Kansas Man Elected National Commander of American Legion
Ralph T. O Neil of Topeka Kansas was chosen national commander at the American Legion convention. He defeated Munroe Johnson of Marion South Carolina on a state roll call 879 to 346 with Johnson's request making the result unanimous. O Neil, born 1888 in Kansas, Harvard Law School 1913, 11th infantry 5th division in WWI, later Topeka attorney and father of two.
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Boston
Ralph T. O'Neil
Topeka
Kansas
American Legion
O'Neil
Munroe Johnson
Marion
S. C
Johnson
O’neil
Baker University
Harvard Law School
11Th Infantry
France
Laura Ingalls Sets Elapsed-Time Transcontinental Flight Record
Laura Ingalls, 25, wins a new women's transcontinental mark with 30 hours 27 minutes for flying coast to coast. She completed the final leg Glendale, California to Los Angeles in four hours 40 minutes amid headwinds and fog. She plans another eastward attempt today to set further records.
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Los Angeles
Laura Ingalls
Tias
United States
Miss Ingalls
New York
Grand Central Air Terminal
Glendale
Kingman
Ariz
Aviatrix
Chicago
Ingalls
eMiss Ingalls
Roosevelt Field
Long Island
Pacific Coast
Presbyterian Beats High Point 13 to 0 in Football
Presbyterian trounced High Point 13 to 0 in a football game. The decisive scoring drive and stout defense secured the victory for the Presbyterian team on the field.
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Presbyterian
High Foint
Prohibition Commission Deliberates On Early Report
Washington October 9. President Hoover's law enforcement commission held secret sessions as members pressed for an immediate report on prohibition. Chairman George W. Wickersham declined to reveal division or timing while noting the panel hopes to report on enforcement conditions early in December.
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Law Enforcement Commission
Washington
Hoover
Sion
George W. Wickersham
Eommission
Hold Minor Hoodlum In Jewel Theft From Chicago Mayor's Wife
A 25 year old suspect, Samuel Battaglia, was held in connection with the $16,000 jewel robbery of Mrs. William Hale Thompson, wife of the Chicago mayor, though a positive identification was not established by policeman Peter O Malley who struggled with the assailant during the loss.
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Chicago
Samuel Battaglia
William Hale Thompson
Battaglia
Transfer of Courts by Governor Gardner Authorized
Governor Max Gardner authorizes a swap of court assignments between Judges H Hoyle Sink and Michael Schenck. Sink will begin Davidson county court two weeks starting November 17 and Guilford county two weeks starting November 17.
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Raleigh
H. Hoyle Sink
Michael Schenck
Max Gardner
Judge Sink
Davidson County
Guilford
Officials to Attend TM Cotton Meet in New Orleans
Brazilian officials led by Farm Board member Carl Williams plan to attend the New Orleans conference Monday to discuss cotton market conditions. Williams urged a "psychology of confidence," noting cotton is at a low, and European buyers are moving ahead of Americans. Export data show a year to date rise of 210,006 bales to 1,489,000, with investment buying rising but not yet at expected levels. The session will also cover boosting buying power and prices, with the American Cotton Shippers association weighing inventory replacements. In Brazil, President Washington Luís said he will not resign as revolutionary leaders called for abdication.
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Legge
Farm Board
Carl Williams
Lamont
Commerce Department
Eugene Meyer, Jr
Federal Reserve Board
Williams
South
American Cotton Shippers Association
New Orleans
Labor Saving Machinery and Immigration Debate at Labor Convention
Secretary of Labor James J. Davis warned of labor displacement by labor saving machinery and urged further immigration restriction and selective admission to protect American workers. He predicted prosperity but called for reforms including reduced work hours, public works, job exchanges, and technical unemployment studies. The United Textile Workers pressed for a defense fund and support for the Danville strike amid a southern organizing push.
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Boston
America
American Federation
Davis
Executive Council
United Textile Workers of America
Danville
Friendless Dogs Get New Home in Chicago Refuge
A two story Chicago dog refuge for 150 dogs opened today after rebuilding from last winter's fire that destroyed Mrs. Irene Castle Mc Laughlin's Orphans of the Storm shelter. The $8,000 facility features steam heat hot and cold water and two attendants on duty.
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Chicago
Irene Castle McLaughlin
Raleigh Joke Check Tied to Outlaw Otto Wood
Raleigh police found a check payable to Otto Wood, the North Carolina outlaw and escapee, on a hotel floor. It was signed Theodore Vinson, a Raleigh rum runner thought to be in Atlanta federal penitentiary. Det Peebles doubted but says he may have seen Wood nearby.
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Raleigh
Police Today
Otto Wood
North Carolina
Wood
Theodore Vinson
Atlanta Federal Penitentiary
Peebles
Lutherans denounce moral legislation at convention
In Milwaukee Rev J A W Haas of Muhlenberg College criticizes efforts to force moral behavior through prohibitory laws during the United Lutheran Church of America biennial convention. He frames it as a mistaken Puritanism, while sessions mark the 400th anniversary of the Augsburg Confession.
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Milwaukee
Wis
J. A. W. Haas
Muhlenberg College
United Lutheran Church of America
Brazilian Revolutionary Troops Advance Toward Border Battle
Brazilian revolutionary forces move toward the Parana Sao Paulo border with two cavalry regiments and artillery, plus a large volunteer brigade from Santa Ana do Livramento. Miguel Costa leads insurgents in the area as fears rise of a bloody clash amid mobilizations across Rio Grande do Sul Parana and Santa Catharina.
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Montevideo
Uruguay
Parana
Sao Paulo
Santa Ana Do Livramento
Castro
Miguel Costa
Rio Grande Do Sul
Santa Catharina
Wall Street Sees Broad Selloff After Suspension of Prince and Whitely
A heavy liquidation hit the New York stock market as Prince and Whitely were suspended from the exchange. U S Steel fell from defense levels, with shares trading at $150 and then slipping to $147.50, the lowest in two years, while 25 500 shares changed hands and Richard Whitney was a large buyer amid the decline.
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New York
Stock Exchange of Prince and Whitely
Wall Street
U. S. Steel
U.S. Steel
Richard Whitney
Lutherans Define Two Grounds For Divorce
Milwaukee October 9 Adultery and malicious desertion were recognized today by the United Lutheran Church in America as the only scriptural grounds for divorce The biennial convention adopted the committee reports on moral and social welfare as the church position pointing to the limits of divorce.
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Milwaukee
United Lutheran Church In America
Wilmer Hines Wins Mid-Atlantic Title
Wilmer Hines of the University of North Carolina defeated Alphonso Smith of Virginia to win the middle Atlantic inter collegiate tennis championship at White Sulphur Springs West Virginia The scores were 5 7 6 3 6 4 and 7 5 Hines is the national junior champion.
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White Sulphur Springs
W. Va
Wilmer Hines
University of North Carolina
Alphonso Smith
University of Virginia
Hines
Dry Raid On Boston Legion Headquarters
Federal officers raided several Boston hotels beginning at the Statler, headquarters of the American Legion, and arrested one bootlegger. A large group of suspects and imbibers were searched, but no other arrests were made and the liquor seized was small in amount.
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Boston
Statler Hotel
American Legion
Back Bay
Statler
Federal
Lieut. Russell Leads Turf Comeback With Five Wins
Lieut. Russell a four year old turf star, son of Sir Barton, continued a strong comeback after being claimed for 2500 dollars from Audley Farm. He won six starts since claim, five on top, most recently the Garden City handicap at Hawthorne, with a lone defeat in the Midwest handicap last Saturday. Owned by Ralph Gallet.
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Lieut
Russell
Sir Barton
Audley
Hawthorne
Ralph Gallet
Communistic Probers At Los Angeles Hearing
Los Angeles hearing cites alleged high school communist propaganda and 20000 arms in city hands. Thomas Elson Roosevelt High says propaganda is intense in 4 major schools with 50 to 100 students active. Lieutenant Colonel Smith claims arms from Mexico would back a November 24 attempt to seize power. committee chair Hamilton Fish notes California less advanced than New York. Hearing continues.
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Los Angeles
Congressional
Thomas Elson
Roosevelt High School
Mexico
Foy F. Smith
Speaker’s Bureau
The
Better American Federation
Cheka
Hamilton Fish, Jr
Congressional Committee
California
New York
Red ranks swell as rebels flood southern China
Thousands of soldiers flock to red banners across southern China. In Hunan the Reds allegedly control most of the province with organized structure, while Kiangsi sees looting around Kiukiang and Nanchang under pressure as Red forces pull back toward the southeast. Nationalist troops reinforce Kiukiang as coolies dig trenches.
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Kiangsi
Red
Nanchang
Hankow
Kiukiang
Marsh Quizzed In Cottonseed Probe
Raleigh October 9 Attorneys of the federal trade commission grilled W. F. Marsh secretary of the North Carolina Virginia division of the National Cottonseed Products Association about cottonseed grading methods and their impact on prices. The probe seeks evidence that oil mill operators used gin control or price fixing to restrain trade across southern states including Alabama Georgia South Carolina. Marsh admitted that the modified Meloy plan used in 1930 pricing was not fair to mills producers or dealers.
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Raleigh
Federal Trade Commission
W. F. Marsh
North Carolina-Virginia
National Cottonseed Products Association
Alabama
Georgia
Commission
South Carolina
Walter F. Wooden
Marsh
Association
Two Men and Widow Held in South Carolina Murder Case
In Aiken South Carolina two men Elbert Floyd and Floyd Darnell and the victim’s widow were jailed on murder charges in the Howard Bell case. Police say Mrs Bell confessed to involvement and that Floyd struck Bell with a tire wrench in his Clearwater garage before the body was hidden in a ditched car.
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S. C
Aiken
Howard Bell
Clearwater
Darnell
Floyd
Westminster Hall fitted with vast catafalque for R-101 victims
Carpenters fitted Westminster Hall with a large catafalque for 48 coffins of R-101 disaster victims. Coffins, including the body of S. Church Rigger, will lie in state tomorrow as sentinels guard the display. Thousands expected to file past before the eventual burial at Cardington churchyard near the hangar.
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London
Westminster Hall
S. Church Rigger
Beauvais
Tempest
Tribune
Catafalque
Cardington Church Yard
Connor And Boyd Fly Old Plane In Fog Break At Harbor Grace
Two airmen Connor and Boyd took off in an old plane despite a week of fog at Harbor Grace as a brief clear spell allowed flight. A Quaker City radio report described a plane named Columbia seen miles east northeast of Cape Race at 200 feet, 12 55 EST.
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Harbor Grace
New York
Radio Marine Corporation
Quaker City
Cape Race
Columbia
Transatlantic Flight Attempt From Harbor Grace by Boyd and Connor
Captain Errol Boyd and Lieutenant Harry Connor launched from Harbor Grace Newfoundland at 1 20 a m EST in the old monoplane Columbia seeking a London transatlantic crossing. The aircraft, linked to Levine’s Bellanca, carries a storied history including 1927 flights and parachute aboard passengers. John A. O’Brien of New York backs the voyage.
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Harbor Grace
N. F
Errol Boyd
Harry Connor
England
E.S.T
Columbia
Atlantic Ocean
Harry E. Connor
Charlies Levine
Clarence Chamberlin
Levine
Atlantic
Roosevelt Field
Kottbus
Germany
Mabel Bell
Havana
Rome
Bellanca
Boyd
London
Montreal
New York
New Foundland
John A. O’brien
Boston to host 1951 Atlantic Deeper Waterways meeting
The Atlantic Deeper Waterways Association, at its 23rd annual convention in Wilmington on October 9, voted to hold the 1951 meeting in Boston. Miami and Charleston bid for the next gathering. Officers are to be elected the next day.
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Wilmington
Atlantic Deeper Waterways Association
Boston
Frank S. Davis
Massachusetts
Miami
Charleston
W. A. Snow
United States
Beaufort
Cape Fear
Col. H. B. Ferguson
Norfolk
Lytle Brown
Army Engineers
Patrick J. Hurley
Coste and Bellonte Fly Northward From Richmond
Major Dieudonne Coste and Maurine Bellonte, French aviators, took off from Byrd Field at 11 47 a m for Baltimore. The aircraft rose smoothly and quickly disappeared toward the northern horizon leaving observers watching for their progress.
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Richmond
Dieudonne Coste
Maurine Bellonte
Byrd Field
Baltimore
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