Guard Chief Defies Judge To Jail Him In Kentucky
In Harlan Kentucky General Henry Denhardt and 25 National Guard and state police officers were indicted by a grand jury after troops patrolled voting places on August 3. Denhardt issued a dare to Circuit Judge James Gilbert to arrest him, saying he would inform Kentuckians of conditions in Harlan County if jailed.
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Adjt
Henry W W. Denhardt
Kentucky
Harlan County
Associated Press
Harlan
Henry TH. Denhardt
James M. Gilbert
Denhardt
National Guard
State Police
Gilbert
Harlan County August 3. the Indictment Namitng Denhardt
Jesse Stone
Judge Gilbert
Post And Rogers Will Be Laid To Rest Thursday
The Rogers family heads to Forest Lawn for the funeral of Will Rogers after his death with Wiley Post in Alaska. Mrs Will Rogers and children Will Jr Mary and Jim travel from the east to attend the service as a guard of honor of army fliers is planned. Governor Merriam announced the mourning events continuing on page 10.
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Los Angeles
Rogers
Will Rogers
Will
Mary
Jim
Forest Lawn Chapel
Wiley Post
Alaskan Wilds
Guard of Honor
Cities Service Men Called In Lobby Probe
Washington August 21 City Service Company was drawn into the Senate lobby inquiry as committee members said records from the utility holding firm were denied access A company representative was summoned and subpoenas were threatened to compel production If ignored contempt proceedings would be sought How ard C Hopson of Associated Gas Electric System was recalled for more questioning amid a stalled utilities bill conference between Senate and House members.
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Washington
Cities Service Company
Senate
Cities Service
Howard C. Hopson
Associated Gas & Electric System
Roosevelt
House
Thousands Trek To Rowe's Park For Annual Arma Picnic
Armaville welcomed thousands at Rowe's Park for the Arma Club picnic an event grown from a 1927 small grocers gathering to a regional community celebration in the Cunerland Valley and Western Maryland area. Roy B. Mowen praised merchants for organizing the outing and recalled the first picnic at Conomac Park with Governor Albert Ritchie as speaker drawing about 5000 attendees.
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Rowe’s Park
Arma Club
Valley
Armaville
Cunerland Valley
Maryland
Rowe's Park
Armaville Ward
Arma
Roy B. Mowen
Thore
Arma Stores Organization
Conomac Park
Albert
Ritchie
Ethiopia rumor says Haile Selassie guards secret gold fund
Addi s Ababa Aug 21 Reliable sources report Emperor Haile Selassie safeguards a secret treasury of gold and silver for defense against Italy. The fund, valued in the millions, supposedly includes 10,000,000 gold lire from indemnity and reserves, hidden in secret caves and walls. A staged mock battle accompanies preparations, with American veterans aiding local troops amid a cartridge shortage.
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Addis Ababa
Haile Selassie
Italy
Menelik
Ethiopia
Atua
Chateau Thierry
Hindenburg Line
Board OKs New Schools as Projects
The Board of County Commissioners approves new school buildings for Sharpsburg and Maugansville, adds two rooms to Sandy Hook, and plans a four or eight room expansion in Williamsport. Sanitary works proceed at Keedysville and Boonsboro with federal submission still weeks away.
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Sharpsburg
Mattigansville
Sandy Hook
Board of County Commissioners
PWA
Williamsport
Board of Commissioners
Keedysville
Boonsboro
Federal
Faugansville
Bellevue
Bureau Will Close Nov 1 Transients Face Job Push
The Cumberland federal transient bureau will close November 1 leaving only two in Maryland, at Baltimore and Sngerstown. Previous shelters in Frederick and Brunswick have closed, with transient crowds this spring reaching about 3,000. Workers may find jobs under the Works program, though the number willing to work is debated.
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Durean
Cumberland
Baltimore
Sngerstown
Frederick
Brunswick
Maryland
Smokeless coal fuel advances using Karrick method
George W. Carter and Clark Jacobson of the University of Utah described a smokeless fuel from coal using the Karrick low temperature carbonization process. They report producing a solid smokeless fuel by exposing coal to super heated steam at 1000 to 1400 degrees Fahrenheit to distill smokey-producing ingredients at about one dollar per ton.
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San Francisco
American Chemical Society
Karrick
George W. Carter
Clark Jacobson
University of Utah
Norma Millen Freed From Dedham Jail In Aug 21 Release
Norma Brighton Millen, 20, widow of an executed robber, was released from Dedham jail after serving a year less 36 days for involvement in a holdup killing. She was whisked away by car driven by her father Norman Brighton and an accomplice. The crime led to the electric chair for her husband Marton, his brother Irving, and Abraham Faber on July 7. In Leonardtown, Douglas Russell, Republican, was named captain of the Potomac River Patrol, replacing Democrat Bernard Gibbon.
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Dedham
Mass
Norma Brighton Millen
Norman Brighton
Natick
Marton
Irving
Abraham Faber
Leonardtown
Douglas Russell
State Conservation Department
Potomac
Potomac River
Bernard Gibgon
Beer Guzzling Contest In East Baltimore Cancelled
The Greater Baltimore Democratic Club barred Steve Smeton and Emil Cella from a planned 64 ounce beer duel, calling the event commercialism and a grandstand attraction, amid charges of lacking amateur spirit and boosting picnic attendance.
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Baltimore
Greater Baltimore Democratic Club
Steve Smeton
Emil Cella
Eastern Democratic
Simon-pire
Local Plane Used To Carry Bodies From Alaska
Joe Crosson, Arctic flyer, used a Fairchild 71 built at Kreider Reisner two years ago to transport the bodies of Wil Rogers and Wiley Fost from Point Barrow to Fairbanks Alaska. The aircraft, sold to Pan American Airways for Alaska, was pontoon-equipped and Crosson began southward last Saturday with Fairbanks as his first stop. He reportedly abandoned the Fairchild at Fairbanks for another ship. The locally built craft has been in constant service in Alaska since arrival two years ago, and Crosson, who piloted the bodies, was a friend of both men.
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Joe Crosson
Arctic Flyer
Wil Rogers
Wiley Fost
Point Barrow
Fairbanks
Alaska
Kreider-Reisner
Pan-American Airways
Crosson
Fairwehild
Bodies of 3 in crash of plane found
In Wyoming, a search party recovered three bodies from a crashed open bi plane on Laramie Peak. The victims were Dick Arnett, Eleanor Arnett, and Burnside Smith, all from Indianapolis, after a flight from Helena to Denver ended on the mountain amid fog and high terrain.
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Glendo
Wyo
Laramie Peak
Dick Arnett
Eleanor
Burnside Smith
Indianapolis
Walter Higley
Denver
Max Ortiz
Jungle King Just A Sissy
In Los Angeles on August 21 police commission hears Edward Waldron defend his lion Rusty as harmless and safe for a backyard setting. He claims Rusty does not eat meat, requires cooked food, and drinks three quarts of milk daily.
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Los Angeles
Rusty
Edward Waldron
Ion
Waldron
Young Colored Girl in Williamsport Becomes Youngest Mother
Washington county records reveal a colored girl from Williamsport, aged 18, as the county's youngest mother. She bore a six pound boy this morning. she was 15 last February. Both mother and child are reported well.
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Washington County
Williamsport
Four Bandits Escape With Bank Money In Daylight Raid
Four bandits robbed the First National Bank of Blairs Town in broad daylight, escaping with about $20,000. They forced employees and customers to the floor as a revolver-wielding robber looted the teller cage and vault. Police pursued after Dawes alerted state authorities.
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Blairs
Town
N. J
First National Bank of
Blairstown
Theodore B. Dawes
N. E. Craig
Franklin Bunnell
Craig
Sway
Portland
Dawes
Washington Barracks
State Police
Think Trapped Workers Alive After Subway Collapse
Berlin reports faint hope for any of the 22 missing men trapped since a partially built subway tunnel collapsed. Rescue crews labored through a second night, using searchlights to uncover bodies amid twisted rails and planking.
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Berlin
Former Dancer Accused of Drowning Her Son in Moodna Creek
Dorothy Sherwood a 27 year old former burlesque dancer who is widow of four months sits guarded after confessing she drowned her two year old son Jimmy to ease her living burden. District Attorney Henry Hirschberg says investigators will probe the creek Spot four miles from Goshen to verify her statement. American Telephone & Telegraph Co. directors authorized a quarterly dividend of 2.25 dollars, distributing about 42 million to 675 thousand stockholders, maintaining an unbroken 39 year record of dividends since 1921.
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Goshen
Dorothy Sherwood
Henry Hirschberg
Jimmy
Hirschberg
Moodna Creek
New York
American Telephone & Telegraph Co
American Telephone
Slayer of Girl Held in Washington Homicide Case
Charles F. Hisey a 65 year old printer and boarding house owner is in custody after fatally shooting Virgie Lyttle 16 of Hopewell Virginia when she refused a 200 loan Hisey also wounded a policeman and a note signaling a personal crisis was found at his home Both sisters had come to Washington to work in a department store and lived with Hisey
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Washington
Charles F. Hisey
Virgie Lyttle
Hopewell
Hisey
Strike Ended as Horses Refuse Water Trough
MILWAUKEE August 21. Horses on strike against a city water trough won out but ruined a flourishing business. Animals refused to drink from the fountain. Investigation showed two youths ran a wash your car for a nickel racket using trough water and rags. Oil spread in a film on the water. The boys agreed to scrub and refill the trough.
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Milwaukee
British bid for US aid on Italo Ethiopian crisis
London signals possible strategy to seek American cooperation to resolve the Italo-Ethiopian crisis. British leaders meet foreign office as cabinet talks loom. State Department reports late night diplomacy, with no formal move yet to enlist US action.
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Washington
State Department
London
Paris
Downing Street
League of Nations
Foreign Office
Moon
George Lansbury
Lloyd George
Ramsay MacDonald
Ray Atherton
Britain
Laval Talks With Il Duce Over Ethiopia War
Paris reports Premier Laval secret talks with Benito Mussolini to limit or avert war in Ethiopia. Laval aims to confine action to Ethiopian disarmament and frontier policing, sending Baron Aloisi to Rome with a plan to seek Italy's middle course between conquest and concessions.
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Paris
Laval
Mussolini
Ethiopia
Baron Pompeo Aloisi
Italy
Rome
France
Aloisi
I Duce
Anthony Eden
Britain
Duce
Filibuster Threat Over Neutrality Bill Looms in Congress
On Capitol Hill, Democrats rush to adjournment as Nye and Bone blockade neutrality measures. The proposed bill would ban arms exports to belligerents, bar American ships from carrying war supplies, and allow the president to warn travelers on belligerent ships, while restricting foreign submarines’ port use.
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Europe
Capitol Hill
Congress
Senate
Nye
R. N. Dy
Bone
Wash
United States
House
McReynolds
Tenn
Foreign Affairs Committee
Pittman
Nev
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Robinson
Arkansas
Americas
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