Bankhead Speech Speaker Dies After Suffering Attack
Tributes mark the death of Speaker Bankhead after a ruptured abdominal blood vessel caused a fatal collapse during a Baltimore speech. Dr. George W. Calver, Capitol physician, disclosed the diagnosis shift to spare Bankhead distress. Rayburn poised to succeed as House Speaker with long Texas political ascent.
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Bankhead
Calver
Baltimore
Roosevelt
Chicago
Gunter
Henry ‘Wallace
Joseph W. Burns
Tennessee
Sam Rayburn
Bonham
Tex
Rayburn
Texas House of Representatives
Congress
House
Walks To Health Leader Backed for Speaker After Garner Ties
The Walks To Health chairman of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, a longtime Garner friend who ran his 1932 campaign, is favored for Speaker. Gar ner as vice president and Roosevelt nomination broker. insiders say no internal opposition or caucus before the House election.
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Committee On Interstate and Foreign Commerce
John N. Garner
Garner
Roosevelt
Rayburn
Five Injured In Accident Near Huyetts
Eleanor Hoover of North Prospect Street was seriously injured when her car overturned on the Greencastle pike near Huyetts and pinning her beneath it. Passengers including Nancy Jackson and Frances Zimmerman suffered cuts and bruises. Miss Hoover was taken to Washington County Hospital. State Police continued to investigate the crash. Maud May, of North Mulberry Street, was hurt in a separate collision on Mulberry Street and East Avenue Saturday.
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Prospect Stret
Greencastle Pike
Huyetts
Miss Bloover
Russell G. Jackson
Jingerstown
Miss Hoover
Washington County Hospital
Nancy Jackson
Hagerstown
Frances Zimmerman
Shady Grove
Thomas
Mulberry Street
Charles, D. Mier
Waynesboro
Raymond May
East Avenue
Five spinster housemates tied by friendship slain in Wastings mansion
In Wastings on Hudson New York Miss Lottie Washington Booth aged 50 was found bludgeoned to death in a house shared for ten years with Miss Marty E B Jones 44 a social figure. Police charged Jones with homicide and she was placed in Grasslands Hospital psych ward as investigators piece together a fraught tale of a long friendship ending in a brutal struggle and fatal blow involving a Windsor chair. Witnesses heard an early morning clash as furniture shattered and a chase through the mansion preceded Booths death in a kitchen dinette sequence.
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N. Y
Lottie
Washington Booth
Marty E. B. Jones
Social
Miss Booth
John D. Dunningan
Dinete
Miss Jones
Dunnigan
Furnitura
Restoration plan for Antietam sites outlined in draft notes
A detailed restoration proposal outlines repairing field structures at Antietam including a stone wall, Burnside Bridge, and monuments to restore wartime appearance. It calls for rebuilding walls, replacing coping with wartime timber, removing and replacing fences, regrading paths, and reforesting burial plots, with focus on preserving battlefield features for future study.
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New York Monument
Burnside Bridge
Speng
Farim
Reno
Fox's Gap
War Correspondents Arch
Crampton’s Gap
Turner's Gap
Willkie Handover Speech Duties to Alf Landon
Wendell L. Willkie, hoarse from campaign stops, transferred most of his planned Coffeyville address to Alf M. Landon to save his voice. Dr. H. D. Bernard reported Willkie’s throat improving as he rides a speaking schedule through Missouri and eastern Kansas. A separate incident: Rodney Higman was slightly hurt when struck by a car at Summit and Antietam streets driven by Roy Hoff.
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Coffeyville
Kas
Wendell L. ‘Willkie
Alf M. Landon
Missouri
Kansas
H. D. Bernard
Beverly Wills
Cal
Willkie
Cofferville
Rodney Higman
West Baltimore Street
Roy Hoff
Summit Avenue
Antietam Street
Watch found after 25 years in Shelton plowfield
Shelton Nebraska September 16 B M Bentley misplaced his watch while plowing twenty five years ago. He recovered it two years after losing it and again after further years it has been found and still keeps good time.
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Neb
B. M. Bentley
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