Germans Arriving in Mexico Prompt Cardenas Probe
Mexico City May 23 President Lazaro Cardenas warned against any forces seeking to disrupt his nation’s neutrality. Reports said more Germans were entering Mexico sparking a government probe into possible fifth column activity amid wartime tensions. He declined to discuss other reports, noting naval conditions remain satisfactory.
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Mexico City
Lazaro Cardenas
Alexi
Ali
Mexico
Cardenas
Drive Professed Nazi Agents From Town In Texas
A 400 person mob expelled three alleged Nazi operatives from Del Rio Texas. Gov. O Daniel ordered an immediate probe of suspected statewide subversive activity. Police and National Guard officials met with the FBI to review the incident and the pamphleteering group The Watchtower distributed trilingual flyers with a swastika cover.
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Drive
Texas
del Rio
Austin
W. Lee O’daniel
Wom
Homer Garrison
State Police
Col
Gaston Howard
Texas National Guard
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Washington
Louis Behler
Scotland
S. C
Union
Trains Collide Wounding Two on Nickel Plate Freight Run
Westbound Nickel Plate freight No. 49 rear ended stationary No. 65 near Bluffton. Engineer William H Howreth and Fireman Elijah Crockett, both injured, were hospitalized. The No. 65 caboose was destroyed and two box cars derailed. wreckers from Lima and Bellefont dispatched to clear the scene.
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Bluffton, O
Nickel Plate Railroad
Cleveland
Chicago
Bluffton
Charles Shuman
William H. Howreth
Bellevue
Elijah Crockett
Clyde
Lima
Bellevuet
Senate Grants Large Defense Funds Amid Rapid War Prep
The Senate approved the Army defense bill for 1.823 billion dollars with no opposition and moved toward a 1.474 billion Navy bill. Both measures push total defense spending toward four billion, expanding aircraft, tanks, and shipbuilding, while boosting manning and new naval air power. The House aims to advance related relief and construction bills to finalize major defense legislation.
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Washington
Key Pittman
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Senate
Navy Department
Army
Navy
House
Bil
Roosevelt
Congress
Navy Air Force
Appropriations Committee
Naval Air Corps
Marine Corps
Drivers safer at home in Connecticut 1939 crashes
Hartford report shows 60 percent of fatal Connecticut auto accidents in 1939 were caused by nonresidents of the community where the crash happened. State motor vehicle department releases figures highlighting the mobility of drivers and risk patterns.
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Hartford
Conn
Connecticut
State Motor Vehicle Department
Schorr Reelected Ohio G. O. P. Chairman
Ohio Republicans reelect State Chairman Ed D. Schorr for a sixth term as campaign plans form a five member committee with Bricker and Burton represented. The Burton letter condemning Schorr’s primary actions is cited as urging unity. India bought over 1,000,000 tons of rice abroad last year.
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Columbus
Ohio
Ed D. Schorr
Schorr
State Central Committee
Harold H. Burton
Cleveland
Bricker
Burton
Hugh Huntington
Columebus
Central Committee
Nolan Boggs
Toledo
Donald C Power
Earl E. Hart
India
Kentucky Delegates Vote For Dewey Split Revealed
In Louisville on May 23 the Kentucky Republican convention disclosed that only two of the 22 delegates will back District Attorney Thomas Dewey of New York. Six delegates are pledged to Dewey. four at large and two from the North District convention. Most remaining delegates align with Dewey aside from two backing Senator Robert Taft. A separate note reports heavy sheep losses due to blowfly driving vultures back to South Africa after 42 years.
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Louisville
Kentucky
Thomas Dewey
New York
John Robinson
Dewey
Nirth
Robinson
Robert Taf
Ohio
South Africa
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Eport
Spike Heels
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Alexander
Winston
East Ave
Peranchive
Exile College
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Kweilin
Hsichow
Yunnan
China
Hua Chung College
Hsichow Middle School
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Fairchild
Paris
Lou Ardee
Jiome Coal CO
Matt LA
Axminster Sears
Axminster
Carpst Institute of America
Honor Bilt Suite
Sears
Sears, Roebuck and CO
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