Troops Guard East Texas Oil Fields Under Martial Law
In Kilgore Texas on August 17 194? Brigadier General Jacob F Walters announced a state order closing 1600 producing oil and gas wells to prevent waste. He urged cooperation and warned violators face arrest and jail until martial law ends, with withdrawal anticipated in about two weeks once enforcement begins.
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Kilgore
Tex
Texas National Guardsmen
Jacob F. Walters
Ross
Sterling
Wolters
Rush
Gregg
Smith
Upshur
Governor Proposes State Law Against Raising 1932 Crop
Governor Huey P. Long backs a plan for cotton states to pass laws forbidding raising a single bale in 1932. He seeks inter-state support via telegrams to governors and lawmakers, promising immediate southern prosperity if enacted, with Louisiana ready to act if others join. The move aims to raise prices and aid farmers amid overproduction pressures.
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New Orleans
Huey P. Long
Louisiana
Long
United States
Martial law in East Texas oil field orders shutdowns
Governor Ross S. Sterling declared martial law in four counties Rusk Gregg Smith and Upshur locking down producing wells to conserve resources. Texas oil regulators will implement the conservation measure and expect a week or two for full effect with industry estimates suggesting about 1 600 producing wells and a daily output near 750 000 barrels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Texas
Ross S. Sterling
East Texas
State Railroad Commission
Texas Oil Regulation Body
Sterling
Rusk, Gregg, Smith and Upshur
Strainmen Defy Jinx and Win Three Games
Raleigh Capitals, Piedmont league, employed a dugout shift described by manager Odie Strain as a move for luck. After sweeping Winston-Salem last Friday, the team repeated the trick Saturday, winning two more games. The jinx-defying tactic may be used again when the Caps return home August 26 after a road trip.
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Raleigh
Winston-Salem
Odie Strain
Skipper Strain
Agust
Cuban Revolution Seen As Lost Cause In Cuba
Havana August 17. Government views the seven day revolt as nearly finished with leaders captured and imprisoned aboard the gunboat Fernandez Quevedo. President Machado concentrates forces in Santa Clara while insurgents remain in the field, expecting the revolt to end as Machados forces crush resistance and demand capitulation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Havana
Cuba
Gerardo Machado
Santa Clara
Mario G. Menocal
Carlos Mendieta
Independence
Machado
Fernandez Quevedo
Quevedo
Tiscornia
Cabana
Menocal
Mendieta
Aurelio Hevia
Roberto Mendez Penate
Army of Liberation
Santa Clara Col
Emiliano Amiel
Morrison Heard By Greek Order of Arahovitan
In Gastonia on August 17 delegates to the Adelphots Arahovitan Karyae met to begin three days of business while United States Senator Cameron Morrison’s speech echoed the event. Morrison praised the Greek organization for its historical role and its push to establish a Greek college nearby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morrison
Arahovitan
Gastonia
Adelphots Arahovitan Karyae
United States
Cameron Morrison
Women In Army Help Fight Forest Fires Threatening Ione
Spokane dispatch reports women aided 700 federal and state fighters near Ione Idaho as two fires menaced the town. Wind changes brought shifting spot fires and new blazes on both sides of Dry Gulch. residents prepared evacuations while foresters urged not to start fires amid hot, dry conditions.
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Spokane
Wash
Ione
Here
Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific
Clark Fork
Montana-Idaho Son
Idaho
Lindberghs Poised for Nemuro Landing in Gala Reception
In Nemuro Kurile Islands Aug 17 the Ainu villagers of this 17 000 population fishing town prepare the grandest welcome yet for Col and Mrs Charles A Lindbergh aboard their next leg of a vacation flight. The hairy Ainus emerge from burrows to watch the great man bird and meet the noted visitors.
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Nemuro
Kurile Islands
Charles A. Lindbergh
Lindberghs Near Nemuro Japan Flight Start Pending
San Francisco dispatches report Colonel and Mrs Charles A Lindbergh prepared to begin their flight from Petropavlovsk Kamchatka to Nemuro Japan tomorrow as a radio message from Paramushir Island indicates they are still at Petropavlovsk studying weather. No start time is given. The Kokusai Maru completed a gasoline supply run around the North Pacific rim and is returning to Japan.
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Goodby
Charles A. Lindbergh
Aklavik
Northwest Territory
Arctic Ocean
Orient
Mackenzie River
Lindy
Anne
San Francisco
Grant
Tokyo
Petropavalovsk
Mamchatka
Nemura
Japan
Nemuro
Paramushir Island
Obiishi Wireless
Petropavlovsk
Kamchatka
Paramushir Station
Durham Borrows From Peter To Pay Paul Bonds
Durham officials will use the sinking fund to buy city bonds saving about 1000 dollars monthly. If market conditions improve they plan to sell the bonds and restore the funds to the sinking fund.
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Durham
Peter
Paul
N. C
State Prison Fifth In Nation For Costs
Raleigh August 17. J W Bunn chairman of the Board of Prison Directors told a Raleigh luncheon club that North Carolina’s state prison is among the most expensive to operate per inmate while overcrowded. He urged immediate funding for additional prison farms noting 847 prisoners able to work are kept in absolute idleness.
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Raleigh
United States
North Carolina
J W. Bunn
Ralegih
Bunn
Dempsey Seeks Divorce In Reno After Weekend News
Reno dispatch reports Jack Dempsey filed for divorce from Estelle Taylor alleging mental cruelty. Attorney Robert Burns said Taylor may contest while she warned of filing in Los Angeles. Negotiations over reclaiming a wedding gift house for $100,000 failed due to terms set by Mrs. Dempsey. The couple wed in San Diego on February 7, 1925.
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Reno
Nev
Jack Dempsey
Estelle Taylor
Robert E. Burns
Miss Taylor
Los Angeles
Burns
Dempsey
Dempseys
San Diego
Calif
Three Brutally Slain By Flung Knives In Saloon
New York dispatch reports the brutal murder of three men at a Brooklyn speakeasy cellar where knives were hurled. Victims Charles Maturo Charles Simminelli and Joseph Barberi were found with head injuries and multiple wounds. An eye witness says two assaulted women were followed by six male assailants identified as the attackers.
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New York
Brooklyn
Charles Maturo
Charles Simminelli
Joseph Barberi
Maturo Simminelli
Barberi
Georgia Sheriff Found Shot To Death In Atlanta
A sweep of weekend fatalities across the South reports Sheriff Oscar McGee of Griffin Ga found dead in bed with a coroner's jury ruling accidental self shot. The roundup notes teen gun duels, murders by knife and arson, and fatal automobile crashes touching Kentucky North Carolina South Carolina Mississippi Alabama Tennessee and Florida with several named victims and incidents.
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Georgia
North Carolina
Atlanta
South
Pineville
Howard Hall
Finas Williams
Shreveport
J. H. Atkinson
Alton Jarrell
Mount Airy
N. C
Florence
Ala
Dan Stevens
Spartanburg
S. C
Nellie Collier
Greenville
Miss
George Rigney, Jr
Alex Williams
U. S. Government
Central Area Lecvee
Ernest Levy Transfer and Storage Company
James Russell
Bill Overby
Centreville
Tenn
D. Berger
Athens
Charlie Reed
West Blocton
Elbert Gunn
Kewanee
Charles F. Patterson
Glenn Allen
Texas
Tallahassee
Fla
Joseph Reese
William
Tack In Lung Found In Child In Kinston
In Kinston on August 17, Clifton Sutton aged 12 was found to have a tack in one lung. Dr. Vance P. Perry located the tack and removed it successfully.
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Kinston
Clifton Sutton
Vance P. Perry
Prisoner death letter prompts request to die
Tyre Taylor received a Raleigh man’s letter urging he be allowed to die next in the electric chair but declined to reveal the author. In Beaufort, six former Carteret county officials contractors and engineers faced trial delays until Wednesday as a special venue of 122 jurors from Pitt county is summoned.
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Raleigh
Tyre Taylor
C. Max Gardner
Taylor
Beaufort
N. C
Carteret County
Pitt County
Federal Building To Furnish Work For 100000 Men
Treasury officials say the public building program worth 700 million dollars will create work for about 150000 men over the coming winter and two years. About 500 million is to be spent outside Washington. Currently the program employs 32000 workers directly.
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Washington
Treasury
District of Columbia
China inquires about selling wheat for Yangtse flood relief
Shanghai sources report the Chinese government asked through diplomatic channels if the American Farm Board would sell on liberal terms a substantial quantity of wheat to aid millions of flood sufferers in the Yangtse valley.
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Shanghai
American Farm Board
Yangste
Salisbury Golf Pro Shot By Trespasser
Salisbury, Aug. 17. Mike Thomas, professional at Salisbury Country Club, was wounded in the thigh when he flushed a prowler from the club premises. He fired four loads of bird shot. the marauder returned fire. Thomas’s condition is not serious.
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Salisbury
Mike Thomas
Salisbury Country Club
Thomas
Whiteman and Livingston to Wed at Denver Farm
Paul Whiteman orchestra leader and actress Margaret Livingston head to Denver where they will marry tomorrow at the Whiteman farm home. The couple, traveling together, plan a quiet ceremony in a farm setting before returning to public life.
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Chicago
Paul Whiteman
Margaret Livingston
Denver
Whiteman Farm
Wilkins Plans Nautilus Northward Trial Cruise
Sir Hubert Wilkins will conduct a test voyage northward aboard the submarine Nautilus with a sealing vessel in attendance before fixing a departure date for an underwater cruise to the north pole.
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Spitzbergen
Sir Hubert Wilkins
North Pole
State Bakers Meet Opens NC Convention in New Bern
The North Carolina Bakers association today opened its second convention in New Bern with members gathering for the Aug 17 session.
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New Bern
North Carolina Bakers Association
Woman Healer Is Recovering From Rattlesnake Bite
BIG SANDY Tenn Aug 17 Mrs Lois Guire a middle Tennessee gospel worker is reported to be recovering from a rattlesnake bite she refused medical aid and said no snake would bite her. A congregation member brought the snake to revival services and it struck her. Town Marshall E G Flowers said she is expected to preach again in a week or 80.
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Big Sandy
Tenn
Lois Guire
Middle Tennessee
Yadkin Lumberman Dies After Yard Crash
Ira Michael 38 year old farmer and lumberman from Yadkin College died in Lexington hospital after injuries from a wreck Saturday near Arcadia twelve miles south of town. His son Richard and L O Hartman drove cars collided on the Salisbury Winston road. Hartman and Henry Hartley occupants survived.
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Lexington
Ira Michael
Yadkin College
Lexington Hospital
Arcadia
Here
Michael
Richard
L. O. Hartman
Salisbury - Winston Road
Hartman
Winston-Salem
Henry Hartley
Four Toledo Banks Close As Cops Patrol Districts
Four Toledo banks with assets over 100 million dollars failed to open as eleven savings associations ceased deposits amid a financial crisis. The state banking department prepared to take over, responding to withdrawals. Police patrolled district banks while Commerce Guardian Trust and Ohio Savings Bank and Trust, Commercial Savings Bank and Trust, and American Bank announced closures. Remaining banks stayed open as Morrie Plan and Industrial banks remained operational.
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Toledo
State Banking Department
Paliaa
West Toledo National
Morrie Plan Bank
The
Industrial Bank
Anaa
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Dwight, Il
Congress Hotel
Magill
Rosnwald
South Carolina
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IAP
Lindbergh
State Prison
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Wilkins
Yadkin Lumberman
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