Heavy fighting reported along Peiping front in undeclared war
Describes July events near Tientsin with Chinese mortar fire forcing four Japanese ships to retreat from the Hai Ho mouth. Reports of battles around Taku and Langfang, Japanese claims of gains near Peiping, and a Japanese war appropriation of 36 million dollars. US ambassador Grew urged restraint as foreign powers proposed to shield legations from the war zone.
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Tientsin
China
Hai Ho
Tangu
Japan
Peiping
Chihli
Tangku Oo
Taku
Tagku
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Langfang
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Joseph C. Grew
United States
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Flashes of Life Recalls Salvatore Medal Winner
Salvatore a fish peddler's son won the good sportsmanship medal at a recreation playground in New York for never sacks the umpire on the jaw. Meanwhile Southport reports a yard full of stranded fish after high tide and receding water. In San Diego Ruby Miller, 28, faces a spanking ordered by Judge Clarence Terry after a drunkenness conviction. In Omaha Floyd Flinn, 56, once taught police to drive, loses license after two red light charges. a niece cites failing sight and health.
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Salvatore
Letom
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Papa
San Diego
Calif
Ruby Miller
Clarence Terry
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Omaha
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Floyd Flinn
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One Day County School Meetings Announced across Missouri
The state department of education plans one day county plan meetings for Missouri’s 8000 rural teachers from Aug 9 to Sept 11. Lloyd W. King notes an integrated anti plan method, organizing subjects into areas with language arts and social studies as examples, with dates in Palmyra Fulton Moberly Nevada Trenton Carthage Columbia Mexico Boonville St Joseph Independence Springfield Cape Girardeau Jefferson City Sedalia Marshall Clayton Poplar Bluff Maryville.
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Hilans
Missouri
Lloyd W. King
Palmyra
Fulton
Moberly
Nevada
Trenton
Carthage
Columbia
Mexico
Boonville
St. Joseph
Independence
Springfield
Cape Girardeau
Jefferson City
Sedalia
Marshall
Clayton
Poplar Bluff
Maryville
Safety critique of 70-car freight limit by railroad leaders
In St Louis on July 28 AP reports Missouri Pacific President L W Baldwin and St Louis San Francisco Railway Trustee J M Kurn strongly oppose a senate measure restricting freight trains to 70 cars. They say it would not improve safety and would raise operating costs, with Baldwin calling the law regrettable and Kurn branding the safety claim a joke and warning of higher hazard from more trains.
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ST. Louis
Southwestern
Senate
L. W. Baldwin
Missouri Pacific
J. M. Kurn
St. Louis-San Francisco Railway
Thursday July 29 Radio Schedule Big Band Lineup
The daily program grid lists a full July 29 radio schedule featuring programs like Just About Time News The Sun Dial Birthday Bell and musical sets from Nathaniel Shilkret Kay Kyser and Jan Garber, with station segments from Missouri Poets and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and caps with a New York Giants game summary.
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Sun Dial
Mito Walz Co
Schnitzelbankers Capital Brewery Inc
Jefferson City
Jan Garber
Gabliel
Mormon Tabernacle Choir
St. Louis Cardinals
New York Giants
Tighten Up Privileges at the Reformatory
Clevenger says no drastic measures will be used to stop the escapes at the reformatory. He notes the facility is not a prison and will rely on limited personnel to solve the problem while continuing the current program.
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Clevenger
Court measure threatens fight over constitutional power
A Roosevelt administration clash over Supreme Court staffing and procedural changes edges toward a Senate vote. The proposal would speed appeals, allow AG intervention, require three judge injunctions, and permit intra district judge shifts to ease congestion. An AG ruling could decide if a new justice is named before adjournment.
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Senate
A&r
Cummings
Roosevelt
Supreme Court
van Devanter
Congress
White House
Former Missouri congressman Whitelaw dies in Blytheville
Robert H. Whitelaw former Missouri representative died here late yesterday. He served 1871 to 1885 as a state legislator and was elected to Congress in 1890. He was city attorney at Cape Girardeau for years and lived there until five years ago. Survivors include his widow Katie Black Whitelaw and daughter Joseph W. Parker of Blytheville and son Thomas Whitelaw of Cape Girardeau.
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Blytheville
Ark
Robert H. Whitelaw
Ae Ee
Missouri
Cape Girardeau
Katie Black Whitelaw
Joseph W. Parker
Thomas Whitelaw
Gotham Bequest Killer Faces Death Penalty Demand
District Attorney Charles Sullivan urged the death penalty for Stanley A. Martin Jr., 20, the confessed Wall Street broker’s wife killer. A jealous motive cited by Martin’s estranged wife Evelyn Martin, who said the victim Florence Jackson was killed to exact vengeance over his affair. Martin denied previous choking claims, but motive evidence and letters from Jackson were turned over to prosecutors.
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New York
Charles Sullivan
Stanley A. Martin
Wall Street
Sullivan
Evelyn Martin
Martin
Florence Jackson
Flushing
L. 1
Algo
Swith
Pick-Ups and District News From Jefferson City
Prosecutor Carl F. Wymore sprained knee after slipping at a picnic softball game and stayed in his room. Deputy county collector Hattie Mae Derkum returned to work after a Wisconsin vacation. Joseph F. Suellentrop was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as Linn postmaster. Justice John G. Leslie officiated at the Jefferson City marriage of Guy Hovis and Edith Growner at the couple's home.
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Carl. F. Wymore
Hattie Mae Derkum
Wisconsin
Joseph F. Suellentrop
U. S
Linn
John G.leslie
Guy Hovis
Edith Growner
Jefferson City
Neel Strike In Mexico Keeps Nogales Church Open
Hundreds of devout Catholics occupy the old stone Nogales church in Sonora keeping it open for worship in a kneel down strike against a government closing order. About 100 worshippers stay inside while up to 1,500 crowd the church and streets, as deadlines to close pass with reprieves. Parishioners guard doors, sleep on floors, and bring food wrapped in handkerchiefs, many from middle and lower classes, amid protest notes to President Cardenas and Sonora officials.
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Nogales
Mex
Emogene . Schroeder
Freeburg
Sonora
Cardenas
Mexican State Department
Romano Yocupicio
Angel la Garcia
Bond Visit Ends Return Home From Union Trip
Mr and Mrs Arthur Bond of Union Missouri have returned home after a several day visit with E S Bond presiding judge of the county court and his family.
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Arthur. Bond
Union
E. S. Bond
Resettlement Plans Get Under Way in Missouri
Sikeston July 28 The resettlement administration moved forward at La Forge near New Madrid by purchasing 608 acres from Davis Hiley and Mrs Ethel Edwards for 23722 dollars. The government holds options on 6700 more acres to be taken over by January 1 1938. Han Basch said 110 families will be relocated and land divided into plots for sale to white tenant farmers on long term terms. Purchasers must diversify crops when taking over the land.
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Sikeston
la Forge
New Madrid
Davis Hiley
Ethel Edwards
Han Basch
Actress Dane Webb Wife Sued for Divorce in Milwaukee
Milwaukee insurance adjuster William Leissring Jr. filed for divorce from actress Dane Webb in circuit court citing extravagance and neglect of household duties. Married in 1934 at Hannibal Missouri the pair separated after Webb appeared in films and British radio dramas. A missing 2 year old son is alleged in the complaint.
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Milwaukee
William Leissring
Milwaukee Insurance Adjuster
Dane Webb
Leissring
Hannibal
England
Church Father Urges Peaceful End to Merger Clash
Father Salvador Sandoval, the registered priest in charge, urged his worshippers to yield their church peacefully if closure becomes inevitable, saying it might hasten reopening later. His appeal emphasized restraint rather than confrontation amid mounting tensions over the dispute.
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Salvador Sandoval
Body recovered from Missouri River near Bogard
The coroner E. A. Dickerson held the body of a man about 53 years old recovered from the Missouri River at Bogard. The body had been in the river for about six weeks.
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River Carrollton
Missouri River
E. A. Dickerson
Bogard
Dickerson
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