Lemke Backs Old Age Revolving Pension at Townsend Forum
Delegates at the Townsend convention left Cleveland with William Lemke endorsing an old age revolving pension to aid elderly voters. Lemke did not fully endorse the Townsend plan, saying details must be worked out by the organization and Congress. The body resolved not to endorse any candidate during the campaign and speeches reflected broad views from speakers. Dr Townsend announced touring plans with Lemke while urging support for Townsend pledges to mothers of Congress. The five-day event featured speech making, singing, and cheering, including a proposed fusion with Father Coughlin and Rev. Gerald Smith for Lemke's candidacy.
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Cleveland
William Lemke
Union Party
Townsend
Congress
North Dakota
F. E. Townsend
Lemke
Mothers of Congress
Dr. Townsend
Charles E. Coughlin
Gerald L. K. Smith
Coughlin
National Union For Social Justice
U S A and Britain Film Firms Plan Merger
A three firm deal announced by Joseph M. Schenck aims to merge production and distribution efforts. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer will buy about a quarter stake in Gaumont-British Films from Twentieth Century Fox. Control of Gaumont-British will stay British while a new holding takes over Metropolis & Bradford. Distribution will be consolidated across the firms.
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New York
United States
England
Joseph M. Schenck
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp
Schenck
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Gaumont-British
Twentieth Century-Fox
Metropolis & Bradford Trust
British Film Company
Metropolis & Bradford
Unrelenting Heat in Paratella with 94 Degree Afternoon
The local weather bureau reports 94 degrees at 2 PM, three degrees below yesterday. Forecasters expect a rise of two to three degrees with possible cloud cover and a breeze bringing some relief. Tomorrow looks similar with mountains to produce thunderstorms and continued warmth.
Aviator James Davis Killed in Auto Crash
James Davis a 34 year old commercial aviator died when his automobile overturned on a curve in Houston last night. Utah weather forecast calls for generally fair tonight and Tuesday with little temperature change.
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Houston
Tex
James
Jim) Davis
Utah
Indian Sun Dance rites to begin at 8:04 tonight
Ban nock and Shoshone tribes start three day and night sun dance at Fort Hall and Bannock Creek sites with 40 to 50 dancers. No water or food during the period, liquor banned, no photos without consent, and fees cover policing and feast costs.
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Bannock
United States Weather Bureau
Buffalo Lodge
Fort Hall
Bannock Creek
Pocatello
West
Twin Falls Girl Hurt in Car Mishap Near Laramie
Ruth Shipman a 22 year old University of Wyoming student from Twin Falls Idaho was cut and bruised in an automobile accident that injured four others. The crash happened when their car left the highway in a canyon five miles east of Laramie. Helen Davidson 31 an employee in the university treasurer’s office suffered a compound fracture of the right leg. None of the others was badly hurt.
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Laramie
Wyo
Ruth Shipman
University of Wyoming
Twin Falls
Idaho
Here
Helen Davidson
University Treasurer's
Hess attends Montana funeral of brother in Bitter Root
O M Hess of 889 East Clark returned from a 750 mile auto trip to Bitter Root valley Montana for the funeral of his brother Quincy Hess who died after striking his head while diving in a swimming pool Quincy formerly lived in Pocatello and worked in the railroad shops before moving to Montana.
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O. M. Hess
East
Clark
Bitter Root
Montana
Quincy Hess
Pocatello
Young Montana essay winner finds no word for New York life
Erma Young 21, of Chateau Montana won a trip to New York and $100 for an essay on Why I Should See New York. She arrived with mixed impressions of the vast city and its neighborhoods praising the contrast between slums and large apartments. She hopes to visit Europe but would not want to live in New York permanently, and seeks the perfect hat while in the city.
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Montana
New York
Erma Young
Young
Chateau, Mont
Panher House Association
Europe
Reservoir Work Moves Forward at Fort Hall Irrigation Project
Fort Hall Indian Reservation Superintendent F A Gross reports the $145000 reservoir unit is virtually assured as landowner contracts cover dam costs. The reservoir will equalize water flow into the canal from the Blackfoot, supporting the Fort Hall Irrigation project.
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F. A. Gross
Fort Hall Indian Reservation
Fort Hall
Oo Canal
Idaho Weather Forecast Promises Thunderstorms in Mountains
The bulletin notes a pair of conditions across Idaho with a north region unsettled and thunderstorms in the mountains tonight and Tuesday amid continued warm temperatures.
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Idaho
North Central States
Nebraska
Kansas
Missouri
Dakotas
Paramount Sues Goldwyn for Four Million Damages
Paramount Pictures files a 4 million dollar suit against Samuel Goldwyn and his company in US district court alleging Goldwyn lured Gary Cooper from Paramount by false representations to break his contract. Adolph Zukor condemns the breach of morals and ethics and asserts Paramount began talks with Cooper in 1935.
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Los Angeles
Paramount Pictures Corp
Samuel Goldwyn
Paramount
Gary Cooper
United States District Court
Goldwyn
Cooper
Adolph Zukor
Zukor
Goldwyn Company
Court Upholds Grazing Law In Western States
Federal Grazing Director F. R. Carpenter announced the grazing law, upheld by a federal district court, will be strictly enforced. He urged western cattle and sheep owners to comply, noting indictments against trespassers in California, Oregon and Nevada while Utah livestock men reportedly conform to the law.
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Salt Lake City
F. R. Carpenter
Federal District Court
California
Oregon
Nevada
Carpenter
Utah
Idaho Campaign Speeches Highlight Growth and Water Rich State
Ira H. Masters touring Idaho as he campaigns for secretary of state reports abundant crops and ample water in most districts. He spoke at the Ada county Democratic picnic to about 500. later addressed Ada and Canyon counties and Pomona Grange in Jerome, urging transportation rate reform to grow Idaho to a population of one million and spoke to the Twin Falls Chamber on Building Idaho.
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Idaho
Ira H. Masters
Ada
Canyon
Pomona
Jerome
Twin Falls
Clyde Pangborn Aims First Leg Of Atlantic Flight Tour
Clyde Pangborn planned a solo takeoff from Dallas on an air tour toward a New York to Paris flight. He said he would proceed alone to New York and later join a partner picked to replace Monte Mackay whose wife died last week.
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Dallas
Tex
Clyde Pangborn
New York
Paris
Monte Macon
Former King Alfonso denies Bourbon goal in Spain revolt
In Marienbad and Prague the former king Alfonso of Spain authorized the Associated Press to deny that the revolt aims at restoring the Bourbon monarchy. He left the area with luggage after trying to hear rebel radio from Seville and was seen near Koenigswart, though no visit was confirmed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marienbad
Czechoslovakia
Alfonso
Spain
Associated Press
Praha
Seville
Koenigswart
Count Metternich
Idaho land options approved near Bonners Ferry
Rural Resettlement Administration officers announced options on two farm land tracts near Bonners Ferry Idaho have been approved for settlement by 200 families. The Kootenai river valley project will provide farm houses barns fences drainage ditches water systems roads and other conveniences. Harold Harvey Idaho RRA assistant director said units will be sold to experienced farm families including ex service men young couples rehabilitation families and tenant farmers.
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Boise
Bonners Ferry
Idaho
Kootenai River Valley
Harold Harvey
Idaho Rra
Librarians Attend Eastern Idaho District Library Meeting
Librarians and library staff from eastern Idaho gather at the university in the assembly room of Frazier hall with Miss Marion Orr presiding. A luncheon at Bannock hotel hosted by the Pocatello library board featured guests from Idaho Falls Boise Blackfoot and St. Anthony among others.
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Idaho
Eastern Idaho District
Frazier Hall
University
Marion Orr
Idaho Falls
R Bannock Hotel
Pocatello Library Board
M. Ina Stout
Hazel Quascorf
University Library
C. A. Torrey
St. Anthony
Parke
Violet Borg
Edna Gillespie
Blackfoot
Irene Fuller
Lalla Bedford
Boise
Edith Dygert
Twim Falls
John Dwyer
Lucille Hood
Gertrude McDougalnd
Nelda Hackman
Nicholas Ifft
No Games Today Prompted Sports Post
No major league games are scheduled today as officials announce a quiet slate with no planned contests or exhibitions on the national calendar.
Fresh clouds form over drought area in Midwest
Fresh clouds and showers spread across the corn belt easing heat and drought in the Midwest. Thunderstorms swept through the Dakotas Minnesota Wisconsin Iowa Missouri and Illinois with some deaths and heavy property damage. Temperatures cooled to the 60s in North Dakota, and futures markets softened as weather relief spread across the region.
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Chicago
Dakotas
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Iowa
Nebraska
Missour
Illinois
Missouri
Indiana
Steel Workers Join Big Union in Northeast Mills
Clinton S. Golden of the steel workers committee said units to bring employees under one big union have been organized in about 50 mills across the northeastern states. The campaign, led from Pittsburgh, reports 11 sub regional offices active and nine more in progress as organizers work from Cleveland to Baltimore.
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Pittsburgh
Clinton S. Golden
Steel Workers’ Committee For Industrialization
Golden
John L. Lewis
Cleveland
Atlantic Coast
Baltimore
Government Wields Whip Hand In All Important Sectors
The Associated Press reports a Madrid uprising after four hours of fighting as Gen Francisco Franco and rebel forces claim control in many sectors while leftist government mobilizes a defense army from Hendaye. Loyalists shell Madrid outskirts. Franco lands troops on the Mediterranean coast.
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Madrid
Francisco Franco
Spanish Morocco
Hendaye
France
Kingsonso
Marienbad
Czechoslovakia
Spain
Mediterranean
Landon Set to Accept GOP Nomination Amid Campaign Drama
Washington notes a sharpened political clash as Governor Alf Landon prepares to accept the Republican nomination in Topeka. DroughtLabor strife Townsend convention factors loom as campaigns align with Senate House and gubernatorial contests nationwide.
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Washington
Alf M. Landon
Kansas
Topeka
Townsend
Landon
Roosevelt
Senate
House of Representatives
Dolly Gann Predicts Republican Year In Kansas
Mrs Dolly Gann sister of the late Charles Curtis and official hostess to him said to Governor Landon that everything points to a Republican year. She spoke in Topeka Kansas on July 20 and cited party optimism ahead of elections.
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Topeka
Kas
Dolly Gann
Charles Curtis
Alf M. Landon
Bolton Queried in Hamm Kidnap Trial
Federal Judge M M Joyce sustained government objections to defense questions about Byron Bolton, key prosecution witness, regarding his actions after the 1929 St Valentine’s Day massacre in Chicago as the Hamm kidnapping case opened. Archie M Cary signaled plans to show Bolton’s link to the massacre and former police chief Tom Brown.
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ST. Paul
M. M. Joyce
Byron Bolton
Hamm
Chicago
John
Jack) Peifer
William Hamm
Archie M. Cary
Bolton
Tom Brown
Dress Making Turns to Astronomical Instrument to Find Textile Fabrics
Cambridge Mass July 20 Miss Mary E Varga a woman astronomer of the University of Pittsburgh uses a spectroscope to analyze stained dress goods threads on a hollow electrode The device identifies tin and copper from bronze influences causing stains and suggests substitutions of hardened steel The Pittsburgh district uses spectroscopy to solve industrial problems and the instrument helps detect silicon in lungs and iron content in glass in hours rather than days
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Cambridge
Mass
Mary E. Varga
University of Pittsburgh
Miss Varga
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Pittsburgh
Nine Drown in North Idaho Report of Fatal Drownings
Lewiston report details nine drownings across rivers lakes and mines in North Idaho last week. Among the victims were Charles E. Payne an 18 year old CCC enrollee in the Selway river near Lewiston Edward Campbell a 25 year old in the Clearwater river near Kamiah James Arthur Banata a 16 year old in Lewiston and two boys in lower Glimmer lake above Wallace plus a Hayden lake death near Coeur d Alene. Three men died in Coeur d Alene mine accidents during the period.
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Lewiston
Idaho
Charles E. Payne
Chicago
CCC
Selway River
Here
Edward Campbell
Clearwater
Kamiah
James Arthur Banata
Glimmer Lake
Wallace
Hayden Lake
Coeur d'Alene
Civil War Veteran of Ogden Is Dead
Ogden reports the death of 92 year old Civil War veteran Charles W. Hadley found by his housekeeper Mrs. Vinetta C. Martin. She heard a shot and found him on the floor in a pool of blood after noting months of ill health and sleepless nights.
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Ogden
Charles W. Hadley
Vinetta C. Martin
Idaho convention opens as McCarthy urges Postmasters rally
William H. McCarthy national president of the Postmasters Association addressed the Idaho convention calling Republicans to rally for party goals. He spoke in San Francisco and spoke of national postmaster issues and party unity.
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William H. McCarthy
San Francisco
Postmasters’ Association
Idaho
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