China Leaves War Up To Japs And Market Opens Strong
China leaves the war decision to Japan while the Southern Furniture Market opens with solid buyer turnout. More than 300 buyers from twelve states registered by 2 p m with over 200 lines showing at the Exposition building and Tomlinson of High Point. Dealers forecast brisk fall trade and a record summer attendance as the market runs through July 31.
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Southern Furniture Market
Exposition
Tomlinson of High Point
Paul W. Casey
Peiping Area Becomes War Center as Front Rages
At the Marco Polo Bridge and Nanyuan heavy skirmishing occurs. Sidings south of Hankow show troop trains and munitions rushed north toward Peiping from provinces south of Hope.
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Marco Polo Bridge
Nanyuan
Hankow
Peiping
Hope
Lehman Opposes Wagner on Roosevelt Court Plan
Governor Herbert H. Lehman urged Senator Robert F. Wagner to oppose the President's Supreme Court reorganization bill. Lehman argued the changes threaten judicial independence and long term public trust, stressing orderly government processes over immediate gains.
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New York
Senator
Roosevelt
Supreme Court
Albany
N. Y
Herbert H. Lehman
U. S
Robert F. Wagner
Lehman
Wagner
Lansdowne's Wealthy Albert Knight Faces Arson Charge
Albert Knight, once Lansdowne Pennsylvania's wealthiest man, is charged with attempting to burn a home where his four children slept to collect a $250,000 life insurance payoff. The children defended him amid the case.
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Lansdowne, Pa
Albert Knight
Battle Near Madrid in Spanish Civil War Intensifies
July 19 reports the heaviest fighting yet as insurgents push toward Madrid from Brunete twelve miles west. About 160 planes clash while guns shell front lines and supply routes. government forces press insurgent positions and bomb near a camp outside Madrid’s southern edge.
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Madrid
Brunete
Upper
Carabanchel
Eden Presses Peace While Chiang Sees War Possibility
In London and China, Premier Chiang Kai-shek warned war may follow if Japan loses more territory amid the Ping incident. Eden in the Commons urged friendly ties with Italy and urged non intervention in Spain, seeking to avert a broader European crisis. Britain demanded the Franco regime free the captured British merchant ship Morton, warning of responsibility for damage.
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China
Chiang Shek
Japan
Chiang
Jay
Wanping
Peiping
London
Anthony Dem
Italy
Eden
House of Commons
Mediterranean
Red Sea
Britain
Europe
Spain
Great Britain
Morton
Francisco Franco
Herbert Chilton
Hendaye
Franco
Alfred Duff Cooper
Admiralty
Almirante Cervera
Admiralty Office
Santander
Bay of Biscay
Vast Pacific Hunt for Two Is Abandoned
A large search for two missing individuals in the Pacific is called off after extended efforts. Authorities did not reveal identities or exact locations but thanked the crews and volunteers for their dedication and coordinated response.
Earhart Search Ends as Navy Packs Up in Pacific
In Honolulu on July 19, four naval ships and about 1,500 men abandoned the search for Amelia Earhart and her navigator Captain Frederick J Noonan. The effort covered over 250000 square miles of equatorial ocean as they vanished July 2 on a fuel free flight from Lae New Guinea toward Howland Island. The fall from the sky near the mid Pacific sandspit ended the long, exhausting hunt for the famed aviatrix who was 39 years old.
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Associated Press
Honolulu
Amelia Earhart
Pacific
Hays
Frederick J. Noonan
Howland Island
Mise Ebarhart
Noonan
Lae
New Guiana
mid-Pacific
Filer
Deaf Leader Dies At Home In Morganton
Morganton July 19 AP Dr E Mck Goodwin 78 longtime leader in deaf work died at home after long illness He was superintendent emeritus of the North Carolina School for the Deaf and previously led the institution since its 1894 founding He also served as president of the Conference of Executives of American Schools for the Deaf Four daughters survive him.
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Morganton
E. Mck. Goodwin
North Carolina School For the Deaf
Conference of Executives of American Schools For the Deaf
Tremor Leaves No Damages in Empire State
A slight three minute earthquake centered on Long Island was felt across parts of Connecticut and Long Island but not in Manhattan. Dr. L Don Leet of Harvard described the quake as slight and the state avoided structural damage though nerves were on edge among residents.
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New York
Empire State
Long Island
L. Don Leet
Harvard University Seismograph
Connecticut
Manhattan Island
Temporary Bridge Work Halts Main Street Traffic
Traffic officers work overtime as Main street is blocked for a temporary bridge project at the Main street railway crossing. Detours via Wrenn street cause heavy congestion while police study new turn and parking regulations to ease flow. Residents in the north are advised to use the Grimes street crossing to reach the south, due to Willowbrook street work.
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Main Street
Wrenn Street
W. G. Friddle
Friddle
Grimes
Tomlinson Street
Willowbrook Street
Market Leaders Move Up Slowly
New York July 19 stock market leaders climbed slowly with gains from fractions to over 3 points as volume stayed small. Analysts credited persistent strength near top levels into the fourth hour, driven by brighter business hopes rather than politics or foreign news. Bonds improved while commodities were mixed.
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New York
Evidence In Cop's Murder To Be Presented
Lieut. Leo Jenkins said all evidence against an 18 year old Georgia girl who allegedly admitted and denied being the red haired woman at the Lan caster policeman’s murder would be shown to Solicitor W. G. Finley of York. Jenkins reported traveling 450 miles to collect evidence and said witnesses would be brought to identify the woman as the killer’s companion.
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Columbia
8. C
Leo Jenkins
State Highway Patrol
Georgia
Lancaster
W. G. Finley
York
Jenkins
Waycross
Mae
Ruth Ballew Thompson
Ellijay
Nazi Emblemed Nordland Camp Opens in New Jersey
At Nordland Nazi emblemed camp in the Sussex hills 300 uniformly dressed youths begin outdoor routines under strict German language rules. The camp is one of 21 US sites serving over 200,000 German-descent children with hiking swimming and sunbathing as 1,000 uniformed guardians parade with flags of the United States and Nazi Germany.
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Andover
N. J
Nordland
Sussex Hills
Volksbund
United States
Sky Frite Kuhn
New York
Fred Espenschied
Hitler
Publisher Appeals For Aid In Fight
James G. Stahlman of Nashville urged members of the National Editorial association to join in opposition to a closed news or editorial shop. He spoke at the opening session of the 52nd annual convention in Detroit, after being named chairman of "the newspaper committee" at a Chicago meeting three weeks earlier. The N E A comprises publishers and editors from non metropolitan papers.
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Detroit
James G. Stahlman
Nashville
Tenn
American Newspaper Publishers Association
National Editorial Association
Stahlman
Chicago
N. BE. A
Officials pessimistic over money program
Washington officials say the administration’s plan for a joint gold and silver standard remains distant. The new monetary agreement with China trading gold for Chinese silver is not expected to materially advance the gold and silver value yardstick.
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Washington
China
Autopsy ordered in Garland death. film extras held
In Los Angeles an autopsy was ordered on Dorothy Meg Garland a 31 year old former deputy city prosecutor. Police held two film extras and detained Luther Allen as a material witness after Dr Wendell W Starr said Garland was treated for alcoholism and was struck during a quarrel with Kay Tutwiler.
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Los Angeles
Dorothy Meg Garland
Kay Tutwiler
Luther Allen
Miss Tutwiler
Allen
Walter Johnson Jr. Released by Deland Baseball Club
Walter Johnson Jr. son of the famed pitcher, has been released by the Deland Florida State League club. The young player is also a pitcher and leaves the team.
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Deland
Fila
Walter Johnson, Jr
Young Walter
Gelbert Makes Detroit Debut After N L Career
Detroit on July 19 reports Charlie Gelbert a ten year National League veteran had never played in Detroit before being sold by Cincinnati to the Tigers.
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Pancy
Detroit
Charlie Gelbert
Cincinnati
Tigers
Charred Wreckage Marks Piccard Flight Debacle
In Iowa, July 19, charred wreckage remains of Dr. Jean Piccard’s multi ballooned craft after an isolated six hour flight from Rochester Minnesota. Fire during descent destroyed data and instruments. Piccard escaped with only singed hair and suspected TNT detonation caused the blast that shredded the balloon.
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Lansing
Iowa
Jean Piccard
Rochester
Minn
Piccard
Coast Guard ships hunt plane lost 275 miles southeast of Charleston
Coast Guard cutters Colfax and Yamacraw swept the Atlantic 275 miles southeast of Charleston in search of an ambulance plane after it responded to an ill seaman aboard the destroyer Dahlgren. The crew and patient Louis Wagner were brought to Charleston with Wagner undergoing appendix operation. the search followed a report the plane was damaged after landing.
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Charleston
8. C
Coast Guard
Colfax
Yamacraw
Dahlgren
Louis J. Wagner
Washington
Wagner
Catawba
Navy Yard
Carl G. Bowman
Vernon C. Tuller
Terrell
Harry F. Brown
Balboa
Canal Zone
New York
Negro Held Over Greensboro Bicycle Death
Greensboro July 19. City officers said William Wallington a Negro was being held in connection with the traffic death of Jack Lemons nine year old son of Mr and Mrs C C Lemons. Wallington claimed the boy and a companion rode bicycles on opposite sides of Pinecroft road and he could not miss both with his car. The Lemons boy was killed almost instantly.
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Greensboro
William Wallington
Jack Lemons
C. C. Lemons
Wallington
Pinecroft Road
Lemons
China Japan clash persists after Tientsin talks
The Chinese and Japanese governments remain at odds over settlement terms despite a military accord in Tientsin. In Nanking an envoy warned of awaiting a new reply by night, as reports said clashes erupted west of Peiping with both sides exchanging fire.
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Peiping
China
Kwantung Army
Associated Press
Chine Japan
North China
Tientsin
Nanking
Prohibition Not in Offing Says Federal Official
MACKINAC ISLAND July 19. W. 8. Alexander chief of the Federal Alcohol Administration told the Nazi Conference of State Liquor Administrators that prohibition's return will be distant if the liquor industry submits sane control. He said prohibition was a lesson the industry will not soon reget and urged unified state and federal enforcement and stronger regulation to condemn deceptive labeling advertising bribery and exclusive liquor practices.
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Mackinac Island
Alexands
Federal Alcohol Asministration
Nazi Conference of State Liquor Ministrators
Protion
Alexander
British MP Calls for Effort to Pay U S War Debts
British Conservative member Col L C M, ex cabinet officer, told Royal Empire Society summer school in Oxford that the original U S war debt figure is excessive and should be adjusted an effort to settle the debt.
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Oxford, Eng
Col
United States
Royal Empire Society
Acrobat Climber Taunts Copenhagen Police at City Hall Tower
In Copenhagen the acrobatic communist climber lit a flag and performed stunts from the 815 foot city hall tower drawing crowds. Police ordered him down from the window and later arrested him. authorities learned the repeater was lame.
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Copenhagen
Hagen
Council On
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Chiang Kai-Chek
Mussolini
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Finley
Robert
Smith
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