Texans Mourn 30 Lost As Coastal Storm Ravages Texas
WALL OF WATER UP TO 20 FEET HIGH SLAMS TEXAS COAST FROM GALVESTON TO CORPUS CHRISTI. HURRICANE KNOCKS DOWN BUILDINGS, STRIPS ROOFS, AND SENDS RESIDENTS FLEEING. BAY CITY AND MATAGORDA AREA REPORT MANY MISSING, INCLUDING FAMILY OF BAY CITY FISHING CAMP OWNERS.
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Houston
Tex
Texas
Galveston
Corpus Christi
Bay City
Carey Smith
Bay City Tribune
Barlent
Red” Howard
Sargent
Howard
Ray W. O'Dell
Smith
High Island
Matagorda
Health officer cites Decatur typhoid linked to bad water
Dr. D G Gill of the Alabama State Health Department announced after tracing an outbreak in Decatur that about 35 typhoid cases were found in a confined area. He noted the shallow well near the neighborhood likely contributed to the spread though not definitively proven as the sole source.
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Montgomery
Ala
D. G. Gill
Bureau of Epidemiology
State Health Department
Fmm
Decatur
Gill
Belgian Ambassador Confined In Hospital After Heat Prostration
Washington July 26 AP Paul May Belgian ambassador to Washington was confined in emergency hospital today suffering heat prostration. He was reported by hospital authorities as in stable condition and receiving treatment.
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Washington
Paul May
Mergency Hospital
Weather forecast for states shows scattered thundershowers
Partly cloudy in Alabama with a chance of local thundershowers tonight and Sunday. Tennessee may have isolated thunder tonight and cooler Friday. Northwest Florida expects cloudy skies with scattered showers this afternoon and possibly Friday.
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Alabama
Tennessee
Florida
Heat wave ends as 1 215 die in central U S shows
Widespread showers end the central heat wave that killed 1 215 people and bring cooler weather. A Gulf storm hit Texas with about 30 deaths and major crop damage. Rain aids drought areas but crops already harmed. State death counts include Illinois 319 and Missouri 33.
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Associated Press
Texas
Gulf
Coast
Chicago Board of Trade
Missouri
Ilinois
Ohio
Nebraska
Iowa
Minnesota
Indiana
Kansas
Kentucky
Michigan
Wisconsin
Pennsylvania
Oklahoma
South Dakota
West Virginia
New York
Tennessee
Massachusetts
Connecticut
District of Columbia
Maryland
Arkansas
Rhode Island
South Carolina
Virginia
Chicago
Oak Street Infirmary
North Central
Middlewest
East
Battleship Rammed Liner Umatilla in Dense Fog Off Washington
Aimed at the Purse liner Umatilla of Seattle, the battleship Arison rammed it in heavy fog off the Washington coast early today. Two fishermen were reported dead.
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Seattle
Umatilla
Arisone
Washington
18Th Naval District
Youth Drowns in Mill Lake Near Dothan
Alice Thurman Howard an 18 year old Dothan youth known as a good swimmer drowned while performing a lake trick near Gran gerburg. Cramped by weighted clothes his body was recovered after an all night search by Rev. A H Godfrey and companions.
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Mill Lake
Dothan
Alice Thurman Howard
A. H. Godfrey
Clifford Howard
Eleamor
Bennie Grey Wofford
Thurman
Clifford
Paving Planned for Dothan Columbia Highway Section
Probate Judge Harry K. Martin announced a six and a half mile paving project on the Dothan Col umbia highway to be funded by Houston County with materials from the state program and convict labor. Completion expected in four months with no county debt.
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Harry K. Martin
Houston County
Georgia
Martin
Georgia Line
Dillinger suspect leaps to death during FBI questioning
James Probasco, 67, a West Side resident, died after leaping from a 19th floor window during FBI questioning in the Dillinger case. The body landed in an alley near Adams street as agents pursued a surgeon linked to the gang’s face lifting operation. Homer Van Meter is also said to have undergone a similar procedure at the same home.
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Chicago
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Dillinger
James Probasco
West Side
S. P. Cowley
Bureau
Melvin A. Purvis
Probasco
North
Crawford Avenue
Adams Street
A. L. Brody
Firobasco
Cowley
Court of the Rookery
Homer van Meter
Prabasco
Solomon Baxter in Montgomery For Education Talks
Solomon Baxter Houston county superintendent of education visited Montgomery on county school business and planned talks with officials from the state department of education.
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Solomon Baxter
Houstayn County
Montgomery
State Department of Education
Liquor Cache Seized From Old Fortress
Customs stormed Fort St. Philip near New Orleans capturing five men and seizing three boats with liquor and marijuana valued at $100,000. The operation followed boats from Cuba and involved the 48 foot City of Rome, linked to the I'm Alone case. Suspects named Philip Lightell Felix Lightell Black Michel Joseph Whitney and Marion Bela were taken into custody.
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New Orleans
Cuba
Louisiana
Rome
Happy
Philip
Felix Lightell
Black Michel
Joseph Whitney
Marion Bela
Attorney vows NRA label use after Blue Eagle order
Leonard Weinburg, attorney for L. Greif and Ere, Inc., said the company will continue to use the NRA label on its clothing despite Washington's order that the Blue Eagle insignia be withheld.
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Baltimore
Leonard Weinburg
L. Greif and
Ere, Inc
Contine
NRA
Washington
Dying Dollfuss Pleads For Security Of Family
In Vienna on July 26 AP reports the last words of Chancellor Dollfuss were for his wife and children. He died as Nazis breached the chancellery, shot in the throat and shoulder, his plea for a priest unheeded. He asked Fey to look after his wife and children.
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Vienna
Emgelbert Dollfuss
Dollfuss
Dolfuss
Pius
Herr Adan
Dollfus
Fey
Emil Fey
Putchists
Adan
Baby Face Nelson Sought by Nation as No 1 Outlaw
Federal agents mount a nationwide hunt for George Baby Face Nelson after John Dillinger’s death. Hoover vows Nelson’s capture dead or alive, citing his role as chief gunman with the Dillinger gang and a history of violence. Nelson, 5 ft 4.5 in, 133 pounds, last reported in Ohio and Michigan, was once jailed in Chicago and escaped Joliet prison.
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John Dillinger
Lester M. Gillis
Baby Face
Nelson
Gillis
U. S
Carter Baum
Little Bohemia
Wis
Hamilton
van Meter
Dillinger
Chicago
Jin
George
Federal
John Dil Inger
Crown Hill
Indianapolis
Trigger Man
Wwelson
West Side
W. Carter Baum
Little Bohemia, Wig
Edgar Hoover
Department of Justice
Washington
John Hamilton
Homer van Meter
Hoover
Ohio
Michigan
Joliet
Irs
Anna Sage
Nan
Red
Roy Keele
Biograph
Romania
Charlie Deese Rites Held at Home in Pensacola
Funeral for Charlie Porter Deese, age 4, conducted yesterday at his home on Columbia Route Three. Burial followed in Pilgrim's Feet cemetery. Deese died Tuesday after a month of illness. Surviving are his widow, mother Mrs. Jamee Deese, a son Charley II Deese, a daughter Mary Sue Deese, sister Mrs. J W Williams, Pensacola Route Three. Houston Funeral Home handled arrangements.
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Charlie Porter Deese
Columbia
Pilgrim’s Feet
Deese
Jameer Deese
Charley I2
Pensacola
Mary Sue Deese
Mra. J. W. Willams
Col Quairy
Houston
Governor Miller orders extradition of escaped Georgia chain gang member
Gov. B. My Miller announces requisition papers for the extradition of Monror Nelson a white man who escaped from a Georgia chain gang while serving a sentence for attempted criminal assault and has been arrested in Asheville St. Clair county Alabama.
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Montgomery
Ala
B. MY Miller
Nelson
Georgia
Asheville
St. Clair County
Mussolini Holds Forces as Austria Crisis Looms in Europe
Mussolini arrives in Rome amid signals Italy will avoid immediate action while 75 000 troops near the Austrian frontier stand ready. Britain France and Italy doubt new action is needed as Nazi influence in Austria faces a setback. France warns to defend Austrian independence. Soviet and Berlin reports blame German Nazis and recall Austrian-German border tensions amplify the crisis.
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Rome
Mussolini
Italy
Foreign Office
London
Great Britain
France
Austria
John Simon
House of Commons
Paris
Doumergue
Dollfuss
Barthou
Schuschinigg
Russia
Germany
Moscow
Vienna
Industrialitatia
Commissariat of Heavy Industry
Rieth
Austria names royalist Starhemberg as chancellor after Dollfuss assassination
Vienna reports Prince Ernst Von Starhemberg chosen to lead a Fascist aligned government as Nazis clash with government forces in Stylria. A special military court is set to try those responsible for the chancellery assault while the cabinet pledges to continue Dollfuss's policies and aid his widow and children.
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Wade Werner
Associated Press
Vienna
Italy
Austria
Ernst von Starhember
Heimwehr
Engelbert Dollfuss
Wilhelm Miklas
von Starhemberg
Stylria
Graz
Europe
Yeaterday
Prince von Starhemberg
Dollfuss
Eva
Rudolf
Thad Holt Seeks Immediate Disposal of 40000 Drought Cattle
The state relief administration director Thad Holt asked for the immediate removal of the remaining 40000 head of drought stricken cattle from the Northwest. He said centers must be prepared for a three day quarantine and adequate pasture found before acceptance. Shipping orders have been issued for 5000 head to arrive next week.
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Montgomery
Ala
Northwest
Thad Holt
State Relief Administration
Holt
Assassination Echoes Across a Century of War
The Vienna assassination of Chancellor Dolfugas echoes the 1914 linked break with Serbia. Austria Hungary severed relations and mobilized eight army corps on July 25 1914, with Serbia blamed for fostering the Archduke Franz Ferdinand plot that sparked World War I.
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Dolfugas
Vienna
Austria-Hungary
Serbia
Austria
Franz Ferdinand
Austria -Hungary
Heat and politics aboard the Malo Lo voyage
Aboard the steamship Malo Lo on July 26 the narrator mocks East and Midwest heat reports as California hype. He hints Roosevelt is fishing in Japanese waters to avoid Republican quarrels and any new schemes from his own camp.
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Malolo
East
Middle West
California
Roosevelt
Japan
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