Prison Crowding Probed by Five House Members
Five House members press inquiry into federal prison crowding cited as a cause of rot at Leavenworth and other institutions. Reports say Leavenworth holds 3,170 inmates though designed for 2,000, and Auburn around 3,107 versus 1,712 capacity. Rioting and unrest followed a mutiny that left one dead and three wounded.
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Associated Press
Ngton
Nenworth
House of Representatives
Clinton
Auburn
Leavenworth
Leaventworth
Kan
Ama
Speignér
Ala
J. B. Richardon
Gasoline Truck Crash Wreck Sparks Massive Fire Hurting Twenty Eight
A gasoline truck overturned at an intersection in Trenton New Jersey causing a fire that burned twenty eight people mostly children. One child, five year old John Juhn, died from injuries. Victims were treated at two hospitals as staff reinforced by onlookers battled the flames and helped evacuate bystanders.
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Associated Preas
Trenton
N. J
John Juhn
President Hoover camps at Madison studies tariff slide
President Hoover arrives with guests at a mountain retreat near Madison to study the proposed sliding scale of sugar tariff duties over the weekend. He invites Senator Smoot to join, who may come if he can leave Washington. Hoover also names Dr. Raye R. Platt and Prof. J. Fred Rippy as American delegates to the Pan American Institute assembly in Mexico City on Sept 16.
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Associated Press
Madison
Hoover
Here
Smoot
Senate Finance Committee
Utah
Washington
Raye R. Platt
American Geographical Society of New York
J. Fred Rippy
Duke University
North Carolina
Pan-American Institute of Geography and History
Mexico City
Excitants Found In Girl's Stomach
Columbus Ohio August 3 Dr C F Long city chemist testified in the trial of Dr James H Cook for the killing of Aheora Hix that he found two emotional excitants in the girl's stomach after death The state says Snook gave her the excitants as they drove to a rifle range on the night of June 13 and killed her at the secluded range after she resisted him
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Associated Press
Columbus
C. F. Long
Columbus City
James H. Cook
Aheora Hix
Snook
Aged Messenger Slain In Jersey or $7,000 Payroll
Four robbers shot and killed George Danielson a 65 year old bank messenger in Bradley Beach New Jersey. He carried a payroll of seven thousand dollars in a paper parcel when two men jumped from a car and fired. Danielson worked for the First National Bank.
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Jersey
Associated Press
Bradley Beach
N. J
George Danielson
Danielson
First National Bank
Fourth Avenue
Neptune City Line
Inventor of the Gramophone Dies at 79
M. Q. Berliner, 79, inventor of the gramophone the first disc record talking machine and the telephone transmitter died today at his Washington home after about nine days illness.
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Associated Press
Washington
M. Q. Berliner
Taxi Driver and Woman Slain Near Anniston Alabama
In Anniston Alabama W C Gallahair a 60 year old taxi driver and Mrs Lucy Wilkerson 39 of near Jacksonville were found slain about 12 miles from Anniston early today Gallahair appears beaten with an axe while Wilkerson was shot twice once in the head and once near the heart County officers believe both were murdered.
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Anniston,alg
W. C. Gallahair
Anniston
Lucy Wilkerson
Jacksonville
Ala
Gallahair
Wilkerson
Over 4000 Youths Complete Training at Citizens Camps
More than 4000 youths who completed a month of citizens' military training in the third corps area began turning in equipment and returning home. Fort Eustis led in numbers, with others leaving from Fort Howard Fort Hoyle and Fort Myer as homes in Maryland Pennsylvania Virginia and the District of Columbia awaited their return.
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Baltimore
Third Corps
Maryland
Pennsylvania
Virginia
District of Columbia
Fort Eustis
Fort Howard
Fort Hoyle
Fort Myer
Market report lists varied wholesale prices and retail quotes
The Star publishes daily wholesale quotes with items such as mixed feed, scratch, screenings, and hogs, plus local retail prices for flour, butter, and creamery products. Notable entries include cracked corn at 2.50 and hogs around 12 percent, with butter near 2.00 per pound and flour barrel prices from 7.50 to 8.00.
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Uorn
Cviene
Seeaereer
Ieee
Rainy night halts western Canada forest fires
Thunder showers in Alberta aided crops but failed to reach northward. A night of steady rain helped check fires in northwestern Ontario and eastern Manitoba, ending the blaze that scarred the region.
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Winnipeg
Man
Ontario
Manitoba
Alberta
Terrific Heat Wave Broken In Southwest U S
Cooling breezes from the north and local showers ended a Southwest heat wave that had claimed lives and caused extensive suffering and crop damage. In Hanover and Macksville Kansas temperatures reached 108 yesterday, the highest in the nation per the weather bureau.
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Associated Press
Kansas City
Hanover
Macksville
Kansas
Mercury
Weather Bureau
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W. N. Daugherty
Albin
Scott Affieck
Hent
Hodgson & Brown
W. Clifford St
Main St
Woodstock
Cameron St
Loudoun
Bath
Shade
Hotel Fairfax
Care Star
Finfrock
S. Kent St
M. R
Peris Mfg. Co
Florin
Rex Hosiery Co
High Point
N. C
BOA Rowland
Stephens City
Miller & Anderson
Alabama
The
Citizens Camps
Market Report
Star
Cnecencedebesisesnepenei Ieee Sheep O
Draesbeeeis
U. S
William Mayo
Charles Mayo
Rochester
Minn
University of Manchester
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