Black Confirmed as Associate Justice Despite Klan Charges
Hugo L. Black won Senate confirmation 63 to 16 to the Supreme Court. Debates centered on allegations of Klan ties and temperament, with opponents urging recommittal for further inquiry while supporters argued information already in hand sufficed.
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Hugo L. Black
New Dealer
Supreme Court of the United States
Senate
Roosevelt
Black
Copeland
New York
Burke
Bridges
N. H
Austin
Borah
Idaho
Glass
Tourist falls bites tongue dies from blood loss
A. Cornell, 38, of Portland, on a vacation in Antioch, bit his tongue during a fall at an auto camp Sunday. He bled steadily and doctors feared his death from blood loss, despite transfusions.
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Antioch
Cal
C. A
Cornell
Portland
Ore
Sleeping Beauty Patricia Maguire Suffering New Illness
Chicago Aug 17 reports Patricia Maguire known as the Oak Park sleeping beauty was rushed to a hospital last Saturday with fever spikes to 102.6. Doctors test to identify the cause follow a five and a half year sleep condition. Family says the fever and nausea appear distinct from her chronic coma and may indicate a new disease or functional disturbance.
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Patricia Maguire
Sleeping Beauty
Oak Park, Ill
Chicago
Oak Park
Peter Miley
Paul C. Fox
Eugene Traut
Patricia
Gladys Hansen
Fourteen Thousand National Guardsmen Begin Fort Lewis Maneuvers
Fourteen thousand soldiers from Wyoming Idaho Montana Oregon and Washington along with regulars pitched camp at Fort Lewis near Tacoma as the fourth army maneuvers officially begin. The troops arrived by trucks and trains and actual battle practice is set to start Wednesday morning.
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Tacoma
Wash
Fort Lewis
Fourth Army
Wyoming
Idaho
Montana
Oregon
Washington
Roosevelt heads to Roanoke pageant for Virginia Dare birth anniversary
President Roosevelt leaves Washington by special train for Roanoke Island North Carolina to speak at the 350th anniversary ceremonies of Virginia Dare. The address is scheduled for 1 30 p m mountain standard time and will be broadcast from a seaside amphitheater in the sand dunes. He will return by train, not yacht, arriving Thursday morning due to Sino Japanese tensions.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Capital
Roanoke Island
N. C
Virginia Dare
Sir Walter Raleigh
Norfolk
Roosevelt orders 1200 marines to Shanghai for citizen protection
President Roosevelt ordered 1,200 marines to Shanghai to guard American citizens amid Chinese Japanese hostilities. Hull announced 1,150 marines already on duty would be reinforced as an ultra precaution. A $500,000 relief fund was asked. neutrality act not invoked yet and three senators urged its application.
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Roosevelt
Shanghai
Congress
Far Eastern
International
State Hull
Hull
San Diego
China
Japan
Parents Appeal for Police Aid to Find Youth
Mr and Mrs Walter Woodland seek police help locating their 15 year old son Kenneth Cooper missing since Aug 4. He disappeared after dinner while relatives were visiting. seen in Butte last Sunday. The Woodland family were away attending a wedding anniversary.
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Walter Woodland
West Copper Street
Kenneth Cooper
Mr. Woodland
J. D. Brockway
Woodland
Arctic explorer joins search for polar flyers
Sir Hubert Wilkins, famed Arctic explorer, plans to join Herbert Hollick-Kenyon in a dawn flight from Toronto to Aklavik to start a transpolar search for six missing Soviet flyers. Bob Randall, Canadian pilot, will probe the Arctic Ocean rim near Barrow for the lost group. Eskimo reports of distant engine sounds add to the effort.
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Sir Hubert Wilkins
Search For Polar
Toronto
Herbert Hollick -Kenyon
Aklavik
Moscow
Fairbanks
Alaska
Bob Randall
Arctic Ocean
Sigismund Levaneffsky
Eskimos
Barrow
Barter Island
Weather forecast for Montana midweek
Generally fair conditions across Montana on Wednesday and Thursday. Cooler air is expected in the west on Wednesday and in the east on Thursday.
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Montana
Quints Guarded Against Paralysis in Ontario
Dr. Allen Roy Dafoe ordered all visitors barred from the Dionne quintuplets nursery home in Callander to shield the infants from infantile paralysis. Ontario health officials reported 64 cases with 11 deaths in the south, while the north remains unaffected.
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Ontario
U.P
Dionne
Allen Roy Dafoe
Olivia Dionne
Dafoe
Dafoe Hospital
The
Quins
Shanghai in Flames As War Strikes Refugees Seek Food
Thousands of refugees crowd the gates of Shanghai’s international settlement begging for food as Chinese and Japanese forces clash along the Whangpoo river. An American Navy medic is wounded and Americans flee aboard ships and toward Woosung while mobs attack suspected poisoners amid widespread chaos.
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Shanghai
Yangtze
Idzumo
Pootung
Whangpo
International Settlement
Hickey Gambling Law Challenged as Unconstitutional
Edwin E. Multz of Helena filed suit in Lewis and Clark county district court challenging the 1937 so called hickey gambling law. He seeks a ruling that the measure is void and unconstitutional and asks that Treasurer Julio Pischel be enjoined from administering the act or collecting license fees.
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Helena
Edwin E. Multz
Lewis and Clark County
Multz
Julio Pischel
Roosevelt's Son Hurls Champagne at Cannes Mayor
In Cannes during the Battle of Flowers Pierre Nouveau says John Roosevelt, 20, son of the President, threw a glass of champagne at him after a bouquet was offered. The incident, seen by many visitors, occurred near the Carlton hotel as celebrations filled the streets. Roosevelt’s Harvard vacation continues.
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Cannes
France
Pierre Nouveau
John Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Carlton Hotel
Riviera
Europe
Harvard University
Nouveau
Labor fund boosted by 20 million for tenancy program
The House approved a final big appropriation bill increasing the farm tenancy aid by 20 million dollars, for a total of 98 million 880 thousand 375, with no record vote. It funds half for tenant purchasing loans and half to convert dust bowl land into pasture, amid bipartisan opposition. The bill also starts a three year post office and public buildings program totaling 22.5 million, enabling about 380 structures costing 70 million. The Labor Board funding sparked fierce debate with critics calling the money wasted.
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Washington
House
Appropriations Committee
Agriculture Department
Dust Bowl
Starnes
Ala
Farm State
The Marines Have Landed and Situation Is Under Control
A Chinese officer tried to bluff a U S marine at a bridge between Chapei and the international settlement in Shanghat. Marines guard the Chapei bridges while the officer fled after a tense exchange over a threatened explosion.
Naturalization Classes Bring Citizenship to a Third
Silver Bow county runs a WPA American Legion naturalization program that has aided 453 aliens in under two years. Most applicants have become citizens. 89 have filed for September exams under U S District Judge Baldwin and Montana District Judge Downey.
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Silver Bow County
American Legion
Grace Austine
WPA
Edu
Silver Bow Post No. 1
Legion
U. S
James H. Baldwin
Montana
T. E. Downey
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American Express Company
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Soochow Creek
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