Brewster Tried to "Duck" Vote, Witness Tell Probers
RFC attorney Thomas Corcoran and official Gruening testified before the House rules committee about Ralph Brewster of Maine planning to stay at his hotel and skip the vote on abolishing certain holding companies. Gruening recounted a telephoned warning and Brewster's alleged shift from support to hesitation, amid pressure over the Passamaquoddy project and Roosevelt’s holding company policy.
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Interior Department
House Rules Committee
Representative Bresster
House
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Brewster
Thomas Corcoran
RFC
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Corcoran
Passamaquod Maine
Roosevelt
Ralph Brewster
Unis Bill
Corcorantitled Brewster
Ickes and Tydings Clash Over Virgin Islands Probe
Washington letters and testimony inflame the fight as Secretary Ickes and Senator Tydings trade sharp charges over the Virgin Islands investigation. Accusations of whitewashing and publicity fuel the dispute as cross examinations near, with figures like Judge Webber Wilson and Paul C. Yates named in sharp exchanges.
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Ickes
Tydings
Virgin
Ickes Erbal
Webber Wilson
The
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Fae Wilson
Paul C. Yates
Paul M. Pearson
Advertising value relys on scientific data from expert study
Advertising doubles the number of people familiar with a brand and triples those who try it while quintupling the number of users. The figures are averages from a band paper study by Charles C. Stech, research expert in advertising. The continued discussion appears on page 5.
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Howard W. Blakeslee
Associated Pres
New York
Charles C. Stech
Fred Wilson Named Mayor of Fairmont After Deadlock
Fred T. Wilson, Republican, was selected to be Fairmont mayor after a nine day stalemate among four directors who also serve as street, water and finance commissioners. The group decided roles themselves under charter rules.
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Fred Wilson
Fairmont
Fed T. Wilson
A. C. West
Poling Proposed For Recovery Administrator
Charleston July 11 Former Barbour County prosecuting attorney B Poling is proposed for director of the new national recovery administration unit in West Virginia He was legal adviser to Director FP Witcher Mc Cullough under the old NRA.
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Forrest
B. Poling
Barbour County
National Recovery Administration
West Virginia
Witcher McCullough
NRA
Grandmother Under Arrest In Slaying Case
Mrs Blanche Dunkel a 43 year old grandmother is under police guard in her hospital room amid allegations she loved her son in law Ervin Lang the swamp slaying victim Langs legless torso was found in a Hammond Indiana swamp Miss Josephine McKinley 21 Langs fiancee told police the mother in law had trailed and threatened him police plan further questioning
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Chicago
Blanche Dunkel
Ervin Lang
Hammond, Ind
Neely Holt Respond To Kump Noncandidate Revelation
Washington reports Senator Neely and Senator Holt react to Governor Kump declaring he will not seek a West Virginia Supreme Court seat. Neely says he is not surprised, Holt declines further comment while noting past friction over state plans and future nominations.
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Washington
Neely
W. Va
Kump
West Virginia Supreme Court
U. S
Holt
MOUNDSVILLE PRISON BREAK IS PUT DOWN
Moundsville July 11 Three guards were sent to a hospital after quelling an attempted escape at the state penitentiary Officials said six men were placed in solitary confinement Names of guards prisoners and full details were not immediately available There was no general disturbance among the 2000 inmates and the outbreak appeared contained pending further investigation The 70 year old institution was built for about 850 prisoners and has been cramped for years More than 2000 prisoners were confined inside the walls after the flareup
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Moundsville
Close Friends Attend Last Rites for Ray Long
Beverly Hills California July 11 final rites will be held for Ray Long 57 once brilliant magazine editor and newspaper man who ended his life Rupert Hughes noted novelist and close friend will officiate Cremation will follow and ashes placed in a vault Long shot himself in his home Tuesday night He was believed to have been discouraged over declining health and business affairs The widow and a son Ray Long Jr survive
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Beverly Hills
Calif
Ray Long
Rupert Hughes
Long
Non-Explosive Solid May Replace Gasoline
New York engineers demonstrated a solid jellylike gasoline named spine that would not explode or burn under a Bunsen flame. Invented by Dr. Adolph Jrussin after 16 years of work, it powered a single cylinder engine at the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aeronautics and withstood tracer bullets without igniting.
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New York
Adolph Jrussin
Daniel Guggenheim School of Aeronautics
Earthquake and Fires Kill Twenty Four in Shizuoka District
A severe quake in the Shizuoka region of Japan killed 24 people and wounded 58, with 47 buildings destroyed and fires suppressed. Shizuoka city and Shimizu bore the heaviest damage, while Hamamatsu felt the quake with minor impacts. Telephones and power lines were disrupted as officials feared more casualties.
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Shizuoka
Japan
America
Shizuoka City
Here
Shimizu
Hamamatsu
Red Cross
Nagoya
Oi River
Deaf man foils armed robber with pencil aid in McMinnville
In McMinnville Oregon on July 11 a 70 year old deaf man Richard V Waldo faced a would be robber who demanded money. Waldo offered paper and pencil and moved on. The assailant chased him under an arc light and flashed a gun but fled after discovering Waldo was penniless.
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McMinnvile
Ore
Richard V. Waldo
Waldo
Bad Ten Dollar Bills Passed In Morgantown Stores
Banking officials in Morgantown warned residents after nine counterfeit ten dollar notes were passed in a week. The fake bills were said to imitate 1928 Federal Reserve notes issued by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City.
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Morgantown
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
Sky Will So On Naval Building Faces World Powers
Washington notes bold talk over battleship construction and rising navy budgets as London and Washington naval treaties near expiry on December 31 1936. Secretary Swanson denies any plan to start a naval arms race while the navy routes for fiscal year ahead outline 12 destroyers and six submarines under the Vinson act toward a treaty navy by 1942.
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Washington
United States
Japan
London
Swanson
Navy Department
Liquor Board Holds Firm Over Ouster of Clarksb’g Manager
Charleston July 11 The liquor commission received 12 telegrams protesting the removal of E V Connell as Clarksburg store manager and Chairman D H Stephenson offered a hearing Stephenson said firing men who can't do their work may wreck the party and noted reports to central office were unsatisfactory The item continues on page six.
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Charleston
The
Liquor Commission Today
E. V. Connell
Clarksburg
D. H. Stephenson
Connell
Democratic Party
Stephenson
Hauptmann Sees Release Soon Amid Court Move
In Trenton New Jersey Bruno Richard Hauptmann told his wife Anna he felt sure he would be home soon. The state filed its final answer to the court of errors and appeals omitting new theories on the Lindbergh baby death and will stand on the case submitted June 20.
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Trenton
N. J
Bruio
Richard Hauptmann
Anna
Middle West Heat Wave Claims 35 Lives
Kansas City and across the middle west endure a brutal heat wave with 35 deaths reported. Federal meteorologist Andrew Mamrick said temperatures top 100 before noon, with 103 in Kansas City the day before. Phillipsburg Kansas recorded 114 degrees as Eldorado 102, Tulsa 103, Beaver 108, Grand Island 108, Lincoln 103.
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Middle West
Andrew Mamrick
Phillipsburg
Kas
Wheat Belt
Eldorado
Smith Center
Tulsa
Okla
Beaver
Grand Island
Neb
Lincoln
HOLC Official Found Dead in Detroit Mystery
Detroit police probe the death of Gorge T. Jarvis 45 assistant manager of the Detroit HOLC office found on Dubois Street. Robbery reported with watch and billfold missing but no violence evident. Post mortem examination pending.
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Detroit
Gorge T. Jarvis
Home Owners Loan Corporation
Dubois Street
Jarvis
Paris Nude Dancer Joan Warner Defended by Testifying Crowd
Aviators painters novelists and a zoology professor testified for Miss Joan Warner the America nude dancer on trial in Paris for offending morals. The judge said there would be no debate over whether her dance drew ire from the Association for the Increase of the...
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Paris
Joan Warner
America
Association For the Increase
Eleven Cars Derailed On Pennsylvania Line
A Pennsylvania railroad freight train of fifty cars derailed at Millham Junction near Trenton New Jersey cutting traffic on the main line for hours. Eleven cars left the tracks while the locomotive and tender stayed upright, the cause was not learned.
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Trenton
N. J
Pennsylvania Railroad
Millham Junction
Pennsylvania
Elderly Maryland Man Injured in Auto Crash
John H. Sinn, 81, of Hagerstown Md was hospitalized in Martinsburg after an automobile he rode in struck a parked truck in Inwood near Martinsburg following a funeral in Virginia. Police said the driver may have dozed at the wheel. Sinn suffered possible spinal injuries.
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Martinsburg
John H. Sinn
Hagerstown
Virginia
Inwood
Easton Denounces Payne Relief Fight as Politics
John B. Easton, president of the State Federation of Labor, defended Beehler's relief administration as highly successful and sloughed off charges from Charles Payne and Governor Kump. Easton blamed rival officials for obstruction while praising Payne and noting potential Washington missteps.
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State Relief Administration
Charleston
John B. Easton
State Federation of Labor
William N. Beehler
Charles K. Payne
Relief Board
Beehler
Kump
Battle Over AAA TS Warm Battle Over AAA TS Warm
Washington July 11 A strenuous senate debate over the AAA marks a cross party clash over expanding the Agricultural Adjustment Administration. Democratic leaders challenge critics to offer a better method to raise farm prices while opponents condemn the measure as total reform of American life. Senator Robinson defends the AAA and notes its basic purpose, as Senator King assails the bill as full of misstatements and half truths.
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AAA
Senate
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
King
Utah
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