War and politics across nations in 1938 era headlines
Arthur Brisbane reflects on the rise of militarism in Japan and Stalin’s naval buildup, noting Japan's emperor loyalty and the West’s fear of war. The piece critiques industrial growth and transportation shifts, from rail to road, and mentions time changes in Chicago. It also covers Jewish colonization plans in Birobidjan and Soviet policy on autonomous republics, plus antiwar protests in New York.
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Wiliam H. Cahey
Roner
Alexander A. Troyaninsky
Russia
Birobidjan
New Jersey
Cohen
Former Envoy Stabs Wife in Mexico City
Former Mexican military attache Grn. Alfonso Aguilar Rivera killed his wife Josefina Gutierres de Aguilar in Mexico City after police say he suspected her of having a lover. Rivera, who served in Berlin and Germany posts, was captured. he faced accusations tied to Adolfo de la Huerta era politics.
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Mexeco City
INS
Grn
Alfonso Aguilar Rivera
Berdin
Josefina Gutierres de Aguilar
Aguilar
Germany
Obregon
Adolfo de Isa Huerta
U S Wades In On Panama Treaty To End Intervention
Washington March 2 In line with Roosevelt’s policy the United States agrees to abandon its right of intervention in Panama The pact signed today sets a joint responsibility and cooperation framework to maintain public order and protect canal interests with Panama in Colon and adjacent harbors while allowing Panama to handle local affairs without U S intercession
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Washington
Roosevelt
United States
El Paso Electric Plants at Normal After Strike
El Paso's electric plants are back in full operation after a strike by members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. The company reported all power units normal and workers who struck are no longer employed. A mass meeting formed an El Paso Utility ownership league to push municipal power plants and a boycott of electrical energy was discussed.
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el] Paso Electric
EL Paso
International Brotherhood of Electric Workers
el Paso Electric Company
Steel Production Still Going Up
New York report shows steel production for the current week estimated at 53.5 percent of capacity by the American Iron and Steel Institute. This compares with 29.9 percent last week and 52 percent a month ago, with a year ago production at 48.2 percent of capacity.
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New York
American Iron Art Steel Institute
Laura La Plante Delivers Daughter in London
American film actress Laura La Plante wife of Irving Asher Warner Brothers studio director welcomed a daughter at a London nursing home today.
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Laura la Plante
London
Irving Asher
Warner Brothers Studio
Weather Forecast For San Antonio And Weinity
Cloudy with showers likely and cooler Monday night. Tuesday partly cloudy with a low around 52F and a high near 60F. Light to moderate northeast winds. Sunday high around 63F. East Texas mostly cloudy with showers possible in the south, cooler overall. Rio Grande Valley shows cloudy showers and cooler southeast Monday night.
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San Antonio
Weinity
East Texas
Meridan
Rio Guade
Ion
New York City Employee Strike Shuts Down Buildings
Mayor LaGuardia declares an emergency in Manhattan as a citywide employees strike spreads across residential and business districts. Deputized workers will ensure health and safety standards, with up to 60 thousand workers idle and potential extension to Wall Street feared.
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New York
LaGuardia
Manhattan
Financial District
Fhirteenth Street
James J. Stambrick
Building Service En Ployers’union
Metropolitan Association of Building Owners
Fafines
Swank Park Avenue
West Side
Bambrick
Wall Street Financial District
William D. Rawlins
Realty Advisory Board
Upper West Side
J Bambrick
Chris Houlihan
Hotel Workers Union
Jarg
Upper East Side
LaGwardia
Lehman
Bainbridge Colby
Feix Warburg
Walter P. Chryster Jr
Jesse Isidor Straus
France
Empire Grate
Dempsey
Riverside
Drive
Central Bark West
Jack Dempsey
Manassa
France Drops Objections to Naval Treaty at Conference
London reports an authoritative source says France has withdrawn palliate objections to a proposed naval treaty. After Britain's Foreign Office announced Germany’s readiness to negotiate an Anglo German bilateral accord, delegates grew more optimistic about a general sea treaty. The dispute over Germany’s participation in the plan led by the United States Britain France and Italy was a major point of contention at the conference.
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London
France
Germany
United States
Great Britain
Pranob
Italy
Talmadge Faces Suit Over Georgia War Chest Control
Georgia governor Eugene Talmadge faces an injunction attempt to block spending a reported 10 million dollar war chest. The suit, filed in Gainesville and accepted by Superior Judge B. P. Gaillard, challenges the governor’s one man rule and targets the highway board and de facto treasurer J. B. Daniel. The governor is immune from Georgia courts, preventing direct action against him.
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Talmadge
Atlanta
Eugene ‘Talmadges
Georgia
B. P. Gaillard
Gainesville
Highway Board
DeFacto
J. B. Daniel
February Weather Falls Short of Normal in San Antonio
February in San Antonio under the Weather Bureau standards showed two deficiencies with temperatures averaging 4.4 degrees below normal. Sunshine at 38 percent, six clear days versus fourteen in January, seven foggy days, and rainfall totaling 0.40 inches across six days, peaking with 0.13 inches on February 1.
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Sana Antonio
Fea
Raina
Real Rain Boosts Southwest Texas Farmers and Stockmen
Rain arrived in southwest Texas on Monday after a dry start to 1936, providing the first significant moisture. Deficiency since January 1 stood at over two inches but was being erased as Sunday’s 0.08 inch and Monday’s total added up by 1 p.m. Forecasts predicted continued rain and partly cloudy skies through Tuesday, with temperatures about eight degrees cooler and low near 62 degrees. Northeast winds contributed to the cooler weather.
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Southwest
Texas
Jarboe
Rehearing on TVA Decision Refused
Washington dispatch reports the Supreme Court refused to reconsider its TVA decision. The court disposed of several cases in a succession of unanimous rulings, leaving changes to be decided in other contexts.
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TVA
Washington, D. C
Supreme Court
Anti-Trask
Sugar Institute
Roosevelt nominates Texas U.S. Attorney for eastern district
President Roosevelt sent to the senate the nomination of Steve M. King of Texas to be United States attorney for the eastern Texas district.
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Roosevelt
Texas
U.S
Washington, D.C
Senate
Steve M. King
Texse
United States
Late Results Hialear Fifth Race at Odds and Distances
Purse 500 dollars with claiming for year olds. Result list shows Bay Hour finishing first with 5.40, 3.50, 50. Reigh Teleach second with 107 under Watton, time 1:81 25. Gold Th third at 3.80. Also listed are Anse Cow ige and Lady Grandees among others with sparse notes and page reference.
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Hialear
Bysherd
Reigh
Dias
Anse Cowige
Sambo Jones
Lady Grandees
Harry Richman
Britain ready for action against Italy over sanctions
Geneva March 2 Great Britain offered to seek an oil embargo against Italy if all League members join in. The League Council committee of 43 including Italy excluded will discuss conciliation and sanctions for the Italo Ethiopian war. Eden said Britain would proceed with sanctions while a calamittee of 13 would handle conciliation. France protested opposing harsher coercion. An Entente spokesman noted Italy’s economy worsened under sanctions and Mussolini might seek peace.
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Associated Preve
Geneva
Great Britain
Italy
League
League of Nations Council
League Council
Anthony Eden
Syith
Ethiopia
Pierre-Etienne
Flandin
France
Eden
Litle Entente
Mussolini
Tittle En Tente
Czechoslovakia
Yugolavia
Rumania
Maly
Tet & Perce
I Duce
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Plans To Let Bruno Die If Nothing Develops In Hauptmann Case
Trenton March 1 Governor Harold G Hoffmann weighing a second reprieve for Bruno Hauptmann. An official said only a second reprieve would be granted if the attorney general and the governor agree the circumstances warrant it. Wilentz remains silent on relief. A late week conference among Wilentz Schwarzkopf and Hunterdon Prosecutor Haucken discussed the Hauptmann case and possible papers stolen from Dwight Morrow Jrs rooms in Lindberghs circle.
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Trenton
WN. T
Herold G. Hoffman
Bruno
Richard Wavetmenn
Hauptmann
Wilentz
Wilentsz
Harald G. Hoffman
Col
H. Nonusn Schwarzkopf
David YT. Wilents
Schwartzkopf
Anthony M. Haucken
Hunterdon
Wilentia
Treston
Florida
Dwight Morrow Js. Ordier
Charles A. Lindbergh
Fire Takes 3 in eee Family Second Time Tragedy
In Midlany March 7 a second fire in twenty years devastates the Alban Thomas family. Three children perished in a blaze at their home, William Thomas 22, Estella 15 and Bertie 11 among the victims. The father recalls a prior fire in 1918 that killed more siblings, and neighbors report the house fire destroyed the dwelling. Five other children were also affected by the tragedy.
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Midlany
William Thomas
Estella
Bir~tie
Alban Thomas
Thirteen Killed as Tender Rolled into Locomotive Near Revelstoke
A tender backing toward a locomotive on the Canadian Pacific railway track near Downie 23 miles east of Revelstoke crushed a crew member and left thirteen dead two missing and eight in hospital. They were working to place the tender deck after a derailment caused by a slide.
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Revelstoke
B. C
Maron 2
Downie
Black Blizzard Strikes Panhandle Plains
Dust clouds lash the Panhandle as a black blizzard roars through Amarillo area. Winds surged overnight from light to high speeds, reducing visibility and carrying fine dust across open plains.
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Maren
Acros
Une Panhandle Plains
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