Hoover Denied Hearing in Detroit Bank Probe
Former President Herbert Hoover refused to travel to Detroit to testify about the closed First National Bank and Guardian National Bank of Commerce. Hoover said he could provide only general, secondhand information and suggested officials in Washington as better sources. Fr. Charles Coughlin denounced the banking mismanagement, predicting depositor recoveries while urging a Detroit bank holiday.
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Palo Alto
Calif
Detroit
Michigan City
Herbert Hoover
Stanford University
Toy
Mr. Hoover
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Federal Reserve and Treasury
Washington
Hoover
Guardian Trust Company
Michigan
Bilter
Chas. E. Coughlin
Guardian National Bank of Commerce
Harry B. Keidan
Coughlin
United States
James Couzens
William A Comstock
New York City
Young Democrats of America Convene in Kansas City
Kansas City August 24 AP The New Deal and NRA will be expounded by a corps of prominent National Democratic council members at the nationwide convention of the Young Democratic Clubs of America opening August 31 in Convention Hall. James A Farley postmaster general will head the party figures with James Roosevelt Harry H Woodring Jesse H Jones and Nellie Taylor Ross among speakers scheduled.
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Kansas City
NRA
Young Democratic Clubs of America
James A. Farley
James Roosevelt
Harry H Woodring
Kansas
Jesse H. Jones
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Nellie Taylor Ross
The
Mint
Wyoming
Nebraska state committee to curb hysteria action
Governor Charles W. Bryan attends a meet with administrative districts as Keith Neville is chosen chairman of the state committee. Neville hopes newspapers will aid the enforcement group in curbing hysteria. He says the committee will work mostly privately with rare public hearings.
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Charles W. Bryan
Keith Neville
State Committee
Neville
40 000 000 St Louis Parade for the NRA
A large St Louis parade drew about 40 000 citizens in a city campaign backing the National Recovery program. Some floats and more than forty bands joined an air show with over a dozen aircraft. Mayor Bernard F Dickmann led as grand marshal with Sen Bennett C Clark at his side.
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ST. Louis
Bernard F. Dickmann
St Louis
NRA Committee
United States
Bennett C. Clark
Dickmann
Footlight favorite Marie Cahill dies in New York
New York reports Marie Cahill a Broadway comedienne of a former generation has died at her home. Her passing recalls her role in De Wolf Hopper’s song Casey at the Gat and a story about a girl named Nancy Brown. She is believed to be between 60 and 70 years old.
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New York
Marie Cahill
Comedienne
Nancy Brown
Mussolini Aids Cannon Crew In Army Maneuvers
In Garessio Italy on August 23 Premier Mussolini arrived by car to help artillerymen of the third regiment drag a 108 mm gun up a hill. He shouted to give a hand and tugged with the sergeant amid cheers as the gun moved forward.
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Garessio
Italy
Mussolini
Wealthy Kansas Farmer and Wife Shot to Death
O. J. Boddy a 44 year old prominent Narka farmer and his wife were found shot to death in their Belleville Kansas home. Officers report Boddy killed his wife then shot himself on the front porch. A hired girl found the bodies as she returned from an errand and the Boddy children aged 16 and 9 slept upstairs.
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Belleville
Kas
O. J. Boddy
Boddy
Cat Gets Indians Tongue at Trial
In Muskogee Oklahoma August 23 with Lometa Hott suing Eastman Richards for separate maintenance an interpreter translated questions as Richards who is a Creek Indian and among the wealthiest spoke English on the stand. Richards wealth ranking is noted as second only to Jackson Barnett of Los Angeles.
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Muskogee
Okla
Eastman Richards
Lometa
Hott
Jackson Barnett
Los Angeles
Church Members to Pray for NRA Success
In Los Angeles on August 23 more than 2,000 church members in Southern California will pray for the success of President Roosevelt. Wells recovery program chairman Warner announced the Blue Eagle Sunday plan for NRA state recovery efforts.
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Los Angeles
California
Wells
Warner
NRA State Recovery Board
Annome
Salesman shoots at officers in Austin hotel gunbattle
Jesse Grooms of Austin a salesman was fatally wounded after barricading in a hotel room and resisting a raid by city police sheriff's deputies and Texas Rangers. The confrontation occurred during a warrant service. A separate note claims that if all outlying US possessions were combined they would total less than Montana’s area.
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Austin
Tex
Jesse Grooms
Sheriff's Deputies
Texas Rangers
Grooms
United States
Alaska
Montana
Nebraska Opposes NPA Snooper Tactics
Lincoln Nebraska August 23 Union Press reports members of the Nebraska NRA Enforcement Committee voiced opposition to wartime enforcement methods of the Recovery Act. The meeting noted ongoing statewide organization and readiness, while noting local compliance and enforcement steps amid wartime pressures.
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Lincoln
Neb
Nebraska
NRA Enforcement Committee
Washington Hit By Coastal Storm With Hurricane Strength
Uprooting trees and damaging lines, a storm from the Virginia coast reached near hurricane intensity but diminished over Washington. Forecaster Weightman reassured the public no hurricane winds would affect the capital. gales continued along the Atlantic coast. The storm disrupted Virginia and Maryland lines, with the Madison reporting distress signals near Cape Charles and the Indianapolis ready to assist. A elm toppled near the White House and another near the public library caused near misses but no injuries.
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Washington
Virginia
Weather Bureau
Ocean
Chesaneake Bay
R. H. Weightman
Weather Bureau Forecaster, Issued A Statement That At 2:00 P.m. B.S. T
Weightman
Atlantic
B. H. Weightman
Virginia Coast
Navy Department
Bureau of Aeronautics
Virginia Capes
Cape Charles Virginia
Coast Guard
Indianapolis
Mindianapolis
Hampton Roads
Norfolk, Virginia
Naval
White House
Pennsylvania Avenue
Broodall Star and Wife Hurt in Wreck Near Springfield
Springfield Aug 23 A collision injures baseball player Tapi W C Thomas 25 and his wife 21 traveling salesman W H Berry 76. Thomas faces possible internal injuries after a trip to Tulsa to visit his wife's father. The wife suffered facial lacerations and tooth loss. Berry has a fractured jaw and other injuries.
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Springfield
Tapi
W. C. Thomas
Indianapolis Indians
W.H. Berry
Thomas
Tulsa
Berry
Unemployed Admits Robbing Grocery in Lincoln
In Lincoln Nebraska on August 23 1931 unemployed organizer Jack Hazelrigg admitted leading a group to raid a grocery store to obtain 310 worth of groceries. He told police the plan failed and Hazelrigg was arrested charged with the theft and he said the men needed food not from the county.
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Lincoln
Neb
Jack Hazelrigg
Ichief
Hazelrigg
Lamson Murder Trial Seeks New Nursemaid Witness
In San Jose on August 23 AP reports the Lamson murder trial enters its third day as District Attorney Fred Thomas seeks another former Lamson nursemaid to testify. The DA aims to expose alleged domestic discord behind the facade of a wealthy couple. A new witness, a young woman once employed at the Lamson home on the Stanford campus, is expected to bolster the prosecution’s case.
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Sorrenson
Clara Malwitz
Fred Thomas
Thomas
Lamson
Stanford University
mari_ ‘tak
Unclear Trial Fragments Tie to Case in Court
Fragmentary OCR text references a murder trial, naming Samson as defendant and Allene Frederick II with a posthumous sobriquet Frederick the Great. Details are sparse and context incomplete, but point to a homicide case proceedings in progress.
Marriage of Ruth Bailey Revealed to Robert Prosser
In St. Louis on August 23, Miss Ruth Bailey national public parks tennis champion, wed Robert Prosser in Illinois last May 2. Prosser works for Anheuser-Busch brewery in St. Louis.
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ST. Louis
Ruth Bailey
Robert Prosser
Illinois
Prosser
Anheuser-Busen, Inc
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Frederick II
Frederick the Great
Inet Star
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