Post Ready for Flight to Alaska
Wiley Post is ready to fly to Moscow via Alaska and Siberia with pontoons mounted. A test flight was conducted and Post and his wife may depart tomorrow. Will Rogers may join Post on the first leg, with a gum-chewing comedian using an assumed name onboard en route to Seattle.
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Oils Lead Brisk Stock Advances in New York Trade
Stock prices moved higher with the oils sector leading the market in New York. Profit taking unsettled some leaders but was absorbed without serious losses. Utilities and other groups posted new highs for the year as the day closed firm.
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Closing stock prices in New York on August 5
Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 15 percent. American Can 144, American Power and Light 7 percent, Anaconda 16, Bethlehem Steel 36, General Motors 39, International Harvester 52, Kennecott 19, United States Steel 42, Pound 405, Bremner bid 40 asked 50, Nebeana bid 54 asked 62, Black Pine Silver bid 90, United Air nes 7 percent.
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Nebeana
Black Pine Silver
United Airnes
Hitchcock Dead Arizona Postmaster General Frank H Hitchcock
Frank Harris Hitchcock, prominent figure and publisher of the Tucson Daily Citizen, died here today of pneumonia. He served as Postmaster General under Taft, established postal savings banks and parcel post, started the first air mail service, and led Taft's 1908 campaign and the Republican National Committee 1908 09. He also managed Charles E Hughes 1916 nomination campaign. Hitchcock was born October 5 1869.
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Taft
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Charles E. Hughes
Price Sees Political Snarl From Wealth Tax Plan
A close look at how a wealth tax proposal by President Roosevelt unsettled Congress shows a Democratic majority split and a wary Republican minority. The NRA ruling and a stalled atmosphere after a Supreme Court decision set the stage for tax debate as an election year loomed. Leftist critics leveraged the issue to pressure the White House, signaling a volatile political moment.
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Congress
Shattered Love Affair Ends in Suicide on Aberdeen Bridge
Ocosta high school athlete found dead on a bridge in Aberdeen Washington. Police report death by self-inflicted poison after a night of revelry. A note read We live only to die Why not die young. In Athens Georgia married women will not be elected school teachers in the future.
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Better Retail Trade Is Shown in Survey 33 Cities
Washington report notes continued upswing in retail trade across 83 cities for the week ending last Wednesday. Every major city shows gains over last year with broadening demand for farm equipment, machine tools, and building materials. Improvement also seen in furniture, household equipment, and electrical supplies as North Pacific lumber industry labor issues ease.
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North Pacific
Japan Presses Papal Over Vanity Fair Cartoon
The Japanese government and the United States react to a Vanity Fair caricature showing Emperor Hirohito in a jinriksha with the Nobel Peace Prize. Ambassador Saito hastens to Washington to report for Tokyo and decide on next steps. State Department officials expect no formal protest, while Saito may push a direct approach to editor Fran Crowninshield.
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Soviet Polar Flight Ends In Return From North Pole Attempt
A Soviet three man crew led by Sigmund Levaneffsky attempted a Moscow to San Francisco nonstop flight over the North Pole. A defective oil line forced an emergency return to Leningrad after dumping fuel. investigators were sent to examine the plane and cause of the malfunction.
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George Ballbukoff
Victor Levchenko
Mason
No Quarter Tolerated Drives Nazi Action in Berlin
Aug. 5. Avowal by Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels to strike into the dust all state enemies sharp ens the Nazi drive on all who stand out against party discipline. The minister of Propaganda has turned on the Jews and political Catholicism.
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Paul Joseph Goebbels
Nile Temple Divan Arrives Tuesday In Juneau Alaska
Judge George F. Alexander announces Nile Temple Divan led by Potentate O B Joseph will arrive on the Alaska at 1 pm Tuesday. First section of ceremonial to be held on arrival. Shriners urged to meet the ship and assemble at the Scottish Rite Temple after arrival. Shrivers asked to meet at the Masonic Temple at 7 30 this evening to arrange the visit.
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Juneau
Olson Family Rescued After Boat Capsizes at Lena Beach
Oxcar Olson Territorial Treasurer and Mrs Olson were rescued yesterday afternoon when a fishing boat near their Lena Beach summer home capsized. Dr A W Stewart and Earl Cleveland, also fishing nearby, heard cries for help and promptly rescued them. The couple clung to the overturned craft as the rescuers towed the capsized boat ashore. Stewart and Cleveland have summer homes in the Auk Bay colony.
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Pension Bill May Be Vetoed
Washington reports Roosevelt may veto the pension bill restoring full payments to Spanish American War veterans due to lack of funds to cover an estimated 45 million dollars needed for the program.
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Roosevelt
New Elks head elected at 1935 Columbus convention
Judge James T. Hallinan of the New York supreme court was elected grand exalted ruler of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks at the Columbus Ohio convention, succeeding Michael F. Shannon of Los Angeles in a final act of the gathering.
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New York Supreme Court
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Los Angeles
House Passes Tax Measure Headed to Senate Vote
Waablogton reports the House passed the tax bill and sent it to the Senate. A bitter controversy is anticipated before the measure is decided.
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Typhoon Rages Amoy China Weather Toll Rising
A powerful typhoon struck the South China coast near Amoy on August 5 causing floods and widespread destruction. Several hundred people killed or drowned. Many heroes are missing and efforts continue to search for survivors.
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Frank Bell Party On Way Westward
Commissioner Frank T. Bell of the Bureau of Fisheries and party sailed at 7 o clock last night aboard the Brant for the Westward after Philadelphia. The group includes Gen. John J. Pershing and Rep. C Elmer Dietrick. They are heading toward Matanuska, Kodiak, and Alaska Peninsula areas with plans to return to the mainland.
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Spokesman for G O P Aims to Stir Up Action
Washington August 5 the Republican National Committee promises a vigorous New Deal offensive to oust Roosevelt and the Democrats in 1936 with a campaign to begin after Congress adjourns spokesman Henry Pletcher says there is less than a year before conventions and it is time to get busy Farley of the Democrats agrees the 1936 campaign has begun but doubts Republican success in 1934.
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Democratic National Committee
Mussolini Sees Snag Ahead For Geneva Efforts
Rome reports a snag in the Geneva conciliation push as Mussolini speeds troop movements and dispatches more soldiers by transport ships. An Addis Ababa dispatch says Japan signed a fast Friday contract to supply a heavy arms and ammunition shipment to modernize the Ethiopian Army, with a Japanese military and commercial commission to be dispatched to Ethiopia.
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Ad Exchange
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Ethieopie
Uphill Victory in Geneva Signals Arbitration Push
The League of Nations secured a limited victory to curb hostilities between two nations. Conciliation Commission plans to meet and resume arbitration to resolve the dispute. French circles reportedly remain pessimistic about peace prospects.
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Three Die in Cliff Plunge Near Lewiston
Lewiston Idaho August 5 Three people were killed instantly when a man and two women plunged from a cliff. Mrs C A Herold of Calgary died later from injuries. Victims named include Mrs Mra d Graham and Alonzo Geiger both aged about 50 and Mrs Sara Wells.
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Idaho
E. Graham
Alonzo Geiger
Sara Wells
C. A. Herold
Calgary
Dentist Stomped to Death in Kansas City Dramedy
Clarence Edwards, 34, is held as the slayer of Dr. Paul Rodgers, 35, after Edwards admits to stomping Rodgers to death following a drunken playful scuffle. Police report Edwards said he jumped on Rodgers’ body until he died, claiming Rodgers hit him first.
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Kansas
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Paul Rodgers
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Chance to Help in Writing Biography of Bishop Rowe
Seattle readers invited to contribute facts and anecdotes for a book biography of Bishop Petar Trimble Rowe who has served in Alaska for forty years. Send material to Olena Chesney Quiett at Appleton Century Company in New York.
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