Japanese Army Driven Back in Shanghai Battle
Shanghai dispatch reports Japanese defense lines holding as Chinese forces push toward the Whangpoo river. Reinforcements from Japan landed to bolster the Japanese in the Kiangwan sector, with heavy fighting around the Ward road jail and near Astor house. The outcome remained unsettled as both sides pressed in the urban battle.
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Shanghai
Ssamphai
Whangpoo
Ward Road
Japan
Astor House Hotel
International Settlement
Kiangwan
Yangtzepoo
Yangtze
Nanking
Cholera Strikes Hongkong Amid Surge of Deaths
Cholera rages in British Hongkong with daily new cases and an 80 percent fatality rate. Limited vaccine due to Sino-Japanese war disrupts supplies while international aid efforts push serum by air. Reports cite 136 cases last week with 82 deaths and 19 deaths the prior week.
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Hongkong
Shanghai
China National Airways Corporation
Far
Singapore
Air mail boosts hinge on Congress action
Washington authorities warned that transatlantic air mail service planned for next year could be disrupted if pending mileage authorization and foreign air mail measures are not approved. Harllee Branch said failure would delay expansion and force shelving partly completed links between Kansas City Denver Wichita Kane Pueblo and Tampa.
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Congress
Harllee Branch
House
Senate
Branch
Kansas City
Denver
Wichita
Kane
Pueblo
Colo
Tampa
Fla
Japanese Push Into Nankow Pass In North China Drive
Japanese command claims its reinforced North China army has advanced about five miles into the Nankow pass gateway to Mongolia. About 100,000 Japanese troops are said to be engaged in a bitter fight for footholds along ridge by ridge, with Dahar province menacing the east flank as Tokyo seals control of Tientsin and Peiping.
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Southern Baptist
Chapei
Shanghai
Nantungehow
Yangtze
Kiangsu
Chenju
Whangpoo
China
Nankow Pass
Japan
Hongkong
United States
Clarence E. Gauss
Woosung
Tientsin
North China
Nankow Pays
Mongolia
Manchukuo
Dahar
Great Wall
Open
Peiping
Melting Away in Loyalist Defense Near Santander
Aug 19 dispatch reports Francoist high command saying Santander's outer defenses southwest of the port melted away as insurgents pushed within 20 miles of the city. Five day offensive netted about 10,000 government troops captured. Franco forces encircled positions with infantry artillery tanks and air power. Government lines admit gains but claim heroic resistance by Santander troops aided by asteroid? miners from Asturias.
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Hendaye
Santander
Biscayan
Bay of Biscay
Francisco Franco
Asturias
Senate to Hold Kansas Hearings on Wheat and Corn
UR A senate agriculture subcommittee will hold hearings in Topeka October 22-23 and Dodge City October 25-26 to study wheat and corn legislation. Senator George McGill of Kansas announced the itinerary yesterday as a committee member. Hanna for Frigidaire. Ph. 303. Adv.
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Kansas
Washington
Senate Agriculture
Topeka
Dodge City
George McGill
D-Kan
Portugal cuts diplomatic ties with Czechoslovakia over arms order
Aug 19 Lisbon Federation reports Portugal severed relations with Czechoslovakia after Prague failed to fill a large machine gun order amid civil war fears in Spain. Lisbon accuses third party influence and cites Salazar’s fascist government backing Franco. Czechoslovakia questions the move as unprecedented and diplomatic rift widens in European tensions.
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Republic of
Czechoslovakia
Portugal
Praha
Spain
Antonio de Eliveria Salazar
Francisco Franco
Vienna
Legation
Foreign Office
London
Europe
Italy
Germany
Russia
Franco
France
Moscow
Black Receives Commission as Associate Justice
Washington August 19 Hugo L Black at 61 received his commission as associate justice of the supreme court from President Roosevelt. Dressed in a white suit he left a White House luncheon carrying the commission in a cardboard container. He planned to take the oath later today or tomorrow and said he would resign from the senate when sworn. He anticipated copies to Graves and the state and Vice President Garner and spoke of discussing a successor with Graves. He doubted a court petition by Albert Levitt would block his appointment. He remained with the President over an hour and a half as Secretary Ickes waited on public works matters.
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Hugo L. Black
Roosevelt
Supreme Court
White House
Senate
Graves
Garner
Albert Levitt
Black
Ickes
House
Conference
Walsh
Copeland
D-N
Thomas
Utah
Borah
R-Ida
LaFollette
Judiciary Committee
Allen
R-Nl
Alabama
Sumners
Rainfall totals and heat trend noted in Santa Fe
Rain began near 3:20 am and ended by 9:30 am, totaling .25 inch per Santa Fe station gauge. Cooling kept temperatures in the 80s morning, rising to 92 by afternoon. Last year 110 degrees marked the 45th century-plus day. Through the season there have been 22 days above 100 degrees.
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Santa Fe
C. J. Posey
State House Custodian Paints Mural for Beck
Topeka reports state house custodian L. D. Robinson painted a mural in Beck's private office under an agreement with Attorney General Clarence V. Beck. The outline of a prairie schooner forms the design as John Steuart Curry prepared color sketches in Madison for future state murals.
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Topeka
L. D. Robinson
State House
John Steuart Curry
Curry
Madison
Wis
Robinson
Clarence V. Beck
Beck
Senate Passes Wheeler-Johnson Child Labor Bill
The Senate approved the Wheeler Johnson child labor bill by unanimous consent and sent it to the House. It bars interstate commerce in goods made by children under 16 and in hazardous industries under 18, with the same language later in the wage and hour measure. The wage hour bill is shelved for the session.
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Washington
Senate
House
Wheeler
Dmont
Congress
Public Debt Hits Record High Amid August Peak
Washington reports the public debt rose to a record 36,891,415,047 on August 17, up from 33,410,520,689 a year earlier. Expenditures for the current fiscal year crossed the billion dollar mark at 1,006,426,644, versus 770,901,060 last year, driven largely by reduced repayments to government lending agencies.
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Washington
Treasury
Washington Debates Housing Bill and Tax Proposals
A Senate House conference panel was formed to iron out housing bill differences. The Senate rejected changes, a tax bill passed, and conference action aimed to avert a Senate adjournment as critic moves and court reform ties loom.
Heat Relief On Way From Topeka Topeka Weather Forecast Aug 19
Clouds and heat near 100 degrees forecast for Kansas as high pressure moves in from the northwest. Robb, meteorologist, expects relief with cooler air and temperatures dropping to the mid 60s tonight. Record highs reached 102 at Dresden yesterday and 62 at Tribune this morning amid scattered rainfall totals across multiple towns.
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Topeka
Kansas
Andrew D. Robb
Mercury
Robb
Dresden
Phoenix
Ariz
Tribune
St. Joseph
Centralia
Nemaha County
Concordia
Scott City
Phillipsburg
Ellis
Kansas City
Goodland
Stock Market Index Inches Down Amid Trade Quiet
The average of 60 stocks declines to 68.3 from yesterday's 69.2 as Ford Service and Hamilton areas show little movement. The 702 Vermont Avenue ad suggests routine advertisement activity with no major market shifts evident.
France and Britain propose truce in Far East conflict
Paris reports France joins Great Britain in proposing an immediate truce in the China Japan war endangering foreigners in Shanghai. A note of approval was sent to London as China and Japan would be asked to withdraw to a neutral zone with England France and the United States to safeguard interests. Britain seeks cooperation with the United States France Italy and Germany.
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Britain
Far Eastern
Paris
Great Britain
China
Japan
Shangai
Foreign Ministry
London
Shanghai
England
United States
Nanking
Nautral
Italy
Germany
Wilkins In Search Is Flying 17-Ton Plane
Sir Hubert Wilkins leads a 17 ton flying boat Cuba from New York toward Port Arthur Ontario in a Arctic search for six missing Soviet polar fliers. The crew include Hollick-Kenyon and Bowers with Cheeseman Booth and Brown joining at Port Arthur.
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Bullet
Toronto
Sir Hubert Wilkins
Port Arthur
Ontario
Lake Superior
New York
Arctic
Long Island Sound
C.S.T
Herbert Hollick-Kenyon
Wilkins
Lincoln Ellsworth
Cuba
Lake Ontario
Coppermine River
Arctic Ocean
Richard Newbold
American Museum of Natural History
San Diego
Sigismund Levaneffsky
Lindbergh
Russia
North Pole
Moscow
United States
Russell Bowers
Aklavik
Northwest Territories
Hollick-Kenyon
al Cheeseman
Raymond Booth
Gerald Brown
Mattern to establish bases for polar fliers search
Pittsburgh aug 19 as soon as Alaska weather allows Jimmy Mattern will set two operation bases to continue the missing Russian polar fliers search. He telegraphed O D Robinson Republic Oil president that flying conditions favor a move to the icecap and sand spit base locations for airport operations and subsequent flights toward the pole.
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Pittsburgh
Alaska
Jimmy Mattern
Mattern
O. D. Robinson
Republic Oil Company
Icecap
Sand Spit
Bank Robbery in Daylight Stuns Perry OK
In Perry Oklahoma a man wearing smoked glasses robbed a bank at pistol point in daylight, escaping with about $5,000 believed taken from the till while authorities chased him through a wide patrol arc. Bank president Y. V. Willett reported a larger total taken, with $5,000 recovered later along an alley adjacent to the bank.
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Perry
Okla
Oklahoma
Y. V. Willett
Willett
Local Schools Plan Open Date and Registration
Lawrence schools set September 7 as opening day with junior high enrollment and elementary enrollment procedures announced. Principal John E. Jacobs calls for late August to early September registration for seventh to ninth graders, with specific book lists, room assignments, and conference hours. Superintendent C E Birch notes elementary enrollments in early September and transfers should coordinate with district principals.
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Lawrence
John E. Jacobs
Jacobs
C. E. Birch
Mr. Birch
EXECUTE 34 IN RUSSIA: SPIES AND WRECKERS EXECUTED
Soviet Siberia reports the execution at Irkutsk of 34 convicted spies and wreckers after military trials on charges of terrorist activity for the Japanese intelligence service. This follows another large scale Siberian execution two weeks earlier when 72 were put to death for conspiring with Japanese agents to wreck Russian far east railroads.
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Moscow
Soviet Siberia Today
Irkutsk
Siberia
Secret Service
Weather forecast cloudiness and scattered rain across regions
Kansan forecast calls for some cloudiness and unsettled conditions tonight and Friday with little temperature change. Rain possible in Manhattan, Ottawa and Junction City while Coffeyville, Eastoria, Pittsboro, Topeka, Garden City and Salina remain cloudy. Roads: wet in Manhattan and Pittsburg, soft in Pittsburg.
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Ottawa
Junction City
Coffeyville
Eastporia
Pittsboro
Topeka
Garden
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Salina
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Lawrence Drum and Bugle Corps
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