McNutt to Sail For U S From Philippines
Manila dispatch reports Commissioner Paul McNutt winning official permission to sail for the United States on Thursday. He declined to address rumors his trip aims at resigning as commissioner and joining the 1940 Democratic presidential campaign. He expects to reach San Francisco in late June via China.
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Manila
P. T
INS
Tigi
Paul ¥. McNutt
Philippine Islands
Washington
United States
Minate
Arrie
San Francisco
China
Attendance figures at fair disputed in San Francisco
Golden Gate exposition officials claimed insider figures show New York world fair attendance for its first six days reached 615000, opposed to the official 104000. Inside totals for the Golden Gate exposition said to be 430322 in six days, about two thirds of New York’s early totals, boosting West Coast morale.
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San Francisco
May
Pension rights urged for church workers by Methodist leaders
Dr Ernest Fremond Tittle urged the newly united Methodist church to recognize the employer’s right to organize and establish a pension fund for all workers. He called for the church to support collective bargaining and social action, citing ministers, janitors, and publishing plant staff. The conference discussed a social creed, temperance, and exemptions for conscientious objectors, while outlining broader aims for conditions, old age security, and rural preservation.
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Kansas City
Ernest Fremond Tittle
Evanston
United Methodist Church
Tittle
Edwin II Hughes
Washington
National Board For Missions
Board of Hospitals, Nations, Treasury
Methodist Church
New York Pushes Campaign Against Begging Racket
New York police under Mayor LaGuardia launched a drive to wipe out the city’s $15 million a year begging racket. Welfare Commissioner Willan Hudson estimated at least 10,000 panhandlers are fakes and phonies, organized in associations and clubs and soliciting in public.
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New York
New York City
LaGuardia
Willan Hudson
Abn
Sailor Departs on Round Trip to Honolulu and Midway
George Priestly a 27 year old dairy salesman left San Francisco in a 32 foot sailboat bound for Honolulu and then Midway Island. He expects to return in about two months completing a round trip voyage.
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Honolulu
San Francisco
George Priestly
Alent
Midway Island
Fires Abating in Michigan Forests Raging Earlier
Extensive northern Michigan fires eased today as winds shifted. In Montmorency Presque Isle and Cheboygan counties more than 2000 fires rekindled at dawn while state conservation officials in Atlanta Montgomery county described progress as improved at 9 am. Several structures burned.
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Detroit
Michigan
Tower Peninsula
Montjgomers
Presque Isle
Cheboy-j
State’ Conservation Department
Atlanta
Montgomery County
Mexico Clash Ends in Bloodshed at Puebla State
Twenty men killed and 60 wounded in Atencingo Puebla after agrarian invaders clash with troops trying to evict them from an hacienda once owned by an American consular agent William G Jenkins. Ambushes halted officers’ advance for two hours until ammunition ran low.
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Mexico City
Atencingo
Puebla
William G. Jenkins
Three Boys Arrested in Glasser Ark Shop Burglary
Three boys were arrested by traffic officer T. S. Suche at Houston and St. Mary's street and held for juvenile authorities for burglary at the Glasser Ark shop, 102 East Houston street. About $20 worth of items valued at $160 were recovered, after a Sunday burglary and a prior break-in on Thursday at the same shop.
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T. S. Suche
Houston
St. Mary's ‘Street
Glasser Ark
East
Houston Street
Jesse Jones May Be Democratic Choice
Washington report says Jesse Jones RFC chairman is tipped as a possible dark horse for the 1940 Democratic presidential nomination. He is a trusted Roosevelt adviser and close ally of Vice President Garner and Postmaster General Farley, signaling strong cross-party ties in Washington. An Azores quake at 1:45 am local time caused no damage.
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Washington
Jesse Jones
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
RFC
Hein
Roosevelt
John N. Gamer
James A. Farley
Azores
Ponta Delgada
Lands
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Trara Balbo
Silers
Somerset Maugham
France
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Karl Schleuter
Masi
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Guenther Rumrich
Coste Riva
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Ameri¢sa
Berlin
Chile
South America
Duce
Spain
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Titer
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