Bomb American liner and British envoy wounded in Sino-Japanese clashes
A volatile week in world affairs saw the American liner President Hoover bombed near Shanghai wounding seven aboard as British Ambassador Sir Hughe Knatchbul-Hugessen was shot in a road ambush. Britain demanded apology and punishment, while Tokyo investigated. Separate dispatches detail ongoing Sino-Japanese hostilities and global reactions.
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Britain
China
Hoover
Manila
Shanghai
Harry E. Yarnell
Japan
Woosung
Yangtze
Lincoln
Dollar
Hughe Montgomery Knatchbul-Hugessen
Hughe
Country Hospital
Sir Hughe
Great Britain
von Kettler
Peiping
Tokyo
World War II front rages from Shanghai to Peiping
Reported battles stretch from Shanghai to Peiping with heavy Japanese gains and Mongol and Chinese forces clashing. Frontline fighting includes large-scale engagements, air bombardments, and tactical movements across northern China, with key actions near Kalgan and Nankow pass.
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Chines
Shanghai
Canton
China
Tientsin
Peiping
Nankow
Changpei
Chahar Province
Great Wall
Prince Teh
Kalgan
Chahar
Mongolia
Nankow Pass
Railroad Strike Threatens U.S. Mediation Outcome
United States government mediation offered a chance to avert a nationwide rail strike involving about 60,000 railroad workers after railroad brotherhoods rejected a 20 percent wage increase. The unions, including engineers firemen switchmen and trainmen, indicated ongoing dispute in Chicago.
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United States
Claase
Chicago
Dirs
Senta Evi Motors
High Rail Speeds Threaten Safe Stopping on Modern Trains
WNY Service notes top speeds have rose from 80 90 mph to 100 120 mph in three years. Brakes on 100 mph trains would still leave 1 300 feet to 72 mph in ten seconds and 4 800 feet to full stop. Conventional brakes perform worse. Dispatchers must tighten schedules to prevent slower trains from being forced into sidings. Roadbeds improved to boost safety at 80 mph.
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New York
Ghost comet near Mars hailed as real by Australian astronomer
In April reports emerged of a southern sky comet near Mars, first deemed a ghost due to visibility issues. W F Gale argues the object was real, noting tests and observations over a month, with brightness variations and better viewing from Australia where Mars was overhead.
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London
W. F. Gale
Europe
America
Mars
Gale
A. C. D. Crommelly
Journal
British Astronomical Association
Australia
North America
Inferiority Brain Noted by Soviet Scientist
Washington reports that Gregoire Levin of the Belshterey Institute for Brain Research claims that alleged glans of inferiority appear in brains of prominent civilized individuals as often as in those of “savages.” The sensational claim challenges the science of linking brain structure to intellect.
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Washington
Greg Goire Levin
Belshterey Institute For Brain Research
Leningrad
Branes Ie
Youvenal
Early human finds in Bethlehem bone beds push back origins
Reports from Wellcome expedition excavations in Bethlehem's Bone Beds describe the oldest human artifacts and fossil remains. The site yields a giant tortoise shell fragment, elephant tooth, rhinoceros cheek teeth, a three toed horse leg bone, and several worked flints likely from eolithic or pre palaeolithic tools. Expert J Reid Moir affirms human origin, dating deposits to Early Pleistocene or possibly Pliocene, contemporaneous with Peking Man.
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Antnert
London
Palestine
Bethlehem
E. Gardiner
D. Bate
Wellcome Marston
Near East
Swallow Hole
J. L. Starkey
Wellcome Expedition
Hipparion
England
J. Reid Moir
Great Britain
Reid Moir
Peking Man
Fungus Traps and Eats Small Worms Discovered
Dr. J. N. Couch of the University of North Carolina describes a fungus that captures and digests small worms. The organism grows as a thread with loops acting as traps that tighten on the prey and secrete digesting threads to feed.
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Chapel Hill
N. C
J. N. Couch
University of North Carolina
Couch
Big Fish Eat Little Ones and Latter Tiny Things
A fragment discusses the food chain from large fish to small prey and the plant base supporting the chain. It explains that predators like bass trout pike and halibut rely on smaller creatures and that these in turn feed on even tinier organisms, forming an endless cycle initiated by plants and sun energy.
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Washington
Domestic Tips and Recipes From an Old Newspaper Page
A collage of kitchen guides and hobby notes including a shaved shaving brush method, embroidery care, dressmaking with eucalyptus oil, and picnic steak patties. Also outlines cauliflower soaking with lemon juice, boiled ham with vinegar and cloves, and a note on fabric stains and ironing.
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Amerig
Ford
Ford Ohnl
Lewis
United Automobile Workers of America
Milwaukee
Homer Martin
Sanity
Martin
Sxecurive Board
Ford Motor Company
Henry Ford
William Green
American Federation of Labor
General Motors Corporation
Green
Bill Green
Chapel
Nanking
National School For Orphans
National Central University
Tzesheng Hospital
Nanchang
Kiangsi
Nantao
French Concession
Ethiopia
Mussolini
Haile Selassie
Lion of Judah
Il Duce
France
Addis Ababa
Djibuti
Haile.Gelasale
League of Nations
I Duce
Louis
Joe Louis
Tommy Ae
Hughe Montgomery Knatchhall- Hugessen
Andrew W. Mellon
Ndrew W. Mellon
Treasury
Southampton
Mellon
A. W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust
Oakland
Calif
Bureau of Air Commerce
Army, Haavy
Commercial Airlines
Earth
Wright Brothers
Santander
Franco
Pain
Francisco Franco
Soldies
WNY
Vali Aneieit, Peem
WRU
Ome Randall
Landache
Voria
Eda Falls
Cheryo
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