British Ambassador Wounded by Japanese Planes Near Shanghai
Britain braces for action after Sir Hughe Knatchbull Hugessen was shot in the back and stomach by Japanese planes near Nanking en route to Shanghai. The envoy, evacuated to a Shanghai hospital, faced critical condition as Japan’s attack sparked international tensions amid a broader Chinese-Japanese war.
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China
Hughe Natchbull-Hugessen
Nanking
Shanghai
W. A. Lovat-Fraser
International Settlement
Sir Hughe
Shigeru Kawagoe
Hong Kong
Katsuzo Okumura
Tadao Honda
Chiang Kai-Shek
Judge Hankins Dies Aboard Sixaola During Voyage
Covington Kentucky editor of the Cincinnati Enquirer for 25 years Judge W B Hankins died of heart disease Thursday aboard the United Fruit Co steamer Sixaola while en route to Cristobal Panama City. He served as a judge journalist in Kentucky.
U S Ships to Guard Atlantic China Shipping Against Jap Blockade
Washington moves to shield shipping as Japan enforces a blockade from Shanghai to Hong Kong. US warships will escort merchant vessels to open sea from Shanghai if needed. Admiral Yarnell warns ships to avoid interference, while the US credits Shanghai as a critical hub for American and foreign trade.
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Washington
INS
United States
China
Shanghai
Hong Kong
U. S
State Department
Japan
Cordell Hull
Harry E. Yarnell
U. S.S. Asiatic Squadron
Whangpoo River
Yangtze Estuary
Mar Cantabrico
Japan's Shanghai blockade could lead to naval boardings
A Japanese foreign post adviser in Shanghai says the blockade of the China coast from Shanghai to Hong Kong may prompt boarding of foreign ships by Japanese sailors to verify true nationality. He notes that while ships cannot be detained or seized, they could be questioned. arms shipments might warrant a claim of wartime blockade though a full blockade is not in force.
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Shanghai
INS
Japan
China
Hong Kong
Britain Tightens Position After Ambassadors Wound
The wounding of Sir Hughe Knatchbull Hugessen, ambassador to China, sparks a British effort to harden policy on the Sino-Japanese war. London and Whitehall seek details from Shanghai as London considers reinforcements and a stronger Anglo American stance. Prime Minister Chamberlain orders Eden to contact Washington to gauge joint action and a possible joint declaration to pressure Tokyo and Nanking.
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London
INS
Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen
China
England
Whitehall
Shanghai
Britain
Neville Chamberlain
Anthony Eden
Washington
Far East
Tokio
Nanking
Wilkins Fails To Find Lost Flyers
Sir Hubert Wilkins and his flying boat returned to Coppermine after an unsuccessful search over Beaufort Sea for Sigismund Levaneffsky and his missing transpolar companions.
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Wilkins
Coppermine
Sir Hubert Wilkins
Beaufort Sea
Sigismund Levaneffsky
Big unions seek mediation by national board in rail wage row
The Big Five railway unions asked the National Mediation Board to mediate a wage dispute with 86 carriers. Hearings begin Saturday in Chicago under Dr. William M. Leiserson. A 60 day postponement of a strike is possible with a 30 day report and a further 30 day cooling off period. The unions seek a 20 percent raise affecting about 116 million dollars annually, while carriers refused any raise.
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Chicago
INS
National Mediation Board
William M. Leiserson
Brotherhoods
Brotherhoods’ Executive Council
Brotherhoods’ Executive Board
C. H. Smith
Brotherhood of Railroad
Alvany Johnston
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
D. B. Robertson
Brotherhood of Locomotive
J. A Phillips
Cedar Rapids
Order of
T. C. Cashin
Charles Briggle
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
Brotherhood of Locomotive Enginemen and Firemen
Switchmen's Union of North America
Order of Railway Conductors
Supporter Of CIO Affiliation Is Again Named Teacher Head
Jerome Davis reelected president of the American Federation of Teachers in Madison Wisconsin. Davis, ousted Yale divinity school professor and sponsor of affiliating with the CIO, faced Charles D. Stillman of Chicago. The convention debated whether to referendum the CIO issue or table it for the next meeting.
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CIO
Madison
Wis
Jerome Davis
Yale Divinity School
Committee For Industrial Organization
American Federation of Teachers
American Federation of Labor
Davis
Charles D. Stillman
Chicago
A. F. of L
Executive Council
Beauty in daily living and city kindness in Florence
The passage recalls Florentine charity during Savonarola’s era with the Bank of Pity loaning at low interest, the Burnings of fashion symbols, and the Brothers Misericordia aiding the needy. It contrasts poetry in religion with life as art, urging humane deeds done with taste and tact, and ends with a 1937 copyright note.
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Florence
Savonarola
Brothers Misericordia
Mercy
Santayana
Siena
Baseball Scorelines Across Three Games and Postponements
St Louis defeated Philadelphia 8 to 5 in a rain delayed set with top hitters contributing. Cleveland beat Philadelphia 10 to 5 as Smith Turbeville and Brucker led. Chicago topped Washington 5 to 3 while Detroit shut out New York 6 to 5. DiMaggio and Dickey homered for the Yankees, Greenberg and McNair homered for Detroit. Postponements: St Louis at Philadelphia second game and Boston at Chicago due to wet grounds and rain. Pittsburgh at New York and Cincinnati at Brooklyn also postponed by rain.
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St. Louis
Philadelphia
Chicago
Boston
Pittsburgh
New York
Cincinnati
Brooklyn
Masked men batter union office in New York raid
Five masked assailants invaded the Building Service Employes union office in New York, beating three employees and wrecking furniture. The attackers wore handkerchief masks and caused property damage in the late Thursday incident.
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New York
INS
Building Service
Miner Dies After 16 Foot Fall In Kentucky Repair
Hopkinsville Kentucky James E Bivin 47 fell sixteen feet from a scaffold while repairing a mine tipple. A plank struck the back of his head, killing him instantly though he landed on his feet and was uninjured otherwise.
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Hopkinsville
James E. Bivin
Franco Enters Santander After Citywide Firefights
Santander, Biscay seaport, burned in terrorist blasts as General Franco led Nationalist troops through the city after the surrender. The armistice was signed at 8:30 a.m. and Franco entered Reinosa 33 miles south, while 25,000 Loyalist troops faced encirclement near Laredo.
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Santander
Biscay
Francisco Franco
Santander Bay
Franco
Reinosa
Palencia
Laredo
Torrelavega
Spain
Sitdown Issue Before High Court In Labor Strike Case
Supreme Court hears first challenge to federal power to block sitdown strikes as organized labor files for appeal of Apex Hosiery case. Case stems from Apex Hosiery of Philadelphia seeking injunction against AF of F Hosiery Workers leaders over a sitdown strike and alleged conspiracy to restrain trade.
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Washington
INS
Supreme Court
Organized Labor
Court For Appeal
Apex
National Labor Relations Act
Apex Hosiery Company of
Philadelphia
William Leader
American Federation of Full-fashioned Hosiery Workers of
Wallace Leads Move For Special Session
Secretary Henry A Wallace urged a farm movement for a fall special session to enact normal granary legislation. He called for rapid farm program formulation to be ready for next season and said the department is devoutly praying for definite action before January.
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Washington
Secretary of Agriculture
Henry A. Wallace
Congress
Wallace
Naval program urged by Senator Walsh
Senator Walsh of Massachusetts pressed for a $200 million naval construction program at the next Congress session to build modern warships and more air power. He said world conditions require ready defenses and noted prior expansions and replacements, including battleship and auxiliary fleet developments. He predicted the US would meet London treaty strength by 1940.
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Washington
Ins
Walsh
Massachusetts
Senate Naval Affairs Committee
Navy Department
Congress
America
London
Frisco Bridge First Self Inflicted Death Reported
Oakland California report says Robert E. Starkey aged 53 leaped 175 feet to his death from the San Francisco Oakland bay bridge Thursday. It marks the first self inflicted fatality on the span since it opened last November. Notes in his pocket suggested despondency over ill health. He was said to be an educational adviser in a CCC camp at Yosemite National Park.
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Oakland
Calif
INS
Robert E. Starkey
San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge
CCC
Yosemite National Park
Republicans Rain Dance For 1940 Election
Comic column recounts Republicans staging an early 1940 political rain dance. Chief Hamilton captures fifteen snakes, Thunder Bird Hoover pens a prayer for showers, and a “republican of the elephant tribe” must dance with the snakes hoping for a ballot deluge, though last attempt yielded only a drizzle.
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Chief Hamilton
Thunder Bird Hoover
Atlantic Monthly
Jim
Towa State Fair Opens Friday With Big Crowds
DES MOINES AP Iowa's eighty third state fair expects 65000 to 70000 visitors for Friday's formal opening. 25 000 children set for statewide party including Mine elephants birthday celebration. Auto racing features 62 drivers with eight IMCA contests and a national circuit race. Judging in agriculture culinary apiary fruit flower poultry and pigeon departments. Rodeo bull fight fireworks and old fiddlers highlight Friday night activities. Marching bands from Des Moines playground Red Oak Dumont and Carl King perform.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Marcels
Red Oak High School
Dumont High School
Carl King
Richmond youth shoots sweetheart on front steps
In Richmond Indiana 16 year old Hollys Sagester shot dead his 15 year old sweetheart Martha Markey as she sat on her home steps with two girls. He surrendered after returning to the scene and confessed the crime admitting he borrowed the rifle from Ray Kinder Jr. The couple had been close since childhood and Sagester reportedly felt jealous. Martha Markey was the daughter of Mr and Mrs Ross Markey. Hollys Newton was son of Mr and Mrs J Newton. Markey worked as a Pennsylvania Railroad assistant supervisor.
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Richmond
Ind
Hollys Sagester
Martha Markey
Glessie Kendall
Sagester
Markey
Kendall
Ray Kinder, Jr
Kinder
Martha
Ross Markey
Hollys
Financier and statesman Andrew Mellon dies at 83 in Southampton
Andrew W. Mellon 83, Pittsburgh financier and former secretary of the treasury, died at 7:30 p.m. in Gin Jane, Southampton, N Y, after months of declining health from broncho ial pneumonia and uremia. He shaped U S treasury policy under Harding Coolidge and Hoover and helped build Mellon banking and industrial interests.
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Andrew Mellon
The
United States Treasury
Southampton
N. Y
Andrew W. Mellon
Pittsburgh
David K. F. Bruce
Andrew William Mellon
Thomas and
Sarah Jane Megley Mellon
Treasury
Alexander Hamilton
Mellon
Hoover
Court of St James
Judge Mellon
T. Mellon and Sons
Mellon National Bank
Union Trust Company of Pittsburgh
Union Savings Bank’ of Pittsburgh
Union Trust Company
Mellon Oil
Gulf Oil Corporation
Aluminum Company of America
Union Steel Company
United States Steel Corp
Kentucky Cops Nab Man Wanted In Iowa
Fulton police chief said John Sage was arrested on Thursday at the request of Oskaloosa Iowa authorities where he is wanted for shooting his wife. Sage waived extradition and will return to Iowa to face trial after he reportedly shot and wounded his wife and escaped from jail months ago.
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Fulton, Ky
K. P. Dalton
John Sage
Oskaloosa
Sage
Iowa
Dalton
Legless Swimmer Near Halfway Mark
Charles Zimmy, a 43 year old legless endurance swimmer, neared the halfway point in a 143 mile non-stop swim from Albany to the George Washington Bridge. He announced he was not tired as he passed Kingston Point after more than sixty hours in the water.
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Kingston
N. Y
Charles Zimmy
Albany
New
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Frisco Bridge
Arthur “Bugs” Baer
Towa State Fair
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