Further Declines In Stock Prices Amid Drought Nervousness
New York August 9 Two large selloffs pushed closing prices lower with losses of one to five points. Volume reached about 1 600 000 shares the largest since June as bears re purchased. News cited drought effects on purchasing power and mixed corporate results.
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New York
Youngstown Sheet and Tube
Brown Fence
J. J. Case
American Telephone
Johns Manville
Westinghouse
Atchison
Bethlehem
Radio
General Electric
Dupont
Vanadium
Worthington
North American
Water Bros
United Aircraft
Houston Oil
U. S. Steel
American Water Works
Foster Wheeler
Union Pacific
J. L. White Inc Announcement Details
J L White Inc based in Hood Bank Building lists office phone 2683 and residence phone 8473 for contact.
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J. L. White, Inc
Hood Bank
Chicago Livestock Market Report Heat on Aug 9
Cattle 500 head with steers and yearlings up to 1 100 pounds near steady to slightly higher. Butcher heifers up. heavy packers steady to weak. vealers 1.00 higher. Sheep 3 000 head with top rough 9.65 for native ewes and wethers. Hogs 9 000 with direct 7 500 light, top 9.75. feeder and other grades mixed. estimated holdover 2 000.
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Chicago Livestock Chicago
U. S. Dept of Agri
Chicago Grain Market Sees Mixed Corn Up Wheat Down
In a volatile session corn prices rose on favorable demand while crop reports showed drought and heat damage. A Kansas yield estimate fell short of last year and Iowa damage was pegged high, wheat declined on profit taking, oats moved narrowly, and provisions held steady to up 7 cents.
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Chicago
John P. Boughan
Associated Press
Kansas
Iowa
Work At Roanoke River Mouth To Be Given Preference
Representative Lindsay Warren said a pledge was made for preference to Roanoke river mouth work. No rivers and harbors work can start before March 4 1931. Lock construction for the Albemarle and Chesapeake canal will begin within 90 days. Private interests will lend 590000 dollars to the government interest free for one year. Wright memorial at Kitty Hawk is set to begin about October 1.
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Lindsay Warren
Roanoke River
Spooks Vanish After 580 Bats Killed at Minnie Bethea Home
In Selma Minnie Bethea reported hearing spooks in her roof for four months. Neighbor Silas Stancil removed roof sections and killed 580 bats during an extermination, ending Minnie’s haunting.
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Minnie Bethea
Minnie
Silas Stancil
Silas
Cotton Opens Steady as Weather Hopes Sweep Texas
New York reports cotton opening steady with slight gains before selling pressure from overnight activity. Traders cited showers in Texas and unsettled conditions in Oklahoma Arkansas and Tennessee. October and March contracts slipped while Liverpool cables absorbed hedging and Bombay selling. Shipments awaiting clearance at U.S. ports stood around 20 000 bales.
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New York
Liverpool
Texas
Marillo
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Tennessee
Bombay
Wu.s
Davidson College Lays Cement Walks to Main Street
Workmen at Davidson College are laying a cement walk from the entrance of Chambers building to Main street. After completion they will lay a brick walk from the central dormitory to Chambers building. The two new walks will improve the campus and replace older paths.
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Davidson College
Chambers Building
Main Street
Chambers
Pickford to Wed New York Actress Mary Mulhern
Jack Pickford plans a third marriage to Mary Mulhern after filing intent at Monterey county courthouse in Salinas California. They reside in Hollywood and expect to wed on Monterey Peninsula once license issued following California law. Mulhern acted in The Trial of Mary Duncan in New York.
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Jack Pickford
Mary Mulhern
New York
Monterey County Court House
California
Monterey Peninsula
del Monte Lodge
Mary Pickfor
Miss Mulhern
Hollywood
Pickford
Olive Thomas
Paris
Marilyn Miller
Mary Dungan
Legionaires to convene in Winston-Salem for NC session
North Carolina Legionnaires, more than 17 000 strong, plan a two day 12th annual session in Winston-Salem August 24 25. Clyde Bolling post 55 directs preparations under Miss Alice Gray with a three day program starting with religious services at the Carolina theater broadcast by WSJS. Leonard H Nason of Cohasset Mass will address the convention with a talk aired on radio.
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Winston-Salem
North Carolina
Clyde Bolling
North Carolina Department of the American Legion
Alice Gray
Legion
Legion and Auxillary
Carolina Theater
George F. Kettel
D. D
Macedon
N. Y
The
American Legion
WSJS
Leonard H. Nason
Cohasset
Mass
American Legion Monthly
Saturday Evening Post
New Orleans Cotton Market Opens Lower Amid Sliding Prices
Cotton futures in New Orleans opened easy with losses of 1 to 4 points as Liverpool cables arrived late. After an early rally lifting October to 12.33 and December to 12.54, prices faded to 12.28 for October and 12.47 for December before closing steady with a net advance of 6 to 9 points.
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New Orleans
Liverpool
Machine Gun Missing From Police Station
Pittsburgh reporters and detectives investigated after a machine gun disappeared from Central police station. Police noted only one gun remained in the vault where the machines are kept and said the weapon was certainly there the night before.
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Pittsburgh
Central Police Station
Paducah WPAD to Begin Operations August 10
Kentucky station WPAD prepares to go on air on August 10 after receiving a license for 1,429 kilocycles and 211.1 meters. Transmission power is 199 watts.
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Kentucky
Paducah
WPAD
Civic Center corporation of Greensboro chartered
One new certificate of incorporation is issued by the North Carolina secretary of state. Civic Center corporation of Greensboro is authorized to own and operate hotels and apartment houses and buildings of all kinds with authorized stock of 300 000 dollars. Subscribed stock includes 60 shares held by Charles L Van Noppen Addie D Van Noppen and Donnel Van Noppen to be organized in Greensboro and Mebane.
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James A. Hartness
Civic Center Corporation
Greensboro
Charles L. van Noppen
Addie D. van Noppen
Donne! van Noppen
Mebane
Tractors Run by Over 20,000 Italian Farms
More than 20,000 farm tractors are operated in Italy reflecting extensive mechanization in the agricultural sector. The figure highlights the scale of farm modernization and the shift toward fuel and equipment efficiency across rural communities.
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Italy
Governors in Emergency Rail Rate Relief Proposals
The commission authorizes temporary rail rate reductions to aid regions in drought and flood danger. Illinois Central seeks 17.5 cents per hundred pounds on Reeves Tennessee cattle to Baton Rouge Louisiana, a 50 percent cut. President asks Red Cross to ready relief. drought spans multiple states with extensive livestock and feed shortages. officials plan coordinated local and state relief efforts.
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Illinois Central
Reeves, Tenn
Baton Rouge
Commission
Hoover to Confer With Governors on Drought Plan
President Hoover summoned Secretary Hyde and James Stone of the Farm Board to his Virginia camp for drought talks. Stone just returned from a midwest south survey and will present new data, while Hyde adds weather bureau input on relief prospects. Governors Reed of Kansas and Parnell of Arkansas expect to attend Thursday’s conference.
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Kentucky
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Parnell
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George Akerson
Washington
Major League Leaders in Batting and Power for Season
Major league leaders include Terry of the Giants with 177 hits and a .409 batting average, Klein of the Phillies with 119 runs and 157 RBIs, and Wilson of the Cubs with 36 home runs. Other leaders include Comorosky of the Pirates with 15 triples, Cuyler of the Cubs with 27 stolen bases, and Ruth of the Yankees leading both runs with 126 and home runs with 41. Hodapp of the Indians paces doubles with 32 and Gehrig and Hodapp also figure among RBIs.
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White Sox
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Boy Hurt Playing Ball On Jones Field
James M. Roach a young white boy of 1216 Ragan street was knocked unconscious at Jones street baseball field after colliding head on with another boy catching fly balls. He was taken by Yow's ambulance to Guilford General hospital and was not seriously hurt. He regained his senses after several minutes.
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Ragan Street
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Guilford General Hospital
Fairmount Tobacco Market Sets Strong Start for Season
Fairmount, a leading North Carolina border market in the South Carolina belt, sold 957 818 pounds in the first week at an average of 8 45 per hundred pounds. Medium grades showed stronger demand while 98 percent of offerings were ground leaf primings selling 2 to 10 cents per pound. primings on Friday totaled 235 178 pounds at 8 43 per hundred.
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