Hoover Reticence Masks Wage Policy Debate in 1930s
Washington dispatch notes administration dissatisfaction over wage cutting as officials react to industry changes. Willian Green of the American Federation of Labor criticizes steel firms for breaking faith and pursuing unsound policy. Some executives express impatience with wage shifts while Hoover maintains silence and remains advised on major developments impacting the economy.
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Washington
Hoover
Willian Green
American Federation of Labor
Stevens Heads American Legion by Acclamation
Henry L Stevens Jr of Warsaw North Carolina, elected national commander by acclamation, youngest ever to hold the post as other candidates withdrew. Henry L Stevens Sr, newly elected commander, known as a sportsman and active in church life, helped push North Carolina Legion gains including highest department membership and cleared the department debt.
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Detroit
Henry L. Stevens
Warsaw
N. C
American Legion
Stevens
Legion
The
Calvary Episcopal Church
Carolina
University of North Carolina
North Carolina
Legion Endowment Fund
Department of Debt
Legion Votes For States To Submit Issue To Voters
In Detroit the American Legion urged Congress to repeal or modify prohibition laws and have states vote on the issue. The resolution passed 1008 to 304, citing the 18th Amendment as endangering law and urging submission to voters with strong critique of Prohibition’s social costs.
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Detroit
American Legion
Congress
United States
Scott W. Lucas
Havana
Ills
Harris testifies on financials in Asheville fraud trial
On the Central Securities Company case in Asheville William D. Harris admits mailed bond statements did not match company books yet says discrepancies were to reflect truth. He blames Wallace B. Davis for preparing statements and says profits could have shown around 100000 if he knew then what he knows now.
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Davis
Asheville
Ahseville
William D. Harris
Central Securities Company of Asheville, Inc
Harris
Wallace B. Davis
Cancel Attempt To Break Hawk's Record
In Miami on September 24 AP reports aviation editor Lou Reichers and Captain Ugo d Annunzio found a tail skid broken on their airplane at 9 40 a m EK 8 T and thus cancelled the attempt to lower Captain Frank Hawks speed record from New York to Havana Reichers said the skid likely damaged during takeoff in Newark New Jersey and they would return to New York without visiting Havana.
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Miami
Fla
Lou Reichers
Liberty Magazine
Ugo V. d’Annunzio
Frank Hawks
New York
Havana
Reichers
Newark
N. J
Prohibition raid wounds man in Wilmington chase
Virgil Frederick, 45, a Black man, lay in a Wilmington hospital with two back bullet wounds after federal agents pursued him for liquor law violations. Agents say Frederick fired four shots at them as he fled a still, dropping a sack of liquor. a gun was found unloaded. Two other Black men fled, dropping two liquor sacks.
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Wilmington
N. C
Virgil Frederick
O. W. Phillips
Frederick
W. G. Spivey
Phillips
Maiden Flight of the Akron Proves Its Supremacy Among Dirigibles
The U S S Akron capped its maiden flight over 125 miles carrying 113 aboard in 3 hours 47 minutes. Navy officials praised the test as the United States resumes leadership in lighter than air craft with potential Atlantic and Pacific routes and a cruising range of 11 000 miles.
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Akron
United States
Navy
Goodyear-Zeppelin Corporation
Skyways
America
William A. Moffitt
Los Angeles
Atlantic
Pacific
Hawaii
Guam
Naval Bureau of Aeronautics
Charles E. Rosendahl
Avy
No Funds in Eastern N C to Fight Fires
Forest fires in Craven and Dare counties likely will burn out or be halted by rain. Assistant state forester Charles H. Flory said no local fire control organizations exist in the affected areas. Craven fire has consumed over 2000 acres since last Thursday. the Dare blaze has burned for several days.
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Raleigh
N. C
Craven
Dare
Charles H. Flory
Flory
Police Captain Charges Gambling At Tammany Clubs
New York dated Sept 24 testimony before a legislative inquiry alleges professional gamblers ran dice games and horse race pools in three Tammany clubs the Farley central association led by Sheriff Farley Cruise and Perry associations were named with connections to figures like George McManus and Billy Warren despite raids no convictions followed and access to clubs was restricted by concealed doors Seabury indicated more testimony would show club leaders’ knowledge of operations.
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New York
Tammany
Samuel Seabury
Lewis J. Valentine
Thomas M. Farley
Valentine
Tammany Central Association
George McManus
Arnold Rothstein
Billy Warren
Farley Club
Warren
Third Avenue
Fourteenth Street
Rothstein
Seabury
Farley
Cruise
Perry
Reed opposes higher freight rates at ICC hearing
Former Kansas Governor Clyde M. Reed, a publisher and attorney, testifying before the Interstate Commerce Commission for 27 farm groups against a proposed 15 percent freight rate rise urged repeal or modification of laws used to justify increases. He warned the outcome could unjustly burden business and agriculture.
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Washington
Clyde M. Reed
Kansas
Reed
Interstate Commerce Commission
Brookhart
Iowa
He Got His Wish After A Fashion
ELIZABETHTOWN N C Sept 24 John Milliken a Balden county white man convicted of larceny said he would rather go to the penitentiary than work a farm will do neither. Charged with breaking into a store Milliken said he was drunk and didn't know what he was doing but he didn't want to be hired out to a Bladen county farmer Judge Garland Midgette gave him four months on the roads.
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Elizabethtown
N. C
John Milliken
Balden County
Milliken
Bladen County
Garland Midgette
Decision on tax revision soon in administration
Washington reports indicate the administration will decide within a month or six weeks whether to recommend tax revision. Treasury experts study the issue as income tax receipts plunge, with observers split on avoiding or accepting higher debt and delaying revision.
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Washington
Treasury
Department
Congress
Budget Bureau
White House
Mellon
Mills
Woman Struck By Lightning In Tarboro
Tarboro news reports Mrs. Charlie Spain was struck by lightning during a storm yesterday and remains unconscious today as doctors monitor her condition.
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Tarboro
Charlie Spain
Anaconda Copper Mining Omits Quarterly Dividend
New York Sept 24 Directors of the Anaconda Copper Mining company today omitted the quarterly dividend of 37 1/2 cents per share.
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New York
Anaconda Copper Mining Company
Minister Defends Innocence in Methodist Trial
Defense lawyers for Dr. William A. Shelton suspended Washington pastor sought to prove his innocence before a Methodist Episcopal church south trial board in Alexandria. Shelton testified as his own chief witness while witnesses for the defense refuted charges raised by former secretary Carrie A. Williams at Mount Vernon Place church. Testimony from Dr. W. A. Lambeth, Shelton’s predecessor, ended the prosecution case as the tribunal deliberated behind closed doors with church officials confirming its personnel.
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Alexandria
William A. Shelton
Washington
Methodist Episcopal Church South
Shelton
Mount Vernon Place Methodist Church
Carrie A. Williams
W. A. Lambeth
Durham
North Carolina
H. R. Deal
W. 8. Hammond
Martinsburg
West Virginia
W. H. Best
L. &. Rudisill
Baltimore
Beers Legalization Questioned for Farm Benefit
Washington Sept 24 The agriculture department investigates whether legalizing beer could aid farmers. Secretary Hyde said many information requests prompted the inquiry and clarified none came from the White House. He indicated the findings may reach President Hoover via the press.
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Washington
Agricultural Department
Hyde
White House
Hoover
Two More Suspects In Collings Case Arrested In NY
Two men held at Nassau county jail in Mineola for questioning in the killing of Benjamin P. Collings. Mrs Collings identified a suspect in the description given. Suspect Timothy Quinn, 40, a stevedore, and another youth of 18 with a criminal record, were taken to Mineola for questioning as Mrs Collings prepared to identify them. Quinn known to police, former escapee from sane asylum, canoe owner, strong boatman with ties to North Shore.
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New York
Nassau County
Mineola
Benjamin P. Collings
Long Island Sound
Timothy Quinn
Hunters Point
Quinn
King
Collings
Long Island
Central Island State Hospital
Hunter’s Point
Blue
Birmingham Girl Identifies Man as Killer of Two
Nell Williams identifies Willie Peterson as the slayer of her sister and another girl on a rural road near Birmingham. Peterson, captured by Williams and a friend, is held for murder in Kilby prison as officers pursue denial. A crowd gathered, but no disturbance occurred as the case heads to possible grand jury action.
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Nell Williams
Birmingham
Ala
Kilby
Montgomery
Willie Peterson
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H. L. Stevens
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Christian Johannsen
Newfoundland
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China
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Manchuria
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Nanking
Stimson
League
Hawk
Still
N.C
Dr. Shelton
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