Start of Nine Investigations Prompts Congress Backlash
Washington Aug. 7. Congress adjourned as 40 members return for hearings on nine inquiries with 845000 dollars in funding. Probes cover un American activities the national labor relations board banking and overall economic conditions. Alaska fisheries California labor practices and WPA conduct in several states are under review.
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Alaska
California
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Smith
D-Va
Healey
Massachusetts
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Utah
Halleck
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Routzohn
Ohio
House Committee On UN
Dies
D-Tex
Texas
WPA
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Pennsylvania
Georgia
New York
Chicago
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Civil Liberties Committee
Banking Committee
Senator LaFollette
San Francisco
Associated Farmers of California
Federal Monopoly Committee
Cooper
D-Tenn
Cole
D-Md
Roosevelt
Interior Department
Watermelon Market Reopens in Missouri After Slump
Sikeston Missouri August 7 The watermelon market reopened today after a Saturday shutdown as farmers rushed to move ripening fruit. Growers report prices about half of last year with one producer selling in the field for 7 to 12 cents each, far below prior averages.
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Sikeston
Will White
Springfield pilots complete 343 hour endurance flight in small plane
Hunter and Humphrey Moody, Decatur brothers, landed the monoplane Miss Springfield at Springfield municipal airport after 343 hours 47 minutes three seconds aloft since July 23. They said they could have gone longer but sought rest. An electrical storm forced their descent and heavy rain followed.
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Springfield
P—Hunter
Humphrey Moody
Decatur
Ill
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Eight Die Violent Weekend Across Missouri
Violent death struck at least eight people in Missouri over the weekend. Two drowned, four killed in highway accidents, and two shot. Among the victims were Mrs Yvonne Scott Denman and Mrs Margaret Kenneymore of Joplin killed in a car crash near the Joplin Columbus line on the Joplin Colum bus highway Saturday.
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Kansas City
Missouri
Yvonne Scott Denman
Margaret Kenneymore
Joplin
Joplin-Columbus
Kan
Wife Sues for Divorce in District Court
Violet Florence files a divorce suit this morning in district court against George Florance.
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Violet Florence
George Florance
Assault on Crime Opened by G Men
New York August 7 District Attorney Thomas E Dewey announced an eight state drive to arrest Isadore Izzy Zennreich once tied to Lepke Buchalter. Indictments name 21 Buchalter associates as federal grand jury studies a 500000 word encyclopedia of crime.
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J. Edgar Foover
Louis (Lepke) Buchalter
U. S
Thomas E. Dewey
Isadore
Izzy” Zennreich
Louis “Lepke” Buchalter
Dewey
Lepke
Manhattan
Frank Murphy
Murphy
Chicago
New Orleans
Boston
Miami
Philadelphia
San Francisco
John T. Cahill
Grand
Buchalter
Bronx
South
Cahill
Southwest
Middle West
Pacific Coast
Grand Jury
Directs Crime War G Men Chronicles Racketeering Network
Federal agents describe the record as a crime masters directory with a who’s who of gangsters. It allegedly documents murders kidnappings hideouts and secret trusts for territorial divides and racket loot across states with names dates and full information.
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G-Men
Crime Trust
Dixie Davis and Hope Dare Wed on Honeymoon Amid Inquiries
New York reports Dixie Davis the informant of racketeering and his bride Hope Dare 28 wed at Nyack with police judge officiating. Detectives act as witnesses and chaperons as investigations mount across the country.
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Dixie Davis
Bride Hope Dare
New York
J. Richard
Dixie) Davis
Underworld
Hope Dare
Philadelphia
Davis
Martha
Dixie
Hope
Nyack
Move On Idleism at New England Grange rededication
Louis J. Taber of Columbus Ohio National Grangemaster urged the United States to end world involvement and focus on idle acres idle dollars and idle men. He warned heavy taxation saps private ownership and called for local cooperative farm regulation with farmer control to spur prosperity.
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Springfield
Mass
United States
Moses
Louis J. Taber
Columbus, CO
New England
America
Washington
Too Wet for Plowing in Clay Center Kansas
In Clay Center Kansas on Sunday an .83 inch rainfall raised August total to 3.61 inches marking the fourth rainy day in six. Farmers face wet fields delaying plowing while crop prospects are noted as excellent in the Bottomlander area and surrounding region.
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Clay Center
Kan
Kansas
Palmar Heiress Seeks Work After Pot ... Palmer Death
Pluma Louis Palmer widow of the late Pot ter D Orsay Palmer says she is a waitress at heart and seeks employment despite potential inheritance being tied up in court. She has refused offers from a Broadway impresario and lives with a friend in Clifton New Jersey while visiting New York since June.
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New York
Potter D’orsay Palmer
Pluma Louis Palmer
Palmer
Cli Side
N. J
Fifty-Seven Graduates at Fort Hays Summer Commencement
Fifty seven candidates received degrees at Fort Hays State College during the first summer school commencement exercises. Dr. Harold Benjamin dean of the school of education at Colorado University delivered the commencement address.
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Degre
Clean up drive in Spain targets alleged red conspirators
Madrid reports the government pushing a clean up of criminal and subversive elements after executing seven more people for the incident involving Isaac Gabal don, a military police inspector, his daughter and a civil guard. The count of alleged red conspirators rises to sixty.
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Madrid
Isaac Gabaldon
Jose Luis Diez
Executions Reported in Postwar purge Trials
Officials described executions by firing squads for slayings tied to the defeated army. Most executed were former soldiers or individuals long linked with Communists or subversive elements, as reported in the postwar crackdown.
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