Relief program expands to create 3.5 million jobs
The Roosevelt administration moves to speed Works Progress and Public Works projects. Hopkins and Ickes announce broad state reelief authority, with final project list awaiting Roosevelt's approval, likely in a week. Officials urge careful screening to avoid unready or unworthy schemes while matching labor supply.
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Washington
Sept
Public Works Administration
Works Progress Administration
Ickes
WPA
Roosevelt
Harry L. Hopkins
Works Progress
PWA
Hyde Park
N. Y
Britain Ready To Act If Threatened In Italo Ethiopian Crisis
London reports Britain poised to act without delay if interests are threatened by the Italo Ethiopian war. Officials note major Mediterranean naval and air force concentrations and emphasize defensive purpose despite Italy's air advantage and Libyan activity.
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London
Great Britain
Mediterranean
Admiralty
Sones
League
Britain
Italy
Libya
Leros
Federal arms control plan established
The government created a central munitions supervision office within the state department under Assistant Secretary R. Walton Moore. Joseph Green was named chief with Charles W. Yost as assistant. The office will systematize licensing and registration of arms and munitions under the neutrality law, drawing up a list of controlled items and enforcing regulations. It aims to replace scattered divisions without linking to current international tensions.
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Washington
State Department
Office of Arms and Munitions Control
R. Walton Moore
Joseph ©. Green
Charles W. Yost
Hull
National Munitions Control Board
Green
Constitutional and AAA Loom As Big Issues In 1936
The 1936 political scene centers on constitutional questions and the Farm Security Act as Republicans and Democrats sharpen lines. The Republican executive committee meets to plan early action while Roosevelt heads west on a transcontinental trip. Debate focuses on legality and impact of the New Deal, with farm policy and the potato control law stirring cross party quarrels. Secretary Wallace notes enforcement hinges on funded appropriations.
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Republican Executive Committee
Roosevelt
Supreme Court
AAA
Charles Michelson
Senate
Congress
Wallace
Waterfront union men discharged in San Francisco showdown
Waterfront employers discharged 63 union shoremen and 12 carloaders for refusing to handle cargo moved under strike conditions. Police were called to the scene in a tense test of labor actions.
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San Francisco
Beulah Cole Fatally Injured By Moving Train
Miss Beulah Cole a 22 year old from Kinston was fatally injured in Goldsboro when she slipped and fell under a moving train while trying to board it. The accident occurred as she attempted to catch the train in the late evening.
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Goldsboro
Beulah Cole
Kinston Department Store
British Aviator Lands in Cairo After London Cape Town Flight
Tom Campbell-Black attempted a London to Capetown and back record flight and landed at Almaza Airdrome in Cairo Egypt. The report from Reuters confirms the mid journey stop as part of the test.
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London
Sunece Ae Reuters
Brit- News Agency
Tom Campbell-Black
Capetown
South Africa
Almaza Airdrome
Cairo
Egypt
Wallace Seedman Elected President of Printers Group
Wallace Seedman of Durham was elected president of the North Carolina Association of Master Printers succeeding W. H. Fisher of Greensboro at the association's annual meeting in Greensboro.
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Greensboro
Wallace Seedman
Durwas
North Carolina Association of Master Printers
Succesor
W. H. Fisher
Association
Campaign Start For Anti Trust Amendment In South Carolina
Charlotte Sept 21 North Carolina and South Carolina food brokers launched a campaign to back a proposal amending federal anti trust laws to specify prohibitions against unfair practices. The effort aims to press Congress to clarify and strengthen controls on monopolistic and deceptive trade.
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Charlotte
North Carolina
South Carolna
Clemency Hearing Set for Three Madison County Murderers
Three inmates sentenced to death in Madison County for the storekeeper murder during a holdup will have clemency petitions reviewed by Paroles Commissioner Edwin M. Gill. The hearing is scheduled for September 21.
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Madison
Madison County
Edwin M. Gill
Miss Dorothy Sanderlin Hospitalized After Bank Robbery Shooting
Asheville report states Dorothy Sanderlin underwent surgery at Astor Park hospital to remove a bullet in her back from the September 10 robbery at the Mars Hill Citizens Bank of Marshall branch.
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Asheville
Dorothy Sanderlin
Astor Park Hospital
Mars Hill
Citizens Bank of Marshall
Chicago taxicab driver named as sex madman suspect
Micale Iannella a 24 year old taxicab driver was identified by Deputy Chief Walter Storms as one of the men whose wives were attacked by the so called sex madman linked to a recent spree of sadistic offenses in the western Chicago suburbs.
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Chicago
Micaleo Iannella
Walter Storms
Two Die in Train Truck Crash at Hemingway Grade Crossing
George Huggins and his nephew Nig Huggins of Hemingway were instantly killed when their pickup collided with a Seaboard Air Line passenger train at a grade crossing near Hemingway, D C this afternoon.
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Hemingway, D. C
George Huggins
Nig” Huggins
Hemingway
Here
Seaboard Air Line
Judge Upholds 1935 Slot Machine Ban In City Plenum
Constitutional ruling by Judge Feltz EB Alley affirms the 1935 act outlawing slot machines and dissolves Harding’s earlier injunction, allowing officers to confiscate machines. The decision comes as Gas City enforces the prohibition and зак.
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Charlotte
Feltz EB. Alley
Gas Today
F. Harding
Hawk hunt turns fatal as gun misfire wounds man
A 24 year old man from The Hollow Virginia was in critical condition after a gun accident in which he fatally shot himself while unloading his automatic. He was shooting hawks in his mother’s backyard when the incident occurred in Mount Airy on September 21.
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MT. Airy
Jack Allen
the Hollow
Allen
Hawks
Economist Hurt In Tampa Fall At Home
Col. Raymond Robbins age 62, a political economist, suffered a spinal injury after falling a tree at his Brokeville area home. Dr A C Coogler, family physician, reports the accident occurred in the early evening.
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Tampa
Fla
Raymond Robbins
Brokeville
A. C. Coogler
NRA proposal may come to Congress via chamber referendum
The United States Chamber of Commerce plans a special committee to study a proposed NRA lation embodying business self governance. The committee will be appointed next month and likely submit recommendations for a chamber referendum among its 1500 member units.
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Washington
Congress
United States Chamber of Commerce
Unita
Hoey Defends Constitution Week at Polkville Fair
Clyde Hoey of Shelby urged emphasis on human rights during Constitution Week at the Polkville fair in upper Cleveland county. He urged rededication to the constitution's ideals including free thought, free press, religious freedom, and protections from persecution.
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Shelby
Clyde Hoey
Polkville
Cleveland County
United States
Tler
Mussolini
Stalin
Hoey
Lone flier Waitkus preps perilous Atlantic solo flight
Felix Waitkus a 28 year old former army flier launched from Floyd Bennett Field at 6 45 A M heading 4500 mile nonstop toward Kaunas Lithuania. Weather reports from Newfoundland warn of foul conditions as forecasters and meteorologists monitor the subzero altitudes and potential risks of the dangerous crossing.
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New York
Felix Waitkus
North Atlantic
Kaunas
Lithuania
Kohler
Wis
Floyd Bennett Field
Newfoundland
Harbor Grace
Waitkus
James H. Kimball
Stephen Darius
Stanley Girenas
Atlantic
New Invisible Glass Debuts in U.S. Show Windows
England developed non reflecting glass makes Fifth Avenue jewelry shop displays brighter while reducing glare from sun and street lights. Sponsors say it improves safety but causes vanity to wilt as people cannot stand in front of it to primp.
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New York
United States
England
Fifth Avenue
Lithuanian officials greet plane departure in NYC
The well wishes of Kasimir Daub svardis the Lithuanian consul in New York and Paul Zadeikis the Lithuanian Minister to the United States accompany a plane as it roars down the runway. Fire trucks water trucks an ambulance and a police car race to be ready in case of a crash.
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Kasimir Daubsvardis
New York
Paul Zadeikis
United States
Legionnaires Enjoy Old Fashioned Saturday Night in St Louis
The 17th annual American Legion convention opened with social events in St Louis drawing thousands. Registration reached about 20 000 by sunset with officials predicting 200 000 visitors by Monday. Street dances cabarets and food stalls filled the municipal plaza as veterans relaxed before formal meetings begin.
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Legionnaires
ST. Louis
American Legionnaires
Mississippi
Legion
Paris
Soviet claim balloons set world records in flight
Moscow reports three world balloon records from two gas bags that left Zvenigorod on September 3 and landed near the Kara Kum desert in Kazak U S S R traveling 2300 kilometers to break the 2200 cubic meters class distance record. Pilots Zykov and Tropin also set a 91 hour 35 minute duration record in the desert.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
Zvenigorod
B. Romanoff
A. Babuikin
Kara-Kum
Kazak
U. S
Bat- Bakry
Zykov and
Tropin
Republic
Kaulen
Pastor to Announce Decision on Richmond Call
The Rev. Beverly M. Boyd of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Winston-Salem is expected to announce tomorrow his decision regarding a call from Grane and Holy Trinity churches in Richmond Virginia.
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Winston-Salem
Beverly M. Boyd
St. Paul's Episcopal Church
Grane
Holy Trinity Church
Richmond
Chicago Muttering Maniac Strikes West Side Women
Miss Anna Swanson, 47, hospital employee, was found near death after a savage beating while walking to work. Authorities describe the assailant as a dark complexioned maniac tied to a series of attacks on women in the district. Dr Eastman confirms injuries are severe but not a sexual assault. Police worry the suspect is a sadist who enjoyed causing suffering.
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Chicago
West Side
Anna Swanson
Lewis K. Eastman
Noe Threatens to Run Independent Against Huey Long
New Orleans date line reports Lieutenant Governor James A. Noe, allied with the Share Our Wealth wing, vows to run for governor as an independent after the Huey Long caucus backed Judge Richard W. Leche. Noe says his candidacy remains, despite factional rejection and loss of allied support.
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New Orleans
James A. Noe
Huey Long
Richard W. Leche
Noe
Allen
Huey P. Long
Long
Gerald L. K. Smith
Share the Wealth” Society
Wade O. Martin
Thieves take $500000 in securities from Hormel home
Police disclosed a heist at the Bel Air residence of George A. Hormel, where about 30,000 shares of non negotiable securities and a fur coat were stolen four days earlier. Captain Bruce Clarke called it an outside job and said the haul amounts to little value to thieves, describing the loss as a white elephant.
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Los Angeles
Bel Air
George A. Hormel
Canner
Bruce Clarke
Clarke
D. T. Bonnell
Hormel
Bonnell
Chicago
Harris, Burrows and Hicka
Austin
Italian Premier Holds Firm Over League Mediation
Mussolini rejects League of Nations mediation on the Ethiopian crisis while firming Italy’s rights. The five power committee adjourns awaiting Rome’s official reply as Rome signals no full break with the League yet.
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Geneva
Mussolini
Italy
Iesman
League of Nations
League
Duce
Mittee
I Duce
Pompeo Aloisi
Hallan
Rome
League Council
Ethiopia
Committee of Five
France
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