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on June 26. He was known as
follower OF Wang Ching.Wei head
of the Japanese-sponsored Chinese
regime az Marking.
LONDON-AP - The London
Lord Mayors Red Cross fund to-
tailed s3,073.000 about Sl2,292..
0O0) for the first year of the war
II was announced to-day. ne fund
collected e1.575,S77 in the first
year of the last war.
GREAT NECK, n. Y AP -
Charles (. Bloch rs. president OF
the Bloch Publishing Company OF
New York, oldest Jewish publish
ing firm in the English-speaking
world, was dead today Bloch was
a founder and former president of
the Free Synagogue OF New York
and a founder OF the Jewish Insti-
tute of religion.
WASHINGTON -AP- District
chaHmen of the Brotherhood of
Railway Clerks have empowered
a committee TO fix the time of a
nationwide strike of some 10000
members employed by the Railway,
Express Agency, Inc. George NJ.
Harrison. union president. said
that the chairmen "endorsed/every-
thing the negotiating committee
had done" in connection with the
failure of the brotherhood and the
agency to agree on how to estab-
hsh the A hour week.
SCOTLAND, Conn .-AP-Charles
S. CARVINGS. and John Shimensh,
is, confessed today. State Police
Commissioner Edward j. Hickey
said, that thsy engineered the BIZ
>zarre killing Of Garvin's 81 year
old father, George II. Garvin who
was fatally Injured by a dynamite
blast as he sat in his sons auto
mobile. The commissioner said
financial matters supplied the mo-
tive for the killing.
NEW YORK -LNS- Former
Secretary Of Commerce Harry
Hopkins was a grandfather twice
today following the birth of Il
daughter to his sons wife, Mrs.
Cherry Preisser Hopkins. The
first child born to the couple is
now 10 months old.
YOUNGSTOWN. O.-INS-Three
persons were dead today and four
others were reported in fair con-
dition in a hospital as the result
of head-on auto collision at near
by Ellsworth, o. Mrs. Edward ].
Lehman, 81, of Winnetka. Ill. aud
Mrs. Albert r. Cashier, SO, of
Akron, We're killed instantly when
automobiles driven by their hus-
bands coiifded.
NORTHUMBERLAND Ger
many has banned exhibition of
American motion picture films in
all the territory of Belgium and
northern France occupied by
Adolph Hitler's forces.
Los ANGELES-UP- A pilot
less airplane capable OF observing
or bombing enemy emplacements
is being developed for the United
states Army. DR.. Lee De Forest.
television and radio authority, said
today that Army engineers at Day
ton, O., are now building an ex.
perimental model of his plane.
CHlCAGO-UP-Henry A. Wal
lace, Democratic candidate for vice
president. meets Illinois party lead
ers today and begins a scouting"
trip through at least four middle
western states. He expected to
make at least so courthouse
steps" speeches in Illinois, Iowa,
Nebraska Minnesota and perhaps
Wisconsin and Indiana before he
returns to Washington about Sept.
is for conference with President
. Roosevelt at which they will plan
their major campaign Strategy.
MOSCOW-UP-Big scale troop
maneuvers continue in the west
ern special military district of
-ttrssfa-boFele=ifie -eii- PelaHa-it-
was disclosed today Marshal $.
NJ Budenny, reporting on tactical
exercises OF the commanders and
STATS of the Odessa military dis.
trict. declared that lessons learned
in the war with Finland and from
observation of the European con
flict had been applied.
TOPEKA. Kansas-UPE School
boards and county physicians
throughout Kansas met in hurried
sessions today to determine wheth.
er to follow a state board of health
recommendation and not open pub
lie schools. All county health Of
ficers were advised by the state
health board Monday night that.
because of mum rous infantile par.
alysis cases through the state.
schools not be reopened today.
WASHINGTON-UP- A House
Naval Affairs Subcommittee starts
late this month on an inspection
trip of the Nays Pacific outposts.
Chairman Carl Ninson said the
group would leave Sept. 20 and
would visit Hawaii and Midway.
Palmyra and Johnston Islands.
Congress has voted the Navy
about Sl5.000.000 in cash and con
tract authorizations to spend in
this region during 1871 to build up
Pacific defenses
LONDON-UP- Plans TO raise
a Jewish national army to fight
under the allied high command
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