Harlan County Faces Pre-Election Bloodshed Anew
Tense vigil across Harlan County as 150 additional state troops join the 50 on duty before the local primary. Two men dead in pre election clashes at Wallins Creek and Kenvir. deputies and candidates assaulted as ballot handling is probed.
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Harlan
Harlan County
Walling Creek
Adjt
H. H. Denhardt
Joe Lee
Lee
Joe Turner
Robert Roark
Kenvir
Roark
Arthur
Bill Farley
Bill Parton
Fred Jones
Arthur Roark
Farley
Parton
Denhardt
Fort Knox
Louisville
Barboursville
Williamsburg
John H. Blair
Wiley Post Returns After World Flight Record
Wiley Post lands in Oklahoma City at 5:20 p m ending a seven day 18 hour 49 12 minute global trip in the Winnie Mae. He answers questions from Walter M Harrison about Alaska and Bank flights while his family and crowd cheer.
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Oklahoma City
Wiley Post
Cumberland
Post
Dayton
Ohio
Walter M. Harrison
Oklahomian
Poste
Willey
Floyd Bennett Field
Harrison
Wiley
Alaska
Pairbanks
Balloon Flight Aims to Reach Stratosphere From Soldier Field
Lieut. Commander T. G. W. Settle prepared to launch a giant balloon at Soldier Field Chicago to travel ten miles or more above the earth in a 20 to 30 hour ascent aided by 100 ground crew. He noted winds likely push the gondola south toward distances up to 200 miles with stratosphere flight using hydrogen and a sealed seven foot diameter nacelle.
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Leutenant
T. G. W. Settle
T. B. Settle
Bluefield
Soldier Field
Chicago
Settle
Steel Industry Says It Has Gone the Limit on Code
The steel industry informed the National Recovery Administration that it cannot go further in the steel code. Robert P. Lamont of the American Iron and Steel Institute said the code already exceeds what conditions justify and cannot be evolved merely by calculations. He emphasized practical considerations and noted the code aims to remove unfair practices while safeguarding consumers, with limited price-fixing except for a possible board-imposed fair base price if a base price is deemed unfair. The laundry industry petition claimed payroll gains and job creation, while other codes awaited action (Turn To Page Seven).
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New York
National Recovery Administration
Robert P. Lamont
American Iron and Steel Institute
Washington
Lamont
Board of Directors
LaGuardia Named Fusion Candidate for New York Mayor
Fiorello H. LaGuardia, independent Republican and former congressman, chosen by a bi partisan fusion committee to replace Major General John F O'Ryan as mayoral candidate. Seabury and Macy backed the move, aiming to oust Tammany Hall and leverage Hofstadter committee disclosures.
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O’ryan
John O’brien
New York
Fiorello H. LaGuardia
John F O'Ryan
LaGuardia
Tammany Hal
John P. O’brien
Samuel Seabury
Hofstadter Legislative Committee
Seabury
W. Kingsland Macy
Charles S. Whitman
Macy
Hoferadter
James J. Walker
French Airmen Readied for Long Atlantic Flight
Lieut Maurice Rossi and Paul Codos, French aviators, prepare to start from Floyd Bennett Field at daybreak for a near transatlantic flight. They aim to travel toward Newfoundland with no fixed landing point on the other side, flying until fuel runs out.
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Brooklyn
N. Y
Maurice Rossi
Paul Codos
Floyd Bennett Field
Atlantic Ocean
Newfoundland
Bluefield NIRA Chief Names Corps Officers For NRA Campaign
Bluefield officials announce a noncoercive NRA drive with education and public spirit as the focus. Col Harold Porterfield leads oral publicity, Col Lawrence Alexander heads sales, and Col Eddie Steele directs publicity with local executives organizing teams and a poster bureau.
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Chamber of Commerce
Harold Porterfield
Lawrence Alexander
Bluefield Milling Company
Alexander
NRA
Nira
Eddie Steele
Sunset News
Majore
Conrad Brevick
H. E. Luke
Fox
Bluefield
Rio Grande Valley Hit by Tropical Hurricane
A tropical hurricane struck the lower Rio Grande valley for two hours causing damage to homes and crops with winds of 70 to 75 mph. No deaths. one man injured by flying glass at Brownsville courthouse. Debris blocked streets. Mexican city Matamoros suffered heavy damage to Teatro Reforma and many dwellings. Port Isabel also reported widespread destruction.
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Brownsville
Tex
Rio Grande Valley
Mexico
Matamoros
Rio Grande
Teatro Reforma
Maximilian
Port Isabel
Three Vets Named For Division Chief In Blue Ridge Reunion
Three veterans from Georgia Virginia and Pennsylvania were named potential candidates for commander of the eightieth division to succeed Boyd Stutler of Charleston. Major General E G Peyton H A McClaren and Vinson Smith were repeatedly mentioned by supporters at the Blue Ridge division fourteenth annual reunion where the closing business session will pick next year s meeting place and consider resolutions praising Roosevelt s army Civilian Conservation Corps action and defense. A military parade and ball highlighted today s sessions with invitations extended from Conneaut Lake Gettysburg and Philadelphia for next year.
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Huntington
W. Va
Georgia
Virginia
Pennsylvania
Boyd Stutler
Charleston
E. G. Peyton
Fort Benning
H. A. McClaren
Summit
Vinson Smith
Greensburg
Blue Ridge
Conneaut Lake
Gettysburg
Philadelphia
Roosevelt
Civilian Conservation Corps
Industries CET Operating Permit Grants Tailored Wage Hours
Fourteen industries received National Recovery Administration approval to apply their own wage and hour schedules instead of the blanket code. Details cover ice cream, wheat flour, paint, varnish, toys, printing, oil burners, optical, knit outerwear, advertising specialties, fluid milk, gasoline, ice, paper boxes, and lumber retailers with varied 40 to 56 hour weeks and minimums from 30 to 45 cents per hour.
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Washington
National Recovery Administration
Presidental Agreemnt
South
West Virginia
New York City
New Jersey
Potomac
Ohio Rivers
Mississippi
Optical
Southern Estates
District of Columbia
New Wage Rule Governs Virginia Road Section
Richmond Virginia August four state highway department telegraphed thirty six prospective contractors about new wage rules under the national recovery act. Contractors will bid on about three hundred thousand dollars in highway work next Tuesday. The major change sets a 30 cent per hour minimum for unskilled labor and 40 cents for skilled labor.
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Richmond
State Highway Department
Tear Gas Bombs Shut Down Wall Street Faces Bomb Plot
Boston police arrest four men linked to the Commoner or International party for tear gas bombs at the New York Stock Exchange. The devices were aimed at Roosevelt Hoover and Norman Thomas, causing the exchange to close as brokers and clerks fled choking and coughing.
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Boston
New York Stock Exchange
New York
Greater
Commoner
International Party
Roosevelt
Hoover
Norman Thomas
Wall Street
Morgan
The
Stock Exchange
Gandhi Sentenced to One Year in Jail in Poona
Mohandas K. Gandhi, freed for minutes, re imprisoned in Yeroda jail for one year as a political prisoner. He refused conditions of release and urged peaceful resistance to what he called an unjust government. He is 62 with health concerns and asked to be placed in the lowest prison grade.
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Poona
India
Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi
Yeroda
Gandhi
Yerada Jal
Pollard Frames Notes Ahead of West Virginia Assembly
Governor John Garland Pollard arrives at White Sulphur Springs with his bride Violet Elizabeth McDougall and announces plans to frame recommendations for the August 17 special session. He will set temporary offices and meet department heads and assembly leaders on beer repeal referendum and public works.
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White Sulphur Springs
W. Va
Virginia
John Garland Pollard
General Assembly
Violet Elizabeth McDougall
Pollard
Chicago
Winnipeg
Canada
Mia
Temporary Truce Ends Coal Strike In Pennsy Field
Brandenburg East Prussia Aug 4 Kurt Schmidt Koenigsberg university student flying a self built glider descended tonight after setting a new world record of 36 hours 37 minutes. He maintained altitude at 200 to 300 meters to beat Lieut Cocke who logged 21 hours 34 minutes in Honolulu. Schmidt 27 a Nazi storm trooper.
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Brandenburg
East Prussia
Kurt Schmidt
Koenigsberg University
Cocke
Honolulu
Schmidt
Mercer jail escape trio recaptured. two fugitives still at large
Three of five Mercer county jail escapees were recaptured near Princeton near Athens. Marvin Dunford Kyle Mc Cauley and Charles Asberry were returned to Princeton awaiting transfer to Moundsville for housebreaking sentences. An $50 reward remains for Billy Mullens and Bill Albert, federal prisoners tipped as ring leaders.
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Mercer County
Princeton
Athens
J. C. Fanning
Marvin Dunford
Kyle McCauley
Charles Asberry
Rock District
Moundsville
Bill Mullens
Bill Albert
Bluefield
Atlanta
George McClintic
United States Court
Mullens
Albert
Dunford
McCauley
Asberry
Roscoe Pendelton
Parker Wilson
Wilson
R. M. Kelley
Shawnee Lake
Fanning
Beckley
Pocha-Tug River mines set weekly production record
Poahontas Tug River district mines reported a new weekly production record for the year ending July 29 with 553 430 net tons. Output ran 91 080 tons below capacity, up 20 892 tons from the prior week, and 292 073 tons for the corresponding week in 1932. Year to date production reached 10 419 32 percent tons, about 347 000 tons weekly. The district was roughly 2 000 000 tons ahead of last year’s pace for the same period.
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Poahontas-Tug River
Excursion boat reported on fire off New York shores
William Young of Midland Beach on Staten Island said a large excursion boat was on fire about four miles offshore. Police planes and Coast Guard cutters searched Lower New York Bay from Fort Wadsworth to Sandy Hook, but no burning vessel was found. Young and others insist they saw the fire.
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New York
William Young
Midland Beach
Staten Island
North Beach
Queens
National Guard
Miller Field
Staten Ieland
Coast Guard
New York Bay
Fort Wadsworth
Sandy Hook
Rockaways
Fort Hamilton
Young
Roosevelt Announces Truce in Pennsylvania Coal Strike
President Roosevelt declares an absolute truce between management and labor in the Pennsylvania bituminous coal strike and orders a board including Gerard Swope Louis Kirstein and George L Berry to settle disputes while hearings on coal codes proceed. About 70 000 miners are to return to work under existing wage and hour contracts.
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Hyde Park
N. Y
Roosevelt
Pennsylvania
Hugh S. Johnson
Gerard Swope
General Electric Company
Louis Kirstein
Boston
NRA Industrial Advisory Board
George Berry
Pressmen’s Union
Labor Advisory Board
Johnson
George L. Berry
Pinchot
Edward McGrady
W Wellng
John Lewis
Peery Plans Strong Utility Regulation Stance
Richmond Va August 4 George C Peery Democratic nominee for governor said he will stress utility regulation in his general election campaign and would push a complete regulation program in the 1934 general assembly He proposes fair up to date valuations for public service properties temporary rate adjustments during emergencies strict holding company controls and full publicity for stock and bond issues with prior approval In addressing funds for the corporation commission and court durable statutes he notes the state federal jurisdiction issue as a major challenge.
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Richmond
George C. Peery
General Assembly
The
Corporation Commission
Virginia Repeal Vote Set for October 3
State Senator Aubrey G. Weaver of Front Royal said general approval of the repeal proposal indicates the referendum in Virginia would be held October 3. He noted the date avoids confusion with general election issues and places Virginia among the early states voting.
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Richmond
Aubrey G. Weaver
Front Royal
Virginia
Virgina
Weaver
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Wallins Creek
Winnie Mae
Midwest
Auguste Piccard
Bluefield Nira
A. G. Fox
Virginia Road
Mahatma
Pennsy Field
Mercer
Midnight Conrab
Mr. Roosevelt
General Johnson
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
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