Threshing Time Wins Best Rural Correspondent Honor
New York AP reports Mrs. Albert Eisele of Blue Earth Minnesota won $200 and a trip to New York and Washington for best rural correspondence of 1936. Her essay Threshing Time contrasted rural drama with family routines and described threshing season as both lively and taxing on farm households.
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U.S
Minnesota
NEW York
Albert Eisele
Blue Earth
Minn
Fairmont
Sentinel
SEC TO INVESTIGATE INVESTMENT TRUSTS
The Securities and Exchange Commission launches a probe into investment trusts amid questions about expert influence and control over operating companies. The inquiry sifts data from 70 investigators and hundreds of witness testimonies, tracing $8 billion in trust investments since 1927 and current holdings estimated between $2 and $3 billion.
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Washington
Securities and Exchange Commissionaturday
SEC
Congress
Public Utility Holding Company
Commission
Robert E. Healy
Decp
Oldings
Man Eater Shark Kills Teen Near Cape Cod Beach
In New England the first reported man eating shark since years struck near Mattapoisett Point Buzzards Bay injuring 18 year old Joseph Troy of Dorchester who died at St Luke's Hospital after loss of blood. Fishermen aided victims as panic spread to Cape beaches.
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New Bedford
Mass
New England
Cape District
Joseph Troy
Dorchester
Boston
Troy
St. Luke’s Hospital
Mattapoisett Point
Buzzard’s Bay
Menandes
Cape Region
Mexico Lights Return After Utilities Strike Settlement
The nine day strike against Mexico Light and Power ended with wage gains for workers and company autonomy. Power was restored to 4 million people including major cities as red flags came down and streetcars resumed. The stoppage cost about 100 million pesos in official estimates.
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Mexico City
INS
Mexico Light and Power Company
Joyce Kilmer Shrine Dedicated in Carolinas on Thursday
Dedication ceremonies establish the Joyce Kilmer memorial forest on Lake Santeetlah Graham County. The event marks the eighteenth anniversary of Kilmer's death in France. A Roosevelt message reading This Living Monument will be delivered and a 30 minute nationwide radio tribute airs simultaneously.
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Robbinsville
N. C
Joyce Kilmer
Lake Santeetlah
Graham County
France
Roosevelt
Seize Reinhardt's Clothes and Dog to Satisfy Judgment
Paris reports police seized the clothing and Cairn terrier of famed producer Max Reinhardt to satisfy a judgment from Berlin authorities. Reinhardt could keep one gray suit. The dog was added after it nipped a policeman's ankle during the seizure.
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Paris
Berlin
Max Reinhardt
Reinhardt
Allred Leading Texas Governor in Early Democratic Returns
DALLAS AP James V Allred leading as he seeks reelection with 36 860 of 68 747 votes counted from 57 of 254 counties. Harris County Houston contributes most of the tally and rivals include Tom Hunter Roy Sanderford and F W Fischer. Morris Sheppard leads in the Senate race with 24 502 votes while Joe Eagle trails.
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Dallas
James V. Allred
Texas
Texas Election Bureau
Harris County
Houston
Allred
Tom F. Hunter
Wichita Falls
Hunter
Roy Sanderford
Belton
Jim Ferguson
F. W. Fischer
Tyler
Pierce Brooks
Morris Sheppard
Joe Eagle
Butterflies siphon food through slender trunklike wings
Some butterfly species transport fluids by feeding through long, narrow trunklike structures. The behavior involves siphoning sustenance via extended mouthparts and specialized body parts adapted for fluid intake.
Woman Sheriff to Hang Slayer in Kentucky
Florence Thompson 42, Davies County sheriff, prepares to oversee the execution of Rainey Bethea 22, the man convicted of raping and killing Elza Edwards 70. A gallows is to be built on a vacant lot near the county garage with the hanging scheduled for daybreak Friday July 31.
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Owensboro
Florence Thompson
Davies County
Rainey Bethea
Bethea
Elza Edwards
Kentucky
Thompson
Ice Pulpit To Stay Cool At St Louis Church
Dr. T Oscar Johnson pastor of Third Baptist plans to keep a large block of ice on the pulpit all summer to calm worshippers. Last Sunday a bouquet of roses froze inside the ice and rainbow trout will be displayed frozen in future services to provide variety.
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ST. Louis
T. Oscar Johnson
Third Baptist Church
Court Holds State May Tax Chain Stores On Graduated Scale
A three judge court in New Orleans ruled that Louisiana may tax chain stores on a graduated scale based on size. The decision applied to the Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company and 13 other plaintiffs seeking to bar tax collection. The injunction was denied and the temporary injunction dissolved.
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New Orleans
Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
Louisiana
It Rains Birds On This Illinois Farm
In Tuscola Illinois a farmer reports a two inch downpour that caused 412 sparrows and starlings to fall from trees. The birds were killed by the rain and collected in bushel baskets. The rain ended a long drought in the area.
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Illinois
Tuscola, Ill
L. L. Smith
Smith
Three Volunteer Firemen Killed In Crash Near Warrendale
Three Brackenridge volunteer firemen were killed when their fire truck overturned near Warrendale while swerving to avoid an automobile. The tragedy occurred Saturday night, costing the lives of the crew two.
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Pittsburgh
Brackenridge
Here
Warrendale
Boy’s Prank Wrecks Train In Pennsylvania Death
In Vandergrift Pennsylvania a 12 year old boy placed iron on a rail causing an 88 car freight train to derail. Fireman John E Konkle 42 was killed and the locomotive plus 11 cars plunged into a hillside. The youth was detained for questioning.
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Vandergrift
D. L. Johnston
William Coy
John E. Konkle
Gas purge in Chicago dogs due to rabies scare
In Chicago a rabies scare triggered a mass euthanization of 200 dogs in the city pound's carbon monoxide chamber. The action followed three human rabies deaths and 71 bite cases reported in the 24 hours ending at 8 am Saturday.
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Chicago
Dogl
Family Drowns After Pond Swim Near Mitchell
Mrs Marian McCutcheon age 36 and her sons Clyde 12 Walter 10 drowned near Mitchell Indiana when they swam in a pond on a farm flooded by heavy rains early Saturday. Their bodies were recovered after the accident authorities said.
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Mitchell
Ind
Marian McCutcheon
Inglefield
Clyde
Walter
Springfield Buys Central Illinois Light in Utility Endgame
Springfield announced the $7.2 million purchase of the Central Illinois Light electric and steam heating properties ending a 30 year municipal fight. Willis J. Spaulding said $8.5 million in bonds will guarantee the price, maturing in 20 years from plant earnings.
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Springfield
Ill
Central Illinois Light Company
Mssda Mhat
Willis J. Spaulding
Peoria
Illinois Power Company
DeKalb
Sycamore
British Scientist and Explorer Sir Henry Welcome Dies
Sir Henry Welcome, 83, renowned British scientist and explorer, died Saturday after an operation. His work spanned physiology laboratories and archaeological surveys using airplanes, marking advances in science and exploration.
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London
Sir Henry Welcome
Sir Henry
Vandenberg to See Landon This Week in Topeka
Senator Arthur Vandenberg of Michigan and two economists Col Leonard Ayres and Dr Benjamin Anderson are scheduled for conferences in Topeka with Gov Alf Landon during the coming week. Landon said Vandenberg would lunch with him Tuesday.
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Peka
Kan
Arthur Vandenberg
Michigan
Leonard P. Ayres
Benjamin Anderson
Alf M. Landon
Vandenberg
London
Cleveland
Frank Knox
Illinois
Senate
Ayrese
Cleveland Trust Company
Warning of hell comes true in Mississippi ambush killings
In Holly Springs Mississippi a cross roads tree warning there would be hell tonight preceded a violent incident. A farm woman, Mrs Willie Roach, was killed and four others wounded after an ambush shooting during a confrontation involving her daughter Mrs Jessie Fesmire, Fesmire's infant, and two spectators.
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Holly Springs
Miss
Willie Roach
Jessie Fesmire
Fesmire
Roosevelt Again Off Maine Coast
President Roosevelt returns to the Maine coast aboard the schooner Sevanna after eight days in Nova Scotia waters. Aided by a fresh breeze the vessel covers thirty miles across the Bay of Fundy to Seal Cove Grand Manan Island New Brunswick. He and his three sons plan to stay over the weekend and sail to Campobello New Brunswick where Mrs. Roosevelt awaits at the family camp.
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Liberty
Grand Manan Island
N. B
Roosevelt
Maine
Nova
Digby Neck
Nova Scotia
Roosevelts
Westport
Mr. Roosevelt
Grand Manan
Sevanna
Campobello
Escaped Panther Terrorizes Tokio Recaptured Saturday
After terrorizing crowded Tokio wards, an escaped black panther was recaptured Saturday. The animal forced its way through zoo bars and was trapped in a street manhole, then driven out by smoke into a new cage with no casualties.
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TOKIO
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