Legion Closes Meet With New Commander And New Program
The American Legion ends its four day convention in Detroit with a new commander Henry L Stevens of Warsaw North Carolina and a revised program including a referendum on repeal or modification of the eighteenth amendment and debate over immediate payment of bonus certificates. Delegates sparred over prohibition with cheers and jeers as supporters argued conditions under prohibition justify a referendum. The newly elected commander said he does not believe the legion has taken the wet side, noting the legion simply called for reconsideration.
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Detroit
American Legion
Hoover
Hines
Veterans Bureau
National Treasury
Legion
Henry L. Stevens
Warsaw
N. C
Ministerial Jury Acquits Pastor Of Immorality
The Rev William A Shelton of Mount Vernon Place Methodist Church was declared absolutely innocent by a 12 member clerical jury in a three day Alexandria Virginia trial. His supporters denounced publication of an alleged apology and he resumes duties while aiming to reunite about 200 members. A quarterly conference tonight will hear his nominations for a new governing body.
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Washington
William A. Shelton
Mount Vernon Place Methodist Episcopal Church
Louth
Carrie A. Williams
Alexandria
Virginia
W. 8. Hammond
Martinsburg
West Virginia
Shelton
Hammond
Kane faces preliminary hearing in wife’s drowning
Dr Elisha Kent Kane University of Tennessee romance languages head is in Knoxville to meet authorities and arrange class work while awaiting a preliminary hearing next Wednesday on charges he drowned his wife in Chesapeake Bay near Hampton Virginia Kane and his cousin E Kent Kane arrived by car from Hampton and plan to return for the hearing after two weeks at Fort Bragg and Hilton Village where Mrs Kane was visiting her parents prior to the drowning incident
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Knoxville
Tenn
Elisha Kent Kane
University of Tennessee
Chesapeake Bay
Hampton
Kane
E. Kent Kane
Bradford
Seabury Probes Murders In Tammany Club
New York investigators focus on a five year old double slaying at a Tammany leader's club. Samuel Seabury, counsel for the inquiry, seeks why the identified killer was never indicted despite appearing on the police wanted list. Graft and irregularities at political clubs are under review.
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New York
New York City
Samuel Seabury
Legislative Committee
Sino-Jap Strife Seems to Be Over
Geneva reports Japanese forces in Manchuria will be withdrawn as far as safety of Japanese residents and property allows. The League of Nations Council was informed by an official Japanese note. In Nanking the U.S. note to China and Japan urging troop movement restrictions was welcomed by the Chinese press and government.
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Geneva
Manchuria
League of Nations Council
Nanking
China
Japan
League of Nations
Stelee
In This Community You Must Pick Cotton Or Else Leave
Helena Arkansas on September 25 reports authorities enforcing a plan that forces unemployed both white and black residents to pick cotton or face vagrancy charges. Campfires burn as lawmen seek extra findable workers with 1,000 additional pickers needed by area planters. Some unemployed seek odd jobs while others prepare to depart.
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Helena
Ark
Phillips County
Republican Leader Warns Dems Blamed For Fear Rally
Springfield Mass September 25 Robert H Lucas executive director of the Republican National Committee urged New England Republicans at a coliseum rally that Democratic propaganda spreads fear of winter destitution. He said the GOP must lead to lift fear and restore buying power, warning a Democratic administration could prove hard times.
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Springfield
Mass
Robert H. Lucas
Republican National Committee
Lucas
Lucag
Speaks Against Increased Rates in ICC Hearing
Washington September 25 opposition voiced nine years ago by President Hoover to a freight rate hike was cited in arguments against a fifteen percent railroad increase. Arthur T. George California railroad commission argued the rise is economically unsound in the current climate citing Hoover's 1922 remark favoring rate reductions and railway construction to spur recovery.
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Washington
Hoover
Interstate Commerce Commission
Arthur T. George
California Railroad Commission
Chinese President Hosts Lindbergh. China Awards Aviation Medal
Chiang Kai-Shek received Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh at the national government offices in Nanking. The national government council voted to award Lindbergh China's newly established aviation medal.
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Nanking
Chiang Kai-Shek
China
Charles A. Lindbergh
Lindbergh
Davis Denies Fraud Charges In Asheville Trial
Wallace B. Davis former Asheville financier testified he did not intend to deceive as he faced mail fraud charges. Co defendant William D. Harris helped run Central Securities Company of Asheville which allegedly sold 3.6 million dollars in bonds with false statements. The Central Bank and Trust company failed last fall. Davis faces 9 to 13 years in state prison.
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Asheville
Wallace B. Davis
Davis
William D. Harris
Central Securities Company of Asheville, Inc
The
Securities Corporation
Central Bank and Trust Company
Luke Lea
Rogers Caldwell
Tennessee
Central Securities Company
Central Securities
Central
Harris
J. C. Bradford
Bank
European Fliers Reach N Y To Tell Thrilling Story
Three European aviators escape Atlantic wreckage tell New York how they clung seven days to debris after a failed non stop flight from Portugal. Willy Rody, Christian Johansen, and Fernando Costa Veiga describe the peril, fuel loss, and rescue aboard the Stavangerfjord liner to reporters.
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Raymond J. Crowley
New York
Atlantic
O. K
Willy Rody
Stavangerford
Ths Dock
Junkers
Esa
Portugal
Christian Johanssen
Denmark
Fernando Costa Veiga
Veiga
Johanssen
Juncal Do Sol
Pennland
Halifax
Second Trial Flight of New Sky Queen Is Futurer Success
AKRON CO Sept 25 For three hours and 51 minutes last night the U S Akron new queen of the skies cruised on its second successful trial flight Carrying 109 passengers and crew the navy s sleek aerial battleship swung in 20 mile circles over its deck a black hulk against the moonlit autumn sky
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Akron, CO
U. S. Akron
Navy
Earthquake Registered on Georgetown Seismograph
An earthquake of greater intensity than any recorded this year was logged today on the Georgetown university seismograph in Washington. Officials said the quake likely centered on the Asiatic continent.
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Washington
Georgetown University
New Tooth for 70 Year Old in Barnardsville
Sept 25 in Barnardsville reports Reagan Fox, aged 70, has a new tooth. She has had two sets of teeth and counts eight children, 21 grandchildren and one great grandchild among her family.
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Barnardsville
Reagan Fox
South Carolina Follows Louisiana in Cotton Planting Ban
The South Carolina legislature, in a nine day special session called by Governor Blackwood, enacted an act to outlaw cotton planting in 1932 as part of a broader plan to aid low cotton prices. The session, only the second of its kind in recent modern years, adjourned sine die after drafting the statute.
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Columbia
8. C
South Carolina
Blackwood
Cole L
Kentucky booms a favorite son for White House
Columbia Ky September 25 A home town rally honors Melvin A Traylor former Adair county youth who left for Texas with little and became president of the First National Bank of Chicago. Kentucky civic and political leaders joined in backing him as a Democratic presidential nominee for the United States.
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Columbia
Melvin A. Traylor
Adair County
Texas
First National Bank of
Chicago
West
United States
Kentucky
Traylor
White House
Extortionists Held by Chicago Police in Physician Case
Chicago police said three men, described as ex convict extortionists and bombers, were arrested in an attorney's office as a physician paid 2506 dollars to stop rumors of irregular practices. The men had preyed on doctors and surgeons under threat.
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Chicago
Joseph A. Kolk
Max Gecht
Bull Gores South Carolinian to Death at Farm
A bull fatally gored Huggins Rich a barber on the Alvin Poole farm near Manning South Carolina. A neighbor shot the animal after attempts to drive it away failed.
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Bull Gores
Sumter
S. C
Huggins Rich, Barber
Alvin Poole
Manning
Gifford Opposes Wage Slashing
Walter S. Gifford national relief director and head of the Alc an Telephone and Telegraph Company stated efforts should be made to maintain existing wage scales. He reiterated his April remarks from the Associated Press luncheon in New York, calling for preservation of wages despite higher living costs.
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National Relief
Washington
Walter S. Gifford
National
Gifford
Associated Press
New York
Alcan Telephone and Telegraph Company
Hoover
Ex-Dry Administrator Held On Two Charges
Palmer Canfield once New York state prohibition administrator is indicted by the New York county grand jury for forgery in the first degree and larceny in the second degree. He was arrested in the district attorney’s office. Canfield, a longtime Republican figure, is accused of accepting 25000 forged New York Central bonds as payoff for interceding with the treasury department to reinstate the Liquor Permit of the Strictly Ice Company of New York City.
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New York
Palmer Canfield
Prohibition
New York County Grand Jury
Canfield
New York Central Railroad
Treasury Department
Strictly Ice Company
New York City
Faith Brewer Faces Dilemma at Duke South Carolina Game
Columbia September 25 A USC student Miss Faith Lucile Brewer a sophomore torn between love and duty sits uncertainly as tomorrow's football game pits Duke Blue Devils led by her brother against South Carolina Cavaliers in Columbia.
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Columbia
S. C
Faith Lucile Brewer
Duke
South Carolina
Duke Blue Devils
Miss Brewer
Arkansas Senator in Hat Springs Illness Update
Senator Caraway of Arkansas was hospitalized in Hat Springs with bronchitis. Doctors said his condition is improving and surgery would not be necessary.
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Arkansas
Hat Springs
Ark
Caraway
Asylum Patient Escapes Shootout Wounds Deputies
Marion dispatch reports Sheriff O F Adkins and Deputy George Duncan severely wounded while pursuing David Cline a state hospital fugitive. Cline fired at officers then escaped as a manhunt continued from Morganton.
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Marion
O. F. Adkins
George Duncan
David Cline
Cline
Morganton
Adkins
Duncan
Printing executive Charles T. Brown shoots self in Moorestown
Charles T. Brown, president of the Franklin Printing Co of Philadelphia and treasurer of Swarthmore College board, shot and killed himself at his Moorestown home today, police said.
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Moorestown
N. J
Charles T. Brown
Franklin Printing Company
Philadelphia
Swarthmore College
State to Welcome Stevens national Legion commander
Raleigh reports that Henry L. Stevens Jr. of Warsaw will be greeted with a state wide welcome when he returns from Detroit as the new national commander. Plans include a parade and open reception with Gov. Gardner to give the welcome. Charlotte Greensboro and Winston Salem also eye celebrations with barbecues and speeches. Warsaw will stage a homecoming party regardless of additional welcomes.
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Raleigh
Henry L. Stevens, Jr
Warsaw
American Legion
Detroit
R. L. MacMillian
Raleigh Legion
Charlotte
Greensboro
Winston-Salem
Stevens
Duplin County
W. T. Joyner
National Legion
Max Gardner
Clarence O. Kuester
Chamber of Commerce
Paul R. Younts
Legion
Reed Advocates Sales Tax Again
Senator Reed of Pennsylvania urged President Hoover to back a sales tax to curb the treasury deficit, warning it could exceed 1.5 billion dollars without new revenue. He praised the president's Legion address, critiqued the bonus measure, and opposed shrinking salaries for lawmakers and federal workers.
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Washington
Reed
Pennsylvania
Hoover
United States
Great Britain
Treasury
American Legion
Legion
Daylight Saving Time Ends Sunday This Year
Daylight saving, in effect since the last Sunday in April, will cease for this year on Sunday morning. When the clock strikes two, the hands will stop for 60 minutes to return the lost hour from last summer.
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New York
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