Heat and drought strangle Midwest as showers offer relief
Scattered showers spread relief across the Midwest but rainfall is too light to end the drought. Lightning killed three in Ohio as cooler air moved into Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa. Fires, timber damage, and protests over crop prospects dominated headlines with fears for corn and wheat yields and calls for federal aid.
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Alf M. Landon
Full Pension Payments Sought in Missouri Case
The petition argues for full benefits under the state act for the aged, contending current funds cannot cover maximum pensions. Thompson cites state and federal funds totaling about 3.7 to 5.6 million for 1935 36 while planning October disbursements to about 54 000 indigent seniors at seven to twelve dollars monthly. Amsterdam restaurateurs skirt midnight closing by removing vending machines to sell sandwiches takeout and ice cream cones after hours.
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Amsterdam
G Men Focus on Bank Robber and Kidnaper Pursuit
Federal agents pursue two top flight public enemies following Alvin Karpis guilty plea and life sentence for the Hamm kidnapping. Hoove r calls the new target a notorious bank robber and a fresh style kidnapper who uses hostages to flee. Joseph Hanley, a Sioux City fugitive, faces two kidnapping indictments plus vehicle theft and escape charges.
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Alvin Karpis
Washington
Karpis
William Hamm, Jr
St. Paul Brewer
J. Edgar Hoover
Federal Bureau’ of Investigation
Joseph Hanley
Han Jey
Sioux City
Iowa
Minnesota
Hanley
Harold Harpin
Herman Ger Bredensteiner
Dean S. James
Missouri Primary Sparks GOP Rivalries Across Races
Amid seven days left, Stark and Barrett are seen as sure GOP and Democratic winners respectively. Hirth declines comment while rumors link him to Jesse W Barrett for governor. In the Democratic field, Judge Gantt is favored over McDaniel. The lieutenant governor and secretary of state races feature Chouteau versus Davis and Thompson versus Harrison/Crawford with unclear outcomes.
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Hirth
Barrett
Ernest $. Gantt
Supreme Court
Henri Chouteau
St. Louus
Manuel Hi Davis
Kansas City
L. D. Thompson
Jefferson City
Fred M. Harrison
Gallatin
Fred M. Crawford
Eldorado Springs
Truman to Speak at Cornerstone Laying in Neosho
United States Senator Harry S. Truman will deliver the principal address at the cornerstone laying for Newton County courthouse in Neosho Missouri. James W. Skelly of St. Louis, grand master of the Missouri Masonic lodge, will lay the stone. The note about shaving 20 square miles of face appears as an odd aside.
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Neosho
United States
Harry 5. Truman
Newton County
James W. Skelly
St. Louis
Missouri Masonic Lodge
Hunger Marchers Storm Pennsylvania Assembly
About 2,000 unemployed marchers urged a $100 million unemployment relief appropriation as they stormed the Pennsylvania assembly halls in Harrisburg. The protest disrupted an extraordinary legislative session convened by Gov. Earle to aid the 361,000 needy, with galleries filled as lawmakers largely remained seated.
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General Assembly
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WPA Employees May Face Charges Over Political Rhetoric
McGugin accuses WPA officials in Chanute of political treachery at meetings where admittance is by membership card and officials allegedly urge propaganda against Governor Landon. He likens them to the Black Legion and calls the district HQ a political racket as Chanute mulls moving its offices. Also notes 214 insect pests on corn.
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WPA
Alf M. Landon
Black Legion of Detroit
Chanute
Daily Press
Two Die As Prairie Fire Sweeps Acre Tract Near Greenhaven
A 49 year old farm manager Real Ferris and his wife Jean Ferris died when a prairie blaze swept 100 acres near Greenhaven in Clay county Kansas City. They attempted to flee by car then on foot as the wind drove the wall of flame. Fire began near Hutson home and spread rapidly before rain slowed it. Local residents fought the blaze with water and brooms.
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Greenhaven
Here
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Hospital Field
William
Thomas Beckham
Hudson
CCC Youths Battle Timber Land Fire Near JKAHORA
Fire started by a cigarette scorched 400 acres of farm and timber land beside highway 4 near JKAHORA Missouri as CCC camp enrollees aided in bringing the blaze under control yesterday.
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CCC
MacArthur quarrels over shipboard champagne party
Charles MacArthur, husband of Helen Hayes, said he was extremely annoyed by reports of his participation in a champagne party with Eleanor Holm Jarrett aboard the S S Manhattan about ten days earlier. He claimed he was not at the same bar as Jarrett and met her briefly. Jarrett was dismissed from the American Olympic team for alleged drinking and curfew violations.
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London
Charles MacArthur
Helen Hayes
Eleanor Holm Jarrett
New York
Manhattan
Widow of Doctor Dies at St Joseph
Cameron Mo July 28 AP Mrs Iniz Merwin widow of Frank Merwin longtime Keystone Mo store and lumber yard operator died at her home after a long illness
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Iniz Merwin
Frank Merwin
Keystone
Five men jailed on killing charge in Missouri
Bloomfield Missouri July 28 five men held without bond for trial in the slaying of Fred Fulkerson a 25 year old mule buyer in Coppertown following a dice game. Sheriff George Barham said preliminary trial for the five is set for July 31.
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Fred Fulkerson
Coppertown
George Barham
Herman Shievel
Orville
Lee
Lon Mayberry
L. N. Irvin
Fulkerson
Barham
Ed Harington
Hirth backs prison term for election fraudsters
Hirth urged harsher criminal laws to punish election fraud and linked the Pendergast machine to the St. Louis registration scandal. He asserted all involved should face penitentiary sentences, noting newspapers would have counted fraudulent votes for Major Stark if uncovered.
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Rolla
St. Louis
Pendergast Organization
Kansas City
Hirth
Stark
WPA Leader Denies Charges of Ragket
Sherryvale Kas July 27 AP James Brady district WPA Supervisor today denied charges raised in a speech by former congressman Harold McGugin that the managing officers of the WPA district headquarters conspired in a vicious plan. Brady called the assertions absolutely false and a vicious plant stating about 70 gallons of pure oil were involved.
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Sherryvale
Kas
James Brady
WPA
Harold McGugin
Brady
McGugin Seeks GOP Nomination Amid WPA Claims
McGugin accuses WPA officials of haranguing workers to spread poison against Gov. Alf Landon and urge his defeat. He says meetings were held behind closed doors. Brady denies secret meetings and says there is no foundation for the claims.
Elevator Blaze Threatens City of Leavenworth
A grain elevator belonging to Farmers National Grain exploded in a midnight blaze in Leavenworth Kansas destroying or damaging about 400000 bushels of wheat. Damage was pegged at 500000 dollars by H E Witham. High winds spread embers blocking wide areas but rain limited further damage. The fire ruined barge loading gear and the elevator office. origin suspected to be lightning or spontaneous combustion. The Chinese celebrate New Year's Day twice yearly.
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Kas
Farmers National Grain Corporation
North Leavenworth
H. E. Witham
Kansas City
O. B. McCall
Missouri River
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