Japs Repulsed In First Big Aerial Battle Above Canton
The article reports a major air battle above Canton with Japan repulsed and the United States engaging with the League of Nations. Washington notes the U S role as consultative and non voting as it probes Sino Japanese conflict. Leland Harrison is named as the American representative to the league advisory committee.
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Canton
Washington
United State
League of Nations
Orient
State Department
Leland Harrison
Switzerland
League
China
United States
Harrison
Employment In State Gaining
Maryland state labor officials report widespread gains in factory employment and payrolls for August. Employment rose 0.6 percent from July, while total payrolls increased 2.6 percent. Synthetic yarns and rubber tires employed fewer workers but paid more. Clothing plants showed gains in both employment and pay. Compared with August last year, industrial activity is higher with August 1987 employment at 109.6 percent of the 1929–31 average and payrolls up 27.7 percent.
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Baltimore
Maryland
State Labor and Statistics Department
Costly Whim Sends Portland Car Plunging
Ray Harvey’s terrier darted from the car causing Harvey to lose control and crash into a fire hydrant. An eight inch water gushed for 90 minutes, flooding basements and a store, ripping up street and sidewalk. The car was damaged and the dog was unhurt.
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Portland
Ore
Ray Harvey
Harvey
Maryland Weather Forecast Later This Week
Maryland experiences generally fair conditions tonight and Wednesday with a slight warming trend. Chesapeake Bay shows similar forecast, light to moderate winds, and improving temperatures through midweek.
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Maryland
Chesapeake Bay
Three Garr Brothers Held in Denhardt Slaying
In Shelbyville Kentucky on September 21 Brig Gen Henry H Denhardt a 61 year old former adjutant general and three war veteran was shot and killed after a court planned to hear his murder case The three Garr brothers Roy E S Dr E S Garr and Jack Garr surrendered to police and were jailed Roy Garr reportedly confessed saying I did it while delivering the fatal shot Readable from the damaged article lines this record preserves named entities places and persons involved in the case
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Shelbyville
Verna Garr Taylor
Henry H. Denhardt
New Castle
Denhardt
Commonwealth
H. B. Kinsolving, Jr
Marshall
Shelbyville, Ky
Comely
Kentucky
Blue Grass
Jeptha Tracey
Roy Garr
Dr. E. S. Garr
Jack Garr
Tracey
Legion Marchers In 18 Hour Parade At Fifth Avenue
New York witnesses an 18 hour Great War veterans parade as 100000 Legionnaires march up Fifth Avenue near the convention. Crowds line sidewalks from 26th to 79th streets while 5971 police guard the route amid a homecoming mood and a city-wide spectacle.
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Legion
Fifth Avenue
New York
American Legion
Broad Avenue
France
North Atlantic
26Th Street
79Th
Minister Threatening Sit-Down For Back Pay
Breckenridge Missouri Sunday deadline looms for Reverend Patrick Job Allwell to receive 252 dollars in back pay for three months. He warned from the pulpit he and his family will sit in the parsonage until the funds arrive. Mrs. Allwell reports a church conference with prominent members on money matters.
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Breckenridge
Patrick Job Allwell
Railway exhibit draws tens of thousands visitors
About 50,000 people visited the Baltimore & Ohio Royal Blue display at West Antietam street during the National Antietam Commemoration. B&O counted 35,000 through the Royal Blue car. Western Maryland noted about 50,000 saw its new decapod engine and Pennsylvania reported around 45,000 passed through the Broadway Limited streamlined engine.
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Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
West Antietam Street
Antietam
Baltimore & Ohio
Western Maryland
Pennsylvania
Owners Urged to Lock Cars After Thefts
Police warn motorists to secure parked cars after a spate of thefts. Paul L. Seitz of Hamilton Boulevard reports a valuable Gladstone traveling bag stolen from his vehicle near Trinity Lutheran Church. Earl M. Gearhart from Kemp's Mill reports about ten dollars worth of clothing taken from a car near Dry Bridge on West Antietam Street.
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Paul L. Seitz
Hamilton Boulevard
Gladstone
Trinity Lutheran Church
Earl M. Gearhart
Kemp's Mill
Dry Bridge
West Antietam Street
Salmon Jumps Aboard Boat Wounds Woman in Seattle
Mrs Adolph Watson while fishing near Seattle was struck by a 15 pound silver salmon that leaped into her boat and was captured. The fish caused a two inch cut on her cheek.
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Seattle
Wash
Adolph Watson
Franco-Spanish frontier towns fall to Franco forces
Franco's besieging army reported to have captured seventeen villages east of Rivadesella on Gijon's iron ring of mountains and defenses. The advance signals hardening control in the frontier region as Franco strengthens his position.
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Ndaye
Rivadesella
Gijon
Francisco Franco
Forward! Editorial calls for continued progress in Hagerstown
The piece urges relentless pursuit of big community goals after the Antietam National Commemoration success. It cites Verne, Edison, Wright and McClellan as examples of bold vision. praises Hagerstown's achievement. warns against complacency. and declares Forward as the city’s marching slogan for ongoing progress.
Roosevelt to launch cross country speaking tour
President Roosevelt will start tomorrow on a vigorous two week cross country trip visiting eight midwestern and northwestern states then a brief destroyer voyage to British Columbia. He will deliver at least one major speech at Bonneville Dam near Portland and end October 6 in Washington.
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Hyde Park
N. Y
Roosevelt
British Columbia
Bonneville Dam
Portland
Oregon
White House
Cheyenne
Wyoming
O’mahoney
Supreme Court
Wheeler
D.mont
Boise
Idaho
Borah
Judiciary Committee
Robinson
Seattle
Washington
Montana
North Dakota
Minnesota
Illinois
Sportsmen To Stage Outing At Potomac Clubhouse
The Potomac Fish and Game Association of Williamsport completed plans for an outing at its clubhouse along the Potomac river, Thursday afternoon and evening. A pig roast is planned as the main menu and trap shooting will be offered in the afternoon to sharpen aim for the hunting season. Members of the Hagerstown Chapter Izaak Walton League plan to attend.
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Potomac Fish and Game Association of
Williamsport
Potomac River
Hagerstown
Izaak Walton
Invaders flee as US embassy evacuated in Nanking
United States Ambassador Nelson Johnson and his staff left Nanking when Japan ended its ultimatum warning of destroying the Chinese capital. Three hours after grace expired no Japanese planes appeared, while the Luzon gunboat sailed up the Yangtze with the ambassador and 17 civilians. Paxton stayed at the legation with 15 more Americans to defend the building as Guam guarded remaining civilians nearby.
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C. Yates McDaniel Nanking
United States
Nelson Johnson
Luzon
Yangtze
J. Hall Paxton
Legation
Guam
Johnson
Yangtze River
Kiyoshi Hasegawa
China
Paxton
Curfew Declared in Seat Pleasant to Protect Sleep
Seat Pleasant officials imposed a 12 30 a m curfew to quiet nightly disturbances. Town Policeman James C Gray will patrol in a police car to enforce the ordinance which bars playing musical instruments in a manner that disturbs residents and warns offenders of jail.
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Seat Pleasant
James C. Gray
Gray
Court of Appeals denies reargument in office building case
In Annapolis the Court of Appeals denied the motion for reargument in the office building case by a unanimous decision. Willis R. Jones, counsel for the Maryland Classified Emplores Association, filed the motion after initiating suit in Baltimore Supreme Court to restrain the Board of Public Works from selling bonds totaling 19999 to cover preliminary expenses for a state employee building in Annapolis, not to exceed one million dollars.
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Annapolis
Court of Appeals
Willis R. Jones
Maryland Classified Emplores Association
Jones
Edwin T. Deckerson
Baltimore Supreme Court
Board of Public Works
Money spills from clover thresher in Oregon field
On the W. R. Gerking ranch near Bend Oregon harvesters found coins totaling 3.85 dollars tumbling from a clover thresher. Evyes counted nickels dimes and quarters and Gerking speculated the money came from a purse lost earlier in the spring.
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Bend
Ore
W. R. Gerking
Gerking
Coast Guard ends search for British yacht En deavour J
The Coast Guard closed the hunt for the British yacht En deavour J after covering thousands of square miles of the North Atlantic from 450 miles east of Boston to Sable Island near Nova Scotia. The vessel was believed sunk or on course for England.
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Boston
Coast Guard
Endeavour
England
North Atlantic
Sable Island
Nova Scotia
City officials seek state matching funds for dual highway rights
A delegation led by Mayor W Lee Elgin and City Attorney Richard Sweeney traveled to Baltimore to confer with the State Roads Commission on the city’s $60,000 share for rights of way and whether the state will match this amount this year. They aim to clarify the status of dual highway proceedings before next summer including laying concrete from the corporate limits to the new bridge across the Antietam to Cleveland Avenue.
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W. Lee Elgin
Richard Sweeney
Baltimore
State Roads Commission
Elgin
Commission
Antietam
Cleveland Avenue
Pittsburgh man pays fine after slight crash
James K. Flowers of Pittsburgh admitted passing a boulevard sign at Locust and Baltimore early this morning and crashing into Gertrude Smith’s machine in this city. Both cars were damaged with no injuries. Flowers was taken into custody and charged with reckless driving, fined $10 and costs at city court before Justice C Edward Heard.
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Washington
James K. Flowers
Pittsburgh
Locust
Baltimore
Gertrude Smith
Flowers
C. Edward Heard
Picket Dinner Table Sought by Idaho Labor
In Pocatello Idaho on September 21 union labor urged a boycott of lamb and mutton to protest unfair practices by wool growers. Delegates at the State Federation of Labor convention backed Local No 1 of the National Sheep Shearers Union in asking shoppers across western states to avoid lamb and mutton.
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Pocatello
Idaho
State Federation of Labor Convention
Local No. 1
National Sheep Shearers Union
Daring Chinese Fliers Down From 6 To 10 Of Foe
In Cant on S China aerial battle with Sino-Japanese forces sees at least six and possibly ten Japanese planes shot down. A Ting ho Aviation School building is demolished by bombs, civilians killed, and a Japanese ship forced down. One Chinese plane crashed in flames, a parachute landing reported. Two Japanese ships damaged, prisoners taken. Notoro seen outside Canton river mouth.
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Hongkong
Canton
South China
Tingho Aviation School
Saichuen Cement Works
White Cloud Mountain
Notoro
Canton River
Cholera Spreads in Shanghai As Schools Convert to Hospitals
Cholera case load climbs among Chinese and foreigners in Shanghai as schools and other buildings are repurposed into makeshift hospitals. In the international settlement and French concession combined, about 1,400 cases are estimated with 900 in the settlement and 455 in the French area. Over 900 suspects await examination, foreigners afflicted reach twenty with ten deaths, and Chinese deaths total 140 with 48 in the settlement.
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Shanghai
Would Indict Coal Operators
Justice Department to ask a Federal grand jury in Frankfort Kentucky on September 88 to indict certain Harian county coal operators and other individuals on charges of interfering with the civil rights of Kentucky coal miners.
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Washington
Justice Department
Frankfort
Harian County
Kentucky Coal Mip
Ers
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