Housing Program Linked With Public Works Plans
President Roosevelt announced that his forthcoming Congress would see a major expansion of housing projects tied to relief efforts. He supported a cohesive plan with the new public works program and described small farm moves for unemployed workers as compatible with farm administration goals. He also discussed slum clearance and suburban development as essential to relieve relief reliance and offer restart opportunities.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Farm Administration
Harry L. Hopkins
West Virginia
Arkansas
Tobacco Growers Seek Extension Of Control Program
About 430 representative flue cured tobacco growers met in Raleigh and voted unanimously to urge the federal Agricultural Adjustment Administration to extend the weed control program through 1938 and to extend the two year control program to 1936. They also urged increasing the non signer tax from 25 to 33 1 3 percent next year and thanked AAA leaders and lawmakers for tobacco price improvements. The group praised congressmen Kerr and Senator Smith and county agents for program support as they considered a three year plan and a five year production control option for flue cured tobacco.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
Federal Agricultural Adjustment Administration
North Carolina
AAA
J. B. Hutson
John H. Kerr
E. D. Smith
N. H. Crocker
Stantonsburg
W. M. Bacon
Rougemont
E. T. Bowen
Tifton
J. Hart Whitehead
Chatham
L. M. Lawson
Darlington
D. C
Dc. T. Hall
North Carolina Tobacco Growers
Pierpont Dies in Chair with Story Untold
Harry Pierpont, key figure in the Dillinger gang, was electrocuted at Ohio Penitentiary. He died quietly at 32 after years on the run, carrying an inside tale of the Michigan City escape and the 1933 heist network.
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Columbus
Harry Pierpont
Dillinger
Ohio Penitentiary
Preston E. Thomas
Pierpont
Michigan City
Ind
State P
John Dillinger
Jessie Levy
Indianapolis
Charles Makley
Russell Clark
Jess Larber
Lima
Bluffton
Pierpon
Former College Student Sought in Mrs Stoll Kidnapping Case
A Nashville man, Thomas H Robinson Jr 27 was identified by federal agents as the kidnapper of Mrs Alice Speed Stoll the Louisville socialite. Investigators circulated photos fingerprints and descriptions and questioned Robinson family members as the search intensified after Mrs Stoll's return home.
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Nashville
Tenn
Thomas H. Robinson, Jr
Louisville
Alice Speed Stall
Young Society
H. H. Clegg
Bureau of Investigation
Washington
Robinson
Thomas H. 5
Typhoon victims rise as Luzon reports come in
Manila reports from October 17 list 41 dead as Luzon provinces send belated figures by patched telegraph lines. The tally grows for Tuesday's typhoon with updates from the coast and inland areas.
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Manila
P. 1
Luzon
Manila Tribune
Brummitt rules shift voters may register at former address
Raleigh October 17 AP Attorney General Dennis G Brummitt ruled that a person who moves within the same county less than four months before an election may return to his former residence to register under a new registration and vote there.
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Raleigh
Dennis G. Brummitt
Kidnapping Suspects Plead Guilty in Currituck Case
In Wilson North Carolina on October 17, Roy Coppersmith Sykes Forbes and Margaret Parker surrendered pleaded guilty and received sentences from five years probation to a one dollar fine. Coppersmith got five years probation Forbes two years probation and the woman a nominal fine.
North Carolina Oct Car Sales Rise From 1933
New automobile registrations for the first 15 days of October in North Carolina totalled 3 340, up from 2 256 in the same period of 1933, per L S Harris state motor vehicle directory cited today.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
S. Harris
Plan to relieve textile unemployment proposed by Pawtucket director
Joseph Ott managing director of the Royal Weaving Co in Pawtucket says he wired President Roosevelt a plan to relieve unemployment in the textile industry and that within 20 days it would cause a short age of workers.
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Pawtucket
Joseph Ott
The
Royal Weaving Co
Roosevelt
Weather Summary for North and South Carolina and Virginia
Partly cloudy skies general across the region with slight warmth in extreme west. Thursday clouds give way to rain in the mountains. winds shift from gentle to moderate with southwest and west directions in the north, and northeast winds in the south. Charlotte reports official temperature records for the 24 hours ending 6 A.M. in major cotton regions.
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North Carolina
South Carolina
Sandy Hook
Hatteras
North Portion
South
Jacksonville
Charlotte (Ap
Officie
Osborne Identified As Murder Bandit By Davis
Greensboro Oct 17 Special EB D Davis a Sumner township farmer who with his son was waylaid Saturday night by robbers and beaten until his skull fractured and his boy lay dying near Sumner schoolhouse identified Luther Osborne 31 of Davidson county as the masked bandit who robbed him of nearly 400 dollars after beating him with a shotgun. He is held on murder and robbery charges.
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Greensboro
D. Davis
Sumner Township
Sumner
Luther Osborne
Davidson County
Osborne
Robert Smith
Davis
Ralph Dill
High Point
Reuben Warner
Jamestown
Paul Sams
Sheriff's Department
Harriman Proposes New Permanent Recovery Act
Henry S. Harriman, head of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, outlined at the Grain and Feed Dealers' convention a proposed permanent economic policy act. He argued the current NRA was an emergency measure, with industry codification nearly complete and the exigencies that created it largely passed.
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Memphis
Tenn
Henry S. Harriman
Chamber of Commerce of the United Staates
Grain and Feed Dealers’ National Association
Harriman
NRA
Beverly Hills Dispatch Highlights Odd Washington Satire
A quirky reprint notes Fred Stone as a dramatic stage sensation from Washington. It contrasts Hungary miners' wage struggles with small raises, and mentions a San Francisco board giving workers 85 cents hourly plus overtime, reflecting dated labor tones and satire.
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Beverly Hills
Calif
Associated Press Dispatch
Washington
Fred Stone
Hungary
San Francisco
Six Day Search Told In Stoll Kidnapping Case
Department of justice agents recounted a six day pursuit to free Mrs. Alice Speed Stoll from kidnapper Thomas H. Robinson Jr. They said arrests are expected and Robinson is the prime suspect. Detectives emphasized urgency after Mrs. Stoll was seized from her Louisville home with an iron pipe used in the assault.
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Stoll
Washington
Mra
Alice Speed Stoll
Department of Justice
Ace
Thomas H. Robinson, Jr
Department
Robinson
Wealthy junk dealer's son held for $20,000 ransom
Lewis Esposito 23 son of a wealthy junk dealer is kidnapped in the Bronx and held for $20,000. Police report no cooperation from the family and that the car showed no bloodstains. An informant says the family could raise only about $5,000 in cash.
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Ronald Dixon
New York
Bronx
Lewis Esposito
Bruno Hauptmann
Esposito
Hauptmann
Anthony Eposito
Lewis
Mrs Stoll Treated By Two While Captive
Alice Speed Stoll, after a harrowing kidnapping, regained strength at home as government agents press the case. Harold F. Nathan, deputy director of the DOJ bureau of investigation, described the ordeal and noted the pursuit moving with full effort. The victim was taken from her home to Indianapolis and held in an apartment guarded by a Robinson woman.
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Dillard Stokes
Associated Press
Louisville
Alice Speed Stoll
Harold F. Nathan
Bureau of Investigation
Department of Justice
Hauptmann Near Trial as Extradition Foe Loses Plea
In New York on October 17, Bruno Richard Hauptmann lost a habeas corpus bid to block extradition for the Lindbergh baby murder case. His lawyer James M. Fawcett plans an appeal to the New Jersey appellate division to prevent removal.
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New York
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Col
Charles A. Lindbergh
Hauptmann
New Jersey
Supreme Court
James M. Fawcett
Carpenter
Ernest E. L. Hammer
Fawcett
Hammer
Textile Executives Express Open Dissatisfaction With NRA Code
Greenville Piedmont reports open dissatisfaction with the textile code at a meeting of the American Cotton Manufacturers Association board of governors. Observers note two opposing groups among mill leaders. one led by W. D. Anderson reportedly opposes or doubts the code, and displeasure with Cotton Textile Institute head Geo A Sloan is cited for handling the strike.
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NRA
Greenville
8. C
Greenville Piedmont Today
Board of Governors
American Cotton Manufacturers Association
Association
W. D. Anderson
Macon
Piedmont
Anderson
Self
Geo. A. Sloan
Cotton Textile Institute
Sloan
Georgia
South
Louisville Kidnap Suspect Faces Death Penalty Request
U S District Attorney Sparks says Thomas H. Robinson Jr. may be sentenced to death under Kentucky kidnapping law for the abduction of Mrs. Alice Speed Stoll. A later conference with Commonwealth Attorney Emmet ONeal will decide if the penalty is death or life under the Lindbergh standard.
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Louisville
Thomas H. Robinson, Jr
Alice Speed Stall
U.S
Thomas J. Sparks
Roinson
U. S
Emmet O'Neal
O'Neal
Kentucky
Nathan
Robinson
Stoll
Indianapolis
Meridian Avenue
Catholics Seek Daniels Scalp
Catholic groups demand the retirement of Ambassador Josephus Daniels over a Mexico City speech. They claim it signals plans to remove religion from schools and push socialist instruction, while Daniels says it defended universal education and did not critique Mexican schooling. Catholic and diocesan groups, along with Catholic publications, urge President Roosevelt to act.
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Washington
Josephus Daniels
Mexico
State Department
Daniels
Mexico City
United States
Horace Mann
Thomas Jefferson
Plutarco Elias Calles
Baltimore Catholic Review
America
Calles
National Union of Catholic Women
Richmond
Holy Name Union
Roosevelt
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PWA
Itoate
Clyde A
Farnsworth
Alice Stoll
Ae Dill
Smith
Sams
United
Chamber of Commerce
Eta
Yours
Textile Mediation Board
John G. Winant
New Hampshire
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