President launches Back-To-Farm movement to employ jobless
President Roosevelt set aside 20 million dollars to buy southern forest land and relocate Civilian Conservation Corps camps for winter. Secretary Ickes will administer subsistence homestead provisions to place unemployed city residents on farms.
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Public Works Law
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Great Plains
Eastern National Forest
Congress
North Carolina Farmland Figures Highlight Vast Acreage
North Carolina hosts 280000 farms covering 18055000 acres with about 7000000 acres classified as improved land. This snapshot notes extensive agricultural development across the state.
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Stocks Close Short Trading Day With Rally
New York July 22 Stocks closed with a rally after two volatile hours with narrower fluctuations. Many leaders rose in final trades as United Aircraft Continental Can Du Pont International Telephone Crown Cork & Seal Consolidated Gas Canada Dry Ginger Ale Southern Pacific General Motors U S Steel Chrysler American Tobacco Sears Roebuck General Foods Montgomery Ward American Sugar Union Carbide National Distillers Standard Brands North American Cleanese Western Union Baltimore & Ohio moved higher. The exchange reported 4,220,000 shares traded and cotton finished with gains after earlier losses.
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Continental Can
du Pont
International Telephone
Crown Cork & Seal
Consolidated Gas
Canada
Southern Pacific
General Motors
U. S. Steel
Chrysler
American Telephone
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Union Carbide
Sears Roebuck
General Foods
Montgomery Ward
American Tobacco
U. S. Industrial Alcohol
National Distillers
Standard Brands
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Cleanese
Western Union
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The
Mollisons Begin Flight To United States From Belfast
Jim and Amy Mollison start a transatlantic flight in the Seafarer from Belfast toward New York. Amy, fresh from a London to Capetown record, expresses mixed nerves as Jim handles takeoff and plans a 400 gallon fuel load for roughly 800 miles margin.
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Amy Johnson Mollison
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New World
Mollisons Begin Atlantic Flight Toward Baghdad Record
In Pendine Wales Jim and Amy Mollison fly Seafarer from New York toward Baghdad aiming for a non stop Atlantic crossing. Weather moderates takeoff at 11 A M Greenwich time with Capt James Mollison overseeing preparations and noting this could be his final spectacular flight.
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Comedian Jolson Slugs Winchell At Hollywood Boxing Show
Hollywood July 22 Comedian Al Jolson punched Walter Winchell at a boxing event near the Jolsons who watched with Ruby Keeler. Jolson knocked Winchell down twice amid claims of a staged scenario about a gangster and a chorus girl. The melee drew 4000 spectators as Winchell planned to seek action before Will Hays.
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Lefty” James
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Moviedom
Consolidation of Banks Delayed by Court Order
In Monroe on July 22 the Page Trust Company is temporarily restrained from merging with the North Carolina Bank and Trust of Greensboro and the Independence Trust of Charlotte. Judge A M Stack ordered stockholders depositors and creditors be allowed to voice opposition before consolidation proceeds. Separately in Charlotte Judge W F Harding declined to appoint a receiver for the Independence Trust, easing a barrier to its merger with Greensboro's bank into the Guaranty Trust of Greensboro.
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Page Trust Company
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Independence Trust Company of
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Superior Court
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Stack
Dia Etao
W. F. Harding
Independence Trust Company
Guaranty Trust Company
Cooperation pledged on wage hours
Washington July 22 P Administration building support for wage employment effort with pledges of cooperation to President Roosevelt and his aides Messages report action planned for minimum wage and maximum hours scales The President will address the nation at 930 pm EST Monday from a family trip to the Potomac aides note the topic and details will be expanded in coming days
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Roosevelt
White House
Hugh
Johnson
Osevelt
Potomac
Stretchout Probe Committee Delivers New Industry Suggestions
The cotton textile committee reviewing the stretch out system in mills has completed a report with recommendations for immediate incorporation in the cotton industry's code of fair competition. The document, signed and delivered with consent of interested parties, awaits executive action from President Johnson after examination by Hugh S. Johnson. Bruere declined to discuss proposals but said standards aim to reduce friction by limiting the practice of increasing workers' machines without extra pay.
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Cotton Textile Committee
Recovery Administration
Bruere
Hugh 8. Johnson
Sunday Baseball Vote Made in New Bern Aldermen
New Bern City aldermen set an election for Tuesday to decide if Sunday baseball shall be legalized in the city. The measure seeks to allow games and related activities on Sundays, marking a change in local sports policy.
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Salinas Big Day Rodeos and Rough Humor
In Salinas California the narrator boasts about tax errors and references the Oklahoma boy who holds doubles and singles championships. He jokes about moonshine politics in Tennessee and envisions pairing with the rider for a foresome while praising Seaboard Air Line flights over ranches.
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Salinas
Calif
Tennessee
Oklahoma
Stock Exchanges Begin 2 Hour Daily Sessions
New York announces a noon opening starting Monday July 24 due to sustained labor strain and heavy volume. The board will decide next week if Saturday trading will be halted as officers review the workload, with the curb exchange adopting the same hours. Trade suspension across grains markets was also discussed.
Stock Exchange to Open at Noon in Philadelphia
The Philadelphia stock exchange announced that starting Monday and until further notice it will open at 12 o'clock noon Eastern Daylight Time instead of 10 a.m. Local officials expect trading to adjust as the new schedule takes effect.
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Philadelphia Stock Exchange
Two Drown In Lexington Lake Near Winston-Salem Pair
In Lexington near High Gos t Lake a rowboat with four Winston-Salem lawyers capsized 20 feet from a houseboat. ER K Stafford and Lacy M Butler drowned, W H Boyer was rescued, Wagner swam to safety. Stafford, about 40, was a Sentinel reporter and former Asheville editor, Butler was about 38 with a widow and two children.
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Winston-Salem Sentinel
Lacy M. Butler
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Asheville
The
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Miss Examplement
North Carolina
Sadie Byerly
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Stutler
Hyde receives five year term for highway robbery
Durham July 21 T B Hyde of High Point was sentenced by Judge W A Devin to five years in state prison for highway robbery in a payroll hold up on May 13. The payroll messenger was robbed of about $1000. Saunders of High Point pleaded guilty as accessory after the fact and got two years.
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Superior Court
W. A. Devin
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Winnie Mae Nears End Of World Flight Over Winnipeg
Wiley Post guided the Winnie Mae north of Winnipeg at 2 21 P M E D today en route to Edmonton and New York closing in on the final leg of his round the world flight. The craft headed southeast at high speed as observers tracked its progress.
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Winnie Mae
Edmonton
New York
Gatty To Welcome Post On Solo World Route Finish
Harold Gatty will fly to New York today to greet Wiley Post as he completes his solo flight over the same world route the pair once circled. Gatty, an aerial navigation expert at King Field, calls Post's flight a great achievement and deserving of the record.
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Harold Gatty
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Wiley Post
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Army Air Station
King Field
Post
Americans Win Davis Cup Doubles to Edge England
At Roland Garros Auteuil the American pair George Martin Lott Jr and John Van Ryn defeated Fred Perry and George Hughes in straight sets 8-6 6-4 6-1 to put the U S back in contention England leads 2 1 after two singles losses by Ellsworth Vines and Wilmer Allison The pair’s performance follows Lott’s powerful play and strong serving to seal the set and set up a chance to face France in the challenge round next week.
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Auteuil
France
George Martin Lott, Jr
John van Ryn
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England
Fred Perry
George Patrick Hughes
Ellsworth Vines
Wilmer Allison
Perry
Henry W
Bunny
Bradley address draws small Asheboro crowd at courthouse
D. W. Bradley of the High Point Industrial Workers association spoke on labor issues at Randolph county courthouse in Asheboro. About 200 people attended, including f ew High Point workers on strike for a 25 percent wage increase. A few attendees accepted I W A membership.
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Randolph County
D. W. Bradley
High Point Industrial Workers Association
High Point
Bradley
Ple
Wiley Post Sets Pace In Flight From Edmonton To New York
Oklahoma flier Wiley Post leaves Edmonton after a refuel and rest stop. He aims to reach New York in one hop aboard the Winnie Mae, 2200 miles away, seven hours after departing Fairbanks. Post notes he is 20 hours ahead of his 1931 record with Harold Gatty and remains buoyant after a brief Edmonton rest.
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Wiley Post
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New York
Fairbanks
Alaska
Harold Gatty
Winnie Mae
Portage Avenue
Mmideiont Post
Edmoonton
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Elliott Roosevelt Weds Miss Coogins In Iowa Ceremony
Elliott Roosevelt 22 and Ruth Googins 23 marry in the George C Swiler garden overlooking the Mississippi River at 6 p m. The Rev Naboth Osborne officiates. Postnuptial plans include a westward honeymoon by train.
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Mississippi River
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Ruth Googina
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