Printing of Hearst Poll Cards for National Presidential Survey
Washington presses have printed over 2.5 million post cards for The Light and Hearst papers. Mailing starts Monday, July 18, with a nationwide canvass to gauge presidential preference. A 50+ person staff will process and analyze responses from zones aligned with Hearst cities. About 100,000 may vote via stamped cards, totaling roughly 3% of voters. The plan follows earlier accurate polls, notably predicting Hoover’s Texas win by 49,000 and Oklahoma results.
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Fraud Charged in Getting Federal Seed and Feed Loans
Representative Wood of Indiana demanded vigorous prosecution of fraud in securing seed and feed loans from the federal government. He cited Alabama trials as evidence and warned that similar schemes exist in Georgia Florida South Carolina Mississippi and other Southern states.
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Flood Devastates Nogales as Four Feet of Water Rises
Torrential rain swept Nogales Arizona and Nogales Sonora causing four feet of water to flood streets and wash away adobe shanties. The damage estimate tops 100,000 and hundreds flee homes as rivers surge through border zones.
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Electrical Device Cuts Alley Through Fog Bank
Berlin reports a dramatic meteorological breakthrough by Professor Alber Wigand at Hamburg University. He cut a 600 by 250 by 500 foot fog alley using electrically charged water sprays, dissipating about 80 percent of fog near Ulm after 12 years of work.
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Cuban Army Seizes Police Control After Havana Killings
In Havana on July 8 Gen Alberto Herrera chief of staff of the Cuban army took control of all police to hunt anti-government gunmen who killed Capt Miguel Onivo chief of the Cuban Secret Service and two detectives. Dr Pablo Carrera Justin was released as he left Havana aboard the liner Oriente after questioning about a grey American automobile tied to the gunmen. Police seek American gangsters due to the submachine gun assault that killed the detectives.
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Cuban Official and 3 Die in Highway Crash Near Havana
Captain Samaniego, a Cuban military official involved in a recent government conspiracy, his brother Cesar, and two soldiers were killed in a car accident on the national highway near Ciega de Avila today. The crash occurred amid heightened security and political turmoil in Havana.
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Actor Confirms His Engagement in Hollywood News
Hollywood July 1 Rich Chatterton actor wife George Brent admitted engagement after divorce from Ralph Forbes. Brent, her leading man, said plans call for a September marriage in August. Forbes now resides in Reno. Brent and Chatterton had worked together on a film and Brent disclosed they would wed when she returns from Europe.
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Girl Attacks Charge Filed Against James Edward McCoy
A charge of statutory assault was filed before Justice of the Peace John F. Union Saturday against James Edward McCoy of Signal Corps Ran dolph field Mississippi. Complainant Miss Mary Doolittle hat check girl at the Gunter hotel says on July 7 around 10 30 p m he asked her to go with him and to other couples to a Talmadge Inn They danced until 2 p m then he drove toward town but turned on a side road and allegedly used a gun when she tried to exit The matter notes he had not been arrested by noon Saturday.
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