Farm activism fuels Roosevelt push on farm legislation
The Senate agriculture committee pledged to draft a general farm bill within a week of Congress reconvening, boosting President Roosevelt’s push for action on production control. A crop report forecast 15,593,000 bales of cotton, up 3,194,118 from last year, sending December cotton to 10.37 cents as markets anticipate loan measures.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Senate Agriculture Committee
Congress
Government Crop Reporting Board
New York
Agriculture Committee
Senate
Family of Five Feared Lost After Boat Mishap at Sea
In Tillamook Oregon an upturned rowboat was found drifting near Three Arch Rocks off Nettarts beach. Five Portand residents J F Harbke wife and two sons John 9 and Wade 7 plus niece Barbara Johnson 10 disappeared after setting out in the craft yesterday. Fog prevented an evening search and no missing persons signs were found by night.
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Tillamook
Ore
Nettarts Beach
J. F. Harbke
John
Wade
Barbara Johnson
Portland
Coast Guard
London tests air defense in largest mock raid ever
Britain staged a massive air defense drill over London with 19 squadrons and 222 planes opposing 172 bombers. The night exercise highlighted the city as a strategic target with vast docks and munitions works in view, echoing WW II era sirens for a modern warning.
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London
Britain
Enfield
England
Hawaii Governor Seeks Equal Economic Status With States
Gov. Joseph B. Poindexter of Hawaii, en route to Washington for talks with President Roosevelt and Ickes, urged equal economic treatment for Hawaii. He cited sugar output limits and argued independence of the Philippines raises Hawaii’s strategic value as the western defense outpost. Poindexter noted resident dissatisfaction with federal sugar restrictions and outlined plans including a family trip after attending the navy cruiser Honolulu launch in New York.
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Los Angeles
Joseph B. Poindexter
Hawaii
Washington
Roosevelt
Interior
Ickes
Philippines
Pacific
Gov
Poindexter
Honolulu
Matson
Helen Poindexter
New York Navy Yard
Montana
Silver Bow County Keeps Tax Levy Unchanged for 1937-38
County commissioners announced a 61.0375 mill total tax levy for 1937-38, one mill less than 1936-37, with no levy increase but higher expenditures. The 1937-38 levy stands at 25.375 mills, and the budget totals $754,286.48 with expected revenue of $799,835.28. An emergency 0.75 mill levy is noted.
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Silver Bow
Board of County Commissioners
Armies circle Teruel in major Francoist Republican clash
Loyalist and insurgent forces concentrate in the Teruel sector with heavy artillery fire in No Man's land villages. Government units launch a surprise mountain advance, striking at the rebel flank and forcing temporary nationalist withdrawals as both sides rush reinforcements.
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Hendaye
Teruel
No Man’s Land
Actor Guild Boycott Hits Brown Derby Cafes
The Screen Actors' Guild broad boycott targets the Brown Derby restaurants in Hollywood as a culinary workers' union strike continues since last Friday. The move includes nearly all film actors, including stars, and follows labor tensions in the local dining venues.
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Hollywood
Cal
Screen Actors’ Guild
Beer Drowning Crickets, Kansas Entomologist Advises
Entomologist Roger C. Smith says crickets are attracted to stale beer and sweetened vinegar. Half-filled glasses with these liquids lure the insects, causing them to fall in and drown.
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Manhattan
Kas
Roger C. Smith
Senators Seek Peacemaking Role in Sugar Control Debate
In Washington, Aug 9, senators acted as peacemakers after Hull warned that Cuban refining limits could create a US monopoly. With a presidential veto likely, lawmakers from sugar states moved to rewrite the 1934 Jones-Costigan act to seek a compromise amid administration objections to curbs on Cuban refining.
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Washington
Hull
Cuba
United States
House
Hawaii
Puerto Rico
O'Mahoney
Wyoming
Weather Outlook for Montana Tuesday and Wednesday
Unsettled conditions move across Montana with thunderstorms possible in the eastern portions on Tuesday. The west will stay warmer on Tuesday with a rise in temperatures and a generally clearer pattern expected by Wednesday.
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Montana
Authorities Launch Probes On Two Coast Death Cases
Salinas California August 9 Authorities reopened investigations into two death cases to see if they were concealed murders. Ernest Lopez 26 found hanged in a Salinas schoolhouse July 11 and Andrew Dalgleish merchant of Butte Montana shot dead behind a new Gilroy store July 15 are being reexamined with three suspects questioned.
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Salinas
Calif
U.P
Ernest Lopez
Andrew Dalgleish
Butte
Mont
Gilroy
Ailler of Four Found Dead in Insane Asylum
Paschal L. Boyer, convicted killer of four near Salt Lake City in 1935, was found dead today in a ward of the Utah state mental hospital. Superintendent Dr. Garland Pace said death appeared natural. an autopsy may follow. Boyer, once a butcher, was declared insane after a 1936 murder trial and committed to the hospital.
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Provo
Utah
Paschal L. Boyer
State Mental Hospital
Garland H. Pace
Boyer
Blanche Nelson
Bountiful
Salt Lake City
Chinese Laundyman in Jail After Local Shooting
Hum Wee Hock, owner of a Chinese laundry at 8 East Quartz Street, was jailed after allegedly firing a .45 caliber automatic at neighbor E. R. Gardner following a dog dispute. Gardner identified Hock, who was found in the laundry rear calmly eating with chopsticks as officers questioned him.
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Hum Wee Hock
East Quartz Street
E. R. Gardner
Gardner
Hock
Cyril Kohn
Matthen
James Clark
Four Chinese Nurses Pass Through on War-Torn Route
Four Chinese girls living in Chicago's aid network travel from the United States to China aboard the Milwaukee Olympian on an 18 000 mile journey to reunite with the home they left as war looms. The group includes Pi Hua Yung Wong Ai Lei China Neng Yao and P K Wong who say they admire American kindness and culture but remain hopeful about their homeland.
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Homeland
Frederick B. Snite Jr
Chicago
Wong Ai Lei
Chinn Neng Yao
P. FE. Wong
Pi Hua Yung
China
Milwaukee
Snite
Pacific
China Neng Yao
P. K. Wong
United States
Berlin Expels London Newsman in Retaliation
Berlin orders Norman Febbutt, Times of London Berlin correspondent for 15 years, to leave within two weeks as Germany retaliates for Britain expelling three German correspondents. Times and British officials cited a shift toward reporting essentials over trivialities. British labor permits for German reporters remain nonrenewed.
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London
Germany
Great Britain
Norman Febbutt
Berlin
Times of London
Times
Home Office
England
Conservative
Evening Standard
Salt Lake City Bishop Appointed
Washington Aug. 9 The apostolic delegate announced Pope Pius XI has appointed Monsignor Duane Hunt, vicar general of Salt Lake City, as bishop of Salt Lake City. He replaces Bishop Kearney moved to Rochester, N.Y. Hunt is a convert and was a speaker at a religious tolerance meeting.
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Washington
Pius XI
Duane Hunt
Salt Lake City
Monsignor Hunt
Butte
Kearney
Rochester
N.Y
Fighting Near Peiping and Shanghai Escalates War
Chinese and Japanese forces clash across a wide front from Peiping to Shanghai as VRS reports describe Japanese bluejackets entering Nanking area and Chinese troops engaging near Peiping and Tientsin. The Shanghai sector sees casualties including a naval officer, a sailor, and a Chinese soldier.
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Shanghai
U.P
China
Japan
International Settlement
Peiping
Tientsin
Peace Preservation Corps
Woman Dies in Accident Near Rollins
Mrs. M. Reed of Los Angeles died after a collision near Rollins in Kalispell. Cousins Martha Manwaring and Elizabeth Evans, both former Butte girls, were in the other car. Manwaring suffers a broken kneecap and facial injuries while Evans has cuts and bruises. Reed’s husband C. M. Reed also sustained injuries. The crash followed by a wet roadway, with the injured taken to a Kalispell hospital and Swan Lake summer home respectively.
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M. Reed
Los Angeles
Rollins
Kalispell
Martha Manwaring
Elizabeth Evans
St. Paul
Butte
Miss Manwaring
Miss Evans
Swan Lake
C. M. Reed
L. O. Evans
Anaconda Company
Nora Manwaring
35 Minute Police Court Session Nets City 420
City police court yesterday afternoon yielded 420 in fees from fines and forfeited bonds on intoxicated driving reckless driving and speeding charges. The session was the year's largest financially though weekend arrests topped recent months with 73 total, many for vagrancy disturbance and drunkenness. Lee Brack forfeited 25 and 50 bonds on two reckless driving charges after West Front Street arrest.
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Lee Brack
West Front Street
Elmer Powell
del Rodda
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Wilberforce University
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Finance Committee
Ailler
Paschal Boyer
Orient
Miss Yung
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Nanking
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