Flooded New Mexico towns in Rio Grande breach
Rio Grande floodwaters sweep San Acacia and threaten San Marcial as cloudbursts from Colorado send river to flood stage. Property damage spreads across the region with about 1 000 people displaced and Red Cross appeals for aid amid scorching heat and drought. In New York Pelham Manor bans aircraft landings while aviation fever grips the country. Also notes on weather in Iowa and law enforcement raids in East Chicago and Indiana Harbor.
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San Acacia
San Marcial
Colorado
Rio Grande River
East Chicago
al. Capone
Indias Harbor
War unavoidable after new fight near Manchuria
Reports from Kin and Manchuria on August 14 describe Sino Soviet clashes on the Manchurian frontier with Red and Chinese forces suffering casualties. Soviet troops strengthen Siberian positions under Gen. Blucher while China reinforces frontier guards and railway crossings.
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Red Army
Blagoveschensk
Manchurian-Siberian
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Blucher
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Manchuria- Siberian
Shanghai
Sulfenko
Pogranlichnaya
Takia
Jaraior
Ilya
Six High Officers Die in Japanese Air Crash
Tachikawa Japan August 14 six high officers of the Japanese army were killed when their bombing plane crashed en route to Kagamicahra airfield near Nagoya for annual tests. A seventh passenger was fatally injured while Gen Suzuki chief of the general staff, in a second lander, landed safely.
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Kagamicahra
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Gen. Suzuki
Bankers Named on Rivers Committee
Mason City Iowa Aug 14 IUP Appointment of committee on tiger development in Iowa announced by W G Bagley president of the Iowa Bankers association Included on the committee are K K Deming Dubuque A Oo Smith Clinton F Johnson SheMeld former state senator Gustav Steuben Davenport J T Edwards Burlington and J A Dunlap Keokuk.
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W. G. Bagley
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Dubuque
Smith
Clinton
F. Johnson
SheMeld
Gustav Steuben
Davenport
J. Tt. Edwards
Burlington
J. A. Dunlap
Keokuk
Boy Injured in Automobile Collision Hospitalized
Clifford Hinners of Fort Dodge was thrown through a windshield in a crash involving another car near here yesterday. He remained in the hospital today with injuries doctors said may be recoverable.
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Fort Dodge
Bury
Council Bluffs
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George Jones
Glenwood
Hoover in Parley on Disarmament
Washington, Aug. 14. President Hoover joined Secretary Stimson Secretary Adams Undersecretary Cotton and the navy executive board at a White House breakfast on armament limits. Details were not disclosed but the talk centered on a yardstick method to reduce naval armaments. Both Stimson and Adams had been away from the city recently due to unfolding developments.
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White House
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General Board of the Navy
New Orleans city to augment police after streetcar riots
Aug. 14 New Orleans authorities move to curb violence after street car strike clashes. Four shot, mob rule probed. acting mayor Walmsley orders more police and strict enforcement of jitney ban to noon tomorrow. Labor leaders repudiate riotous acts as investigations begin.
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T. Semmes Walmsley
E. J. Foster
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Reopen Grave In Effort To Learn Who Was Buried
Three men are indicted for murder in Georgia in the disappearance and presumed death of Harry Loving of Huntington West Virginia. Evidence centers on an exhumed grave in South Carolina tied to an insurance fraud plot. Sligh, Hoover brothers, and Loving’s fate are under state scrutiny amid conflicting past actions.
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Huckins Charged with Using U S Mails to Defraud
Milwaukee August 14 AP A federal warrant charges Elmer S Huckins head of a mysterious business enterprise that drew hundreds of investors from Wisconsin Michigan Illinois Indiana and Iowa totaling millions of dollars The warrant followed a secret conference between J Koeztzer first assistant US district attorney and R M Bates a postal inspector George Huckins a son associated with the business lives at Cedar Rapids Iowa.
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J. Koeétzer
United States
R. M. Bates
Wisconsin
Michigan
Ilinois
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Iowa
George Huckins
Cedar Rapids
State Witness Lost in Pantages Case
Los Angeles on August 14 reports the district attorney cannot locate William Jobleman, Pantages theatre press agent and key witness, for questioning as Alexander Pantages faces a municipal court preliminary hearing over charges involving 17 year old Eunice Pringle.
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Eunice Pringle
William Jobleman
Pantages Theatre
Pantages
Two youths held in agent's death in Arizona case
Hutchinson Kan Aug 14 Two youths under arrest in a robbery and assault on two Concordia Kansas women tourists were ordered held for federal investigation in connection with the slaying of Paul E Reynolds a Department of Justice agent at Phoenix Arizona.
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Concordia
Phoenix
Ariz
Paul E. Reynolds
Department of Justice
Two Bandits Killed in Sanford Filling Station Shootout
At a Sanford filling station on the outskirts early today, three men were killed, two described as alleged bandits, and a woman was seriously injured in the ensuing fight.
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N. GC
Amphibian plane forced down in Lake Erie near Pelee Island
A Thompson Aeronautical amphibian plane from Cleveland bound for Detroit was forced to ditch four miles west of Pelee Island in Lake Erie after encountering fog. Pilot C A Caldwell and passenger Mrs. Robert Little were rescued by the freighter Midland King, with mechanic C A Tuupold also saved by the ship Denmark. Co pilot Jack Kasper remained missing. later reports suggest he may have been picked up by a small craft.
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Pelee Island
C. A. Caldwell
Cleveland
Robert Little
Cedar Rapids
Midland King
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N. J
Denmerk
Jack Kasper
Thompson
Lupold
Kasper
Pair hunted for beating teacher in Mayfair mystery
London report says Scotland Yard seeks two young men, Ronald Bateman and J. Moore, in connection with a brutal assault on Philip Eaton, a 27 year old American teacher. Eaton lay in critical condition after the attack in his Mayfair apartment, with clothing items missing and about 800 pounds stolen. Police doubt robbery was sole motive as Eaton described two attackers during a brief lucid moment. Eaton is identified as a Harvard professor's son and once a teacher at St Mark's School for Boys in Southboro, Massachusetts.
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Mayfair
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Eaton
J. Moore
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Harvard
St. Mark's School For Boys
Southboro
Mass
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Lamont declines Hague trip as British debt talks progress
In London and The Hague, British labor government delegates near a compromise on reparations and Rhineland evacuation. A subcommittee may handle the complex Young plan issues while Thomas W. Lamont says he will not attend to advise on Young plan revisions. Premier MacDonald met with Lamont amid uncertainties.
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Russian Plane on Flight to America Crashes in Siberia
Moscow Aug 14 AP The Russian military plane Land of the Soviets en route from Moscow toward New York forced to land 1706 miles from Irkutsk in an uninhabited Siberian region after taking off from Krasnoyarsk Tass says contact with pilot Semon Shestakov was being established to assess need for assistance The distance from Krasnoyarsk to Irkutsk near Lake Baikal is about 600 miles with plans to reach Chita 400 miles further The aircraft had traveled 3726 miles at the time of the forced landing
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Business Activity Exceeds Year Ago
New York reports that national business activity, as measured by newspaper advertising volume, is higher than midsummer 1928 per Sales Management magazine figures. Des Moines announces the appointment of Arthur A. Sorenson Charles Westerfield and Bert Meek as appraisers to value the Des Moines Merald company in receivership, per Judge Lester Thompson.
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Charles Westerfield
Bert Meek
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Agora Manifesto Halts De Rivera in Spain
Madrid reports labor's unexpected refusal to join talks on the proposed Spanish constitution. Primo de Rivera calls the move a blow to his dictatorship, noting labor leaders acted as politicians rather than representatives. The Union General de Trabajadores rejected participation, despite offers of five assembly seats, citing risks to press freedom and legal authority.
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Madrid
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Alternate juror joins Snook murder trial in Columbus
The Snook murder case against Dr James V Snook of Ohio State faced a jury change when juror GC Butche fell ill. Newton Dracey was named alternate after agreement between counsel and the defense as Max Seyfert resumed the second closing argument, portraying Theora Hix as central to the case and a love affair with a former professor.
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James V. Snook
Theora Hix
Ohio State
Butche
James H. Snook
Newton ‘Dracey
British Mystery Speed Plane Hits 320 MPH in Tests
London reports the new Supermarine S-6 mystery speed plane for the Schneider cup race underwent further trials this morning. Observers praised its burst of speed near 320 miles per hour during the test run in August.
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Minneapolis child murdered in gutter. murderer sought
Dorothy Anne, 12, of Minneapolis, was found murdered in a street gutter. Police hunt a bald headed man about 40 years old after sister Sylvia Anne identified the body. The crime mirrors a famous Los Angeles case, with the victim bound in gunny sacks and twine, mouth packed with cotton, and clothing bloodstained. Dorothy left home for a store on Tuesday and did not return. the killer is believed to have abducted her in an automobile.
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Minn
Dorothy Anne
Marlon Parker
Los Angeles
Edward Wiliam Hickman
C. A. Hobbs
Sylvia Anne
Hiawatha Avenue
William Stonkes
W. C. Hoag
Iemen
Dorothy
Alne
R. Wall
Stoakes and Hoag
Body of Girl Found South of West Chicago
Unidentified girl, stabbed twice, found beneath a wrecked automobile half a mile south of West Chicago after Chief Clarence Sullivan received an tip. The victim, described as pretty and well dressed, was located as police investigate a possible homicide.
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Stisl
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Clarence Sullivan
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