Rebels Escape Dynamite Set to Nill Them
London dispatch reports rebel airplanes bombing Madrid with slight damage. A rebel plane is said to have been shot down near Madrid. Portuguese government blocks arms exports to Spain under nonintervention policy. Government leaders claim spies inside militiamen foil a dynamite trap set to halt rebel advance. detonators failed and many insurgents died.
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London
Madrid
Commounique
Elmer W. Peterson
Associated
Tron
Spain
Mount Marceil
Foreign
Five Die As Truck Plunges Over Cliff Near Darlington
A loaded truck carrying laborers crashed through a guard rail and fell 50 feet at the Conowings dam bridge near Darlington Maryland. Five killed and 16 injured, some in serious condition, as the vehicle rolled off the embankment onto the road below. The workers were en route from New Jersey to Florida. Emergency crews and a Rising Sun ambulance aided the injured.
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Darlington
Conowings Dam
Here
Elkton
Elizabeth Stewart
New Jersey
Florida
Susquehanna River
Earl Tyson
Rising Sun
William Garner
Lincoln University
Oxford
Dern Cabinet Secretary Dern Dies in Washington
George Henry Dern, 64, secretary of war in the Roosevelt cabinet, died at Walter Reed hospital from heart and influenza complications. He passed at 9:55 a.m. CST as news reached President Roosevelt, plans for half mast and mourning guns were ordered, and a guard of honor was set for his funeral in Arlington and Utah burial eligibility due to service.
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Washington
George Henry Dern
Roosevelt
Walter Reed Hospital
Central
Bismarck
N. C
Utah
Arlington National Cemetery
Dern
Harry H. Woodring
Malin Craig
Army
Johnson Placed in Oxygen Tent Amid Pneumonia Fight
Magnus Johnson, ex congressman and former U S senator, was placed in an oxygen tent as pneumonia worsened. Doctors noted a weak heart required intravenous feeding though he can take some nourishment by mouth. He spent a fairly good night after a sinking spell and had recently hoped to visit Gov. Olson before Olson’s death.
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Litchfield
Mion
Magnus Johnson
Washington
United States
Floyd B. Olson
Rochester
Minn
St. Paul
President Roosevelt Tours Drouth Area Near Bismarck
President Roosevelt arrives in Bismarck North Dakota to inspect the drouth area on the 1936 dust bowl frontier. He travels aboard the Roosevelt Special and plans a motor tour after lunch aboard the train with acting governors Walter Welford and Elmer Holt. He will confer with drouth committee members and visit PWA projects to aid relief efforts.
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Frederick A. Storm
United Press
White House
Bismarck
N. B
Roosevelt
Washington
Mississippi
North Dakota
PWA
Walter Welford
Elmer E. Holt
Montana
Morris L. Cooke
Great Plains Drouth Committee
Drouth
Texas Panhandle
Canadian
Welford
Burton K. Wheeler
James E. Murray
Dreuth Committee
Henry Wallace
Harry Hopkins
WPA
William L Myers
Bar Association Divided Over Roosevelt Administration Policies
The American Bar Association defeated a resolution to investigate alleged abuses in the Mooney and Billings prosecutions. A split committee report on Roosevelt era policies showed four members dismissing obligations to protect citizens rights while three urged discharging the committee to avoid politicization during election year. The minority feared further debate would entangle the ABA in partisan politics.
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Bestow
American Bar Association Today
Thomas Mooney
Warren K. Billings
San Francisco
Boston
American Bar Association
Roosevelt
Supreme Court
Wittman S Ship Damaged in Oshkosh Landing Mishap
Oshkosh speed flyer S J Wittman escaped unhurt after Bonzo nosed over at the Oshkosh airport during a trial flight. The plane rolled toward Andrew Shumway’s car as Wittman coasted to stop, the left wing sliding over the car and the ship nose burying in the dirt. Continued on Page 2 Col 1.
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S. J. Wittman
Oshkosh
Bonzo
Wittman
Andrew Shumway
Shumway
Rain Forecast Across Midwest States Tonight
Showers expected tonight and tomorrow across Minnesota Wisconsin Iowa northern Illinois and Indiana with heavy rainfall in scattered areas. Light rain may greet eastern Dakotas where President Roosevelt tours. Pleasant weather elsewhere with no temperature change in Kansas Missouri and southern Illinois despite lingering 100 degree heat. Pastures in Iowa Illinois Wisconsin and South Dakota refreshed by last night rains and the Midwest drouth relief outlook remains cautious. The Chicago Board of Trade noted improved late corn conditions and revived pastures as rains spread, with a small dip in wheat futures.
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Chicago
Tomorow
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Iowa
Illinois
Indiana
A. Cook
Dakotas
Roosevelt
Kansas
Missouri
South Dakota
Cook
Drouth
Nebraska
Chicago Board of Trade Today
Knox Scores New Dealers Major Plans
Col. Frank Knox Republican vice presidential nominee attacks President Roosevelt for shadow boxing on economic royalists. He says New Deal policies are in ruins and accuses the administration of limiting opportunity through corporate power and monopoly, urging a new performer.
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Robert M. Yoder
Associated Press
Hampton Beach
N. H
Frank Knox
Roosevelt
Knox
Rockingham County
Republican Club
Ocean Beach
Philadelphia
Milwaukee Mourns Chief Jacob G. Laubenheimer
City in mourning as Chief of Police Jacob G. Laubenheimer lay in state at the auditorium for civic funeral services. Blue uniforms guard the casket while thousands pass to pay respects and fans salute at Borchert field. Masonic rites planned with Herman A. Mosher to deliver the eulogy.
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Jacob G. Laubenheimer
Cief
Borchert Field
Herman A. Mosher
Harmony Lodge No. 142
Herbert N. Laflin
Harness Racing Is Feature At Wisconsin Fair
Milwaukee day program at the state fair featured Grand Circuit harness races and the state horse shoe pitching finals. Attendance in five days reached 278,109, up nearly 20,000 from last year. Bulls from multiple farms claimed grand and junior championships across Holstein Friesians Ayrshires Aberdeen Angus and Brown Swiss classes.
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Casey Jones
Waukesha
Harry Elmerson
Milwaukee
Maytag Dairy Farms
Cong
Don
Battles Farm
Yakima
Wash
Epponian
Harriman Leaves Federal Prison
Joseph W. Harriman former powerful New York financier left the federal northeastern penitentiary in Lewisburg Pennsylvania after serving less than half of his four and a half year sentence. He traveled toward New York in a car with his wife a nurse and a chauffeur following a brief stop at the inn where Mrs Harriman kept vigil during his confinement.
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Lewisburg
Joseph W. Harriman
New York
Hull protests OMIP ruling on freedom of the seas
Secretary Hull informs Madrid that Spain cannot bar merchant ships from rebel ports without an effective blockade. The United States asserts a war zone description is insufficient unless enforcement is demonstrated, while noting a moral embargo on arms to both sides remains in place.
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Spain
Stanley P. Richardson
Associated Press
Washington
United States
Madrid
Hull
America
Boy dies after car leaves highway near Pewaukee
James Cullen, 12, of Racine, died in a hospital hours after theauto in which he rode left Highway 16 two miles east of Pewaukee and struck a culvert. His sister Rose Cullen 21 and two other passengers Mary Perakowvich 23 and Henry De Groot of Racine were treated for shock. The group was returning from Wisconsin Dells when the driver Miss Cullen lost control.
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Waukesha
Wis
U.P
James Cullen
Racine
Highway 16
Pewaukee
Cullen
Rose
Mary Perakowvich
Henry de Groot
Wisconsin Dells
Miss Cullen
Dean to testify before Oakland county grand jury
Pontiac Detroit resident Dayton Dean who confessed to the Black Bees slaying was to testify today before the Oakland county grand jury investigating the terrorist society. The grand jury will file its report Monday.
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Pontiac, Mich
Dayton Dean
Detroit
Charles A. Poole
Oakland County
Terroriat Society
Landon Attacks Tax Law in Illinois Campaign Tour
Governor Landon denounces a new tax law as cockeyed during a three day swing through Illinois. He calls for immediate repeal of the withholding based corporate tax and urges overhaul of the tax structure as he campaigns toward Topeka. He also visits Lincoln's tomb and speaks to Buffalo and Pontiac audiences aboard his special train.
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Landon
O. A. Martin
Associated Press
Lasden
Ilinois
Abraham Lincoln
Topeka
East
Buffalo
New Deal Aie
Ted A
State
New York
Joe Dwight
Pontiac
Bloomington
Lincoln
Springfield
Wwe
Fool’s Paradise
Nazi Prosperity Seen As Peace Guarantee In Europe
Edward Kennedy reports that Dr Hjalmar Schacht, Nazi finance chief, argued economic revival in Germany would secure European peace. He framed Reichsbank prosperity as France’s best protection while linking armament cuts to unemployment absorption and possible trade expansion. Some sources say the move aimed at shielding France from Russia and fostering closer Franco German ties.
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Edward Kennedy
Associated Press
Hjalmar i Schacht
France
Reichsbank
Germany
Schacht
Reich
Russia
Stepa
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Portugal
Tate Police
Harford County
Weber
Wae Roosevelt
Johnson
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Drouth Area
Colma
Reiland J. Steinic
Milwauder
Leutenant Vermer
Menasha Park
Laubenheimer
Wisconsin Fair
Ayrshires
Cavalier’s
Adam Seitz and Sons
Lonnie Royal
J. J. Lynes and Sons
Plainfield
Towa
Prague
Pride
Fred Esterly
Foremost Gipsy
Brampton Pioneer
Edward A. Hunter
Ann Arbor
Oaklands Farm
Lancaster College
Allynhurst Farms
Delavan
Allynhurst
Mary’s Nell
Foxwood
Wasco
Regina Vogel
Harriman
OMIP
Boy
Dean
Calle
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