Georgia Tobacco Growers Seek Interstate Aid to Stabilize Market
A five member Georgia committee was formed to seek help from South Carolina cooperatives to stabilize the tobacco market. They planned a conference in Florence, South Carolina, and urged growers to organize for future support though the Farm Board has no authority to fund the Georgia Florida tobacco area. The group must report to Southeastern Agricultural Products Cooperatives in Savannah.
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Savannah
Georgia
South Carolina
Florence
S. C
J. B. Bomberger
Federal Farm Board
Bomberger
Georgia-Florida
Farm Board
State Bureau of Markets
Southeastern Agricultural Products Cooperatives Consolidated
Savannah Chamber of Commerce
Washington
Mistreatment reports from China and tobacco market updates
Reports from Shanghai indicate violence against women missionaries with a British group kidnapped in Kukien and ransom demands. separate note on Mrs Hearne injured by a Chinese soldier. In South Carolina tobacco markets, opening prices run near 9 to 12 cents per pound, below last year, with total sales around 1,000,000 pounds and varying regional averages.
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Shanghai
Foochow
Kienyang
Kukien
Yenping
Edith Nettleton
Edith Harrison
British Church Missionary Society
London
Chungan
A. R. J. Hearne
Punchen
Lamberton
Tarboro
Taboro
Clarkton
Whiteville
Fair Bluff
Chadbourn Today
Survey Of Drought Relief Plan To Be Reported Monday
President Hoover announced a detailed survey by the agriculture department to assess drought impact across the east of the Mississippi and the Midwest. The report due next Monday will guide federal relief, including potential large scale feed movement to livestock and possible relocation of animals from worst areas. Railways have been asked to study transportation implications.
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Mississippi
Middle West
Hoover
Hyde
Department of Agriculture
Presdent
Legge
Farm Board
Washington
Rocky Mountains
Appalachian
Weather Bureau
Prohibition Denounced As Failure At Institute
At the University of Virginia the speaker argues prohibition harms the south calling it a failure with no proof of economic gains. He cites rising liquor seizures and arrests, higher alcohol related deaths and insanity, and says dry laws worsened conditions for Black residents. Southern regions lead in federal liquor seizures.
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University
C. O'Connor Godrick
Fredericksburg
Institute of Public Affairs Today
South
Prohibion
Godlrick
Prohibitionists
Republican Party For Credit
Anti-Saloon League
Fed
Jonas denies ant Smithites shifts in North Carolina
Congressman Charles A. Jonas denies reports that Hoover Democrats in North Carolina signed a petition to back Alfred E. Smith for 1932. He says the petition idea is propaganda and that he has copies showing a plan to recruit 29,000,000 Smith supporters called the brown derbyites. He claims no Hoover Democrats are connected and warns the reports aim to help Democrats and hurt the Republican administration.
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Charlotte
The
Charlotte Observer
Charles A. Jonas
North Carolina
Hoover Democrats
Alfred E. Smith
Jonas
Smith
Stetson Son Unhurt After Nicaragua Plane Crash
Sergeant C. F. Stetson of the United States Marine Corps escaped unharmed from a tri motor transport crash in Ocotal Nicaragua. The accident marked the third destruction of a trimotor plane at Ocotal and the fifth in Nicaragua this period.
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Managu
Nic
John B. Stetson, Jr
C. F. Stetson
United States Marine Corps
Ocotal
Qocotal
Nicaragua
Summerall Sees Sectionalism Evil at Gastonia Dedication
General Charles P. Summerall chief of staff of the army spoke at Gastonia dedicating a new memorial to all wars. He warned that sectionalism in any form harms national progress and praised North Carolinians for their War service from the Revolution through World War I.
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Army
Gastonia
America
Charles P. Summerall
Summerall
A.L. Bullwinkle
General Summerall
Power Rates Likely To Be 1932 Issue Of Roosevelt
Political observers in Southampton New York believe public utility rates could become a national issue in 1932 after a conference among Governor Franklin D Roosevelt Democratic leaders Alfred E Smith and John J Raskob They read the midnight Powwow as shaping the campaign with Roosevelt backing aid for small consumers and possible rate reductions.
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Franklin Roosevelt
Southampton
N. Y
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Alfred E. Smith
John J. Raskob
Gardner 10 War on Scrub Cattle Marks NC Tour
Governor O Max Gardner addressed 1000 farmers in Selma as the North Carolina Livestock Development special train began a three week tour. He denounced scrub cattle and scrub people urging Johnston County to boost purebred stock to improve milk supply and prosperity.
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Selma
Max Gardner
North Carolina
Johnston County
Gardner
Guilford Bonds Sold to Toledo Firm
Guilford county commissioners accepted the bid of Rown, Bobsworth and Company of Toledo Ohio for 470000 dollars in serial bonds. The funds will finance various improvements.
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Guilford
Toledo
Greensboro
N. C
Guilford County
Rown, Bobsworth and Company
Ohio
Farmers May Solve Own Wheat Surplus Problem
Farmers across the grain belt feed wheat to hogs and cut it for hay as widespread drought hits pastures and corn. Brokers estimate July corn losses at about 100 million bushels while Montana wheat fields are bought for hay. Analysts say the crop damage may unexpectedly relieve farm problems.
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Chicago
LaSalle Street
Old Sol
National Grain Corporation
Montana
Arthur Jackson
Jackson Brothers
LaFayette
Ind
Bernard Snow
United States Secretary of Agriculture
Bartlett, Frazier and Company
223rd Yearly Meeting of Friends Opens
GUILEDPRO COLLEGE Aug 5 The 233rd annual meeting of the Friends of North Carolina opened with Prof Samuel Haworth of Guilford College as presiding officer. Morning sessions examined young ministers and laid plots to extend the ministry. Miss Clara Cox of High Point served as recording clerk.
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Guiledpro College
Religious Society of Friends of North Carolina
Samuel Haworth
Guilford College
Piats
Clara Cox
High Point
Swanson and Marquis De la Falaise Live Apart
Gloria Swanson announced she and her husband the Marquis Henri de la Falaise will continue living apart. He returned from Paris to Hollywood and plans to stay at a hotel while she remains at the board. They say they will remain friends despite separate households.
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Los Angeles
Gloria Swanson
Marquis Henri de la Falaise
Hollywood
Paris
Henri
Struggle With 340-Pound Jewfish Ends in Death at Port Tampa
Port authorities recount the death of Japanese seaman Kimoto Toono, 25, who tied a rope to his body while spearing fish and was pulled under by a 340 pound jewfish in Tampa Bay. Searchers recovered his body with the fish still on the rope days later.
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Tampa
Fla
Port Tampa
Kimoto Toono
Lisbon
MacArthur Named Army Staff Chief
Major General Douglas MacArthur was appointed chief of staff of the army by President Hoover succeeding General Charles P. Summerall. He will assume duties in 1944 and has commanded the Philippines and the Ninth Corps Area in San Francisco. Born January 26, 1880 in Little Rock, he entered West Point in 1899 and rose through the ranks.
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Washington
Douglas MacArthur
Army
Hoover
Charles P. Summerall
Summerall
Hurley
MacArthur
Ninth Corps
San Francisco
Philippine Department
Little Rock
Ark
West Point
Wisconsin
Poison Alcohol Blamed For Six Deaths In N J
Six men died after drinking poison alcohol at a hobo camp near Paterson New Jersey on Saturday night. Identified victims include Edward A. Franz of Youngstown Ohio former army sergeant Stanley Windolph of Germantown Pennsylvania Hector Boston Netrick of Rhode Island and Michael O'Brien. Three died at the scene. the others perished in hospital care.
Doctor Dies During Caesarian, Mother and Child Do Well
In Birmingham Alabama Dr T H Williams collapsed during a caesarian operation instructing Dr R M Coston to take care of the patient. Coston finished the operation and the mother and her newborn daughter were reported doing well later in the day.
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Birmingham
Ala
T. H. Williams
R. M. Coston
Tennessee Primary Irregularities Monitored By Senate Panel
Senate campaign funds chairman Nye announced three field representatives were sent to Nashville and Memphis to watch for irregularities in the Tennessee primary. He noted several requests from the cities claimed lavish preparations to influence the election result through illegal balloting. No specific candidates were named.
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Washington
Nye
Senate Campaign Funds Committee
Nashville
Memphis
Tennessee
Golden Haired 17-Year-Old is Miss United States
A golden-haired 17-year-old New Orleans high school student, Dorothy Belioff, was chosen by judges as Miss United States of America and will face seven European entrants for the title Beauty queen of the universe. Standing five feet six inches and weighing 122 pounds, she wowed the crowd with her appearance in both evening gown and bathing costume.
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New Orleans
Galveston
Tex
America
United States of America
Dorothy Belioff
Helen Hannan
New Jersey
Uprising in China Seen as Boost for Nationalists
Yuen Lilang of the Shanghai provisional court frames the communist upsurge as a spur to unify Chinese factions. He predicts possible talks toward a general nationalist congress as Wang Ching Wei arrives in Peking while fronts pause and conciliation grows among rival party leaders.
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Williamstown
Mass
China
Yuen Lilang
Shanghai
Wang Ching-Wei
Peking
Changsha
Adams Denies ZRS 5 Contract Cancellation
Secretary Adams said the Navy had not cancelled the ZRS-5 dirigible contract with Goodyear and that there was no factual basis to reports of cancellation. He noted an option to build the second ship keeps speculation alive as Hoover's economy program pushes curtailment considerations.
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Washington
Adams
Goodyear Zeppelin Company
Akron
Ohio
Navy Department
Hoover
Coast Guardsman Slain After Being Mistaken for Rum Runner
Boatswain Lewis E. Pratt of the Salisbury Beach coast guard Station was fatally shot by figures from Base 7 Gloucester while his surf boat neared the Ipswich River mouth. Initial reports said a rum vessel fired. Pratt died at Ipswich Hospital after another guardsman steered their craft to Lottie Neck. Captain W. H. Munter released a statement from local headquarters after hours of silence.
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Lewis E. Pratt
Salisbury Beach
Coast Guard
Gloucester
Ipswich
Mass
Pratt
Lottie Neck
Oast Guard
W. H. Munter
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