Confidence program launched to bolster cotton prices
Merchants bankers and manufacturers adopt a cooperative platform to lift cotton to a cost plus level. Farmers told to harvest but sell minimally, store remainder, and support acreage reduction next year. New Orleans October 14 AP report notes optimism in industry and plans for spinners’ needs for 1931 32 season with money available for liberal advances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
American Cotton Shippers Association
Robert P. Lamont
Secretary of Commerce
Slush Fund Unknown To Asheville Witnesses
North Carolina primary hearings wrap up with Senator Nye denying large outside funds. Wallace B. Davis testified about bank deposits for Bailey leaders and no evidence supported the big out-of-state contribution claim. Nye and Wagner plan Tennessee primary inquiries while Patterson stays to continue North Carolina hearings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Asheville
North Carolina
Gerald P. Nye
North Dakota
Senate Campaign Funds Investigating Committee
J. W. Batley
U. S
F. M. Simmons
Nye
Bailey
Raleigh
Wallace B. Davis
Central Bank and Trust Company
Davis
Tennessee
Robert F. Wagner
New York
Nashville
Tenn
Roscoe C. Patterson
Missouri
Domestic Tragedy Claims Two Lives in Anderson
A coroner's jury in Anderson South Carolina found Wayland Roach 38 killed his wife Ossie Roach and wounded his sister in law Dennis Roach before killing himself. The slain couple left four children as police investigated the domestic double murder suicide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roach
Highway Officials Meet International Visitors At Border
R A Coughton chairman of the state highway commission and a group of highway department officials will meet a party of international highway experts at the Virginia North Carolina state line this afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
R. A. Coughton
State Highway Commission
State Highway Department
Virginia-North Carolina
Tobacco Co op Abandoned This Year in North Carolina
Raleigh Oct 14 Plans for two cooperative marketing associations for North Carolina tobacco growers were abandoned for this year due to late season and the farm boards deadline. The executive committee will push to organize two associations in 1931 with J R Page of Aberdeen as a prospective head figure.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Federal Farm Board
Tobacco Executive Committee
J. R. Page
Aberdeen
State College
Page
George R. Ross
O. Max Gardner
Ross
Farm Board
Hoover Rebuke From Catholics Over Lutheran Greeting
Father Burke of the National Catholic Welfare Conference denounces President Hoover for a Lutheran anniversary message, saying it violated the oath of office and insulted millions. Hoover aide Akerson defends the president's commitment to religious tolerance and congratulates Americans of the Lutheran faith.
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Father Burke
Washington
Hoover
John J. Burke
National Catholic Welfare Conference
American Lutheran
George Akerson
United States
Luther
Winston Host To Good Roads Group Tour Stop
A 105 member group from more than twenty foreign countries will arrive in Winston-Salem late this afternoon for the first stop of their Piedmont and western North Carolina tour and attendance at events in the southern states.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winston-Salem
Piedmont
North Carolina
Gastonia to Host Civitan District Convention Leader Elected
Gastonia will host the Carolinas District Civitan convention. G. K. Moose of Boone was elected president at a Greensboro meeting and will preside. Convention dates to be set later by the executive committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greensboro
Gastonia
Carolinas District Association
the Civitan Club
G. K. Moose
Boone
Moose
Safecrackers In S C Sought After Nicholson Store Robbery
State and local officers hunted robbers who blew a safe in Nicholson department store in Jefferson on Sunday night. They fled with $200 in silver and left $40,000 in negotiable securities, scattered on the floor. A fingerprint expert from the state penitentiary examined the scene and raised usable evidence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jefferson
S. C
Nicholson
State Penitentiary
Investigations Target Gant Pension Checks in North Carolina
Greensboro Oct 14 Investigators say over ten thousand dollars in Confederate pension checks are under review to verify if recipients indeed received funds or if Mason W Gant the former clerk cashed them The probe follows eleven indictments already filed against Gant and includes checks endorsed in his handwriting for W B Teachey J R Keath and others along with widows of veterans The state auditor plans to present findings to the October 20 grand jury and pursue further true bills at that term
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Greensboro
N. C
B. C. Carter
State Auditing Department
Mason W. Gant
Gant
Carter
W. B. Teachey
High Point
J. R. Keath
Teachey
J. J. Neason
John F. Lipps
Sabra Patterson
John Patterson
Denim
Letitia Raybor
Clement Raybor
Ida Howard
D. H. Howard
Martha Smith
W. W. Smith
Elizabeth S. Parrish
Jesse L. Parrish
Nancy Carter
D. L. Carter
Pomona
Grand Jury
Superior Court
Wilbur's Leave Extended
President Hoover announced that interior secretary Ray Lyman Wilbur would remain in office and that Leland Stanford University would extend his leave of absence as president as long as necessary.
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Wilbur
Washington
Hoover
Ray Lyman Wilbur
Leland Stanford University
Communists clash with police outside Boston AFL hall
In Boston on Oct 14 militants clashed with police outside the American Federation of Labor convention hall. Ten men and five women were arrested as police and reserves subdued the mob. William Green voiced regret over the disturbance as delegates watched from balconies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
American Federation of Labor Today
Workers of Boston
Federation of Labor Convention
Green
Hoover
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Postmaster Party Takes Train For Atlanta Trip
Unfavorable weather forces Postmaster Brown and officials to abandon a planned flight from Richmond to Atlanta. They will instead travel by train late today to attend the opening of the southern trans continental air mail line in Georgia.
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Richmond
Brown
Atlanta
Georgia City
Intense Battle Rages On Brazilian Front
Across Brazil the government forces and rebels clash along the Parana Sao Paulo border and in southwest Minas Geraes. Reports vary on victors, but rebels retreat in western Minas Geraes while federals claim gains at Senges Bridgehead Uberaba and Igarapava R Bridgehead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Brazil
Parana-Sao Paulo
Minas Geraes
Minas Geraes Triangle
Parana
Senges
Igarapava R
Rio Grande
Sao Paulo
Uberaba
Bello Horizonte
Building and Loan Shortage Shocks Gaffney South Carolina
Auditors report a 36385 shortage in Peoples Building and Loan accounts of R. S. Lipscomb 70 secretary treasurer who tried to kill himself on September 23. An additional 31000 deficiency from paying off shares early was found. Lipscomb, former bank cashier, shot himself but survived and was deemed mentally irresponsible. A committee will handle his affairs and he was hospitalized in Morganton North Carolina. Directors warn misappropriation began in 1925 and shareholders face about an 11 percent loss as no bond was found.
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Gaffney
S. C
Peoples Building and Loan Association
R. S. Lipscomb
Lipscomb
Morganton
N. C
Morrow Ends Presidential Bid as He Enters Senate Race
New Jersey candidate Dwight W. Morrow announced in Newark that he will run for United States senator in 1932. He rejected links to a Hoover opposition and said he intends to vote for Hoover’s renomination in two years.
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Newark
N. J
Dwight W. Morrow
United States
Hoover
Cardinal Hayes Deems Prohibition Unwise Legislation
Cardinal Patrick Hayes of New York called prohibition unwise legislation and a blow to temperance while in Seattle. He cited Bishop Georges Finnigan’s remarks on rising drunkenness under the eighteenth amendment and warned of drifting toward a loss of self control amid higher divorce rates.
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Cardinal
Seattle
Wash
Patrick Hayes
New York
Cardinal Hayes
United States
Victoria
California
Georges Finnigan
Montana
Lutherans Close Convention With International Day
MILWAUKEE October 14 United Lutherans in America planned to close their ten day convention with an International Day The executive committee urged moral support for rescue rebuilding and development of the Lutheran church in Russia due to persecution of Christian churches The plan includes care for Russian refugee Lutherans migrating to other lands and strengthening churches in border nations such as Estonia Latvia Lithuania Poland Czecho Slovakia Austria Hungary Yugoslavia and Romania
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milwaukee
Wis
United Lutherans In
America
John A. Morehead
Lutheran World Convention Executive Committee
Russia
World Lutherans
Esthenia
Latvia
Lithuania
Poland
Czecho-Slovakia
Austria
Hungary
Jugo-Slavia
Rumania
Missing College Girl At Columbia With Married Man
Columbia North Carolina October 14. State constable W W Rogers will go to Anderson to swear out a warrant charging Willie Wilson a 35 year old married man of Grover North Carolina with kidnapping Esther Fureron 17 year old Anderson college student also from Grover. The girl disappeared from college Friday afternoon. Her father Reverend W E Fureron a Baptist minister says she is forcibly detained by Wilson. Wilson is charged by Shelby police with stealing an automobile and three bales of cotton there last week.
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Columbia
N. C
W. W. Rogers
Anderson
Willie Wilson
Grover
Esther Fureron
Anderson College
W. E. Fureron
Wilson
Shelby
Millionaire to Lead Ziegfeld Show Orchestra
New York Oct 14 A millionaire will lead the orchestra for the Ziegfeld musical comedy Smiles Paul Lannin heir to the late Joseph J Lannin former Boston Red Sox owner says he loves conducting and also composes music His fortune comes from his father and he accepts the post with enthusiasm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Paul Lannin
Joseph J. Lannin
Boston Red Sox
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Carl Williams
E. F. Creekmore
American Cotton Cooperative Association
Beauvais
France
NEA
Prsons
Buncombe County
Banker
Senate
Jones
Wayland Roach
Viola Dana
Jimmy Thompson
Broadmoor Country Club
Colorado Springs
Cole
Miss Dana
Thompson
George Ross
Akerson
Winston
Good Roads Group
Civitan
Pension Board
A. F. L. Convention Hall
Morrow
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