Ickes orders survey for Georgia Florida ship canal feasibility
Secretary Ickes directed the army engineers to survey a proposed 150 million dollar ship canal from the Atlantic to the Gulf across southern Georgia and northern Florida. The route would shorten sea distance by 500 to 800 miles, employing about 26,000 over six years, with alternate shallow and south Florida routes also studied.
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Ickes
Public Works
Chief of Army Engineers
Georgia
Florida
Atlantic Seaboard
Gulf Coast
White House
George
Seaboard
Gulf
Markham
St. Mary's River
Folkstown
Jasper
Aucilla River
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Lions leader Roderick Beddow visits Charlotte on tour
Roderick Beddow of Birmingham Alabama president of Lions International stopped in Charlotte during a tour of Lions clubs in the United States and Canada. He arrived from Spartanburg and planned to continue to Richmond the next day.
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Roderick Beddow
Birmingham
Ala
Lions International
Lions Clubs
United States
Canada
Spartanburg
Richmond
Wiggin
Ickes Outlines Policy For Public Works Approval
Secretary Ickes stated a policy that municipal power projects meeting criteria of desirability practicability and legality should be approved by state public works boards and forwarded to Washington for the final decision despite local opposition.
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Washington
Ickes
Call Back to Work in Pittsburgh for UMWA Members
Philip Murray, vice president of the United Mine Workers and leaders of four districts, urged all members at captive mines to return to work. Roosevelt secured an agreement with captive mine owners, offering a path to a formal contract and full union recognition upon acceptance.
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Pittsburgh
Philip
United Mine Workers of America
Roosevelt
Connie Mack trades Cochran and Grove to Detroit and Sox
Philadelphia reports Connie Mack shuffled his roster trading catcher Mickey Cochran to the Detroit Tigers and selling lefty Grove to either the Chicago White Sox or Boston Red Sox, with the White Sox likely.
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Evening Ledger
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Mickey Cochrane
Detroit Tigers
Lefty Grove
Chicago White Sox
Boston Red Sox
White Sox
Troopers and Cars Move Into Massachusetts Strike Zone
Five hundred twenty five state troopers and eighty five radio equipped cruisers deployed across central and western Massachusetts to protect motorists as a truck driver strike escalates violence concerns.
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Boston
Massachusetts
Leaf tobacco prices reach season high in Winston-Salem
Leaf tobacco prices set a season high in Winston-Salem with yesterday's sales averaging 18.76 per cwt for more than a million pounds. The AP report notes strong demand driving the price surge as growers sell bulk lots.
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Winston-Salem
Ford to submit wage and hours figures in early November
The National Automobile Chamber of Commerce announced that Ford Motor Company will file its wage and hours report as required by the automobile code on November 6 or 7. Hugh S. Johnson disclosed the plan after obtaining from Alfred Reeves, vice president and general manager of the NAC, the manufacturers' intentions on submission.
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Washington
National Automobile Chamber of Commerce
Ford Motor Company
Hugh 5. Johnson
Alfred Reeves
Britain Threatened Dollar Rally Could Hurt All Nations
Roosevelt awaited British assurances on his European market policy as Washington prepared for the first foreign gold purchases. The British equalization fund, allied with France, could retaliate to devalue the pound, risking a ruinous currency race and possible damage to both economies.
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Washington
Roosevelt
London
Great Britain
Britain
France
Engineers to Meet Chapel Hill
The North Carolina Chapter of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers will hold its fall meeting here tomorrow.
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Chapel Hill
North Carolina
The
American Institute of Electrical Engineers
NRA Fete Dawns in Fayetteville Parade Honors Start of NRA
Fayetteville Cumberland county residents join a monster celebration led by Governor Ehringhaus and General Manus McCloskey at Fort Bragg and through the city’s business district. The governor called the outpouring a magnificent manifestation of the dawn of better times.
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Ehringhaus
Cumberland County
Manus McCloskey
Fort Bragg
Republican pamphlet accuses Roosevelt of broken pledges
Washington dispatch reports the Republican National Committee issuing a pamphlet titled let's look at the record charging President Roosevelt with violating Democratic pledges. It targets monetary policy inflation and London conference moves as breaches and cites fallout on federal expenses and public works promises.
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Republican National Committee
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Platorm
United States
Democratic Party
Governor Ehringhaus Discusses Winter Relief With Mrs Berry
In Raleigh on October 31 Governor Ehringhaus and relief administrator Mrs Thomas O Berry conferred on plans to aid about 9000 squat ter tenant families in North Carolina. The state survey shows many former tenant families now live without lodging gardens or crops and with no means of subsistence. Relief plans will be prepared for submission to federal authorities.
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Ehringhaus
Thomas O'Berry
North Carolina
O’berry
Wealthy Michigan magnate freed after safe raid
Marshall police report Louis E. Brooks a 46 year old Marshall manufacturer was kidnapped and forced to open a safe then driven to a side road where the assailants hid the key under a culvert. He escaped and returned home near Battle Creek with bruises and will confer with his attorney.
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Louis EB. Brooks
Hattle Creek
Brooks
Battle Creek
Here
Sheriff's Deputies
James W. Mackey
Brooks Farm
Will on gold buying and international markets
A Beverly Hills column cautions readers about buying gold on the world market. It argues that repeated purchases and higher prices could cheapen the dollar and notes potential foreign support trouble. The piece mocks professors and economists as unarguable experts.
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Beverly Hills
Cal
NRA Challenged by Court Suits in Multiple Challenges
Washington reports three fronts in NRA disputes involving a Ford local dealer bid for Civilian Conservation Corps trucks, a New York post office annex bid held by potential NRA noncompliance, and a U S Supreme Court case on milk control law. Dec 4 argument date set. Roosevelt insists government buys only under the Blue Eagle.
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Civilian Conservation Corps
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Supreme Court of the United States
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Comntroller-General
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Comptroller-General
George F. Driscoll Construction Company
Brooklyn
Extradition bid for Samuel Insull denied by Greece
Athens Greece October 31 The appeal court refused the United States request to extradite Samuel Insull Chicago utilities magnate to Cook County Illinois to face charges from his failed enterprises The decision ends a long Greek process with a prior rejection last November Analysts say prosecutors will continue pursuing other indicted colleagues in separate cases while attempts to extradite Martin Insull from Canada remain unresolved
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Greece
United States
Samuel Insull
America
Insull
Chicago
Cook County
Illinois
Paris
Ilinois
Italy
Wright H. Green
Green
Trade Volumes Rise in Sixth District in September
The Atlanta Federal Reserve reports increases in retail and wholesale trade for September, with gains in department store sales and construction contracts, but declines in textile production and coal and iron output. Wholesale trade up 5.9 percent from August. department store sales up 3.5 percent from August and 3.2 percent from September 1932.
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