Japanese Demonstrate Phosgene Use Charge Against China
In Shanghai on October 16 Japanese authorities staged a dramatic demonstration alleging Chinese use of phosgene gas. They showed a shell said to emit deadly fumes and cited tests claiming the shell contained poison gas. China denied the charges saying such demonstrations could be staged in any high school lab.
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Hajime Tani
Japanese Chemical Corps
Tokyo
Shanghai
Col
Tani
Robbers Take $300 From Association Building
In Philadelphia on October 16 robbers jimmied a window and escaped with $300 intended for the salaries of employees of a crime prevention association. The building bears the association’s name painted in large letters, marking the crime prevention association building.
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Philadelphia
Crime Prevention Association
Maryland Weather Forecast For Weekend
U S Weather Bureau reports fair conditions tonight and Sunday with rising temperatures. Chesapeake Bay will be clear to partly cloudy with warming through tonight and Sunday and winds from the north and northeast increasing at times.
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Maryland
Chesapeake Bay
Weekly Weather Outlook For October 18 To 23
The forecast covers the North and Middle Atlantic States with rains starting late Monday or Tuesday and again about Thursday. Temperatures vary from warmer early in the period to slightly cooler midweek, warmer again on Thursday, then colder toward the weekend.
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North
Middle Atlantic States
Financial Export Is Gloomy Over Japan's Foreign Money Problems
Tokyo reports a bleak outlook as Kohei Goshi of Yomiuri Shimbun warns that if American and British markets refuse financing, Japan would face crises worse than political or economic sanctions. Foreign credit tightens, bond prices fall, and exports slip as the United States and Britain curb credit sales in favor of cash transactions.
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Japan
Tokyo
Kohei Goshi
Yomiuri Shimbun
Associated Press
Gohi
New York
London
United States
Roosevelt
Duce's Paper Charges U S Arms Reaching Spain Through Russia
Milan Oct 16 Premier Mussolini's Il Popolo d Italia claims United States arms exports, totaling over 20 million dollars in September, were largely bought by the Soviet Union and routed to red Spain. It disputes Roosevelt's figures and accuses Washington of aiding the Spanish republic. The piece mocks his Chicago Sermonette and cites statistical exactness as it discusses arms shipments and pacifist remarks.
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Milan
Mussolini
Il Popolo Dilalia
Roosevelt
Chicago
United States
Spain
Russia
Soviet Union
Signor Roosevelt
Five Die in Head-On Collision in Indiana
Five persons died and a sixth was critically injured in a head-on crash near Rushville Indiana when a passenger car collided with a heavy truck early today. Among the dead were Edward A. Beckett and John H. Hoke, both of Camp Point Illinois, two women believed to be their wives, and a small boy. Estel Johnson of Indianapolis, truck driver, suffered a fractured skull and may die. The five passengers in the car were killed instantly as the crash pinned Johnson in the truck cab.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rushville
Ind
Edward A. Beckett
Camp Point
Adams County
Ill
John H. Hoke
Estel Johnson
Indianapolis
Hoke
Johnson
Bulldog Spud Feasts on Bear Meat After Hunt
In Missoula Montana on October 16 Spud a bulldog recovering from a bear wound shows his grit as he licks his injuries beside a bear carcass. Owner Bryl Roark had momentarily lost the dog during a duck hunt.
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Missoula
Mont
Spud
Bryl Roark
Cartoonist Will E. Chapin Dies at 80 in Hollywood
Will E. Chapin, 80, a noted cartoonist and writer famed for sketches of the Mill Creek dam disaster in Massachusetts and the Haymarket bombing in Chicago, plus his free silver cartoons, died last night in Hollywood California.
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Hollywood
Calif
Will E. Chapin
Mill Creek
Massachusetts
Haymarket
Chicago
Non Alcoholic Club Opens at George Washington University
Three hundred patrons attended the formal opening of GWU’s non alcoholic night club. Only ginger ale was served as the student planned facility mirrors similar clubs recently started in the Middle West and on the Pacific Coast.
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Washington
George Washington University
Middle West
Pacific Coast
Minister Beaten By A Hitch-Hiker
Rev Maxwell Gantner of Portsmouth New Hampshire was beaten bound and gagged and robbed by a hitchhiker he befriended. He was found semi conscious on the Baltimore boulevard and brought to a hospital in Annapolis. Police launched a state wide search for a short white man who attacked him and relieved him of $35 and his new automobile.
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Annapolis
Maxwell Gantner
Portsmouth
N. H
Gantner
William Fishpaw
Baltimore Boulevard
Coroner’s Jury Links Death to Sept 29 Gridiron Injury
Charles Arthur Nadelhoffer, 24, former High school football star, died from heart disease caused by an embolism. The coroner’s jury ruled injuries suffered on September 29, 1934 while practicing at St Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota contributed to his death Thursday night.
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Aurora
Charles Arthur Nadelhoffer
St. Olaf College
Northfield
Minn
Nadelhoffer
Conference notes renew labor unity with AFL
Atlantic City reports the CIO launching an expansion and peace program. John L. Lewis urges unions to renew efforts for better working conditions built on industrial unionism. CIO claims 1,600,000 members and 1,758,000 dollars in spending over 16 months while signaling cooperation with signatory companies and critiquing government actions.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Committee For Industrial Organization
American Federation of Labor
John L. Lewis
Congress
Japan
China
A. F. of L
Ramspeck Targets Wage Hour Bill to Narrow Opposition
Representative Ramspeck of Georgia, ranking Democrat on the House labor committee, proposed to confine opposition to wage hour legislation to "chisellers." He said amendments would clear away objections in the south. Southern Democrats directed severe criticism at the bill largely responsible for smothering last session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Ramspeck
Georgia
House Labor Committee
Coeds Escape Slippery Rock Hall Fire
A blaze at North Hall on the Slippery Rock College campus sent 167 coeds fleeing early today with no injuries. President Charles Miler estimated damage around 400000 dollars as the fire started in the kitchen during preparations for an ox roast for Homecoming Day and the Westminster College game.
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Slippery Rock
Slippery Rock College
Charles Miler
Westminster College
Truck Driver Killed In Coal Truck Collision At Brush Run
One man, Orville Hale of York, 28, was killed when a caboose being pushed by a Western Maryland Railway engine derailed into a coal truck on the Lincoln Highway near Brush Run Pennsylvania. Four others were injured including Hale’s companion Michael Walko and brakeman Ezra Boyer. The crash occurred around 1 30 p m and left most coal scattered into the caboose. Hale died at the scene. Walko and Carr remained hospitalized with fractures and injuries while Boyer and Markell were released after treatment.
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Western Maryland Railway Company
Brush Run
Lincoln Highway
Gettysburg
New Oxford
Orville Hale
York
Hale
Michael Walke
Wall
Ezra Boyer
Clifton Carr
Thomas Markell
Walko
Carr
Hanover Hospital
Hagerstown
E. G. Hetrick
Boyer
Marriett
Worldly Wise Idaho Father Joins Daughters in School
Herman Perkins 32, a railroad mechanic and Navy veteran who served in 32 countries, has enrolled with his daughters aged 5 and 7 in school. He says travel broadens but does not provide an education, noting he is now a high school junior.
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Idaho Falls
Idaho
Herman Perkins
Perkins
Proposed International Highway To Pass Through City
Hagerstown hosts three Brazilian explorers arriving from Brazil to push the Rio to New York continental highway project. They meet Mayor Elgin tour Pangborn Corp and Moller Organ plants, seek U S government support and a Roosevelt audience. They describe 9,935 miles in good condition 518 under construction 3,450 passable as ox cart trails.
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Hagerstown
Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
New York City
W. Lee Elgin
Pangborn Corp
Moller Organ
Washington
Roosevelt
Leonidas Borges de Rlveira
Francisco Lopez de la Cruz
Mario Fava
S. W. White
Texas
Continents
United States
Miners killed as Alabama mine blast claims 29 lives
A coal mine near Birmingham, Alabama, saw at least 29 men die after an early morning explosion. Only one survivor, Ivan Fox, was reported with major burns, as crews rushed to retrieve bodies four miles from the entrance. The blast affected one wing of a mine normally employing about 500 workers.
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Birmingham
Ala
R. H. Marshall
Woodward Iron Company
Ivan Fox
C. J. Rascoe
Woodward
Fox
WPA Check And Watch Stolen
A WPA pay check for 21 and a 21 jewel Hamilton watch were stolen yesterday from city homes. The check belonged to Calvin L. Holbert of 400 block West Franklin Street and the watch to Leo P. Donegan of 700 block West Church Street. The theft occurred while residents were not at home.
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Hamilton
Calvin L. Holbert
West Franklin Street
Leo P. Donegan
West Church Street
Washington county public school roll rises to 13440
Washington county public schools report a September 1937 enrollment of 13440, up about 460 from last year. Of these, 2470 are in high schools, 8895 in graded schools, 880 in one room schools, and 747 in two room schools. There are 301 colored pupils and 147 in special courses. totals are roughly split between city and county schools.
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Washington County
Wilbur Phillips
Bandits Rob Baltimore Tavern With $700 Cash
Two armed men held up tavern operator Mrs. Carmelia Palatucci in Baltimore as she prepared to close. The bandits, who had been drinking inside, drew guns and demanded cash, escaping with about $700.
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Baltimore
Carmelia Palatucci
Dutch naval plane crashes kill five in East Indies
Five people died in a second serious crash of Dutch naval planes in the East Indies within three days. The accident occurred near Banda Island, but no further details were available.
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The
Hague
Netherlands
East Indies
Banda
Health Department notes drop in certain diseases this winter
The Health Department announced a modest decrease in septic sore throat trench mouth and related illnesses this winter after sanitary inspections showed about half of soda fountains restaurants and bars had adopted the new code requiring rinsing glasses and utensils in chlorine water. Placards promote compliance and patrons are urged to report violations to the Health Department or business owners.
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Health Department
Sanitary Inspection Department of Fine Cooperation
Sanitary Department
P. E. Church Moves to Fight Syphilis Nationwide
Cincinnati report says the Protestant Episcopal Church moved to join venereal-disease campaigns by endorsing health-group efforts and urging dissemination of information. It also propone s requiring a physician's certificate of freedom from venereal disease for couples married by Episcopal ministers, to be incorporated into church canons where not already required by civil law.
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Cincinnati
Protestant Episcopal Church
House
House of Bishops
Teenager Confesses to Hammer Slayings of Couple
In Maine police report, 18 year old Paul Dwyer of South Paris admits beating Dr John G Littlefield 65 and his wife Lydia 64 with a hammer, then driving the car through New England to New Jersey where the bodies were found. The confession followed a sleep stop in a parked car near Newark.
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North Arlington
N. J
Maine
New England
New Jersey
Paul Dwyer
Paris
Bergen County
John J. Breslin
John G. Littlefield
Lydia
George Shippee
Dwyer
Chauffeur Rescues Lost Concert Tickets From Hog Pen
Atlanta dispatch notes Mrs. E Raymond Johnson misplaced $40 in concert tickets which ended in the county farm hog pen. Her chauffeur acted swiftly, entered the pen, drove off the pigs, and recovered the tickets half buried in the ground.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
E. Raymond Johnson
Richmond bishop elected presiding bishop of Virginia church
The Rt. Rev. Henry Saint George Tucker of Richmond, Virginia, was elected presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church. The announcement marks a major leadership change within the church hierarchy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Henry Saint George Tucker
Richmond
Virginia
Protestant Episcopal Church
Weather Drops To 27 Degrees With Thin Ice Forming
The Chewsville weather observer D. Paul Oswald reports last night’s low reached 27 degrees with thin ice forming though frost was lighter than the prior night but still damaging. Today at 11 o clock the thermometer read 49 degrees.
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D. Paul Oswald
Chewsville
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Jean MacDonald
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