Fields Consoles Judy Canova Over Bergen Breakup
Hollywood AP report says W C Fields comforted Judy Canova after she ended her engagement to Edgar Bergen. Fields mocked Charlie McCarthy calling him a Frankenstein like social climber and suggested the split might be for the best as Bergen and Canova argued by phone with distance separating them.
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Hollywood
W. C. Fields
Judy Canova
Edgar Bergen
Miss Canova
Pensacola
Fls
Bergen
Charlie McCarthy
Fields
McCarthy
Dorothy Lamour
Chicago
Judy
Hollywood alimony dispute hints of film colony reality
In Los Angeles Judge Knight scales down Alice White’s alimony bid saying Hollywood is not all luxury. He recalls small town beliefs that film folk live milk and honey and finds those impressions false. The piece captures a sharp contrast between glamour and reality.
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International News Service
Los Angeles
Knight
Alice White
Hollywood
Pottstown
Hoisington, Kan
Prize golfer horizontal reveals cryptic clue list
A scrambled puzzle shows a prize golfer theme with numbered clues and wordplay prompts. Entries include hints for auto, rowing tool, fishing bag, scales notes, and other common crossword style terms.
Non-Swimming Girl Bravely Reaches Aid in Swamp
Josephine Wolfe, 26, crossed five miles of swamp near Winnipeg to summon help for three friends stranded 72 hours when their boat hit a sand bar on the Red River. With no swimming ability she used a cork lifebelt, paddling through deep water to a resort and raising the alarm.
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Winnipeg
Man
Josephine Wolfe
Here
Red River
Miss Wolfe
Congress Group Plans Hawaii Statehood Inquiry Trip
A large bipartisan group of fifty lawmakers and relatives will visit Hawaii for a month to assess readiness for admission as the forty-ninth state. Congress authorized the trip amid Hawaii funding from state and local sources including a $20,009 appropriation and chamber support.
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Washington
Hawaii
Congress
Honolulu
U S trade balance turns adverse in first seven months
Washington AP reports the United States posted a 144.8 million dollar trade deficit for the first seven months of the year, slightly worse than the prior half year. Exports rose to 1.8038 billion while imports climbed to 1.9486 billion, with metals machinery vehicles and non metallic minerals driving gains.
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Washington
United States
Commerce Department
Inter-Union Fight Chokes San Francisco Port
San Francisco port activity slowed as a teamsters embargo, born from a union clash, stalled cargo. Longshoremen and warehousemen continued some unloading, while about 300 pickets roamed the Embarcadero and police guarded the waterfront to preserve order. Shipments halted though perishables and government supplies moved. Warehousing workers appealed to the national labor relations board and to Secretary Perkins for intervention.
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San Francisco
Teamsters
Embarcadero
National Labor Relations Board
Secretary of Labor
Perkins
Biography of Bedbug Latest Government Health Publication
Washington AP reports Maurice C. Hall’s public health service biography on the bedbug. It traces the pest from Roman times to 1937 and notes how bedbugs enter homes via guests and are active by night or day when hungry. The critic praises realism and cites fumigation with hydrocyanic acid gas as the most effective control.
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Eddy Gilmore
Washington
Maurice C. Hall
The
Public Health Service
United States
Girl Bride's Slayer Gets Life Sentence
Marlan Kentucky reports Wert Ayers a 38 year old coal miner from Insult pled guilty to the slaying of his 14 year old bride Ayers. He claimed the shooting was accidental after a struggle over a .38 pistol. The couple eloped after meeting in a grocery store last May and lived in a home where police found the girl shot dead.
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Marlan
ULP
Wert Ayers
Ayers
James M. Gilbert
Preliminaries Open For National Air Races In Cleveland
Motors roll as aviation fans gather in Cleveland for the national air races with preliminaries starting. Bendix derby from Los Angeles to Cleveland kicks off after midnight. about sixty military planes practice formation and stunts. Taylor trophy derby from Columbus to Akron and Cleveland counts as a preliminary. Thirteen prize events include a $20,000 top purse, $2,500 for new transcontinental record, and $3,000 for continuing to Bendix airport in New York.
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Cleveland
Los Angeles
Columbus
Akron
New York
Bendix
Thompson speed record prize race near Cleveland
A $2,500 prize awaits the woman with the best time toward Cleveland. The Thompson speed record stands at 264.26 mph set by Michael Detroyat of France in Los Angeles last year. The event offers $24,000 in total prizes with $2,000 earmarked for breaking the record.
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Cleveland
Michael Detroyat
France
Los Angeles
Swim Tragedy Claims 16-Year-Old Harry Mackstead
Funeral services were arranged for Harry Mackstead a 16 year old who drowned while trying to swim the Missouri River in Omaha. He attempted the river crossing in swift current and it was his first such attempt.
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Omaha
INS
Harry Mackstead
Missouri River
Market Place Ad: Fresh Vegetables and Fruits For Sale
A classified Wants Ad offers fresh vegetables fruits and fries and other good things to eat. The listing promotes a marketplace to buy or sell edible goods and highlights a diverse selection available locally.
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N. Y
Bennett Clark
Leonard Fields
Morizontal
Franz Lis2t
Ryder
Sears
Va H.P
Sporting Goods
Sears, Roebuck and CO
Cedar Rafids
Iowa
U.S
Bedbug
Lober’s
Cedar Rapids
Second Street SE
May Drug Store
Ew Accessories
Peggy Ann Topper
Martin
Saft
Gotham
Mai
Oia
Empire Pump
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