Roosevelt tours drought area as he skims arid region
President Roosevelt travels by nine car special train and motor tours across North and South Dakota surveying crop damage. He endorses a 15 point drought program while noting hope for residents to stay. He plans to attend Secretary Dern's funeral in Salt Lake City and return for further governors conferences.
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Bismarck
N. D
Roosevelt
North
South Dakota
Jamestown
Aberdeen
Mandan
North Dakota
Beck East
Walter Welford
Elmer E. Holt
Montana
Ws Dern
Salt Lake City
Tuesay
Des Moines
Salt Lake
Pierre
S. D
Wyoming
St. Paul
Open Forum Plan Formed to Promote Public Discussion
Alabama policy committee votes to organize city and county units for open forum discussions on education finance and reform. A statewide October meeting will assign study committees on farm tenancy labor civil service tax system and freight discrimination with reports due next spring.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama Policy Committee
Alabama
I. J. Browder
Scottsboro
Clarence Nixon
Tulane University
Southern Policy Committee
Charles Edwards
Auburn
Hargrove Vandegraff
Tuscaloosa
Ed Reid
Browder
State Committee
Old Killing Held Solved in Oakland Harbor Case
Oakland prosecutors announce the arrest of four men, three union officials, in the fatal stabbing of engineer George Alberts aboard the Swayne & Hoyt freighter. The DA names George Wallace alias Whitte as the actual killer, sought an unidentified accomplice, and says the suspects deny involvement. Alberts was found stabbed five times in his cabin before a sailing voyage.
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Oakland
Calif
Attorn
Anne Ae Day
Warren
George Alberts
Freshier Point Lobos
George Wallace
Whitte
Brownsville
Tex
San Francisco
Earl King
Marine Firemen, Oilers, Watertenders and Wipers Association
International Seamer’s Union
A. M. Murphy
E. H. Ramsey
Alberts
Swayne & Hoyt
Gray's Harbor
Safe robber still at large after Johnston Street heist
A daylight thief fled with several hundred dollars in cash and checks from Cain Wolcott Rankin Insurance on Johnston Street. The incident occurred between 10 30 and 11 10 Tuesday as the thief removed a steel cash box from an open safe then disappeared.
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Cain, Wolcott and Rankin Insurance
Johnston St
M. R. Rankin
Rankin
Rex
Five Wounded in Corsican Political Rally Riots
Five people were wounded during rioting at a political rally in Ajaccio Corsica on August 28. The demonstration supported the election of a deputy to succeed Jear Chiappe the former prefect of Paris police who was ousted from his seat in July.
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AJ Accio
Corsica
Jear
Chiappe
Paris Police
Ous
Chamber of Deputy
Funeral rites for George Dern set in Salt Lake City
Washington mourns George Henry Dern as cabinet leaders join President Roosevelt in funeral plans. Military honors mark Dern’s passing with services at Mount Pleasant church and a train to Salt Lake City for Tuesday rites.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Salt Lake City
George
Henry Dern
Dern
Mount Pleasant Congregational Church
War Department
Hull
State Capitol
Mormon Tabernacle
Dean
Army Medical Center
George Henry Dern
Secre
Aries
Walter Reed Hospital
16Th Brigade
Capitol
District of Columbia
Army
Navy
Class of 1932 to Enjoy a Banquet
The class of 1932, 74 members, will hold a reunion next Friday September 4 at 7 o'clock with a banquet at the Palace Cafe. Members should call or write Miss Evelyn McClure or Miss Anne Miller Gamble to reserve. A class history will be prepared for all attendees.
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Palace Cafe
Evelyn McClure
Anne Miller Gamble
Parachute jumper Baker suffers broken leg in fall
William C. Baker 55 long experienced parachutist was in a hospital after a four foot fall caused a broken leg during a free dive. He previously endured thousands of sky jumps without injury in his career.
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William C. Baker
Call Issued for Football Practice by Evanston Coach
Coach Shorty Ogle telegraphed from Evanston Tl to request that the season’s first gridiron practice be held Tuesday afternoon at two o'clock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shorty Ogle
Daily Today
Evanston
Careful Plot Lays To Man And Woman With Chicken Salad
Across three datelines New Orleans Boston New York and Tuscaloosa reports mix market trading and political notes. Cotton futures show small losses as light hedge selling persists and buyers stay cautious.
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New Orleans
Corn Break Triggers Market Rally After Four Cent Drop
Chicago reports a sensational four cent drop per bushel in September corn just before close, prompting sharp reactions across other corn deliveries and wheat.
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Chicago
Seven Abducted by Escaping Convicts
Texarkana dispatch reports Sheriff Geer tracing three escaped convicts from Cummins farm into East Texas. Seven individuals were abducted during the night as the convicts fled in a car later found abandoned in Paris, Texas, after kidnapping two groups of motorists.
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Texarkana
Ark
J. N. Geer
Her County
Texas
Arkansas
Cummins
East Texas
Geer
Cummings
Paris
Son Sees Father Killed by Train in Alabama Field
Bruce Priester, working in a cotton field near Opelika, saw his father J. R. Priester age 82 stepped onto a railroad track as the Seminole Limited approached. The train could not stop in time and killed him.
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Opelika
Ala
Bruce Priester
J. R. Priester
Gras
Destroyer Moffett Placed In Commission At Boston
The navy formally placed in commission the 1850 ton destroyer Moffett valued at 4,090,000 at the navy yard in Boston today amid ceremony and formalities.
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Boston
Navy
Moffett
Navy Yard
Food and $9 in Cash Is Loot In
North Alabama officers hunt a man and woman described as send the change robbers who robbed Clifford Pullias of Beacon Sandwich Shop of $9 and one dollar’s worth of chicken salad sandwiches at Grant Street and Sixth Avenue. The couple fled in a blue Ford V-8 coach heading north. Witnesses recall a well dressed man with straw hat and blue shirt and a woman caller who ordered late night deliveries. The incident was investigated by state highway patrol but no car trace was found.
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North Alabama
State Highway Patrol
Clifford Pulliad
Beacon Sandwich Shop
Grant Street
Sixth Avenue
Pullias
Bill Alexander
The
Beacon
Pullins
Alabama
Man jumps to death from Empire State Building
An unidentified man leaped 86 stories from the Empire State Building today. He waved farewell to a group of bystanders and plunged to the sidewalk on the 33rd Street side, ending a fatal fall from the world’s tallest structure.
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New York
Empire State
33Rd Street
Fliers Report Ethiopian Action Saved Italian Army by Gas Use
An Associated Press account recalls Italian aviators in Ethiopia using gas to threaten Ethiopian forces, aiding a strategic shift after Marshal Badoglio restructured command. The piece frames the tactics as pivotal to averting disaster and preserving Italy’s campaign in Africa.
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Associated Press
New York
Ethiopia
Italy
Africa
Pietro Badoglio
de Bone
Soviet Russia Proposes Immediate League Sanctions Reform
Soviet Russia proposed a League of Nations reform to trigger military sanctions within three days after war. A special protocol would summon the league council, with a three day decision on punitive measures. The plan includes automatic sanctions via mutual defense pacts, exempt from aggression charges.
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Joseph FE. Sharkey
Associated Press
Geneva
Russia
League of Nations
League Council
League
Ars
Today
Germany
Europe
League Assembly
Decatur Receives NYA Funds For Youth Aid Program
The National Youth Administration in Alabama announced tentative allotments totaling 150 900 dollars to county and city systems to help needy youths return to school. Eligible youths aged 16 to 25 in accredited schools will receive aid up to six dollars monthly for transportation books and supplies. Allocations include amounts for Birmingham Jefferson Montgomery Mobile Selma Dallas and other cities and counties with white and Negro student distinctions.
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Montgomery
Ala
National Youth Administration
Alabama
J. E. Bryan
Birmingham
Jefferson County
Montgomery County
Mobile
Mobile County
Selma
Dallas County
Tuscaloosa
Dothan
Decatur
Huntsville
Gadsden
Death of Mrs. Munn in Jackson leaves Decatur family in grief
News arrives from Jackson Tennessee of the death of Mrs. Munn mother of Jimmy Munn a well known Decatur resident. She died at her daughter's home Mrs A B Hollingsworth and will be buried in Birmingham. Mr Munn was at her bedside at the time of death.
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Jackson, Tenn
Jimmy Munn
Decatur
Ohio governor signs papers on Vault extradition case
Gov. Martin L. Bayard signed extradition papers from Ohio to Michigan for Virgil H. Effinger of Lima. He was named by prosecutor Duncan McCrea of Detroit as national commander of the Black Legion.
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Columbus
Martin L. Bavey
Ohio
Michigan
Virgil H. Effinger
Lima
Duncan ©. McCrea
Detroit
The
Black Legion
Bar Association Debates Constitutional Rights At 59th Convention
The American Bar Association narrowly voted to file the majority report on a committee studying citizens rights and a minority report urged discharging the panel. The dispute centered on the Roosevelt administration and the child labor amendment with figures like Taft II and Landon cited amid charges of partisan tension.
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Boston
American Bar Association
Mare Onece
Roosevelt
Supreme Court
George L. Buist
Charleston
8. C
William P. MacCracken
Association
John ‘D. Clark
Cheyenne
Wyo
Fred H. Davis
Tallahassee
Fla
George L. Bu
Isidore Obtroff
Philadelphia
Alf M. Landon
Kansas
Davis
Renidential
Plebiscite 10 Be Ordered If Fascists Win
Reported from Toulouse that fascist forces plan a military dictatorship in Spain with a plebiscite on restoring the Bourbon monarchy after victory near Burgos. Rebels claim Madrid bombed, Madrid denies major damage, while Italian arms embargo under neutrality pact continues.
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Associated Press
Spain
Madrid
Irun
San Sebastian
Bay of Biscay
Atrat Barcelona _p
Burgos
Bourbon
Alfonso
Europe
Juan of the Asturias
Lozoya
Italy
Milk price hike to be opposed in Birmingham hearings
Birmingham producers asked the State Milk Control Board for a 20 percent price rise. The Birmingham Parent-Teacher Association pledged to oppose any unreasonable increase and would attend hearings to review reports that dairymen seek a fixed 17 cent per quart retail price, replacing 13 to 14 cent levels.
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Birmingham
State Milk Control Board
Parent-Teacher Association
Felix Jones
PTA Council
Local heat peak hits 102 with no rain reported
The region saw temperatures top 100 degrees for the first time in days, peaking at 102 at the weather bureau. The low reached 76, and no rainfall was recorded as the Tennessee River remained at 2.3 feet. Tonight mainly cloudy with possible thunderstorms, especially in the west. Saturday partly cloudy with chances of lingering showers and cooler conditions.
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Weather Bureau
Tennessee
Alabama
Florida
West
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J. Edward Wright
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George H. Dern
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City of
Nature
Jimmy Legrone
Edward J. Neil
Soviet Russia
World Group
NYA
Gilbert Sale
Leatrice Joy Gilbert
John Gilbert
Hollywood
Leatrice
BAR Report
Francis A. Hart
Toulouse
France
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