Presidential campaigns in advanced post campaign stage
President Hoover weighs more speeches as advisers push for farm and coast swing by Roosevelt. Roosevelt plans a coastbound tour in ten days. Republican Chairman Sanders vows an unprecedented speaking foray. Local politics in key states move toward crisis with national impact. The GOP has corrected an acknowledged misstep involving Colonel Theodore.
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Byron Price
Washington
Hoover
Roosevelt
Sanders
Col
Theodore
Utah Democrats choose slate with GOP rivals looming
Utah Democrats meet in Ogden and Salt Lake City to nominate candidates for governor US senator and congress. Abe Murdock wins the first district nomination after ballots and J Will Robinson secures the second district to oppose Rep F C Loofbourown. Delegates pledge to the national Chicago platform.
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Ogden
Utah
United States
Congress
Abe Murdock
Beaver County
Don B. Colton
Salt Lake City
J. Will Robinson
Provo
F. C. Loofbouron
Elmer O. Leatherwood
Chicago
Robinson
C. F. Dalby
Herbert B. Maw
Lawrence E. Nelson
Murray
Peach Men Seek Emergency Freight Rate
Utah fruit growers pressed for an emergency freight rate cut of one third on peaches for the upcoming shipping season. They argued current rates and prices prevent picking and shipping, after meeting railroad officials at the state capitol. Railroad executives will push for a prompt decision.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
State Capitol
Idaho School Man Heads to Florida in New Post
Clarence J. Settles resigns as superintendent of the Idaho School for the Deaf and Blind at Gooding after 10 years to lead a larger Florida school. Mrs. Graveley notes a handsome salary increase. W. D. Vincent will act as superintendent until successor is chosen. The school opens September 14.
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Boise
Clarence J. Settles
Idaho School For the Deaf and Blind
Gooding
Florida
J. G. H. Graveley
State Board of Education
Settles
Graveley
Idaho
United States
W. D. Vincent
Group Changes Mind on Mead at Federal Irrigation Congress
The Idaho Boise session ended after delegates defeated a resolution to remove Dr. Elwood Mead as United States commissioner of reclamation. They favored moratorium extension, project relief, and a 5 percent charges plan. George Grebe was reelected president with a slate for the executive committee including R. O. Chambers and W. C. Trathen and others from Idaho Nevada Oregon Montana and Wyoming.
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Boise
Federal Irrigation Congress
Elwood Mead
United States Commissioner of Reclamation
Congress
Mead
George Grebe
Kuna
W. C. Trathen
Rupert
Utah Fair Tonight and Sunday Event Notice
Readable fragment notes a fair in Utah with events planned tonight and Sunday in the northwest portion. No further details on organizers dates or times are available in the fragment.
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Utah
Northwest
Por
Steagall to Press National Bank Deposit Guaranty
Chairman Steagall of the house banking committee says opposition to a national bank guaranty deposit law is waning and he will push for action in the new session. He notes bankers shift toward supporting guaranteed deposits as depositor protection grows in importance. The House backed a $400 million fund but Senate opposition blocked last session. Steagall forecasts eventual enactment and cites the reconstruction finance corporation as easing bank liquidity but with a limited window.
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Washington
Steagall
House Banking Committee
Congress
Alabama
House
Senate
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Ambassador Clark Hosts Ortiz Rubio at Embassy Luncheon
United States Ambassador J Reuben Clark entertained President Ortiz Rubio at a luncheon held at the U S embassy in Mexico City yesterday indicating cordial diplomatic engagement between the two nations.
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Mexico City
United States
J. Reuben Clark
Ortiz Rubio
Great West Tale: Shelley Versus Diablo Six in Rio Grande
A Texas ranger arrives in the Rio Grande country to confront the bandit known as Diablo Six as morse and stock branded with Fleur de lis disappear. Local authorities are unable to cope until Shelley's showdown. Watch for it next Sunday.
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Shelley
Rio Grande Country
Advanced enrollment underway at Irving and Franklin junior highs
Principal William S. Curd reports satisfactory enrollment for Irving and Franklin junior high schools as they prepare to open Tuesday. By Friday afternoon 390 students enrolled at Franklin and 408 at Irving, with last year’s figures at 518 and 600 respectively, so the total may reach or exceed prior levels.
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Irving and
Franklin
William S. Curd
Irving School
Irving
Victim in ambush shooting remains critical in Alameda
Arthur E Volkmeier, shot by an unknown assailant at his sister’s Alameda home Monday night, stays in critical condition though shows slight rally this morning per attending physician Dr E N Roberts. The update notes a poor night with some improvement.
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Arthur E. Volkmeier
Alameda
E. N. Roberts
Walker resigns as New York mayor amid speculation ahead of November
James J. Walker's brief statement resigning the mayoralty stirs New York politics. Governor Roosevelt, Tam people and Samuel Seabury offer muted remarks as Seabury defends the investigation, while Brooklyn Democratic leader John McCooey notes no firm decision on a Walker run and fusion talk surfaces to block his return.
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New York
James J. Walker
Walker
Tammany Hall
Roosevelt
Samuel Seabury
Europe
Seabury
John H. McCooey
Brooklyn Democrats
Walker Owid
Agricultural war resumes as pickets menace Sioux City
Sioux City Iowa reports renewed farm picket action despite a declared truce in the farmers strike for higher prices. Gov Olson of Minnesota urges withholding nonperishables until after a Midwest governors meeting on September 9.
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Sioux City
E. B. Olson
Minnesota
Midwest
John Bosch
Atwater
Kaiser's Sons Remembered as Veterans Rally in Berlin
In Berlin 20 000 members of the Stahlhelm veterans group filled the Sportpalast to denounce the Versailles treaty and the Weimar constitution. Franz Seldate urged abolition of the republic and the push for compulsory military training, while Crown Prince Wilhelm and Kaiser’s sons received the crowd’s ovation.
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Germany
Steel Helmet
Weimar
Franz Seldate
Wilhelm
Eitel Fritz
Oscar
Kaiser
Fliers Tackle Speed Records At Cleveland Air Races
Speed pilots prepare for the Thompson trophy 100 mile dash at Cleveland Ohio. James G Haizlip of St Louis set a trans continental record and posted 273.352 mph in a dash. Lee Gehlbach logged 248.548 mph, and Mrs Mae Haizlip measured 224 to 239 mph as she attempted a women’s world speed record but was ruled ineligible for the record due to course deviation.
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James H. Doolittle
Doolittle
Bonnet
France
Cleveland
Ohio
James G. Haizlip
St. Louis
Los Angeles
New York
Lee Gehlbach
Gehlbach
Mae Haizlip
Ruth Nichols
Rye
N. Y
Carlton
Mich
Haizlip
Harris Slocum Frostbitten After Montana Idaho Snowstorm
Harris Slocum reported by a doctor to have frostbite after a snowstorm near the Montana Idaho mountain divide. Four inches of snow fell, ending August in severe weather.
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Wallace
Ida
Harris Slocum
Montana-Idaho Mountain Divide
Little Big Chief Walker resigns as mayor in mountain dispatch
Will Rogers reports from Bishop California that Mayor Walker has resigned. He quips about New York's ability to verify the claim and notes Amon G. Carter of Fort Worth campaigning against Jim Ferguson. Rogers appeals for flowers or wreaths for Carter as consolation.
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New York
Ma” Ferguson
Amon G. Carter
Fort Worth
Texas
Jim” Ferguson
Jim
Greta Garbo
Rio Grande Flood Crest Rolls On Toward Eagle Pass
The Rio Grande flood crest advances downstream past Eagle Pass Texas with widespread property damage but no known loss of life. Residents take precautions to minimize further damage as waters flow along the border.
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Tex
Rio Grande
United States
Mexico
Piedras Negras
Laredo
Texa
Nuevo Laredo
Pecos
Nueces
Sabinas
Devil's Rivers
del Rio
Villa Acuna
San Antonio
Resignation of Mexican President Ortiz Rubio Shocks Capital
President Pascual Ortiz Rubio sent his resignation to congress amid a three week political crisis. General Jose Rios announced the document would be before the thirty-fifth congress. Rumors cited health issues and plans for medical treatment in Rochester, Minnesota.
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Ortiz Rubio
Mexico
Rochester
Minn
Mexico City
Pascual Ortiz Rubio
Congress
Chapultepec Castle
Juan Jose Rios
Interior
Alvaro Obregon
Jose Rios
Relief funds allotted to Idaho for unemployment relief
Boise September 3 three hundred thousand dollars to administer unemployment relief was granted to Idaho by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. The funds will be used statewide to create winter work for heads of families and to provide employment as needed. Sandpoint receives seventy five thousand dollars to build a bridge over the Pend Oreille lake outlet with local guarantees and timber purchases. About ten thousand dollars will surface twelve miles of road in Caribou county to aid crop destruction and Conda phosphate mine closures. Further funds will be sought to aid cities and other government units meeting the regulations.
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Boise
C. Ben Ross
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Pend Oreille Lake
Caribou
Conda
Work Starts on Federal Hatchery in Hagerman
Planning to use local labor and supplies, the bureau of fisheries will begin construction of the Hagerman federal fish hatchery early next week. Representative Addison T. Smith announced the plans after being advised by J. R. Russell of Seattle, engineer of the bureau, who will supervise the project.
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Twin Falls
Bureau of Fisheries
Hagerman
Addison T. Smith
J. R. Russell
Seattle
Bureau
Socialists Plan Broad Campaign Tour Across Nation
The Socialist Party of America's executive committee outlined its largest ever campaign, with Norman Thomas touring 40 states and James H. Maurer visiting about 20 states. Party leaders from Connecticut to California attended as Thomas called socialism rapidly spreading and said the party could win or at least spread its doctrines nationwide. Thomas planned four Chicago speeches then Labor Day events in the Detroit area.
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Chicago
Socialist Party of America
Norman Thomas
Thomas
James H. Maurer
Pennsylvania
Connecticut
California
Iowa
Detroit
Lifers Seek Parole Board Commutation in Murder Case
Mrs. Alfred T. Faerber, serving life for second degree murder in the death of Miss Myrl Warner of Fillmore, plans to ask Utah's Board of Pardons for commutation and parole when it meets September 24. Her husband also is serving a life sentence. both were convicted of an illegal operation that caused the girl's death.
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Salt Lake City
Alfred T. Faerber
Myrl Warner
Fillmore
State Board of Pardons
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