Hoover Pushing Efforts to Avert Drouth Crisis Costs
Washington reports say drouth relief is accelerating under President Hoover. Governments study credit extensions for livestock and cotton farmers, with railroads pledging cooperation and possible hay and feed rate reductions. A congressional plan would allow farmers to use livestock as loan collateral via the national live stocker association and Farm Board programs.
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Washington
Drouth
Hoover
Weather Bureau
Farm Board
Hyde
Agriculture Department
Farm Land Banks
Joint Stock Land
Senator Robinson
Arkansas
Congress
Drouth Relief
Carl Williams
Legge
Northwest
Williams
National Livestocker Association
The
Feeder and Finance Corporation
Grand Jury Probe Sought in Detroit Slayings
Detroit attorney petitions Circuit Judge Lester Moll to appoint a 23 member grand jury to probe the slaying of radio announcer Jerry Buckley and other recent killings. Norman Smith, a Detroit prisoner, testified about Buckley’s murder and beer racketeering during a four hour interview at Fort Riley with Detroit officials.
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Detroit
James E. Chennt
Lester S. Moll
Jerry Buckley
Junction City
Kan
Norman Smith
Thomas C. Wilcox
Gerald E
Jerry) Buckley
Wilcox
Smith
Buckley
John Hoffman
Bowles
la Salle Hotel
Fort Riley
Here
Hagen Fails To Qualify For Professional Meet
Walter Hagen misses qualification for the upcoming professional championship at Fresh Meadow Club in Flushing. Horton Smith leads the Cherry Valley Club course with 139 for 36 holes, Hagen scoring 149, four strokes shy of the ten man cutoff. Other qualifiers include Johnny Farrell Gene Sarazen Bill Mehlhorn Billy Burke Pat Circelli Jimmy Hines John Golden Whiffy Cox and Jack Forrester.
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New York
Walter Hagen
Fresh Meadow Club
Flushing
Horton Smith
Hagen
Cherry Valley Club
Smith
Johnny Farrell
Gene Sarazen
Bill Mehlhorn
Billy Burke
Pat Circelli
Jimmy Hines
John Golden
Whiffy Cox
Jack Forrester
Kansas Ring Show Tonight in Columbus Feature Bout
Two well known middleweights Duke Trammell of Fort Worth Texas and Billy Atkinson of Scammon Kansas meet in the feature bout of an American Legion card tonight in Columbus. The ten round match heads a program with 21 total rounds of preliminaries between Steve Salina and Loren Atkinson.
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Columbus
Kan
Duke
Trammel
Fort, Worth
Tex
Billy Atkinson
Scammon
American Legion
Steve Salina
Pittsburgh
Loren Atkinson
Hawks Sets Fast East West Flight Record
Frank Hawks, flying a Travelair, set a new east west cross country time with a 14 hour 50 minute flight from Curtiss Field New York to Los Angeles Municipal Airport. He refueled at Columbus St Louis Wichita Albuquerque and Kingman as weather forced several route adjustments. After deducting stops his airborne time was 13 hours 35 minutes 43 seconds and he noted a top speed around 240 mph with a hoped return in 12 hours.
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Angeles
iFrank Hawks
Los Aiesten
United States
Hawks
Curtiss Field
New York
Municipal
Los Pan Los
Travelair
Pase
Roscoe Turner
Columbus
St. Louis
Wichita
Albuquerques
N. M
Kingman
Ariz
Turner
Pittsburgh
Terre Haute
Ind
Albuquerque
Arizona-California
Arizona
Ex-convict held for questioning in farmer's fatal shooting
William Dow, 50, an ex-convict, is held in the county jail for questioning in the fatal shooting of Perry Fletcher, a 50 year old farmer near Mount Hope. A witness says Dow approached while Fletcher plowed, fired as he faced away, and fired again as Fletcher fled. Dow and Fletcher reportedly had a prior dispute over Dow's attention to Fletcher's daughter.
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Mount Hope
Wichita
Kan
William Dow
Perry Fletcher
Dow
Fletcher
Fletcher and Dow in house siege with weapons found
Dow was captured by a sheriff's posse after barricading himself in Fletcher's house. Three revolvers were found in his possession.
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Fletcher
Dow
Theft report in Montgomery Ward store purse loss
Miss Christine Cain of 220 North Sixth Street reported yesterday afternoon that two girls stole her purse from the Montgomery Ward store. The purse contained 10.2 dollars in change. Also noted the LSU year report states 7,110 persons received instruction in university departments last year.
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Christine Cain
North
Sixth Street
Montgomery Ward
Louisiana State Universsity
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Columbus Legion
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Federal Defender
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Taylor
Kampkook
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Mass
Peoples Utilities Kansas Corp
Goodrich Silvertowns
Goodrich
Silvertowns
Lawrence Buick Company
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