Tammany Leaders Head for Albany to Attend Meet
Four of five Democratic city leaders travel to Albany to decide James J Walker's political fate. John F Curry signals no immediate decision while state committee aims to set time for convention. The group includes John H McCooey and John Theofel with rents Bendt, seeking private talks on Roosevelt Garner ticket support.
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New York
James J. Walker
Democratic City Organization
Albany
Walker
John F. Curry
Tammany
Roosevelt-Garner
Herbert H. Lehman
Roosevelt
John H. McCooey
Brooklyn
National
John Theofel
Queens
Davids
Rent
Richmond
Curry
James A. Farley
Theofel
Bendt
Albany Faces Rift Over Democrats Chair Farley
Factional disputes in Albany over James A. Farley as state and national Democratic chairman appeared settled after tense talks. Reported adjustments avert a confrontation and set stage for forthcoming party decisions.
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Albany
N. Y
James A. Farley
Renewal of Arms Race Warned by British Labor Leader
Arthur Henderson, president of the Geneva arms conference, warned that if Germany withdraws from the talks the world will fall back into a renewed arms race. Speaking at the Trades Union Congress in Newcastle, he urged drastic global arms cuts and highlighted the need for a practical program of substantial reductions and enforcement of Versailles prohibitions.
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Newcastle
England
Arthur Henderson
Germany
Henderson
Geneva
Trades Union Congress
Hoover
South Wales Miners Union
Three U S Consuls Rescued After Persian Kidnaping Near Kermanehah
Robert B. Streeper U S consul at Teheran Persian, Thomas A Hickok vice consul at Jerusalem, and Cyril L F Thiel consul at Jerusalem were kidnapped by Persian brigands near Kermanehah. They were held briefly before Persian palace guards freed them unharmed.
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Thrille
Robert B. Streeper
U. S
Teheran
Persia
Thomas A. Hickok
Jerusalem
Cyril L. F. Thiel
Kermanehah
Motive in Berns Building Program Death Remains Undetermined
A coroner jury ruled Paul Bern's death a suicide with no definite motive, while hints pointed to melancholia from physical illness. The case links Jean Harlow, Thalberg, and inquest details, with additional notes on Hoover era public buildings funding and West Virginia allocations.
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Berns
Will Mentioned Wife in Paul Bern Will
New York reports lawyer Henry Uttal drew up Paul Berns will in 1932 and noted a wife named Dorothy. Uttal says he believed Dorothy was Berns wife and had heard she died in a sanitarium, with Bern not mentioning her for years.
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New York
The
World- Telegram Today
Henry Uttal
Paul Bern
Dorothy
Uttal
Bern
Clarken claims Bern wed another woman at time of Harlow marriage
Colorado Springs report quotes George S. Clarken, an Los Angeles insurance adviser, asserting Paul Bern married a previous wife about ten years ago who is now a mental patient in a New York sanatorium. He says they were not divorced.
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Los Angeles
Jean Harlow
Paul Bern
Frank Webb
Bern
Miss. Harlow
Marino Bello
Miss Harlow
Irving Thalberg
Norma Shearer
Thalberg
John Carmichael
Miss Harle
Henry
New York
Paul
Colorado Springs
Georges
Clarken
Beckley Man Hospitalized Over Throat Bone
Charles Pongue of Beckley was brought to Bluefield last night and admitted to the Bluefield sanitarium with a bone lodged in his throat. The incident occurred at noon while he was eating dinner and doctors expected to attempt removal this morning.
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Charles Pongue
Beckley
Bluefield
Mr. Pongue
Reconstruction group to lend $750000 to St Louis
Washington September 8 The Reconstruction corporation was asked to lend 750000 dollars to St Louis to meet immediate needs of the city’s unemployed people.
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Washington
Reconstruction Corporation Today
St. Louis
Canal Slide In Panama Canal Moves Slowly
Governor Burgess told the War Department a slide on the canal’s east bank 2,500 feet north of Gold Hill involves a large mass but moves slowly. Dredges are removing material at satisfactory rates and there is no current indication traffic will be interfered with.
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Washington
Sept
Burgess
Panama Canal
War Department
Gold Hill
New Light Particle Traced By Dr Anderson At Caltech
New York reports that Dr Carl D Anderson and Dr Robert A Millikan of Caltech announce a possible new ultimate particle of matter. The extremely light positive charge is about 1800 times lighter than the proton and may emerge from cosmic ray interactions recorded as vapor trails.
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New York
Carl D. Anderson
Robert A. Millikan
California Institute of Technology
Anderson
Hitler Seeks Coalition Shakeup Ahead of Reichstag Session
Berlin reports Hitler returns to press for a Nazi Centrist coalition to upset the von Papen government. Von Hindenburg backs Papen as Reichstag convenes, while Nazi leaders hint Hitler may relinquish chancellorship hopes and reshape the constitution on a legal basis.
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Berlin
von Hindenburg
Franz von Papen
Adolf Hitler
von Papen
Wilhelmstrasse
Munich
Narrows Lad Injured After Truck Collision With Cow
Woodrow French 16 of Narrows suffered a fractured skull and serious injuries when he was thrown from a truck after striking a cow in Pearisburg. Driver Lloyd Wood claimed he did not know French rode on the rear until after the crash. The cow died. French is hospitalized at St Elizabeth's in Pearisburg.
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Woodrow French
Narrows
Pearisburg
St. Elizabeth’s Hospital
Lloyd Wood
Giles County
French
Emma French
Four Children Die in Crossing Crash at Hudson
In Hudson Michigan on September 8 a grade crossing collision killed four school children and critically injured a fifth. The victims include Rita Mary, 15, driving the car, its occupants Peter 11 May 9 and Robert Heinbecker 7 and Mary Jane Young 7 who was badly hurt. The group was returning from school when the Cincinnati Northern passenger train struck their auto.
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Hudson, Mich
Rita Marry
Cincinnati Northern
Peter
May
Robert Heinbecker
Mary Jane Young
Manchuria Inquiry Commission Report Outlines Autonomy Plan
Tokyo reports the League of Nations panel recommends an autonomous Manchuria under Japanese advisers with negotiations among China Japan Manchuria and league observers. It calls for demilitarization and a native police under foreign supervision and rejects return to pre war status or a Japanese protectorate.
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Manchuria
League of Nations Inquiry Commission
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Geneva
Peiping
Japan
West Virginia GOP Committeewoman to Attend Mercer County Meeting
RS J Gale Ebert Republican national committeewoman for West Virginia will attend Mercer county women's meeting in the city this evening.
Mercer Women to Organize Republican Workers
Mrs. J Gale Ebert of Parkersburg and Mrs Joseph E Cannon of Charleston will meet Republican women of Mercer county this evening at 8 at the West Virginian hotel to organize the county unit. Mrs Ebert, national committeewoman for West Virginia, and Mrs Cannon, head of the state women’s division, tour the state urging organization and support for the GOP ticket. A cordial invitation is extended to all Republican women with attendees expected from Princeton, Bramwell and nearby towns.
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J. Gale Ebert
Parkersburg
West Virginia
Joseph E. Cannon
Charleston
Republican State
Mercer County
West Virginian
Thomas H. Scott
Bluefield
Republican County Committee
Ebert
Chicago
Farmers strike violence ends as governors meet in Sioux City
Sioux City Iowa Sept 8 assurances of farmers holiday leaders that violence was ended came as mid western governors and their representatives gathered for a conference to craft agricultural relief plans. Milo Reno of Des Moines will not attend while he said disturbances are over and the holiday has achieved its main purpose.
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Iowa
Warren F. Green
South Dakota
M. Q. Sharpe
Green
Milo Reno
Des Moines
National Farm Holiday Association
Oklahoma
Reno
Oklahoma City
Council Bluffs
Jenkins Extradition Protest Filed Over Kidnapping Case
Louisville engineer Hubert J. Jenkins fights extradition to Dallas as Texas authorities seek arrest warrants for kidnapping his son. Attorney Joseph S. Lawton protests to Governor Laffoon and directs custody efforts after Jenkins fled with his 10-year-old son Hubert Jr., heir to mayoral Bradford fortune.
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Louisville
Texas
Hubert J. Jenkins
Joseph S. Lawton
Jenkins
Lawton
Ruby Laffoon
Frankfort
Dallas
Hubert Jr
Addie Keating Bradford
T. L. Bradford
Hubert
Jenking
Doctors, Nurses Aboard Island Rescue By Storm
A government tender carried doctors nurses and medical supplies to Abaco island in the Bahamas struck by a tropical disturbance. Meanwhile a North Atlantic hurricane lashed the seaboard with high winds and cold air. an excursion boat diverted to Camden New Jersey and a schooner broke from moorings but was saved.
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Bahamas
Abaco Island
New York
North Atlantic Seaboard
Virginia
Maine
Atlantic City
Steel
Camden
N. J
Gotham
Brooklyn
United States Weather Bureau
New York City
New England
Superseding Indictments in Lottery Case Named Eight Defendants
United States Senator James J. Davis and seven others are named in four superseding indictments by a federal grand jury in New York. The charges relate to lotteries run by fraternal organizations for charity, with the offenses framed under lottery and conspiracy laws. The first four defendants face trial on September 19.
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United States
James J. Davis
George Z. Medalie
Theodore G. Miller
the Moose Lodge
Bernard C. McGuire
Raymond Walsh
McGuire
Conrad H. Mann
Fraternal Order of Eagles
Frank EB. Herring
Eagle Magazine
M. J. Revise
Western Union
Western Union Telegraph Company
Cotton Declines Sharply After Government Crop Estimate
New York markets see cotton fall about five dollars per bale after the government puts the crop at 11,310,000 bales as of September 1. Stocks trade heavily with 5,390,040 shares, while U S Steel slides to close near 1932 highs minus several dollars.
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New York
U. S. Steel
Noted Dry Leader Drops From Sight En Route to Capital
West Virginia Governor William G. Conley and Captain C. L. Eastell met Fred C. Croxton of the Reconstruction Finance Corp to seek relief funds for three mining-district counties. They discussed unemployment conditions but details were not disclosed.
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William G. Conley
West Virginia
C. L. Eastell
Department of Public Welfare
Fred C. Croxton
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Conley
Croxton
Cumberland Unit Increases Forge Cumberland Plant Jobs
Celanese Corporation of America said about 1000 workers were added to full time staff at its Cumberland Maryland plant due to higher demand for yarns and fabrics. Other items note Chicago stock seat record 7500, Bradstreet wholesale prices rise 2 cents, and various industrial production updates.
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New York
Celanese Corporation of America
Cumberland, Md
Two Methodist Bishops Are White House Guests
Washington September 8 President Hoover hosted luncheon for two Methodist Episcopal Church bishops. Edwin H Hughes resident bishop in Washington and head of the temperance board and W F McDowell former Washington bishop and former board president attended. McDowell said no topic at luncheon would make news.
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Hoover
Methodist Episcopal Church
White House
Edwin H. Hughes
Methodist Episcopal
Methodist Episcopal Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals
W. F. McDowell
McDowell
Venizelos Refuses Royalist Push to Oust Greek Premier
Athens reports Eleutherios Venizelos offered resignation to President Zaimis to deflect a Royalist demand. The president declined the move, and Venizelos said affairs would proceed toward the parliamentary elections on September 25. Royalist leader P E Tsaldaris alleged collaboration with a military group in pre election activity.
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Greece
Eleutherios Venizelos
Zaimis
Venizelos
P. E. Tsaldaris
Prohibitionist Fears Robins Abducted By Florida Bootleggers
The disappearance of Colonel Raymond Robins, ally of Hoover and noted prohibitionist, prompted White House and federal inquiries. Mrs Robins in Maine reports threats against her husband as authorities trace his last known movements from New York City to Washington. Investigations by Secret Service and New York police yield no results.
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Raymond Robins
New York
Hoover
White House
Mre
Maine
Florida
Kent Hoover
Robins
Walter H. Newton
City Club
W. H. Moran
Secret Service
Moran
Newton
Minfhe
Mr. Hoover
Dodge Hotel
Cleveland Police Stop Unrest With Riot Squads
In Cleveland on September 8 police used riot sticks and tear gas to quell three demonstrations led by Communists. Two men and a woman were beaten, another charity worker was rescued, and two alleged leaders were arrested as crowds pressed on charity branches and a public square.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Alice Schmidt
Associated Charities
Three Virginians file for congress at large seats
Three candidates sought to run as congressmen at large in Virginia. Secretary Peter Saunders said the redistricting act provides no at large seats, requiring candidates to run in one of nine districts. Lindsey Gordon of Louisa joined Charles C. Berkeley of Newport News and Wil Moseley Brown of Virginia Beach in filing requests.
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Richmond
Peter Saunders
Commonwealth
Virginia
Lindsey Gordon
Louisa
Charles C. Berkeley
Newport News
Wil Moseley Brown
Virginia ‘Beach
Berkeley Edins
Pro’ District Court
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