Eighth Annual Legion Session Closes Today
Lewiston, Aug. 21. Closing sessions of the eighth annual American Legion meeting for Idaho were to feature officer elections and the next convention city. John R. McQuigg national commander would speak at 1 PM in Fifth Street Park then attend Moscow memorial dedication before heading to Pendleton Oregon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O. W. Worthwine
F. B. Bresver
Veterans’ Hospital
Boise
Homer Hudelson
Norman Engle
Col
E. D. Potvin
Lewiston
GM. Holley
Army
J. J. Hillman
Jerome
Idaho State Teachers’ Associations
W. H. Detweiler
State Women's Auxiliary
Mark Donaldrm
James Harris
Lester F. Albert
Go Stand
Fifth
Ain Streets
Berlin's Home Return From Abroad Sparks Publicity
Irving Berlin and Mrs. Berlin arrived at Thousand Islands seeking privacy after disclosing their U S return aboard the Montcalir from Glasgow. They declined comment on Ellen Mackay and awaited plans for a new show While at Winslow's summer home they kept a low profile and avoided headlines.
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Quebec
Irving Berlin
Ruge
Max Winslow
Thousand Islands
Johnson
Montcair
Glasgow
Clarence Mackay
al Jolson
Newark
Paris
Hei
United
Berlin
America
Hense
New York
Montcairn
Warehouse plan approved for Idaho canned foods stores
Boise August 21 announces that regulations authorizing Idaho warehouses under the United States warehousing act to store canned foods have been approved by Secretary Jardine and will take effect September 1. The rules allow federal warehouses to store heat processed foods defined as fruits or vegetables sealed in containers.
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Boise
Idaho
Agri Iture Jardine
Maverick Carnival Draws Catskills Artists to Woodstock Resort
Artists from painters to composers gathered in Woodstock New York for the Maverick annual costume festival. The Catskills carnival drew thousands, with famous figures like Clemence Randolph Ben Hecht and Hervey White mingling amid color and music in a riotous display of art society.
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Woodstock
N. J
Catskills
Theoa
Rip van Winkle
Clemence Randolph
Robert Chantler
Lina Cavalieri
Ben Hecht
Chicago
Allen Dean Cochrane
Cincinnati
J. K. Shotwell
Columbia University
Palma Winter Brown
Hervey White
Two Buildings Lost in Blaze in Lewiston Business District
A fire in Lewiston on August 21 caused about 200000 in damage to two connected buildings in the business district. The blaze started in the Lewiston Grocery basement and spread to an adjacent structure, injuring six stores and two nearby hotels. Firemen battled the flames as a man on his way to work discovered the fire, and workers barely escaped as walls toppled and sections were evacuated. The cause remains undetermined.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lewiston
Losa
Lewiston Grocery
Federal trade commissioner injured in Denver auto crash
Aug 21 Trouston A Thompson of Denver is seriously injured when his car overturns in a residential district. Mrs Thompson sustains slight injuries.
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Denver
Trouston A. Thompson
Girl Abandons Trail of Thaw After Monthlong Quest
Martinsburg West Virginia August 21 Miss Forrest Hope Walls 17 of Los Angeles travels in a dilapidated auto with her mother and brother, seeking Harry K Thaw she says promised marriage. She shows letters Thaw allegedly wrote and claims he spurned offers of marriage, a car, and funds.
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Martinsburg
W. Va
Forrest Hope Walls
Los Angeles
Harry K. Than
Thaw
Virginia
Winchester
Miss Walla
Radio Agencies Seek Protection for News Items
Geneva August 21 The conference of news agencies under the League of Nations urges governments to license receiving stations and punish pirating of wireless news. It calls for stronger protection of press dispatches while noting official government news remains nonexclusive property.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geneva
Switzerland
League of Nations
Organization of Wireless
International Union For the Protection of
Atenrel Eerty
Paris
Washington
Baseball scores and weather across New York Boston and Pittsburg
Today's games at New York, Boston and Pittsburg feature rain interruptions and doubleheaders. Vangilder, Schang, Pennock and Severeid lead early runs. Lyons, Grabowski, Stokes and Stokes contribute for Boston. Philadelphia and Pittsburg split two rain affected contests with high scoring outputs and a combined 26 runs in one twin bill.
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New York
R. J. E. St. Louis
Vangilder and Schang
Pennock
Catholic bishops seek constitutional change in Mexico
The Mexican Catholic episcopate announces plans to amend the religious clause of the constitution. The proposal requires two thirds approval in both the senate and the state legislatures. The new congress begins September 1, with Catholic laymen forbidden to participate in politics.
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Mexfco City
Episcopan
Mexicana
Diag
Senate
Congress
Mexican ex‑secretary of war linked to plot to seize Lower California
Papers seized after General En rique Estrada and his followers were arrested in Culzura Imperial valley reveal a wide revolutionary plan to overthrow the Mexican government. Rumors spoke of bands marching from the United States into Mexico and a boatload headed to the Lower California peninsula. Estrada, with 150 men armed and an armored truck, faced $20,000 bail at release. hearing set for September 6. Staff members remain jailed with bail $1,000 to $10,000.
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San Diego
Cal
Enrique Estrada
Culzura
Imperial Valley
A. A. Hopkins
Department of Justice
San Pedro
Lower California
Estrada
United States
Mexico
Columbus
N. M
M. Mascarenas
Juarez
Roman Lopez
Chihuahua City
Palomas
Gemnent Estrada
Los Angeles
Proper Mating to Cure Cancer
Dr. Erwin F. Smith argues human mating cannot be directed to breed cancer resistance. He cites animal experiments showing resistant and cancerous lines, notes cancer may be cured by operation or radiotherapy, and warns of carcinogens such as soot coal tar paraffin and tobacco arsenic. He discusses cancer causes and the difficulty of long term cures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ithaca, N. Y
Erwin F. Smith
Washington, D.C
International Congress of Plan Sciences
Cornell University
Smith
American Association of Cancer Research
Planta
Stolen Jewels Recovered as Roths Face Charges
New York August 21 Two Harlem pawnbrokers Joseph Roth and son Herbert jailed charged with receiving stolen goods linked to a Newport Rhode Island Breakers jewel theft. Detectives recover jewels worth 18000 as they probe six cases including a 95 diamond brooch and a horseshoe pin bearing Good Luck.
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New York
Harlem
Joseph Roth
Herbert
General
Mra
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Newport
R. I
Vanderbilts
Roths
Fokker Plans US Citizenship and Big Plane Venture
A. H. G. Fokker announces intent to become a U S citizen and aid American air supremacy. He spoke at a Wright Aeronautical dinner honoring Richard Byrd and Floyd Bennett, noting papers filed, and revealed plans for a larger three engine plane with sleeping quarters for 40.
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New York
A. H. G. Fokker
Germany
United States
Ile
Wright Aeronautical Corporation
Richard Byrd
Floyd Bennett
North Pole
America
Unite States
Fokker
Atlantic Air Corporation
Insbrook Heights
N. J
Fokker Aircraft Corporation
Kansas City
Byrd and
Bennett
Mr. Fokker
Fair Tonight and Sunday With Cooler Northwest
UTAM Weather reports a fair pattern tonight and Sunday. Cooler air moves into the northwest portion, bringing lower temperatures and a crisp end to the weekend.
Three Crew Missing After Lifeboat Sinks in Lake Erie
Eight crewmen from the steamer Gerken were cast adrift when the vessel sank eight miles off Erie Pennsylvania. One missing pair is believed lost. sixteen others were rescued and brought to Ashtabula. The search continued as storm conditions hindered recovery efforts.
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Cleveland
Howard
Gerken
Lake Erie
Erie
Howard Wageman
Midlake
Seymour Nelson
United States Coast Guard
Aashabula
Ashtabula
Buffalo
Maitland
John B. Gamble
The
George McMinn
Richard Freeman
William Logan
T. H. Herman
Great Lake Region
Greater Buffalo
Detroit and Cleveland Navigation Company
Detroit
Philadelphia
Workmen Fall Eleven Stories in Denver Collapse
Two construction workers, Joseph Dorak and C. B. Brookhart, died when scaffolding collapsed while they set rails for elevators on the tenth floor of the New Continental Oil building in Denver. Brookhart had recently arrived from Los Angeles.
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Denver
Continental Oil
Joseph Dorak
C. B. Brookhart
Brookhart
Los Angeles
T Dorak
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McQuigg
Stork
Mexico City
Commissioner Hurt
Ier
Boston
R. HW. E
Lyons
Grabowski
Harriss
Russell
Gaston
Stokes
Pittsburg
RW. B. Philadelphia
Dean
Wilson
Bush
R. H. E. Philadelphia
Ulrich
Knight
Pierce
Willoughey
Songer
Kremer
Gooeh
Lower
California
Hopkins
Y.M.C.A
John R. Mott
Young Men’s Christian Association
Y. M. C. A. Alliance
Helsingford
Finland
Vanderbilt
Niagara Falls
N. V
Canada Steamship Lines
Toronto
Ont
Lake Ontario
Canadian National Line
Port Delhousie
Fort Wayne
Ind
Ohio
Bertha Mielke
Charles
Edward Mielke
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