Government to Set Minimum Farm Prices in Recovery Plan
Washington dispatch details Roosevelt administration concerns that rapid NRA code expansion raises prices for a limited buying segment while inflation is avoided. Officials urge faster public works and rail projects to move money from banks, with Hugh S. Johnson pushing code restructuring toward a lasting industrial control administration.
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Washington
Roosevelt
NRA
Hugh
Johnson
Tobacco Profits Under Scrutiny as Congress Plans Probe
Rep Gasque of South Carolina said he will introduce a resolution in the next Congress demanding a probe into profits of flue cured tobacco manufacturers versus growers. He noted progress on a tobacco marketing pact but urged congressional inquiry into profit disparities and executive pay at firms. The hearing had seen manufacturers opposing proposed dictatorial price controls for the industry.
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Washington
Representative Gasque
South Carolina
Congress
Farm Administration
Wallace
Inflation claim stirs NRA effort in Borah telegraph
Senator Borah telegraphed the national recovery administration urging inflation is indispensable to the NRA. Living costs rose 2.3 cents in August per the National Industrial Conference Board, signaling broader pressure on consumers and policy.
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National Industrial Conference Board
Williams Named Mecklenberg Welfare Superintendent
Wade H. Williams has been confirmed by the state board of charities and public welfare as superintendent of public welfare for Mecklenburg county. Commissioner Mrs. W. T. Rost announced the action this afternoon.
Administration to sift liquor cases as repeal nears
The administration moves to sift all prohibition cases in federal courts to decide if prosecutions should proceed, amid Postmaster General Farley’s view that repeal is imminent.
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Washington
Farley
Cotton Ginnings Up Prior To Sept 16
The census bureau reports this year’s crop ginned before September 16 totaling 8,100,701 running bales, including 84,347 round bales counted as half bales and 63 American Egyptian bales.
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Washington
Census Bureau
Prisoner Hangs Self in County Jail
In Pboardhart Texas on September 23 an inmate identified as J oars rer chara Hardl gounty armor ed with ving his wife hanged himself in his county jail cell.
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Pdalhart
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Will Rogers notes new federal relief agencies and capitals
Will Rogers satirizes the creation of the FERA the AAA and the PWA in Beverly Hills California on September twenty second. He jokes that the RFC will cover CODs of Citizens Conservation camps and collect IOUs, mocking the capital letter dominance in the U S A.
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Beverly Hilia
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Federal Emergency Relief Association
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Public Works Administration
Newark Stock Exchange Site Declared for Newark New Jersey
The New York Stock Exchange announced Newark as the site for a New Jersey exchange to lease the Center Market building for trading. The Stock Clearing Corp will move to the Pennsylvania terminal in Jersey City to facilitate transfers, with trading planned to begin Monday October 2.
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New Stock Exchange
New Jersey
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New Jersey Stock Exchange
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Newark Evening News
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Center Market
Fuel Shortage Looms For State-Supported Plants
Raleigh dispatch reports A. S. Brower warns state institutions funded by appropriations will struggle to heat through winter on current fuel allotments if weather is normal. Prices for coal, foodstuffs, and supplies have surged, with expected further rises under the coal code, risking strained budgets and hard to meet expenses.
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Raleigh
A. S. Brower
Purchase and Contract
Brower
NRA
Defense Overruled in Oklahoma Kidnapping Case
Oklahoma City September 23 Judge Edgar B. Vaught overruled the first defense demurrer in the Charles F Ursechel kidnapping case opening court. Denver attorney Ben Laska for Albert Bates argued the prosecution failed to prove the oil man was moved from Oklahoma City to Texas and held captive. Bates named in government testimony as one of the kidnappers.
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Oklahoma City
Edgar
Vaught
Charles F. Ursechel
Ben Laska
Denver
Albert Bates
Texas
Laska
Bates
Edwin A. Anderson Rear Admiral Dies at 70 in Wilmington
Rear Admiral Edwin A. Anderson U S N retired died at his Wilmington North Carolina home after a two day illness at age 70. He served in the Spanish American War the Boxer Rebellion and World War I and once commanded the Pacific fleet. He helped direct relief after a Japanese earthquake and was decorated by Japan. The Navy announced his funeral for Monday at 3 00 p m at Arlington National Cemetery with Captain Sydney K. Evans officiating.
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Wilmington
Edwin A. Anderson
Admiral Anderson
Washington
Navy Department
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Arlington W National Cemetery
Sydney K. Evans
Naval
Variety editor Sime Silverman dies in Gotham
Sime Silverman founder and owner of Variety the theatrical weekly is dead at 62 found in a Los Angeles hotel room a lung hemorrhage killed him. He chronicled show business and headlines like Wall Street Lays An Eye reflecting his bold blunt style and influence in Broadway politics and industry.
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Sime Silverman
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Variety
Los Angeles
Wall Street
Broadway
Roosevelt to Push Credit Program at Sunday Conference
President Roosevelt will press his credit expansion plan at a White House conference tomorrow night with Secretary Woodin and aides. The drive aims to release millions of dollars still locked in closed banks and unlock additional idle deposits to expand circulation.
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Washington
Roosevelt
White House
Woodin
Labor Seeks 30 Hour Week for Newspapers Before NRA
Washington September 23 organized labor pressed before the NRA that the American Newspaper Publishers Association code fails to meet the national recovery act aims by excluding fair trade provisions. Charles P. Howard ITU president urged a 30 hour week for press workers with overtime pay, age limits, reporters included, and removal of free press and individual bargaining clauses. He cited a 40 hour temporary agreement as inadequate and warned the code lacks collective bargaining balance. Dr Lindsay Rogers NRA deputy hoped the hearing could end that night.
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Washington
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Charles P. Howard
International Typographical Union
Howard
Lindsay Rogers
Truce Expected in Cuban Revolt
Havana reports mediation talks between President Gran San Martin and opposing factions, with an early settlement predicted. Open revolt continues in Matanzas and Camaguey as 700 rebels mass near Colon and Juan Blas Hernandez defies efforts to capture him. Labor unrest prompts orders to reinstate the wage scale, while food shortages loom for officers held in the National hotel. Forty Americans shelter at Rente, with 160 foreigners planning defense in Santiago.
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Sleeping Beauty Taken To Hospital
Miss Patricia Maguire of Oak Park, famed as sleeping beauty after nearly 20 months in a coma, was moved from home to West Suburban Hospital in Chicago for X ray studies to aid science in understanding her mysterious condition. Parents and Dr. Eugene Traut approved the transfer.
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Patricia Maguire
Oak Park
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Eugene Traut
Tobacconist killed in Dillon County wreck near Pinewood Inn
Ea Rogers a well known tobacconist aged 45 was killed and three others injured in an automobile collision near Pinewood Inn two miles from Dillon today. Will Grantham of Dillon county and Miss Bessie Deaver and Miss Polly Lardom of Marion were in the second car. all injuries described as cuts bruises and shock. Coroner B F Casque impaneled a jury and recessed the inquest for later. Rogers was a Pleasant Hill area farmer and Mullins tobacco market worker. His widow Mary Wiggins and six children survive.
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Will Grantham
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Polly Lardom
Marion
B. F. Hardy
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Pleasant Hill
Mullins
Mary Wiggins
Fhringhaus Coming Back From Raleigh Visit
Governor Ebringhaus of North Carolina flies back to Raleigh after attending a hearing on the marketing agreement for flue cured tobacco and conferring with agriculture officials about potential peanut price hikes.
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Washington
Ebringhaus
North Carolina
Raleigh
Department of Agriculture
Police War On Kidnapers Biggest News During Week
New York reports major crime focus as five men and two women were held in the John J. O Connell Jr kidnaping case. One suspect linked to twelve murders. trials, threats, and executions echo across jurisdictions including Oklahoma and Edwardsville as Germany and Britain see related upheavals.
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Kader Winget
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John J. O'Connell, Jr
Charles F. Urschel
Oklahoma
George Kelly
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