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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1936
Page
2
Independent weekly published at 932 Tenth Avenue in Sidney Cheyenne County Western Nebraska announces subscription rates payable in advance with telegraph news One year inside zone one costs 2.00 dollars outside zone over 50 miles 2.50 dollars.
The Queen Mary arrived at New York harbor with a new speed record, trimming the Normandie’s time by three hours and five minutes after completing the Carrkcuzh to Ambrose lightship passage in four days eight hours and 37 minutes. Also noted, Dr. Anz CG Roberts, a 75-year-old retired Denver woman physician, was violently assaulted during a hold up leaving a four inch scalp wound. New mortality figures show white men in America average 59 years and white women 63, down from 48 and 51 at the century’s turn. Repudiation of farm debts urged if Lemke fails to win office. Father Coughlin spoke to farmers in North Dakota.
Alvin Karpis and Charles Fitzgerald receive life terms from Federal Judge M A Josce in St Paul Minnesota for the Hamm kidnapping. The two men deny involvement by Jack Perfer, who is charged as the finger man in the case.
Police formed a new clue in the Helen slaying near Ash Ville North Carolina after a hotel worker who lived two floors down reported hearing a voice after a scream. The description notes a cultured tone and a potential witness.
More than 100 air force planes were called to join bombs bullets and gas in a mock warfare exercise by the second army at Chicas? Under Major Gen. Kilbourne the maneuvers would start Saturday and cover most of Michigan with the aim of testing air and ground readiness and coordination across military units.
A blaze wiped out the Fraser Colp establishment, killing six people with two seriously injured. The surrounding chaos follows a wave of global tension as foreign coverage notes rising conflicts across Europe Asia and Africa. Federal agents search for Joseph Harley and Maurice Denning, both linked to kidnapping charges.
In Colorado the organized old age pensioners demanded a platform plank calling for $45 monthly payments to all needy people over 60 at the Republican convention. The same proposal was raised at the Democratic state convention.
William Reilly, a worker for the Southern Colorazco Power company, was instantly killed when a high voltage transmission wire dropped onto a water soaked pole near Rocky Ford. The pole was saturated with water, causing Reilly to be electrocuted.
Weather bureau sources report a tropical storm nearing Miami Florida at about ten miles per hour. The center lies roughly 110 miles east of the city and warnings are issued to coast towns and ships at sea.
Ohio governor expressed hope that the modern Jean Valjean Carl ton B. Chilton, who escaped after serving one year of a two year sentence for a bank robbery 23 years ago, may not be sent back to Oklahoma. His Cleveland life for five years has been described as perfect by the governor.
Seattle event opens with a shaving race featuring women shaving their husbands. Next Sunday a race close to a bareback swaybacked work horses is scheduled, promising more rural spectacle and competition.
A crowd of unemployed men and women halted a state senate adjournment in Harrisburg as they demonstrably protested the failure to provide relief funds, with objects hurled from the galleries during the protest.
Government records show fires this year have burned 25 482 acres of timber in Washington, roughly double last year’s 13 000 acres. Increased destruction is linked to harsher, drier weather across the state.
A 14 year old Denver boy Marlin Mc Donald was found strangled in the basement of his home by his adoptive parents who took him in at age three. No motive was given for the apparent suicide.
President Roosevelt, during a sea vacation aboard the Sewanee off New Brunswick, sports side whiskers and considers landing at Campobello or awaiting the visit to the Canadian governor general as his cruise nears completion.
July 28 is noted as an important day in U S invention history. The text recalls the first patent issued a century ago for an improvement on the steam locomotive and states that since then 2 045 000 patents have been granted.
A thousand men fought a 25 mile front in the Little Rockies Montana to contain a fierce forest fire that killed three members of a geological survey crew. Two were trapped in a high cave and consumed by flames, the third died trying to escape the blaze.
Heavy rains pushed the Arkansas river and other streams toward flood stage in southern Colorado. In Pueblo two men escaped when their car was trapped by a wall of water. Drought areas face crop losses but expect replanting feed crops. Several tons of Colorado stew shipped to Dallas for an exposition. An Italian report claimed 1000 Ethiopians were killed attempting to sever the Addis Ababa Dessye highway. Charles Norman of Patterson New Jersey marked his fifth anniversary by smoking a large cigar.
The report notes a child’s exposure to tobacco beginning at 14 months, highlighting prolonged early smoking as a concern. Medical authorities warn about long term health risks and urge preventive guidance for families.
Nearly 4,000 WPA laborers aboard a Baltimore and Ohio train were told they would work about nine days without pay to cover lost time. Police restored order after a 30 minute disturbance. In Paragould Arkansas three people died when an ambulance veered off the highway into a ditch while rushing to a hospital. City officials shakeup sees Chief Samardicz demoted to patrolman and former chief John Pszanowski to succeed him as rumors swirl about reinstatements and promotions.
For twenty years Mrs Rosina Kemp of Calgary Canada told friends that when she visited her husband’s grave at Vimy Ridge in France she would be ready to die. She fulfilled her wish last Sunday a few hours after boarding the boat for the return trip she died from a heart attack.
Rescue men warned death toll could rise after a freight train derailment near Clay City Illinois, with open switch suspected as the cause. Governor Cochran criticized Kansas tax policy in a radio address, saying Nebraska maintains a true balance budget and higher Kansas taxes, including a cigarette tax.
The National Safety Council reports 15 290 highway fatalities for the first half of the year, 500 fewer and three percent below the 1935 figure, with a discouraging outlook despite a target of a 35 percent reduction. A Los Angeles mother loses a baby in a fire started by a match as a sister dies rescuing him. A man linked to the rattlesnake murder of his seventh wife is sentenced to life in Folsom.
Former sailor Charles Hope confessed as an accomplice leading to the conviction of Robert S. James. Hope's statement connected James to the crime, with authorities presenting the confession as pivotal evidence in the trial.
The Navy Department reported two sailors were killed and eight injured when a gun turret exploded aboard the U S Marinehead off the southern California coast.
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