Drought Study Begins as Heat Rages Across Regions
Federal agencies study drought damage after weeks of heat. President Hoover to receive area reports. showers bring limited relief in spots. Dairies tap water for livestock. typhoid cases rise in Illinois. cotton and corn prospects decline. fires threaten forests. water shortages affect Maryland and Pennsylvania.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Hoover
Hyde
Legge
Department of Agriculture
Missesippi
Texas
Oklahoma
Illinois
Louisville
Farm Board
New York
Maryland
Pennsylvania
Weather Bureau
Gettysburg
Charlotte
N. C
Pennnsylvania
District of Columbia
Ohio
Middlewest
Drought Burden Grows as Pittsburgh Feels Heat
In Pittsburgh area on August 5 the drought drives up damage and fires. Fire Chief Richard L. Smith reports fire- company costs at 15,000 dollars over three days and appeals to Allegheny County Boy Scouts for help. Mayview stabilizes livestock as pastures dry. county farm losses exceed 100,000 dollars. City logs 34 fire alarms by 5 PM for brush and grass fires.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
Richard L. Smith
Smith
Allegheny County
Boy Scouts
Mayview Home and Hospital
J. Hammers
Henry R. Eby
Allegheny County Agricultural Extension Association
Wheeling Endures Heat Wave as Mine Reopens and Fires Burn
Wheeling West Virginia on August 5 faced another heat wave with a 104 degree high. Mine No 3 of the Elm Grove Mining company east of town reopened after a water shortage was solved by shipments from Washington Pennsylvania. Brush fires burned on the city outskirts as six fire companies fought the flames.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wheeling
W. Va
Panhandle
West Virginia
Elm Grove Mining Company
Here
Washington
Heat Wave Blights Maryland with Deaths and Prostrations
In Baltimore on August 5 three deaths and ten prostrations were attributed to a scorching 103.5 degree temperature as Maryland faced an intense drought and heat wave, with the story continuing on page three.
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Baltimore
Maryland
Reds execute 2000 Chinese in Changsha
Shanghai reports two thousand Chinese were executed in Changsha while communists held the city. Four thousand Chinese were missing, possibly executed or kidnapped. Foreign fleets reinforce Yangtze positions as gunboats aid to protect foreigners amid rising bandit Communist activity.
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Shanghai
Changsha
Hunan
China
Yangtee River
Hankow
Luzon
U. S. S. Palos
Sasebo
Japan
Shang
Fukien
Auditors clash over Bethlehem Steel merger share value
Youngstown case hinges on Ernst & Ernst audit vs Price Waterhouse findings. Tippit stated the exchange rate should be 1.79 versus 1.333 used, implying 2,148,000 Bethlehem shares owed to Sheet and Tube holders instead of 1,600,000. Market value cited around $46.1 million to $50.28 million, with earnings gaps also noted between the audits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Youngstown
Bethlehem Steel Corporation
Bethlehem
Hassell Tippit
Cleveland
Ernst & Ernst
Tippit
David Jenkins
Cyrus S. Eaton
Price Waterhouse & Co
Sheet and Tube
Price Waterhouse
Bethlehem Common
Preliminary U S Count Released
Washington reports preliminary census figures placing continental United States population at 122 728 873 with total including territories at 137 501 561. The census notes the figure may be revised in a forthcoming official release and highlights a 17 018 253 increase over the previous decade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Continental
United States
Washington
Associated Press
Census Bureau
Continental United States
Moonald Makes Final Appearance Before State Supreme Court
John MacDonald, frail and defeated, testified before the California Supreme Court as he prepared to depart for Baltimore. The case concerns 12 year old testimony that helped sentence Warren Billings and Thomas Mooney to life for the 1916 Preparedness Day bombings. Billings may be brought from Folsom to testify at the proper time under guard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
John MacDonald
State Supreme Court
Baltimore
Warren K. Billings
Thomas J. Mooney
MacDonald
Billings
Supreme Court
Folsom
Waste
Prison Riot Injures Seventeen at Welfare Island
A violent clash on Welfare Island between white and Negro inmates left seventeen men injured after Negro prisoners again seized the recreation diamond. Police and emergency units responded with tear gas, machine guns, and police boats as guards quarantined the riot and moved to restore order.
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New York
Welfare Island
East River
Queensboro Bridge
Man in Pink Shorts Sparks River Chase by Police
Pittsburgh reports Christy Cleary aged 32 fled police by the Monongahela river in pink striped shorts. He dove into the river and was captured after a lengthy chase along a cliff. He awaits a disorderly conduct hearing in the 13th Street jail.
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Pittsburgh
Christy Cleary
Monongahela
Clery
Cleary
Thirteenth Street
Hoover appoints MacArthur and Fuller to top posts
President Hoover elevates Major General Douglas MacArthur as army chief of staff and Brigadier General Ben H. Fuller as marine corps commandant. Both promotions, praised as brilliant soldiers, follow recommendations from War and Navy Secretaries. MacArthur to general upon Summerall retirement November 20. Fuller assumes permanent command immediately.
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Washington
Hoover
Douglas MacArthur
Army
Ben H. Fuller
Marine Corps
General MacArthur
MacArthur
Charles P. Summerall
Fuller
Wendell C. Neville
Neville
Navy
Machur
Philippine Department
China
Arthur MacArthur
Little Rock Barracks
Arkansas
Champaigne- Marne
Aisme-Marie
84Th
St. Michel
Meuse-Argonne
Exermont
Sedan
Germany
Smedley D. Butler
Logan Feland
Harry Lee
John H. Russell
U. S
Columbia
Philippines
Peking
Santo Domingo
Department
Tientsin
Two men crushed to death by boulder near Talcott
Hinton West Virginia August 5 Aleck Lewis 40 and Reilly Durrett of Louisa County Virginia were killed when a 200 pound boulder rolled from a mountain side at Talcott twelve miles from Hinton. They were employed on the new Big Bend tunnel for the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad at that location.
County District Conventions Set for Mercer Judicial Race
Delegates in Beaver Pond and East River areas instructed for George L. Dillard to seek re election as Mercer county criminal court judge. Democratic and Republican district conventions occurred county wide with August 12 Princeton judicial convention date. Democrats meet at 1 30 and Republicans at 2 30.
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Beaver Pond
East River
George L. Dillard
Dillard
Mercer County Criminal Court
Princeton
John Kee
George Richardson Jr
D. M. Eailey
Bernard McClaugherty
A. J. Lubimer
D. BE. French
J. W. Easley
Ibert S. Kemper
French H. Eailey
W. H. Warman
A. E. Bivens
F. M. Peters
Annie D. Woolwine
Reno D. Morgan
C. W. Faulkner
L. J. Belcher
A. B. Mahood
Minnie Humphreys
Mary A. Clark
W. J. Hayton
C. L. Hume
W. S. Phelps
M. B. Postlethwaite
L. A. Dunn
Robert Baker
C. N. Wilson
Walter W. Ross
Binefield
M. L. Carter
Nemours
City Hall
J. H. Gollehon
James S. Kahle
A. F. Kingdon
J. M. B. Lewis, Jr
H. F. Porterfield
Russell
Ritz
Joseph M. Sanders
A. G. Fox
Luther G. Scott
Thomas H. Scott
L. B. Sutherland
Fred M. Hawley
BE. E. Lilly
Max Matz
J. C. Akers
M. J. Garry
Col. J. M. Thompson
Q. A. Goff
John Johnson
Harry Kleiman
W. W. Kersey
F. M. O'Brien
R. C. Sproles
Eva Anderson
E. Bond
May Maynard
H. G. Steele
Julius
City and Rail Officials to Confer on West End Bridge
A conference between Bluefield city directors and Norfolk and Western railroad officials will discuss an overhead bridge or underpass in the West end to ease northwest residents cross over the yards. City Manager Elmer C. Barton said a meeting may be held late in the week if railroad officials are available. Mayor Lilley returned to the council, which also heard Elks lodge and Gentry Brothers circus license questions, referred to the city manager.
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Norfolk and Western Railway
Elmer C. Barton
Norfolk and Western
West End
Northwest
C. E. Lilley
Lilley
W. T. Williams
Bluefield Lodge of Elks
Gentry Brothers’ Circus
Williams
Elks Lodge
Bluefield
Virginia Returns Show Smith Lead In Eighth District Judge Smith Widens Margin
Early returns from Virginia indicate Judge Howard W. Smith leading in the eighth district with 4,962 votes to Frank L. Ball's 2,168 as 83 of 154 precincts report. In the Fifth, Thomas G. Burch edges incumbent Joseph Whitehead as 95 of 214 precincts report, Burch at 5,299 to Whitehead's 4,530. Deal wins Democratic nomination in Second District with 6,362 votes to Sarah Lee Fain 1,792.
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Richmond
Joseph T. Deal
Menalius Lankford
Congress
Deal
Sarah Lee Fain
Wilson W. Wellines
Virginia House of Delegates
Howard W. Smith
Frank L. Ball
Smith
Ball
Ciry
Thomas R. Keith
R. Walton Moore
Crandall Mackey
E. H. DeJarnette
Thomas G. Burch
Joseph Whitehead
Burch
Haucke Young Leads Reed In Kansas Gubernatorial Race
Frank Haucke Young holding an 11 264 vote edge over Clyde Reed with 526 of 2 668 precincts reported Haucke 42 222 Reed 30 958. Senator Henry J Allen appears set for a sweeping victory in the senate race with 90 of 105 counties carried.
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Henry J. Allen
Woodring
Topeka
Kas
Frank
Haucke Young
Clyde M. Reed
Haucke
Reed
Senate
Wichita
Timberland town torched in 12 hour blaze
Gore Virginia August fifth. A timberland town of 200 residents burned in a 12 hour fire likely set by post office robbers to cover their crime. Loss unofficially 500000, lumber company damages about 400000, seven families homeless, post office and railroad facilities destroyed. Postmaster Blondell Larrick injured while rescuing his daughter Emma.
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Gore
Baltimore Lumber Company
Blondell Larrick
Larrick
Emma
Winchester
Hannis D. Porter
Northwestern Pike
Romney W. Va
Hoover urged to address AFL convention in Boston
William Green president of the American Federation of Labor invited President Hoover to speak at the AFL annual convention in Boston next October. The outreach was announced from Washington on August 5.
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A. F
L. Washington
American Federation of Labor
Boston
Hoover
William Green
Federation
McDowell County Candidate Rolls Up Big Majority
Mercer county voters turnout light as James Ellwood Jones leads in the Republican U S Senate race across 54 of 78 precincts. McDowell's Jones tops Rosenbloom Shaw and White in early returns with DeJarnette Massie Cole leading for the House and Hatcher set as county court long term nominee.
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Mercer County
James Ellwood Jones
Switchback
United States Senate
M. M. Neely
Fairmont
United States
Congress
West Virginia
T. J. Lilly
Hinton
L. V. Curry
Mingo County
Mercer
Lilly
Curry
Hugh Ike Shott
Bluefield
McDowell
Rosenbloom
Shaw
White
Wilson
House of Delegates
H. B. DeJarnette
Princeton
T. K. Massie
Roy Cole
Caldwell
Ferguson
Greenspan
Parker
Thorn
W. H. Hatcher
Luther G. Scott
W. A. Brown
Ashworth
Harmon
Gibson
J. G. White
Ralph Shrewsbury
G. BE. Martin
Stennett
Brennen
C. R. Justice
McDowell County
Benjamin L. Rosenbloom
Harry Shaw
Albert B. White
Jones
Calhoun
Gilmer
Pendleton
Pocahontas
Tucker
Wayne
Webster
Robert L. Ramsey
Camden
Taney
Ramsey
Jennings Randolph
Joe Y. Gibson
Randolph
Lynn
Horner
William S. O'Brien
John B. Easton
Robert L. Hogg
James A. Hughes
Cowhecy
Easton
Hogg
Hughes
L. R. Via
Cabell County
Fred O. Blue
Blue
J. Raymond Gordon
Anti-Saloon League
Henry D. Hatfield
Coast Guardsman Killed by Mates in Ipswich Shooting
Boston reports a coast guard boat fired on a second craft near Ipswich in a fatal mistaken-identity incident. Boatswain's Mate Lewis E. F. Pratt, 30, of Kittery Maine, died after being shot in the stomach. Surfman Cleo Falkingham of Jonesport Maine aided him. The Gloucester base patrol boat fired during a four mile run to Ipswich. about twenty bullets hit the surf boat. A coast guard board of inquiry led by Commander Sands was to meet.
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Boston
Coast Guard
Ipswich
Coast Guard Board
Sands
Lewis EF. Pratt
Kittery
Cleo Falkingham
Jonesport
Gloucester
W. H. Hunter
Pratt
Brooke County First in WV GOP Senate Vote
Brooke County reported its complete ballot tonight with 23 precincts in the northern panhandle giving a majority to Benjamin L. Rosenbloom. Jones 168 Shaw 329 White 228 Rosenbloom 825.
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Charleston
W. Va
Brooke County
West Virginia
Brooke
Panhandle
Benjamin L. Rosenbloom
Jones
Rosenbloom
Shaw
White
Reporter Buzzer Loses Bid For Morgan County Delegate Nomination
Charleston dispatch reports S. S. Buzzer publisher of Berkeley Springs news notes his own defeat in the Republican nomination for the house of delegates from Morgan County. The Morgan County election correspondent also files that H. D. is nominated.
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Charleston
W. Va
S. S. Buzzer
Berkeley Springs
Morgan County
Buzzerd
H. D
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W. R. Hatcher
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