Samoyede Dog Featured By Army Officer in Marion Visit
Lieut Herbert C Gee of engineers and Mrs Gee visited Dr and Mrs Arthur Crew in Marion with their Samoyede Kasha. The Arctic bred dog from Berkeley California is a working Eskimo group breed valued for sledding and companionship.
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Asha
Herbert C. Gee
Corps of Engineers
Gee
State University
Fort Belvoir
Arctic
Yenisei
American Kennel Club
Lieut
Canada
Democrats Signal Bid For Liberal Republicans In South Dakota
At the South Dakota Democratic biennial convention in Pierre the party pledged to win liberal Republican votes in the November election. Delegates praised late U S Senator Peter Norbeck for independence in thought and action and backed a platform continuing national administration policies.
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Democratic Party
Peter Norbeck
Chinese Marriages Drop Sharply Amid Hostilities
Shanghai reports a 40 percent plunge in marriages across China as Sino-Japanese fighting continues. Authorities release figures showing a wide decline in nuptials since hostilities began.
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Shanghai
INS
China
Bhe‘gan
Flying Fortress Flies Transcontinental Sub Stratosphere
A War Department report says Col. Robert Olds piloted a B-17 style airframe on a 11 hour 20 minute cross country flight from March Field California to Langley Field Virginia with three officers and five enlisted men on oxygen. The crew reached 13 000 to 16 000 feet and averaged 2046 miles per hour while sustaining the mission as routine navigation.
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Washington
War Department
Flying Fortress
Robert Olds
March Field
Calif
Langley Field
Louis Johnson
Johnson
Col. Olds
C. V. Haynes
D. W. Chidlaw
Brother Identity Mixup Reveals Social Security Error
Washington AP report explains how a youth used his brother’s name to gain employment, confusing the Social Security board’s card system. Investigators found a 16 year old used an 18 year old brother’s name years ago and both worked under their brother’s identities in separate plants.
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Washington
Social Security Board
Behind the scenes in wartorn China diary and battle scenes
An AP reporter chronicles daily wartime scenes from Nanking and central China. He describes Major Ito’s heroic death after shielding troops at Kwang Hwa Men and a Japanese general staff tea gathering under air raid near a Chinese villa. The piece blends personal detail with battlefield reality and military discourse.
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Nanking
China
Kwang Hwa
Japan
Yoshimitsu Ito
Ito
Shanghai
Tokio
Major Ito
Shunraki Hata
Central Army
Japanese War Front Rations And Bloodied Skies Echo Across Front
The report describes medical supply dumps and anti gangrene serum as officers note few deaths from gangrene. Wounded Japanese and Chinese soldiers are profiled amid brutal combat details. A wounded warrant officer sketches his injuries while recounting a bayonet charge against a 600 men Chinese unit. Bakery aid from Chinese workers helps feed Japanese troops and civilians as bread, rice balls, canned fish, and stews sustain them despite chaos and bloodshed.
Reunion In Hollywood Revives Memories Of Chasing Kansas Hogs
A memoir fragment recounts a hog pen chase featuring a dog named Mack and an alter ego James Fenimore Cooper. The scene turns chaotic as hogs attack, a rail strikes the narrator, and John intervenes to calm the situation.
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Hollywood
John
Mary
Mack
James Fenimore Cooper
J. Fenimore
Black Forest
New Forest
Forest Hills
Yellow Dog
370 Underground Sitdowners Hunger Strike Threat
Three hundred seventy miners in Sosnowiec Poland threaten a hunger strike after a government commission is due to visit the Victoria mine. The Victoria mine is being closed as unprofitable, and workers have set up a headquarters 460 feet underground.
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Warsaw
Victoria
Sosnowiec
Polish Coal Trust
Lilies for Midsummer in the Garden Hemerocallis Varieties
The article extols hemerocallis hybrids as vibrant lily shaped perennials with long bloom, strong stems, and easy care. It lists varieties such as Florham flava gold dust apricot fulva kwanso pleno Thunbergi Queen of May and Harvest Moon with their blooming periods from April to September and notes on cultivation for sun or partial shade and poolside use.
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Ardeners
Mys- VA
Fulya
General Garden Association
Fulva
Kwanso
Why the Fourth Is Honored Actually July Fourth
Washington AP report notes most Americans misstate the nation's independence date. The Declaration was adopted July 4 1776 but the signers did not affix their names until August 2 and some signers were not members of Congress on July 4.
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Washington
United States
Library of Congress
Congress
Jap Purchases of U. S. Goods Halved in May
Washington report shows Japanese purchases of American goods in May at 18 million 74 thousand dollars, half of May 1937 total. China, including areas under Japanese influence, bought slightly more in May. About one million dollars of each nation’s purchases were aircraft.
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Washington
INS
Department of Commerce
China
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