Convicts Riots and Fires at Graterford Prison Farm
About 200 convicts rioted at Graterford prison farm in Montgomery County near Philadelphia. They attacked kitchen and industrial areas causing thousands of dollars in damage. one shot was fired. Guards and police restrained them, no serious injuries or escapes reported. the riot continued as transfer plans to Cherry Hill facility were discussed.
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Collegeville
Graterford
Eastern Penitentiary
Cherryill
Philadelphia
Guy ‘Pt. Helcombe
Prison Boar of Trustees
Werbers Smith
Quiuitica
Joseph Kenny
Holcombe
Montgomery County
Cherry Hill
Chanterfonl
Lereville
Welfare Department
Leit- Jeiser
Adams
State Police
Fiance’s Elopement Enmeshed by Philippine Official’s Son
Colletta Mulvihill, a Pittsburgh heiress, wed Silvian Parades after a quick elopement she called a lark. New details reveal Parades, Manila born son of Quintin Parades, is legally separated from Nena Barbara but not divorced. The couple were photographed at a Grove City swimming hole.
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Aftairs
Colletta Mulvihill
Pittsburgh
Silvian Parades
Manila
P. 1
Grove City
Parades
Quintin Parades
Philippine House of Representatives
Nena Barbara
Weather summary for Tennessee and Virginia with brief notes
Partly cloudy with possible showers in extreme east Tennessee. Sunday to Monday dry with little temperature change. Virginia fair Sunday and Monday, temperatures similar. Observations from Gilop record yesterday and prior year show rain and no rain patterns. data include high and low temps and rainfall readings.
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Tennessee
Virginia
Gilop
Cravens Found Guilty of Embezzlement in Henry County
Cravens former Henry County clerk was convicted in Henry circuit court on four charges of embezzling county funds. Jury recommended a prison term of three years and one day. Cravens had run for state secretary in 1933 and previously sought a congressional nomination. His attorney Caldwell moved for a new trial, with Judge Bond to hear the motion September 3 at Humboldt.
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Paris
Tenn
Herman
Cravens
Henry County
Henry
General Assembly
Gordos Browning
Huntingdon
Yancvy Q. Caldwell
Craven
Tniered
W. W. Bond
Humboldt
Okey
Odell
Hagard
Worn
Wife of Sinclair Lewis Ousted by Germany
Berlin reports Dorothy Thompson Mrs Sinclair Lewis received a notice to leave Navi Germany. She planned to depart for Paris as Germany expelled an American newspaper correspondent for damaging Germany. The move marks the first such expulsion since Hitler’s rise, triggering buzz over wider expulsions of foreign correspondents.
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Berlin
Dorothy Thompson
Elair Lewis
Germany
Paris
Adolf Hitler
Permanent CCC Seen As Likely Federal Agency
President Roosevelt’s Civilian Conservation Corps is expected to become a permanent institution in the next Congress as the 1930s-era program nears its expiry. Administration officials report little opposition to reenactment, with ideas to fold CCC into a social security framework while preserving flexible amendments to the statute. Public reception shifts from early criticism to broad acceptance as camps prove beneficial and political opponents retreat from vocal opposition.
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Sam Bledsoe
Associated Press
Washington
Roosevelt
Civilian Conservation Corps
Converess
CCC
GCC
Four-way scramble for national speakership looms
Washington reports a heated four-corner race for the next Congress speakership as primaries loom in California and Mississippi. Johnson seeks senatorial honors with full Roosevelt backing while Mississippi hosts a three-way Democratic contest among Stephens Collins and Bilbo.
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Washington
T4th
California
Mississippi
Senate
House of Representative
South Carolina
House
Roosevelt
Hiram Johnson
Hubert Stephens
Ross Collins
Theodore G. Bilbo
Stephens
White House
Johnson
Congress
Offer Prayer To Save Boy's Leg
Fort Payne Alabama August 25 AP An eight year old boy Wallace Doyle Sharp Jr with a badly infected right leg was held by Holiness church members in an attempted prayer cure defying officers and medical authorities. The boy had been kidnapped from his home and rushed away yesterday when deputies were sent to fetch him for treatment recommended by physicians.
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Fort Payne
Ala
Hollinees
Wallace Doyle Sharp, Jr
S. W. Pope
Strike financing expected of Gov
Labor leaders in Atlanta predict federal relief agency support for a national textile strike set to begin next week. George Googe of the AFL cites government pledge to prevent hunger and notes union funds are limited, with many locals short on cash. The United Textile Workers report sub nine million dollars in strike funds, likely prompting relief requests if personal funds run out.
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Atlanta
George S. Goone
American Federation of Labor
United Textile Workers
Googe
National Fund
Federal Emergency Relief Administration For
NRA reorganizes NRA to handle public utilities and transport
Washington Aug 25 The NRA implements a new division to cover public utility transportation and communications codes as President Roosevelt winds down a day of policy talks with Recovery officials and Hopkins. Johnson rests Johnson’s deputies stay on to run operations during his vacation at Bethany Beach.
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Melbourne
Christerson Associated Press
Washington
NRA
Roosevelt
Hyde Park
N. Y
White House
Hopkins
Harry L. Hopkins
George A. Lynch
Blackwell Smith
Hugh S. Johnson
Bethany Beach
Delaware
Revival of Foreign Trade Moves Amid Global Pact Growth
Washington August 25 The Roosevelt trade treaty machinery has opened up on chains of pacts with Latin American nations and others. Henry Grady head of the tariff section speeds up studies to active negotiations with Brazil Costa Rica Guatemala Ecuador Haiti Honduras Suriname Panama El Salvador Venezuela and the Dominican Republic. These deals would supply five percent of the nation's coffee imports. Continued on page six.
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Lloyd A. Lehrbas
Associated Press
Washington
Heary
Grady
State Department
Brasil
Costa Rica
Guatemala
Ecuador
Haist
Honduras
Risaragia
Panama
el Salvador
Venezuela
Dominican Republic
Mutilated Body Found In Trunk In New York
A mutilated body identified as Bernard McMahon, 41, was found shoved in a metal trunk in an areaway near 154 West 74th Street. Nine bullets were found in a dismembered leg, with evidence of prior wounds and recent surgical bandage. Police theorize a gangland killing or holdup, with companions possibly disposing of the body after treatment. The case remains under investigation.
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New York
John F.o’ryan
Bernard McMahon
Elmira
Tonge Tarantino
West 74Th Street
Charles Morris
Norvis
McMahon
Norris
Steel merger seen near completion in hunger strike notes
In Cleveland Aug 25 reports say Corrigan McKinney Steel Co Republic Steel Co and possibly Truscon Steel Co near completion after months of talks. If ratified Republic becomes a 281 million dollar company with Truscon included. MEXICO CITY Aug 26 KEADS hunger strike ends as Pan American Radio pays back salaries totaling about 3600 dollars to 62 workers and 40 more receive relief.
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Cleveland
Corrigan- McKinney Steel Co
Republic Steel Co
Truscon, Steel Co
Republic
Truscon Steel Co
Julius Kahn
Truscon
Truston
Mexico
D. C
Keads
Pan American Radio Company
Juan Soforquez
Vmergency
Girl in Coma Spreads Hope After 22 Thousand Hours
Patricia Maguire, 28, of Oak Park Chicago, has slept in a coma for about 22 000 hours over two and a half years due to chronic encephalitis with narcoleptic aftereffects. Her mother Mrs Peter Miley keeps vigil, noting occasional signs of improvement but no recognition of loved ones.
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Chicago
Patricia
Maguire
Pat
Peter Miley
Oak Park
Violence Flares as McGuire District Seethes Over Union Strike
Violence erupts in Scioto Marshland as bombings and intimidation mark the union strike. Okey Odell, 38, leader of the Agricultural Workers Union, is abducted and later returns to threaten rivals. Non union workers and suspects loom as guards tighten. federal mediation seeks peace in a town of 700 amid onion production disruptions.
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McGupfry
Scioto Marshland
Okey Odell
Fanti-Stikers
Lawrence Gross
Ben Corbin
Floyd Collins
Elijah Odell
Okey
Union
Owell
Toledo
Main Street
McGuiley
Union Agricultural Workers — Weeders and Harvesters
Wilbur Mitchell
Frank D. Henderson
Columbus
National Guard
Godfrey J. Ott
Odell
Waynesfield
Agricultural Workers’ Union
A. E. of L
Sherif
Godfray G. Ott
Tonie
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Trinidad
Texas
Irene DeBolt
Arthur C. Wilson
Cleveland Steel
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el Paso
Hended
Port of Spain
Wilson
DeBolk
van Horn
Tex
Albert A. Anderson
Culberson County
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