Italy Offers Britain Roundabout Path to Repair Worn Ties
Italy signals to Britain that outstanding differences may be settled as Fas ist troops begin withdrawal from Spain. Informazione Diplomatica notes a substantial return of Italian volunteers could push Britain to implement the April 16 Mediterranean agreements, while denying any link to Munich or nonintervention efforts.
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Rome
Italy
Britain
Spain
Informazione Diplomatica
Foreign Office
Franco
Munich
Czechoslovakia
Seek $50 Week For Everybody Under 50 Years
Two UC Los Angeles students Bill Brown and Bob Schiller launch a tongue in cheek campaign proposing 50 dollars weekly for people under 50 as a parody pension plan. They compare it to a nearby 30 dollar weekly proposal for those over 50 and frame aims as democratic prosperity.
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Los Angeles
Bill Brown
Daily Brain
Bob Schiller
University of California At Los Angeles
Reduction in Life Hazards Is Predicted
Chicago October 10. W H Cameron managing director National Safety council predicted life hazards would be reduced markedly in 25 years. At the silver jubilee congress he cited council feats from 1913 to 1938 and urged driver education, stricter driver competency checks and pedestrian education to curb traffic dangers.
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Chicago
W. H. Cameron
National Safety Council
Council
Cameron
Seven injured in crash near Minden Louisiana
Seven people were injured, one fatally believed, in a head-on collision three miles west of Minden at 10 today. Miss Majorie King 18 drove a borrowed car into Will Alexander and his passengers. Brown, a white hitchhiker, is in dying condition. Billie Rowe and three other negroes in the Alexander car are badly hurt or in unknown condition.
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Minden
Here
Majorie King
Will Alexander
Brown
Bossier City
Minden Sanitarium
Billie Rowe
Alexander
Charity Hospital
Shreveport
High Court Denies Mrs Hahn Appeal in Poison Slaying
The U S Supreme Court refused to review Anna Marie Hahn of Cincinnati convicting her to die in the electric chair for poisoning Jacob Wagner in 1937. The court dismissed the appeal for want of a substantial federal question. The case ties Wagner to a scheme involving four men killed for profit.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Anna Marie Hahn
Cincinnati
Jacob Wagner
Bulgarian Army Chief Shot in Sofia Street Killing
General Ivan Peeff 70, chief of staff of the Bulgarian army, was shot dead in a Sofia street. Major Stoyanoff, an aide, was badly wounded. Police named the assassin as Stein Yassiphoff or Vassoff, a former Bulgarian major released two months ago. The attacker fired 15 shots and then possibly shot himself. authorities probe a possible wider plot.
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Sofia
Bulgaria
Ivan Peeff
Stoyanoff
Stein Yassiphoff
Vassoff
Peers
Reuters
Exchange
Hitler Hints War Danger Still Lingers In Europe
Berlin reports that Adolf Hitler warned in Saarbruecken that war danger persists while Germany seeks understanding with neighbors. He named Eden Cooper and Churchill as potential threats and said fortifications would be intensified, adding Aachen and Saarbruecken to defense lines.
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Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Anthony Eden
Admiralty
Alfred Duff Cooper
Winston Churchill
Versailles
Chamberlain
Cooper
Eden
Churchill
Duff Cooper
The
House of Commons
Aachen
Saarbruecken
James Roosevelt Resting on a California Ranch
James Roosevelt oldest son of President Roosevelt rests at a 20 000 acre Hollister ranch guest of Walter P Murphy convalescing from stomach operation not allowed to swim golf or ride a horse. He may walk the 11 gardens under quiet guard by secret service and Mayo Clinic nurse Pretty Romelle Schneider supervises his adherence.
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Hollister
Calif
James Roosevelt
Roosevelt
James
Walter P. Murphy
Romelle Schneider
Mayo Brothers Clinic
Secret Service
Court Rejects Mooney Plea Review By High Court
The Supreme Court denied review of Thomas J. Mooney’s petition seeking release from San Quentin. Justice Black and Reed issued a dissents signaling no relief unless new evidence appears. Mooney plans to press 20 day papers for an original habeas corpus action with Chief Justice Hughes.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Thomas J. Mooney
San Quentin Penitentiary
Mooney
San Francisco
Black
Reed
John F. Finerty
Hughes
High Tribunal
California Supreme Court
Anna Marie Hahn
Cincinnati
Ohio Electric
Jacob Wagner
Charles
Lucky) Luciano
New York City
Western Missouri
Kansas City
Douglas Fairbanks
British Move to End Terrorism in Holy Land
British armed forces in Palestine launch a major new drive supported by reinforcements bringing the total to about 21 000 soldiers and police. The action follows the July 1937 partition proposal and comes amid Arab Jewish strife with hundreds killed or injured in the past year. Lieutenant General R H Haining commands the campaign in a bid to restore order.
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Jerusalem
Palestine
Holy Land
Leche Seeks Reinstatement For Dismissed Teacher
Governor Richard W. Leche asks Tangipahoa parish authorities to reconsider the dismissal of Richard Bankston, Ward Line school's principal, citing the 1936 tenure law protecting teacher political expression amid his ties to the Louisiana Farmers Protective Union and Tulane Rose Bowl alumnus status.
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Baton Rouge
Richard W. Leche
Tangipahoa Parish
Richard Bankston
Baptist
Bankston
Tulane University
Tangipahoa
Livingston Parishes
Louisiana Farmers Protective Union
James H. Morrison
J. K. Griffith
Griffith
Leche
C. C. Pittman
Parish
Ouachita Fair Draws 20000 Attend in West Monroe
The Ouachita Valley Fair association reports a 20 000 attendance for its six day exposition ending Sunday in West Monroe. 4 H club exhibits packed for Louisiana State fair in Shreveport October 19 directed by Jewel McQuiller and D L Bornman Jr. Girls enter clothing food preservation and poultry items while boys showcase sweet potatoes corn cotton fruit and native woods and leaves.
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Ouachita Valley Fair Association
West
Monroe
Shreveport
Jewel McQuiller
Parish
D. L. Bornman, Jr
Ouachita Parish
Auto Plunge Near Lutch er Fatal Figure
Henry R. Daffron 31 died after his car plunged into a canal beside the Airline highway near Lutch er. An unidentified woman survived. The crash overturned in six feet of water as Daffron reportedly lost control. Daffron, a brewery department superintendent, died hours later from shock due to submersion.
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New Orleans
Henry R. Daffron
Lutcher
Theophile Landry
Daffron
Landry
Eugene Stanley Warns of Threat to Parish Primary Rights
Former Orleans parish district attorney Eugene Stanley said a supreme court case revived a threat to remove the right of parish Democratic executive committees to run primaries in Louisiana. The appeal concerns act 2 of the 1935 second extra session, which moved election duties to parish boards of supervisors and gave the governor appointment power. The 1927 supreme court decision had previously restored control to parish committees.
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New Orleans
Eugene Stanley
Orleans Parish
Supreme Court
Louisiana
Hal A. Burgess
Vernon Parish
Board of Supervisors
Louisiana Supreme Court
Board of Supervisors of Elections
Burgess
James Craik Morris Resigns as Bishop of Louisiana
The Right Rev. James Craik Morris bishop of Louisiana has tendered his resignation to the house of bishops of the Episcopal Church announced in churches yesterday. He is 68 and has served since March 1939 with his resignation effective March 1, 1939. He was elected May 14 1930 to succeed Davis Sessums after serving as missionary bishop of the Panama Canal Zone.
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New Orleans
James Craik Morris
D. D
Louisiana
House of Bishops
Episcopal Church
Morris
Memphis
Tenn
Davis Sessums
St. James’ Church
Alexandria
Panama Canal Zone
Louisville
University of the South
Sewanee
Grace Episcopal Church
Monroe
Demand grows in France for vote on policy
Paris reports that Premier Daladier's Radical Socialist party faces rising calls for a national referendum on foreign policy. A Radical Independent won a senatorial seat in Herault, while factions urge dissolution of the chamber for a general election. The move reflects divisions over cooperation with Germany and policy toward Franco's Spain.
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France
Paris
Daladier
Radical Socialist
Munich
Pierre Masse
Herault
Cally
Chamber of Deputies
Germany
Georges Potit
Nevers
Chamber
Radical Socialist Party
Paul Maulion
Senate
Maulion
Democratic Left
Haly
Socialist Party
le Populaire
Franco
Savages
King and Queen Announce Canadian Royal Tour
London reports King George VI and Queen Elizabeth plan a three week visit to Canada next summer. Government confidence sanctions the empire tour as a sign world calm may endure for six months. The party may total about 106 with staff and attendants.
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London
Britain
George
Elizabeth
Canada
United States
Soviet Air Force Denounces Lindbergh Over Czech Surrender Claim
Moscow accuses Charles Lindbergh of spreading false reports on Soviet air power to justify British appeasement of Germany. Pravda cites eleven Soviet airmen calling him a stupid opportunist and alleges he claimed Germany could beat the combined air forces of France Britain the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia.
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Moscow
Russia
Charles A. Lindbergh
Chamberlain
Britain
Czechoslovakia
London
Lindbergh
England
Illice Island
France
House of Commera
Germany
Vasily Ten
Pravda
Lady Astor
Mr Fleet
Soviet Union
Roosevelt 10 Discuss Budget
President Roosevelt, returning from Hyde Park, will host a White House conference on next year’s budget. He plans talks with Morgenthau, Hanes, and Bell to review preliminary figures and possible cuts or increases, with guests including Rivers, Gillis, Welch, Brennan, and Hassan Bey. He left Hyde Park at 11 p.m. CST after a weeklong stay.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Hyde Park
White House
Morgenthau
Treasury
John Hanes
Daniel W. Bell
Treasury Department
E. D. Rivers
Georgia
James Gillis
Rivers
Richard J. Welch
California
Robert Brennan
Mahmoud Hassan Bey
20 Killed as Plane Crash Hits Ruhr Valley Flight
Berlin reports that Lufthansa learned that two persons died in a Belgian airliner crash near Soest in the Ruhr valley northwestern Germany. Victims include seven Germans one Dutch passenger and the Belgian crew of four. Bodies were scattered over a long area as search parties began recovering them.
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Berlin
Laufthansa
Soest
Ruhr
Germany
Abanaa A
East
Dertraund
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Missouri Pacific Club
High Court
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Smith
Green
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Houston
Tex
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Labor Board
Resolutions Committee
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Charley
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Yank
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