Biggest jail in world opened amid Shanghai chaos
A chaotic Shanghai scene unfolds as the city’s vast international jail in the Settlement prepares to release 7 000 inmates amid ongoing Chinese Japanese clashes. The battle rages along the Whangpoo river with artillery duels, and an American sailor is killed while Japanese air fleets strike toward the Yangtze valley as Chinese forces resist.
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Shanghai
Yangtze
Nanking
Ward Road
International Settlement
Whangpoo River
Augusta
Yangtze Valley
Clarkson Sees North Carolina Progress Surpassing Most States
Marion August 21 Justice Heron Clarkson told the 18th district Bar association that the state’s economic and social progress in 25 years ranks with only a few states. J. Wallace Winborne and six superior court judges attended with 75 delegates hosted by the Marion bar at Lake James club. Officers elected were R. W. Proctor president M. R. McCown vice president and O J. Mooneyham secretary. The 1938 session will be at Tryon.
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Marion
Heron Clarkson
North Carolina Bar Association
Clarkson
J. Wallace Winborne
Superior Court
Lake James Club
R. W. Proctor
M. R. McCown
Tryson
O J. Moon
Justin Miller Confirmed for U S Circuit Court Post
The Senate confirmed Justin Miller former dean of Duke University Law School at Durham North Carolina as associate justice of the U S Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.
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Washington
Senate
Justin Miller
Duke University Law School
Durham
N. C
U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals
District of Columbia
Franco vows to reach Santander within days as siege tightens
Francoist forces advance on Santander after routing to Torreveg a 12 miles southwest of the city. Insurgent Generalissimo Francisco Franco says his army will enter the Biscayan port by next Saturday as civilians aid fortifications and foreign evacuations continue amid blockades.
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Santander
Torrelavega
Asturias
Francisco Franco
Bilbao
Franco
Spain
Biscayan
United States
Stokes County Farmer Killed by Virginia Highwayman
Charlie H. Jessup of Stokes County North Carolina was shot through the heart and robbed near Stuart Virginia. Everett Quesenberry is sought in connection with the crime. Jessup left behind a widow and fourteen children as sheriff Mays reports Quesenberry seen in Mount Airy and on the Patrick County road.
Body Believed To Be Heiress Found In Long Island Sound
The decomposed body found two miles northwest of Little Bell lighthouse and eight miles south of New London is believed by Capt. William Babcock to be Mrs. Alice McDonell Parsons, the Long Island heiress who vanished June 9 from Stony Brook. Investigators have not ruled kidnapping, suicide, or murder in her disappearance.
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New London
Conn
William Babcock
Alice McDonell Parsons
Long Island
Babcock
Little Bell
Coast Guard
Stony Brook
Parsons
Yale
Cox Claims Big Industries Lose
Representative Cox charges the CIO plans a general strike after Congress adjourns to force lessons on Southern industries and Henry Ford. He asserts the CIO seeks to halt the little steel strikes and criticizes the House rules committee over wage and hour bill delays. Cox also urges the Democrats to repay a stated 500000 donation and a 50000 debt to labor.
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Washington
Southern
Henry Ford
Cox
D.-Ga
Committee For Industrial Organization
John L. Lewis
Congress
House Rules Committee
Democratic Party
Labor Organization
Kerr Named to Study Hawaii Statehood
Washington dispatch reports Representative John H. Kerr of Warrenton North Carolina was named by Speaker Bankhead to a special congressional committee to assess Hawaii’s path to statehood. The assignment was announced tonight.
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Kerr
Washington
John H. Kerr
Warrenton
N. C
Bankhead
Hawaii
Negro killed by freight train in Mooresville
Bennett Brawley, a Black man, was killed when struck by a freight train in Mooresville on August 21. Police and rail officials investigated the accident as a tragic crossing incident.
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Mooresville
Bennett Brawley
Natural death reported in North Wilkesboro
Coroner I M Myers said Forces Pruitt a 65 year old man found dead near his home this morning died of natural causes.
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North Wilkesboro
N. C
I. M. Myers
Pruitt
Bailey Opposes Court Expansion in Session Highlight
North Carolina senators Bailey and Reynolds split on Roosevelt plan to enlarge the Supreme Court with Bailey leading a broad opposition campaign. Bailey argued against the judicial reorganization while supporting relief policy revisions and local government funding efforts. House members from North Carolina pressed for a seashore park and a $4.5 million boost to the Blue Ridge Parkway, plus calls for a veterans hospital in the east.
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Washington
Josiah W. Bailey
Roosevelt
Supreme Court
North Carolina
Robert R. Reynolds
Bailey
Senate
House
Lindsay C. Warren
Blue Ridge Parkway
Shenandoah National Park
Virginia
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
House Appropriations Committee
Robert L. Doughton
Laurel Springs
States
Zebulon “. Weaver
Asheville
Graham A
Manila Cares For Refugees Amid Earthquake Suffering
Under a state of emergency in Manila and Rizal Province, earthquake damage rises with 62 injured and extensive ruin in Tayabas and Laguna. About 3 876 refugees from Shanghai, plus a new 1 000 arriving aboard the President Hoover, are sheltered as Quezon orders aid and price controls.
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Manila
Shanghai
Tayabas
Here
Albat
Manuel Quezon
Rizal
Quezon
United States
Red Cross
Hoover
Pres Went Still Anxious To Protect American Lives
President Roosevelt upheld armed protection for Americans in war torn China amid calls to withdraw forces after the Augusta shelling. Congress split over the policy with some fearing U S involvement in the Far East while others say it shields civilians, as one sailor died and seventeen were wounded.
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Roosevelt
China
Augusta
Congress
United States
Japan
White House
State
Navy
Hull
Beaum ont Tex medic first US forces injured in Shanghai clash
A pharmacist's mate Floyd Arnold from Beaumont Texas was wounded by a shell fragment while on duty in the International Settlement area of Shanghai. He is the first U S military member injured in the conflict between Chinese and Japanese forces.
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International Settlement
Shanghai
Floyd Arnold
Beaumont
Tex
U. S
Negro Fatally Hurt On Road Near Carolina Beach
Charles Harps, a Black man, was struck and killed by an automobile on the Carolina Beach highway. William H. Batson, a Wilmington white man, was released on $1,500 bond pending an inquest. The coroner said Harps died instantly and the vehicle was later found hidden near a lake west of the beach.
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Wilmington
Charles Harps
Carolina Beach
William H. Batson
Asa W. Allen
Allen
Four High Ranking Police Take Charge Hunt For Nurse Killer
Four top Chicago police officials assumed command of the hunt for a man who crushed nurse Anna Kuchta's skull with a brick and attacked her in a hospital room. The victim, 19, was found nude except for shoes and stockings. a fire escape clue intensified the manhunt.
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Chicago
Anna Kuchta
Miss Kuchta
Bainbridge
Hayes
Barden Resigns from Patents Panel in Move to Labor Committee
Representative Graham A. Barden of New Bern North Carolina announced to Speaker Bankhead his resignation from the House Patents Committee after being named to the Labor Committee. The action follows his recent appointment and affects committee assignments in Congress.
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Washington
Graham A. Barden
New Bern
N. C
Speaker Bankhead
Congress
House Patents Committee
Labor Committee
Factional fights mark final hours of Congress adjournment
Congress adjourned amid bitter feud within the Democratic party as four Roosevelt critics in the Senate battled administration policy. Senator Guffey faced calls to resign as campaign leader while leaders warned of a possible fall special session to address unresolved issues.
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Guffey D
Wheeler
Burke
Wallace Seeks Solidarity at Indianapolis Speech
Henry Wallace, secretary of agriculture, told Young Democratic National Convention in Indianapolis that a future solidarity among agriculture and labor can bring economic justice and New Deal gains. He urged delegates to fight for an economy based on justice for farmers, workers, and business people, aiming for a security era never seen in the United States.
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Blue Ridge
Church In
Gould Wickey
Association of Church Related Colleges
Washington, D. C
Wickey
W. Homner Teesdale
Department of Education
General Conference
Indianapolis
Henry A. Wallace
Agriculture
Democratical
Roosevelt
United Stat
John P. Neff
Staunton
New Jersey
Eugene Moseley
Louisville
May Appeal Scottsboro Cases
DECATUR AL AUG 21 The Scottsboro case heads for a third appeal to the U S Supreme Court as four of the original nine Negro defendants win freedom after lengthy jail terms. Motions for new trials are filed for Heywood Patterson and others, with Judge Callahan to hear them next Saturday.
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Ala
Scottsboro
Alabama
United States Supreme Court
Clarence Norris
Heywood Patterson
Clarence L. Watts
Huntsville
Fila
Associa
Samuel 8. Leibowitz
New York
W W. Callahan
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