Veterans face hard season in congressional primaries
Washington AP reports a tough year for longtime lawmakers as several veterans lose renomination or are defeated in primaries. Dempsey, Simmons, Ransdell, and others fall to challengers while steadfast leaders like Garner Longworth Rainey and Pell survive. Civil War veteran Stedman retires amid illness.
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Washington
Veterans of Congress
S. Wallace Dempsey
Rivers and Harbors Committee
House
New York
E. E
Wisconsin
Furnifold M. Simmons
North Carolina
Senate
Joseph E. Ransdell
Louisiana
Representative Miller
Louis C. Cramton
Michigan
Georgia
Thomas H. Bell
Bell
John Garner
Texas
Longworth
Rainey
Illinois
Pell
Charles Manly Stedman
Cardinals Take Lead With 4 3 Win Over Robins
St Louis stretched its lead to two games atop the standings by defeating Brooklyn 4 to 3 in the final game of a key series. Grimes pitched well despite an 8-hit effort by the Robins as Mancuso, Phelps, Thurston, and Lopez provided run support.
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St. Louis A
Brooklyn
Chicago
New York
St. Louis
St. Louis Cardinals
Robins
Bureleigh Grimes
Grimes and
Mancuso
Phelps
Thurston and Lopez
A's Win Pennant in Close Race at Chicago Replay
Philadelphia finishes ahead by the slimmest margin as Batteries Earnshaw Mahaffey Walberg and Cochrane Moore Caraway Henry and Henline pace the squad in a tense pennant race ending at Chicago with final scores tight and season totals near 500.
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Philadelphia
Chicago
Earnshaw
Mahaffey
Walberg
Cochrane
Moore
Caraway
Henry
Henline
Boulder Canyon dam construction begins with spike ceremony
Secretary Wilbur hammered the first spike signaling start of the Boulder Canyon dam project. The ceremony named the dam for engineer Herbert Hoover and launched a Union Pacific spur to the site seven miles from Las Vegas. Actual dam work will begin after extensive preparatory tasks and city construction.
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Las Vegas
Nev
Boulder Canyon
Nevada
Ray Lyman Wilbur
Wilbur
Colorado River Basin
Hoover Dam
Union Pacific
Boulder Junction
Black Canyon
Boulder City
Fred B. Balzar
Hoover
Washington
Great Water Barrier
Elwood Mead
Reclamation Bureau
California
Utah
Colorado
Wyoming
New Mexico
Arizona
Colorado Basin
United States Supreme Court
French fliers depart Detroit for Chicago in transatlantic flight
Captain Dieudonne Coste and Maurice Bellonte in their scarlet plane left Detroit City Airport at 12:55 p.m. for Chicago. The moment marks a long range journey as the crew begins the crossing.
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Detroit
Dieudonne Coste
Maurice Bellonte
Chicago
Watersheds in Utah Denu ded by Overgrazing
A Utah flood inquiry team reports overgrazing stripped hillsides of vegetation in Davis County and Willard district. Hills bare of forage led to unchecked runoff and deep channels, sending most rainfall into valleys in a raging torrent. The party continued field observations in Willard and Box Elder County.
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Salt Lake City
Ornor George H. Dern
Iorthern
Utah
Farmington Centerville
Davis County
Willard
Box Elder
Noted aviatrix Ruth Alexander dies in San Diego crash
Ruth Alexander, a San Diego aviatrix, was killed when her monoplane Agua Caliente crashed at Loma Portal after takeoff from Lindbergh Field on the first leg of a projected one stop transcontinental flight to Newark. Born 1906 in Irving Kansas she had set a world record for women pilots and recently completed a Vancouver to Agua Caliente non stop flight.
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Ruth Alexander
San Diego
Calif
Cal
Loma Portal
Miss Alexander
Agua Caliente
Newark
N. J
Wichita
Kas
Irving
California
Federation Aeronautique Internationale
Vancouver
B. C
Mexico
Irving, Kas
W. T. Blaney
Aviarix
Ceentine
University enrollment grows over ten percent says Dean Dyer
The university opened classes with enrollment up more than ten percent, 535 registered. Dean John R. Dyer led an assembly where faculty outlines and the nine month program began, noting 92 engineering and 78 pharmacy students, and plans for a dormitory system to reduce use of current buildings. The cosmopolitan body includes seven Filipinos and Russian, Chinese, and Japanese students. a mixer is planned Saturday evening.
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John R. Dyer
Dean Dyer
Lipton Declares Race Too Costly
Newport R I Sept 18 Sir Thomas Lipton challenger for the America's Cup has given up hope of victory in the current series after Shamrock V broke a mast halyard and Enterprise won her third straight race Lipton says he will challenge for the Cup this year for the last time He notes Shamrock cannot win and that future Cup contests will require syndicates rather than single builders.
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Newport
R. 1
Thomas Lipton
Shamrock V
Halyard
Enterprise
Shamrock
England
Fisher Withdraws from Second District Bid in Utah Race
George H. Fisher of McCammon withdraws as Democratic candidate for Congress from Utah's second district, citing lack of platform sympathy and campaign costs. He sent formal notice Sept. 16 to Secretary of State F. E. Lukens, and explained his reasons to the state central committee led by T. R. Walters.
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George H. Fisher
McCammon
Congress
St. Anthony
F. E. Lukens
State Central Committee
T. R. Walters
Fisher
Addison T. Smith
Walters
McCammon News
State Democratic Central Committee
Pro-Repealers Jubilant Amid Election Reflections
The national wet and dry forces react to last Tuesday’s primaries. Wet leaders claim gains in the House while urging restraint until election day. Prohibition groups vow to resist repeal and defend the eighteenth amendment as Curran notes a wet tide, and Butler’s narrow Massachusetts win signals a tough November for wet opponents.
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Washington
Prohibition
Henry H. Curran
Association Against the
Curran
House of Representatives
Congress
William M. Butler
Massachusetts
Butler
Republican National Committee
Marcus A. Coolidge
Salmon man is shot to death in Idaho
Five officers led by Sheriff Robert L. Wilson search for Jim ONeil after rancher and miner Charles Maples was shot on his Salmon river area ranch. Authorities travel from Cascade and Yellow Pine to the Maples property as investigators probe a cold blooded murder following a quarrel with unknown motive.
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Yellow Pine
Idaho
Robert L. Wilson
Charles Maples
Ead Ee
Sola Salmon River
Jim O'Neil
Wilson
Cascade
Frank Hamilton
Carpenter Ranch
Maples Ranch
Salmon River
Hunters Cautioned to Observe Rules
Boise Idaho September 18 AP hunters are cautioned to follow rules as game departments report mixed conditions. Duck crops are short nationwide, deer are plentiful in Idaho but reside in high mountains, pheasants are abundant and hunting should be good. Hunters should have a gun license car and patience until season opens.
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Boise
State Game Department
Idaho
Ex-convict dies after jail escape attempt in Peoria
Fred Cubie 30 of Bedalia Missouri was shot and killed by a deputy sheriff during an attempted jail escape in Peoria Illinois. Cubie had been indicted for 14 robberies.
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Peoria
Ill
Fred Cubie
Bedalia
Cubie
Detroit Police Destroy Large Illicit Alcohol Plant
Police raided an uptown Detroit distillery amid odors complaints and found a $1,000,000 operation. The plant featured a telephone network and elevators, 80,000 gallons of grain mash, 20,000 gallons of ready alcohol, and 100,000 pounds of sugar. Operators escaped via rope ladders as doors were broken down.
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Detroit
Uptown Business District
Seven Die as Gas Pocket Explodes in Victoria Mine
In the old Victoria coal mine a gas pocket exploded in a new seam killing seven miners. Ten others escaped with burns and injuries, and two bodies were recovered today amid ongoing rescue efforts.
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River Herbert
N. 8
Victoria
Enterprise Defends America's Cup With Fourth Straight Win
The American sloop Enterprise won the 30 mile triangular course in 3 hours 10 minutes 5 seconds, securing a fourth consecutive victory and a 4–0 series sweep. Britons Shamrock V trailed by 5 minutes 60 seconds, while Sir Thomas Lipton, 81, hinted this was his last challenge. Commodore Harold S. Vanderbilt led the New York syndicate backing the defender.
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Thomas Lipton
Shamrock V
Enterprise Today
Enterprise
Harold
Vanderbilt
Kane
Associated Press
Sir Thomas Lipton
James Ashbury
Columbia
Lipton
Shamrock
Windward
Ametcan
Commodore Harold S. Vanderbilt
New York Syndicate
Baraby Found Guilty of Kidnapping Loreta Cable
William Baraby, 42, convicted by a jury of kidnapping Loreta Cable, 6, in Twin Falls Idaho. Sentencing set for Monday by District Judge dam B Barclay. punishment ranges from one to twenty years in prison. The trial opened last Monday with Baraby claiming he planned only to give the girls a ride home.
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Twin Falls
William Baraby
Dam B. Barclay
Loreta Cable
Baraby
Barnby
Loreta
Snake River Canyon
E. V. Larson
Police clash injures over 250 in Bombay polling disruption
Police attacked obstructive mobs at the Bombay town hall polling place during the legislative election. More than 250 people were injured, including many women. Authorities arrested 382 women and 18 men. the women were released later.
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Bombay
India
Ireland tops world in American baking powder use
Washington reports customs data showing Ireland consuming a large share of American baking powder compared with other nations. Ireland took 21 540 pounds, while Great Britain 27 000, Italy 2 250, Spain 2 850, France 500 and Mexico 33 000 pounds a month. Albania appears with 15 000 pounds in foreign trade figures.
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Washington
Ireland
Italy
Irish Free State
Great Britain
Spain
France
Albania
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