Market Heads Up In Brisk Fashion After Uneasiness
Nervous trading persists but easing credit condtions bolster bullish confidence as stocks rise early. Commercial Solvents hits a record high, money rates ease, and AT&T, Foster Wheeler, Allied Chemical, and several others post solid gains while rail buying increases and labor day holidays affect car loadings.
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Stanley W. Prenosil
Associated Press
New York
American Telephone
Foster Wheeler
Allied Chemical
Auburn Auto
Western Union
Pacific Telephone
American Can
Westinghouse Electric
Columbian Carbon
Atchison
International Telephone
Simmons
U. S. Steel
American and Foreign Power
Union Tank Car
Continental Can
Long Termers Escape from North Carolina Convict Camp
Brown Smith and Bill Wyatt, long term prisoners, escaped yesterday from the convict camp at Hiddenite in Alexander county. Smith, from Franklin county, was sentenced in January 1921 to 15 to 20 years for assault with intent to kill. Wyatt, from Warren county, was sentenced in September 1919 to 19 to 25 years for second degree murder.
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Raleigh
Brown Smith
Bill Wyatt
Hiddenite
Alexander County
Smith
Franklin County
Wyatt
Warren County
Nervousness Over Gastonia Situation Seems Relieved
Raleigh reports that Judge Townsend, back from Gaston and Charlotte trouble areas, says the worst is over and violence may ease. Although trials continue for strikers, communists, and victims, officials believe calm will grow if the public refrains from violence and allows Communist talks.
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Gastonia
Charlotte
O. F. Aderholt
Ella May Wiggins
German nobles in armed forces barred from aristocrat society
Berlin reports Defense Minister Wilhelm Groener bans army and navy officers from Adelsgenossenschaft membership. Officers must hide aristocratic status as the republic’s law blocks political clubs. Many resignations from the noble society followed the order.
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Berlin
Germany
Adelsgenossenschaft
Society of Aristocrats
Defense
Wilhelm Groener
Law For the Defense of the Republic
Sugar steadies as withdrawals offset old contract activity
Raw sugar price holds steady in New York on September 18. Refined sugar remains at 5.40 for fine granulated. Market activity consists entirely of withdrawals on old contracts with no fresh business reported.
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New York
Eggs firm on steady New York market quotes
Eggs remained firm in New York with total receipts of 27 726. Mixed colors held steady while nearby hennery brown fancy to extra fancy sold at 47 to 56 cents per dozen. Pacific coast white advanced to 56 to 59 cents and first grade to about 48 to 64 cents.
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New York
Hennery
Pacific Coast
New York Cotton Opens Steady After Early Demand
The New York cotton market opened steady with gains of 2 to 8 points on rains in the south and expectations of a bullish weather bureau weekly report. Early selling orders were absorbed and Dec at 18.91 and Mar at 19.20, with Liverpool noting good buying and scarce contracts. Afternoon trading softened after the weather release, with Dec 18.76 and Mar 19.06 before stabilizing near the prior close.
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New York
Weather Bureau
Liverpool
P. C
New Orleans cotton futures open quiet amid modest gains
Cotton traders opened in New Orleans with subdued activity and a small rally early, as October to January futures rose to about 18.48 to 18.69 before retreating. By mid session prices eased, then steadied with declines of 7 to 11 points on the day.
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New Orleans
Liverpool
P. C
Public release of 323 taxpaying entities eyed in tariff debate
Senate finance committee vote 10 to 4 to disclose the names of 323 corporations and individuals whose income tax data the treasury has been asked to provide. Democrats want to probe tax payments by those who may benefit from tariff increases. Some members opposed the move. The chairman urged openness after constituent inquiries.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
Democratic Committee
Treasury
Smoot
Edge
New Jersey
Shortridge
California
Barkley
Kentucky
King
Utah
Cushing Tour Group Returns With Family and Baggage
Harvey Cushing arrived aboard the Olympic with Mrs. Cushing formerly Cathleen Vanderbilt. They came for fun and brought back their baby, a nurse, a maid, a valet, two chauffeurs, two cars and 42 pieces of baggage.
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New York
Harvey Cushing
Europe
George Ade Hurt in Accident at Golf Club
Chicago writer George Ade is hospitalized with a fractured arm after stepping from a shower at a golf club and slipping on stairs while answering a telephone call.
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Chicago
George Ade
Beauty queen longs for plumper figure
Olive Shea, 18, chosen as the most beautiful radio artist, weighs 110 pounds and says plumpness is coming in she wishes she were a little stouter in New York.
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New York
Olive Shea
McKechnie Plans to Quit Baseball Post Primary Defeat
Wilkinsburg Pa. Bill McKechnie manager of the Cardinals must continue in baseball despite plans to quit if elected tax collector after a Republican primary defeat.
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Wilkinsburg
Bill McKechnie
Cardinals
Fritzi Scheff to Perform Mile. Modiste Return
New York theater notes that Fritzi Scheff is scheduled to reprise her role in Mile. Modiste, returning to the stage with a likely sold out engagement and continued fan acclaim.
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New York
Fritzi Scheff
Sonnen Heirloom Bequest Boosts Busch Wealth
In St Louis August A Busch gains a $19000 increase from a Sonnen bequest. Jacob Sonnen, a 40 year mas seur employee, shot himself and died at age 71.
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ST. Louis
August A. Busch
Jacob Sonnen
Sonnen
Plane riders assume risk in crash case ruling
In Camden New Jersey Judge Frank F Neutze held two men who were injured in an airplane crash could not seek damages arguing pleasure flights are voluntary activities. He ruled that flying is not like riding a trolley car and that each rider assumes the risk.
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Camden
N. J
District Court
Frank F. Neutze
Hollywood men return from Africa with white rhinoceros photos
Paul L. Hoefler and Harold Austin of Hollywood Calif report. They traveled by motor truck across Africa to the equator where in a swamp eight white rhinos charged them but were scared off by a rifle shot into the air.
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New York
Paul L. Hoefler
Harold Austin
Hollywood
Calif
Africa
Equator
King Gustav Pursues Moose Between Tennis Sessions
King Gustav of Sweden continues his dual pursuit as a keen hunter and active tennis player. He lives on a train parked near a forest and plans a moose hunt soon.
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Stockholm
Gustav
Moose
King Mountain Laborer Avoids Sentence on Mill Trespass
Kings Mt laborer rested two weeks ago after officials of the Corn mill complained of a circulated flyer inside the mill. County Recorder Horace Kennedy found him guilty of trespassing but issued a suspended sentence. Ben Wells, flogged ten days ago from a Gastonia rooming house, reported an attempted second capture in Charlotte last night as an automobile halted by curbside with a man shouting threats. He fled to the International Labor Defense headquarters along a circuitous route.
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Horace Kennedy
Ben Wells
Gastonia
Charlotte
Wells
International Labor Defense
Workers Strike Leaders Face September Trial
Engdahl charged mill interests led a campaign to crush union organizing and intimidate defense witnesses as 16 strikers and organizers prepare for a September 31 trial after a violent crackdown that included flogging and threats.
Governor orders steps to curb labor unrest in Cherokee county
Governor Richards instructed Sheriff Wright of Gaffney to take necessary action to prevent lawlessness arising from labor troubles. The call followed a report that Cleo Tessner, organizer for the National Textile Workers Union, was seized from Kings Mountain and beaten after being driven into South Carolina. North Carolinians were blamed, but the act occurred on South Carolina soil.
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Columbia
D. C
Richards
Sheriff Wright
Gaffney
Cherokee County
North Carolina
Associated Press
Cleo Tessner
National Textile Workers Union
Kings Mountain
South Carolina
Wright
Gastonia Depositors to Receive 10 Percent Dividend
The Commercial Bank and Trust Company of Gastonia, which closed its doors April 4, will pay a 10 percent dividend to depositors on or about October 1. Preferred creditors were paid earlier, the state banking department announced.
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Raleigh
Commercial Bank and Trust Company of
Gastonia
State Banking Department
No Change in Weed Prices at Wilson
Wilson tobacco market reports season totals exceed 13 million pounds with an average price of 15.19 per hundredweight. Growers sold 1,486,542 pounds of bright leaf at 14.15 per hundredweight and receipts total 210,422.01 dollars. Today’s offerings run about a million pounds with prices steady from yesterday.
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Wilson
N. C
Labor leader cites renewed gang violence after Ella May Wiggins death
J Louis Engdahl, national secretary of the International Labor Defense, says new gang activity followed the burial of mill worker Ella May Wiggins. He reports an attempted kidnapping of Ben Wells in Charlotte and a midnight home invasion of union organizer Cleo Tessner at Kings Mountain, with attackers posing as officers and taking him toward Blacksburg, South Carolina.
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J. Louis Engdahl
International Labor Defense
Ella May Wiggins
Ben Wells
Charlotte
Wells
Cleo Tessner
Kings Mountain
Construction awards rise amid week of new contracts East of Rockies
Wall Street briefs note F W Dodge reports construction contracts awarded last week east of the Rockies totaling 123 320 400 a 57 rise from the prior week. Central Railroad of Georgia orders 500 box cars and 50 flats from Pullman. Middle West Utilities offers rights to subscribe for one new 6 convertible preferred at 100 for every two with a record date of Sept 28.
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F. W. Dodge Corporation
Rockies
Central Rairoad
Georgia
Pullman Car & Manufacturing Corp
Middle West Utilities Co
Cotton Market Hedged by Selling Dampens Upward Momentum
With the crop moving freely, hedge selling has entered the market recently and restrained constructive trends, keeping the upswing in check.
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New Orleans
Cotton Goods Markets Show Cheerful Fall Trade Tone
Domestic markets for cotton goods reported moderate business while the undertone remained cheerful regarding the fall and spring trade.
Cotton on ships grows at gulf ports awaiting clearance
The stock of cotton on shipboard at gulf ports is increasing and now exceeds the level seen at the same time last year.
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Gulf Ports
Cotton Buying Lifts Liverpool on Private Cables
Improvement in Liverpool today came from private cables attributing gains to America buying cotton while contracts were scarce.
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Liverpool
America
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