Bitter Wet Dry Battle Ignites North Carolina Senate Race
In North Carolina a bitter primary battle develops as George W. Depriest announces a wet platform for the U S Senate. Roger Reynolds challenges Cameron Morrison as Democratic candidates mobilize against perceived pro growth ties. Newell and Bow ie loom as potential disruptors ahead of the state convention.
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Italy
Depriest
Charlotte
North Carolina
George W. Depriest
Shelby
U. S. Senate
Robert R. Reynolds
Asheville
Cameron Morrison
Tom C. Bowie
West Jefferson
Morrison
Reynolds
Ashevill
Frank D. Grist
Jake F. Newell
Newell
Holy Land
James Cannon, Jr
President and committee propose large federal savings plan
President Hoover and the special house economy committee outlined near identical paths to cut more than 200 million dollars yearly. They favor wage readjustment, year long furloughs, 10 percent pay cuts, and reduced chief executive salaries with further savings from veterans compensation reform. A joint statement was to follow.
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Washington
Hoover
Special House Economy Committee
Personnel Classification Board
Exchange Head Ordered to Appear for Investigation
Washington April 9 The stock exchange was to be investigated after reports of a planned 1 000 000 000 bear raid that could have made today a black Saturday of trading Richard Whitney president of the New York Stock Exchange was ordered to testify as the first witness by the Senate banking and currency committee following emergency briefings and committee discussions.
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Washington
Stock Exchange
Senate Banking and Currency Committee
United Press
Senate
Richard Whitney
New York Exchange
Doctor Budde Vanishes After Emergency Call
North Chicago, April 9. Dr A E Budde city physician answers emergency call and vanishes. Three hours after leaving home a cemetery caretaker finds his valise at the North Shore Cemetery gate. Mrs Budde reports to police. No hospital records show his presence since yesterday.
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Chicago
Ill
A. E. Budde
North Shore
Budde
John Western
Dr. Budde
Flier Killed as Planes Collide Over Le Bourget
One army flier died today after two military airplanes collided at Le Bourget France. Three others survived by leaping with parachutes as their craft crashed in the air.
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LE Bourget
France
Apr.l
Reynolds Speaks in Asheboro During Busy Campaign Week
Hon. Bob Reynolds of Asheville, a U S Senate candidate, spoke in Asheboro at noon and 2 30 pm as Randolph County Republicans held their county convention. Other speakers included Frank Grist stressing the soldiers bonus, with visits by Lambeth Ehringhaus Maxwell Bowie Ehringhaus and Wade Renfrew as Morrison supporters toured the area.
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SNC
Erder
Asheboro
Bob Reynolds
Asheville
United States Senate
Charlotte
County Court House
Frank Grist
Mr. Reynolds
Randolph
Walter Lambeth
M. C. Williamson
A. J. Maxwell
Tom Bowie
Reynolds
Wade Renfrew
Senator Morrison
Mellon Presents Credentials To King George V In Windsor
Ambassador Andrew W Mellon presented his letters of credence to King George V at Windsor Castle. Sir John Simon welcomed Mellon at the embassy arrival and the king invited Mellon to stay for lunch, an unusual courtesy for new ambassadors.
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Windsor
England
Andrew W. Mellon
John Simon
London
Old Castle
Thames
Hoover
George V
George
Mellon
Pretty Boy Floyd Kills Sheriff in Staging Getaway
Irv Kelley former McIntosh county sheriff was shot to death in a raid on Ben Hargraves farm home in Bixby Oklahoma. Floyd escaped in a green sedan with Earl Birdwell as officers watched the scene from afar and the posse pursued.
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Tulsa
Okla
Irv Kelley
McIntosh County
Bixby Farm
Ben Hargraves
Charles “Pretty Boy
Floyd
Earl Birdwell
A. B. Cooper
Burns
American Bankers Association
Kelley
Jim Stormont
Okmulgee County
Hargraves
Cooper
Birdwell
Fascist Italy proposes war debt cancellation and disarmament plan
Rome reports Mussolini presided over a grand council decision to renounce reparations and cancel war debts as a first step for world economic recovery. The plan calls for naval limits, abolition of heavy weapons, and broader reforms to restore international trade and end frequent conferences.
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Rome
Italy
League of Nations
Geneva
Mussolini
Grand Council of Fascism
England
United States
Uncil
Council
Grist Attacks Big Corporations in Senate bid
Hon. Frank D. Grist denounces power companies Wall Street and big business in a Randolph County speech. He cites rising influence of wealth, argues government favors the rich and neglects the poor, and targets Senator Morrison over Duke Power remarks. He emphasizes three themes: big interests soldiers’ bonus and aiding the common man.
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Asheboro
Frank D. Grist
Randolph County Court House
Wall Street
Grist
United States
United States Senate
Mr. Grist
Graf Zeppelin Heads Home After Second Atlantic Flight
Graf Zeppelin departed from Pernambuco Brazil at 4 45 p m for the return voyage to Germany marking the airship's second non stop crossing of the Atlantic this year.
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Graf
Germany
Pernambuco
Brazil
Atlantic
Market Sears As Short Covering Becomes Active
New York trading opened with active short covering pushing stocks higher led by United States Steel American Telephone and Santa Fe railroad. Market breadth narrowed as the stock exchange sought detailed messages and wire transmit logs to detect bear raids amid a senate inquiry into market manipulation.
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Sears
New York
United States
Senate
Shorts
Igut
United States Steel
American Telephone
American Can
Consolidated Gas
Santa Fe Railroad
Westinghouse
Hundred Dead As Romanian Floods Sweep Seven Villages
Arad Romania April 9 Thirty more deaths were added to the Romanian flood toll as the Maros river breached dams near the Hungarian border. The disaster left about 15 000 homeless and raised the week’s total flood fatalities to roughly 100 across the region.
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Arad
Rumania
Maros
Hindenburg Seen Likely to Win German Presidency
Berlin reports a final vote count shows Von Hindenburg on track to secure re election as Germany prepares for a second ballot. Hitler trails by about seven million in the first round with over 37 million voters eligible to cast ballots tomorrow.
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Berlin
von Hindenburg
Hitler
Germany
Reich
Cam
Betteen Hindenburg
Forest Fires Out in McDowell County Districts
Rain in McDowell County woodlands ends fires in two districts Crooked Creek and Muddy Creek burned over several hundred acres before rain stopped the blazes. Local firefighters battled the flames aided by wet conditions.
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Marion
McDowell County
Crooked Creek
Muddy Creek
Hoover Hosts Economists as White House Seeks $200 Million Cut Plan
Washington reports optimism from President Hoover's White House meeting with the House economy committee over a proposed $200,000,000 savings program. Officials including Mills Roop Brown and Wilbur joined the cabinet room session. Agreement on all items seems unlikely. further talks are planned as Congress may need statutory authority.
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Washington
Hoover
House Economy Committee
White House
Mills
Roop
Brown
Wilbur
Mr. Hoover
Congress
House Committee
Swift Trial Likely in Honor Slaying Case
Honolulu April 9 Attorneys voiced hopes for a swift end to the murder trial of Mrs Granville Fortescue and three Navy men charged in the Kahahawai lynching. Clarence Darrow associate Montgomery Winn seeks a directed verdict while Public Prosecutor John C Kelley plans a three day case and resists linking the Kahahawai killing to the September assault on Mrs Massie. Darrow hints at an honor slaying defense and emotional insanity as alienists arrive to testify.
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Honolulu
Granville Fortescue
Navy
Joseph Kahahawal
Montgomery Winn
Clarence Darrow
John C. Kelley
Kahahawai
Fortescue
Thalia Massie
Darrow
Massie
Edward Huntington Williams
James Orbison
Los Angeles
Warner Leads Ryerson at Halfway in North and South Match
At Pinehurst on April 9 M P Warner of Pine Orchard Conn leads J B Ryerson of Cooperstown N Y by one hole at the halfway mark in their 36 hole North and South amateur golf championship. Warner eagled the 465 yard sixteenth to take the lead while Ryerson squared at the seventeenth and then dropped back with a six on the eighteenth.
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Pinehurst
M. P. Warner
Pine Orchard
House approves billion dollar 1933 appropriation bill
The House passed a one billion dollar bill funding the veterans administration the Farm Board and other independent agencies for the 1933 fiscal year and sent it to the Senate.
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Washington
Veterans Administration
The
Farm Board
House
Senate
J C Gardner Ends Life By Shooting Himself
J C Gardner longtime superintendent of White Oak Mills near Greensboro died by suicide in his office shortly after 2 pm a note asked Herman Cone to care for his children. He was about 50 years old and had attended a Greensboro textile meeting that morning. No inquest was needed. A pistol lay beside him.
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T. C. Gardner
White Oak Mills
Greensboro
Harvey
Gardner
Posse Searches Abbeville County for Tom Wardlaw Slayer
A posse of more than 100 persons combed Abbeville County for Tom Wardlaw, 45, sought as the killer of farmer Andrew Ferguson. The search began after Ferguson was found murdered in a plowed field with his throat cut. Rain and mud slowed National Guardsmen, county officers, and civilians in the hunt.
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Abbeville
8. C
Tom Wardlaw
Andrew Ferguson
Ferguson
Senate to Open Stock Exchange Investigation Next Monday
The Senate Banking Committee will begin the NYSE probe with president Richard Whitney on the witness stand. Chairman Brookhart directs the session as the committee seeks to uncover domestic or foreign influences behind the week’s market plunge. Transactions reached about 1.2 million shares as papers and records are gathered in Washington and New York.
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Washington
Hoover
Senate
Walcott
Conn
Senate Banking Committee
New York Stock Exchange
Richard Whitney
Brookhart
Iowa
Whitney
New York
France
America
Gang Bullets Tear Out Life of Poultry King in New York
In New York on April 9 three gunmen shot Joe Cohen, a poultry magnate known as a kingpin, on the front stoop while he and his wife Nina and a bodyguard played cards. Cohen was killed as dozens of bullets struck him, with one bullet damaging a clock near Nina Cohen.
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King
New York
Joe Cohen
Nina
Standstill in Lindbergh Baby Case as Norfolk Trio Inactive
Hopewell New Jersey April 9 The Lindbergh kidnapping probe shows no progress at key sites with the three Norfolk negotiators and Rear Admiral Burrage in watchful waiting. A neighbor reports a possible sighting related claim while Col Lindbergh’s movements remain unclear. Authorities decline to reveal certain police leads and cling to a theory the brush fire near the estate was not tied to the crime.
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Baby Lindy
Norfolk
Hopewell
N. J
Charlies A. Lindbergh
Guy H. Burrage
Col. Lindbergh
H. Norman Schwartzkopf
Harry Fleischer
Detroit Purple Gang
New York
Abraham Wagner
Lindbergh Estate
Col. Schwartzkopf
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