Japanese claim air bombardments rout Chinese army at Peiping drive
From Peiping Aug 4 Japanese authorities proclaimed their air squadrons had routed western concentrations of the Chinese army and blasted a route for a southward advance from the capital. They claimed Paotingfu troops perished or fled and warned Nanking forces not to move north. A big battle was expected at Nankow pass as 4 000 Japanese troops massed north of the great wall.
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Peiping
Manchu
Paotingfu
Here
Noth Hopeh
Nanking
Nankow Pass
Great Wall
Kalgan
Chahar Province
Government of
China
House Committee Backs Senate Pay Bill in Housing Debate
Washington Aug 4 The senate adopts a voluntary gag to speed Wagner housing bill votes with limited debate and 10 minute speaking time per senator. The senate also approves a 0.5 percent increase in minimum federal housing loan interest.
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HOUSE
Senate
Washington
Rich publisher's son quits quest to find work on westward trip
Alfred A. Knopf Jr., 19, son of a New York publisher, left Norwood Massachusetts with $15 and plans for Reno job prospects. After a week of wandering broke and hungry, he sought aid at a Salt Lake City police station, then traveled by plane to New York, admitting he could not secure work along the route. He had hoped to find employment with rich contacts in Reno.
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Salt Lake City
Horace Greeley
Alfred A. Knopf, Jr
New York
Norwood
Mass
Reno
Nev
New York City
Smart Phillips-Exeter Academy
Monroe Telephone Service Reaches Near Peak in 1937
Southern Bell in Monroe reports 6433 telephones in use by July 1937, close to the 1929 peak of 6440 after years of recovery from the Depression. Manager J W Warren sought to restore the old high record by end of 1936 but progress continued into 1937 with seven more phones needed to attain the peak.
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Southern Bell Telephone Company
Monroe
J. W. Warren
Conner matriarch in critical hospital condition
Mrs. O W Conner mother of former Governor Sennett Conner is in critical condition at a Jackson hospital. She received two blood transfusions last night after eight months of declining health and only recently was admitted to the hospital.
Pay of Sloan Tops List in United States
Alfred P. Sloan Jr. of General Motors led 1936 executive pay reporting to the Securities and Exchange Commission with 561 311 total pay including a 411 161 bonus William Randolph Hearst appears as Sloan s chief rival with 500 000 at Hearst Consolidated Publications Inc Chrysler Knudsen Ket tering and Schenck are named among high earners at Chrysler GM and Loew s Inc.
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Washington
Alfred P. Sloan, Jr
General Motors Corporation
Securities Commission
William Randolph Hearst
Sloan
Hearst
Hearst Consolidated Publications, Inc
Securities
Ford Motor Company
National Securities Exchange
Walter P. Chrysler
Chrysler Corporation
General Motors
William S. Knudsen
Charles F. Kettering
Nicholas M. Schenck
Loew's Incorporated
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures
Top
Monroe Chosen for Rotary District Conference Meet
Monroe has been selected to host the annual Rotary conference for District 139 covering parts of Louisiana and Mississippi. The meeting will occur in the spring, decided at a district assembly of Rotary club presidents and secretaries. The report lists new clubs in Rolling Fork Mississippi Newellton Louisiana and a planned Yazoo City Mississippi club with Ty Cobb Monroe Leon Lippincott Shreveport and Claybrook Cottingham named to the spring conference finance committee.
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Lafayette
Monroe
Louisiana
Mississippi
Rotary Club
H. V. Cooper
Vicksburg
Rolling Fork
Miss
Newellton
Yazoo City
Ty Cobb
Leon Lippincott
Shreveport
Claybrook Cottingham
Alexandria
Farmers Seek New Plan for Cotton Base in Louisiana
About 70 Louisiana farmers urged changing how cotton base is determined. They discussed the agricultural adjustment program and proposed using different data instead of the 1928 to 1932 average to calculate base figures for payments and soil conserving crop conversions.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana
AAA
Hospital reports third heat victim
The third person admitted to St Francis Sanitarium for heat illness this summer is J A McManus a Stovall Drilling employee from West Monroe on the Luna Star route. He arrived at 645 pm Tuesday and is reported in satisfactory condition. Earlier two outdoor workers were admitted with overheating and convulsions.
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St Francis Sanitarium
J. A. McManus
Stovall Drilling Company
West Monroe
McManus
Wilson Urges 15-Cent Loans for Cotton
Baton Rouge Aug. 4 Commissioner of Agriculture Harry D Wilson urged southern agricultural leaders to press Congress for loans of 15 cents a pound on the 1937 cotton crop. The loans would be contingent on farmers’ participation in a 1938 crop control program. He noted favorable replies from several southern state commissioners and proposed a Washington meeting to push the legislation before adjournment.
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Baton Rouge
Harry D Wilson
Congress
Wilson
Washington
Joan
Pine pulp newsprint advances showcased in Savannah
More than 3000 copies of Wednesdays Savannah Morning News were sent nationwide to highlight progress in pine pulp newsprint. Dr. Charles Herty, a pioneer in Georgia newsprint research, supervised the pulp production at the Savannah Pine Pulp laboratory.
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Savannah
Savannah Morning News
Savannah Pine Pulp Laboratory
Charles H. Herty
Georgia
Savage father slashes four tots to death in Kentucky
In Columbus Kentucky W J Morse 45 allegedly killed his four children with a butcher knife after an argument with his wife Mrs Jane Morse 42 who was stabbed in the back five times and may not survive Physicians confirmed the family tragedy at the Morse home near the Mississippi river town Town Marshal Charles Burton led responders as crowds threatened and Morse was rushed away from the scene
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Columbus
W. J. Morse
Jane Morse
Morse
Mississippi River
Thomas Jefferson
United States
Washington
Moree
James Theodore
Inez
Margaret Elizabeth
Billy Lee
Charles Burton
Proposed raise in car fare halted in Shreveport
John S Patton of the Louisiana Public Service Commission announced that Shreveport Railways was warned not to implement a fare increase on September 1 until a formal hearing. The notice states cash fares would rise from six to seven cents, with round trips and school tickets largely unchanged despite further ticket options.
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Shreveport
John S. Patton
North Louisiana
Louisiana Public Service Commission
Shreveport Railways Company
Trolley Company
Kidnapping Mixup Ends With Child Recovered
Assistant State's Attorney Wilbert Crowley said 30 month old Donald Horst, believed abducted from the Horst home, was found at the west side residence of John Regan and his wife Lydia. The Regans admitted taking the child as Mrs Horst screamed during the incident. no ransom call was reported.
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Chicago
Wilbert F. Crowley
Otto Horst
Donald Horst
Crowley
West Side
John Regan
Lydia
Regans
Donald
Horst
Regan
Farmer Held as Son's Body Found in Mississippi Field
In Belzoni Mississippi August 4 a murder charge was filed against J E Barnett fifty year old tenant farmer after questioning at the Humphreys county jail. County Attorney J A Mortimer said the investigation produced sufficient evidence to charge murder and Barnett remains jailed without bond awaiting a preliminary trial. The body of his eleven year old son Jordan was found in a cotton field nearby after he reported the discovery and said the boy had been missing since Saturday morning. Doctor John C Bell examined the body but the inquest did not determine the time of death.
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Belzoni
Miss
J. E. Barnett
Humbreys
J. A. Mortimer
Barnett
Mortimer
L. M. Carter
Humphreys County
J. E Barnett
Jordon
Carter
Jordan
John C. Bell
Search for Rosalie Serio Shifts to Chicago
Brookhaven Mississippi sheriff reports 15-year-old Rosalie Serio has vanished since Wednesday and the search has moved from Louisiana to Chicago. Investigators focus on T. C. Smith a 35-year-old former employee of the girl’s father who once worked in Chicago and may be linked to the disappearance. federal agents are reviewing the Chicago lead for possible developments.
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Brookhaven
Miss
J. Walter Smith
Rosalie Serio
Louisiana
Chicago
T. C Smith
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