Floods Halt Japanese Mechanized Forces in China
Chinese forces waded through Yellow River floods to recapture cities and slow Japanese mechanized units near Chengzhou and Hankow. Yangtze floods hindered advances, mud and weather crippling operations as Beijing and Tokyo clash for control in Henan and nearby provinces.
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Shanghale
Yellow River
Jemnes
Yangtze River
Binder
Hankow
Beca
Atata
Tokyo
Advan
Hosan
Taids
Hiea
Chengzhow
Lunghai
Beiping-Hankew
Fem
Japs Tighten Economic Belt
Japanese retrenchment policy aims to mobilize the nation for undeclared war with China. Law passed March 36 seeks to control life and party operations and suspend normal rights as a wartime remedy. full details unclear due to damaged text.
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China
Sovernment
Maxie’s Wife Plans U S Visit After Schmeling Loss
Berlin reports Anny On dra Schmeling, wife of boxer Max Schmeling, intends to travel to New York to visit him after his defeat by Joe Louis. She booked passage and awaits a final call, calling the bout not sport but a life danger, and noting Hitler yet to respond to the result.
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Berlin
Anny Ondra
Sade
Max Schmeling
New York
Iax
Schmeling
Joe Louis
Adolf Hitler
Paul Jonoph Goebbels
Fuehrer
Government Hunts Aliens
Government agencies begin a broad review to enforce new riders denying pay to aliens without citizenship papers. The move follows legislation from the last session and a Senate resolution directing agencies to list employed aliens and their reasons for hiring.
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Congress
Rep
Starnes
D.-Ala
Senate
Sen. McKellar
D.tenn
Gone With Wind Leads Announced With Gable and Shearer
Hollywood report states Norma Shearer and Clark Gable will star as the leads in Gone With the Wind to be released by MGM. Production is set for next December at Setanick International Studios under contract to MGM studios.
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Hollywood
Norma Shearer
Clark Gable
Setanick International
Studio Today
M. G. M. Studies
Margaret Mitchell
Felsalck
Barbara Hutton seeks U S citizenship aid in custody dispute
Barbara Hutton and Countess Von Haughwitz-Reventlow fight over Barbara's son Lance. London attorneys study restoring American citizenship to counter her husband Alexis Mdivani's custody bid. In Paris the Count insists on legal moves. Hutton says the matter is tangled.
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Thomas C. Watson
INS
London
Countess Court von Haughwitz-Reventlow
Barbara Hutton
Woolworth Millions
Countess Haugwitz-Revyentlow
Prince Alexis Mdivani
Reno
Mdivans
Spain
America
Lance
von Haugwitz-Reventlow
England
Paris
von Hangwitx-Reventlow
International News Service
Franklin IT. Hutton
Barbara
Haugwitz-Reventlow
Sen-Lor
Law
von Haughwitz-Reventlow
Hutton
Ickes Public Works Boost In 1938 Allotments
Secretary Ickes directed the 1938 public works program to raise PWA allotments to 136 196 974 dollars for 1 146 projects on his first day back from Europe and marriage in Ireland. He called for speed and urged establishing a permanent Public Works Administration.
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Washington
Ickes
PWA
Ireland
Public Works Administration
Hire a Hall NEA Leader Advises Political Speakers
Eight busloads of rural editors heard National Editorial Association president William Conrad speak in Charleston at the state capitol. He urged fair hearing and outlined speaking plans to address Republican and Democratic arguments, with a final note on the Progressive movement.
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NEA
Charleston
State Capitol
Holt
Col
Frank Knox
White Sulphur Springs
Col. Knox
Dawson
Democratic Chamber of Commerce
Senate
Charles E) Hodges
Inside Story of German espionage ring blocked by court
New York court battles government attempt to halt The New York Post from running Leon Turrow’s series on German espionage, citing freedom of the press and obstruction concerns. Turrow resigned from the Justice Department after aiding investigations into the Saline Lindbergh case and indictments of 14 German officials.
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New York
G-men
Murray Hulbert
New York Post
Leon G. Turreu
Department of Justice
the Post
I Ax
U. S
Turrow
Saindbergh
Tucm
Television catches fatal fall of Marion Perloff in Rockefeller Center
New York reports the first televised death as an experimental NBC truck captured Marion Perloff's 28 year old body plunging to the pavement at Rockefeller Center. A crowd of about two thousand watched as police and radio cars arrived and the body was removed. The incident was broadcast from scene to the studio.
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New York
INS
National Broadcasting Company
Marion Perloff
Rockefeller Center
Iman
Flashes of Life In These U S
In Burbank California on June 23 Lee Teel reported finding veterinarian A H Parnell dead in his barn after visiting to treat an ailing horse. Police say Parnell died of a heart attack. In Urbana Illinois on June 23 Bob Richart, famed University of Illinois golfer, fell from a garage roof while sunning himself and suffered a fractured wrist.
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Taps Burbank
Calif
Lee Teel
A. H. Pawnell
Teel
W. L. Dixon
Dixon
Pawnell
Urbana
Bob Richart
University of Illinois
Judge Gates Grants Williams Divorce After Warned
In Los Angeles on June 23 a court hearing saw Mrs. Anna Williams, once a stenographer for Walter S. Gates, file for divorce. Gates, now judge, presided as plaintiff and defendant, and ruled in favor, remarking he had warned her against marriage twenty one years earlier.
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Los Angeles
Anna Williams
Walter S. Gates
Gates
Reich imposes universal labor service decree
Berlin reports Gen. Goering orders compulsory labor service for all able bodied men and women in Germany to mobilize economy for emergencies. Exemptions limited by age motherhood or illness. enforcement by the government employment office with penalties for noncompliance. The plan starts July 1 and covers all classes with wages not below present salaries.
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Berlin
Hermann Goering
Goering
Germany
Reich
Owen
Army
Western Flood Takes Nine Lives in Montana
June 23 Havre Montana reports a cloudburst flood across north central Montana. Nine people and a baby missing, eight bodies found in Gravelly Coulee near Laredo, floodwaters sweep homes miles from their sites. Cities Malta Harlem Havre evacuated as Milk River rises to a decade high and railroad tracks are washed out.
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Havre
Mont. Jime
Montana
Malta
Harlem
Coulee
Laredo
Butte
Livingston
Zurich
Great Northern Railroad
Great Northern
Great Falls
Forthern
Banker Raps U S Money Policies in West Virginia
Henry L. Greer vice president of Fifth Third Union Trust in Cincinnati criticizes government efforts to steer economic supply and demand. He cites grandiose schemes and objects to agencies including the Securities and Exchange Commission during the West Virginia Bankers association opening session in White Sulphur Springs.
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Homer Geb
Lloyd George Upset Chamberlain Over Majorca Bombardment Plan
In a heated Commons session Prime Minister Chamberlain rejects Lloyd George’s demand to bomb Majorca to shield Spanish air bases. Lloyd George argues for action amid attacks on British shipping, while Chamberlain warns such order means war and insists Britain will not arm merchant ships or intervene in Spanish ports.
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Britain
Chamberlain
London
House of Commons
Neville Chamberlain
David Lloyd George
England
Lloyd George
Majorca
Chamberain
Clement Attlee
Spain
Relief and Political Banks Studied
Senate moves to ban political activity by officials handling relief funds. Sen. Hatch of New Mexico drafts a bill to cover federal and state officials with relief funds. The plan failed last congress but is reintroduced as next session opens. An inquiry followed the defeat, prompting new measures and campaign fund powers.
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Washington
Sen
Hatch
New Mexico
Senate
Vienna Women Stop Nazi Persecutors in Street Clash
In Vienna on June 23 a mob of women confronted brown shirt stormtroopers harassing Jewish women in a slum area. Police riot units restored order after the women forced the Nazis to withdraw and freed the persecuted group.
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Vienna
INS
FDR Farley Meet Set on Democratic Purge and NY Ticket
President Roosevelt calls Postmaster General Farley to a White House conference to decide on a New York political ticket and the scope of purging anti- New Deal senators. The inner circle nominates Robert Wagner Lehman Mead to key posts with James Roosevelt and Hopkins among advisers.
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Washington
INS
Roosevelt
James A. Farley
White House
New York
New York State
Robert F. Wagnes
Herbert H. Lehman
James M. Mead
Buffalo
James Roosevelt
Harry L. Hopkins
Interior Sec
Harold L. Ickes
Atty
Joseph 5. Keenan
Thomas G. Corcoran
Ben Cohen
President Approves Civil Aeronautics Authority Bill
President Roosevelt signs a civil aeronautics bill creating a regulatory authority for non military aviation and outlines license powers and oversight. He also approves 47 other measures as he prepares for a national fireside chat from Washington.
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Civil Aeronautics Authority
Hyde Park
Roosevelt
Washington
Wall Street Bull Market Heads Fourth Straight Day
Prices on the New York Stock Exchange surged for a fourth session as major equities gained 1 to 5 or more, with 2,403,270 shares changing hands. The Dow Jones average rose about 1 percent as traders chased rising prices amid scarce supply and strong buying demand.
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New York
Wall Street
Stock Exchange
Associated Press
Exchange Hisory
State allocates 5 271 940 in relief funds via Gar nett
The state department of public assistance announces total relief of 5 271 940 dollars. General relief amounts to 2 473 940 dollars while classified relief totals 2 708 000 dollars. Federal funds will supplement relief to aged, blind and dependent children. County courts must provide at least 15 percent of the legally authorized levy for relief.
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A. W. Garnett
State Department of Public Assistance
State Advisory Board
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