Hoover heads west on fifth final campaign journey to California
President Hoover planned a westward final campaign tour ending at Palo Alto on election day. He urged Californians, Oregonians and Washingtonians to support him and warned that a Democratic regime would harm farms and forests. A White House telegram claimed his prohibition stance remained unaltered despite Stokes claims of misrepresentation.
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Washington
Hoover
Palo Alto
California
Pacific Coast
Oregon
White House
Edward C. Stokes
Trenton
New Jersey
Republican Campaign Committee
Morrison Announces Set Up Of Huge State Agency For Relief Of Destitute
Ruth Nichols escaped a fatal crash when her plane veered off a 3 000 foot runway at Floyd Bennett Field during a Republican campaign flight for Hoover. She cut the gasoline switch as the craft struck and survived with smiles, aiming for a West Coast leg to beat Amelia Earhart. Nichols has faced multiple misfortunes in two years including a June 1931 crash and a near burn in Louisville.
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Morrison
Agency For Relief
New York
Ruth Nichols
Hoover
Floyd Bennett Feild
Miss Nichols
Amelia Earhart
St. John
N. B
Louisville
Prohibition Agents Raid Stable on Winslow Estate
Prohibition agents raided a stable at Col. Samuel E. Winslow's estate in Leicester. They seized an elaborate still valued at about $35,000 with a 2000 gallon daily capacity. One man was injured and another escaped during the attempt. John Skok, 55, suffered a broken leg while fleeing. Winslow denied knowledge of the operation.
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Leicester
Mass
Prohibition
Samuel E. Winslow
United States Board of Mediation
Washington
Winslow
Stonewall Farm
John Skok
John Hall
Radio Campaign Addresses Listed by Network and Time
Radio schedules show Democratic and Republican campaign programs airing today and tomorrow on WABC CBS WNBC NBC and other stations. Speakers include Eleanor Roosevelt, Smedley Butler, Pelham Glassford, Floyd Gibbons, Owen Young, Virginia Gilder, Anna Olsen and Governor Hoover with regional network syndication and city pickups.
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WABC
CBS
Daniel J. Tobin
Fannie Hurst
Wdiz
NBC
Republican Radio League
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Maj
Smedley D. Butler
Pelham PD
Glassford
Floyd Gibbons
Philadelphia
Roosevelt League
Gov. Roosevelt
Owen D. Young
New York
WEAF
Anna Dickie Olsen
Virginia Gildersleeve
WIZ
Illinois
Hoover
Springfield
WBBM
WTAX
KMOX
Virginia Democrats Claim Mail Discrimination Over Postage
Virginia Democrats allege discrimination after campaign literature shifted from fourth class to first class mail, raising postage at the Richmond post office. State Senator John H. Wicker Jr. accused Warsaw Postmaster Garland of skullduggery for delaying delivery near the end of the campaign.
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Richmond
Virginia
John H. Wicker, Jr
Garland
Warsaw
Berlin Street Transport Strike Paralyzes City
Berlin shut down as a wage cut protest halted buses trams subways and elevated lines. Police controlled loading points while 23 000 workers faced long delays and pickets blocked terminals amid a wildcat strike backed by a mixed political coalition.
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Berlin
Transportation Association
Roosevelt Takes Weekend Campaign Swing Through New Jersey
Governor Roosevelt left Hyde Park for a Jersey City Newark swing en route to a Metropolitan Opera House address in New York City. He plans three speeches in the metropolitan area with informal crowds from his car and will be introduced by Owen D. Young at the opera house.
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Albany
N. Y
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Hyde Park
Jersey City
Newark
New Jersey
New York City
Roosevelt
Metropolitan Opera House
State Line
Owen D. Young
The
Farmer Kills Sons Then Ends His Life In Michigan
Gabriel Kostas a farmer near Clifford in Lapeer County shot and killed his two sons Steve 16 and Tony 14 then killed himself after a family quarrel over money from produce. Sheriff Byron Courter said the elder son was shot in a barn and Tony in the head at the house before the father returned to the barn to end his life. Housekeeper said the dispute had lasted several days.
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Lapeer
Mich
Gabriel Kostas
Clifford
Lapeer County
Steve
Tony
Byron Courter
Kostas
Tony Kostas
Courter
Kosta
North Carolina to Create State Relief Organization for Winter
Dr. Fred W. Morrison announces a statewide relief network with ten district supervisors to oversee county and city units. The plan aims to spend at least three quarters of a million dollars during winter, funded privately, publicly, and via federal aid after an $815000 relief loan.
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Raleigh
N. C
North Carolina
Fred W. Morrison
Gardner
Morrison
W. T. Best
Roy M. Brown
School of Public Welfare
University of North Carolina
Ronald B. Wilson
Emma Neal McQueen
Julian 8. Miller
The
Charlotte News
Felix A. Grissette
Lois Dosher
Department of Public Welfare
Nancy L. Austin
Family Welfare Association of Charlotte
Thomas P. Grier
Stonewall Jackson Training School
Louise W. Frye
American Red Cross
Charlotte
Thomas P. O'Berry
Goldsboro
George Lawrence
Orange County
Mary Ward
Smith urges Roosevelt Garner in New York rally
Alfred E. Smith, returning to New York City after a strong speech, appealed for Roosevelt and Garner and attacked Hoover for scaring the people. He said only a Democratic Congress could solve the nation's problems and urged support for the state ticket. He spoke to about 1,700 in an old music hall and banners carried his message through the streets.
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Troy
N. Y
Alfred E. Smith
New York City
Roosevelt
Garner
Hoover
Smith
Upholds State
Five Women Dead in Richmond Area Auto Train Crash
A southbound Atlantic Coast Line train from New York to Jacksonville struck a stalled car at a level crossing near Richmond in Henrico County. Five Laurel residents were killed: Grace Land, 40. W H Lane, driver. B E Metz, 80. Mary Stone, 17. A H Henley, 45. The train engineer said the car appeared to stall on the tracks.
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Richmond
Greendale
Henrico County
Grace Land
W. H. Lane
BE. R. Metz
Mary Stone
A. H. Henley
Laurel
Richmond, Fredericks and Potomac Tracks
R. L. Fox
Atlantic Coast Line
New York
Jacksonville
W. H. Hall
Dunbarton, Va
Estate of Edith Rockefeller McCormick Valued Over 1 Million
Probate records in Chicago show the late Edith Rockefeller McCormick owned 1 032 348 dollars of personal property at death, with a 777 567 dollar jewel bill of appraisement. Real estate included two mansions and 52 320 shares in a trust, while art at the Chicago Art Institute totaled 60 457 dollars.
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Chicago
Edith Rockefeller McCormick
John D. Rockefeller
Villa Turicum
Lake Forest
Edith Rockefeller McCormick Trust
Leake Forest
Chicago Art Institute
Newell Reaffirms Prohibition Stance in Senate Race
Charlotte Republican Jake F. Newell declared he would vote against repeal of the 18th Amendment and against modifying the Volstead Act on prohibition. He said he would oppose Hoover if necessary to defend dry laws, while supporting Hoover for president as the lesser wet choice.
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Charlotte
Jake F. Newell
United States Senate
Hoover
Newell
Washington
Roosevelt
Couzens predicts Roosevelt win in Detroit and repeal vote
Senator Couzens says Governor Roosevelt will win Detroit by 100 000 to 150 000 and Michigan will repeal the prohibition amendment and enforcement act next Tuesday. He forecasts a statewide repeal majority between 200 000 and 300 000 with strong Detroit support and a close state result.
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Washington
Couzens
Michigan
Roosevelt
Detroit
Wayne County
Liquor Control Commission
Bandits Rob Bank in Mariaville On 8,000 Cash Heist
Six bandits robbed the Gold Standard National Bank in Marienville Pa taking $8,000 in cash after holding cashier F R Johnson his wife and daughter and a friend prisoner in the Johnson apartment over the bank all night.
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Marienville
Gold Standard National Bank
F. R. Johnson
Johnson
Durham Public Service cuts electricity rates to save 62000 yearly
The North Carolina corporation commission ordered a rate reduction for Durham Public Service to save consumers about 62000 annually. The new scale lowers all service types with emphasis on aiding small customers and takes effect November 10 after behind closed conference and state action, with future reviews planned for Tidewater Power, Carolina Power and Light, and Southern Public Utilities.
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Raleigh
N. C
Durham Public Service Company
Durham
State Corporation Commission
Corporation Commission
Commission
Tidewater Power Company
Carolina Power and Light Company
Southern Public Utilities Company
Duke Power Company
President should not be dragged on half salary
A letter from New York laments the President’s touring for rallies on low pay. The writer faults state leaders for forcing him to appear in person nationwide, viewing the spectacle as vanity and lacking dignity or sportsmanship in politics.
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New York
Ife
Farmer Opens Probe into Death of Beauty Joan Parker Rind
A farmer near Little Rock hires Judge Arthur Gallagher of New York to probe the death of Joan Parker Rind, a New York beauty and widow of Captain William Rind. Paris authorities ruled it suicide, but the father insists she was murdered and cites missing securities and jewelry and suspected insurance interests.
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Little Rock
Ark
Here
Arthur Gallagher
New York
Joan Parker Rind
William Rind
United States
Harding
Paris
R. S. Parker
Plymouth
England
Rind
Parker
Ghly
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