Hurricane Warned Gulf Coast Residents Brace for 75 Mile Gale
Houston and Galveston faced approaching tropical disturbance with forecasts of hurricane force winds. Shelters and evacuations began as seacoast towns from Seadrift to Freeport prepared. Freeport reported a 75 mile wind reading later questioned. No casualties reported yet.
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Galveston
Houston
Tex
Texas Gulf Coast
Freeport
Washington Weather Bureau
Houston Weather Bureau
San Antonio Bay
Houston Chronicle
Brazos River
38Th Division
Texas National Guard
Palacios
Seadrift
Jack Barnett
L. H. Daingerfield
Bay
Gulf Coast
Funeral poem read at Kendall service in Quincy Mass
At Mrs. Clark Kendall’s funeral in Quincy Mass the husband Dr. Walter G. Kendall read a three stanza eu logistic poem. The reading was conducted by Rev. Rosmond M. MacDonald Congregational minister.
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Quincy
Mass
Clark Kendall
Walter G. Kendall
Rosmond M. MacDonald
Walker Faces Removal Fight Sparks Welcome in Gotham
New York Mayor James J. Walker returns Monday to Albany to proceed with his aggressive defense in the Hall of Governors. He enjoys a hero's reception in New York and rests at A. C. Blumenthal’s Westchester home while a $100000 annual legal retainer is offered if he loses office. Roosevelt questions Walker about business with Russell Sherwood as Seabury cites evidence from Hofstadter committee records showing a long-ago bookkeeper handled stock actions totaling nearly a million dollars.
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New York
Albany
James J. Walker
A. C. Blumenthal
Westchester County
Blumenthal
Walker
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Sherwood
Roosevelt
Russell Sherwood
Samuel Seabury
Hoofstadter Legislative Committee
Hofstadter Committee
Ohio
New Jersey
Connecticut
Associated Press
Pacific Coast
Buffalo
William Walker
James E. Finegan
William Leve
Prices Advance on Orleans Mart in Short Week End Session
In New Orleans on Aug 13 cotton traded with good activity as storm warnings for the Texas coast and stock gains boosted demand. Prices recovered from early losses, rising 18 points from the lows, with October up to 7.28 and December to 7.45. The close held near session highs, October 7.28 and December 7.43, net gains 10 to 14 points.
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New Orleans
Texas
Walker Defies Hofstadter Committee Charges
Report notes Walker did not produce financial records before the Hofstadter committee and was described as neither frank nor truthful in testimony. The inquiry also accuses him of failing to properly perform duties of his office.
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Walker
Hofstadter Committee
Chamber Chief Pushes Immediate Repeal of Volstead Act
Henry S. Harriman president of the U S Chamber of Commerce urged immediate repeal or modification of the Volstead Act in a radio address. He backed legal sale of non intoxicating beer with a $6 per barrel tax and predicted about 400 million dollars yearly to the federal treasury. He contrasted British policy favorably and cited crime and bootlegging as results of American temperance policy.
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Washington
Henry S. Harriman
Chamber of Commerce of the
United States
Chamber
Harriman
Federal Treasury
Democrats Face Money Trial in 1924 Campaign Budget
Democrats and Republicans map fundraising needs as the 1924 election heats up in New York. Farley and Woollen lead Democratic finance talks while Milbank and Fletcher oversee Republican eastern efforts. Farley says the Democratic budget will be trimmed to under a million dollars with state groups bearing more costs. A $400,000 deficit remains, tied to past debts, and a planning meeting is set for Wednesday to finalize procedures.
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New York
Jeremiah Milbank
Henry P. Fletcher
Tariff Commission
Milbank
Wall Street
James A. Farley
Evans Woollen
Indiana
Frank C. Walker
National Committee
Farley
al” Smith
South
National Campaign Committee
John J. Raskob
Detroit Motor Executive Drowns in Canadian Creek
Ray A. Graham secretary treasurer of Graham Paige Motor Co of Detroit, aged 45, drowned in McGregor's creek at Chatham Ontario. He recently suffered a nervous breakdown and planned a rest cure in Morristown New Jersey. He vanished after asking the Rev C A Rhine to enter his hotel room first. a crowd saw him jump into the creek and the body was recovered twenty minutes later.
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Chatham
Ont
Ray A. Graham
Graham-Paige Motor Company
Detroit
McGregor's Creek
Robert
Mr. Graham
Motor Company
Morristown
N. J
W C Z UL TAKES CRACK AT HOOVER
The Seattle convention of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union telegrams opposition to President Hoover’s plan for states to handle prohibition individually. Ella A. Boole denounces the plan while Lt. Gov. John A. Gellary, a Republican gubernatorial candidate, vows victory for right principles. Arthur Earnhardt will speak in place of Dr. Poling amid repeal enforcement concerns.
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Seattle
Hoover
Ella A. Boole
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Union
Arthur Earnhardt
Chicago
Toplings
Daniel A. Poling
New York
Allied Forces For Prohibition
East
Earnhardt
Illinois
Washington
North Carolina Receives $50 560 For Forest Fire Fight
Raleigh August 13 North Carolina will obtain $50 000 in federal Clarke McNary funds for forest fire control this year, a drop of $6 320 from last year. Despite the cut NC stays ahead of most states in federal aid, with a total fire budget of $100 514 for protection.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Charles H. Flory
Tony
Georgia
Florida
Roosevelt to Host Running Mate Before Big Swing
Roosevelt plans a Hudson River weekend at Hyde Park with running mate John N Garner of Texas before a two month campaign swing through Ohio New Jersey and Connecticut. Garner arrives tomorrow and will join Roosevelt in Albany for talks before the Roosevelt Chicago convention gathering.
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Hyde Park
N. Y
Roosevelt
Hudson River
John N. Garner
Exas
John J. Bennett
Henry Wallace
Des Moines
Secretary of Agriculture
Farm Papers
Krum-Elbow
Garner
Albany
Chicago
Final Rites Held For Dr. George Lay Former St. Mary's Rector
Funeral services were held in Chapel Hill for Dr. George William Lay educator clergyman and 11 years rector of St. Mary's school who died in Duke Hospital Durham. Bishop Joseph Blount Cheshire and Rev. Alfred B Lawrence officiated as locals and Raleigh church choirs joined in. Burial followed in the Lay plot at Chapel Hill Cemetery where his youngest son Thomas Atkinson lay buried.
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Chapel Hill
George William Lay
St. Mary's School
Duké Hospital
Durham
Chapel of the Cross
Joseph Blount Cheshire
Raleigh
Alfred
Lawrence
Thomas Atkinson
Church of the Good Shepherd
Lay
Paul Green To Write Movie Script For Fox Film
CHAPEL HILL August 13 Paul Green playwright wired acceptance of a Fox Film contract to adapt a play for movies and will fly west tomorrow or Monday to begin. On September 1 he resumes a contract with Warner Brothers. He is on leave as a professor of philosophy at the University of North Carolina.
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Chapel Hill
Paul Green
Fox Film Corporation
West Coast
Green
Warner Brothers
University of North Carolina
Bears Take First Profits as Stocks Falter
Bears booked their first meaningful profits since July rally but their selling helped curb the market’s first sharp drop. The Dow leaders fell early by more than $5, then pared losses to finish slightly higher. Bond prices fell, commodities were mixed with Wheat down, Cotton up, and overall averages show about a fifth of the July surge erased.
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New York
Bears
Lancaster Denies Saying He Might Have Killed Clarke
Miami August 13 Capt W N Lancaster British aviator on trial for Haden Clarke death denied telling Mrs Ida Clarke that he sometimes thought he killed her son Hawthorne the states attorney questioned him about the remark The aviator stated he had never told anyone such a thing Autopsy doctors testified Clarke shot himself with the pistol pressed to his head The defense sought to question suicide but the court barred it Continued on page 11
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Miami
Fla
W. N. Lancaster
Haden Clarke
Clarke
N. Vernon Hawthorne
Ida Clyde Clarke
Lancaster
J. M. Keith-Miller
Keith Miller
Hawthorne
M. H. Tallman
Donald Gone
Walker ©. Jones, Jr
J. M. Carson
Arthur Hamilton
Auburn
N. Y
Hindenburg Refuses to Capitulate to Fascism
Berlin August 13 AP Germany's field marshal president stands firm against Hitler's bid for all governing power. Hitler rejects vice chancellor offer and demands chancellorship. Papen's talks fail, Hindenburg invokes moral grounds and fatherland duty, party threatens no confidence vote or Reichstag dissolution.
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Berlin
Germany
Hindenburg
Adolf Hitler
Hitler
von Hadenburg
National Socialist Party
von Papen
Prussia
Gregor Strasser
Otto Meissner
Reichstag
Raleigh Auditorium Dedication Set With Legion Leader Speech
Raleigh dedicates its new 250000 dollar world war memorial auditorium this Sunday with Henry L Stevens national commander of the American Legion delivering the principal address. The building, first used for the state democratic convention in June, was not completed then. Official ceremonies are planned.
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Raleigh
Henry L. Stevens
Warsaw
The
American Legion
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Ontario
Cupid
Screen Star
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G.O.P
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St. Mary’s
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