Confederate Vets Close Convention Re-elects Smith Leader
Winston-Salem reports North Carolina Confederate veterans choose to hold what may be their last reunion. Major-General W A Smith of Ansonville is re-elected commander in chief as brigadier generals Harris Tyson Hall Young are also returned. Memorial services honor Major Charles M Stedman, last Civil War veteran in Congress, and a pension expansion resolution calls for easing pension restrictions.
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Winston-Salem
North Carolina
Veterans of the Confederate Army
W. A. Smith
Ansonville
J. Shakespeare Harris
Charlotte
B. Tyson
Pikeville
G. H. Hall
Red Springs
T. R. Young
Asheville
Charles M. Stedman
Congress
Fayetteville
Jessie Jackson Yates
Confederate Memorial Association of
Confederacy
Confederate States
South
Red Cross
General Assembly of
Military Honors Paid Maj Stedman
Maj Charlies Manly Stedman longtime North Carolina congressman buried in Fayetteville with full military honors. Services in First Presbyterian Church after dying in Washington at age 89 or 90. Flags, caisson, and volleys at Cross Creek cemetery attended by state and national officials and many locals.
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Cross Creek Cemetery
Fayetteville
Charlies Manly Stedman
Congress
North Carolina
Jones Threat Rises as Fay Coleman Falls in Golf Championship
Bobby Jones overwhelmed Fay Coleman six and five in a 36 hole quarter final to reach the national amateur golf championship semi finals at Merion. Gene Homans also advanced with an 8 up 7 to play win over Johnny Lehman.
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Merion Cricket Club
Ardmore
Bobby Jones
Fay Coleman
Charles
Seaver
Los Angeles
William K. McPhail
Boston
Gene Homans
Englewood
N. J
Johnny Lehman
Chicago
Jones-Coleman
Jones
Coleman
Bob
Republicans Of New York Face Rising Wet Tide
Albany报道指出纽约州共和党领导人力图在州大会上维持干酒政策并与联邦禁酒立场保持一致 尝试通过反禁令议程 预计投票初始在991票中控伙多数 以及推动禁酒修正案被否决的抗议声势 记者报道还提及地方检察官查尔斯H托由特支持废除第十八条修正案并替代州酒类管制方案
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Republicans of
New York
Cannon complains of elders action in church case
Bishop James Cannon Jr of the Methodist Episcopal Church South denounces elders who filed charges against him while he was in Brazil on church work. The four clergy accusers allege issues tied to stock speculation and political activities. He says the action was hurried and pre mature and asks to confer in Washington after October 2.
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Bishop
Brazil
New York
James Cannon, Jr
Methodist Episcopal Church South
Associated Press
American Legion
Baltimore
J. T. Mastin
Costen J. Harrell
Richmond
I. P. Partin
Abingdon
Bishop Cannon
Washington
Santos
Prairie Provinces Snow Covered Amid Gale Winds
Winnipeg dispatch reports Saskatchewan and Alberta shrouded in snow with gale force winds. Rain and sleet broke poles and telegraph wires, severing telegraph communication between the two provinces.
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Winnipeg
Man
Prairie
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Clara Bow Defends Gambling Losses Claim
Actress Clara Bow says she did not know the Lake Tahoe hotel was a gambling house when she signed blank checks for fifty cent chips at a Will Rogers invitation. She explains a Nevada casino later claimed nearly $14,000 was owed, and she instructed her bank not to honor the checks.
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Will Rogers
Clara
Los Angeles
Clara Bow
Nevada
Ibne
Lake Tahoe
Rex Bell
Miss Devoe
Reprieves for two of four Wilson County condemned men
Governor O Max Gardner granted clemency to William Randall and Wright Bynum postponing their execution to October 3 and then further to October 21 4 men were convicted in the Callie Williford murder of Wilson County with appeals denied and the others Aaron Sharpe and Berry Richardson scheduled for execution at 10 am tomorrow at the state prison
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Raleigh
O. Max Gardner
Wilson County
State’s Prison
William Randall
Wright Bynum
Gardner
North Carolina
Randall
Bynum
Aaron Sharpe
Berry Richardson
State’s
Callie Williford
Supreme Court
Quartet Held in Smithfield on Talley Death Case
Two men and two women were held in Smithfield after authorities linked them to tenant farmer Robert Talley, found dead after a party night before his body surfaced in Kenly. Arrests followed a tip about an earlier car stop at Henry Daniels filling station. Talley had sold tobacco for about $30. robbery suspected as motive.
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Smithfield
N. C
Robert Talley
Kenly
Mamie Wilkinson
Flannie
Fremont
Dick Peterson
Walstonburg
Charley Walston
J. A. Fitzgerald
Talley
Henry Daniels
Micro
Daniels
Sharkey Campolo Weigh In for Yankee Stadium Heavy Bout
New York Sept 25 Sharkey weighed in at 200 pounds while Victorio Campolo Argentina hit 222 1 2 pounds for the Yankee Stadium main event. Sharkey caused a stir by clashing with a cameraman and refusing photos.
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New York
Jack Sharkey
Victorio Campolo
Argentina
Yankee Stadium
Campolo
Sharkey
Whitney Heir To Wed Mary Altemus Whitney
Miss Mary Elizabeth Altemus, noted horsewoman of Philadelphia, and John Hay Whitney, New York polo player and heir to the Payne Whitney fortune, are to be married in Philadelphia at 4 p m today at St James the Less Falls of Schuylkill. Immediate family only attend.
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Philadelphia
Mary Elizabeth Altemus
John Hay Whitney
New York
Payne Whitney
Church of St. James the Less
Falls of Schuylkill
Soft Cotton Bed Smothers Youth
In Mount Olive a seven year old boy named Ralph Odum died after becoming trapped by a soft cotton bed in a cotton house. His father Walter Odum and aunt Mrs F L Odum found him as night fell. doctors said he suffocated when the bed closed in around him.
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Mount Olive
Ralph Odum
Ralph
Walter Odum
F. L. Odum
Medical science says children live longer than parents
Washington reports life expectancy rising from 48 to 58 years for births in 1930 and longer life spans for older groups. Public Health Service credits progress in infant mortality and public health efforts while urging better health and hygiene practices to close the gap to the biblical seventy years.
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Washington
God
United States
Public Health Service
Census Bureau
Hugh S. Cuanming
Hitler declares aim to tear Versailles treaty after victory
At a trial in Leipsic Adolf Hitler stated that once the National Socialist party wins enough elections to gain power they will oppose the Versailles treaty by legal and illegal means if needed. He said Germany is gagged by treaties and will reshape the state to fit the party’s view.
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Leipsic
Germany
Adolf Hitler
Reichswehr
National Socialist Movement
Earthquake in Tadzhikistan Leaves Thousands Stranded
Moscow awaits further news on a Tadzhikistan earthquake that killed about 175 people and injured over 300. Around 1,200 families were left destitute in the mountainous republic, whose western cotton region centers on Stalinabad.
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Moscow
Tadjikistan
Afghastan
Turkestan
Soviet Union
Stalinabad
Catawba College Postpones Night Game to Saturday Afternoon
Salisbury report says Catawba Indians will play Atlantic Christian College Saturday afternoon instead of night due to lighting equipment not being installed in time for the game at the Catawba field.
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Salisbury
Catawba College
Indians
Atlantic Christian College
Catawba
Hoover to Briefly Stop in Charlotte October 7
President Hoover will halt his special train in Charlotte North Carolina on October 7 for a brief handshaking stop with no public address. He still plans to deliver a Kings Mountain battlefield speech that afternoon after visiting the site. A White House representative travels to the Carolinas to finalize arrangements.
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Washington
Hoover
Charlotte
N. C
Kings Mountain Battlefield
Boston
Kings Mountain
White House
Carolinas
Mrs J C Penny Denies Alienation Suit Claims
In Guilford superior court Mrs Ida M Staley seeks 325000 damages alleging alienation of her husband s affections by Mrs J C Penny The former Mrs Penny calls the charges imaginings of a depraved mind inspired by money and denies inducing J W Staley to desert her and aiding a fraudulent Greensboro divorce filing.
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Greensboro
J. C. Penny
Ida M. Staley
Jacksonville
Guilford Superior Court
Nye Heads for North Carolina or Tennessee Hearings
Lincoln Nebraska September 25 A adjourned session of the Nebraska campaign expenditures hearings sends Senator Nye to Washington to decide whether North Carolina or Tennessee hearings will be next. He said work resumes October 14 and that witnesses cannot alter testimony. Nye also examined Klan activity in Colorado and Nebraska.
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Lincoln
Neb
Nebraska
Gaerachi
Nye Ui Ori Itaekota
Senate
Washington
North Carolina
Tennessee
Nye
Grand Dragon
Ku Klux Klan
Colorado
Duncan Attacks Brummitt Ruling in North Carolina
Greensboro, Sept. 25 The Republican state executive committee chair James S. Duncan challenged Attorney General Dennis G. Brummitt on election law rulings he called false propaganda He argued electors should vote for the best qualified candidates regardless of primary participation and warned that unsigned absentee ballots could invite irregularities while urging ballots be signed to prevent fraud
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Albany
N. Y
New York
Tuttle
Charles H. Tuttle
United States
Greensboro
N. C
James S. Duncan
Republican State Executive Committee
Dennis G. Brummitt
Duncan
Roosevelt Quits Philippine Post
Washington reports a Philippine policy squall eased as Nicholas Roosevelt of New York resigns as vice governor nominee. Hoover accepts the resignation noting unselfish spirit while Roosevelt says misrepresentations of his writings harmed Philippine relations. Hoover names new posts with Wright to Budapest and Uruguay replacements.
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Washington
Congress
Nicholas Roosevelt
New York
Islands
Hoover
Roosevelt
Senate
Hungary
J. Butler Wright
Budapest
Uruguay
Leland Harrison
Prince of Wales Invited to Wright Flight Celebration
Gov. Gardner sent invitation to the Prince of Wales through Secretary Stimson for the Wright brothers first flight anniversary. The invite requests a visit to Roanoke Island and a date to suit the prince for a Kill Devil Hill ceremony.
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Raleigh
Max Gardner
Stimson
Prince of Wales
Wright Brothers
New World
Roanoke Island
N. C
Ambassador Dawés
London
Wright
Kill Devil Hill
McCarthy Resigns as Cubs Manager. Hornsby Takes Charge
Chicago September 25 AP. Joe McCarthy, deposed Cubs manager, resigns and will not finish the season as pennant contenders. Rogers Hornsby is installed to lead the club as it prepares to face Cincinnati.
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McCarthy
Cubs
Hornsby
Chicago
Joe McCarthy
Rogers Hornsby
Russia accused by ex Amtorg official of export seed for revolution
Former Amtorg official Basil W. Delgass tells The New York Times that Soviet policy uses dumping heat and commodities to sow unrest abroad. He notes Russia aims to obtain capital for industrialization while starving its own people and offering cheap wheat to disrupt markets and incite revolutions. Colonel Douglas Sandya cites England-sourced intel on Soviet wheat stocks and timing to beat December markets.
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New York
The
New York Times Today
Basil W. Delgass
Amtorg Trading Corporation
Delgass
Moscow
Amtorg
Russia
Douglas Sandya
Produce Exchange
Times
England
United States
Union Leader Kidnapped and Shot in Terre Haute Escape
Joseph Claypool, a Martinsville Illinois miners union organizer for the expelled Illinois faction, was kidnapped on a Terre Haute street, driven west, and shot in the arm as he escaped. He was treated and released. he was abducted again last July 30 and tarred and feathered near Shelburn.
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Terre Haute
Ind
Joseph Claypool
Martinsville
Ill
Claypool
Illinois
United Mine Workers of America
Joseph Dreher
West Terre Haute
Dreher
Shelburn
Wabash River
Doon
Garland Smith Must Serve 20 Year Term
Garland Smith, 22, of North Carolina, faces a 20 year term in the Virginia penitentiary after a trial for first degree murder. He was convicted in the December 28 killing of Mack Tuck, Mecklenburg county officer, tied to a prohibition raid, with a prior murder conviction for H A Puryear pending appeal.
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Boydton
Virginia
Garland Smith
Smith
Mack Tuck
Mecklenburg County
H. A. Puryear
State Supreme Court
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Heriot Clarkson
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John Kerr
W. C. Hammer
R. L. Coughton
J. Bayard Clark
National Congress
Lynn Frazier
North Dakota
R. Walton Moore
Henry W. Semple
Pennsylvania
Lawrence Turner
Missouri
Wright Patman
Texas
Jeff Busby
Mississippi
J. C. Linthicum
Maryland
Wizard of Golfdam
Eames
Hoover Administration
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Whitney
Mary E. Altemus
Hitler
Brummitt
Philippines
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