The Semi-Weekly Farm News

The MODERN Farm Paper of Value for Farmer, Stockman and Family
Note: This newspaper was found in the personal belongings of Elma Frankie Smith May.
Tuesday, August 16, 1938
Dallas, Texas
Military

U. S. Marines Have Scuffle with 3 Japs

SHANGHAI, China, Aug. 13 – Three Japanese propagandist attempted to shoot members of a United States Marines unit Saturday, but the Americans overpowered and subdued them.
This incident came on the first anniversary of the battle of Shanghai and amid reports that Japanese forces would attempt to drive back one of China's mightiest armies before Hankow in a general offensive starting Monday.
The three Japanese were members of a special service corps under direct command of the Japanese Army.
Their chief duties were to distribute anti-Chinese propaganda. A Japanese spokesman said that they were plain-clothesmen, not members of the army but army employees.
They selected the International Settlement for their activities Saturday, but did not reckon upon interference by American Marines. The Marines caught them in the American defense sector of the settlement, threatening Chinese civilians with pistols.
Col. Charles F. B. Price, commander of the Marines, personally directed his forces in the scuffle and took official motion pictures of the the incident for the records.
The Japanese resisted violently and attempted to shoot the Marines before they were beaten down. The Marines rushed in despite the raised Japanese pistols, disarmed them and carried them away. One refused to leave, but a soldier yanked him to the street.
Two were turned over to the Japanese authorities. The Marines demanded their punishment. The third, released to seek treatment for injuries received in the clash, violated his parole and escaped.

NEW YORK, N. Y., Aug. 13 – The 27,000-ton battleship Texas, here on a four-day visit with the battleship Wyoming, got stuck in the mud in the Hudson River Saturday.
The ship's anchor failed to hold, and its stern swung around with the tide into the mud bank. Six launches pulled it clear. The vessels will take 700 midshipmen from Annapolis on their annual training cruise.

The Semi-Weekly Farm News
The MODERN Farm Paper of Value for Farmer, Stockman and Family
Tuesday, August 16, 1938
Dallas, Texas
History

QUANAH, Texas, August 12–A West Texas whirlwind Friday sent Pierce Brooks, Dallas candidate for Lieutenant Governor, to the hospital and postponed his speaking engagements for the remainder of the week.
Brooks suffered a severe back in-injury when the minature twister struck a trailer attached to the rear of his automobile and caused the car to overturn twice.
The candidate was pinned under the steering wheel of the machine. He was brought to Quanah for X-ray. He was ordered to spend the night in a hospital.
James W. Preston, his publicity director, suffered severe head cuts and State Representative George A. Davisson Jr. of Eastland, an injured neck, Charles Lindsey, technician for Brook's sound equipment which is housed in the trailer, escaped injury.

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