Cuba Seeks Two Year Tariff Truce At Pacific Conference
At the Pan American Commercial conference in Washington 21 republics gathered as Cuba proposed a two year tariff truce to halt duty increases. Mexico and others signaled attempts to form anti American blocs while officials urged expanding total trade to reduce chaos in world tariffs. Strawn and Lamont pressed flexible tariff policies to raise gross trade volumes and curb protectionist spirals.
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Washington
Mexico City
Silas H. Strawn
Chamber of Commerce of
United States
Hall of Americas
Lamont
Chamber of Commerce of the
Senator Dwight W. Morrow Dies at 58 in New Jersey
New York October 5 AP Senator Dwight W. Morrow died at 1 52 pm in his Englewood New Jersey home from a cerebral hemorrhage He had lunch with financier C M Keyes earlier and was noted for an international reputation as ambassador to Mexico before serving as United States senator from New Jersey Coolidge once predicted his rise in 1895 based on a class survey and later helped his career pageant continues with banking and political circles in shock over his death
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New York
Dwight W. Morrow
Englewood
N. Jersey
Morrow
Senator Morrow
New York City
C. M. Keyes
Calvin Coolidge
Amherst College
Dwight Whitney Morrow
United States
Mexico
New Jersey
Coolidge
Finis
Wall Street
Cardinals Triumph Over Lefty Grove in World Series Duel
Burleigh Grimes pitched a two hit game and drove in two as the St Louis Cardinals defeated Lefty Grove 5 2 in the third World Series game. Pepper Martin starred with two hits and two RBIs while President Hoover witnessed Al Simmons homer in the ninth. Attendance 32,295. receipts $152,735.
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Shire Park
Philadelphia
Burleigh Grimes
St. Louis Cardinals
Pepper
Martin
Lefty Grove
Hoover
al Simmons
St. Louis
Cardinals
Grove
Grimes
Athletics
Adams
Pangborn and Herndon make first nonstop Pacific flight
Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon complete the first nonstop flight from Japan to the United States landing in Wenatchee Washington. The plane tipped onto its nose and slid in a dust cloud after a gearless belly landing. They earned a $25000 prize offered by Asahi newspaper.
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Wenatchee
Wash
Pacific Ocean
Clyde Pangborn
Hugh Herndon
Samushiro Beach
Japan
Pangborn
Herndon
Tokyo
Asahi
United States
Samashiro Beach
Russell Boardman
John Polando
New York
Istanbul
Turkey
Pacific
MacDonald May Run As Independent Labor Candidate
In London on October 5 the prospect rose that Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald might campaign as an independent labor candidate from his current seat. Seaham Harbor Labour party branches Murton Miners Lodge and Murton nominating him, contesting the local executive’s plan to back another candidate. The budget balancing program advanced as the finance bill passed the Lords and gained royal assent alongside the economy bill and related measures enacted last week.
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London
Ramsay MacDonald
Seaham Harbor
Labor Party
Murton Miners’ Lodge
Murton
MacDonald
House of Lords
Author of Little Colonel Books Dies in Louisville
Mrs Annie Fellows Johnston, 68, noted author of the Little Colonel series, died at her home in Peewee Valley near Louisville after months of illness. Born May 15, 1863 in Evansville Indiana, she studied at the University of Iowa and drew on her life experiences for Land of the Little Colonel published in 1929.
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Louisville
Annie Fellows Johnston
Pewee Valley
The
University of
Iowa
Official Box Score St Louis AB RH Po A E
St Louis and Philadelphia players are listed with positions and stats from an official box score. Key entries include Adams, Bottomley, Gelbert, Grimes, Simmons, and Grove on the mound, with runs and hits totals for both teams and umpire assignments. The recap notes RBI by Wilson and Simmons and the double plays and errors recorded in the game.
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St. Louis
Adams
Flowers
Roettger
Watkins
Frisch
O Bottomley
Hafey
Martin
Wilson
Gelbert
Grimes
Sveo SS
Philadelphia
Haas
jCochrane
McNair
Simmons
Grove
Cochrane
Pega
Louis
Bottomley
Bishop
Foxx
By Grove
Williams
Mahaffey
Stark
McGowan
Klem
Nallin
Mayor Key Joins Imps of Hell Honorary Crew
Atlanta, October 5. Mayor James L. Key accepted honorary membership in the Imps of Hell, a Nashville-based group formed by American Legionnaires after Dr Clarence True Wilson condemned the Legion’s pro prohibition stance. Key, who has faced criticism for anti prohibition views while abroad, recently organized a non sectarian Bible class in Atlanta after being relieved as Grace Methodist church class teacher of 250 men.
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Atlanta
James L. Key
Imps of Hell
American Legionnaires
Nashville
Tenn
Clarence True Wilson
Legion
Key
France
Grace Methodist Church
Brother of State Warden Found Dead Near Washington
State game warden Charles H. England was notified of his brother William G. England's death. The body was found beside a highway in Washington, D C, and authorities believe an auto accident caused the death though details remain unavailable.
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Raleigh
Charles H. England
William G. England
Washington, D. C
950 Shop Employees Called Back To Job
North Little Rock shops of the Missouri Pacific lines reopen as 950 workers, laid off in September, return to work today. Superintendent W H McAmis says the shops will operate at full capacity again, restoring prior output after last months shutdown.
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North Little Rock
Ark
Missouri-Pacific Lines
W. H. McAmis
Seizure at Adams Estate Net 600 Cases of Liquor
Police seized 600 cases of assorted liquor valued at about 50000 on the summer estate of Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams in Scituate Massachusetts. Three men were arrested in the Adams garage, two others escaped through a garage window as officers entered. WASHINGTON reported the seizure as Adams headed to Philadelphia for the World Series with President Hoover.
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Scitaute
Mass
Charles Francis Adams
Secretary of the Navy
Adams
Thomas Maloney
Jacob Siegal
Roxbury
Harry
Louis Gordon
Rochester
John Stonefield
Washington
Scituate
Philadelphia
Hoover
Prohibition
Gardner Honors Miver in Founders Day Talk
Governor C Max Gardner paid tribute to Charlies Duncan Mc Iver founder of North Carolina College for Women at the 39th Founders Day. He urged the 1 600 students not to just get by and to see life as more than making a living. He praised Mc Iver as a scholar blending intellect with practical service and urged students to pursue deeper understanding.
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Charlies Duncan McIver
North Carolina College For Women
C. Max Gardner
Melver
White House Naval Aide Dies In Crash
Lieutenant Commander Hamilton Harlow, a junior naval aide on the White House staff, was killed in a car crash while returning to Washington from a Naval Academy trip. The accident happened at the Crane and Defense highway intersection about 15 miles from Annapolis.
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Washington
Hamilton Harlow
White House
Annapolis
Harlow
Naval Academy
Crane
Defense
Lumberton Girl Dies After Auto Crash
Louise Carter a 17 year old Lumberton High School student died from injuries suffered when the car she rode in skidded and she was thrown from the machine against a telephone pole at Buie s Creek last night.
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Lumberton
Louise Carter
Buie’s Creek
Labor Leaders Warn Industry to Create Jobs or Face Taxes
VANCOUVER B C Oct 5 America's organized labor delegates gathering for the 51st AFL session urged private industry to furnish more jobs or bear higher taxes. President William Green said capital must share burdens and aid by maintaining wages and hours while stressing tax support. The council urged national conferences on work apportionment shorter hours wage standards work assurance child labor bans and economic planning to prevent future downturns.
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Vancouver
B. C
America
American Federation of Labor
William Green
W. A. Mackenzie
Nels Lougheed
British Columbia
Green
Labor
Executive Council
Democrat Hope of Organizing House Appears Brighter
Washington Oct 5 The outcome of a recount in Illinois eighth district could shift control of the House as Democrat Stanley H Kunz is expected to receive a certificate of election replacing Republican Peter C Granata. If seated, Democrats would hold 215 to 213 seats. official totals stand at 214. The House clerk William Tyler Page would wait for Kunz certificate before any change on December 7.
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Washington
House
Illinois
Peter C. Granata
Stratton
Springfield
Stanley H. Kunz
Granata
Kunz
William Tyler Page
Dense fog halts New York area mail and air traffic
Dense fog blanketed the New York area halting ocean traffic disrupting ferries and hindering air mail but the sun later dispersed the haze and traffic both on the ground and in the air returned to normal. Mail pilot William L. Jamieson diverted and made an emergency landing at Floyd Bennett Field after failing to locate Newark airport obscured by fog.
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New York
Manhattan
Newark
N. J
William L. Jamieson
Richmond, Va
Floyd Bennett Field
Louisburg Dealer Found Dead in Apparent Suicide
Louisburg police report Allen, a 55 year old automobile dealer, was found shot to death at his home. He apparently killed himself last night. Surviving are four sons. his wife died a year ago.
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Louisburg
Allen
Edison Better But Recovery Not Expected
Edison shows slight improvement after a relapse though recovery is not expected. Dr. H J Howe noted a brighter morning and six hours sleep with Edison eating breakfast, yet still feeble and dozing. A night police detail guarded the house while Vatican messages expressed the Holy Father’s interest in Edison’s health.
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Edison
Pope
West Orange
N. J
Hubert
Howe
Thomas A. Edison
Menlo Park
H. 3. Howe
Holy Father
Rise in Income Tax Rate Looms in Deficit News
Washington reports a looming rise in income tax as officials including President Hoover study revisions to tax laws. The fiscal year 1932 shows a $244 million drop in treasury revenue, with income tax receipts down from $493,520,395 to $261,257,654 in the comparable quarter, prompting consideration of tax hikes to fund government needs.
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Washington
Administration Ton
Hoover
Congress
Treasury
Underworld King in Los Angeles Shot
Augusto Sasso, known as ruler of the Los Angeles underworld, was shot and critically wounded by an unidentified assailant as he entered his home in Los Angeles on October 5. He said I have been put on the spot and refused to name suspects.
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Los Angeles
Augusto Sasso
Police Commission
Sasso
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