Czars Claim Credit for Russian Inventions
The Soviet newspaper Trud argues czars hid discoveries to aid foreign capitalists and claims Russia produced many firsts. It asserts prior Western credit was misattributed and lists achievements in electrolysis, electromagnetism, photoelectrics, electro-dynamics, hydrodynamics and animal line dye processes to bolster patriotic resilience against cosmopolitanism and Anglo-American influence.
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Moscow
Trud
Funk and Wagnall
Russia
Europe
Kellogg’s All-Bran Promises Relief from Constipation
An advertisement features testimonials from readers in Rouaryville Tennessee praising Kellogg’s All-Bran for stopping laxatives and improving wellbeing. It urges daily intake with water and offers a double your money back guarantee if not satisfied after ten days.
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Rouaryville
Tenn
Kellogg
Battle Creek
Mich
Durning to Seek Republican City Controller Nomination
James D. Durning, director of his namesake string band and former mayoral chauffeur, announces he will run for Philadelphia city controller. He plans to campaign with his string band and uses the slogan I Need a Job, following his dismissal by Mayor Bernard Samuel over a Municipal Stadium controversy linked to the Mummers New Year parade.
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Philadelphia
Mummers
Hawaiian Dock Strike Peace Talk Renewed
In Honolulu the 80th day of a CIO dock strike saw renewed peace talks in Washington aimed at ending the waterfront tieup. Harry Bridges, ILWU president, may settle the wage dispute. an employers’ spokesman said attorney James P. Blaisdell is returning from Washington with a report prompting a negotiator decision.
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Hawaii
CIO
Washington
Harry Bridges
Bridges
CIO International Longshoremen’ S and Warehousemen’s Union
Senate
James P. Blaisdell
Blaisdell
Actors Reconciled in Hollywood After Rift
AP reports John ie and Gloria De Haven reconciled after a March estrangement. Married since 1944, the couple had splits within two years and another last year. A divorce suit by De Haven was dismissed. they have lived together for weeks with their two children and Payne's child from his previous marriage to Anne Shirley.
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Gloria de Haven
Miss de Haven
Payne
Anne Shirley
Physics of firearms and gas compounds in closed chambers
The text compares rifle and shotgun accuracy, noting rifle shots are limited by trajectory. It describes making industrial compounds from "un marriageable" gases using a double radio-wave treatment in enclosed containers. One electrode pair emits high-frequency waves while the other emits low-frequency waves.
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America
Race Riot Devastates London East End
In what residents call the city’s worst race riot in years, London East End saw fists iron bars chairs bottles and live coals flung as two Black men were seriously injured and eight whites and eight Black individuals were arrested. Police deployed 100 officers to Deptford lodging houses as rioters pursued one another amid missiles from windows and stoves while investigators probe the cause.
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London
London East End
Deptford
Thames River
Teaser Strips Without Pay In Nude Detention Room
Los Angeles police report Chubby Lola Titus, 25, repeatedly strip teases and is charged with gun assault after shooting nightclub operator Mark Hansen during a job interview. Hansen wounded, Titus found nude in the women’s detention room awaiting arraignment, bail set at 10000 dollars, preliminary hearing next Monday.
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Los Angeles
Lola Titus
Mark Hansen
C. Co. Forbes
Miss Titus
Leroy Dawson
Forbes
Jane Wyman Divorces Ronald Reagan Finalized in L A
Academy Award winner Jane Wyman 33 obtains final divorce from Ronald Reagan 37 in Los Angeles. She had testified last year he was too absorbed in politics as Screen Actors Guild president. Custody of two children, 500 dollars monthly support, and equal division of 75000 dollars in community property arranged.
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Los Angeles
Jane Wyman
Ronald Reagan
Miss Wyman
Reagan
Screen Actors Guild
Tension Reported as Crowd Advances in City Street
Eyewitnesses describe a disturbance when a Black man and bystander clashed after a Bobbie told him to move along. An onlooker recalled the incident began when the man ignored orders, triggering confrontation in the street.
Blondell Denies Backstage Brawl At Princeton Theater
Joan Blondell denies any hair pulling or hits amid a backstage altercation at McCarter Theater during the Princeton Drama Festival episode. Producer Harold J. Kennedy seeks suspension by Actors Equity after a reported confrontation ending with police ejecting Mike Todd and Blondell from the venue.
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N. J
Princeton Drama Festival
Actors Equity
Joan Blondell
Joan
Harold J. Kennedy
Kennedy
Miss Blondell
Hollywood
Hugh D. Wise
Richard Bowler
Mike Todd
Todd
Lakewood
Barnsville
Equity
New York
Steel Output Curbed by Holiday Week Shortfall
American Iron and Steel Institute reports production this week rising to 1,443,500 tons from 1,434,300 last week. Output during the July 4 holiday week totaled 1,128,200 tons with ingot capacity at 78.3 percent. Prior weeks showed higher rates of 79.9 percent and a 1,473,000 ton level.
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NEW York
American Iron and Steel Institute
Two Names for Dog Days and Nile Days
The phrase dog days derives from Sirius rising at dawn during this period. In ancient Egypt the same interval was called Nile days due to the August Nile flood.
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Egypt
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