War for Peace in China Deepens as North China Battles Escalate
Chinese General Sung Cheh-yuan's 29th army clashes with Japan since July culminating in Langfang skirmishes. Japan moves divisions, Chiang Kai-shek boats trains of troops toward North China. Beating air power and bombers, Peiping and Tientsin face renewed bombardment and civilian evacuations.
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China
Sung Cheh-yuan
Hopei-Chahar
Japan
Sung Chehyuan
37Th
Peiping
38Th
Langfang
Midway Station
Peiping-Tientsin
Konoye
Chiang Kai-shek
Nanking
Nippon
Tokyo
Homikado
Tientsin
Nanyuan
Sung Cheh - Yuan
Fengtai
Mikado
Royals visit Belfast amid gas blast and arson on border
Queen Elizabeth and King George toured Northern Ireland as a gas main explosion rocked Belfast and 28 border custom houses were burned along with a bridge dynamited shortly after a Belfast excursion train passed. The sovereigns received cheers and expressed gratitude for the warm welcome.
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Helen Hayes
Victoria Regina
Queen Elizabeth
King George
Northern Ireland
Belfast
Free State-Northern Ireland
Nations vie for air routes and polar ambitions in 1930s race
Reports describe Japan and Germany planning sky routes to beat records, U S-British exploratory flying, and possible subsidies for international airlines. Jimmie Mattern seeks poleflight permission. Amelia Earhart reward posted. Naval expansion and public health campaigns feature, alongside Salzburg festival honors and a Long Island Sound rescue death.
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Japan
Germany
America
Russia
Tokyo
New York
Washington
International Airlines
Jimmie Mattern
North Pole
Amelia Earhart
Scottsboro Trials End with Four Freed and Five Sentenced
In Decatur Alabama last week four of the Scottsboro defendants were freed and five were sentenced one to death in the 1931 attacks on two white women. International Labor Defense leaders plan nationwide action to aid the five. Also noted is poet William Ellery Leonard facing travel fears that keep him near Madison Wisconsin as his third wife divorces him for the second time.
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Scottsboro
Decatur
Ala
William Ellery Leonard
Wisconsin
Madison
CIO
Youngstown Sheet & Tube
Bethlehem Steel
Republic Steel
Tom
Girdler
John L. Lewis
Connellsville
Cleveland
City Hall
Lightning Odds Even in Georgia
A historical note reports that Georgia experiences frequent lightning but the odds of a strike killing a person are about 100000 to 1 against. The statistic emphasizes low fatal risk despite common lightning activity.
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Georgia
Copyrighted AP Feature Service 1937 Notice
A complete page copyright notice from The Associated Press Feature Service dated 1937. Indicates rights reserved and distribution limitations for the page content.
World Leaders Cite Aims From East To Europe
Japanese Premier Konoye says Japan seeks cooperation with China not territory. Belgian King Leopold II warns that solving the economic question is needed to avert war. Postmaster General Farley promises that everything will work out and there is no danger of trouble here.
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Konoye
Japan
China
Leopold II
Farley
Egypt crowns 17 year old farouk I in independent throne
The article notes King Farouk I, 17, begins his rule as sovereign of a newly independent Egypt in a region where British and Italian interests have long clashed. Britain ends military occupancy last year while maintaining treaty ties to the Suez canal zone and the British Empire.
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Egypt
New Mexico
Texas
Africa
Farouk I
Britain
the Nile
England
Suez Canal Zone
George VI
Coming Up Sunday American World War Memorial dedication
Events listed include a memorial dedication in Montfaucon France for the American World War II dead. Also planned are national and international gatherings across the globe including a bridge league championship in Asbury Park New Jersey and a World Federation meeting in Tokyo.
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Montfaucon
France
Asbury Park
N. J
World Federation of Education
Tokyo
Dooling Led Tammany to Align Behind Copeland Mayor Bid
Labor leader James J. Dooling, once a New Deal ally who made Tammany Hall respectable, died at 44 after breaking with the national Democrats over patronage. His final win was uniting Tammany behind Royal S. Copeland for New York mayor against Grover Whalen and Fiorello La Guardia.
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James J. Dooling
Tammany
Dooling
Royal S. Copeland
New York
Grover Whalen
Fiorello H. LaGuardia
Bailey Seeks Arkansas Senate Seat in Democratic Push
A political clash unfolds as Governor Carl Edward Bailey aims for the U S Senate seat once held by Joe Robinson. Other contenders include J Rosser Venable and Robert F Waters with a state Democratic convention urged for August 9 to nominate. Meanwhile labor clashes flare across steel towns with deaths and arrests as CIO and big plants face renewed contract talks and legal wrangles.
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Joe Robinson
Arkansas
United States Senate
Carl Edward Bailey
State Democratic Committee
J. Rosser Venable
Robinson
Robert F. Waters
Yell County
Yell
Bailey
Roosevelt Era Clash Over Court Reform Continues In Congress
Congress debates court reform and New Deal policies as roosevelt seeks speedier lower court action. Minton blocks two thirds Supreme Court rule while Barkley pushes wage hour housing and court reform. Buttoned disputes include labor board bias and nationalized medical aid.
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Supreme Court
Roosevelt
Senate Judiciary Committee
Indiana
Minton
Congress
Senate
Barkley
War and Words on the Spanish Front and Nonintervention Debates
In Spain the Brunete and Villanueva de la Canada battles threaten Madrid as Franco's forces claim major gains and heavy losses mount on both sides. Aerial raids on Barcelona kill many as Eden introduces a belligerency rights plan, provoking mixed responses across capitals.
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Brunete
Villanueva de la Canada
Jose Miaja
Francisco Franco
Madrid
Franco
Chateau-Thierry
Paris
Spain
Barcelona
Air liner crash in Hal Belgium kills fifteen
Fifteen people died in a Hal Belgium air liner crash. Other items note US Steel directors reporting their largest quarterly net income since 1929 and a Mexican earthquake causing 34 deaths.
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Hal
Belgium
U. S. Steel Corporation
Vera Cruz
Puebla
Detroit
American Telephone and Telegraph Co
Farnsworth
Medford Woman Jailed For Refusing to State Age
Mrs. Florhanna Beckman of Medford Oregon defied the court when applying for a driver license and received a 30 day jail sentence. Rev J F Cargile of Macon Georgia nears completion of a 13000 word novelty novelette with every word starting with s.
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Florhanna Beckman
Medford
Ore
J. F. Cargile
Macon
June strike toll tops four and a half million man-days
Americans lost 4 500 000 man-days of work in June as strikes surge. 1937 losses already surpass entire 1936 totals. San Francisco hotel workers settle after 88 days. Tacoma sees 10 stores closed in a strike lockout clash. A federal resettlement project strike near Elkins West Virginia continues.
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San Francisco
Tacoma
Elkins
W. Va
Orthodox Church Fights Pact Halting Access to Leaders
Yugoslavia's orthodox church blocks Premier Stoyadinovitch and other pro pact officials from meeting this week. Parliament approved the concordat in the lower house. the senate will decide in fall. Orthodoxy, 49 percent, Catholic 37 percent, fears privileges for Catholics would erode church rights. The Reich barred pastors from the World Church Conference in England, with Niemöller later jailed for 30 hours after prayers.
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Yugoslavia
Vatican
Stoyadinovitch
Senate
The
Reich
England
Wilhelm Niemoeller
Berlin
Navajo Progressive League Seeks Self Government in Farmington
The Navajo Progressive league held a conference at Farmington New Mexico demanding self government and control of their lands and property and calling for removal of Indian Commissioner John Collier. Tribal leaders opposed the move and the Navajo split into political factions for the first time in their history.
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Navajo Progressive League
Farmington
N. M
John Collier
Housing and social programs target 1937 growth
The Federal Housing Administration predicts 500,000 new homes in 1937. About 29,954.52 people nationwide are registered with the Social Security Board. The Farm Security Administration plans to begin immediate steps to convert 3,000,000 tenant farmers into landowners.
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Federal Housing Administration
U. S
Social Security Board
New Farm Security Administration
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