South Dakota State Fair Forecasts Big Turnout and Prizes
The State Fair board targets 200000 visitors for the 54th annual fair September 11 to 16. Premiums total 142000 with 9200 in other prizes, while a six day program of attractions and top dirt track racing promises high interest. Prominent pilots and Gus Searander headline races sanctioned by the International Motor Contest Association.
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Internatunal Motor Contest Association
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Showers Bring Cooler Weather and Rain in Huron Area
Rainfall spotted over Huron area with cooler air forecast. Reports from Lake Preston to Castlewood note light showers up to a quarter inch, aiding fall forage though not rescuing droughted corn. State weather bureau extends partly cloudy skies with chances of thundershowers then cooler conditions into Wednesday.
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Advance Showing Of State Fair In Huronite
The Evening Huronite previews the 1938 South Dakota State Fair, described as the most elaborate in years. The six day event opens Sunday September 1 with numerous exhibits and abundant bargains, plus a special section summarizing attractions and offerings for visitors.
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No Purge Here Howes Assures No Purge Here
A First Assistant Postmaster General W. W. Howes assured South Dakota Young Democrats there will be no purge this year as he endorsed the party ticket at a state convention banquet. He touched on a possible third term for President Roosevelt and supported the Democratic program, while local leaders urged loyalty to FDR.
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Spans Continent In Just Over 10 Hours
LOS ANGELES Aug 30 Alexander P De Seversky predicts the air record of 10 hours 3 minutes 7 seconds from New York to Los Angeles will be broken soon by an army pursuit plane. He notes the monoplane ferried here for Jacqueline Cochran to fly in the Bendix dash can cruise 3000 miles without refueling and its wing to wing tanks hold military significance.
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Alexander P. de Seversky
New York
Jacqueline Cochran
South Carolina Vote Seen Hanging On Georgia Maryland
The Roosevelt campaign tests liberal aims in Democratic primaries across the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. South Carolina backs Gov Olin Johnston over Sen Ellison Smith, while Sen McAdoo seeks renomination with presidential endorsement only for him. The race affects Georgia Maryland contests as Roosevelts center aims to influence key senators.
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Pacific
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California
McAdoo
Sheridan Downey
John W. Preston
James W. Mellen
Cross Voting Easy In Most States
Washington reports a survey showing about half the states have workable cross voting safeguards in primaries. Ten states have no restrictions. others allow cross party voting with loopholes. Roosevelt condemns such tactics as political immorality, amid Idaho’s mixed ballot system and varied registration rules across states.
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FDR Backed McAdoo and Johnston in Primary Picks
President Roosevelt endorses Senator William G. McAdoo in California and Governor Olin D. Johnston in South Carolina. He favors Johnston over Ellison D. Smith in South Carolina and signals support for McAdoo nationally as voters cast today’s primaries.
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South Carolina
Woman Stops Car To Save Child In Train Intersection
In Waybay August 2007 Edith Swenson 26 of Claremont stalled her car on railroad tracks to avoid a child that crossed Main Street. An east bound Olympian train pushed the vehicle about 500 feet before stopping. No one was hurt. The child’s identity was Beverly Tesch.
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Claremont
Edith Swenson
Beverly Tesch
Southern California Endures Storms and Heat Wave
Los Angeles reports cloudbursts minor floods and lightning sparked brush fires across the region on the third day of a heat wave. One death is attributed indirectly to the storms as temperatures reach 104 in Los Angeles 106 in San Bernardino and 108 in Indio and Brawley.
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Brawley
Real Crisis In Europe Stirs State Department
President Roosevelt and Secretary Hull discut European crisis as tensions between Germany and Czechoslovakia rise. Hull, briefed by European division, cautions crisis may peak around Nazi rally in Nuremberg. Hull resists vacation, while FDR plans Maryland trip and Labor Day speech opposing Senator Tydings.
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T. Alan Goldsborough
Registration Opens For New School Year In 1938 39
Registration for the four upper grades for the 1938 39 term begins Thursday announced by A J Lang city superintendent of schools. Seniors register Thursday 8 30 am to noon at the senior high school and may obtain books and pay dues. Juniors register Friday 8 30 am to noon, sophomores Saturday same hours. Ninth graders register Thursday Friday or Saturday with fees and books. Eighth graders register Tuesday morning Sept 8. Those registering will not attend until noon Tuesday when classes start with shortened periods.
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Elty
G. G. Bell
Harrison Seeks Budget Cuts Against Excess Spending
Senator Pat Harrison, Mississippi Democrat and Senate Finance Committee chair, voiced independence from the administration on fiscal policy. Speaking at the state Democratic committee ratification event, he praised the President as a humanitarian leader but urged an end to excess spending and pledged to pursue reduced government expenses in the next Congress.
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Mississippi
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Cabinets Of Two Nations Act To Avert War Crisis
In Belgrade and Berlin urgent steps are taken as Britain France and Germany move to prevent a wider war over Czechoslovakia. Czechoslovakia faces Sudeten German demands while police guard Sudeten areas. Germany and France mobilize defenses and inspect borders as tensions rise with Spain and China quiet.
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Europe
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Spain
Testimony Links Officer to Schultz Bank Raid in Hines Trial
New York policeman Raymond B. Stil ley testified that he raided a Schultz controlled policy bank while in Chief Inspector John J. O’Brien’s squad and was later demoted losing 240 a year. Hines defense argues witnesses may have mistaken Larry Carney for Hines during a 1935 visit by Schultz syndicate figures.
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Tammany
James J. Hines
Hines
Hxer
Schulz
Raymond B. Stilley
Ieneetor
John J. O'Brien
George Weinberg
Schultz Racket Combine
Connecticut
Schultz
Larry Carney
Broadway
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Carney
Dudley Brothwell
Fairfield
Schult
Flesh Peeled Off Man's Arm In Wreck
YANKTON Aug 30 A Sioux Falls traveling salesman Calvin Bender suffered severe injury to his left arm in a car crash about 25 miles north of Yankton on U S highway 81 last night. He rode with left arm out of the window and the car overturned. Doctors fear infection may endanger the arm. In India a mountain dam burst near Lucknow causing floods with 30 dead and scores missing.
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A4lvin Bender
Sioux Falls
Bender
George E. Johnson
Lucknow
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Himalaya
Jscoxes
Highway bids opened on 22 projects costing 680000
South Dakota highway commission opened bids in Pierre on 22 road construction projects estimated to cost about 680000. Some contracts likely awarded today or tomorrow. Projects include 100 miles of pavement on U S 77 north of Beresford and oil surfacing in Brookings Edmunds Yankton and Spink counties.
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