Hull and Roper clash over Shanghai policy and trade aims
Secretary Hull urges American merchant ships to avoid Shanghai to ease tensions while Secretary Roper warns against disrupting business. President Roosevelt sides with Hull, signaling possible harm to U.S. shipments, as Chinese forces have already attacked an American vessel.
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Ecretary of
Cordell Hull
Shanghai
Secretary of Commerce
Roper
Roosevelt
Hull
United States
Seaman Survives 26 Hours Aboard Sinking Tarpon
Lashed by violent seas for 26 hours, seaman Baker crawled ashore in a Pensacola area cave to report the sunken Tarpon and aid coast guard cutters in a rescue effort. The 600 ton freighter with 28 aboard went down near East Pass after a rapid explosion or collision, nine survivors were pulled from the water, and Captain Barrow was recovered.
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Mobile
Ala
INS
Pensacola
Coast Guard
East Pass
Baker
W. Barrow
Coast Goard
Panama City
Washburn Crosby Keeps Processing Tax Funds Ahead
Federal Judge Albert L Reeves ruled Washburn Crosby Flour Mills may retain about 2 000 000 in processing taxes and need not refund amounts to bakers led by O Connor Bills Inc The ruling dismisses their suit and cites the contract allowing tax adjustments only if the tax decreases not if AAA is struck down.
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Kansas City
Albert L. Reeves
Washburn Crosby Flour Mills
Washburn Crosby
Minneapolis
O'Connor-Bills Inc
Reeves
AAA
Life owes nothing to us and how we owe life
A magazine essay reflects on mortality and gratitude. It argues that life offers what we receive by balance of effort and spirit, urging kindness, service, and reverence toward God. The piece notes that those who complain of life often mismanage it and that living well is the true measure of worth.
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Ighe
Towa
Junior Clayton
Nfe
Drought Cuts U S Corn Crop Says Five Forecasters
Five private crop forecasters estimate the 1937 U S corn crop at 2.625 billion bushels, down 156 million from August 1 projections, due to drought. The Agriculture Department’s August guess is 2.659 billion, with several expert contributors listed and Bennetts firm also forecasting 2.585 billion.
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Department of Agriculture
Manager of Iowa City Hotel Dies
Charles C. Warden aged 53 was manager of the Jefferson hotel in Iowa City and died in his hotel quarters. Attending physician Dr Isom A Rankin attributed the death to a coronary heart ailment after several days of illness. Warden was a nephew of F G Warden of Des Moines and is survived by his wife of Mason City and a sister Mrs C A Pence of Ohio.
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Iowa City
Charles C. Warden
Jefferson Hotel
F G Warden
Des Moines
Chamberlain
Ottumwa
Jefferson
Isom A. Rankin
Warden
Mason City
C. A. Pence
Ohio
Japanese warning halts Wichita air cargo ship bound for China
Foreign Minister Koki Hirota warned that Japan may halt and search the American steamer Wichita from Baltimore to China carrying twenty Bellanca airplanes. He said third party ships carrying war articles to China for Japan’s use could face inspection to verify peaceful cargo.
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INS
Japan
Wichita
Baltimore
China
Bellanca
Koki Hirota
Hirota
Japan China blockade risks U S neutrality act action
A high U S official warned International News Service that the United States would invoke the neutrality act if Japan extends its blockade to interfere with American and other neutral shipping to China. The threat follows Japan's move to choke Chinese sources of arms without a declared war.
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Washington
INS
United States
Japan
China
U. S
Roosevelt
Uncle Sam
Mother orders boy to swim. parents drown near Montello
In Montello Wisconsin Francis Rusick 12 swam toward shore as his mother ordered him to swim ahead. The father Frank and mother Emma Rusick drowned before help reached them after all three were beyond depths in a lake near town. The boy led rescuers to the Chicago home to learn of the deaths.
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Wis
INS
Francis Rusick
Chicago
Frank
Roosevelt Fishes After Clearing Congress Bills
President Roosevelt, at Hyde Park, New York, shifts to fishing on Long Island Sound after nearly finishing work left by Congress at its last session. The trip follows his completion of most enacted bills.
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Hyde Park
N. Y
Roosevelt
Long Island Sound
Congress
Baseball scores and lineups from midweek games
Box scores show Chicago St Louis Philadelphia Cincinnati and other teams with runs, hits, and errors. Notable pitchers include Marcum Berg and Kelly while batters include Sewell Passeau and La Master. Cincinnati at Boston games reported with first and second games summaries.
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Boston
Chicago
Marcum
Berg
Lee
Sewell
Twin Boys From Des Moines Win Again At State Fair
Des Moines AP reports identical twin brothers Donald and David Abram, sons of Mr and Mrs Irwin Abram, won the state fair twin baby contest for a second year. The 24% year old pair posted an average score of 98 8214, beating last year 97.53. Governor Kraschel will award a cup Friday as the healthiest baby contest winners are announced.
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DES Moines
Irwin Abram
Donald
David
Nelson G Kraschel
State Fair Baby Health Department
Abram
Bremer County
Edwin Nossburg
Eldon Rosever
Janesville
Chicago
Promoter Baron Pierre de Coubertin Dies at 74
Geneva AP Baron Pierre de Coubertin promoter and organizer of the modern Olympic games died here Thursday night at age 74 from a stroke of apoplexy.
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Geneva
Baron Pierre de Coubertin
British ships to hunt down phantom sub
Britain orders eight destroyers and one flotilla leader to speed to the Mediterranean after the sinking of the tanker Woodford by a phantom submarine. The admiralty will fire on suspicious subs or aircraft near British shipping as Paris and London assess the crisis and reinforce western Mediterranean defenses. The Woodford attack prompted a cabinet emergency session and a full admiralty inquiry.
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INS
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Woodford
Columbretes
Balearics
Britain
Trenai
Ee Ge
Hertodoce
Havock
Tingto
Far West
Admiralty
Masaryk III Rounds Of Illness Reported For Czech Leader
Prague Czechoslovakian hero and statesman T G Masaryk, recently retired after long service as president, was seriously ill Thursday according to reports from the capital.
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Prague
INS
T. G. Masaryk
Georgia Governor Sends Barber From Chain Gang to Massachusetts
In a political clash between Georgia and Massachusetts Governor Rivers paroles Fleming Willis, a 30 year old black barber from Atlanta, to live in Massachusetts on parole after a lottery conviction. Willis travels by trolley seeking exile as Hurley refuses extradition.
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Georgia
Chain Gang
Negro Barber
Bay State
Atlanta
Massachusetts
Fleming Willis
E. D. Rivers
Willis
Chain
Rivers
Charles Hurley
Hurley
State House
Paralysis Epidemic Prompts School Closures Across States
Health authorities report over 200 deaths and 600 new cases in seven days as infantile paralysis spreads from the west to New England. Chicago Buffalo Omaha Milwaukee Waukesha Fort Collins and San Diego counties suspend openings for children amid calls to curb the outbreak.
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United Press
Midwest
New England
Canada
U. S. Public Health Service
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Omaha
Milwaukee
Waukesha
Wis
Fort Collins
Colo
San Diego County
Calif
Detroit
Toronto
Ont
BeaAvaye
Contro
Herman N. Bundesen
Board of Health
Speed flyer killed on eve of national air races
Lee Miles of Port Worth Texas died in a test flight at Cleveland airport after a wing tore off from buffeting. His racer crashed from about 200 feet as he tried to maneuver near a north pylon. rescue teams recovered his body within a half hour. The plane did not burn. Miles was a longtime figure in American air racing.
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Cleveland
Lee Miles
Port Worth
Tex
Miles
Oldest of Two Dies After Iron Lung Battle
In Denver 15 year old Maybelle Ouleault died after infantile paralysis overwhelmed her body. She shared a single iron lung with 2 1/2 year old Shirley Krause as doctors and two nations scrambled for respirators from Chicago and Toronto. Shirley later showed improvement while Maybelle weakened to the end.
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Colo
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Mays Belle Ouleault
Little Maybelle
United States
Canada
Chicago
Burlington
Chicago American
Maybelle
Shirley Krause
Toronto Star
Tamas Williams
Shirley
Toronto
Kraschel Resists Retrenchment Plan for State Board
Des Moines Gov. Kraschel signaled he will defy the retrenchment committee over funds for the state planning board estimated at about 2800 dollars a month. He criticized the committee for cutting the board while approving 5000 dollars for the Greater Iowa commission as promotional. He noted the planning board’s WPA-related needs and its role in employing Iowa workers, and said he rejected a 25000 dollar grant request from the Greater Iowa commission.
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APSE
Iowa Emergency Relief Administration
State Planning Board
Munta
WERA
Mr. Munta
Mr. Muntz
Des Moines
INS
Nelson G. Kraschel
Planning Board
Greater
Iowa
Arab constable shot and killed at Jerusalem high commissioner camp
In Jerusalem an Arab constable was shot and killed Thursday at the high commissioners camp in Arith. The assassin was not identified.
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Jerusalem
High Commissioners
Arith
Relocation Project for Highway 30 Seeks Bids Sept 14
Ames Iowa Sept 14 bids will be taken for the No 30 relocation project extending east and west from the viaduct on Sixteenth Avenue Rockford Road SW. The plan calls for grading culverts and concrete surfacing at an estimated cost between 800000 and 1000000 dollars. About 35 to 40 workers will handle culverts grading with paving next spring employing around 100.
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Crdam Rapids News
Sixteenth “Avene
Rockford Road
Ames
Claude Coys Kendall
Coykendall
Sixteenth Avenue
K Street
Killer Of Girl 10 Receives Life Sentence
Detroit AP reports Joseph Jacobs 45 confessed killer of Evelyn Mack 10, daughter of his best friend, was sentenced to life at hard labor in the northern Dennen state prison at Marquette Much.
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Detroit
Joseph Jacobs
Evelyn Mack
Dennen
Marquette
Much
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