Chinese Begin Wrecking Rich Tsingtao Area
Tsingtao shuddered as Chinese forces blew telegraph and radio offices after loss of the port. American ships prepared evacuations for refugees while British and other nationals awaited extraction. Foreigners faced new rules as Japan tightened control and consular talks stalled over customs disruption and possible default on debt payments.
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Associated Press
Shanghai
Tsingtao
China
United States
Marblehead
Pope
Sacramento
Yangtze Valley
Japan
Chekiang
Shentung
Hongkowg
Yangtzepoo
Chekiang Province
Linan
Lanchi
Chikiang
363 Qualified for Security Act Payments Continued
Fredericksen urges claimants to file quickly, noting many of those aged 65 are eligible for lump sum benefits. He says filing is free and simple, and staff will assist by phone or mail. The Jefferson City area covers Cole, Howard, Boone, and Cooper counties.
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Jefferson City
Cole
Howard
Boone
Cooper
Street's Boy Wonder Dies In Sing Sing
Harold Russell Ryder once called Street's Boy Wonder and Wall Street's brightest youth died in Sing Sing at 41 after a heart episode following his return to prison. Once a budding financier who claimed to turn a shoestring into millions, he faced multiple felonies, paroled life, and a 12 to 17 year sentence for grand larceny and fraud, with prior indictments tied to Woody and Co. collapse. Survived by mother Minnie Ryder of Greenwich. ex wife Rhoda Ryder later remarried John F. Conroy.
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Ossining
Harold Russell Ryder
Boy Wonder
Wall Street
Sing Sing
Ryder
Little Boy Blue
Broadway
Jas Ryder
New York
Woody and Co
Minnie Ryder
Greenwich
Conn
Rhoda Woody Ryder
Reno
John F. Conroy
East Orange
N. J
Spinach Advice for Future Pilots From Col. Tuttle
Indiana speech by Col. A D Tuttle medical director United Airlines urges children to eat spinach to protect vitamin A deficient eyes as the first step toward aviation hopes. He spoke at the Institute of Aeronautical Sciences during the AAAS annual meeting in Indianapolis.
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Indianapolis
A. D. Tuttle
United Air Lines
Institute of Aeronautical Sciences
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Tuttle
New Deal Fire Opens Against Big Business
The trade commission plans a survey and recommendations to Congress. White House advisors urged a bill with an amendment to obtain wage hour legislation. Secretary Roper praised good business while noting monopolies must be curbed. Senator Jackson accused big business of profits in 1936 and defended labor’s wage claims, citing GM executives Sloan and Knudsen with multi year salary increases.
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Trade Commission
Congress
White House
House
Jackson
Philadelphia
Commerce Roper
Alfred P. Sloan
General Motors
William Knudsen
Access to Car License Lists in St Louis Sought
The suit seeks access to car license lists with January and February licenses at stake. Eggers warned his business would be irreparably damaged if the names are not released. He noted supplying license lists to police and highway patrols. Secretary Dwight H. Brown and Deputy Commissioner William E. Dexter are named in the suit.
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Eggers
Dwight H. Brown
Steward
William E. Dexter
St. Louis
New Year Resolvers Offer Practical Advice for 1938
Dr. George W. Crane of Northwestern University argues that New Year resolutions are constructive plans. He advises making genuine compliments daily in 1938, suggesting three sincere remarks to spouses children and neighbors to start progress.
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George W. Crane
Northwestern University
Predict Slump To Hit Bottom Early in 1938
Atlantic City. Col. Leonard P. Ayres of Cleveland warned at the American Statistical Association dinner that the current business slump would bottom in early 1938 with a slow recovery. He projected 1938 production near 6 percent below 1937, 25 to 35 percent lower auto output, a wholesale price drop from 86 to 80, railroad freight down 12 to 24 percent, and stock averages near 1934–35 lows. He expected gains only in petroleum refining, bankruptcies, and unemployment, and warned that weak overseas business could undermine any domestic upturn.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Dee
Leonard P. Ayres
Cleveland
American Statistical Association
Ayres
Col. Ayres
Paris Strikes End as 120000 Return to Work Today
Paris workers end mass walkout after government mobilizes striking labor and threatens army intervention to compel a return to jobs. Subway bus and trolley services revive gradually while utilities run on skeleton crews amid congestion and public fear of utility cuts.
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Communist Party
Faris
Insurgents Open Strong Counter Drive at Teruel
In a Spanish government communique insurgent counter-offensive near Teruel was repulsed as waves of insurgent infantry attacked. Thirty insurgent planes roared over as government lines advanced north and west of Teruel, which had fallen to insurgents in a sudden last week offensive.
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Barcelona
Teruel
Mystery Mrs Robinson Missing in Moscow Draws U S Probe
The state department seeks to identify a New York woman believed to be the mysterious Mrs Donald L Robinson missing in Moscow. A passport photo likeness of Ruth Marie Rubens of New York is in Moscow for official identification amid suspicions the Robinsons are not American citizens and may be agents.
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Mrs. Robinson
Moscow
New York
Washington
State Department
Donald L. Robinson
Robinson
United States
Ruth Marie Rubens
Adolph Arnold Rubens
Troyanovsky
State Auditor Projects Four Million Balance for Road Funds
Auditor projects a four million balance from vehicle registration and gasoline tax collected January through February. The highway commission expects to meet current and future payments, aided by not committing most of the 1937 program. Construction relies on state revenues and uncertain federal aid after July 1, 1938, with plans advancing to award contracts as funds permit. A 3 cent per gallon gasoline tax may begin next December to cover the shortfall unless repealed by referendum.
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Earp
Funeral Services for Prof Justus Held in Abeyance
Prof Justus, educator and poet, founded Justus Business School in Jefferson City in 1915. He led the school until its sale two years ago when Capital Commercial College opened. A student of poets, he authored Life's Golden Dreams, a volume reaching a third edition and earning nationwide attention.
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Shawnee
Tulsa
Oklo
Justus
Jefferson City
Wealthy San Pedro Hotel Owner Shot on Yacht
The Perseus vessel, bound north, reported Faulding shot on deck after being unable to reach port until after midnight Thursday. Coast guard planes sighted him, with agents of the FBI taking charge of the investigation in Los Angeles. Osborne ordered preservation of evidence until San Pedro docking. Unconfirmed reports name a Jack Morgan as source. Morgan not listed on the Raffae passenger manifest. Infant Dies In Holt Summit at St Marys Hospital, Cedar City, burial planned at Union Hill cemetery. Surviving family includes widow and daughter Vera Justus Hannon, with two grandchildren in Kansas and Texas.
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Coast Guard
Perseus
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Los Angeles
W. H. Osborne
Osborne
San Pedro
Jack Morgan
Morgan
Raffe
Wilmington
Charles Nichol
Gilford
Nichol
Cedar City
St. Mary's Hospital
Union Hill Cemetery
Holt
Summit
Immigrant swindle netted over 50 indicted in multi-state fraud
New York detectives arrested more than twenty suspects in a $2,000,000 Long Island real estate swindle preying on immigrants in mill towns across New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania. Fifty-one indicted, including foreign language publishers, with 1500 victims. One death occurred in Passaic New Jersey during an eight month probe led by Attorney General John J. Bennett.
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New Jersey
Connecticut
Massachusetts
Pennsylvania
Passaic
N. J
John J. Bennett
New York County Grand Jury
Ethel Smolens
Deer Park
Long Island
Steplens
Sanford Goldier
Bennett
America
Missouri Professor Schhlundt In Critical Condition
Dr Herman Schlundt of the University of Missouri faculty described as very weak and still critical after hospital pronouncement. Schlundt, a noted authority on radioactive elements, founded the university radiological research laboratory. Washington crossed the Delaware River at a point where the river was 100 feet wide, from the mouth of a creek.
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Herman Schhlundt
University of Missouri
Schlundt
Washington
Delaware River
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