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Paris hears Italy and Germany will ask Pope to call 4-power conf
pledges friendship for Italy
RENO, Aug. 14.--With the arrest of six suspects today, investigation proceeded into the sabotage wrecking in Humboldt Canyon, forty miles from Elko, on Saturday night, of the streamlined railroad train City of San Francisco.
Burckhardt conf with Chodacki on return to Danzig
1939Twenty-six Junkers Ju 87 bombers commanded by Walter Sigel meet unexpected ground fog during a dive-bombing demonstration for Luftwaffe generals at Neuhammer. Thirteen of them crash and burn.[†]
The Junkers Ju 87, popularly known as the "Stuka", is a German dive bomber and ground-attack aircraft. Designed by Hermann Pohlmann, it first flew in 1935. The Ju 87 made its combat debut in 1937 with the Luftwaffe's Condor Legion during the Spanish Civil War of 1936–1939 and served the Axis in World War II from beginning to end (1939–1945).
1939The Wizard of Oz premieres at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Los Angeles, California.[†]
The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical fantasy film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). Based on the 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, it was primarily directed by Victor Fleming, who left production to take over the troubled Gone with the Wind.