Perseid Meteor Shower Seen Tonight Across Skies
The Perseid meteors, called Tears of St. Lawrence, will appear in hundreds tonight as observers count meteors after 10 p.m. E. S. T. Away from city lights the rate may reach 12 to 50 per hour. Count and mail results to Professor Charles P. Olivier in Upper Darby to help determine whether the universe is youthful or ancient.
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Associated Press
Philadelphia
St. Lawrence
Charles P. Olivier
Flower Observatory
Upper Darby
Newton
Britain may expel more Nazis amid German correspondents
The Daily Herald reported Britain was weighing further expulsions of Nazis beyond three German correspondents already ordered to leave. The three, tied to a Nazi network linked to the German foreign office, sent information on Germans abroad. A total about 500 Nazis reportedly operated in England among 20 000 Germans residents.
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London
Great Britain
Daily Herald
The
Herald
Foreign Office
Berlin
England
Franz Otto Wrede
Wolf Dietrich Langen
Werner von Crome
Lokalanzeiger
Langen
Home Office
German seaplane Nordmeer starts maiden transatlantic bid
The Nordmeer left Lübeck at 7 50 am for Lisbon on the first leg to New York as part of Germany's early transatlantic plan. Captain Joachim Blankenburg expects 13 hours to Lisbon, then refueling in the Azores for a 2300 mile final to New York.
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Luebeck
Germany
Nordmeer
Lisbon
New York
United States
Baltic
Portugal
France
Switzerland
Spain
Joachim Blankenburg
Azores
Schwabenland
Atlantic
Nordwind
Lightning Claims Four Hester Sisters in Creedmoor Farm Death
Four Hester sisters Maurice 24 Vivian Mae 19 Mary Swain 16 and Edith 13 were struck and killed by lightning while stringing tobacco on their father Edgar Hester’s farm near Creedmoor North Carolina. The tragedy occurred as a rain began and all four died instantly. Maurice was a teacher and Vivian Mae recently finished her studies.
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Creedmoor
N. C
Misses Maurice Hester
Vivian Mae Hester
Mary Swain Hester
Edith Hester
Edgar Hester
Joe
Maurice Hester
Pay and Hour Hearing Put Off Sudden Action by Committee
Washington reports the House Rules Committee postponed a wage hour bill hearing with Chairman O Connor and Louis Deschler in a closed session. Opposition within the committee was noted as gathering to block a rule to bring the measure to debate, with possible delays into next year and a secret Labor Committee session considering minor amendments.
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Washington
O'Connor
New York
House Rules Committee
Louis Deschler
House Labor Committee
Dies
Texas
Cox
Georgia
Fired Teacher Faces Hearing Over Darwin Theory Claim
In Waynesburg Pennsylvania Laura Elms Morris a discharged teacher testified she told pupils evolution was a joke and admitted striking a 14 year old with a three foot board. The school board revisits Darwin teaching amid testimony from students and local residents as the hearing extends past midnight.
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Waynesburg
Laura Elms Morris
Darwin
Whiteley Township
Two Knoxville Deaths Listed as Murder and Self-Destruction
In Knoxville Tennessee Mrs Mary Benson Hutchison 43 and her estranged husband Foster Hutchison 45 died last night. Police records label the deaths murder and death by own action. Captain Howard Luster said the woman shot her husband then killed herself with the same pistol. Hutchison died later in a hospital from a head wound.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Mary Benson Hutchison
Foster Hutchison
Howard Luster
Hutchison
Segovia Shelling Reports From Spanish Revolt
Government sources say Franco artillery bombarded Segovia to crush insurgent forces as the rebellion spreads across provinces. Observers note heavy gunfire in Segovia 43 miles northwest of Madrid and clashes ongoing near government lines.
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Madrid
Francisco Franco
Segovia
Auto Accident Victims Rites Planned Here
The bodies of Julius Lemle and his daughter Mrs. David Weingarden will arrive in Monroe Thursday night after a fatal automobile crash near Flagstaff Arizona. Funeral services for father and daughter will be held Friday at 4 p.m. at the Lemle residence with Rabbi F K Hirsch officiating. Interment will be in the local Jewish cemetery.
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Monroe
Julius Lemle
David Weingarden
Flagstaff
Ariz
Weingarden
Isaac Lemle
Houston
Tex
Missouri Pacific Railroad
Lemle
Washington Street
F. K. Hirsch
B’nai Israel Temple
Wrecked Eastern Air Lines plane crash kills four
A Chicago to Miami passenger liner struck a palm fought area over a night runway pole at Daytona Beach Florida killing four and injuring five. Pilot Stuart Dietz died and co pilot Robert Reed plus passengers J Triana and J F Philpots were fatally hurt.
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Daytona Beach
Eastern Airlines
Robert Reed
Oklahoma City
Fla
Stewart Dietz
Reed
Fia
Eastern Air Lines
Peter Dygert
Dygert
Stuart G. Dietz
Eastern Air
Dietz
Robert R. Reed
J. Triana
Mexico City
J. F. Philpots
Kingston
Jamaica
Halifax Hospital
Fred M. Thompson
Greenville
S. C
Brian Merrill
C. W. Dunlap
H. M. Hamilton
Detroit
Peter Philpots
Department of Commerce
Florida
Florida Power and Light Company
Zionists Vote to Consider Partition Plan
In Zurich the world Zionist congress voted 34 to 158 to negotiate with Britain on the royal commission's Palestine partition recommendation despite Rabbi Stephen Wise of New York opposing any division. Wise led a minority against splitting the holy land. The vote stops short of final approval and allows exploration of terms.
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Zurich
Switzerland
World Zionist Congress
Great Britain
Palestine
Stephen Wise
New York
Zionist Organization of America
Wise
Holy Land
World Zionists
Royal Commission
Missing Alaska purchase check puzzles officials
Federal officials admitted the historic purchase check for Alaska is missing after30 years and may be in the general accounting office. Alaska delegate Anthony Dimond pushed for its display but Senate Territories Committee questioned the precedents and potential outcry for access.
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Washington
United States
Alaska
Treasury
General Accounting Office
Anthony Dimond
Congress
Juneau
Joseph Greenberg
Accounts and Deposits Office
Dimond
Offic
First Cotton Bale Auctioned In Ouachita Parish
The first bale of the 1937 Ouachita parish crop sold at a Wednesday auction to Guy Du Priest for Anderson Clayton Co. at 15 cents a pound. The bale, weighed 470 pounds, was ginned August 6 at Standard Gin and Manufacturing Co., Calhoun.
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Ouachita Parish
Guy du Priest
Anderson Clayton Company
Ben Downing
Ouachita National Bank
Standard Gin and Manufacturing Company
Sixth
Pine Streets
J. T. Austin
J. W. Russell
Calhoun
S. W. Pipes
Mark Stroud
Louisiana Cotton Cooperative Association
Convict Dingler Sought After Deputy Sheriff Shot
Lawful chase continues for Lawrence Dingler, paroled Louisiana convict wanted in the shooting of Deputy Sheriff George Gardner of Franklin Parish. Bloodhounds from Angola prison farms aided the hunt as officers closed in on a house where Dingler stayed. he escaped after a gun battle in which Gardner was wounded in the leg.
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Natchez
Miss
Lawrence Dingler
Louisiana
George Gardner
Franklin Parish
Angola
Gardner
Dirigler
Price pegging urged for five chief crops in Congress
A Senate agriculture sub committee backed a bill for price pegging loans on five crops cotton wheat corn tobacco and rice with parity price subsidies to growers who join a production control program. The measure faces full committee action later as House leaders debate similar proposals from southern state commissioners.
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Washington
Senate Agriculture
Smith
South Carolina
Senate
House Agriculture Committee
Commissioners of Agriculture
Jones
Texas
Roosevelt
Agriculture Committees
Congress
House Committee
Agriculture Department
Jesse Jones
The
Reconstruction Corporation
Checks of missing dancer forged in Paris case
Paris police report that traveler's checks signed by missing Brooklyn dancer Jean de Koven appeared with forged signatures. Investigators say disappearance could be killing or kidnapping. Four checks traced to Paris exposition windows, two to a bank for francs exchange. Aunt Miss Ida Sackheim holds ransom notes demanding $500 and seeks an intermediary.
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Paris
Jean de Koven
Brooklyn
Ida Sackheim
Miss Sackheim
France
Annihilation of Detachment Near Nankow Pass
Reports from Peiping and Tokyo describe a major Sino Japanese clash near Nankow Pass with Japanese forces advancing and Nankow City set ablaze. Chinese sources claim annihilation of a Japanese detachment while noting stubborn resistance near the pass.
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Nankow Pass
Tokyo
Great Wall of China
China
Nankow City
Domei
Nankow
Peiping
Here
Hopeh- Chahar
Chahar
Great Wall Pass
Missing Serio Girl Returns Home After Two Weeks
Rosalie Serio, 15, returned to Brookhaven Mississippi with her father and Sheriff J. Walter Smith after a two week disappearance. She offered few details about her travels and companions as authorities continued to investigate the case linked to a local man displaced from the family.
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Brookhaven
Miss
Rosalie Serio
J. Walter Smith
Californian
Rosalie
Smith
T. C. Smith
Executioner Takes 72 More in Russia
Moscow reports that 72 alleged far eastern railway wreckers connected to the Japanese secret service were executed, bringing the total known executions in the Siberian purge to 320. The group, described as Trotskyists and rightist terrorists, wrecked trains on the Siberian railway, killing 14 and injuring many as they sought to disrupt Soviet transport during wartime.
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Moscow
Irkutsk
East Siberia
Pravela
Russia
Siberian
Japan
Enito
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