Swanson Demands Revision of Smoot Hawley Tariff
The 4 August 1934 AP report notes Senator Swanson of Virginia urging revision of the Smoot Hawley tariff six weeks after its passage. He warns it could depress agriculture and close world markets, citing retaliatory tariffs in Italy, France, Germany, Canada, and Britain, and expectations of further hostile action.
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Washington
Swanson
Virginia
Virginian
Democratic National Committee
United States
Italy
European Customs Union
Paris
America
Germany
Canada
Great Britain
England
Scotland
Wales
North Ireland
U S Orders Scrapping Of Three Ships
The United States moves to scrap three battleships under the London treaty terms. Wyoming Utah and Florida will be withdrawn this fall, saving nearly 4 million dollars and guiding post pact fleet reductions. Arkansas to replace Wyoming. three ships return from the European cruise to the Atlantic coast.
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Wyoming
Utah
Florida
Washington
United States
Hoover
Great Britain
Japan
London
Atlantic
Arkansas
Europe
Naval Academy Midshipmen
Major plants reopen as Detroit resumes operations
Detroit August 4 major industrial plants including Ford Motor Company resumed work after brief shutdowns for vacations and inventories. Estimates put returning workers from 100000 to nearly twice that. Ford Dearborn plant expects 8000 units daily on a four day week. Ford Canada also restarted. Accessories and parts makers reopened along with Packard Graham Paige GM Oakl and Pontiac Motors and Timken Detroit Axle returning workers.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Company
Ford Company
Ford
Dearborn
Canada
Packard Motor Car Company
Graham-Paige Motors Company
General Motors Truck Division
Oaksland-Pontiac, Motors Products Company
Timken-Detroit Axle Company
Hollywood Aviator Starts Round-the-World Flight
Ted Lundgren Hollywood aviator left United Airport at 8 31 a m heading for Kansas City and Roosevelt Field New York on a round the world flight today from Los Angeles scheduled stint and progress noted as the trip begins with a two city first leg.
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Los Angeles
Ted Lundgren
Hollywood
United Airport
Kansas City
Roosevelt Field
New York
Reds Siege Changsha As Peasants Used as Human Shield
A wounded Hunan colonel says communists advanced into Changsha behind bound peasants used as a shield. Troops fired but halted upon realizing the slaughter of defense workers. Reds dispersed provincial forces and began a wave of violence. Evacuations and naval patrols in the region were stepped up amid the communist threat.
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Hankow
Changsha
Hunan
Kuling
Kiangsi
United States
Yangtse
Liang River
Wuling
Kiukiang
Kianchang
Shanghai
Fire destroys New York Velodrome, disrupts rail line traffic
A spectacular fire in the early hours destroyed the New York Velodrome and delayed traffic on the Putnam division of the New York Central lines that run adjacent to the site.
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New York
Putnam
New York Central Lines
Georgia tobacco opens season with 10.58 cent average
Georgia bright leaf tobacco opened the season with an average of 10.58 cents per pound as 57 of 59 warehouses reported. First week sales totaled 18,759,607 pounds bringing growers 1,985,490.66 dollars, with Nashville, Tifton and Moultrie posting the highest prices and Vidalia the lowest.
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Atlanta
State Bureau of Markets
State Bureau
Farand
Claxton
Fitzgerald
Nashville
Tifton
Moultrie
Vidalia
Hitch-Hiker Blamed for Fatal York Car Crash
A coroner's jury absolved 23 year old Myrtle Fox of blame in a York South Carolina crash that killed Minnie Nettie Martin. Fox said a hitch-hiker made an improper proposal, causing the car to zigzag and hit an embankment after Martin grabbed the wheel. Fox wandered away dazed and the stranger disappeared.
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York
S. C
Myrtle Fox
King’s Mountain
N. C
Minnie Nettie Martin
Vinson leads in Kentucky Democratic congressional race
In Kentucky August returns show Fred Vinson leading the Democratic primary for the Ninth District with 4 171 votes to 1 395 for Fields and 757 for Hamilton from 112 of 465 precincts. Kendall is unopposed on the Republican side. Newhall beats Haller in the Sixth District GOP primary. Chapman leads Littrell and Blackburn tops Mrs Allen in the Seventh District Dem and GOP races.
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Louisville
Fred Vinson
Fields
Congress
Vinson
W. C C. Hamilton
E. R. Kendall
J. Lincoln Newhall
Marie Haller
Brent Spencer
Virgil Chapman
L. C. Littrell
Robert Blackburn
Minerva Allen
Rev John W Moore To Open Talks At Junaluska
Lake Junaluska Aug 4 The Epworth league assembly opens Friday and Rev John W Moore of High Point will begin a series on world evangelization tomorrow A leadership school closes its first week awarding over 100 credits with gold seal diplomas including Mrs J B Ford of Cheraw S C
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John W. Moore
Junaluska
Lake Junaluska
General Epworth League Assembly
High Point
J. BE. Ford
Cheraw
S. C
Italy hit by new quake rocks Melfi and Rio Nero
A fresh earthquake shock at 12 10 p m was felt in Melfi and Rio Nero causing panic. The Rio Nero city hall was damaged but no injuries were reported. Both towns lie in the zone previously struck two weeks earlier with heavy deaths and widespread destruction in Melfi on the rim of an extinct volcano crater in the Apennines.
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Potenza
Italy
Giorale d'Italia
Melfi
Rio Nero
Elfi
Apenine Hills
Mears Plans Another Hop After City of New York Wreck
John Henry Mears announced plans to regain world circling records after his City of New York crashed at 2 45 am during a dark takeoff in Harbor Grace Newfoundland. Mears suffered a shoulder wrench while pilot Henry J Brown was unhurt. Tailwind II escaped with the dog mascot. He vowed to try again, possibly in 1931.
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Harbor Grace
N. F
John Henry Mears
Mears
City of
New York
Henry J. Brown
Tailwind II
Brown
Deb Jilts Son of Envoy for Clerk
New York debutante Miss Marjorie Mairs ends engagement to Daniel Hubrecht son of Dr Jan Hubrecht counsellor of the Netherlands at London and ambassador to Brazil. She elopes June 30 with Martin Henry a Wall Street broker's clerk who came from South Bend Indiana.
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New York
New York American Today
Marjorie Mairs
Mairs
Olney B. Mairs
Fifth Avenue
Briarcliff
N. Y
Daniel Francois-Marie Hubrecht
Jan Hubrecht
Netherlands
London
Brazil
Miss Mairs
Martin Henry
Wall Street
South Bend
Ind
Hubrecht
England
Cambridge University
Communists Still Holding Changsha
American sources report in a telegram dated August 3 that communists remain in Changsha while forces move east toward Liuyang. Wuhan enforces martial law with traffic curfews, and Americans in Kuling are urged to depart. Hankow hosts eleven foreign naval vessels including British French Japanese American and Italian ships. The Palos remains at Changsha and the US gunboat Luzon has been ordered to depart.
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Washington
China
State Department
Changsha
Liuyang
Wuhan
Kuling
Hankow
Guam
Panay
U. S
Palos
Lusen
Ordevemt Gdaere
Roosevelts Raskob And Smith Attend Hamptons Luncheon
Governor Franklin D Roosevelt John J Raskob and Alfred E Smith gather at Canoe Place Inn Westhampton for a social visit and to share stories. They tour parks on Long Island and plan a luncheon at Basil D O Connors house. No political talk planned until September.
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Southampton
Franklin Do. Roosevelt
John J. Raskob
Alfred B. Smith
Hamptons
Long Island
Basil D. O'Connor
Westhampton
Smith
Canoe Place Inn
Hampton Bays
O'Connor
Billy
Albany
Roosevelt
Happy Warrior
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Abred E. Smith
O’connor
Mencken Vows He Will Be a Wiser Benedict
Baltimore reports H L Mencken after announcing engagement to Sara Powell Haardt. The famed editor jokes that he has become wiser and vows a very quiet refined wedding, plans still very indefinite.
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Mencken
Benedict
Baltimore
Aue
H. L. Mencken
Sara Powell Haardt
Father Blamed for Poison Liquor Death of Boy
A coroner's jury in Lamberton found 10 year old Arthur Lee Hodge died from poison liquor supplied by his father Willie Hodge and Haisley Lovett. The jury urged joint bonds of 500 dollars. W A Lovett signed. Attendants said a liquor like tobacco juice was in the boy’s stomach, possibly home brew. The father said the boy drank from a bottle of whiskey hidden under a bridge.
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Lamberton
Arthur Lee Hodge
Willie Hodge
Haisley Lovett
W. A. Lovett
Haisley
Kingsford Smith Rest Ordered After U S Flight
Kingsford Smith ordered to take complete rest and barred from talking to friends or receiving letters after visiting Hendrik Willem Van Loon in Holland. He was taken to Middelburg hospital for examination where officials reported no cause for anxiety.
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Verre-Zeeland
Holland
Charles Kingsford-Smith
Ireland
United States
Kingsford-Smith
Hendrik Willem van Loon
Middelburg Hospital
Strange Sun Worshipping Huichol Tribe Described in Mexico
Porfirio Aguirre of the National Museum reports on Huichol customs in Nayarit. Sun worship dominates. a hunter who proves land- tilling skill may wed multiple wives, averaging four. Wives sit in a circle at meals, each receiving tortillas and chile. A husband may later repudiate a wife by finding her a new home.
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Mexico City
Nayarit
Porfirio Aguirre
National Museum
Mexico
Aguirre
No End Seen For Drought Already In Record
The worst drought in U.S. history continued with new endurance records. Crops suffer as heat and water shortages intensify across the Mississippi Valley with new low rainfall marks in several states. Temperatures topped 100 in many cities from Texas to Iowa, while some regions report normal rainfall and cooler spells.
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Washington
Mississippi
Mississippi Valley
Weather Bureau
Mid-West
Atlantic Seaboard
South
Capital
Rocky Mountain
Pacific Coast
Middle Northwest
Southwest
Arkansas
Tennesee
Tobacco Markets In South Carolina Open
Florence, Aug. 4. Thousands of pounds of tobacco stored in cavernous warehouses await auctioneers to open South Carolina 1930 market tomorrow. Officials expect the state crop to exceed last year by several million pounds. No word on any appeal to insure a fair price for tobacco on the markets.
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Florence
8. C
Bright Leaf Belt
South Carolina
J. W. Shealy
Federal Farm Board
Georgia
Charlie Ross Claim in Charlotte Sparks Revival of Old Case
Charlie Brewster Ross, asserting he is the rightful Little Charlie Ross, the kidnapped boy from Germantown, Pa., checks into Charlotte area after visiting on July 1, 1874, rekindling the historic disappearance case.
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Charlie Ross
Charlotte Charlotte
Charlie Brewster Ross
Germantown
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