Telegraph Firm Linked to Utilities Lobby Telegrams
Gladys Loding testified before the Senate lobby inquiry that more than 200 telegrams opposing the Wheeler Rayburn utilities bill were sent to Rep. D. J. Driscoll from Warren Pennsylvania using names from the city directory. She confirmed the Warren telegraph office burned the originals, with telegrams written by J. A. Fisher and dictated by R. P. Herron of Associated Gas & Electric. Herron used the directory to obtain signatures.
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Ronald van Tine Washington
Gladys FE. Loding
Senate
Wheeler-Rayburn
D. J. Driscoll
Democrat
Pennsylvania
Warren
Miss Loding
Warren Western Union
J. A. Fisher
Warren Telegraph Office
Driscoll
R. P. Herron
Associated Gas & Electric Company
Fisher
Herron
Hugo L. Black
Alabama
House committee approves 30 hour week bill
The House labor committee backed a measure to require a 30 hour workweek for industries in interstate commerce and to license all firms using such channels. It would bar child labor under 16, forced or convict labor, and yellow dog contracts, with a federal licensing commission enforcing compliance.
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Washington
House Labor Committee
Connery
NRA
House
Explosion of Liberty Limited injures many in Ohio town
The Pennsylvania Railroad Liberty Limited locomotive exploded after hitting a truck trailer in Upper Sandusky. Seventeen injured, four in critical condition. Engineers R D Todd and J W Ritcha of Fort Wayne among the injured. passengers William Shirley of Youngstown and Peter Haley of Detroit seriously hurt.
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Upper Sandusky
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Liberty Limited
Main Street
R. D. Todd
J. W. Ritcha
Fort Wayne
Ind
William Shirley
Youngstown
Peter Haley
Detroit
Robert Williams
Cambridge O
Pittsburgh
Chicago
Berlin Quiet On Page Three News Briefs
Digest notes multiple brief items across pages including sterilization response league report and new grave markers. Mentions mobilizing science and AAA reaction with minimal detail and no quotes.
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Berlin
Panhandle Anti Whisky Convention Opens In City
The Panhandle Anti Whisky convention opened its all day session at the First Baptist Church with about 200 delegates from 26 counties. Speakers charged that the August 24 whiskey sales amendment would betray voters and urged a campaign against the measure. Rev E A Maness presided and two committees were appointed. See DRYS Page 2.
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Texas
Panhandle Anti- Whisky Convention
First Baptist Church
Federal debt hits new peak surpassing 29 billion
The federal debt rose to 29,177,786,318 dollars after a recent 500 million dollar treasury note offering. The peak exceeds the prior high of 26,596,701,648 dollars reached in August 1919, with several record highs since mid 1934.
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Washington
Treasury
Coin for Louisiana Is Under Question
President Roosevelt said public works funds for Louisiana were under question due to the new state law and the policy that the federal government must supervise expenditures of federal funds.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Louisiana
Britain Moves African Force as Protection in Kenya
In London Malcolm MacDonald said Kenya’s British forces have been partly redistributed amid frontier contingencies. He noted no reinforcement was deemed necessary and that the government is consulting with the acting governor while monitoring Ethiopia and Italian Somaliland developments.
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Harold P. Braman
London
Malcolm MacDonald
House of Commons
Great Britain
Kenya
Ethiopia
Balance of Budget in French Setup Sparks Protests
Paris reports ministers issued 28 emergency decrees to balance the budget and protect the currency. Civil servants farmers veterans and labor groups react with protests aimed at Premier Laval and the coalition cabinet. A separate El Paso incident notes A F Hartman’s cash box stolen from his car in Douglas Arizona.
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Paris
U.P
France
Great General Confederation of Labor
Pierre Laval
A. F. Hartman
Douglas
Ariz
el Paso
Woman Imprisoned in Dark Garret for Five Years
Grey-haired Anna Van Cleve, age 48, told detectives she spent five years locked in a third story garret in Philadelphia with minimal food. Found in a boarded room, she weighed under 170 pounds and suffered sores and weakness, clutching bread crusts as authorities investigated the case.
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Philadelphia
Anna van Cleve
Rail fares may be cut to two cents per mile
A proposed Interstate Commerce Commission report cites 3.6 cents per mile as unreasonable and recommends two cents per passenger mile in coaches and three cents in Pullmans. It also suggests eliminating Pullman surcharges and notes existing extra fares remain lawful. Oral arguments on the fare issue are scheduled for October 3 and 4.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Irving L. Koch
Koch
William Parks and Dallas Elk to wed unseen in unusual match
Whimsical notes from WHIMSEYS CHICAGO report William Parks marries a blind Dallas musician he has never met. The couple, both orphans, met in Texas and plan a ceremony despite never seeing each other. The War's Over reports Floyd Bell robbed of $30 in a Durham speak easy. Uniontown covers Abe Pratt Sr and Jr facing questions over stolen junk. San Diego notes two lawyers named Holler and Bellows may speak louder in court. In Dallas a parachute expert matron recovers after a fall from a chair. A Greenwich Street novelty shop displays a note about a thief, then another note reads OK I’ll be back later The Crook.
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Chicago
U.P
William Parks
Dallas Elk
Texas
Parks
Elks’ Club
Dallas
Tex
New York
Greenwich Street
O.K
Soviet Plane Aims at 6000-Mile North Pole Flight
Soviet Union plans a single engine non stop flight from Moscow to San Francisco covering about 6000 miles. Led by Sigmund Levaneffsky Hero of the Soviet Union the crew seeks to break the 5653.5 mile record set in 1933. Weather delays due to a storm over the Behring Sea.
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Moscow
North Pole
San Francisco
Paul Codes
Maurice Rossi
New York
Rayak
Syria
Northern Sea Route Department
Sigmund Levaneffsky
Soviet Union
Levaneffsky
James J. Mattern
Anadir
Alaska
Behring Sea
Social Security Critic Calls Act Anti Social
Louis A. Lecher of Milwaukee labeled the federal social security act anti social and unconstitutional in an address to the American Bar Association's committee on federal taxation. He attacked the theory that the tax funding the act is revenue producing, arguing it defeats the act's purpose.
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Los Angeles
Louis A. Lecher
Milwaukee
Committee On Federal Taxation
The
American Bar Association
Lecher
Tulip Bulb Sale Ends Soon In Amarillo
The Amarillo Garden Club offers Holland bulbs at 50 cents per dozen to promote Amarillo as a Tulip Town. Orders close July 30 with reservations through Mrs. Ben Manning Mrs. John Rowland or Mrs. Davis Tudor.
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Amarillo
Kilkenny Cats Again And Other Brisbane Satire
Arthur Brisbane 1934 syndicated column collection features Kilkenny Cats again Our Poor Break-Downs Pickings For Lawyers and The Blind Man's Reason in a compilation of his sharp social and political commentary.
Brisbane’s Globe column on Mussolini and Ethiopia
Arthur Brisbane weighs political risks as Mussolini commits to war and Haile Selassie faces a fragile hold. He notes the danger in retreat, the impact of French and British interference, and the ambitions of Abyssinian chiefs. The piece reflects on leadership steadiness and the costs of backing down.
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Ethiopia
Addis Ababa
Haile Selassie Tomorow
Arthur Brisbane
America
Globe
Brisbane
Glove
Haile Selassie
Heat Claims Eight Victims in Nation
Heat deaths mount across the southwest as temperatures soar from 91 to 126 degrees. In Arizona five prostrations proved fatal and two more perished in Southern California. An auto accident in the heat killed H. O. Potter after a collision fatally injuring George Florentine, 51.
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Los Angeles
California
Arizona
Death Valley
H. O. Potter
George Florentine
Four Illinois tourists vanish case links to McGinis
Sheriff B Neighbors awaited word from Socorro New Mexico officers who want Dudley McGinis detained for questioning in the May disappearance of four Illinois tourists. McGinis was arrested in Socorro and brought to El Paso for check forgery questions as officers seek ties to the Lorius Heberer and Duquoin cases. The tourists were last seen in Vaughn with their car later found abandoned in Dallas. Traveler's checks in Lorius's name surfaced in Albuquerque El Paso Dallas and other West Texas and New Mexico cities. Gov Allred to review 56th Cavalry Brigade encamped at Mineral Wells before leaving Austin.
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Gonzales
U.P
Socorro
N. M
Dudley McGinis
New Mexico
McGinis
San Antonio
MecGinis
el Paso
George Lorius
East St. Louis
Albert Heberer
Duquoin
Lil
Lorius
Vaughn
Dallas
Albuquerque
West Texas
Austin
James V. Allred
Mineral Wells
Yaqui Rites Detailed by Harvard Anthropologist
Cambridge report recalls a 40 hour Yaqui burial ritual witnessed by an expedition led by Dr. Carl Seltzer of Harvard. The operation to remove a rifle bullet from a Yaqui warrior's back earned the group access to rites beginning with a bell toll and a mix of Catholic service and pagan ceremony. The Yaquis are described as having negroid features possibly from intermarriage or deep racial mixing.
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Cambridge
Mass
Mexico
Harvard University
Carl Seltzer
Harvard University Division of Anthropology
Texas Technological College
Sonora
Seltzer
Cromwell and Doris Duke Begin Round-the-World Honeymoon
James Cromwell and Doris Duke sailed from Manila for Hongkong on their round-the-world honeymoon. They will tour China by chartered plane to Shanghai and Peiping, then Japan, returning to the United States around October 1.
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Manila
P. IL
James Cromwell
Doris Duke
Hongkong
China
Shanghai
Peiping
Japan
United States
Amarillo Area Weather Outlook Tonight Through Thursday
Partly cloudy conditions prevail in Amarillo and surrounding areas with possible showers in the southeast tonight and Thursday. Temperatures range from a high near 83 and a low around 65 as the day progresses.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Tin in U.S. Gun Steel Sparks Metallurgists Concern
In Cambridge at MIT a conference on spectroscopy reveals tin detected in gun steel and possibly armor plate. Watertown Arsenal uses spectroscopes to test metals for impurities though tin had not been a focus. Arsenal chemists continue routine analysis for molybdenum nickel zirconium and titanium.
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Harold W. Blakesler
Cambridge
Mass
Uncle Sam
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Watertown Arsenal
Temblor Kills 49 at Taihoku in Formosa
A strong earthquake centered in Southern Shinchiku Province killed 49 people and injured 144 as damage spread across Taichu, Taiwan, and Formosa. Railways bridges and lines were damaged, but officials expected normal traffic to resume soon. Police and relief teams dispatched to deliver flood aid and medicines amid ongoing aftershocks.
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Taihoku
Formosa
Shinchiku
Japan
Taichu
Taiwan
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