19 July 1938 
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Aboard U. 8 .S. Houston, enroute to Panama : 
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President Roosevelt ' caught a 39 lb* yellowtail off the tip 
of Baja , California, today, H© exchanged various official 
messages during the day* 'The President notified tliat Helen 
Keller, noted blind woman, v/ould ce unable to accept his 
appointment as chairman of a commit te on 'the purchase of 
blind-made products and named M.R. Migel , . recommended by 
Senator Wagner of New York, for the position. 
Grand Canyon, Arizona: 
The Nevillis Boat Expedition landed at the mouth of Bright 
Angel Creek on the floor of the Grand Canyon late today at 
the end of the second leg of a dangerous journey down the 
Colorado River. The four men and two women in three boats 
planned to leave on the final stretch to Mead Lake and 
Boulder Dam Wednesday morning. 
Kingstown. Ontario: 
Queens University announced Monday it would confer the 
Degree of Doctor of Laws on President Roosevelt at a 
special convention here August 18th. The President will 
receive the degree at 11 AM and then go to Ivy Lea to open 
the new Thousand Islands Bridge across the St. Lawrence 
River. 
Clinton. 111.: 
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A shabby old chair used by Abraham Lincoln is the possession 
of a Clinton lawyer tonight because the auctioneer misunder- 
stood a bid from Henry Ford. Mr. Ford attended an auction 
where the goods of an old inn were sold and calxed out !, iour ^ 
fifty” when the auctioneer dropped his hammer. The owner had 
heard bids ranging from two and a half ’to three and a half 
dollars. He decided against the motor magnates offer. The 
shabby chair was later sold to President Leonard Ingram of 
the Dewitt County Bar Association. Not until the auction was 
over was it realized that the automobile magnate had meant 
$450.00 when he called out his bid. 
Washington: 
Chicago city corporation counsel Barnet Hover predicted today 
that the creation of a new group of smaller states m the 
United States would result from difficulties in city ^govern- 
ment. Hover made his prediction before the institution ox 
municipal lav/ officers meeting in Washington. ^ He declared 
that the need for a free hand in handling their social 
■problems will force cities as Chicago, New York, and Phila- 
delphia to break away from their states and seek to set up 
smaller states of their own. 
Berlin : 
The Government Monday published a far reaching decree ^ making 
deliveries in kind and loan of material objects for . military 
purposes obligatory on all inhabitants ' and 3 uria 6 J.c poi_s.ons 
in Germany. The .1a w, signed' July 51st, out appearing^ in ^ the 
official gazette only Monday, is cased on the Nazi principle 
of "the common weal precedes all private gain" . 
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