Chinese Press Claims Seven Mile Breakthrough On Shantung Front
Shanghai reports say 800,000 Chinese troops prepare for a broad offensive as a seven mile advance near Taierchwang and Pihsien buckles Japanese lines. Ten Japanese assaults on forts are repulsed as Chinese forces seek to encircle Tancheng and pressure Lunghai Railway.
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Shanghai
South Shantung
Taierchwang
Pihsien
Kiangsu
Lunghai
Hankow
Tancheng
Chiang Kai- Shek
Shantung Province
Yi River
Matowchen
Winchester Warns Pedestrians On Public Highways
MA Winchester cautions that pedestrians including hitchhikers and groups walking three or four abreast on public highways expose themselves to grave danger. Drivers often swerve to avoid accidents as skaters and riders on bicycles in tandem should abandon the practice.
Lost Change Purse Reported Near 211 N Lou Doun
A lost change purse containing a Sweepstakes ticket was reported near 211 North Lou Doun. Contact 953-1p-21 with information.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N. Loudoun
Labor Board resignations urged by Senator Burke
Senator Burke of Nebraska called for the resignations of National Labor Relations Board members at the US Chamber of Commerce meeting. He argued the act promotes a national closed shop and harms employers and workers, proposing policy changes and court jurisdiction alongside the Labor Board.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Labor Board
Senator Burke
Washington
Burke
Nebraska
National Labor Relations Board
United States Chamber of Commerce
Committee For Industrial Organization
National Labor Relations Act
Middletown High School Graduation Week Schedule
Sixteen Middletown High School seniors prepare for Commencement Week opening May 22 with a bacchanal sermon, class night May 25, graduation May 26 at First Presbyterian Church. Julian Boyer to give welcome. Nellie Romack and Don Borden to speak. William Willey salutatorian to deliver salute, Larrick to read class will. play Keep Off The Grass Friday and Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middletown High School
O. W., Wake
Rev. T. Brown
Church
South
Middletown
Julian Boyer
Don Borden
Nellie Romack
Anna Virginia Campbell
Harry Mathews
Marie Petty
John Larrick
Alice Manuel
Edna S Brumback
Ellen Brumback
Ronalds. Wilson
First Presbyterian Church
Margaret Jane Willey
Larrick
Brown
Three Proposals To Help Carriers
Senate banking committee received three administration proposals for emergency financial aid to railroads. The legislation, introduced by Senator Truman would provide for equipment and marine loans by the Reconstruction and lighten loan terms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate Banking Committee
Administration
Truman
D-Mo
House Speaker Breaks Toe in Nightfall Incident
Washington reports House Speaker injured breaking a toe Sunday night. Aides transported him to the chamber and assisted his ascent to the rostrum with crutches after the accident.
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Washington
April Weather Records Show Below Average Rainfall
April rainfall was far below the 25 year average with 1.92 inches recorded at Winchester Research Laboratory, 1.33 inches under average. Comparisons note 1915 with 0.55 inches, 1899 droughts, and a total yearly precipitation of 7.07 inches to date.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester Research Laboratory
British Seek a New Compromise
In London on May 3 British officials, aiming to calm the Sudeten crisis, pursued compromise with Germany and Czechoslovakia. Prime Minister Chamberlain consulted Berlin and Praha after talks between Jan Masaryk and Viscount Halifax. Britain and France pressed for moderation by Konrad Henlein and a shift in Czechoslovak policy, pending Hitler's return from Italy.
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London
House of Commons
Chamberlain
Berlin
Praha
Jan Masaryk
Viscount Halifax
Masaryk
Britain
Konrad Henlein
France
Germany
Fuehrer
Hitler
Mussolini
Italy
U S Steel Plans $100 Million Debentures Issue
United States Steel Corporation announced it will register with the SEC for a $100,000,000 10 year debentures issue. Proceeds will retire bank loans and fund plant modernization and expansion for general corporate purposes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
United States Steel Corporation
Securities and Exchange Commission
Holding Bill Dead For This Session
Navy expansion opponents quit. Those objecting to increased strength at this time see no chance of a victory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NAVY
Senate approves $1.156 billion naval expansion bill
The Senate endorsed the administration naval expansion package authorizing 46 warships, 950 planes, and 26 auxiliaries, with funds pending congressional appropriations. Provisions limit battleship tonnage to 35,000 unless the president finds larger vessels are built abroad. Glass bank holding bill deferred, effectively killed for session.
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Washington
Senate
House
Glass
Senate Banking and Currency
Congress
Glass Bank Holding Company
Roosevelt
Dva
Nye
D-Nd
Pleads Guilty in Bank Embezzlement Case at Westminster
Denton Gehr former cashier of the First National Bank of Westminster Maryland pleaded guilty to embezzling 11270 from the bank. Federal Judge William C Coleman postponed sentence until Friday for a medical examination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Denton Gehr
First National Bank of Westminster
William C. Coleman
Private railroad car Skipaway offered for sale
New York May 3 John J. Raskob former chairman of the Democratic national committee offers his private railroad car Skipaway for sale at 25000 dollars He says it cost him 110000 dollars
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
John J. Raskob
Democratic National Committee
Skipaway
Pump Priming Debate Persists Over Relief Funds Control
White House objections threaten proposals to curb President Roosevelt's discretion over relief money. Subcommittee may continue current funding method through Works Progress Administration while senators push restrictions. Efforts to sway wage hour legislation grow as House leaders seek support and signatures for floor action amid ongoing anti monopoly debate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
White House
Roosevelt
House
Works Progress Administration
aeSub- Committee
Woodrum
D-Va
House Rules Committee
Representative Healey
D-Mass
Norton
D-Nj
Labor Committee
Senate Banking
Capitol
Barkley
D-Ky
Two Women Die in Coney Island Hotel Fire
In New York on May 3, a hotel fire in Coney Island killed two women. WPA watchman George Brown, 30, broke his foot while escaping via a stairway and could not awaken the women. He saved three others before his injury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Coney Island
George Brown
Davis Warns Class Antagonism Threatens U S Commerce
President of the United States Chamber of Commerce George H. Davis says class antagonism is the greatest menace to business. He urges compromise and voluntary cooperation within the American system and rejects socialist crisis theories tied to Marx. Davis notes workers consumers investors and shippers all must align for the system to endure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
George H. Davis
United States Chamber of Commerce
Davis
Chamber
Karl Marx
Kansas City, Mo
Vatican Pays No Attention To Visit of German Leader
Rome reports show the Vatican silent on Hitler’s arrival while Italy extols Mussolini. Pope Pius at Castel Gandolfo received four cardinals and rode in a car as guards tighten in Rome. Cryptic Mussolini banners flank rail routes as officials warn attendees against cameras and packages.
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Vatican
Rome
Hitler
Reahrer
L'Osservatore Romano
St. Peter's Square
Vatican City
Pius
Castel Gandolfo
Brenner Pass
Mussolini
Europe
Il Duce
Germany
Austria
Construction Booms in Winchester with April Permits
Winchester building activity surged in April with construction permits totaling 28420 dollars, surpassing February by about 11000 dollars and pushing year to date construction to 112370 dollars. Notable permits include Floyd Cole on Atwell Avenue for a dwelling and W H Ritenour on Berryville Avenue for a dwelling, among others such as gasoline tank installations and garage additions.
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Winchester
Floyd Cole
Atwell] Avenue
Co. C. Mayes
North Cameron
George
North Kent
Richards & Nicodemus
Millwood Road
Gerrard Street
Mrs Roosevelt Drives Own Car On Garden Tour
Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt visits the Hammond Harwood house in Annapolis a colonial museum run by the Federated Garden Clubs of Maryland She arrives by convertible without an escort parks blocks away then walks back to the mansion before moving on to the Naval Academy for a luncheon hosted by Mrs Wilson Brown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Annapolis
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Hammond-Harwood
Federated Garden Clubs of Maryland
Harry R. Slack
Hammond-Harwood House
President Roosevelt Fishes in Samana Bay Cruise
Charleston May 3 Roosevelt and White House party enjoyed better weather and went fishing in small boats off the northeastern Dominican coast in Samana Bay. It marked the first time he tried his luck since beginning his sea voyage Saturday morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
S. C
Roosevelt
White House
Samana Bay
Dominican
Progressives File Their Trademark in Wisconsin
The National Progressives of America filed articles of association and a trademarked circle and cross emblem in Madison. Governor Philip F. La Follette is named president of the new political party.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Progressives
Madison
Wis
National Progressives of America
Vasion
Philip F. la Follette
Firemen injured as Bronx crash kills two
In the Bronx on May 3 a collision at a street intersection involving apparatus answering separate alarms fatally injures two firemen including a captain and injures five others.
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New York
Bronx
Child injured by dynamite blast in Round Hill
Four year old Owen Thomas Jr of Round Hill Loudoun County is recovering at Memorial Hospital after a metal dynamite device he was playing with exploded. Doctors report his condition as satisfactory. He is the son of Mr and Mrs Owen Thomas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Owen Thomas, Jr
Round Hill
Loudoun County
Memorial Hospital
Owen Thomas
Regular Common Council Meeting Called For Tonight
A regular meeting of the Common Council has been called for 7 30 o'clock tonight. The agenda includes standard council business and public input. Residents are invited to attend and speak on local matters.
200 Locomotive Whistles Salute Fasciists Line Bologna Tracks
A large crowd of about 50,000 lines Bologna tracks as whistles shrill a salute amid the fascist event. Bayo nets Glisten.
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Bologna
Hitler Arrives in Rome for Mussolini State Visit
Rome reports Adolf Hitler reached Ostiense station for a planned display of Fascist solidarity with Mussolini. The Fuehrer’s train sped through Brenner Pass into Italy, with crowds and flags at Bologna Prato and Florence as bands played both nations' anthems at Brennero station.
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Rome
Adolf Hitller
Tuscany
Fuehrer
Ever Station
Monterotondo
Mussolini
Brenner Pass
Hitler
Italy
Bologna
Prato
Berlin
Florence
Famous Pass
Maya
Europe
Bnero
Vittorio Emanuele
Brennero
Rudolph Hess
Joseph Goebbels
Holt and Peele Chosen Bishops
Dr. Ivan Lee Holt of St. Louis and Dr. William Walter Peele of Greensboro were elected bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church South on the quadrennial conference's first ballot. Holt, Arkansas native, is a professor and historian. Peele, a former biblical literature professor and church administrator, has held North and pastorates. The conference will name five additional episcopal members.
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Birmingham
Ala
Ivan Lee Holt
St. Louis
William Walter Peele
Greensboro
N. C
Methodist Episcopal Church, South
Arkansas
Holt
Stuttgart
Hei
Edinburgh University
Neorient
Australia
England
Peele
College
Ee Ong
North
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U. S. Steel
Bill
Bulletin
Mrs. Roosevelt
Council
Ostiense
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