Japs Stage Largest Air Raid of War
Shanghai report details a major Japanese air offensive over a 50 mile front with 100 planes, as Chinese counterattacks and river boat seizures unfold. Evacuations of foreigners continue with the President McKinley sailing for Manila carrying 250 aboard.
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Shanghai
U.R
Orient
Whangpoo
Dollar
President McKinley
Manila
Peiping
Japan
Chiang Kai- Shek
Lunghua
Chinese Central
China National Aviation Corporation
U. S
Pan-American Airways
U S to Hold Middle Course in Sino Japanese War
Secretary Hull and other leaders declare a careful middle path in stance toward the undeclared Sino Japanese war. Roosevelt orders 1200 Marines from San Diego to Shanghai to reinforce 1150 Fourth Marines and Manila contingent. He will seek $500,000 from Congress for relief work to evacuate American nationals from Shanghai.
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Washington
U.P
United States
Cordell Hull
Roosevelt
U. S
San Diego
Calif
Shangai
Fourth Marines
Manila
Congress
Shanghai
Rescue shock fatal to attempted death by own action
Zanesville Ohio The shock of being saved from an attempted suicide led to the death of Fred Ruck 68. He plunged 75 feet from a Muskingum River bridge and was revived by a physician but died a few hours later.
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Zanesville-U.p
Fred Ruck
Muskingum River
Ruck
Finds 1718 dollar purse after inattentive moment
Mrs. Anthony Avant left her purse with 1718 dollars on her car. James Barsoe, a truck driver, found it in the street, stored it in his attic for safekeeping, and returned it to the Avant home after a two week vacation.
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Cleveland
Anthony Avant
James Barsoe
Avant
Roosevelt Defends New Deal as Foes Attacked in North Carolina
President Roosevelt denounced opponents of the New Deal including the United States Chamber of Commerce the Liberty League and the National Association of Manufacturers as acting against democracy at Fort Raleigh Roanoke Island while noting the nation wide support for his policies. The speech linked democratic ideals to the voyage of Virginia Dare 350 years ago and echoed England's view of America's early government in a historic setting.
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Manteo
Roanoke Island
N. C
U.K
Roosevelt
United States Chamber of Commerce
The
Liberty League
National Association of Manufacturers
Mr. Roosevelt
Old Fort Raleigh
Sir Walter Raleigh
Atlantic Shore Line
Ellinor Dare
Virginia Dare
Franco Advances on Santander As Nationalists Press Seacoast
Nationalist forces under Generalissimo Franco push toward Santander using tanks planes artillery and machine guns from four directions aiming to surround Loyalists. In four days they claim 625 square miles captured 3500 prisoners and 46 wagon loads of supplies.
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Reinosa
Spain
U.P
Francisco Franco
Santander
Bay of Biscay
Carpenters Ban Goods Made by CIO Unions
Indianapolis report says the International Executive Board of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners ordered a boycott of materials from CIO unions. Locals were instructed to refuse CIO produced materials in retaliation for alleged jurisdiction invasion amid CIO organizing among Northwest lumberjacks and sawmill workers.
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Indianapolis
Ind
U.P
Committee For Industrial Organization
International Executive Board
United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners
Brotherhood
CIO
Northwest
Roosevelt Son Hurls Champagne at Cannes Festival
Cannes mayor Pierre Nouveau said John A. Roosevelt, son of the President, threw a glass of champagne at him during the Battle of Flowers. The incident occurred Sunday beside the Carlton Hotel with many distinguished visitors watching. Roosevelt also reportedly attacked a photographer later in Cannes, adding to a string of past incidents during his European tour.
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Cannes
France
U.P
Pierre Nouveau
John A. Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Carlton Hotel
Europe
Harvard University
Riviera
Franklin, Jr
Harvard Hasty Pudding Club
Sara Delano Roosevelt
Four Die in Explosion Aboard USS Cassin at Philadelphia Navy Yard
An explosion on the new 1,500 ton destroyer USS Cassin at Philadelphia Navy Yard killed four civilian workers and injured ten others including an officer and enlisted men.
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Philadelphia
UPR
U. S. S. Cassin
Philadelphia Navy Yard
Black Court Vote Strengthens New Deal push
Washington reports the elevation of Sen Hugo L Black to the Supreme Court bolstering chances for New Deal legislation. The 51 year old Alabama Democrat was confirmed as Roosevelt's first appointee, spurring a Senate move to settle the legal status of retired tribunal members.
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Washington
U P
Hugo L. Black
Supreme Court
Senate
Alabama
Former Aide Seeks Supreme Court Ruling on Black
Albert Levitt former assistant to Attorney General Homer S Cummings filed a petition in the Supreme Court asking Hugo L Black be required to show cause of his eligibility for associate justice. The filing echoes Senate opposition to Black’s confirmation.
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Washington
U.P
Albert Levitt
Homer S. Cummings
Supreme Court
Hugo L. Black
Senate
Black
Senate confirms Black to Supreme Court in party line vote
The Senate approved Black by 63 to 16 with Ohio senators voting yes, giving the administration a six to three margin on a divided court. The action quashes a Republican Democrat coalition opposing the nomination amid Ku Klux Klan charges and signals forthcoming cases on social security wage and hour and administration power. Borah pledges to seek corrections to the 1937 retirement act to address the vacancy concerns.
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Senate
Ohio
Congress
Supreme Court
Black
Ku Klux Klan
William E. Borah
Ida
All Visitors Barred From Quins Nursery
Callander Ontario U P All visitors barred from the Dafoe Nursery home of the Dionne quintuplets to guard against infantile paralysis. No one admitted under any circumstances including Oliva and Elzire Dionne and their six other children.
Slain Co-ed Is Buried in Appalachian Funeral
Kinfolk and neighbors gathered in Houckville Kentucky for the funeral of Opa Sturgell a Berea College student age 19 slain on campus at Lover's Lane Authorities sought George Wells 20 year old college poet and former sweetheart as the slayer Wells father and brother told Police Chief Earl T Hayes they believed he had killed himself in a nearby mountain ravine
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Houckville
Opa Sturgell
Berea College
Lover's Lane
George Wells
Wells
Earl ‘T. Hayes
Berea
Ohio Legion Conclave Names State Commander
The 19th Ohio American Legion convention concluded with James V. Suhr of Cleveland elected state commander at age 38. Mrs. H E Simpson of Barberton was promoted from vice president to president of the women's auxiliary.
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Columbus
Ohio American Legion
James V. Suhr
Cleveland
H. E. Simpson
Barberton
Women’s Auxiliary
Hocking Union Council Probes WPA Plans and Wage Bill
Nelsonville based Hocking and Sunday Creek Valley Industrial Union Council debates WPA activities and relief worries in Athens area. Delegations report on Nelsonville retail grocers refusing to sign union contracts. Charter affiliation with the Committee for Industrial Organization displayed. secretary authorized to dispatch telegrams urging Congress to fund the National Labor Relations Board and to move the Black Conner Bill for passage.
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Nelsonville
WPA
Athens
Hocking and
Sunday Creek Valley
Committee For Industrial Organization
John L. Lewis
Charles P. Howard
John Brophy
Hocking and Sunday Creek Valley Industrial Union Council
John Cope
Charles J. Wolf
C. E. Hoskins
William E. Shott
Ernest
Herman Theisen
John Owens
United Mine Workers
Appropriations Committee
National House of Representatives
National Labor Relations Board
Ernest Hoskins
Council
Thomas A. Jenkins
H. G. Claypool
John McSweeney
Harold Mosier
Labor Council
National House Judiciary Committee
Trunk Murder Solved Nine Hours After Discovery
New York detectives solved a trunk murder within nine hours after a still warm body was found. Joseph Ogden, 36, restaurant worker, confessed to shooting Oliver George Sinecal, 30, stuffing the body in a trunk, and attempting to ship it to Memphis. Police traced the trunk to Ogden via sales slips and delivery records.
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NEW York
U.P
Express
Joseph Ogden
Oliver George Sinecal
Memphis
Tenn
Railway Express
Ogden
Halt Hunt for Lost Russians
An Arctic storm halted the search for six Soviet fliers missing in the northern wilderness. Rescue planes were grounded by rain and heavy clouds in Fairbanks Alaska, as Sir Hubert Wilkins prepared to join the hunt from New York.
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Fairbanks
Alaska
U.P
Sir Hubert Wilkins
New York
North Pole
Pole
Mackenzie Air Lines
Bob Randall
Aklavik
Jimmy Mattern
Joe Crosson
Sandusky charter amendment defeated in special election
By a 2396 to 1276 vote, Sandusky residents rejected a charter amendment that would have allowed a second vote on a municipal light plant in a special election held Tuesday.
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Sandusky
U.P
James McIntyre of McIntyre and Heath Dies at 80
Southampton New York reports the death of James McIntyre aged 80 a member of the famed vaudeville team McIntyre and Heath who passed away early today leaving a legacy in entertainment history.
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Southampton
N. Y
James McIntyre
McIntyre and
Heath
Millmen Attend NLRB Hearing in West Virginia
Hundreds of steel workers from the Weirton Steel area filled the Hancock County Courthouse to observe an NLRB hearing on a complaint that Weirton Steel Co violated the Wagner Act by dominating employees and opposing unions. Members of the Weirton Steel Employes Security League wore red white and blue badges. Police kept watch to prevent clashes between rival unions.
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New Cumberland
W. Va
U.P
Gallipolis Doctors Plan 40000 Center in Mack Building
Dr. Leo Bean and colleagues announce purchase of the Mack Building at Third and Locust for a new Medical Center costing 40000. They will equip the facility with a laboratory medical library and instruments for patient care.
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Gallipolis
Leo Bean
H. B. Thomas
Francis Lane
Raymond Allison
Mack
Third and Locust Sts
It's Just a Habit: Man Arrested 23rd Time
Bridgeport Connecticut police report John Stankowski aged 45 was arrested for the twenty third time for a motor vehicle regulation violation. He faces a charge of driving a motorcycle with a suspended license and had accumulated fines totaling about 1000 dollars from prior arrests.
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Bridgeport
Conn
U.P
John Stankowski
CIO Chieftain May Speak on ID Attitude
John L. Lewis plans a Sept 3 national network broadcast to outline a public policy, fueling talk of a split with President Roosevelt. The CIO chief has not denied tensions tied to the steel strike and Perkins criticisms.
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Washington
4U.P
John L. Lewis
Roosevelt
Lewis
C.I.O
Frances Perkins
Davey To Fill 12 New Jobs
Columbus reports twelve new state jobs, paying 3600 dollars a year, to be filled by Governor Davey under the Whetto Act. Four new three member boards of claims will hear workmen compensation cases in districts to expedite the Industrial Relations Department. Also increases state highway patrolman appointments from 120 to 200.
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Columbus
Davey
Whetto
Boards of
Industrial Relations Department
State Industrial Commission
Six Trotskyists Executed in Moscow Report
The Minsk Daily Rabouchy reports six Russian soldiers executed as Trotskyist sympathizers. The notice notes the action as part of a political purge in Moscow.
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Moscow
U.P
Minsk
Rabouchy
Davey weighs special session on relief tax plan
Governor Davey signals a special session in early autumn to tackle relief funding and cut waste. City officials and lawmakers draft an agreed program with the Ohio League of Municipalities and a joint legislative committee. Relief needs for late 1937 are projected at about 6 million dollars, with proposals to ease passage thresholds and clarify city versus county relief duties.
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Columbus
U.P
Davey
General Assembly
Ohio
Ohio League of Municipalities
League
Earl E. Hagerman
Dayton Finance
Hagerman
Loyd Huml
Cuyahoga County
Chiselers
Myron Gessaman
Gessaman
Not Guilty Plea Entered for Anna Hahn in Poison Plot Case
In Cincinnati a tentative not guilty plea was entered today for Anna Marie Hahn 43 in two murder charges. Attorney Joseph Hoodin reserved the right to withdraw the plea and mount a defense as crowds filled the courtroom.
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Cincinnati
U.P
Anna Marie Hahn
Ohio WPA worker electrocuted while lowering antenna
Otto Guinn a 57 year old WPA worker was electrocuted while helping to take down a fallen radio antenna that lay across a 2300 volt power line in Findlay yesterday.
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Findlay
U.P
Otto Guinn
WPA
Smiling Bomb Fodder and the Battle of Shanghai Dispatch
United Press reporter TAZANG in Shanghai suburbs describes the brutal chaos of bombardment civilians fleeing toward Soochow and Soochow river towns. He witnesses ambulances and trucks carrying the maimed amid the ongoing Japanese air raids and warns war’s stark, dehumanizing impact on children and civilians.
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Shanghai
International
H. R. Ekins
United Press
Tazang
U.P
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John
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Yank
China
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Chiang Kai-Shek
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