Danish Airmen Feared Lost After North Sea Flight
Danish naval flying boats and the Island of Falk searched the North Sea for Parker Cramer and radio operator Oliver Pacquette after their flight from the Shetland Islands toward Copenhagen. Authorities fear they perished in a storm that disrupted regular air mail service. drift and waves hinder rescue.
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Copenhagen
Denmark
Admiralty
Island of Falk
North Sea
Parker Cramer
Cramer
Oliver Pacquette
Riis Larsen
Arctic Flier
Four youths and two girls found dead in burning car near Willis
Bodies of four youths and two visiting girls were found burned in a car on a road near Willis. Identifications point to Thomas Wheatley 16 Denton area, Harry Lore Lohr 16 Ypsilanti, Vivian Gould and Anna Harris from Cleveland. Police suspect robbery and slaying with torching of the car.
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Ann Arbor
Mich
Willis
Thomas Wheatley
Denton
Harry Lore
Lohr
Ypsilanta
Vivian Gould
Anna Harris
Miss Gould
Miss Harris
Cleveland
Lore
Ypsilanti
Harry Wheatley
Wheatley
Young Wheatley
Ypsilanti Garment
Cuban Government Moves to Quell Island Uprising
In Santiago Cuba on Aug 11 military authorities watched Ircente province as the situation remained quiet with no disorders and business as usual. There have been arrests tied to the revolutionary uprising while troops and police stayed in barracks ready for action.
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Santiago
Cuba
Ircente
Havana
Gerardo Machado
Congress
Two rum-runners held on blanket murder charge
In Raleigh authorities held Lawrence Gatling and Richard Eubanks on a blanket murder charge tied to the slaying of Pamlico coast guard John F. Peel near New Bern. Mary Cannon, a 22 year old New Bern resident, is held as a material witness who may identify the men.
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Raleigh
R. B. Lane
Craven County
John F. Peel
Pamlico Coast
Mary Cannon
New Bern
Gatling
Scott
Peel
Morehead Highway
Miss Cannon
Sheriff Lane
Allen “Devil” Oglesby
Durham
Agriculture Department defends 1931 cotton yield estimate
Washington reports the agriculture department stands by its 15,584,000 bale forecast for the 1931 cotton crop, despite trader doubts of the higher figure. W. F. Callander of the crop reporting board says the estimate should be seen as reasonably accurate and weather and conditions may alter prospects if drought develops. Senator Connally of Texas seeks preservation of report records for a thorough investigation.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Farm Board
W. F. Callander
Department
Crop Reporting Board
Connaly
Democrat
Texas
Hyde
Burglars Loot Chicago Apartment of Corp Executive
Burglars ransacked the Chicago apartment of Carroll E. Gray Jr., president of Central Republic Company, the investment affiliate of Central Republic Bank and Trust. Jewelry valued at 30000 to 50000 dollars was taken in the early hours today.
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Asheville
S. Ge Owens
Central Bank and Trust Company
Col
Luke Lea
Tennessee
Giles L. Evans
Lea
R. B. Williams
Wallace B. Davis
Luke Lea, Jr
E. P. Charlet
Nashville
Evans
Williams
Owens
Davis
Central Bank
L. L. Lance
Lance
M. PD. Johnson
Liberty Bank and Trust Company
Johnson
Nashville Bank
Colonel Lea
Liberty Bank
Central
Lea-Liberty-Central
R. B. Moseley
Chicago
Carroll E. Gray, Jr
Central Republic Company
Central Republic Bank and Trust Company
Government sells county and town securities in Raleigh
The local government commission sold Guilford county and Wilson town securities totaling 555000. Boatman National of St. Louis purchased Guilford issues across roads bridges schools and refunding with premiums totaling 149?0. MacNear Co of Chicago bought Wilson issue 325000 at 6 percent, paying 5366 premium.
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Raleigh
Local Government Commission
Guilford County
Wilson
Boatman National Company of
St. Louis
Guilford
C. W. MacNear Company of
Chicago
Swallows Yellow Jackets While He Is Eating
WayneCounty farmer Onie Pressley of Haywood county swallowed two yellow jackets while eating an apple. He nearly died from throat stings and swelling but survived after hospital treatment. He could not speak until the next day as doctors treated the poison spreading through his body.
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Waynesville
N. C
Onie Preseley
Haywood County
Pressley
Roosevelt South Clubs Formed to Back Roosevelt Nomination
Southern Roosevelt for President clubs organize with Atlanta as headquarters and seek congressmen views on Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Democratic nomination. A Summers letter solicits southern lawmakers’ preference while keeping responses confidential. Endorsements from southern lawmakers boost the effort, which is described as a nationwide volunteer group advocating Roosevelt for president.
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Washington
Roosevelt Southern Clubs
Franklin D. Roosevelt
New York
Atlanta
Congress
F. B. Summers
Roosevelt
Luther P. Baker
Roosevelt Clubs
United States
Mrs Roosevelt Safe After Plane Wreck
A Pan-American Airways plane carrying Mrs Theodore Roosevelt and five Porto Rico government officials struck an obstruction while landing at Ponce harbor and sank in five minutes. All aboard were saved and the party returned to San Juan where news was released.
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San Juan
Porto Rico
pan-American Airways
Theodore Roosevelt
Ponce Harbor
Bridges washed out on county highways in Stateville division
Heavy rains and high waters have washed out 46 bridges on county highways in the Statesville division. Highway engineer Leslie Ames was notified today. Route 561 between Halifax and Hollister in Halifax county also closed due to high waters.
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Raleigh
Statesville
Leslie Ames
Highway Patrol
Halifax
Hollister
Halifax County
Federation Turns To Business Matters
Greensboro August convention of the state federation of labor shifts from praise to policy. Willis Smith urged action to curb dishonesty and malfeasance in local government while the federation drafted bills on eight hour days for state workers eight hour limit for women and children prison labor labeling of prison goods and broader labor protections. The group also backed health safety and education measures and called for stronger primary laws and a modern safety building code.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greensboro
Willis Smith
Raleigh
House of Representatives
State Federation of Labor
Smith
North Carolina
Railroad Arbitration Board
Forest Fires Force Many To Flee Homes
Forest fires blazing across the northwest taxed an army of firefighters as residents fled with belongings. In Portland Oregon efforts to contain the blazes continued while families counted losses and sought safety from advancing flames.
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Portland
Ore
Northwest
Prisoner Known As Seldom Seen Gets Thirty Days
In Sumter South Carolina on August 11 the City Recorder confronts a defendant named Seldom Seen. The judge and Police Chief warn that if the reports are true he will be seen on the chain gang for thirty days for vagrancy.
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Sumter
S. C
Harley
Barwick
Five Nations Sign Protocol Aligning Hoover Moratorium with Young Plan
Representatives of five powers at London sign a protocol coordinating Hoover moratorium ideas with the Young plan provisions. An international experts committee, working three weeks on technical aspects, includes Hugh Gibson as the U.S. observer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
International
United States
Hugh §. Gibson
Belgium
Hoover debt moratorium becomes unconditional for governos
The state department said the London agreement makes all suspended payments unconditional obligations of debtor governments. They will be repaid over ten years starting July 1, 1933, with three percent interest from that date.
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Washington
State Department
London
Drifted ship mystery points to hidden hazards
A drifting vessel near Tromsoe, Norway, prompts AP reports with ongoing investigation and speculation about its origin and possible hazards as authorities monitor conditions at sea.
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Tromsoe
Norway
Lindberghs Reach Near Nome on Mosquito Coast Flight
Lindberghs airborne from Point Barrow toward Nome after lingering delays. They planned a 523 mile hop to Nome, landing late at night 75 miles short of their target amid clearing skies and calls for bonfires to aid landing. Weather and fog threatened further progress as they moved along the Seward Peninsula coast.
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Point Barrow
Nome
Seattle
Anchorage
Naval Radio Station
St. Paul Island
Bering Sea
Bramerton Naval Radio Station
Kotzebue Sound
Alaska
Col
Mra
Charles A. Lindbergh
Seward Peninsula
BE. S&s. T
Washington
Orie
Point Bararow
Leavi Point Barrow
Lindberg
Arctic
Honduran flier rescued at sea off Cape Lookout
Captain Lisandro Garay of Honduras, who began a nonstop Brooklyn to Tegucigalpa flight, was picked up by the steamship Biboco about 20 miles east of Cape Lookout after forced down Sunday night. He had a fractured jaw and minor cuts but was otherwise unhurt and exhausted.
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Norfolk
Lisandro Garay
Brooklyn
Tegucigalpa
Honduras
Biboco
Cape Lookout
Coast Guard
Garay
New York
Savannah
Naval Hydrographic — Office
Bombing of Miner's Home Under Investigation
In Wheeling West Virginia authorities probed a second miner home bombing. An explosion wrecked the front of Charles Hricolak's Warwood house injuring him his wife a boarder and a second boarder while they slept. Hricolak had joined bituminous coal strikes but later returned to work police said.
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Wheeling
W. Va
West Virginia
Charles Hricolak
Constanza Coal Company
Warwood
Hriccelak
Hricelak
Voal
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Hunt Claude Scott
Oglesby
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San Nicolau
Mario G. Menocal
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Menocal
Machado
Republic
Callander
Dog
William Lang
Rosa
Lang
Roosevelt For President
South
Mrs. Roosevelt
Federation
Earth
Bibco
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