Chandler Concedes Barkley Lead in Kentucky Senate Race
Governor A B Chandler acknowledged his defeat as Alben Barkley extended his Democratic primary lead. Barkley topped Chandler in most districts. Chandler carried northern Kentucky and trailed in Louisville county. Barkley denied coercion of federal workers to vote for him as campaign scrutiny grew.
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Louisville
A. B. Chandler
Senate
Alben W. Barkley
Barkley
Chandler
Roosevelt
Kentucky
Jefferson
John P. Haswel
Hardinsburg
Haswell
GOP
Andrew C. Ritchie
Paducah
Senate Campaign Expenditures Committee
J. W. Bryan
Prisoner Exchange Arranged in Spanish Civil War
United States Ambassador Claude Bowers announced that Spain and the insurgent regime agreed to release 56 prisoners through U S mediation. Each side frees 28, including 14 American privates and 14 aviators, with Americans exchanged for Italian privates captured by the government.
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Saint Jean-De-Luz
France
United States
Claude G. Bowers
Bowers
Minorities attract Runciman in Czechoslovakia dispute
In Prague the British mediator Viscount Runciman heard complaints from Janos Esterhazy on Hungary’s minority in Czechoslovakia. Runciman, after a brief Czech visit, noted a slight detour but declined to reveal Sudeten German region details. He seeks peaceful resolution between Hungarian and Sudeten German concerns.
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Praha
Czechoslovakia
Aug
Viscount Runciman
Lord Runciman
Janos Esterhazy
Hungary
Runciman
Flashes In The News From Hertford and Buffalo
In Hertford North Carolina Herbert Newby Dixon Jr aged six hours and 55 minutes is listed as unemployed by his father who obtained a social security account number for him. In Buffalo Missouri Mrs Sherman Dill reports her hen built an aerial nest in a tree and hatched a brood while preparing a second hatch.
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Hertford, N. C
Herbert Newby Dixon, Jr
Herbert, Sr
Buffalo
Sherman Dill
Cotton crop forecast for 1938 shows lowest yield in three seasons
The federal crop reporting board projects an 11,988,000 bale cotton crop for 1938, 6,958,000 bales below last year and the smallest since 1935. The AAA weighs loan needs under the new farm act as price dips toward parity. Prices on principal markets average 8.49 cents, with December contracts reopening at 8.34. Acre yield is seen at 217.9 pounds, the highest since 1898, amid reduced cultivated area and high abandonment.
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Washington
Federal Crop Reporting Board
Agriculture Adjustment Administration
New York Cotton Exchange
AAA
Crop Reporting Board
Miller fights neighbors over hillside trash dispute
Hollywood resident David Miller told the court that neighbors on higher levels dumped tin cans bottles and other refuse on a vacant lot causing debris to tumble onto his property during a dispute over his hillside home.
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Hollywood
David Miller
Miller
Carroll Trial May Continue 3 More Weeks
Special Prosecutor Ralph M. Ingalls said the Carroll murder trial may last three more weeks with over twenty witnesses yet to testify. Defense plans to call Carrolls wife and five children, Barbara the defendant’s daughter, and letters to Dwyer are cited as proving motive. Dwyer previously confessed to the killings and testified about the events in the courtroom.
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Paris
Ralph M. Ingalls
Francis M. Carroll
James G. Littlefield
Paul N
Buddy” Dwyer
Dwyer
Ingalls
Clyde R. Chapman
Carroll
Barbara
Dr. Littlefield
State
Carrol
Probe laws in Pennsylvania held invalid
In Harrisburg Judge Paul N. Schaeffer ruled that week old laws giving the legislature priority over the grand jury in probing state official charges are unconstitutional. He refused to let Attorney General Bard supersede District Attorney Shelley in a conspiracy to defraud case involving Governor George H. Earle and 13 associates. Bard sought time to study opinions before deciding action. The ruling was expected to be appealed.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Grand Jury
Paul N. Schaeffer
Schaeffer
State Supreme Court
Alan
Guy K. Bard
Carl B. Shelley
Commonwealth
George H. Earle
United States Senate
Bard
War Department flood control on three fronts
War Department flood control experts press a three sided strategy to curb the Mississippi valley floods. They regulate tributary downflow with reservoirs, confine flow below levees, and build floodways to move water to the Gulf of Mexico. They also create large reservoirs on St. Francis Yazoo White Arkansas and Red rivers to store and release water. Millions are spent fortifying levees and dredging channels to speed safe flow.
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War Department
Quincey Ewing, Jr
Washington
Mississippi Valley
Bayer
Gulf of Mexico
Army
St. Francis, Yazoo
White, Arkansas
Red Rivers
Mumissippi Main Line
Mississippi River
Fearful Dysentery Outbreak Hits Michigan Towns
In Detroit tests seek shiga dysentery as the cause after six recent Owosso deaths. Six month old Mary Ruth Conrad died in Detroit after a two hour illness. Other children in Detroit and Owosso units are isolated as physicians review the outbreak with state health officials.
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Detroit
Owosso
Mary Ruth Conrad
Alfred Conrad
Suaginaw
Memorial Hospital
Don W. Gudakunst
Shiewassee County
Swartz Man Canterbury Found Dead In Woods
C. C. Canterbury 59 of Swartz was found dead in a wooded area two miles from his home after being reported missing since Friday. Coroner’s examination showed no wounds or signs of foul play and officials suspect heart failure. Police noted an earlier confrontation with Shelby Thompson during a Friday ride.
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C. C. Canterbury
Swartz
Irving J. Wolff
Ouachita Parish
Canterbury
Milton Coverdale
Coverdale
Shelby Thompson
Henry Thompson
Thompson
Army Ready Ten Assist Losers In Mock War
At Desota National Forest Mississippi on August 8 the Army announced a staged outcome in a war game. Two divisions joined the Blue force defending the gulf coast against a Brown corps seeking to capture the lower Mississippi valley.
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Third Army
Desota National Forest
Miss
Gulf Coast
Mississippi Valley
Gulf
Mexico
Short course attracts many from Ouachita parish to Baton Rouge
Approximately percent of farm men and farm women from Ouachita parish left early Monday by car and bus for Baton Rouge to attend the annual farm short course opening at Louisiana State University extension department. Bus transportation was provided by the Ouachita parish police jury for Perth home demonstration club members.
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Ouachita Parish
Baton Rouge
Loumsiane State University Extension Department
Perth
New Buildings Planned for Northeast Center Campus
Dean C C Calvert of LSU Northeast Center says plans for two new buildings at the college have been approved by the state and await federal signoff. The $225000 project includes a music building and a library facing the circle, enhancing facilities for rising enrollments. Dean Calvert and family are traveling from Monroe after a summer session where he earned an instructor post.
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C. C. Calvert
Louisiana State University
Eilander
Dean Calvert
Calvert
Marguerite
Monroe
Seteola
Fla
Gov Leche to Speak on Radio Monday
Governor Richard W. Leche will deliver an important message to Louisiana citizens Monday from 1 to 3 p.m. The statewide hookup will link WJBO Baton Rouge WDSU New Orleans KALB Alexandria KMLB Monroe and BYOL Lafayette.
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Gov. Leche
Baton Rouge
Richard W
WJABO
WDSU
New Orleans
KALB
Alexandria
KMLB
Monroe
Me Charles
BYOL
Laleye
No Trace Found Of Missing Clipper
The steamer Canberra Maru reported reaching Douglas reef and finding no trace of the Hawaii clipper missing since July 28 while en route from Guam to Manila. Authorities extended the search 860 miles south of Japan with orders for water and provisions to sustain it, and a fishing boat was ordered to assist.
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Tokyo
Douglas Reef
Hawaii
Guam
Manila
Japan
Coon
Lawyer in Harlan trial shoots self at Pineville
Kay Aus of Harlan in a high profile anti-labor conspiracy case was shot and in critical condition at a Pineville hospital. A doctor said the man inflicted the wound after a telephone call from his home.
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Harlan
Pineville
Kay Aus
Clare Ee Stacey
Patterson
Dea
Pattersons
Daughter Born to Ex Governor Noe
Former Governor James A. Noe and wife announce the birth of a daughter. The brief notice confirms “its girl” was born to the Noes and notes the event occurred in the evening.
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Noe
James A. Noe
Praxcis
Plans Set for City-Wide Fall Dollar Day
Merchants’ division of the Charter of Commerce sponsors a city-wide fall dollar day. Monroe residents are invited to participate as buyers from Louisiane and Arkansas are expected to attend.
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Gayme
Comnardecee
Monroe
Louisiane
Arkansas
New Clashes Widen Breach Over Frontier
Two new clashes on the Siberian frontier widened the gulf between Japan and Communist forces as negotiations fail. The border fight near Susenhe twenty miles north of Changhufeng has pitted Russians and Japanese on heights near the Korean Manchoukuo and Siberian frontiers. The Russian reply rejected the frontier incident framing.
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Siberian
Japan
Cmpuana
Mexim
Susenhe
Changhufeng
Steel Workers to file charges against Tube company
The Steel Workers Organizing Committee plans amplified charges before the National Labor Relations Board alleging blacklisting of about 225 workers, discrimination against black workers, threats and espionage, refusal to bargain, and collaboration with public officials and vigilantes during the late summer strike at plants in Youngstown, South Chicago, and Indians Harbor Indiana. A Senate civil liberties inquiry in Washington will use testimony from the hearings in the labor board case.
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Cleveland
Steel Workers Organizing Committee
Amplified
National Labor Relations Board
Senate Civil Liberties Committee
And
Washington
Labor Board
Civil Liberties
W. O
Planta
Youngstown
Chicago
Indians Harbor
Ind
Roper Optimistic On Business After Europe Visit
Secretary of Commerce Daniel C. Roper said congressional elections this year could shift leadership and cautioned that many events could alter the outlook. He praised improving conditions and expressed optimism about boosting the economy despite questions surrounding a possible third Roosevelt term.
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New York
Imo
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Ruby Carroll
Paul Dwyer
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Fuge
Fear Girl
Shiga
Ellender
Dean
Pitt
Cestineast
Roper
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