Fires Oar On Unchecked In West
Spokane Washington August reports describe vast fires across Montana Idaho Washington and Oregon. Forest service crews battled major blazes that scorched tens of thousands of acres of timber and ranch land valued in the millions over two weeks. New appeals for help followed as fires either reignited or new outbreaks were found amid smoke. Lumber workers farmers and townspeople joined regu lars in the firefighting effort as officials considered conscripting workers if needed.
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Spokane
Wash
Northwest
Montana
Idaho
Washington
Oregon
Forest Service
Greenfield Firm Faces Bankruptcy Hearing In Chicago
J B Greenfield and company, led by J B Greenfield, were to appear in court to answer a bankruptcy petition filed by Anna Logan accusing the brokerage of selling oil stock that was never delivered. The firm was forced out of business after complaints from Ali nog and Michigan officials regarding unfulfilled oil stock deliveries. Mrs Logan and her husband Robert T Logan invested life savings, losses totaling $14,525, mortgaging their home to recover.
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Chicago
J. B. Greenfield
J. B. Greenfield and Company
Alinog
Michigan
Anna Logan
Robert T. Logan
Standard Oil
Tegan
Young Oriental Joins Ad Carter's Just Kids Club
Miss Anna Chang, star of Chinatown, becomes the first Chinese member of the Just Kids club after meeting Ad Carter creator of Just Ride in Detroit last year. Carter founded the club and Chang has since supported the organization enthusiastically.
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Anna Chang
Texas
Chinatown
Ad Carter
Incheon
Detroit
Lois Baltz Resting After Relapse In Sleep
Lois Baltz a 14 year old girl of 318 Labor Street who has been unconscious since July woke briefly Wednesday at Burlor Hospital before returning to a semi natural sleep. A nurse washed her face and she uttered Leave my eyes alone then drifted back. Her skull fracture followed a fall from a moving car in Brackenridge Park.
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Lois Baltz
Labor Street
Burlor Hospital
Brackenridge Park
Suspension of 11 Equity members over talkie contracts
Frank Gillmore announced at a Los Angeles Equity meeting that 11 members were suspended for accepting talking motion picture contracts. The move follows ongoing efforts to unionize Hollywood talkies, part of a broader ban that has already affected about twenty six actors, including Donald Crisp and Leo White, as producers report 515 actors and actresses signing standard contracts.
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Los Angeles
Actor’ Equity Association
Frank Gillmore
Hollywood Talkie Studios
Equity
Donald Crisp
Haslum Cooley
Charles Conklin
Gilbert Hales
Mayme Ketan
Leo White
Carl Miller
Hubert Eli — Millasch
Churles Gereard
George Milo
Bruce Hautach
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RCA — Victor — Majestic
Crosley
Atwater Kent
Brunswick—Freed—Gulbransen
Anns Chang
Vtaxo
Dust Hide
Young Oriental
Strip
Order
Booth
R.C.A. Radiola
Philco
Milam Radio CO
Milam
Custedy Fla Equity
Paramount Radio Company
N. St. Mary’s St
Atwater-Kent Screen Grid Radio
Crockett
Bosch Radio
Bosch
American Bosch Magneto Corporation
Springfield
Bosch Radio de Lure
Bosch Radio Combinarias
Sperker
the Beach-Wittman CO
San Antonio
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