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August 14, 1933

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Headlines from August 14, 1933

ROOSEVELT ORDERS NRA TO RUSH CODES OF BASIC INDUSTRY; Discusses Delay in Steel, Oil and Coal With Deputy Administrator Simpson. AUTOMOBILE WAIT LIKELY Next Three Weeks Are Looked Upon as the Most Critical Period of Drive. MINERS GROWING RESTIVE Washington Apprehensive That Conflicts Will Take the Situation Out of Hand.

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ALABAMA MOB KILLS 2 INDICTED NEGROES; A Third Is Carried Off by Armed Men, Who Waylay Sheriff and Deputies. GOVERNOR ORDERS INQUIRY Prisoners Were Being Moved to Birmingham After Threat -- Officer Blames Labor Defense. ALABAMA MOB KILLS 2 INDICTED NEGROES

By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Protests to Gov Miller of Ala against lynching of Pippen and A T Harden, Negroes accused of murdering V Maddox; Sheriff blames organization for lynching

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Wife on Way to Key West.

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Yellow River Breaks Toward Old Bed; Chinese Strive to Prevent Huge Losses

By Hallett Abend.wireless To the New York Times

Yellow River breaks towards old bed; special dikes thrown up to prevent huge losses

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Cuba Grateful to Us, Says de Cespedes; He Hopes for Beneficial Economic Ties

By the Associated Press

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1933Richard R. Ernst, Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2021)^[†]

Richard Robert Ernst was a Swiss physical chemist and Nobel laureate.

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1933Loggers cause a forest fire in the Coast Range of Oregon, later known as the first forest fire of the Tillamook Burn; destroying 240,000 acres (970 km2) of land.^[†]

A wildfire, forest fire, or a bushfire is an unplanned and uncontrolled fire in an area of combustible vegetation. Some natural forest ecosystems depend on wildfire. Modern forest management often engages in prescribed burns to mitigate fire risk and promote natural forest cycles. However, controlled burns can turn into wildfires by mistake.

Headlines from August 14, 1933

ALABAMA MOB KILLS 2 INDICTED NEGROES; A Third Is Carried Off by Armed Men, Who Waylay Sheriff and Deputies. GOVERNOR ORDERS INQUIRY Prisoners Were Being Moved to Birmingham After Threat -- Officer Blames Labor Defense. ALABAMA MOB KILLS 2 INDICTED NEGROES

Wife on Way to Key West.

Yellow River Breaks Toward Old Bed; Chinese Strive to Prevent Huge Losses

Cuba Grateful to Us, Says de Cespedes; He Hopes for Beneficial Economic Ties

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