Japan Attacks Shanghai Front As War Spreads
Japanese forces assault southern Chinese defenses on all fronts threatening foreigners in Shanghai. Marines guarding the International Settlement face shell fragments and shrapnel as bombardment hits Whangpo and nearby ships. US refugees flee toward Canton while Maoist Chinese forces push north to blunt the Japanese drive.
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Shanghai
Japan
China
United States
International Settlement
Whangpao
Yangtze
Pootung
South China
Satow
U. S.S
Asheville
Hanlon
Canton
Pass
Mao Tse-Tin
Ere
Shensi
Shansi
Central China
Weather showers for Tennessee Virginia and Kentucky
Tennessee expects showers tonight with rain likely tonight and Saturday cooler in the far west. Virginia forecast shows generally fair skies with slight warmth inland tonight and Saturday mostly cloudy with showers in the extreme west. Kentucky expects showers tonight and Saturday with warmer conditions in the east and cooler in the west on Saturday.
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Tennessee
Virginia
Kentucky
Stubborn Pupils Demand Own School Strike at Wood Dale Grade School
Knoxville reports fourth day of pupil protest as 20 students refuse bus to Carter Junction high school. Mothers join in, vows to attend school nightly until Wooddale doors reopen. Superintendent Brickey says a special bus is available and warns pupils must ride or stay out. no reopening of Wood Gate or deployment of police.
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Knoxville
Wooddale
Carter Junction High School
Knox County
L. H. Brickey
County
Carter
Hawkins Schools Still in Muddle
In Rogersville Tennessee Hawkins county faces a delayed school opening as the new board refuses to certify teachers elected by the ousted board. A chancery injunction bars naming any teachers beyond those chosen by the old board, keeping 6000 pupils idle and suspending the nine month term needed for state accreditation. The court dispute began last spring after four board members were dismissed for misconduct, tying up the system as judges consider the petitions and budgets.
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Times
Rogersville
Hawkins County
Board of Education
Ordey
Chancery Court
Hawkins County Court
Vital B. A. Cape
Supreme Court
Tenn
Eetiring
C. F. Linderback
Shelburne Ferguson
Acetylcholine Suggested as Humane Warfare Tool
At the American Chemical Society meeting in Rochester experts discussed acetylcholine as a humane warfare method. Tiny doses could induce fainting with rapid recovery, potentially saving lives by reducing deaths and pain. Dr. Renshaw and colleagues reported findings on its muscular action and implications for combat.
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Howard W. Rlakfsler
Associated Press Seiencr
Rochester
American Chemical Society
R. Renshaw
New York
FBI investigates Nazi activity in United States
Washington September 10 a disclosure says the Justice Department already investigates Nazi activities in the United States and a congressional inquiry is urged. FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover said Attorney General Cummings ordered the probe six weeks ago and a thorough report will be delivered in weeks. Senators Burke and Borah urged immediate and warranted inquiry. A Chicago Daily Times copyright note hints at plans by American Nazis to seize government control amid a communist revolution.
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Washington
Justice Department
United States
Eagar Hoover
Federal Bureau of Investigators
Portland
Ore
Cummings
Tan Bo
Hoover
Burke
D-Neb
Congress
Borah
Ridaho
The South Leadership Return in American Achievement
Atlanta, Sept. 10. Dr. Dumas Malone of Harvard University Press told the Phi Beta Kappa national council that leadership testing during the Civil War is returning to the South, especially in political and literary fields. Other speakers included Dr. Howard W. Odum of UNC urging a tie up between theory.
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Atlanta
South
Dumas Malone
Harvard University Press
Nineteenth National Council of
Phi Beta Kappa Fraternity
Howard W. Odum
Institute of Research In
University of North Carolina
Stanford Co-Ed Victim recounts attack near Palo Alto hills
A Stanford University co-ed, 11, told police a heavyset man with a pistol tried to abduct her on a hillside west of the campus. She fought with scissors from a sewing basket, sustained two cheek slashes, and was left in the car before being found at a professor's home. The assailant wore pigskin gloves and was 20 to 22 with a cleft chin and dark features.
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Palo Alto
Calif
Stanford University
Zink
Joseph S. Davis
Davis
Miss United States Crowned From Biloxi Beauty Contest
Margaret J. Smith of Clinton Tennessee has been named Miss United States after winning a national beauty contest held in Biloxi Mississippi. She competed as Miss Tennessee and earned the title in the pageant that grants a screen test in Hollywood.
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Hollywood
Margaret J. Smith
Clinton, Tenn
Missing Tot May Be With Kidnapper
Oak Grove Arkansas Sept 10 Feer of foul prey spurred 600 men today in their fourth day of search for four year old Florence Jackson who wandered off into dense Ozark woods Monday Belief that she was seized by a moron arose after searches found only scant clues Her new shoes and a torn dress fragment suggested possible abduction near a Woodland hike The searchers noted shoes found where parties passed repeatedly the previous day and a torn dress piece two miles from that point Continued on page ten.
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Oak Grove
Ark
Florence Jackson
Ozark
Wheeler Dam dedication marks third TVA project
The 337 million Wheeler Dam in Alabama was dedicated with President Roosevelt pressing a key from Hyde Park. Speaker Bankhead led the ceremony acknowledging the generation yet to come. The dam spanning the Tennessee River between Decatur and Muscle Shoals adds 90 000 horsepower to TVA and augments the war time power program.
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Wheeler Dam
Ala
Roosevelt
Hyde Park
Tennessee Valley Authority
Williamb. Bankhead
National House of Representatives
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Decatur
Muscle Shoals
TVA
Wilson Dam
Morris Dam
Knoxville
Joseph Wheeler
Joe
Stars and Stripes
Five Kingsport lottery operators cited in court
Five proprietors in Kingsport area cited to appear in magistrate's court to answer charges of operating lotteries at Brass Rail, Chestnut Ridge tourist camp, and Camp Joan. Deputies confiscated three lottery boards and three glass jars of numbers. tickets were sold from jars with sealed boards.
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Kingsport
C. F. Lingar
Brass Rail
Chestnut Ridge
Camp Joan
T. Mack Kerron
Five rescued after gas explosion at Hemphill mine shaft
Five men rescued from a gas blast at Hemphill near Welch West Virginia were treated for burns and bruises. The Kingston Pocahontas Coal Company shaft explosion injured many others as gas ignited by a spark from a motor caused the blast.
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Welch
W. Va
West Virginia
Kingston Pocalontas Coal Company
Hemphill
Youth Shot To Death In LaFollette Street Find
Dexter Ride nour, 18, of LaFollette, was shot and found on a street. Police, led by bloodhounds, opened an investigation as the case unfolded with details limited to the incident location and responding officers.
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Lafollette
Tenn
Dexter Ridenour
Meet at Nyon Seethes Over Submarine Piracy Crisis
The Associated Press reports a tense Nyon conference as Stalin accuses Mussolini of sea piracy, branding Mussolini as Captain Kidd.War threats loom as Thruce refuses Moscow talks, while Hitler shifts German power toward Italy in a widening Axis alignment.
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Stalin
Kidd
Mussolini
Moscow
Thruce
Hitler
Germany
Taly
Church Not to Blame For Lack Attendance
William Tew, president of the Eas Central States Mission of the Mormon Church, told a 125 strong Kingsport Inn delegation that masses skip church because they see no vital offering. Apostle George F. Richards, from Salt Lake City, spoke over an hour defending revelations to Joseph Smith and asserting ongoing LDS revelations since Jesus Christ’s time.
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Wiliam T. Tew
Eas
Central States
Mormon Church
Kingsport Inn
Mr. Tew
George F. Richards
Salt Lake City
Normon Church
Yester, Say
Apostle Richards
Joseph Smith
Church
Jesus Christ
Latter Day Saints
Assessments for campaigns to end in Tennessee
Nashville September 10. Gov Browning said there will be no state employee assessments for political campaign funds while he is governor. Voluntary contributions will be allowed, and employees must not neglect duties or campaign. He noted merit system rules forbid spectacle or neglect and compared to federal civil service. He mentioned apportioned state employment by county and that Davidson is over quota.
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Nashville
Browning
Davidson
Three Arrests After Baton Rouge Police Slaying Connects to Gang
Gen Louis Guerre announced that 15 state police captured three people, a man a woman and another man, at a dawn raid on a Natchez area hideout. The trio, to be fingerprinted at Baton Rouge, are possibly linked to a Gulfport shooting that killed Officer Wolff. Suspects include Cecil Simmons Robbie Anderson and Joe Myers. a man known as Graham kept the hideout. The raid spanned Concordia Parish swamp lands near Mississippi and followed a trail from Gulfport to Natchez.
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Guerre
Gulfport
Bliss
Goldie” Hairston
Southwest
Hairston
Jena
Baton Rouge
State Bureau of Identification and Investigation
Guerra
J. O Wolff
Simmons
Concordia Parish
Mississippi
France Britain propose steps to stop piracy in Med
Geneva September conference heard Soviet foreign commissar Maxim Litvinoff warn that Russia will take unilateral action against submarine piracy in the Mediterranean. He linked Italy to piracy and said measures must be effective and immediate. Britain and France then unveiled a plan for automatic annihilation of pirates using dirigibles airplanes and warships while the League of Nations put on the agenda a Spanish charge that Italy is to blame.
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Geneva
Russia
Italy
Maxim Litvinoff
Soviet Union
Litvinoff
Anthony Eden
Germany
High Seas
Nyon
France
Great Britain
Mediterranean High Sea
League of Nations Council
Glamour as a phoney state of mind says Gary Cooper
Hollywood interview quotes Gary Cooper faulting glamour in show business and preferring realism He dismisses glamorous personas as artificial and criticizes aspiring actresses for overemphasizing appearance He adds glamour belongs off screen and aside from fan club praise before continuing on page ten.
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Gary Cooper
Hollywood
Cooper
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DE Witt MacKenzie
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