Fierce fight over Shanghai center rages as bombs fly
Chinese forces attack Japanese naval headquarters in Shanghai on the Whangpoo River. Infantry and artillery clash with two and four motor bombers as control of Hongkew and the surrounding area remains contested. Americans flee Shanghai as shelling persists and non combatants board the President McKinley.
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Associated Press
Shanghai
Japan
Whangpoo River
Hongtow
Hong Kew Park
Woosung
Michigan Political Binoculars Focus On Vandenburg Murphy
Washington dispatch notes Michigan will watch two major figures in coming years. Arthur Vandenburg, a silver-haired U.S. Senator, is eyed as a leading Republican presidential possibility for 1940, while Governor Frank Murphy draws attention for his Rooseveltian ties and potential high office.
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Preston Grover Washington
Michigan
Wolverimne Politicos
Arthur Vandenburg
Frank Murphy
Alf Landon
Kansas
Coolidge
Vandenburg
G.O.P
Vandenberg
Murphy
Supreme Court
Flying Boats Race for Ocean Schedules
PORT WASHINGTON N Y Aug 16 The German seaplane by erty ineer landed here four hours before the Pan American Clipper as both craft tested international routes for scheduled trans Atlantic service Capt Joachim Blankeburg greeted by Capt Harold Gray of the American boat on the Bermuda Azores Lisbon route The pilot’s comment and the race reflect the era’s push for trans Atlantic air scheduling and competition among early jet era seaplanes.
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Port Washington
N. Y
Ertyineer
Europe
Joachim Blankeburg
Harold Gray
Bermuda-Azores
Lisbon
Southampton
Blankeburg
Murphy
Azores
Atlantic
Avernees
Christian Endeavor Union Party
Baranof Arc
N. Kinell
Kinell
Southern Pacific
National
Henry Ford
Truman Newberry
United States Senate
Michigan
Congress
G.O.P
Vandenburg
Tax Returns to Be Simplied This Year
Treasury officials plan to shorten the busy March 15 rush by issuing a new simplified tax return on January 2. The move aims to streamline filing for taxpayers and reduce office congestion.
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Washington
Treasury
Barber Returns Mug After 50 Years In Medina
In Medina Ohio on August 16 C E Horn aged 73 from Cleveland is getting shaved by barber Henry Schuler 72 when Schuler returns a mug bearing Horns name saying he has waited fifty years for this confrontation The radio distress call written SO8 adopted in 1908 provides a dated oddity.
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Medina
Ohio
C. E. Horn
Cleveland
Henry Schuler
Horn
Schuler
Alaska Air Mail Routes Expansion Approved by Senate
The Senate approved a Post Office Department plan to expand Alaska air mail service with authority for a surcharge up to 30 cents per ounce. The department indicated it would add several routes if authorized and sent the bill to the President for signature. Also approved was the Supreme Court nomination of Senator Hugo Black amid a heated floor debate over his constitutional eligibility under the Vandeventer Act.
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Alaska
Senator Black
Washington
Senate
White House
Post Office Department
Post
Mmaster General
Senate Judiciary Committee
Supreme Court
Hugo Lafayette Black
Blade
White
Black
Congress
Insurgents In Spain Advance In Northern Area
Insurgents push into Reinosa after fierce fighting with retreating government forces near the French border. Franco’s troops seize parts of Reinosa amid heavy machine gun fire and urban combat, as Franco airplanes sweep along the coast from Gastro Urdiales to the Burgos Santander highway.
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Sndat
Francisca Franco
Nish
Reinose
Mfh
Wish
Franco
Beautanider
Reinosa
Ager
Pranco
Gastro Urdiales
Santander
Burgoc-Gantander Highway
Ohio woman Anna Hahn indicted in two killings
Cincinnati reports Anna Hahn, 11 year old former housemaid, indicted on two murders that stunned the city as grand jurors pursue a mass death probe. Prosecutors cite the Sellman poisoning and the Wagner death, with police reviewing eleven other mysterious illnesses linked to German descent elderly victims.
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Cincinnati
Anna Hahn
George Sellman
Fang
Jacol Wagner
Dudley Mills Queault
Frank J. Guawieler
Anna Hatin
Guswheler
Baseball Week Sees Washington Slicing Streak Leaders
Washington continuer stride as Senators win eighth game in stretch while Pittsburgh drifts toward third. Cincinnati silences the Cubs with a strong push, and the Athletics climb from last place by sweeping three straight from the Yankees.
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Associated Press
Washington
Senators
Pittsburgh
Cincinnati
Cubs
Athletics
Yankees
Gertrude B Kanno Laid Away In San Francisco
Funeral services planned today for Gertrude Boyle Kanto a 61 year old sculptress and longtime figure in an interracial marriage that startled the Occidental world thirty years ago She died Saturday night of a heart attack shortly after arriving from Japan with her husband Takeshi Kanno a Japanese poet and philosopher
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San Francisco
Cal
Gertrude Boyle Kanto
Business To Hold Up Well, Ayres Predicts
Cleveland banker Col Leonard F Ayres, vice president of the Cleveland Trust Co, forecast that business activity would hold up well in the remaining months of the year. The remark came as economic sentiment cooled slightly in the region.
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Cleveland
Leonard F. Ayres
Clevland Trust Company
Senaeal
Bomb Explodes at Chicago Festival Killing One
An accidental aerial bomb blast at a Chicago religious festival killed one man and seriously injured a woman among a crowd of several hundred. Authorities investigated the accident on August 16.
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Chicago
Marten Arrives Tomorrow With Two Game Officials
From a week of patrol work, Alaska Game Commission Executive Officer Frank Dufresne will return to headquarters aboard the patrol vessel Marten along with Warden H R Sarber coming from Petersburg via Seymour Canal district.
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Frank Dufresne
Alaska Game Commission
Seymour Canal District
Commission
H. R. Sarber
Petersburg
Fugitive Shot and Killed in Hot Springs Raid
Police raiders in fusillade shots killed a man identified as Alfred Lamb 26 a Texas fugitive accused of two slayings and four robberies A woman Florine Reynolds was arrested Lamb slain Carl Harrison 24 was taken into custody earlier The pair registered at Hot Springs House a week earlier as Mr and Mrs Reynolds
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Hot Springs
Ark
Alfred Lamb
Texas
Florine Reynolds
Lamb
Carl Harrison
Hot Springs House
Reynolds
Subsiding of Idaho Land Reported Stopping
BUHL Idaho Aug 16 Nature jeased today In its relentless attack against Southern Idaho fertile farm land but a furious effort to explain the phenomena continued unabated The canyon forming action of the farm of H A Robertson was less pronounced with the main canyon dropping only a few feet, passing the 200 foot depth.
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Buhl
Idaho
Nature
H. A. Robertson
Soviet Representative Arrives In Juneau For Fairbanks Search
Soviet government representative Vartanian arrived in Juneau by chartered plane to direct rescue efforts for the missing Soviet subject. He planned to proceed to Fairbanks with a PAA Electra Monday morning, awaiting connections and awaiting Moscow word on the search.
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Vartenien
Fairbanks
Max
Interior
Juneau
PAA Electra Unis
Golden Heart of Alaska
Vartundan
Ketchikan
Herb Munter
Seattle
Vartanian
PAA
Pairbanks
Russia
Jhhe
Martanian
Vagmege
Gastineau
Moscow
Fers
Empire
Jimmy Mattern
Oakland
Kimi
Mattern
Sumanny
A. Vartanian
Alaska
Immedi
Three Guillotined In Germany Today Charged with Espionage
Berlin dispatch reports three individuals executed for espionage against the Reich government. Erich John, 24, and N John, 26, were convicted of selling military secrets. Wilhelm Il, 43, faced charges of subversive activities for the International Communist movement based in Moscow.
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Germany
Reich
Berlin
Erich John
N John
Wilhelm Il
Moscow
Peach Picker Faces Murder Charges in Ranch Shooting
Lead Moses, 37, a peach picker, was charged with murder after a fatal shooting of Arthur Lundmark, 27, on the Prather ranch in East Blockton following an August 15 altercation.
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Stockton
Cal
Moses
Arthur Lundmark
Prather
East Blockton
Soviet pilot A Vartanian arrives in Juneau to spearhead search
A Vartanian lands in Juneau to lead Alaska operations in the Moscow to United States Soviet air search. Jimmy Mattern refueled plans for a fast flight from Oakland to Fairbanks aiding the effort. Weather near Point Barrow favors a flight along the meridian with 3000 feet ceilings as the six missing Soviet fliers remain unaccounted.
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Fairbanks
Asuka
Jimmy Mattern
Point Barrow
Mattern
148Th
Juneau
Bungey
North Pole
Moscow
United States
Muska
Ae Therwreh
Jimmy Maltern
Uakland
California
Pabrbanks
Associated Press
Empire Today
Hunt for Fliers Is Guesswork Say PAA Pilots
Pilots S. Robbins and Warner Mall from Fairbanks joined Joe Eden and others in Juneau to search the Arctic coast for the missing Soviet airliner. They said the three PAA Electras had covered the northern Alaska coast without locating the plane and that further search hinges on a report of a downed craft in Alaska or the Yukon.
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Robbins
Pacific Alaska Airways
Arctic
Warner Mall
Juneau
Fairbanks
Joe Eon
Ebdl
Hay
Jammy Mattern
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Barber
Judiciary Committee
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Charlotte Velez
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Spain
Gertrude B. Kanno
Marten
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Hector J. Levcchenko
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Fairbanks Bound
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Varlacion
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Bill Knox
Peach Picker
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