Clash as Japanese Move Toward City Sparks Fatal Crash
Shanghai reports a fatal clash as a Japanese marine truck neared Hungjao airfield. Chinese peace corps barricade Kiangwan and Chapei as tensions rise with negotiations hinted on Japanese terms. Julius Lemle and daughter die in Flagstaff auto wreck. other family members injured.
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Shanghai
Chinese Peace Preservation Corps
Yangtze Valley
Kiangwan
Peace Preservation Corps
Chapei
Hungjao
China
Tientsin
North China
Hopeh
Girl Accused of Flogging WPA Workman in New Orleans
Eloise Willis and her father Alfred Willis face assault and battery charges after Eloise allegedly lashed WPA worker Kay with a rope in the Willis yard. Kay, treated for welts at Charity hospital, plans to file for formal charges as police confirm statements. Eloise 17, brother a lifeguard, and the incident occurred after accusations of lies spread about Kay.
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New Orleans
Oscar Kay
Kay
WPA
Eloise Willis
Alfred C. Willis
Democrats Nominate Bailey Rival Rally Opens In Arkansas
Democratic dissidents in Little Rock challenge the state committee by forming a rival rank and file convention. About one third of Arkansas counties sent delegates while many counties endorsed Bailey or stayed silent as party split deepens after Senator Robinson's death and Bailey's nomination.
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Little Rock
Ark
State Democratic Committee
Carl E. Bailey
United States Senate
Bailey
Senate
Joe T. Robinson
State Committee
Court Reform Bill Sent to Joint Conference
The House sent the Senate lower court procedure bill to a conference committee to hammer out agreement. Speaker Bankhead named Sumners Weaver Walter McLaughlin Coyer and Hancock to represent the House at the talks as Congress readied for a two week push toward adjournment. The Senate meanwhile held a light calendar as major bills awaited House action.
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Washington
House
Senate
Senate-House
Sumners
Texas
Judiciary Committee
Supreme Court
Bankhead
Weaver
North Carolina
Walter
Pennsylvania
McLaughlin
Nebraska
Coyer
Kansas
Hancock
New York
Judge probes Horst baby custody in Chicago case
County Judge Edmund K. Jarecki opened an investigation into both the real parents and foster parents as the Horst petition for adoption and immediate custody of 2 and a half year old Donald Otto Horst moves toward a hearing. The child was taken from his foster home by his biological parents and placed in an orphanage.
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Chicago
Otto Horst
Edmund K. Jarecki
Horsts
Jarecki
Little Donald
Lydia Nelson
John Regan
Otto
Martha Horst
Donald
Horst
Locarno Pact Revival Sought in British Italian Talks
London reports diplomats prepare Britain Italy Rome friendship agenda for late September talks. A four power western pact replacing Locarno is possible but faces French objections tied to Russia pact concerns. Britain Egypt and Mediterranean lifeline risks frame the diplomacy with Eden and Ciano to lead moves.
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London
Great Britain
Italy
Britain
Rome
Locarno
France
Russia
Germany
Foreign Office
Anthony Eden
Galeazzo Ciano
Neville Chamberlain
Sir Austen
Mediterranean
England
Many Auto Workers Return to Jobs after Labor Dispute
Twenty one thousand auto workers idle since last Wednesday due to a Plymouth Motor labor dispute went back to work today after a five point agreement brokered over the weekend by Chrysler and the United Automobile Workers. The accord ends a production blockade that pitted UAW members against the Independent Chrysler Employers Association. Earlier clashes included an open fight at the Plymouth plant and the discharge of four UAW members accused of beating two men described as company union leaders. The shutdown affected 11,000 at Plymouth, 7,000 in Briggs Manufacturing body division, and 3,000 at a Dodge plant.
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Detroit
Plymouth Motor Corporation
Chrysler Corporation
United Automobile Workers of America
Chrysler
Plymouth
U. A. WA
Briggs Manufacturing Company
Dodge
Little Girl Slayer Charged In Brooklyn Death
A 49 year old married hospital orderly formerly jailed for long crimes was charged with murder in the strangling and mutilation death of Paula Magagna, a Brooklyn child. He confessed after police discounted 15 alibis and re enacted the crime in the tenement basement.
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New York
Paula Magagna
Brooklyn
Lawrence Marks
Great Meadows
Frederick Kopff
Marks
Kopff
Carnes Heads Louisiana Secretaries Association
George M. Carnes of New Orleans was elected president at the Louisiana Commercial Secretaries association meeting in Alexandria. Rupert F. Disco of Lake Charles was named vice president and Grace LeBlanc of Crowley became secretary treasurer, with Albert J. Stowe C. W. Longwill and Mrs. E. E. Colvin named to the executive committee.
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Alexandria
Louisiana Commercial Secretaries Association
George M. Carnes
New Orleans
Rupert F. Disco
Lake Charles
Grace LeBlanc
Crowley
Albert J. Stowe
C. W. Longwill
Shreveport
E. E. Colvin
Ruston
Former convict wounds officer in Winnsboro pursuit
Lawrence Dingler, a former Louisiana state penitentiary inmate, fired on deputies pursuing him near his relatives south of Winnsboro and fled. Deputy Berry Gardner was wounded in the thighs and is recovering at a clinic. bloodhounds tracked the trail but lost it.
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Winnsboro
Here
Lawrence Dingler
Louisiana State Penitentiary
Angela
Berry Gardner
Franklin Parish
Dingler
Gardner
Marshal Blackman
Wisner
B. Glascow
Dave Chase
Gilbert
IM Ranch
Heasse
State Penitentiary
Monroe
Embryonic Twin Separated From Sister in Huntington
A seven month old baby separated from an embryonic twin joined at the hip was reported just fine at St Marys Hospital Huntington. Dr Francis Scott of Huntington led the operation last Thursday before physicians from the lower Ohio valley. The undeveloped twin was attached by a band of flesh with no spine juncture. Names of the baby and her parents were withheld.
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Huntington
W. Va
Huntington Hospital
St. Mary's Hospital
Francis Scott
Ohio Valley
Arcadia Post Office Bid Set for September Opening
Representative Overton Brooks of Shreveport announced that the post office department will open bids on September 1 for a new Arcadia Louisiana post office with an estimated cost of about $60,000.
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Washington
Overton Brooks
Shreveport
Postoffice Department
Arcadia
Cotton production in 1937 projected above last decade average
The Agriculture Department forecasts 1937 U S cotton production at 15 593 000 bales up 3 104 118 from 1936 with 33 429 000 acres in production. Yield prospects exceed last year and the 10 year average with 223 3 pounds per acre. Conditions on August 1 show above average yields in all states except a few listed.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
United States
Department
Crop Reporting Board
South Carolina
Mississippi
New Mexico
Arizona
California
Funeral held for Patricia Green killed by bite in Ferriday
Patricia Green two years old daughter of Mr and Mrs Benjamin L Green of Ferriday died from bites suspected to be snake or spider. She played in her yard Tuesday cried out ran to horses and was treated at Ferriday hospital before death Friday. Survived by parents a brother and grandmother Mrs W J Lowe who runs a store in Forndale.
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Patricia Green
Benjamin L. Green
Ferriday
Ferridey Methodies Church
Biterview Burns! Park
Ferriday Hospital
Benjamin Green, Jr
W. J Lowe
Forndale
Mourne
Preacher in Jail Pleads for Prayers Amid Murder Charge
Rev. Ira Blue a 34 year old Smith county holiness preacher and Sylvester Pickering 25 are jailed in Hinds county after being charged with murder in the fatal shooting of Ernest Craft 23 near a holy roller revival in Mize Mississippi. Sheriff J M Martin moved them for safekeeping amid community tension. Blue said he placed trust in the Lord and asked praying people to pray for him and Pickering.
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Raleigh
Eiue
Pickering
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Rulzheim
Bavaria
Leon Gershon
Lemle and Simon
DeSiard Street
Julius Lemie Company
Jeane Lemie
Jimmy Gault
Lake Forbing
Dalton Shipp
Orval Wainright
Jack Gault
Bruck
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Ington
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Oonald
Molly O'Connor
William Olding
Olding
Sneedville
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Fairmont
Hancock County
Tday
Eunice Winstead Johns
Eunice
Charlie Johns
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Ferguson
Franklin
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