Battle Near Peiping Opens Major North China Drive
About 60,000 Chinese and Japanese troops clashed 30 miles southwest of Peiping in the first phase of a broad offensive to clear North China. Japanese headquarters reported heavy casualties but said the battle favored their side, while independent sources called it indecisive. Weather aided the Chinese as rains swamp central Hopeh, impacting terrain and operations.
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Tientsin
Peiping
China
Hopeh
Ern
International Settlement
Japan
Whangpoo
Yangtze
Woosung
Yangtze River
Shanghai
Pootung
Whangpoo River
Appeals Up In 2 License Cases
A hearing opened at the county courthouse on Mrs. Rosalie Summers bid to sell beer in New Market. Objectors and supporters presented testimony and the State License Bureau holds the transcripts from Myers ruling as petitions show nearly twice as many supporters as objectors.
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County Tjeenss
G. Ed Myers
State License Bureau
Court House
Rosalie V. Summers
Bureau
Myers
Princeton Bue
E. Austin James
Summers
Nettie J. Mealey
M Summers
Carl F. Mealey
Joan D. Kelly
F S Runkles
Fannit E Ramsburg
Gertrude Follman
George L. Chaney
W. B. Toad
H. G. Young
John A. Engie
Sthe L. Dryer
R. F. Day
Golden Foxley
PD Browning
F.jd. Bsowning
Refugee Children Fear Planes During Shanghai Evacuation
Refugee children screamed as planes swooped over the liner President Movers carrying 871 people fleeing Shanghai. Passengers were inoculated for cholera, smallpox and typhoid before being housed at Fort William McKinley Manila and a mountain resort. Financial aid appeals were made by Mrs W W Boyer, Thomas A Molesworth, and Mrs Lily Amberger.
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P. J
Shanghai
Tso
Tares
Fort William McKintey
Frederick to begin sewer connections Tuesday
More than half of Frederick is ready to be connected to the city's sanitary sewer system as groundwork is laid at City Hall for start of work tomorrow. Sixty streets are designated for connections with city inspecting and licensed master plumbers required for all ties.
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Frederick
Lloyd C. Culler
City Hall
Bentz Street
Carroll Creek
Staly
Ely
Edward S Mobley
Maxwell
Mobley
Frederick City
Whiener
Terry Rowe Walsons Stove House
AE Fisher
Keefer Bros
Frank Eppley
Charles C. Crum
Killed in Crash After Visit Here
Mrs Amanda H Ford 41 died Friday afternoon at West Side Hospital York after a car rear ended the Ford vehicle in East York on Sunday August 15. Her husband George F Ford and three children Keefer Olivia and June survived with June later found to have only cuts and bruises. The family had been visiting relatives in Frederick and had attended First Baptist church. Funeral from her home 352 East Poplar Street York Tuesday at ten.
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York Pa
Frederick
Amanda H. Ford
George F. Ford
West Side Hospital
York
East Poplar Street
East York
Mr. Ford
Childdren
Ford
D. Henry Ford
East South Street
First Baptist Church
Aswaul
Iron And Steel Co Holds Annual Picnic
Nearly five hundred employees and their families from the Frederick Iron and Steel Company attended a Saturday afternoon picnic at Wisners Meadow along the Monocacy River near Ceresville. The event featured refreshments, hunches, music by the First Regiment band, swimming, games, races, and a tug of war won by the foundry.
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Frederick Iron and Steel
Wisners Meadow
Monocacs
Ceresville
First Regiment
Foundry
EO LL
Stockman
Chas Mercer
Fred Kottmsyer
Wilbur Dixon
Oscar Linton
Stolen Car Wrecked Near New Market
A stolen car wrecked on Willis hill east of New Market around 10:90 Sunday night. Two boys fled the scene uninjured, one with torn clothes asking for lodging later. The car owner from Catonsville claimed the vehicle. state police had no further details.
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Willis’ Hill
New Market
Carl F Mealey
Catonsville
E. L Brashears
Surprised Corn Quality Signals Canning Week Start
Corn canning operations began a new week with packers expressing surprise that overall corn quality was not better given the favorable growing season Only August drought limited rainfall affecting field corn Some rain over the weekend may aid field corn ripening Weather improved Virginia Panhandle drought reduced packed sugar corn at Woodsboro and Berryville Sightings of about 50 tons packed in West Virginia and similar amounts locally were reported News also notes safe return of American relatives from Manila earthquake mixed with local family ties
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Panhandle
West Virgin
Charles Town
West Virginia
Woodsboro
Berryville
Virginia
Weather Record Shows August Precipitation and Temp Data
The report lists 24 hour precipitation ending 7am at 1.34 inches, August to date 3.23 inches, normal August precipitation 8.65 inches, and August 1936 actual 2.6 inches. It notes excess 1937 precipitation to August 16.90 inches, high temperature yesterday 76, Michigan temperature paragoe, low temperature last night 60, and moon and sun times for today and tomorrow. Streams Potomac and Monocacy muddy.
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Westerday
Tomearrow
Potomac
Monocacy
Slayings and assaults trigger Chicago manhunt for sex offenders
Chicago police launch broad roundup after a nurse is slain and two other women are assaulted within 48 hours. Authorities name a rising pattern of attacks, guard hospitals and living quarters, question numerous suspects, and seek every man with a record for sex offenses as they pursue the killer who entered Miss Florence Swanson’s room and the nurse Miss Anna Kuchta.
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Chicago
Anna Emllander
Hollander
Ragor Wn Small
John Pendergast
Uniformed Police
Florence Swanson
Anna Kuchta
Chicago Hospital
Bliss Swanson
Jefferson Park Hospital
Col Leonard Umpire in Big Army Maneuvers
Colonel John W Leonard at Fort Devens Massachusetts serves as an umpire in the Fiat Army Corps maneuvers. He is among 117 officers chosen as umpires for the war game directed by General Fox Connor. The exercise includes Regulars National Guard and 176 189 troops across twelve eastern states. Major General Connor commands the First Army in a simulated defense of the Atlantic seaboard. Leonard previously earned the Distinguished Service Cross the Legion d Honneur and the Croix de Guerre.
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John W. Leonard
Fort Devens
Mas
Fiat Army Corps
Leonard
Warshin
Fox Connor
First Army
Connor
Atlantic Seaboard
Perching
GFEQ
France
Crashes Into Six-Story Naval Warehouse in Shanghai
A shell struck a department store in the International Settlement causing massive casualties. The United States Naval Warehouse was hit a second time but did not explode, killing and wounding many, including three American correspondents. Evacuation and investigations followed amid ongoing battles near Shanghai.
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Shanghai
International Settlement
United States Naval
Anthony Billingham
New York Times
Hallett Abend
China
Blanche Tenney
Woosung
Wing On and Co
Fennte
Third Legislator Hired in State Roads Payroll
Baltimore Aug 23 AP Dr Homer E Tabler state Roads Commission chairman disclosed a third member of the state Legislature on the right of way section payroll Senator Harold E Cobourn Cecil county Democrat is now employed in right of way work Cobourn entered service this month The other two legislators on the payroll are Democrats Senator Milton L Veasey Worcester county and Delegate Leon Abramson Baltimore city
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Baltimore
State Roads Commission
Homer E. Tabler
Commission
Tabler
Harold E Cobourn
Cecil County
Cobourn
Milton L. Veasey
Worcester County
Leon Abramson
Baltimore City
Market gains fade as rally falters in low trading
In New York on August 23 efforts to spark another stock market rally yielded only partial gains. A few favorites held modest advances while earlier improvement of fractions to a point or more vanished in many cases. Trading was exceptionally light around the fourth hour.
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New York
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Peark
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Keyser
W. Va
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Warry K Powles
Hagerstown
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Martinsburg
W Va
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Frank Griffin
Cilia
COME
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U. S. Naval
Morris J. Warris
Sincere and Company
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