Commercial Club Sells Prime Postoffice Site in High Point
Washington reports Robert H Wheeler president of the Commercial club claims 90 percent of High Point residents favor the 190 by 200 foot site for the new post office. He estimates the price at 76 000 for the club owned lot and says Friends Church leaders would accept 100 000 for their corner parcel. A widow Mrs Jarrell says she will be fair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Enterprise
Washington
High Point
Postoffice
Robert Homer Wheeler
Treasury Department
Wheeler
Commercial Club iI
Friends Church
Jarrell
400 Buildings Survive As Santo Domingo Wrecked by Hurricane
A Caribbean hurricane leaves Santo Domingo with only 400 of 19 000 structures standing and 1 000 dead and 5 000 injured. Relief teams report widespread destruction, mass cremations adopted, churches serving as shelters, and President Trujillo granted emergency powers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dominican Republic
Santo Domingo
Colon Plaza
Christopher Columbus
Red Cross
Rene M. Leperyanche
Associated Presse
Associated Press
National Congress
Trujillo
Otto Wood Escape Rumor Ties Him to California
Reports claim Otto Wood and his sister in law Mrs Wood are in the west likely California, based on letters received by Mrs Wood’s children. Officials deny western travel reports, saying they will be investigated. Wood, jailed for pawnbroker murder, has escaped four times, noted for his single leg and notoriety.
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California
Otto Wood
State
Robert Wood
West
Wood
Prohibition Per Capita Cost Varies by Districts
A federal prohibition enforcement cost summary shows per capita spending ranging from five to eleven cents across twelve administrative districts. Washington area districts top at 11 cents, Maryland and nearby districts average seven cents, while several western and midwestern states run as low as 4.5 cents. The twelve districts receive a total budget of 7,555,347 dollars.
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Washington
Prohibition Bureau
Oregon
Montana
Idaho
Aleeka
Wyoming
Utah
Colorado
Arizona
New Mexico
New York
Porto Rico
California
Nevada
Hawaii
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Delaware
Georgia
Florida
Alabama
Mississippi
Louisana
Texas
Maine
Vermont
New Hampshire
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Rhode Island
Wisconsin
Illinois
Indiana
Michigan
Ohio
Kentucky
Tennessee
Kansas
Oklahoma
Missouri
Arkansas
Maryland
West Virginia
Woman-Run Beauty Shop Bombing Shocks Chicago
A bombing targets Madame Love's beauty shop on Lawrence Avenue in Chicago last night. A black powder pineapple device exploded at the rear of the business, marking the first known bombing of a business conducted by a woman.
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Chicago
Lawrence Avenue
Madame Love
Self Declared Slayer of 22 Is Hanged in Kansas
Carl Panzram, who claimed to have killed 22 people, was hanged at Leavenworth Federal Prison for the murder of R G Warnke, a prison laundry foreman. President Hoover denied clemency. chaplains were removed at his request. this marked the first legal hangings in Kansas since 1870.
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Leavenworth
Kas
Carl Panzram
Federal Prison
R. G. Warnke
Panzran
District of Columbia
Hoover
Kansas
Wichita
Pantran
Topeka
Panzian
George Henry Mcmahon
Salem
Mass
French aviators Coste and Bellonte depart Dallas for Louisville flight
Captain Dieudonne Coste and Maurice Bellonte of Paris depart Love Field Dallas at 12 30 pm for a non stop Leg to Louisville to end their New York Dallas trans Atlantic flight. They won a 25000 prize on the New York Dallas leg and plan an overnight stay in Louisville before continuing to New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
Texas
Dieudonne Coste
Maurice Bellonte
Paris-New York
Lovefield
C.S. T
Louisville
New York
Rene Racover
Coste
Bellonte
Racover
Suspect Held in Grace Budd Kidnapping Case
New York police extended searches to cellars as they investigate the 1930 Grace Budd kidnapping. Charles Edward Pope, 66, janitor and former asylum inmate, was arrested on the kidnapping charge after his wife identified him as the kidnapper called Frank Howard. She said she only recently suspected the child's identity. Pope denied the accusations and described a separate tale of a 12-year-old girl being moved to Buffalo in 1928.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Charles Edward Pope
Grace Budd
Pope
Frank Howard
Perth Amboy
N. J
Police Chief Joegen Jenkins Is Killed In Cartersville
Cartersville Georgia September 5 Police Chief Joegen Jenkins was shot to death early today by a man identified as John Willie Clark 22 an escaped convict The chief awoke to find two Negroes in a car near his home and when he tried to arrest them one drew a pistol and killed him instantly The pair fled leaving investigators to pursue leads and a suspect in the slaying Sheriff George W Gaddis of Barton county issued a statement with the information
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cartersville
Joegen Jenkins
George W. Gaddis
Barton County
John Willie Clark
Jenkins
Inquiry Resumes Into Power Firms After Commission Fire
The Federal Trade Commission plans to reopen hearings next week with Carolina Power and Light and Minnesota Power and Light. Hearings start September 15, though a fire delayed work and full completion beyond June 1931 remains doubtful. The Waterville project costs face disallowance of 779,329.28 from a 924,850.70 claim, with a 39 day protest window.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McCulloch
Carolina Power and Light Company
National Power and Light Company
Minnesota Power and Light Company
American Power and Light Company
National
Electric Bond and Share Company
Federal Power Commission
Carolina
Minnesota
Carolina Company
Waterville
Pigeon River
North Carolina
Veterans vote to repeal the Eighteenth Amendment
In Baltimore on September 5 the thirty-first VFW encampment backed repeal of the eighteenth amendment and its enforcement laws after an hour long debate with several roll calls. The NY delegation introduced the resolution. a tabling motion failed 873 to 637. Ada F. Harrison of New York City was elected national president of the ladies auxiliary.
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Baltimore
Veterans of Foreign Wars
New York
Ada F. Harrison
New York City
Ladies’ Auxiliary
Tobacco Prices See Small Rise Across Bright Belt Markets
Tobacco prices edged higher on the Bright Belt markets as eastern North Carolina growers plan a Goldsboro meeting to discuss cooperative marketing led by W. S. Green of the federal farm board. Officials aim to gauge sentiment for a belt wide cooperative, with Rocky Mount floors showing about 50,000 pounds on today’s early sales.
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Bright Belt
North Carolina
Goldsboro
W. S. Green
Federal Farm Board
Rocky Mount
Cyclone Rips Archdale Area Causing Wide Damage
A early morning cyclone strikes Archdale causing unroofed houses and collapsed foundations. Percy and Rosie McDowell were injured when their home caved in. Lloyd Cox Clarence Crawford homes damaged and trees uprooted. State highway crews clear a blocked Route 61 section. Authorities call it one of the area’s most severe storms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Archdale
Percy McDowell
Rosie
High Point
Asheboro
Lloyd Cox
Clarence Crawford
Horace S. Ragan
Illinois Elects First Women Face Off for Senate
Chicago dispatch notes a historic Senate race in Illinois with Ruth Hanna McCormick Republican facing Lottie Holman O Neill independent and James Hamilton Lewis Democrat. O Neill cites drys vs wets split over prohibition. Lewis begins campaign efforts.
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Chicago
Lottie Holman O'Neill
United States Senate
Ruth Hanna McCormick
James Hamilton Lewis
O'Neill
Illinois
McCormick
Lewis
Brave Chauffeur Receives Reward for Rescue at Lake
Chicago report credits Edward Stoneberg, a chauffeur, with saving two boys from Lake Michigan after they were swept by an undertow. He jumped in, pulled one child to shore, then returned to rescue the second with help from a passerby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Lake Michirr
Vfn OY & Sei
Edward Stoneberg
Straus
Greenebaum
Germans Receive Capital's Welcome
German trans Atlantic fliers led by Captain Wolfgang Von Gronau arrived in Washington to receive the capital's official welcome. They were met by German embassy staff and later to meet President Hoover and Secretary Clarence M. Young. A dinner was planned at O Kiep's home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Wolfgang von Gronau
O. €. Kiep
Hoover
Clarence M. Young
Aeronautics
Herr Kiep
Platt Accepts Post With Marine Midland Corp
Edmund Platt vice governor of the federal reserve board will become a vice president of the Marine Midland Corporation around September 16 George F Rand president announced today in Buffalo New York authorities report the appointment is effective mid September
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Buffalo
N. Y
Edmund Platt
Federal Reserve Board
Marine Midland Corporation
George F. Rand
Oil Worker Held As Suspect In Beach Stabbing Case
Los Angeles. Harry Harmon, 23, an oil worker, was arrested as a suspect in the fatal stabbing of Lois Kentel and her fiancé Francis Conlon on a beach near Ensenada August 28. He was caught while drinking in Huntington Park.
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Los Angeles
Harry Harmon
Lois Kentel
Francis Conlon
Ensenada
Lower California
Harmon
Huntington Park
Treasury Receipts and Expenditures Reported
Treasury receipts for September 3 totaled 3.8 million dollars while expenditures reached 40.0 million. The overall balance stood at 94.5 million dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Treasury
Washington
Hoffman to Begin 86Day Sentence for Riot in Marion
Alfred Hoffman an AFL organizer denies trying to flee the country and plans to report to Marion tomorrow to start an 86 day sentence for riot connected to the North Carolina textile town troubles last summer. He and leaders of a 400 worker mob were arrested for rioting against officers. Hoffman received 30 days and a $1000 fine while the others drew six months on the public roads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Asheville
Alfred Hoffman
American Federation of Labor
Marion
Hoffman
del Lewis
Lawrence Hogan
Wes Fowler
Pope Bids Sailors Benediction in Naples Audience
Pope Pius addressed 450 sailors from the United States cruiser Chester anchored in the Bay of Naples. He expressed pleasure at their visit and imparted his benediction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pope Arrdesses
Rome
Pope Pius
United States
Chester
Bay of
Naples
Shortage Found in Lieut. Governor Butler's Bank Accounts
Audit released by Cherokee clerk shows a $29680 shortage in the accounts of Lieut. Governor T. B. Butler as receiver for the Bank of Blacksburg which closed in 1927. The audit will be presented at the November term of Cherokee general sessions court and creditors may pursue action. Butler, later ill, had resigned as receiver and is under physician care in Union.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gaffney
S. C
T. B. Butler
Bank of Blacksburg
Cherokee General Sessions Court
T. M. Caldwell
A. S. Fant
Butler
Cherokee County
T. J. Mauldin
Butler lieutenant governor ill as bank receivership tale unfolds
Mrs. F H Garner daughter of Lieutenant Governor T B Butler says he is seriously ill at home in No Statement Is 1 Union and cannot speak about a reported 329,680.82 shortage in his accounts as receiver of the defunct Bank of Blacksburg. She says he will issue a statement later.
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Union
S. C
F. H. Garner
T. B. Butler
Associated Press
Bank of Blacksburg
Butler
Garner
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Homer Wheeler
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George F. Ewald
Tammany Party
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Maxwell
Raleigh
A. J. Maxwell
Southern Railway
Atlantic Coast Line
Duke Power Company
Nantahala Power Company
North Carolina Public Service Company
Raleigh Gas Company
Southern Public Utilities Company
Tidewater Power Company
Virginia Electric Company
Tallassee Power Company
Telephone Company
Prohibition
Western
Northwestern States
The
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Federal Trade Commission
Senate
Platt
Marine Company
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