First Passenger Flight of China Clipper to Honolulu
The China Clipper, carrying thirteen men including six newspaper reporters, started from San Francisco for Manila with a crew of seven. The nonstop 2,410 mile hop began at 5:25 p.m. PST, landing in Honolulu at 12:23 p.m. EST, marking the first passenger Pacific crossing under the American flag.
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Honolulu
Manila
Charles E. Harner
Associated Press
Pan American Radio
America
Pacific
San Francisco Bay
Hawaiian
Golden Gate
San Francisco
Alameda
Pan American Airways
C. B. Allen
New York Herald Tribune
L. D. Lyman
New York Times
W. W. Chaplin
Universal Service
Harry Frantz
United Press
William van Dusen
Hawaii
Midway
Wake
Guam
Philippine Islands
New World
Orient
Pacific Ocean
China
Charles Harner
Davis Follies Showing Here Beckley Theatre
Colonel Ches Davis returns to Beckley Theatre with the 1937 Chicago Follies for a two day engagement. The show features nine standout acts including The Cress Family dancing Ellison Sisters Bobby Bedford Joyce Barber Anita Myth Ted Harris and his rhythm aces. The production has drawn enthusiastic reception after a long association with Beckley audiences. The stage show runs today and tonight for three performances.
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Ches Davis
America
Beckley Theatre
Davis
Beckley
Cress Family
Ellison Sisters
Bobby Bedford
Joyce Barber
Anita Myth
Ted Harris
Adv
Shirley Temple Sued for Million Dollar Case in Los Angeles
Jack Hays, film producer, sues Shirley Temple, her parents George and Gertrude Temple, Twentieth Century Fox, and two banks in Los Angeles. He claims a contract signed October 7, 1932 gave him two years to direct her film training and exclusive sponsorship, repudiated October 1, 1933, with damages sought totaling one million and half of later earnings. Hays says he trained her, cast her in six Educational Comedies shorts, earning modest pay then, now estimating a potential value around five million and earnings near two million since rising to stardom.
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Associated Press
Los Angeles
Shirley Temple
Jack Hays
Shirley
George
Gertrude Temple
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
The
California Bank
California Trust Company
Hays
Temples
Twentieth Century-Fox
Roosevelt Helped Business, Neely Says at Webster Rally
Webster Springs senator M M Neely told a Webster county Democratic rally that President Roosevelt has put bread in the mouths of 25,000,000 people robbed by the Hoover tank. He cited 361 percent auto registrations, 254 percent steel output, and a $2.5 billion rise in federal income under Roosevelt, contrasting with Hoover days. He urged voting Roosevelt for continued prosperity and warned against Landon.
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Associated Press
Webster Springs
M. M. Neely
Webster County
Roosevelt
Hoover
Alf Landon
Chinese government to use motion pictures for education
The government plans to deploy film as a tool to educate China's large illiterate population, aiming to expand literacy and civic awareness while leveraging cinema as a wide reaching teaching medium.
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China
Knox Bids for Labor Vote in Keystone State
Philadelphia where Republican nominee Frank Knox attacked government coercion in labor disputes and urged labor to reject dependence on federal aid. He accused relief officials in Pennsylvania of pressuring WPA workers to register as Democrats while noting miners’ support for Roosevelt. He warned such tactics would bind labor to government power.
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Associated Press
Philadelphia
Frank Knox
Pennsylvania
WPA
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers of America
Knox
America
Europe
Lewis
Roosevelt
Horses Return to Vienna Amid Revival of Horse Cabs
Vienna sees a revival of horse drawn vehicles as transport firms dairies ice and bread factories and others reinstate equine power. The famed flnker horse cab returns after World War I causing renewed street activity as horse use increases in the city. Cigarette consumption in China has risen over 30 years to more than 70 billion annually, but per capita use remains far below the United States.
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Associated Press
Vienna
Austria
China
United States
Seven Policemen Guard a Nation Andorra
Andorra relies on seven armed policemen backed by the French army and Vatican power to guard neutrality in the Spanish civil war. Co princes are the Spanish bishop of Urgel and the French republic. A 600-strong unmanned mountaineer guard remains on call for aid when needed.
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Associated Press
Andorra
Vatican
Republic of
Spain
Republic
Urgel
Ecently
Andorra council voices defense fears against Spaniards
Andorran council members alarmed over valley defense if Spaniards invade. Under the Pareage, the co-princes are empowered to act. The Bishop of Urgel also covers Lerida in Catalonia. Deer horn, valued by older Chinese, sells in China from 5.80 to 11 dollars per ounce, with rare red-velvet quality up to 100 dollars per ounce.
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Andorra
Urgel
Lerida
Catalonia
China
Message to Decent Voters from a Concerned County Resident
A reader criticizes a previous column calling voters decent, argues the message misleads, and questions Thornhill's actions as School Land Commissioner. The letter cites an audit showing a $34,288.52 discrepancy, condemns the small loan bill as 42 percent interest, and urges Thornhill to provide a direct, immediate answer.
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Mr. Thornhill
Harley M. Kilgore
Clarence Meadows
M. L. Painter
Thornhill
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Melen Broderick
Eric Blore
Betty Furness
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Michael Bartlett
Chester Morris
March OF Time — News
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George Stevens
Pandro S. Berman
John W. Cunningham
Elizabethtown
Vernon Mockbee
Mockbee
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J. T. Lynch
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
National Guard
Ruxton Rye Aryland
Liberty Distributors, Inc
Dundalk, Maryland
W. A. Thornhill
Beckley, W. VA
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