Minimum Grain Prices Set By President To Halt Market Declines
President Roosevelt approves a hastily drawn program to set minimum prices for wheat corn and other grains to halt price declines. Wallace says a major trader held millions of bushels long as the market collapsed prompting the action. Chicago will reopen with no trading below Thursday’s close and daily moves limited to five cents per bushel for wheat and proportionally for others.
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Roy F. Hendrickson
Washington
Secretary Wallace
Roosevelt
Wallace
Chicago Board of Trade
Minneapolis
Kansas City
Duluth
Department of Agriculture
Chicago
Nation's Employers Pledge Cooperation With Roosevelt New Jobs Plan
Employers nationwide pledge cooperation with President Roosevelt in voluntary wage hikes and shorter hours to create millions of jobs. Oil interests, shipyards, and textile sectors agree to extend the 40 hour week and support federal price regulation as hearings loom.
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James Coph
Associated Press
Washington
Roosevelt
Hugh
Johnson
Sequoia
Rayon Dyeing
Chambers of Commerce
Indians Engage In Gun Duel In Shop And One Is Killed
In Philadelphua township two Indians clashed in a pistol duel. Bob Jones was fatally shot after exchanging six shots with Lee Gaston Jones who was wounded and hospitalized. Bascom Bradbey and Reubin Jones were jailed as material witnesses while authorities cited long-standing enmity between the Jones men.
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Lumberton
Philadelphua
Bob Jones
Lee Gaston Jones
Norman Locklear
Bob
Bascom Bradbey
Reubin Jones
Jones
Lindberghs Safe in Greenland Arrival Reported
Radio Marine said it received Col and Mrs Charles A Lindberghs wireless message announcing their arrival at Godthaab Greenland after a flight from Labrador.
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New York
Radio Marine Corporation
Charles A. Lindbergh
Godt- Haab
Greenland
Labrador
Market Ends Mixed as Stocks Rally in Late Session
New York markets faced a volatile day with intraday swings but closed with modest gains in the averages. Volume topped 4.2 million shares as brokers covered shorts and major exchanges cut trading hours to noon due to heavy activity. Cotton rose slightly, Winnipeg grain rebounded, and margin calls remained a pressure in a three hour trading day.
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New York
Chicago
Associated Press-Standard
Winnipeg
The
Stock Exchange
Roosevelt sets aside 20 million for forest land purchases
President Roosevelt allocates 20 million dollars to buy forest lands mainly in the south to support Civilian Conservation Corps work during winter. Director Fechner cites 300,000 CCC workers, calling it the biggest forestry army, with plans to extend operations and protect forests from fires and pests.
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Roosevelt
South
Washington
Civilian Conservation Corps
Robert Fechner
Fechner
Alabama
Arkansa
Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
New Hampshire
North Carolina
Oklahoma
Pennsylvania
South Carolina
Tennessee
Vermont
Ae West Virginia
Wis
Ehringhaus Names Men On Commission
Governor Ehringhaus announced the reappointment of T. A. Wilson to the state industrial commission for a six year term. Other members listed include Matt M. Allen as chairman and Dewey Dorsett with continuing terms. The cosmetic art examiners board includes Arthur T. Ritchie L. L. Smithey and Miss Emily Purcell.
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Raleigh
Ehringhaus
T. A. Wilson
State Industrial Commission
Board of
Barber Examiners
Wilson
Industrial Commission
Matt M. Allen
Dewey Dorsett
Cosmetic Art Examiners
Arthur T. Ritchie
Aubeville
L. L. Smithey
Betheville
Emily Purcell
Back to Land Plan Pushed by President Roosevelt
President Roosevelt unveils a $25 million program to move urban unemployed to small farms for food growth and approves Ickes recommendations for regional and state advisors to finance local projects. An additional $20 million funds forest purchases for CCC winter quarters while $26.9 million would fund roads in Minnesota Arkansas and North Carolina. The plan faces debate on its execution and loan repayment under a revolving fund.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Ickes
Public Works Fund
South
Public Works Administration
Minnesota
Arkansas
North Carolina
Congress
It Wouldn't Happen Again In a Century It Wouldn't Happen Again In a Century
Chicago July 22 AP reports that at the Century of Progress fair the attendance at 11 A M last Saturday reached 19 719 people entering the grounds and at 11 A M today the count remained exactly the same as a repeat of the prior moment.
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Chicago
Stiles
Amy and Jim Fly From Pendine On Atlantic Mission
In Pendine Wales Amy and Jim Mollison launch a nonstop Atlantic crossing in the Seafarer at 11 a.m. Greenwich time heading to New York with plans to continue to Bagdad. Amy calls the flight the greatest adventure of her life while Jim fears it could be his last spectacular journey.
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Pendine
Wales
Amy
Jim
New York
Atlantic
Bagdad
Pendine Sands
Greenwich Time
Wake County Girl Found Gagged Walking On Road
Wake County sheriff's deputies investigated the capture of 18 year old Nurse Kelly who was found gagged, tied, and walking along Leesville road eight miles from Raleigh. She said three to four men abducted her between 10:30 am and 2:30 pm and forced her to write a note to her mother.
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Raleigh
Easie Kelly
Wake County
Leesville
W. J. Howard
Eller Kelly
House Creek
Miss Kelly
Needham Broughton High School
Howard
Jesse Weaver
Sheriff's Deputies
Kelly
Homer Brown Must Pay Death Penalty For Killing Wife
Homer Brown was sentenced to be electrocuted August 18 in Haywood county for the first degree murder of his wife. The killing occurred in the Fine Creeks section as she walked with her father and two children. He will be moved to death row at the state's Raleigh prison next week.
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Waynesville
Homer Brown
Felix E. Alley
Haywood County
Cotton Farmers Face Paper Loss From Market Slump
Cotton farmers with option contracts to plow parts of their crop recorded a paper loss exceeding 15 million dollars as prices fell after mid July. The program offered 6 cents a pound options. farmers would receive the difference between 6 cents and the final price as partial payment for reducing production. First option acceptances began this week, with tens of thousands more to follow daily next week as Wallace approves offers to crop out 25 to 60 percent. Farmers may get plowing permits from county agents to sow feed crops for home use.
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Washington
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Wallace
Nickel's Buffalo Has New Grandson
New York July 22 AP Toby the bison linked to the nickels has a grandson born this week. Rob Hurton head of the Central Park Zoo says Toby’s daughter Bessie gave birth on Wednesday and warns the calf’s antics near Toby could send a person over the zoo fence. Toby died about nine years ago.
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New York
Toby
Rob Hurton
Central Park Zoo
Bessie
Hurton
Willowstone National Park
Oklahoma Flier Wiley Post Wins Solo Round World Crown
Wiley Post lands Winnie Mae at Floyd Bennett Field after completing the fastest solo round-the-world flight in 186 hours 49.5 minutes. He covered about 15 400 miles aided briefly by a robot pilot, startling thousands at the field and greeting his wife with an eyepatch and coffee on arrival.
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William R. Spear
Associated Press
New York
Wiley Post
Winnie Mae
Floyd Bennett Field
Post
Harold Gatty
Wiley Post Sets Four New Records
Wiley Post set four records on his dash around the world. He achieved the fastest global circumnavigation, the first solo flight around the world, the first solo flight across the Pacific, and the fastest New York to Berlin leg of 3,900 miles in 25 hours 45 minutes. He also became the first solo trans Atlantic flier since Lindbergh to reach his announced destination without a stop.
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Wiley Post
Oklahoma
New York
Harold Gatty
Post
Placque
Pacific Ocean
Berlin
Charles A. Lindbergh
Tobacco Acreage Reduction Plan To Be Discussed
Raleigh July 22 A plan to reduce tobacco acreage similar to the cotton program will be debated next Friday at a conference with the American Tobacco Association to meet at North Carolina State College. Chester C. Davis will discuss the plan after the tobacco marketing institute. The proposal would levy a three and one half cent tax on domestically consumed flue cured tobacco, about eight million dollars annually, paid to farmers who cut their crop next fall. Flue cured tobacco is grown in NC SC VA and GA.
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Raleigh
North Carolina State College
Chester C. Davis
The
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
G. W. Forster
State College
Adjustment Administration
Washington
North Carolina
South Carolina
Virginia
Georgia
Milwaukee Journal Readjusts Under Roosevelt Recovery Plan
The Milwaukee Journal announced it will realign its organization to fit FDRs industrial recovery program. The measure will start at the earliest possible time and not wait until August 31 as set by the President's proclamation.
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Milwaukee
Milwaukee Journal
Roosevelt
Journal
Wiley Post Refuels in Edmonton Heads to New York Flight
Wiley Post lands at Blatchford field Edmonton after a 30 minute rest for his Winnie Mae. He aims to resume the around the world flight toward New York with a favorable tail wind and renewed urgency.
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Alta
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Blatchford Field
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