Americansprep in China as Japanese forces move southward
Across central China reports describe Japanese columns advancing along rail lines from Tientsin to Peiping toward the Yangtze front while tens of thousands of Americans and missionaries in Hankow and nearby cities seek safety. Civil defense preparations grow in Nanking as Tokyo reassures overseas fears amid a large war appropriation in the Japanese assembly.
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Yellow River
Nentsin
Wankow
Hankow
Wuchang
Hanyang
Kikungshan
Honan
Japan
Hopeh
Manchuria
Tientsin
Tienttain
Peiping
China
Peiping-Suiyan
Mongolia
Hoipeh
Shantung Province
Yangtze R River
Nanking
Yangtze Valley
Tokyo
United States
Koki Hirota
Los Angeles
Russell L. Hearn
Enoichi Murao
Tokyo Young Men's Christian Association
House of Representatives
Gen Sugiyarma
Pastor Farris Kelley Fined for Stealing Love
In Los Angeles on August 6 AP reports former minister Rev Farris Kelley was ordered to pay 2500 dollars to Paul S Drake for alienating the affections of Fay Drake mother of five and wife of Drake. Witnesses included Drake and four of Fay Drake's children who saw Kelley and Fay Drake together at the Wilmar community tabernacle where she played piano.
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Los Angeles
Farris Kelley
Fay Drake
Charles D. Ballard
Paul S. Drake
Kelly
Wilmar
Drake
Loys
Floods Cause Heavy Loss in Minnesota
In northwestern Minnesota torrential rains marooned families and wiped out crops across four counties. About 1,200 farm families were housed by federal aid as 17,000 acres flooded. State officials assess damages while calls for work relief and drainage projects rise.
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St, Paul
Minnesota
L. P. Zimmerman
E. L. Tungseth
Thief River Falls
Walter Olson
State Division of Drainage and Waters
W. H. Quist
Pennington County
Capitol
Quist
Mounted Police Rescue of Fort James Crew Near Chantrey Island
In a bitter Arctic gale at Bernard Harbor in the Northwest Territories the RCMP schooner St Roch rescued six crewmen from the foundered Hudsons Bay schooner Forty James three miles north of Chantrey Island. Ice conditions are dire as the vessel battles crushing ice and freezing temperatures while pursuing a hazardous rescue.
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Arctic
Tot Spends 20 Minutes Locked in a Mail Box
Four year old Jimmie Banker crawled into a parcel sized mail box to reach a pair of men’s galoshes. his sister closed the door and it locked. A crowd gathered as policemen pried the door and the postman arrived with a key to release him after about twenty minutes.
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Trenton
N. J
Jimmie
Cemetery Officials Refuse Non-Union Cemetery Labor
Kansas City August 6 AP cemetery officials announced they would not hire non union workers to replace striking grave diggers. spokesman q F Eubank said the sacred grounds of the cemetery are not the place for a labor battle.
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Kansas City
Q. F. Eubank
House Defies FDR and Passes Sugar Bill
Washington Aug 6 AP House members defied President Roosevelt by approving sugar control legislation he vowed to veto. In a 92 to 135 vote they refused to strike an opposed provision limiting refined sugar imports from Hawaii and Puerto Rico. The bill designs a quota system to divide the domestic sugar market among producers and would levy a half cent per pound excise tax on refined sugar to fund payments to compliant growers.
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Washington
House
Roosevelt
Chamber
Hawaii
Puerto Rico
Senate
Agriculture Department
Italian Liner Missing After Being Bombed
Insurgent efforts against Franco focus on Madrid offensive plans while mutinies in Malaga and Granada raise concerns. Bombardments hit ships, including the British Corporal, with limited damage besides radio disruption and a wounded captain. Madrid air raids kill and wound civilians as insurgents press toward strategic fronts.
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Francisco Franco
Huesca
Madrid
Spain
Franco
Malaga
Granada
Lloyds
Algiers
Monghola
Teruel
Cuench
Ozarks Apple Harvest Forecast For This Year
Prof. J. R. Cooper of the University of Arkansas says Ozark orchards will yield a 70 percent larger apple crop than last year, with a 40 percent rise above the five year average. Good quality fruit expected. grapes and peaches also reported strong, aided by well distributed rains aiding buds for next year.
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Fayetteville
Ark
Aug
J. R. Cooper
University of Arkansas’ Horticulture and Forestry Department
Ozark
Arkansas
Cooper
Physician Convicted For Attack on Girl in Md Trial
Dr Armen Greenhut a 38 year old physician was found guilty by a Hartford county jury of statutory rape in an office attack on a 16 year old schoolgirl patient in Dundalk Baltimore county in May. The verdict recommended mercy and the sentence lies with the court with hanging as the maximum penalty. Defense plans to seek a new trial and to strike the verdict.
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Bel Air
Armen Greenhut
Hartford County
Greenhut
Dundalk
Baltimore County
Blast Damages Suburban Home in St Louis
An explosion in the basement of a home under construction in a St Louis suburb caused about 1000 dollars in damage. Investigators found a two foot fuse and scraps of wrapping paper around the scene. The builder blamed labor trouble for the blast, noting no recent disturbances.
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ST. Louis
Blocks Highway to Force Elimination of Bad Curve
Oxford Ohio authorities blocked routes 27 at the town edge to force removal of a dangerous curve. Mayor Verlin L. Pulley said the blockage would stay until the state highway department eliminates the curve. the village has paid $12,300 in damage claims from accidents partly within the corporation limits.
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Oxford
U. S
Verlin L. Pulley
State Highway Department
Pulley
Ohio
Indiana Line
Pan American Clipper Lands in Newfoundland
Pan American Airways reports the Pan American Clipper HI landed at Bothwood Newfoundland at 3 45 pm CST completing a trans Atlantic crossing from Foynes Ireland. Sir John Falstaff, a Shakespearean character, figures in six operas.
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Newfoundland
New York
Pan American Airways
Bothwood
Foynes
Ireland
Sir John Falstaff
Hurt in Hindenburg Explosion Leave Hospital
Mrs Mathilda Doehner and her two sons Werner and Walter, injured in the Hindenburg disaster, were discharged from Beach Boros hospital in Point Pleasant New Jersey. Her husband Hermann, a Mexico City importer, died, and daughter Irene, 13, later succumbed to burns. Porter is a malt liquor once used in London since 1722.
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Point Pleasant
N, J. Aug. d
Mathilda Doehner
Werner
Walter
Hindenburg
Beach Boros Hospital
House Group Okehs Measure to Return Job Risk Payments
House Ways and Means committee approves Richard M. Duncan's bill to reimburse 1936 unemployment payroll taxes to states lacking approved job insurance by Dec 31 1936. Missouri would gain about 5.8 million if enacted. Alaska and Hawaii plus 13 states share 30 million. Governor Stark and Missouri delegation push for release of 1936 taxes.
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House
Okehs
Washington
Ways and Means Committee
Richard M. Duncan
St Joseph
Congress
Social Security Board
Missouri
Hawaii
Alaska
U. S
Lloyd C. Stark
Scarcity of hogs drives eleven year peak hog prices on Chicago market
Scarcity of hogs amid drought years and reduced feed grain output pushes Chicago hog prices to about 13.75 per hundredweight, the highest in eleven years. Receipts lag year ago figures as corn crop remains small, with livestock demand tight and prices rising for pork cuts.
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Chicago
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States debate site for new patrol station near Jefferson City
Officials weigh free land offers from several cities as the Missouri site for the state highway patrol master station. Jefferson City remains favored but a final choice hinges on soil analysis and may move three miles east on highway 50 if mineral-free conditions are found.
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State Highway Patrol
Jefferson City
Highway 50
Washington
Corn Belt
AAA
Wallace
R. H. Tolley
Claude R. Wickard
North Central
Harry L.J. Brown
Agriculture
R. M. Evans
Harry N. Schooler
John B. Wilson, Jr
Wickard
Bayeux Tapestry Figures Detailing William Conquest Scenes
The Bayeux tapestry housed in Bayeux public library shows 1512 figures across 72 scenes, depicting the invasion and conquest of England led by William the Conqueror.
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Bayeux
France
England
William the Conqueror
Bequest Accepted to Reduce Public Debt
Congress agreed to accept a bequest from the late James Reuel Smith of Yonkers to help reduce the public debt. The Senate passed a bill giving the treasury authority to accept property after other bequests are paid.
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Washington
Aug
Congress
James Reuel Smith
Yonkers
Senate
White House
Treasury
Love Gone for Paroled Violator of Liquor Law
INDIANAPOLIS August 65 AP Love on probation to federal probation officer Adolph H Kruse ended his letters with a note that his girlfriend was gone He had written many times about church attendance but finally said I ain't got no girlfriend no more The report highlights a parolee’s personal setback amid liquor law violations.
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Indianapolis
Love
Adolph H. Kruse
President Roosevelt Heads to Hyde Park for Weekend Rest
President Roosevelt left the capital tonight on a special train at 10 01 p m central standard time for Hyde Park New York for a brief weekend rest. He will likely return Monday morning and has arranged for a secretary and two stenographers to accompany him to handle official mail and White House business.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Capsital
Hyde Park
White House
Dramatic Effort Clears Path for Baby Survival
Doctor Corbit reports uncertainly if the infant has passed the critical stage after a tense day. The newborn, fed sugar water and salt solution, receives mother’s milk every two hours amid a twin birth with one infant deceased. Dominick Boccassini, not present at birth, learns the name Patiny on the birth certificate while preparing funeral arrangements for his wife. Beef-eater designation noted for Yeomen of the Guard linked to Henry VIII coronation.
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Stantly
Patiny
Boccassini
Clue in Crater case dissolves seven years later
New York August 6 AP Another potential clue to the disappearance of Supreme Court Justice Joseph Force Crater was questioned today by Assistant District Attorney Francis Matro after Joseph Lesser a Dannemora prisoner sent a letter to Crater's wife. Lesser could not provide details about the letter understood to concern a debt of 2150. The Crater case may be closed as a search moves toward legal death declaration for the estate. Estelle Powell a showgirl seeks a divorce from Clarence Moren race track gambler missing since 1931 to allow remarriage before age limits.
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New York
Supreme Court
Joseph Force Crater
Francis Matro
Joseph Lesser
Dannemor
Stella Crater
Lesser
Crater
Tammany Hall
Times Square
Anne Shirley and John Howard Payne wed plan denied
Hollywood report says Anne Shirley 18 and John Howard Payne 25 declared intention to wed today, but Shirley noted no immediate plans to marry. In Belmont Massachusetts, William Atkinson Johnston, 68, MIT professor emeritus and descendant of James Watt, died.
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Hollywood
Anne Shirley
John Howard Payne
Massachusetts
Belmont
Mass
William Atkinson Johnston
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
James Watt
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