Two Die As Gun Battle Ends Revival Meeting Firefight at Louisiana Church
In Leesville Louisiana a gun battle outside a Whiskachitta church during a revival killed two farmers Lee Johnson and Jesse Perkins and wounded an infant who was shot in the head. Sheriff Turner pursued suspects as victims fled into darkness and the cause remained under investigation.
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Louisiana
Leesville
Whiskachitta
Here
Fee Yes
Lee Johnson
Jesse’ Perkins
Jim Carroll
D. F. Turner
Johnson
Turner
Everett Wisby
Charlotte Adopts Compromise Blue Law For Nonsale Sports
Charlotte changes blue laws to permit Sunday golf tennis and other games without admissions charged. City council approves three to one repealing conflicting ordinances and sets new law to take effect October 4. Courts have restraining order delaying enforcement of old Sunday sports ban.
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Cremette
North Carolina
Lexington Man Hurt In Auto Crash At Gate City
Greensboro news reports Carl Beal of Knoxville Tennessee and Paul Sink of Lexington North Carolina injured in a collision at the Greensboro fairgrounds. Both were taken to a local hospital with non serious injuries after Beal's car stalled near the northeast corner of the first track and was struck by Sink's vehicle.
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Lexington
Gate City
Greensboro
Carl Beal
Knoxville
Farmers Stage Milk Protest Near Atlanta
Farmers block a Georgia highway near Conyers with logs and dump 600 gallons of milk en route to Atlanta to press for higher dairy prices. Georgia Milk Producers Federation disavows violence and cites a milk shipment holiday from 20 counties while a Virginia milk load is rejected for sanitary reasons. Governor candidate Eugene Talmadge pledges support to dairymen seeking justice from big distributors.
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Atlanta
Conyers
Georgia Milk Producers’ Federation, Inc
Virginia
Eugene Talmadge
State Commissioner of Agriculture
Georgia
Legislators Meet Ends After Three Day Southern Conference
Asheville reporters note a three day legislators conference at Grove Park Inn ended with over 25 lawmakers from five southern states in attendance. The closing session reviewed state finance public welfare automobile regulation and relief issues. Speakers included William B Belknap Paul Doyle Orville A Park Rush D Holt and Halsey B Leavitt.
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Asheville
Grove Park Inn
William B. Belknap
Goshep
American Legislators’ Association
Paul Doyle
Atlanta
Georgia State Tax Commission
Orville A. Park
Macon
Georgia
Lower House
Rush D. Holt
Weston
West Virginia
House
Halsey B. Leavitt
North Carolina
Senate
Aged Man Killed Stepping in Front of Car in Marion
Har rington Sparks aged 60 was killed instantly when he stepped into the path of an automobile driven by R W Rigsby city manager of Asheville in Marion. Rigsby was permitted to return to Asheville as a coroner's inquest is scheduled for next week with Judge J G Merriman vouching for his appearance.
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Marion
Harrington Sparks
R. W. Rigsby
Asheville
Rigsby
J. G. Merriman
Government To Push Probe Of Insull Firm And Its Collapse
Chicago dispatch reports U S S District Attorney Dwight H. Green ordered a broad government inquiry into the Insull Investment Trust Companies collapse. A board of strategy will coordinate probes to determine possible US statutory violations while hearings by the banking committee in Washington are anticipated. Auditors said Middle West Utilities earnings were inflated by stock dividends and non profits from securities sales, not real profits.
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Insull Firm
Chicago
Insull
U. S&s
Dwight H. Green
United States
United States Senate
Peter Norbeck
Banking Committee
Middle West Utilities Company
Middle West
Insull Utility Investments, Inc
Corporation Securities Company
Greensboro Candidate Blasts Tax Burden and State Bureaucracy
Clifford Frazier, Republican nominee for governor, denounces North Carolina taxes as confiscatory. He cites farm rent taxes from 167.7 to 506 percent of net returns and accuses the current regime of waste, urging reorganization and simplification to reduce government costs. He criticizes Democratic leaders for shifting focus to national issues.
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Dobson
N. C
North Carolina
Clifford Frazier
Greensboro
Arkansas
Board of Strategy
Hoover
Rockingham Remains Divided in Strike Standstill
Rockingham witnesses no movement as three factions refuse Governor Gardner arbitration. W B Cole and George P Entwistle reject wage concessions, citing market conditions. About 1,200 workers affected as strikes began five weeks earlier in Cole mills and spread to Entwistle plants. Officials deny plans to reopen Entwistle mill for loyalists. Dr Julian Miller reports arbitration efforts failed.
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Rockinham
Rockingham
W. B. Cole
Hannah Pickett Cotton Mills
George P. Entwistle
Cole
Entwistle
Julian Miller
Gardner
Roosevelt Seeks Southern California Support at Hollywood Bowl
Franklin D. Roosevelt urged Southern California voters to back his presidential bid in a rally at the Hollywood Bowl. He spoke after a drive through the Los Angeles movie colony and a luncheon by the Roosev elt-Garner club, then planned a speech at Olympic Stadium and a midnight train to Willame, Arizona.
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Hollywood Bowl
Calif
Hollywood Hills
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Southern California
Dency
Colony
California
Roosevelt-Garner
Republican Club
Los Angeles
Olympic Stadium
Willame
Ariz
Roosevelt
William Gibbs McAdoo
New York
Hollywood Bow
Garner Expresses Confidence Roosevelt Change Needed
Speaker John N. Garner said he was confident Roosevelt had impressed upon the people that a national change in administration was necessary. He endorsed Roosevelt's program and said proposed changes could have been made by the present leadership, citing maladministered laws as a factor in distress.
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Washington
John N. Garner
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Garner
Roosevelt
Osteopathic Meet Set for Raleigh September 30
The Middle Atlantic States Osteopathic association will hold its annual convention in Raleigh on September 30 and October 1. Osteopathic physicians from Maryland District of Columbia Virginia West Virginia North and South Carolina and Tennessee are expected to attend, announced Dr. T. T. Spencer.
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Raleigh
Middle Atlantic States
Ostepathic Association
Maryland
District of Columbia
Virginia
West Virginia
North and
South Carolina
Tennessee
T. T. Spencer
Libby Holman seeks apology and acquittal by July
Broadway blues singer Libby Holman Reynolds, on trial for her husband’s murder, tells New York Sun she seeks not only acquittal but a complete apology. She says the forthcoming child gives her strength to pursue vindication, while at a remote estate she knits a pink garment for the baby named Smith.
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New York
Libby Holman Reynolds
Ward Morehouse
New York Sun Today
Sun
Smith
State politics heat up as campaigns press on
Raleigh reports another week of campaigning in North Carolina ahead of the election. Democratic nominees Ehringhaus and Reynolds push through Rutherfordton West Jefferson and Boone while Republican Newell campaigns in Spruce Pines. Next week includes a Goldsboro meeting of third district leaders and possible appearances by Morrison and Fountain.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
J. C. B. Ehringhaus
R. R. Reynolds
Newell
Jake F. Newell
Charlotte
Spruce Pines
Ehringhaus
Rutherfordton
West Jefferson
Waynesville
Zebulon Weaver
Reynolds
Boone
Wendell
Wake County
Goldsboro
Third
Wallace Winborne
Cameron Morrison
R. T. Fountain
Morrison's
Davie
Johnston
Mecklenburg
Mitchell
Robeson
Watauga
Fountain
Granville
Pitt
Stokes
Tar Heel grid opener yields wake forest tie and upsets
Charlotte date Sept 24 1945 report notes North Carolina Wake Forest tied 0 0 in a surprising opener while North Carolina State beat Appalachian State Teachers College in Raleigh Elon and Guilford played night games on Virginia soil Elon defeated Emory and Henry at Emory Virginia Guilford faced Langley Field Marines Oak Ridge fell to Parris Island Marines 21 to 6
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Charlotte
North Carolina
Wake Forest
University of North Carolina
North Carolina State
Appalachian State Teachers College
Raleigh
Elon
Guilford
Virginia
Emory and Henry
Emory, Va
Langley Field Marines
Oak Ridge
Parris Island Marines
Tennessee Opens 1932 Season with 13-0 Win Over Moccasins
The University of Tennessee football team defeated Chattanooga 13 to 0 in Chattanooga to start the 1932 season. Tennessee’s defense held the Moccasins scoreless as the Volunteers opened play on a sunny September afternoon.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
University of Tennessee
University of Chattanooga
Texas Christian and LSU deadlock in Baton Rouge
In Baton Rouge on September 24, Texas Christian University and Louisiana State University battled to a 3 to 3 tie. Boswell kicked a field goal for TCU in the second period, Torrance of LSU added a late field goal in the third to salvage the draw.
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Baton Rouge
Texas Christian University
Louisiana State University
Boswell
Texans
Torrance
Hopes for safety of Jap trio facing long flight
Anxiety rose over the fate of three Japanese aviators headed for Nome and San Francisco in a goodwill flight. The last accurate report timed 10:16 A M yesterday placed them 20 miles off Erotofu Island in the Kuriles, 750 miles northeast of Tokyo. Eiichiro Baba was the pilot, Kioyoshi Honna the navigator, and Tomoyoshi Ishita the radio operator.
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Tokyo
Nome
San Francisco
Ochishi
Erotofu Island
Kuriles
Eiichiro Baba
Kioyoshi Honna
Tomoyoshi Ishita
Samushiro
Hochi Simbun
Hoover to address Des Moines as nation awaits parade plan
White House guest Harrison E Spangler reports Iowa farmers’ monster demonstration for Hoover’s campaign appears unlikely to scale up. Milo Reno says organizers aim for an orderly parade while Hoover plans October 4 Des Moines address and October 7 nationwide radio broadcast after a post office cornerstone event.
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Washington
White House
Harrison E. Spangler
Iowa
Hoover
Spangler
Des Moines
Milo Reno
Farmers
United States
Federal Post Office
Republican Lieutenant Governor Hopeful Tillett Faces Georgia Check Charge
Judge J D Hume signs a warrant accusing Tillett of misdemeanor over two worthless checks totaling 128 dollars. Bond set at 2000 dollars. Governor Gardner signs Georgia requisition for arrest and delivery to Fulton County authorities. Tillett evades Mecklenburg County search and heads toward Charlotte. Republicans Neroed as bid to remove him from ticket amid dispute over check charges. Tillett says he will run and refuses to withdraw. Newell calls for removal, Duncan says no authority to strike name.
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J. D. Humephries
Atlanta
Tillett
O. Max Gardner
Fulton County
Georgia
Mecklenburg County
Kinston
Charlotte
Greensboro
Boone PD
Jake F. Newell
James 8
Duncan
Newell
Tillet
Leutenant
Walter B. Love
Monroe
Executive Committee
Gardner
Ameri
Duke Sets New Record With Matriculation
Duke University announced a new record with 2343 matriculated students at noon. Graduate, medicine, and nursing enrollments push total to 2396, up 38 from last year, with autumn quarter for medical and nursing students starting October 3 and full graduate instruction beginning Monday.
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Duke University
School of Medicine
School of Nursing
Gandhi Stares Death As Starvation Advances In India
In Poona India Sept 24 physicians report Mahatma Gandhi 62 weak from a hunger strike over citizenship equality. His blood pressure rose briefly but risk of death looms as leaders seek a compromise with caste minus and untouchables.
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Poona
India
Mahatma
M. K. Gandhi
Yerada
Mr. Gandhi
Bombay
MacDonald
London
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