Long targets New Orleans mayor in special session bid
Senator Huey P. Long moved to remove Mayor Walmsley and two district court judges by using a state legislative investigative committee. He aims to force resignations or oustings through a potential next special session within a week, leveraging constitutional power to hear testimony without rebuttal.
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Associated Press
New Orleans
Huey P. Long
Tommes Walmsey
Senate
House
Long
Cargar
Louisiana
Walmsley
Nat W. Bond
Henry Glensnn
Ergil Alatrict Court
New Orcane
World News in Brief From The Associated Press
A digest of global items: Hyde Park Douglas resigns as budget director. 150000 silk workers affected by textile halt. Turner sets new shirt record in ten hours. Dillinger’s lawyer arrested. NRA and labor in collective bargaining talks. New Orleans plans special session to oust Walmsley. Five boys die in a home incident investigated in Poughkeepsie. Zaharoff linked to US naval builders. peace talks and regional conferences noted. League Saar commission cites Nazis for training. radical students clash in Havana. Locarno treaty matters in Moscow. Soviet and Russo Japanese tensions teased. Bolivian-Chaco collapse and Paraguay’s tri-border tremors.
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Damestic
Hyde Park
Douglas
D. W. Bell
Washington
Turner
Dillinger
Washington — Labor Relations Owned
Halds
Orbeans
Walmsley
Totery Krott
NRA
L Grief
Brother
Haltimore
Poughkeepsice
Basel
Sofia
Balkan
Geneva—League
Saar Commisson
Havana
Zaharoff Linked With U S Builders Of Ships
Senate munitions panel tests a possible direct link between Sir Bazil Zaharoff and an American naval shipbuilder, Electric Boat. The probe notes contracts for submarines and patrol craft, with hearings set to focus on Electric Boat officials. CCC winter camp planned for Basin area near Gallatin River.
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Copsreht
Associated Press
Washington
Bazil Zaharoff
Senate
Nye
R D
Navy
Zaheroff
Electric Boat Company
Bozeman
CCC
Basin
Gallatin River
Squaw Creek
Woman hangs from window in Seattle hotel frightens public
Mrs Evelyn Crocker leapt onto a 12th floor window ledge in Seattle after a two minute hang. A slipper fell to the street, striking a tax driver who alerted hotel staff. Crocker, crying, said she was kept from her daughter Joy Lee by her husband and relatives. She claimed illness and said she meant to die but could not let go.
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Seattle
Evelyn ‘Rocker
Los Angeles
R. F. Ward
Newton Gil-land
Joy Lee
Crocker
Sylvia Hunsicker
Paraguay Pushes Bolivian Ries In Chaco Offense
Buenos Aires reports Paraguay attacking in three Chaco sectors as hopes for a near armistice fade. Officials say Asuncion accepted general ceasefire proposals while stressing obstacles remain. Argentina Brazil and the United States press telegraphic talks to stop fighting. Waldemar Saavedra Lamás, Argentina’s foreign minister, offered no comment until progress is definite.
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Buenos Aires
Varaguay
Chaco
Asuncion
Bolivia
Argentina
Brazil
United States
Waldemar Saavedra Lamas
Spokane transit strike rejects arbitration offer
Spokane street car and bus workers proposed arbitration with Spokane United Railways, but company officials ignored the move. The strike halted service since Thursday night and is said to end Tuesday when operations resume, announced Frank T. Post, president of the URR after a conference with city commissioners.
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Spokane
Wash
Spokane United Railways
Frank T. Post
Fergus County FERA Workers Demand Higher Pay Rates
Lewistown September 1 AP One and another 25 Federal Emergency Relief Administration workers paraded through the streets to the courthouse of Hall Clement district FERA administrator to present a demand for an increased budget higher wage rate and increased commodity for Fergus county They asserted Fergus county should be equal to other counties in the state Work on all projects in the county has been suspended A conciliation officer from Helena was announced to come tomorrow to hear their case
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Lewiatown
Hall Clement
FERA
Fergus County
Helena Tooaday
Helene Portescue
John Marshall
Rockridge
Carmel
N. Y
Miss Fortescue
Thalia Massie
Hionolulu
Rain fails to freeze Dionne quintuplets in Callander
In Callander Ontario on September 1 the rain that drummed on the Dionne quintuplets home roof did not disturb the famed five. Dr. Dafoe noted the babies seemed unaffected by the downpour, a month after they showed languor with every town pour.
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Callander
Ont
Dionnequintuplets
A. R. Dafoe
Dionne
Avoid Mistakes in Furnishing Your Home
Advice on applying the decorator's test to rooms and decor. The Helena Independent Information Bureau promotes Interior Decorating booklet, arguing good decoration saves money long term. Enclose ten cents to receive drawings, photos, and period furniture highlights from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Washington Information Bureau
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York City
Missing A. O. Smith plane found none of crew shown
Milwaukee firm reports airplane with pilot and five passengers missing in the Rocky Mountains last night. The craft landed at Rapid City South Dakota and was to remain overnight before returning to Milwaukee. A. O. Smith purchasing agent Ray C. Borchert said he learned the flight status by telephone at 1 30 a.m. (c s t) Denver filed. The plane was believed lost tonight in Utah or Wyoming after leaving Salt Lake field yesterday.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Smith Corporation
Rocky Mountains
Rapid City
S. D
Ray C. Borchert
Corporation
C.s.t
Denver
A. O. Smith Corporation
Utah
Wyoming
Salt Lake
Girl Flyers In Air Again After Record
Chicago reporters say Jean Larene and Mary Elizabeth Owens two Texas fliers started their third attempt to set a new endurance record in their monoplane The Lone Star at Curtiss-Reynalda airport circling above the field on September 1 19XX with a goal to push the duration of their endurance flight higher through a sustained flight in a single engine monoplane.
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Chicago
Curtiss
Death of five boys at asylum puzzles officials
Five boy patients at Wassalo State Institution for Mental Defectives died within a week, sparking a state inquiry. Three boys sleeping in adjacent beds died after a late night routine, while others remained healthy. Dr. Storrs noted earlier deaths with no clear cause, with one case attributed to an enlarged thymus gland. The investigation continues as officials seek natural versus mysterious causes.
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Poughkeepsie, N
Wassalo State Institution
Harry C. Storra
Nikola Napolitan
Necola de Gorgia
Sidney Cohen
Storrs
Robert Peters
Samuel E. Appel
Dutches
John de Angelo
Max Friedman
Campana Battles Ongoing Oil Fire After Five Day Explosions
In Campana Argentina changing winds aided a fierce oil fire burning for five days and damaging most buildings. Authorities evacuated patients from the hospital to nearby Sels de Septiembre as the death toll rose to at least five with hundreds injured from the blasts.
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Campana
Argentina
Sels de Septiembre
Japanese Gunboat Rescues Nine Kidnap Victims in Manchukuo
Tokyo reports a Japanese gunboat freed all nine passengers kidnapped by bandits after a train wreck at Wichia Manchukuo. Among the captives were an American and two Metro-Goldwyn-Myer officials. Bandits tried to cross the Sungart river as planes aided the pursuit.
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Tokyo
Wichia
Manchukuo
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corporation
Sungart River
No Paper On Labor Day Withheld Publication Sept 8 1934
The Independent will not publish on Labor Day for the twenty-fifth year honoring workers. Key staffers work six or seven days weekly, so the paper sacrifices revenue and convenience to grant one day of rest in seven.
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Independent
The
Nazi training found in Saar camps under plebiscite shadow
Geneva Sept 1 Nazi Germany faced formal accusations of training 16000 Saar residents for the January plebiscite. The League commission seized letters and documents linking the Reich to German camps and warned of a looming putsch while banning the German Labour front from the Saar and ordering surveillance for Saar youths. The discovery was described as grave and menacing with far reaching interference in Saar affairs.
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Geneva
Germany
Saar
France
League of Nations
League of Nations Commission
League
Ition
Reich
Saartanders
Saarbruecken
Hitler
Calif. Girls Found in Ice Box at Home
Sacramento report says Mary and Marion Paiva ages 6 and 8 were suffocated in a home ice box after being led by childish curiosity. Police and investigators probe the tragic incident in California with sparse details available.
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California
Sacramento
Calif
Mary
Marion Paiva
Montana road program advances beyond expectations
Great Falls August 2 Great strides in Montana roadbuilding surpass earlier hopes. From 6500 miles planned for federal highways seven years ago only 600 remain to be contracted. If not for oiling requirements the system would have finished within 10 years. By year’s end 2575 miles are expected to be oiled, amid Montana's population just over 500000.
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Great Falls
Sept
Montana
O. 3
Montana Highway Commission
Union
American Association of Highway Officials
Congress
Nationwide textile strike begins after 11:30 PM zero hour
The Associated Press reports a nationwide textile workers strike taking effect at 11:30 PM local time. New England towns led the walkout, with southern areas joining as 11:30 PM struck. Strike leaders dispatched to groups nationwide amid rumors of failed mediation by Lloyd Garison of the national labor relations board. Approximately one million mill workers in the area were affected.
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Associated Press
New England
NRA
Maine
Alabama
Butte Negotiations To Be Resumed In Strike talks
Representatives of the mine, mill and smelter union met with Anaconda company officials in Butte to settle the strike affecting Butte, Anaconda and Great Falls. Federal mediator P W Chappell said negotiations would resume early next week.
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Butte
Mine, Mill and Smelterment Union
Anaconda Company
Butte, Anaconda
Great Falls
P. W. Chappell
Havana Students Clash With Police In Fresh Siege
In Havana on September 1, police and radical students clashed in a several hour siege at the university. About 300 students surrendered in small groups as officers armed with weapons detained those found armed, after the death of Rodolfo Fernandes Sanchez, 22, earlier in the day.
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Havana
Cuba
Havana University
Rodolfo Fernandes Sanchez
Fernandes Sanchez
ABC Poltical Society
Alleged Torture of Soviet Subject Draws Protest
Moscow protests to Japanese ambassador over claims of torture of Golovina a Chinese Eastern Railway clerk at Harbin Manchukuo. Soviet official Stomonykaoff said she was assaulted with three level methods, hair pulled out, beaten and rendered unconscious. Russian note demanded decisive Japanese action to end such acts harming state relations.
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Moscow
Tamekichi Ota
Harbin
Manchukuo
Stomonykaoff
Ota
Golovina
Stomonyakoff
Texas Deluge Douses Clarendon as Lightning Kills Teen
In Clarendon Texas a severe downpour caused a four foot flood as the heaviest rainfall on record swamped the town. A 16 year old, Alfred Walker, was killed when struck by lightning while riding into the city. Cars were swept away and businesses flooded from two to 12 inches.
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Clarendon
Texas
Alfred Walker
Locarno security pact backed by Soviet Union
Moscow indicates the Soviet Union would join the League of Nations if the eastern Locarno security agreement, urged by France, is completed to ensure peace in eastern Europe. Maxim Litvinov has steered policy toward pacts with Russia's neighbors as disarmament stalls.
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Moscow
Union of Socialist Soviet Republics
League of Nations
France
Europe
Russia
Maxim Litvinoff
Misnar
Boulet
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Paraguay
Ries
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