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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1932
Page
7
Carpenters begin transforming the stadium into a national news and political center. Decorators will erect platforms for speakers and press and create workrooms for photographers. They will hang 1500 flags and drape thousands of yards of bunting while shields of all states and a pair of giant American eagles symbolize unity.
Cleveland June 2. Business leaders of the Fourth Federal Reserve District organize to help manufacturers and home builders. Eugene Meyer, governor of the Federal Reserve Board, calls for action. A committee of fifteen industrialists is formed to devise ways to free credit and return money to work. Funds aim to unleash $3,000,000 in excess reserves across Federal Reserve banks.
Six bandits were hanged in Louisiana for murders during holdups. E L Patterson and Bororis Tolett were executed in Shreveport for killing Charlie Jones during a store robbery last November. In New Orleans four men Ita Jacques Herman Taylor George O Day and Donald Rylich were hanged for killing Raymond Rizzo in a gun battle during the Canal Bank robbery in November 1930. Jacques had to wait eight minutes for the key to unlock the trap.
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