Chicago grain prices drift lower at season low
Chicago grain markets show declines across wheat corn and rye with new season lows as selling pressure and light buying demand push prices downward. Scattered stop-loss orders in wheat are covered while rallies remain feeble and traders note lack of large speculative shorts. Potatoes in Baltimore and Maryland Pennsylvania markets vary by variety with U S 1 sacks and regional yellow varieties listed along with New Jersey and North Carolina pricing.
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Chicago
Baltimore
Maryland
Pennsylvania
U. S
New Jersey
U.S
North Carolina
Georgia
Crime War in New York draws crowd at vigil
Citizens urged to serve as jurors and witnesses amid a crime war in New York. Vice-President Curtis pledged an implacable stand against enemies of society. A 70 member committee pressed Meyer Walker to act on return. Gloria Lopez and Michael Vengalli’s mothers attended. Charles Coughlin attacked prohibition. Smedley Butler criticized politics for harboring crime.
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Curtis
Meyer Walker
Goodby
Racketeer
George M. Cohan
Gloria Lopez
Michael Vengalli
Charles Coughlin
Detroit
Prohibition
Smedley D. Butler
Marine Corps
Calls for Revised Criminal Code and tougher probe of corruption
The report urges Congress to consider a revised criminal procedure code to close loopholes and curb technicalities aiding the guilty. It warns of criminal-politician alliances undermining police power and proposes measures to curb third degree tactics, expand prosecution funding, and speed trials. Nationwide studies on racketeering would be launched.
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Congress
Queen of West pageant ties and jail reform critique
The article notes a Miss from Blackwell Oklahoma receiving the title Queen of the West amid a pageant in Medicine Park with contestants from Texas and Oklahoma. It also covers criminal justice reform where the commission calls for humane prisons, work, education, and limits on brutal punishment, plus proposals like a federal Institute of Human Research and expanded employment bureaus. It mentions Bradford's suicide attempt at a bank, convictions of Wallace B. Davis for false reporting, and Lea facing multiple trials in Tennessee and Nashville related to bank failures and defrauding institutions.
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Jokerst
Blackwell
Okla
Texas
Oklahoma
Medicine Park
Commission
Hoover
Institute of Human Research
Jury returns verdict in bank affair cases in Tennessee
The Barnhill courtroom heard verdicts on multiple counts with the Leas found guilty on the fifth count for conspiring with bank cashier Bradford while Charlet was acquitted. The scene showed family tension as the judge prepared for sentencing and defense motions for a new trial, amid a wave of postcollapse indictments across Tennessee and Kentucky following Caldwell and Company’s failure.
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Charlet
Supreme Court
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Memphis
J. Charles Bradford
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Bradford
Tennessee
Kentucky
Caldwell and Company
Nashville Investment House
Central Bank and Trust Company
Asheville
Buncombe
Gallatin Roberts
J. Charles
Hotel escape linked to Abduction case in Inyo Hills
Father and son believe Billingsley was aided by an accomplice to move the children to a cabin in the Inyo foot hills. A note asking the district attorney to grant immunity and another pledging Mrs Billingsley to return imply a deranged abductor. Billingsley allegedly dropped from a hotel airplane at a dry lake spot and fled. he faces kidnapping, airplane theft, and violating a restraining order.
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Billingsley
Inyo
Slemp to Testify in Senate Campaign Funds Probe
Washington August hearing resumes into Bishop Cannon’s 1928 anti Smith campaign in Virginia. Bascom Slemp, Virginia Republican and former Coolidge aide, is called to testify before the Senate committee as bankers are set to be questioned on the bishop’s bank accounts. The panel seeks details on James Cannon and Jameson relations and funds used in the effort.
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Washington
Senate Campaign Funds Committee
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Methodist Episcopal Church, South
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Nye
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Tinkham
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New York
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Jameson
Long Urges New Orleans Cotton Plan At South Conference
Governor Long pushes unamended cotton conference plan to limit acreage as lawmakers from Caddo and East Carroll join talks. Texas officials debate a special session for remedial cotton laws while J E McDonald outlines acreage caps. Long warns Louisiana will refine the plan before presenting to Governor Sterling.
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Long
Reuben T. Douglas
Caddo Parish
Norris C. Williamson
East Carroll Parish
Texas
J. E McDonald
New Orleans
Special Venice Summonsed For Lexington Negro Murder Trial
Sheriff J A shawnard of Davidson county summoned 75 veniremen to report for the trial of Dudley Moore an 18 year old Negro charged with first degree murder in the slaying of Mrs Jacob G Berrier at her home near August 15 Moore was arraigned and indicted after confessing to the crime Judge Wilson Warlick appointed J Lee Wilson and Paul G Stoner to defend Moore and said the trial date would be set for Thursday in superior court Lexington
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J. A. ‘Heonard
Davidson County
Dudley Moore
Jacob G. Berrier
Wilson Warlick
J. Lee Wilson
Paul
G. Stoner
Moore
Warlick
Berrier
Blackwood weighs call for extra cotton ban session
Governor Blackwood of South Carolina prepared to plumb sentiment on a proposed special session to ban cotton planting in 1932. He awaited replies from lawmakers and other sources before action. Texans also urged a special session to cut cotton acreage, while Huey Long proposed a complete planting holiday.
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Columbia
S. C
Ibra CC. Blackwood
General Assembly
House
Senate
Austin
Texas
Sterling
Huey P. Long
Louisiana
Cabinet roster announced for national non partisan government
Prime Minister MacDonald presented the new cabinet roster to Buckingham Palace for approval. The list includes Stanley Baldwin Philip Snowden Herbert Samuel Lord Sankey Neville Chamberlain and others as senior ministers with many positions still to be announced. The king approved the lineup and MacDonald returned to Downing Street noting the barometer was rising and preliminaries nearly finished.
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Philip Snowden
Labor
Herbert Samuel
Liberal
Lord Sankey
Chancelor
Lord Reading
Samuel Hoare
India
J. H. Thomas
Dominions
Colonies
Neville Chamberlain
Philip Cunliffe-Lister
Board of Trade
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Board of Education
Henry Betterton
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Duchy of Lancaster
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Archibald Sinclair
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Buckingham Palace
Downing Street
Convent bells banned by Leon city council
In Leon Spain city council forbade ringing of convent bells at night after a resident complained, making nocturnal chimes illegal for the town.
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Leon
Spain
Hoover To Speak At Golden Anniversary Red Cross Founding
President Hoover will address the 50th anniversary of the first American Red Cross chapter in Dansville New York via NBC and CBS on September 9 Other speakers include Franklin D Roosevelt James L Fieser and Lewis E Frankewich plans call for a living red cross by 1000 Junior Red Cross members music by the Genessee Country Association band a cavalry drill by New York National Guard invocation by Pr Charles Cary and benediction by Rev Leo Hofeschneider
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Hoover
National Broadcasting Company
Columbia Broadcasting System
American Red Cross
Dansville
N. Y
Franklin D. Roosevelt
New York
James L. Fieser
Lewis E. Frankewich
Clara Barton
Bayard H
Leo G. Hofeschneider
Man Held On Doorstep Faces Life For Mother Visit
Paris reports Charles Rancarel, convicted burglar from 1915, sentenced to 10 years on Devil's Island. After escapes and roaming the world, he learned of his mother's ill health and attempted to visit her in Paris but was captured at her doorstep and now faces life imprisonment.
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Paris
Charles Rancarel
Devil's Island
Local readers win dollar news tips for varied stories
Mrs M C Dry of 622 Ward street tipped a snake yarn rivaling any fish tale in the community and earned a dollar. R E Black and J L Medlin of the city sanitary department shared a tip about 16 large rats slain with a broom handle. Mrs O E Murray of 1115 South Tate street reported war hunting in a big way. Fulton of No 2 fire station tipped The Enterprise about a fire at T R Wall’s home. Call 4565 to share tips.
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Ward Street
R. E. Black
J. L. Medlin
City Sanitary Department
O. E. Murray
South
Tate Street
Fulton
No. 2
T. R. Wall
North Carolina Considers Flogging Rules for Prisoners
Enterprise Bureau Raleigh Aug 25 The question of whether North Carolina will permit flogging or other corporal punishment for prisoners in convict camps will be decided after Gov D Max Gardner returns around September 1 The State Board of Charities and Public Welfare continues investigating the flogging of Oscar Dorsett a black man at a Wake County camp The Welfare board had not officially approved a tentative set of rules and condemned flogging again Awaiting the Wake Forest physician Dr P T Wilkerson to testify on the Dorsett beating
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Highway Commission
State Board of Charities and Public Welfare
Welfare Department
Board of Welfare
W. T. Best
Dorsett
P. T. Wilkerson
Wake Forest
Hanley Named Backfield Coach at South Carolina
Columbia, Aug 26. Coach William L Laval announced Lee Hanley of the Hanley football family has been signed as backfield coach at the University of South Carolina. Hanley will report Sept 1 and begin duties a week later, taking over from Whitey Rawl who becomes assistant freshman coach and likely scout for the team. Hanley played at Northwestern last season and is Dick Hanley’s brother.
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8. C
William L. Laval
Lee Hanley
Hanley
University of South Carolina
Whitey Rawl
Furman
Rawl
Laval
South Carolina
Northwestern University
Chicago
Dick Hanley
Northwestern
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