Explosion Devastates Alcazar as Madrid Battles Ruin
A massive blast from two mines ripped Madrid’s Alcazar, killing or wounding many of the 100 fascist defenders. Government forces, firing from cellars and using machine guns, fought through the rubble as a second major blast followed. Syndicalists urged conscription and reforms amid the siege. Continued on Page 2.
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James C. Oldfield
Associated Press
Madrid
Toldo
Alcazar
Taleda
Republic
Progressives name executives to aid Roosevelt campaign
The Progressive national committee announced a nine member executive board led by Frank P. Walsh of New York and George M. Harrison of Cincinnati. Appointees include Sen Elmer A Benson and Maury Maverick among others, with La Follette saying future additions will be made as campaigns expand. A New York headquarters will open as plans are finalized.
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Progressive National Committee
Chicago
Roosevelt
Robert M. Ia Follette Jr
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Cincinnati
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San Francisco
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Alexander
Gordon
Indianapolis
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Washington
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Lincoln
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Maury Maverick
San Antonio
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Boston
Ftass
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M. W. Thatcher
Milltown
Wis
Peter Witt
Cleveland
Paul U
Cellogy
Omer T. Bone
National Committee
New York
Defitt
Topeka
Kan
Alf M. Landon
Republican Party
America
Landen
Landon
Youth Has No Future Theory Splits 1936 Election
Backers of William Lemke’s Union party claim 210 electoral votes to push the vote into the House. Father Coughlin and Dr Townsend advocate an old age pension plan and aim to sway Congress to install Lemke as president if no candidate wins a majority.
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Lyle C. Wilson
United Press
Washington
U.P
William Lemke
Union Party
House of Representatives
Charles £. Coughlin
Lemke
Pension Plan
Francis
Townsend
Townsend Weekly
Pension Plan National
Congress
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New York
Pennsylvania
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Coughlin
Dr. Townsend
White House
California
House
Louis B. Ward
Father Coughlin
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Senate
Massachusetts
Alf M. Landon
Roosevelt
Ohio
Tragedy in Nile Collision Drowns 45 Egyptians
Forty five Egyptian workmen their wives and children fell victim when a holiday steamer collided with a sailing boat near the Cairo outskirts. Only four were saved as rescuers fought a swift current on the flooded Nile.
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Cairo
Egypt
Nile
Foutskirts
San Angelo Flood Victims Recover as Waters Recede
In San Angelo Texas rescuers saved seven refugees marooned in trees as Concho River floods receded. Damage exceeds two million dollars with about 400 homeless in the devastated city and a drowning reported near De Leon. Debris filled homes and bridges suffered severe damage.
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San Angelo
Tex
Plum Creek
Concho River
Eugene Weaver
Robbie
James
Henry Boyd
Robert Canute
Weaver
Eugene Heshew
Texas Ranch County
de Leon
Ralph Stephens
Copperas Creek
San Anglo
Dean Chenoweth
Hoppmann Rules Wisconsin Public Ownership Law Unconstitutional
Dane county circuit Judge A C Hoppmann informally ruled that a Wisconsin law allowing two or more communities to join in owning a public utility is unconstitutional. The Clam River Electric Co filed the suit, and a formal order will follow once briefs are filed, with expected appeal to the state supreme court.
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U.A
Wisconsin
A. C. Hoppmann
Dane County Circuit Court
Hoppmann
State Public Service Commission
Clam River Electric Company
Polk-Burnett
Public Service Commission
Leormission
State Supreme Court
H. T. Ferguson
Commission Course
Glen Bell
Philip Sanborn
Ripon College Board Restores Faculty Salary Cuts
Ripon Wisconsin announces that voluntary salary reductions taken by Ripon College faculty years ago have been restored by the board of trustees. President Silas Evans disclosed the move and Mrs. Marshall Scott of Ripon has accepted to succeed her late husband as a trustee. In Superior Wisconsin authorities investigate the death of Patrick O Toole 65 whose body was found along a railroad right of way suspected to have been struck by a freight train.
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Ripon. Wis
Ripon College
Silas Evans
Evans
Marshall Scott
Ripon
Superior
Wis
Patrick O'Toole
Herbert Smith
O'Toole
Truth Advises President At Harvard Today
President Roosevelt speaks at Harvard tercentary theater urging citizenship and truth as guiding ideals. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt recovering from flu remains in bed. White House says she is improving and the trip will be cut short to Washington.
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Search For Truth
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Washington
UPI
Franklin D. Roosevelt
White House
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Eastern States Parkway
Fishvill
N.Y
Cambridge
Mass
Roosevelt
Harvard University
America
Sons of the Crimson
Coleridge
Euripides
Andrew Jackson
Harvard College
Grover Cleveland
Japan and China clash near Fengtai in North China
Peiping dispatch reports Japanese and Chinese troops clashed at Fengtai, a railway town between Peiping and Tientsin. Japanese HQ said a Chinese soldier attacked a hospital orderly, triggering the confrontation. The date marks the Mukden anniversary amid an anti-Japanese demonstration that left thirty injured and fifty arrested at the boundary of the French concession and native city.
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Fengtai
China
Peipiing
Demei
Tientsin
Pieping
Mukden
Manchuria
Uniform accounting urged for all utilities by Coffin
Frank A. Coffin president of the Wisconsin Utilities Association urged uniform accounting rules for federal municipal and privately owned utilities at the association convention. He warned nonuniform standards mislead and hinder rate comparisons and urged strict regulation for municipally owned plants.
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Green Lake
Wis
U.M
Frank A. Coffin
Wisconsin Utilities Association
Coffin
Collins
Strikes Freeze French Cotton Mills Across Vosges
With 30,000 idle workers near Epinal and Saint Die, linen and textile mills halt as Lille region walkouts end. Mill owners demand government resolve and wage offers deputies say a tentative Lille settlement raises wages six percent, while officials claim victory for both sides.
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Vosges
France
Lille
Epinal
Saint Jie
Pierre Thiriez
Employers Federation
Association of Textile Operators of France
Atlantic hurricane slams Atlantic coast towns
A major hurricane battered a 1000 mile stretch of the Atlantic coast from North to Maine, cutting communications, isolating dozens of communities, and threatening life and property. The storm center crossed Cape Hatteras then Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, and New York with winds reaching far from the core. Two deaths were reported in early tallies as warnings extended along the seaboard.
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South Carolina
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Virginia
Maryland
Delaware
New Jersey
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Oceen City
United States
Cape Hatteras
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Fischer Beats Goodman in Amateur Golf Semifinal
UK entrant Johnny Fischer of Cincinnati law school advances to the US amateur final with a 2 and 1 victory over Omaha favorite Johnny Goodman in a 36 hole match. He will face Jock McLean after McLean dispatched George Voigt 8 and 7 in the other semi.
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Stuart Cameron
United Press
Garden City
N. Y
Johnny Fischer
University of Cincinnati
Johnny Goodman
Omaha
Fischer
Jock McLean
McLean
George Voigt
New York
Tom Perkins
Bobby Jones
Voigt
Perkins
Kelly declines recount after tight Fond du Lac primary
State Senator Morley G. Kelly, who won the Democratic nomination over Fond du Lac attorney Ted Hitzler by 57 votes, announced he would not seek a recount. He cited no trambling intimation and blamed heavy rain that kept voters from the polls, saying the defeat was influence by weather and turnout.
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Fond du Lac
Morley G. Kelly
Ted Hitzler
Kelly
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