Gandhi Seeks Dominion Status for India Round Table Plan
Reports from London say Mahatma Gandhi offered peace in a letter to the viceroy if Britain pledges dominion status for India at the Round Table Conference. News of the letter’s publication or its assent or refusal was anticipated within 48 hours as officials weigh a possible ceasefire.
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London
India
Mahatma Gandhi
Lord Irwin
Yerada
Poona
Gandhi
Mahatma
MacDonald
Hyde Named To Direct Relief Work
President Hoover appointed secretary Hyde as chairman of the national drought relief committee to coordinate federal activity with relief groups. About 300 counties are in the drought region as relief officials assess serious conditions and supply efforts for livestock feed and winter relief.
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Hoover
Agriculture Department
National Drought Relief Committee
Hyde
National Relief Committee
Mr. Hyde
Chairman Legge
Federal Farm Board
Paul Bestor
Federal Farm Loan
Roy A. Young
Federal Reserve Board
John Barton Payne
American Red Cross
R. H. Aishton
American Railway Association
Ogden Mills
Treasury
Henry M. Robinson
First National Bank of Los Angeles
Ambush wounds State Patrolman Glover near Canton
Asheville August 19. Canton man Gordon Branson, 23, arrested and held without bond after an ambush on State Highway Patrolman Grover Glover. Glover, hit by a sawed off shotgun in the neck and arm, was hospitalized and improving. He and Spencer Lutz pursued a reckless touring car with four men on Highway No. 10 east of Canton.
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Gordon Branson
Canton
Grover Grover
Asheville
Glover
Spencer Lutz
State Highway Department
Masked Men Force Way Into Jail At Tarboro
An armed mob dragged Oliver Moore from Edgecombe county jail in Tarboro and hanged him from a tree after gaining entry by posing as visitors. Sheriff W. E. Bardin and deputies began inquiries as an inquest opened.
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Tarboro
Oliver Moore
Edgecombe County
W. E. Bardin
Moore
Wilson County
W. C. Martin
J. E. L. Thomas
Andrew Moore
Bardin
Edgecombe Potter's Field
O. A. Glover
R. O. Watson
Aimee McPherson Reported Blind
Aimee Semple McPherson, evangelist, was reported blind by her private secretary Emma Schaeffer after spending the night at Malibu Beach cottage where she battles to regain sight. Schaeffer announced the news to reporters.
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Los Angeles
Aimee Semple McPherson
Emma Schaeffer
Democrats Score Shouse as Cataclysm Threat Aides Clash on eve of elections
In Washington on August 19 AP reports Jouett Shouse of the Democratic National Committee urging voters as he accuses the Hoover administration of tariff and farm policy flaws. Republican leader John Q. Tilson denounces Shouse as misleading and warns that Democratic attacks threaten a political overhaul of cataclysmic proportions.
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Washington
Congress
Jouett Shouse
Democratic National Executive Committee
John Q. Tilson
Connecticut
House of Representatives
Robert H. Lucas
Republican National Committee
Shouse
Hoover
Tilson
Republican Party
Zuta ties widen as Evanston police chief named in case
Investigators revealed further payments to gangster Jack Zuta from Bill Freeman former Evanston police chief and John Craig Chicago Daily News city editor. Freeman admitted borrowing $400 from Zuta and failing to repay, while Craig identified his signature on an uncancelled $50 check cashed at an inn.
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Chicago
Evanston
Chicago Daily News
Jack Zuta
Zuta
Bill Freeman
John Craig
William O. Freeman
North Shore
Freeman
Vice Overlord
The
News
Craig
Prohibition Official Faces Suspension Over Misconduct
Washington reports that George Golding, prohibition administrator in Albany, is under indefinite suspension on charges of personal misconduct with several stenographers. The Civil Service Commission will decide his fate, while two agents, Robert Myrtle and Basil Quinn, received five day suspensions for traffic disputes and assaults. Woodcock pledges stricter action if abuses continue.
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Washington
George Golding
Prohibition
Albany
New York
Woodcock
Gelding
Civil Service Commission
Quinn
Shaw backs letting condemned men die by own action
London, Aug. 19. George Bernard Shaw endorsed Dean Inge’s idea that condemned murderers should be allowed to commit suicide with poisons and chemicals. He said a condemned man should have a set day for hanging and if not dead by then he would face execution, noting such killers save trouble and expense.
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London
George Bernard Shaw
Dean Inge
St. Paul’s
Dean
Shaw
Afghan Tribesmen Sue For Peace In Kurram Clash
Afghan Massabai tribesmen sign overtures for ceasefire in Kurram as British air operations suspend. Ahmadani and Ghilzai tribesmassing near Peiwarkotal threaten a major engagement while Itsar Bargawisan areas faced heavy fire on government posts defended by village militias.
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Peshawar
India
Royal Air Force
Kurram
Ghilzai
Peiwarkotal
Itsar
Bargawisan
Van Lear Black Missing From Yacht Off New Jersey Coast
Baltimore Sun publisher Van Lear Black, an acclaimed world traveler, disappeared aboard his yacht Sabaho about 12 miles south of Scotland Light off the New Jersey coast. Associate reports say a search by Captain John J. Kelley found no trace, though a handkerchief was located on deck where Black often sat with feet in the guard rail.
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Baltimore
van Lear Black
Baltimore Sun
World Flier
Scotland Light
New Jersey
Black
New York
John J. Kelley
Kelley
Spain Cabinet Accepts Finance Chief Resignation
The Spanish cabinet accepted the resignation of Finance Minister Manuel Arguelles and named Julio Vais to replace him, moving from economy minister. Arguelles had served since January 1930 under Premier Berenguer amid economic downturns following De Rivera's departure in 1925.
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Madrid
Arguelles
Julio Vais
Manuel Arguelles
Berenguer
Spain
Primo de Rivera
Fonvielle Heads Real Estate Men
The North Carolina Association of Real Estate Men closed its ninth annual session at Wrightsville Beach with W. A. Fonvielle of Wilmington elected president for 1931. Elected officers include J. H. Carson of Charlotte and Alton Cobb of Greensboro as vice presidents and R. Cantwell of Wilmington as secretary and treasurer.
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Wrightsville Beach
North Carolina Association of Real Estate Men
W. A. Fonvielle
Wilmington
Durham
J. H. Carson
Charlotte
Alton Cobb
Greensboro
R. ©. Cantwell
Suffragette Discouraged By Women In Politics
Emily Newell Blair criticizes post victory complacency in the suffrage movement. She notes suffragists ceased educational work after 1920s win, analogizing to temperance groups and urging continued effort. Mary E. Woolley and other notables contribute to a League of Women Voters anniversary compendium.
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Washington
Emily Newell Blair
Missouri
League of Women Voters
America
Colby
Blair
Temperance
Women’s Christian Temperance Union
Eddie Schneider Junior Transcontinental Champ
Eddie Schneider, an eighteen year old from Jersey City, set a junior record for westward cross country by reaching Los Angeles in 29 hours 41 minutes. He departed Westfield on August 14 and faced storms and a tree strike in Altoona, with a fuel stop in Holbrook and a foggy landing near the Los Angeles airport before confirming his arrival. He contemplated attempting the eastward record of 28 hours 18 minutes set by Frank Goldsborough.
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Los Angeles
Jersey City
Eddie Schneider
United States
Frank Goldsborough
New York
Schneider
Westfield
N. J
Altoona
Albuquerque
N. M
Holbrook
Ariz
Ontario
Long Beach Municipal Airport
Los Angeles Municipal Airport
Goldsborough
Rebel Leader Claims Halted Advances Amid Floods in Henan
Shanghai dispatch reports General Feng Yu-shiang refuting nationalist claims of gains along the Haichow-Tungkwan line. He cites ten days of heavy rains hindering combat, while rebels say 5,000 Kuomintang troops attacked near Lanfeng and 600 bodies were found in flooded canals. Nationalists claim Shantung forces crossed the Yellow River and push north toward Tehchew.
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Shanghai
Feng Yu-Shiang
Haichow-Tungkwan
Henan
Kaifeng
Honan
Kuominchan
Peoples Army
Lanfeng
Feng
Chi
Kei-Shek
Ligho
Mamutsi
Shantung
Yellow River
Seek Bodies of Four In Ferryboat Tragedy
Divers searched the Connecticut River near Westmoreland New Hampshire for the bodies of four people drowned when an old flat bottomed cable ferry sank at night. Victims were Ray Austin 30 East Putney Vermont his wife their baby daughter and William Clark a boarder at the Austins home. The car they were in was recovered from the river bottom.
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Westmoreland
N. H
Connecticut River
Ray Austin
East Putney
William Clark
Austin
Durant Plans Bantam Auto Shipment From France
Detroit report says William C. Durant's Durant Motors Inc contracted to build 100000 Mathis cars from the EFECO Mathis factory in Strasbourg France. The bantam model is described as an affordable foreign origin car entering the American market.
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Detroit
William C. Durant
Durant Motors, Inc
Mathis
E. F E. C. Mathis
Strasbourg
France
Livingston Leads More In Air Derby Start to Houston Stop
Corpus Christi, Texas August 19. John Livingston of Aurora Illinois led W G More of Kansas City into Corpus Christi on the first lap of the two man air derby from Brownsville to Chicago. Livingston's time from Brownsville was 1 5 39 More 1 08 37 3 5 After a short stop they took off for Houston.
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Corpus Christi
Txas
John Livingston
Aurora
Ill
W. G. More
Kansas City
Brownsville
Texas
Chicago
Livingston
More
Houston
Robbers Hold Up Dental Firm in East 49th Street
Two men robbed the Samuel J. White Dental Manufacturing Co office on East 49th Street in New York City and escaped with 1 50 in loose gold and cash.
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Gotham
New York
Samuel J. White Dental Manufacturing Company
East 49Th Street
New York Lawyer Charged With Slashing Client
A lawyer, Leslie Loghart, 50, was arrested in New York on charges of slashing his client, Mrs Kate Shea, who was found with a razor wound in her Lexington Avenue apartment. Officers say the attack followed a quarrel amid divorce proceedings from her second husband and that Shea's condition was serious due to blood loss.
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New York
Kate Shea
Lexington Avenue
Leslie Lockhart
Physician Dies At Wheel of Car In South Carolina
Dr. John F. Shirley, 65, a prominent Honey Path physician, died here at the wheel of his car. Physicians said the death was due to a heart attack.
Hall Defeats Marinsky In Tennis Tournament
Robert Hall of Louisville defeated Jack Marinsky of Providence in the first round of the eighth annual public parks tennis championships in Washington. Hall lost the first set 4-7, then won 6-1, 6-3, dropped the fourth 3-6, and captured the final 6-1.
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Hall
Marinsky
Washington
Robert Hall
Louisville
Jack Marinsky
Providence
Tahiti passengers praise shippers and captains after rescue
First reports from Tahiti survivors arriving in Wellington credit masterly seamanship of Tahiti and Ventura captains. Passengers followed lifeboat orders as rescue ship Penybryn stood by but could not transfer the crew. Fear lasted three days. women were saved first, then men and finally the crew.
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Wellington
N. Z
Tahiti
Pago Pago
Penybryn
Bride of Regiment Opens at Broadhurst in Technicolor
A two day run begins Wednesday at the Broadhurst theater for Bride of the Regiment a romantic spectacle shot in technicolor. The large cast features screen favorites Myre Loy Louise Fazenda Vivienne Segal Lupino Lane and Ford Sterling. Classified ads mention Enterprise guests and other valuable messages for readers.
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Broadhurst
Myre Loy
Louise Fazenda
Vivienne Segal
Lupino Lane
Ford Sterling
Enterprise Guest
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