Retail code hearings move toward fair competition
The National Recovery Administration set to open hearings on a retail code affecting over 5 million workers across 1.5 million stores. Proposals include a 40 hour week, minimum wages of 12 to 14 dollars weekly, fair practice agency, and bans on below invoice pricing and convict goods.
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William S. Neal
Washington
National Recovery Administration
National Recovery
Hugh S. Johnson
Oddity tomato resembles fleur de lis in three sections
A tomato grown in three equal sections, forming a fleur de lis pattern, was brought to The News by Charles Joseph of East Long Avenue. Nearby items note two October food donation days by Jameson Memorial Hospital Aide Society to aid hospital maintenance, and a shorn chow dog mistaken for a new breed.
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Charles Joseph
East Long Avenue
Jameson Memorial Hospital Aide Society
Pa Newc
Daily Weather Report Summary
U S weather statistics for the 24 hour period ending at 9 this morning. Maximum temperature 86. Minimum 51. No precipitation. River stage 3.4 feet. The same date last year recorded 85 maximum and 47 minimum.
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U. S
Flames trap four girls in cottage at park near Buffalo
Four girls Eileen Deinhart 11 Catherine Frank 18 Gertrude Sexpe 12 and sister Marguerite died when a cottage at Allegany State Park burned. Their mother Mrs Bernard Sexton was burned rescuing them as a gasoline stove flare caused the blaze. Park rangers noted the rapid fire spread left no escape.
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Buffalo
International News Service
N. Y
Allegany State Park
Eileen Deinhart
Catherine Frank
Gertrude Sexpe
Marguerite
Bernard Sexton
Park Rangers
Coal Code Occupies President's Attention
President Roosevelt at Hyde Park supervised ongoing efforts on a national coal code. Recovery administrator Hugh B. Johnson reported “splendid progress” on the code by telephone, with Johnson aiming to finalize a fair competition framework for the coal industry as part of the broader recovery program.
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International News Service
Hyde Park
N. Y
Roosevelt
Hugh 8. Johnson
Washington
Johnson
Mr. Roosevelt
Recovery Administration
Cuban Exiles Are Welcomed in Havana Demonstration
A large Havana crowd greeted Col. Carlos Mendieta and Col. Roberto Mendez Penate upon their arrival from exile. Mendieta, leader of the Union Nacionalista, long opposed the Machado government and has been linked to a potential Cuban provisional leadership succeeding Carlos Manuel De Cespedes. Both leaders previously lived in New York during exile.
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Havana
Gerardo Machado
Carlos Mendieta
Roberto Mendez Penate
Machado
Col. Mendieta
Union Nacionalista
Carlos Manuel de Cespedes
Cuba
Mendieta
Penate
New York
One Arrest Made In Offutt Robbery
Police in the city report rapid progress after a robbery at the W. J. Offutt company store at South Mill and Water streets. Frank Cartwright Jr of East North street is in custody and has confessed implicating Joe Orabinec of 15 Walter street Oakland. Most stolen goods were found in Cartwrights room. Information charging both men with larceny and breaking and entering will be filed later by Chief John F. Haven before Alderman Wallace J. Ewing.
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W. J. Offutt Company
South Mill and
Water Streets
Frank Cartwright, Jr
East North Street
Joe Orabinec
Walter Street
Oakland
Cartwright
Orabinec
John F. Haven
Wallace J. Ewing
Lindberghs Begin Iceland Survey Flight
Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh started from Reykjavik at 8:05 a.m. ECT on a survey flight over Iceland to locate suitable landing sites for trans Atlantic aircraft.
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Iceland
International News Service
Neykjavik
Charles A. Lindbergh
The
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Missing Coshocton publisher Fred S. Wallace
Coshocton Ohio August 22 Fred S Wallace 62 publisher of the Coshocton Tribune is missing since 1 30 am Sunday after leaving the Tribune plant shortly after the Sunday edition went to press Authorities were notified and an intensive search has been launched to locate him
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Coshocton
Fred S. Wallace
Coshocton Tribune
Wallace
Ohio
Tribune
The
Press
Sleeping sickness toll rises as outbreak reaches fourteen
In St Louis fourteen deaths are on record while a Metropolitan health committee fights a sleeping sickness outbreak that has struck 135 people in the past month. Victims include Vivian Freeman 20 and Robert Hamst. One death occurred in Warrensburg and another in Kansas City as case histories show most victims are not middle aged.
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ST. Louis
Vivian Freeman
Robert Hamst
Warrensburg
Kansas City
Metropolitan Health Committee
Nazi Commander Apologizes For Trooper Blow
Berlin August 22 Alfred Ernst division commander of the Berlin Nazi storm troopers called on United States Ambassador William E Dodd to express regrets over a beating of Dr Daniel Mulvihill connected with Long Island College Hospital. Mulvihill was struck behind the ear by a trooper angered when the American did not observe the Nazi salute.
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Berlin
Alfred Ernst
Nazi Storm Troopers
United States
William E. Dodd
Daniel Mulvihill
Mulvihill
Long Island College Hospital
Selecting Jury To Hear Evidence In Lamson Case
Lamson murder trial enters second session as jurors are chosen eight women and four men in the pool. Judge Syer allows peremptory challenges though none used yesterday while the case frames a possible death sentence for Stanford Publishing House executive David A Lamson. Meanwhile Dolores Roberts a nurse maid in the Lamson home is reported secretly married to Warren Sorenson in Vallejo California.
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Cal
Lamson
David A. Lamson
Stanford University
Allene
R. R. Syer
Dolores Roberts
Vallejo
Warren Sorenson
Lamson Murder Trial Key Witness Dolores Roberts Missing
In San Jose the Lamson murder trial continues with witness Dolores Roberts, a former nursemaid, absent from court amid reports she will become a mother in November. The case centers on David A Lamson, ex Stanford publishing executive, charged with killing his wife Allene on May 30 at their campus home.
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Cal
David A. Lamson
Stanford University
Allene
Dolores Roberts
Lamson
Allene Lamson
David Lamson
Stanford University Press
Allene Genevieve Lamson
Medalie to testify linking leaders to underworld racketeering
U S Attorney George Z. Medalie prepared to testify before the New York county grand jury to substantiate racketeering charges in politics. He said he would supply the names of four to six leaders connected to the underworld, five of them Tammany stalwarts and one Republican.
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New York
Underworld
U. S
George Z. Medalie
New York County Grand Jury
Medalie
Grand Jury
Tammany
Post Office Basement Taking Shape Underground
Bricklayers lay walls for the post office basement as partitions form a maze of rooms including boiler work and wash rooms. Hoyland and Mercer hold the brick contract and have used about 65,000 of nearly 500,000 bricks expected for the project.
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Hoyland and
Mercer
Allegheny River Runs Low With Stage Reported Zero
Franklin Pa Aug 22 The Allegheny river stage is reported at zero today as the district becomes bone dry after weeks with no rain. Water levels in French and Sugar creeks near Franklin are so low swimming is out of the question and other sections of Venango County have had rain, but this area has not.
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Franklin
Venango County
French
Sugar Creeks
Three Men Held as Witnesses in Gagliami Slaying
Pittsburgh reports three men detained as material witnesses in the August 13 death of Carmen Gagliami 38 a retired fruit dealer. Gandhi in Poona enters seventh day of fast unto death weighing 94 pounds and too weak to speak clearly. Dr Henry B Hoben osteopath found dead in wrecked Detroit car with four inch knife wound in throat.
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Pittsburgh
Carmen Gagliami
Poona
India
Mahatma Gandhi
Detroit
Henry B. Hoben
West wins polo title as city society shifts
Special To The News reports Chicago crowds saw a quirky polo upset as rural players triumphed over urban elites. The piece quips social circles are changed with polo moving from drawing rooms to the buckwheat belt, altering local pretensions and amusements.
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Chicago
Ohio mortgage holders accept 6 million in HOLC bonds
Mortgage holders on small Ohio homes have agreed to take six million dollars in Home Owners' Loan Corporation bonds. Negotiations for further acceptances are still under study as announced by the corporation.
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Washington
Ohio
Home Owners’ Loan Corporation
Eight Farmers Die In Truck Train Crash At Crossings
Eight Lenoir county farmers were killed and three more critically injured when a tobacco truck bound for market collided with a Seaboard Airline passenger train at a crossing near Lambertown North Carolina. Bodies were scattered along the tracks as the wreck dragged along the rails.
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Lamberton
N. C
Lenoir County
Seaboard
Here
International Wheat Conference Subcommittees Meet in London
Two subcommittees of the International Wheat Conference met at Canada House in London to continue deliberations on the world wheat surplus. They will report to the full conference tomorrow afternoon.
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London
Canada House
Man Charged With Manslaughter in Pear Thief Case
Willard R. Bryant, 40, was held for the coroner under a $3,000 bond on a manslaughter charge after admitting to detectives that he shot and killed an unemployed man he caught stealing pears from Bryant's orchard in Pittsburgh.
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Pittsburgh
Willard R. Bryant
Prison Fugitive Walter Scott Surrenders at Erie
Walter Scott 48, former Erie special policeman, surrendered to authorities in Erie ending a three month search that extended into Canada. He had escaped Rockview penitentiary where he was serving 6 to 12 years for manslaughter, and was captured after being trapped in an alley while visiting his former sweetheart.
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Erie
Canada
Walter Scott
Rockview Penitentiary
Scott
Delay on Coal Code Hints at New Pact Outcome
Washington reports another delay in finalizing the coal code as Hugh S. Johnson leads talks with coal operators and United Mine Workers leaders. East and northern districts push wage differentials. open shop reservations and unionization remain contentious amid ongoing negotiations.
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International News Service
Washington
Hugh S. Johnson
National Recovery Administrator
Johnson
West Virginia
Phil Murray
United Mine Workers of America
Johnson Replies to Critics in Washington NRA Speech
In opening NRA code hearings for the retail trade Hugh S. Johnson denounces charges of promoting violence neighborhood hunts and boycotts as he defends government policy. He warns retailers against price gouging noting such acts would kill the goose that lays the golden eggs and outlines NRA cooperation to curb excessive wholesale profits.
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International News Service
Washington
NRA
Hugh S. Johnson
Federal Recovery Administrator
Johnson
George Weddell Takes Leave From Pennsylvania Railroad
George Weddell, longtime clerk for the Pennsylvania railroad, is reported off duty and enjoying his annual vacation period.
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George Weddell
Pennsylvania Railroad
Death Notices for Clair Crawford and Others
Death records list Clair Crawford 51 of Pittsburgh Benjamin F Forsythe of Scenery Hill Thomas Franklin Kurtz 62 of Chewton and Mrs Margaret Myers 86 of Grand Junction Colorado.
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Clair Crawford
Pittsburgh
Benjamin F. Forsythe
Scenery Hill
Thomas Franklin Kurtz
Chewton
Margaret Myers
Grand Junction
Colorado
Violent Storm Pounds Middle Atlantic Coast
A massive nor'easter battering the middle Atlantic coast disrupts shipping and air travel from Boston to the Delaware Capes. Winds up to 70 miles per hour topple boats, flood roads, and force crews to seek shelter as seven fliers are forced down and searches continue for missing persons. Seabright and coastal towns endure massive wave action and damaged sea walls as warnings persist for lines of storms moving from Bermuda into New England.
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Middle Atlantic
Boston
Delaware Capes
Bermuda
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New England States
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Asbury Park
Graf Zeppelin to Visit United States on South American Flight
The Tageblatt reports the Graf Zeppelin plans a US visit this year on its final South American trip. It would depart Friedrichshafen October 14, fly Pernambuco to either Miami or Akron Chicago route, with possible landings in Chicago if weather allows. If not, it will circle Chicago and proceed to Akron for a mooring mast.
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Chicago
Tageblatt
United States
Germany
Friedrichshafen
Pernambuco
Brazil
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Atlantic
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Ohio
Seville
Spain
Graf
Arthur Mometer Ends Club Tenure with Century Break
The scene features Arthur Mometer in high spirits as he delivers a booming voice and a celebratory line about breaking a hundred today. He notes cutting his score to ninety nine, dismisses external roars, and remarks the weather at eighty two as his club days conclude.
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