National boycott planned against Donnelly Garment Co
Kansas City ILGWU district plans a nationwide boycott of Donnelly Garment Company products and a house to house canvass of workers to win union membership. Meyer Perlstein announced the plan after a federal court dissolved a temporary restraining order. Nine union women will tour the country urging the boycott and seeking reinstatement of three discharged workers.
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Kansas City
International Ladies Garment Workers’ Union
Donnelly Garment Company
Meyer Perlstein
St. Louis
Perlstein
University of Wisconsin
United States
James A. Reed
Internaional
May Fike
Sylvia Hall
Fern Seigler
Wheat yield larger but corn smaller in 1938 forecast
Washington July 12 AP The federal crop reporting board forecasts 1938 prospects showing larger output for wheat barley rye flaxseed rice hay sweet potatoes sugar cane and citrus fruits while corn oats peanuts potatoes tobacco hops apples peaches and grapes are expected smaller supplies of most food crops appear likely to be ample according to the board.
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Washington
Poeta
Aviation Career Of 20 Year Old Ends
Thurman Braniff, 20, son of Braniff Airways president, died from injuries after a private plane crash at Wiley Post airport Oklahoma City. Flying instructor Merrill Doneley also died, fatally injured in the crash shortly after takeoff. Airport manager John H. Burke said the plane rose to 150 feet before clipping a wing and crashing.
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Oklahoma
City
Thurman Braniff
Braniff Airways
Wiley Post
Merrill Doneley
Braniff
John H. Burke
Roosevelt weighs delaying Cardozo successor to January
Washington reporters note the possibility that President Roosevelt may defer nominating a new Supreme Court justice until Congress reconvenes in January. Attorney General Cummings had said a recess appointment is allowed, with Senate confirmation still required. Roosevelt indicated a preference for younger federal judges, citing Hugo Black and Stanley Reed as examples.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Mtgy Supreme Court
Congress
Cummings
Benjamin Cardozo
Senate
Justice Cardozo
Wichita Falls
Texas
James V. Allred
Hugo L. Black
Stanley F. Reed
Winrod to Answer Attacks in Radio Broadcast
In Wichita Kansas the Republican U.S. Senate candidate Rev. Gerald Winrod announced he would respond to recent criticisms in a statewide radio broadcast Thursday at 8 p.m. He urged voters to wait for his remarks, noting a pamphlet from a ministerial group and a letter signed by over 40 Republican leaders in Emporia last week.
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Wichita
Kas
Gerald Winrod
United States
Emporia
Japanese attacks along Yangtze River injure many near Hankow
Reports from Hankow and Canton detail Japanese air raids on Wuchang and Canton on July 12 and July 2. In Wuchang near the Yangtze these raids damaged mission institutions including Boone University and St. Hilda's School with about 200 Chinese dead and no American injuries. In Canton the Wongsha station area suffered seven direct hits, with dozens dead or wounded, bridges and tracks damaged, and large hazards reported as fires and wreckage. Several vessels overturned, trains disrupted, and a provincial jail area narrowly escaped a bombing.
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Hankow
United States
Wuchang
Yangtze River
Boone University
St. Hilda’s School
St. Joseph's Hospital
Christian Missionary Alliance Mission
Canton
China
Wongsha
Sun Yat-Sen
Wongsha Station
Lac Pao
Canton Railway
Mrs Gladys Munn Pulitzer Dies in California
Mrs. Herbert Pulitzer, wife of Charles Minot Amory and later linked to Joseph Pulitzer family, died at her La Jolla home. She was born Gladys Mildred Munn of Washington, married Amory in 1913, divorced in 1915, then wed Pulitzer in Paris in 1926. She leaves husband and four children, plans for funeral not complete. Burial will be in a Long Island cemetery with private services.
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ST. Louis
Herbert Pulitzer
Joseph Pulitzer
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
la Jolla
Calif
Grace M. Amry
Charles M. Amory
Gladys M. Pulitzer
Herbert Pulitzer, Jr
Long Island
N. W
Straw flavored soda straw invention in California
In Burbank on July 12 AP reports a novelty straw flavoring method. A cotton linters strip with chemicals is inserted into the straw and dunked in water to flavor the soda as you sip. Inventor Sigmund Scisorek touts the idea amid broader notes on guitar sales.
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Burbank
Calif
Sigmund Scisorek
Levee Holds Near Rockport As Missouri Flood Eases
In St Joseph Missouri crews of WPA workers CCC youths and farmers fight to keep a six mile levee intact near Langdon as Missouri flood crests top White Cloud Kansas and threaten 3000 to 4000 acres of wheat land if the dike fails. The White Cloud ferry moves 1250 bushels of wheat across a field to load a bin before returning to the river. The Langdon levee remains central to the largest united flood control effort in northwest Missouri.
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ST. Joseph
Missouri
Kansas
Nebraska
White Cloud
Kan
Rock Port
Rulo
Neb
WPA
CCC
Langdon
S. C. Nuzum
Wolf River
United
George VI Signs State Papers From Bed in Windsor
King George VI, recovering from a gastric illness, signed state papers in bed at Windsor. Queen Elizabeth was sent to London to attend a Buckingham Palace presentation, while the king was reported to be getting on well. The Duke of Windsor spoke by telephone from the Windsor château in France after a brief five minute chat.
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Windsor
England
George VI
Elizabeth
London
Buckingham Palace
Duke of Windsor
Windsor Chateau
France
Youth saves girl three times and calls police
In Huntington, West Virginia, on July 12 AP reports Dallas Shelton leaped three times into the Ohio River to rescue 17-year-old Virginia Dudding. After a fourth attempt she told an officer she would really try to kill herself next time. Dudding was booked for attempted suicide and Shelton left for dry clothes.
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Huntington
W. Va
Dallas Shelton
Ohio
Virginia Dudding
Lonnie Lester
Shelton
Royal king on fluids aids state business by phone
King kept to a fluid diet and bed rest yet used a bedside telephone to speak with Queen Mother Mary, the Duke of Kent, and other royals and conduct some state business. A Paris visit planned for July 19 remained on track after a temperature drop. Grant to Columbia power plant approved. A revolver’s range noted.
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Mary
Duke of Kent
Paris
Columbia
Washington
Columbia, Mo
PWA
Tees
Eastern District Taxpayers Pay Over One Hundred Six Million
Taxpayers in the eastern district of Missouri which includes St Louis and 48 counties paid 106 748 477 in federal taxes for the year ending June 30 official figures released by Thomas J Sheehan collector of internal revenue show the previous year total 82 355 026 Western district Kansas City reported 27 439 672 while corporations in eastern Missouri paid 24 831 841 in income tax and individuals 19 356 088 last year compared with 15 706 957 prior year
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ST. Louis
Missouri
Thomas J. Sheehan
Internal Revenue
Kansas City
Eastern
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Federal Crop Reporting Board
Norma Shearer
Tyrone Power
Carthay Circle Theater
Hollywood
Marie Antoinette
Miss Shearer
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Power
Greater
New York
Grosvenor Design
Crami Haleep
Phil A. Dallmeyer
10 Cardozo
Winrod
U. S
Pulitzer
Bartletts
Kieselhbach and Peasner
Mary Britton
Centralia
Elvin Satterlee
Satterlee
Rockport
Battle River
George
King
Slanker Appliance Company
E. High
Conoco
Ty P
U. 6
St. Louis City
Central Dairy
Ant Oe Tee
Tribune Printing Company
Daily Capital News—Post Tribune
H. L. Ruppert and Company
Direct Wire
Central Trust
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