Cuban Revolt Reports Surface Amid Censorship and Battles
Havana reports censorship cloaks Cu ban revolt as clashes intensify in multiple provinces. A rebel force of 500 with machine guns lands at Gibraltar upper Oriente aboard the German vessel Frederick I, while another group lands on upper Santa Clara coast and halts a train near Santa Clara. Government dispatches 200 troops to Santa Clara. rebels claim captures at Colon and battlegrounds near Trinidad. Major Baizan surrenders and is jailed. President Machado remains in Santa Clara with limited news of progress. Federal troops suffer reported casualties, with official tallies lower. A 150-man junta forms in support from New York.
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Havana
Gibralt
Upper Oriente
Vessul Frederick I
Santa Clara
Trinidad
Aurelio Hevia
Colon
Matanzas
Cabang
Monocal
Mendiza
Celestino Baizan
Gerardo Machado
Camp Columbia
Willian Liseher
Cuba
Carlos Machado
Cabana
Tamps
Fla
Rafael Reyna
Machado
Reyna
New York
Eusebio Fria
Treasury receipts and expenditures report for August 17
Treasury receipts for August 17 were $0,327,382.17 and expenditures $10,983,208.32, leaving a balance of $114,551,773.78. Customs receipts for the month to August 17 totaled $20,892,758.29.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Treasury
Washington
Child with Whistle in Throat Heads for Surgery
Eight year old Patricia Dougherty at Coney Island hospital faced possible surgery after swallowing a whistle that sounds with each breath. Surgeons planned operation to remove the toy from her lungs to prevent a breakdown from constant noise and distress.
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New York
Coney Island Hospital
Patricia Dougherty
South Seeks Way Out Of Cotton Dilemma In Looming 1982
Atlanta reports a frenzied bid for a cotton surplus solution as governors and lawmakers propose plans from six cent per pound federal payments to acreage controls and holding crops off the market. Georgia figures and other Southern voices push for immediate action amid looming prices and a possible congressional session. Effects on the 1982 crop and farm board roles feature in a heated policy debate. Continued on page eight.
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Atlanta
New Orleans
Ha P B. Tong
Louisiana
Long
George
Georgia
U. S
Federal Farm Board
Congress
Farm Board
Bilbo
Mississippi
Eugene Talmadge
Murray
Oklahoma
Charles BR. Crisp
Foreign Lindberghs Fly for Nemura After Forced Down
The Tokyo based Lindberghs fly to Nemura after engine trouble forces an emergency landing shortly after takeoff from Petropavlovsk. The incident involves the famed aviators seeking a new assignment following the risky descent.
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Tokyo
Lindberghs
Nemura
Petropavlovsk
Lindberghs Balked In Flying Siberia To Japan
Colonel and Mrs Charles A Lindbergh faced renewed peril on their attempting flight from Petropavlovsk Kamchatka toward Nemuro Japan. After departing Petropavlovsk they diverted to Avatcha Bay Kamchatka and later Shimushiru Island, encountering fog and a 1000 foot bank before managing a risky landing on Ketoi Island.
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Siberia
Japan
Nemuro
Ketoi Island
Kurile Islands
Petropaviovsk
Kamchatka
Nemura
Charles A. Lindbergh
Avatcha Bay
Shimushiru Island
Muroton Bay
Shimushiru
Four Killed When Airplane Crashes In Rainy River
A forestry service rescue party of four officers from Ontario died when their large metal cabin plane crashed into Rainy River lake after attempting to help a stranded airman. The wreck followed storms that day that also doomed another flying boat. Names of the deceased include Philip Hutton and R. V. Greer, with J. W. Stewart and A. J. Runciman among the casualties. The missing airman George Delahy had been rescued by American campers earlier.
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Crainy
Lake
Forestry Service
Ontario Forestry Department
Rainy River Lake
Philip A. Hutton
Toronto
R. V. Greer
Sault Ste. Marie
Ont
J. W. Stewart
Startford
A. J. Runciman
Stratford
George Delahy
Greer
Fort Frances
O¢lahy
Delahy
Flood Wrecks Hankow as Yangtze Docks City Hull
Yangtze flood breached the Chinkow dyke in Hankow western suburb inundating the industrial district and driving 30 million people from homes over three weeks of disaster. Water reached five to twenty feet, epidemics spread among refugees, mills flooded, and many Chinese evacuated via still usable routes while foreign residents departed. John Zarl Baker witnessed the scene as relief efforts surged with government aid and talks of American wheat purchases on credit for refugees.
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Hankow
China
Yangtse
Atd
Wuchang
Hanyang
John Zarl Baker
Chinese Railway Ministry
Anhwei
Hupeh
Hunan
Henan
Baker
American Farm Board
Weather Rain Not Much Change Across States
Tennessee remains mostly cloudy with focal thundershowers tonight and Thursday, with little temperature change. Virginia sees mainly cloudy skies with local showers tonight and Thursday, light variable winds and minimal temperature variation. Yesterday's high was 93 and low 63 with 0.06 inches of rain. comparable figures a year ago were 63 and 63 with 0.42 inches. Readings taken at 6:00 p.m. daily for the past 24 hours by T. C. Harris, U.S.W.O.
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Tennessee
Virginia
T. C. Harris
U.5
Gibbs miner jailed on sedition charge in Harlan County
Harlan Kentucky August 19 AP William M Gibbs unemployed wool miner and World War veteran who praised Russia and communist party membership was jailed awaiting grand jury action on criminal syndicalism charges. Deputies seized rifles ammo and a communist party candidate card during raids tied to a labor dispute. Gibbs bond set at 10000 and judges urged possible sedition charges in federal court as seven men were arrested in total with two dismissed.
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Harlan
William M. Gibbs
Russia
Harlan County
Communist Party
J. H. Blair
Gibbs
Sherriff Blair
D. C. Jones
Jones
Commonwealths
A Brock
Ben Golden
Pineville
Brock
Golden
Cove Creek Dam Views Recited in Knoxville Hearing
Officials and business leaders from East Tennessee gathered in Knoxville to discuss the proposed Cove Creek dam on the Clinch River and its link to Muscle Shoals. The hearing is part of a joint Tennessee Alabama study to advise Congress on development and operation plans. Congressmen J Will Taylor and C B Lovette were set to attend along with state and local figures urging consolidation of projects.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Fast Tennessee
Cove Creek
Muscle Shoals
Tennessee
Alabama
Congress
Mercer Reynolds
Chattanooga
J. Frank Porter
Columbia
R. L. Moore
Jellico
J. Will Taylor
C.B. Lovette
East Tennessee
Zcoups
Coae Creek
Clinton
Revision World Debts Viewed As Prosperity
Basel Switzerland Aug 19 The Wiggin bankers committee urged revising inter government war debts and German reparations as the first step toward world prosperity The group set up by the Bank for International Settlements at the London conference to study Germany credit needs is led by Albert H Wiggin chairman of Chase National Bank and includes top bankers from ten leading nations in the world The report criticized political differences and contends structural revision could unlock prosperity (Continued on page 2).
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Basel
Switzerland
Wiggin Bankers’ Committee
Bank For International Settlements
London
Germany
Albert H. Wiggin
New York
Chase National Bank
Rex King Held In Death Of Boys
C Rex King confined in Crittenden county jail held without bond as grand jury examines charges he choked two North Carolina boys and left them dying near a swamp camp fire. Witnesses place him in Santa Rosa Texas at time of killings. affidavits and letters offered by the state to prove presence in Memphis.
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Marion
Ark
C. Rex King
Crittenden County
King
A. B. Wylie
North Carolina
Here
Woodrow S. Wilson
Burton Hensley
Bald Knob
N. G
Mississippi River
Memphis
W. B. King
Santa Rosa
Texas
Gandhi accuses government of breaking Delhi truce
Gandhi in Ahmadabad today filed a detailed charge list against the government asserting multiple breaches of the Delhi truce with Lord Irwin. He names individuals and places, alleging incidents such as six delinquent taxpayers confined with hornets and peasants ordered to sell their goods, signaling a worsened political climate.
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Ahmadabad
India
Mahatma Gandhi
Delhi
Lord Irwin
Gandhi
Texas troops close out last East Texas oil wells under martial law
Texas national guardsmen continued patrolling the East Texas oil field to close the final wells still flowing under martial law. Seals on valves and zigzag patrols aimed to prevent re opening while Governor Ross Sterling implements new oil laws. Production cuts and Oklahoma shutdowns alarm industry leaders as Morgan Petroleum raises Oklahoma oil price to 77 cents a barrel.
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Kilgore
Tex
Texas National Guardsmen
Texas Oil
Jacob F. Wolters
Ross
Sterling
Texas
East Texas
Oklahoma
William H. Murray
Morgan Petroleum Company
Oklaoma
Murray
Solons approve 1 per cent city pay cut at private session
The Board of Mayor and Aldermen voted unanimously to cut salaries by one per cent for all city employees except the school system and teachers, effective September 1. The private meeting followed a public session about traffic, Sunday closing, and parking, with committee reviews on Oak and Dale streets and a request from Hammond Post for a county carnival.
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Mayfor and Aldermen
Shelarna Ferguson
View
W. K. Holyoke
BK. B. Cates
Walker Nelms
G. G. Reener
Kingsport
Oak and Dale
Oak and Maple Streets
Yadkin
Tom Warwick
Holyoke
Nelms
Cates
Dale Street
O. R. Huber
Hammond
The
American Legion
Britons Fly on Graf Zeppelin in Britain Dawn Tour
London Aug. 14 British tourists aboard the Graf Zeppelin completed a peace time landing in England after circumnavigating southern England. The airship passed over the Mull of Galloway and the Solway Firth then moved toward Newcastle before returning to Hanworth airdrome around 7 p.m. local time.
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London
Galloway
Scotland
England
Ireland
Bristol
Dublin
Ulster
Graf
Solway Firth
Dundavennan
Glasgow
Edinburgh
Newcastle
Carlisle
Hanworth
Britain
Germany
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Marquette
Lea
Asheville
N. C
Luke Ica
Nashville
Terin
Central Bank and Trust Company
M.J. Barnhill
United States
Luke Lea, Jr
RE. P. Chaylet
Aocite
Leas
Wallace B. Davis
Asheville, N
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Cove Creek Dam
C. Rex
Flore
Ruth Jane Cranmer
Roy T. Yates
Passaic
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Yatee
Solons
Graf Zeppelin
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