Hoover Declares U S Business On Sound Basis
President Hoover voiced optimism about the American economy despite a week of stock declines. He cited strong production and consumption, steady prices, rising wages, and growing output as signs of a healthy condition, while noting weak spots in construction and a seasonal dip in some sectors. He warned grain prices fell with the stock drop and projected a world production drop of 500 million bushels, predicting a low carryover after this harvest.
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Washington
Hoover
Hoover É
Stock Exchange
Three Killed In North Carolina Accidents
A series of accidents in North Carolina killed three people and seriously injured a child. R W Hodges 33 died at Lewisville Road near Winston Salem after touching a live wire. Leo Barnes 30 prominent farmer of Churchland died when a dead tree fell on him at Tyre. James Ernest Holt 50 from Greensborough died after being knocked from a bicycle in Greensborough. Obert Hill truck driver faces murder charges in the Greensboro crash. Margaret Herndon 9 of Carpenter Durham County died when a tree being felled struck her.
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North Carolina
R. W. Hodges
Lewisville Road
Winston-Salem
Hodges
Leo Barnes
Churchland
Tyre
James Ernest Holt
Proximity Manufacturing Company
Greensboro
Obert
Hill
Liberty
Margaret Herndon
Cam Herndon
Carpenter
Durham County
Pantages Guarded by Two Deputies After Jury Deliberation
Hollywood impresario Alexander Pantages was guarded by two deputy sheriffs in his Los Angeles home as jurors debated his alleged attack on Eunice Pringle, a 17 year old dancer, with a verdict still pending after about three hours of deliberations.
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West
Edward L. Doheny
Elk Hills Naval Oil Reserve
Doheny
William Hitz
Fall
Los Angeles
Alexander Pantages
Eunice Pringle
Pantages
George Fricke
W. S. Gilbert
Joseph Ford
Lloyd
Rodney
Carmen
John Considine
Dixie Martin
Western NC Conference Unanimous On Report
The Western North Carolina M E conference adopted a report urging remedies for textile industry unrest. It calls for living wages, nonpartisan study, conferences to settle disputes, and a Duke University chair in Industrial Relations, with a pastors’ conference to follow.
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North Carolina
M. E
Duke University
W. A. Newell
Gastonia
Ruling Set For Lavarre Case November 9
Federal Judge J Lyles Glenn postponed ruling on the 2 5 million suit involving William Lavarre International Paper and its subsidiary. He set November 5 for a decision on the motion to dismiss after three hours of argument and discussion of service issues and attachment laws in the South Carolina Timber case.
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Columbia
S. C
J. Lyles Glenn
William l Lavarre
International Paper Company
International Paper and Power Company
Lavarre
South Caroline Timber Company
Glenn
D. H. Hanley
Timber Company
South Carolina
Favorable September incomes reported by major railroads
Railroads released September income figures with the Southern Railway System and the Boston and Maine showing gains. The Erie declined, along with several smaller lines. Southern Railway 3,356,612 versus 3,527,959 prior year. Boston and Maine 1,793,615 versus 1,648,958. Erie 1,969,317 versus 2,334,083. Mobile and Ohio 267,635 versus 319,460.
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New York
Southern Railway System
Boston & Maine
Erie Railroad
Sou. Ry
Boston Ms
Thaw to Appeal $75 000 Award to Hostess
NEW YORK jury orders Harry K Thaw to pay hostess Marcia Estardus 75000 for injuries at a New Year party in 1926. She testified Thaw tore clothes bit her and spanked her with a hairbrush causing lasting scars and humiliation. Thaw moves to set aside the verdict as excessive.
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New York
Harry K. Thaw
Supreme Court
Marcia Estardus
New Years
Thaw
Duke Watchman Slain at Duke University
E G Gray, a night watchman at Duke University, was beaten to death last night by an unidentified person. His body was found early today by workers. The sheriff reported no motive yet.
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Durham
E. G. Gray
Duke University
Gray
Bingham Action Condemned Over Tariff Campaign
Senate lobby committee chairman Caraway condemned the relations between Senator Bingham and the Connecticut Manufacturers Association. He presented a report detailing a loan from the association to Charles L. Evanson to aid Bingham in drafting the tariff bill, saying the matter undermined public confidence in legislation.
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Washington
Bingham
Conn
Connecticut Manufacturers Association
Senate
Caraway
Lobby Committee
Connecticut Manufacturers’ Association
Charles L. Evanson
Marooned on Michipicoten Island Crew of Chicago Freighter
Captain P C Farrell and 30 crewmen of the freighter Chicago were stranded on the rocky shore of Michipicoten Island after being marooned since Tuesday night. One crew member reached Quebec Harbor to report the others may attempt an escape, while the Coast Guard Tug Whalen prepared to evacuate the castaways.
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Lake Superior
Rocky Island
Sault Ste. Marie
Mich
P. C. Farrell
Chicago
Hud
Michipicoten Island
Michipicoten
Quebec Harbor
James Black
Coast Guard
Whalen
Stocks Decline In An orderly New York Session
A moderate, orderly decline in prices marked trading on the New York stock exchange. Leading issues fell about $1 to 106 with several big names holding steady near last night’s quotes. Total volume was 2,081,800 shares for a two hour Saturday session as workers prepared to return Sunday.
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New York
New York Stock Exchange
Radio
General Motors
Standard of New Jersey
Montgomery Ward
American Can
New York Central
Anaconda
American Telephone
Bethlehem Steel
Union Pacific
Stock Exchange Committee On
Hit and Run Driver Fined for Repeat Crashes
Miss Pauline Stasiak was fined 75 dollars after a judge called her a menace to the community for multiple hit and run crashes. Peter Pennacchia, the complainant, testified that she struck his car at an intersection, fled, and then hit him again in a second encounter, prompting his remark about needing multiple cars due to careless drivers.
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Evanston
Pauline Stasiak
Porter
Peter Pennacchia
Miss Stasiak
Gardner Again Center Of Labor Arguments
Charlotte dispatch reports labor unrest in North Carolina centering on Governor O Max Gardner in Raleigh. R W Baldwin president of Marion Manufacturing seeks troops on duty until all undesirables are removed from his area and Clinchfield village after six deaths. Governor not ready to decide pending talks with N A Townsend and Alfred Hoffman.
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Charlotte
North Carolina
O. Max Gardner
Raleigh
R. W. Baldwin
Marion Manufacturing Company
Clinchfield
Baldwin
N. A. Townsend
Townsend
Alfred Hoffman
United Textile Workers of America
Tariff Prospects Encouraging With Smoot Hawley Review
Washington Oct 26 The senate nears a final vote on the Smoot Hawley tariff bill after a week of rate making. Encouraging prospects are seen as committee amendments multiply and the entire chemical oil and paints schedule will be reviewed. Farm members urge low rates on coconut oil to avoid undercutting cotton seed oil, while 23 amendments pass amid a gloomy outlook for a December 2 finish.
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Washington
Senate Today
Senate
House of David Steamer In Lake Storm Tragedy
Detroit dispatch reports the Rosabelle schooner, eight years missing after departing High Island with potatoes for Milwaukee, found wreckage on a Racine beach. The crew of 11 included Captain Erhart Gilese first mate Charles Anderson and other sailors. The Rosabelle vanished in a Lake Michigan storm while en route to Milwaukee, ending a long mystery.
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Mich
Lake Michigan
Milwaukee
Great Lakes
High Island
Racine
Wis
Rosabelle
Erhart Gilese
Charles Anderson
Waldemar Frederickson
Alvin Winder
Edgar Marshall Jake Vonmoulken
Robert Douley
C. Daley
L. Nye
Cecil Claudel
Edwin Wilson
Decision Delayed in Chain Store Tax Suit
Wake County superior court Judge R A Nunn ruled yesterday that a decision on the suit by several chain stores seeking to recover license taxes paid under the 1929 statute will be postponed until November 25. The case involves multiple operators in North Carolina.
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Raleigh
WN. C
R. A. Nunn
Wake County
Countess-claimant Eva Greeley Found Dead in New York Apartment
In New York an apparent suicide ends the story of Eva Waddington Greeley who called herself a countess. Neighbors found her body beside a pistol once owned by Officer John Maier, to whom she wrote a farewell note. Maier, the Rogers Park detective, had known her a month and had last seen her October 11.
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Self
New York
Chicago
Eva Waddington Greeley
Royal engagement described as love match in Belgium
Brussels Oct 26 The engagement of Humbert prince of Piedmont Italian heir and Princess Marie Jose of Belgium is termed a love match by a Belgium journalist close to the situation. The ruler allowed his children happiness and freedom to choose a husband true to her heart.
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Italy
Humbert
Rome
Marie Jose
Albert
Elizabeth
Belgium
Piedmont
Leopold
Astrid
Sweden
Rockefeller Junior Becomes Private Pilot At 38
J W Rockefeller Jr, cousin to John D Rockefeller, qualified as a private pilot at 38 and will fly his own plane. In New York, Edgar Wallace notes the first hundred books are hardest for authors, with total output around 149 by age past 40, calling that the age when an author is played out per James Branch Cabell.
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Roosevelt Field
N. Y
J. W. Rockefeller, Jr
John D. Rockefeller
New York
Edgar Wallace
James Branch Cabell
Yale Debates Vassar Girls Win 2 to 1 in Class Debate
In Poughkeepsie New York Yale students argued for the emergence of women from the home. The Vassar girls won the decision by two to one with a panel of judges including one male professor and one female professor and an audience largely of girls.
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Poughkeepsis
N. Y
Yale
Vassar
Mayor Walker Pushes Back On Campaign Criticism
New York Mayor Walker counters criticism of his attire and campaign style saying he does not favor costly sartorial choices. He quips that opponents “walk to the top” of the Woolworth building, implying a strategic taunt about effort and expense.
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New York
Walker
Woolworth
Miss Georgia O Keefe rises to fame as artist in New York
Once a drawing teacher in Amarillo Texas Miss Georgia O Keefe sent coal drawings of flowers to a friend who showed them at an art gallery. Her crop of five fillies drawings earned $25000 and she became Mrs Alfred Stieglitz, wife of her discoverer.
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New York
Georgia O'Keefe
Amarillo
Tex
Alfred Stieglitz
G O P 10 War on Busting Senators
New York reports forecast a GOP drive against Republican senators who oppose Hoover on tariffs. Otto H. Kahn was named treasurer of the Republican senatorial campaign committee at a Milbank dinner for Claudius Huston. The Times says the move signals a hard fight to retain control as progressives clash with Hoover administration tariff policy.
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Hoover
Otto H. Kahn
Jeremiah Milbank
Claudius H. Huston
Republican National Committee
Kahn
George H. Moses
New Hampshire
National Committee
the Times
Moses
Senate
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