Missouri wets vote on 18th Amendment repeal
In St Louis on August 13 the pro and anti prohibition camps in Missouri, home to several large breweries, voted on repeal of the 18th Amendment. Voters choose delegates to a Jefferson City convention on August 29 as the campaign ends amid moral issues, states rights, and party loyalty debates. The Anti-Saloon League plans to seek Supreme Court review challenging the election legality.
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Louis
Missouri
Jefferson City
Wets
Anti-Saloon League
Ate
Gus C. Nations
United States Supreme Court
Steel Lead Still in Open Shop Fight Under NRA Code
The debate over open shop language in the auto mobile code raged through the night as recovery officials and labor advocates clashed on wage terms and workers rights. President Roosevelt prepared to depart for Myrtle Park with steel and coal deadlines looming.
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Henry Ford
Labor
Donald Richterg
Johnson
White House
Roosevelt
Hyrtle Park
Oil code to be sent to White House for Roosevelt
The revised code of fair practice for the petroleum industry heads to the White House with expectations of delivery before night. The President plans to name himself head of an organization to oversee oil industry affairs, alongside officials from the Interior Department and the Bureau of Mines.
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Washington
White House
Roosevelt
Interior Department
Bureau of Mines
Small town newspapers adopt National Recovery code
Chicago reports the National Editorial Association adopted a Recovery code for small papers setting 40 hour weekly caps for mechanics and 48 hours for clerical staff while reporters remain exempt. A 40 cent hourly minimum applies to mechanical and shop work, 20 cents for women, with reporters in small towns guaranteed at least 30 cents. Provisions ban false circulation figures and special ad rebates.
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Chicago
National Editorial Association
War Against Crime Scores Another Win
A Sunday update details machine gun searches across Oklahoma, Kansas, and Arkansas for Leroy Wright linked to the Urschel kidnapping. President Roosevelt endorses a crusade against crime under the US Flag Association while a Tennessee tragedy ends with four dead.
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Oklahoma
Kansas
Arkansas
Leroy Wright
Urschel
Roosevelt
United States Flag Association
Tennessee
Clam Wright
Murfreesboro
Chicago
Charles , Connors
Basil Banghart
John
Jake
Farley says Lehman to be re elected Governor of New York
Elimira August 19 Postmaster General James A Farley dismissed rumors he would run for governor and predicted Governor Lehman would be reelected in 1934 by an even larger plurality. He cited Lehman s record and said New York will be well governed during this year and next.
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Elmira
New York State
James A. Farley
Lehman
Farley
Mob Wrecks Home In Cienfuegos
Havana reports mob action in Cienfuegos as revolutionary leaders fear vendettas over Machado era tensions. The home of former Lieut. Lino Lomo of the city police was destroyed by a mob opposing the ABC society, while family members were away.
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Havana
Cienfuegos
Machado
Lino Lomo
ABC Society
Posters Bar Jews From Wannsee Public Baths
Berlin August 19 posters at the Wannsee public bath announced Jews would be barred in the future to avoid difficulties as occurred recently. The Jewish newspaper Rundschau was banned by secret police today.
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Berlin
Germany
Wannsee
Rundaschau
Sleeping sickness epidemic worsens in St Louis area
In St Louis and nearby suburbs the sleeping sickness outbreak worsened with nine deaths since July 30 and about a hundred hospitalizations. Seventeen new cases were reported in the last 24 hours, eleven in suburban districts hard hit, including Dan Osburn 64 Mrs Katie Fisher 54 and William Polette ? died.
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ST. Louis
Dan Osburn
Katie Fisher
Dartsdale
William Polette
Webster Groves
Cleanup in Cuba Under Cespedes Trial
Army officers and members of the ABC secret society uncover four corpses with crushed skulls in horse stalls at Azares fortress. Two victims had been missing about a year. Political prisoners were confined there during the Machado era.
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ABC Secret Society
Azares
Machado
Mrs Roosevelt Tours Cumberland During Journey
Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt and her companion Lorenz Hickok visited Cumberland at night while en route from Morgantown West Virginia to Hyde Park New York. They spoke briefly with Mr and Mrs Morris Baron, a Harvard classmate of the President’s wife, and continued toward Hyde Park.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Lorenz Hickok
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Cumberland
Morgantown
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Hyde Park
Roosevelt
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Baron
Italian Subs Enter New York Harbor in War Era Feat
Italian submarines Bailta and Milletire reached New York Harbor aboard escort tenders as part of a distant Atlantic picket line for the Baibo mass flight. The four ships were under command of Dalla Campana aboard the Balita.
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New York
New York Harbor
Bailla
Milletire
Atlantic
Dalla Campana
NO EVIDENCE OF FOUL PLAY IN HILL DEATH
Howard Hill 55 near Hancock was found dead in the rear of Arley Schetrompf’s truck. Officials say autopsy shows no marks of violence and the jury found death due to natural causes or unknown causes. An inquest was adjourned after ordering the autopsy.
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Howard Hill
Hancock
Bill
Arley” Schetrompf
Hill
Ralph Stauffer
Walter Widmyer
Tess Fite
Hil
Schetrompt
Myersdale
Meredith Nicholson Named U S Minister to Paraguay
Meredith Nicholson of Indianapolis has been chosen as the new United States minister to Paraguay. The State Department seeks approval from the Paraguayan government to replace Minister Wheeler Post. A favorable reply is expected.
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Washington
Meredith Nicholson
Indianapolis
United States
Paraguay
State Department
Paraeharan
Post
Wheeler
Liquor Found in Bat Bag Near Niagara Falls
Ottawa reports that Baltimore International League players involved with 32 quarts of liquor confiscated near Niagara Falls were not to face Canadian action. Immigration authorities denied that players would be barred from entering Canada again, stressing no Canadian law was violated by the Americans.
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Baltimore
United States
Niagara Falls
N. Y
Canada
Aimee's David Faces New Suit
David Hutton husband of evangelist Aimee Semple MacPherson Hutton faced a new legal action in Los Angeles as his former law firm seeks 7500 in fees from the singer following a breach of promise case loss to Pasadena nurse Jean St Pierre. Hutton, now in vaudeville, is paying Miss St Pierre 5000 in installments.
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Los Angeles
David Hutton
Aimee Semple MacPherson-Hutton
Jean St. Pierre
Pasadena
W.L. Englehardt
G. J. Oppegard
Mark Jones
Mutton
St. Pierre
Wales Ends Miners Strike After Five Day Walkout
Twenty thousand anthracite miners in Wales will return to work Monday, ending a wage dispute that began August 14. The strike concluded as talks produced an agreement on pay.
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Swansea
Wales
Rockefeller's Son Guarded at Fort Worth Dinner
Winthrop Rockefeller, 21, son of John D. Rockefeller Jr., dined with Yale friend in Fort Worth with armed guards nearby. Federal agents accompanied the party from Houston to the home of W. H. Slay Jr and back to the airport. Rockefeller declined to discuss security and smiled when asked about the guards.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Winthrop Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Houston
Rockefeller
Young Rockefeller
New York
W. H. Slay, Jr
Ema Napers
Wrong Number His Undoing
Philadelphia police expose a gambling operation after a caller misdials. A man seeking $15 worth of bets alerted the operator that the number was one digit off, and Police Lieutenant Mahaffey traced the call to seize the alleged gambling house owner and $1,500 in cash from behind an iron grill.
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Philadelphia
John Mahatffey
Last Stand by Wild Berbers Near Djebel Badou
Rabat Morroco Aug 18 25 000 French troops and Foreign Legion pressed the last Berber stronghold around Djebel Badou heavy fighting with losses on both sides as the peak Koucher fell dissident Cherif Moulay Absselmen surrendered with followers as surrender expected shortly before winter aims to clear Atlas region.
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Rabat
Morocco
Djebel Badou
Atlas
Koucher
Cherif Moulay Absselmen
Prisoners Riot at Federal Pen at Leavenworth
Thirteen convicts ended in solitary confinement as discipline tightened at the Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary. During Wednesday and Thursday nights about 600 inmates in Wing Six broke windows and bunks, guards faced stones from the cell house, reserves and extra officers were called, and quiet returned after ring leaders were segregated.
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Kas
Federal Penitentiary
Money
Owl
Terry Druggan
Wing Six
Market Report Shows Mixed Produce Prices and Grain Quotes
At Baltimore city market peaches around 2 dollars per bushel dominate fruit, apples scarce, beans 30 cents per peck, corn drops to one cent per ear. Tomatoes plentiful at 40 cents per half bushel, onions about 20 cents. Wheat futures No 2 red winter quoted Aug 90% and Sept 50%.
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Baltimore Grain
Baltimore
Blue Eagle and Thunder Bird in Native Lore
Fynn notes variations in how tribes depict thunder and lightning as a creature. Blue Eagle sometimes called Thunder Bird. On the prairie the bird inspires awe due to few striking objects, while in mountains and canyons it sharpens imagination. In the sededary southwest tribes the bird was feared for its possible impact on food supply.
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Bird
Fynn
Teens swim 77 miles down Tennessee River to Paducah
Clade in bathing suits with inner tubes and sandwiches, Louis Lundy 20 and W B Bruce 17 from Paris Tennessee, completed a 77% mile swim from Danville Tennessee to Paducah Kentucky. They left water only twice for patching and candy. They swam for 48 hours to prove it could be done.
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Paducah
Louis Lundy
Paris
Tenn
Danville
Tennessee River
Morrows Get Used To It
Miss Constance Morrow said in Chicago that the family no longer worries about Anne Lindbergh’s dangerous trips with her aviator husband Col. Charles A. Lindbergh. The Morrows are reconciled to Anne’s career as an aviator.
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Chicago
Constance Morrow
Anne
Col
Charles A. Lindbergh
Ketling
My Memory She Seeks Divorce
Alicia 27 accuses Charles Doebler of being the absent minded husband in pursuing a divorce. She says he forgot her and criticized her for flirtatious street conduct. The report notes her claim in a Chicago dispatch dated August 19 with brief details.
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Chicago
Alicia
Charles Doebler
Police take up pursuit of wrecker after fatal bus crash
A wrecker fled toward Chicago as a bus carrying several residents from Wakarusa collided on Western Avenue near Epworth Hospital. Sheriff Walter Fesegan and about 40 deputies plus band policemen and volunteers pursued the truck. Victims include Imogene Smeltzer and Wayne Smeltzer of Wakarusa and Dale Metzler, son of the bus driver Orville Metzler. Several others are listed in critical condition. the death toll is expected to rise by one or two. The crash occurred around six a.m. near Epworth Hospital, about six miles west of the city, within a few miles of Wakarusa.
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Sherif Walter
Fesegan
St. Joseph County
South Band
Chicago
Epworth
Imogene Smeltzer
Wayne Smeltzer
Howard Wisler
Wakarusa
Omer Overholtzer
Elkhart
Dale Metzler
Orville Metzler
Here
Western Avenue
Meat Packers in NRA Code Sign Labor Pact
W. A. Deal of Corkran Hill & Company announced the firm signed a labor code under the National Recovery Act. The agreement brings all workers a roughly 35 percent wage increase. Boats blocked canals in northern France as boatmen struck for shorter hours and no night shifts.
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W. A. Deal
Corkran Hill & Company
Paris
France
Wanted Miller Form Fitting Truss at Grand Building Ha gerstown Md
Advertisement seeking rupturea form fitting truss at Civate 4th Floor Grand Building in Hagerstown Maryland. Office hours listed as 9 to 5 and 7 to 3 daily.
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Grand
Hagerstown
Ady
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