Kidnapper Meek Killed After Fatal Shootout In San Francisco
William F. Wood, a 65 year old retired reclamation engineer and Taft cousin, endured three days of terror as kidnapper Howard Staf ford Meek shot Policeman Michael McDonald during a pursuit on Mission Street. A stray bullet hit Mrs. Ella Bowers while she was en route to court for divorce.
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San Francisco
William F. Wood
William Howard Taft
Michael McDonald
Howard Stafford Meek
Henry Jennings
Mission Street
McDonald
Wood
Ella Bowers
Upper Market Street
Meek
Sausalito
Auto Code Now Up to President
Washington Aug 26 The NRA code for the automobile industry faces a decision by President Roosevelt on whether it should include provisions about advancing workers without regard to union or nonunion status. After talks with labor spokesmen a tentative code was sent to the president by administrator Hugh S Johnson. If he approves the wording the code will be ready for signature and an announcement is expected at Hyde Park tomorrow.
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Washington
NRA
Roosevelt
Organized Labor
Organization of Labor
Hugh 8. Johnson
Fires Threaten Oregon and Washington Forest Regions
Fires raged across Grays Harbor county in Washington and along the northwestern Oregon coast as hundreds of firefighters fought shifting winds. The Wilson River and Trask River fires advanced toward Tillamook and Hebo while Nehalem valley and Clatsop county farms faced new danger as residents evacuated towns such as Jewell and Elsie watched the C C C camp nearby.
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Aberdeen
Wash
Grays Harbor County
Portland
Ore
Oregon
Columbia River
Wilson River
Trask River
Tillamook
Forest Grove
Nehalem Valley
Clatsop County
Hebo
Jewell
Astoria
Elsie
Roosevelt to Welcome British Bank Chief In New York Visit
President Roosevelt arranged a visit here next week by Sir Montague Norman governor of the Bank of England at the request of George Harrison head of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Norman has been on a mystery tour in the United States for over two weeks and the president’s stance against immediate stabilization of currency in foreign exchange is noted.
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Hyde Park
N. Y
Roosevelt
Montague Norman
Bank of England
George Harrison
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Montague
Idaho court awards lake bed to Kootenai Indians
The U.S. District Court ruled Mission lake bed near Boundary county was not navigable in 1890, granting the lake bottom to the Kootenai Indians whose uplands were allotted to them. Ladley’s claim to the bed was rejected, and the state’s intervention failed. the decision may affect nearby lake beds along the Kootenai river.
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Boise
Boundary County
Mission Lake
United States District
C. C. Cavanah
Idaho
United States
Ladley
Kootenai River
Abduction Mixup Strands Denver Executive in Peril
Bernard Bitterman a Denver May Company department store executive was kidnapped after a hoax call and a ransom note from NRA. Police and FBI pursue leads as the family fears for his safety and investigators weigh mistaken identity by captors seeking a ransom.
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Denver
Bernard Bitterman
Ira C. Rothgerber
Bitterman
Cheyenne
Wyo
Alfred Thefus
May Company
O. K
NRA
Thefus
David May
Police
Department of Justice
May
Thesus
Bernard
Rothgerber
William Armstrong
Triefus
Bessie Bitterman
Robert
Doctor Called In Court Case In Lamson Murder Trial
Dr Joseph A Catton the psychiatrist called by the defense in the David A Lamson case was subpoenaed as a state witness. The trial was in recess as defense plans to prove the death of Allene Thorpe Lamson was accidental. The defense contends the 10 inch iron pipe found in a rubbish fire was not in the Lamson bungalow and will reappear in court.
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San Jose
Cal
Joseph A. Catton
David A. Lamson
Allene Thorpe Lamson
Lamson
Rockefeller Jr. pleads for nationwide recovery act support
John D. Rockefeller Jr. urged nationwide cooperation to ensure the success of the national recovery act, calling the effort a great reconstruction adventure and stating that turning back is unthinkable.
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Seal Harbor
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Murderer Kills Self With Blast Near Portland Farm
Ed Morrill age 49 a basement excavator killed Delia Stitt 48 and wounded his wife after an argument at their rural Portland area home He then killed himself with dynamite at a rock quarry Police said Morrill fired five shots before the blast in a violent domestic incident.
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Portland
Ore
Ed Morrill
Delia Stitt
Morrill
Miss Stitt
Renew Fight For Returning Insull In US Demand
Athens Greece Aug 26 Samuel Insull 73 former head of the Insull utilities interests was detained in a nursing home as the United States launched a second bid to extradite him He was taken to the Athens police chief office then to Logothe topoulos clinic pending a decision on extradition.
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Athens
Greece
Samuel Insull
Insull Utilities
United States
Insull
Logothetopoulos
Insuli
Taladouro
America Legation
United States Attorney-General
Chicago
Dwight H. Green
Green
Police Seek Bandit Pair After Downtown Bank Hold Up
Colorado and surrounding states hunt two masked bandits who robbed a Federal Reserve transfer at 18th and Lawrence in Denver. They fled with 36000 in cash, sprayed tear gas, injuring bystanders, then swapped to another car with a man, a woman and a baby waiting.
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Denver
Colorado
Richard Bowden
Dalton Brown
Vern Walker
United States National Bank
18Th
Lawrence
Nebraska
Bowder, Walker and Brown
Federal Reserve Bank
United States National
Bread price rise expected after new wheat agreement
London reports indicate British Isles consumers anticipate higher bread prices as one of the first reactions to the new international wheat agreement.
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London
British Isles
Idaho Legion Adopts Child Welfare Code
Idaho American Legion and Auxiliary close annual conventions with a child welfare program. They urge remodeling state departments, adopting public health survey recommendations, overhauling laws on care of children, and ratifying the federal child labor amendment. Election of new department officers announced with Moscow chosen for 1934 convention city.
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Twin Falls
Idaho
Idaho American Legion and Auxiliary
Public Health Service
Elbert S. Rawls
Lewiston
A. Ross Rutherford
Idaho Falls
John Foreman
Pocatello
Alta Wardwell
Boise
William Dawson
Marjorie Smith
St. Maries
Alpha Schwartz
Nampa
Moscow
University of Idaho
Washington Votes on Repeal as 46 Local Referendums Loom
Washington heads toward a repeal election seen as a turning point in a broad referendums push. Postmaster General Farley urged Democrats to vote repeal to end special taxes funding the recovery program. Crusader Wilson warns drys are charged with delaying repeal despite last fall’s statewide dry law reversal.
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Seattle
Washington
United States
James A Farley
George A. Starr
Clarence True Wilson
Ciry Crusader
Cafe Proprietors Advised on Code
The policy board of the NRA has rendered a decision that restaurant owners must pay employees the minimum wage without any deduction for meals. It was shown that it has never been the policy of restaurant proprietors to charge employees for board in the past. Employees under the temporary code are to receive a minimum of 26 per hour for a 48 hour week.
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The
NRA
Washington
J. A. Pelton
Central Labor Union
Ant Bites Lead to Finger Tendon Snap in Pasadena
Loren L. Guest, 74, was hospitalized after he aimed at an ant with his left hand and snapped the insect away. The right hand finger tendon was torn, leaving the finger paralyzed. Surgeons say he must rest the hand for several weeks.
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Pasadena
Cal
Loren L. Guest
Guest
Idaho farmers oppose power plan to store water at Kootenai Lake
Pioneer Kao tenai valley farmers told the International Joint Commission that storing water in Kootenai Lake would keep lands flooded in winter, blocking the spring drying needed to seed low lands. They argued normal low water would dry fields, and recent high water winter conditions were abnormal, harming cultivation and ad hoc compensation measures.
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Nelson
B. C
Kaotenai Valley
Idaho
International Joint Commission
O. C. Wilson
Bonners Ferry
West
R. C. Crowe
Power Company
Lindberghs Arrive in Copenhagen After North Atlantic Flight
Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh and Mrs. Lindbergh completed an aerial survey of the north Atlantic and landed in Copenhagen after a nonstop flight from the Shetland Islands. They were greeted by air ministry officials and the American legation and toured the city in a motor convoy. A Danish naval officer urged a launch transfer to the quay, but Lindbergh chose the car to City Hall where Ruth Bryan Owen and the reception committee awaited.
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Copenhagen
Denmark
Charles A. Lindbergh
North Atlantic Ocean
Shetland Islands
Air Ministry
Legation
Lindberghs
Lindbergh
Ruth Bryan Owen
United States
Richmond youth held on murder charge in golf club case
Lloyd May a 15 year old caddy was held on a juvenile court warrant charging murder in the death of Clarence Tidy Agee 19 star golfer and caddy master at the Richmond golf club. Judge Vernon Leer presided in Richmond Kentucky with authorities stating the case stems from the Augusta 26 incident.
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Richmond
Lloyd May
Clarence “Tidy” Agee
Richmond Golf Club
Vin Ay
Vernon Leer
Roosevelt proclaims recovery drive a success in Dutchess County
President Roosevelt on the Vassar campus in Poughkeepsie declares the national recovery effort for more jobs and higher wages to be succeeding with near unanimous support. He urges complete local government reorganization and says the nation is returning to better times with a neighborly policy.
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Associated Press
White House
America
Roosevelt
Republican
State of
New York
Vassar
Iam Rot
Dutchess County
United States
Texans Vote In Favor Of Repeal In Early Returns
Texas preliminary returns show a two to one margin for repeal of the 18th amendment as rural areas trickle in. Officials report 139,814 for repeal and 78,315 against from 174 counties and six complete jurisdictions.
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Dallas
Tex
Texas
Texas Election Bureau
Morvis Sheppard
John Barleycorn
Lone Star
Bands Parade Monday Night
Members of the Municipal and high school bands are urged to help with the NRA program starting with a mass meeting at the Recreation hall at 8 oclock Monday evening. Band members should meet at the high school grounds at 7 pm to parade before the meeting and contact Loren Schnabel at 1625W to join.
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Recreation Hall
Loren Schnabel
Poisoned food aimed at dogs may harm children in Boise
Boise August 26 AP W V Leonard state chemist warned that meat and other poisoned articles laid out to kill dogs could be eaten by children leading to serious trouble. He cited about 250 poison-containing items found in the past year, mostly meat, with several cases where kids picked up the tainted food. Police delivered sections of a poison crystal labeled weente showing quick fatal danger.
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Boise
W. V. Leonard
Leonard
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George Ladley
Rockefeller
NAA
Idaho Legion
Elect Rawls
Ant
International Joint Commission On Water Rights
North Atlantic
Francis M. Stephenson
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