O Connell deported after anti communist rally clash
Rep. Jerry O Connell Montana Democrat was seized by New Jersey police at Pershing Field in Jersey City as 15000 Hague supporters gathered for an anticomm unist rally. He was held for an hour then sent by subway to Newark. His wife was injured and he said he would meet with Roosevelt and Farley.
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Jersey City
N. J
U.2
Frank Hague
Jerry O’connell
Montana
Pershing Field
O'Connell
Hague
Daniel Casey
Publc Safety
Newark
Han
Capital
O’connells
Washington
United States
Roosevelt
James A. Farley
Democratic National Committee
American Federation of Labor Unions
Committee For Industrial Organization
American Legion
Casey
Jap Air Raiders Kill 500 in Canton City
Official estimates report about 500 killed and 1,000 injured after daylong Japanese air raids on Canton. Wongsha station and central districts suffered heavy destruction with blocks reduced to rubble. Chinese volunteers aided refugees near Shameen while British sailors delayed by railway bombing.
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Canton
Hongkong
China
Wongsha Railway Station
Wongsha
Hankow-Canton
Central Park
City Hospital
Tungshan
Shameen
Shameen Jis
Hankow
JSPS
Kweiteh
Shanghai
Sunghai
Suchow
Lunghai
Chengchow
Henan
Langhai
Peiping-Hankow
Indictment of Big Three in Car Industry Is Announced
Federal grand jury charges allege General Motors Ford and Chrysler conspired to promote monopoly by coercing dealers to finance sales through their finance arms. Indictments name 50 individuals and affiliated firms. Trials expected in South Bend this fall with Alfred Sloan Jr and William Knudsen among those named.
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South Bend
Ind
General Motors Corporation
Ford Motor Company
Chrysler Corporation
United States Dist. Atty
James R. Fleming
Milwaukee
Fleming
Srmal Automobile
Alfred P. Sloan Jr
William S. Knudsen
General Motors
Winnebago County Receives Relief Funds Allocation
The state public welfare department announced $222,236 in relief funds for counties not previously sharing in the $3,000,000 appropriation. Allocations, approved by the state emergency board, cover Oct 4, 1937 to Mar 31, 1938, with Winnebago receiving $8,026 and Milwaukee $115.79. Other listed counties include Dane, Racine, Sheboygan, and Jefferson among many, plus $80,605 for dune expenses and $61,000 for relief administration. Checks will be mailed weekly for all allotments.
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Madison
State Public Welfare Department
State Emergency Board
Milwaukee County
Brown
Chippewa
Columbia
Dane
Dodge
Dunn
Eau Claire
Fond du Lac
Grant
Green
Jefferson
Manitowoc
Marathon
Monroe
Outagamie
Racine
Rock
St. Croix
Sauk
Sheboygan
Vernon
Walworth
Washington
Waukesha
Waupaca
Winnebago
Unsettled Wisconsin Weather With Showers Likely
Unsettled tonight and Sunday with showers and local thunderstorms probable. Cool Monday and Tuesday, then gradual warming. Great Lakes region to see generally fair start to week with showers midweek, temperatures ranging from mid thirties to mid sixties, winds from the west, barometer around 29.90.
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Associa
Wisconsin
Rainne Cloedywamkee
Phoenix
Duruin
Great Lakes
Buckstall Observatory
Maumum
Paunack Named Head of State Banking Review Board
Madison announces the election of August O. Paunack of Madison as chairman of the state banking review board. Paunack serves as president of the Commercial State Bank. Fred Freede of Milwaukee named vice chairman. other members include Franklin Jahnke of Markesan John King of Wausau and H A von Oven of Beloit.
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Madison
August O. Paunack
State Banking Review Board
Paunack
Commercial State Bank
Fred Freede
The
Home Savings Bank
Milwaukee
Franklin Jahnke
Markesan
John King
Wausau
H. A. von Oven
Beloit
Ballot Weekend Amid Sudeten Tension Brings Czech Vote
In Prague crowds display national colors for President Benes on his birthday while 3.5 million Sudeten Germans press for autonomy. Berlin reports Hitler conferred with his chiefs as Czech towns brace for Sunday elections across 700 communities, warning of possible disruption. Henlein’s party expected to dominate in ethnic German areas. Parliament delays session over minority statute.
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Wade Werner
Praha
Czechoslovakia
Eduard Benes
Nazifuehrer
Konrad Henlein
Germany
Benes
Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Cach
Hitler Cours
Hitler
Fuhrer
Henlein
Hull Reminds Europe of Kellogg Pact Obligations
Secretary of State Cordell Hull urged European powers to honor their Kellogg-Briand pact duties to seek pacific settlements as regional tensions rose around Germany and Czechoslovakia. The statement, issued amid possible new diplomacy, noted past similar admonitions and warned that direct diplomatic steps could follow if the crisis deepens.
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Washington
U.P
Cordell Hull
Europe
Hull
Germany
Czechoslovakia
State Department
Soviet
Russia
China
Japan
Maly
Ethiopia
Highway officials to attend Eklund rites in Pethtigo
Officials of the Wisconsin state highway commission led by Chairman Thomas F. Davin head to Pethtigo Sunday to attend the funeral of Andrew Eklund seven dean of county highway commissioners. Eklund served Marinette county as highway commissioner for 33 years and died Thursday. Members of the Green Bay Liston include Marinette county will attend the service.
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Madison
State Highway Commission
Thomas F. Davin
Pethtigo
Andrew Eklund
Wisconsin
Eklund
Marineth County
Green Bay
Dn Liston
Marinette County
Ube Servioua! i
Strike Ends. Oshkosh Truck Drivers Return to Work
The Oshkosh truck drivers strike ended this morning with about 100 workers from five firms returning to work at a 5 cent per hour raise. Agreements reached at a conference applied to five firms and were ratified by Truck Drivers Local 126, with contracts running one year to May 1, 1939. A 45 hour summer and six nine hour winter weeks, time and a half overtime, and double time for holidays were set, while wage clauses remained largely unchanged.
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Oshkosh
Atbearn Hotel
South Side Wood and Coal Company
Cook & Brown Lime Company
Pipkorn Fuel and Supply Company
Frank Kriz & Co
F. M. Spellman Company
American Federation of Labor
Trades and Labor Hall
Fuller-Goodman Lumber Company
Oshkosh Pure Ice Company
Winnebago Ice and Fuel Company
Stelzner Fuel Company
Kubie Ice and Fuel Company
Entire Division of Spain Troops Shot to Pieces in Tremp Assault
Dispatches from Hendaye report that an entire government division was destroyed while attempting to storm Tremp, the key hydroelectric hub on the Catalonian front. The attack on the San Cornelio range failed, with only one company regaining government lines. Authorities say 23,400 troops massed east of Tremp and mobilization plans grow to up to 1,000,000 by conservatives. Military classes of 1925 and 1926 ordered mobilized. 18 to 24 year olds called to service amid continued political agitation for broader conscription.
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Hendaye
France
Tremp
San Cornelio
Lawrence College to Hear Gordon Laing as Speaker
Gordon J. Laing, editor of The University Press and dean emeritus of humanities at the University of Chicago, was announced as commencement speaker for Lawrence College. Ten students will receive degrees at the ceremony in Appleton.
D. K. Allen in Critical Condition After Crash
The former district attorney of Winnebago County, D. K. Allen, was reported in critical condition at Mercy Hospital at 3 40 this afternoon. He sustained severe skull and chest injuries in a Highway 45 collision on Sunday May 15. A Milwaukee specialist was called in as a consultant and an operation to relieve brain pressure was performed Thursday evening.
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D. K. Allen
Winnebago County
Mercy Hospital
Northwestern
Allen
Highway 45
Milwaukee
Four Jailed Linked With Big Spy Ring
A Bremen crew member and three ship officers were jailed on heavy bonds as material witnesses in a major espionage case tied to German spy operations. U S Attorney Lamar Hardy disclosed additional witnesses, with over 30 involved. The Bremen sailed amid swift FBI actions and a broadened probe centered on the ship and related suspects.
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New York
1U.pt
Bremen
J. Edgar Hoover
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Europa
Johanna Hofmann
Europe
Ignatz T. Grieb
United States
Germany
Supena
U. S
Lamar Hardy
Wilhelm Boehnke
Hardy
Johann Kieiber
Johann Hiurt
Walter Otto
Ship Line
Ellwood Colahan
Senate foes of relief bill tie up cash in Senate
Washington reports that Senate leaders gained unanimous consent to limit debate on a 3.25 billion recovery bill. The move aims for final action by Thursday or Friday with speakers restricted to 30 minutes total per senator and 15 minutes per amendment.
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Senate
Washington
Alben W. Barkley
Byrd
Virginia
Public Works Administration
Roosevelt
Ickes
PWA
Harry Hopkins
Works Progress Administrator
Rep
Otha Wearin
Iowa
Wearin
Guy M. Gillette
Hopkins
WPA
Persh
Idaho
Gillette
Charles Vogl Placed on Probation for Five Years
Charles C Vogl a former state banking department official from Aniwa Wisconsin pleaded guilty to embezzlement and was placed on probation for five years by Outagamie Circuit Court Judge Edgar V Werner. He paid restitution of 9884 07 and court costs. The arrest followed allegations related to three banks and occurred March 1.
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Appleton
Wis
Charles C. Vogl
Aniwa
State Banking Department
State Board of Control
Vogl
Outagamie
Edgar V. Werner
Roosevelt Misinfoed Says Harrison on Tax Revision
Senator Harrison of Mississippi defends the 1938 tax revision against President Roosevelt’s criticisms. He asserts Congress framed the measure to aid business and warns of inevitable tax legislation next year to revise minor levies. He details the capital gains tax as a progressive levy benefiting the little man.
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Washington
Harrison
Mississippi
Roosevelt
Senate Finance Committee
Treasury
Congress
Arthurdale
W. Va
Finance Committee
Senate
Coalitionists at Madison as plan to unite parties blooms
Madison leaders meet to form a coalition uniting Democrats and Republicans against the Progressive party in state elections. Former State Treasurer Robert K. Henry of Jefferson is discussed as a possible governor candidate. A tentative slate includes for lieutenant governor Kenneth White of River Falls and Leonard Kieczke of Milwaukee. for secretary of state E. J. Roche of Fenimore and Judge Fiord Olson of the Seventeenth district. The panel weighs candidates for treasurer and attorney general and considers petitions for declaratory judgment on cross-ticket nominations.
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Madison
Robert K. Henry
Jefferson
Henry
Charman
James J. Kerwin
Milwaukee
Kerwin
Kenneth White
River Falls
Leonard Kieczke
E. J. Rocthe
Fennimore
Fiord Olson
George Groviey
Jo? Oshkosh
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Bank Review Board
Marty L. Hopkins
Chicago
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Lawrence
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CODE
Adolf Aherns
Hcer
Ene Warning
Karl Gerstung
Grand Jury
Griebl
Premerhaven
New Orleans
UPI
Sylvia May Bradshaw
U.S
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White House
Garner
King
Utah
Rele
Charles Vogl
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