Landon pledges free agriculture at Iowa rally
Governor Alf M. Landon outlines a workable national farm policy and endorses cash benefits and conservation payments. At the Iowa State Fair he vows to relieve farmers from the New Deal and to maintain relief while promoting storage, crop insurance, and new crops. He leads a dense schedule with meetings, a 300-editor luncheon, and talks with farm leaders.
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Landon
State Central Committee
Iowa
John P. Wallace
Dan Wallace
Henry A. Wallace
Kansan
Weather Outlook for Tennessee to North Carolina
Mostly cloudy and cooler across Tennessee with showers in west and central areas tonight and Thursday. Kentucky to see showers tonight and Thursday with cooler conditions, extreme east coverage. Virginia starts fair and warm in the west with increasing clouds and showers Thursday, cooler by Friday. North Carolina partly cloudy tonight and Thursday, showers Thursday night, cooler in the west Thursday afternoon.
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Tennessee
Cooter
Kentucky
Waimer
Virginia
Southeast
North Carolina
President Roosevelt canvassing New York ahead of party Parley
President Roosevelt scanned New York's political scene in Hyde Park with Dan R. King and James Townsend among invitees for a summer White House conference. White House officials described the meeting as political and planned a campaign-style address next Tuesday at the New York State Democratic convention in Syracuse.
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Hyde Park
N. Y
New York State
Roosevelt
John E. Mack
Poughkeepsie
Empire State
White House
James Townsend
Dutchess County
James A. Farley
Robinson
Arkansas
Guffey
Pennsylvania
New York
Plane crashes in fog and sea collision headline
Dense fog over the Atlantic disrupted aviation and shipping, killing three in a Rhode Island twin engine bomber crash near Hillsgrove. Two freighters collided in New York waters. Army and Warwick officials opened dual investigations into the crashes and deaths of Lieut. J. J. Neeley and Private Joseph J. Macaziewski.
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William 0. Varn
Associated Press
New York
Atlantic Seaboard
Rhode Island
Atlantic Ocean
Boston
Baltimore
Army
Warwick
N. J
Hillsgrove
R. 1
Brothers Hanged in Baby Doll Plot
Two Bannister brothers Arthur 19 and Daniel 20 were executed in New Brunswick for the murder of woodsman Phillip Lake during the kidnapping of his infant daughter. The trial charged their mother May Bannister with devising the extortion scheme involving a life-size baby doll.
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Dorechester
N. B
Arthur Bannister
Daniel
Arthur
Phillip Lake
Pacific Junction
Crown
Bannister
Lake
May Bannister
Cave Dwellers Romance Ends For 14 Year Old Bride
Version of the Green Kentucky wedding tale: Vers Grimes, a 14 year old girl, elopes with 19 year old Tien Vor ter, son of tenant farmers, after a four day cave romance. Authorities later custody took her from the cave dwelling and moved her toward home in Cleves Ohio. The groom’s family and local residents describe a whirlwind, crowded cave setting amid extreme heat and a modernized clash with law and family.
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Green
Grimes
Cleves
Ohio
Tien Vorter
Porter House
Boyd Downey
Omarnage
Vera
Matorday
Downey
Lost River Common
Porter
Hollywood is Not So Big Says Filley Nebraska's Bob Taylor
Filley Nebraska native Bob Taylor says Hollywood is only a small town on a larger scale. He notes publicity around dates, barn marks, and gossip at wild parties. He recalls ranching talk and actors owning ranches making Hollywood resemble home.
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Hollywood
Robert Taylor
Filley
Nebraska
Filey
Bob
Gertrude
Martial law set up after Shirking Shanghai shootings
In Shanghai the Japanese naval landing party declared martial law in the northern international settlement after three Japanese marines were shot, one fatally. They occupied the Hongkew area, replacing the international police, with 2,000 plus reinforcements from the Idzumo. An 800 man Russian defense unit and police reserves stood by. A Chinese man was seized and a theater search conducted.
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Shanghai
International Settlement
Hongkew
Whangpoo River
Settlement Defense Corps
Cost of pensions said excessive
San Francisco September 23 271 old age pension costs would exceed the total estimated 1936 expenditures for all government bodies under suggested allowances. Leroy A Lincoln Metropolitan Life president warned against haste in security legislation and future taxation burdens that could destroy funding for those in need while noting a new retirement pension plan with up to 5000 dollars yearly.
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San Francisco
American Bankers’ Association
Leroy A. Lincoln
Metropolitan Life
Bankers’ Convention
Lincoln
Robert V. Fleming
Ciation
Speed inquiry in spy activity and union clashes
Senate investigators heard E J Mcdade of Chicago claim he was hired by strike breaking agencies to create disorders to discredit union strikers. He testified about a seven hour battle at Lake Charles Louisiana where three men were killed while guards, sworn in as special deputy sheriffs and armed with machine guns and tear gas, tried to move a truck through strikers lines. The guards were supplied by Federal Laboratories Inc of Pittsburgh and employed by the Railway Audit and Inspection Company. Documents showed Federal Laboratories sold machine guns to West Point Georgia police and to a textile firm. The inquiry into the Railways Audit and Inspection Company continued.
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John Fischer
Washington
E. J. Medade
Chicago
Senate
Mcdade
la Follette Committee
Lake Charles
New Orleans
Federal Laboratories, Inc
Pittsburgh
Railway Audit and Inspection’ Company
West Point
Railways Audit and Inspection Company
American Behind Scenes in Geneva
Everett Colson, an American official delegate, sits in the League of Nations assembly in Geneva casting Ethiopia's votes after Jeze was barred by France. The Maine native, ill with a heart ailment, has been Haile Selassie’s trusted adviser, balancing diplomat, censor, and state writer while chronicling the Italo-Ethiopian war from Addis Ababa to Geneva.
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Everett Andrews Colson
Maine
Geneva
Addis Rababa
Colson
Ethiopia
Colsons
Deaths and Healings Rule the Tenement Tale
In New York a 12 year old boy Albert Bocca improves after new chemical treatments aiming to replenish blood for haemophilia. Doctors report promising signs as Alfonso, Count of Cavadonga, receives his 13th transfusion and hospital work continues on a long sought cure amid dramatic life and death cases.
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Edward J. Neil
Associated Press
New York
Albert Bocca
Lfe
Harkness
Alfonso
Count of
Cavadonga
Spain
Young Bocca
Murray Hill
Albert
J. C Fisk
League splits on Ethiopian rights at League assembly
In Geneva on September 23 the League of Nations divided into Realists and Idealists over Ethiopia’s status. Realists push to exclude Ethiopia as a non sovereign member, while Idealists defend Haile Selassie and smaller nations. The credentials committee referred the matter to the assembly and a court appeal followed. Italy withdraws from an international broadcasting conference without stated reason.
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Geneva
League of Nations Assembly
Ethiopia
Realists
Jurists
Italy
International Conference On Broadcasting
Mercy operation gives baby an even chance in Chicago
Doctors report six day old baby Tafel survived a mercy operation to correct an intestinal malformation known as a bottomless colon. The parents Eva and Julian Tafel, after initial death fears and a clash over life, approved the surgery seen as essential. A similar procedure in a four year old peer aided consent. Further surgery will connect the intestine to a natural outlet.
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Chicago
Tarel
Eva
Julian
Julian, Jr
Tafel
Appeara
Nce
Richard Other
Leaita
Thay
Danishital
Lewis J. Eastman
Fascists Reach Out To Capture Madrid And Toledo
Spanish war coverage details a three-pronged Fascist advance toward Madrid and Toledo. Government militiamen, short of food, block roads while reinforcements and counter-offsives form near Talavera and the Alcazar at Toledo. Deserters face the firing squad as Madrid and Bilbao report shortages and intensifying bombardments.
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Madrid
Toledo
Alcazar
Torrijos
Pascis
Talavera
la Reina
Santa Cruz
Maqueda
Bilabao
Biscay Bay
Bilbao
Emilia Mola
Andorra
France
Spain
Aeria
Etar
Emilio Torres
Chorce
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Des Moines
Alf M. Landon
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United States
American Red Cross
Red Cross
Pease
Bannister Boys
Lass
Probe Company
Assembly of League of Nations
Albert Wi’. Wikeson
League of Nations
Tex
Paris
American Veterans of
American Legion
Cleveland
Sedley Peck
James McCann
M. J. Carole
Loyolli
Sherman
Itob
Joseph E. Sharkey
Associated Press Foreign Staff
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