(This is entry from the journal entitled “Mexico Summer” written by Elizabeth Whipple Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago)

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Howard Hughes sets a record.

The Hughes H-1 is a racing aircraft built by Hughes Aircraft in 1935. It set a world airspeed record and a transcontinental speed record across the United States. The H-1 Racer was the last aircraft built by a private individual to set the world speed record; most aircraft to hold the honor since have been military designs.

Haile Selassie made a plea for peace in a radio address transmitted around the world.

The Nuremberg Laws were  enacted by Germany ,  marking a major step in clarifying racial policy and removing Jewish influences from Aryan society.

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(This is entry from the journal entitled “Mexico Summer” written by Elizabeth Whipple Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago)

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An estimated 200,000 people flooded Baton Rouge to witness Huey Long’s funeral procession.

Stock prices climb to a new high.

U.S. officials announced that effective October 15, Germany would lose all tariff reductions granted in reciprocal trade pacts, due to various discriminations against American imports in Germany.

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Approximately  100 workers started clearing and grading land on Pack Murphy’s farm, beginning the Blue Ridge Parkway’s initial 12.5-mile-stretchfrom the Virginia-North Carolina border south to Cumberland Knob.

British Foreign Secretary Samuel Hoare spoke before the League of Nations Assembly, affirming Britain’s dedication to the League but asserting that it was conditional on its fellow members doing their share.

In Nuremberg, Adolf Hitler laid the foundation stone for the construction of a new Congress Hall that would accommodate 60,000 people.

 This building would never be completed.

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(This is entry from the journal entitled “Mexico Summer” written by Elizabeth Whipple Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago)

Decided to take Girls Chorus of the Church beginning Oct. 1st.  If Velma takes her dramatics maybe we can work together!  Saw “Top Hat” with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers – Lucy Mae Crow went with me.  Good picture.

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Louisiana Governor Huey Long died at 6:06 a.m. Eastern Time. Doctors had tried to save him by performing an operation and five blood transfusions, to no avail.

The five-power abritration committee in the Abyssinia Crisis concluded that any further negotiations were pointless.

Riots broke out in Athens as the Greek parliament debated restoring the monarchy.

Nazi Culture Minister Bernhard Rust issued a decree stating that beginning in the spring of 1936, complete racial segregation of German schools must be enforced

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Letter from Home,  Dad got home Thursday – Ty-ty said Jaime god a card from Carsey in California wanting Dit’s address. The big bum hasn’t written but maybe he hasn’t been home in time to get my letter – Another contract lesson, I believe I am catching on a little!  Wrote to Sante Fe again about my certificate.  The teacher to take Mrs. Miller’s place has come but I haven’t met him yet – I am having to make over my English book – pasting stray leaves from several books into a notebook like this diary.  Starting taking the Herald Post –

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A new time magazine with Clyde Herring on the cover.

President Roosevelt released a statement condemning the shooting of Huey Long.

“The spirit of violence is un-American and has no place in a consideration of public affairs, least of all at a time when calm and dispassionate approach to the difficult problems of the day is so essential”

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(This is entry from the journal entitled “Mexico Summer” written by Elizabeth Whipple Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago)

Old Timers Day with robed choir – Mrs. Hoffman said she would like to have me help her but that if the Young People needed me she’d rather I’d go there – She said she had three children in that department.  Lucy Mae Crow ate dinner with us. Saw Kit Carson’s Cousin whom everyone calls “Rip Van Winkle” dressed in leather jacket with fringe and wearing long blond-grey hair.  Quite a character!   Alyce Claire dated Bud Titler, our bridge teacher, to a show. Went to bed before 10 o’clock.

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Senator Huey Long, aka “The Kingfish”,  is shot in the Louisiana state capitol building.

Hans Stuck won the Italian Grand Prix.

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(This is entry from the journal entitled “Mexico Summer” written by Elizabeth Whipple Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago)

Worked two hours in Junior High Library. Found the check from Jose Alvarez had come in today – Mrs. Grady leaves out with Mrs. McCullough for California for two weeks.  Surely am glad for her sake – Learned how to tell my own fortune but it doesn’t turn out as indicated!  Rode around with Betty and Alyce Claire nearly all afternoon – Bought some cream rouge and Tangee lipstick.  Found out that Miss Perry is to play the organ but if I play to have a hey made.  Dr. L is sure I can practice on it. Talked with Alyce Claire until so late that Miss Schraer tapped on her ceiling!  Shame on us!

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38 Victims of the Labor Day Hurricane are cremated in Plantation Key, FL.  Over the next week  136 more will also be burned.

Germany made a formal protest to the United States over Judge Brodsky’s remarks.

Pope Pius XI celebrated the first Mass by a pope in St. Paul’s Basilica in 175 years for a convention of World War veterans. The pope reiterated his hopes for peace.

Miss Pittsburgh Henrietta Leaver was crowned Miss America 1935.

A new Saturday Evening Post.

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(This is an entry from the journal entitled “Mexico Summer” written by Elizabeth Whipple Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago)

Saw “The Farmer Takes a Wife” with Janet Glaynor.  Letter from Bernard. Don’t know when he is returning.

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Italy accepted the appointment of a five-power committee (consisting of France, Britain, Spain, Turkey and Poland) to arbitrate in the Abyssinia Crisis.

New York judge Louis B. Brodsky dismissed charges against five of the six persons arrested in the July 26 Bremen incident. Brodsky likened the Nazi swastika to “the black flag of piracy” and called the Nazi regime “a revolt against civilization.

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(This is an entry from the journal entitled “Mexico Summer” written by Elizabeth Whipple Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago)

Pete and Velma both ate lunch with us this noon. Another bridge lesson, this time at Betty’s – The more I try to learn the more confused I get it seems!  Took Helen Snipes home after sitting downtown with her and watching the world go by – She gave us some verbenas.  Saw Mr. Plyer who said the Mrs would be home from Oklahoma in about two weeks. I’ll be glad to see her.  Saw Mr. Incognito for the first time since spring, he went into Kipling’s!!

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Ten members of the French Air Force were killed during military maneuvers when two bomber planes collided in low-visibility weather.

President Roosevelt ordered an investigation into why adequate precautions were not taken to protect the veterans in work relief camps from the hurricane.

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(This is an entry from the journal entitled “Mexico Summer” written by Elizabeth Whipple Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago)

Went to Raymond Hitchcock’s to get our radio.  Met his mother and two sisters, one of whom I have in a class.   Saw some racing picture after eating a hamburger at Moseleg’s.  May play contract at Betty’s tomorrow.  It was raining when we got up and didn’t slacken until almost three o’clock.  You ought to see both Alyce Claire and me under my green cape!  Looks like a mountain coming to meet you!

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The Labor Day Hurricane, the most intense in history, made landfall at Cedar Key, Florida. It would kill a total of more than 400 people by the time it dissipated in the North Atlantic on September 10.

The Italian delegation at the League of Nations demanded that Ethiopia be expelled from the organization. President Roosevelt holds a press conference on the Ethiopia situation.

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