Roosevelt and Hoover Map Final Campaign Drives
Albany dispatch reports Governor Roosevelt plans a New York weekend campaign tour with rallies in Brooklyn and Madison Square Garden as he nears election day. Washington notes Hoover structures a six campaign finish with stops in the Midwest and West before voting, including a planned California ballot return.
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East St. Louis
Mother Dies Trying to Save Son in Lexington
In Lexington Kentucky on November 2 Mrs Vera Risinger Smith 24 and her three year old son Jackie Wil were struck by a truck near the heart of the business district as she snatched at him to avert danger. The driver Lewis Anderson was jailed pending a coroner s jury verdict.
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Jackie Wil
Judge Haywood Released From Pen After Mutilation Conviction
John H. Haywood of Bryson City former special superior court judge was released from North Carolina State Prison in Raleigh after serving a one year term for mutilation of court records. He entered in April and earned a 74 day good behavior reduction.
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Raleigh
John H. Haywood
Bryson City
Improvement In Position Of Banks Is Good Business Cheer
The improvement in the financial position of American banks, praised by business leaders as enabling quicker world recovery, follows foreign refunding schemes and a $1 billion rise in New York bank deposits. Gold returns and released hoarded money have boosted lending, while bank suspensions dropped from 342 in January to 65 in September and October.
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New York Federal Reserve Bank
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France
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47 Million To Go To Polls Greatest Voting Army In History
The Associated Press surveys a turnout of about 47,000,000 eligible voters for the next week's election, up sharply from 1928. Predictions vary on turnout, with estimates ranging around 40 to 45 million. Six states show declines in registrations including Arkansas Delaware Georgia Idaho Pennsylvania and Texas.
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Georgia
Idaho
Pennsylvania
Texas
Jobless Exodus After Bloody London Riot Ends
Unemployed hunger marchers retreat from London after a riot in Parliament Square. Communist organizer W A L Hannington and associates are in police custody. About thirty marchers board a Charabane for Brighton as others prepare to return home. Police report numerous minor injuries as disorder subsides. Continued on Page 11.
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W. A. L. Hannington
Scotland
Wales
England
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Parliament
Extortion Threat Hanging Over William and Mary Student
Edward Capella a William and Mary College student in Williamsburg received extortion demands of $10,000. A Norfolk mail letter outlined the delivery method and warned that failure to pay would lead to his kidnapping. Capella has a court permit to carry a handgun while continuing classes.
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Williamsburg
Edward Capella
Brooklyn
N. Y
William and Mary College
Norfolk
Robbery Suspects Nabbed After Lapeer Farmhouse Shootout
Deputy Sheriff Harvey Tedder was killed and Under-Sheriff Frank Greenan wounded when officers answering a tip to the Clarkston bank raid of July 16 confronted suspects at a Lapeer county farmhouse. Benjamin Dillon and a bandit wounded. Scott Dillon, the slain deputy’s brother, and the mother Claudia Dillon and Marian Halliday were arrested.
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Claudia Dillon
Marian Halliday
Byron Courter
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State Bank of
Clarkston, Mich
Will Asks Ban On Hot Air
In a New York column dated November 2, a writer urges a moratorium on candidate speeches. The piece mocks Hoover and Roosevelt, says politics has degraded the presidency, and jokes that both men should drop the fights and go fishing while the country keeps running.
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America
Voters to cast record three party ballots in North Carolina
North Carolinians will vote next Tuesday with three statewide tickets including presidential electors from Democratic Republican and Socialist parties. Ballots cover presidential, state and constitutional items plus county and district offices. With sunrise to sunset polls, an estimated 700000 voters are expected across 1829 precincts, averaging about one voter per minute.
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Emalier
Elizabeth City
Murphy
State Board of Election
Trials Open in Cumnock Slaying Case
In Cumnock North Carolina the Elvin White and Charley Myers double murder trial proceeds after a third condemned man, Harvey Wallace, testified that White shot N. H. Perry and Thomas Beale during a store holdup. Wallace, already sentenced to die, described the sequence before dying words. White and Myers were recently arrested after leaving New Jersey.
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Bank Looted in Catawba. $2000 Stolen in Torch Break-In
In Catawba North Carolina yeggmen forced entry to the People's Bank using an acetylene torch to burn open the vault. The cashier Gilbert reports about $2000 missing with the lock broken from a back window and front door. An expert examined vault prints and insured loss is noted.
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People’s Bank of
Vegas
Three Die In Cuban Presidential Election Leads in Machado favor
Havana reports show liberals under President Gerardo Machado leading as three people were killed in election related violence. Despite the deaths the general disorder appeared limited to isolated incidents such as a theater bombing in Santa Clara. No one else was seriously injured.
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Havana
Cuba
Gerardo Machado
Santa Clara
North Carolina Dry Forces Endorse Most Republican Tickets
Wilmington reports the dry forces approve 13 of 15 Republican candidates for state national and congressional offices as satisfactory or neutral on the wet dry issue. Democrats receive no endorsements with two marked unsatisfactory Congressional candidates Lindsay Warren and William Umstead. A Democratic Senate hopeful Robert Reynolds is noted as a recognized leader. Six Democrats did not answer the questionnaire.
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Wilmington
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North Carolina
A. J. Barton
Clifford Frazier
Greensboro
Jake F. Newell
Charlotte
United States Senate
Lindsay Warren
William B. Umstead
Robert R. Reynolds
Ville
Senate
Drys
Bartoll
Campaign Radio Addresses Today
Campaign radio addresses outline tonight's lineup on WABO CBS and WIZ NBC. Republican speakers include Mary Woolley and Addie Dickerson on WABO at 8:00 p m. Franklin D Roosevelt appears on WABC and James M Cox on another network.
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James M. Cox
Cincinnati
Roosevelt
Albany
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Mary Woolley
Addie Dickerson
WIZ
Midwest
Jean Farm
Federal deficit climbs in first four months of year
Washington reports a deficit of 629.9 million dollars for the initial four months of the current fiscal year. Income tax receipts total 187.8 million, while other internal revenue rises to 247.7 million. total receipts reach 559.4 million, with four month expenditures at 1.19 billion. Gross debt stands at 20.81 billion, up 200 million from September.
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Treasury
Eighteen Year Terms Meted For Kidnapping
Harley O. Curry Jr and William Craft were sentenced in Richmond to 18 years each for kidnapping George N. Davis of Lewisburg West Virginia with intent to extort. A federal detainer and a West Virginia robbery detainer were placed against them. They were arrested in Richmond after Davis agreed to withdraw 7500 from a local bank for ransom.
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Harley O. Curry, Jr
William Craft
George N. Davis
Lewisburg
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Craft
State of West
Davis
Glass, Mills clash over advance copies of speeches
Senator Glass of Virginia and Secretary Mills spar over obtaining advance copies of political speeches. Glass cites a breach of confidence after his Roosevelt endorsement aired via a national radio system. Mills denies any advance copy release and defends government actions.
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