Elder Finney Fales Charged With Embezzlement
W W Finney president of Fidelity State and Savings Bank faces embezzlement charges of 67942 in a county warrant. The case links to his son Ronald Finney who is charged with forging bonds. Finney pleads not guilty and is released on 25000 bond for a September 12 preliminary hearing.
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Emporia
EAS
W. W. Finney
Fidelity State and Savings Bank
Clarence ¥. Beck
Finney
Ronald Finney
Joe Dailey
Twe
Kansas
Singing Meet Draws 2500 From 3 Counties
In Louisiana Mo on August 28 AP reports 2500 attendees at the annual convention of the Pike Lincoln Audrain County Singing Association in Farber. Fred Detienne of Vandalia was reelected president and it was decided to hold the 1934 meeting at Laddonia in Audrain County.
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Louisiana
Pike
Lincoln
Audrain County
Farber
Fred Detienne
Vandalia
Laddonia
Gonzales Named Minister to Panama by Roosevelt
President Roosevelt appoints Antonio C. Gonzales of New York City as United States Minister to Panama. Gonzales, once mentioned as Puerto Rico Governor General candidate, sworn in after Roy T. Davis resignation. He had been at the State Department for days preparing for duties.
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Hyde Park
Roosevelt
Antonio C. Gonzales
New York City
Panama
Gonzales
Puerto Rico
Washington
Antonio O. Gonzales
New York
United States
Roy T. Davis
State Department
Wealthy New Yorker leaves 25,000 for death inquiry
Horace Elliot Wadsworth who died August 9 in New York left a will pledging 25,000 to investigate the cause of his death. He also created a 100,000 reward for anyone who discovers and prosecutes those who might have caused his death. An Associated Press dispatch notes an autopsy blamed acute alcoholism.
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New York
Horace Elliot Wadsworth
New Yorker
Reng
Rens
Wadsworth
Berber Chief Surrenders 106 Families to French Legion
Ous Skounti, famed Berber leader, led 106 families to French lines at Atlas Mountains. He offered 100 rifles in surrender. General Giraud accepted and provided food and water. French Foreign Legion units, amid 120 degree heat, seized the Badou Mountains after weeks of campaigning.
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Atlas Mountains
Morocco
Ous Skounti
Giraud
French Foreign Legion
Badou Mountains
Danish Police Guard Lindbergh in Copenhagen Hotel
In Copenhagen on August 28 crowd control actions kept police busy at the hotel where Colonel Lindbergh and his wife are staying. Officers stood guard to keep back a crowd of youth and visitors seeking a glimpse of the famed aviator and his spouse.
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Copenhagen
Minries A. Lindbergh
Blind Street Singer Has Code All His Own
NASHVILLE Tenn Aug 28 COP W H Deason the blind street singer whose tapping cane megaphone and tin cup have become a tradition here will operate under the NRA I will reduce my hours from 12 to 14 a day down to the regulation eight hours under the NRA the veteran street singer announced But I will expect larger contributions from those who listen to me sing in those sight hours
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Nashville
Tenn
W. H. Deason
NRA
Railroads post large July gains in operating income
New York Aug 22 AP The first 37 railroads reporting for July show total net operating income of 37,226,900, up from 4,135,009 a year earlier. Gross revenues reached 176,722,000, rising 23.2 percent from last year and 46 percent above June 1933. Individual road figures include Santa Fe 2,896,275, etc with deficits noted for some lines.
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New York
BNO
Camme
Santa Fe
Baltimore
Atlantic Coast Line
Chicago & Easttra Ill
Insurance head directed to take over Missouri Life
In St Louis on August 28, Circuit Judge Williams ordered state Insurance Superintendent Emmett O Malley to assume charge of the Missouri State Life Insurance Company, granting him powers of a receiver as liabilities reportedly exceed assets by 27 million dollars. Equity Corporation offers to form General American Life with 2 million paid in capital to take over policies and claims. R B OMalley currently heads Missouri State Life, a 150 million dollar company, while Walter W Head reviews affairs for Equity. A rooster accused of witchcraft in 1474 at Basel was burned.
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ST. Louis
IAP
Emmett O'Malley
Charles B. Williams
Missouri State Life Insurance Company
O'Malley
New York
Equity+ Corporation
Avid M. Milton
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
General American Life Insurance Company
Equity
Missouri State Company
General American
Walter W. Head
American Bankers Association
St. Laws
Missouri
Life For Equity
Lamson on Trial in Death of Wife at Stanford Cottage
San Jose California August 28 AP David A Lamson accused of beating to death his 23 year old wife showed anguish at the moment of discovery and cried murder after returning to the front door of the Lamson Cottage on the Stanford campus Memorial Day. Witnesses described blood and a bloody shirt as Lamson reportedly paced and cried for police. The trial resumed with X-ray expert Dr Fred Powers testifying as spectators including Charles G Norris and Kathleen Norris filled the gallery. The jury appeared refreshed after a weekend recess and was kept under guard by a bailiff.
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San Jose
Cal
David A. Lamson
Stanford University
Buford Brown
Helen Vincent
Alfred Raas
Lamson
Charles G
Kathleen Norris
Allene Thorpe Lamson
Fred Powers
San Francisco
PIGGIES POUR INTO ST LOUIS MARKET
A flood of about 50,000 pigs from five states sold at premium prices flooded pens and chutes at the National Stockyards in East St. Louis today. So strong was the response that the local committee said no further shipments would be received until each raiser received specific permission to bring his hogs to the market.
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East ST. Louis
Plan Trade Pact for U S and Brazil
Washington August 28. Discussion of a reciprocal trade agreement between the United States and Brazil will begin tomorrow. The talks will be between Assistant Secretary of State Caffery and Brazilian Ambassador Lima Silva.
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Washington
United States
Brazil
United Press
Caffery
Lima ¥. Silva
Unclear baseball score report with partial teams
Fragmentary game update shows Cincinnati and Boston scores with incomplete inning details. Mentions players Lucas Lombardi Brandt Spohrer as batteries, but no full line score or date.
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Ana Mnet
Sintinnati
Boston
Lucas, Lombardi
Brandt
Spohrer
It Takes An Irisher To Eat German Kraut
Michael Smith an Irish farmer won the sauerkraut eating championship at the Henderson kraut festival by chewing eight and three quarters pounds in fifteen minutes while dozens of Germans finished about half that. Frank Donovan of Sipley county was second and Henderson’s own favorite C F Vic Whitford was fourth. About 15 000 visitors attended as 580 gallons of kraut 1200 pounds of weiners and 12000 buns were served.
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Henderson, Minn
Michael Smith
Henderson
Lawyers Snoop on Banks as Judge Orders Book Check
Detroit juried inquiry hears Senator Couzens accuse Union Guardian Trust and Detroit Trust Co. of manipulating funds in the 10 million dollar Michigan children’s fund. Arthur J. Lacy defends the old regime and cites unfair criticism of federal action.
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Detroit
Harry B. Keidan
Union Guardian Trust Co
Detroit Trust Co
United States
James Couzens R. Mich
Childrens’ Fund of
Michigan
First National Bank
Arthur J. Lacy
Senator Couzens
Trust
Lacy
National Administration
Hoover
Washington
Huey Long Attacked in Fashionable Long Island Spot
The New York Sun reports United States Senator Huey Long was punched Saturday night near Port Washington in a fashionable Long Island spot after being gravely insulted. The assailant is unnamed and no full details are given. Long was said to have offered no resistance and was ushered by attendants into a car.
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New York
New York Sun
United States
Huey Long
Louisiana
Long Island
Port Washington
Sun
Long
Roosevelts Visit Crowned National Scout Induction
President Roosevelt visited more than 1,600 New York Boy Scouts at Ten Mile Camp in Narrowsburg. The scouts inducted him into the Order of the Arrow and presented him with the Indian headgear as a token of appreciation for his long rainy trip eighty miles to meet them.
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New York
Roosevelt
Ten Mile Camp
Narrowsburg
N. Y
Order of the Arrow
Sleeping sickness epidemic won’t close St. Louis schools
St Louis will open schools on September 3 as sleeping sickness cases rise to 39 dead and 265 ill. Dr Henry Gerling said few children are affected and schools offer protection. 61 educators will assist health officials, while William Godin reports a yard insect resembling a tse tse fly, linking to the African disease carrier.
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ST. Louis
Louis
Henry Gerling
Board of Education
Sciiao
William Godin
Africa
Godin
Borneo
Nine Burned in Gas Explosion at Whiting Refinery
Nine men were seriously burned and ten more slightly burned in a gas explosion at the Standard Oil refinery in Whiting Indiana. The accident occurred today as workers were handling gas in the plant, with responders rushing to the scene and transporting the injured to nearby hospitals.
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Indiana
Whiting, Ind
Whiting
Standard Oil Company of
Claims of 140-pound catfish in Blackwater Creek
SWEET SPRINGS MO Aug 28 UP Game Warden Thomas H Bagnell reports a 140 pound catfish in Blackwater Creek near Sweet Springs. He says he saw the rare fish swimming in the stream and living in a hollow log as its home, a first for the area.
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Sweet Springs
Thomas H. Bagnell
Blackwater Creek
Bagnell
Fingerprint All Criminals Federal Plan
Washington Aus 28 The plan seeks universal fingerprinting to aid catching criminals. Senate committee head Copeland says fingerprinting is a duty of citizenship and would boost punishment certainty. He also calls for federal firearms control and an outright ban on the submachine gun.
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Washington
Aus
Congress
Copeland
Senate Committee On
Young Democrat Mangh to Crime Capital Beging
Kansas City Mo Aug 24 The first of more than 10000 delegates to the convention of the young Democratic Clubs of America began arriving here today Executives high in the Roosevelt administration will attend the convention which opens Thursday night and closes Saturday Postmaster General James A Farley will be the principal speaker Thursday Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt will be the principal speaker and honor guest at a women's luncheon Hugh S Johnson NRA administrator also is scheduled to address the delegates Turner Battle assistant secretary for labor Harry F Woodrin assistant secretary of war Nellie Taylor Ross director of the unit Jesse H Jones chairman of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation J P O Connor comptroller of the currency A E Hutchinson manager Home Owners Loan Corporation Eugene Vidal of the Department of Commerce and Herbert L Petty secretary of the Federal Radio Commission Fish is called a brain food because it is easily digested and therefore the stomach does not make such a heavy call on the blood in the brain for the digestive process
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Kansas City
Young Democratic Clubs of America
Roosevelt
James A Farley
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Hugh S. Johnson
NRA
Machine Gun Kelly sighted in New Orleans area
Reports from New Orleans state that gangster George Kelly of the Barney Bailey gang was seen in the region prompting federal agents to chase leads along the gulf coast. He reportedly registered at a Hattiesburg Mississippi hotel using the name R G Kelly and was accompanied by another man as Hattiesburg police reviewed photos to confirm the sighting.
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New Orleans
George Kelly
Barney Bailey
Gulf Coast
Kelly
Hattiesburg
Miss
R. G. Kelly
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