Congressional Inquiry Sought into Communications Commission
Representative Fish of New York urged a Congressional investigation of the Communications Commission. He proposed examining Charles Michelson’s role with Crosley Radio and WLW in Cincinnati while he earns 25,000 dollars yearly as publicity director for the Democratic National Committee. He also questioned reports that Elliott Roosevelt helped sell Texas radio stations to William Randolph Hearst without a hearing.
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Washington
Representative Fish
New York Republican
The
Communications Commission
Charles Michelson
Crosley Radio Corp
WLW
Cincinnati
Democratic National Committee
Elliott Roosevelt
Texas
William Randolph Hearst
Fish
Child Wonder of Years Ago Sought as Likely Heir to Fortune
The Pittsburgh item reports Fred Sackville Stoner Jr once famed as a child prodigy may inherit a Kent England estate through Dr John Sackville’s legacy. Relatives seek the missing heir who disappeared after childhood fame. The estate, chiefly bonds, is confirmed by Mrs Sackville, with Stoner connected to the Sackville family line.
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United Press
Pittsburgh
Winifred Sackville Stoner, Jr
Miss Stoner
John Sackville
Highbury Park
Kent
Gland
Lord Sackville West
United States
New York
Dr. Sackville
Sackville
Fugitive Back in Cell After Visiting Family
Walter Belton a 33 year old life term fugitive from Eastham Prison Farm was recaptured after visiting his two young daughters in Fort Worth. He said the escape was prompted by the visit and denied involvement in the July prison break by Traxler and Tindel. Belton surrendered to Palo Pinto County officers.
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Fort Worth
Walter Belton
Eastham
Belton
Roy
Pete) Traxler
Fred Tindel
Traxler
Tindel
Special Session May Start September 22
Governor James V. Allred said the tax raising special session of the Legislature would probably begin around September 22. He noted lawmakers had begun inquiring about session dates to plan accordingly and hoped for only one extraordinary session this fall. He said tax submission would not reopen appropriations and some legislators were considering trimming appropriations to avoid new taxes.
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Austin
James V. Allred
Senators Urge Invocation of Neutrality Act
Three Senators Nye, Bone, and Clark urged invoking the Neutrality Act after Hull disclosed 1,200 Marines were ordered to Shanghai. They argued the law would level trading terms with Japan and China, while President Roosevelt stayed cautious, not adding to Hull's remarks.
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Washington
Roosevelt
China
State Department
Hull
Nye
Bone
Clark
United States
San Diego
Shanghai
Japan
Eden halts vacation to chair Shanghai war crisis council
Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden cut short his vacation to return to London for an emergency special council with ministers over the gravities of hostilities in Shanghai. Officials expect no change to Britain’s basic policy as Anglo American and French consultations continue on the undeclared war between Japan and China.
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London
Anthony Eden
Shanghai
Britain
United States
France
Japan
China
Washington
Paris
Chinese Army Presses Shanghai Siege As Battle Rages
Chinese forces launch new assaults against Japanese lines near Shanghai to drive the invader from the city. The six day clash near the Whangpoo river endangers 3,500,000 noncombatants and disrupts the French concession with rising shellfire and casualties. Food shortages prompt foreign emergency efforts to deliver relief through battle lines. Air fleets of both nations circle the city as daylight wanes.
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Shanghai
Whangpoo River
Quins Nursery Closed To Visitors Amid Polio Fears
Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe orders total visitor ban at the Dionne quintuplets nursery in Callander Ontario after 64 polio cases and 11 deaths reported in Southern Ontario. Parents and siblings are barred. daily visits cancelled and play restricted until further notice. Cecile joins siblings in the nursery playground later today.
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United Press
Callander
Ontario
Allan Roy Dafoe
Dafoe
Quins
Oliva
Elzire Dionne
Emilie
Yvonne
Annette
Cecile
Marie
Lone Pilot Brav es Fog in Search
Lone Canadian pilot Bob Randall braved fog and clouds above Alaska to search the Arctic coast for the missing Soviet transpolar plane with Sigismund Levaneffsky and five crew. He reportedly left Aklavik and landed at Demarcation Point to begin questioning locals along the Arctic coast for sightings.
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Fairbanks
Alaska
Bob Randall
Arctic Ocean
Sigismund Levaneffsky
Arctic Circle
Randall
Aklavik
Northwest Territory
Demarcation
Alaska- Canada
Arctic
Roosevelts Nominates Mary W Dewson to Social Security Board
President Roosevelt nominates Mary W. Dewson of New York to serve as a member of the Social Security Board in a formal White House announcement dated August 17. The move adds a experienced reform advocate to the agency overseeing unemployment and retirement programs.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Mary W. Dewson
New York Today
Social Security Board
Confession in Trunk Murder Case in Gotham
Detectives say Joseph Ogden confessed to the slaying of Oliver George Sinecal whose nude body was found in a trunk delivered to an express agency. The trunk bore a number likely 239 or 859 guiding investigators to a Moelle Brothers trunk store on Ninth Avenue and to Ogden’s apartment. Police found a .32 caliber revolver with one discharged shell in Ogden’s room.
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New York
Edward Mullins
Joseph Ogden
Oliver George Sinecal
Express
West Side
Ogden
Moelle Brothers
Ninth Avenue
Sinecal
Body of Lynched Negro Found in Tennessee
The bullet-punctured body of 35-year-old Albert Gooden, a slaying suspect, was found hanging beneath a highway bridge 12 miles east of Covington. He had been taken by six masked men from Sheriff W. J. Vaughan while en route from Memphis to Covington for a hearing on the murder of Marshal Chester Doyle of Mason on July 17.
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Covington
Tenn
Here
Albert Gooden
W. J. Vaughan
Memphis
Gooden
Chester Doyle
Mason, Tenn
Loyalist forces seize Zafrilla and nearby heights
Loyalist headquarters report a strategic victory at the Teiuel front with the occupation of the village of Zafrilla and key positions on the Zafrilla mountains northwest of Cuenca.
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Madrid
J.P
Zafrilla
Cuenca
Clipper Leaves for Azores on Southern Route Test
The Pan American Clipper III departed Hamilton Bermuda today bound for the Azores as part of a test of the southern trans Atlantic route to Europe. The historic flight follows exploration of a new North Atlantic path.
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Port Washington
N. Y
North Atlantic
Europe
Hamilton
Bermuda
Azores
Weather forecast for Amarillo and West Texas
Partly cloudy Wednesday afternoon for Amarillo and vicinity with a chance of local thundershowers in the extreme west. Unsettled in New Mexico with little change in temperature. Yesterday’s readings show highs around the upper 90s and a low near 68 degrees, with record highs and lows noted for 1936.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
Fisese
Bess
Pe Tal
Envesen
Senate Confirms Black Nomination After Torrid Senate Fight
Washington reports the Senate voted 63 to 16 to confirm Hugo L. Black of Alabama to the Supreme Court. The bitter debate centered on charges of Ku Klux Klan ties and concerns over Black's temperament and public hearings.
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Supreme Court
Connally, Burke
Copeland
Ku Klux Klan
Washington
Hugo L. Black
Alabama
Black
Willis van Devanter
Alabama Democrat
George McIg
Pore S. Copeland
Edward R. Burke
United States
McGill
Lewis B Schwellenbach
New York
New York City
Klan
Congress
Borger Officers Hurt in Crash Near Wichita Falls
Three autos collided four miles south of Wichita Falls injuring six people including Borger Sheriff Dan Hardee and Constable Lee Hudson. T R Rutherford of Borger and his wife were in the Borger party. T B Pitts, a sand and gravel dealer, died en route.
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Borger
Wichita Falls
T. 8
Pitts
Dan Hardee
Lee Hudson
Hardee
Hudson
Longview
Bill Rutherford
Two Jailed in Deaths At Corpus Christi
In Corpus Christi two men were jailed for questioning after a night gunbattle killed W. L. Dickie owner of a roadside inn and Ivan Yarborough an inn employee. A pistol found near the bodies is being tested for ballistics.
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Corpus Christi
W. L. Dickie
Ivan Yarborough
Dickie
Yarborough
Cotton bounties sought by Byrnes to aid crop
Senator Byrnes asked Congress to allot 65 million dollars from tariff receipts for bounty payments up to three cents a pound on this year's cotton crop. The payments would go to producers who comply with the 1938 Agricultural Adjustment program per an agreement with the President and cotton-state lawmakers.
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Washington
Byrnes
Congress
Roosevelt
Senate To Consider Tax Loophole Bill
The Senate Finance Committee failed to reach agreement on the administration tax loophole bill, approved by the House, and called a special session to resume study. Roswell Magill explained the measure’s provisions at this morning’s meetings.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
House
Roswell Magill
The
Treasury
Class notices for fall term music and dance classes in Sun day News-Globe
Announcement of opening fall term classes for music dance expression voice whistling and kindergarten to appear in the August 29 and September 5 issues. Teachers urged to contact the News-Globe display advertising department at phone 6262 this week to ensure inclusion.
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Sunday News-Globe
The
News-Globe
Dust Bowl Aide Wins $20 Million Farm Tenant Aid
Members from the drought districts led by Rep. Marvin Jones win House approval for a $20,000,000 deficiency bill funding Farm Tenant Act administration. About $10,000,000 funds land purchases to aid homeless farmers in the Southwest with sub marginal lands and later dam and forestation projects. Senate passage expected as President supports the move and Agriculture Dept lines up details.
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Rep. Starnes
Alabama
House
Southwest
Senate
Appropriations Committee
Agriculture Department
Associated Press
Farm State
National Labor Relations Board
Walker Eligible for City Pension After Brief Return
Former New York Mayor James J. Walker, now assistant counsel to the State Transit Commission, qualifies for a lifetime city pension estimated at 12 000 to 15 000 dollars per year. He must serve only one month to qualify since he turns 55 on September 1, and the pension is available once he holds a city office at that age.
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New York
U.P
James J. Walker
State Transit Commission
Walker
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