Tropical Storm Threatens Cuba and East Coast
A tropical storm moved along the north coast of Cuba with Havana, Key West, and Tavana in its path as residents boarded up storefronts and moved to higher ground. The British freighter Josephine Gray was in distress about 100 miles east of Tavana, and a second disturbance was reported near Puerto Rico as the system strengthened toward hurricane force.
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Associated Press
Cuba
Thuvana
Key West
Josephine Gray
Cuban
Tavana
Merchats
Viginky
Mini
Feuente Wien
MLAMI
Fla
Gaslus
Theorthern
Distre
Puerto Rico
Weathue
Washington
Puerta Rigo
Northwestewnd
Sdlussery
Cay Vuhia Bel Cuiliz
Davane
Josuphing Gray
Sossuvine
Sittanee
Messige
Avaund
Havana
Athens
Pilus
Fueroes
Cub
G. 5
Kenny
Yai
Oxfam
Jackesonville
MM. Fronter
Aluminuhr Line
Fampa
Mobile
Marriage Handy Gate City Larceny Case Drops
In Gate City on September 1 Steve Frasier of Sundright Scott County was arrested on a larceny charge for allegedly stealing a $100 saddle blanket from his mother in law Mrs Floyd Bowen. The case was dropped despite the mother in law not wishing to drop prosecution while the father in law remained supportive.
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Gate City
Steve Frasier
Sundright
Scott County
Frazier
Floyd Bowen
B Slaw
Kansas City Baby Question About Mothball Hazard
A Kansas City parent via phone to a regional hospital described packing clothing with mothballs in pockets. He worried the baby might grab and swallow a mothball soon, though he claimed the child had not yet done so. The exchange sought guidance on potential danger and needed information.
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Kansas City
Thaneral Hospital
Enviedhis
Lowce
Becomes Nudist A Chicago Woman Dresses Self
A Chicago event centers on Miss Alice Ziebur of Chicago meeting Mrs. Pyrda Pitman of Cheyenne Wyoming after Pitman’s clothing theft incident. Pitman claims Ziebur wore a dress and various garments she designed and made. Ziebur surrendered items. she was held without charge as officers investigated.
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Chicago
Alice @Ziebur
Pyrda Pitman
Cheyenne
Wyo
Pitman
State
Madison Sheets
Jung
Pulm
Iebuy
Unruly Youth Is Farley's Forte at Democratic Convention
A Kiowa Kansas City scene as James A. Farley steadies the opening day with his dynamic voice and smile. Delegates breathe, while many jostle between heated caucuses and speeches. Edward J. Lev protests scatted attendance. Robert Fechner spoke on emergency conservation. Continued on page eight.
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Kansas City
Sept. L
Democratic Clubs of America
James A. Farley
Parlay
Post Ofice
Conventiol
Edward J. Lev
Minnesota
Robert Fechner
Emergency Conservation Work
Fort puzzled by dwindling beer taxes in Nasbyville
Fort Nesbyville finance and taxation commissioner Bancey Fort sent letters to beer distributors urging criticism and proposing a plan to protect legitimate distributors. He announced inspectors will check tax evasions in exchange districts starting next week as May and June revenues fell short of projections.
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Nasbyville
Bancey Port
Nnteport
Sleep sickness epidemic expands in St Louis area
A week of encephalitis deaths and cases surged with 27 deaths and 125 cases, nearly matching the prior three and a half weeks. The outbreak, studied by U S Public Health Service experts, spread from St Louis County suburbs toward the city, with 49 city deaths and 34 county deaths as cases rose.
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ST. Louis
U. S. Public Health Service
Virginia Assembly nears adjournment amid schools and roads battles
Richmond dispatch reports the Virginia General Assembly pressing toward Saturday adjournment with two main conflicts unresolved. A school relief bill faces delay or January session action as education leaders warn eight month terms could be cut in 62 counties without aid. A roads bill allows limited funding from federal grants to cities, with debates over tax receipts and a pay-as-you-go pause. A Page era fee bill passed, but related liquor control measures were sent back to finance for disposal. The sine die adjournment deadline looms and governors’ recommendations shape committee talks.
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Richmond
General -Assembly
State Board of Education
Senate
House
Virginia
Page
Vivian Page
House Finance Committee
Giants Defeat Braves in First Tilt Twin Bill
The New York Giants beat the Boston Braves 2 to 0 in ten innings in the first game of a double header. Hubbell pitched four hitless innings to edge Frankhouse in a pitchers duel, with New York scoring the decisive run on a late sequence.
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Giants
Braves
New York Giants
Robson
Hubbell
Bell
Frankhouse
Star Portsider
New York
Boston
I—O
France Looks to Border Forts as Nazis Celebrate
Germany reports Adolf Hitler greeted by 16 000 Nazi followers at the fifth party congress. Hitler declared the storm troopers are political soldiers who conquered bolshevism while brown uniforms and red banners filled the hall. Paris dispatch follows with continued coverage of the congress and its implications.
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France
Inernderg
Germany
Acelf
Hitler
Science at odds in Lamson trial in San Jose
In a San Jose murder trial, the defense and prosecution clash over physical evidence in the Lamson case. Stanford autopsy expert Dr A W Meyer testified hair pulling and hemorrhages from tugging may explain wounds, countering prior autopsy conclusions about pipe injuries. Eldridge Ray testified of visits to a divorced woman at the state capitol.
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San Jose
Calif
David A. Lamson
Allene
A. W. Meyer
Stanford University
Lamson
Stanford
Dr. Meyer
Meyer
Eldridge Ray
Sacramento
Stanford Press
Sara M. Kelley
NOTHING TO SAY Continues Ford Answer to Quiz
Marquette Michigan September 1 Seemingly content to stand by his statement that he has nothing to say about the Mais or anything else Henry Ford today reiterated at the seclusion of his north woods camp that the nation should continue its conjecture as to what action the Ford Motor company will take on the automobile code accepted by the NRA The magnate is vacationing at Huron Mountain Club 35 miles from Marquette and ten miles from the nearest telephone He has kept his visit free from business matters Talks with his son yesterday and with Detroit representatives are noted and he refused to discuss the NRA when questioned by reporters while awaiting his call to his son then withdrew again
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Marquette
Mich
Dlemy Ford
North Woods
Ford Motor Company
National Recovery Administration
Huron Mountain Club
Ford
Iddiel
Bar Harbor
Big Bay
Detroit
NRA
Child Labor Ends in U S Los Angeles
Alfred C Read says he no longer loves Claire Windsor and Marian Read Hobby case focuses on estranged wife’s alimony suit. Read meets sympathy for his former wife as love letters surface. Windsor testifies about romance with broker Gallard Breker who allegedly deceived her about his marital status.
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Los
Geles
Alfred C. Read
Claire Windsor
Lyon
Gallard Breker
Marian
Miss Windsor
Marian Read
Read
New Mexico Desert
North Carolina Tobacco Holiday Called by Governor
North Carolina Gov J B Ehsing haus called for a voluntary tobacco holiday across the state to halt flue-cured sales until prices rise. Warehousemen indicated cooperation though some rural leaders in the eastern belt urged South Carolina action to keep crop from moving there.
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Raleigh
N. C
North Carolina
J. ©. B. Ehsinghaus
Bright Leaf Belt
Columbia
Tichra
Blackwood
South Carolina
Vrather
Navy to build 37 new warships under $238 million plan
Secretary Swanson signed contracts for 37 vessels funded from public works and congressional appropriations. Twenty one will be built in private yards and sixteen in navy yards. Names were assigned to cruisers, gunboats, aircraft carriers, destroyers, and submarines, with remarks on a treaty navy and immediate start of construction.
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Washington
Swanson
Bethlehem
Anti Saloon League plans six point push to keep prohibition
Dr. F Seoth McBride leads a six point program at a Chicago regional meet to preserve the eighteenth amendment. The agenda calls for expanding prohibition, enforcing state laws, electing dry officials, broad primaries turnout, education on alcohol as a narcotic, and a nationwide youth abstinence movement. McBride argues victory at the polls requires half the eligible voters participating.
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Chicago
F. Seoth McBride
Anti- Saloon League Today
Usts
McBride
Child labor debates mark NRA drive in Washington
Washington reports reveal NRA aimed to curb child labor with 16 cutoff, plus codes and reorganizing staff to handle post crisis issues. Dudley Cates resigns amid Agency disputes while S. Johnson prepares cream organization. Ford silence on auto code remains a hurdle as Labor Day codes near signing.
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New Watkins Glen
N.Y
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Farley
Virginia Assembly
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U.S
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S. C
Eve
Roosevelt
MRA
Ugh S. Johinson
Dudley Cates
Johnson
Cates
9 Cream Organization
Trig
Code Authority
Henry Ford
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Dudley Gates
Hugh S. Johnson
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