Soviet Bombing of Changkufeng Escalates Border Clash
Soviet warplanes bombed Japanese positions along the Siberian Manchukuo frontier near Changkufeng. Tokyo reports claim five Soviet planes shot down, with Russian losses higher on Sunday and Monday. Japanese casualties are described as minor.
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TOKIO
Siberian-Manchukuoan
Changkufeng
War Office
Changkufeng Hill
Moscow
Siberian
Japan
Foreign Office
Soviet Union
Manchukuo
Russian Siberia
Japanese Korea
Vladivostok
Soviets Threaten Brutal Retaliation Over Frontier Clash
Soviet workers at Moscow protests vow sweeping reprisals after battles near the Korean Manchukuo frontier. Official reports say Japanese Manchukuoan forces held territory to two and a half miles deep. Moscow promisesgalactic scale response, while Red Star frames provocation as prewar hostility.
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Moscow
INS
Japan
Red Army
Red Star
Soviet Union
Lake Khassan
New York Sifts Box Tops For Visiting Heroes
A 1938 feature notes New York saves torn paper box tops for distinguished visitors and even a six pound telephone book is turned into paper flowers. The piece comments on civic pride and waste amid Albany’s bill to permit tossing entire phone directories at heroes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Albany
Train Crash Leaves Twenty One Hurt In Ohio
Wet rails and a tight schedule caused a collision between the Commodore Vanderbilt and the Mercury on the New York Central line near Rocky Ridge Ohio. Twenty one people were injured six seriously as the Vanderbilt crashed into the Mercury’s observation car after the Mercury grazed a crossing auto.
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Rocky Ridge
Commodore Vanderbilt
New York Central
Chicago
New York
Mercury
Detroit
Cleveland
John Brown
Winnetka
Mary Coleman
New York City
Il. B. Haggerty
Zachary
Daylight Robbers Take $50,000 From New York Bank
Four gunmen robbed Banco di Napoli Trust Company branch at First Avenue and Twelfth Street in Manhattan. They seized $50,000 in cash, while fourteen customers and nine employees were cowed. An armed guard was at lunch. cash was to be moved later to the main Broadway branch. The branch sits in the lower east side near a pushcart district.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Banco di Napoli Trust Company
First Avenue
Twelfth Street
Lower Broadway
Lower East Side
Tennessee Leader Drops Guard Threat Ahead of Primary
Tennessee politics heated as Governor Gordon Browning signals hesitation on sending National Guard to Memphis for election day. Crump faction counters with federal injunction talk while backing Prentice Cooper in governor race and coalition slate for senate and utilities commissioner.
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Browning
Memphis
Nashville
Tenn
Gordon Browning
United States
F E. H. Crump
Crump
Prentice Cooper
Shelbyville
Mississippi
Adj
R. O Smith
Crump Organization
Tennessee
U.S
U. S
George L. Berry
W. H. Turner
Public Utilities Commission
Kenneth D. McKellar
Cooper
A. Tom Stewart
Winchester
W. D. Hudson
Clarksville
Fred Snite Leaves Iron Lung For 31 Minutes Birthday Break
Frederick Snite Jr. spent 3114 minutes out of the iron lung, his longest period since infantile paralysis struck him in Peiping. He marked his 29th birthday with a lawn party at his father's suburban home in Chicago and inspired his family by staying off the respirator.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
INS
Frederick Snite, Jr
Peiping
China
Shirley Temple In Improved Condition
Shirley Temple, nine, is in improved condition after a grippe attack. Doctors report her temperature dropped from 103 to 99 and she will stay in bed at her hotel for at least 24 hours more, likely remaining in Boston until Thursday. Dr. Leo J. Madsen arrived from Hollywood to oversee her care.
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Boston
Shirley Temple
Leo J. Madsen
Hollywood
Shirley
Corrigan Not So Dumb Pal Of Plane Czar Aboard 8S
Douglas Corrigan the transatlantic flyer travels with Oswald Ryan aboard the Manhattan. Ryan praises Corrigan as suitable for American aviation and the pair mingle aboard while Corrigan shuns the ship’s bar and ballroom and focuses on engines and navigation.
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Corrigan
Pal
Czar
Atlantic
Manhattan
Spanish insurgents clash as Gandesa battle rages
In Franco era Spain the Ebro front near Gandesa saw a renewed clash with both sides claiming gains. Insurgents push toward the Ebro delta while government forces report a slight advance south of Gandesa and contest control along the line. Both sides tout their aims and outcomes.
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Hendaye
France
Ebro
Ganesa
Gandesa
Franco
Chinese Counter Offensive Reclaims Hankow Sector
Shanghai AP dispatches report Chinese forces under Gen Chengcheng halted the Japanese advance on Hankow and retook semi circular front near Kiukiang. Chinese claims include recapturing Samoushan and Chiaotsun with over 2000 Japanese killed or wounded while Chinese air units hit ships in the Yangtze and cut lines east of Hukow. Japanese say the Hankow drive proceeds with heavy casualties on both sides.
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Shanghai
Chengcheng
Hankow
Chen
China
Kiukiang
Samoushan
Chiaotsun
Hukow
Yangtze
Primaries Of Week 10 Test Party Rulers
Six primaries unfold this week testing leadership in both parties. Barkley for Senate in Kentucky faces Chandler. Winrod challenges in Kansas with White and Reed opposing. Virginia Missouri West Virginia Tennessee primaries loom with party splits and accusations shaping the nominating battles.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Kentucky
Alben W. Barkley
Senate
Barkley
A. B
Happy) Chandler
Kansas
Gerald B Winrod
John D. M. Hamilton
National Committee
William Allen White
Virginia
Missouri
West Virginia
Tennessee
William E. Dodd, Jr
New Deal
Howard W. Smith
Smith
House Rules Committee
Labor
Nonpartisan League
John L. Lewis
Committee For Industrial Organization
Harold L. Ickes
Democratic
Dodd
CIO
Schuyler Otis Bland
Hamilton
Winrod
Prairie
George McGill
Have You A House Have You A House for Rent or Sale
A Gazette Want Ad spotlights listings near a school. demand is high as families with children seek housing before the new school year. Agnes Fiedler reports 38 callers after advertising a bungalow, with a five room modern home at 159 31st St NE now rented. contact 2-1717.
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Agnes Fiedler
31St St. NE
Gazette
Larce Carden
Labor hearing closed by governor in Maytag strike
Madison Hill of the NLRB adjourned a Maytag strike hearing for 48 hours after Gov. Nelson Kraschel ordered Iowa guardsmen to close the federal proceeding. The action paused proceedings in Newton with guards outside the room and comments from company and union representatives mixed. The hearing began July 18 on an unfair labor practices complaint by the CIO union.
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Newton
Madison Hill
National Labor Relations Board
NLRB
Nelson G. Kraschel
National Guardsmen
Hill
Des Moines
Sxraschel
Labor Relations Board
Military District
Town
Maytag Washing Machine Company
CIO Union
Iowa National Guardsmen
Ek. W. Ford
Washington
National Guard
Iowa
John Mitchell
Kraschel
Cloid Level
U. S District Attorney
Maytag Cio
Child Struck By Locomotive In Buffalo Tragedy
In Buffalo New York on Monday two year old Alice Hulburd was struck by a 250 ton locomotive while playing with a toy train. Her father Norton Hulburd described seeing her hurled several feet and tumbling into cinders before he rushed her to hospital for care. The child sustained minor facial cuts and was listed in stable condition.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Alice Elizabeth Hulburd
Norton G. Hulburd
Rain totals 1.3 inches in weekend Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids weather recap shows weekend rainfall of 1.3 inches. Temperatures rose from a 61 degree low at 6 am to 88 by 2 30 pm under a clear sky. Rain occurred from midnight Saturday to noon Sunday with mild evening readings.
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Cedar Rapids
The
Mercury
Chambers Inskeep Company Recorder
Optimism Grows Over Lost Hawaii Clipper Search
Manila reports a renewed note of optimism in the search for the Hawaii Clipper and its fifteen aboard after four days with no wreckage found. Philippine experts suggest the plane may still be afloat if radio failure and an off course landing occurred. US bombers extended the search eastward, navy aircraft reported empty seas, and Pigeon was dispatched to extend recovery range near Samar. Pan American noted the China Clipper would refuel at Midway and proceed toward Guam then the original course.
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Manila
Hawaii
United States Army
Meigs
Pigeon
Samar Island
Herron
Army
Navy
Midway
Guam
Nine Hurt in Four Accidents Near Cedar Rapids
Four late Sunday crashes near Cedar Rapids injured nine people and led to one arrest. Jack Wheeler of Chicago faced a reckless driving charge after a three car collision near the airport, with $100 fine and costs.
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Cedar Rapids
Jack Wheeler
Chicago
Linn County
H. R. Churchill
Wheeler
Harold M Shadeland
Ashley
N D
W. C. Shuttleworth
Second Avenue
Shadeland
Shuttleworth
William
Ann
Rosemary Royce
York
Rosemary Murtha
Victor
Steel Companies Spent $4 144 000 In 1937 Strike
The Senate civil liberties committee says the United States Steel and Youngstown Sheet and Tube spent 4 144 000 on guards ammunition and other costs during the 1937 little steel strike. Investigator Robert Wohlforth presented the estimate at hearings led by Senator La Follette. Lawmakers plan to seek stronger labor relations act provisions to ease collective bargaining for workers.
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Washington
INS
Senate Civil Liberties Committee
Republic Steel Corporation
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company
Edward R. Burke
Nebraska
Vandenberg
Michigan
Judge Rejects Move to Shift Grand Jury Probe in Pennsylvania
Judge Paul N. Schaeffer ruled the Pennsylvania legislature cannot take over the grand jury investigation into graft and corruption linked to Governor George H. Earle and other state leaders. The ruling blocks the plan to transfer the inquiry to a House committee and keeps the grand jury under District Attorney Carl B. Shelley.
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Harrisburg
Paul N. Schaeffer
Pennsylvania
George H Earle
General Assembly
Schaeffer
Carl B Shelley
Dauphin County
Pennsylvania Supreme Court
Shelley
Commonwealth
House
Guy K. Bard
House Committee
House of Representatives
Mistrial Declared in Harlan County Conspiracy Case
A jury in the Harlan county mine conspiracy trial failed to reach a verdict. Sixteen coal companies, eighteen officials, and twenty-one former deputies face counts of intimidation and coercion under the Wagner Act and an 1870 statute.
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London, Ky
Harlan Mine
Harlan County
United Mine Workers’ of America
Ford
World War Chief Of Fighting 69th Plans To Retire
Maj. Gen. Frank R. McCoy, war time chief of the Fighting 69th and commander of the Second Corps Area at Governors Island, will retire from active service Oct. 31 under the age rule. The War Department announced the move on Monday.
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Washington
INS
Frank R. McCoy
Second Corps
Governors Island
War Department
McCoy
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Arthur “Rugs" Baer
Fred Snite
Iron Lung
Br Lyle C Wilson
White
Clyde M. Reed
People of
William P. Lambertson
Gov. Kraschel
Cedar Rapids News
Steel Companies
Bulletin
London
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