Referendum feared on U O corn crop quotas
Washington reports the Agriculture Department forecasts a 1938 corn crop that could trigger a mandatory referendum on marketing quotas under the new farm act. Officials note carryover and consumption figures will determine if quotas are required, with Aug. 15 deadline for calling and Sept. 4 voting.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Crop Board
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
AAA
Department
Perseids Showers Prompts Public Meteor Count Request
Philadelphia reports a three night Perseid meteor display with an appeal by Dr. C P Olivier of the American Meteor Society for observers to count meteors by hour. Observers should face north or northeast and mail results to Flower Observatory. Expect 20 to 30 meteors per hour. best viewing tonight and tomorrow night.
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Philadelphia
C. P. Olivier
American Meteor Society
Olivier
Flower Astronomical Observatory
Upper Darby
Dr. Olivier
Royal blood heavily bled in Japan China war, says AP
A Tokyo dispatch reports Japan exposes royal blood to combat in China. Princes Fushimi Kan-In and others lead ships and troops, with several aristocrats wounded or in action. The imperial ruling house coordinates operations, underscoring empire’s direct control over wartime, including air escorts and naval battles near Shanghai and Suchow.
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Associated Press
Japan
China
Empire
Imperial House
Chicibu
Thina
Siberian
Shanghai
Whangpoo River
Hiroyoshi Fushimi
Hiroyasu Fushimi
Naval General Staff
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Hiroyoshi
Marquis Odo Cushimi
Hirohide Gushimi
Kotohito Kan-In
Fushimi
Kan-In
Haruahito
Suchow
Imperial
Jake
Kome
Yasushiko Asaka
Nanking
Monroe County farmer retrains lawyer for son
Nat Young a wealthy central Missouri farmer secured defense for his son Clifford Young after the 29 year old confessed plotting to kill his father to gain the entire estate. Clifford claimed four men from Mexico conspired to murder the elder Young for a $500 fee but the plan fell through when the payment was not made. Clifford also admitted to 37 burglaries since December targeting farms for tools livestock and poultry. The elder Young preferred hospital care for his son over prison and defended his promise not to remarry following his wife’s death. The four alleged conspirators were John Airheart Pat Morgan Aubrey Bybee and Ed Schumaker.
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Paris
Nat Young
Central
Missouri
Clifford Young
Tom Proctor
Monroe County
Young
Proctor
John Airheart
Pat Morgan
Aubrey Bybee
Ed Schumaker
Mexico
Schumaker
Clifford
Navy
Mexica
Flashes of Life and Oddities From Across the Nation
A string of quirky briefs reports in Camden Lexington Fresno Los Angeles and Lambertville. Federal agents nab nine gallons of untaxed liquor after a passerby triggers a manhole cover scene. A woman injured by a clothes wringer prompts fire crews. A rancher shoots a coyote with a beer bottle as an improvised gun. An elderly 1904 car endures a cross country trip at 30 mph averaging 30 mpg with old style features.
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WN J
Los Angeles
George C. Green
Green
Lambertville
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Garbo Returns to Screens After Retirement in Sweden
Hollywood reports Greta Garbo will return to filming with M G M setting a November 1 date. Leopold Stokowski may join, Aldous Huxley begins work on a Garbo project about Madame Curie’s daughter Eve, and a second Garbo spy tale is planned with a national stakes plot.
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Hollywood
Greta Garbo
Sweden
Greta
M-G-M
Leopold Stokowski
Europe
Aldous Huxley
Garbo
Huxley
Madame Matie Curie
Eve
Injured diver Kenneth Fosnaugh regains sight
Fort Wayne Indiana August 10 AP reports Kenneth Fosnaugh aged 16 injured as a boy left with blurred eyesight. After a shallow dive into Lake Wawasee last week he bumped his head again and doctors say the pressure relief may have restored his vision.
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Fort Wayne
Ind
Kenneth Fosnaugh
Kenneth
Lake Wawasee
Fugitive Killer to Be Arraigned in Missouri Query
Benton, Missouri residents learned that a fugitive killer, captured recently in Denver, will be arraigned on a murder charge. Dowwn B. Manor, indicted for the Gray's Point slaying of W. T. Carillon in May 1935, escaped Scott County jail over two years ago. Manor chose lawyers Robert Dempster and Roper Bailey of Sikeston as counsel. The court rejected a plea.
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Benton
dJown B. Manor
Denver
Colo
Manor
W. T. Carillon
Gray's Point
Scott County
Frank Kelly
Robert Dempster
Roper Bailey
Sikeston
Modern science and the danger of civilization
British philosopher Professor Cyril Joad warned that science has given power beyond moral control. He said the airplane, as the greatest invention, shows how the ape has seized breakthrough tools and threatens civilization, while people act like schoolboys and savages in using them.
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London
Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad
Department of
Birbeck College
University of London
Accused Youth Charged With Mother Slaying At Rockport
Rockport Missouri August reports Charles Hague, 51, to be tried at the August circuit term for first degree murder in the beating death of his 79 year old mother Mrs J A Hague on July 13. Hague was ordered held without bond by Justice H P Savage.
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Rockport
Charles Hague
Hague
H. P. Savage
J. A. Hague
Big Republican Rally Planned in Indiana
Republican leaders plan a large rally at Capehart Farms near Washington Indiana on August 27 with an anticipated 50000 attendees, preceded by a August 26 meeting in Indianapolis of candidates and party officials from a dozen midwestern states. National figures John Hamilton Townsend Barton and Wadsworth will attend to chart strategy for campaigns across Ohio West Virginia Kentucky Michigan Illinois Iowa Wisconsin Minnesota Missouri Oklahoma and South Dakota. The event signals a Midwest focus for 1940 efforts with Wadsworth delivering the keynote and Barton urging cautious support for New Deal proposals.
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Indiana
National Committee
Capehart Farms
Ind
Indianapolis
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Townsend
Delaware
Rep
Martin
Massachusetts
House
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New York
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Barton
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Towa
Noted British writer Edwin Harris dies at 79
Rochester England Aug 10 Edwin Harris author of John Jasper's Gatehouse and considered by many critics the best sequel to Charles Dickens Edwin Drood died today aged 79.
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England
Edwin Harris
John Jasper
Gatehouse
Charles Dickens
Edwin Drood
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