British seek American aid to check Italian invasion plan
London reports a British move to enlist U S cooperation on the Italo Ethiopian crisis, aiming for League backed sanctions and an emergency action before the rainy Ethiopian season ends. Cabinet deliberations follow the Paris tri power talks collapse. The AP survey shows France, Belgium, Yugoslavia and others leaning toward Britain, while Ethiopia prepares for war.
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London
Downing Street
League of Nations
Italy
Foreign Office
George Lansbury
Lloyd George
Ramsay Macdonald
King
Balmoral
Sir Clive Wigram
U. S. State Department
Ray Atherton
Britain
Atherton
Mussolini
East Africa
Ethiopia
England
Great Britain
Stanley Baldwin
Paris
Geneva
League
Associated Press
France
Belgium
Yugoslavia
Czechoslovakia
Europe
Netherlands
Denmark
Sweden
Baltic
Hmit
Weather outlook across Kentucky Virginia and the Carolinas
Cloudy cooler conditions prevail with partial sunshine and isolated showers. Kentucky expects slight cooling tonight and Thursday with southwest showers later. Virginia shows partly cloudy skies with possible showers in the south on Thursday. North Carolina sees local showers tonight and possibly Thursday with little temperature change. Readings taken daily at noon.
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Kentucky
Virginia
South Portion
North Carolina
Aspiring dictator Velasco Ibarra ousted in Ecuador
In Guayaquil on August 71, President Velasco Ibarra was stripped of office and imprisoned after army leaders rejected his bid for dictatorship. He had jailed opponents and decreed a constituent assembly, but Col. Nicanor Solis ordered his resignation and freed political prisoners. Guards and media were tightened as Solid took control.
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Guayaquil
Ecuador
Jose M. Velasco Ibarra
Velasco Ibarra
Frederico Intriago Arrata
Quito
Senate
Ran Oider
Congress
Ibarra
Nicanor Solis
Sotis
Solid
U S Neutrality Bill Before Senate To Act
Europe crises dominate Capitol Hill as Democratic leaders seek to avert a fight over neutrality legislation. Nye and Bone push for a bill to keep the United States neutral if the Italian Ethiopian crisis worsens. Rep McReynolds warns against jamming unsatisfactory measures through. The measure would bar arms exports to belligerents, bar war implements from belligerent ports for ships, let the president warn citizens traveling on belligerent ships, and limit foreign submarine use of U S ports.
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Washington
Europe
Capitol Hill
Congress
Senate
Nye
Bone
United States
House
Rep. McReynolds
Dtenn
House Foreign Affairs Committee
McReynolds
Easure
Robinson
Arkansas
Kentucky General Object of Search in Harlan
Kentucky authorities sought Adj Gen Henry H Denhardt with a bench warrant for criminal contempt as the General faced a jail defiance by circuit judge James M Gilbert. A grand jury indicted Denhardt and 25 officers over a August 3 national guard deployment to polling places in Harlan county after a court order was disregarded. Denhardt claimed he understood plans to jail him and challenged Judge Gilbert to call him, threatening to explain conditions in Harlan to Kentuckians.
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Harlan. Ky
Adj
Henry H. Denhardt
James M. Gilbert
Denhardt
National Guard
Gilbert
Harlan County
Jessie Stone
Denhhardt
Gibert
Dao Sp
Kentucky
Bodies of Fliers Found Near Rugged Laramie Peak
Indians’ air party led by Higley locates three crash victims near the 10,000 foot summit of Laramie Peak after an open bi plane flight from Helena to Denver ended in a mountain wreck. Dick Arnett, his young wife Eleanor, and Burnside Smith died in the incident.
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Glendo
Laramie
Dick Arnett
Eleanor
Burnside Smith
Indianapol
Watter Higley
Deno
Higley
Arnett
Helena
Mont
Denver
Colo
Dog Salmon King Fades From Alaska Dog Teams
Anchorage Aug 31 WPI The airplanes have put dog teams out of business and ended the era of Fred Winter the veteran Sourdough who dried dog salmon for dog provender. He says Yukon candy dried salmon for humans remains his trade though air travel diminished demand. Winter recalls supplying roadhouse meals on the old trail and selling ton after ton of dog salmon to mushers.
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Anchorage
Alaska
Fred Winter
Yukon
Winter
Sky Pilots
Funeral flight returns Wiley Post body to Oklahoma
Oklahoma pays solemn tribute as Wiley Post is laid to rest in a record funeral flight. Joe Crosson also ferried Will Rogers and Post from Point Barrow to Seattle. Burial plans span Maysville and Oklahoma City with services at First Baptist and Little Landmark Missionary Baptist church. Planes will drop flowers as the cortege moves to Fairlawn Cemetery.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Wiley Post
Joe Crosson
Will Rogers
America
Lonely Point Barrow
Seattle
Post
Maysville
Little Landmark Missionary Baptist Church
First Bapist Church
Fairlawn
FDR Measures Hit in Closing Action
Congress moves toward adjournment as a Senate House conference approves a 250 million tax bill while the Walsh measure to apply NRA standards on government contractors is pigeonholed. Debate over inheritance taxes continues amid pressure from business groups calling the Walsh bill tyrannical.
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Clarence M. Wright
Associated Press
Washington
Congress
Twa
Roosevelt
Senate-House
House
White House
Senate
Judiciary Committee
Guftey Coal Central Bill
Broad Powers Given to TVA End Deadlock
The House approved a conference report to broaden the Tennessee Valley Authority powers. The bill would authorize selling surplus electricity in the Tennessee River basin, allow TVA to lend to states and localities for power systems, and permit manufacturing and selling cheap fertilizers to farmers. The vote was 259 to 30. The measure neared final passage as Senate approval and the president’s signature remained the last steps.
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Washngton
House
Senate
Tennessee Valley Authority
White House
TVA
Tennessee River
Snell
New York
Washington
Congress
Processing taxes cotton approved
Washington report notes a cabinet committee opposed the discontinuance of the cotton processing tax. It urged import controls on Japanese cotton goods, a continuing wage differential study, and plans to curb excess capacity, obsolete machinery, and refine cotton trading practices while maintaining NRA labor standards. Dr W M Snyder of Spring City was named to Tennessee's state board of pensions.
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Washington
Special Cabinet
Japan
Roosevelt
Congress
Agriculture and Commerce Departments
NRA
Snyder
Nashville
W. M. Snyder
Spring City
McAlister
State Board of Pensions
James H. Lattimer
Safety net to neutrality adopted by senate today
Air travel innovation described as easy to handle like riding a bicycle. A test flight in the bat-like arrowplane by Lytin Juleson shows automatic stability and smooth steering with minimal input. The author notes effortless control during wide turns and even a demonstration over the Capitol dome.
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Washington
Bureau of All Commerce
Lytin Juleson
Air Lines
Bureau
Divorce Granted Singer Is Married
One of Arkansas 90 day divorces, secured in Pulaski county chancery court on June 26, paves the way for this summer’s Hollywood romance. Maria Jeritza, known publicly as the prima donna of the Metropolitan Opera, has been Mrs Winfield Sheehan since August 12. Her friend Rita Callaway of Little Rock describes her efforts to avoid publicity during a spring residence in Little Rock and her frequent movements to dodge press.
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Ark
Arkansas
Hollywood
Pulaski County Chancery Court
Maria Popper von Padrohgy
Baroness von Padrohgy
Maria Jerifza
Metropolitan Opera Company
Technicians To Study Airports In Tennessee
Two U S Bureau of Aeronautics technicians Paul Morris and C K R Drake met WPA chief Harry Berry in Nashville to study airport needs and draft specifications for runways buildings and weather observatories. Similar studies will be made for Mingsport and Memphis with total cost near 1 25 million dollars, land donated.
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Nashville
United States Bureau of Aeronautica
Works Progress Administration
Tennessee
Paul Morris
C. K R. Drake
WPA
Harry& Berry
Mingsport
Memphis
Rural Electric Authority Set Up In Tennessee
Fully organized but awaiting attorney general opinion to determine legal status the rural electrification authority in Tennessee will carry out its purposes. J Frank Porter elected chairman, Dr J R Lewis named secretary, Thomas McCroskey third member. They plan to wait for legal clarity before acting.
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Nashville
State Rural Electrification Authority
Ray Beeler
J. Frank Porter
Tennessee Farm Bureau Federation
J. R. Lewis
Lauderdale County
Thomas McCroskey
Knoxville
McCroskey
Bergdoll Calls Case an Other Dreyfus Affair
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, a wartime draft dodger, said the U S conflict with him is an other Dreyfus case. He cited President Cleveland as a patriot who wisely opposed a draft "ouvrier" as an example.
Widow of executed gangster released from prison today
Dedham Mass Aug 21 Norma Brighton Millen a 20 year old widow of an executed robber and killer was released from Dedham jail after serving one year for her part in the holdup killing. She left with her father Norman Brighton and another man and may travel to New Hampshire. She relinquished all claims to her husband Mortons estate as litigation by the Needham Trust Company seeks about 34000 plus unrecovered funds from the 1933 robbery where a policeman was slain.
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Dedham
Mass
Norma Brighton Millen
Norman Brighton
Natick
Morton
Irving
Abraham Faber
Hher
Millen
New Hampshire
Needham Trust Company
Millen-Faber Geng
Bank Jaai
Senate adopts seven point neutrality resolution
The Senate passed a seven point resolution to safeguard American neutrality as Italo Ethiopian tensions rise. It bars arms exports to belligerents, restricts American travel on belligerent ships, blocks use of ports as bases, and licenses munitions manufacture under a Geneva style framework. A national munitions control board would oversee policy, with key cabinet members and committee chairs. No record vote. House action expected, Roosevelt reportedly favors the move.
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Washington
Senate
House
Roosevelt
Foreign Relations Committee
Special Munitions Investigating Committee
Nye
R-Ind
State Department
United States
National Munitions Control Board
Treasury, War, and Commerce
House Foreign Navy Relations Committee
Borah
Idaho
Bone
D-Wash
R-Nd
Prisoner Gerak Defies Odds in Escape Bid at Ohio Penitentiary
A malformed account describes inmate Tom Gerak weathering beatings from hours in a dungeon yet maintaining resolve to escape. The fragment hints at a broader prison biography detailing continued struggle and a possible plan as reported on page 2.
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Nouys
Ohio State Penitentiary
Tom Gerak
Gerak
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