Big Asia war fears flare as Japan and Russia clash
The piece covers renewed Sino Japanese tensions near Hankow and Manchukuo with Soviet and Japanese forces trading actions across Changkufeng. It notes Tokyo and Moscow mobilizations, allied diplomacy, and ongoing border skirmishes amid broader postwar policy debates in Washington and Paris.
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Joseph Stalin
Russia
Japan
Stalin
China
Asia
Manchuria
Tokyo
Moscow
Changkufeng
Manchukuo
Russian Siberia
Japanese Korea
Kirin
Yuki
Kazushige Ugaki
Washington
State Department
Paris
Foreign Office
Relief Cash and Politics Stir Washington Digest
In Washington Digest, Bruckart details a tense Democratic factional struggle in Tennessee. Senator George Berry seeks renomination while Senator McKellar opposes to block control shifts, highlighting internal party power plays and election stakes.
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Tennessee Valley Authority
Tennessee
George L. Berry
TVA
Berry
Franklin Roosevelt
George Berry
Memphis
Crump
Thomas Stewart
William E. Dodd Jr
R. Bruce Shafer
Howard W. Smith
Colgate W. Darden
Shafer
Norman R. Hamilton
Missouri
Bennett Champ Clark
Lloyd C. Stark
Stark
State Supreme Court
James M. Douglas
Kansas
George McGill
Senate
Clyde M. Reed
Gerald B. Winrod
West Virginia
Jennings Randolph
John Kee
Joe Smith
Washington
McKellar
Senators by the people a path to demagogy and spending
The column reviews 1920s shifts to direct senator elections, cites Marshall's rare apology, and argues that direct elections foster demagogues and heavy federal money influence. It links Hopkins relief politics, party feuds, and the Norris amendment to today’s Senate dynamics, urging reconsideration of direct election.
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Thomas R. Marshall
United States
Wilson
William Bruckart
U. S
Kentucky
Chandler
Senate
Alben” Barkley
Washington
Roosevelt
Barkley
Hopkins
Virginia
Indiana
Marshall
Norris
Nebraska
Congress
Mr. Norris
United States Senate
House of Representatives
Union of States
Western Newspaper Union
Crime spree ends in Canadian prairie tragedy
A band of four Chicago youths crosses into Saskatchewan to stage robberies but is fatally opposed by a lone Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer. In a brief chase two crooks die at the scene, another dies after pursuit, and the fourth is captured and killed when cornered days later. The firearms trio die in the pursuit and the mounts claim a final victory as the story closes.
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Chicago
Canada
Dominion
Saskatchewan
Prairie Country
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Smiths
Joneses
Browns
MacDonald
Hector MacDonald
Mounted
Cana
Monkey Steals Baby in Kalawila Incident
A monkey climbed to a roof in Kalawila Ceylon and rocked a baby to sleep before snatching it from the cot. The simian was lured down and shot. The infant was rescued unharmed.
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Kalawila
Ceylon
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Dixie) Davis
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Wheeling Hospital
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Whizzer) White
Pittsburgh Pirates
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Minnesota
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Pearl White
Pauline
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Richmond, Va
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Thalia Fortescue Massie
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