Priest Doubts Lost Russian Airmen Alive
Alaska report quotes Father Bernard Hubbard the glacier priest casting doubt on the missing six Soviet transpolar airmen from the Barrow search. He argues Barrow should be moved to Wainwright and cites weather and ice as critical factors in the doomed 4000 mile Mos cow to Fairbanks attempt. A Soviet envoy notes Wilkins’s polar search will continue.
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Fairbanks
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Polar Wastes
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Wilkins
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Aklavik
Coppermine
Fear Grapples 99 U S Missionaries in Shantung Threat
American officials say 99 United States missionaries in Shantung and 40 more in southern Hopeh are missing as Japanese columns advance from Peiping toward Tientsin. The Tsiwan consulate closed August 27, urging evacuation while 60 Catholic clergy and 39 Protestant missionaries remain at posts amid rail-line fighting near Machang.
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Peiping
United States
Shantung Province
Tsinan
Shantung
Hopeh Province
Tsientsin
Tientsin
Pukow
Machang
China
Nanking
Feng Yu-Hsiang
John Allison
Tsiwan
United States Mission Board
Adventist
Methodist
Rotary clubs in Germany to end as Berlin dissolves
Berlin will see its Rotary club dissolve next Saturday and a district conference is expected to end all other German Rotary clubs and the free city of Danzig. The move follows a Nazi campaign against the organizations for not conforming to national socialism. Walter Buch, head of the party court, said Rotary is not anti semitic and is run by an international body conceived in America.
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Berlin
Rotary Club of
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Free City of
Danzig
Nazi Party High Command
Walter Buch
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Rotary
America
Cotton Loans For Farmers To Be Ready September 15
Secretary Wallace announced the start of the 1937 cotton loan program with gates opening for farmers to apply by September 15. The Agriculture Department outlined loan terms and eligibility as part of the new seasonal plan.
Government cotton loans set for 1937 program
Secretary Wallace announced the start of the 1937 cotton loan plan with loans up to 9 cents a pound and subsidies up to 3 cents on 65 percent of base production. Loans require sale before July 1 and growers should keep receipts until rules are issued.
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Washington
Wallace
Commodity Credit Corporation
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Fate of Sugar Bill Pondered by Roosevelt
President Roosevelt considered whether to veto or sign the sugar stabilization bill. Officials warned a veto could trigger a special session while supporters hoped for approval. The bill would replace the Jones Costigan act and last through March 1940 with potential lapse if Congress adjourns before new substitute laws.
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Congress
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Long Island Sound
Hawaii
Puerto Rico
Washington
Third Presidential Term Discussed by Michigan Governor
Chicago August 31 Governor Frank Murphy of Michigan said conditions by 1940 might warrant a third term for President Roosevelt. He stated he is not a candidate and that leadership of the Progressive forces remains uncertain, but the nation's needs could make Roosevelt a necessary candidate again.
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Chicago
Frank Murphy
Michigan
Roosevelt
Leche Plans Action On River Pollution In Louisiana
Governor Richard Leche prepared to study growing complaints of pollution in northeast Louisiana rivers as conservation officials scheduled a state wide conference for early October in Shreveport to consider prevention of poisonous refuse dumping. General Louis Guerre submitted a detailed report after touring the polluted Quachita river area.
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Baton Rouge
Richard Leche
Louisiana
Fred Voorhies
Louisiana Flood Control and Water Conservation Commission
Shreveport
Leche
Capitol
New Orleans
Louis Guerre
Quachita River
Guerre
Action Dropped In Slaying Of Youth In Shreveport
In Shreveport Louisiana Assistant District Attorney John R Pleasant said no further action will be taken in the death of 17 year old Andrew M Neeley who died from pistol wounds after an incident two weeks earlier Police say Robert Tucker a Negro was arrested then released after investigators found he had shot at an intruder at his Pecan Street home The coroner found Neeley suffered perforated intestines and one kidney from the bullet Autopsy was performed Tuesday night The shooting reportedly happened as Neeley tried to force entry into Tucker s house and occurred the same night as a car crash that injured Officer Dewey Schwartzenberg
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Shreveport
Andrew M. Neeley
Schumpert Sanitarium
John R. Pleasant
Neeley
A. M. Neeley
Oid
Robert Tucker
Tucker
Pecan Street
Dewey Schwartzenberg
Willis P. Butler
Caddo Parish
Barnett Sentenced Eight Years for Bigamy in Mississippi
In Belzoni Mississippi on August 31 H E Barnett 41 a tenant farmer pleaded guilty to bigamy after the murder charge over his slain son Jordan 11 was withdrawn by the state. He received an eight year penitentiary term Judge S F Davis noted the circumstantial case and dropped assault and battery and adultery charges. The trial earlier stalled by jury bias and venue delays.
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Miss
H. E. Barnett
Jordan
Barnett
S. F. Davis
Earl Thomas
Thomas
Davis
L. C. Carter
Huntsville
Ala
Uniform Lending Practices Urged By New Orleans Official
J S Brock state bank examiner and supervisor of homestead associations urged New Orleans home stead associations to adopt uniform lending practices. He warned against lowering interest rates paying loan commissions waiving charges and absorbing costs to secure loans. He called for 30 day submission of loan plans under act 217 1936 and a six month uniform plan to prevent dissension and protect the industry.
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New Orleans
J. S. Brock
State Bank
Brock
Booers Claim Boos Draw Crowd in Tifton Theater Spat
In Tifton Georgia on August 31 local No 3 of the Society for the Booing of Commercial Advertisements in Motion Picture Theaters challenged a temporary restraining order issued to stop booing of in theater ads. Theater manager R E Martin sought damages reportedly up to 10000 dollars while publisher John Herring defended the ad as boosting business as he and others mocked the injunction.
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R. E. Martin
R. Eve
Local No. 3
Society
Tifton Gazette
Martin
John Herring
Escaped boys steal apparel from local cleaners
Frank Parrouillet of New Orleans led five Louisiana Training Institute escapees in a late Monday break in at Ideal Cleaners on North Second Street. Parrouillet was arrested at the Tourist Hotel with clothes exchanged from the raid, while two companions remained at large in Monroe.
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New Orleans
Louisiana Training Institute
Harrison Street
H. E. Webb
R. G. May
District Attorney's Office
Ideal Cleaners
North Second Street
Parrouillet
William Holman
Institute
Idea Cleaners
Holman
Goodson
Monroe
Clara Bow to Open It Cafe With Rex Bell Friday
Hollywood gossip item notes Clara Bow and husband Rex Bell plan to open a cafe named It this Friday. The red haired star and Bell, who took her to a Nevada ranch years ago, blend cash, cooking and charm for the venture.
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Hollywood
Clara Bow
Rex Bell
Nevada
Detroit Man Confesses to Killing 10-Year-Old Evelyn Mack
A 45-year-old auto worker Joseph Jacobs confessed to police that he crushed Evelyn Mack’s skull with an automobile crank. He led officers to her body near Detroit after obtaining permission to take her to a nearby grocery. Jacobs fled toward Canada but was stopped when his car broke down at the Ambassador Bridge.
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Detroit
Evelyn Mack
Walter Bacher
Joseph Jacobs
Mack
Jacobs
Evelyn
Canada
Ambassador Bridge
Vernon R. Mack
Packard Motor Car Company
Iron lung aid helps two boys in Tulsa medical drama
In Tulsa Oklahoma Robert Hicks 19 was near death from infantile paralysis when Billy Epperson 14 long aided by an iron lung revived him. Hicks had fallen from a diving board while Billy who had spent weeks in an iron lung remained steady then relapsed.
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Tulsa
Okla
Robert Clarence Hicks
Hicks
Morningside Hospital
Billy Epperson
Billy
St. John’s Hospital
St. John’s
Jimmy Montgomery
Wichita Falls
Tex
Montgomery
Naval Vessels Enter Shanghai Port Ban Sparks Panic
Shanghai reports chaotic scenes as US authorities bar all American ships from port except naval vessels amid air attacks on the Lung Shan passenger liner. The strike near Woo sung sent refugees and residents into a frantic exodus while Chiang Kai-shek presses for foreign intervention to end hostilities.
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James A. Mills
Shanghai
United States
Lung Shan
Loyalists in Spain report successful captures and price moves
Madrid reports government forces captured key Sierra Nevada positions west of Almeria in a multi day offensive. Insurgents countered but were repulsed as battles shifted toward Orjiva Damajo and Calar overlooking Granada. Valencia fixes maximum food prices to ease costs including eggs at 13 cents a dozen and coffee at 10 cents a pound.
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Sierra Nevada Range
Almeria
Spain
Sierra Nevada
Malaga
Orjiva
Damajo
Calar
Granada
Valencia
Albert Dyer Faces Gallows Sentence Today
Albert Dyer was to be sentenced to the gallows for the sex slayings of three young girls in Los Angeles. He spoke briefly with his wife Isobel about practical matters and said, I will see you in heaven, as he kissed her goodbye.
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Los Angeles
Albert Dyer
Isobel
Dyer
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