Sewer collapse in Staten Island kills and injures many
A violent rainstorm caused three Staten Island tenement buildings to collapse after a sewer flood. At least one percent per son were crushed to death in their sleep as bricks and debris tumbled. Four others survived with serious injuries while three remain missing. Rescue crews searched the wreckage amid flooding and ongoing storms.
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New York
Staten ‘Island
State Island Hospital
Long Ishin
Russian Ace Makes Transpolar Flight Toward New York
Sigismund Levanneffsky, famed aviel Union flier, launched a trans polar hop toward New York on Thursday. A crew of five accompanied him with planned stops at Pairbanks, Alas Edmonton, Alberta, and possibly Chi naKo. The northeastern United States lay ahead as they charted a river sized course from the southwest.
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Moscow
Russia
Sigismund Levanneffsky
Aviel Union
New York
Hin
Pairbanks
Edmonton
Alberta
ChinaKo
Chilriren
Iran
United States
Han Tose
Mind Your Manners and Funeral Etiquette Quiz
A 1950s etiquette Q and A on letters for mourning, noting who should send condolence cards, whether cards should be engraved, and if handwritten forms are preferred. It covers whether white or black edged paper is appropriate, and how to request no funeral towers.
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NEA Serview
Tay
Gossip Flogging Reenacted A Teen Lass Flogs WPA Worker
Eloise Willis, 17, charged with assault for flogging Oscar Kay, 47, a WPA worker, who bears livid welts on his legs. Willis's father re enacts the flogging in New Orleans with a friend tied to a tree as Kay was. The girl had circulated a story that damaged her reputation.
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Eloise Willis
Oscar Kay
WPA
Eloise
Alfred Willis
New Orleans
Kay
Wallace Determined to Avoid Another Farm Board Disaster
Washington reports President Roosevelt warns that government crop loans may backfire if farmers hoard produce. The piece surveys cotton loan history from 1933 to 1935, noting price levels, loan totals, and repayments and contrasts with corn loan outcomes and drouth impacts.
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Wallace
Farm Board
Washington
Roosevelt
Howver
Volton Ander
UNU OP
Drouth Iy
Marines Guard Shanghai as Tense Crisis Grows
The United States Marines, 1,050 strong, posted to patrol the northern border of the International Settlement after a failed China Japan conference. British forces numbering 950 also patrolled the refuge borders as American marines protected about 5,000 Americans in Shanghai, many inside the settlement.
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Associated Press
United States
Shanghai
International Settlement
Shnghai
Spanish Rebels on Offensive Again
A military bulletin reports insurgent forces advanced in several sectors on the Santander front renewing the northern offensive of the Spanish civil war. Venus has no satellites.
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Henday
Militar
Santander
Block Wage Hour Bill Ties to Crop Loans
Congress blocked President Roosevelt's wage and hour bill while pushing for federal crop loans. Southern lawmakers urged tying labor standards to loan guarantees, prompting White House bargaining with House leaders. Chair O'Connor canceled a Rules Committee meeting as vote confidence faltered.
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Washington
Capitol Hill
House
O'Connor
Dem. N. YY
House Rules Committee
Representative Cox
Dem. Ga
Miller Repeats Call for Arkansas Senate Primary
Representative John E. Miller of Searcy Ark repeats his request to Governor Carl Bailey to urge the Arkansas Democratic committee to set a primary election to fill the late Senator Joseph T. Robinsons seat. He warns that without a primary Democrats may get a special election when called.
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Washington
John E. Miller
Searcy
Ark
Carl Bailey
Arkansas
Arkansas Democratic Committee
Joseph T. Robinson
Bailey
First Report Filed in C of C Drive for 6000 Budget
The Hope Chamber of Commerce launched a five part campaign aiming to raise six thousand dollars with a first report showing one thousand four hundred ninety-one in subscriptions. Teams of two or three canvassed after a breakfast at Hotel Barlow with committees led by Reginald Bearden John Guthrie and others. Major contributors include J C Penney Co and George W Robison Co each at 100.00 and Union Compress Co 100.00 among many locals and firms. The drive continues Thursday afternoon and Friday with a follow up next week.
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Hope
Hope Chamber of Commerce
Reginald Bearden
John Guthrie
Clifford Franks
A. W. Stubbeman
Dale Jones
Matthew Reaves
Sid Bundy
5. L. Murphy
Earl O'Neal
Bob Gosnell
A. L. Carleson
Wayne H. England
Rufus Herndon
Leo Robins
H. O. Kyler
Home Ice Company
Hitt’s Shoe Store
Dugger Shoe Sto
Crescent Drug Store
Bully’s Bar
Williams Liquor Store
Tom Kinser
W. A. J. Mills
Drake's
Robins Liquor Store
Harry Shiver
Duckett Chemical Company Bruner Ivory Handle Co
J. W. Cantley
Vincent W. Foster
City Baker
Coles Tee Creat Co
Roy Ander
M. C. Re
Jno. P. Vesey
R. O. Robin
Chas. O
Southern Creamers
Western Auto Associate Store
Coca Cola Bottling Works
Diamond Cafe
Joe B. Greene
Auto Supply Co
Whitton Scott Furniture
Jim Taylor Quartet to Sing at Oak Grove Revival
Hope based Jim Taylor quartet performs Friday night at Oak Grove community revival meeting led by Rev. Enoch Mouser the former Hempstead County chaplain and boyhood chum of Sheriff Jim Bearden.
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Jim Taylor
Oak Grove
Hope
Enoch Mouser
Louisiana State Penitentiary
Hempstead County
Jim Bearden
Heat Wave in Arkansas Broken by Thunderstorms
Scattered thundershowers ended a three day heat spell across Arkansas, with Little Rock cooling from 106 to a rain cooled night. Text notes temps from 105 at Texarkana to 76 in Mena, along with wind damage near Mena and El Dorado, and two heat related deaths in North Little Rock and Fishes. A Dardanelle farmer was struck by lightning.
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Fruit & Truck Branch
Kuguat
Little Rock
Ark
Arkansas
Helena
Fort Smith
Texarkana
Dallas Valley
Mena
A. H. Durham
el Dorado
Mt. Holly
Huttig
Johnny Newsome
North
J. ‘. McCorkle
Fishes
Evan Lavance
Hale
Alabama Labor Law Author Nominated to Supreme Court
President Roosevelt named Hugo Black of Alabama to the Supreme Court to succeed Willis Van DeVanter. Confirmation was blocked by Senators Burke and Johnson, triggering a party line clash and a delayed vote. Labor leaders and Ashurst urged rapid action, while a six member subcommittee was formed to review the nomination.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Hugo Black
Alabama
United
Organized Labor
Ashurst
Arizona Democrat
Burke
Athe
Johnson
Ashumist
171 Liquor Beer Licenses Refused in Arkansas
Arkansas Revenue Commissioner D L Ford announced that beer and liquor stores near schools are banned and denied permits. He cited Fort Smith cases where two beer dealers and a whisky store were refused. Ford said 171 permit applications were rejected in three days, noting location can affect renewals even if operations complied.
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Little Rock
Ark
Arkansas
D. L. Ford
Ford
Fort Smith
Cotton prices slip as New Orleans market opens
In New Orleans on Thursday October, cotton opened at 10.25 and closed at 10.20. Spot cotton finished steady, 11 points lower, middling at 10.35.
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New Orleans
Rhymes and Rent Tie Into Summer Studio Snag
Kathleen O SHAN, a young writer, hurries to her studio as a kindly janitor Pat muses on her poverty and the difficulty of writing love verses in the heat. A North Wall nerves of a duchess upstairs promise drama as the scene ends with a cliffhanger.
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Kathleen O'Shan
Butch
Pat
Kathy
Kathleen
Butrick
Patrick
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Spain
Venus
Miller
Barlow
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Green
Lewis
Idariner Gleason
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