Mussolini seeks US aid to cancel or cut debt
In Raleigh and Washington reports the Italian premier Benito Mussolini urges the United States to cancel or reduce Europe’s war debts. He frames a peace policy for Europe and hints at a four power summit with Britain France Germany and Italy as a path to resolve tensions.
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Benito Mussolini
United States
Europe
Turin
Italy
Il Duce
Castello Square
Mussolini
Great Britain
France
Germany
Brazil’s Revolution Stirs Santos as Head Winds Stop Flight
In Santos Brazil a two week old revolution rages as the President holds firm and Democrats fail to unseat him. The writer notes the town sweeping streets while a plane nears Rio de Janeiro and comments on political hope for Republicans at home.
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Santos
Brazil
Rio Janeiro
Hoover 10 Visit Gotham As Drive For Office Closes
President Hoover plans a two week campaign push ending with a New York City speech and interior Midwest stops including Indianapolis and Chicago. He just completed a westward tour and Detroit address and may adjust plans if his New York address is delayed.
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Hoover
Gotham
New York City
Washington
Detroit
Indianapolis
Chicago
White House
New York
Son kills father in brutal patricide case
In New York a 23 year old man Thomas Prendergast Jr. admits fatally stabbing his father after years of his drunken violence toward his wife and family. He said he acted after witnessing abuse and striking at his father at the top of the stairs. Police found the body at the foot of the stairway as the knife protruded from the heart. The youth faced court today on a charge of patricide.
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The
Supreme Court Today
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Nashville
Tennessee
Luke, Jr
Wallace B. Davis
Asheville, N. C
North Carolina
New York
Thomas Prendergast, Jr
Seventh Avenue
Prendergast
Thomas Jr
Betty
Thomas, Jr
Salvage Behemoth Locomotive Hoisted From 15 Foot Grave
Salvage crews dig out a 285000 pound locomotive buried 15 feet deep after a Tehachapi Pass cloudburst swept it from its tracks. The Santa Fe engine, found Oct 12 with a magnetic needle borrowed from a local high school, will be lifted via a temporary spur and cranes before returning to Santa Fe shops in San Bernardino within three weeks.
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Bakersfield
Calif
Santa Fe
Tehachap Pass
Southern Pacific
Santa Fee
Santa
San Bernardino
Eighteen Die As Bus Slips From Ferry Into River
NATCHEZ Miss Oct 24 A busload of Negro worshippers returning from a religious gathering plunged off a ferry landing into the Mississippi River. Eighteen were drowned with volunteers joining in the search. The bodies of three women were recovered.
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Natchez
Miss
Mississippi
Pendleton Plant Expands With 25000 Dollar Addition
Pendleton Manufacturing company at LaFrance announces starting within a week or two on a 25000 dollar expansion to the plant for tapestries and upholstering.
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Anderson
8. C
Pendleton Manufacturing Company
LaFrance
Bankers Hear Plan To Tax Beer To Aid Government
The Investment Bankers Association convention heard a proposal for legal beer and a federal tax up to 40 cents a gallon that could yield about 754 million dollars in revenue. The report said much of this would divert funds from bootlegging, with the tax burden falling on consenting drinkers. Col. Allen M. Pope spoke at the opening, outlining the plan's aims within the emergency context.
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White Sulphur Springs
W. Va
Investment Bankers Association Convention
Federal
Petoe
Col. Allen M. Pope
Soldier Who Killed Three Kills Himself
Sergeant Charles W. Long, convicted two weeks earlier of murdering his wife and two children on January 2, hanged himself in a Charleston county jail cell. A fellow prisoner found Long’s body suspended from a rope in a cell block. guards and a doctor arrived, but he was dead and still warm.
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Charleston
Charles W. Long
Long
Educator Refuses Resignation After Hearing in Marshall
Madison County schools superintendent C. M. Blankenship faced charges of disreputable conduct before a county board, which asked for his resignation. He resumed duties and plans to appeal to the state board of equalization, insisting he did not receive a square deal. Eloise Price, his secretary and involved party, was absent from the office.
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C. M. Blankenship
Madison County
State Senate
County Board of Education
Blankenship
Eloise Price
State Board of Equalization
Raleigh
N. B. McDevitt
Fourteen Die as Floor Collapses During Egyptian Wedding
A house near Girca in Upper Egypt collapsed during a wedding, killing fourteen people including the bride. Rescue workers reported the tragedy as locals mourned the victims in the aftermath of the disaster.
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Cairo
Egypt
Girca
Upper
Night of terror as eight year old girl identifies abductor
Anna Kleinhandler, eight, identified neighbor Samuel Morris as the man who lured her into a forest near Springfield and attempted to attack her. Police say she feared he would kill her if named. she was cut and stabbed but not seriously hurt. Morris was arrested at his home after taxi driver Mitchael Rosselle confirmed the pair’s ride from Newark to Springfield.
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Newark
N. J
Anna Kleinhandler
Samuel Morris
Springfield
Morris
McRell
Baltusrol Golf Club
Shunpike Ave
Eugene Murphy
Anna
City Hospital
Mitchael Rosselle
Rosselle
Spruce Street
Pastor on trial bitterly scored in murder case
In Muskogee Oklahoma a county attorney branded Rev S A B as having lost all decent faculties as closing arguments wrap a sensational wife poisoning trial. The 62 year old preacher and his younger bride face possible verdicts of death life imprisonment or acquittal amid claims of intimate relations with a 13 year old girl and a rooming house visit.
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Althea Barrie
Muskogee
Okla
Diff
Phil K. Oldham
Bernie
Oldham
Bernice
Escape from Devil's Island Survivors Reach Willemstad
Five Frenchmen a Spaniard and an Italian escaped the Devil's Island penal colony and traveled 1500 miles by sailing canoe to Willemstad in Curacao arriving on Saturday in evident distress.
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Willemstad
Curaco
Devil's Island
Ryals Pleads Guilty in Winchester Auditor Murder Case
William Raymond Ryals, age 22, pleaded guilty to the murder of A. G. Mageguerty, a 33 year old newspaper circulations auditor from Winchester Massachusetts, and received a nine year sentence to the state penitentiary.
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Fort Worth
Tex
William Raymond Ryals
A. G. Mageguerty
Winchester
Mass
Opera singer shot by husband in Berlin tragedy
Soprano Gertrude Bindernagel was shot by her husband Wilhelm Hintze after a Siegfried performance. She underwent kidney surgery but officials said her condition remains hopeless. Hintze, a former colonel, surrendered after declaring he aimed to teach her a lesson.
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Berlin
Gertrude Bindernage
Siegfried
Wilhelm Hintze
Hintz
Miss Bindernagel
Hintze
Potedam First Guards Regiment
Roosevelt Plans Raleigh Stop For 25 000 At Fair Grounds
North Carolina Democrats prepare for Roosevelts 10 am Raleigh address for about 25 000 attendees at the fair grounds with throngs also expected in Charlotte and Hamlet. The Roosevelts arrival follows a party leaders’ trip to Atlanta and includes a stop in Hamlet for Senator Reynolds to speak.
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Fair Grounds
Governor
Atlanta
Raleigh
North Carolina
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Democratic
New York
Charlotte
Hamlet
Seaboard Air Line
Robert R. Reynolds
Senate
Roosevelt
O. Max Gardner
Josiah W. Bailey
Cameron Morrison
R. R. Reynolds
J. C. B. Ebhringhaus
J. Wallace Winborne
John Bright Hill
Thomas O'Berry
Palmer Jerman
Al Smith to Speak Tonight in Newark on National Issues
Alfred E. Smith, backed by New Jersey Democrats, will address thousands at the 113th Infantry armory in Newark tonight. He will discuss national issues for the first time in the campaign, with the exact topic to be announced. The speech airs nationwide on NBC and is set for 10 p.m. EST.
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al Smith
Newark
N. J
Alfred E. Smith
New Jersey
113Th Infantry
National Broadcasting Company
Love Hoax Ends in Exposure and Wife Forgives
Elliot B. Thomas Redondo Beach school superintendent confessed after a weeklong manhunt. He forged a new identity E. T. Sherwood to pursue Sylvia Wilson of Seattle, sought to marry her, and faced possible resignation and no charges after returning to the sheriff's office.
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Los Angeles
Elliot B. Thomas
Redondo Beach
Thomas
E. T. Sherwood
Sylvia Wilson
Seattle
California
George Penney
Sheriff's
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