Roosevelt names Bell acting budget director after Douglas resignation
President Roosevelt confirms Lewis Douglas resignation as director of the budget and names Daniel W. Bell, veteran treasury employee, as acting director. The move follows conferences and comes with an extension of the NRA automobile code to November 3. Bell is the first budget chief to rise from treasury ranks. Lowery remains without an immediate successor.
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Douglas
Hyde Park
N. Y
Roosevelt
Lewis Douglas
Hyde Park House
NRA
James A. Moffett
Marvin H. McIntyre
F. W. Lowery
Bell
The
Treasury
Lowery
Harry L. Hopkins
White House
Washington
Arizona
Treasury Department
Germany Accused of Putsch Plot in Saar by Commission
In Geneva on September 1 Nazi Germany faced formal accusations of training 16 000 Saar residents for a plebiscite set for January 13. The Saar region faces options to rejoin Germany join France or stay under League of Nations mandate.
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Saar
Geneva
France
League of Nations
Propaganda in Saar Stirs Tension Before January Plebiscite
A Saar poster campaign urges pro German loyalty as the region prepares for a January plebiscite to decide integration with Germany, France, or allegiance to the League of Nations. The League commission reports documentary proof of German labor camps training Saarlanders and plans enforcement measures.
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Mannheim
Saar
Germany
France
League of Nations
Hitler
League of Nations’ Commission
League
Jit
Reich
Saarbruecken
War Maneuvers to Test U S Defense of Industrial East
Washington dispatch describes a large scale peace time exercise along the north Atlantic coast from tomorrow through September 8. The scenario imagines a sudden invasion aimed at testing defenses of the industrial east with New Jersey, New York, Philadelphia, and Washington as key targets as Third and Fourth armies and much of the air force are deployed on the west coast.
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Atlantic Coast
U. S
East
Washington
North Atlantic
Army High Command
United States
United States Navy
Pacific
New Jersey Seaboard
New York
Philadelphia
New Jersey
Douglas MacArthur
Preston Brown
Paul B. Malone
Dennis E, Nolan
L, R, Holbrook
Huey Long's radio probe targets New Orleans officials
In New Orleans Huey P. Long launches a televised style inquiry into prostitution gambling and alleged corruption aimed at Mayor T Semmes Walmsley and associates. The Kingfish uses a protected panel and movable martial law as militiamen guard and a radio broadcast records the proceedings.
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New Orleans
Huey P. Long
T. Semmes Walmsley
Legislative Investigation Committee
Long
Mastermind tied to Dillinger gang in Chicago raids
Federal agents arrested seven, naming a Chicago attorney as the mastermind of Dillinger’s terror reign. Also seized were two surgeons a man and wife and a woman linked to the outlaws. The surgeons pleaded guilty to conspiring to shield Dillinger.
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John Dillinger
Chicago
Dillinger
Department of Justice
United States
Edwin K. Walker
Louis
Flyer Fights Storm to Cut Transcontinental Record
Col Roscoe Turner sets a new Pacific to Atlantic flight record of 10 hours 2 minutes at Floyd Bennett Field. He surpasses his prior 10 hour 4 minute mark by 2 minutes 39 seconds and wins 3500 dollars total with Bendix race earnings of 2000 dollars. Other entrants quit.
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Col
Roscoe Turner
Pacific
Atlantic
Brooklyn
N. Y
Floyd Bennett Field
Turner
Burbank
Cal
New York
Mysterious Deaths Alarm Dutchess County Mental Ward
At the Wassaic state institution for mental defectives in Poughkeepsie New York officials probe the deaths of five boy patients in one week amid unclear causes. Three boys aged 13 and 9-year-old Sidney Cohen died in adjacent beds with others reportedly well. Doctor Appel found no condition indicating external cause. On Monday John De Angelo 13 was found dead.
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Poughkeepsie
N. Y
Wassaic State Institution
Harry C. Storrs
Nikola Napolitan
Necola de Gorgia
Sidney Cohen
Dr. Storrs
Robert Peters
Samuel E. Appel
Dutchess County
John de Angelo
Con
Soviet Protest Over Japanese Treatment of Railway Employee
Moscow reports protest to Japanese Ambassador Tamekichi Ota over alleged torture of Golovina a Chinese Eastern Railway clerk in Harbin Manchukuo. Soviet official Stomonyakoff urged decisive Japanese action to halt abuses and protect relations.
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Tamekichi Ota
Chinese Eastern Railway
Harbin
Manchukuo
Stomonykaoff
Ota
Raiway
Golovina
Stamonyakoff
Stomonyakoff
Miss Golovina
Top of the World Mistaken Traffic Signal Tale
Al Hultman of the Chequamegon cafe recounts an eastern tourist at the Continental divide east of Butte who finds a red signal at a famed site. The driver jokes about the bar, waits as the signal cycles, then continues after a delay of about thirty minutes.
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al Hultman
The
Chequamegon Cafe
Butte
Great Strides In Montana Road Building
Montana road program has advanced beyond expectations. Seven years ago 5500 miles were proposed. 10 years was the promised completion. Only about 600 miles remain to contract, aided by oiled surface demands. Warden notes federal grants, though the last was half the prior amount, $200,000,000.
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Great Falls
Montana
Montana High
Woman hangs from hotel window. slipper injures street driver
Evelyn Conley Crocker, a Los Angeles mother, dangled from a 12th story hotel window in Seattle for minutes. Her slipper struck a taxi driver below as hotel staff pulled her back to safety. she spoke of a missing child and family disputes before being taken to police headquarters.
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Seattle
Evelyn Conley Crocker
Los Angeles
R. F. Ward
Newton Gilliland
Police Headquarters
Joy Lee
Crocker
Sylvia Hunsicker
Textile strike ends in failure halting talks fail
Washington reporting a final federal bid to stop a broad textile industry walkout collapsed. The strike proceeds with about 1.0 million workers at silk, cotton, and wool mills facing mass labor action and 200,000 unemployed. Lloyd Garrison of the labor relations board pursued a last hour appeal to avert catastrophe.
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Washington
National Labor Relations Board
Lloyd Garrison
Labor Relations Board
Montana Weather Forecast Sees Clouds and Cooler Northwest
A Montana forecast calls for cloudy Sunday and Monday with cooler conditions in the northwest. The outlook emphasizes a parity of cloud cover across the state and a slight temperature dip in the northwest region.
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Montana
Negotiations on Trike to Resume This Week
A conference in Anaconda between Anaconda Copper Mining officials and representatives of Butte miners hoisting engineers and mill and smeltermen led federal mediators P. W. Chappell and R. C. Jacobson to announce that negotiations would be renewed the first of the week. The lengthy session lasted over three hours with no statements beyond plans to continue talks.
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Anaconda
Heroic Efforts Fail To Stem Fires In The Selway
MISSOULA Sept. 1 Hundreds of firefighters battled advancing forest flames in the Selway and Three Links Creek drainage toward Moose Creek about 25 miles west of the Bitterroot mountains. A new outbreak was reported in the St. Jo region outside the national forest. Three hundred acres were burning there tonight as officials sent additional measures amid the spreading blaze.
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Selway
Three Links Creek
Moose Creek
Montana State Line
Bitter Root
St. Jo
National Forest
Forest Service
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