Texas twister kills 17 injures scores across Gulf region
Seventeen dead and at least 56 injured as a tropical storm swept southwest through South Texas. Widespread damage estimated in the thousands, centered near Houston with many rural roads washed out. Galveston affected but sea wall offered protection. Fort Crockett and surrounding areas reported damage amid disrupted communications.
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Houston
Texas
Taylor
Galveston
Freeport
Weather Bureau
Dallas
Fort Crockett
Army Post
Angleton
Gulf of Mexico
West Columbia
Henry Suxss
Valley Stream Women Seek Endurance Flight Record
Frances Marsalis and Louise Phaden attempted to extend the women's air endurance record of 122 hours. After a prior break at 17 hours due to wing damage from a breakfast bucket, they resumed at 1 p.m. and reached 20 hours by breakfast time, continuing their flight in a refueling setup.
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Valley Stream
Les Frances Marsalis
S. Louise Phaden
Hitler Calls Advisers To Decide Course In Germany
Berlin August 15 Political maneuvering over the next government stalled after President von Hindenburg refused to invest Hitler with power. Hitler left Berlin for Munich and will convene with Nazi leaders and other party chiefs in Berlin to map a coalition plan possibly forming a 354 vote majority with Centrists and Nazis.
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Berlin
Germany
Paul von Hindenburg
Adolf Hitler
Hitler
Munich
Lokal Anzeiger
von Hindenburg
Franz von Hindenburg
Franz von Papen
von Papen
Reichstag
Ajac
Lancaster and comrade defend Lancaster in murder trial
Miami reports evidence wrapped around Captain W N Lancaster accused of killing Haden Clarke as Mrs Ida Clyde Clarke prepares to defend her son’s memory. Testimony from Joseph Ince, former flying comrade, challenges the notion Lancaster threatened Clarke. Defense questions a remark about hundreds of dead men.
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Miami
Fla
W. N. Lancaster
Haden Clarke
J. M
Keith Miller
Joseph Ince
Detroit
Lancaster
Clarke
Capt. Lancaster
M. Carson
Ince
Lane
el Paso
Texas
M. G. Tancrel
Tancrel
Alies Gistier
Eahearltess "Maée
First Witness Subpoenaed By Roosevelt in City Hall Probe
Albany August 15 Walter R Herrick park commissioner and friend of Mayor Walker testified before the Hofstadter committee and at the ouster hearing he said he did not know for whom he bought 300 shares of stock. He bought Inter-Urban Trust Company stock believing it was for Walker and it later appeared as collateral for a loan to J A Smith of the Equitable Bus Company seeking a NYC franchise. The mayor denied authorizing the purchase and urged Roosevelt to call Mrs Walker and Edwards Stanton to corroborate. Seabury and the investigators pursued Walker’s possible profit from the Equitable bus franchise.
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Albany
N. Y
Walter R. Herrick
New York City
Walker
Hoffstadter Committee
Roosevelt
Hofstadter Committee
James J. Walker
Herrick
Hofstadter
Inter-Urban Trust Company
J. A. Smith
New York
Equitable Bus Company
Seabury
Pehe Equitablé Bus
Hoover Sets August 26 Conference on Economic Front
President Hoover announced a national conference for August 26 involving business and industrial committees from the twelve Federal Reserve districts. The aim is to organize a concerted program of action across the economy with special committees to tackle agriculture labor railways and other industries and to coordinate private and governmental efforts for expansion of credit employment and infrastructure.
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Washington
Hoover
White House
Federal Reserve
Blue shirt army marches to Jobless-Liberty convention
Five hundred strong the blue shirt army led by Rev. James R. Cox travels from Reynoldsville through Ohio toward St. Louis to attend the Jobless-Liberty convention. The motorcade includes about 200 vehicles and carries men women children and supplies. No panhandling is the marching order and Cox enforces discipline.
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Columbus
James R. Cox
Pittsburgh
Reynoldsville
Here
Ohio
Rebels repelled as federal troops hold Taboados port
Rio de Janeiro reports eleven rebels killed in a battle on the Sao Paulo front. The rebels failed to retake the Parana river port of Taboado, which federals occupied the day before, according to an official statement.
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Rio de Janeiro
Sao Paulo
Parana River
Solons Back on Job After Week of Rest
Charleston Aug 15 The state legislature resumes after a week of rest as the fifth week of the special session opens. Leaders seek to resolve budget balancing and relief measures while awaiting vetoes Conley says are outside his call. Possibilities of another extraordinary session loom if governors action prompts a petition by three-fifths of each house. Conley vetoed three joint economy bills and demands revisions to fit his proclamation.
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Charleston
Cenley
Conley
Joint Economy Committee
Senate
House of Delegates
Escape Plan Confession Ends With Recapture At Prison
Pittsburgh August 15. Dick Spangler of Greenville Pennsylvania boasted to 75 inmates about a Western Penitentiary escape plan. Deputy Warden Dorahue halted the plot as Spangler attempted to flee. Spangler had escaped in 1919 and was recaptured two hours later.
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Pittsburgh
Dick Spangler
Greenville
Western Penitentiary
Owen Dorahue
Spangler
Judge Warren B. Kittle Dies After Operation in Philippi
Judge Warren B. Kittle 59 of Barbour Randolph circuit died at Myers clinic Philippi at 4 am after a noon Saturday operation for gastric ulcer removal. He had undergone two prior operations since August 2. Nine blood transfusions were given. Services planned at his Wilson street home with Philipp lodge Odd Fellows and Rev. Chapman. Burial in Fraternity cemetery.
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Warren B. Kittle
Barbour-Taylor
Myers Clinic
Philippi
Wilson Street
Philipp Lodge of Odd Fellows
Mr. Chapman
Methodist Episcopal Church
C. O. Phillips
Fraternity Cemetery
Judge Kittle
Grafton
Bar
Pour
Ranooliph
William Glasscock
Belington
Barbour
George Monroe
Charity Ellen Poling Kittle
Kittle
West Virginia University
Barbour County
Glasscock
Barbour-Randolph
Miss Hazel M Robinson Death After Sudden Brain Infection
Miss Hazel Mary Robinson 26 of 44 West St Charles died in City Hospital at 10:15 am from a brain infection due to an inner ear condition suffered for weeks. She served as secretary to Chief Clerk C Luther Ford of the Monongah Division B&O offices. Funeral at 44 West St Wednesday 2:30 pm, Rev Herod and Rev Boone officiating. burial Bluemont. Born Oct 20 1905 at home, daughter of Joseph S and Harriett Henderson Robinson. educated in Central and Grafton High Schools, class of 1929, Mountain State Business College in Park.
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Hazel Mary Robinson
West St. Charles Street
City Hospital
C. Luther Ford
Monongah
Dorsey C. Peck
Hanes
Clarksburg
Miss Robinson
F. C. Herod
First Baptist Church
French Boone
St. Paul's Methodist, Episcopal Church
Bartlett Funeral, Company
Bluemont
Joseph 9
Harriett Henderson Robinson
Central
Grafton
Mountain State Business College
Park
Allied Forces Pledges Support for Hoover Reelection
The Allied Forces, a prohibitionist group, announced through Dr. Daniel A. Poling that it will back President Hoover. In a poll of national executive committeemen and supporters, 467 of 205 voted to back Hoover after his Republican nomination speech.
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Washington
Allied Forces
Daniel A. Poling
Hoover
Poling
Prohibition
Democratic drive to be opened Sept 1 formally
New York Aug 15 Democratic National Chairman James A Farley announced the campaign kick off would occur after September 1 with Roosevelt delivering two speeches this month. Roosevelt will start his formal address for the presidency in Columbus Ohio on August 21 and speak in Sea Girt New Jersey a week later.
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New York
James A. Farley
Roosevelt
Columbus
Sea Girt
N. J
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Des Moines
Iowa
Women’s Christian Temperance Union
Mra
Ella A. Boole
Father Cox
St. Louis
Missouri
Solons
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