British Ambassador Shot In Shanghai Amid China Crisis
A Japanese air attack wounded British ambassador Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen near Shanghai as Japan threatened to extend its coast blockade. Three Americans escaped injury in a separate bombardment of a U S owned dairy farm, while diplomatic protests rose in London and Washington over the incident and possible naval inspections of foreign ships.
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Shanghai
China
Japan
Empire of Great Britain
Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull - Hugessen
Geen
E. Shot
Nanking
W. A. Lovat-Fraser
E. L. Hall- Patch
Enty Miles
Col. Lovat-Fraser McAn
Hallscious
Patch
Sir Huge
Iran
Paris
Foreign Office
France
Threat Of Complete Blockade Of China Coast
Washington August 26 Grave developments in the Sino-Japanese conflict keep American diplomats anxious and raise the question of invoking the neutrality act. Hull reports to Roosevelt discuss threats to force ships from Chinese ports and the possibility of a naval blockade. A British ambassador was wounded by a Japanese warplane as Konoye seeks peace through negotiations.
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Washington
Ceres
Hull
Roosevelt
Adese
Via
Great Britain
China
Hughe Knatchbull Hughesson
Nanking
Shanghai
Fumimaro Konoye
Offic
Railroad Strike Averted By Mediation Board Action
Chicago August 26 AP Swift action of the national mediation board prevented a nationwide railroad strike by 350 000 workers from the big five brotherhoods Both sides agreed to present a 20 percent wage demand to the federal agency with hearings slated to begin Saturday in Chicago The year long dispute centered on hours pay and working conditions and a nationwide walkout was avoided by mediation efforts
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Chicago
National Mediation Board
Brotherhood
Carriers’ Conference Committee
H. A. Enochs
William M. Weiserson
Brotherhoods
Rotherhoods
A. F. of
Paul Gooch
Clarksburg
A. F. of L
CI. O
Tom Cairns
Charleston
A. F
Lanizer
Easton
van A. Bittner
United Mine Workers
Bar
Testify Workers Tie Weirton Steel Security League to Dismissal
At a labor board hearing in New Cumberland West Virginia a John L Lewis CIO member testified that the Weirton Steel Security League chief and Shirlie Cox led a group to expel workers wearing CIO buttons from the Weirton plant. The testimony comes as mediation talks continue with the national board and carriers arbitration in progress.
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New Cumberland
W. Va
John L. Lewis
Labor Board
Wierton Steel
Cox
O. E. Burgham
Weirton Steel
John W. Porter
Claude A. Armstrong
Conway
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Clothespin ChristenEd as Cherry River Admirals Parade
Richwood West Virginia hosts a parade for the landship Clothespin christened as Cherry River with 400 admirals and 55 piece band. Governors Holt and Nice lead a lumber industry pageant featuring floats lumber products conservation displays and woodchopping speakers.
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Cherry River Admirals
Richwood
W. Va
West Virginia
Cherry River
Navy
Holt
Harry Nice
Maryland
Congress
Paul Bunyan” Criss
James McClung
International
Two Labor Bodies Seen in State Convention Ends
Easton likely to head new C I O A F L federation as rival factions push toward split. West Virginia labor ranks debate jurisdiction while Green contemplates charter action. convention ends with calls for unity and potential reorganization of the labor movement.
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Easton
Green
W. Va
Parkersburg
West Virginia
Labor Car LP
William Green
Co F
John B. Easton
Executive Council
A. F. of L
State Federation
Charleston
American Federation of Labor
C. I . O. Federation
A. F
A. F P
Harry Norrington
Spanish Loyalists Fight To Retain Northern Areas
Catalonia reportedly negotiated surrender terms with insurgents if their autonomy is guaranteed by Franco. Northwest Spain collapses as Navarrese and Asturian towns fall, with hundreds of militia surrendering. Britain warns Franco over Mediterranean shipping.
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Catalonia
Hendaye
Spain
Santander
Bay of Biscay
Oviedo
Biarritz
Francisco Franco
Elona
Franco
Asturias
San Vincente de la Barquera
Adt
Villa Torrelavega
Ramales
Polic
Gusverder
Britain
London
Great Britain
Foreign Office
Turkey
Dardanelles
Russia
Moiseyevitch Kagan
Pranco
Mediterranean
Penitent mother confesses theft of Chicago baby
A mailed confession signed A penitent mother explains the theft of three month old Diane from a North Side stroller after the writer says she did it from mother love. Police link the letter to a missing baby case and seek the writer. Diane was found unharmed on apartment steps and reunited with Mr and Mrs Herman Lucas.
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Chicago
Diane
Hermanicas
North Side
Lucas
Dorothy Lucas
Patrick O'Connell
Smith and Roosev elt feud to rise in mayor race
New York Aug 26 The epic Smith Roosevelt feud resurfaces as former Governor Alfred Smith plans to campaign for Senator Royal Copeland in the Manhattan backed Tammy Hall mayoralty bid. Smith would stump for Copeland amid opposition from Democratic bosses in four boroughs as Farley and Mahoney maneuver publicly.
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New York
Alfred Smith
Smith
Royal S. Copeland
Tammy Hall
Manhattan
City Hall
Washington
James A. Farley
Jeremiah T. Mahoney
Copeland
Roosevelt Signs Tax Flaw Bill and Mellon Art Gift
President Roosevelt signed a law to tighten revenue rules aimed at closing tax avoidance gaps and to curb use of holding companies and art deductions. The same day, reports traced Andrew W. Mellon’s final art purchases and his gift to establish a national gallery in Washington with a multi million dollar endowment.
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Roosevelt
Mellon
Bill
Treasury
New York
Andrew W. Mellon
Europe
National Gallery of Art
Washington
A. W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trusts
White House
Constable
Stare
Gilbert
Donatello
Luca Della Robbia
Mino
Two Fur Coats Stolen From Cox Department Store
Two unidentified men stole fur coats valued at 179.50 from the A W Cox Department Store on Federal Street. A youth reporting the breakage at 1:30 a m saw them flee with the coats, a taxi was used to summon police, and no weapon or window evidence was recovered.
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Federal Street
A. W. Cox Department
Federal
Commerce Street
Scott
Hawley’s
Cox
Raleigh Street
Folk and Western Railway
Cox Store
Hugo Black Heads Europe Vacation Voyage
Justice Hugo Black and Mrs. Black embarked for a European vacation aboard a commercial sailing from Baltimore. The trip marks the newly appointed Supreme Court justice's first extended holiday after confirmation.
Mellon Dies Revealing Nation's Wealthiest Financier
Southampton NY August 26 AP Andrew W. Mellon secretary of the treasury under three presidents and former ambassador to Great Britain died tonight at 82 due to uremia and bronchial pneumonia. He left a vast fortune built on oil and aluminum and supported many gifts including the Mellon Institute and Cathedral of Learning at the University of Pittsburgh. Funeral plans to be announced with a Pittsburgh service.
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Andrew W. Mellon
U. S. Secretary of Treasury
Southampton, N. Y
Southampton
N. Y
Mellon
Spare
Pittsburgh
Mellon Institute of Industial Research
Richard B. Mellon
Cathedral of Learning
University of Pittsburgh
National Gallery
England
Mellon fortune believed at half a billion by close friends
Pittsburgh reports that Andrew W. Mellon and his two children are believed to control about 500 million dollars. Officials had previously valued Mellon at 205 million for 1931, with much of the fortune funneled into a holding company, the Coalesced Company, and stock allotted to his son and daughter. Mellon held 20 million in preferred stock planned for his art gallery.
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Associated Press
Pittsburgh
Andrew W. Mellon
Mellon
Ailsa
D. E. Bruce
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H. A. Thomson
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Hal
Tunetay
China Coast
CIC
Weirton
John L. Lewis’ Union
Employes Security League
Louis Leonard
Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers
Ray
Hyde Park
Dutchess County
Cox Department Store
Secretary of Treasury
Warren G. Harding
Coolidge
Hoover
the Treasury
Alexander Hamilton
Senate
Herbert Hoover
Pennsylvania
Bruce Home
Paul Mellon
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