Landon’s East campaign prospects seen as strong
United Press dispatch from Buffalo reports Gov. Alf M. Landon, with Republican leaders, optimistic about carrying the East including New York and Pennsylvania. He meets with party chiefs, attends lunches and dinners, drives in an open car to events, and plans speeches in Buffalo and Chicago before a late October push toward Madison Square Garden.
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Lyle C. Wilson
United Press
Buffalo
N. Y
Alf M. Landon
New York
Pennsylvania
Joseph Martin
John Hamilton
Ogden Mills
Treasury
London
Edward H. Butler
Buffalo Evening News
William J. Conners, Jr
Buffalo Courier-Express
Landon
Buller
Hamilton
Butler
Democracy
Herbert H. Lehman
Guv
Buffalo Baseball Park
Republican County Committee
106Th Field Artillery Armory
Velt
Republican Party
Grandon
Chicago
Finois
Topeka
Atlantic Seaboard
Madison Square Garden
Kansas City Provides Water To 12 Towns In Need
Kansas City will supply about 150000 gallons daily to 12 towns in Kansas and Missouri with depleted water supplies. Water will be shipped in sterilized rail tank cars at no charge, on condition the towns do not levy fees. Kansas towns include Louisburg Bucyrus Lenexa Gardner Fontana and Missouri towns include Butler Drexel Peculiar Cleveland Vibbard Jaudon Ore.
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Kansas City
Kansas
Misouri
H. F. McElroy
McElroy
Louisburg
Bucyrus
Lenexa
Gardner
Fontana
Missouri
Butler
Drexel
Peculiar
Cleveland
Vibbard
Ore
Jaudon
Missing Judge Crater and London Auction Note
A witness recalls the night Judge Crater disappeared on August 6, 1930 after waving to a showgirl. He reportedly had about $20,000 on him. The article notes a 1932 London auction where a lock of Napoleon's hair was sold.
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Judge Crater
London
Napoleon
Harry Richman
New York
Richman
California
Merrill
Air Mail
Osage river fisher Convicted Over Channel Catfish
Osage river fisherman George Bond was convicted by a justice court jury of possessing 24 channel catfish in violation of state limits. Bond faced a $22 fine and plans to appeal to the circuit court as prosecutors press the case to clarify the correct identification of channel catfish amid expert testimony and dictionaries. A census note about New York state population in 1933 follows the main item.
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Missouri
Justice Court
George Bond
Bond
Elliott M. Campf
W. C. Irwin
Osage
State Department
Department
Game and Fish Department
Jefferson City
Roosevelt Train En Route Drought Conference
President Roosevelt and his official party traveled aboard the Roosevelt train en route to Bismarck North Carolina for drought conference talks with governors from sixteen states. Governor Landon led a crowded program in Buffalo New York as a prelude to his Eastern address. Senator Byrnes swept opponents in Columbia South Carolina for the Democratic nomination. Senator Larrison led Jackson Mississippi toward a fourth Senate term with a large primary lead. Father Coughlin prepared to resume speaking Sunday before the Wisconsin National Union convention. Dr Francis Townsend departed Cleveland for Syracuse to support Lemke’s presidential bid. Lemke planned a nine day Pacific Coast tour in September.
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Roosevelt
Bismarck
N. C
Buffalo
N. Yha
Landon
Columbia
James F. Byrnes
Jackson
Miss
Pat Larrison
Detroit
Charles E.coughlin
Wisconsin
National Union For Social Justice
Cleveland
Francis F. Townsend
Syracuse
William Lemke
Union Party
Chicago
Lemke
North Dakota
Pacific Coast
Four Bodies Reported Along Kansas Track After Train
Officials said a Mildred foreman found parts of four bodies along the tracks after No 28 passed at 5 07 p m near Mildred Kansas The figures appeared to be men or boys and no wreckage of a car was found Blood soaked clothing and overalls were reported on the train as it reached Kansas City at 7 15 a m
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Parsons
Kas
Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad
Mildred
Katy
Kansas City
Woman swims hour after fall in river
In St Louis on August 26 AP Miss Zora Shelby 35 fell from a motorboat into the Mississippi River and swam for about an hour, partly dazed by darkness, to reach the riverbank near a boat company dock. Police had been searching the water when she arrived soaked and exhausted.
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ST. Louis
Manslaughter charge in highway crash
R L Carhart of Joliet Illinois was charged with manslaughter in a highway crash near Excelsior Springs Missouri where Mrs W M Lohberger aged 57 of Briscoe Texas was killed. Bond set at 5000 dollars pending a preliminary hearing on September 8 after a coroner inquest.
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Excelsior
Springs
R. L. Carhart
Joliet
Ill
Here
W. NM. Lohberger
Briscoe
Tex
Carhart
Lohberger
Eugene
Pulitzer 5 sued for Reno divorce
Mrs Wilma Boldeman Pulitzer sues Seward Webb Pulitzer for divorce in Reno charging cruelty. They wed in New York on March 23 1932 and have a two year old daughter Sally living with her in Reno. An agreement on custody and education was signed June 20 1936. Trial to be held privately this afternoon.
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Reno
Wilma Boldeman Pulitzer
Seward Webb Pulitzer
Ralph Pulitzer
Joseph Pulitzer
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
New York City
Sally
Pulitzer
California
Girl Objects and Sues for Divorce in Los Angeles
Metta Nadine Shuler, 18, suing for divorce from Jack Shuler, 18, alleges his father, a pastor, forced their honeymoon nights to end by 10 PM. She claims the father demanded he return home by that hour, prompting her to seek a divorce in court.
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Los Angeles
Metta Nadine Shuler
Jack Shuler
Trainmen Refuse to Switch Cars at Tiff Mine Plant
MP trainmen again refuse to switch empty cars into the National Pigments and Superior Mineral Co. plants at Fountain Farms and Cadet as a 2,000-strong mining strike drains supplies. State guards observe, officials seek order, and protests spread with pickets and clashes.
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Potosi
Missouri Pacific Railroad
National Pigments and Chemical Co
Superior Mineral Co
Oiff
W. H. Comis
National Pigments
Fountain Farms
George Cole
International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter
Fountain Farm
Superior
Cadet
Samuel Richeson
Jefferson City
Frank Harris
Haris
T. L. Leigh
Patro
Kirkwood
National Guard
National
Ibury BE. Budley
Sikeston
John C. Christy
C. M. Jenni
Festus
Head of St. Mary's College Dies in St Louis
The Rev. William J. Wallace, 76, former president of St. Marys College of St. Marys Kansas, died of heart disease at a St. Louis hospital after months of treatment. He came to St. Louis in 1919 to serve as Treasurer of the Missouri Province of Jesuits and held that role until his death.
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St. Louis
William J. Wallace
St. Mary’s
College of St. Mary's
Kas
St. Mary's
Missouri Province of Jesuits
Hirth seeks county judges to call farmer meetings
Columbia Mo Aug 26 AP William Hirth founder of the Missouri Farmers Association urged county judges to convene mass meetings of farmers this week to name delegates for a Sedalia gathering August 31. Delegates will report drought details for a statewide briefing to President Roosevelt during his Sept 3 visit to Hannibal. A Sedalia committee would meet with the president. He called the drought the most distressing Missouri history and warned families may lose brood sons dairy cattle and poultry without swift aid.
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Columbia
William Hirth
The
Missouri Farmers Association
Missouri
Farm Organization
Sedalia
Hirth
Roosevelt
Hannibal
French statisticians forecast armed readiness for war in Europe
Paris officials report statisticians estimate 6,000,900 men would be ready for war when Germany’s two year military service begins. They calculate total armed forces in Europe’s leading states at about 5,369,000, with Germany adding 400,000 Nazi militia and 275,000 labor camp personnel.
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Paris
Germany
France
Europe
Both
Army and civilian statisticians tabulate German forces
A table shows regular fighting units by nation as Germany plans a double term military construction. Figures list Germany 1,965,000. Allies include Russia 200,000. France 654,000. Poland 266,000. Great Britain 213,000. Romania 141,000. Czechoslovakia 109,000. Yugoslavia 107,000. Belgium 63,500.
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Germany
Russia
France
Poland
Great Britain
Rumania Oe
Czechoslovakia
Yugoslavia
Belgium
Woman Kills Spouse Leaving Hospital in Corsicana
Howard H. Goodman, 45, was shot twice as he left a hospital in Corsicana Texas. His wife Hattie Goodman faced a murder charge in Judge W T McFadden's court. Goodman had been hospitalized for injuries from weeks prior. The story notes an unrelated note about whaling with air-pumped whales.
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Corsicana
Tex
Howard H. Goodman
Hattie Goodman
W. T. McFadden
Goodman
Buick Legion Organizers Are Under Arrest
Detroit August 26 AP Arthur F. Lupp Sr state organizer for the Black Legion Wilbur Robinson a brigadier general in the hooded order and N Ray Markland surrendered to answer a charge of criminal syndicalism Markland a former Highland Park mayor and Lupp were charged with conspiring to kill Highland Park officials and with syndicalism The case leaves Virgil Effinger and Isaac White as fugitives The sanity of Harvey Davis Black Legion leader accused in the Poole case was ruled intact and his trial with 11 others starts next Monday Angstadt Black Legion member was sentenced to 3 to 7 1/2 years for falsely imprisoning an Ecorse worker
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Detroit
Arthur F. Lupp
Black Legion
Wilbur Robinson
N. Ray Markland
Markland
Highland Park
Lupp
Martin 4. Zink
Arthur L. Kingliye
Davis
Poole
Southern
Michigan
Earl Angstadt
Robert J. Penland
Ecorse Steel
Angstadt
Ohio
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Irwin
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Dallas
Garfield
Geek
Janet Garfield
A. X.adam
Mississippi
Pulitzer 5
P.D
Tiff
ST. Mary’s College
Fet
Jefferson City-Mexico
Missouri Power & Light Co
Arkansas
Helen Prout
PWA
DeQueen
Ark
Buick Legion
Paul Schu Hinicreer RE
Oftman
Bettie
Central
Trust Company Banking
Central Missouri Trust Co
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