Gale Like Wind Strikes Hatteras Despite Storm Path Shift
Weather reports from Mentéo North Carolina show tropical disturbance off the North Carolina coast veering away from shore. Cape Hatteras records northeast wind 50 to 52 mph with falling barometer as the center stays offshore. The Weather Bureau says the eastern U S coast is safe from the hurricane though ships along the southern states face rough seas.
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Hatteras
Menteo
N. C
Cape Hatteras
North Carolina
Florida
Oregon Inlet
Hatteras Inlet
Washington
The
Weather Bureau Today
United States
Vallee Divorce Plan Abandoned Wife Reverses Decision
Reno dispatch reports Fay Webb Vallee wife of Rudy Vallee says there will be no divorce after a midnight call from Atlantic City led to a rethink. She explains the quarrel was childish and vows to join him in New York after leaving for Santa Monica.
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Reno
Nev
Rudy Vallees
Fay Webb
Kidnapped Texas Boy Returns Home To Louisville
Hubert Johnson Jenkins an electrical engineer brought his son from Dallas Texas to Louisville after taking him from the grandfather's home. Police said they would act only with proper warrant and extradition papers. The boy is joint heir to the estate of the late Dallas mayor T L Bradford.
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Louisville
Hubert Johnson Jenkins
Dallas
Texas
Jenkins
William H. Jenkins
Lmits
Ambrose Hagerman
T. L. Bradford
Committee Talks to Halt Two-Week Strike in Thomasville
A five member civic committee led by Charles F Finch met with strikers at Community church to seek a working agreement between manufacturers and workers. David A Long Jr of Amazon Cotton Mills said no new developments emerged and the strike remained passive with no new news.
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Thomasville
Charles F. Finch
Community Church
David A. Long, Jr
Amazon Cotton Mills
Concord
C. A. Cannon
Cannon Tower Company
Amazon
Long
Raleigh Named Site For Agricultural Credit Corporation
Washington September 7 The reconstruction corporation announced Raleigh North Carolina and Jackson Mississippi as charters for agricultural credit corporations in the third and fifth federal land bank districts. A Raleigh branch will be at Macon Georgia and a Jackson branch at Montgomery Alabama.
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Washington
Reconstruction Corporation Today
Raleigh
N. C
Jacks
Miss
Agricultural Credit
Federal Land Bank
Raleigh Corporation
Macon
Jackson Corporation
Montgomery
Ala
M Kee Slashes Gotham Payroll by Two Million Dollars
New York mayor Joseph McKee, in office less than a week, announces sweeping payroll cuts saving an estimated 2 million dollars annually. The plan slashes salaries across city offices, lowers many to 12000 a year, and includes a police and fire department cuts to meet the minimum. He orders a police census to assess destitute unemployed residents.
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New York
Joseph McKee
William Schroeder, Jr
Sanitation Commission
Walker
McKee
Charity To Benefit By 40 000 Gallons of Milk In Memphis
In Memphis Tennessee Fred Howard of the Independent Dairymen's Association says 40 000 gallons of sweet milk may be distributed to the city’s needy if milk plants refuse to raise prices by Saturday morning. He had threatened dumping into the Mississippi River but chose charity instead.
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Memphis
Tenn
Fred Howard
Independent Dairyman’s Association
Mississippi River
Bulgarian Premier Resigns as King Commissionaliate New Government
Sofia report says Premier Nicholas Muschanoff and his cabinet resigned today but King Boris immediately commissioned him to form a new government. The action follows political upheaval with Muschanoff to reassemble a cabinet to clear the path for continued governance.
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Sofia
Bulgaria
Nicholas Muschanoff
Boris
Farm holiday strike stokes clash as deputies mass
Nearly 100 Plymouth county deputies armed with shotguns and clubs halted a 500 strong crowd of farm holiday strikers as 22 truckloads of livestock moved toward Sioux City. Sheriff Rippey mobilized about 200 special deputies amid reports of massing pickets and threats to ignite highway gasoline. A governors conference was planned Friday as drivers were injured and violence warned against.
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Sioux City
Iowa
Plymouth County
James
Here
R. E. Rippey
Rippey
Woodbury
Etrake
Farmers Holiday Association
Governors
Sales Light on Tobacco Marts Today
Raleigh reports light sales on the new bright belt tobacco markets in eastern North Carolina as farmers withhold top offerings awaiting a market standard. Wilson, claiming to be the world’s largest tobacco market, handled about 400000 pounds with average prices between 12 and 13 dollars per hundred. Williamston notes unusually light offerings with average near 10.50 dollars, while Smithfield sees improved prices but lighter sales.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Wilson
Williamston
Smithfield
Psycho analysis sought for wife murder claim
Dr Towneley Thorndike French 57 a Harvard Medical School graduate was held for hearing on charges of slaying his wife Grace Alward French 40. He surrendered at La Grange street station saying I have killed my wife and suggested psycho analysts might explain why. Grace was found dead in a rooming house shot in the head with time of death set for early Monday morning.
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Boston
Towneley Thorndike French
Harvard Medical School
French
la Grange Street
Grace Alward French
North Carolina colleges report rising enrollments this fall
Several state higher learning institutions have opened for the 1932 33 term with attendance up over last year. Wake Forest reports a 24 percent enrollment rise, Weaver College anticipates its largest turnout since 1929, and High Point College expects about 4300 students. Freshmen begin orientation mid September as campuses welcome larger cohorts.
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Wake Forest
Grady Patterson
Weaver College
Weaverville
High Point College
Greensboro
Greensboro College
Woman's College of
British novelist Sir Gilbert Parker dies in London
Sir Gilbert Parker, famed British novelist and longtime Los Angeles motion picture writers’ colony member, died of a heart attack in London at age 69. He rose to fame with The Seats of the Mighty in 1896 and The Right of Way, later adapted for film. Born November 23, 1862 in Camden Hall Ontario, he often visited Ontario and owned a Belleville home.
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London
Gilbert Parker
Los Angeles
United States
Camden Hall
Ont
Ontario
Belleville
Jean Harlow to testify at Paul Bern inquest in Los Angeles
Police announced that actress Jean Harlow will be subpoenaed as a witness in the inquest into the death by his own action of her husband Paul Bern the movie producer who married her two months earlier. David Davidson said eleven other witnesses would be subpoenaed including Henry Bern brother of Paul, arriving from the east tonight.
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Hollywood
Jean Harlow
Paul Bern
Bern
Los Angeles
David Davidson
Henry Bern
Paul
Conflicting Testimony in Paul Bern Death Case
Los Angeles police faced conflicting stories about events preceding the discovery of film producer Paul Berns body. Homicide chief David A. Davidson said he would reinterrogate the domestic staff before Thursday’s inquest as detectives report differing accounts of last weekend.
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Los Angelles
Paul Bern
Jean Harlow
David A. Davidson
Bern
Ford Officers Refuse Comment on Wage Slashes Rumor
Ford Motor Company officers declined to comment on reports of widespread wage reductions across the firm. The Dearborn plant reopened after a three week shutdown with thousands recalled and more to return, with prevailing wage scales believed unchanged for those back to work.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Company
Dearborn
Here
Screen Star To Get Half of Husband's Estate No Will
Los Angeles reports attorney R D Knickerbocker says Paul Bern left no will. Jean Harlow could receive half the estate with the remainder to blood relatives. Friends say Bern’s fortune was not large after stock market losses and past philanthropy spending.
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Los Angeles
R. D. Knickerbocker
Paul Bern
Jean Harlow
Hern
Two Spectacular Accidents Kill Four In Chicago
Last night two accidents in Chicago left four dead and sixteen injured. A cable broke in a 185 foot shaft causing a bucket to fall, killing three workmen and wounding six. A condemned building collapsed trapping about 25 nearby residents who were inside seeking firewood, killing one and injuring ten.
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Chicago
Flying Hutchinsons start Arctic leg from Greenland
The Flying Hutchinsons departed Godthaab Greenland for Angmagsalik on Greenland s east coast as they continue their flight from New York to London over the Arctic route.
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Ottawa
Hutchinsons
Godthaab
Greenland
Angmagsalik
New York
London
Arctic
Negro Confesses In Deputy Ray Slaying Amid Mob Tension
Charlie Rose a 17 year old negro confessed to firing the shot that killed Will Ray 25 year old deputy sheriff during a Haywood county manhunt. A crowd surrounded the jail after the confession but threats subsided as Sheriff Lowe vowed to keep order. Rose faces prelimit hearing with four others charged with aiding escape as coroner Sam Stringfield said no inquest would be held.
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Waynesville
N. C
Charlie Rose
Will Ray
Ninevah
Haywood County
J. A. Lowe
Gordon Hotel
Bill Cole
Ray
Rose
John Queen
Kinsville
Sam Stringfield
Germany threatens to quit disarmament conference over arms equality
Berlin reports a German ultimatum may withdraw from the world arms talks unless Germany receives arms equality. Foreign Minister Von Neurath and Defense Minister von Schleicher warned that if Germany is not granted parity it will arm anyway, while proposing confidential talks with France as part of the plan.
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Berlin
Baron Konstantin von Neurath
France
Koenigsberg
Kurt von Schleicher
von Pagen
von Neurath
Germany
Aide Memoire
Jury Is Selected In Trial Of Fogleman
A Rockingham County jury was completed to try Clay Fogleman on charges of murdering W. J. Carter, a filling station operator, and deputy sheriff J. A. Robertson. Carter was killed during a station robbery and Robertson fell victim while investigating a nearby light. Fogleman was captured in Ohio after wounding a Cincinnati police officer.
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Wentworth
N. C
Clay Fogleman
W. J. Carter
J. A. Robertson
Rockingham County Superior Court
Carter
Robertson
Fogleman
Ohio
Cincinnati
Building Boulder Dam a spectacle larger than the Grand Canyon
Beverly Hills dispatch invites readers to witness Boulder Dam under construction comparing it to flood lore and noting two concerns silt and a senatorial element. It hints at political questions surrounding the project without specifics.
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Beverly Hills
Cal
Boulder Dam
Grand Canyon
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