Mayor Walker Subpoenaed in Ewald Case
New York August 11 Mayor Walker was subpoenaed to appear before a grand jury examining charges that George F Ewald a resigned city magistrate paid for his 1928 appointment The DA also asked Walker and George Sivang to answer questions Crain said Walker said he would help but could not be compelled to appear Mrs Bertha Ewald wife of the former magistrate and other officials have been questioned about 10000 paid to Healy allegedly by Mrs Ewald to aid the appointment Hewald quit the bench amid fraud charges in the Cotter mine stock case
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New York
Walker
George F. Ewald
City Imagistrate
Crain
George W. Sivang
Tammany Hall
Ewald
Bertha Ewald
Thomas Tommaney
Martin J. Healey
Healy
Key
Tommaney
Gaal
Convict Heroes Rescue Pair From Hudson Near Sing Sing
Four inmates aboard a rowboat near Sing Sing prison braved guards and the Hudson to rescue a man and his wife from drowning. Irvin Brown Jos Oates Anthony Triano and Mel Weller leaped into the water to aid the couple as the craft filled and sank, leavinginside a riverfront crowd and a saved policeman and his wife.
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Ossining
N. Y
Hudson Tiy
Sing Sing
Irvin Brown
Jos Oates
Anthony Triano
Mol Weller
Eller
Triano
Weller
Tri
Brown Oates
J. D. Roosa
New York Tral Lines
Albert Lit
Tokyo Flyers Forced Down Over Yukon Territory
OKYO FLIERS ORCED DOWN enroute to Tokyo, forced to land in Yukon Territory after fuel-line trouble. Premiers took off at 11:23 a.m. yesterday from To field. the biplane Pacific Era was grounded about 2 p.m. No injuries reported as Wark and Eddie Brown resumed their aerial journey.
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Heouver
B.C
Job Wark
Eddie Brown
Tofield
Drought Toll Eased by Weekend Rain Across Regions
Chicago reports a cooler weekend as showers and breeze cooled cities by 10 to 20 degrees. Only Little Rock and Oklahoma City exceeded 100 degrees, with most stations staying milder and drought damage unlikely to worsen. New York enjoyed its calmest day in ten days.
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Chicago
Weather Bureau
Little Rock
Oklahoma City
Street Cleaning Shakeup Reassigns 100+ in Liquor Probe
In New York on August 11, more than 100 city street cleaning workers were reassigned to new posts amid a shakeup tied to a raid on a garbage barge delivering liquor. Officials say transfers aim to prevent any city employee complicity in liquor landing, despite no evidence of collusion found last week.
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New York
City
Hand
Hquor
Singers Compete for Honor in Friday Audition
Friday August 15 is named by Mrs A S Warder county chairman of the National Radio Audition as the date when nine local candidates will perform at the Iks Club at 7 30 pm to seek selection for the state audition in October. Each singer will present two or three selections while judges hear the entries without revealing identities until after the contest concludes.
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A. S. Warder
Iks
Tey
Tenn Politics To Be Probed By Neal Statement
Chattanooga Tenn Aug 11 4 Dr John R Neal defeated U S Senate candidate says his investigation of the Nye senate committee would place Senator Brock and Governor Horton in an embarrassing position Brock's plan to continue on page two is noted in his formal statement The report hints at political tensions in Tennessee with Neal predicting fallout for the officials involved
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Chattanooga
Tenn
John R. Neal
United States Senate
Nye
W. E. Brock
Henry H. Horton
Neal
Brock
Catholic Church Drives Purify New York Stage
The Catholic church has begun a public opinion drive to clean up New York stage productions denounced as an outrage to decency. Cardinal Hayes backs the effort led by Mgr. Michael J. Lavelle of St. Patrick's Cathedral, aiming to curb objectionable plays noted in Catholic theatre movement bulletins.
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Catholic Church
New York
Michael J. Lavelle
St. Patrick's Cathedral
Cardinal Hayes
Cardinal Haynes
Mgr
America
Catholic Theatre Movement
Warl Carroll
Chief Executive Plans Drought Relief Recommendations
President Hoover studies county reports on drought damage from the states as he crafts relief plans. He aims to form a rehabilitation commission by appointing one representative from each of the twelve states at a White House conference. The data suggest localized distress with no immediate nationwide appeal or emergency congressional session.
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Associated Press
Hoover
White House
Harry G. Leslie
Indiana
William G. Conley
West Virginia
John G. Pollard
Virginia
la Fla
Saninend
Kae
Washington
Virginia Mountain Lodge
Department of Agriculture
Hoovers
Congress
Haymond Wins Nomination After County Recount
Guy D. Haymond won the Republican nomination for the House of Delegates after a county recount, defeating Ray Dillon 888 to 832. The canvass confirmed a six vote margin across 28 precincts, with recounts in Flemington precincts and county-wide disputes over several polling locations. The process drew in Harckey figures and party representatives from both candidates.
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Guy D. Haymond
House of Delegates
Taylor
Mr. Haymond
Ray Dillon
Haymond
Dillon
Tosa
Flemington
Ey. W. Merle Watkins
Psiond
W. P. Samples
Mr. Dillon
Fremington
Booths Creek
Knottsville
Fetterman
Court
Body of Day Informer Found in Memphis Culvert
Memphis officers identified a decomposed body found in a street culvert as 31 year old hotel cashier Clara Patterson who vanished June 16. Deputy Sheriff Garibaldi linked the case to rumored prohibition informer activity and liquor operator conflict, noting matching teeth and appearance.
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Memphis
Tenn
Charles Garibaldi
Clara Patterson
Pizzino Held in Slaying of Jerry Buckley
New York August 11 Pizzino a 24 year old ladies tailor denied in a police lineup that he knew anything about the murder of Gerald Buckley Detroit radio announcer July 23 He was arrested here hours before sailing for Italy Police say he is a gangland trigger man Casual Acquaintance Pizzino said he left Detroit 11 days before the slaying John Hoffman Detroit detective lieutenant brought his arrest back for extradition papers Pizzino is held as a fugitive from Detroit where he is wanted for questioning
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New York
Theodore Pizzino
Gerald Buckley
Detroit
Italy
Pizzino
Buckley
John Hoffman
Five Die In Tennessee Park Fire At Coxs Lake Cottage
Johnson City Tenn August 11 five persons burned to death and two others seriously injured when a six room cottage in Coxs Lake amusement park burned. Victims include Mrs Hugh Witt 25 and her children Hugh Lee Witt Jr 2 Mariel Witt 3 Iva Witt 16 and Paul Reeder 25 a park employee. Hugh Lee Witt 26 and his father Charles 50 were hospitalized in serious condition. Charles Witt had concessions at the park and Hugh Lee Witt ran fireworks shows. Fireworks storage raging unknown as police probe cause. The victims were in their beds when flames spread through the cottage.
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Johnson City
Tenn
Hugh Witt
Hugh Lee Witt, Jr
Mariel Witt
Iva Witt
Paul Reeder
Hugh Lee Witt
Charles
Charles Witt
Coxs Lake
Child Prodigy Now Grown Up Poetess Nathalia Crane
Nathalia Crane, aged 17, discarded her child prodigy label and becomes a grown up poetess. She lives in Brooklyn and has four books of Verse and two novels in print. Her seventh book will feature a poem about the capture of the Atlantic coast by a Red army and its defeat by eight poets, to be published in the fall.
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New York
Nathalia Crane
Nathalia
Miss Crane
Brooklyn
Atlantic
United States
Gil Blames Morones for Obregon Assassination
Emilio Portes Gil charged Luis Morones with partial responsibility for the murder of General Alvaro Obregon. Gil cited Morones speeches at a Hidalgo theater rally and other labor leaders as having fostered an atmosphere that aided the assassin, Jose De Leon Toral, before Obregon’s death.
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Jose de Leon Toral
Mexico City
Pascual Ortiz Rubio
Luis Morones
Mexico
United Ed
Morones
Alvaro Obregon
Hidalgo
Emilio Portes Gil
Jose DeLeon Toral
Portes Gil
Airplane bombs coal mining area in Providence Kentucky
An orange colored monoplane dropped nine bombs into Providence area at about 2 000 feet. Two bombs exploded near the Meador Holt Young mine. another near the Ruckman mine entrance. The craft circled the town causing dust columns but no injuries or property damage were reported.
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Providence
Illinois
Clay City
Here
Ruckman
Meador, Young and Holt
Diamond Mine Company
Meador, Holt and Young Co
St Louis ship nears record for endurance flight
In St Louis on August 11 Dale Jackson and Forest O Brien in the endurance refueling aircraft pushed toward a new world record. In their fourth week aloft they had logged 504 hours by 7 11 a m and hoped to surpass the 564 hours set by the Hunter brothers in Chicago if still airborne Wednesday. Oil pressure slight but corrected with heavier lubricant supply from refuelers Brewster and Chaffee as crews faced cold weather and a delayed finish.
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St. Louis
Dale Jackson
Forest
Jackson
O'Brie
Hunter Brothers
Chicago
Notice of Legion Auxiliary meeting and St Charles fete
American Legion Auxiliary will not hold a regular meeting on August 13 due to the president Mrs W F Six's mother death. A lawn fete at First Brethren Church on St Charles street tomorrow evening offers ice cream cake pies for sale with attractions for youth including a cake walk and guess pie and cake games.
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American Legion Auxiliary
W. F. Six. Tol
First Brethren
St. Charles Street
Smith Spectre in Primaries Day Law Issue
Washington Aug. 11 The shadow of Alfred E. Smith, Democratic candidate, looms over three of four state primaries Tuesday in Alabama Arkansas and Nebraska with prohibition and other issues shaping votes. Heflin faces re election as an Independent and Bankhead and Thorne are leading Alabama contenders. Nebraska sees Norris challenged as farm relief tariff and prohibition loom large. Continued on Page Three.
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Washington
Didate
Alabama
Arkansas
Nebraska
Ate
Thomas
Heflin
Dem
John H. Bankhead
Per
Frederick I
Mobile
Norris
George W. Norris
Port Smith
Stebbin
Katie
Abraska
British R-100 Skirts Toronto City Center Flight
The British dirigible R-100 passed over Toronto Ont today after a lap over Lake Ontario in a northwestern arc. It skimmed the Indian Bank of Commerce building and then moved toward city hall as spectators gathered in the plaza.
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Toronto
Ont
Lake Ontario
Indian Bank of Commerce
View Eclipse of Sun October 12 Observers Sail
Honolulu reports noted scientists will view the total solar eclipse October 22 in the Tong a Archipelago. An expedition of American educational institutions and observatories left Sanik July 21 and will reach Tutuila Sa noa by August 29. Dr Thomas A Jagger Jr of the Kilauea observatory Hawaii will study volcanism and selfre conditions near Nie fou inland for eclipse observations.
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Honolulu
Tonga
Favy
United States
Sanic
Tutuila
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Mark
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