors from a burning hotel room during a cotton carnival air show stunt. He struck a canopy and plunged to the sidewalk as flames and smoke rose from the room. Fire crews extinguished the blaze and investigators treated the fall as heating the room prior to awakening McArthur.
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Tenn
Clarence McArthur
Tampa
Fla
McArthur
E. R. Hopper
Municipal Airpork
Picture for Mother’s Day Tragedy Mentioned in News Flashes
A Seattle boy Earl Lawrence 17 died in an auto accident and his mother received a picture of him from her husband hours later. In New York Grover Whalen acted surprised as Mayor Rossi claimed New York hosts the world’s No 1 fair in the world of tomorrow.
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Seattle
Earl Lawrence
New York
Grover Whalen
Angelo Rossi
San Francisco
Georgia Delegation Set For Unpledged Stance At 1940 Convention
Washington report says Georgia plans to send an uninstructed delegation to the 1940 Democratic National Convention. Despite calls for a George favoring or New Deal pledged slate, state leaders favor neutrality to avoid early factional fights. Governor Rivers’ supporters dominate the executive committee and seek to keep the delegation unpledged unless a primary is ordered.
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Washington
Georgia
Walter F. George
George
Roosevelt
Democratic Executive Committee
Governor Rivers
Garner
Farley
State Executive Committee
Rivers
Orlean s Grocer Kills Intruder In Store
In New Orleans on May 15 police said they would take no action against grocer Carlo Papania 37 who fatally shot a 17 year old intruder identified as Robert Desmarmol from Philadelphia as he entered the store. The youth reportedly said hunger drove him to enter.
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New Orleans
Joseph Schwehm
Robert Desmarmol
Philadelphia
Carlo Papania
Papania
Schwehm
Martin Sets Sights on Governor Run in 1940
Wade O. Martin, chair of the Louisiana Public Service Commission, announced at the Louisiana Peace Officers Association that he will seek the governorship in the January 1940 Democratic primary. He contrasts his stance with Earl Long and cautions against administration double crossing as Leche delays calling the caucus.
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Baton Rouge
Wade O. Martin
Louisiana Public Service Commissi
Martin
Louisiana Peace Officers Association
PB. S. Clements
Oberlin
Earl K. Long
Louisiana
Huey P. Long
Clements
Long
Peace Officers Association
Martin Rose
Senator Clements
Earl Long
Earl
Huey
Richard W. Leche
Revenue Agents to Confer Here in Monroe This Weekend
An important conference of United States Internal Revenue Department deputy collectors will be held in Monroe this weekend. The event runs Friday through Saturday at Hotel Virginia with agents from New Orleans Lafayette Baton Rouge Lake Charles Shreveport and Alexandria attending alongside Monroe officials. Rufus W Fontenot of New Orleans will conduct the sessions with a long list of attendees from each city.
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Monroe
Hotel Virginia
Internal Revenue
New Orleans
Lafayette
Baton Rouge
Lake Charles
Shreveport
Alexandria
Rufus W. Fontenot
Grady C. Durham
Sam Feinblum
H. L. Lazarus
Pierre LaBarre
E. M. Pringle
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