Battle escalation on Sino Soviet Japanese frontier widens
Aug 2 report says Soviet, Japanese forces battle near Changkufeng on the Manchukuo Siberia frontier. Tanks, heavy artillery and air power unleashed as both sides attack and repel assaults with civilians killed in air raids. observers deem the crisis unusually grave amid broader China and Spain conflicts.
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$350000 Claimed Cost in Harlan Case
The federal government and defense in the 11 week Harlan antilabor conspiracy mistrial spent an estimated $350000 without a decision on possible criminal violation under the Wagner Act. Judge Ford discharged the deadlocked jury after 9 hours 53 minutes. Federal investigators will return to Harlan County for the next trial with a retrial set for September 17 in Lexington.
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H. Church Ford
Brian McMahon
Liday
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Harlan County
McMahon
Ford
Lexington
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Attorney Gilbert Dies at 74 in Nashville Home
George Gilbert, 74, attorney and real estate dealer, who moved to Nashville three years ago after a lifetime in Clarksville, died yesterday at his daughter's home. Funeral arrangements are pending.
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Nashville
George Gilbert
Clarksville
Weather updates showers in Tennessee and Kentucky
Partly cloudy with local showers tonight and Wednesday in Tennessee and Kentucky. Temperatures little changed. Virginia reports cloudy interior with local showers tonight and Wednesday.
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Tennessee
Timperte
Kentucky
PWA Cancels Boston Grant for City Hall Aid
Washington Aug 2 The Public Works Administration rescinded a 1 126 000 grant for Boston to aid a new city hall saying the city did not accept funds. The agency began weeding out inactive applications and approved 175 additional non-federal projects raising total authorized construction since June 22 to 1 081 484 920. Acting Administrator Harald said municipalities failing to act may be cut from lists as high as 50.
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Public Works Administration
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Balkan States Ready to Protect Own Interests Pact Forgives Bulgaria
DEWITT MACKENZIE reports that Bulgaria joins Greece Turkey Romania Yugoslavia in a pact of amity to guard mutual interests amid European tension. The move signals Bulgaria’s reintegration with neighbors and hints at arming gains, amid Czech crisis talk of potential war.
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Greece
John Metesxes
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Stowaway Bobby Stap Sails Again as Mother Remains Unworried
New York Aug 2 13 year old Robert Stap known as Bobby the stowaway was found aboard the Grace Line cruiser Santa Elena returning from a 16 day Caribbean voyage. His mother Mrs Frederick Stap said she was not worried, believing he would turn up on a boat somewhere. The boy previously escaped from Savannah and boarded ships multiple times, matching his habit of running away.
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Sivanoah
Chattanooga
Frederick Stap
Richmond Custody Ruling Bars Mother's Removal of Child
In Henrico county circuit court Judge Julien Gunn issued an order prohibiting Mrs Helene Fortescue Reynolds from removing her one year old son Richard Roland from Virginia. The child's guardian is Julian Louis Reynolds the boy's father and a local manufacturer. Reynolds alleges his wife drank heavily at their wedding reception and showed little interest in the child. A separation and custody claim is pending in New York courts.
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Helene Fortescue Reynolds
Virginia
Julian Louis Reynolds
Richard Roland
Julien Gunn
Henrico County
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Mins
Reynolds
New York
Shaw's New Play Draws Mixed Critical Fire
London critics react coolly to George Bernard Shaw's Geneva at Malvern. The satire places caricatures of Hitler, Mussolini, and Franco on trial before international justice, sparking praise for wit but claims of a weak plot and overlong passages.
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Mussolini
Franco
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Rome
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Party Run Off Balance Hoped by F D R Group
Washington August 2 The Roosevelt administration hoped today to balance the expected renomination of Senator Bennett Clark of Missouri with an overwhelming primary victory for Senator George McGill of Kansas These were the only two Democratic senatorial contests in four statewide primaries providing few tests of the president s policies Clark opposed the court bill but admin advisers expected his defeat of two New Deal supporters because he had backing of both Democratic factions in Missouri Administration forces did not campaign in Missouri nor pass through the state on a western trip McGill in Kansas faced only nominal opposition as four men sought the Republican nomination with a heated campaign led by Rev Gerald B Winrod accused of Nazi Fascist sympathies and religious intolerance by some opponents Winrod denied the charges John Hamilton Republican national chairman entered a party primary for the first time this year
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Missouri
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John Hamilton
Blind Girl Denied UK Dog Import Despite Pleas
Hazel Hurst, a 22 year old blind woman from Oneonta, arrives in Britain with her German shepherd Babe. The British government refuses to admit the dog without quarantine, deeming regulations must be followed to avoid creating a loophole. The emotional traveler vows to return to America.
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Magistrate named in bribe scheme linked to Dutch Schultz racket
Aug 2 reports in New York that District Attorney Dewey named former District Attorney William C. Dodge as involved in bribes or intimidations connected to the Dutch Schultz multi million dollar policy racket. Also notes independent bid claim amid Browning primary and ambassadorial travel from Hankow plus Kentucky campaign funds inquiry.
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Thomas FE. Dewey
William C. Dodge
Dutch Schultz
Prospects of Guardsmen for Memphis Eliminated
Aug 2 Nashville: Prentice Cooper, Shelby county choice for governor, told a Chattanooga audience that Tennessee press has aroused public protest, forcing the governor to hedge on sending troops to Memphis on primary day. Tom Stewart for U S Senate charged Senator Berry soured on Roosevelt and the world.
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Nashville
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J. Ridley Mitchell
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Kentucky voters confront hot Barkley Chandler clash
About 200000 Kentucky Democrats face a ballot test on Roosevelt influence in the Barkley Chandler contest for senate, with illness sidelining Gov Happy Chandler amid allegations of pension list coercion and a federal probe. Campaigns center on Barkley’s data driven case and Chandler’s attacks.
Anti-Saloon Unit Boosts Browning Campaign in Tennessee
Nashville August 2 Bishop M. DuBose, head of the Tennessee Anti-Saloon League, urged a pre primary appeal for city legislative candidates and Governor Browning. He said a 70,000 dry majority in the referendum gives leverage to press for a dry platform. He urged retaining the 48th amendment liquor law, repealing beer sterilization, and expunging the county option distillery act. He warned a dry legislature needs a sympathetic state government to succeed.
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M. DuBose
Tennessee Anti-Saloon League
Ciry Legislative
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Drys
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Tobacco growers seek adjustment in quotas
Georgia tobacco growers appealed to Washington for relief from leaf quotas signed by the Agricultural Adjustment Administration. Gov. Rivers and Senator George protested to Secretary Wallace asking suspension of current marketing restrictions. They urged selling all tobacco on allotted acres if action is not taken. Metter growers rejected quotas.
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Georgia
Washington
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
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B. D. Rivers
U. S
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Metter
Troop Movements Clash Over Memphis Primary
In Tennessee, National Guard units held for possible Memphis duty are ordered to proceed to south Mississippi training maneuvers. Gov. Gordon Browning fights a federal injunction as Shelby County politics and an imminent Memphis vote spark a tense clash over state troop use and civil order.
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Memphis
National Guard
Tennessee
Mississippi
R. O. Smith
Jackson
Browning
Birmingham
Smith
Martin
Col
R. H. Bond
117Th Infantry
Fairgrounds
Third Army
Browning County Election Commission
Shelby
United States Court
Death Struggle on Normandie Ends in Professor Missing
Federal authorities probe the midnight incident aboard the Normandie where Dr. Robert Moore Duncan a 45 year old Colgate University political science professor vanished after an apparent attempt to throw his wife Alice overboard. Mrs Duncan, bruised and hospitalized in Montclair New Jersey, is listed in fair condition as investigators examine the bizarre case.
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Normandie
Robert Moore Duncan
Colgate University
Alice
Duncan
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Montclair
N.J
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Rockefeller
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