Nate Siegel Ex-Pugilist Slain In Massachusetts
Nate Siegel former New England welterweight champion and longtime popular figure was killed by machine gun fire at his Cloverleaf Club home in Revere Massachusetts. His wife watched three men drive away in a Maine-registered car after a late night shooting. Siegel, 37, had a noted boxing career beginning in 1913 and served overseas with the 2nd division during the war.
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Revere
Mass
Nate Siegel
New England
Maine
Siegel
Cloverleaf Club
North Shore Road
Accident Tip Best of Week Promotes News Tips
Berkeley Springs resident won first prize for tipping on a farmer accident where the victim died from a butcher knife stab. A West Washington Street informant earned second prize for a tip about a new factory schedule. An oil stove explosion that hospitalized a woman also earned honorable mention. Tips are judged by speed and first reporting between 7:80 a.m. and 3 p.m. on workdays.
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Berkeley Springs
Washington Street
Finish Fight With Church Appears Imminent
Aug 15 1933 report from Burlin outlines a clash between Adolf Hitler's Nazi state and Protestant pastors over the Reich church program led by Reichbishop Ludwig Mueller. Arrests of dissident clergy followed, with a manifesto denouncing Mueller and urging congregations to defy the national synod. The plebiscite on Hitler’s expanded powers looms as Nazi campaigns press for an overwhelming pro-Hitler vote.
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Burlin
Adolf Hitler
National Synod
Ludwig Mueller
Hitler
Mueller
God
Hamburg
Reich
Hitter
Niagara Falls Crumbles in Massive Early Morning Collapse
A large portion of Niagara Falls horseshoe lip broke away at 7 20 am sending a vast column of water into the surge. Witnesses including state reservation patrolmen saw the mouth gouged and described the fragment as a second major fall in recent years after a 1931 crash that shed 80 000 tons of rock. In Cambridge Maryland a decomposed body found beneath a Zion church Sunday School room was identified as James Larles, tied to a carnival troupe that performed in early August.
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Niagara Falls
N. Y
Horseshoe Falls
Niagara
Niagara State Reservation
Cambridge
James Larles
Zion Meb
Tri State Elks Open Annual Convention Here
The 14th annual convention of the Maryland, Delaware and District of Columbia Association of Elks began with welcome remarks by Mayor T. M. Wertz and greetings from J. Morris Guider and P. Parke Geiger Jr. More than 1500 Elks and friends registered for a three day event, with a mammoth parade set for Wednesday evening expected to draw up to 40 000 spectators. Notable attendees included John Lynch Washington District Deputy Grand Exalted Ruler and former association presidents James Swing Alfred Gaver and John Powell. An athletic carnival at the Fairgrounds and a YMCA Junior concert were also planned.
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T. M. Wertz
J. Morris Guider
Tri-State Association
P. Parke Geiger, Jr
Maryland, Delaware
District of Columbia Association of Elks
Wertz
Association
Guilder
Runet Geiger
Elks
Elka
Tri-State
Mammoth Street
Maryland
Thomas Gilleecee, Jr
John Lynch
Washington
James P. Swing
Cambridge
Tri- State Association
Alfred Gaver
Frederick
John J. Powell
Wilmington
Del
Fairgrounds
Nor'easter Brings Cool Breeze To Atlantic Coast
A Norfolk style nor'easter sweeps the Atlantic coast to Virginia with rain and a chilly morning. Temperatures fell to 63 in the area, seven degrees below Sunday’s low. Winds from southern New England areas push rain squalls along the coast through Eastern Pennsylvania New York Maryland and Virginia. In New York City the low reached 55 as yesterday's rain continued.
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Atlantic
Virginia
Mercury
New England
Pennsylvania
New York
Maryland
New York City
Pair Shocked By Lightning Off Seven-Foot Knoll
Captain Charles C. Brooks of the Chesapeake Bay steamer City of Baltimore and the quarter master were struck by a bolt at sea last Saturday off Seven-Foot Knoll. Brooks felt a shock on his left side while the quartermaster’s fingers curled, and evidence suggested the boat was hit.
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Baltimore
Charles C. Brooks
Chesapeake Bay Line
City of Baltimore
Trial Of Alleged Slayer Postponed
RICHMOND VA Aug 13 A week’s postponement of Walter Legenza alias Davis trial for murder of a Federal Reserve Bank truck driver was granted after defense asked to bring two material witnesses from New York to establish an alibi. Defense counsel Charles W Moss said a New York hotel man and a restaurant operator would testify Legenza was in New York in March when a deadly hold up occurred. Also Lorena Fontaine a star witness in the Legenza case and a Washington policewoman were injured in an automobile accident near Rolling Green VA.
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Richmond
Federal Reserve Bank
Walter Legenza
Davis
New York
Legenza
Charles W. Moss
Aus
Lorena Goolyn
Mary Elizabeth) Fontaine
Washington
Rolling Green
Apple Crop Outlook in New England Aug 1 Report
New England apple crop reportedly seven percent lighter than the previously forecast small crop. The United States Department of Agriculture released the update on August 1. An employee at a water pumping station near Williamsport named Houser fell ill with acute indigestion this morning and was taken home by ambulance on Linganore Avenue.
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Boston
New England
United States Department of Agriculture
Williamsport
Houser
Linganore Avenue
Nose goes spree cure for hay fever teased by Cleveland doctor
Cleveland physician Myron Metzenbaum reports a method to curb hay fever by alcohol injections into the lower nasal turbinates. The procedure allegedly dulls sneezing and nasal irritation for weeks or months, with patients ranging from children to middle age.
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Myron Metzenbaum
M. D
Metzenbaum
Thieves Strike Farm Again Near Eales Crossroads
Sunday night thieves raided Milton Remisburg s farm near Eales crossroads for the second time in two weeks, stealing over twenty five young chickens. Two weeks earlier they took fifty fat pallets with no trace. The sheriff s office is investigating and has notified dealers in surrounding cities.
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Milton Remisburg
Eales Crossroads
Sheriff's Office
Ex-Convict Is Found Wounded in Philadelphia Street
Matthew Overnack, 27, pardoned two years earlier after a New Jersey bank robbery term, lies in critical condition from a spine wound after two men fired at him in a south Philadelphia street. Police said one attacker shot from behind, then fled as Overnack lay on the sidewalk. he refused to aid investigation at the hospital.
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Philadelphia
Matthew Overnack
New Jersey
Overnack
Argentina to cut wheat acreage by at least 15 percent
London August 13. A reliable source says Argentina will propose a peace gesture at the international wheat conference by announcing arrangements for at least a 15 percent reduction in acreage. This would be Argentina’s first move to join production cuts. last year it did not pledge to cut like the United States and Canada.
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London
Argentina
United States
Canada
Latest dance streamlined at Chicago convention
The article notes a streamlined fox trot showcased by Josie Corbera and Elliott Vincent at the Chicago convention of dancing masters. The dance evolves from a free wheeling whirl to a knee action strut and ends abruptly with a hydraulic break highlighting a modern, dynamic style.
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Chicago
Josie Corbera
Elliott Vincent
Roosevelt orders federal purchase to curb drought waste
President Roosevelt convened relief officials to the White House and signaled spending beyond 525 million dollars to fight the drought. Aubrey Williams leads the relief effort as plans to curb profiteering and adjust AAA crop controls are laid out amid forecasts of higher consumer prices and fall food efforts.
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Washington
Roosevelt
White House
Aubrey Williams
AAA
Farm Administration
Prince Gonzalo of Spain Dies After Auto Crash
Don Gonzalo Manuel Maria Bernardo Narciso Alfonso Mauricio, 19, fourth son of former King Alfonso of Spain, died in Poertschach on Woerther See after a car crash while returning from Klagenfurt with his sister Infanta Beatriz. Doctors said hemophilia caused his death. Beatriz, 25, drove the car and swerved to avoid a cyclist Baron Richard von Heinsmann, who was arrested.
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Klagenfurt
Austria
Don Gonzalo
Spain
Alfonso
Poertschach-on- Woerther See
Gonzalo Manuel Maria Bernardo Narciso Alfonso Mauricio
Beatriz
Sunflower Reaches Extreme Height In Saxonburg Yard
Saxonburg residents boast of tall sunflowers but Frank Siebert tops them with a bloom 35 feet high. A squirrel or bird reportedly buried a seed in a knot hole on an apple tree, after which the plant grew 12 more feet.
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Saxonburg
Frank Siebert
District Eyes Four Potential Sanitarium Sites
The District of Columbia plans to request 1.5 million from Secretary Harold Ickes for a new tuberculosis sanitarium. Four sites are under consideration, two believed in Washington County, varying 0 to 75 miles from D C, with elevations of 900 to 1 600 feet. The Hagerstown Chamber of Commerce has been gathering data on possible locations.
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District of Columbia
Harold Ickes
Washington County
Smithsbury
Hagerstown
Railroads seek injunction against federal pension law
Railroads filed suit in the District of Columbia Supreme Court asking an injunction to block the Federal Railroads Retirement Board from operating the pension law. A five-attorney committee led by R V Fletcher filed on behalf of more than 150 railroads seeking a temporary restraining order pending a hearing on a permanent injunction. The suit claims the act violates the commerce clause and the fifth amendment by taking property without due process. A brief hearing before Justice Procter postponed ruling until Wednesday as counsel prepare responses.
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Washington
District of Columbia Supreme Court
Federal Railroads Retirement Board
R. V. Fletcher
American Railway Association
Forest Fire Crews Battle Large Blazes Across Northwest
Smoke from two dozen fires drifts over eastern Montana northwestern Idaho and eastern Washington as 2000 men fight the Selway National forest blaze in Idaho. Planes with food for crews return to bases after pilots cannot find landing fields due to smoke. Spokane reports smoke as a major forest fire threatens the area along a three mile front near the river.
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Spokane
Wash
Montana
Idaho
Washington
Selway National Forest
Government to launch huge land buying program
Washington August 13 The government plans a vast land buying program for recreation to help industrial workers take cheaper vacations. The National Park Service is securing tracts across multiple states with about 3 million dollars from the Federal Surplus Relief Corporation, aiming to create camps and picnics for next summer.
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