Roosevelt Sees Big Building Era in Parks Program
President Roosevelt, aboard the Roosevelt Special at Fort Peck Montana, endorses parks and large public works. He sees an era of building aimed at public benefit, including irrigation, navigation, flood control, and forest protection, with a new federal policy focus as he tours Glacier National Park and Two Medicine Chalet. The visit includes CCC projects, a major highway, and a ceremony with Blackfeet chiefs, as he plans to continue inspections at Devils Lake North Dakota.
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Frederick A. Storm
United Press
Roosevelt Special
Fort Peck
Mont
Roosevelt
Wort Peck
Army
Wort
Nntion
Medicine
Glacier National Park
Migneceh
Blackfoot
Bulehild
Belton, Mont
Marketo
Canadian
Devils Lake
North Dakota
Fort Wayne editors family visit in Indiana
Mr and Mrs Elwin McCray and their children Philip and Barbara Ellen, of Fort Wayne Indiana, are visiting at the home of Mrs Bertha McCray, the mother of Mr McCray who serves as copy editor of the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel.
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Elwin
McCray
Philip
Barbara Ellen
Fort ‘Wayne
Ind
Bertha McCray
Ft. Wityn
News-Sentinel
Olson clamps down as truck strike widens
Governor Floyd B Olson used martial law to revoke permits for 7000 trucks, forcing an immediate restart of service if owners accept the Haas Dunnigan plan for settlement. The action locks in 12 days of emergency transport and seeks to end a three week strike affecting 616000 residents with bread milk and ice only.
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Fred Bailey
United Press
Minneapolis
Floyd B. Olson
Farmer-Labor
Olson
Haas-Dunnigan
Francis J. Haas
Dunnigan
Employers’ Advisory Council
Father Haas
Five Held In Counterfeit Ring In Indiana Pa
Three men and two women were arrested in Indiana Pennsylvania on counterfeit ten dollar notes. Police said they planned to pass reports of three spurious bills in Lansford Pennsylvania and await Justice Department agents to determine if they traced notes from Camden New Jersey through eastern Pennsylvania.
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Indiana
United Press
Department of Justice
Lansford
Camden
N. J
Pennsylvania
Eight Killed in Va Mine Explosion at Derby Mine
Big Stone Gap Va Aug 6 Eight men were killed and nine believed dead after a dust explosion a mile and a half underground in No 3 Derby mine of Stonegap Zoal and Coke Co. Eight bodies were recovered shortly after the blast. nine others missing. The dead include Clyde Ward Charlie Milan Alex Payne Ralph Bur shell foreman Jessie Doyle Lafayette Blondell Clarence Reed and Charles Reese. Their bodies were brought out.
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Big Stone Gap
Derby
Stonegap Zoal and Coke Company
Clyde Ward
Charlie Milan
Alex Payne
Ralph Burshell
Jessie Doyle
Lafayette Blondell
Clarence Reed
Charles Reese
Jail for Huey Long is goal of city officials
New Orleans officials tightened their control in a political clash led by Mayor T Semmes Malmsey as court orders to demobilize Long’s forces were ignored. State militiamen guarded the Registrar of Voters building while 14 ex machine gun squad veterans joined 101 regular police and 500 deputized citizens in guarding City Hall. Public anger rose as crowds rushed the Registrar’s office tearing down injunction notices.
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United Press
New Orleans
Huey, P. Long
Long
Registrar of Voters
Fem
T. Semmes Malmssey
Democratic
George Reyer
Aerawa
Board to Act on Desk Order in Special Session
A school board prepares a special session at 5 oclock this afternoon to consider purchasing desks for several rooms in the Junior and Senior High buildings. The property committee report on the proposed purchase will be reviewed and action is expected on its recommendation. Regular business will likely be postponed to next Monday evening’s monthly session.
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Ssoara
Uelock
Radium Saves One of World Famous Quintuplets
In Callander Ontario sixty thousand dollars worth of radium is used to save Marie Dionne the smallest of the quintuplets from a thigh blood tumor. Doctors perform a rapid, life saving treatment that rivals millionaire access in contrast to old century methods and hospital care.
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Unites Press
Callander
Ont
Aug. O
Marie Dionne
Close Town's Plants When Water Is Low
Springetown, Aug. 6 City officials announce all factories here will remain closed until the water supply is normal. The town's four pumping stations were wrecked last week by a $1,000,000 flood that also washed away three bridges and caused heavy property damage. More than 2,500 persons were idled. The town, split into two sections when bridges were washed out, was connected by a 225-spot pontoon span built across the Cohansey River by Army engineers.
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Ey United Price Sringeton
N. I
Lolay
Feu
Une Cohansey Tiveke
Restoring Old Wall Gateway At Tannery Site
Restoration work at the John Brown Memorial Association site in New Richmond progresses with a restored well a cobblestone wall and a gateway under construction The War Department donated an old cannon and two pyramids of shot to be mounted near the gate A bronze memorial tablet is planned for the 1925 reunion Officers were elected at the Wiz ness Meeting with Dawcon Olmsteal as president Thomas J Prather as vice president Howard as secretary and J J Desmond as treasurer
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John Brown Memorial Association
New Richmond
War Department
Thomas J. Prather
Meadville
Dawson Olmstead
Washington, D.C
Walter Decker
Rolland Stowe
Roscoe Dearing
Merrill Lillie
Corry
Wileliam
Hirt
Brie
Julge
Ms. Howard
Amy
J.J. Desmond
Core
Babe for Mussolini’s Romp
Aug 6 report says Mrs Benito Mussolini, wife of the premier, is expecting a baby in six months. The statement was learned today.
Pinchot plans new relief seeking measures in Harrisburg
Governor Pinchot announced plans for partner conferences with federal authorities to secure additional relief funds for Pennsylvania and avoid a special legislative session. He may delay travel to Washington until Hopkins returns from Europe and Roosevelt finishes vacation. Democratic leaders discussed extra relief money, signaling a possible special session to authorize Pennsylvania’s share.
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Washington
Hopkins
Europe
United Press
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Pinchot
Uitil
Harry S. Hopkins
Roosevelt
Depuy
Investment bankers blamed in senate quiz report
Washington reports on a two year Senate stock market committee inquiry condemns foreign security sales as scandalous. The panel cites poor investor protection and favored issues sold to preferred buyers for easy profits, urging banking act reforms to curb abuses.
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United Press
Washington
United States
Senate Stock A Market Committee
Moslems and Jews Riot with 20 Killed in City
Official estimates report twenty killed and seventy injured in a race riot between Moslems and Jews in Aub. Moslems attacked and burned houses in the Jewish quarter built on a rock by the Fimme river. French troops arrived from Algiers to patrol the city.
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Algiers
Justice Department Reinforces Legal Staff Ahead of Supreme Court
Washington August 6 The Department of Justice strengthens its legal team for upcoming Supreme Court arguments on New Deal issues. Dean Justin Miller of Duke University signs a leave to serve as special assistant attorney general aiding Solicitor General J Crawford Biggs. Two top young lawyers Erwin Griswold and Charles A Bunn exit for Harvard and Wisconsin. Attor ney General Homer Cummings seeks more talent as NRA agricultural adjustment gold clause acts loom this fall.
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United Press
Washington
Department of Justice
Supreme Court
Justin Miller
Duke University Law School
Duke
Miller
J. Crawford Biggs
Youtee
Justice Department
Erwin Griswold
Communist Group Urges Steel Strike Action Prompts Wage Rise
In Pittsburgh on August 6 the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union a Communist affiliated union passed a resolution calling for a prompt steel strike a 49 percent wage increase and a five hour day and five day week. The decision came from 200 delegates after leadership by President BPs cush.
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Pittsburgh
Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union
Bps Cush
Eight Lose Lives in Weekend Air Wrecks
Frances Harrell Marsalis, famed aviator and co holder of the women's endurance flight record, and seven others perished in weekend airplane crashes across the country. Eight more were injured in seven separate accidents. Marsalis died after her plane skimmed ground and pancaked near Vandalia Ohio. In Los Angeles, Mr and Mrs Fred McLean perished when their craft crashed and burned. pilot Maurice Cot er sustained serious injuries.
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United Press
Frances
Harrell Marsalis
Vandalie
Marsalis
Los Angeles
Fred McLean
Maurice Coter
Hitler Eulogizes Hindenburg as Man of Centuries
Berlin reports Adolf Hitler paid silent tribute to Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg in a memorial service at the Hall opera house. Hitler spoke about Hindenburg's military leadership guiding Germany through war and warned that proper political strength could have averted disaster. He pledged gratitude to the president and urged unity with Germany’s past heroes, closing with Goering and the promise of the remembrance.
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Field Marshal von Hindenburg
Frederick Oechsner
United Press
United Aris
Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Heit-To
Hds Poivere
Paul von Hindenburg
Hil Tex
Hitler
Munich
Germany
Hindenburg
Hermann Goering
I Chan
Boy Teutenant
Tb Ys
Tannenburg
Prussia
Tennenburg
Ale
Wisl Proposes Abolishing Public Service Commission
S Davis Wise city controller of Philadelphia urged abolition of the public service commission at a ward picnic in Wilson Eddington. He argued eliminators of the commission and other new laws would save Philadelphia millions of dollars as he criticized the commission in the address. He noted ongoing squabbles with the commission and mentioned a $50 000 slander suit brought by Commissioner Frederick Gruenberg in which Wise is under $2 500 bail.
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Wilson
Service Commission
United Press
Eddington
Public Service Commission
S. Davis Wisi
Philadelphia
Frederick Gruenberg
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