Tariffs Blamed for Hard Times Saying U S Policy Cripples Trade
H. E. Miles of the Fair Tariff League told the Institute of Politics in Williamstown that high U S tariffs stall world trade and breed European resentment. He warned East robs West and the South, and warned farmers could become peasants unless tariffs are lowered. He critiqued the tariff commission for focusing on minor items while neglecting steel and sugar costs.
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Williamstown
Mass
Up&a
United States
H. E. Miles
Fair Tariff League
Europe
Belpre Youth Killed in Motor Accident
Marietta August 19 A fatal motorcycle crash on State Route No 7 near Belpre claimed the life of Samuel Brooks Shawver 20 of Belpre after his bike collided head on with an automobile driven by A W Phillips of 709 Wayne Street Marietta He died shortly after arrival at St Josephs Hospital Parkersburg according to transportation and hospital reports
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Marietta
Samuel Brooks Shawver
Belpre
A. W. Phillips
Wane Street
St. Joseph’s Hospital
Parkersburg
Spencer
Shawver
Phillips
Planes Battle Boat Near Gibara in Cuba
Federal planes engaged a rebel boat near Gibara Oriente Province. Both planes were damaged when bullets punctured their fuel tanks. Captain Martull said he destroyed the vessel William II after it had unloaded ammunition arms and men.
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Havana
U.R
Gibara
Oriente
Martull
William II
Visions of Treasure Trigger Lake Erie Recovery
Frank Sever dived 15 feet to the bottom of Lake Erie and surfaced with $1,000 in gold chalices and patens stolen from Catholic churches two weeks earlier. The find near Cleveland confirms the recovered church treasure.
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Cleveland
Frank Sever
Lake Erie
Sever
Legion Auxiliary targets Communist influence in U S schools and churches
At the Ohio Legion Auxiliary convention in Cleveland resolutions urge fighting Communistic and anti American groups in schools and churches, backing oath of allegiance for teachers and dismissal for noncompliance. John E Elden is chosen national commander candidate with Ohio delegates forming support for his Detroit event. Paul M Herbert becomes Ohio state commander after a 12 000 member rise. prohibition repeal measure is tabled.
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Cleveland
U.P
United States
Ian Auxiliary
Department of Ohio
Auxiliary
John E. Elden
American Legion
Legionnaires
Elden
Detroit
Frank J. Merrick
Ohio
Paul M. Herbert
Columbus
William E. Handley
Cincinnati
Snowden objects to panic talk over English wealth
Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer rejects claims of national panic in England. He argues England taps overseas wealth, noting South Africa’s diamonds and London receiving gold from mines at about fifteen million dollars monthly.
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Snowden
Britain
England
South Africa
London
England and France Trade Gold. A Distant Tournament Parallel
The article laments Britain's gold flow to France as England prints wealth while France gains from it. It compares this to a golf practice field where players hit balls and a chaser collects them, joking that England makes balls while France profits from them. Continued on Page 6.
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England
France
France Russia Agree on Nonaggression Pact
A France Soviet Russia nonaggression treaty was concluded after talks started in Paris in May. The pact commits both nations to neutrality if either is attacked without provocation, mirroring the German Soviet neutrality accord and expected to sway other European powers.
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United Press
London
U.R
Europe
France
Russia
Paris
Will Thinks Maybe Congress Will Do Things This Year
A reader from Beverly Hills comments on Congress possibly acting soon amid unemployment. The letter critiques Hoover era sentiment and questions government focus while urging more substantial relief for the hungry and unemployed.
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Will
Congress
Beverly Hills
Calif
Washington
Philippines
France
Hoover
Wis
Athens Meigs County push to add Garden Road to state system
At a joint Athens and Meigs County Commissioners meeting in Pomeroy a petition was started urging the state highway department to take over and include the Garden Road from Shade in Athens County to Chester in Meigs County in its system. The road runs about 15 miles, with most of the Athens County segment improved and about half of the Meigs segment improved. Signers must grant a 60 foot right of way. circulation begins at once. Commissioners Grosvenor and Blackwood announced.
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Athens
Meigs County
Pomeroy
State Highway Department
Shade
Athens County
Chester
Atk Conn County
Grosvenor and Blackwood
Pope Pius and Mussolini to open talks on Italo Vatican dispute
Rome reports Pope Pius XII and Premier Mussolini will begin direct conversations aimed at resolving the Italo Vatican dispute. The move follows recent tensions and signals an immediate effort to reach a settlement between the Holy See and Italy.
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Rome
Pope Pius
Mussolini
Mucker shovels 1000 pounds in minute forty four to win
Walter Smith of Butte Montana wins the mucking contest by shoveling 1000 pounds of crushed and oiled limestone into a car in one minute forty four seconds. He piles up more than ten pounds a second for 104 seconds, setting a world record.
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Walter Smith
Butte
Mont
Hoover to be Secluded From Public for Months
Washington August 19 The president will take no public engagements outside Washington until Congress meets in December and will likely stay quiet through spring as he works on economic measures and the employment situation. Spokesmen cite privacy as a priority while he prepares plans for action.
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Washington
U.R
Hoover
White House
Congress
Woodrow Wilson
House
Government orders inquiry into West Virginia coal strike
Secretary of Labor Doak announced an investigation of the northern West Virginia coal fields where 6 000 miners are on strike Two Labor Department representatives will interview strikers and mine owners to seek an agreement Doak said arbitration requires facts and a willing arbiter The miners offer a truce and return to work but positions of operators must be learned Also AFL charges about Boulder Dam labor wages and conditions reach Doak via telegraph note from Las Vegas Central States Council and Las Vegas council representation
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Doak
Labor Department
Washington
U.P
West Virginia
United Mine Workers of America
Hoover
Atlantic City
N. J
American Federation of Labor
Secretary of Labor
William N. Doak
Boulder Dam
Las Vegas
Marietta Growers End Shipping Season With Tomatoes Shipped
The Marietta Truck Growers Association ends its shipping season as the last two carloads of tomatoes leave on Saturday. Local agencies also finish carload shipments. The association will hold its annual picnic at the fairgrounds next Saturday with representatives from American Fruit Growers and Crutchfield Woolfolk present.
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Arietta
Mariettack Growers’ Association
Marietta Truck Growers’ Association
Fairgrounds
American Fruit Growers
L. C. Ulrich
Crutchfield & Woolfolk Division
Fair Board Appeals for Aid to Save Clinton County Fair
Clinton County Fair Board asks county commissioners for funds to continue the annual fair as attendance has declined and a lack of aid could force a cancellation of future events.
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Fair Wilmington
U.P
Clinton County Fair Board
International banks back six month Germany credit extension
In Basel Aug 19 an international finance panel urged aid to Germany to prevent a global crisis. A parallel bankers’ committee proposed extending short term credits totaling about 1.1876 billion dollars for six months as essential to tide Germany over, while German Chancellor Heinrich said the measures would support financial operations and world stability.
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Germany
Ey “Haan
Inveatt
Albert
New York
Banka
Heinrich Ening
Wiggin Committee
Cerely
Akron plans maiden flight for Defender blimp
Akron Ohio August 19 plan to fly a triangular course for the Defender in a daylight maiden voyage. engineers Bertram J Rogers and H C Doc Wiley oversee tests as the airship nears completion. flight duration expected three to four hours with stable weather preferred.
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Akron
Aaron
Genomeneer H. C
Rosendahl
French wheat tops 168 francs per quintal in rebalance plan
Paris report says the Tar dieu plan of revalorization pushed wheat to 168 francs per quintal or about 1.63 dollars per bushel. Farmers nationwide gain despite a bumper harvest, earning more than three times the price received by U S and Canadian growers.
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Paris
Tardieu
France
Kentucky sues Mayaville Bridge on Aberdeen land price
Testimony continued in the condemnation suit by the state of Kentucky against the Mayaville Bridge Company to fix the land price for property at Aberdeen Ohio, needed for a proposed Ohio River bridge.
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Georgetown
Kentucky
Mayaville Bridge Company
Aberdeen
Ohio River
Plan New Service Cincinnati to New York
Plan announced by B Q Henriques operations manager to open a four and a half hour service between Cincinnati and New York within the next three days by the main ff service.
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Cincinnati
New York
B. Q. Henriques
Unidentified Plane Crashes in West Seneca. Two Die
An unidentified aircraft crashed into a field in West Seneca, three miles from Buffalo, killing both occupants who were not immediately identified.
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Bayfalo
N. Y
West Seneca
Chinese Girl Wins Right to Marry for Love in Historic Case
In Peiping, a Chinese court upheld a girl’s right to marry the man she loves, rejecting a betrothal arranged by families. The decision relies on a new government law from Nanking permitting marriage by choice, despite prior arrangements and gifts. The court ruled no one can be forced to marry against their will, even if betrothal papers predate the law.
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Peiping
U.P
China
Nanking
Inmtiff
Four Canadian Forestry Men Die in Crash
Four members of the Canadian Air Force were killed when a large metal cabin airplane dived into Rainy Lake on the US side near Fort Frances Ontario during a rescue mission. The two other planes carrying Greer Tom Mahon and George Delahay were on cruising duty when the storm disabled Delahays plane. Mahon rescued Greer, but their craft later crashed near the American shore as they searched for Delahay.
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Fort Frances
Ontario
Canadian Air Force
Rainy Lake
United States
Wea
Greer
Tom Mahon
George Delahay
Mahon
Dellahay
Delahay
Mrs LaFollette Dies, Matriarch of Wisconsin Political Firm
Mrs Belle Case LaFollette, wife of the late Fighting Bob LaFollette and mother to Senator Robert M. La Follette Jr and Governor Philip LaFollette, died Tuesday night in Washington. She was regarded as the wisest counsellor of a family that shaped Wisconsin politics for decades.
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Washington
Rmra
Belle Case LaFollette
Wisconsin
Ita
Bob” LaFollette
Robert M. LaFollette, Jr
United States Senate
Philip LaFoliette
Woaconain
Fishermen Are Towed To Sea by Big Cod
Portland harbor tale recounts an 11 hour struggle as an 18 foot motor tender was towed by a giant horse mackerel before port arrival. Jey Holmes a wealthy New York sportsman and skipper described the ordeal with friends then revealed the big fish finally escaped.
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Portland
Maine
Jey Holmes
New York
Portland Harbor
Holmes
Unique student joins two honorary organizations in summer
A single student enrolled during the summer session was initiated into both honorary societies, highlighting a rare achievement and recognition by the institutions involved.
Rudolph Lindquist named Columbus college president
The appointment of Prof. Rudolph Lindquist as president of Chico State University and rector of the Ohio State University schools was announced today in Columbus.
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Lindquist
Columbus
Rudolphquist
Chico State
Ohio State Unioa
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