Congressman's suicide shocks Seattle in tragic window plunge
The Seattle congressman Marion A. Zioncheck died instantly after leaping head first from a fifth floor Arctic Building window. Coroner Otto Mittelstadt said death was by own action. Witnesses recalled his sudden dash across the room and the fatal jump as a stunned city watched. The incident followed days of campaign turmoil and recent erratic behavior linked to prior legal and mental health troubles.
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Seattle
Marion A. Zioncheck
Otto Mittelstadt
W. H. MacFarlane
Zioncheck
William Nadeau
Nadeau
Zion
Arctic
Zionebeck
Mittelstadt
Zionbeck
Washington
Maryland
University of Washington
President to Get WPA Plea From Texas Delegation
Colonel Horatio B. Hackett promised the Texas Planning Board delegation that the Public Works Administration will appeal to President Roosevelt for revision of the executive order affecting Texas PWA projects. The group, including Major E A Wood and Wallace C Reilly, laid out figures showing Texas relief rolls have ample skilled and unskilled labor unless the order is changed to permit a higher share of skilled workers.
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Bascom N. Timmons
Washington
Horatio B. Hackett
Public Works
Texas Planning Board
Public Works Administration
Roosevelt
Texas Pwa
E. A. Wood
Planning Board
Wallace C. Reilly
Texas Federation of Labor
C. B. Sheffield
R. B. Stanford
Tom W. Cotten
Amarillo
Hackett
Texas
Hutchinson to vote on hospital bond issue
Hutchinson County taxpayers face a vote on a bond issue to fund a new hospital costing 65 000 dollars. If approved the bond would be financed from the general improvement fund at a 25 cent per one hundred valuation levy, replacing the fourteen room current facility.
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Borger
Hutchinson County
General Improvement Fund
Eastland extortion plot foiled near Cisco
Oil executive Samuel Butler narrowly evades an extortion threat when he places 2500 of the demanded 3000 in a briefcase on a westbound train near Cisco. A young man fled into the darkness as officers lit the scene with a flare. John W. Turner confirms the thwarted scheme.
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Eastland
Tex
Samuel Butler
Butler
Cisco
Here
Smedhey Butler
John W. Turner
Arab Gasoline Corporation
Smedley D. Butler
el Paso
Texas and Pacific
Oil Company
Amarillo and West Texas Weather Outlook
Fair Saturday and Sunday with generally fair conditions in West Texas west of the 100th meridian. New Mexico shows fair in the south with some unsettled areas in the north Saturday and little temperature change. Highs around 95 to 100 and lows near 66 to 70 reflecting yesterday’s readings.
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Amarillo
West Texas
100Th Meridian
New Mexico
coedevesTs
Flaming Well Brings 75 Foot Crater To Texas Gusher Fire
At Silsbee Texas the Brooks No 1 oil well blasted a 75 foot diameter crater and emitted a rising column of fire and mud. Fire fighters rushed derrick work to redirect gas flow and halt the blaze threatening a 10 acre tract in the Piney Woods.
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Silsbee
Texas
Mae West Acts as Godmother to Two Prize Calves
Hollywood report says Mae West served as godmother to two prize calves born at the Triangle-A ranch where scenes for her new movie were filmed. Ira Ashcroft, the ranch owner, announced the event and credited the actress with bringing good luck to the stock.
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Hollywood
Calif
Mae West
Ira Ashcroft
Triangle
Ashcroft
Colorado Governor To Hoist Flag For U S Over Forgotten Land
Breckenridge Colorado August 7 Gov Ed C Johnson will raise the U S flag over a 1300 square mile Rocky Mountain area claimed as United States territory. Rep Edward Taylor will explain how the region was overlooked and became a no man s land during westward expansion.
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Colorado
U. S
Breckenridge
Colo
Rocky Mountains
United States
Ed Cc. Johnson
Johnson
United States Territory
Edward T. Taylor
Glenwood Springs
Missouri
Rocky Mountain Range
Jessie M. Gardner
U. S. Land Office
Denver
Nazi Slayings Stir Germany in Crisis
National Zeitung edited by Hermann Goering denounces the execution of four German citizens in Barcelona as murder by a revolutionary tribunal. Nazi voices demand international action to end the red threat in Spain while Hitler’s government weighs an eight nation neutrality pact in the crisis.
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Berlin
Nazi Germany
Spain
Adolf Hitler
Barcelona
National Zeitung
Hermann Goering
Britain vows retaliation if ships open fire again
Nazis threaten intervention to save Spain from the red peril while Britain warns it will fire back if Loyalist or Fascist ships renew hostilities. France’s neutrality plan stands at risk as German reaction looms. Fascist gunboat burned by Loyalists and Algeciras fort damaged amid reports of government gains and stalemate in the revolution.
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Associated Press
Britain
Spain
France
Algeciras
Spain Faces Threat of Bolshevik Rule and Disintegration
The article questions whether the Spanish government can control events as Europe faces a terror regime and disintegration. Headlines cite Soviet volunteers en route to Spain and Bolshevization claims while France faces moral criticism. Diplomatic protests over shootings and the Sevilla incident are sent to Madrid and Barcelona as Germany shifts its naval readiness. Three more German citizens are reported shot at Barcelona, alongside four previously noted.
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Spain
Europe
Sovyiet
Russia
France
Arab Band Slain in Convoy Attack Near Tel Aviv
In Nablus district twenty six Arabs were killed in a convoy ambush between Haifa and Tel Aviv. Most deaths were by government air fire. one British officer was slightly wounded. The high death toll likely includes the entire band in one day. The region had seen a brief calm prior to the incident.
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Jerusalem
U.P
Nablus
Haifa
Tel -Aviv
Twin Cities Join In Prayer For Rain
Hartshorne and Haileyville Oklahoma suspended business as residents gathered for a public prayer for rain. Officials noted only 3.68 inches of rain has fallen since last November, leaving both towns threatened by a water shortage.
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Mcalester
Okla
Twin Cities
Hartshorne
Haileyville
Here
Heart Attack Kills Santa Fe Composer
Charles Farwell Edson, 75, noted poet and composer once prominent in California music circles, died of a heart attack on a street in Santa Fe New Mexico.
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Santa FE
N. M
Charles Farwell Edson
California
Feathers for Bullets scandal reaches War Department
Peace activist Woody Hockaday known as Chief Pow Wow was arrested today near Constitution Hall after entering the War Department and dispersing a sack of feathers in the office of Assistant Secretary of War Harry Woodring. police control the scene as he was captured by Washington officers.
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Washington
Woody Hockaday
Constitution Hall
The
Daughters of the American Revolution
Hockaday
War Department
Harry Woodring
Woodring
Wichita
Kan
White House
Roosevelt
Associated Press
Southern Delegates Halt London Move in Anti New Deal Meet
Democratic anti New Dealers meeting in Detroit formed a committee to outline views after southern opposition to endorsing Governor Landon. Joseph B. Ely led the group, saying Alfred E. Smith would oppose the New Deal, and Smith later called the announcement unauthorized.
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London
Detroit
Landon
Joseph B. Ely
Massachusetts
Joseph P. Ely
Alfred F. Smith
Boston
Ely
New York
Smith
Residents in Claude plan memorial for Phebe K Warner
Citizens of Claude and the Panhandle meet at Claude courthouse at 8 PM Saturday to discuss a memorial honoring Phebe K. Warner pioneer club woman writer and beloved local figure. A countywide committee from the Federation of Women's Clubs of Armstrong County leads preliminary plans.
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Claude
Phebe K. Warner
Federation of Women's Clubs
Armstrong County
County
the Panhandle
Pioneer Club
Claude and
Black Legion trio found guilty in false imprisonment case
A divided Detroit verdict convicts Earl Angstadt Thomas Cox and Frederick Gulley of false imprisonment for forcing Robert Penland to accompany them to a meeting. Acquittals go to Charles King Harold Lawrence and Wilbur Robinson as over 50 related cases await trial on terrorism charges.
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Detroit
Black Legion
Hooded Society
Joseph A. Moynihan
Earl Angstadt
Thomas F. Cox
Frederick A. Gulley
Robert Penland
Surburban Ecorse
Charles D. King
Ecorse
Harold Lawrence
Wilbur Robinson
Detroit Street Railway
Legion
Oil land heir denies he has disappeared
J Roy Willis a former $80 a month relief worker said he did not disappear and was at his Los Angeles home after reports his brother R L Willis Rodessa La asked police to search for him. He claimed he was prospecting in the mountains when the press said he vanished.
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Los Angeles
J. Roy Willis
Louisiana
R. L. Willis
Rodessa
Roosevelt Invites Landon to Drouth States Governors Conference
President Roosevelt said he will invite governors of Iowa Nebraska Kansas Oklahoma and Missouri to a drouth discussion during a midwestern trip beginning August 25 or 26. Alf Landon stated he would attend if beneficial to Kansas and noted Kansas cooperation with federal relief efforts.
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Roosevelt
Alf Landon
Drouth
Hyde Park
N. Y
Alf M. Landon
Kansas
Landon
Topeka
Hoover
Northern
Dust Bowl
Dakotas
Great Plains
Drouth Committee
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Georgia
John Garners
Macon
Daniel Pittmans
Atlanta
Edna Garner Manning
Virginia Garner
Louise Pittman
Cecil Hensley
WPA
Meath
Crater
Mae
Germany
Clovis
Tingley
Hatch
Chavez
Dempsey
New Mexico Department of American Legion
Clyde Tingley
Carl A. Hatch
Dennis Chavez
J. J. Dempsey
National Guard
Department
Edwin G. Hobbs
Gov. Tingley
Frank Bishop
C. B. Hunter
Charles Bagwell
Frank Bagwell
Rosa Church
Jerry Cavanaugh
E. C. Nichols
Will Me
OIL Land
GOP
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