Hoover 1928 campaign chief warns Southern revolt over patronage
Horace A Mann, Hoover’s 1928 Southern campaign manager, declares Southern Republicans will resist "designing hijackers" at national conventions and urges purification ahead of the Republican National Committee meeting. Postmaster General Brown counters, saying Savannah resolutions won’t affect Post Office appointments. Bracketed by party maneuvers, the plan includes Huston’s resignation and Fess as provisional chairman with Robert Lucas named executive head of the committee.
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Washington
Brown
Horace A. Mann
Hoover
Savannah
South
Mann
Southland
Executive Committee
Claudius Huston
Huston
Fess
Ohio
National Committee
Robert Lucas
Kentucky
Internal Revenue
National Organization
Lucas
Treasury
King George Wins Big Yacht Race at Cowes
King George aboard Britannia wins the twelve meter regatta by half a minute over White Heather as Lucilla sinks at the start. A royal sight amid tragedy. William Saunders, Lucilla steward, drowns while crew crews are rescued by Lulworth. Britannia marks its two hundredth victory.
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Cowes
Isle of Wight
King George
Britannia
Lucilla
J. Lauriston Lewis
A. A. Paton
Lulworth
William Saunders
Dolores Del Rio Wed Cedric Gibbons Quietly in Santa Barbara
Mexican film star Dolores Del Rio and Cedric Gibbons studio art director married in a quiet late afternoon ceremony at the Franciscan Mission in Santa Barbara. Father Augustine presided. the couple, with Del Rio's mother and best man, left for celebrations while reporters snapped photos. Del Rio had obtained church permission in Los Angeles. her previous husband Jaime Del Rio had died abroad last year.
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Santa Barbara
Cal
Dolores del Rio
Hollywood
Cedric Gibbons
Father Augustine
Gibbons
Miss del Rio
Los Angeles
Father Stack
Old Mission
Jaime del Rio
Minature Golf Urges Repeal Of Occupation Tax
A Cincinnati council debate pits Alex Patterson against tax plans for amusement venues. Patterson and Yeatman oppose an ordinance taxing miniature golf and similar sites, while Charles Rose defends the measure as needed for the 1931 budget. The plan raises rates by device count, and the council calendar grows heavier.
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Cincinnati
Alex. Pattersont
Repblican
Patterson
Charles ©. Rose
Charterite and Finance Committee
W. Meredith Yeatman
Rose
Charterite
Morrow Supports Hoover For Re election
Mexico City August 6 The article notes ambassador Dwight W Morrow will back Herbert Hoover for re nomination in 1932 and cites R B Creager Texas Republican Committeeman forecasting Hoover's renomination while Roosevelt is likely Democratic nominee and Senator Robinson remains a possibility Creager also predicts Morrow will win New Jersey senate with Frelinghuysen and Fort expected to campaign this fall.
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New York World News Service
Mexico City
Hoover
Dwight W. Morrow
R. B. Creager
Republican National
Texas
Morrow
Cuernavaca
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Creager
Joseph T. Robinson
New Jersey
Frelinghuysen and Fort
N. Y
Grand Jury to Probe Buckley Case in Detroit
Detroit moves toward a 23 man grand jury to investigate the unsolved killing of radio announcer Jerry Buckley and related crimes. Prosecutor James E. Chenot says the petition seeks motives and possible crimes, with waitress Ethel Bronson questioned again by homicide detectives under Inspector John Navarre.
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Detroit
Jerry Buckley
Wayne Circuit Court
James E. Chenot
Lester S. Moll
Chenot
Buckley
Michigan
Ethel
Smiles) Bronson
John Navarre
Council approves rail improvements ordinance despite protest
The City Council voted eight to one to Vacate Smith street from Third to Fourth to aid the Chesapeake Ohio Railroad Company rebuilding a Cincinnati end of the C O bridge and a new freight yard. Protesters led by Robert N Gorman argued Smith street should stay open for traffic.
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Robert N. Gorman
Smith Street
Third
Fourth Street
John Druffél
Charterite
Amarillo Man Admits Fatal Bombing and Confesses
Amarillo attorney A D Payne admitted the fatal bombing that killed his wife on June 27 and told police he would file a formal confession after speaking with his brother Sidney Payne. His 9 year old son A D Payne Jr was permanently maimed. Witness Verona Thompson claimed Payne pursued her and threatened to "fix" the situation.
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Payne
Sidney Payne
Texas
Amarillo
A.D. Payne
Thompson
E. W. Thomerson
A. D. Payne, Jr
The
Kansas City Star
Gene Howe
Amarillo News Globe
Howe
Star
Recaptured Changsha and Hankow Brace for Communists
The American Consul reported Hankow still threatened with thirteen foreign warships offshore as six Nationalist regiments reinforce. Changsha, looted and burned by Communist forces, was retaken by Gen Ho ChiEn. Some Nationalist troops defected. others withdrew temporarily. No change in U S policy toward China.
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New York World News Service
Washington
Hankow
Yangtze River
Changsha
State Department
Ho Chién
Ho Ien
Thomas T. Craven
Yangtze
Ronald Lindsay
Castle
Switzerland Seeks Neutrality Guard in European Federation Plan
The Swiss government signals it will cooperate on economic remedies for Europe but will not enter any commitment that endangers neutrality or weakens the League of Nations. It warns that distinguishing economic and political issues in a United States of Europe will be difficult and urges care in agenda wording for Geneva talks.
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Paris
Foreign Office
United States of Europe
Switzerland
M. Briand
Geneva
League of Nations
Europe
Briand
League
Coast Guard bans shooting first after Ipswich fatality
Boston August 6 Captain William H Munter announces policy ending fire first approach after a Coast Guard boat at Ipswich fired on another craft killing Chief Boatswain's Mate Louis E Pratt. Munter stresses gunfire only for stop when law violated and safe control possible. Salisbury Beach reports conflicting accounts of Monday night incident involving a burning motor boat.
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Boston
William H. Munter
Coast Guard
Ipswich
Louis E. Pratt
Salisbury Beach
Gloucester
Munter
Olmstead
Mass
Ram Patrol
Reapportionment Will Cut House Seats of 20 States
The new apportionment will cut seats for 20 states, transferring 27 seats to 11 winning states. Secretary Lamont will report state populations and entitlements when Congress reconvenes in December, with Congress retaining authority to adjust the apportionment through 1940.
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Washington
House
Congress
Lamont
Secretary of Commerce
Corn Roars Higher as Drought Relief Hopes Drive Prices
Chicago reports a bullish surge in corn with prices topping a dollar a bushel for December futures as weather forecasts worsen crop prospects. Wheat, oats, and rye rise on the market’s broad rally with over 100 million bushels traded and intense public buying across the country.
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New York
World News Service
Chicago
New Board
Patterson Not a Party to Dolly Gann Clash in Washington Society
Eleanor Medill Patterson former Countess Gizycka has not joined Dolly Gann against Alice Roosevelt Longworth in the host and hostess seating dispute. She will publish truth if news warrants and attends to observe the social season as editor in chief of The Washington Herald. Patterson says her stance is a news item and she will publicize any campaign or outbreak.
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New York World News Service
Washington
Eleanor Medill
Patterson
Joseph Gizycka
Dolly Gann
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
National
Gann
Ruth Hanna McCormick
Alice
McCormick
Washington Society
Theodore Roosevelt
Retired Covington Diocesan Bishop Ferdinand Brossart Dies
Bishop Ferdinand Brossart, longtime head of the Covington Diocese, died last night at St. Anne's Convent Melbourne Kentucky after a pneumonia attack. He led the diocese seven years from 1916 to 1923 and retired due to ill health. Born in Germany he studied at Louvain and in Kentucky, served in Cynthiana and Lexington, helped build St Mary's Cathedral, and was buried at St Anne's after a funeral at St Mary's Cathedral.
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Ferdinand Brossart
Covington
St. Anne’s Convent
Melbourne
Brossart
Germany
United States
Cincinnati
Newport
Louvain
Belgium
Kentucky
Cynthiana
St. Paul’s
Lexington
Co. Maes
Father Brossart
St. Mary’s Cathedral
Maes
St. Anne’s
Fires Sweep Cape Cod District Drenching Summer Areas
Thousands battle two major fires along thirty five miles of Cape Cod shores. Plymouth mobilizes 1000 men and fights back fires threatening cottages and wealthier summer homes near Long Pond and Noble Pond camps. Fires spread through Cohasset Forestdale Bourne Falmouth as residents from New York and other areas flee or assist.
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Plymouth
Mass
Cape Cod
Cape
Long Pond
New York
Noble Pond
Cohasset
Forestdale
Bourne
Falmouth
Barnstable County Hospital
Shelbyville Faces Water Cutoff As Rail Wateres Arrive
Carl Williams of the Farm Board proposes lending funds to live stock producers via the National Feeder and Finance Corporation. Shelbyville loses water when the reservoir runs dry at 5 p.m. A special train with twelve tank cars will bring water from Louisville at 7 a.m. tomorrow.
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Shelbyville
Louisville
Production credit plans eyed to aid drought hit cotton farms
President Hoover and cabinet study emergency uses of the agricultural marketing act to supply production credit for cotton land livestock. Carl Williams to publish a Farm Board report outlining funding to feed livestock via the National Feeder and Finance Corporation and regional credit groups.
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Washington
Hoover
Farm Board
Carl Williams
Williams
Legge
Pacific Northwest
National Feeder and Finance Corporation
Nabi Ore ‘Livestock “Market Associaton
Marketing Association
Feeder and Finance Corporation
Federal Intermediate Credit Banks
National Live Stock Marketing Association
American Cotton Co-operative Association
Department of Agriculture
Hyde
Mr. Hoover
Indi
Temperatures and weather outlook across Ohio and surrounding states
The report notes thundershowers possible Thursday into Friday with slight warming in southern Ohio and the extreme north of Indiana, largely fair conditions elsewhere. A temperature table lists highs from the 70s to 100s across Eastport Louisville Boston Nashville Albany Cleveland New York Atlantic City Washington Chicago Jacksonville Atlanta New Orleans Kan City Galveston Omaha Pittsburgh with varying precipitation. Record for August 6, 1930 shows cloudy conditions with rain at 8 p.m. and a noted low temperature.
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Ohio
Kentucky
Indiana
Eastport
Louisville
Boston
Nashville
Albany
Cleveland
N. York
City
Arie
Atlanta
N.orleans
Kan
Galveston
Omahe
Pittsb’gh
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U. S
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Frank I. Weller
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