Federal government strikes blow to crime world
Federal authorities announce a major crackdown with Harvey Bailey and nine others jailed in three states. The Urschel kidnapping and the Kansas City massacre are cited, with Bailey named as a gang leader and others charged under a federal life-sentence law. Authorities note Urschel family involvement aided the case.
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Dallas
Tex
Harvey Bailey
Kansas City
Charles F. Urschel
Oklahoma City
Bailey
Urschel
Albert L. Bates
Denver
Department of Justice
George Bates
George Kelly
Washington
William Stanley
Cummings
Kansas Penitentiary
Divorced wife jailed in death of Earl Hanson
In Rockford Illinois Aug 15 May Hanson 38 was jailed after authorities tied a penny box of matches a porcelain wash basin and a quart of gasoline to the death of Earl Hanson. Officials say gasoline burned the victim as he sat in his car after returning his daughter to his ex wife. May Hanson denies the crime and suspects a grudge holder.
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Rockford
Ill
Earl Hanson
May
Manson
Hanson
Jane
Here
Engagement of Col. Rogers to Mrs. Pauline van Der Voort Dresser
New York reports the engagement of Col. M. N. H. Rogers, a Standard of a millionaire, to Mrs. Pauline van Der Voort Dresser announced today.
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New York
Col
MN. H. Rogers
Pauline van der Voort
Damages Sought in District Court Over School Bus Negligence
Common School District No. 46 60 Bannock County and Clark and Russell Banks file two damage suits alleging negligence in transporting school children. Russell Banks was injured March 27, 1933, after an unmarked bus with an inexperienced driver stopped in a dangerous highway location and allowed a child to cross into oncoming traffic. He suffered a fractured skull and severe injuries. The complaints claim prior months saw Earl Blair employed for transportation without proper safeguards.
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Bannock Fendants
All Clark and
Russell Banks
Mises
Inkom
Earl Blair
Woman killed tied to tree in New Jersey ruin
Miss Anna Ulm 45 a Mount Arlington resident and New York chiropractor secretary was beaten to death and tied to a tree in Hickory Nut Hollow police said she died Sunday. Her body wedged between two tree trunks and rope secured to the stump around her throat and a heavy blow fractured her skull. Police rule out robbery as two diamond rings remained on her fingers.
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Dover
N. J
Anna Ulm
Mount Arlington
New York
Hickory Nut Hollow
Gebhart
Lieut. Gebhart
Miss Ulm
Youth Is Still Going On Search for Youth Is Still Going On
In Winnemucca on August 15 AP reports the search for 15 year old Everett Jouett continues into its fourth day after he left home following a quarrel. Authorities fear he may have fallen from exhaustion or hitched a ride with a passing motorist near the Alkali flats west of town.
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Winnemucca
Everett Jouett
Denver
Here
Mayor Hopes for Pocatello Work Program
Mayor Charles A Brown returning from Boise expressed optimism after a conference between a Pocatello committee and the Idaho advisory committee on federal public works funds. City attorney Ralph Jones and chamber president F E MacKenzie accompanied the mayor with City Engineer Robert Hamilton remaining to confer with Dean Ivan Crawford of the University of Idaho. The mayor praised local representatives for compelling project plans and noted the 70-30 funding ratio under the program.
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Charles A. Brown
Boise
Pocatello Committee
Idaho Advisory Committee
Ralph Jones
F. E. MacKenzie
Chamber of Commerce
Robert Hamilton
Ivan Crawford
Engineering Department
University of Idaho
Brown
Pocatello Group
Hamilton
Jones
Rail Leader Maps Four Surveys to Boost Operations
Joseph B. Eastman, transportation coordinator, outlined plans for four major railroad surveys aimed at economies and efficiency. The studies cover merchandise traffic carload freight passenger business and marketing with focus on devices and equipment for freight handling and potential new passenger transportation methods.
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Washington
Joseph B. Eastman
Eastman
Baseball Scores From a Busy Day Across Leagues
National League results show Chicago beating Boston 25 to 3 with strong pitching by Hartnett and Cantwell while St Louis racked up five runs in a 5 11 victory over Philadelphia. American League games saw Detroit and Chicago split, New York and St Louis held scoreless early action, and Washington defeating Chicago 1 to 1.
NRA Directors Press Code Drive In National Industries
NRA directors press code enforcement as complaints surge over display insignia. Welfare issues include long hours and low pay in mail order and oysterhouse jobs, while Ford and auto industry leaders weigh in as cabinet officials push for steel coal oil and auto codes under the recovery program.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Hugh 8. Johnson
Frances Perkins
Recovery Administration
Robert L. Lea
Henry Ford
National Auto
Blue Eagle actions stir in capital amid world tensions
Washington officials wrestle with codes and foreign policy questions as Cuba, Manchuria, and Russia draw attention. Roosevelt era caution clashes with Cuba's marines dilemma, while Brookhart signals improving Russian credit status despite past policy warnings.
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Brookhart
Commerce Department
Russia
Noted World War Aviator Succumbs
Alan Winslow a renowned United States World War I aviator and author died from injuries after falling from a third floor hotel window in Ottawa on Saturday He served in France with the Lafayette Escadrille losing an arm in action After the war he was connected with the U S foreign service and Pan American Airways authorities say he went to Ottawa on business last week
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Ottawa
Alan Winslow
Winslow
France
LaFayette Escadrille
United States Government
Foreign Service
pan-American Airways
Wallace signals hog tax likely after October first
Secretary Wallace said a nominal processing tax on hogs may be levied on or after October 1 to fund the emergency hog reduction program. The tax would start with the hog marketing year and could be about one half cent per pound, subject to final determination, with details still to be worked out.
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Washington
Wallace
Farrow
Treasury
Guards Mobilized After Tuscaloosa Lynching Incident
National guardsmen were mobilized to protect wounded suspect Elmore Clark who escaped a lynching party that killed two co defendants, Dan Pippen Jr and A T Harden, in the slaying of Miss Vaudine Maddox in Tuscaloosa County. Officers pursued masked mob violence and moved prisoners for safety as Clark sought medical aid.
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Tuscaloosa
Ala
National
Elmore Clark
Vance
R. L. Shamblin
Clark
Stat
Dan Pippen, Jr
A. T. Harden
Vaudine Maddox
Tuscaloosa County
Shamblin
Birmingham
Pippen
Harden
Woodstock
Mystery Slaying In New Hampshire: Body Found In Thicket
Dusty missing persons files are reopened in Hampton Falls as police chase a year-old case of an unidentified woman found nude and dismembered in a roadside thicket off Cock Hill road. A Boston store label slippers and a ring inscribed L. D. to L. P. B. drive the inquiry.
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Hampton Falls
N. H
Boston
L. D
Bureau of Missing Persons
Cock Hill Road
Wendell R. Clare
Clare
Ceylon Spinney
Rockingham County
Brooklyn Dodgers Deny 1934 Pilot Rumor
Brooklyn officials rejected reports that Gabby Street would replace Max Carey as Dodgers manager in 1934. Street, released by the St. Louis Cardinals and replaced by Frank Frisch, said he would return to baseball next year as a major league manager.
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New York
Gabby Street
Max Carey
Brooklyn Dodgers
St. Louis Cardinals
Frank Frisch
Street
Boy Accidentally Shoots Brother Near Hailey
Twin Falls Idaho August 15 An accidental shotgun discharge by 13 year old Gordon Custer wounded his brother Frederick Wes sell Custer 12 who died in a local hospital Sunday. The boys were hunting sage hens with their father and another brother on the Custer ranch near Hailey when Gordon fired at a bird that rose suddenly the shot misfired striking Frederick in the abdomen from about forty feet away.
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Twin Falls
Gordon Custer
Frederick Wessell Custer
Will Custer
Shoshone
Gordon
Edward
Custer Ranch
Hailey
Frederick
Pelican near extinction alarms U S Park Service
The U S Park Service warns the white pelican may vanish like the great auk and passenger pigeon. A wildlife survey shows fewer than 50 000 pelicans left in the United States and Canada as civilization encroaches, with protection aimed at breeding grounds against hunters and disturbances.
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F. B. Washington
Sam
National Park Service
Park Service
Wildlife Division
United States
Canada
North America
The
Lindberghs Begin Greenland to Iceland Flight
Col Charles A Lindbergh and his wife departed Angmagsalik Greenland today bound for Reykjavik Iceland marking the latest leg of their Arctic voyage.
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Iceland
Revekjavik
Charles A. Lindbergh
Angmagsalik
Greenland
Birth of a son to Mr and Mrs Leslie Jackson
Mr and Mrs Leslie Jackson announce the birth of a son on August 14 at Blackfoot. The family names the newborn and celebrates the arrival in the local community notice.
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Blackfoot
Leslie Jackson
United States to Recognize Cuba's New Leader
Ambassador Sumner Welles told the diplomatic corps the United States would recognize Cuba's new administration led by Carlos Manuel de Cespedes after the fall of General Machado. Crowds welcomed the Morro Castle passengers with chants, while other nations signaled recognition and Roosevelt monitored the developing situation.
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Cuba
John P. McKnight Mavana
Sumner Welles
Diplomatic Corps
Washington
Carlos Manuel de Cespedes
Morro Castle
General Machado
Machado
Italy
Roosevelt
Cuban
Gerardo Machado
Associated Press
Storms Bring Relief After Intense Heat Across Pacific Coast
Violent electrical storms cooled extreme heat that left seven dead across Pacific states. In California Brawley saw major damage and 0.9 inch rain in 10 minutes. Lightning started fires in the Sierra Nevada and Oregon Forest Grove fire surpassed 300 acres. Mrs Harriet M Lewis of Oakland died on a bus near Vallejo. Red Bluff reached 114 degrees. Oregon's Dalles wheat harvest slowed at 104 degrees.
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San Francisco
Pacific Coast
Brawley
Imperial Valley
California
Sierra National Forest
Civilian Conservation Corps
Forest Grove
Ore
Weather Bureau
Nevada
Idaho
Oregon
Washington
Harriet M. Lewis
Oakland
Vallejo
Cal
Red Bluff
Sacramento Valley
Dalles
Colonel Hood Names Majors to Aid Reemployment Campaign
Colonel Leo Hood overseeing Pocatello and Alameda manpower in the emergency re employment drive announced a corps of majors: Don C. Brown I A Pelton W B Harris Homer Martin Parry Harrison C H Cannon Mrs Jay L Downing Mrs D C Watkins and Mrs J Ward Green Each major to appoint seven captains with names soon The staff for out county manpower will be announced this week The completed organization will canvass the city and county to educate the public on the NRA movement Idaho and Utah weather notes follow with warm conditions and scattered afternoon thunderstorms over high mountains
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Leo Hood
Pocatello and
Alameda
Don C. Brown
I. A. Pelton
W. B. Harris
Homer Martin
Parry Harrison
C. H. Cannon
Jay L. Downing
D. C. Watkins
J. Ward Green
Maurice Rossiter
Rail Tax Hearings Close as Idaho Board Reviews Rail Valuations
The Idaho State Board of Equalization ends its hearing on railroad taxation after railroad representatives agree taxes should be reduced but dispute valuation methods. Governor Ross notes ongoing study of railroad reports and a plan for a fair valuation formula.
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Boise
Aus
State Board of Equalization
Idaho
Ross
Will Rogers Witty Dispatch From Santa Monica
Will Rogers riffs on world events and travel mishaps in Santa Monica, recounting jokes about warships, trade, a France France France incident, a bicycle accident in Yokohama, and a Swiss man attempting to smuggle watches into Spain by strapping them under geese. He closes with playful self deprecation.
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Cal
Cuba
France
Yokohama
Japan
Switzerland
Spain
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