Final drive launched on Loyalists in northwest Spain
Insurgent forces strike Asturias and Santander as government lines in Albarracin push forward in northeast. Artillery and air attacks target Bilbao defenses while battles erupt in Toledo Granada Morris Aguila De Camp areas amid mutinies reported by government. Insurgents claim clashes with POUM remnants and anarchist groups in scattered street fighting.
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Associated Press
Spain
Asturias
Tander
Bilbao
Albarracin
Cuenca
Teruel
Madrid
Valencia
Toledo
Granada
Morris
Aguila de Camp
Hospital Orderly Charged In Death Of New York Child
Lawrence Marks a 49 year old hospital orderly, recently released on parole, is charged with the murder and assault of Paula Magagna an eight year old girl in Brooklyn. He confessed to choking her with a cord and mutilating her body in the basement and reenacted the crime for investigators.
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New York
Paula Magagna
Brooklyn
Lawrence Marks
Sing Sing
Frederick Kopff
Marks
Kopff
N. Y
Cotton Crop To Be More Than Fifteen Millions Of Bales
The Agriculture Department projects this year’s cotton crop at 15,593,000 bales based on conditions as of August 1 and July 1 cultivated area of 33,429,000 acres after 10-year 1927-36 abandonment. Last year’s crop was 12,398,882 bales. 1935 was 10,638,391. The Census Bureau reports 142,983 running bales gained before August 1.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Crop Reporting Board
Census Bureau
Farm Bill To Be Submitted Next Session
The Senate agriculture committee voted unanimously to report a general farm bill within a week after Congress convenes next. Chairman Smith said the bill would be ready for the Senate whether a special session is called or Congress starts in January. President Roosevelt hinted crop loans may follow once a general farm bill is enacted. Southern lawmakers pressed for a 12 cent cotton loan.
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Senate Agriculture Committee
Congress
Washington
Smith
D-Sc
Senate
Roosevelt
Commodity Credit Corporation
Japanese Consolidate Control in Peiping and Tientsin
Japanese forces extend rule across Peiping and Tientsin after rapid advances in Hopeh. Military authorities parade through capital streets and set up permanent civil administration, bringing judiciary police and commerce under Japanese control. Local Chinese bodies are relegated to advisory roles under Nanking cabinet influence.
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Tientsin
Hopeh
China
Perm
Peiping
Majon
T. Ka
Changlu
Ch Cabinet
Nanking
Japese
Ation
Chim
Prisoner Will Be Questioned In Barton Slaying Case
Andrews Aug 9 Clyde Cummings 40 confessed to state prison officials he killed Florence Barton Kansas City society girl 20 years ago claiming another party paid him 200 dollars to do it. Superintendent T O Sleyton would not name the other party yet while Kansas City authorities seek more details. Cummings serving nine months for posing as a revenue official and trying to collect taxes from roadside fruit stands.
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Sleyton
Cummings
Kansas City
Charles Finch Undergoes Major Operation in Winston-Salem
Thom asville businessman Charles F. Finch was operated on at Baptist hospital in Winston-Salem Friday. Report says his condition is satisfactory, but visitors will be limited for some time.
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Charles Finch
Winston-Salem
Thomasville
Charles F. Finch
Baptist
Japan's Marine Force Fights in Shanghai Skirmish
Japanese marines clashed with Chinese airport guards near Shanghai tonight. One Japanese officer and a Chinese sentry were reported killed, another Japanese Marine missing. Chinese peace preservation corps erected barricades to block parts of Northern Shanghai from Japanese areas.
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Shanghai
Chinese Peace Preservation Corps
Japan
Hungiao
Peiping
Seaplane Groomed For First Lufthansa Atlantic Flight
Lufthansa mechanics groomed the Nordmeer a 16 ton seaplane for eight projected survey flights toward a New York air service. Captain Joachim Blankenburg will lead the first leg to Lisbon about 15 hours, then to Horta Azores and New York with Friedrich Buddenbrock aboard Lisbon to New York.
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Luebeck
Germany
Lufthansa
Nordmeer
New York
Norwind
Joachim Mbmiankenburg
Lisbon
Portugal
Horta
Azores
Schwabenland
Blankenberg
Siegfried von Sehack
Wilhelm Kuep
Otto Gruschwitz
Friedrich Buddenbrock
Luufthansa
Atlantic
Switzerland
France
Spain
Thousands Quit Silk Loom Jobs in Paterson Strike
Thousands of silk workers walked off their looms in Paterson New Jersey joining a CIO led strike described as successful by both employers and employees. The walkout paused operations across about 500 mills with estimates that up to 95 percent of the 4000 weavers joined, picketing at eight mills and reports of stoppages spreading to Allen Town Stroudsburg and Phillipsburg.
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Paterson
N. J
Passaic Valley
Irving Abramson
Textile Workers Organizing Committee
Abraham Brenman
Paterson Silk Commission Manufacturers Association
Brenman
Allentown
Stroudsburg
Phillipsburg
Silk Commission Mills
Sheriff Orders Levy On Plymouth Hosiery Mill
Greensboro August 9 Special The sheriff of Guilford county was ordered to levy judgment on the real and personal property of the Plymouth Hosiery Mill of High Point after a suit by Charles G. Powell chairman of the North Carolina unemployment compensation committee. The suit seeks 660.28 principal and 23.38 interest for 1936 and five months of 1937.
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Greensboro
Guilford County
Plymouth
High Poin
Charles G. Powell
Unemployment Compensation Committee
North Carolina
Court Opens Greensboro Week-Long Civil Session
Guilford county superior court began a week long civil action session in Greensboro this morning with Judge W F Harding of Charlotte presiding.
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Greensboro
Guilford County
W. F. Harding
Charlotte
McPherson to Lead Probe at North Carolina A and T
Governor Clyde R Hoey and Holt McPherson editor of The Enterprise plan an independent investigation of conditions at the Negro Agricultural and Engineering College in Greensboro McPherson will visit the college meet officials teachers students alumni and others and report findings directly to the governor.
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Raleigh
Enterprise
State Negro Agricultural and Engineering College
Greensboro
Clyde R. Hoey
Holt McPherson
The
McPherson
Board of Trustees
Detroit Chrysler Pact Reopens Plants. Silk Mills Suspend
Detroit's Chrysler Motor Corp and the United Automobile Workers reached a truce that sent about 21 000 workers back to their jobs after four idle days the terms of the pact were ratified Sunday by the union. In Paterson New Jersey thousands of silk workers walked off the job in a C S O called strike affecting most of the 500 mills in the area. Union leader Irving Abramson estimated 95 percent of the 4000 weavers joined the strike. Grand Coulee Washington dam workers threatened a strike over exclusive bargaining rights for the American Federation of Labor. The House labor committee approved a revised wage hour bill setting a 40 cent maximum hourly wage and a 40 hour work week. Ford Motor Co resumed production in Detroit with a plan for 6500 units daily after a three week inventory shutdown.
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Associated Press
Detroit
Chrysler Motor Corp
United Automobile Workers’ Union
Paterson
N. J
Irving Abramson
Textile Workers’ Organizing Committee
Union O Contracta
Grand Coulee, Wash
United Dam Construction Workers
Grand Coulee
American Federation of Labor
Ford Motor Co
Swimmer John Turner Johnson Drowns Near Greensboro
John Turner Johnson aged 17 drowned while swimming in a creek near Greensboro yesterday. The incident occurred during a nearby recreational outing and authorities are investigating the death.
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Greensboro
N. C
John Turner Johnson
Here
Bakers Convention Opens in Charleston
The Carolinas Bakers Association opened a three day convention in Charleston with officers to be elected tomorrow as August 9 events begin.
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Bakers
Charleston
8. C
Carolinas Bakers Association
House labor committee backs revised wage hour bill
Washington reports the House Labor Committee endorses a revised wage hour bill to strengthen collective bargaining. It would set a national labor standards board to fix minimum wages up to 40 cents an hour and a 40 hour work week, with regional directors and balanced employer labor representation.
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Washington
Senate
House Labor Committee
National Labor Standards Board
Roosevelt
Congress
House
Labor Standards Board
Tobacco Selling Season Opens Across North and South Markets
North and South Carolina markets begin sales tomorrow with hopes for good prices as growers transport tobacco to 16 markets. Reports from seven border belt towns and nine Georgia markets indicate a bumper yield and strong opening day expectations amid large warehouse operations and anticipated carry over sales.
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Associated Press
Georgia
North Carolina
Clarkton
Chadbourn
Fair Bluff
Tabor City
Whiteville
Fairmont
Lumberton
South Carolina
Mullins
Timmonsville
Conway
Darlington
Dillon
Kingstree
Lake City
Loris and
Pamlico
Mrs. Ross Qualifies As Administratrix
Mrs Bennie Ross of 403 Kennedy street qualified as administratrix in Greensboro for the estate of Mary Anne Swicegood who died in 1936. The estate's personal property was valued at 818 dollars.
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Greensboro
Bennie Ross
Kennedy Street
Superior Court
Mary Anne Swicegood
Britain protests insurgent attack on tanker British Corporal
Britain lodged a protest through Ambassador Sir Henry Chilton at Hendaye against the bombing of the British tanker British Corporal off Algeria last Friday. Italian and French ships were hit in the same area and the Italian captain was killed. Britain questioned whether insurgent planes carried out the attack, though insurgents deny involvement. An earlier protest had been made with insurgent authorities at Palma Mallorca.
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London
Great Britain
Francisco Franco
Algeria
Henry Chilton
Hendaye
France
Palma
Mallorca
Mystery air attacks hit ships near Mediterranean bases
Three ships the British Corporal the Mongiocia and the Bijebel Amour were reported attacked by mystery planes near both government and insurgent air bases in the Mediterranean. A fourth Greek steamer Kytstakis was also said to be attacked as European powers spar over responsibility blaming Red planes or insurgent air forces.
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Mediterranean
K. Kytstakis
France
Tragedy as Young Man Hit by Train Near Raleigh
Henry W. Jessup twenty one was struck by a train while walking along a railroad track near Raleigh and died an hour later in a local hospital. The incident occurred yesterday in the vicinity.
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Raleigh
Henry W. Jessup
Here
Seek Negro for Serious Assault Near Laurinburg
Aug 9 Laurinburg roiling incident reports Roosevelt Rollins at large after a break from custody led to a fatal shooting of James Rollins. Deputy Sheriff Dunlap says two Black men were arrested a filling station seven miles north before the escape. Page Rush, a driver, said Roosevelt Rollins was struck by a bullet and fled with gunfire as he and other detainees fled. No sightings of Rollins reported since the escape.
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Laurinburg
Roosevelt Rollins
Washington
D. C
A. Dunlap
Yterday
James Rollins
Wagram
Fieer
Gan
Here
W. D. Reynolds
Dunlap
James Roll
Page Rush
Rush
Roosevelt
Rel Roosevelt Rollins
Page
Roosey Rollins
Electricians Reinstate North Carolina Electric Chair
Electricians began rigging up today in Raleigh as North Carolina reopens the electric chair after nine months. The chair will be kept in the death chamber for use on future cases involving crimes committed before June 9, 1984, after a misinterpretation of the law.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Bate
James McNeill
Supreme Court
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