Chinese Counterattack Rebuffs Japanese Near Nanking
Heavily reinforced Chinese armies struck back along the Blindenburg line east of Nanking as thousands of fresh troops arrived. Civilians fled toward the interior while government offices evacuated. Chiang Kai-Shek commands hundreds of thousands of troops. evacuees include Americans, British, and Germans preparing to depart. Defenses near Nanking readied to hold to the last if Japanese breakthrough occurs.
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Grand Duke Marries in Private Wedding Amid Tragedy
London report: Ludwig von Les Bei Rhein wed Margaret Campbell Geddes at St Peter's Church in a private ceremony, as 11 killed in a London to Ostend air crash loom over the royal nuptials. The couple then began a mourning honeymoon to Ostend to retrieve the duke's fallen relatives and return to Darnstadt.
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Jardine dies at 63 in Wisconsin politics arena
John Franklin Jardine longtime Wisconsin Republican leader and president of the National Potato Association died at 63 after a cerebral hemorrhage. In other items, irrigation talk in the Moreau river area, a meat price boycott in Ohio, a Dell Rapids pioneer’s death, and typhoon impacts in the Philippines with power cuts from Cebu to Panay.
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Wisconsin
National Potato Association
Washington
Herbert E. Hitchcock
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Cheyenne Indian Reservation
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Cebu
Panay
Philippines
Life's Like This! Oddball AP dispatches from around the country
A string of brief clippings from the Associated Press recounts quirky incidents across several cities. Firemen respond to a false alarm, a man jokes about a birthday wish involving hamburgers, a pepper mine claim is floated, a traveler ponders brotherhood, a would be robber demands money but flees, and a widower seeks a penitentiary instead of life on the outside.
Inside Washington Language From Capitol Hill Gossip
Washington observers report that congressmen publicly praise the president while privately critiquing his program, with Mallon noting White House agents closely gauging reactions. The piece suggests a difficult and extended legislative struggle ahead for the administration and hints at a sharper, more confident tone in private discussions.
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Rigney
White House
Mallon
Modern girls learn kitchen arts from law not books
A reader quotes a humorous piece about modern women learning housework from mothers and cookbooks from law, contrasting old fashioned guidance with contemporary smarts. A friend married a socialite who jokes that pudding tests and silverware in pudding reveal success, as Bob Burns is cited in the tale.
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Everson Attacks FDR Crop Control Plan At Convention
E H Everson of the National Farmers Union charged President Roosevelt hinted at compulsory crop control, calling it dictatorship. He urged normal crops and warned against weather farm production plans, while noting lack of cost details in the farm program. Everson denied resigning, saying he declined re election.
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Alinia
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Thern ‘Vay
John Vesecky
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A. G. Keeney
Nebraska
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W. R. Miller
Missouri
Emil Loriks
South Dakota
George A. Nelson
Wisconsin
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Mercury Dips To New Season Low
The city records the coldest night of the season with a low around six degrees. Forecaster B. Laskowski predicts a slow warmup followed by more snow tonight and Thursday as temperatures rise and fall.
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Lunar Eclipse Visible Across Nation Tonight
A partial lunar eclipse, the only one visible in 1937, will be observable across the United States early tomorrow. Dr. Ernest Cherrington Jr. of Perkins Observatory notes the moon will brighten gradually before dawn, with peak visibility around 2 8 a.m. Local observers should expect a dimmed moon until then.
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Two Members Of Trio Of Escaped O'Connor Kidnapers Nabbed
Syracuse police report two of three convicted O’Connell kidnapers, John Oley and Harold Crowley, were captured without resistance at a downtown rooming house. Percy Geary remains at large after escaping by a window. A state trooper was killed when his patrol car overturned during the manhunt.
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M. F. Dillon
Auburn
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Correction
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Joke Nearly Slayed Attorney Pattison in Indianapolis
In Indianapolis on November 17 attorney Coleman B. Pattison suffered two rib fractures and a punctured lung after laughing at a joke told by a friend. He is expected to recover, doctors said.
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Auto Show Set Here With 1938 Models Displayed
Huron plans an annual auto show at Deum's Auditorium on Friday and Saturday, November 20 and 21. G B Leighton named general chairman, Angus Saunders is president of the sponsoring Automobile Dealers Association of Huron, Bruce Urquhart elected secretary and treasurer. Ten dealers will showcase 1908 models. participants include Leighton Chevrolet, D B Urquhart & Sons, Atkins Motor, Dinneen Wright, Vogel, A M Urquhart, Standard Garage, Mlve M Motors, Kingdon, and Seundens. A two night dance with an outstanding band is tentatively planned.
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Automobile Dealers Association of Huron
Angus Saunders
Bruce Urquhart
Leighton Chevrolet Company
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Atkins Motor Company
Dinneen-Wright, Inc
Vogel Motor Company
A. M. Urquhart
Standard Gareage
ML Ve M. Motors, Inc
Kingdon Motor Company
Seundens Motor Company
Kuehn Wins Clark Building Gym Contract
Huron architect Kuehn today announced a contract award for a new $21,000 Clark School gymnasium addition to the existing Peas school building. Basement excavation will start immediately with general construction pending weather conditions. Meanwhile a Fulton news brief reports a dead eagle found near Find Dead Eagle.
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Franco Rushes Work On Aragon Airports
Franco reportedly accelerates airport construction behind the Aragon front to support an eastward offensive. Insurgent sources expect a combined push on Aragon with a southern drive toward Almeria, targeting Republican-held territory along the Mediterranean coast.
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Francisco Franco
Almeria
Mediterranean
Senate Debates Antilynching Amid Reform Push
Washington reports a southern filibuster halts the anti lynching measure as Senator Wagner seeks debate and Senator Connally insists on votes. The bill would tax lynching victims and place responsibility on states. debate continues amid a broader push for government reorganization and wage hour legislation.
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