Quality cotton demands urged by Alabama farmers
L B Malone urges cutting cotton area next year to boost quality. Edward A Peal of the Alabama Farm Bureau Cotton Association backs preparing a better quality crop now. The aim is to meet world demand for higher quality fiber amid penalties and losses totaling around seven million dollars this year from short staple cotton. The U S Department of Agriculture notes 44.8 percent of Alabama cotton in 1929 was under 7 eighths inch long, underscoring weak market positioning as India intensifies competition.
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Jine Swith
Oh. Malone
Edward A. Peal
Alabama Farm Bugist Cotton Association
Aest
Fle
Mr. 1
Farm Bureau
U. S. Department of Agricult
Alabama
India
County Officers Arrest Three Men
A writ of habeas corpus was met yesterday by the attorney for C. A. Campbell an alleged escaped convict under ten charges in Florida Campbell was arrested Monday night near Cottonwood by forces under Sheriff Rollina with two other men He is alleged to have escaped from the Jackson county jail at Marianna last Sunday night He faces seven charges including false pretenses assault and battery and carrying concealed weapons Fielding McCardie was arrested last night by state officers for violating prohibition Virgil H Hyatt charged with passing a worthless check for 13 85 on a warrant sworn by Oscar Newton posted a 300 bond Wile Gus Kirkland charged with assault and battery on Ike Barkley was arrested this morning and lodged in the county jail
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Ncon
C. A. Campbell
Florida
Campbell
Cottonwood
Rollina
Jackben
Marianna
Fielding McCardie
Virgil HH. Hyatt
Oscar Newton
Wile Gus Kirkland
Ike Barkley
Roman Claims Steel firms owe million dollars
In Saint Paul Minnesota on September 4 AP reports that dollars have risen to unaccounted figures in a district court case involving steel companies and outstanding sums. The fragmented text references financial disputes and court actions centering on large debts.
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Paul
Minn
Gollars
Shortages reported in two Alabama county accounts
Montgomery Sept 24 AP Shortages in the accounts of two county officials were reported in audits to Gov Bibb Graves. J R Kelly tax collector Conecuh County was short 10113.13 and William MacGiffert former clerk of Tuscaloosa County board of revenue was short 6399.87. The audits alleged law violations and indicate possible grand jury action.
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Conecuh
Tuscaloosa County
Montgomery
Ala
J. R. Kelly
Conecuh’ County
William MacGiffert
Tuscaloosa’ County
Kelly
H. M. Taylor
McGiffert
G. C. Dean
Taylor
Kelley
Jones Dominates First Round in Amateur Match Play
Bobby Jones overwhelmed Ross Somerville 5 and 4 in the national amateur match play at Merion. Jones, two under par for 14 holes, showed a sizzling putting display as Somerville won only the 12th hole. Other favorites fell early including Ollmet and Willing in upsets by rising youngsters.
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Merion Cricket Club
Ardmore
Bobby Jones
Ross Somerville
Jones
Somerville
George von Elm
Los Angeles
Chuck Hunter
Francis Culmet
Boston
T. Philip Perkins
New York
Oscar F. Willing
Portland
Ore
Oulmet
Willing
George Kocsis
W. Lawson Little
San Francisco
George Voigt
Lester Boistad
St. Paul
Perkins
Johnny Lehman
Chicago
F. G. Hoblittel
Toronto
Dominion Star
Ellis Knowles
Lawson Little
Gene Homans
Englewood
N. J
Charles Beckner
Philadelphia
John Lehman
Charles Seaver
William F. McPhail
Detroit
Maurice McCarthy
Jess Sweetser
Jack Ahearn
Hamburg
N. Y
Atlanta
Fred G. Hoblitzel
Fay Coleman
Culver City
Calif
John VicHugh
Stormy Senator Blease Compared To Cotton Tom In SC Race
South Carolina voters favoring Blease over his opponent mirrors Alabama trends while James Byrnes wins the Democratic nomination. Byrnes rose from a 14 year old drafter in Charleston to a U S senator, building a legal career after leaving school at fourteen to help his mother.
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Tors
South Carolina
Bilease
Alabama
James F. Byrnes
Cole L. Blease
Democratic Party
United States Senate
Byrnes
Charleston
Durace
Iret
Congress
house of representa /q
Russian grain activity adds to Soviet trade surprises
The piece notes Russian government grain transactions as part of a broader pattern of Soviet commercial activity troubling treasury officials for a year. It discusses limits of U.S. law to address imports and the anti dumping act applied to safety matches to curb undercutting.
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Treasury
United States
Russia
Woman Fires Pistol at Officials In Court Panic
In Enid Oklahoma on September 24 Dolly Douthitt, 60, fired at U S Commissioner H Z Wedgwood wounding him and shot at Judge Arthur G Sutton of Alva. she was taken into custody. A second shot failed to hit its target as bailiffs and attorneys intervened.
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Enid
Oklo
Dolly Douthitt
H. Z. Wedgwood
United States
Arthur G. Sutton
Alva
Wedgwood
Police Warn of Stolen Buick Roadster in Capitol City
An alert issued last night warns Capitol City police to watch for a Buick roadster stolen from in front of the Capitol in Montgomery yesterday afternoon at about 4. The vehicle carries Alabama license 2574B and belonged to the state. The notice is signed by Attorney General Chankle C. McCall.
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Buick
Capitol
Montgomery
Alabama
Chankle C. McCall
Former bank cashier shoots self in Gaffney home
R. H. Lipscomb, 70, former cashier of Merchants and Planters Bank, shot himself at his home in Gaffney early today. Physicians said the wound likely would be fatal. Lipscomb resigned as cashier a month ago. C. M. Smith, provident, said no irregularities were found in his accounts.
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Gaffney
Lipscomb
Merchants and Planters Bank
C. M. Smith
Provident
Murder ends old feud at Western Maryland Railway
Maxwell C. Byers president of the Western Maryland Railway was shot in his downtown Baltimore office by Dudley G. Gray the vice president who then killed himself. The coroner ruled murder and suicide as officials note long standing policy disputes and a tense traffic department rivalry preceded the tragedy. Byers as the youngest railroad president in 1920 and Gray’s fate unfold as the company confirms no personal estrangement beyond business matters.
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Baltimore
Maxwell C. Byers
Western Maryland Railway
Dudley G. Gray
Byers
Gray
Otto M. Reinhardt
Catherine Leonard Gray
Columbus
Ohio
Reinhardt
Mr. Gray
Western Maryland
New Wonder of Science Made Known Today
Chicago reports a gamma ray method using radium to inspect steel girders and battleship hulls. Researchers Mehl Dean and Barrett presented to the American Society for Steel Treating via the Naval Research Laboratory. The technique offers deeper penetration than X rays, portable setup, and overnight image development, enabling early defect detection in metals and machinery.
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Chicago
Father Science
American Society For Steel Treating
Robert F. Mehl
Division of Physical Metallurgy
Naval Research Laboratory
Washington, D. C
Gilbert “. Dean
Lehigh University
Becthelem
Charles 3. Barrett
Mehl
Navy
Alaska
Africa
Tro
Tar and feathers applied to Miami tailor last night
Nebraska man Jay Wefso discovers a dynamite bomb wired to his car spark plugs under the seat. The device, two sticks wired together, failed to detonate due to improper wiring. Wefso had driven the car twice with the bomb present. a garage mechanic found it and a young woman he knows had received an unsigned warning letter.
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Stuart
Neb
Jay Wefso
Wesso
Wefso
Reed Urged to Seek Senate or Presidential Run
Friends of James A Reed of Missouri pressed him in Washington to consider a 1932 bid for the U S Senate or another Democratic presidential nomination. Reed, as yet undecided, could face retirement by Senator Hawes whose term ends in 1932. Ed Villmoore said supporters want Reed back in public life after a European trip.
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Washington
James A Reed
Missouri
Europe
Senate
Ed Villmoore
Kansas City
Reed
Villmoore
Freed
Hawes
Hoover
Wilson
Only Civil War Veteran in Congress Called By Death
Washington AP report notes Representative Charles Manly Stedman of North Carolina died in his ninetieth year after an apoplectic stroke. A Confederate veteran who rose to major under Lee, he served in the Sixty-second Congress and remained in Congress longer than nearly all former foes, befriending Teaac R. Sherwood of Ohio as they shared Civil War memories.
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Washington
Charles Manly Stedmen
North Carolina
Congress
Lee
Jackson
Mount Alto
Charles Manly Stedman
House
Senate
Teaac R. Sherwood
Ohio
Army In
Haven
Miami Detectives Probe Tarred Weinberg Attack
Chief of Detectives L O Bearboro said David Weinberg who was tarred and feathered and kidnapped last night has been moved from a hospital to the Dade county jail for his own good. A woman heard moans and saw a white bandage rolling in the street as police tied the attack to his alleged communist doctrines.
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Miami
Fila
L .O. Bearboro
David Weinberg
Dade County
Weinberg
Automoblis Fe
Tek
Library Receives New Fall Fiction Selection
The Public library reports twenty three fiction titles acquired in September under librarian Mies Theale Johnson. Notable works include The Strange Case of Miss Annie Spragg by Bromfield and several mystery thrillers. Johnson notes varied reader tastes with no single genre dominating and a recent spike in mystery requests.
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Public Library
Mies Theale Johnson
Annie Spragg
Louis Bromfield
Eden
Andrews
Farmny Golden Dawn
Kyle
Bainbridge
Fitzsimmons
Searberry
Williams
Diver
Bailey
Temple
Wyane
Htrookman
Wharton
Bromfield
Richmond
Tomlinson
Gray
Delight Roche
Lprinz
Staups House
King
Baldwin
Cheynee
Ames
Hatch
Connington
Johnson
Dothan
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Sena
Frances McGaan
Milton Byers
Point Pleasant
W. Va
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Charles M. Stedman
Stedman
Sherwood
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