Death Battalion Falls in Battle for Tazang Northwest of Shanghai
Chinese authorities report a 1400 strong death battalion and over 3000 Japanese attackers were killed in a 30 hour clash for Ta zang near Shanghai. Colonel Chin Ching Wu was killed and his force wiped out as Chinese protect supply bases in the heaviest Shanghai area engagement of the war to date.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shanghai
Tazang
Chin Ching-Wu
Chin
Chenju
Hungjao
Changan
China
Japan
Johnson
United States
Clarence E. Gauss
Nelson T. Johnson
Nanking
State Department
Washington
Chapei
International Settlement
French Concession
Whangpoo River
Yangtzpoo and
Hongkew
Yangtze
Indecision about entering wholesale contests and advertising
MA Winchester reflects on the temptation to enter mass contests to recover invested funds. The piece likens contests to a bull market and urges starting a contest plus advertising. She jokes about judges and women offering candid opinions and notes the stress of managing large winnings.
Hero Dogs Die Saving Pups in Seatt le Fire
In Seattle on October 18 a mother water Spaniel and her mate sacrificed themselves to shield a two day old quintuplet litter from a rooming house fire. The mother died protecting the box, the male Spaniel died minutes later. Fire losses were light and the puppies were recovering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
Narragansett Park Racing Closed Under Martial Law
National Guardsmen, about 300 strong, took positions at Narragansett Park near Pawtucket RI as Governor Quinn declared a state of insurrection. Racing was canceled for the day with entries open for tomorrow under ongoing martial law. Henry Carvin called for impeachment proceedings over the governor’s miltary order.
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Pawtucket
R. I
National Guard
Narragansett Park
Robert E. Quinin
Horgan
Herbert R. Dean
Earl C. Webster
Robert E. Quinn
Henry F. Carvin
Rhode Island House
Tommy Manville To Marry Again
New York reports asbestos heir Tommy Manville plans a fifth marriage once his divorce from wife No. 4 is finalized. He targets Miss Nina Pierson aged 25 of Duluth Minnesota as his next bride amid Vera Manville family chatter and comments from Marcelle Edwards. Pierson cites a Mexican divorce and English favorable view. Her father is Duluth banker Andrew Pierson and her uncle is Martin Christiansen, president of the Duluth Iron Marine and Shipbuilding Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Tommy Manville
Manville
Nina Pierson
Duluth
Minn
Pierson
Paul Leviton
England
Pommy
Lovely
Tommy
Marcelle Edwards
Reno
Marcelle
Miss Pierson
Pickers' Tickets Print Now at the Star Office
The Star Office announces print availability for pickers' tickets. Customers are urged to collect or purchase them from the office as soon as possible.
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Star Office
Italy and Germany seek leverage over Spanish non intervention
In London observers report Mussolini and Hitler may back Franco while stalling non intervention. The non intervention sub committee meets Tuesday as Chamberlain presides over a cabinet session and experts study plans to strengthen border controls and end sea patrols.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Italy
Germany
Benito Mussolini
Adolph Hitler
Francisco Franco
Neville Chamberlain
Spain
Letter Carriers District Convention Set for Arlington
The district convention of the National Association of Letter Carriers will be held Saturday October 23 in Arlington. G P Brannan chair of arrangements notes the event aims to improve understanding among members and the Virginia auxiliary, marking Arlington’s first such convention in the county’s history amid rapid growth near the nation’s capital.
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National Association of Letter Carriers
Arlington
G. P. Brannan
Virginia
Arlington County
United States
Home Economics Reports From Kernstown 4-H Club
The Kernstown 4-H Club met at Kernstown school with members submitting their yearly reports. The schedule lists Gore 4-H Club on Tuesday at 10 45 and Middletown H D C at 2 00 in the home economics cottage for a 1938 project selection and the Ball and Kerr canning contest. Members to bring one jar meat or chicken and a jar good values coats and gloves.
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Kernstown
Ball and Kerr
Moyer-Hire School of Dance Disclaims Collected Funds
Notice states the Moyer-Hire School of Dance will not be responsible for money collected by agents. The advisory names the reference code 10-18-1p-11 and outlines liability limits for payments handled by third parties.
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Moyer — Hire School of Dance
Garner Dinner Tradition Likely to Face Change
Washington reports reveal the White House winter social calendar lists a vice president dinner on January 6. Observers expect Franklin D. Roosevelt to telephone Garner and propose canceling the annual event, a ritual Garner has previously avoided by calling off last year’s dinner.
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Washington
Garner
White House
Congress
Roosevelt
Insurgents Break Past Colunga on Biscayan Front
On the Biscayan front insurgents shifted from mountains to the coast and drove past Colunga, an Asturian fishing port near Villaviciosa, as government forces mounted a major push toward Zaragoza to ease pressure in the northwest.
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Hendaye
Biscayan
Spain
Colunga
Villaviciosa
Gijon
Jaca
Fuentes
Aragon
Zaragoza
Madrid
Northwest
Hunter loses appeal in death case in Virginia
John F. Hunter of Arlington Virginia was convicted of killing his wife Anna Hunter and lost an appeal at the Supreme Court seeking to avoid a 20 year term. The court refused to rule on a Virginia Supreme Court judgment. Hunter argued confinement in a hospital for the criminally insane without a hearing rendered the procedure illegal.
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Washington
John F. Hunter
Arlington
Anna Hunter
Supreme Court
High Court
Hunter
Virginia Supreme Court
Three Florida Concerns Lose In High Court
The Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal by three Florida companies challenging a Securities and Exchange Commission subpoena of their telegrams. The Fifth Circuit had sustained the subpoenas under the 1933 act, with Justice Black's participation unsettled and not disclosed.
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Florida
Federal Securities Commission
Washington
Supreme Court
Securities Commission
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
Trust In Securities
Justice Black
High Tribunal
Black
Telegram
Senate
Slayer of Two Police Officers Dies of Wounds
In St. Petersburg Florida the slayer of two officers James A. Thornton and William G. Newberry died of wounds after a manhunt ended with his capture and death while resisting arrest. Police chief Vaughn described the mob scene as officials hid the prisoner in a mortuary basket and a white doctor tried to save him.
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ST. Petersburg
Fla
Vaughn
J. O. Moses
James A. Thornton
William G. Newberry
Moses
R. E. Dicks
Japanese Warplane Blown Up After Crash
A Japanese warplane, heavily loaded with bombs, exploded when it crashed after being hit by Chinese anti aircraft guns near Chapel. In Greenville Pennsylvania a coroner's jury urged criminal prosecution of 65 year old D T Thomas once an evangelist in the deaths of his wife and a male boarder.
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Shanghgat
Greenville
D. T. Thomas
Gas Mask Fitting Trials Planned for Babies in Kent
Home office experts will conduct gas mask fitting trials on babies at an infants nursing home in Hawkhurst Kent on Wednesday. The effort aims to test protective equipment for infants amid wartime concerns.
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BABES
London
Home Office
Hawkhurst
Kent
Roosevelt to receive Nathan Straus in Hyde Park visit
President Roosevelt scheduled a meeting today at Hyde Park to receive Nathan Straus, a New York City housing expert, who has been promoted for a role in housing policy.
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Straus
British Curfew Maintained as Palestine Tensions Continue
In Jerusalem and Lydda British authorities kept strict curfews and monitored the situation closely amid ongoing unrest in Palestine despite hopes for a quick restoration of quiet.
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Jerusalem
Palestine
Lydda
Bank robber Widmer urges youth to study and obey parents
Philadelphia October 25 James Widmer an escaped life termer and Ohio bank robber urged American youth to avoid crime by going to school and minding their parents.
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Philadelphia
James Widmer
Ohio
America
First Woman Electrocuted Sentence Reprieve Granted
Marguerite Fox Dolbow and Norman Driscoll, convicted of murdering Dolbow’s husband, won a 30 day reprieve from Governor Hoffman, the second delay granted to the couple in New Jersey.
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Trenton
N. J
Marguerite Fox Dolbow
New Jersey
Norman Driscoll
Hoffman
Death of Mrs. Fahnestock in Capital Home
Carolyn Snowden Andrews Fahnestock 75 dies at a club after returning from Newport R I She was widow of Gibson Fahnestock New York and Washington financier and a Red Cross worker founder of the Woman's Naval Service and National Service for Women Survivors include her sons Col Snowden A Fahnestock and Gibson Fahnestock a daughter Mrs Henry Drummondwolf a brother Charles Lee Andrews and a sister Mrs Frederick L Eldridge
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Washington
Carolyn Snowden Andrews Fahnestock
Newport
R. I
Gibson Fahnestock
New York
Fahnestock
Red Cross
Woman's Naval Service
National Service For Women
Home For Incurables
Washington Cathedral
Col
Snowden A. Fahnestock
China
Henry Drummondwolf
London
Charles Lee Andrews
Flushing
Long Island
Frederick L. Eldridge
Ardsley-on-Hudson
N. Y
Marker honors Confederate officer’s charge near Stephenson
Mrs. Fahnestock, daughter of Col. Snowden Andrews of Maryland, placed a granite marker near Stephenson commemorating his Civil War charge at a small bridge north of Winchester. Andrews led a Maryland contingent in a fierce assault, captured the bridge, and was wounded during the engagement.
Commission On Game Considers Season's Limit
The State Commission on Game and Inland Fisheries weighs a three day per week hunting season proposal for Frederick Clarke and Loudoun counties from Nov 23 to Dec 30. Public notice and a further hearing are planned before final action. Support favors quail hunting on Tue Thu Sat with seven bird daily bag and 60 for the season. opposition seeks no hunting.
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State Commission On Game and Inland Fisheries
Berryville
Frederick
Clarke
Loudoun
Carl H. Nolting
Commission
Willam S. Shaw
Alexandria
Thomas G. Herring
Harrisonburg
Webb
Widett
Northern
Virginia
Woman and Baby Die in Warrenton Crash
A three vehicle collision near Warrenton Virginia killed a 60 year old Washington woman and a six and one half month old baby girl. Barbara Gasser died in hospital. Helen Gasser aged 19 suffered severe head injuries. Bernice Wilson 25 sustained a serious back injury. Pauline Marchalk 60 died at the scene. The incident left three others injured.
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Washington
Warrenton
Pauline Marchalk
Barbara Gasser
Helen Gasser
Bernice Wilson
Wilmer Maihl
Baltimore
Leaders Drop To New Lows
New York stock market leaders fell sharply on October 18 with many shares hitting two year lows. Heavy liquidation in steels triggered a broad relapse in 1937 as mills cut operations. The day began with a mild rally but failed to sustain, as commodities slid and only modest recoveries appeared before closing. Turnover reached about 2.8 million shares.
Triplets Born at Cumberland All Girls at Memorial Hospital
Cumberland Maryland reports three girls born at Memorial Hospital to Mr and Mrs Harold R Smith. First such birth since the hospital opened, delivering two five pound infants and one nearly six pound baby. Mother and daughters in good condition. father works in a Cumberland garage parts department.
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Cumberland
Harold R Smith
Memorial Hospital
Mr. Smith
Phone Operator Killed In Bicycle Crash In Arlington
Harriet Groves aged 18 of East Falls Church Va was fatally injured in a collision with an car driven by Herman Kadan 36 of Vienna Va. The operator at Clarendon Va rode into the side of his vehicle and died at a Washington hospital.
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Arlington, Va
Harriet Groves
East Falls Church
Herman Kadan
Vienna
Kadan
Clarendon
Washington
Odd Fellows To Rehearse Degree Tonight
Madison Lodge No. 6 I O O F members rehearse a special degree for use at the Grand Masters Rally on Monday December 8. Officers urge all members to attend tonight’s meeting to prepare for the event.
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Madison Lodge
Missing United Air Lines mainliner found in Wyoming search
United Air Lines Transcontinental aircraft with 19 aboard was sighted in rugged southwestern Wyoming about 85 miles east of Salt Lake City. Ground crews prepared to reach the crash site as weather hampered access and officials feared casualties or extensive damage.
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United Air Lines
Wyoming
Westborn
Cheyenne
Wyo
Salt Lake City
Evanston
Knight
Hayden
Porcupine Ridge
R. W. Schroeder
United
Bob Bergensen
Bill Williams
Utah
Schroeder
Frank L. Narramore
Here
Rock Springs
United Air Line
Farl Woodgerd
Oo Fe
Omaha
Neb
Denver
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Narragansett
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Mussolini
Franco
Chamberlain
Capital Society
Supreme Bench
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National Labor Board
United States Housing Authority
Col. Snowden Andrews
Maryland
Commission On Game
Miss. Marchalk
Gasser
Miss Wilson
Ray D. Humphlett
Humphlett
Wilmer
Odd Fellows
Arthur Willoughby
Willoughby
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