NRA Campaign To Begin In Seymour Monday
Seymour readies for NRA outreach as six business men form a committee to contact firms and offices. Psi Iota Xi and Tri Kappa sororities will house to house survey unemployment and collect pledge cards, forwarding results to national headquarters after a three district canvass.
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Seymour
NRA
National Recovery Administration
Washington
Psi Iota Xi
Tri Kappa
C. H. Wiethoff
Jackson County
Wiethof
Ealing
Wiethoff
P Group
Charce
A. L. Jackson
J. R. Thompson
Girl Arrested on Putnam County Warrant in Seymour
Ora Alena Hicks fifteen of Cloverdale Ind was arrested in Seymour at 645 Friday night on a warrant from Putnam county charging delinquency and was taken to Putnam county by the sheriff. She reportedly left Cloverdale with a married man and traveled to Seymour for residence. the man with employment here left Seymour several days ago.
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Ora Alena Hicks
Cloverdale
Ind
Seymour
Putnam County
Detours Lifted on Indiana State Roads Near Bedford
Detours on Indiana state roads are lifted and oiling nears completion. US 50 east of Bedford is now clear for the first time in about three years, allowing direct travel to Lawrence County. Roads 37 Bloomington to north and road 44 Franklin to— are listed with surface treatments and detours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
U. S
Franklin
Maryland Toll 21 From Storm Across Atlantic Coast
Maryland's toll from Wednesday's violent storm along the Atlantic coast rose to twenty one with thirteen known dead and eight missing. The disappearance of two coast guardsmen from the Green Run station, Captain H. L. Birch and assistant H. S. Mason, was reported at Ocean City. Six men remained unfound at Hooper's Island.
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Baltimore
Maryland
Atlantic
H. L. Bireh
H. S. Mason
Green Run
Ocean City
Hooper's Island
Young farmer badly burned in gasoline spill incident
Chester Schaeffer a 21 year old farmer near Elizabeth was in critical condition at St Edwards hospital with third degree burns to his face back and arms after gasoline spilled on a hot engine while filling a car's tank. Patrolman Jess Cooper found him engulfed in flames and removed his clothing before speeding him to the hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Albany
Ind
Chester Schaeffer
Elizabeth
St. Edward'’s Hospital
Schaeffer
Jess Cooper
Labor Strikes Roil Cuba Under De Cespeder Regime
Labor unrest returns to Cuba as bakers, motion picture operators, stevedores and street car workers strike for shorter hours and higher wages amid the De Cespeder government. The walkouts echo the Machado era upheaval across Havana and other parts of the island.
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Havana
Gerardo Machado
Secessor
President de Cespeder
Bakers
Steveatores
American flyer Harry Hawks fails Vancouver to Quebec run
Frank Hawks an American speed flyer attempted a non stop flight from Vancouver to Quebec but drifted off course landing in Kingston Ontario where he resumed the journey after the stop.
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Kingston
Ont
Frank Hawks
Vancouver
Quebec
Hawks
State Officials Tour Jackson County Forest
Virgil Simmons of the state department of conservation and state forester Ralph Wilcox, with a party of officials, visited the Jackson county forest this morning as part of a three day tour of state properties.
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Virgil Simmons
State Department of Conservation
Ralph Wilcox
Jackson County Forest
Wheat control meetings to cover contracts and allotments
County agent W P Stall announces a final wheat control meeting at Cortland School Monday at 7 30 pm. The session will answer questions about contract requirements and farm allotments as part of the Agricultural Adjustment Act program. Supplies are available to handle the work in Jackson county. Continued on page 7 column 2.
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W. P. Stall
Cortland Sahoo
Stall
Jackson County
New director leads state Accident Prevention Bureau
Loran W. Warner of Winamaec and Star City begins duties as director of the Accident Prevention Bureau under the Treasury Driver’s License division and reports to Judge Gus Mueller. The bureau will contact school officials to prevent school bus accidents and broaden to reduce grade crossings and highway incidents with motor vehicle investigators and safety efforts.
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Pepeario
Loran W. Warner
Winamaec
Star City
Warner
Department of Treasury
Gus Mueller
Bureau of Motor Vehicles
Woman Stabbed in Cal. Home. Doctor Injured
In San Diego on August 26 a woman wielding a butcher knife killed Miss Ann Kiffe a 50 year old housekeeper in Dr Anita Muhl s home and seriously injured the doctor The alleged assailant Dr Virginia Wilson 36 a former teacher at the California college of medicine Berkeley and a Washington University graduate was captured a half mile away after a nervous breakdown authorities said
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San Diego
Cal
Ann Kiffe
Anita Muhl
Virginia Wilson
Washington University
St. Louis
California College of Medicine
Berkeley
Run Down Back Broken in Auto Accident
Orville Wricht, 21, of Snullivan Ind suffered a broken back when a car in gear ran him over after being cranked. The incident occurred Friday and left him injured.
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Snullivan
Ind
Orville Wricht
Young Golfer Demonstrates Remarkable Skill in Seymour
James Edward Guinnup, age twelve, son of E. F. Guinnup of North Chestnut Street, shows scores rivaling adult players while his father, superintendent at Vincennes Packing, watches his progress. His younger brother Dan, nine, also shows potential as he eyes future competition.
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Seymour
James Edward Guinnup
E. FE. Guinnup
North Chestnut Street
Vincennes Packing Company
James
Dan
Campaign Targets One Headlight Violations in Seymour
Seymour police launch a city wide drive on September 2 in cooperation with state safety director Al Feeney to remove drivers with faulty lights. Chief Julius Harlow declines universal on scene garage repair and will detain violators for lights fixes or arrest them.
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Seymour
Julius Harlow
al. G. Feeney
Harlow
Feeney
J. R. DeLong
Fuugene Vance
Vernon
Mr. Feeney
Hoosier car sales rise in July with 4707 new cars sold
July vehicle sales in Indiana climbed as Hoosier dealers moved 4 707 new passenger automobiles. The gain is 52 percent over July of last year. Jackson County sales reached 40 units in July, up from 24 in July 1992.
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Indiana
Hoosier
Frank Finney
Bureau of Motor Vehicles
Indianapolis
Jackson County
Lumbermen Meet to Form Retail Lumber Association No 1
Seymour and Brownstown lumbermen gathered in Scottsburg Friday for the newly formed Retail Lumbermen's Association No 1 conceived a week earlier in Scottsburg by traders from thirteen southern Indiana counties. Emil Miller and A B Carter attended, as did Herman Router Anton Miller and local Brownstown members William Ball and James Applewhite. the group adopted by laws and a fair code aligned with the NRA movement.
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Seymour
Brownstown
Scottsburg
Retail Lumbermen’s Association No. 1
Scottsbore
Indiana
Emil Miller
Seymour Planine Mill Company
A. B. Carter
Travis Carter Company
Herman Router
Kaufman & Rueter
Anton Miller
Seymour Planing Mill
William €. Ball
James Applewhite
NRA
School Costs Reduced in Bluffton Report
Bluffton Indiana August 26 William A Kunkel Jr head of the Bluffton school board completes a report on city school finances showing a decline in assessed property value from 6 183 095 to 4 113 140 and a tax levy drop from 1.80 to 1.67 while total expenditures fall from 109 582 to 88 022, yet finances are in splendid condition.
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Bluffton
Ind
William A. Kunkel Jr
Biuffton
Deaf miner killed by train near Brazil Indiana
Charles Hensox fifty six Harmony coal miner was struck and killed by a Pennsylvania railroad train while walking along the track on his way home from a squirrel hunt. He was very deaf and did not hear the approaching train. Survived by a widow three daughters and two sons.
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Brazil
Ind
Charles Hensox
Harmony
Man Arrested in Sullivan County Shooting
Jesse Byrd of Sullivan county was arrested Friday on a charge of assault and battery with intent to kill Raymond Hill. Byrd fired five shots at Hill after a quarrel at a dance, one shot striking Hill in the head.
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Sullivan
Jesse Byrd
Sullivan County
Raymond Hill
Byrd
Wallonia man W F Turmail in the city on business
W F Turmail of Wallonia visited the city on Friday for business.
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W. FP. Turmail
Wallonia
Grain pact raises world wheat prices and Canada prepares plan
An international wheat price agreement signed in London by 21 nations spurred dealer and producer interest. Canada eyed a conference to map its participation as the Winnipeg market saw a two cent rise. Saskatchewan wheat pool head favored curtailment over acreage cuts while Canadian groups urged higher living standards to absorb excess supply. France faced a surplus challenge, and Washington called tariff reductions “significant.” Argentine traders said gains require a bigger price rise to benefit.
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Associated Press
Canada
London
Winnipeg Grain Exchange
L. C. Brouillette
Saskatchewan Wheat Pool
Frank Eliason
United Farmers of Canada
Paris
France
Washington
Argentina
School Man Passes Clark County Educator Dies
Samuel L. Scott aged sixty four, longtime Clark County school superintendent for thirty six years, died at a Louisville hospital. A prominent Indiana Democrat, he twice ran as the party's nominee for state school superintendent.
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Jeffersonville
Ind
Samuel L. Scott
Clark County
Indiana
Louisville
Porn
Borden
Scott
Sleeping sickness epidemic may delay opening of schools
Tin Aneomated Press reports in St Louis that thousands of suburban students may miss the fall return due to a sleeping sickness outbreak. In the past day three more deaths raised the toll to 34? No. 31 lives in under a month, with 25 new cases to 243 overall. Cases now cited coast to coast including Florida Georgia and California.
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St. Louis
Jacksonvile
Fla
Washington County's 1934 Tags Assigned
H L Menaugh, manager of the Washington County Automobile License Bureau, says tags for 1934 will start at 270801 for autos and 5010 for trucks. The white on black tags go on sale here in December.
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Salem
Ind
H. L. Menaugh
Washington County Automobile License Bureau
Five Die When Train Crashes Auto Near Columbia
Lancaster Pa August 26 five persons were killed and another fatally injured when a Pennsylvania railroad inspection train crashed into their automobile at Brooms Landing along the Susquehanna River, a mile south of Columbia.
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Lancaster
Pennsylvania Railroad
Brooms Landing
Susquehanna River
Columbia
Two Watercraft Collide Killing Three Near Chicago
Police and coastguardsmen probe a collision on Lake Michigan near the Chicago River. The Miss Chicago and the Visitor sank, with ten and seven aboard respectively. Rescue saved all Visitor passengers and all but four on the Miss Chicago. Pilot Walter Pomper survived. a woman body recovered. others missing. Coast guards searched the lake for hours, unsure of the fates of a father and son.
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Chicago
Lake Michigan
Chicago River
Walter Pomper
Pomper
Enard
Robot balks mailing of farmers checks
Washington date: The farm administration blamed a robotic paymaster for delaying checks to southern farmers who plowed under cotton. 7000 checks were planned for distribution Wednesday but the device issued only about 200 before balking, delaying the drafts and revealing the machine’s resistance to the crop reducing plan.
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Washington
Farm Administration
Professor James B Holloway Dies of Heart Attack
Former Hoosier educator Prof James B Holloway aged ninety nine died suddenly from a heart attack in Lexington Kentucky early Friday He was professor of school administration at the University of Kentucky College of Education and a native of Monroe County Kentucky A former school principal at Columbia City Indiana
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Lexington
James B. Holloway
College of Education
University of Kentucky
Monroe County
Kentucky
Prinepal
Columbia City
Ind
Rev. W. H. Law Dies at Montpelier Church Pastor
Hartford Day reports the Reverend W. H. Law, pastor of the Church of Christ in Montpelier, died Friday after a long illness. He leaves a widow and four children. Burial will be Monday in Hamilton.
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Hartford Day
Ind
W. H. Law
Church of Christ
Montpelier
Hamilton
Kidnapping Scourge Spurs Sharp Punishment Talk Across States
Reported kidnappers face severe outcomes as police in San Francisco fatally shoot one suspect after victim William F. Wood calls for help. In Hartford two men await charges for conspiracy to kidnap a Springfield businessman. Oklahoma City prepares twelve defendants for trial in a related case. Governor Lehman signs death penalty bill for kidnapping.
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Associated Press
San Francisco
William F. Wood
Taft
Hartford
Conn
Mass
Oklahoma City
Charles F. Ursehel
Texas
Herbert H. Lehman
New York
Bernard Bitterman
David May
May Company
Kidnapping ends in firefight at market. captor slain
William P a Taft cousin was freed after four days of captivity in a San Francisco market. Police say the kidnapper Howard Stafford Meek alias Henry Jennings resisted, wounded Patrolman Michael McDonald who died, and was himself killed by officers. About $10,000 in bank books and securities were found on the suspect.
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San Francisco
William P
William Howard Taft
Onan Wood
Wood
Michael McDonald
Howard Stafford Meek
Henry Jennings
Fila Bowers
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