Huey Long renews share wealth drive in Louisiana
Senator Huey P. Long arrived in Shreveport in the Couch family railroad car and urged wealth redistribution to fund schools and homeowners relief. He criticized the NRA as failing and proposed tax shifts onto large corporations while expanding decentralization of wealth. The stop coincided with the Red River bridge dedication and state game day events.
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Eveport
Huey P. Long
Shreveport
Couch Brothers
Harvey Couch
New Orleans
L. and A. Railroad
C. P. Couch
NRA
Blue Eagle
Louisiana
Red River
Caddo Parish
Public Safety
T. C. Dawkins
O. K. Allen
Baton Rouge
Long
Louisiana State University
Donaldsonville
Pranklinton
Lafayette
American Legion
Franklinton
Royalty jailed by Austrian chief in castle and jail terms
Vienna Oct 21 Austria's five foot chancellor Engel bert Dollfuss jailed Nazi princess Margot in her Carinthian castle for an indefinite period and imprisoned her husband Prince Von Sacken Meiningen for six weeks after declaring them guilty of a Nazi conspiracy. Police also confiscated incriminating papers including a letter to Dr Paul Joseph Gobbels. Princess Margot will be confined to the castle with no visitors and German consul kept away. Meanwhile fascist leader Ernst Rudiger Von Starhemberg was denounced by former cabinet member Karl Hartleb in the Styrian diet as Austria seeks a successor to Governor Rintelen, minister to Rome.
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Vienna
Austria
Engelbert Dollfuss
Carinthian
Prince von Sacken- Meiningen
Margot
Carinthia
Klagenfurt
Paul Joseph Gobbels
Ernst Rudiger von Starhemberg
Dollfuss
Hartleb
U S Soviet Recognition Moves Spark Moscow Debate
Moscow discusses possible talks with the United States over recognition, naming Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff as a potential envoy and weighing what Moscow might gain from restored official relations. Izvestia foresees trade boosts and broader cooperation, while Komosomolskaya Pravda notes political shifts in the United States as campaign moves unfold.
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Moscow
United States
Washington
Maxim Litvinoff
Roosevelt
M. Litvinoff
Izvestia
America
Mikhail Kalinin
Soviet
Russia
Komosomolskaya Pravda
Extradition Of Insull Foreseen In Greece
Athens October 21 Extradition of Samuel Insull indicted Chicago utilities magnate appeared imminent after a clash between his defense and the American extradition demand in the Greek Court of Appeals. Three sessions consumed a full day as prosecutors and defense argued with proceedings set to resume at ten oclock tomorrow. A verdict was anticipated late Sunday night or Monday morning following detailed federal charges and the swindler designation.
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Athens
Samuel Insull
Chicago
Insull
Greek Court of Appeals
Chemical Achievement Prize Awarded to Carbide and Carbon
The first chemical engineering achievement prize goes to Carbide and Carbon Chemicals of South Charleston. The award recognizes meritorious advances in chemical engineering since 1930 or during the Depression era, with a bronze plaque to be presented December 9 at the Grand Central Palace, New York.
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Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Corporation
South Charleston
New York
Sidney D. Kirkpatrick
National Exhibition of Chemical Industries
Grand Central Palace
Kirkpatrick
Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation
America
Chemical Engineering Arts of America
Labor Strikers Seek Help From Industrial Labor
Milo Reno, head of the National Farmers Holiday Association, urges industrial labor to back a national farm strike started at noon. He plans a Chicago meeting with AFL leader A. F. Whitney to build wide support. The scope remains unclear as Roosevelt hints at a possible statement amid a call for cooperation.
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Des Moines
Milo Reno
National Farmers Holiday Association
Holiday Association
Reno
State Association
Republic
Roosevelt to Explain NRA Policy Amid Farm and Urban Pressures
President Roosevelt prepares an address to the nation detailing his NRA program as urban shoppers protest higher prices and farmers seek better prices for their goods. He spoke in Chestertown Maryland receiving an honorary degree from Washington College and outlined plans possibly touching the Russian question after yesterday’s news of personal talks with a Russian envoy. The wheat belt strike and Nebraska Governor Bryan’s criticism of the recovery program dominate farm concerns at the moment.
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Chicago
A. F. Whitney
Cleveland
Reno
New York
California
Gulf
Canada
Roosevelt
Washington College
Chestertown
Washington
NRA
Historic
Wheat
Bryan
Nebraska
Demonstration Dampened by Rain and Strikes
Springfield reports a rain dampened protest by 10,000 Progressives amid state troops, with two bombs detonated in a largely United Mine Workers area. Miners drift back to work as two day vacations expire, and clashes over a NRA code and peace plan prompt petitions to Governor Horner. Peter Haynes, UMWA, fled town after fatal shooting of Melville Staples during the march.
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Springfield
Progressive Miners Union
United Mine Workers of America
NRA
Progressive Union
Donald Richberg
Horner
Claude Pearcy
Progressives
Hughs. Johnson
Washington
Peter Haynes
United Mine Worker
Melville Staples
Auditor Blocks Guaranty Investment Committee
State Auditor Ed gar B. Sims returned to his desk after a New York trip and issued a long statement disapproving the committee on conservation and reorganization of the Guaranty Investment company. He warned investors to refrain from depositing securities with the committee, citing 18 reasons and saying the committee was neither elected nor chosen by a representative body.
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Edgar B. Sims
Committee On Conservation and Reorganization
Guaranty Investment Company
New York City
Sims
Representa
McCain Ready To Face Probers
Harvey Couch, a Reconstruction corporation director and Arkansas native, agrees to testify before the Senate stock market investigation committee. He explains a personal letter to Charles McCain of Chase Bank about RFC matters did not relate to RFC duties. Couch says he will answer questions and may be the first government official to testify on his own behalf.
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Washington
Charles
McCain
Chase National Bank
Harvey Couch
Reconstruction Corporation
Senate Stock Market Investigating Committee
Senate
Chase Bank
RFC
Seaboard
Couch
Insull
Arkansas
Buster Keaton Marries Mae Scrivens Hawley in Ventura
Ventura Oct 21 Buster Keaton comedian and Mae Scrivens Hawley his former nurse wed in a ceremony before Justice Malvern Dimmick. Neighbors Melville D. Coakley and wife attended. Coakley wed earlier this year.
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Ventura
Cal
Buster Keaton
Mae Scrivens Hawley
Justice of the Peace
Malvern Dimmick
Melville D. Coakley
Justice Dimmick
Name Scroggins In Civil Suit Against Penitentiary Funds
A civil suit filed in Marshall county circuit court targets A C Scroggins former warden and the United States Fidelity and Guaranty company of Baltimore. The action seeks about 25000 dollars believed to be funds from money brought to the prison or earned by prisoners, now tied up in banks. Prosecutors are John Hopkins and Homer A Holt, with Harlan Justice accepting service for the Fidelity company. State officials say provisions will pay prisoners as they are released.
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Marshall County
A. C. Scroggins
United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company
Baltimore
Harlan Justice
Fidelity Company
Scroggins
Bond
John Hopkins
Homer A. Holt
Wolverines Clinch Big Ten Lead With 13-0 Pounding of Ohio State
Michigan overwhelmed Ohio State 13-0 as a wave of upheaval hit top teams. Pitt lost 7-3 to Minnesota while Notre Dame fell 7-0 to Carnegie Tech. Kentucky Harvard and California were held or upset with major contenders suffering losses.
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Associated Press
Michigan
Wolverines
Ohio State
Pitt
Golden Panthers
Kentucky
Harvard
Notre Dame
Illinois
Southern California
California
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Howard Harpster
Carnegie Tech Tartans
Big Revenue From Spirits Expected
Washington reports Rep Sam B Hill chairing a House Ways and Means subcommittee to study liquor taxes after repeal of the 18th Amendment. He cites a target of 500 million dollars in yearly revenue from distilled spirits and wines and notes the rescission of 227 million dollars in special taxes tied to the public works sinking fund.
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Washington
Sam B. Hill
Hill
House
Ways and Means
Old Man Hecklers Plan Annual Dinner Night Glow
The Old Man Hecklers gather at Capitol Street and Hotel Daniel Boone for the annual dinner to be held on Halloween. Tom Popp offers ticket No 1 after a hay sale, while Jim McFarland and A B Davis lead reservations and committee setup. Hotels Kanawha Ruffner rotate serving, with plans for an attractive program and limited speeches.
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Tom Popp
Oil and Gas Exchange
John Hardy
Daniel Boone
Roger Creel
Brise” Peyton
Hotel Kanawha
Cliff” Lowe
Ruffner
Jim McFarland
Capitol Street
Hallowe
A. B. Davis
Governor touts highway relief plan for state funds
Governor Kump described a 5.8 million dollar public works plan blending highway and unemployment relief as the best method to distribute funds. The plan would convert 4 million in road bonds to secure a loan with the Public Works Administration, with the rest as a grant. Relief receivers would be put to work on roads. An additional 500 thousand dollars in October relief funds was granted to West Virginia, described by Hopkins as raising unemployment relief standards from discretionary funds.
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Kump
Washington
Public Works Administration
West Virginia
Harry L. Hopkins
Home Loan Staff Expands to Speed West Virginia Loans
Eight new state home loan staffers were added after federal approval to hasten loan closings in West Virginia. New positions include assistant state counsel Carl B. Galbraith, assistant chief appraiser J. F. Bedell, closing supervisors Robert H. Kidd G. H. Crumpecker and Alex L. Garred, field representative Marsha Marsh John L. Marsh, and appraiser D Blain Shaw. In week ending Oct 20 the office closed four loans totaling 9 291 25, with 178 new applications amounting to 445 753 16, 154 approvals totaling 349 143 91 and 23 rejections totaling 92 950 04.
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Wale Ter Virgil Ross
Federal Home Loan Bank Board
Washington
Ross
Howard Caplan
Clarksburg
Wheeling
Charleston
Carl B. Galbraith
J. F. Bedell
Robert H. Kidd
Grafton
G. H. Crumpecker
Princeton
Alex L. Garred
Huntington
Marsha
John L. Marsh
House of Delegates
D. Blain Shaw
West Virginia
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Paul von Hindenburg
Buster Is
Married
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Bill” Wertz Whittles
Jobey” Thayer
Old Man Heck Club
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Wertz
Jobey
Thayer
Hopkins
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