Fascist Army Captures Toledo as Loyalists Retreat
Report from Toledo describes a large Fascist force entering the besieged city after heavy artillery and shelling. Government troops fled southeast toward Madrid, the Alcazar defenders joining the assault as insurgents cut the Toledo Madrid road and prepared for a push toward the capital amid renewed bombardment and warplane activity.
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Toledo
Madrid
Francisco Franco
Ang Omarehrd
Spain
Toleto
Olas del Rex
Ity
Muzzing
Visagra
Associated Press
Alcazar
Fragmented Weather Note Reads Odd Clues and Scrambled Text
A garbled weather brief mixes partial phrases about wind, storms, and dates. It mentions north and southwest regions and a train or station reference. The legible parts hint at planning or timing but lack clear measurable details or events.
Youth Rescues Wreck Victims in Bayou Crash
GALEPORT Mississippi reports a May 2 incident where Durawin Amos, a local youth, leaped into the Bayou Res urd to rescue two car occupants trapped after a vehicle plunged into the bayou. Two others escaped, but Philip Landier was injured critically in the wreck as KKdee, his wife and son, were named among the car’s occupants.
New Act Sets Wage Rules in Forest Blaze Case
Washington Sept 25 The Wall Healey act goes into effect setting prevailing wage and overtime rules for government contracts above 16 6p0 dollars with phased application over months Officials expect to determine wages across industries and face criticism from the Chamber of Commerce which opposes broader labor standards rode into place by federal action regulations attacked.
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Washington
Wall Healey
Chamber of Commerce of the
United States
Washington Review
Forest Fires Devastate Southwestern Oregon and Northern California
Swathes of southwestern Oregon burned as fires left seven dead and threatened other towns. Prosper was wiped out and Coquille North Bend and Marshfield faced red zones. In northern California, Redding area towns teetered as thousands of acres burned with dynamite stores raising danger warnings. More than 3,000 on-fire workers battled the blazes amid shifting winds.
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Marshfield
Ore
Oregon
California
Forest Service
M. M. Craven
Myrtle Point
Bandon
Coquille
North Bend
Prosper
Iea
Redding
Butte
Yuba
John Fasnacht
Isandean
Seven Drowned in Pond Auto Wreck Near Davis Mill
In Firley Vn Ala Sept 28 seven people died when an automobile plunged into a pond while returning from Haleyville fair. Seven trapped in the car drowned though two managed to escape. The dead include John Spradling, 40, owner of the car, and Miss Winnie Lee, 18.
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Firley Vn LE
Ala
Sevin
Davis Mill Pond
John Spradling
Winnie Lee
English Girl to Live in Memphis After Transatlantic Trip
A tired English girl, Audrey Ann Caughey, arrived in Memphis on Sept 23 and will live with her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. W. Dean, and cousin Dennis after a 60 mile London to New York journey aboard a giant air liner. Her mother died in 1994, father six months ago. She greeted reporters with poise and expressed interest in perhaps entering the civil service like her father.
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Memphis
Audrey Ann Caughey
London
Ange
Ameri
Mra . W. Dean
Dennis
J.B. Caughey
Fort Smith
Last Ark
Tear Gas Breaks Up Memorial High School Strike
Memorial high school students protesting the transfer of teacher Michael Grahan faced tear gas as police dispersed the crowd outside the building. Classes were suspended with about 200 entering the school after leaders apologized. Grahan plans to pursue a higher school post but holds only a high school certificate.
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Micheael Grahan
Andrew Klinke
Memorial
Klinke
Oly
Grahan
Grate
Odd Army Ready for Call to Arms as China Tensions Rise
Fragmentary OCR describes a Sino Japanese conflict context with forces including American, Chinese, Filipino, British, Russian and other units preparing emergency duty. Mentions block houses, iron gates, barbed wire, and mixed corps composition amid Shanghai defense concerns with historic precedents from 1932 and 1827.
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Usbeet Hata
Ehells
Savile
Shanghai
Cval
Neac
Republicans Plan All Day Rally Across Fifteen Counties
Nashville dispatch says Republican headquarters announce an all day rally set for October 16 in Crossville with speakers J Will Taylor B Carroll Reece and Pat Thach along with a national official. McLane heads the speakers bureau and county representatives vow house to house canvassing to mobilize GOP voters. Delegations from Smith Jackson Overton Fentress Clay Macon Putnam Cumberland Dekalb White Bledsoe Warren Marion Sequatchie Pickett expected share the event.
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Nashville
Republican
Crossville
J. Will Taylor
B. Carroll Reece
Pat Thach
A. V. McLane
Cookeville
Reunions Planned Near Norris Lake
About 400 former residents of the Norris Lake area gathered for a first reunion near the reservoir behind Worris dam. They voted to meet annually on the last Sunday in September and recalled the many farms and homes now submerged. H. C. Tewin of Greenback Tennessee was named chairman of the permanent organization. Norris Lake now covers about 36,900 acres in Clinch and Powell river valleys with sites of former farms and homes lying under roughly 100 feet of water.
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Nommal
Toni
Goat
Norris
Worris Dam
H.C. Tewin
Greenback, Tenn
Wan
Norris Lake
Clinch
Powell River
Landon Ends Midwest Tour in Illinois Campaign Stop
Oregon Illinois reports Governor Alf Landon wrapped a seven day midwest tour with nine back porch talks across Illinois Iowa and Missouri after a rest at former governor Lawden’s estate. He pledged benefits for farmers promising to preserve American markets repeal reciprocal trade deals and a workable social security system. He closed in Milwaukee with a call to repeal old age insurance act views that it is unjust and a fraud on workers.
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Oregon
Ill
Alf M. Landon
Ilinois
Frank C. Lawden
Landon
Finois
Iowa
Missouri
Hotels in Chicago Must Be Guarded
Chicago Sept 28 A veuve actress Miss Alda Deery was beaten and bound in her hotel room in the latest hotel intruder case. Police advocate constant guard of downtown fire escapes and require only men to search rooms reachable from escapes. Bellboys questioned. Deery recalls a tall man, thought to be the assailant, who had hidden in the closet.
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Chicago
Alda Deery
Miss Deery
Peter Bernacchi
Miss Deery’s
Bernucchi
Autoists Watch for Vigilantes in Knoxville
In Knoxville on September 28 a crowd of 275 plainclothes citizens patrols traffic areas watching for violations. The Safety Director Harry Burke and a city traffic report card system supervise the vigilante effort backed by the Knoxville Safety Council.
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Oxville
Finoxville
Harry Burke
Bach
Whch
Knoxvitle Safety Council
TVA Motion May Be Aired In Court
Cookeville Tenn Sept 23 U S District Judge John Gore said a hearing this week on TVA dissolution motion against 19 power companies will be in Cookeville If not set earlier it will be in Nashville where sessions begin October The suit claims TVA should have been brought in northern Alabama residence of the TVA The judge last ruled the constitutionality of the TVA act must be decided before the residence issue can be ruled on
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Cookeville
Tenn
U. S
John 3 Gore
TVA
Nashville
Alabama
Italian war reporter joins American political beat abroad
Luigi Barzini Jr., Milan daily Corriere della Sera correspondent, assigned by an Italian city desk to cover the American scene. He notes strong foreign interest in Roosevelt Landon election dynamics and U.S. economic recovery while recalling a grueling Addis Ababa trek and Addis Ababa memories.
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Edward J. Netl
New York
Ethiopia
Luigi Barzini
Corviere Della Sera
Milan
Italy
Mothers Ride Time as Baby Marathon Nears End
Toronto report details a will interpretation where stillborn infants count toward a beneficiary’s tally. It notes several mothers with many births, including Mrs. Marlin Kenney with 22 children in ten years, and others with nine or seventy five births, amid tragedy and disease affecting the Dionne quintuplets era.
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Toronto
Bent
As. Ly
Myer Erty
Marlin. Kenney
Uis
Diehl
Aer
Eligime
Mire
Oseph Bagaata Mae
Pomive
OY Phaven
Taree Leilers
Hirth
Sun
John Magle
Arthir Timleck
Aerions
Jes Ba Heen
Gel Lauer
Benito Musab
Five nations push currency adjustment amid devaluation drive
Paris reports Blum government victory as devaluation moves advance amid global currency shifts. Switzerland Netherlands Latvia Greece announce stabilization steps. Soviet denial of pounds sales tied to market activity. Swiss price controls loom. Netherlands forms equalization fund. drachma to pound rate targeted. Italian and Belgian markets respond. Germany Turkey resist changes while Moscow warns against destabilizing transactions.
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Bross
Wadny
Burare
Moscow
London Exchange
Blura
Chamber of Deputies
Finance Committee
M48
Chamber
Senate
Switzerland
Eauinels
Netherlands
Bank of Greece
Italy
Bank of Italy
Germany
Turkey
Fritz Reinhard
Finance Ministry
Berlin
Rustw Aras
Geneva
Masemy
Nwmneowers
Tates Trent
Treveury Morgentingn Uhe
New York
Ater
Stockholm
Chase Naliens Bank of
Morgenthau
Washington
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China
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Hn Regiment
Bistead
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Great Britain
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Vincent World
Halling
Neville Chamberlain Auriol
Treasury
The
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
Vincent Auriol
Exchequer
Neville Chamberlain
Midwest
Illinois
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Elem
America
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Ansett
Meoscow Bank
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