Chinese Thrust Threatens To Split Jap Army At Shanghai
Multiple World War II era items reported include Chinese tactics aimed at dividing Japanese forces near Shanghai, a Spanish freighter attacked off Galata Turkish coast, and widening war news from Newport tennis results, Shanghai refugees at the Astor House, and various U.S. political and economic notes.
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Shanghai
Istanbul
Gal Jon
Turkey
Shanghal
Astor House
National League and American League scores from today’s games
The ledger lists multiple NL matchups with erratic line scores including New York at Boston and Philadelphia games with pitchers Gumbert Mulcahy Jorgens and Grace Hoyt Spencer, plus Chicago Pittsburgh St Louis Cincinnati notes. In the AL Washington at New York and Philadelphia Detroit Chicago show further results with Ferrell, Desautels, Brucker and Rigney among the players.
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National League
New York
Boston
Hoo OK
Gumbert
Dannae
Turner
Lopen
Philadelphia
Brogalyn
Hool
Mulcahy
Jorgens
Grace
Hoyt
Spencer
Philadelphia Bragatyn —-Y.wecsacsonnenas Casceeoceene
Johnson
Atwood
Muga
Chicago
Washington
W. Ferrell
R- Ferrell Redting
Dickey
Marcum
Desautels
Kelly
Brucker
Detroit
Life's Like This! Odd News From The Nation
A jumble of small town anecdotes from the Associated Press notes unusual scenes. Mrs Harey Welton startled by her cousin W C Gailey riding a bicycle across a long trip while another report describes a parked car rolling downhill and hitting a house. A Minneapolis item contrasts fashion and divorce causing debate over women's clothing and denims.
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Associated Press
Waukegan
Family Loyalty Versus Law Told A Country Joke
A comic tale contrasts rural kinship with city lawsuits as Uncle Hod flees a game warden, claiming license protections while trying to shield Grandpa from capture. The humor centers on a license misused to excuse a family member’s escape during a fishing trip.
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Irs
Ancle
Grandpaw Snelson
Portugal Breaks Diplomatic Ties With Czechoslovakia
Lisbon and Lisbon officials announced severing diplomatic relations with Czechoslovakia over an unfilled order of machine guns. They cited third party influence delaying rearmament as the cause, linking the move to Portugal's stance on the Spanish Civil War and non intervention.
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London
Portugal
Czechoslovakia
Europe
Italy
Germany
Spain
Russia
Franco
France
Praha
Lisbon
Republic of
Diario de Mathias
Antonio de Oliveira Salazar
Francisco
Ceskoslovensko Zebrojovka
Petral
Francisco’ Franco
Pras
Rescue One Child in Well and Birth of Another
Clinton Maryland August 19 A slight woman Mrs Glenn McGow plunged into a 28 foot well to save her two year old Mary Nell. She lifted her to safety with help from neighbor Dick McLeish and her son Charles who tied a rope to her. Four men pulled both mother and child from the water. Six hours later she gave birth to a 6 pound son born three weeks premature. Doctors said both mother and baby were out of danger.
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Clinton, MD
Glenn McGow
McGow
Reliet
Mary Nell
Mrs. McGow
Dick McLeish
Charles
Plane Kidnaper Awaits Hearing In Texas
Boyish 19 year old Jack Hamerly faces a preliminary hearing on charges of kidnapping an airplane pilot while about 2000 feet in the air. The pilot Bob Hunt recounted how he fought back, disarming Hamerly after the aircraft landed at various spots including Rosenberg.
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Houston
Texas
Jack Hamerly
Justice of the Peace
J. M. Ray
Aled Charg
Hemerly
Bill Ray
Bob Hant
Hunt
Hamerly
Laredo
Harlem
Pric
Rosenberg
Rims
Hainerly
Amateurs Blamed for Anthrax Spread
Dr Ben Anderson, South Dakota state veterinarian, told the 74th annual American Veterinary Medical Association convention that anthrax vaccine in the wrong hands fuels spread in South Dakota and northeastern Nebraska. He noted laymen cannot determine herd vaccination readiness and some infect cattle during attempts to immunize. More than 700 terms have been quarantined in North Dakota.
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Omaha
Ben. Anderson
South Dakota
American Veterinary Medical Association
Nebrasks
Peano
Boul Dakota
Roosevelt's Talk Signals Possible Split in Party
President Roosevelt's Roanoke Island speech intensified signs of a party rift over his legislative agenda. A liberal shift in Senate leadership, wage hour clash, and opposition from figures like Garner and Harrison underscore strains as Roosevelts aims face resistance within the Democratic ranks.
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Roosevelt
Washington
Roanoke Island
Conetess
Black
Alabama
Supreme Court
Roymoke Island
Lord Macaulays
Bean
Senate
Robinson
Arkansas
Harrison
Mississippi
Byrnes
South Carolina
Capitol Hill
Barkley
Kentucky
Schnellenbach
Minnston
Indiana
House
Garner
Symes
Lef Harrison
Cholera Outbreak Halts Hong Kong Refugee Port Calls
Cholera spreads along the South China coast threatening Hong Kong and Macao and reaching Canton. Shipping officials fear canceling calls and quarantines, risking evacuation of British nationals. Last week 82 of 136 cases in the area died, with 32 deaths in Canton and 25 in Macao over the weekend. Authorities in Singapore and the Straits Settlements mobilize 29 million doses of vaccine.
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Hongkong
South China
Shanghai
China
Macao
Canton
Singapore
British Straits Settlements
Localizing Dairy Rehab Urged as Community Project in SD
A South Dakota dairy rehabilitation committee recommended handling dairy herd restoration as a community task rather than a statewide plan. The group urged surveys with local creamery lenders, county agents, and communities to secure pure bred sires and dairy heifers, stressing practical, locally tailored efforts.
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Samptiow
Greater
South Dakota Association
South Dakota
T. H. Olson
State College
Roy Cave
Extension
College
Sea Dairy
Shanghai Faces Wartime Rationing As Battle Rages
Shanghai reports heavy fighting as Chinese forces drive a wedge into Japanese lines near the Whangpoo river. Reinforcements arrive from Japan while American consular officials oppose Japanese plans to control the river. Casualties mount as fires erupt and the Augusta cruiser stands offshore amid a widening conflict.
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Shanghai
Japan
Whangpoo
Kianswam
International Settlement
Yangtze
Nanking
American Southern Baptist Mission
Chapel Quarter
Nantungchow
Wingtze
Americas
Whangpog
China
Narkow Pass
Hongkong
United States
Clarence E. Gauss
Woosung
Whangpoo River
Cres~ienda
Paontung
Asiatia Eet
Augusta
Whangpao
Kiyoshi Hasegawa
Americ
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