Japanese Drive Through Chinese Defense North of Paotingfu
Japanese forces claimed a successful breach of the Chinese concrete line north of Paotingfu and pressed toward the city. They reported taking Kuochueng and moving to within miles of Paotingfu while bombing Paojingfu. Several Americans were said to remain in the beleaguered city, including Dr. Maud Mackey and Abbie Chapin, with others at the Presbyterian mission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Priping
Paotinsiu
Pao- Jingfu
Kuochu Kwe
Paotingfu
Qo City
Hsao River
Hankaow
Hopebi
Kuochueng
Sasten
Tsangchow
Tientsin
Nanking
Tsangehow
Tsao River
China
Paotingfu Segion
Maud Mackey
Los Angeles
Calif
Presbyterian Hospital
Minnie Wither
Joy
Mather Y
Weather overview for Tennessee to North Carolina
Tennessee and Virginia forecast fair tonight and Friday with temperature changes. Kentucky sees fair conditions with a warmer north portion. Friday partly cloudy. Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina expect fair weather tonight and Friday.
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Tennessee
Virginia
Kentucky
Georgia
South Carolina
North Carolina
Loot Recovered in Gate City Payroll Holdup
In Gate City Virginia a daylight robbery on September 15 netted about 14 600 with two thirds found at a bank and a Wise county deputy in custody. Investigators say 9 569 of the stolen money was recovered yesterday as authorities press two more suspects. A wife of one accused ringleader is being held on possible knowledge of others. Police say 3 000 of the remainder was spent for car use. Local officials report money hidden in a barn on a local farm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gate City
Norton
First and Peoples National Bank
Wise County
Southwest Virginia
Henrietta Cleek
Burk Creek
J. EB. Quillen
Gates
D. F. Rich~ Si
Hamblen
Clyde Bolling
HE. F. Birthright
Morristown
C. W. McNutt
Bolling
Creek Brothers
Wise
Quidles
H. B. Holmes
J. L. Ouler
Blackwoods Coal and Coke Company
John Creek
Clerk Brothers
Bluebird Taxi Co
Morristown youth named in sensational murder trial
Temporary adjournment of Sulivan circuit court enables presentation of the Willful and Pre meditated murder case against Bam L. Saulsbury an 18 year old from Morristown. Saulsbury is charged with the killing of Mrs. M. J. Kinnick at her Sullivan county home. He admits the shooting but says his aim was at Mr. Kinnick to punish him for mistreating him and separating him from a girl. The incident occurred in the Piney Flats area and left Mrs. Kinnick dead three days later in a Johnson City hospital. The defendant was confined in Blountville jail for over five months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sulivan
Shelburne Ferguson
Morristown
Bam L. Saulsbury
Kinnick
Sullivan County
Salisbury
Mary Kinnick
Blountville
Saulsbury
Piney Flats
Greeneville
Scott School Budget Battle Quiet After Court Ruling
The Scott County Board of Supervisors retain control of the school budget after the Virginia Court of Appeals ruled they determine the levy. School officials sought the maximum levy, but the supervisors had cut about $20,000 from the budget earlier, triggering the writ of mandamus fight that has spanned two years.
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Times
Gate City
Scott County
Board of Supervisors
Virginia Court of Appeals
Virginia
Schol
Scott
Virginia Court
England Seeks Italy Support In European Talks
British observers entertain hope Mussolini will join the Anglo French lineup after Franco Italian Geneva conferences. Delbos and Scopps report cordial talks on Spain and the Mediterranean. Corbin briefed Eden on Geneva discussions, with Italian guarantees against greater intervention seen as possible though Britain remains cautious.
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London
Mussolini
Geneva
Yvon Delbos
Bova Scopps
Charles Corbin
Anthony Eden
Geneve
Italy
France
Britain
Typist Accused in Banker's Death in Brooklyn
New York sentry reports 37 year old typist Gert O Keefe held on homicide charge after banker George O Frank was found dead with a bullet hole near her Brooklyn home. She denies the murder, says she saw Frank hours before his death, and had planned his marriage to Grace Gilday Donohue next month. Letters and a revolver found in her room feature in the investigation. Botanists note ancient ginia cacti age 200 to 400 years.
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New York
Gertrude O'Keefe
George O. Frank
Wall Street
Brooklyn
Miss O'Keefe
Frank
Grace Gilday Donohue
Lowell
Mass
American Legion
Times Square
Albany
Legion Favors Increases for Navy and Army
The American Legion adopts a national defense program urging the largest navy in the world and major boosts to the standing army to 180000. The plan backs citizen military training camps, a strong air service, a naval merchant force, and control of helium gas by the War Department, amid deliberations in New York.
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New York
American Legion
Robert J. Shaw
Sigourney
Iowa
Metropolitan Opera House
War Department
Hindenburg
Lakehurst
Drums Feed Flames Defy San Francisco Fire Crews
A spectacular blaze in San Francisco’s industrial district, fueled by exploding oil drums and streams of burning liquid, raged for over five hours at the Standard Oil storage plant. Nearly all city engine companies battled the inferno as 80,000 gallons of oil and a loading station were destroyed, with at least three firefighters injured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Charles Brennan
Howse
William O'Keefe
John V. O'Brien
Robert Brecken
Howard Sher
Girl Accidentally Shot In Ashland Home
Mary Hicks, 20, employed in the home of Bill Salmon of Big Garner, was in grave condition in Ashland Kentucky after being shot accidentally by Salmon's 11 year old son.
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Ashland
Bill Salmon
Big Garner
Mary Hicks
Republicans Map Convention Plan
A national Republican executive committee meeting backed an off‑year convention draft led by Harrison E. Spangler a poll showed 94 percent favor a guiding principles declaration plan calling for a 50 to 100 member planning group Hoover London Lowden Borah Knox and Vandenberg named with a spring convention proposed Opposition came from Joseph W. Martin Jr who argued a local election focus and that a minority party must draft its platform after the Democrats The plan received mixed reaction among committee members with continued discussion noted on page nine.
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Washington
Harrison E. Spangler
Iowa
Walter 8. Hanlahan
West Virginia
R. B. Creager
Texas
Daniel E. Pomeroy
New Jersey
Joseph W. Martin, Jr
Massachusetts
Landon
Spangler
Hoover
Iowan
Executive Committee
London
Frank O. Lowden
Borah
Frank Knox
Vandenberg
National Committee
Republican Club
Agriculture
Labor
Martin
Last Minute News Flashes Mrs Douglas Heads Auxiliary
Mrs Malcolm Douglas of Seattle Washington was elected head of the American Legion Auxiliary. Mrs A H Hoffman of Des Moines Iowa withdrew from the race. Mrs Douglas succeeds in a brisk party style race in New York on September 23.
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Douglas
New York
Malcolm Douglas
Seatle
Wash
American Legion
A. H. Hoffman
Des Moines
Iowa
Editor to seek mandamus to open city court records
Knoxville editor Samuel L. Smith of the Knoxville Journal announces a petition for a mandamus in chancery court to compel City Judge RK Mynatt to release municipal court records to the press after Mynatt refused access to Adkins, a Journal reporter, who says he was assaulted in the judge’s office. The judge disputed the claim and noted the encounter involved words and a shove.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Guy L. Smith
Knoxville Journal
RK. A. Mynatt
Smith
Sam Adkins
Journal
Mynatt
W. H. H. Southern
Adkins
the Journal
Probe Requested Into CIO Attacks in Memphis
In Memphis on September 23, following gang beatings of two CIO representatives, Governor Browning was urged to authorize an investigation and Police Commissioner Davis to provide a public explanation. The UAWA also sent organizers from St Louis to aid Ford plant organizing drive while the ACLU asked for probe into Norman Smith’s beating. Smith, convalescing, attributed no direct officials to the attack though criticized Davis’s prior remark. A $1,000 reward was posted for information leading to arrests and conviction of any participant.
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Micmphis
Tenn
CIO
Gordon Browning
Clifford Davis
United Automobile Workers of America
Memphis
St. Louis
Ford Assembly
American Civil Liberties Union
Norman Smith
Davis
Civil Liberties Union
Smith
Net Fowler
Denhardt Lawyer Receives Threats After Slaying
Bowling Green dispatch reports Brig. Gen. Henry H. Denhardt's attorney received three threatening letters amid Shelbyville murder case. Warning to appear noted by Disclosure in trial prep. Garr brothers charged with murder face self defense claims as Denhardt laid to rest in Kentucky.
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Bowling Green
Henry H. Denhardt
Kentucky
Common Health
Denhardt
Redes K. Myers
Petrel
Shelbyville
Yellet
Jack
Rey
Garr
Myers
Denhard
Dr. E
Roy Garr
Rothers
Shelby County
H. F. Waters
Gerrs
Comely
Verna Garr Taylor
New Castle
Armory
National Guard
AL Shelbyville
Commonwealth
H. B. Kinsolving, Jr
Tennessee Vote Remains Light in Dry Referendum
Voters in Sullivan County and Kingsport reported light turnout at noon as Tennessee listed a dry law referendum. Early tallies favored repeal in pockets, with some districts showing up to 20 to 1 in dry support, though overall results were advisory and not binding on legislation.
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Sullivan
Kingsport
Blountville
Bristol
Nashville
Tenn
Tennessee
Memphis
Sean
Knoxville
Chattanooga
Jackson
Elizabethton
Johnson City
Edward H. Crump
Crump
Robert S. Tinnon
State
Anti-' ‘Saloon League
Jay G. Stephenson
Met
Gate City Attorney Backs FDR Court Plan as Daring
Gate City Virginia attorney Cecil Quillen told Rotary clubmen the Roosevelt court plan is daring but dangerous to democracy. He argued altering the Supreme Court risks independence, likening it to dictatorial regimes and warning it could empower the executive over the people. He urged respecting constitutional checks and the court’s independence.
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Gate City
FDR
Roosevelt
Cecil Quillen
Supreme Court of
United States
Russia
Germany
Italy
America
Mr. Quillen
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Strategic Bass
the Times
Stace
England
Legion
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U.S
Keters
B.C. Pyle
Mr. Pyle
Doherty
Daniel J. Doherty
Woburn
Marshall Kincaid
Alamo
Frank Evans, Jr
Mandamus
Browning
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