Japanese Planes Spread Sine War Southward
Japanese air raids pushed south of Paotingfu as Tokyo widened control beyond Peiping Tientsin area. Japanese infantry claimed dominion over Hopeh north of a Tangku line and parts of the Peiping Suiyuan railway, with Changsientien and Liangjiang in their hands. Chinese forces regrouped near Machang while refugees thronged the American embassy in Peiping guarded by Marines.
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Tokyo
Tientsin
Paotingfu
Peiping
Peiping-Tientasin
Hopeh Province
Tangku
Suiyuan
Mongolia
China
Changsientien
Peing
Yungting
Liangjiang
Peiping-Suiyuan
Machang
Here
Pukow
Marine Guard
Hopeh-Chahar
Yenching
Texan To Head Cotton Probe
Senate Inquiry Committee named Colonel Lawrence Westbrook of Waco Texas as special investigator for the inquiry into the American Cotton Cooperative Association. The panel authorized $10 000 for expenses and set hearings possibly in the South within two to three months. Westbrook will use data gathered by J Roy Jones SC agriculture commissioner and probe profits, interlocking directorates, finances, and whether the group is a buying and selling operation for officers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Lawrence Westbrook
WPA
American Cotton Cooperative Association
Senate Agriculture Committee
Smith
Democrat
South Carolina
Bankhead
Alabama
Thomas
Oklahoma
Ellender
Louisiana
Bilbo
Mississippi
Hatch
New Mexico
Westbrook
South
J. Roy Jones
Waco
Texas
Skilled Firefighters Target Mag Magnolia Well Fire
Skilled oil well firefighters rushed to the Magnolia Petroleum Company No. 7 Seeligson well in Jim Wells County tonight to cap the cemented casing at 6,169 feet and extinguish the blaze as they bridle the wild well after ceasing control.
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Mcallen
Magnolia Petroleum Company
Seeligson
Jim Wells County
Lewis Warns Neutrality Enforcement Could Draw U S Into War
U S Senator J Hamilton Lewis warned in the Senate that pressing immediate neutrality law enforcement over the Sino Japanese conflict could plunge the United States into war within an hour. He urged the President to keep pushing for a peaceful settlement and cautioned that declaring either China or Japan as aggressor risks war with both. Continued on page 2 column 7.
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Washington
U.P
Sen
J. Hamilton Lewis
D-Ill
Senate Today
United States
Lewis
China
Japan
Famed Circus Aerialist Vera Codona Dies After Husband Shootout
Vera Bruce Codona, once star of The Flying Codonas, died hours after shooting by her estranged husband, famed trapeze performer Aldolfo Codona. The couple had divorced a month earlier amid cruelty claims. Codona died at Seaside Hospital after extensive surgery and transfusions.
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Vera Bruce Codona
Copenhagen
New York
Codena
Miss Bruce
Miss Leitzel
Flying
Codenas
Cadona
Seaside
Iowa Corn Wins Over Wisconsin Entry
DES MOINES Iowa July 31 Iowa won the tall corn derby as Gov Kraschel's entry towered 16 feet 5 inches more than Gov LaFollette's stalk. Wisconsin's stalk measured 13 feet 1 inch. Kraschel received a Muskelonge cheese and large butter as Wisconsin conceded Iowa's supremacy in tall corn.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Nelson G. Kraschel
Philip LaFollette
Wisconsin
Kraschel
Midwest
LaFollette
Weather Outlook for Amarillo and Surrounding Regions
Partly cloudy conditions extend across Amarillo and west Texas with unsettled areas in the east and north. New Mexico shows generally fair weather. Yesterday’s hourly temperatures reach a high near 109 and a low around 70, with daytime readings peaking in the mid to upper 100s.
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Amarillo
West Texas
100Th Meridian
New Mexico
Girl Sees Friend Shot Then Drives With Body
TOPEKA July 31 Miss Marie Fink 21 drove several miles with the body of Verne Hedrick 30 a grocer clerk after three Negroes forced them from a car and shot Hedrick near Topeka Hedrick died from a close range chest wound and Miss Fink was dragged into a field She returned to the car and reported the attack to police while she was near collapse Police said no suspects had been found Hedrick was married and the dirk found at the scene belonged to him.
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Topeka
Kan
U.P
Marie Fink
Verne Hedrick
Hedrick
Miss Fink
Wayne Horning
Sabotage Blamed by Captain in City of Baltimore Fire
Capt. Charles O. Brooks told a Federal Inquiry Board that the City of Baltimore liner fire was likely started deliberately as flames spread rapidly across the vessel. He noted a rescued man found an empty kerosene can nearby and testified mineral oil was used aboard. Senate panel backed the Copeland Safety at Sea bill and passenger-list filing to prevent similar disasters.
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Baltimore
Charles O. Brooks
Brooks
J. F. Sisley
Department of Justice
Washington
Senate Commerce Committee
Morro Castle
New Jersey
Jurors Back Sex Education Proposal For Public Schools
A Chicago grand jury recommended teaching sex education in public schools as a crime deterrent, while Chief Justice McKinley urged frank parent child discussion. Superintendent Johnson said policy hinges on conferences with clergy, doctors, PTA and civic groups before any program proceeds.
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Ghicago
Michael L. McKinley
William H. Johnson
PTA
City High School
McKinley
George D. Pettit
Dynamiters Return to Terror in Belfast During King George Visit
In Belfast dynamiters and sluggers unleashed fresh terror, with a land mine explosion near a police barracks in the west end, three story building damaged, and Thomas Doherty beaten after gunmen lined him and five companions against a wall.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
King George
West End
Thomas Doherty
Eight Year Old Girl Assaulted and Strangled in Brooklyn Basement
An eight year old girl was sexually assaulted and strangled in the basement of her Brooklyn apartment building. Paula Magagna, daughter of a tombstone carver, left home at 9:30 am to visit a playmate but found no one at the destination. A neighbor discovered the body about 1 pm, with a rope looped three times around her neck. Authorities, including Deputy Inspector John J. Gallagher, investigated alongside a Wyckoff Heights hospital doctor. The crime echoes prior sex offenses in the area, including the murder of nine year old Einer Sporrer. Salvatore Issido, a barber, is awaiting execution for Sporrer's murder.
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New York
Brooklyn
Paula Magagna
Dorothy Haasis
Amanda Haasis
Dorothy
Paula
Haasis
Margaret Lang
Lena Meld
Salvatore Issido
Sporrer
Aged Tennessee man sought after shotgun farm shooting
Atlanta sheriff deputies hunted a 66 year old Tennessee man after his wife and his aged father in law were wounded in a shotgun attack at a farm south of the city. City marshal Homer Carter said the woman was shot in the left shoulder and the elderly man in the right side.
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Atlanta
Sheriff's Deputies
Tennessee
Here
Homer Carter
Officials in Novorossisk on trial over poisoned sausage scare
Four officials from Novo Rossisk food administration faced trial for allegedly permitting the sale of tainted sausage that poisoned about 120 people at workers markets. The case centers on alleged deliberate acts to wreck market welfare and public health.
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Moscow
Black Sea
Novorossisk
Food Administration
Claudette Colbert Sidelined by Influenza Illness
Hollywood actress Claudette Colbert was ill with influenza on July 31, delaying work after she believed it was only a summer cold. She returned to her studio but was too weak to continue and went home. Dr. Joel Pressman stated she must remain at home for another week.
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Claudette Colbert
Joel Pressman
Recommittal of Measure Fails By Close Vote
Washington July 31 Administration forces push the revised wage and hour bill through the Senate amid long debate and 48 to 36 defeat of a committee recommitment. The measure, to fix wages and hours for interstate industries and outlaw child labor, then passed to the House 56 to 26. A more drastic House proposal would allow 70 cents an hour and a 35 hour week. The session saw extensive roll calls and amendments, including Wheeler-Johnson child labor changes. Black, chair, praised the bill’s passage while warning critics that the worker, not small business, is the focus.
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Washington
Senate
Labor Committee
House
House Labor Committee
Labor Standard Board
Black
Senate Labor Committee
Ag W. A. Maxwell
Chicago
Barkley
Maxwell
Connally
Texas
Pole Sitter Golas Sealed In Solitary At San Quentin
Meyer Golas, a Los Angeles burglar with a pole sitting habit, spent hours atop a prison searchlight tower before being locked in an isolation cell. Warden Court Smi affirmed the record as his second marathon atop the pole following a 19 hour 8 minute earlier stint. Hunger and cold drove him down to a steak dinner and reinvigorated attempts.
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San Quentin
Calif
U.P
Meyer Golas
Los Angeles
Court Smi
Golas
Mercury Climbs To 101 Degrees in Amarillo Heat Wave
The Amarillo area sweltered as the temperature reached 101 degrees yesterday the hottest day of the season. Forecaster W. T. Cobb predicted near 100 again Sunday with partly cloudy skies and possible scattered showers in the afternoon. Records show three other July days hit 100 or more this month, with last year’s peak at 102 degrees on July 19.
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Amarillo
W. T. Co
Means Ordered Transferred From Leavenworth to Federal Hospital
Gaston B. Means, serving a fraud term tied to the Lindbergh kidnapping case, was ordered moved today from Leavenworth to the Federal Hospital for Defective Delinquents in Missouri. The transfer, approved by the Bureau of Prisons, follows his 1933 sentence of 15 years and 1 month for conspiracy, grand larceny, and embezzlement in a case involving more than $100,000 from Mrs. McLean.
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Gaston B. Means
Federal Pew Hospital
Washington
U.P
Edward B. McLean
Lindbergh
Leavenworth
Federal Hospital
Missouri
Bureau of Prisons
R. H. Hudspeth
Means
McLean
Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr
Lewisburg
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Senator Lewis
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Vera Bruce
Codona
Flying Codonas
Lillian Leitzel Codona
Girl
Chesapeake
Ireland
Hollywood
Kentucky
Russell Stationery Co
Gaston B
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