Croat Leader Demanding Equal States in Yugoslavia
Dr Vladko Machek Croatian autonomy head threatened secession from Yugoslavia unless his followers demands are met, warning of world war and German protection for an independent Croat state of five million. He urged a United States of Yugoslavia with equal states for Croatia Macedonia Montenegro and Serbia. In Danzig Polish customs moved to ban fat exports amid rift with Germany, while Warsaw pressed a campaign against German espionage and political activity in Poland.
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Associated Press
Yugoslavia
Danzig
Europe
Vladko Machek
Machek
Dragisha Cvetkovich
Kupinec
Croatia
Macedonia
Montenegro
Serbiia
Free City
Poland
Warsaw
Hungarian Border Tensions Rise Over Tisza River
The Hungarian News Agency reported Romanian artillery facing the left bank of the Tisza aimed at Tecso Hungary after a Hungarian frontier guard was wounded by a Romanian guardsman at Tecsa. Clashes continued into the weekend with gunfire on raftsmen and a guard on a bridge shot. Bucharest denied any border incidents.
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Budapest
Tisza
Tecso
Tecsa
Hungary
Bucharest
Seaman Dives From Brooklyn Bridge For Wager
Michael Ford, 33, a seaman, plunged 135 feet from the Brooklyn Bridge after stopping at a bar to prepare. He battled East River tides for an hour before surfacing in Brooklyn and said his aim was to reach New York. Treated at Bellevue for submersion and a cut leg.
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New York
Steve Brodie
Brooklyn Bridge
Michael Ford
Ford
Brooklyn
Bellevue Hospital
Toll Bridge Act Faces Supreme Court Test
Governor Bottolfsen said legal action may be filed in the Idaho supreme court to test the 1939 toll bridge act. The toll bridge commission plans to issue 480000 in treasury notes to buy the Twin Falls Jerome span and remove tolls, but bonding companies refuse without a court ruling.
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Boise
C. A. Bottolfsen
Idaho Supreme Court
State Toll Bridge Commission
Treasury
Twin Falls - Jerome
R. P. Parry
Twin Falls
Cantor Faces Damage Suit Over Radio Show Exit
Charles Gollob and wife Elsie sue Eddie Cantor under alias Iskivitch and others for 751000 claiming assault after an after show incident at Cantor’s program. They name Bert Gordon Columbia Broadcasting Reynolds Tobacco as defendants and cite “old gags” as context.
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Los Angeles
Eddie Cantor
Charles Gollob
Elsie
Cantor
Isador Iskivitch
Bert Gordon
Columbia Broadcasting Co
Reynolds Tobacco Co
Gollobs
Mrs. Gollob
Gollob
Gordon
Riots After Bombay Liquor Curbs Turn Violent
Rioters injure five people including 27 policemen in Bombay amid protests against the new prohibition law. Six in a crowd were wounded by bullets. others by stones as bars and liquor shops close to natives and foreigners face rationing.
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Bombay
Massachusetts bans kissing while driving on bridges
Boston reports Frank A. Goodwin suspended for a week the license of a Springfield woman after an inspector saw her kissing her boyfriend at 45 miles per hour on a bridge. Goodwin warned oscillation should be done only with the car stopped.
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Boston
Massachusetts
Frank A. Goodwin
Registrar of Motor Vehicles
Springfield
French Aviator Delivers Surprise Visit to Frances Heck
Daniel Leturque, a 24 year old French aviator and draftsman, walked 30 miles from a Kansas City bus depot to Frances Lee Heck’s house. He had exchanged letters with Frances and her cousin Necole Gisele for years to practice English and meet during a leave from a Paris area auto factory. Frances greeted him with relief and curiosity as she introduced him to her mother Mrs Ross Heck.
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Kansas City
Daniel
Frances Lee Heck
Frances
Ross Heck
Daniel Leturque
Paris
Prances
Strike Threat Spreads to Four States and Barre Mass
Strikes and labor strife soar across four states with 25 000 workers involved. In Barre Mass troopers guard the gates as 3 000 gather amid fears of riots and bloodshed at the Barre Wool Combing plant where 200 of 1 000 workers strike. In Cleveland tear gas and brick-throwing battles erupt outside the Fisher Body plant injuring 46 as 5 000 to 6 000 protesters clash with police.
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Associated Press
Cleveland
South Barre
Mass
Atlantic Seaboard
Horace T. Cahill
Barre Wool Combing Company
Massachusetts
A.F.L
General Motors
Fisher Body
Indians Camp Campbell Ejected As Red Sox Tie Series Start
In Boston, Oscar Vitt and Bruce Campbell were ordered from the field as tensions flared early in the sixth inning of the Indians against the Red Sox. Cal Hubbard halted play after arguing over heckling from the Cleveland bench amid a tense scene.
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Boston
Oscar Vitt
Cleveland Indians
Bruce Campbell
Tribe
Red Sox
Cal Hubbard
Vitt
Campbell
Indians
County Board Hears Talk on Two Bridges Over Power Line
Members of the county commissioners met with Utah Power and Light representatives to discuss building two bridges over the utility’s pipeline in district No. 1. Planned sites include Turner road and the Kirby Montague junction. County Engineer W. P. Hargenor and Power officials Beatty and Gordon attended.
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Board of County Commissioners
Utah Power and Light Company
Light Company
Turner Road
Kirby
Montague
W. P. Hargenor
Messrs. Beatty and
Gordon
Salt Lake City
The
Power Company
Preston Job Set Post Office Contract Awarded
Washington reports the federal works agency awarded a Preston post office construction contract to L. F. Downe of Los Angeles for 56000 dollars.
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Washington
Federal Works Agency
Preston
L. F. Downe
Los Angeles
Cow Returns With Two-Cow Bonus
In Tooele Utah Sheriff John S Evans reports Arson Hacking recovered her Jersey cow after five years. Deputies locating a stolen calf found the busier cow in a pasture owned by Elias Boni of Leland who kept one calf to settle the matter.
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Tooele
Utah
Hacking
John S. Evans
Elias Boni
Leland
Boni
Evans
Ogden Considers Moving Pioneer League Games to Affleck Park
Ogden officials weigh relocating Kilowatt field games to Affleck park after dust from windy nights and an unsown Kilowatt infield. Grandstand at Affleck will seat 3,500, funded by 1940 rental fee from Cincinnati Reds. Kilowatt field leased from Utah Power & Light Co. at $1 yearly.
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Kilowatt Field
Affleck Park
Ogden Athletic Federation
Killowatt Field
George H. Lowe
Federation
Lowe
Reddy Kilowatt
Utah Power & Light Co
Cincinnati Reds
Decatur Brothers Aim For World Light Plane Endurance Record
Hunter Moody and Humphrey Moody from Decatur Illinois circled their small monoplane today with only hours left to set a new world light plane endurance mark. They had flown 209 hours since July 23 and would match 218 hours by 5 43 pm if they continue, needing one more hour to officially establish the new record.
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Springfield
Hunter
Humphrey Moody
Decatur
Ill
Syracuse Herald-Syracuse Journal formation announced
The Syracuse Herald assumes the Syracuse Journal name after acquisition from Hearst. The two papers will merge under Syracuse Herald-Syracuse Journal. A news note states the change follows the 1925 acquisition by W. R. Hearst. The story then shifts to a society meeting notice. The Women's Missionary Society will meet Wednesday at 9 a.m. at 346 N Seventh.
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Syracuse
N. Y
The
American
W. R Hearst
Syracuse Herald
Herald
Syracuse Herald-Syracuse Journal
Women’s Missionary Society of the Central Christian Church
Harry Lintelman
Star and Journal Combine Under Newname Star Journal
Minneapolis Star purchases The Minneapolis Journal creating the Star Journal combines the two evening papers. John Cowles of the Star and Carl W. Jones of the Journal lead the consolidation with Basil Walters and John Thompson continuing in editor and publisher roles respectively. George W. Ronald becomes business manager of the merged edition. The move reshapes the local newspaper market by ending The Journal’s independent publication.
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Minneapolis
Minneapolis Journal
Minneapolis Star
John Cowles
Star Company
Carl W. Jones
The
Journal
Star-Journal
Cowles
John Thompson
Star
Basil Walters
George W. Ronald
Star- Journal
Tribune
District Fair Expanding in Eastern Idaho for 1939 Run
Ten southeastern Idaho counties Bannock Bingham Bonneville Clark Jefferson Franklin Power Oneida Madison Fremont unite to stage the Eastern Idaho district fair opening September 19 for five days. Attendance and exhibits are expected to grow with new features and out of state livestock exhibitors. A $25,000 cinder block commercial exhibit building at the fair grounds will provide space for merchants across the district.
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Blackfoot
Idaho
Bannock
Bingham
Bonneville
Clark
Jefferson
Franklin
Power
Oneida
Madison
Fremont
Irvin Cobb III Ill in San Francisco Hospital
Irvin S. Cobb the writer and actor known for mint juleps was hospitalized in San Francisco with what doctors termed an gastric upset and a summer flu. He fell ill five days earlier at the Bohemian club resort on the Russian River and arrived in the city yesterday. doctors say he will remain in bed for three or four days.
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San Francisco
Irvin S. Cobb
Hollywood
Russian River
Cobb
Joseph Mr Guiness
Idaho Board of Equalization Recesses to Aug 7
Idaho state board of equalization chaired by Governor Bottolfsen convened and recessed until Aug 7 to allow Byron Defenbach the state tax commissioner and secretary to compile additional data for the proceedings.
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Boise
Idaho State Board of Equalization
C. A. Bottolfsen
Byron Defenbach
Six Beauty Title Aspirants Remain for Final Tests
Thirteen contestants appeared at the Chief theater in Pocatello for the Miss Pocatello elimination. Six finalists were chosen from modeling, talent, and evening gown segments. The winner advances to state competition in Sun Valley and potential national events.
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Miss Pocatello
Lai Ght
Annals of Entertainment Pocatello
Ohe
Chief Theater
Elsie Stevens
Montez Miller
Norman Morris
Betty Jo Crafton
Jean
Hanson
Sylvia
Bund Locates Camps Near Vital Points
Roy P Monahan told the DAW convention that 22 German American bund camps in the United States lie within 20 miles of major army bases or munitions plants. He warned such camps could become spy rings if war came and said land purchases or site surveys were underway in Grafton Massachusetts and Roxbury Boston.
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Boston
United States
Roy P Monahan
New York
National Americanism Committee
Monahan
Germany
Grafton
Mass
Roxbury
War Department
Silver deals draw fire in Senate on foreign silver buys
Sen Townsend criticizes Treasury purchases of foreign silver as a one way street. He notes past war debts and loans did not justify continued buying and urges the government to end foreign silver purchases despite a pending lending bill amendment.
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Washington
State Department
Townsend
Senate
Treasury
Kiwanis Back Local Events In Pocatello
Kiwanis club members at a luncheon voiced support for the American Legion regional junior baseball series and will sponsor a league team. Tom West presented the proposition and also proposed a civic club day during the Cardinals home games. The club approved plans for an annual Pocatello music festival as a community project.
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Kiwanis Club
American Legion
Tom West
Legion Post Committee
Pocatello
Civic Club
Cardinals
Art Routzong
Kiwanis
Secretary Paul Nash Returns From Western Conference Meeting
Paul Nash secretary of the chamber of commerce attended the western conference for commercial secretaries at Stanford university in Palo Alto. The 150 delegates included Nash who traveled on the Idaho Fair special and visited Treasure Island on Idaho day. He then met his brother Albert Nash of Sacramento, long associated with the California state highway department.
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Paul Nash
Chamber of Commerce
Palo Alto
Stanford University
Nash
California
Treasure Island
Idaho
Albert Nash
Sacramento
Ctate Highway Department
Honesty Best Policy in Palmer Beer Find
Residents in Palmer report a found barrel of beer that fell from a wholesale truck. They notified Holyoke Wholesale Company which told them to destroy the beer and keep the barrel until it could be collected. The finders promised to destroy it promptly and to return the barrel.
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Palmer
Mass
Holyoke
GOP Speaker Sees Rift in Georgia 1936 State Politics
Georgia GOP chairman Clint W. Hager predicts a Democratic rift and urges a Republican primary for a full state candidate slate. He says conservative Democrats share GOP principles and that many would back Republicans over Garner. Hager also forecasts the influence of Carer and Farley on the next convention and notes about 60,000 Republicans in Georgia.
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Atlanta
Clint W. Hager
Georgia
Solid South
Hager
Garner
Carer
Farley
Roosevelt
Alfred M. Landon
Weatherman Turns New Leaf Forecasts Cautious Change
William P. Weatherman vows a new approach to forecasting as August opens with cooler readings. Yesterday he predicted fair skies and cooler temps, with today at 86 degrees and a morning low of 52, marking a mean of 69, three below normal.
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William P. Weatherman
W. P
Junkers Ninety Opens London Berlin Air Service
Europe's largest air liner the Junkers Ninety landed at Croydon today initiating a daily three hour London to Berlin service. It carries 40 passengers at 220 mph and weighs more than British en sighs, marking a major advance in air transport.
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London
Europe
Junkers Ninety
Croydon
Berlin
Lending bill labeled dead as House rejects measure
Washington reports the administration's multi billion dollar lending bill is declared dead for the session after a 193 to 166 House vote. Majority Leader Rayburn says adjournment by Saturday night is the goal while Senate Leader Barkley notes the session may end soon.
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Washington
House
Rayburn
Texas
Senate
Barkeley
Senate passes works bill boosts reclamation and housing aid
Senator D Worth Clark announced the senate approved a works finance bill with an amendment for 90 million dollars for reclamation and irrigation and Idaho would receive about 88 million. The house acted on a 1.95 billion lending bill and the senate passed 1.615 billion in lending. A party coalition sought formal procedure for the bill’s consideration amid leadership clashes.
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The
Pocatello Tribune
D. Worth Clark
Senate
Clark
Idaho
Snake River
House
Rayburn
Texas
Tate
Congress
Barkley
Bankhead
Science Picture for 2030 club on Blind Spots of Science
Members of the Science Picture 2030 club will have a motion picture titled Blind Spots of Science shown after the 6 30 p m dinner meeting Wednesday night Frank Albertson of the Investors Syndicate will present the film according to club president Jack Terrell
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Frank Albertson
Investors’ Syndicate
Jack Terrell
Country Doctor Rescues Twins With Homemade Oxygen Device
In Idabel Oklahoma a 29 year old physician Dr George K Fisher improvised an oxygen breathing aid for four month old twin boys Charles and Lorne Faulkner using a fruit jar rubber tubing and a welders oxygen drum. The infants nearly stopped breathing during a bout of whooping cough prompting the urgent rescue.
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George K. Fisher
Louis Faulkner
Utah Weather Forecast Note Unclear Text
Partly cloudy tonight with unsettled weather in some areas. Temperatures show slight variation as conditions drift, with no significant extremes expected.
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Utah
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