United Textile Workers Eye Shorter Hours Plan
Labor leaders push toward a 30 hour week as a reform at the national textile workers convention. Debate follows support for eight hour day and five day week with night work limits and state pension and unemployment provisions. Organizing efforts move in Gastonia area amid cautious stance on communist influence, with decisive council action expected.
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United Textile Workers
Roosevelt
Senate
New York
American Federation of Labor Organizers
Thomas F. McMahon
United Textile Workers of America
Gastonia
N. C
Charlotte
W. B. Plemmons
Executive Council
A. F. of L
Bessemer City
Kings Mountain
United Textile
Francis P. Gorman
No. 25
Philadelphia
Senate reshuffle looms as incumbents face primaries
Resignations and defeats in the primaries trim 11 of 35 incumbent senators up for re election, with Southern Democrats ejecting three and forcing Heflin to run as an independent. Republicans hold 56 seats to Democrats 39, plus one labor ally, as parties battle for control in the next Senate.
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Washington
Senate
Thomas J. Heflin
Alabama
House
Deneen
Illinois
Grundy
Pennsylvania
Simmons
North Carolina
Blease
South Carolina
Ransdell
Louisiana
Baird
New Jersey
Gillett
Massachusetts
West Virginia
Gould
Maine
Phipps
Colorado
Sullivan
Wyoming
Brock
Tennessee
Tyson
Economist Flays Morrow Roosevelt Prohibition Plan
Professor Irving Fisher calls Governor Roosevelt and Dwight Morrow's reform proposal a step backward. He argues it fails to explain how to protect dry states from wet ones without federal control or interstate customs, risking a return to pre prohibition difficulties and bootlegging.
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New York
Roosevelt
Irving Fisher
Christian Science Monitor Today
Narragansett
R. I
Dwight W. Morrow
Prohibition Debate Shapes Primary Elections Nationwide
As ten states held primaries, wet and dry forces clashed with wins and losses for prohibition advocates. Governor Roosevelt backed repeal with state control, while Republicans and Democrats in several regions faced mixed results and candidates prepared to weigh the issue for November. Maryland, Arizona, Louisiana, Georgia, and South Carolina showed limited impact from the prohibition question. Maine focused on national issues.
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Washington
Roosevelt
New York
Louis C. Cramton
Grant M. Hudson
Anti-Saloon League
Michigan
John F. Miller
Ralph H. Horr
Miller
Seattle
Horr
New Hampshire
Vermont
Colorado
George H. Shaw
Chase St. Osborn
James Couzens
Maryland
Arizona
Louisiana
Georgia
South Carolina
Maine
Governor urges 25 percent tobacco cut and coop plan
Gov O Max Gardner told east North Carolina growers at State College to cut tobacco acreage by 25 percent next year and form a tobacco exchange for orderly sales. He warned current prices will cost farmers millions and urged regional cooperation to reduce acreage and probe suspected buyer combinations. Gardner cited a need for a law enforcing the reduction and closer southern state solidarity.
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Raleigh
O. Max Gardner
North Carolina
N. C. State College
Gardner
Federal Trade Commission
Georgia
Virginia
Southeastern Economic Conference
Harris Renominated in Georgia Senate Race
In Atlanta Harris secured renomination for a third term as Senator after sweeping 294 county unit votes to Slaton's 4. Russell and Carswell led for governor with Russell ahead in popular and unit votes, signaling a likely October runoff between Russell and Carswell to decide the gubernatorial nomination.
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Atlanta
William J. Harris
Richard B. Russell
George H. Carswell
Harris
John M. Slaton
Slaton
Georgia
Russell
Carswell
EB. D. Rivers
John M. Holder
James A. Perry
Holder
Rivers
Perry
United States
Senator Allen Improves After Johns Hopkins Operation
Senator Henry J. Allen of Kansas, who had a major operation at Johns Hopkins hospital yesterday, passed a good night and is making favorable progress, officials stated today.
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Baltimore
Henry J. Allen
Kansas
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Major Stedman Ill in Mount Alto Hospital
Major Charles M. Stedman, longtime North Carolina representative since 1911, is critically ill after an apoplectic stroke at Mount Alto hospital. At 89, he remains in danger though physicians see no immediate peril. his daughter Mrs. Katherine Palmer of Greensboro accompanies him. He is the last Civil War veteran in Congress.
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Washington
Charles M., Stedman
North Carolina
Mount Alto Hospital
Katherine Palmer
Greensboro
N. CC
Congress
Michigan dries lose ground in statewide primary
Detroit September 11. After years of dry efforts supporters of prohibition lost key seats in the state wide primary. Rep Grant M. Hudson was unseated by Seymour H. Person who had wet support. In another district Louis M. Cramton trailed Jesse P. Wolcott by 135 votes with 25 515 to 25 650. Wolcott urged a national referendum on prohibition.
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Detroit
Michigan
Grant M. Hudson
Ardent Dry
Anti-Saloon League
United States
Seymour H. Person
Louis M. Cramton
Congress
Cramton
Jesse P. Wolcott
Wolcott
First such death by own action at St Peter's Basilica
Vatican City reported the first recorded case of suicide by jumping from the cupola of St. Peter's Basilica. The victim was 85 year old Marcello Nittati, a pilgrim from Cortena, who leaped from the dome and died on impact in St. Martha's square.
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Vatican City
St. Peter's Basilica
Marcello Nittati
Cortena
St. Martha’s Square
Vanderbilt Student Leaps To His Death
Ralph Johnson a 21 year old Vanderbilt University student formerly of Hav erhill was fatally injured when he leaped from the fourth floor of the Boston Tech chapter Lambda Chi Alpha in Back Bay He died after reaching City Hospital.
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Boston
Ralph Johnson
Vanderbilt University
Haverhill
Lambda Chi Alpha
Back
City
New Propeller For "2" Ordered For Paris to New York Flight
A new wooden propeller for the plane Question Mark is ordered from France to be ready before the Paris to New York goodwill flight by fliers Dieu donne Coste and Maurice Bellonte. The project faces a week delay for delivery.
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New York
France
Paris
Dieudonne Coste
Maurice Bellonte
Medical Soap From Sulphuric Smell in Coal Discovered
Ohio State University researchers report a new medicinal soap made from a refined sulphur byproduct of coal gas. Tested on varied subjects, the soap showed no adverse scalp or nail effects and helped skin conditions such as eczema acne and facial blemishes. Manufacturers noted improvements in platers rash and chronic machinists boils.
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Howard W .Blakeslee
Associated Press
Cincinnati, O
Ohio State University
American Chemical Society Today
Emery R. Hayhurst
Koppers Research Company
Castile
Hayhurst
GANGRENE SPREADS IN SANTO DOMINGO
A government survey in Santo Domingo estimates 1000 gangrene cases 5000 injuries and 2799 deaths from a hurricane. Property losses range from 20 to 25 million dollars. Red Cross says no outside food yet and medical supplies are adequate for now. Navy reports relief ships in port and 1250 patients in five hospitals.
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Washington
Santo Domingo
Navy
R. M. Cutts
Port- Au-Prince
Haiti
Red Cross
Miami
Fla
BE. S T
Havana
Chinese Firing on American Vessels on Yangtse River
The State Department reports repeated attacks with heavy firing from trench mortars machine guns and rifles against American naval and merchant vessels on the Yangtse river. Consul General Frank P. Lockhart in Hankow says firing targets almost all vessels at a point on the river’s right bank 45 miles from Kiukiang. No casualties reported. Foreign gunboats reportedly return fire as attacks continue at three river points between Changlingki and Ichang.
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Washington
Yangtse River
State Department
Frank P. Lockhart
Hankow
Yangtse
Kiukiang
Changlingki
Ichang
Car Driver Held For Manslaughter
MEMPHIS Tenn Sept 11 F C Smith driver of an automobile which last night struck down and killed the Rev George H Martin 86 assistant pastor of the First Methodist church was held today on a charge of manslaughter but the minister s companion a daughter police said described the accident as unavoidable.
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Memphis
Tenn
F. C. Smith
George H. Martin
First Methodist Church
Heartless murder reported in Chicago drug store
In Chicago on September 11 an unprovoked murder occurred at Willis Fiddelke’s drug store. The 40 year old proprietor was shot as he lay face down after the killer demanded money and fired. The report describes the deadly ambush and theft motive in stark detail.
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Chicago
Willis l Fiddelke
Fiddelke
Notorious bandit dies in hospital in Plattsburg
Oliver Curtiss Perry once called the notorious train bandit of the 1890s has died in a hospital in Plattsburg New York. He was 64. Perry first drew attention in 1891 when as a brakeman he robbed an express car on the New York Central Railroad using a saw to breach the car end. The messenger surrendered the key to the safe and Perry seized the money before cutting the air hose to slow pursuit.
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Plattsburg
N. Y
Oliver Curtiss Perry
Dannemore State Hospital
New York Central
Herkimer
Utica
Perry
Power project eyed to flood, power Tennessee region
The U S Army corps recommends a 25 million dollar Tennessee basin plan to build a reservoir from Biltmore to Brevard and Hendersonville for navigation flood control and hydro-electric power. If approved by Congress, construction could start in 25 to 30 years as economic feasibility emerges. The Asheville area would be studied in a regional survey costing 1.25 million dollars across Tennessee Alabama Georgia and Western North Carolina.
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Asheville
Biltmore
Brevard
Hendersonville
Corps of Engineers
United States Army
Congress
Tennessee
United States Engineer Office
Chattanooga
Tenn
United States Engineers Corps
Alabama
Georgia
North Carolina
Six Bandit Suspects Killed Escaping Prison
Dispatches from San Luis Potosi report six bandit suspects were killed when attempting to escape from prison in Mexico City on September 11.
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Mexico City
San Luis Potosi
Students Strike At Hazleton High For Longer Lunch
Hazleton High School students walked out protesting a 25 minute lunch period since term start. About 950 of 1950 pupils participated, with the walkout beginning before the day’s formal session.
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Hazleton
Hazleton High School
Tribesmen Gather for Heavy Attack on Afghan Frontier
SIMLA India Sept 11 A raiding force of 4000 hostile tribesmen was reported gathering for a heavy attack against British troops along the Afghan frontier in the region of Peiwip.
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Simla
India
Peiwip
Farmer Prophets Parade Barefoot Hats In Kinston Protest
P. B. Harper and W. Worthington, described as farmer prophets, paraded shoeless through Kinston in protest against eight-cent tobacco. A warehouseman reportedly bet they would appear shoeless in the business district as part of the demonstration.
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Kinston
B. Harper
W. ©. Worthington
Harper and Worthington
Watson Praises Hoover In Indiana Campaign Speech
United States Senator James E. Watson praised President Hoover and the Republican Party for keeping 1928 pledges. He defended the tariff act and claimed relief for farmers, noting actions on the stock market collapse, wheat surplus, and drought. He denied tariff blame for price declines, citing worldwide depression.
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Linton
Ind
United States
James E. Watson
Indiana
Hoover
Watson
Senate
Clearing House Report Shows Exchanges and Balances
Clearing House reports on New York activity with exchanges totaling 1.012 billion dollars and balances at 144 million dollars as of September 11.
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Clearing House
New York
Deposed Argentine Leader Seeks Exile in Europe
Eighty-year-old Hipolito Irigoyen, ousted president of Argentina, desires exile in Paris or Spain. Jose Uriburu’s government orders medical review of Irigoyen as reports describe his pneumonia and heart issues. Officials say normalcy returns with stable peso, ongoing troop movements to safeguard peace.
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Buenos Aires
Hipolito Irigoyen
Europe
Jose Francisco Uriburu
Drs. Castex and
Lavalle
Leager
Seventh Infantry Barracks
la Plata
Pampas
Paris
Spain
Republic
Irigoyen
Four Negroes To Die In North Carolina Chair
Four Black men named Berry Richardson Aaron Sharpe Wright Bynum and William Randall have had their appeals dismissed by the North Carolina supreme court and faces execution September 26 for the murder of Callie Williford. They were convicted of beating Williford to death with an axe and burning his isolated Wilson County home.
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Raleigh
Callie Williford
North Carolina Supreme Court
Berry Richardson
Aaron Sharpe
Wright Bynum
William Randall
Richardson
Sharpe
Gardner
Williford
Wilson County
Nancy Carroll's Husband Arrested In Indecent Performance
John M. Kirkland husband of film actress Nancy Carroll and eight cast members of the play Frankie and Johnnie faced bail of 590 each on indecent performance charges. Police halted the Jamaica Long Island show after the third performance and detained backstage personnel including the theater owner and managers under Sinnett leadership.
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New York
John M. Kirkland
Nancy Carroll
Frankie
Johnnie
Jamaica
Long Island
Sinnett
Kirkland
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