Rockingham Textile Strike Ends as Workers Return to Work
Rockingham workers end eight week walkout after secret vote to return to three plants Hannah Nekett and Entwistle Manufacturing. No union recognition or pay raise obtained. Plants to open Wednesday with non-discriminatory re employment and food fuel aid for strikers. Governor Gardner and officials aided settlement efforts.
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Rockingam
Othkrs
Hannah Nekett Manufacturing Company
Entwistle Manufacuring Company
Cmpany
Recontruction Corporation
Roosevelt 10 Wrecks Flooded Oppose Bonus
New York Times reports Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt will oppose immediate cash bonus payments for veterans. He plans a relief program linked to draft-board style administration to aid needy veterans, while criticizing Hoover era relief measures and B E R from Washington. He may address the soldier bonus question during an eight day tour with stops in Pittsburgh and Indianapolis.
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New York
New York Times
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Pittsburgh
the Times
Hoover
B. EB. F
Washington
Indianapolis
Albany
N. Y
Roosevelt
Pennsylvania City
Weed Charged Over Pal's Death In Seatt le
Theodore D. Weed, Seattle businessman, faces murder charges after Frank Simpson, a 56 year old restaurateur and friend of 20 years, died claiming Weed pushed him over a 30 foot cliff during a hunting trip. Weed denies the accusation and remains free on bond as prosecutors consider filing murder charges.
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Seattle
Frank Simpson
Theodore D. Weed
Simpson
Weed
Emmett G. Lenihan
Simp
Frank
Rar
Nais
Death takes Dr Robert Anderson in his 73rd year
Raleigh NC October 17 Dr Robert Anderson longtime superintendent of the State Hospital for the Insane here died at 73 after more than a week of critical illness from uremic poisoning. Funeral services were planned at the hospital auditorium with Gov O Max Gardner among honorary pallbearers and eight nephews as pall bearers. Anderson was a Wake County native and medical pioneer who helped found Wilson Sanitorium and served as first medical director of Jefferson Standard Life Insurance before leading the state hospital since 1913.
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Raleigh
Albert Anderson
State Hospital For the Insane
North Carolina
Anderson
State Hospital
Robert Bradshaw
Jenkins Memorial Methodist Church
Eugene Few
Edenton Street Methodist Church
F. S. Love
O. Max Gardner
Wake County
Trinity College
Duke University
Middleburg
University of Virginia
Wilson
Wilson Sanitorium
Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Company
State Board of Health
State Medical Examining Board
American Medical Association
Week End Accidents Fatal Twenty Seven In Dixie
Week end accidents claimed 26 lives across the South with 17 due to automobile mishaps on rain swept highways. Georgia led fatalities with 10, Virginia six, South Carolina and Arkansas three each, North Carolina two, and Saas and Mississippi one each.
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Atlanta
South
Georgia
Virginia
South Carolina
Arkansas
North Carolina
Saas
Mississippi
Five Children Drown In Ontario Canal Incident
Five children died when an automobile toppled over an embankment into the Trent canal near Glen Miller Ontario. Two bodies were recovered with authorities continuing the search.
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Glen Miller
Ont
Trent Canal
Kidnaping Ring Busted as Victim Freed in Mass
Boston area man Herman Rutstein, a theatrical supply dealer, recounted six days of captivity and torture after being kidnapped for ransom. Police freed Rutstein in Hull, Mass, and captured three suspects Joseph Gould, Walter Addison, and William Harmon, with Gould later identified as Max Schecter of New York City. five others sought in Providence and New York.
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Hull
Mass
Herman F. Rutsstein
Boston
Rutstein
Providence
New York
New Jersey
Joseph Gould
Walter M. Addison
William Harmon
Brooklyn
Gould
Max Schecter
West 49Th Street
New York City
President Hoover appeals for relief funds and campaign plans
President Hoover resumes campaign strategy after launching a nationwide drive for welfare and relief funds led by Newton D. Baker. He announced plans for appearances before voters in the remaining weeks before election day and discussed a possible Atlantic seaboard trip to New York or New Jersey. He praised citizen-initiated relief efforts and stressed strengthening local community support to meet increasing distress. At Cleveland he also listed unemployment aid measures and defended continuing his re election efforts.
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Washington
Hoover
Atlantic Seaboard
New York
New Jersey
Republian
California
Welfare and Relief Mobilization Committee
Newton D. Baker
White House
Cleveland
New York City's Credit At Risk Says Mitchell
Charles E. Mitchell of National City Bank warned the budget hearing that New York City's credit is on the edge of a precipice. He urged a substantial tax cut to restore confidence, noting bids for even large bond issues would fail without a much lower price. City officials walked out of a private session demanding a public one.
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New York
Charles E. Mitchell
The
National City Bank
Board of Estimate
New York City
Charles W. Berry
Frank Prial
Dennis J. Mahon
Samuel Levy
Manhattan
John A. Lynch
Richmond
Mitchell
Insull Fears Kidnapping In Greece
Samuel Insull, under indictment after the Chicago utilities collapse, told reporters in Athens he had learned Chicago authorities hired four Greek detectives to kidnap him and return him to the United States. The claim adds tension to the ongoing legal saga surrounding his empire.
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Insull
Athens
Greece
Samuel Insull
Chicago
United States
Supreme Court Refuses To Review Davis Case
Wallace B. Davis former president of the Central Bank and Trust Co of Asheville NC had his conviction upheld by the North Carolina courts for making a false statement about the bank balance. He faced four to seven years plus prison time for conspiracy with Luke Lea and Luke Lea Jr over misapplication of bank funds.
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Central Bank and Trust
High Trib
Jordan
Washington
Wallace B. Davis
Central Bank and Trust Company of
Asheville
N. C
Supreme Court
North Carolina
Davis
Luke Lea
Luke Lea, Jr
Central Bank and Trust Company
North Carolina Supreme Court
Luke Lee
Central Bank & Trust Company
Extortion plot leads to arrest of ex-shipyard worker
In Newport News Virginia Homer L Ferguson head of Newport News Shipbuilding and First National Bank faced a $ ten thousand extortion scheme. Herbert Young thirty one and a companion were found in a parked car and arrested on charges of not being of good fame. Young was later linked by handwriting to letters demanding money and threatening armed action.
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Newport News
Homer L. Ferguson
Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company
First National Bank of Newport News
Herbert Young
Young
Ferguson
First National Bank
Warwick County
Companion
South African Woman Charged With Killing Three Family Members
In Johannesburg an early horror case opens as Mrs Daisy Louise De Melker 44 goes on trial for poisoning her first husband William Rowle 1923 her second husband Robert Sproat 1927 and her son Cecil Rowle last March Prosecutor says all three died after wills or insurance benefits favored the mother.
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Johannesburg
Union. of
League of Nations Assembly Ad Journed
Geneva reports the League of Nations assembly ad journed on October 17 as officials signaled the session’s closure. No further meetings were scheduled in the immediate term.
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Geneva
League of Nations Assembly
Roads and Crops Hit as Alabama Faces Flood Threat
Heavy rain since yesterday drenched Alabama with more than five inches and caused evacuations in Walker and Tuscaloosa counties. The Black Warrior River near Tuscaloosa rose sharply to 68.8 feet, while the Tennessee River also rose. damage touched highways, livestock, and unharvested crops as relief bands moved inland from the Gulf.
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Ala
Walker
Tuscaloosa
Alabama
Birmingham Weather Bureau
Gulf of Mexico
Mobile
Coosa
Crost
Black Warrior
Tennessee River
Walker County
Dixie
Gulf of Mixico
Rain Prediction Spells More Downpour For Carolinas
Tar heels braces for renewed rain tonight as rivers including Catawba Yadkin and French Broad rise rapidly threatening highways. Four Seaboard figures injured in derailment near Charlotte with seven cars off track. Weather experts forecast more rain for northern and western North Carolina and parts of South Carolina.
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Carolinas
Seaboard Airline Railway
L. H. Morton
Pete Frazier
P. H. Hunter
Roy Green
North Carolina
South Carolina
Gastonia
New Menace To Trade In France Faces American Firms
American business groups seek remedies against a French syndicate plan to liquidate frozen German credits. The strategy would let French importers buy at lower prices by discounting impounded credits, a move cited after a $40,000 deal loss to a German rival.
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France
Germany
American Chamber of Commerce
Will of Charles W. Gold Leaves Estate to Widow and Four Children
The late Charles W. Gold a former Pilot Life Insurance president was killed while hunting. His will filed in Greensboro provides a $200 monthly widow payment and another $200 monthly until remarriage, with remaining income divided among his four children. Stock is held in trust to fund payments and can be sold by mutual agreement of all children. Trustees are North Carolina Bank and Trust Company and the two sons. The children are Mrs Margaret Gold Smith Mrs Julia Gold Harden C W Gold Jr and Howard Gold.
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Greensboro
Charles W. Gold
Pilot Life Insurance Company
North Carolina Bank and Trust Company
Gold
Margaret Gold Smith
Julia Gold Harden
C. W. Gold, Jr
Howard Gold
Convicted Jailer Courson Granted $5000 Bond Awaiting New Trial
Captain George W. Courson, convicted of manslaughter in the death of Arthur Maillefort in a prison sweat box, was free on $5,000 bond as his lawyers prepared to seek a new trial. Solomon Higginbotham, indicted with Courson for murder, was acquitted. sentencing for Courson had not occurred.
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Jacksonville
Fla
George W. Courson
Arthur Maillefort
Liberty
Solomon Higginbotham
Courson
Maillefert
One Convict Killed in Alabama Prison Riot
A Speigner state prison uprising outside Montgomery ended when guards fired on convicts, killing Carl Singleton and wounding 24 others. Warden A B Smith subdued fleeing inmates with a scrub brush as leaders attempted a fence dash and a bloodhound pursuit followed.
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Montgomery
Ala
Speigner State Prison
Carl Singleton
Jefferson County
Singleton
A. B. Smith
Reuben Pittman
Montgomery County
John Hill
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Alabama Board of Administration
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