Quest pursued for peas sent fake SOS
Miami officials pursued a hoax distress call that triggered Coast Guard and private vessel searches for a phantom burning ship. FCC investigators weighed clues pointing to a land-based operator in the Lampas area amid reports of a Dunkwa ship sinking.
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Miami
Fla
Coast Guard
Arthur S. Fish
Federal Communications Conmmmission Office
Wet Lampa
Atlante Seaboard
Lloyd's of Spain
Rotterdam
Jacksonville
Bahama Islands
Key West
Fish
Florida Farm Boy Seeks $1 000 Prize
Mrs. Homer Hixson of Gainesville Fla competed with three other finalists for a $1,000 grand prize in the World's Poultry Congress egg menu contest. She received highest rating among six entrants in yesterday's competition. The Florida Future Farmers judging team was one of five receiving a superior rating and Newton Metzger of Hawthorne Fla received an individual rating of Superior.
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Cleveland
Homer Hixson
Gainesville
Fla
Poultry Congress
Florida Future Farmers
Newton Metzger
Hawthorne
Alabaman Financier W. H. Kettign Dies in Florida
W H Kettign a Birmingham Alabama financier and industrialist died in Jacksonville Florida from a cerebral hemorrhage. He was first stricken July 23 at Ponte Vedra Beach where he was vacationing. The body will be sent to Birmingham for burial.
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Jacksonville
Fla
W. H. Kettign
Birmingham
Ala
Ponte Vedra
Gee
Birmingam
War and a Woman at the Pensacola Air Station
Linda Storm accompanies Marcia King to a wedding near the Pensacola air base while confronting the looming war's impact. Linda doubts her pacific life against the hard vliegery world. she meets a mysterious uniformed man on the terrace, hinting at a growing romance as war shadows loom.
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Linda Storm
Marcia King
Pensacola
Marcia
Jimmy
Linda
Dar King
Daddy
George
Summer
Legion Juniors In State Competition Advances Set
WEST PALM BEACH Fla Aug 4 Five crack sand lot baseball teams vie for two finalist berths in the Amrican Legion Junior Tournament. Gainesville advanced on a bye and faces Tallahassee, which beat Cocoa 4 0 yesterday. Palm Beach defending champion and 6 2 winner over Sarasota yesterday waits to meet the winner as the two remaining teams prepare for 3 p m today with Kelchety South Jacksonshile and Bartow also in the field. The champion will advance to the Southeast regional tourney at Columbia SC.
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Fla
Toca
Amrican Legion
Gainesville
Tallahassie
Cocoa
Palm Beach
Saracota
Kelchety
South Jacksonshile
Bartow the Witter
Columbia
British stand in Far East stiffens amid talks of alliance
Britain's position in the Far East stiffened as discussions of a Tokyo Rome Berlin Axis alliance intensified in Parliament. Prime Minister Chamberlain said a British fleet could be sent to the Orient in certain circumstances, not as a threat but as a warning. He contrasted US isolation with Britain facing European troubles and noted limits to protecting Britons abroad. Britain maintains a naval squadron in China waters without capital ships. Tokyo-Britain talks have soured, a Japanese source saying Britain hardened its stance shortly after the United States-Japanese trade treaty cancellation news on July 26.
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Associated Press
Britain
Far East
Tokyo
House of Commons
Chamberlain
United States
China
Japan
Roberts urges NSW to teach American history in schools
Professor Stephen H. Roberts argues Australia should secure its future in the Pacific by introducing American history into New South Wales schools. He stresses that understanding U.S. actions and ideas will shape regional policy and Australia’s place in the Pacific.
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Australia
Pacific
Stephen H. Roberts
New South Wales
Tech
Youthful Bandits Are Held For Kidnaping
Two 21 year old Florida youths Harland Lee and Thomas H Cook were held on charges of kidnaping assault and robbery after they allegedly robbed motorist Oscar Kapnick at pistol point and tried to force him to drive them out of New York. The car chase ended when the vehicle hit a tree. Cook had a scalp wound and Lee a sprained ankle.
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New York
Florida
Harland Lee
Thomas H. Cook
Tampa
Oscar Kapnick
Cook
Lee
Roll And Isler to Move Into Arcade
The law offices of Philip A Roll and Charles S Isler Jr will move from the Ritz theatre building into the Sherman Arcade this week. After next week Roll and his associate will occupy offices formerly used by Waterman Steamship Co, now in the Page Building on Fourth Street.
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Philip A. Roll
Charles S. Isler, Jr
Ritz Theatre
Sherman Arcade
Roll
Waterman Steamship Co
Page Building
Fourth Street
Marriage Strife Follows Los Angeles Honeymoon
Clyde L. Brodie seeks a divorce claiming marital happiness ended when his wife ordered him out of the house twice on their wedding day. He asserts he is entitled to alimony in an unspecified amount.
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Los Angeles
Clyde L. Brodie
Brodie
Gas tax surplus tied up amid Florida court fight
Florida counties face delay as a 1930 surplus gasoline tax distribution law is challenged. The state supreme court recently ruled portions of the old law nonreuvactiv, while Attorney James P. Hill seeks reconsideration to preserve a temporary injunction and funds as elected officials await the judiciary’s return in June.
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Tallahassee
Fla
Florida
State Supreme Court
Valiey
Coure
James P. Hill
Guval
Wits B&p
Wien
wWepatimiehy
Grandma Weeks 112th Birthday Celebrated in Lithia
In Lithia near Tampa Florida neighbors marked Mrs Martha Grandma Weeks 112nd birthday with ice cream lemonade and a cake bearing many candles. The long noted resident born in 1827 near St Augustine recalled Seminole times and a younger brother’s scalp. She traveled into town the day before for a dress pocketbook apron and other purchases.
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Tampa
Fla
Lithia
Martha
Grandma) Weeks
Here
St. Augustine
Florida
Roadside Duel Ends in Death in Texas
Rusk Texas August 4 Sheriff Bill Brunt of Cherokee county and I Creel a tavern keeper were shot to death and a woman Myrle Stanley 25 wounded in a roadside pistol exchange early today The woman said Creel fired after Brunt halted a beer laden car by shooting its front tire Brunt then shot Creel and was killed.
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Brunt
Creel
Old Flagler Home May Become Museum
August 4 Flagler home Kirkside in Saint Augustine Florida may be turned into a museum. Mayor Walter B Fraser says he is negotiating to buy from Louise Wise Francis estate, with court approval needed. A museum memorial to Henry Morrison Flagler is the proposed aim.
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Flagler
Florida
Lynched Negro Very Much Alive in Savannah
Savannah, Aug 4. Charlie Williams a 33 year old negro is alive and working at a Savannah fertilizer plant. Williams said he heard he was lynched but ignored it, despite Tuskegee Institute listing his lynching at Woodcliffe, Ga. on March 11 in a semi annual report. Detective Fitzgerald found him after a search prompted by the Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching.
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Savannah
Georgia
Charlie Williams
Net's Worst Feud Still Hot Today
In a long running tennis feud Bobby Riggs and Joe Hunt remain heated as Riggs defeats Hunt to reach the Meadow club tourney semi finals. Kamrath advances after Prusoff defaults, advancing the lower bracket semi finalists Wood and Sutter win their matches.
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Southampton
N. Y
Bobby Riggs
Joe Hunt
Naval Academy
Rige
Hunt
Riggs
Bob Kamrath
Austin
Tex
Kamrath
Henry Prusoff
Bitsy Grant
Sidney Wood
New York
Ernest Sutter
New Orleans
Wood
George Toley
Los Angeles
Sutter
Bob Peacock
Berkeley
Calif
SEC Starts Probe of Proposed Nazi Bonds
The Securities Commission opened an inquiry into a proposed 73 million dollar German bond issue in the United States. It cited inadequate information on Germany’s budget debt gold and foreign exchange position. The German embassy called the information demands impossible for any sovereign government to meet. Officials said 35 million dollars of the bonds would be issued immediately with the remainder over four years to cover interest payments to American investors.
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Washington
Securities Commission
SEC
Commission
Perkins Car Fire Triggers Firehouse Alarm
New York August 4 officials report that Secretary Perkins car burned in front of Yorkville fire station after extinguishing chemicals ran out. Fire spokesman says car blocking entrance forced firefighters to move equipment and close station doors to prevent spread.
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New York
Congress
Perkins
Yorkville
Cunningham to Regain Weight After Birthday Plan
Peabody details Glenn Cunningham's plan to gain weight after his thirtieth birthday. The track star, famed for shaving seconds from mile records, aims to rebuild strength through eating and rest while resuming lectures and light workouts in Lawrence with an eye toward 1940 Olympic trials.
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Peabody, Aks
Glenn Cunningham
Basstell Stunt Causes Fractured Jaw For Joe Sprinz
SAN FRANCISCO Aug 4 A stunt to catch a baseball dropped from 800 feet during a Golden Gate Exposition celebration left Joe Sprinz Seals catcher with a compound jaw fracture the loss of eight teeth and facial lacerations He was unable to hang onto the ball after it struck his glove and will miss a month or more of baseball The record catch of 758 feet was tallied from Cleveland’s terminal tower.
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San Francisco
Joe Sprinz
San Francisco Seals
Golden Gate Exposition
Treasure Island
Sprint
Terminal Tower
Cleveland
Crime Story Writer To Run For Senator
West Palm Beach Florida Aug 4 Charles Francis Coe crime and sports thriller author announced as candidate for United States Senate from Florida in 1940 He will enter the May Democratic primaries opposing Senator Charles O Andrews and run as an anti New Deal speaker Coe a New York native who moved to Florida five years ago spoke in Paris during a European tour run as an anti New Deal candidate and Democrat
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Fila
Chas. Francis Coe
United States
Florida
Coe
New York
Paris
Europe
Charles O. Andrews
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