Long Awaited Japanese Assault on Kiukiang Begins
Japanese naval and land forces begin a long awaited strike on Kiukiang a key Yangtze point as landings are reported along the river south bank within ten miles. Chinese defenses shattered but fighters hold trenches awaiting the 8000 Japanese force near Kukow.
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Lloyd Lehrbas
Shanghai
Kingkiang
Hankow
Yangtze River
Kiukiang
Yangtze
Poyang Lake
Nanchang
Kukow
Yellow River
Chang River
Hupeh
Hunang
Peiping-Hankow
Hongkong
Lena
South China
Changsha
Namoa
Swatow
Canton
Saichuen
Shameen Island
Condition of Rivers At Riverton Virginia
The North Branch is very muddy and caudy while the South Branch is muddy indicating adverse water conditions reported at Riverton Virginia.
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Riverton, Va
Winchester Residents Debate War and Prices
MA Winchester residents question the Twenty-Ninth Division's absence in Winchester and mock a imagined enemy. The piece notes rains lifting farmer spirits and hints at grain price expectations influencing local mood.
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Twenty-Ninth
Winchester
Potomac
Eastern Seaboard Drenched by Prolonged Rainfall
Rain drenched the Atlantic seaboard from Maine to Georgia, disrupting travel and damaging crops as a seventh straight wet day persisted. Officials attributed the rain to a high pressure area off the coast, while floods and marooned vacationers highlighted the unsettled weather and limited skies.
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Eastern Seaboard
Associated Press
Atlantic Seaboard
Maine
Georgia
St. Swithin’s
Weather Bureau
City Purchasing Audit May Include City Accounts
The finance committee instructed Leach Rindfleisch and Scott to audit municipal purchasing methods. Auditors had asked about scope and were told to include purchasing in the city accounts review. City Manager Arthur M. Field had earlier directed a letter urging investigation of purchasing practices and recommendations for improvements.
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Leach, Rindfleisch and Scott
Arthur M
Arthur M. Field
Mexico Replies On Hull Suggestion About Farm Lands Seizures
Mexico City government works on its reply to Secretary Hull's call for action over American land expropriations dating to 1927. Unofficially Mexico hints at its indemnification law allowing payment within ten years but no clear stance on arbitration. An outsider group cites a new concept of international finance as part of its statement.
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Mexico City
Foreign Office
Hull
Mexico
United States
England
Germany
Italy
France
Belgium
Corrigan Says Career Is In The Air Amid Offers
Douglas G. Corrigan declared that his career is in the air as growing commercial offers annoyance him. He said he only wants to fly and has arrived in Dublin after a transatlantic flight in a $900 plane.
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Dublin
Douglas G. Corrigan
Pickers' Tickets Ready for Ordering
Winchester Evening Star notes orders opened for pickers with details to place tickets now.
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Winchester Evening Star
Oakland Flood Hits Mountain Town in Maryland
Oakland Maryland endures a cloudburst and six days of rain causing Wilson Creek to flood 25 businesses to five feet. One man, Arthur C. Warnick, was severely shocked by downed electric lines. power was shut off to prevent further incidents. Fire and merchants moved stock upstairs as the river rose, the worst flood in the town’s history.
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Oakland
Mountain
Wilson Creek
Arthur C. Warnick
Deep Creek
Rainy Intervals Forecast Through Week’s End
Weather outlook for July 25 to 30 shows generally fair conditions across the North and Middle Atlantic States with local thundershowers Monday and again Friday or Saturday. Temperatures run above normal, with Monday near normal, then warmer by week’s end.
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Washington
Middle Atlantic
Cars damaged in crash near Gore Virginia
Two automobiles were badly damaged in an accident on U S 5 about two miles east of Gore Virginia yesterday afternoon at 3 o clock. One car was driven by G E Kindig of R F D 3 Winchester Virginia. The other by R C Roberts of Westernport Maryland. Both occupants escaped serious injury.
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Gore
G. E. Kindig
Winchester
R. C. Roberts
Westernport
Mystery yields no clues in local automobile incident
Captain Tom Boyd and Deputy Sheriff Bob DeHaven found no unusual activity on Illwood Avenue after Mrs. H. L. Rush reported a crash sound. Two men were seen in the road allegedly loading an object into a car, suggesting a possible reload after a fall from the vehicle.
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Tom Boyd
Bob DeHaven
Illwood Avenue
H. L
Sponsor Named for Destroyer Mustin Launch
Secretary Swanson designates Mrs Lloyd M Mustin of Annapolis Maryland as sponsor of the destroyer Mustin to be launched on July 15 at Newport News.
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Washington
Swanson
Lloyd M. Mustin
Annapolis, Md
Mustin
Newport News, A
Senate probe set to review Langer complaints on intimidation
Senate campaign investigations chairman Sheppard announced a meeting to consider North Dakota Governor William Langer’s claims of WPA worker intimidation and a related complaint by Senator George. The session will also review Hopkins remarks and other political statements amid broader NEC disputes.
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Washington
William Langer
North Dakota
Nye
R-Nd
Senate Campaign Investigating Committee
Sheppard
D-Tex
Langer
George
D-Ga
Harry Hopkins
Hopkins
Roosevelt
WPA
Senate
D.-Ga
Lowell Mellett
National Emergency Council
Georgia
NEC
Senate Campaign Expenditures Committee
One Thousand Homes Needed For New Viscose Plant
Front Royal Virginia July 23 one thousand houses are needed as the American Viscose plant prepares to hire about 4500 workers in the first unit planned to open around August or September next year. Officials say the company will not build homes and a housing loan has been committed for 112 new homes in Viscose City. Two thirds of new hires are expected to be married.
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the Star
Front Royal
C. E. Hendrixon
American Viscose Corporation
Marcus Hook
J. L. Shade
Weaver
Charles C. Barksdale
Richmond
Federal Housing Administration
Front Royal Realty Corporation
Viscose
James Bennett
Costs of TVA Delay Held Up by Clash
Knoxville July 23 A sharp clash between TVA engineers under Dr Arthur E Morgan and advisory committees mainly of university professors slowed cost allocation decisions for Norris Wheeler and Wilson dams. Director David E Lilienthal testified before a congressional committee describing the disagreement and a 1935 valuation effort at Muscle Shoals used to base allocations.
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Knoxville
Tenn
TVA
David E. Lilienthal
Congressional Investigation Committee
Lilienthal
Arthur E. Morgan
Norris, Wheeler and Wilson
Muscle Shoals
Three Navy Men Die In Crash Near Woodbridge Conn
A U S Navy bombing plane crashed in heavy rain near Woodbridge Connecticut killing instantly the pilot Lieut J F P McDonough of Boston Lieut W J Drumtra of Gloucester and Aviation Cadet John Richard Patch of Boston all attached to the Yorktown U S S squadron at Norfolk Va The plane started from Norfolk flew to Floyd Bennett Field stopped an hour and then crashed after taking off for Massachusetts It was reported bearing license number 0344 and officials said there may have been a fourth body found outside the wreckage.
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Woodbridge
Conn
United States Navy
Floyd Bennett Field
N. Y
J. FP. McDonough
Boston
Mass
W. J. Drumtra
Gloucester
John Richard Patch
U.S
N.R
L. E. Truner
New York Field
U.S. S. Yorktown
Norfolk
Floyd Bennett
Massachusetts
Jack Tweed
New Haven
Bernard S. Budge
Budge
Record oats production on Lupten farm seven acres
Threshermen on the Lupten farm Northwestern grade report 564 bushels of oats from seven acres. They claim an average of 8047 bushels per acre, a county average around 45 bushels. Lease holder Phil H. Gold, a Winchester fruit grower. Threshing by Bucher and Jackson.
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Lupten
Phil H. Gold
Winchester
Bucher and Jackson
Texas Democrats eye mountain music primary showdown
AUSTIN July 23 A mass Texas Democratic primary tests the potency of mountain music as W Lee O Daniel campaigns with a hired hillbilly act promising $30 pensions while opponents McCraw Thompson and Hunter campaign on reforms and budget cuts Eight others including Karl Crowley and James A Ferguson vie for the governorship in a crowded field with strong regional interest.
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Texas
Austin
Tex
Bob Williams
Jim Ferguson
W. Lee O’daniel
Fort Worth
O’daniel
Liam McCraw
Ernest O. Thompson
Tom Hunter
Wichita Falls
O'Daniel
McCraw
Thompson
Hunter
Karl A. Crowley
Post Office Department
James A. Ferguson
Bell County
Hip
Farmer
Jim
Britain and France Question Four-Power Czech Plan
Paris reports French opposition to a four power conference on Czechoslovakia. Britain and Germany discuss a plan to consult with the Praha government, leading to a five year non aggression pact and later aviation limits.
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Andre Francois-Poncet
Berlin
Paris
Georges Bennett
Quay D’orsay
Britain
France
Germany
Italy
Praha
Czechoslovakia
Missing Kentucky women found alive near Perpetual Ice Caves
Three Kentucky tourists Irene Piedalue Laura Piedalue and Marie Antoinette de Laforrest were found alive about three miles west of the Perpetual Ice Caves in New Mexico after four days lost in the lava country near Grants. Governor Clyde Tingley led the search assisted by state police and sheriffs deputies.
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Kenneth MccCullough
Paxton Springs
Perpetual Ice Caves
McCullough
Grants
N. M
Kentucky
New Mexico
Laura Piedalue
New York
Marie Antoinette de Laforrest
Lexington
University of Kentucky
Clyde Tingley
Malpais
CIO Sponsoring Act Amendment Expands Reach
The C I O announced it will sponsor amendments to the Walsh Healy government contracts act at the next Congress. The proposed changes would require contractors with government contracts of at least 2000 dollars to follow Walsh Healey wage hour rules and the decisions of the national labor relations board.
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Washington
House
Walsh-Healey
National Labor Relations Board
Pittman Out For New Trade Pacts
Senator Pittman of Nevada proposes new commercial treaties with all American republics to protect property rights and back Hulls demand for arbitration over expropriated American assets in Mexico. He warns Mexico must fairly compensate or risk ending close economic benefits and the good neighbor policy.
In Favor Of An Over Pass Across Pennsylvania Railway
Frederick County School Board and Board of Supervisors press for state funds to build an over pass on Route 7 over the Pennsylvania Railway near the Na tional Fruit Product and Shenandoah Apple Cider plants. A planned high school near the crossing prompted the move. The group has long sought the project with no final state commitment. If built, Route 7 would be rerouted southeast from Hiett’s curve to connect with U S Route 11 east of the rail line.
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Frederick County
Board of Supervisors
State Highway Department
Pennsylvania Railway
National Fruit Product Company
Shenandoah Apple Cider and Vinegar Company
Hiett
Britain and Germany seek peaceful Sudeten settlement
Prime Minister Chamberlain gave the German ambassador assurances of British help to press Czechoslovakia toward swift minority statute action and greater Sudeten autonomy. Berlin envoy Von Dirksen left for Berlin after a 45 minute courtesy call, with Paris viewing Germany’s gesture as a possible maneuver to divide France and Britain.
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Paris
France
Herbert von Dirksen
London
Neville Chamberlain
Quay D’orsay
Czechoslovakia
Russia
Germany
Praha
Chamberlain
Britain
Soviet
Italy
Hitler
Berlin
Cirles
von Dirksen
Lord Halifax
Fritz Wiedemann
Be On Guard For Passer Of Checks
Merchants warned to beware of a young boy cashing two checks for 12.70 in Winchester. A check machine and typewriter were used. the signature read G. W. Stowell. The man has not been seen and no description is available.
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Winchester
G. W. Stowell
Catalonian Front Sees Renewed Spanish Offensive
At Hendaye near the Spanish border on July 23 the Spanish government launched a vigorous offensive to ease insurgent pressure on Valencia defenses. Fighting renewed along the Catalonian front with insurgent offensives reported on the eastern, central, and frontier fronts as General Franco's forces press Valencia.
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Hendaye
France
Valencia
Spain
Gener Franco
Tony Galento In Hospital After Broncho-Pneumonia Attack
Tony Galento remained in serious condition in a New Jersey hospital after being floored by a broncho pneumonia attack. The famed heavyweight fighter was seen in a hospital bed under medical care today.
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Orange
N. J
Tony Galento
New Jersey
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