Libby Reynolds Seeks Complete Exoneration in Slaying Case
Libby Holman Reynolds told attorney Benet Polikoff she wants the cloud over the murder indictments lifted permanently not pros. She seeks complete exoneration in the slaying of millionaire husband Smith Reynolds at their Winston-Salem home on July 6. The Reynolds family asked the solicitor to consider dropping the case, noting the burden on the family.
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Winston-Salem
N. C
Libby Holman Reynolds
Benet Polikoff
Smith . Reynolds
Polikoff
Reynolds
Albert Walker
La Follette Backs Roosevelt for President and Local Democrats
Wisconsin Senator Robert M. La Follette Jr urges voters to support Franklin D. Roosevelt and Democratic state candidates. He accuses Hoover and GOP insiders of slush funds and urges cooperation with progressives, saying Roosevelt offers relief to about 10 million unemployed and 6 million farmers and families amid the economic crisis.
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Madison
Wis
Robert M. la Follette, Jr
Franklin D. Roosevelt
LaFollette
Philip LaFollette
John B. Chapple
Ashland
Blaine
Hoover
Congress
Roosevelt
Deserter inRanks of GOP and Lutheran Convention Plans
A senator warns against a political rival’s policies stating he may oppose them if elected. Delegates favor consolidating church seminaries into four large institutions. The 1934 United Lutheran church in America biennial will meet in Savannah Georgia and commemorate Ebeneezer’s 200th anniversary, marking Lutheran immigrant settlement.
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Philadelphia
United Lutheran Church In America
Savannah
Georgia
Germany
Ebeneezer
Roosevelt counters GOP claim that Dems would do worse
Governor Roosevelt the Democratic presidential candidate spoke in Wheeling West Virginia challenging Republican assertions that things would be worse under his election He argued the nation suffers from mis management and urged voters to judge his plans by results rather than warnings.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Roosevelt
Two Hurt After Freight Train Crashes Into Caboose
Victor Goodman conductor and Joe Parish flagman of Asheville were injured when a west bound freight train cars rolled down a hill and smashed into the caboose on the Southern tracks at Marion North Carolina. Five cars were wrecked and fire was extinguished by the Marion fire department. Both men were taken to Asheville hospital with back injuries.
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Marion
N. C
Victor Goodman
Joe Parish
Asheville
Goodman
Parish
End of Rockingham 68 Day Textile Strike Opens
Rockingham North Carolina ends its 68 day textile strike as mills resume operation. About 800 to 900 Hannah Pickett workers and around 350 at Entwistle number one return, with 55 hour weeks at the latter. Strike began August 22 with unionized Hannah Pickett workers and expanded to Entwistle lockout. Governor Gardner mediated.
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Rockingham
N. C
Richmond County
W. D. Cole
Hannah Pickett Mills
William H. Entwistle
Entwistle Mill
Entwistle
Hannah Pickett Number One
Hannah Pickett Number Two
Entwistle Number One
Gardner
Julian
Adolphe Menjou and His Wife Separate
Hollywood, Oct 19. Adolphe Menjou and his wife Kathryn Carver announce separation. Mrs. Menjou, in hospital recovering from a nervous breakdown, likely to file for divorce. a property settlement is planned. The couple married in Paris in May 1928. she was formerly Ira Hill’s wife.
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Hollywood
Adolphe Menjou
Kathryn Carver
Milton Cohen
Paris
Menjou
Ira Hill
New York
Greensboro men wager Greene County farm on Hoover re election
Carey Williams and J. B. Winslett offer Henry Ford a friendly bet of a 201 acre farm in Greene County Georgia against a model V-8 Ford if President Hoover is re elected. The land valued at about 10000 in 1919 holds pine and hardwood timber with a tenant house in fair shape. If Hoover loses Ford wins the farm.
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Greensboro
Georgia
Henry Ford
Greene County
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Carey Williams
Greensboro Herald-Journal
J. B. Winslett
Ford
Hoover
Minister On Trial For Killing First Wife For Love Of Another
In Muskogee Oklahoma the murder trial of Reverend S A Berrie proceeds as prosecutors introduce love poetry and testimonies about alleged intimacy with his second wife the 19 year old teacher he married after the death of his first wife Witnesses including handwriting expert Tom King and former police chief John Wolsey describe the pastor confessing an intimate relationship from Christmas until the first wife died in March
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Muskogee
Okla
Althea Berrie
Berrie
P. K. Oldham
Bernie
Tom King
Muskogee, Okla
S. A. Berrie
Death of Frank Ward O Malley Veteran American Journalist
Frank Ward O Malley a veteran American newspaperman died in Tours France at 57 He had moved there with Mrs O Malley to place their children in school He was a noted figure of the golden age of American journalism formerly with the Morning Sun New York 1906 1919 and later a prolific humor writer playwright and author of The Swiss of O Malley He lived in Brielle New Jersey and requested burial where he died
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Tours
France
Frank Ward O'Malley
Ov O'Malley
Brielle, N. J
Buenos Aires Immense And Busy Like A Global City
Special report from Buenos Aires describes the city as vast and lively, comparing it to Chicago Paris and Beverly Hills while noting the President’s unpredictable presence and the paradox of unemployment versus serving the people in this international capital.
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Buenos Aires
Chicago
Paris
Beverly Hills
Claremore
Oklahoma
Trade Basks In Increasing Prosperity Reports Reveal
New York editors report mid October business may rise further as stocks align with sales. Department stores show small gains while advertising and power use rebound. Shoes in upstate New York boom with 25 000 to 30 000 pairs daily. Air freight movement improves and overall retail activity signals better consumer demand.
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New York
Associated Business Papers, Inc
Federal Reserve
New York State
Upward Business Trend In Dixie Increases Steadily
Dixie shows steady business improvement with Dixie firms resuming operations and hiring. Frisco railroad plans to hire 75 as of November 1, Signal Mountain Cement resumes at 60 percent capacity employing 90, and W S Dickey Clay in Birmingham adds 110 workers.
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Memphis
Tenn
Dixie
South
Maton-Dixon
Gulf Coast
S. Butler
Frisco Railroad
Signal Mountain Cement Company
Chattanooga
W. S. Dickey Clay Manufacturing Company
Birmingham
Florida
United Lutheran Church delegates push toward adjournment
More than 500 delegates from 6600 congregations attended the eighth biennial convention as they cleared controversial issues and moved to adjourn. A merger plan would consolidate 11 seminaries into four large institutions at strategic locations including Columbia Hartwick Gettysburg Selinsgrove Philadelphia Hamma Maywood Western Lincoln and Minneapolis with Pacific Seminary on hold.
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Philadelphia
United Lutheran Church In America
United States
F. H. Knubel
New York
United Lutheran Church
Southern Seminary
Columbia
8. C
Hartwick
Brooklyn
N. Y
Gettysburg
Susquehanna
Selinsgrove Pa
Hamma Divinity School
Springfield O
Chicago Seminary
Sextet of youths flee prison camp
Six young prisoners at Camp Polk prison farm near Raleigh escaped Monday night by breaking a wall and using a water pipe then scaling the stockade fence. They were sighted near Method and fired on by pursuing officers. one member, Brady Clarke, was captured. The escapees included Harry from Guilford county and others from Mecklenburg Surry and Montgomery counties with sentences ranging from 2 to 16 years.
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Raleigh
Camp Polk
States’ Prison
Here
H. H. Honeycutt
Central Prison
Method
Brady Clarke
Harry, Bailey
Guilford County
John Gregory
R. B. Hayes
Mecklenburg County
London Masemore
Surry
Clyde Phifer
Montgomery
Sunshine Ends Ten Floods Across North Carolina
Sunshine cleared a cloudless sky over North Carolina stopping heavy rains and aiding drying of flooded lowlands. Rivers receded and roads reopened as Manville Jenckes mill High Shoals Hardin and McAden mills prepared to renovate damaged machinery and repairs proceeded on washouts and rails to resume traffic.
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Charlotte
North Carolina
Manville- Jenckes
High Shoals
Hardin Mill
McAden Mill
McAdenville
Assassin Foiled in Attempt on Ex Hungarian Premier
In Budapest an attempt to kill former Prime Minister Stephen Bethlen was halted in a courtroom. Eskudt, the private secretary to the ex-minister of agriculture, tried to stab Bethlen with a dagger but was seized by a policeman just as the thrust would have been delivered. The motive was a private grudge.
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Budapest
Hungary
Stephen Bethlen
Count Bethlen
Julius Karolyt
Louis Eskudt
Bethlen
Eskudt
Gale Howls Down New England Coast: Three Die
A nor'easter intensified along the New England coast causing three deaths as a fishing party was swept from Jamestown. Coast guard vessels and harbor police searched for missing prisoners and crews while two high school boys were rescued after their rowboat capsized off Buzzard Bay. Flooding and 60 mph winds disrupted Boston Harbor operations and Cambridge police quarters.
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Boston
New England
Block Island
Boston Light
Greater Boston
Jamestown
R. L
Harrison Morris
Boston Harbor
Deer Island
Winthrop Shore
Coast Guard
Long Island
Buzzard Bay
Central Square
Cambridge
Port Ye
Thetea
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Ab Walker
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Carter Glass
Frank Ward O’malley
Louisiana
United States District Engineers
Memphis River
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Wall Street
Tennessee
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