Truman Urges End to Subsidy Talk for Fair Transport
In Kansas City on August 24, Senator Harry S. Truman told the Missouri Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen to drop subsidy talk and focus on fair treatment for all transport modes. He and Senator Burton Wheeler supported a transportation policy bill, praising ICC fairness and urging equal treatment for railroads buses trucks waterways and airways to curb current evils.
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Kansas City
Harry S. Truman
Missouri
Trumen
Burton K. Wheeler
Montana
ICC
Commission
Possum Phantom Burglar in Berkeley Stole Gold Fish
A Berkeley phantom burglar known for stealing only gold fish from garden ponds continues to elude police. Local residents report emptied aquariums and missing goldfish remains, while investigators pursue tips in the peculiar case.
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Berkeley
Cal
Garden Ponds
Painless Dentist Chair Allegedly Invented in Chicago
Chicago reports a new drug banishes pain from the dentist chair with over 8 million injections tested. Dr. Fred R. Adams says modern anesthesia makes major dental work pain free, though fear persists for some patients. Other AMA briefs note allergy symptoms can mimic infections and spontaneous pneumothorax can occur in healthy people after coughing or laughing.
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Chicago
American Medical Association
Hygeia
Fred R. Adams
New York
A.M.A. Journal
George Piness
Hulman Miller
Los Angeles
Staige D. Blackford
University, Va
Boy Killed When Bicycle Is Hit On Highway
In a late yesterday collision west of here a bicycle ridden by 10 year old Jeck Holt was struck by an automobile. The incident occurred on a highway near LT. CHARLES. authorities report the boy died from injuries sustained in the crash.
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Charles
Jeck Holt
Noted scenarist killed on farm near Tyringham Mass
New York Aug. 24 AP The theater world mourns Sydney Howard a leading playwright and film scenarist crushed to death by a tractor on his 700 acre summer estate near Tyringham Massachusetts He was working on a dramatization of Carl von Dorpens Pulitzer biography of Benjamin Franklin The tractor leaped forward after the crank was spun and struck him The writer was son in law of conductor Walter Damrosch and had won the 1925 Pulitzer for Their Knew What They Wanted His other works included The Ghost of Yankee Doodle Bulldog Drummond Condemned Raffles A Lady to Love The Greeks had a Word For It and Christopher Bean He adapted Dodsworth for the stage in 1934 and wrote Yellow Jack His marriages included Leopoldine Blaine Damrosch and earlier Claire Eames He leaves a widow one child by his first marriage three by the second his mother a sister and three brothers.
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New York
Sydney Howard
Tyringham
Mass
Carl von Dor ‘En
Benjamin Franklin
Haren J
Howard
Walter Damrosch
Ethel Barrymore
Bulldog Drummond
Raffles
Christopher Bean
London
John U. Howard
Confederate Vets Elect New Commander At 49th Reunion
Julius Franklin Howell, 94, of Bristol Virginia, leads in the race for United Confederate Veterans commander as the 49th reunion's events unfold in Trinidad Colorado. The meeting includes a memorial service, an annual ball, and a parade to close the gathering tomorrow. Howell, UCV adjutant general, vows to serve without being trampled by any group.
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Trinidad
Cola
United Confederate Veterans
Julius Franklin Howell
Bristol
John W. Harris
Oklahoma City
Howell
Confederated Southern Memorial Association
UCV
Sons of Confederate Veterans
Twin Jesuit priests swap colleges within order
The Keeney brothers, Louis and Francis, both priests and teachers of chemistry and mathematics, sought transfers between Rockhurst College in Kansas City and Regis College in Denver. Louis moved to Denver while Francis was sent to Rockhurst, with hope of brief visits to stay together. Also noted, a Norristown will bequeathed a log book and the U.S. Constitution to a grandson.
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Kansas City, Mo
Louis Keeney
Rockhurst College
Regis College
Denver
Francis Kenney
Rockhurst
Kenney
Jesuit College
Astorie Log
Norristown
Helen S. Clayton
Flashes and Wrecks From The Alert Desk
In Williamsport a sparrow rode a train from Burle to Washington without leaving its emergency cord. In Ellensburg a mountain lion killed 56 sheep in a stampede following a single strike. In Albuquerque a 19 year old burned a giant cross as a temperance lesson, drawing a suspended fine. In Sewickley Mrs Thaw ordered razing of her 44 room mansion citing excessive taxation.
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Associated Press
Williamsport
T. B. Rosser
Bur’ le
Washington
Albuquerque
N.M
Sewickley, Pa
William Thaw, Jr
Yoom
Thaw
Gov Stark's horse wins at Sedalia fair open stake
Gov Lloyd C Stark watched Stark's Peavine Princess win the $400 open five gaited stake at the Missouri state fair horse show in Sedalia. Anacadia owned by G Welch Greenwell of Shelbina took third. Other awards included V ictorious Volunteer and Silver Service in various saddle horse events. Archaeological excavations reveal early stone and clay lamp and torch-holding devices as some of the first domestic tools.
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Sedalia
Lloyd C. Stark
Stark
Anacadia
G. Welch Greenwell
Shelbina
Volunteer
Davis Stables
Hannibal
Silver Service
Temple Stephens
Moberly
Sterling Silver
Dr. J. W. Opp
National Saddle Horse Futurity
Midnite Peavine
Beauty of Windsor
W. C. Windsor
Boonville
Capper Urges Topeka Club Against Involving U.S. in Europe
Topeka Senator Capper told the Topeka High-12 club that Europe still owes the United States what they borrowed for the last war. He said there is no reason for America to become involved in another European conflict.
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Capper
Topeka, Kas
Topeka
Europe
America
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Gov. Stark
Cook's
Wales
Jefferson
United
Ry Palmer
Pke
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Eiselbach and Peasner
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