Controversial Issues Barred At Conference Gold Bloc Triumphs
The World Economic conference steering committee bars controversial topics and approves a limited agenda with silver, indebtedness, and central banking cooperation. The gold bloc calls the move a victory while the American delegation and Canadian Prime Minister Bennett push for wider discussion. Unanimous agreements are required to implement to avoid renewed discord.
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London
Dominions
James M. Cox
Ohio
Bennett
Canada
North Carolina farmers warned on federal credit if cotton crops not reduced
Raleigh July 11 Charles A Sheffield acting state director of the cotton reduction campaign warned about 74 000 NC farmers who have government-financed loans that they may lose access to such credit if they do not sign cotton reduction contracts. He said 70 000 farmers used crop reduction loans totaling 6 049 407 dollars by June 7 and about 4 000 more borrowed from the regional credit corporation.
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Raleigh
Charles A. Sheffield
North Carolina
Sheffield
Cully A. Cobb
Crop Production Loan Office
Regional Credit Corporation
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Ransom Demanded for New York Party Leader’s Nephew
U S Attorney to discuss the case with Copeland as authorities seek the return of a nephew of a New York party leader amid a $250 000 ransom demand. The justice department pledges full cooperation with a special senate committee to exterminate racketeers.
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N. Y. Party
Washington
Justice Department
Senate
United States
Cummings
Copeland
North Carolina Manufactured Product Value Rises Sharply
The state reports growth from 1900 manufacturing value of 8 274 000 dollars to 1931 total of 1 026 565 000 dollars reflecting extensive industrial expansion.
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North Carolina
Federal warning on bread price hikes issued
Secretary Wallace telegraphed 49 cities in 25 states promising full government action to curb unwarranted bread price increases tied to a 30 cent per bushel wheat processing tax. He noted consumer protests, pledged vigilance, and said the attorney general will be informed. leaders in Oklahoma City Muskogee Little Rock Houston Tampa and others were named. Frederick Clemson Howe stated efforts will target unjustified food price rises.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Wallace
Department of Agriculture
Gova
Muskogee
Duncan
Oklahoma City
Anadarko
Oklahoma
Little Rock
Hot Springs
Ark
Louisville
Kentucky
Houston
Texas
Tampa
Florida
Hancock
Maryland
Charleston
West Virginia
Frederick Clemson Howe
Farm Administration
Navajo Indians drop 25 white officials in mock savings
A July report from Santa Monica notes the Navajo Indians held a conference and decided to do without about 25 appointed white officeholders to save the white man money. It hints at future steps and pokes fun at government hands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Monica
Calif
London
Negro Physician Faces $100000 Suit For Alienations Of Affections
Los Angeles reports Dr. Eugene C. Nelson, a Black physician who wed Helen Worthing, faces a $100 000 suit from a husband alleging alienation of affection. The Desmonds of Long Island also pursue divorce, with Mrs Desmond claiming fraud in marriage and loss of American citizenship. Relatives in Galax Virginia note a rift involving Desmonds and a daughter of Rev M E Poole.
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Los Angeles
Calif
Eugene C. Nelson
Helen Lee Worthing
Follies
Leo F. Desmond
Long Island
N. Y
Desmond
Demond
Galax
M. E. Poole
Baywood
Grayson County
Margaret
Roosevelt Forms Recovery Council To Shape Lumber Code
President Roosevelt created a Council For Recovery with cabinet and administration leaders to guide national rehabilitation efforts. Hearings on the lumber code of fair competition begin July 20 to set maximum hours and minimum wages, with Johnson signaling some terms unacceptable but hoping for revised terms. The lumber industry has agreed to wage increases and shorter hours as part of the code plans.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Industrial Recovery Administration
Council For Recovery
White House
Hugh&. Johnson
War Veterans Hold Elections Today in North Carolina
Formal election of officers was the main business at the North Carolina department United Spanish War Veterans and its auxiliary during the annual convention in Winst on Salem. Nominees include W Capers White of Raleigh for commander and Robert Lyerly of Hickory as senior vice commander.
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Wimston-Salem
North Carolina Department
United Spanish War Veterans
W. Capers White
Raleigh
Robert Lyerly
Hickory
Max L. Barker
Salisbury
Mary L. Stradley
Asheville
Edith Charlotte
Johnson to accept half pay under recovery act
Hugh S Johnson, administrator of the Industrial Recovery Act, will draw less than half the cabinet salary. A $6,000 limit applies to his pay, lower than the statutory $15,000 cabinet level, though initial expectations had placed him at the cabinet rate.
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Washington
Hugh 8S. Johnson
Johson
Recovery Administration
Convicts Seek Escapees Who Released Mail Carrier Near Raleigh
Three escaped Georgia convicts who kidnapped four men are being hunted after releasing John C. Lyle a Wake Forest Wake Forest area rural carrier. Lyle traveled toward home with his mail bag reportedly untampered as investigators pursue interstate actions and the suspects through Tennessee Georgia and the Carolinas toward Virginia.
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Raleigh
Georgia
North Carolina
Virginia
Wake Forest
Here
John Co. Lyle
Crawfordsville
Lyle
Carolinas
Carl Williamson
C. H. Heffner
L. A. Stone
Augusta
United States
Marshall E. L. Gettie
Cobb County
Richmond
Tennessee
Aerial expeditions awaiting clear weather worldwide
Five air missions wait on favorable conditions before advancing. Lindberghs head toward Halifax planning a Greenland crossing to Europe. Balbo’s 24 Italian flying boats poised in Reykjavik to reach America. Ellis and Alexander in Nome aiming to reach Mattern in Anadyr. Post and Rossi-Codos in New York seek circumnavigation or distance record as weather delays persist.
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Globe
Charles A. Lindbergh
North Haven
Halifax
Greenland
Europe
Italo Balbo
Reykjavik
Iceland
America
Robert Ellis
William Alexander
Nome
Alaska
Bering Sea
Jimmie Mattern
Anadyr
Siberia
New York
Atlantic
Wiley Post
Lieut
Maurice Rossi
Paul Codos
Weaters
Trio Arrested In Plot To Kidnap Wealthy Virginian
Suffolk police arrest three men in Franklin area on charges of felonious attempt to kidnap C. Vaughan wealthy chairman of Vaughan and Company bankers The suspects Jack Heale Harvey Norfleet and John R Wade were separated after arrest an automobile hidden nearby suggested planned escape Judge McLemore ordered separation and Vaughan ordered to Newport News Peters burg and Franklin jailers The Smiths note ongoing investigation page nine
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Suffolk
C. Vaughan
Vaughan and Company
Franklin
Jack Heale
Holland
Detroit
Harvey Norfleet
John R. Wade
Blackwater River
Vaughan
James L. McLemore
Heale
Newport News
Norfleet
Petersburg
Wade
H. W. Churn
Suffolk Police
Mr. Vaughan
Nationwide Kidnapping Wave Prompts Federal Action
A spate of abductions across four states inflames fears as Albany reports the disappearance of John J. O Connell a 24 year old Manlius athlete and nephew of prominent Democratic figures. A $250 000 ransom is demanded. Senator Copeland seeks federal aid and convokes a conference on kidnapings. In Illinois a 78 year old banker is abducted as a highway police squad is formed. A Georgia mail carrier is kidnapped in Crawfordsville and a North Carolina farm is used to hold him. Federal agents pursue John Factor in Newport News amid possible hoax indications to avoid extradition to England.
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Associated Press
United States
Albany
New York
John J
Butch) O'Connell
Manlius
Edward J
Daniel P. O'Connell
Copeland
Cummings
New York Democrat
Senate
Alton
Illinois
August Luer
Henry Horner
J. C. Lyle
Crawfordsville
Georgia
Wake Forest
North Carolina
Newport News
Virginia
John Factor
Chicago
Great Britain
Factor
England
Ernest Strowd Sentenced to Two Years in Local Robbery Case
Ernest Strowd, 16, of High Point, received two years on the roads under highway prison supervision after appearing before Judge Thomas J. Shaw. He had been arrested Thursday for breaking into Hoffman Drug Co. on East Green Street and was bound over to Superior Court with $1,000 bond. He was one of three juvenile delinquents charged with breaking and entering.
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Greensboro
Ernest Strowd
High Point
Highway Prison Commission
Thomas J. Shaw
Strowd
Hoffman Drug Company
East Green Street
Lewis E. Teague
Shaw
Connecticut Ratifies amending U S Constitution Prohibition Repeal
In Hartford Connecticut delegates vote unanimously to ratify the seventh amendment seeking repeal of national Prohibition joining states moving to end nationwide ban. The action marks Connecticut as a pro repealing state amid a wave of compliance.
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Martford
Conn
Connecticut
U. S
Kidnappers Seize Aged Banker In Alton Abduction
Alton police join Jersey County search for August Luer 77 a wealthy invalid banker abducted last night by a comely young woman and two men. Will Penning saw a man resembling Luer in a car at Piasa twelve miles north. Luer’s family awaits ransom word while relatives fear for his life amid the unresolved disappearance and prior threats.
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Alton
Jersey County
Here
August Luer
Will Penning
Luer
Piasa
Carl Luer
Two Actions Are Started By Biggs In Federal Court
John D. Biggs receiver for Commercial National Bank files suit in federal court against BE L Bennett of High Point to collect 662.26 claimed as principal on promissory notes with Bennett named as principal or surety and seeks interest and costs. In a separate suit Biggs asks judgment of 275 plus interest from E L Bennett and E K Ingram for alleged indorsement of a note by W G Brown as principal.
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Greensboro
John D. Biggs
Commercial National Bank
BE. L. Bennett
High Point
Mable
Mr. Biggs
E. L. Bennett
Abductors Seek New Go-Betweens in John O'Connell Kidnapping
In Albany on July 11 Abductors of 24 year old John O Connell nephew of Dan and Ed O Connell renew ransom demand of 250000 and provide a new coded list of 11 contact names. the O Connell family publishes a second coded advertisement using the same code word Sedgewick to urge help while police and state officials consider action.
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Albany
N. Y
John’’ O’connell
Dan
Ed O’connell
Dan O'Connell
O'Connell
O’connells
Albany Times-Union
Walter V. Johnson
Rensselaer
Hudson River
Paul Carroll
Rock Tarzio
Eddie Gorman
Pat Coffee
Mike Connelly
Joe Leone
Willis King
Neil Ponsi
Young O'Connell
Senator Copeland
D-Ny
Cummings
Kidnapping Racket Grows Into Big US Business
AP reports kidnapers across the United States have sought at least 650000 dollars from victims’ families in five months, with more than 250000 dollars actually paid. Notable cases include Boettcher, Factor, Hamm, O’Connell, and Luer, with varied outcomes and ongoing manhunts.
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U. S
Charles Harner
New York
United States
Charles Boettcher, II
Denver
Jerome Factor
Chicago
MacMath
Harwichport
Iliam Hamm
St. Paul
John J. O'Connell, Jr
Albany
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N. C
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Miss Worthing
New York Stage
Mies Worthing
Hugh Johnson
Sam
Lindy
Biggs
John O'Connell
Iil
Peggy McMath
Marc McElroy
Boettcher
John
Jake
Jerome
Hamm
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