Railroads seek 15 percent freight-rate rise to save $5.7 billion in securities
Inter state commerce hearing hears advocate warns $5,748,500,000 in railroad securities could be wiped from approved lists if earnings do not rise. Forewarns of capital flight to utilities and bonds and calls for restoring public confidence to avert disaster. Commissioner Meyer delays testimony until Monday.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Fairman
Germany
Meyer
Fall Begins Prison Term After Bribery Conviction
Albert B. Fall former secretary of the interior begins a sentence of one year and one day for accepting a $100000 bribe from E L Doheny. He is en route to the New Mexico penitentiary at Santa Fe after leaving his mansion in an ambulance. Fall suffers chronic tuberculosis and was moved to avoid risk in a DC prison.
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Santa Fe
Bel Paso
Tex - Duly
Albert B. Fall
The
Iterior
New Mexico
Three Rivers
France Accepts Conference With German Leaders After Talks
American officials report progress toward the London seven power conference after talks with German leaders. France modifies its loan proposal and hopes for relief measures, while Stimson Mellon prepare to join Henderson in London for renewed discussions.
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France
Washington
Germany
London
United States
Great Britain
Stimson
Mellon
Paris
Stimso
Treasury
Theaters Full of Dirt Assert MP Officials
The Methodist Episcopal board of temperance urged drastic nationwide theater cleanup in an editorial praising censorship. It cited vaudeville and film shows in Washington with crude jokes, profanity, bootleg liquor and indecent female characters, calling for prosecutions if performers do not reform.
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Washington
Methodist Episcopal Board of Temperance Today
Film's Funny Man Asks For Divorce
Bert Roache a film comedian files for divorce from Mrs Roache claiming cruel treatment and that she threw a bronze elephant statue when questioned about her late hours. He seeks division of North Hollywood property held jointly with his wife.
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Los Angeles
Bert Roache
Ten Year Plan for Economic Rehabilitation Eyed
In Henryetta Oklahoma on July 18 a crowd of about 300 unemployed men and women, bearing an American flag, marched on downtown groceries to form an emergency relief store at city hall. About 500 onlookers watched as rain shortened their plans for more food and a minister prayed for guidance. Some individuals entered a mercantile to demand supplies but were refused and left.
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Henryitta
Okla
City Hall
Okmulgee
Henryetta
Charles Holmes
Dewar
L. Baldwin
Beautifying North Carolina to Boost Tourism and Revenue
An article argues for state beautification to attract tourists and increase income. It notes NC debt totals about 550 million dollars with a population around 3 million, yielding per capita debt of 188 dollars and a per capita tax of about 32 dollars yearly. It also discusses debt service consuming roughly 40 million of annual tax revenue.
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North Carolina
Union
Suit to be filed against directors of defunct Home Savings Bank
North Carolina official Gurney P. Hood announced the state will sue directors of the closed Home Savings Bank for mis management or neglect. The action seeks recovery for depositors after the bank failed January 17 1931. The case adds to three prior suits against directors of other failed banks.
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Gurney P. Hood
Home Savings Bank
Raleigh
State Commissioner of Banks
OT Wimmington
Hood
Raleigh Banking and Trust Company
Bank of Lowell
Gaston County
Commercial Bank and Trust Company
Gastonia
Woodus Kellam
I. M. Bailey
State Banking Department
Banic
Robert Scott
M. I. Baxter
A. J. Moore, Jr
H. A. Huggins
J. W. H. Futchs
J. F. Roach
H. B. Bleuthenthal
C. McD. Davis
BT. Tagier
J. W. Yates
C. van Leuben
H. B. Blnethenthal
Newton Fisher
C. B. Parmele
W. Yates
Annulment Sought by Mrs Kennedy in Los Angeles
Mrs Minnie Kennedy seeks annulment of her marriage to Rev Edward Hudson filed after disclosure he did not divorce another wife. She was ordered examined by two psychiatrists amid accusations of senility and childish delusions. Her daughter Aimee Semple McPherson founder of Angelus Temple is referenced.
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Los Angeles
Minnie
Ma) Kennedy
J. J. Gormley
County Lunacy Commission
B. F. Clearwater
Angelus Temple
Predict Roosevelt Will Continue To Show Improvement
Albany dispatch reports three New York physicians predict ongoing improvement in Franklin D. Roosevelt’s condition since his bout with infantile paralysis ten years ago. The doctors Lam bert Hibbs and Kennedy examined him last April at the request of writer Earle Looker. their findings were published recently with the full text released today.
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Albany
N. Y
Franklin D. Roosevelt
New York
Samuel W. Lambert
Russell A. Hibbs
Foster Kennedy
Earle Looker
Northampton
Mass
Youth Killed In Fall Off Mountain At Battle Rock
CORTEZ Col July 18 William Cooper 19 of Enid Ohio fell 490 feet to his death from Battle Rock while climbing with his father and uncle. Cooper had tied a rope around his son’s waist to prevent an accident. The elder Cooper fainted at the crest and found his son missing, then saw the body below.
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Cortez
Col
William Cooper
Enid
Ohio
Battle Rock
Jess Cooper
Cooper
Charlotte Attorney Tom P. Jimson Runs for Labor Commissioner
Charlotte attorney and former Methodist minister Tom P. Jimson announced his candidacy for labor commissioner to succeed Frank D. Grist. He said he would campaign across the state from Murphy to Manteo, relying on voter support over money and urging brethren to rally behind him.
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Charlotte
Tom P. Jimson
Commissioner of Labor
Frank D. Grist
Jimson
Murphy
Manteo
Cherokee
Currituck
Oil Well Fire Near Mount Pleasant Burns Forty
Fire at a newly drilled oil well 13 miles east of Mount Pleasant injures forty people, five or six seriously. Owner Walter L. McClancan, A. E. Gorham, and oil scout Fugitt are named among the seriously injured as tanks explode and the rig burns. The well, drilled this afternoon, produced about 1,200 barrels before flames spread from spilled oil.
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Mount Pleasant
Mich
Here
Walter L. McClancan
A. E. Gorham
Fugitt
Polish Officer Executed As Spy
Warsaw reports Major Peter Demkowsky was executed at 7 13 p m after President Moscicki refused clemency. Convicted of espionage for passing state secrets to foreigners, he wore civilian dress as treason conviction expelled him from the army. He testified he spied due to sympathy with Soviet Russia.
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Warsaw
Poland
Peter Demkowsky
Moscicki
Demkowsky
Russia
Man Kills Sister and Ends Own Life
In Columbus Georgia on July 18 Carl Gordy 30 shot and killed his sister Vera Tucker 28 and then shot himself Police said family said he was despondent over financial problems Mrs Emma Gordy their mother reported his remark I wish I was dead and Vera too that we were dead together
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Columbus
Carl Gordy
Vera Tucker
Emma Gordy
Vera
Hoover Plays Part of Good Samaritan on Roadside Aid
President Hoover traveling to Rapidan camp stopped after an auto crash near Luray Virginia. He directed his physician Captain Joel Boone and aide Theodore Joslin to tend to Mrs. William F Newton of Washington who suffered a knee injury elbow sprain back pain and shock after a tire blew out and the car overturned on a curve.
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Dr. Boone
Theodore Joslin
Uncovering of Plot to Unseat Machado Denied
Washington officials denied reports that justice department agents had uncovered a financed plot to remove Cuban President Machado. Officials stated no orders for such an investigation had been issued recently by the bureau. An NY attorney might have directed federal agents, but no records support this.
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Washington
Justice Department
Machado
Cuba
Bureau of Investigation
United States
New York
Mysterious Dr Blanco Plot Said to Target Cuban Leader
The Sun reported a Cuba plot to unseat President Gerardo Machado. Federal and local agents and undercover detectives supposedly thwarted plans to ship arms valued at 1,000,000 to Cuba. Dr Blanco allegedly warned to abandon revolutionary activities or face arrest and deportation.
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New York
Dr. Blanco
Gerardo Machado
Cuba
Sun
United States Department of Justice
Island
Republic
James Hall Sets New York to Havana Flight Record
James Goodwin Hall flew the Lockheed Altair Crusader from New York to Havana in about eight hours and thirty-five minutes unofficially setting a speed record for the non stop route. He departed Roosevelt Field at 4 43 am facing fog early then climbed to five thousand feet for most of the flight landing at Columbia airport late morning.
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James Hall
New York-Havana
Army
Frank Hawks
Havana
New York
James Goodwin Hall
Os Ieanee
Roosevelt Field
Columbia Airport
Curtiss Airport
Government Field
Rancho Boyeros
Frank M. Hawk
Crusader
Hall
The
Crusaders
Hdm
Needs of Nation Outlined Before High Officials
Paris talks among statesmen yielded plans for a general war powers conference in London. Chancellor Bruening and Curtius met with American and French officials outlining German needs. Hindenburg issued decrees tightening capital outflow while Stimson and Mellon prepared to depart for London.
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Peres
Paris
London
Laval
France
Stimson
Treasury
Mellon
Bruening
Curtius
Paul von Hindenburg
Berlin
Germany
Washington
Obstacles to French attendance at London talks cleared
Paris July 18 The Associated Press reports that barriers hindering France from joining the conference of major statesmen in London on Monday have been removed. The move clears path for French participation in the talks.
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Arno Dosch-Fleurot
Associated Press
Paris
London
Relief Arrives as Rains Cool Great Lakes States
Weather relief spread across the Great Lakes region with rains and gentle winds easing heat in Illinois Wisconsin Michigan and Indiana. Temperatures lingered in the upper 70s to 80s in the north while southern areas stayed hot with 100 degree readings. Two more deaths in Indiana and Minnesota raised weekly total to about eighty. Heavy rains cooled Oklahoma ending a month long dry spell.
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Associated Press
Great Lakes
West
Chicago
Wisconsin
North Dakota
Minnesota
Ohio
Indiana
Michigan
Illinois
Iowa
South Dakota
Utah
Wyoming
Montana
Washington
Kansas
Missouri
Detroit
Oklahoma
Bailey to Speak at Legion Convention
Senator Josiah W. Bailey will be the principal speaker at the opening session of the legion convention in Morehead City on July 27. Senator Cameron Morrison will introduce his colleague, and Gov. O. Max Gardner is also expected to address the gathering.
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Charlotte
American Legion
Mooresville
Josiah W. Bailey
Morehead City
Cameron Morrison
Max Gardner
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