Night of Shanghai warfare Doomsday air raid and sea bombardment
American correspondent recounts a moonlit raid on Shanghai as Japanese bombers struck Chinese positions near the Hungjana airfield and Pootung while warships shelled north and east of the city. Smoke filled the skies over ships as foreigners watched from rooftops and hundreds of refugees fled aboard the President McKinley and its tender.
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Morris J. Harris
Shanghai
U.2
Hungjan
International Protection Fleet
French Concession
International Settlement
Japan
Yangtze
President McKinley
Wharngpoo River
James A. Mills
Dollar
McKinley
Yangtze River
Bryant
Kobe
Yangtze Estuary
China Sea
Whangpoo
Whangpoo River
Hongkong
Yangtzepoo
Chapei
Kiangwan
Pootung
Lungwa
Sirdrome
Rca-Victor
Roosevelt signs District of Columbia tax bill and Miller-Tydings rider
President Roosevelt signed the District of Columbia tax measure and the Miller-Tydings minimum resale price rider with misgivings. He backed the district bill to avert a large deficit but called the rider a vicious device attached to a major bill. The rider legalizes minimum resale price contracts in states with existing statutes, exempting wholesalers and manufacturers from antitrust laws when selling to retailers under such contracts. Washington.
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Roosevelt
District of Columbia
Washington
Developments in Sino-Jap Crisis
United Press reports Shanghai refugees flee fire toward a liner as the President McKinley carries evacuees. Washington aims a middle course to aid citizens and protect those who stay, with 1 200 Marines joining 1 150 at Shanghai. Tsinanfu missionaries remain in danger in Shantung. Tokyo thanks US for safe evacuation of Nanking embassy staff. London suggests a joint guarantee of safety if Shanghai fighting ends.
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United Press
Shanghai
London
Britain
Four Die In Explosion Aboard Cassin At Philadelphia Yard
A blast aboard the destroyer Cassin during a steam test at the Philadelphia navy yard killed four civilian workers and injured ten others including an officer. Lieut Henry Marshall and several water tenders and firemen were among the injured. many were taken to St Agnes and Philadelphia Marine hospitals with burns. A full casualty list was not yet available.
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Philadelphia
U. S. S. Cassin
Philadelphia Navy Yard
Henry Marshall
William H. Behrens
W. T. Cluverius
St. Agnes Hospital
Jerome Sullivan
Louis Sherby
Daniel M. Vautier
Philadelphia Marine Hospital
Navy Yard
Don Koif
William McCallun
D. H. Philippe
A. E. Bryan
C. L. Minnehan
T. L. Athey
A. L
G Men To Probe Nazi Camps Nationwide
Washington Attorney General Cummings asked the FBI to conduct a cursory examination of Nazi military training camps across the country to see if federal laws are violated. He indicated a formal inquiry could follow if warranted after letters to Congress member Citron alleging arms transfers among camps.
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Washington
Cummings
Bureau of Investigation
J. Edgar Hooter
Citron
Democrat
Connecticut
Andover
N. J
Department
Six spies shot reported by Minsk Worker newspaper
The Minsk Worker reports six spies tied to Trotskyist charges were executed after conviction for poisoning Red Army soldiers in White Russia under orders from fascist intelligence. The dispatch notes their swift removal by authorities and lists the regime as responsible.
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Moscow
Trotsky
White Russia
Minsk
Neat (Worker
Insurgents Advance Toward Santander in Spain Civil War
Forces described around the Black Arrow brigade with 200 German planes push from Hendaye toward Santander. Government reports say insurgent columns drive on parallel routes into Biscay’s last port, within about 25 miles of the city outskirts. The cross-border offensive features tanks guns and air support as Franco’s campaign enters its fourth day.
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Hendaye
Santander
Spain
Biscayan
Francisco Franco
Roosevelt Defends Democracy At Roanoke Island Celebration
President Roosevelt declared democracy the answer to Tory calls for power in a select class. He said he seeks no change in American government and that majority rule protects liberty and civilization. He invoked Lord Macaulay and warned against dictatorship or anarchy, tying his stance to support for property security and public order.
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Manten
Roanoke Island
N. C
Roosevelt
Liberty League
Lord Macaulay
H.S. Randall
New York
England
Macaulay
Supreme Court of India
United States
Napoleon
Lord
Lord Macaulays
Sam
Congress Races to Finish Amid Adjournment Plans
Congress sped toward Saturday night adjournment with leaders hoping to finish by Friday night. Senate confirmed Sen. Mago Black to the Supreme Court, the House passed the third deficiency appropriations bill, and the tax loophole closing bill moved in the Senate finance committee. Remaining items include sugar marketing, the Wagner Steagall housing measure, and the deficiency bill. A Thursday caucus would discuss right of way for the wage and hours bill.
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Edward W. Lewis
United Press
Washington
Congress Today
Senate
House
Mago L. Black
Abhibama
United States Supreme Court
Arthur D. Healey
Massachusetts
Om T. Rayburn
Harold Best Reenacts Slaying of His Sister
In Prairie du Chien Wisconsin Sheriff Oliver White reports 15 year old Harold Best reenacted for him the killing of his 11 year old sister Mildred He admitted in a signed statement that he shot her on June 4 after she repulsed his advances A further autopsy on Orla Shaw uncle of the slain girl raises questions about poisoning as a factor and notes a bacterial infection as the immediate cause of death with toxicology finding substantial poison in his organs
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Prairie du Chien
Wis
Oliver White
Harold Best
Mildred
Harold
White
Soldiers Grows Farm
Mrrs
Lillian Shaw
Crawford County
Carl N. Wall
Madison
C. WH. Bunting
Orla Shaw
Shaw
Banting
Jeremiah O'Neil
Putt
S. P. Pesun
Tadican
Vall Tre
F. J. Kovelka
Roosevelt son accused of hurling champagne in Cannes riot
John Roosevelt, son of President Roosevelt, allegedly threw champagne in Cannes during the battle of flowers festival while presenting flowers to Pierre Nouveau the mayor reported. The incident occurred before the Carlton hotel in front of prefect general and foreign guests angered by the act.
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Cannes
Frince
Pierre Nouveau
John A. Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Carlton Hotel
Europe
Harvard University
Riviera
Nouveau
John
Yaris
John Roosevelt
Associated Press
Lanedon
Paris
Pythians Organize for War on Crime Movement
Milwaukee 67 reports the Grand Lodge Knights of Pythias of Wisconsin in convention launching a nationwide movement to curb and cure crime. The National American Association for the Curb and Cure of Crime and the Promotion of Health and Happiness in America will be non political nonsectarian and invite all citizens and organizations to enlist. The juvenile delinquency committee oversees the effort aiming to unite a powerful, patriotic force for law and order and public well being.
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Milwaukee
Grand Lode Knights of Pythias
Wisc Consin
National American Association For
America
Juvenile Delinquency Committee
Soviet Transpolar Plane Missing Natives Hear Roar of Engines
In Alaska Barter Island natives reported hearing engines days after a Soviet transpolar plane vanished. Pilot Sigismund Levaneffsky and five crew were last heard crossing the pole. Arctic search plans expand with Sir Hubert and Hollick-Kenyon joining, plane skis prepared for Arctic service.
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Fairbanks
Alaska
Barter Island
Bob Randall
144Th Meridian
Barrow
Meridian
148Th Meridian
North Pole
Moscow
Lindbergh
Sigismund i Levaneffsky
Pole
Jimmy Mattern
Joe Crosson
Wilkins
New York
Sir Hubert Siete
Herbert Hollick-Kenyon
North Beach
Sigismund Levanetsky
Joseph Robinson
The
Explorers Club
Sir Hubert
Hollick-Kenyon
Robinson
AXE
Arctic
North Leach
Richard Archbold
New Guanes
Washington
Vilhjalmur J Staffansson
Powers Club
Wisconsin Weather Outlook With Showers Possible
Weather from the Associated Press notes considerable clouds and likely showers and thunderstorms for central and west regions tonight or Thursday, warmer tonight and Thursday in the east. Milwaukee and Concordia report highs near 50s, with a trace of precipitation and southwest winds. barometer at 29.70. One year ago highs reached 78 and 54.
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Associated Press
Wisconsin
Northwestern
Milwaukee
Concordia
Marquette
Fuckstall Observatory
Eligibility question looms over Hugo Black appointment
Washington report notes Albert Levitt petitioned the supreme court to require Hugo Black to show cause why he should be seated as associate justice. The filing cites retirement act raises pay and Black’s congressional past as grounds for ineligibility. Black confirmed 63 to 36, pledging to serve the people.
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Washington
Albert Levitt
Homer 8. Cummings
Supreme Court
Hugo L. Black
High Bench
Levitt
Supreme Court of the United States
Hugo S.tack
Senate
Congress
Deep South
Black
Hughes
Brandeis
Governor Graves May Name Wife for Black Seat
Montgomery Alabama Gov Bibb Graves weighs naming his wife or his legal adviser to fill Senate vacancy created by Hugo Black new Supreme Court justice. Black expected to resign soon. Mrs Graves 55 known as Miss Dixie an influential adviser. Former Sen Thomas Heflin ends retirement to run after talks with Graves.
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Montgomery
Ala
Bibb Graves
Senate
Hugo Black
The
Supreme Court
Graves
Senator Black
Washington
Lawrence Lee
Lee
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