Farmers Take Holiday Amid War Price Fights
Labor Day finds Mid-West farmers back on the farms or away from wartime troubles for higher prices. Highways into Sioux City are quiet with little picketing. Roads from northeastern Nebraska remain clear, while parts of North and South Dakota report only light guards by protesting agriculturalists.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Mid-West
Bloux City
Nebraska
Yow
South Dakota
Michigan Hotels See Normal Trade In Charlevoix Resort
Resort hotels in this area report steady business this season with early bookings matching prior years and cottage demand running above expectations in Charlevoix Michigan.
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Michigan
Charlevoix
Mich
Houston Seeks BFC Loan for Community Chest
Houston plans to obtain a Reconstruction Finance Corp loan to fund an estimated 450000 for emergency aid to the indigent during the coming year. Mayor Walter Monteith said he would seek the loan, and the county may apply jointly with the city or separately.
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Houston Community Chest
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Walter Monteith
Hest
Commerce Offices Aid State Business in Texas
The four offices of the United States department of commerce in Texas have brought $18,498,625 in business to the state over the past five years, according to the Houston district office. Offices are located in Houston Galveston Dallas and El Paso.
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Houston
United States Department of Commerce
Texas
Department
Galveston
Dallas
el Paso
Stunt Wizard Dead From Mnu re Crash
Hollywood stunt aviator Al Wilson died in Berea Community Hospital from a fractured skull after a 1961 air race crash. He piloted a 1910 pusher plane that collided with John Miller’s autogiro from Poughkeepsie. Both machines fell about 100 feet, Miller uninjured, Wilson unconscious at scene. Spectators witnessed the wreck in front of the national air races grandstand.
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Cleveland
al Wilson
Berea Community Hospital
John Miller
Poughkeepsie
Wilean
Ventures
Green Warns of U S Unemployment Woes in Labor Day Speech
In West View Park Pittsburgh PA President William Green of the American Federation of Labor warned that unemployment will worsen through the coming winter. He noted over 11 million workers are idle and criticized wage declines versus falling living costs, urging broader work sharing and shorter hours. He closed with cautious optimism about improving economic skies.
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Fittsburgh
Wiliam Green
American Federation, of Labor
West View Park
American Federation of Labor
Green
Federation
Light Classified Ad Plan for Free Announcement
A brief request to recover a missing notice quickly via a light classified ad in the San Antonio paper, noting the publication’s large daily and Sunday circulation and offering a free announcement option. The fragment implies urgent publicity use.
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San Antonio
West Texas prairie chicken season set with wide whistled birds
Game wardens and ranchers in West Texas report a plentiful prairie chicken crop for a four day season from September 1 to 4. Only Wheeler and Collingsworth counties will be closed. most counties north of Hall and Childress report plenty. South Plains counties Gaines Yoakum Cochran Terry Hockley Bailey and Lamb also report large numbers. Daily or seasonal limit is 10 birds. Mourning dove season runs through September and October.
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Amarillo
West Texas
North Panhandle
Wheeler
Collingsworth
Hall and Childress
Gaines
Yoakum
Cochran
Oldster marks fifty first anniversary with river surfboard ride
Portland resident C. W. West aged 73 celebrated his fifty first wedding anniversary by riding a surfboard 72 miles up the Willamette River behind a motorboat to join his family and then returning home the same way in a playful display of celebration.
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Lively Oldster
Portland
Ore
C. W. West
Willamette River
Aviatrix Sets Air Speed Record in Cleveland Flight
Mae Halvlip became the world speed queen by shattering the women's landplane record with an average 255.518 miles per hour on the three-kilometer course, beating Ruth Nichols’s 210.636 mph mark from 1931. Wedell, Gehlbach and others also pursued records in a day marked by rough weather and competitive flying.
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Mae Halvlip
Nacional Air
Ruth Nichols
Rye
N.Y
Autlety Ayiatrix
Jimmie
James Wedell
Patterson
James H. Doolittle
Wedell
Lee Gehlbach
Mount Clemens
Mich
Doolittle
Gene Tunny Denies Political Hopes In Speech
Gene Tunny retired heavyweight champion denied any political ambitions after being asked by IN S about a possible run for Congress. In New York he refused to speculate while confirming a relocation of his medical office from Nix Building to 827 Medical Arts.
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Gene
OLD Orchard Brach
INS
Congress
Gene Tunny
International News Service
A. Fletcher Clark
Nix Bldg
Medical Arts
Garfield
Pair In Air to Set Endurance Mark
Two comparatively unknown aviators John Sheasey and Fred Murillo took off from a local airport aiming to beat the 647 hours 24 minutes 0 seconds endurance record. They departed at 1 47 PM yesterday in Los Angeles as they seek a sustained flight of over three weeks for a potential record.
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Los Angeles
John Sheasey
Fred Murillo
German aviator von Gronau rests after Tokio hop
Von Gronau and two companions rest at the German embassy after completing a round the world flight segment from Germany via the United States. They reached Nemuro to Lake Kasumigaura near Tokyo after a 600 mile leg and plan a week’s layover before resuming toward Manila Shanghai and Taio China.
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Tokio
Wolfgang von Groner
Germany
United States
Nemuro
Lake Kasumagaure
Mantis
Shanghai
Taio~ Ohina
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