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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1931
Page
3
In New York police launch a city-wide manhunt after gangster racks fire on a dope peddler, killing Theodore Naddi, as 20 40 thousand people attend a mass meeting demanding removal of police officials. Police Commissioner Mulrooney pledges to wipe out gangsters.
Former Prime Minister Yuko Hamaguchi, injured in a spring assassination attempt, died in Tokyo at 3 05 p m. He had suffered ill health since the attack and had to relinquish the premiership. Assassin Temeo Sagaya, 23, was captured after firing one shot aimed at ending Japan’s economic depression.
In Omaha two bandits received Charles Wymer's two gold teeth and a German mark as his contribution. A second item notes unidentified mail boxes torn down along a highway near Clay Center Kansas in anger at the postal service. Also in Omaha two elderly men share Civil War memories after forty years in the city. An East St Louis report says a canary entertained streetcar passengers and was captured by a conductor. Chicago coverage reports Eugene Kunsweiler testifying about his wife Lillian's death linked to a salve allegedly produced by Lester Tilton and notes six associates may lose medical licenses.
Arthur Hall of Marietta has returned home and shares the adventure of roller skating to Miami Florida and back with friends describing the journey and experiences.
The Baker Jacobs reunion is scheduled for Sunday at Sunset Park. Event details note the date August 30 with the year 16313.
In Colorado, 600 United Mine Workers vote to postpone August September and November wages to help Rocky Mountain Fuel sustain 1929 wage levels. Miners pledge to mine and market coal at unity with the company against 25 percent wage cuts by non union operators. State leaders foresee a broader battle over coal markets.
Reinhold Engel, already convicted in a Wisconsin bank robbery, was identified as taking part in the Farmers' State Bank of Alden Iowa hold up on March 10. He was on a $25,000 bond pending appeal of a Grantsburg Wisconsin bank heist and was reportedly under bond at the time of the Alden robbery where three men obtained $4,000.
Mahatma Gandhi will proceed to London on Saturday to attend the second round table conference on Indian affairs. The decision surprised many, as he had refused to sail with the Indian delegation citing that Viceroy Lord Willingdon violated terms of the agreement with Lord Irwin. The bulk of Indian delegates left for London a week earlier.
Farmers and shippers from the Midwest testified before two Interstate Commerce Commission members in Kansas City Texas to oppose a 15 percent railroad rate increase. The delegation led by Clyde M. Reed urged fairness, arguing higher costs would hit agriculture and transport.
A four day hearing opens with witnesses today including Dr. W E Grimes head of the department of agricultural economics at Kansas State College and J W Scott head of the rate and statistical department of the Kansas Public Service Commission.
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