Storms lash Cuba Florida and Texas tolls mount
A tropical hurricane battered Cuba and struck Cuba and the Texas Gulf coast with fierce winds and high tides. Corpus Christi and Brownsville report severe flooding and wrecked streets as forecasters warn the worst is yet to come for Texas. The storm stretches across the Gulf, isolating Brownsville and leaving towns in ruin with power and line failures.
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Corpus Christi
Tex
J. P. Mc
Aulife
North Beach
Chapparal Street
Wmcauliffe
Brownsville
Schnurbusch
Browns‘ville
McAuliffe
Grande Valley
Gulf Coast
Harlington
Harlingen
Rio Grande
Ward Denounces Waste in Education at Wife's Funeral
Dr. Duren J. H. Ward 84 educator scientist and author denounces society and an education system spending millions to inform average minds while neglecting super-normal youths. He cites Harvard as example of conscienceless waste turning away brilliant girls and failing to welcome all wealth. Ward spoke beside his wife's casket in Denver on September 5.
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Denver
Duren J. H. Ward
Ward
Harvard
Schools Begin Monday With 154 Teachers, 13 Less Than Last Year
Taylor County schools open Monday under the county unit plan with about 4,800 pupils and a nine month term. Salaries for teachers are not fixed yet, with a board meeting Friday to set them. The levy funds total $233,060.73 for 1933 34, including $51,646 state aid, and thirteen elementary schools and Pruntytown high school have been closed.
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Taylor County
County Unit
Board of Education
Levy
Flemington and Simpson
Grafton
Pruntytown
L. Shriver
Hale Watkins Injured In Auto Wreck Near Morgantown
A. Hale Watkins son of Fred B. Watkins of Charleston and a former Grafton spin suffered a broken clavicle and bruises when a Chevrolet sedan overturned on U S Route 19 near Mt. Morris Pennsylvania thirteen miles from Morgantown Sunday at 1230 AM en route home from Chicago where they visited the Century of Progress exposition. Attorney Hardin Harmer of Shinnston was driving.
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A. Hale Watkins
Fred B. Watkins
Charleston
Grafton Spn
Hardin Harmer
Shinnston
Mt. Morris
Morgantown
Chicago
Harmer
Driv
Coal Parley On Contracts Is Resumed
Washington labor talks resume as Appalachian bituminous coal operators and United Mine Workers of America leaders renew efforts to draft contracts for commercial mines after a two day holiday. Almost every transport from the west brought operators to the capital as hundreds attended the prolonged conferences before leaving for the holiday.
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Washington
United Mine Workers of America
Continental Oil raises crude price list by 10 cents
Ponca City Oklahoma September 5 The Continental Oil Company announced a 10 cent per barrel price increase for crude oil. New scale ranges from 58 to 82 cents in Oklahoma and Kansas with a top price of 72 cents in north Texas.
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Ponca City
Okla
Continental Oil Company
Oklahoma
Kansas
North Texas
Three Drown As Car Leaves Ferry Downtown Morgantown
In Morgantown Kentucky on September 5 Marcus Turner 45 Curren Hunter 60 and Ige Jones 45 farmers drowned when their automobile rolled off a ferry boat into Green River yesterday afternoon. The brakes apparently failed as the car moved onto the ferry.
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Morgantown
Marcus Turner
Curren Hunter
Ige Jones
Green River
Chicken Supper Benefit for M. B. Church in Knottsville
All you can eat chicken supper to aid M. B. Church. Thursday Sept 7 at Wilson's Lawn Knottsville from 5 to 7 PM. Price 40 cents. Proceeds support church activities and maintenance.
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Wilson's Lawn
Knottsville
M. B. Church
Evans elected head of American Ear Association
Earl W. Evans of Wichita Easy was chosen as the new head at the American Ear Association annual convention in Grand Rapids Michigan according to the Associated Press photo caption.
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A. A. Berle
Jra
Farm Administration
Cuba
Associated Press
Earl W. Evans
Wichita
Easy
American Ear Association
Grand Rapids
Mich
Manhunt Follows Slaying Of Pennsylvania Officer
Pennsylvania State Police launch search after Patrolman Herbert Brantlinger, 27, Blairsville, shot while investigating a car near a closed gas station west of Bridgeville. Harry Ulrich, a farmer, reported the incident after finding the overturned car and hearing a single shot. The assailants fled in a blue car. Brantlinger conveyed a final request to call his mother before dying.
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Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
Trim
Irene Schrodier
Sloan Dague
Herbert P. Brantlinger
Blairsville
Bridgeville
Harry Ulrich
Brantlinger
Legion Holds US Business Session Today
Wheeling reports Legionnaires and American Legion Auxiliary members at the West Virginia department annual convention entering a business session to hear officer reports. The auxiliary opened with a breakfast headlined by national chaplain Mrs. J. J. Boyle of Toledo. Louis A. Johnson of Clarksburg, national commander, to speak in a joint session later, with dancing planned for the evening. Governor H G Kump and Johnson urged the convention to back the NRA blue eagle as part of national recovery efforts, predicting industrial readjustment and a return to the soil.
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Wheeling
American Legion Auxiliary
West Virginia Department
J. J. Boyle
Toledo
Ohio
H. G. Kump
Louis A. Johnson
Clarksburg
NRA
Bailey Back Behind Bars After Escape
Oklahoma City dispatch reports Harvey Bailey recaptured after escaping Dallas county jail. Federal investigators suspect inside help, with Bailey claiming a pistol and saws were hidden in his mattress. He faces September 18 trial for plotting the Urschel kidnapping for $200,000. four alleged accomplices are in custody.
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Oklahoma
Joseph B. Keenan
Harvey Bailey
Bailey
Dallas
Texas
Charles F. Urschel
Urschel
Albert Bates
R. G. Shannon
Armon
Para
Kansas City
Tex
Sheriff's Department
Bill Decker
Ardmore
Okla
Decker
Edgar Hoover
United States Bureau of Investigation
Frank J. Blake
Department of Justice
Arthur
Simpson
Dallas County Grand Jury
United States
W. R. “Red” Wright
Marshall Wright
Fank J. Blake
Gus Jones
Vermont Voters Decide Repeal Or Retain Prohibition
In Montpelier Vermont voters faced a day of decision on repealing or keeping the eighteenth amendment. Weather and turnout were uncertain with repeal hoped to win if rain suppresses rural votes while retention strength lay in smaller communities and a potential Western Vermont city turnout.
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Montpelier
Vermont
Syate
Man Held for Axe Slaying in Kingwood
Kingwood, Sept. 5 William Hatfield 64 Irona farmer is jailed for murder after allegedly striking Martin Cassaday 50 also of Irona with an axe in a home. Cassaday died at Kingwood City hospital at 5 45 Saturday night an eyewitness Clay Wilson 50 says two blows landed on the left side near the crown.
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Kingwood
William Hatfield
Irona
Martin Cassaday
King Wood City Hospital
Hatfield
Preston County
Cassady
Yar
Clay Wilson
Vmaiselal
Ekall
Sisson Attacks Deposit Guarantee Plan As Failures
Chicago bank leaders heard Francis H. Sisson, president of the American Bankers Association, condemn the 1933 deposit guarantee as questionable in value and historically flawed. He argued guarantees up to 2500 dollars weaken banks, shift credit control to a politically appointed Federal Reserve Board, and blame bankers for economic ills.
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Chicago
Francis H. Sisson
American Bankers Association
Congress
Sisson
Federal Reserve Board
Washington
Cuba Faces Bloodless Coup In Havana
Provisional President Manuel De Cespedes yielded to radical opponents who staged a bloodless coup. A five man commission prepared to assume power as Cuba’s revolutionary government, less than a month old, considered resigning. De Cespedes returned from Santa Clara amid hurricane damage and was expected to call a cabinet meeting to formalize resignation. The upheaval drew U.S. intervention prospects as tensions rose.
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Associated Press
Havana
Cuba
Carlos Manuel de Cespedes
Manuel de Cespedes
Gerardo Machado
Santa Clara
Deer Attracts Holiday Crowds at Watkins Glen Park
Watkins Glen New York September 5 reports the estate park drawing holiday crowds as a deer marooned on a narrow ridge above a gorge for nine days draws observers. The animal eats food and drinks water from troughs lowered by park staff as officials monitor its plight.
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Watkins Glen
N. Xy
Watkins
Glen
Daring Woman Pilot Killed in 100 Mile Race
Chicago reports Florence Klingensmith the pioneering aviator from Minneapolis died during the Phillips trophy race at International air races. She completed seven laps before fabric tore from the tail and her craft crashed near the field. Wedel won the race with an unofficial speed record, claiming the $10,000 purse.
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Chicago
Florence Klingensmit
Fier
Minneapoli
Ilingensmith
Pocahontas Lodge Plans Annual Picnic Meeting
Pocahontas Lodge members will gather for an annual picnic at the Black and White Filling station on the Northwestern Turnpike tomorrow at 6:16 PM. A picnic supper will be served. All members are urged to attend.
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Pocahontas Lodge
Northwestern Turnpike
Woolworth Announces New Hours Under NRA Cooperation
P. W. Woolworth Co announces full cooperation with the NRA. New hours are 8:20 A M to 5 30 P M weekdays and 8 30 A M to 1 0 P M Saturdays. This notice outlines the updated business schedule.
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P. W. Woolworth Co
N. R.A
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