Run Gauntlet of Guerilla Firing
Americans flee as Chinese snipers fire on the Dollar Line tender McKinley carrying refugees from Shanghai. Japanese ships and bombers clash in the Yangtze corridor with shells and air raids, while Captain Bryant orders evacuations and US Marines guard the deck amid exploding ordnance and panic.
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Shanchai
Dollar Iner
McKinley
Shandal
Mekin Jev
Yangtze River
Bryant
Ed States Maries
Dollar Line
Worrth
Yare Estuary
China Sea
Yangtze
Whanmen
Shanhai
Shanghai
Whanenna River
Yangtzenpo
Chanei
Kianewang
Pootung
Lungwa
Bombing of Shanghai city center devastates Chinese quarters
Eyewitness accounts describe Japanese bombers targeting the RCA Victor Hill area in Shanghai. Windows shattered, fires spread, and the Chinese workforce feared dead as the civic crater near the city center, valued at five million dollars in gold, bore the brunt. About 30 bombers reportedly roamed and rained projectiles over roughly 15 square miles, outside international zones but within greater Shanghai, signaling enormous potential casualties.
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Rca-Victor
Shanghai Civic
Shanghai
Fine trucking firms found guilty of undercharging rates
Two truck lines were found guilty of granting freight rates below Interstate Commerce Commission prescriptions. Osborn Truck Lines of Wakeeney was fined 200 on two counts and its proprietors 225 each on one count, with 100 on 37 counts suspended. W A Burch Produce Supply and Truck Line of Wichita was fined 300 on three counts, with 23 other counts suspended.
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Topeka
Interstate Commerce Commission
Richard J. Hopking
Osborn Truck Lines Company
Wakeeney
W. A. Burch Produce Supply and Truck Line Company
Wichita
James McIntyre Dies Famed Minstrel of Long Running Team
Southampton New York news reports the death of 19 year old James McIntyre from uremic poisoning ending the McIntyre and Heath minstrel partnership. He worked with Thomas Heath for decades producing the Coon Bid Dance and The Ham Tree while touring nationwide. McIntyre was survived by his adopted daughter Mrs Maud Martin and his wife Emily Young McIntyre who died in 1985.
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Southampton
N. Y
James McIntyre
Tofay
McIntyre and Heath
Thomas K. Heath
Setauket
Long Island
McIntyre
Alexander
Kenosha
Wis
Rates
Rockford
Frank Austin
Meath
Philadelphia
McIntyre- Heath
Broadway
Alice Oates
Long Branch
Georgia Minstrels
United States
Heath
Beck
Orpheum
Klaw
Erlander
Georgia
Tom
Hello Alexander
Red Pepper
Wello Alexander
Edgar Smith
Emily
Heatin
South
Forest Theater
America
Maud Martin
Emily Young Mcintyre
Robert Taylor Leaves Fans in Lurch in K. C
Kansas City report on film star Robert Taylor fleeing a crowd at the airport with his stand-in Don Milo. Fans booed as Taylor and Milo ducked into a cab and a hotel, amid earlier Oklahoma City remarks. They planned to sail to New York for a trip to England to begin a new film.
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Kansas City
Robert Taylor
Don Milo
Milo
Taylor
Oklahoma City
Woods
New York
England
Hollyawood
Dewey Claims Longstanding Alliance Tammany Exposed
New York Aug 18 CPI Special Rackets Prosecutor Thomas E Dewey aims to prove in the mayoralty contest an alliance between crime and elements of Tammany Hall He outlined the charge in accepting the Republican designation for district attorney of New York County Dewey ally of LaGuardia and a former Dodge appointee faces Harold Hastings in the race Tammany leader Sullivan names five district leaders amid a pro new deal push and U S Senator Royal Copeland runs in Republican primaries against LaGuardia Also noted is a marriage license issued in Sterling Kansas for Wilbur Witkey and Gail Skinner with plans to wed in Winchester Kansas.
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New York
CPI
Thomas E. Dewey
Tammany Hall
Dewey
New York County
Fiorello H. LaGuardia
Tammany
William C. Dodge
Herbert H. Lehman
Harold W. Hastings
Dodre
Hastings
LaGuardia
Christopher D. Sullivan
Wigwams
Jeremiah T. Mahoney
United States
Royal S. Copeland
Sit-Down Strikes Shape Seniority Rule at Port
In a sharp take on labor action, the speaker suggests sit-down strikers will be seated by seniority, and notes that the longer a longshoremen strike lasts the shorter the long shoreman gains work. The quip links strike duration to job access in port labor.
Linament near stove starts blast in Chicago flat
Edward Wozinski, 42, suffered burns after applying his own liniment near a gas stove. The blast shattered windows, ignited the kitchen, and harmed Wozinski as investigators probe the accident.
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Chicago
Edward Wozinski
Wozinski
Marriage of 13-year-old girl under review in Hanover
The state attorney general probes the union of 13-year-old Katherine Brouchard and 22-year-old Edwin Forbes in Hanover. He has asked Marshall county attorney L. L. McLaughlin for full information on the marriage license, parents consent, and probate judge actions.
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Topeka
Katherine Brouchard
Edwin Forbes
Hanover
Clarence V. Beck
L. L. McLaughlin
Marshall County
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