Germans fret over Reichsbank funds before August pay day
Berlin reports indicate the Reichsbank must raise 2,000,000,6000 marks by July 31 to cover wages as civil servants receive half pay. Citizens scrounge funds while officials plan staged cash releases. Secretaries Stimson and Henderson travel, with Curtius and Bruening hosting dinners and talks in Berlin.
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Berlin
Germany
United States
Great Britain
Reichsbank
Stimson
Frederic M. Sackett
Fire Toll Rises At Pittsburgh Home For Aged
Thirty die in a blaze at the Little Sisters of the Poor home for the aged in Pittsburgh with twenty six believed dead and 217 hospitalized. The coroner reports 15 still unaccounted for as search efforts continue among the ruins. Fire damage estimated at 45 000 to 50 000 dollars.
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Pittsburgh
Little Sisters of the Poor Home For
Richard L. Smith
Sheriff Probes Thompson Death In Burlington
Alamance County Sheriff H J Stockard said he expects developments in the Peter Thompson murder case that could reopen the coroner’s inquiry. Thompson, 78, was killed in his Burlington township home with an empty cartridge nearby and an unfired pistol found in a stocking. a coroner’s jury labeled it murder by an unknown person. The sheriff called the killing carefully planned and cold blooded and said details cannot yet be released.
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Burlington
H. J. Stockard
Alamance County
Peter Thompson
Thompson
Burlington Township
Stockard
Actor Sidney Blackmer Pays Damages After Granite Falls Collision
Granite Falls North Carolina July 25 Sidney Blackmer and wife Leonore Ulric touring NC on vacation. after a 30 minute dispute over fault their car collided with L G Sharpe’s vehicle. Blackmer pays 50 dollars to Sharpe and continues. Blackmer hails from Salisbury and summers near Blowing Rock.
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Granite Falls
N. C
Sidney Blackmer
Leonore Ulric
North Carolina
Blackmer
L. G. Sharpe
Sharpe
Salisbury
Mountains
Blowing Rock
Two Arrested On Narcotic Charges
Gol d s boro July 25 F O Green and E L Thompson said they were from Virginia were bound over to federal court by U S Commissioner L E Parson on narcotic law violations. Green bail 3000 Thompson 1000 both failed to post bond and were jailed in Wilson to await the next federal term.
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Goldsboro
F. O. Green
E. L. Thompson
Virginia
U. S
L. E. Parson
Green
Thompson
Wilson
Bank Failures Analyzed By Yale Finance Prof
Professor Roscoe B. Turner of Yale Law School told the North Carolina Bar Association why 7,000 U S banks failed since 1920 and outlined remedies. He attributed failures to chain stores and mergers, farm co ops, and transportation, arguing small banks in small towns suffer most with $2 009 million in deposits lost and 1 427 failures in the Southeast. He said chains and branches are not immune and rejected bigger capital as a cure.
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Chapel Hill
Roscoe B. Turner
Yale School of Law
North Carolina Bar Association
United States
Turner
Columba student Henrietta Schmerler found murdered near Fort Apache
Henrietta Schmerler a 23 year old Columbia University ethnology student researching Apache culture was found dead in a ravine near the Fort Apache cemetery after disappearing from her shack by the White River Reservation. A 25 year old Apache man Claude Gilbert was held on liquor charges and questioned as a possible suspect.
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Holbrook
Ariz
Henrietta Schmerler
Columbia University
Fort Apache
White River Indian Reservation
Claude Gilbert
Gilbert
Miss Schmerler
Governor Hunt
Arizona
Frank D. Fackenthal
University
Fire at Home for the Aged of the Little Sisters of the Poor
Firefighters volunteers and clergy aided the aged during a disastrous blaze at the Home for the Aged of the Little Sisters of the Poor. Rescue efforts saved many inmates as priests administered last rites and bystanders risked their lives. A teen rescuer carried 21 persons to safety and a man evacuated a chalice from the chapel.
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Pittsburgh
Little Sisters of the Poor
William Gaefke
Gaefke
John Hoffman
Hoffman
Thomas Martin
Martin
Bert Huber
Lawyers Elect Officers At North Carolina Bar Session
Chapel Hill July 25. The North Carolina Bar Association met to elect officers after an adjournment. Prof. Roscoe B. Turner of Yale spoke as the opening address. Attendees included Judge P. W. Phillips and Prof. Albert Coats, discussing patriotic state history.
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Chapel Hill
North Carolina Bar Association
Roscoe B. Turner
Yale University
Charles A. Rostew York
The
Bar Association
P. W. Phillips
U. S. Board of Tax Appeals
Albert Coats
University Law School
Williams Wife Refuses to Testify in Death Inquiry
In Smithfield North Carolina coroner's jury reconvenes to probe Jesse J. Williams's death after his wife Ivy Williams refused to answer questions. Williams, Johnston County Democratic leader, was reportedly shot at his Clayton home in June. The witness decline followed defense advice to avoid self incrimination. The inquest resumes at 7 PM after a brief adjournment as testimony on a rumored drinking party is reviewed.
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Smithfield
N. C
Ivy Williams
Jesse J. Williams
Johnston County
Williams
Democratic Committee
Clayton
Able
Citor Clawson L. Williams
Abel
Ivy
Jesse McCoy Williams
Jesse McCoy
Jesse Williams
J. H. Kirkman
Prince of Wales makes hole in one at Wimbledon
Flashes Of Life London reports the Prince of Wales scored a hole in one at the sixth hole on Wimbledon’s royal course with a 220 yard tee shot, the ball rolling into the cup after clearing a ridge. LEYDEN Holland notes a police library project delay and Erich Maria Remarque’s car incident leading to a $50 settlement with the city council and a promised book gifts.
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London
Bobby Jones
Royal Wimbledon
Prince of Wales
Leyden
Holland
Erich Maria Remarque
Ottawa law limits nude parades by Doukhobors
A new law sets a maximum three year imprisonment to curb nude parades by the Doukhobors and defines nude as clothing so scanty as to offend public decency. MPs questioned if bathers and theater performers could be targeted. the government replied that judges and juries would exercise good sense.
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Ottawa
Paris Harem pajamas charm as new house robes
Paris introduces harem pajamas in blue and gold lame. The design is full at the hips and banded at the ankles, paired with a tasseled cap and a three quarters length coat.
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Paris
Federal Agents Stage Largest Raid In Illinois
In Benton Illinois on July 25 a large team of federal prohibition agents conducted raids across Williamson Perry and Franklin counties. About 150 agents from several states arrested roughly 100 people in eleven cities and towns, with warrants obtained in advance. The operation targets speakeasies and beer flats as a crackdown in Little Egypt.
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Benton, Ill
Illinois
Little Egypt
Birger and Shelton
Franklin County
U. S
Ed Robertson
Egypt
Young
Birger
Shelton
Joe Adams
West City
Sheltons
Williamson
North Carolina to harvest six million bushels of wheat this year
In Raleigh Governor Gardner asserts the state will produce six million bushels of wheat for home consumption. He recalls past grain and cotton shifts, notes progress in food culture, and predicts nearer daily bread as granaries open and vegetables are canned.
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Major Graham
Department of Agriculture
Gardner
Two Americans Die In Istanbul to Bucharest Plane Crash
Two Americans among eight aboard a flight from Istanbul to Bucharest perished when the craft crashed in Bulgaria. Miss Pauline East and Rutgers Bar clay of New York were identified along with an English passenger from Smyrna and a Norwegian consul general in Istanbul. All passengers and the pilot were burned to death.
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Istanbul
Turkey
Pauline East
Rutgers Barclay
New York
Bucharest
Sofia
Bulgaria
Smyrna
Liquor Steamroller Warned Ahead of 1932 Convention
Dr. A J Barton of the Anti Saloon League says the liquor steamroller is at work on the roads for the 1932 convention. He cites Joseph F Guffey pledging 60 Pennsylvania delegates to Roosevelt and warns Southern Democrats Roosevelt is thoroughly wet.
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Wilmington
A. J. Barton
Anti- Saloon League
Liquor Steamroller
Dr. Barton
Joseph F. Guffey
Pennsylvania
Franklin Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Hoover seeks drastic economy as deficits grow
President Hoover orders a near halt to nonessential spending and demands dramatic cost cuts across all departments. He highlights a treasury deficit exceeding 900 million dollars by mid 1931 and urges departments to report August 17 on current and upcoming appropriations and projected savings.
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Washington
Hoover
Treasury
Bureau of the Budget
Democratic Leaders Cite Unsound Policy Causing Economic Chaos
Washington July 25 Two Democratic leaders urged a broad program of national and international policies. Governor Albert C. Ritchie blamed the Hoover moratorium for isolating the U S in economic circles and Senator Cordell Hull warned that ten years of unsound policies under Harding Coolidge and Hoover have led to a world in economic war.
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Washington
United States
Albert C. Ritchie
Maryland
Cordell Hull
Tennessee
Democratic National Committee
Harding
Coolidge
Hoover
Ritchie
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