Faint Messages Indicate Soviet Fliers Safe Near Pole
Six missing Soviet fliers were reported safe somewhere in the Arctic between Alaska and the North Pole. Three planes carrying Russian officials left Fairbanks to search, as authorities doubted the Moscow to Fairbanks craft remained aloft after a possible motor failure.
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Fairbanks
Alaska
Arctic
North Pole
U. S. Army Signal Corps
Anchorage
Formne
Pole
Yessay
Fairbankst
Jimmy Mattern
Sigismund Levaneffsky
Lindbergh
Levaneffsky
Moscow
Levaneffeky
Mattern
Siberian
United States
Washington
Los Angeles
Alaska ‘Mercy
Joe Crosson
Walter Hall
8. E. Robbins
Clyde Armistead
Murray Stewart
Paul Brewis
Point Barrow
Prisoner admits killed New York child
Samuel Elmore a 39 year old WPA house painter confessed to the attack slaying of four year old Joan Kuleba of Staten Island. He reported finding the nude strangled child in a deserted beach shack cellar after a day and night of questioning.
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Joan Kuleba
New York City
South Beach
Staten Island
Manhattan
New York
R. J. Hanlon
St. George
Samuel Elmore
WPA
Elmore
Hanlon
John A. Lyons
Frank Innes
Richmond County
Engineers Wind Up Two-Day Meet in North Carolina
A two-day convention of the North Carolina Society of Engineers concluded at Wrightsville Beach with descriptions of the Hiwassee dam project in Cherokee county and the Edisto river tunnel for Charleston reservoir. J E B Gibson municipal engineer described the underground aqueduct and the TVA project was presented by C E Blee. Officer elections will be held at the winter session.
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Wrightsville Beach
North Carolina Society of Engineers
Carolinas
Hiwassee
Cherokee County
Edisto River
Charleston Reservoir
South Carolina
J. E B. Gibson
Charleston Water Works
Tennessee Valley Authority
North Carolina
C. E. Blee
TVA
Former American writer recalls Shanghai bombings and carnage
A former American newspaper man Bernhard Covis described wholesale death in Shanghai as bombs fell in the French concession. He witnessed mangled bodies, truckloads of corpses, and a Stanford student observer on the Cathay hotel roof recounting the blast and flames.
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Shanghai
Bernhard Covis
Brooklyn
N. Y
Ellen Louise Schmid
Stanford University
Cathay Hotel
Senate expected to vote early on Black nomination
Senate Judiciary Committee anticipated a Monday vote to approve Senator Black of Alabama to the Supreme Court despite telegram protests and calls for delay. Opposition predicted the committee majority would override objections and send the nomination to the Senate after brief debate. Labor groups pressed for swift confirmation.
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Washington
Senate Judiciary Committee
Senator Black
Ala
Supreme Court
Senato Buke
D.-Neb
Senate
Roosevelt
Alabama
Judiciary Committees
Ashurst
D.-Ariz
Labor
Insurgents Claim Defense in Teruel and Madrid Fronts
Insurgent forces report defending eastern Spain from Saragossa to Teruel against Catalan assault while reporting government gains in central Spain near Brunete, 15 miles west of Madrid. The fighting centered on Teruel province and the Madrid front near the ruined village of Brunete. A Danish protest over the Edith bombing is noted in London.
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Hendaye
Saragossa
Teruel
Spain
Brunete
Madrid
Albarracin
Cuenca
London
Edith
Barcelona
Copenhagen
Foreign Office
Tobacco Farmers Report Satisfaction With Price
Carolinas border belt farmers welcomed the first week of flue cured tobacco sales with higher prices than last year. Officials report averages around $21.80 to $25.93 across markets in Darlington Fair Bluff Kingstree Tabor City Timmonsvile and Fairmont with medium grades leading gains.
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Carolinas
Border Belt
U. S. Bureau of Agricultural Economics
State Department of Agriculture
D. T. McKeithan
Darlington
S. C
W. L. Morton
Fair Bluff
N. C
Kingstree
Fairmont
J. M. Lee
Tabor City
J. F. Hawkins
Timmonseville
8. C
Eales
Bankhead Admits Defeat of Wage Hour Bill Ends Session Prospects
Washington August 14 Speaker Bankhead signaled a swift push toward adjournment, admitting the administration's wage and hour bill cannot pass this session. He noted an impasse in the rules committee and a potential resort to a petition to bring the measure to the floor next year. Congress plans homeward, with overtime possible to finish. A sugar control bill looms for a conference with the Senate.
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Washington
Bankhead
Congress
Roosevelt
Supreme Court
Rules Committee
Bandhead
House
Capitol
Senate
Spectacular riverfront fire destroys pier section in Philadelphia
A massive blaze along the Delaware River at Walnut Street gutted half of the Pennsylvania Railroad freight pier, the third such waterfront fire in three months, near downtown Philadelphia today.
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Railroad
Delaware River
Walnut Street
Aged Woman Evicted From Raleigh Home Overdue Rent
Miss Annie Lewis a 70 year old former usher at the state museum sat amid her possessions as neighbors watched unread books and antique furniture left on the sidewalk after eviction. She had received a federal Home Owners Loan of 3700 but could not pay. the Wake County Welfare department is investigating the case.
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Raleigh
Annie Lewis
Old State Museum
Lewis
Maiden Lane
North Carolina State College
Miss Lewis
Charlies Augustus Lindbergh
Arendall
American ships move to aid citizens in China zone
Thirty five American warships and about 7000 personnel stood ready in the Asiatic fleet under Admiral Yarnell to protect lives and property in the Chinese Japanese conflict. Ships and marines held positions at Shanghai Tientsin and Peiping with destroyers gunboats and submarines deployed across strategic points.
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Washington
United States
Navy Department
Asiatic Fleet
Harry F. Yarnell
Shanghai
Yarnell
Augusta
Sacramento
Tutuila
Ramapo
Peary
Tientsin
United States Army
15Th Infantry
Joseph A. McAndrew
Peiping
C. F. B. Price
Hongkong
Tsingtao
Pagado Anch
Yangtze River
South China
Canton
Shantung Peninsula
Manila
Shantung
Billion Spent for Highways in 1936 Report
The Bureau of Public Roads shows state highway departments spent 1.131 billion dollars in 1936 with revenues of 1.146 billion. Gasoline taxes and related fees provided about 664 million. federal funds 346 million. bonds and other income 141 million. Construction led expenditures at 607 million. maintenance 219 million. Pennsylvania led with over 80 million spent. six other states exceeded 40 million.
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Bureau of Public Roads
Federal Agency
Pennsylvania
New York
California
Texas
Illinois
Michigan
Wieseesin
Airplanes fight above Shanghai in deadly bombardment
War raged over Shanghai as Japanese and Chinese planes clashed above the international city. Hundreds of non combatants died in Chinese bomb rain that missed targets, including at least three Americans, amid a day of extreme destruction.
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Far East
Shanghai
Frank J. Rawlinson
China
H. Honigsberg
Robert K. Reischauer
Princeton University
Japan
Yangtse
Avenue Edward VII
Thiget Road
Dr. Rawlinson
Hongsberg
Nanking Road
Cathay
Palace
Reischauer
Place
R. R. Rouse
Saso
Montana
J. M. Gerbey
Rouse
Byrnes proposes new bill for reorganizing federal departments
Washington Aug 14 A Byrnes committee chair introduced a bill to reorganize federal departments while exempting independent regulatory agencies. It would limit presidential exemptions to three years, create a department of welfare, and empower appointment of bureau heads with Senate consent. The measure aims to replace a prior reform bill and awaits committee action.
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Washington
Byrnes
Senate
Government Reorganization Committee
Congress
House
Roose
Civil Service
Department of Welfare
Robinson
Arkansas
Federal Reserve Board
District of Columbia
Board of Engineers
War Department
Senate Bill Credits State Unemployment Funds
The Senate passed a bill to credit state unemployment insurance funds with 1936 taxes from states not in full Social Security Act compliance. Thirteen states were initially noncompliant, but sponsor Senator Clark said all have now complied. Benefiting states include Arkansas Delaware Georgia Florida Illinois Kansas Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada North Dakota Washington Wyoming and the territories of Hawaii and Alaska.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
White House
Clark
D-Mo
Arkansas
Delaware
Georgia
Florida
Illinois
Kansas
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
North Dakota
Wyoming
Territories
Hawaii
Alaska
G Men Seek Federal Aid in Probe of Mass Deaths
Cincinnati readers learn prosecutors seek help from J Edgar Hoover and handwriting experts as the Hahn case expands. Police link five deaths and count three more under review in the investigation of elderly German acquaintances. Mrs Hahn faces murder charges in George Gsellman’s death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Dudley Miller Outcast
Washington
George Schuttle
Mra
Anna Hahn
Outcast
Gordon Shearer
Capitol
J. Edgar Hoover
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Schuttle
Mrs. Hahn
Grand Jury
Hahn
George Gsellman
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N.Y
Burke
Insurgent
Roanoke Island
Associated Press
Bill
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