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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1933
Page
10
Amusements notice previews Barbara Stanwyck in Baby Face at the Huron theater starting tomorrow. The film follows Lily, a ruthless gold digger who climbs from admirer to bank president George Brent as she pursues her desires amid scandal and a large supporting cast.
Sinnett, famed mentalist, makes his final appearance tonight in Huron with a closing engagement at the Capitol theatre after a run at the Evening Huronite run theatre. The program also lists other acts including Her Bodyguard and Fighting for Justice as part of the schedule for the week.
Chicago to debut new Saturday night program on WJZ NBC with hour of variety led by Don McNeill. Nevada’s senators Key Pittman and Pat McCarren to discuss world economic conference and NBA on NBC stations. Listings include programs on WEAF NBC WABC CBS and WIZ NBC with contests tennis and drama.
A partial forecast for South Dakota Iowa Minnesota notes unsettled tonight and Saturday with possible showers in western areas and warmer conditions eastward. Iowa looks fair to partly cloudy with warmer trends Saturday, especially northwest and north-central portions. Minnesota predicts partly cloudy conditions with possible showers in the northwest, warmer overall, and exceptions in extreme northeast and extreme southeast.
Brookings and Mitchell report mild temperatures with clear roads. Pierre and Aberdeen show high readings with no precipitation and good driving conditions. Sioux Falls, Yankton, Huron, Rapid City, Watertown list clear, while errors in numbers appear in Rapid City and Aberdeen entries. Visitors Mr and Mrs Longstaff of Chicago are noted staying with relatives in California Avenue area.
Aug 18 report from St Louis notes last minute drives to secure a dry vote as Missouri expects to join 22 states repealing prohibition. Sample ballots were widely distributed and leaders led by Governor Guy B Parker expressed confidence in victory. The piece also recalls a stark WWI era death toll comparison from the Spanish-American War.
City briefs list Mr and Mrs Carl Walker and relatives from Washington DC and Pierre visiting Haron at the Crow home. Others, including Schulze, Steuerwalds, Salbert, Habicht, Aldred, Duncan and family, and McDermott clan, travel to Milwaukee Chicago Des Moines and Sioux Falls for visits and vacations.
In Manila on August 18 Manuel Quezon’s majority group in the legislature endorsed a plebiscite plan for independence. The vote, aimed for October before session end, faces questions of cost and legality, with the secretary of justice to rule on legality.
Redfield Aug 18 Special Hellio Botts relief mail carrier sustained internal injuries while delivering mail for Hula Hancock. Driving on Cottonwood lake road an arm on the steering apparatus broke, the car left the road into a ditch and overturned, badly damaging the vehicle.
Mark H. Shank an Akron Ohio attorney charged with fatally poisoning four members of a family says his confessed guilt claim was made under duress. He is jailed in Arkansas after Benton County arraignment as his partner and others prepare a temporary insanity defense. The victims were Alvin Colley his wife and two young sons.
Aberdeen August 18 Charges of obtaining property under false pretenses were filed against Milton Frantz leader of a walkout last Monday at K O Lee and Son machine shops Brown County Leader George Pfeiffle said Frantz had earned a “reasonable” salary at the automotive equipment manufacturing firm while receiving groceries from county aid. Twelve workers struck for a living wage as plant manager C C Lee said current pay ranged from 35 to 56 cents per hour during the strike. The plant, closed since the strike began, will reopen Monday Lee said.
Mabel Bell de Parceri, known as The Queen of Dia, is reported in Paris on August 18 as having divorced. The story notes her high profile status and ongoing social influence in the capital.
The Countess de Pareerist and Count Henri de Pareerist of New York were divorced today. They wed in Paris on April 16, 1931. She had made several European flights with Charles Levine, the American aviation pioneer.
Gandhi, in Yeroda jail, enters the third day of his fast until death over civil disobedience. The government says it would release him if he abandons the campaign. Reports say he is weakening and staying in bed during the one‑year sentence.
New York August 18 Grover A Whalen NEA mediator said after an all night conference a tentative basis for settlement of the 60000 garment workers strike was reached It provides for a three hour week and night of collective bargaining but no wage scale accord was announced yet The meeting ran through the night and workers remained hopeful the dispute would be resolved by tonight
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