Labor Federation Declares Nonpartisan in Politics
The American Federation of Labor announces it will remain nonpartisan through the presidential campaign. It will study each candidate's speeches before endorsing any platform, awaiting acceptance speeches in August to inform union members. The policy seeks to protect member interests and avoid party alignment.
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TOA
American Federation of wee
AWALU
slater
Indiavictus
organized
Law
American Federation of Labor
reed
Aciev
ulive wounen
American Federation of Labor ia
SHGNTEICA UTIERA
ukim
United States
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Baseball Dispatch From Chicago And New York Scores
Fragmentary baseball notes list players such as Ring Cochran Carroll Haryr Jones Tiwel Wile Shaute Hues Sewell Autry Pennock Grabow Lyons Cox Berg and an R O H E score context in Chicago and New York reports, indicating game actions and lineups with several unreadable segments. The readout references multiple pitchers and batters across two city matchups, preserving names and partial outcomes from a busy day’s play.
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R. OW
Iberg
Ring
Cochrane
Carroll
Haryr
National League results and a homicide verdict in Kansas City
Brooklyn, Pittsburgh and New York games ended with late innings and rain caused a postponement in Boston. In Kansas City a jury found Mangiaractna guilty of first degree murder in the Home Trust case and the slaying of a police officer on June 14, with the death penalty recommended.
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BROOKLYN
EL PUISBUEEN
Harare
McWeeny
Clark
Gooch
Deberry
R. H
Pittsburgh
Brrooklyn
Fussell
HIN
Hergreaves
Hems- Joy
Donk
Petty
Elliott
NEW YORK
arity
St. Louis
Bhown
Johnson
Halawna Wilson
Benton
Hogan
O'Parrett
PHILADELPHIA
Carlson, Malone
Hartnett
Davis
Cinemuth ab
Boston
KANSAS CITY
Mangiaractna
the
Home Trust Company
Happy
Smith, walte
Chief Plenty Coos Returns Land For Crow Nation Park
Chief Plenty Coos of the Crow presents land to the United States for a future park amid a ceremony near Pryor Mountains in Montana. General James G. Harbord, honored by the Crow, is thanked as a soldier who inspired the gesture. Harbord is adopted into the Crow tribe with a ceremonial title.
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CHIEF OF INDIANS
BELLINGS
Mont
Aug. T
Pryor
Plenty Coos
eral Ukrhord
ium
General Habberd
Mystery Woman Named In Los Angeles Death Case
In Los Angeles a coroner’s inquest identified Mae Switner wife of a department store owner as the mystery woman linked to a perilous social circle surrounding Mrs Myrtle Mellus. The case centers on Leo Kelly the prominent architect and S W Butler who allegedly attended gatherings before Mellus was killed. Witness Magele Ferris the Mellus maid testified she served the trembling mistress breakfast before the body was found.
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LOS ANGELES
Mae Switner
woman
S. W. Butler
Myrtle L. Mellus eati
Leo Kelly
Mellus
Sunnday
Kelly
Magele
Ferris
Frank Mellus
A. C. Jamison
Wilshire
S. S. Hahn
Mrs. Switzer
Key
Butler
polcy
G.O.P. Campaign Base Set Near Capitol Steps
Albany Republicans seize a store room across from the Capitol lawn to serve as their campaign base in a county that usually votes Democratic. The headquarters display supports Hoover and Curtis, and Governor Smith will soon address the acceptance. The scene places campaign activity within sight of the governor's official building.
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ALBANY
Capitol
Smith
Capitol lawn
Albany county Republican committee
Herbert C. Hoover
Charles jcurts
Powder Carrier Explosion Rocks Tacoma Coast
Fire aboard the La Blanca near Point Fosdick triggered a massive blast that shattered windows from Day Island to Lemon's Beach. Captain Nels Christensen beaching the boat and fleeing with his son likely saved lives as the explosion’s shockwave was heard up to fifty miles away. The ship carried 250 cases of dynamite and 226 kegs of black powder bound for Kennewick from Du Pont.
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TACOMA
Wash
Narrows
La Blanca
Point Fosdick
Nels Christensen
Niel
Du Pont
Kenneydale
Leake Washington
Christensen
contral
Day Island
Titlow Beach
slong Lemon's Beach
300 Men Fight Fire in Woods Near Sequoia Park
Fresno August 7 Nearly three hundred men concentrated on saving the Sequoia national park giant trees as a fire along the Kaweah river’s south fork raged with the lowest humidity in two years. State Ranger C E Metcalf plus 166 Tulare county men fought through the night. sixty five more were called and expected to join today while the federal park service reported 350 on its side. The blaze had burned over 8500 acres of brush and grass, threatening the park but causing only grass and brush loss so far.
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FRESNO
Sequoia national park
south fork
Kaweah river
C. E. Metcalf
Tulare county
Metcalf
federal park service
national park
Second storm hits Florida in renewed tropical fury
In West Palm Beach and Palm Beach the second tropical storm of the day caused slight damage to trees and awnings as wind reached sixty miles per hour. Shipping halted, Lake Worth was floodbound, and the system mirrored Nassau's morning pattern with an early lull followed by renewed intensity.
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WEST PALM BEACH
Fla
Palm Beach
Lake Worth
Nassau
Bahamas
Prince to join Pilgrims to battlefields of France
In London on August 7 the Prince of Wales departed Victoria station by boat train in a light brown lounge suit and soft hat to join British Pilgrims for the memorial pilgrimage to the battlefields of Flanders and France. He was escorted by Brigadier General Trotter and will stay tonight at Little.
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LONDON
Prince of Wales
Victoria station
Belgium
British legion
Flanders
France
Trotter
Little
Duke of York
Victoria’ station
Romney
Border City Raid Preceded Columbus Tax Sale Note
A New Mexico tax sale of Columbus, once raided by Pancho Villa in 1916, recalls how Villa’s assault on the border village helped propel Pershing to command in World War I. The event spurred war preparedness as Villa’s band crossed into the United States, prompting a firefight and a retreat into Columbus.
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ANTA FE
N. MA
Columbus
N. M
Pancho Villa
Mexico
Villa
adobe
Jos A. Pershing
Vina
Primary elections due today in three states
Missouri voters face a busy primary with heated wet and dry issue battles. An expanded slate includes three Republican and six Democratic candidates for U S senator, five Republicans and three Democrats for governor, plus contests for lieutenant governor secretary of state attorney general state auditor treasurer and legislative seats.
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ST. LOUIS
Missouri
RENATE
United States
Nathan Frank
Bernard Bogg
Henry A. Bund
RASKOB REJECTS POST CAMPAIGN SEVERANCE CLAIM
John J. Raskob, Democratic national chairman, denied Evening Post reports he would end all business ties with General Motors and join Radio Corporation of America after the campaign. He had resigned GM finance chairman to avoid the appearance of the company playing politics, with officials saying he would likely resume the post after the race.
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NEW YORK
John J. Rackob
today
tee Evening Post
General Motors Corporation
Radio Corporation of America
Raskob
Aircraft Race to Pike's Peak Opens Colorado Meet
COLORADO SPRINGS Aug 7 A score of airplanes will start today in an on to Colorado Springs race as a three day Pike s Peak air meet begins Friday A total of seventy five aircraft will take part A separate event features a one way race between a Wichita Kansas driver and a plane with pilots Py O M Mosier and Griffith Lloyd of Chicago among those listed
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COLORADO SPRINGS
United States
Pikes Peak
Wientta
Kans
Fred Bellman
Py. O. M. Mosier
Mra. Griffith Lloyd
Chicago
Hoover Awaiting Ceremony 10 State His Policies
Hoover faces a patient wait before his first bid to voters at Stanford. He contemplates reception and radio reach of his keynote speech as millions may hear the broadcast from ninety stations.
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HOOVER
STANFORD UNIVERSITY
Herbert Hoover
San Juan hill
fiele
AMSTEL
ALBANY
N. Y
Smith
New York
California Crew Beats Italians in Olympic Rowing
The University of California eight-naved crew defeated Italy in a quarter-final round race at the Olympic regatta, marking another win over a European opponent.
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SLOTEN
Holland
University of California
Italy
British Olympic Chief Sees U S Pacific Venue Flawed
J F Wad More, manager of Britain’s Olympic team, welcomed the next games being in the United States but criticized a Pacific coast venue. He said Los Angeles is too far and Atlantic coast sites would better ensure strong British and other nations’ representation at the next Olympics.
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LONDON
J. F. Wad- More
Amsterdam
United States
nut
Pacific
Atlantic
Los Angeles
Mother Slays Her Young Son in Seattle
Seattle dispatch reports Augusta Fischer killed her four year old son Robert with a razor claiming she did not want him to grow up. She telephoned police and was taken to the station, described as demented after recent illness and a sanitarium stay. The Nanking incident update notes Britain and Nationalist government reaching terms for settlement.
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SEATTLE
Augusta Fischer
Robert
PEKING
Nanking
Great Britain
Rescue Work Rushed To Free Men In Italian Submarine Wreck
Rescue teams hurry to free men trapped in Italian submarine wreck. President Coolidge expressed admiration for Herbert Hoover and confidence in his election prospects after meeting Vermont Senator Dale who visited the president in Superior Wisconsin. The senator warned that the campaign still needs effort while Coolidge hosted Minnesota horticulturalists and cosmopolitan club delegates in Duluth.
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SUPERIOR
Wis
Dale
Vermont
Coolidge
Herbert Hoover
HOOVER
Daie
Republican party
Cedar Island lodge
Minnesota Horticultural Society
International Federation of Cosmopolitan Clubs
Duluth
Minn
Rescue Effort Sustains Italian Sub F 14 Crew
In the Adriatic, rescuers raised the sunken submarine F 14 to within forty feet of the surface after a collision with a destroyer. Thirty one crewmen remained alive and in contact by submarine telephone as divers attached air pipes and a steel cable. Weather and seas hindered operations, with fate of some crew uncertain while salvage continued near the vessel Aquila and Admiral Foschini led the rescue effort.
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ROME
shimpelione
Adriatic
CALBES
movat
Aquila
Foschini
aes
glenn
Gulf of Pola
Noted Musician Grattan Flood Dies at Ennis-corthy Home
Belfast dispatch reports the death of Chevalier William Henry Grattan Flood, eminent Irish musician and historian, at his Ennis-corthy, Wexford home. Organist of Enniscorthy cathedral since 1895, he was decorated by four popes and famed for church music, composing two masses and many motets. He contributed articles to the Catholic Encyclopedia when it was produced in the United States two decades ago.
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BELFAST
William Henry Grattan Flood
Enniscorthy
Wexford
Kills Aged Wife and Hangs Self at Montana Ranch
In Missoula Montana Jules Trathen seventy four shot and killed his wife sixty four then hanged himself in a shed on a ranch. Sheriff Needham found the body after a three foot jump with a rope around his neck. Nine children and many grandchildren survive. Divorce was reportedly contemplated.
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MISSOULA
Mont
Jules Trathen
W. Ti. Needham
Trathen
sheriff’s
Jin Polson
Death near for Democrat leader of LINC
George E Brennan Democratic national committeeman for Illinois has relapsed from septic poisoning after a week of suffering. Doctors say kidney failure ends hope for recovery and he may die within two or three days. Brennan, longtime diabetic, faced worsened condition under treatment by Dr Forrester.
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CHICAGO
George E. Brennan
Ilinois
Brenan
G. Forrester
Brennan
Ancient Inca Town 15 Found Near Intihuatana
Lima reports the discovery of a lost Inca city near Intihuatana in the Cusco region. A scientific expedition led by Cusco authorities and backed by President Seguin explored Muchupiccho and Ruinapiccho mountain, sighting walls and platforms through binoculars from Intihuatana observatory with no prior white exploration. Some explorers returned to Cusco while others stay to attempt access.
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LIMA
department of Curso
Leguja
Muchupiccho
Cuzco
Seguin
Maceduplecho
Poles Will Fly Back to Paris From Oporto Delay
A French military plane in Madrid was ordered to Lisbon to ferry Polish airmen Majors Idvikowski and Kubala to Paris. Telegrams said a plane left Le Bourget but no landing at Oporto, so it went to Alverca. the Poles waited at their Oporto hotel, speculating on the delay.
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PARIS
Madrid
Lisbon
MajorsIdvikowski
Kubala
Le Bourget
Oporto
Alverca
Clampdown on Chicago gambling by 300 officers
Chicago police moved to close all gambling venues as 300 officers enforced Commissioner Russell's order. Over 2000 gambling sites were reported idle after the blitz, with each captain tasked to purge his district and organize raiding squads targeting known dens.
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CHICAGO
Russell
nis
Girls Drown in Wyoming Lake Tragedy Near Pinedale
Four Rock Springs and Superior girls aged ten to twelve drowned when a boat capsized at New York Lake south of Pinedale Wyoming. Six others were rescued by Bill Thomas and Josephine Russell after dark requires rescue was hindered by dark waters and rough conditions at the lake.
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PINEDALE
Wyo
New York Lake
here
Minnie Parneneo
Reta Tolton
Margaret Card
Rock Springs
Reta Angelt
Superior
Bill Thomas
Josephine Russell
Laramie
University of Wyoming
Hescue
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