Dickinson Warns of Grave Dangers to U S
In Ottawa Illinois Senator L J Dickinson Republican, outlines grave dangers facing the nation at Starved Rock state park addressing 30 north central Illinois counties. He assails the Democratic administration and warns of constitutional erosion through new laws and proposed constitutional changes, linking President Roosevelt to a single campaign issue and noting a supposed Supreme Court politicization.
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Ottawa
L. J. Dickinson
Iowa
Republic
Illinois
Starved Rock State Park
Springfield
Lowden
Ilinois
Nazi Germany
Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Dickinson
Supreme Court
Fear New Outbreak In Morrell Strike
Sioux Falls South Dakota union leaders ordered all pickets at their posts early Friday as a Morrell packing plant strike crisis loomed. Union chief Sam Twedell led the move after mediation attempts with Morrell officials failed for the fifth time in three weeks. Hundreds of workers left the plant at closing to march under heavy police protection.
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Sioux Falls
S.D
John Morrell
Sam Twedell
Morrell Company
Mountain climber William Brode presumed dead on Colorado peak
At Lindbergh peak near Ouray Colorado a 15 year old Memphis heir William Brode is believed buried in a funnel shaped crevice after a fall while hiking with 15 year old Omaha companion Robert Henderson who directed rescuers to the site. Brode had stayed behind at Monarch lake during a YMCA camp climb and reportedly vowed to scale the highest hill in Colorado. The boys were descending about 3000 feet above surrounding terrain when the accident occurred.
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Ouray
Colo
Lindbergh Peak
William Brode
Memphis
Tenn
Robert Henderson
Omaha
Neb
Brode
Henderson
Monarch Lake
Colorado
Italian Chief Among 7 Dead In Air Crash
Seven people perished when a commercial plane crashed near Cairo on Wednesday night en route to East Africa. Among the dead were Luigi Razza Italian minister of public works and notable figures including explorer Renato Frachetti Italian consul Vincenzo Minasi and pilot Major Raffaele Boetani.
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Rome
Luigi Razza
Cairo
Ministry of Propaganda
East Africa
Reuters
Renato Frachetti
Vincenzo Minasi
Raffaele Boetani
Green Fears Spread Of Walkouts Over WPA Security Scale
In Atlantic City, NJ, AFL President William Green reported to the executive council that threats of new strikes were spreading to more than half a dozen cities. He said skilled workers in New York had already struck and predicted action in Boston, Chicago, Kansas City, Cleveland, San Francisco and other centers, linked to dissatisfaction over the WPA security wage. He noted the McCarran amendment proposal to keep hourly wages up while reducing hours.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Executive Council
American Federation of Labor
William Green
Green
New York
Boston
Chicago
Kansas City
Cleveland
San Francisco
A. F of L
McCarran
New York Unions Vote Support for WPA Project Strike
Delegates from most of the city’s building trade unions voted to back a general strike on all works progress administration projects across the five boroughs. The Friday morning strike protests the federal security wage of 93.50 dollars per month, despite appeals from General Hugh S. Johnson, the Works Progress Administrator for the city.
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New York
Works Progress Administration
Five Boroughs
Hugh S Johnson
Works Progress
Cardinal exhibition win over Madison Blues in Madison
St Louis Cardinals collected seventeen hits off three Madison hurlers to beat the Blues 11 to 5 at Breese Stevens field. Lefty Eckert allowed twelve hits, while O’Farrell Hreuger Baltz Golf and Smith shared mound duties for the Cardinals.
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Madison
Wis
St. Louis Cardinals
Madison Blues
Breese Stevens Field
Pratt Held in Montana After Sheriff Urged Departure
Helena AP report says Decatur Indiana Sheriff Dallas Brown ordered Laurence Pratt to leave town but Pratt rode away in a car owned by Brown's father in law. Governor Cooney approved a requisition for Pratt on theft allegations. Pratt is being held at Anaconda.
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Helena
Mont
Dallas Brown
Decatur
Ind
Laurence Pratt
Pratt
Frank H. Cooney
Anaconda
Iowa soil erosion projects to cover 76000 acres
H H Bennett, director of the soil conservation service, announced Iowa will implement four new soil erosion control projects totaling about 76000 acres. Each project ranges from 12,000 to 23,000 acres across Crawford, Knoxville, Linn, and Clayton counties. Funding totals 876,028 for Iowa from 27.5 million in relief funds. R H Uhland will direct the Iowa projects, with 90 percent labor from relief rolls.
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Washington
H. H. Bennett
Soil Conservation Service
Iowa
Crawford County
Paradise Creek
Denison
Knoxville
Marion County
Linn County
Indian Creek
Marion
Clayton County
Farmersburg
McGregor
Missouri
Ringgold
Decatur
Montgomery
Page
The
Conservation Service
Bennett
R. H. Uhland
Mussouri-Iowa
Burglars Use Hearse in Tire Store Loot Heist
Atlanta AP report says burglars used a $3,500 hearse on display at a tire store to haul away thirty tire casings. They loaded the casings into the vehicle and abandoned it several blocks away, later found without tires.
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Atlanta
Nebraska Expects Bumper Potato Crop
Alliance Nebraska upholds optimism for a 6,000,000 bushel potato haul in the Panhandle. Despite a late season, the crop is in fine shape and likely to yield the best totals in four years. A cold wet spring delayed development and maturity, pushing harvest back several weeks.
Current Comment on AAA and Rhode Island Election
The piece argues the AAA as an emergency group must prove economic sanity through its results. It warns against interpreting Rhode Island's election as a direct slap at the New Deal without weighing consequences. The vote could highlight AAA losses and gains and prompt broader reflections beyond this year's crop.
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AAA
Rhode Island
Hill Denies Report On Turning Over Works Job To Keller
Washington AP L Hill Iowa Works Progress administrator said he will stay at his post countering reports that George Keller University of Iowa professor may take over. He expects to launch Iowa WP projects next week with full swing by Sept 1 and notes 2,000 men already requested for Missouri river work with more for Mississippi river and federal highway projects. Farm to market roads figure prominently as plans are submitted, but he cannot estimate the program’s total scope due to relief rolls and other funding requests.
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Washington
L. &. Hill
Iowa Works Progress
George Keller
University of Iowa
Iowa Works
Works Progress
Iowa
Works Progress Administration
State
Hill
Starts Hop From England To Cape Town Record Flight
Hatfield Airdrome England T Campbell Black took off at 5 30 p m Thursday aiming to break the air speed record from England to Cape Town South Africa The attempt began in the late afternoon London time and would test new aviation limits with the challenger seeking a quicker route to South Africa.
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Hatfield Airdrome
England
T. Campbell Black
Cape~ Town
South Africa
Post Rogers Disagree Over Next Alaska Flight Plans
Wiley Post and Will Rogers clashed over resuming their Alaska flight in Post's red pontoon monoplane. Post wants fishing with light tackle while Rogers pushes a quick take off for Nome to lass o a reindeer. Weather is unfavorable. Rogers offers to let Post fish while he proceeds. They arrived in Juneau from Seattle, eight hours and fifteen minutes into the trip. Mrs. Post stayed in Seattle.
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Juneau
Alaska
Wiley Post
Will Rogers
Post
Gast
Rogers
Nome
Wiley
Moscow
Seattle
Reds Propose To Aid Catholics In Fight On Nazis
Moscow AP report describes a proposal at the seventh congress of the third international. German delegate Walter said communists would unite with Catholics to oppose fascism in Germany. He said Catholic workers were told of a common enemy and predicted a unified government after the Nazis fall.
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Moscow
Walter
Germany
Four In Family Killed In Crash Near Italy Texas
A head on collision near Italy Texas killed four members of the Allen family. Alma Allen 28 and Louie Allen 25 died in a fire in the sedan. Their parents H L Allen 56 and Mrs Allen 54 died later from burns at a hospital.
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Italy
Texas
Here
Alma Allen
Louie Allen
H. L. Allen
Chicago Man Nabbed by Railroad Detective
Anthony Kopaz, 40, Chicago, Illinois, was jailed by Sheriff James H. Smith after a railroad detective picked him up in Marion Thursday afternoon for investigation.
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Chicago
Anthony Kopaz
Ill
James H. Smith
Kopaz
Marion
Government to Cut Off Dole by November 1
The Works Progress Administration plans to end direct relief by November 1 with 3.5 million workers on WPA projects nationwide. Harry L Hopkins will oversee all operations including staff in fifteen offices to root out graft and inefficiency. A new allocation of 1.55 million dollars was approved.
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Doles
Works Progress Administration
Hopkins
Statistical Bureau
Carrington Gill
Works Progress
Frank C. Walker
Advisory Allotment Board
Roosevelt
Coughlin Denied Belle Isle Meeting Space by Detroit Officials
Detroit officials refused Rev Charles E Coughlin use of Belle Isle for a Labor Day mass meeting, citing prior rights by the American Federation of Labor to the island. He remains in a Chicago court fight with Soldier Field over a permit for a mass meeting there of his National Union for Social Justice. The Chicago denial rested on plans for a political rally. Detroit cited prior property use.
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Detroit
Charles E. Coughlin
Belle Isle
Soldier Field
Chicago
National Union For Social Justice
American Federation of Labor
Harlem Black Eagle Arrested After Airport Row in Addis Ababa
Col Hubert Fauntleroy Julian known as Harlem's Black Eagle was arrested in the Hotel Majestic salon in Addis Ababa on a charge of attacking an Ethiopian air force member named Robinson. The incident clouds his bid to become a hero in Haile Selassie’s realm.
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Addis Ababa
INS
Hubert Fauntleroy
Julian
Harlem
Black Eagle
New York
Hotel Majestic
Robinson
United States
Pair of Pittsburgh children found shot to death
In Sewickley, Robert Ague thirteen and his sister Betty eleven were found shot in their home. Police chief Roy Barclay says powder burns suggest the boy fired on his sister by accident and then killed himself out of remorse. A .38 revolver lay nearby, and the mother had left them alone that day.
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Pittsburgh
INS
Robert Ague
Betty
Sewickley
Fred H. Ague
Roy Barclay
Barclay
Etna
Igil
Canada Doubles Trade Balance In Three Years
Canada ended May 31 with a $162.3 million favorable trade balance with all countries, up from $141.7 million last year and $92.8 million in 1938. Britain accounted for the largest favorable surplus, while the United States showed a $63.9 million unfavorable balance versus $53.8 million the prior year.
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Ont
Canada
Britain
United States
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