Legion meet to seek payment at Portland convention
Pennsylvania delegates push Anacosta resolution censuring Hoover over the July 28 Washington ousting of the B E F as the American Legion opens in Portland. Delegates anticipate opposition to the measure while bonus supporters led by Rep. Wright Patman push for immediate federal cash for ex soldiers. Secretary Hurley attends but is not to speak. Hanford MacNider arrives from Canada.
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Pittsburgh
United States
Portland
Ore
American Legion
Wright Patman
Texas
Hoover
Patrick J. Hurley
Hanford MacNider
Dulloch
Canada
Roosevelt Off On Long Jump
Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt starts a western campaign tour by special train at midnight. The trip spans about 8,000 miles with major speeches in Topeka Portland Sioux City and other stops. Roosevelt expects to study western economic conditions and will be joined by his son James for part of the journey.
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Hyde Park
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Marguerite le Hand
Bank Rumors Spread Again Warns Depositors
United States District Attorney S. W. McNabb urged caution over a new wave of false bank rumor letters. Depositors were told to beware as notes suggested they withdraw funds, with investigators noting plans for similar campaigns across California Oregon Nevada Arizona and Utah.
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United States
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McNabb
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Oregon
Nevada
Arizona
Utah
Mystery of Paul Bern death expands to include Miss Millette
In San Francisco investigators seek Dorothy Millette amid a tangle of Bern letters found with her belongings. Bern shot himself in Los Angeles a week ago and questions mount about his last will and the fate of Miss Millette, believed drowned or missing after leaving a river steamer bound for Sacramento.
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Paul Bern
California
Bern
Dorothy Millette
Los Angeles
Mendel Silberberg
Jean Harlow
Sacramento
Millette
Mike
Delta King
Irene Harrison
Miss Millette
Idaho Auto Association seeks one cent gas tax cut
The Idaho State Automobile Association backs a bill for the next legislature to reduce the state gasoline tax from five to four cents. Secretary R. G. Cole said the tax has become excessive, noting the five cent state plus federal six cent total. He cited $8 million in taxes collected in 19 months of the current biennium and estimated a four cent rate would save motorists at least $500,000 annually.
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Idaho State Automobile Association
R. G. Cole
Hutchinson Family Plane Lost After Distress Signal
Rescue vessels searched Greenland's icy waters for eight missing travelers the Hutchinson family from New York, who vanished after an August 23 transatlantic flight. The Lord Talbot found only ice as signals ceased. Greenland's governor alerted rescues and fleets scoured the area and coastlines.
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Europe
Atlantic
Lord Talbot
S.os
E.S.T
Greenland
Knud Oldendon
Oldendow
Seek to Extend Farmers Strike
Pickets resumed highway blockades in Sioux City Iowa as leaders plan to extend the farm price movement. They fixed September 18 to form a marketing association to push aims and plan to operate across Iowa Minnesota Wisconsin North Dakota South Dakota Illinois Kansas Montana Wyoming Nebraska Indiana and Oklahoma.
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Wisconsin
North Dakota
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Nebraska
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Oklahoma
Scoring Summary From Today’s Baseball Games
Today’s scores show Chicago Brooklyn tied 11 in a seven inning game with timely hitting from Tinning Grimes and Hartnett. Pittsburgh beat Philadelphia 4 to 2 as Swift Padden and teammates combined for the win. Washington routed Chicago 9 to 3 while New York and Cleveland battled to a 0-0 tie due to late innings forgot.
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Lopez
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Philadelphia
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Widow Claims Self Defense In Fatal Shooting
An inquest into the death of Frank Scotty Williams 45 a sand and gravel contractor will be held this afternoon or Tuesday. Williams was shot with a .25 calibre pistol and his widow Jamima Williams 55 is jailed on murder charges claiming self defense. The body was found on West Lewis street beside his home at 204 South Johnston street. Mrs Williams told detectives her husband returned home drunk threatened to beat her and she fired after he again threatened her.
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Isaac McDougall
Williams
Jamima Williams
Lewis Street
South
Johnston Street
Arthur Tippets
J. L. Balderston
R. C. Thomas
Question Election New York Mayor
Mayor Joseph V. McKee was served with an order to show cause why the board of elections should not be compelled to cease preparing for the November mayoral election. David Adams brought the suit as taxpayer with Mayor McKee’s consent after a conference with Harold Medina, Columbia law professor. McKee said Medina supported a taxpayers’ suit and indicated readiness to appeal to the court of appeals.
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Joseph V. McKee
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David Adams
McKee
Harold Medina
Columbia University
Medina
Court of Appeals
Administration Defends Acts In Disbanding Bonus Army
Washington report by Attorney General Mitchell says federal troops were necessary to prevent further disorder and bloodshed during the Bonus Army encampment. Hoover backs the findings while distinguishing criminal elements from honest veterans. the probe cites identification gaps and mixed motives among marchers.
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Mitchell
Bonus Army
Hoover
Bonus
Congress
Two Aviators Retry World's Endurance Refueling Record
Los Angeles today reports Fred Murillo and John Sheasey in a new attempt to beat the 647 hour endurance record for airplanes. They took off at 5 16 p m yesterday but faced a broken oil line forcing a return after nearly 100 hours aloft last week.
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Los Angeles
Fred Murillo
John Sheasey
Forest O’brine
Dale Jackson
St. Louis
Rail Carloadings Show An Increase
Washington reports the fourth straight week of higher railroad carloadings. For the week ending September 3 the American Railway Association tallied 659,727 revenue cars, up 21,754 from the prior week but down 200,144 from the same week in 1931 and 296,922 from two years ago.
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American Railway Association
Bandits Wreck Trains in Manchuria Killing 24
In Harbin region a trio of train wrecks and bandit raids over 24 hours left 24 dead and more than 70 injured with many kidnapped and 600 robbed. Japanese troops clashed with 700 Chinese bandits along the Chinese Eastern Railway near Tahsing, causing hundreds more deaths and injuries.
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Manchuria
Here
Tahsing
Changchun
Shwangcheng
Will Rogers Wires The Tribune
Santa Monica dispatch notes Rogers jokes about Republican speeches often held at meetings while Democrats speak at dinners. It comments on Mayor Walker’s trip to Italy and his portrait, noting his languages and alleged foreign leanings and distance from Tammany Hall.
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Santa Monica
Cal
Walker
Italy
Jimmy
Tammany Hall
Ten States Primaries Seen as National Indicator
Voters in ten states from Washington to Maine shape national political momentum this week. Maine votes today with eight more states holding primaries tomorrow ahead of Georgia on Wednesday. Arizona Colorado Louisiana Michigan New Hampshire Vermont Washington and South Carolina vote tomorrow with national leaders watching for broader issues and state issues alike.
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Maine
Georgia
Arizona
Colorado
Louisiana
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New Hampshire
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South Carolina
German status still muddled in Reichstag debate
Berlin September 12. Chancellor Von Papen, facing the Reichstag, blocked a nonconfidence motion by presenting the dissolution decree signed by President Von Hindenburg. Opponents claimed they had beaten him to it before dissolution and argued the vote was unconstitutional. The Reichstag council of elders met to review constitutional issues and adjourned.
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von Papen
Reichstag
von Hindenburg
Mahon
Reichstag Council of Elders
Republican Defenbach Denounces Ross Regime at Cul de Sac
In Lewiston Idaho on September 12 Republican candidate Byron Defenbach opened the northern Idaho campaign criticizing Gov. C Ben Ross. He argued the Democratic administration failed economically and that cost of government has grown unwieldy and costly, challenging Ross to prove he can cut government spending if re elected.
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Idaho
Byron Defenbach
Cul de Sac
Defenbach
C. Ben Ross
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