Non Strikers Besieged in GMC Plant
Thousands of strikers, sympathizers and spectators crowded Cleveland's Fisher body plant as more than 200 non strikers were besieged following rioting that left 46 hospitalized. Safety Director Eliot Ness ordered a 500 yard exclusion and limited pickets to five per gate.
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Cleveland
General Motors
Fisher
Anthony Peterson
Company Police
Eliot Ness
Ness
United Automobile Workers
East Side
Pickers
Harold H. Burton
Burton
Ludwig S. Conelly
Ohio National Guard
Common Pleas
CIO United Automobile
Harland H. Burton
Weather report for Kansas City area and rivers
Weather bulletin notes a high near 92 and a low around 58. River stage details are incomplete with unclear locations including Keoxux, Waverly, Boonville, St. Thomas, and Lake Ozerks. forecast context unavailable due to garbled text.
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WCC
Onuaat
Keoxux
Kansas City
Waverly
Boonville
St. Thomas Hermazn
Lake of Ozerksieene
Missouri August Relief Grant Rises to 299154
Missouri social security officials report August direct relief averaging 11.50 per family while nearly 10,000 employables were purged from the rolls. The total grant for August reaches 299,154 with 25,957 families sharing next month’s aid, up from 36,000 and 284,679 in July. Government officials note a potential rise in average family aid and outline county distributions and commodity supplements including beans, butter, cereals, flour, rice, corn meal, oranges, and grapefruit juice.
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Missouri
Social Security Commission
Lloyd C. Stark
Barton
Boone
Buchanan
Butter
Cape Girardeau
Cole
Greene
Grundy
Jackson
Jasper
Livingston
Marion
Nodaway
Pettis
Randolph
St. Louis County
Vernon
St. Louis City
Fights Break Out In Massachusetts Wool Plant Strike
MASSACHUSETTS WOOL PLANT STRIKE TROOPERS BREAK UP FIGHTS OUTSIDE Batre wool combing plant in SOUTH BARRE. About 3 000 people gathered as 25 state police and Captain James T Mahoney moved crowds away. Workers held inside to finish shift. mobilization ordered. residents fled homes fearing violence.
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South Barre
Mass
Batre
James T. Mahoney
Worcester City
Boston
Horace T. Cahill
Burns Prove Fatal to 13 Month Old Baby
Funeral services will be held today for 13 month old Wesley Pash Goodin son of Mr. and Mrs Pash Goodin of 420 W Main St. The child died at St Mary's hospital from burns suffered last week when a pan of hot starch spilled on him as a family member tried to pull him away. He was rushed to the hospital but a toxic condition developed leading to his death at 7 am yesterday. He was an only child.
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Wesley Pash Goodin
Pash Goodin
Main Street
St. Mary's Hospital
House passes rail liability bill to cover all employee injuries
WASHINGTON July 31 AP The house passed and sent to the senate a bill to make railroads liable for injuries or deaths of railroad employees in accidents regardless of cause. The measure targets existing law seen as allowing employers to contract away negligence for which they are responsible.
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Washington
House
Senate
Smith Credits Tax Agents Not Stark For Cleanup
Missouri State Auditor Forrest Smith said Governor Stark sought credit for exposing the Pendergast machine. He credited federal income tax investigators for the exposure, noting fees exceeded a million dollars and that Stark had no role in the case. Smith predicted a political rift between Stark and Senator Bennett Clark and left for the West Coast.
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Gallup
N. M
Missouri
Forrest Smith
Lloyd C. Stark
Kansas City
Smith
Pendergast
Stark
Bennett Clark
Statutes of Limitation on Capital Offenses Dropped
Washington July 31 AP The house passed and sent to the White House a bill to remove all statutes of limitations on federal offenses punishable by death. The current statute of limitations for capital offenses, with the exception of willful murder, is three years. These include murder, transportation of kidnapped persons in interstate or foreign commerce, any killing or kidnapping related to bank robbery, killing a federal officer, and rape.
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Washington
House
White House
Aged Man Dies in Car Crash on Highway 40
Edward F. Bartels, 73, fatally injured in an auto collision on Highway 40 near Odessa Missouri. His car collided with a vehicle driven by Rev. Irving Spencer of Versailles Kentucky. Spencer suffered two broken ribs and lacerations, his wife was bruised, and his brother H E Spencer of Tarrytown New York was severely cut on face and hands.
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Odessa
Edward F. Bartels
Bartels
Irving Spencer
Versailles
Rev. Spencer
H. E. Spencer
Tarrytown
N. Y
Birth of Daughter Caroline Sue to Howelmans
A daughter named Caroline Sue was born yesterday afternoon at the Howelman home 1322 Cottage Lane to Mr and Mrs Earl Howelman. The father, Earl Howelman, works in the rural circulation department of the News Tribune.
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Earl Howelman
Cottage Lane
Caroline Sue
Howelman
The
News+Tribune
Bandits Routed In Wild West Train Robbery
In Champaign Illinois on July 31 a pair of bandits attempted to seize a $56 000 army payroll aboard an Illinois Central train. The crew resisted. one robber was shot and captured, the other fled after a leg wound. Earl Boothman mail clerk recounted the gunfight as state police formed a roadblock to intercept the fugitives.
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Champaign
Jesse James
Illinois
Earl Boothman
Local 31
Illinois Central Railroad
Chicago
Onarga
Ill
Boothman
John Gearson
Tand
del Rey
John F. Walden
Urbana
Clark Gable Captures Intruder in His Home
Clark Gable overpowered an 18 year old intruder who slipped into his Van Nuys residence. The Polish transient obtained an antique firearm from among Gable’s trophies and surprised the actor in his bedroom. The suspect demanded money and was held until police arrived.
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van Nuys
Calif
Clark Gable
Chester Welch
William J. Broski
Gable
Cable
Welch
Postmaster Nominees Named for Missouri Towns
President Roosevelt sent the list of Missouri postmaster nominees to the senate. Names include Bogard Ethel Rose Eldon TIA wl Tr Stenkens Wahakey ate Wepasvasey wake Mane week Frank MM. Story Lamar William G. Warner Pattonsburg Harvey F. Nalle Portageville Oliver A Cook.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Missouri
Senate
Bogard
Ethel Rose
Eldon
Tia
Frank MM
Lamar
William G. Warner
Pattonsburg
Harvey F. Nalle
Portageville
Oliver A Cook
Four Risk Men Deny Knowledge Of Bribe Fund
Four eastern insurance executives denied knowledge of a bribe fund tied to Tom Pendergast. They testified that assed sums for legal expenses in Missouri fire insurance rate case were not intended to benefit Street, who handled the trust. The fund, used for settlement expenses, spurred tax evasion charges against Street and Pendergast’s associates.
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New York
Eastern Insurance
Tom Pendergast
Kansas City
Missouri Fire
Charles R. Street
Chicago
Street
Seek to Settle 4 Year Labor Dispute at Aurora Mill
In Aurora Missouri on July 31, BLeid, chairman of a four business men’s committee, said the group would seek to settle a four year labor dispute at the Majestic flour mill. The effort aims to protect the important local industry and may encourage Majestic to rebuild after a $500,000 fire on July 26 that damaged the mill.
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Aurora
Bleid
Majestic
Reid
Khan Hatinwade
Majestic Company
Sing Sing Officials Fail To Find Replacement For Ill Executioner
OSSINING N Y July 31 AP no one stepped forward at Sing Sing to take the place of the ailing executioner Robert G Elliott who has directed the electric chair for about 340 felons The guard crew declined to volunteer for the risky job citing short hours and low morale Despite earnings reputedly reaching 1150 a week Elliott faced illness preventing him from handling the August 24 murder case of Arthur Perry The story notes Massachusetts prison staff offered candidates for other executions but no name was released
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Ossining
N. Y
Sing Sing
Robert G. Elliott
Dezth
Maen
Eliott
Arthur Perry
Bruns
Richard Hauptmann
New Jersey
Massachusetts
Elliott
Boston
Queens
New York
Elliott Sillness
Gloomy Chamberlain view and city license crackdown
The Commons heard a gloomy international outlook from Prime Minister Chamberlain. In the city, Chief of Police Harry Mackey said arrests would start today for delinquent auto licenses after an extended deadline, with fines escalating on repeated violations and court summonses issued.
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Mackey
Harry Mackey
Foster Wheatly
Trooper Captures Escaped Convict Near Here
Off duty state trooper Russell Breid arrested Convict Thomas Cappo two miles north of here on Highway 54 after Cappo fled a prison farm dormitory. Cappo, in prison clothes and armed, gave no resistance. He had escaped from a 20 year sentence tied to a 1923 Kansas City store robbery and kidnapping case. Also captured were two trainee school youths, James Mitchell and Joseph Ohrazba, after their escape in a Boonville truck.
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Jefferson City
Fulton
Thomas Cappo
Russell Breid
Highway 54
Here
Cappo
Breid
Eg Warrin Reaty
Brel
Edison Blagg
Blagg
Kansas City
State Training School For
Boonville
Jamestown
James Mitchell
St. Louis
Joseph Ohrazba
Youth Gets Life for Slaying of Physician
Ellsworth E. Medberry a 22 year old Fond Du Lac Wisconsin youth was convicted of killing Dr. John T. Gray. District Judge Arlington Taylor overruled motions for a new trial and sentenced Medberry to life imprisonment in the Colorado penitentiary. Defense attorney Samuel Chutkow immediately sought an appeal to the Colorado supreme court and was told to file a bill of exceptions within 90 days. Medberry was ordered transferred to the state penitentiary at once.
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Akron, Cola
Arlington Taylor
Ellsworth
Medberry
Fond du Lac
Wis
John T. Gray
Colorado
Samuel Chutkow
Denver
Colorado Supreme Court
Taylor
Chutkow
High Court
Local drive clarifies Social Security tax rules for Jefferson City firms
Internal revenue agents say their July campaign against social security tax delinquencies clarified regulations for Jefferson City businessmen. The drive, begun July 1, targeted employers with only one or two workers who were not paying the tax due to unemployment compensation rules requiring eight workers. The campaign will continue until all district employers are contacted. Federal beer and liquor stamps also become delinquent today.
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Internal Revenue
Jefferson City
Boys Ransack Cars In Alley South Of High Street
Police received complaints yesterday of youths ransacking cars parked in the alley south of High street. Ralph Prenger reported a flashlight and cigarettes were stolen from his car in the 200 block between High and Mel Carty streets.
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High Street
Ralph Prenger
High
Mel Carty Streets
3 Criminal Cases Up in Federal Court Saturday
Three criminal cases are scheduled to be disposed of in federal court Saturday the regular law day of the district. Prosper Wright who pleaded guilty to four indictments on narcotics violations last July 8 Cleo Jacobs who pleaded guilty on 4 counts and Anna Bell Jacobs who pleaded guilty on 2 counts will be sentenced Saturday. Sentencing had been deferred by Judge J. C. Collet until he had studied a probation report. Motions to dismiss will be heard in two cases involving insurance companies and a motion for a bill of particulars will be filed in the J B McCane vs Chicago Rock Island and Pacific railroad company.
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Prosper Wright
Cleo Jacobs
Annabell Jacobs
J. C. Collet
J. B. McCane
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Restway Company
TVA Proposes to Offset Taxes Loss by States
Washington July 31 AP The Tennessee Valley Authority proposes legislation to allow it to contribute over 1 225 000 annually to states to offset tax losses from retirement of private utilities in the TVA area The bill would pay states the equivalent of all state and ad valorem taxes on private power properties acquired by TVA and leaves to state legislatures the task of addressing other tax losses through local taxation on distribution properties in local ownership.
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Washington
Tennessee Valley Authority
TVA
Norris
Ind-Neb
Sparkman
Dala
Senate Votes 52-28 to Send Lending Bill to House
The Senate approved the administration lending bill 52 to 28, trimming total to 1.615 billion and sending to the House where rules committee moved to floor. Debate over state and federal taxes on RFC bonds surfaced as supporters and critics clashed over debt and repayment prospects.
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Washington
Senate
House
House Rules Committee
House Banking Committee
Congress
RFC
U. S
Roosevelt
Barkley
D-Ky
Senate Banking Committee
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Fire Association of Philadelphia
New York Insurance
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Northern Assurance Company
London & Scottish Assurance Company
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F. H. Breen
Standard Fire Insurance Company
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Frank Hollingsworth
Charles M. Henson
Missouri Insurance Department
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