Hitler Holds Meetings With Top Aide Team On Border Tension
Adolf Hitler met with Goering Dietrich and von Ribbentrop today as German forces near the Polish border increase readiness. Reports say wears concealment of regimental numbers and new anti aircraft drills accompany intensified diplomacy aimed at a peaceful Danzig settlement with unconditional German control.
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Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Danzig
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Count Sowlan Osaky
Hungary
Tne
Marshall Goering
Hitler
Iwan
Otto Dietrich
Bleiwitz
Poland
Glenwitz
Beuthen
Mussolini
Italy
Free City
Germany
German military activity along Polish border revealed
An Edmund Shanke report from Schneidemuehl Germany dated August 16 describes visible German military preparations along the Polish boundary from Schneidemuehl to Schlochau. Soldiers lay communication wires while army vehicles transport gear and sentries guard side roads into Poland amid improvised fortifications.
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Edwin Shanke
Schnlademuehl
Germany
Scnne Demuenl
Scniocnau
Here
Schlochau
Landeck
Jastrow
Schneidemuehl
Bydgoszcz
Bromberg
Pomorze
Poland
Peace talks amid Polish soldier killing in Danzig
Polish commissioner-general Marian Chodacki and Danzig Senate president Arthur Geiser met in the League of Nations high commissioner Carl Burckhardt’s office to discuss peace efforts after the killing of Private Aleksander Rozakowski of the Polish army near the border station Kohling. The conference followed a border shooting that heightened tension and raised the prospect of war over the free city.
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Danzig
Kohiing
Aleksander Rozakovski
Marian Chodacki
Arthur Geiser
Carl J. Burckhardt
League of Nations
Burckhardt
Adolf Hitler
Berchtesgaden
Free City
Chodacki
Warsaw
Raczynski
Halifax
Count Raczynski
Arthur Greenwood
Yorkshire
Foreign Office
London
Chamberlain
Scotland
Hitler
Hitler-Burckhardt
German war hero and wife seek peace in death
Dr Julius Veith, once chief medical officer to Bavaria and holder of the Iron Cross, and his wife, from a noble Bavarian family, flee Nazi persecution and choose exile. Now 71, Veith and his wife reportedly commit to cremation together, leaving a note of courage for their son.
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Baltimore
Julius Veth
Bavaria
von Valentinus
Herr Doktor Veith
Gottingen Medical Society
Germany
Nazi Reich
Veith
Mama
Britain Sees Danzig Crisis As Serious But Not Alarming
London officials said the Danzig situation is serious but not alarming amid a flood of peace and war rumors. They blamed Germanys war of nerves for talks of an imminent development to pressure Poland while signaling Hitler may avoid immediate force.
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Great Britain
Danzig
Germany
Berlin
Poland
Adolf Hitler
Japan Seeks Friendly Ties After Detention Incident
Reports from Peiping say Japan orders military officials in north China to foster friendlier relations with Americans and delay anti British actions while improving U S relations. The incident involving Mrs Mary Frances Richard prompted a U S protest and an apology from a Japanese official.
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Tientsin
China
North Vuh.na
Peiping
Loxyo
Mary Frances Richard
United States
Richard
Peking
Russell Thaws to Try Separation Amid Marriage Strain
Former Kay Roberts of Los Angeles announces a trial separation from her husband Russell K. Thaw son of Evelyn Nesbit Thaw. She says no decision on divorce yet and notes she is living with her parents while he is in the east. The Radcliffe graduate and aviator married in 1936.
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Los Angeles
Kay Roberts
Los Angeles Society
Russell K. Thaw
Evelyn Neesbit Thaw
Radcliffe
Roxbury church festival features hot chicken sandwiches
Trinity Reformed Church Roxbury plans a Saturday evening lawn fete on August 19 from 7 to 10 with hot chicken sandwiches as the specialty.
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Thrilling Workers
Ass of Trinity Reformed Church
Roxbury
Skok Accused of Testifying Untruthfully in Bond Case
In Harrisburg a commonwealth attorney charged Victor S. Skok with lying before the grand jury in the state bond conspiracy trial. Skok, allied with James P. Kirk, acknowledged his work for the Kirk agency and Harris-Lawrence agency while denying discussions about bond business. He said he testified to the best of his recollection and noted his ties to Temple and Lawrence.
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Harrisburg
Victor S. Skok
Bar
V. Compton
Skok
James P. Kirk
H. H. Temple
Highway Department
Compton
Mr. Kirk
Kirk
Grand Jury
Kirk Agency
Pittsburgh
Harris
Lawrence
A. Marshall Thompson
Allegheny County
Stephen Bodkin
Jailed for Passing Four Worthless Checks in Somerset
John Gilliland, 28, a former Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission employee in Somerset, was arrested Tuesday in Harrisburg on a bench warrant and jailed. He allegedly passed four worthless checks totaling 67 dollars while working as a draftsman in Somerset. informations were filed, and the cases sent to court with him listed as a fugitive.
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Somerset
Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission
Harrisburg
Howard Baldwin
John Gilliland
Baldwin
Norman T. Boose
Gilliland
East Somerset Girl Hurts After Ditch Fall
A 16 year old East Somerset resident, Dorthy Long, was admitted to Somerset Community Hospital suffering from shock and minor bruises after reportedly falling into a ditch near her home. Police ruled out auto impact after scene checks and a medical report.
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East Somerset
Somerset Community Hospital
Dorthy Long
Josiah Long
East Main Street
State motor police inspect 21 buses for upcoming school term
State motor policemen at the Somerset sub-station spent a busy day Wednesday inspecting 21 school buses which will be put into service when county schools reopen next month. Only a few buses were rejected for minor safety adjustments. Additional inspections will be made at the station in the next few days.
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Somerset
Dies Committee Hearings Resume With Bund Leader Testimony
Fritz Kuhn, head of the German American Bund, testified before the Dies committee recounting Bund size 20000 to 25000 members and 100000 sympathizers, noting dues about 2000 monthly and $18000 in voluntary contributions since 1938. He claimed personal salary from allied groups and recalled an interview with Hitler in 1936 and Goebbels correspondence in a yearbook.
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Richard L. Turner
Washington
Dies Committee
Starnes
D-Ala
Fritz Kuhn
Bund
Kuhn
New York
Willam Dudley Pelley
Silver Shirts
Hitler
Joseph Goebbels
Madison Square Garden
Charles E. Coughlin
George van Horn Moseley
James True
America First, Inc
Accents Handicap Dies Committee Hearing on Bund Suspicions
Washington reports a House committee examining One American activities faced communication gaps due to dialects as Fritz Kuhn German American Bund leader struggled with English while Starnes Alabama insisted. Kuhn showed a leaflet claimed for Jewish army volunteers and described a Pennsylvania camp with brush knee youths. Chairman Dies Tex pledged further inquiry into camp activities.
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House
Fritz Kunn
Bund
Kuhn
Starnes
D-Ala
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Arkansas
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Mississippi
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Pennsylvania
Dies
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Cloudburst Traps 3000 in Queens Subways
A freak cloudburst in Queens trapped 3,000 subway passengers in 15 trains, with one man dead and several injured as riders fled rising floodwaters. Service was halted in the longest suspension in the system's seven year history, while power failed and platforms collapsed in parts of the flood zone.
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New York
Queens
Manhattan
Sunay Tubes
East River
Queensborough
Grand Central Parkway
Carmine Manna
Oil Shutdowns Hit Five States To Stabilize Prices
Five major oil states end long shut in as 50 000 Oklahoma wells halt production Kansas Arkansas New Mexico Texas Louisiana consider extending the pause to 15 days or more in a bid to lift crude prices back toward 1 per barrel Independent operators back the move while legal actions unfold in Texas Wyoming and nationwide.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Kansas
M.d-Day
Arkansas
Joan KE. Miles
New Mexico
A. A. Anareas
Okla Noma City
Texas
Earl K. Long
Louisiana
Bayou
Leon C. Phillips
Mid-Continent
Internee Oil Compact Commission
Tulsa
Okla
R. B. Tansel
Humble Oil
Gerald C. Mann
Jerry Sadler
Texas Railroad Commission
Wyoming
Nels H. Smith
Sinclair, Continental
Alf M. Landon
Evergreen
Colo
Washington
Governor James Says No Authority to Halt Pennsylvania Oil
Pennsylvania Governor James said he lacks power to close oil production as a price-raising measure. He noted oil in New Mexico and Oklahoma is regulated by state commissions and claimed Pennsylvania has control only over corporate organization, not production. He added there were no requests for a stoppage.
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Harrisburg
James
Pennsylvania
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Shutdown Troublesomen Maier May Find Olt Production Affects By-Products
Oklahoma and Texas shutdowns threaten by-product supply used for town lighting and heating as refiners report reduced crude output. Oklahoma refineries have 10 to 12 days of gasoline, Kansas under 10 days, North Texas eight to 10 days. Tulsa Tribune estimates 24.5 million barrels of crude would stay in the ground, pushing total stock below 250 million barrels.
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Tulsa
Oxkla
Missouri
Iowa
Dakota
Minnesota
John ©. Day
Western Petroleum Refiners Association
Mid-Continent
Oklahoma
Kansas
North Texas
Tulsa Tripune
Texas
New Mexico
Milk Strike Picket Dies as Violence Spreads
Sayre Pennsylvania reports the first fatality of a two day milk boycott as a picket dies after being struck by a truck near a West Burlington plant. New York officials say effects are limited while the Dairy Farmers Union pushes for higher base milk prices and plans hearings on August 24 and 25.
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Utica
N. Y
New York
Dairy Farmer Union
Pennsylvania
New York City
Herbert H. Lenman
Sayre
W. J. Brown
Paul Hicks
Granville Summit
West Burlington
Brown
Verne Spencer
Hcks
Archie Wright
Dairy Farmers Union
John L. Rce
Albany
Holton V. Noyes
Farmers Union
Noyes
Thos Wittmer Dies Suddenly in Pittsburgh
Thomas Wittmer 67 oil and gas executive died after a heart attack at Oakmont Country Club and died in Allegheny General Hospital. He financed Somerset Home Gas Co. and helped bring natural gas to Somerset in 1932 before the firm’s sale to Manufacturers' Light and Heat. Survived by widow Lucy Wittmer daughter Mrs P K Smith son Oliver and brother George Wittmer Jr funeral in Greensburg.
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Pittsburgh Oil and Gas
Somerset Homes
Pittsburgh
Wittmer
Oakmont Country Club
Allegheny General Hospital
Somerset Home Gas Co
Jennet Township
Somerset
W. R. Dougan
Dougan
Manufacturers’ Light and Heat Company
Westmoreland County
Irwin
Embargo on Airplanes Prolonged by State Dept
Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles announced the government keeps a moral embargo on selling airplanes to nations bombing civilians. The policy remains in effect today as protection against civilian harm amid war.
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Washington
Sumner Welles
Government Deterrent To Business
The commerce department reports a 40 percent rise in automobile sales contributing to a billion dollar gain in retail trade in the first half of 1939. Agriculture economists foresee continued strength with prices lower, noting a 6 percent rise in overall retail sales and a fifth higher durable goods sales.
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Washington
Commerce Department
Agriculture Department
Bureau of Agriculture Economics
Europe
Priod
Judge Long Denies Stay on Brookville Beer Referendum
Brookville judge rules court lacks jurisdiction to halt the September primary beer sale referendum. Judge Jesse C. Long says the county commissioners must decide, noting petitions filed July 24 fell short of the 60 day requirement and that placement on ballots remains their decision.
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Brookville
Jesse C. Long
Brookville Beer Dealers Association
Long
Youth Dies in Dark Room Accident at State College
Thomas Weber Jr., 20, died in a photographer's dark room in State College Pennsylvania during painting work at the new campus library. The coroner ruled the death accidental after Weber apparently fell from a step ladder and was found unconscious by a foreman from Murphy Inc. of Philadelphia. Dr. E W Cullen said resuscitation attempts failed after several hours.
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State College
Thomas Weber, Jr
Pennsylvania State College
Weber
Fred Fulmer
Murphy, Inc
Philadelphia
E. W. Cullen
Two New Guests for Hotel Hare
Jake Mitchell 50 of New Paris Bedford county jailed to serve 30 days for drunk and disorderly conduct. Leo Shaffer 33 of Erie committed to jail to await grand jury action for fornication and bastardy.
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Jake Mitchell
New Paris
Bedford County
Burgess Blaine
Windber
Leo Shaffer
Erie
Coroner's jury rules Laurel Hill tunnel rock fall an unavoidable accident
A Greensburg coroner's jury finds the August 5 Laurel Hill tunnel rock fall fatal to four men was an unavoidable and unforeseen accident. Testimony from Construction Engineer A E Lee and Penn Turnpike officials supported the verdict with little new evidence.
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Westmoreland County
Greensburg
Laurel Hill
Pennsylvania Turnpike
Turnpike Commission
A. E. Lee
Hankin-Conkey Construction Company
Lee
Hankin-Conkey Company
Lloyd Shoffner
al Huntington
Samuel W. Marshall
T. W
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Loyalhanna
Shoffner
Marshall
Charles D. Copeland
H. A. McMurray
Copeland
Weather Outlook for Western Pennsylvania and Adjacent States
Forecast covers Western Pennsylvania fair Thursday and probably Friday with little temperature change. Maryland expects scattered showers Thursday and Friday with minimal temperature change. Eastern Pennsylvania shows partly cloudy skies with cooler west and north portions and scattered showers southeast, mostly fair Thursday and Friday. West Virginia outlines scattered showers Thursday and Friday with little change in temperature.
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Maryland
West Virginia
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