Strato Hop Flight Delayed To Saturday At Earliest
Rapid City reports the stratosphere test flight with a three million cubic foot hydrogen balloon awaiting favorable weather. Maj William Kepner announces a Saturday takeoff at Moonlight Valley if conditions improve. Capt Orvil Anderson and Lieut J F Phillips lead follow planes with National Geographic Society and Army Air Corps support.
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Rapid City
National Geographic Society
Army For Corps
Moonlight Valley
Here
William Kepner
Orvil Anderson
Gondula
Kepner
William Stevens
J. F. Phillips
Wright Field
Dayton
Ohio
Earth
Stevens
William Beebe
Nonsuch Island
Bermuda
D. B. Foulois
Air Corps
Charles Rosendahl
Johnson urged to resign NRA in favor of industrial board
Harvey C. Couch RFC director urged Hugh Johnson to step out of the National Recovery Administration and hand duties to a central industrial board. Couch said the NRA has aided recovery despite problems and that industries would welcome a centralized board to handle ongoing difficulties. Couch departs tonight for a western official RFC inspection.
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Johnson
NRA
Little Ep Ark
Hugh Johnson
Harvey C. Couch
RFC
Couch
Doug
Industries
West
St Louis Finance Group Abandoned After Eight Months
St Louis Finance Co. seals its doors after eight months of operation. Officers cite a federal requirement forcing borrowers to subscribe to stock as the main obstacle to continuing refinancing aid programs with the RFC.
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St. Louis Finance Group
Louis, Juy
St Louis Finance Co
RFC
Italians to Begin Stratosphere Plane Competition
Rome July 12 The Ministry of Air announced a world first competition among Italian manufacturers to build stratosphere planes and motors. A special stratospheric commission was appointed to oversee the project.
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Rome
Ministry of Air
Weather for Huron and Vicinity Unsettled Change
Unsettled conditions persist in Huron and nearby areas with little temperature change expected tonight and Friday. South Dakota forecast shows unsettled weather locally with no significant temperature shift.
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Huron
Dakota
Huron Slot Machines Empire Tied to Sioux Falls Probe
In Sioux Falls municipal court testimony three rival operators described a vast slot machine empire allegedly run from a central head, W G Fairbanks, with operations across seven states. They cited $500,000 spent on machines in three to four years and a 50 50 split with storekeepers, with Huron mentioned as hosting about 100 machines.
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North
John Doe
South Dakota
Wyoming
Montana
Nebraska
Minnesota
Iowa
Vern Marshall
Hay Thraen
Robert L. Kennedy
W. G. Fairbanks
Fairbanks
Louis N. Crill
Thraen
Kennedy
Tom Kirby
Atorney
Kirby
Marshall
Huron
Chicago
Sioux Falls
Ransom L. Gibbs
AAA Runs Night Shift On Farm Contracts
Washington July 12 The AAA uses a night shift of clerks to track contracts between Uncle Sam and farmers. Field staff report white collar workers entering Pennsylvania Avenue restaurants at 3 30 a m for lunch as workload drives acreage reduction pacts and benefit payments to farmers.
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AAA
Washington
Uncle Sam
Pennsylvania Avenue
Huron Receives 22 Of Inch Rain
Beadle county reports .22 inch of rain in Huron adding to 1.03 inches already this month. The total for the month reaches 1.25 inches as moisture aids corn and forage crops and pastures. County commissioners say conditions are generally fair across Beadle county despite topsoil blowing in the northeast.
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Huron
Beadle County
County Commission
Court House
Arthur Miller
Boala
W. M. Davis
Yale
Frank Matzke
Virgil
Headway In Move To Stave Off New Truck Strike
In Minneapolis on July 12 union leaders set a midnight Monday strike start but today progress emerged as market firms reportedly consider a 40 cent per hour minimum pay rate for all union workers. Twenty two firms in the city market district are involved as drivers prepare to negotiate. In St Paul union president Robert Fleming said an employer communication would be read at tonight's meeting where the strike question will be voted on.
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Minneapolis
St Paul
Robert Fleming
Predicts End Of Hitler Regime
New Yorker Earle Lustra predicts Hitler will be ousted soon citing Nazi press control cracking and growing German critical mood. Sightings from London note rising doubt among non Nazis about Hitlerism as Berlin awaits his Reichstag speech on the June purge.
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New York
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Untister Lustra
Pennsylvania
Earle
U. S
Manhattan
London
Austria
Berlin
Hitler
Reichstag
Atte
Tesla declares force ray to destroy armies at distance
New York reports Dr. Nikola Tesla unveils a force ray claimed to erase an army from 10 miles away and breach defenses. He offers the invention to the Geneva disarmament conference on his 78th birthday. Tesla cites 50 million volt particles and curtains miles long as the ray’s power.
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New York
Nikola Tesla
Ppace
Tesla
Smallest SD crop forecast by C J Borum amid drought
Drought dust storms and heat push South Dakota toward the smallest state crop in decades, says C J Borum agricultural statistician. Corn on July 1 at 53 percent of normal with 43 401 000 bushels projected. oats 668 000 acres harvested. barley and spring wheat also at low yields.
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Brookings
South Dakota
C. J. Borum
State College
Power players behind Nazi rise linked to Thyssen and Papen
Washington reports reveal industrial blocs shaping Nazi ascent. Thyssen-Fück-Volger group backed Hitler early, invited him to Düsseldorf in 1924 and 1932, funding campaigns. Von Papen named vice chancellor. analysts note Thyssen aims for a vast Germanic empire spanning Europe while Hindenburg grows weak.
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Thyssen
Ruher
Otto-Wolff-Deutsche Bank
Thyssen-Fuick-Volger
Thyssen-Fuck- -Volger
Hitler
Dusseldorf
Mr. Thyssen
Lapland
Bulgaria
Belgium
Ukraine
Licomore
Lorraine
Holland
Europe
Balkans
Two Dollars For An 1804 Silver Dollar
A worn Kentucky mountaineer traded his old coin for $2 at the Cincinnati office of coin collector Thomas G. Melish. The man was misled by the sign United Bank Building and vanished after the exchange. Melish later examined the coin and identified it as a rare 1804 silver dollar one of only thirteen known. The last such coin sold for $2,500.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
United Bank Building
Thomas G. Melish
Cain
Melish
Laney On Trial For Gun Affray In Artesian
J W Laney of Artesian faces a trial in the fourth judicial court for assault with intent to kill after firing five shots at cattle buyer R F Looby in Artesian. Seventeen jurors were questioned. the case follows an out of court alienation suit Laney filed against Looby over his wife. Attorneys include Fred D Shandorf and J J Harrington. state prosecutors are F D Richards and Ray F Dreyry. Judge R C Bakewell presides.
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Woonsocket
S. D
J. W. Laney
Artesian
Laney
R. FP
Looby
Huron
Nebraska
Mitchell
Artesian Main Street
Fred D. Shandorf
J. J. Harrington
O'Neal Neb
Sanborn County
Ray F. Dreyry
R. C. Bakewell
Pilots Examined At Huron Airport Licenses Granted
Lester Orcutt federal aviation inspector examined three pilots seeking licenses or renewals at Huron airport. L Kentrike of Aberdeen received a limited commercial license while George Moore of Wessington Springs and Fred Hight of Belle Fourche renewed transport and limited commercial licenses. Orcutt discussed a new 100 by 90 foot hangar at Fearon Airport with W L Weir and Clyde K Smith.
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Lester Orcutt
Federal Aviation Inspector
Huron
L. Kentrike
Aberdeen
George Moore
Wessington Springs
Fred Hight
Belle Fourche
Fierre
Mr. Orcutt
W. L. Weir
Clyde K. Smith
Fearon Airport
Beadle County Urges Russian Thistle Feed Push
Beadle County and the South Dakota Committee for Safer Farming urge farmers to harvest Russian thistles for livestock feed this fall and winter. Dr. C S Betts cites government and farm experiments showing high protein content and balanced nutrition when cut before spines form, with silage and mixed roughage strategies discussed by James W Wilson and local growers.
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C. S. Betts
Beadle
Betts
Committee For
Beadle County
South Dakota
Brookings
Wilson
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