$50,000 Taken In Sensational Mail Truck Bandit Job
Three men protected by dark glasses and revolvers held up a mail truck near Butler, Pennsylvania, escaping with about $50,000 in registered payroll for Standard Car Company and American Rolling Mills. The car fled after forcing the driver to curb. Ohio-licensed suspect vehicle abandoned. investigators pursue descriptions and inspect remaining mail. Two Brooklyn men were later arrested in Philadelphia in connection with related armored truck thefts.
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Butler
Pittsburgh
Lyndown
Standard Car Company
American Rolling Mills
Butler Post Office
Marshall G. Lackey
Federal Reserve Bank
Lyndora National Bank
Liyndora
Ohio
Lackey
Lyndora
Tron
Clinton Hotel
Butler Barracks
Eve
New York
Brooklyn
Philadelphia
Brook ‘Lyn
Pueblo Snow Report Stirs City Residents
Snow fell early in Pueblo Colorado with very fine flakes visible to residents in several city sections as of the morning of August 24.
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Pueblo
Colo
Weather summary for Tennessee and Virginia regions
Mostly cloudy with showers in eastern Tennessee tonight and Saturday and cooler in western portions tonight. Virginia sees showers tonight and Saturday with cooler conditions Saturday and in the north tonight. Readings show yesterday’s highs and lows with no rain reported a year ago.
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Tennessee
East Portion
West Portions
West
Virginia
South
North
New League is Under Attack in Washington
Washington dispatch reports the American Liberty League drawing attention at the White House as party ties show strength. Five Democratic senators named in connection with the league deny forming a conservative bloc opposing the New Deal. Glass rejects any cooperation with Republicans as an invention.
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League
Democratic National Committee
Glass
Byrd
Virginia
Gore
Oklahoma
Tydings
Maryland
Batley
North Carolina
Congress
Republican
Republican Party
Mother Gambles On Son's Life In Delicate Brain Operation
A Los Angeles mother consented in superior court to a risky operation to remove a bullet lodged in her son Gray Te McNeer's brain. The 5 year old had been shot earlier, leaving paralysis and near silence. Doctors say if he survives he may be a ward of imbecility, while the family faces murder charges against the boy’s father. The scene unfolded with the mother sobbing as she pledged to proceed, hoping for a miracle.
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Los Angeles
Gray TE. McNeer
Harges
Betty
Lola McNeer
McNeer
Hahn
Gray
Youths Retrieve Money In Sewer Get-a-way
Washington guards on an armored truck lost $7 in dimes when a bag broke while delivering $700 to a patron. Witnesses say two small boys lowered a companion into a sewer, retrieved the coins, and fled toward a soda fountain, while authorities note the money was soiled but recovered.
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Washington
Wien
NRA Controversy Solution Is Seen
Washington August 24. Speedy agreement over the future of NRA seemed likely today as Hugh S. Johnson planned to fly to a conference with Kent Roosevelt Donald Richberg and Secretary Perkins. Officials said differences over NRA reorganization might evaporate and a program for the future could be revived within 48 hours. Richberg and Perkins had been at odds with Johnson over whether a powerful board should rule NRA with the administrator subject to the board.
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Hugh St. Johnson
Blue Eagle
Kent Roosevelt
Donald R. Richberg
Perkins
Recovery Administration
Richberg
Jofinson
NRA
Doniel
Break Johnson
Bethiny Beach
Telaware
Chinese Gangsters Slang: Grand Dragon And Other Terms
An Associated Press report from Shanghai explains Chinese gangster slang terms used by outlaws in the city. A thousand dollars is a dragon while ten dollars is a sawkucl or inch of water. Kidnapping, blackmail, and arrests have their own coded words such as nine or ticket, fat ticket, tear up the ticket, kao-tso-kang, wheel, water-born, fire-horn, rap, fall, up the river, and trip to Hongkong.
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New York
Associated Press
Shanghai
China
Sing Sing
Hongkong
Trial of Mrs Coo Bandits Opens After Wild Ride
In Cooperstown New York on August 24 Mrs Martha Clift testified about the fatal crash on Crumhorn Mountain and Eva Coo being blamed for the manslaughter over an insurance claim. The State's star witness described the car strike and Coo allegedly urging silence while aiding Wright. The case proceeds to page four.
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Mrs. Coo
Wright
Cooperstown
N Y
Harry Wright
Crumhorn Mountain
Martha Clift
Eva Coo
Cao
Cao Roadh House
Jay
Harry -Wright
Donald Grant
Eas “Y Gaid
Grant
Eva
Martha
Legal forces in hunt for youth Walter Robinson
In Newton Ta August 24 the nation’s legal forces search for 11 year old Walter Robinson who vanished from his father’s workshop a year ago. Federal agents have distributed pictures and pamphlets nationwide and nearby states were asked to aid. Governor Clyde Te Herring offered a $100 reward but no definite clue has surfaced. Walter wandered into the welding shop with his father repairing a Gypsy quintet’s car and never returned.
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Newton
Walter Robinson
Clyde Te Herring
Walter
Radio artists strike weakens as hunger persists
In Muxiga on Aug 24 two women fainted while singing during a radio station hunger strike. About 80 announcers have endured 70 hours without food in a fight for back pay. Many performers use gramophone records between turns while doctors treat fainting workers outside the station’s small building.
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Muxiga
Red Cross
Black man dies after confrontation with Birmingham posse
In Birmingham Alabama an unidentified Black man died from a gunshot during a pursuit after an alleged attempt to threaten three white girls in East Park. The three girls identified him as their assailant, while a public safety device was used during the struggle. A search led to an alley where he was fatally wounded before authorities confirmed details of the shooting.
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Birmingham
Ala
Grace Tabor
Lorena Tidwell
Edith Tidwell
Lorena
Tabor
American Girl Psychic Gains Fame in London Sportings
Gene Dennis a Kansas farmer’s daughter, nicknamed the American Girl Psychic, dazzles London audiences. She predicted Windsor Lad’s derby win weeks before the race, boosting his odds despite Colombo as the favorite, and has appeared in theatres and written for the London Sunday Dispatch. Continued on page six.
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New York
London
Gene Bennis
Gene
England
London Sunday Dispatch
Picks Wiener
Associated Press
London Today
Windsor Lad
Miss Dennis
Colombo
German marriage on a rational basis urged by Nazi officials
Berlin reports the Nazi government issued ten commandments guiding German youths on marriage. It states marry for nation, seek a mate for matrimony, and stresses eugenic fitness, loyalty to German heritage, and keeping body and spirit pure while avoiding alien influences. The guidance frames marriage as a duty to the generation and nation.
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Walter E. Brockman
Associated Press
Berlin
Women Pilots Seek Air Endurance Record
Two women aviators Jean Larene and Mary Elizabeth Owens began a new endurance attempt from Glenview near Chicago after night takeoff at 7 13 Central Standard Time. They are refueled by Kenneth Hunter, with the current male and female records cited as benchmarks.
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Chicago
API
Jean Larene
Mary
Elizabeth Owens
Texas
Curtiss-Reynolds
Glenview
Kenneth Hunter
Dale Jackson
Forest O'Brine
Helen Richey
Helen Maranlis
Morriston Sheriff Kills Four In Home Siege
Morriston Arkansas August 24 Sheriff C J Atkinson killed four relatives during a disturbance call at the May home. Sam May Jim May and Ben May were slain in the yard while Mrs Jane May died inside after rushing for a shotgun shell and a knife. A second May, Sam May was wounded and in serious condition. Coroner Frank Reid planned an inquest and expected a justifiable verdict for the officer.
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Morriston
Ark
C. ‘Jt. Atkinson
Jane May
Jim May
Ben May
Atkinson
May
Sam May
Frank Reid
Z. E. Tiner
John
Fistic Tussle Between Actress and Yachtman Wife Highlights Trial
A six by six jury heard versions of a street altercation between film actress Nita Cavalier and yachtman George B. Wilsons wife Mrs. Wilson. Cavalier seeks damages of 512,200 claiming injuries from three slaps and ensuing publicity. Witnesses offered conflicting takes on the blows.
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Los Angeles
Ringsiders
George B. Wilson
Nita Cavalier
Dillinger gunman Van Meter dies in police ambush
In St Paul police trap Van Meter, ally of Dillinger gang, is slain after a two week hunt. A female companion suspected of guiding him walked into the line of fire as Chief Cullen and officers opened fire. Van Meter, known for daring bank raids and escapes, falls in an alley along with the gangster pair’s pattern of danger toward law.
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ST. Paul
Fromer van Meter
Ann Dillinger
Desperado
Twin Cities
Marion
Mickey” Conforti
van Meter
St Paul
Miss Confort
Little Bohemia
Wis
John Dillinger
Madison
Frank Cullen
Minn
Dillinger
Van
Cullen
Thomas Brown
Wisconsin
Indiana
Tommy Carroll
George “Baby ' Face’ Nelson
John Hamilton
Sioux Falls, S. D
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