Roosevelt Influence Tested in Upcoming Primary Routings
Roosevelt administration leaders face renewed tests as Democratic voters in Ohio Idaho Arkansas Nebraska choose party tickets for fall elections. Idaho’s race pits Senator James Pope against Rep. D Worth Clark amid New Deal loyalty versus independence debates as Roosevelt weighs how far to oppose incumbents hostile to New Deal policies.
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Idaho
Arkansas
Ohio
Washington
Nebraska
South
Roosevelt
Sen
James P. Pope
Rep
D. Worth Clark
Barkley Leads Chandler By 60 000 In Kentucky Nomination
In Kentucky Democratic senatorial primary returns from 4,058 of 4,313 precincts show Alben W. Barkley leading Gov. A. B. Chandler by 60,331 votes. Barkley 274,131 Chandler 215,800. Chandler concedes and pledges support for Barkley in November. Mrs. Chandler cites federal money as a factor.
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Louisville
Senate
Alben W. Barkley
A. B. Chandler
Chandler
Frankfort
Barkley
Paducah
Kentucky
Jefferson
Anti-Japan Move Sweeps North China
Communist agents and patriotic students direct a mass movement against Japan across Hopeh, Shansi, and Shantung. Guerrillas control two thirds of territory behind advance lines as 38 daily papers reach 26,000 in central Hopeh. 4,200 schools enroll 190,000 children while guerrillas train citizens in guerrilla warfare principles.
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Hopeh
China
Japan
Shansi
Shantung
Peiping National University
Associated Press
Farmers’ Union
Chamber of Commerce, Women's Association
Little Vanguards
The
Boy Scouts
Government seeks UIT settlement with Ford and Chrysler
The Justice department proposed a consent decree to end anti trust proceedings against Ford Motor and Chrysler. The proposed settlement would have the government drop charges and require auto finance companies affiliated with Ford and Chrysler to abandon certain finance practices subject to federal court approval in South Bend Indiana.
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Washington
Justice Department
Ford Motor Company
Chrysler Corporation
Federal District Court
South Bend
Ind
Ford
Chrysler
Finlen Named Deputy Ruler for Elks in Montana West
James T. Finlen Jr., past exalted ruler of the Butte lodge B P O E, is appointed district deputy grand exalted ruler of Montana west. He will lead lodges in Butte Anaconda Missoula Kalispell Helena Bozeman Virginia City and Dillon and attend a district conference in Denver August 18.
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James T. Finlen Jr
Butte Lodge
Elkdom
Edward J. McCormick
Toledo
Ohio
Mr. Finlen
Montana West
Butte
Anacon
Community safety campaign seeks $8000 goal for street lights
Contributions totaling 2116 dollars were collected at the opening of a city wide safety drive urging residents and auto owners to donate at the Chamber of Commerce or local banks. A thermometer at Broadway and Main will show daily totals as the goal to fund WPA street lighting and reduce accidents. The campaign relies on voluntary donations with a national safety program as a model.
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Harrison Avenue
Chamber of Commerce
National Safety Program
Broadway
Main Streets
Rebels Break Loyalist North Ebro Front In Spain
Insurgent dispatches report the north flank of the 15 day old Ebro offensive collapsed near Hendaye as Moors and foreign Legionnaires annihilated six Loyalist brigades. Franco ordered a counter offensive that reportedly cost nearly 4,000 government dead and pushed Moroccans and Legionnaires to the west bank along a nine mile sector. The Ebro drive has cost Loyalists about 12,000 dead wounded and captured since July 24 with Mequinenza to Fayon scene of fighting near Gandesa.
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Hendaye
Ebro
Catalonia
Francisco Franco
Juan Yague
Mediterranean
Barcelona
Mequinenza
Fayon
Gandesa
International Brigades
Enrique Lister
Rust and Hoppers Cut Wheat Yields in Northeast Montana
Aug 8 Helena reports grasshoppers and rust will slash wheat yields across several northeastern Montana counties by 25 to 50 percent or more. Soper, state scales inspector, cites expected 7 to 10 bushels per acre around Plentywood and cuts to half or a quarter in Daniels country.
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Helena
Montana
William E. Soper
State Department of Agriculture
J. T. Kelly
Plentywood
Soper
Daniels
Total tax levy in county to drop from prior year
Final budget figures show Silver Bow county will reduce the total tax levy for 1938 39 despite a $72 271 40 rise in expenditures The county total budget is 826 557 88 up from 754 286 48 in 1937 38 while the overall levy including schools and state funds will be 59 0025 mills down 1 9450 from last year The county funds levy is 25 5925 mills up 1 0550 while emergency and county manager funds gainments and insurance items are noted for adjustments
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Silver Bow
Board of County Commissioners
Youth Killed Climbing Longs Peak in Rocky Mountain Park
John Fuller 20, an Iowa State student, died after falling from Longs Peak while attempting the north face ascent in Rocky Mountain National Park near Estes Park. A six-man CCC recovery party was dispatched to retrieve the body.
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Estes Park
Colo
John Fuller
Iowa State College
Rocky Mountain National Park
Fuller
CCC
Corrigan Faces Lie Detector Test In Dublin Flight Case
In Boston a lie detector test on Douglas Corrigan contradicted his claim that he started for California on the transatlantic flight. Dr. William Moulton Marston administered the test at a dinner, noting slight deception in Corrigan’s statements about the flight’s true destination.
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Boston
Douglas Corrigan
California
Dublin
Corrigan
William Moulton Marston
New York
Douglas
Atlantic
Maurice J. Tobin
Hawaii rocked by series of mild quakes
Hilo Hawaii Aug 8 A series of mild earth shocks were felt in the volcano district today. No damage was reported but some roads were ordered closed.
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Hilo
Hawaii
Volcano District
Disciples of Father Divine Advance to New Covenant Land
About 2,600 followers sail from New York to a 4000 acre estate across the Hudson, near Hyde Park, to inspect their promised Kingdom of Heaven. Father Divine oversees a three hour feast as mosquitoes swarm during the picnic.
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Krum-Elbow-On-The-Hudson
N. Y
Father Divine
Kingdom of Heaven
Hudson River
Roosevelt
Hyde Park
Harlem
Kingston
Heaven
State approves bridge insurance policy payment
The state board of examiners voted two to one to pay a $120,000 premium for a $12,000,000 three year insurance policy from Minneapolis Fire and Marine Insurance on all state owned bridges. Governor Ayers opposed. Secretary of State Mitchell and Attorney General Freebourn supported the award.
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Helena
Ant
State Board of Examiners
Minneapolis Fire and Marine Insurance Company of
Minneapolis
Roy FE. Ayers
Secretary of
Sam W. Mitchell
Harry J. Freebourn
Ayers
Board of Examiners
Attorney General
Secretary of State
Japan Masses Troops For Border Clash in Siberia
Tokyo reports Japan reinforced border forces with reserves as talks between Russia and Japan over the Changkufeng hill dispute continue. Moscow proposed conciliatory terms but Tokyo demands stronger measures to end hostilities around the hill near the Soviet border.
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Tokyo
Japan
Siberia
Gen
K. Ugaki
Russia
Maxim Litvinov
Mamoru Shigemitsu
Moscow
Changkufeng Hill
Sovite
Assuri
War Office
Peiping
China
Changkufeng
Chinese claim victory as Japanese drive toward Hankow stalls
The Chinese war office in Hankow reports thousands of Japanese casualties and several ships sunk amid their defense of the Wu Han area. Chiang Kai shek vows to reject any Japanese proposals after occupation. Japanese say progress toward Hankow is slow, aiming to control Wuhan by mid September. Chinese air force and river units claim to have destroyed seven Japanese warships, while Japan claims seven Chinese steamers sunk in Kiukiang.
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Shanghai
Chinese War Office
Hankow
Chiang Kalishek
Wu-Han
Wuchang
Hanyang
Wuhan
Yangtze River
Kiukiang
Missing Flyers Found in Alaska
PA radio dispatch reports aviators Harry K. Coffey and William White from Portland Oregon, believed lost on a flight from Point Barrow, are safe in Kotzebue about 500 miles northeast of Fairbanks Alaska.
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Fairbanks
Alaska
Harry K. Coffey
William White
Portland
Ore
Point Barrow
Kotzebue
Pairbanks
City approves 1938 39 tax levy at 39.40 mills
City council sets the 1938 39 tax levy at 39.40 mills a reduction of over two mills from 1937 38, despite a budget of 1 021 783 35 and expected increased spending from gifts grants and federal funds. The levy designates 14 mills administrative and municipal 5 roads 1 ¼ library 2 tenths firemen's disability 1 police reserve 2 65 hundredths special improvement revolving 6 75 hundredths 1931 sinking fund 2 75 hundredths 1937 refunding bands 0 5 judgments 0 25 band concerts and 0 5 emergency relief. Aldermen honor Charles Bone posthumously and vote to use 24 000 from the 1937 sinking fund for emergency relief.
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Charles 8. Bone
Seventh Ward
Grant Sought for Galen Hospital Addition
Regional PWA offices in Omaha are asked to grant 41727 for a new hospital building at Galen. Architect R C Hugenin announced the plan on the eve of approval and said construction could begin this fall if funded. The design features a fireproof earthquake resistant structure.
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PWA
Galen
Omaha
R. C. Hugenin
Hugenin
Canton Bombing Kills Estimated Twenty As Refugees Felt Ravage
Cantons waterfront area near Shameen suffered a second day of Japanese air raids killing about 20 people. Three large bombs struck the crowded refuge zone near the Catholic cathedral grounds, where thousands had sought shelter after prior attacks that left dozens dead or wounded.
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Canton
Caneton
Shameen
Yellowstone auto crash kills four in Lamar canyon
In Yellowstone National Park a vehicle carrying four young women veered from the road and plunged 70 feet into the Lamar River canyon near Tower Falls, killing Marlys Dahlen and Marion Freeburh, both 25, Minneapolis. Mabel Croonquist, 20, Billings, and Virginia Zeuthen, 24, Minneapolis, were injured. Croonquist’s father died in an earlier Bozeman plane crash on Jan. 10.
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Livingston
Marlys Dahlen
Marion Freeburh
Minneapolis
Mabel Croonquist
Billings
al Croonquist
Virginia Zeuthen
Jin
Yellowstone National Park
Lamar River Canyon
Tower Falls Junction
Yellowstone Park
Cooke City
Lamar River
Park
Miss Croonquist
Bozeman
Sky Cavalry Prepares For Northwest Defense Maneuver
Sky cavalry units 32 planes and 132 men depart Vancouver to defend Portland and the Northwest for seven days. Attack ships will fly from Pearson field through Portland Pendleton Walla Walla Spokane Ellensburg Seattle Bremerton Tacoma Fort Lewis Olympia and return. Each plane has a pilot and gunner with sections at Fort Lewis and Fort George Wright under central control.
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Vancouver
Wash
Uncle Sam
Sky Cavalry
Portland
Northwest
Pearson Field
Montana Weather Outlook Opens With Partly Cloudy Days
A Montana forecast calls for partly cloudy conditions Tuesday and Wednesday. Temperatures will ease in the eastern portion Tuesday with cooler air moving in.
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Montana
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