Roosevelt weighing new labor peace bid amid CIO AFL talks
Hyde Park reports say President Roosevelt may appoint a non partisan fact finding commission to investigate labor conditions after his labor peace message to AFL President William Green. Heywood Broun and Morris Watson urged the move as a national service and cited recent British and Swedish labor investigations.
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American Newspaper Guild
Broun
Roosevelt
Special Commission
Great Britain
Sweden
Spe
Adam Richetti Dies in Missouri Gas Chamber
Adam Richetti last survivor of the Pretty Boy Floyd gang trio was executed in Missouri for his role in the 1933 Kansas City Union Station massacre that killed four officers and Frank Nash. He spoke seven words, awaited the gas, and died four minutes after its release. Floyd and Verne Miller were named as the other killers.
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Jefferson City
Adam Richetti
Midwest
Missouri
Kansas City Union Station
Richetti
Floyd
Verne Miller
South Dakota
Union Station
Frank Nash
Leavenworth
Kans
Kansas City
R. J. Caffrey
Otto Reid
McAlester
Olla
William J. Grooms
Frank E. Hermanson
Nash
Robert Hermanson
Mercury Seaplane Pursues World Nonstop Record
The British pick-a-back Mercury seaplane flies from Dundee toward Capetown aiming to surpass the 6,629 mile non stop record set by Soviet pilots in 1937. Intercepted radio signals show it near the Sahara en route to equatorial Africa as it releases from its mother ship. The mission seeks a milestone ahead of Capetown expected tomorrow morning.
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London
Mercury
Capetown
South Africa
Dundee
Scotland
British Imperial Airways
Alexandria
Egypt
Sahara Desert
Equatorial Africa
Kano
West Africa
Moscow
United States
Nouth Pole
Hitler is grazed by rose, bans bouquets along march
Adolf Hitler was lightly cut in the face when a spectator threw a bouquet during a tour of the fourth occupied zone. Nazi leaders are ordered to confiscate flowers from crowds along his line, with warnings against flower throwing broadcast nationwide.
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Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Sudetenlander
Fuehrer
Occupation
Sudetenland
Hitler
Czechoslovakia
Hermann Wilhelm Goering
Germans Plan to Rule Czech Lands Amid Local Dispute
Mobile Alabama officials face a vote legality dilemma over Oliver Haas's residency after he moved his bedroom and pays taxes only on the city half of his property. In Frankfort Indiana Hop McBride reports an aviator warning fire after a roof blaze sparked by neighbor Van Nuys. firefighters saved the home. Tulsa Oklahoma notes a catfish Arsenic used as a living science text is to be tossed back to its pool after class reconvenes.
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Mobile
Ala
Oliver Haas
Haas
Frankfort
Ind
Robert van Nuys
Tulsa
Okla
Ouachita Valley Fair Enters Fifth Day With Big Crowds
Large crowds throng the Ouachita Valley fair as rodeo events and animal exhibitions draw heavy attendance. Thursday’s events featured Brahma bull riding and roping while grandstand crowds filled the exhibition hall and stock pens. Saturday is 4-H day with reduced or free admission for children and 4-H members. Music from local school bands accompanied the fair as awards were announced in the floral division with roses among the top honors.
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Jewel McQuiller
Parish
Ouachita Parish
Neville High School
Louisiana Training Institute
Ouachita Valley
Tanker E. J. Bullock burns sinks in Gulf of Mexico
Rescue craft bearing 34 survivors arrives in port after the Standard Oil tanker E. J. Bullock burned and sank off Florida yesterday. Three men were reported missing and feared dead, including Chief Cook Baldomero L. Chazes. The O. M. Bernuth carried 33 survivors and aimed for Fort Lauderdale. one injured seaman was taken to a patrol boat en route to Key West.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Standard Oil Company
E. J. Bullock
Gulf of Mexico
O. M. Bernuth
Bernuth
Fort Lauderdale
Coast Guard
Key West
Cook Baldomero L. Chazes
Chazes
Miami
Thomas
Martha Raye to Marry in Mexico
Hollywood reports Martha Raye and arranger Dave Rose plan a Mexican wedding near Ensenada tomorrow. The actress settled disputes with her father Peter Reed over weekly payments and earnings, and sued stepfather Peter Baumann for alienation of affections. all suits settled out of court.
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Hollywood
Martha Raye
Dave Rose
Martha
Ensenada
Lower California
Peter F. Reed
Reed
Peter Baumann
Nazi Circle Sees Strong Ties With Czechoslovakia
Berlin reports quote Nazi circles predicting close economic bonds between Germany and a diminished Czechoslovakia within borders redrawn after recent moves. They argue Czechoslovakia will become largely agrarian with German markets as the main buyer for its farm products.
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Louis P. Lochner
Berlin
Czechoslovakia
Germany
Poland
Rudolf Beran
Milan Hod
Two Shreveport youths shot after tavern hold up
Two Louisiana youths identified as Jimmy Bicknell and Henry McDonald were shot fleeing a tavern robbery near White Bluff after a car escape. Police say Bicknell suffered a buckshot wound to the back of the head and McDonald a arm wound, with both under guard in hospital pending arraignment. Two Texas listed girls, Annie Laura Leigh and Fannie Lou Williams, were detained on vagrancy and loitering charges after pointing to the pair as traveling companions.
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Nashville
Tenn
Texas
Louisiana
Jimmy Bicknell
Henry McDonald
Shreveport
Bicknell
McDonald
John Millican
United States Highway 70
White Bluff
Annie Laura Leigh
Beautician
Fannie Lou Williams
Henry Me
Japs Move Toward China Heart as Rain Slows Drive
Japanese forces push toward Hankow by rail and river routes amid heavy rain and mud. Cavalry reach Liuling and Kichun while Chinese defenses stiffen in the Yangtze region. Air and artillery support aid cross‑country advances as weather hampers progress.
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Peiping
Hankow
Yangtze River
Kichun
Eighth Army
Chu Teh
China
Chengchow
Hefei
Anhwei
Kiukiang
Yangtze
Mills replies to Ellender in Fifth District race
Mills issues a signed denial of Senator Ellender’s charges in the Fifth district congressional campaign. He defends his record on farm loan policy and notes the Farm Security administration scaled down and canceled some cat loans after discussions in 1937. The Du readers are cited as those involved in the exchange.
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Allen Ellender
Ellender
Will Harvey Todd
Newt V. Mills
Department
Farm Security Administration
Rhodes
Farmerville
Holum
Caldwell Parish
Brown University Extends Visiting Professorship Offer to Benes
Brown University President Henry M. Winston awaits a reply from former Czechoslovak president Edvard Benes to a visiting professorship in international relations with travel expenses paid. Stephen Duggan helped relay the offer, seen as beneficial to both Benes and the university.
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Providence
R. 1
Henry M. Winston
Brown University
Benes
Czechoslovakia
United States
Winston
Stephen Duggan
Institute of International Education
New York
Dr Benes
Two Troy Officers Found Dead in Patrol Car
Two Troy police officers were found dead in a patrol car early today, apparently from fumes from the motor with windows closed to keep out the fumes.
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Troy
N. Y
Monroe Civic Music campaign nearing close
Semi final checks at the Monroe Civic Music association headquarters in the Virginia hotel plan last minute campaigning before closing at 10 o clock Saturday night. Miss Merle Springstead says membership size will guide artist selections for the winter concert season.
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Monroe Civic Music Association
Virginia
E. C. Gibson
Merle Springstead
CANDIDATES PLEDGE AGAINST SENDING TROOPS TO EUROPE
Sixty seven congressional candidates in New York New Jersey and Connecticut responded to a daily news poll pledging never to vote to send troops to Europe to fight in any war. Only five refused outright and 21 would vote to send to Europe only under certain conditions such as possible involvement of America in a European war or invasion.
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New York
New Jersey
Connecticut
Daily News
Europe
Ane
America
Refugees Flood Town as Zone Seizures Escalate in Prague
Refugees from seized zones flood Prague amid tense Allied and German moves. Premier Jan Syrovy urges troops to avoid actions provoking harsher intervention, pledging loyalty to the Munich accord. Slovak leaders discuss autonomy while Bohemian authorities brace for approaching German forces and rising anti Jewish tension.
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Saarbruecken
Saar
Associated Press
Puzzler
Mexico
Shanghai
Everlie
Olynnia
J. G. Stafford
Madison County
Anderson
Mills
Prague
Jan Syrovy
Joseph Tise
Inter
Slovakia
Carche
Lovak
Prague Deuteches
Bohemian
Jewa
Franz Friedmann
Jewish Party
Caurel
International Commission
Munich
Bohemia
Monroe
West Monroe
Brown Food Store Monroe
Hatchells’ Grocery
Walker's Grocery
Eureka Stores
Sur-Way
Carey Holmes
Messina
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