Japanese Guns Bombard Suchow in Central China Assault
Japanese artillery began bombardment of Suchow, the Lunghai railway hub, with big guns moved up from the Fengchwang range. Columns from the southwest and northwest pressed closer as Chinese forces and civilians retreated southeast. Within hours, Japanese forces claimed to near unlimbering guns on the city as the siege intensified.
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Shanghai
Suchow
Central China
Fengchwang
China
Lunghai
Changching
Lunghai Railway
State Senate Comes 10 Aid of Teachers
Baton Rouge May 17 The Louisiana state senate unanimously approved Roscoe Cranor’s resolutions to provide 12 months pay for teachers and allocate 500000 to feed needy school children. Cranor said teachers’ living standards are too low and many pupils lack adequate food, with some teachers feeding students themselves.
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State Senate
Baton Rouge
Roscoe Cranor
Shreveport
Senator Cranor
Cranor
Parent-Teacher Associations
Legislature Gets Down To Real Work In Baton Rouge
In Baton Rouge on May 17 the Louisiana legislature continued its session with lawmakers actively engaging on bills and committee agendas. The day highlighted debates and preliminary votes shaping upcoming measures in the capital.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana
Jury rules sea slaying a murder on ship at sea
An inquest jury found Ernest H. Topp of East Orange New Jersey died from a heart stab wound aboard the Baltimore mail liner City of Norfolk. The stabbing by Spanish crewman Chris Magguire occurred May 4 miles west of Bishop's Rock.
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London
Ernest H. Topp
East Orange
N. J
City of Norfolk
High Seas
Topp
Chris Magguire
Fuller calls for ending government interference fuels idea of sale driven economy
Walter D. Fuller, president of Curtis Publishing, urged Boston Chamber of Commerce to remove restrictions and taxes he said dampen production and innovation. He criticized federal efforts to push prosperity, urged a return to classic American selling methods to stimulate demand for a 150 year growth and a world market of two billion people. He warned against propaganda and half truths funded by taxpayers, arguing for a freer business environment.
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Boston
Walter D. Fuller
Curtis Publishing Company
America
Fuller
Boston Chamber of Commerce
U S Ambassador Protests to Japan Over Nanking Return
In Tokyo on May 17 United States Ambassador Joseph C Grew protested to Foreign Minister Koki Hirota that Americans be allowed to return to Nanking homes and businesses. He noted Americans evacuated during the Japanese push into Nanking last December and said Japanese controls on transport from Shanghai and elsewhere to Nanking prevent their return.
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Tokyo
United States
Joseph C. Grew
Koki Hirota
Nanking
Shanghai
Psychologist Proposes Pay For Parentage
Salt Lake City May 17 A famed California psychologist proposed paying parents per child to equalize parenthood burdens. Dr Paul Popenoe of Los Angeles, director of the Institute of Family Relations, urged a proportional family wage boosting salaries for white collar workers with each birth, criticizing the idea of equal pay for equal work.
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Vern Haugland
Salt Lake City
California
Paul Popenoe
Los Angeles
Institute of Family Relations
Tunnel Panic at Victoria Subways Tragedy
A rear-end crash of two crowded London Underground trains near Temple and Charing Cross caused at least seven deaths and many injuries. Firemen and police spent hours extracting passengers as sparks blinded riders in the dark tunnel. Charing Cross Station served as an emergency hospital with doctors and nurses rushing to aid the injured.
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London
Victoria Embankment
Underground
Temple
Charing Cross
Charing Cross Station
Farley censured for taking sides in Pennsylvania primary
Philadelphia May 17. The city Democratic committee censured Postmaster General James A. Farley for taking sides in the Pennsylvania Democratic primary. Pennsylvania leaders fought over harmony slates backed by Farley and debated Labor Leader John L. Lewis's role, with May election battles focusing on Governor Earle and Mayor Wilson amid factional clashes.
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Philadelphia
City Democratic Committee
James A. Farley
Pennsylvania
Harmony
Farley
John L. Lewis
Thomas Kennedy
George E. Earle
State Committee
S. Davis Wilson
Earle
Senate
Charles Alvin Jones
Kennedy
Wilson
West Monroe votes light in runoff with rain
Only a small share of eligible voters cast ballots in the West Monroe Democratic runoff as rain kept many away. At city hall about 500 voters could vote, with 96 ballots reported by noon, mirroring light turnout at other polling places. Mayoral candidates were H. M. Williams Jr and B. A. Gentry while eight aldermen sought four seats. D. C. Golson held the sole assured alderman post after the first primary.
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West Monroe
H. M. Williams, Jr
B. A. Gentry
Marlin Hattaway
Lee Hawkins
S. D. Kennedy
H. A. McDonald
R. L. Mitchell
H. C. Mize
Henry L. Presley
Ed M. Watkins
Man walks miles for birthdays and long life tale
A. F. Bergman, aging with his legs, marks birthdays by walking one mile per year, tallying a 51 mile hike on his latest birthday and claiming a quarter million miles since turning 18. In Oregon, Jake Polin's dog, shot for fits, briefly reappears with a lighter skull and no further fits.
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Pittsburgh
A. F. Bergman
Bergman
Chiloquin
Ore
Jake Polin
Cumberland Council Delays Tax Rate Measure Awaiting Mayor
Cumberland Md councilmen delay two hours as they await the arrival of Mayor Thomas W. Koon, who is also a physician, before acting on a key tax rate measure. The story notes the anticipated impact and the mayoral involvement in the decision.
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Cumberland
Thomas W. Koon
Electrical Refrigeration and Home Appliance Week Opens
Stores across the Twin Cities and nearby trade area invite the public to visit participating dealers for displays of the latest electrical refrigeration and home appliances. Weeklong expositions offer free gifts for visitors who register, with attractive bargains in modern electrical appliances from regional suppliers including Louisiana Power and Light and Passman Equipment Company.
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Twin Cities
Louisiana Power and Light Company
Cotton and Wood Streets
West Monroe
Passman Equipment Company
St. John Street
United Elec
Air Mail Week Boosts Monroe Postal Volumes
Postmaster J R Wooten reports air mail week in Monroe has increased outgoing and incoming mail. Monday night air mail was 100 percent heavier and day mail rose about 50 percent. Thursday and Friday are key days with a plan to have all letters by air on Friday and a goal of 400 outgoing letters from the Twin Cities.
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Monroe
J. R. Wooten
Twin Cities
Leche 10 Meet Berry Growers in Baton Rouge
In Baton Rouge on May 17 more than 3,000 Louisiana Farmers Protective Association members gathered at the capitol for a mass meeting. Governor Leche prepared to meet a delegation armed with a bill to obtain federal crop loans. Organizers predicted up to five thousand farmers would come to confer as strawberry prices sag. Strawberry auctions closed for the season and Leche asked for a one dollar per crate subsidy after Secretary Wallace’s reply.
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Baton Rouge, la
Louisiana Farmers’ Protective Association
Union of Strawberry Farmers
Capitol
Baton Rouge
Richard W. Leche
Louisiana
James H. Morrison
Hammond
Louisiana Farmers Protective Union
New Orleans
Florida
Mississippi
Farmers Protective Union
Leche
Wallace
Washington
Three Convicts Escape From South Carolina Jail
Three of six death-row convicts in the killing of penitentiary guard captain Olin Sanders escaped Richmond county jail in Columbia early today. Wingard 22 of Columbia Moorman 41 of Detroit and Crans 22 of Rochester New York broke cells and used a spoon key to open doors after earlier being sentenced to die in the electric chair for murder.
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Columbia
S. C
Olin Sanders
Richmond County
George Wingard
Herbert Moorman
Detroit
Clayton Crans
Rochester
N. Y
H. W. Desportes
Desportes
Penitentiary
Wingard
Moorman
Crans
William B. Woods
Biloxi
Miss
J. W. Bair
Sumter
Roy Suttles
Simpsonville
Sanders
Olin D. Johnson
Open Door With Spoon Twine And Tube In Prison Flier
A flier describes inmates using a spoon and twine key to pry open a penitentiary door and force guards to release prisoners. National Guardsmen used tar gas to subdue them as a tense hostage situation unfolded in the prison office. Seabees died before reaching a hospital.
Florida man jailed for double robbery tied to Calhoun trip
Archie Wittfieldt, 23, of Florida, was sentenced to two years in the Louisiana state penitentiary after pleading guilty to robbing James R. Lawler, an insurance agent, on a Farmerville Calhoun road trip. He forced Lawler to drive, took cash, and fled to Orlando before arrest. Two Monroe women pleaded guilty to larceny in a Bastrop party case.
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Archie Wittfieldt
Florida
Louisiana State Penitentiary
J. T. Shell
James R. Lawler
Calhoun
Wittfieldt
Mr. Lawler
Farmerville-Calhoun
Lawler
New
Quachita River
Orlando
Fla
Titusville
Otto Horn
Monroe
Calhoun CCC
Ruby Smith
Dixie Akens
Breard Street
Nine on Lockheed transport vanish in Sierra Madre fog
A Lockheed two‑prop transport carrying nine people disappeared above the Sierra Madre near Los Angeles after departing from Union Air Terminal at 1 40 p m local time. The crew included test pilot Sidney Willey and Northwest Airlines executives. Radio contact was lost as search efforts began with rangers and sheriff’s units alerted.
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Los Angeles
Lockheed
Sierra Madre Range
Bom A
St. Paul
Northwest Airlines
Union Air Terminal
Mojave
Sidney Willey
Fred Whittemore
Northewest Airlines
Henry Salisbury
Cari B Squier
Llola Totty
Glendale
Calif
Lockheed Sterapher
Evelyn D
Fs Aero Squadron
Claude Morgan
Robert E. Gross
Lockeheed
Joseph Marriott
Bureau
Sctor
ITO
L. D. Carlson
Western Air Express
Uniern
Stamp Thief Gets 10 Year Sentence
Arnold Ammons pled guilty to theft of 100000 three cent stamps from the Crowley post office last August 27 and received a 19 year Leavenworth sentence. Martin Loriano, an accessory, got a three year term. Elmo Kamp and J E Vaughan await arraignment from Texas cities Beaumont and Fort Worth respectively. About 40000 stamps were recovered.
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Lake Charles
Arnold Ammons
Leavenworth
Crowley Post Office
Martin Loriano
Ben C. Dawkins
Elmo Kamp
J. E. Vaughan
Beaumont
Tex
Fort Worth
J. Fair Hardin
Post Office
Lucas Leighton
Charges Filed Against Driver In Auto Crash
The triad attorney's office filed charges Tuesday against W. R. Williams of Grove for drunken driving causing property damage and leaving the scene after injuring a party. Mrs. W. E. Ellis suffered a fractured right leg and facial injuries, with others, including Mr. Ellis and Henry Clements, injured by broken glass in the crash at the Griswell filling station on De Siard Street. She is at St. Franeois sanitarium.
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Triat
W. R. Williams
Grove
Williams
W. EB. Ellis
Rochelle Aveenue
Griswell
de Siard Street
St. Franeois Sanitarum
Mr. Ellis
Henry Clements
Ellis
Memorial Service Held for Barnette Senator Bert Barnette
Memorial services for the late Bert Barnette of Arcadia were held in the upper house today. Senator Marshall E B Woodard, his successor for the 27th district, outlined his career as several senators rose to offer eulogies and family attended.
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Baton Rouge
Bertram ¥. Barnette
Arcadia
Marshall EB. Woodard
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