Brookhart Attacks Meredith at Iowa Farm Picnic
Senator Smith W. Brookhart challenged former Secretary BE Meredith at an American Legion gathering in Iowa. He offered to settle his libel dispute with Meredith using a 240 acre farm and said he would reveal farm financing schemes under oath. Brookhart accused Meredith of deflation figures harming farmers and criticized War Finance Corporation loans as bank-directed.
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Jewell
Iowa
United States
Smith W. Brookhart
BE. T. Meredith
Brookhart
Meredith
War Finance Corporation
Radcliffe
FE. T. Meredith
Wall Street
Department of Commercce
Mail plane breaks transcontinental air record in 26 hours
Pilot Wesley L. Smith completed a San Francisco to Hempstead relay in 26 hours 14 minutes setting a new continental air mail record. The flight beat the previous 26 hour 50 minute Army record, with the route longer and weather noting frozen high altitudes. Smith crossed Central Park at 10 000 feet and the test included a fourth day entry by Pilot Vance in Reno, Nevada.
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Associated Press
Hempstead
New York
Wesley L. Smith
Air Mail Service
San Francisco
Kelley
MacReady
Army Air Force
San Diego
Smith
Cleveland
Post Office Department
Central Park
59Th
Collins
Reno
Nevada
Vance
Blanchfield
Elko
Cuno Speaks to a German Club
In Berlin on August 24 German Chancellor Stressemann told a German industrial club the present government supports the Cuno offer to meet Germanys reparations obligations. He said sacrificing part of the German economic system could secure deliverance and sovereignty and noted possible distinctions between the Rhineland and the Ruhr.
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Associated Press
Berlin
Germany
Cuno
Stressemann
Gemany
Rhineland
Ruhr
Denver Police Probe Strange Murder Mystery
Denver police sought C E Lowe and his wife and the Suttles in connection with the killing of 17 year old Elsie J Suttle in Colorado Springs. A packet of five crumpled letters found under a pillow is a principal clue. Detectives hunt for a man called Jack and a Spaniard named Mando linked to the case.
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Associated Press
Colorado Springs
Colo
Denver
W. L. Strachan
C. E. Lowe
Elsie J. Suttle
R. H. Suttle, Jr
Jack
Mando
Premier Kato of Japan Dies In Tokio
Premier Tomosaburo Kato died this afternoon in Tokyo from heart complications. Admiral Baron Kato, born 1859, had notable roles in naval admin, diplomacy, and governance, and was confirmed as premier on June 12, 1922. Foreign Minister Uchida may act before a cabinet reshuffle.
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Associated Press
Tokio
Tomasaburo Kato
Baron Kato
Uchida
Jong der
Kato
Washington
Japan
United States
License Issued for Dempsey Firpo Bout September 14
The New York athletic commission granted licenses to heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey and manager Jack Kearns for the title bout against Louis Firpo at the Polo Grounds on September 14. Firpo already held a state license.
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Associated Press
New York
New York Athletic Commission
Jack Dempsey
Jack Kearns
Louis A. Firpe
Polo Grounds
Firpo
Transcontinental air mail test ends with success
The final transcontinental air mail test flight began this morning as planes departed from San Francisco and New York. Post office officials declared the experiment a success, confirming aircraft could operate at night on regular schedules and paving the way for a day and night service. Approximately 24 000 miles were covered, with 5 000 miles at night using lighted fields, at a cost of about half a million dollars.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Til
Post Office Department
San Francisco
New York
Theii Office Department
New
State Department to Issue Statement on Mexican Relations
Arrangements for resumption of diplomatic relations between the United States and Mexico reach a stage for an official announcement. The State Department has also outlined positions of Great Britain France Cuba and Belgium and may act soon. The briefing reflects discussions by John Barton Payne and Charles B Warrener at the Mexico City conferences.
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Associated Press
Ington
D. C
Department of State
Great Britain
France
Cuba
Belgium
Department
John Barton Payne
Charles B. Warrener
United States
Mexico City
Anthracite Shortage Declared A Public Emergency
The coal commission warned a coal and distribution shutdown would be a public emergency. It urged full cooperation among consumers, soft coal operators, and all distribution agencies with possible executive action by federal and state governments. Chairman John Hayes Hammond emphasized preserving fuel for homes and industries, while opposing further government intervention in the deadlock.
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I’resa
Washington, D. C
Coal Commission
John Hayes -Hammond
Railway Wreck in Poland Claims Many Lives
War saw August 24 The Associated Press reports more than 50 dead and about 100 injured when a Vilna to Warsaw train derailed at Lida crashing into a dam. The flood washed many passengers away as they tried to escape, many of them Jewish immigrants seeking South American prospects.
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Associated
Warsaw
Vilna
Lida
South America
Well Known Lady Writer Kate Wiggin Dies in England
Harrow England Aug 24 Kate Douglass Wiggen American author died last night after a failed operation she underwent after arriving in England to attend the Dickens Fellowship. Known as the prima donna of literature she helped pioneer California kindergarten work and later produced popular novels and poems.
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Associated Press
Harrow
England
Kate Douglass Wiggen
California
Santa Barbara College
Silver Street
San Franccisco
Rocky Mountains
Wiggin
Sarah B. Cooper
Patsy
New York
Hollis
Thieves Make a Big Diamond Haul
In Los Angeles on August 24 thieves bound a night watchman and blew open two safes in a jewelry firm, taking diamonds and other gems valued at about $100,000. No injuries reported.
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Associated Press
Los Angeles
Cel
Robbers Seize $20,000 in Bonds in Train Heist
Loot from a Missouri and Kansas registered train near Osako Oklahoma includes $20,000 in liberty bonds. Bandits held up the train Monday night according to Post Office Inspector A L Johnson in Kansas City.
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Associated L’reas
Kansas City
Osako
Oklahoma
Post Office
A. L. Johnson
Police Hunt For Writer Of Letters Asking Ransom
Police search for the authors of two ransom letters received by Peter McKennie, father of 3 month old Lillian kidnapped on a Manhattan street last Saturday. One letter from Brooklyn asked one thousand dollars. a Rutherford New Jersey letter appeared written by a lunatic. The Brooklyn note blames McKennie for past troubles.
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Associated Press
New York
Peter McKennie
Lillian
Manhattan
Brooklyn
Rutherford
New Jersey
McKenzie
Cleveland Fights to Bring 1934 Republican Convention
Cleveland remains a candidate city for the 1934 Republican convention despite the chamber of commerce stating it will not pursue the meeting. Walter Dy Mears, acting chair of a Tippecanoe club committee formed to lure the convention, said the group will reconvene Monday to plan fund raising and strategies to secure the event.
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Associated Press
Cleveland, O
Cleveland
Chamber of Commerce
Walter Dy Mears
Tippecanoe Club
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