Probers Target Hopson Case as They Lose Trail of Witness
House investigators sought missing Hopson with subpoenas at Patrick Hurley’s Virginia estate after earlier checks in Washington hotels. Hurley called the visit a disgraceful outrage and claimed Hopson’s whereabouts were unknown. The probe centers on the Wheeler-Rayburn public utilities dispute and Hurley’s influence.
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Patrick J. Hurley
H. C. Hopson
O'Connor
Hurley
Virginia
Hopson
Washington
O’connor
Riots Sweep Brest As Workers Strike Over Pay Cuts
Violent unrest hit Brest today during a maritime arsenal strike over government pay cuts. A rioter was killed when struck in the head during clashes with mobile guards, and two guards were badly wounded. Police, troops, and guards cleared streets near the arsenal as rioting continued in Rue Siam. The mob attacked sub prefect Jacques Henry, tearing down a red flag and beating him before rescue.
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Paris
U.P
Brest
Maritime Arsenal
Arsenal
Siam
Jacques Henry
Bowen freed after protest confrontation with police
Buffalo Aug 6 Judge Peter Maul ruled that arguing with a policeman is constitutional when Harold B Bowen was discharged after a patrolman tried to halt children from playing on lawns. The judge said a citizen can talk to a policeman.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Peter Maul
Harold B. Bowen
Ickes Sees Heavy Oil Flow in Fall
Secretary Ickes predicted a heavy flow of oil in California and Texas this fall as companies draw on reserve stocks this summer and begin production. He said hot oil would start to flow by fall, during his semi weekly press conference in Washington.
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Ams. &M
Ickes
California
Texas
Kansas City Relief Workers Protest At Courthouse Demands Raised
About 1,000 relief workers swarmed Wyandotte County courthouse demanding restoration of payments cut by two thirds and broader relief reforms. County commissioners rejected most of a 12 point petition, offering only a study of a 25 percent tax levy increase while allowing continued relief at current rates for one week. Demonstrators urged quitting relief jobs and some joined the protest as police reserves were called out. Food beds and free milk for vulnerable citizens were among demands.
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Kansas City
Kas
Wyandotte
Lester Wickliffe
Works Progress Administration
Ferris Claims Beating Led to Confession in Attorney Slaying
In a Detroit courtroom William Lee Ferris testified under cross examination that police beat him into confessing to killing attorney Howard Carter Dickinson. He disputed yesterday’s claim that Dickinson acted by his own hand or by accident and described pulling Dickinson from Ferris’s car in Rouge Park on June 26 while three former burlesque dancers stood trial.
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Detroit
William Lee Ferris
Howard Carter Dickinson
Duncan C. McCrea
New York
Dickinson
Ferris
Rouge Park
Post Rogers Hop Delayed by Gulf Weather Over Alaska
Seattle August 6 weather delays the northward flight of Wiley Post and Will Rogers. Rogers and Post test the new ship at Renton Airport, circling Seattle and Lake Washington in a pontoon plane. Mrs Post will join the trip. they plan routes to Alaska and Siberia with Rogers possibly visiting the Montanuska Valley project.
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Gulf of Alaska
Wiley Post
Renton
Post
Rogers
Lake Washington
Moscow
Alaska
Siberia
Montanuska Valley
Germans Attack Unbridled Press Over Japan Caricature
Berlin dispatch reports the Nazi Boersen Zeitung condemns Vanity Fair for publishing a caricature of the Japanese emperor. It blames the United States for an unbridled press and calls for disciplinary action, arguing governments must curb undisciplined journalism. The piece cites Groppers' vow to caricature other leaders despite Cordell Hull's apologies to Japan.
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Berlin
U.P
Boersen Zeitung
Vanity Fair
Japan
United States
Groppers
Cordell Hull
Vacuum Oil Cuts Common Stock Dividend Schedule
Vacuum Oil Co Inc reduced its annual common stock dividend to 30 cents from 60 cents in 1934 and declared a semiannual dividend of 15 cents. The next dividend is payable September 16 to stock of record August 23, with prior action in February also set as semiannual.
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New York
Spacony- Vacuum Oil Co., Inc
Babe Ruth hits woman with car in New York incident
Babe Ruth, famed home run hitter, struck and lightly injured a woman who stepped in front of his car in New York tonight. Police say the pedestrian emerged from behind another vehicle, causing the collision.
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New York
George Herman
Babe” Ruth
Shugger
Bob tailed plane lands at Fort Worth
Fort Worth reports a bob tailed plane landed safely at Municipal Airport at 8 35 p m with no incident. Earlier Abilene saw John H Giesse depart at 7 p m bound for Fort Worth and Dallas after motor repairs. President Roosevelt sent to the Senate the nomination of Cullen F Thomas of Texas as United States commissioner general for the Texas Centennial exposition and celebrations.
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Fort Worth
John Geisse
Department of Commerce
Municipal Airport
Abilene
John H. Giesse
Dallas
Thomas
Washington
Rooselt
Senate
Cullen F. Thomas
Texas
United States
Freight rate orders issued by Railroad Commission
The Railroad Commission authorized an emergency intra state freight rate increase effective Aug 26 1935 through June 30 1936. Carload rates rise 7 percent up to 5 cents per 100 pounds with commodity limits. less than carload rates up 10 percent with 1 to 11 cent per 100 pounds increases. exemptions include agricultural products and cottonseed products. Bandits rob Krasner Brothers messengers of $46250 in New York en route to a bank.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Commission
New York
Krasner
Seattle in miniature and tokens riff from a travel note
The letter from Seattle extols the city as a real town on the main line with quick air access to Los Angeles Spokane Minneapolis and Chicago and a 60 lake drive from city hall It mentions finishing a bombing plane and a token currency joke about Roosevelt money plus a fiddle player lieutenant governor as a unique politician.
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Seattle
Wash
New York
China
Japan
Los Angeles
Spokane
Minneapolis
Chicago
Abyssinia
Roosevelt
Area Size of Kansas Ruined by Erosion
A federal Reconnaissance survey of 1 903 176 620 acres finds 51 465 057 acres essentially destroyed by wind and water erosion. Officials warn erosion could shrink fertile lands dramatically in 50 years, urging action. Rexford Tugwell outlines coordinated resettlement plans.
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Kansas
Washington
Soil Conservation Service
Morris J. Cooke
Nebraska
Cooke
National Institute of Public Affairs
American University
Rexford G. Tugwells
Six Held in Ship Raid Loot Off Long Beach
Six men were booked on robbery suspicion after the Monte Carlo gambling ship raid. Hooded attackers looted cash and jewelry valued at 32000 dollars four miles off Long Beach, then escaped by speed boat. Detectives To land and Simon said arrests followed a raid, with guns and jewelry found in a house. Names include Lovell D Boyd August Wunderlich George Wunderlich Walter Miller Carl Carillo and a man identified as Blackie.
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Los Angeles
Monte Carlo
Long Beach
Harry Toland
Richard Simon
Lovell D. Boyd
August Wunderlich
George Wunderlich
Walter Miller
Carl Carillo
Blackie
China battered by second typhoon Amoy toll rises
The second typhoon in as many days tore through South China coastal areas, causing enormous loss of life and property. Communication lines were destroyed, with several hundred feared dead. Fishing fleets wrecked near Amoy as the storm moved inland over a densely populated region. Refugees faced starvation, prompting the district government and foreign missionaries to set up soup kitchens and straw shelters.
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Amoy
China
South China
Chinanchow
Beiliet Kans Man Kills In Lawsuits and Self
Ralph James, 35, ex convict, shot and killed his father in law and mother in law in a Beloit Kansas restaurant, wounded his wife Helen Gould James and son Bobbie, then killed himself. Mrs James in critical condition. boy wounded. Incident linked to family quarrel. details from hospital report.
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Kas
Ralph James
W. O. Gould
Helen Gould James
Bobbie
James
Gould
Bobby
Mississippi Gubernatorial Race Leads to Hugh White Victory
From Jackson Mississippi Aug 6 early returns from 91 of 1 638 precincts show Hugh White leading with 2028 votes Pierce Paul B Johnson 1701 Dennis Murphree 1489 Lester Franklin 469 Copeland 54 in the Democratic primary for state governor.
Weather Summary for Amarillo and West Texas
Partly cloudy conditions with possible showers in extreme west portions Wednesday. New Mexico also expected to be partly cloudy with a temperature change later in the day. Yesterday's temperatures rose from morning lows around 64 to afternoon highs near 89 in Amarillo.
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Joreura
Amarillo
West Texas
100Th
New Mexico
Officials Capture Insane Criminals In Fulton Escape
Five of six criminally insane convicts who overpowered guards and fled the Fulton state hospital were back in the prison ward tonight as officers searched for the sixth believed hiding nearby. In Dallas, Jack Clay died from burns after a gasoline explosion while servicing a car.
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Fulton, Mo
State Hospital
Dallas
U.P
Jack Clay
Five Hindus killed as police fire on mob at mosque
In Phenhera village Champaran district Bihar Aug 4 police fired about 30 rounds into a crowd of 3000 Hindus as they tried to raid a moslem mosque during a Hindu procession dispute. Five persons died seven were wounded in the riot.
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Bengal
India
Phenhera
Champaran
Bihar
Centennial Officials Seek PWA Grant for Exposition Building
Austin officials plan to request a 400000 to 600000 PWA grant to supplement 1000900 in state funds for a main building at the Central Centennial Exposition in Dallas. Lt. Gov. Walter Woodul said assurances exist, and a Palacios meeting will authorize the application.
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Austin
PWA
Dallas
Walter Woodul
Palacios
Claude Teer
State Board of Control
Mussolini orders 75000 more men in response to Ethiopian mobilization
Premier Mussolini announced 75000 fresh recruits to arms, with about 45000 sent to cantonments for training, boosting Italy's East Africa force to about 235000 including existing formations. The move follows Emperor Haile Selassie’s reported frontier concentrations and aims to deter Ethiopian expansion while maintaining home readiness.
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Mussolini
Haile Selassie
Italy
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East Africa
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Addis Ababa
Red Cross
Geneva
Arbitration Commission
Nicholas Politis
Greece
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France
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Japan
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