Roosevelt outlines rail policy and reorganize plan
Governor Roosevelt proposes government led railroad reform with reconstruction finance support and ICC oversight. He urges bipartisan planning to protect public investments and liquidity for carriers, labor, shippers, and passengers, outlining a period of federal backing during restructuring.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Mormon Tabernacle
Roosevelt
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Interstate Commerce Commission
Thomasville Plant Openings Set for Monday With 700 Returnees
About 700 former workers signaled willingness to return to work at eight Thomasville chair plants on a 10 hour schedule beginning Monday at 7 am. Company aims to fill jobs largely with local workers and notes outside furniture help. Reopening tied to city schooling and rapid assimilation of returning staff.
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Thomasville
Com
Roosevelt Gives Outlook on Economy and Interdependence
Governor Roosevelt outlines aims to join producers and consumers, battles with hunger and discouragement, and the push for interdependence. He praises silver recognition, rails against excessive finance, and calls for coordinated railroad policy shaping America’s economic web.
Curtis outlines farm aid plan at Pennsylvania rally
Vice President Curtis opened the Republican campaign in Pennsylvania at Fogelsville with a plan for a national cooperative system of farm markets. The state committee adopted a platform calling for immediate repeal of the Volstead act and state control over liquor questions. Curtis spoke on agriculture and tariffs while Hazlett led the crowd in cheering the wet liquor plank.
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Allentown
Curtis
Pennsylvania
Fogelsville
Republican State Committee
James M. Hazlett
Philadelphia
Williams
Ware
Reed Attacks Hoover On Capitalistic Socialism In Oklahoma
Former Senator James A. Reed of Missouri charged in Claremore that President Hoover has inaugurated capitalistic socialism for the benefit of banks and trust companies. He said the funds would flow from taxpayers to bolster large financial institutions and cited the Garner amendment as a possible counter. Reed’s speech also blasted Arthur M. Hyde and the Farm Board amid tariff attacks.
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Claremore
Okla
James A. Reed
Missouri
Hoover
United States
Oklahoma
Reed
Arthur M. Hyde
Federal Farm Board
Murray Assumes Military Control Of Oklahoma Oil Field
Governor Murray halted a western Oklahoma tour to take charge of military proration enforcement at the Oklahoma City oil field. He criticized H. F. Wilcox Oil and Gas for overproduction tied to a $5,000 superseders bond and ordered guardsmen after the Supreme Court allowed ten wells opened despite prior closure. Col Cicero S. Murray enforces the order.
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Oklahoma City
Supreme Court
Murray
Oklahoma
Cicero S. Murray
H. F. Wilcox Oil and Gas Company
Corporation Commission
Col. Murray
Monastery St Stephanos Greek College Opens Dedication
In Gastonia North Carolina Monastery St Stephanos the sole Greek college in the United States will be dedicated with a ceremony. Dignitaries include Ambassador Haralambos I Simopoulos and Archbishop Athenagaros who head the Greek Orthodox church in North and South America. Rev Ainellianos Paschalakias is college president.
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Gastonia
St. Stephanos
United States
Linwood
Haralambos I. Simopoulos
Washington
Athenagaros
New York
North
South America
Ainellianos Paschalakia
Charlotte
Ten Raleigh Black People Poisoned By Rancid Sauvage
Ten Black Raleigh residents were rushed to St. Agnes hospital after ingesting rancid sauvage. Doctors said they would recover if complications did not develop.
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Raleigh
St. Agnes Hospital
Farm Strike Deadlock Nearing Standstill in Sioux City
In Sioux City Iowa picketing in a six week old farm strike for higher prices is nearly at a standstill pending a National Farmers Holiday Association directorate meeting. Sheriff Davenport says he can do no more and reports farmers oppose picketing forming a group to keep highways open and aid truckers seeking market access with safe passage promised.
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Sioux City
National Farmers’ Holiday Association Directorate
John A. Davenport
Turner
National Guardsmen
Davenport
Du Bois Letter Claims Wife Killed Herself in Plymouth
Quincy man Charles E. DuBois released a letter through his attorney stating his wife killed herself and that he hid her body, fearing public disbelief. He said he found her shot in her bedroom, and that he could not bear revealing the truth alongside his conflicting accounts.
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du Bois
Quincy
Mass
Charles E. DuBois
Jeremiah J. McAnnaney
DuBois
Aeement
Plymouth
Extortion Plot Unraveled In Wilmington Trial
In Wilmington on September 17, twenty two witnesses including Mrs Jessie Kenan Wise testified in superior court as former officials P Q Moore and J J Furlong Sr face charges of mailing extortion notes demanding 25000 and 20000. Wise denied funding witnesses or paying trial expenses.
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Wilmington
Jessie Kenan Wise
Superior
P. Q Moore
J. J. Furlong
Wise
Carr
Woodus Kellum
Henry A. Grady
N. A. Sinclair
Superior Court
William Bennett
Furlong
Here
Raynee
Moore
Prominent Democrats Gather for Guilford County Barbecue
A large Democratic rally and barbecue at High Point City Lake opened the North Carolina party campaign. Governor O Max Gardner led state officials. U. S. Senator Josiah Bailey attended, as did R. R. Reynolds, J. C. B. Ehringhaus, William B. Umstead, J. Wallace Winborne, and John Bright Hill. The Young Democrats of America and NC youth leaders were present, including Tyre Taylor and Dewey Dorsett. Edwin Martenet also took part.
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Guilford
O. Max Gardner
Josiah William Bailey
United States
High Point Democratic
City Lake
R. R. Reynolds
Cameron Morrison
J. C. B. Ehringhaus
William B. Umstead
J. Wallace Winborne
John Bright Hill
Bob Reynolds
Tyre Taylor
Young Democrats of America
Gardner
Dewey Dorsett
North Carolina Young Democrats
May Thompson Evans
Edwin Martenet
Third degree charges filed in jailhouse death case
Three Tate county deputy sheriffs face manslaughter indictments over the death of county jail prisoner Marvin Virant. Chicago pathologist Dr. William D. McNally testified Virant died September 1 from injuries and shock after alleged beatings while he was being held as a witness to a prior slaying.
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Chicago
Tate County
William D. McNally
Marvin Virant
Virant
Tazewell County
C. C. Skinner
Ernest L. Flemink
Frank Lee
Newell Predicts At Least Half Dry Voters For NC Senate
Jake Newell of Charlotte a Republican candidate for the North Carolina Senate says he expects to win at least half of the dry votes, estimating a 300000 dry majority. He spoke in Raleigh after touring Durham and preparing for the November election against Democrat Robert Reynolds. He notes the dry bloc in NC totals about 300000 and asserts he can capture half.
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Raleigh
Jake Newell
Charlotte
Senate
North Carolina
Durham
Newell
Robert R. Reynolds
Asheville
Treasurers Ordered to Foreclose on Sinking Fund Mortgages
Raleigh officials announce a statewide directive to foreclose on all sinking fund mortgages where interest has not been paid through December 1. Charles M. Johnson says about 90 percent of Wake County loans lack interest and notes potential collections of roughly 2.5 million dollars from pre 1931 issues.
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Raleigh
Charles M. Johnson
Wake County
Johnson
Local Government Commission
Gardner Praises Roosevelt Style of Leadership Rally
North Carolina Democrats launched the 1932 campaign with Governor O. Max Gardner praising the Roosevelt approach and urging unity. J.C.B. Ehringhaus challenged for an aroused democracy to serve the people as a Guilford County Young Democrats rally drew thousands at Old James Town for a barbecue and political speech event.
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North Carolina
Democracy
Deep River
Old Jamestown
Guilford
O. Max Gardner
Roosevelt
J.C.B. Ehringhaus
Power Commission urges U S regulation of utility holding firms
The Power Commission recommended federal regulation of utility holding companies as essential in the public interest. It urged full publicity of accounts and records, supervision of contracts and securities, and closing loopholes through congressional action based on a year of inquiry involving 91 holding companies serving 12,487 communities with over 42 million people.
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Washington
Congress
The
Power Commission
Associated Gas & Electric Asnace
Ieee United Gas Imp
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