Tornado Strikes Rudy Arkansas Wrecks Town
A tornado hit Rudy Crawford county arkansas injuring several and damaging the fruit town's depot and many buildings. The infant daughter of Mrs Marvin Graham is believed fatally hurt and others including Mrs Marvin Graham Miss Bess Webb and Ralph Wayne Kuykendall are listed with injuries.
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Fort Smith
Ark
Rudy
Crawford County
Here
S. T. Cantrell
Frisco Railroad
Cantrell
Marvin Graham
Bess Webb
May
George Pittman
Charles Pittman
Margaret Carney
Ralph Wayne Kuykendall
Eula West
George Stanfield
Frisco
Muskogee
Okla
Checotah
William Conklin
Walter Berry
Conklin
Huge total paid by negro women for cosmetics
G Barrett Moxley of Indiana estimated at least 20 million dollars per year are spent by African American women on toiletries and beauty products. He credited rising beauty consciousness and advice from educators for driving purchases at a National Wholesale Druggists convention in Atlantic City.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Moxley
National Wholesale Druggists Association
Labor Secretary Davis Heads to Address AFL Convention
Secretary of Labor Davis traveled to Los Angeles to speak at the American Federation of Labor annual convention on October 4. The AP report notes his itinerary and expected topics at the gathering.
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Davis
Washington
Los Angeles
American Federation of Labor
Schools Close For Circus Half Day Tomorrow
High Point schools will dismiss tomorrow afternoon for a circus visit. Superintendent T Wingate Andrews announced a half day holiday for students and teachers, noting there will be no morning parade and urging attendance in the morning.
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High Point
T. Wingate Andrews
Andrews
Admiral Edwin Anderson Honored by Japan Again
The Japanese government again honors Rear Admiral Edwin Anderson U S Navy retired for his earthquake relief work after the 1923 Tokyo Kobe disaster. Admiral Osami Nagano visited the Boston hospital and presented a vase as a sign of esteem. Anderson led relief efforts, was commended by the president and Secretary Denby, and plans to return home in early October.
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Wilmington
Boston Dispatch
Wilmington News Dispatch
Edwin Anderson
U. S. Navy
Osami Nagano
Admiral Anderson
Boston
Anderson
Japan
Denby
Boston Naval Hospital
Association backs up Negro students in Gary strike
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People announced support for 1,200 Emerson high school students in Gary Indiana striking against enrollment of Black pupils. James Weldon Johnson called the action a gross commercialization of race hatred by the Ku Klux Klan.
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New York
Emerson High School
Gary
Ind
Ku Klux Klan
James Weldon Johnson
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Hawkes Elected President of National Catholic Women’s Council
Miss Mary G Hawkes of Newark New Jersey is elected president of the National Council of Catholic Women by the new board succeeding Mrs Arthur Mullen of Omaha as president.
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Washington
Mary G. Hawkes
Newark
N. J
National Council of Catholic Women
Arthur Mullen
Omaha
Railroad Man Says Dry Amendment Has Not Cut Down Wrecks
J M Gibbons general attorney for the New York New Haven and Hartford railroad says railroad executives now oppose prohibition due to its effects on workers. He cites a 40 percent rise in accidents since the eighteenth amendment. A luncheon address at the Bankers club was attended by about 50 lawyers. He spoke as an individual and not for the railroad. Another speaker John S Wise Jr discussed graft from prohibition and claimed daily graft of 25 million dollars. Lawyers voted to form a committee to prepare a resolution condemning prohibition for bar association submission.
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New York
New York World Today
J. M. Gibbons
New York, New Haven
John S. Wise, Jr
Bar Association
Feud Splits Soddy Church of God Leads to Violent Attack
In Soddy Tennessee a feud between two Church of God factions erupted last night when Glad Hackney was attacked. Will Gann and son Claude were arrested on assault charges after a knife fight over church keys. Hackney suffered throat slashes and a back stab though not considered life threatening.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Church of God
Soddy
Glad Hackney
Will Gann
Claude Gann
Ten hurt in church street car collision
A two-vehicle crash at Church and Elm streets injured ten people this afternoon. The Overland sedan and Studebaker collided causing severe damage and several injuries. Miss Carleen Beall and Miss Maud Williams were among the most seriously hurt.
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Church Street
Church
Elm Streets
Overland
Studebaker
Elm
Elm Street
Carleen Beall
Walnut Street
Maud Williams
East Commerce Street
Meeta Heath
Morgan's
Greensboro Road
Beatrice Farrington
Long Street
Mechanicsville
Margaret Strowd
M. M. Teague
R. H. Robbins
Mamie Teague
Robbins
Marian
Sarah Robbins
Lenoir
N. C
Beall
High Point Hospital
Sechrest
New Orleans Cotton Market Drops On Carryover Report
A roughly four cent drop in base price hit cotton futures in New Orleans as traders cited a New York government report indicating a larger carryover than expected. Hedge selling and selling for a reaction pushed December to 21.30 and March to 21.60, down 75 to 80 points from the prior close.
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New Orleans
New York
Officers Take Ogburn in Jewelry Store Theft
Greensboro report says Charlotte detectives seized T. B. Ogburn and six watches in Greensboro after his arrest last night. Ogburn and a companion Hunt are held for robbing a Charlotte jewelry store several nights ago with several thousand dollars in goods taken.
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Greensboro
Charlotte
T. B. Ogburn
Ogburn
Hunt
Pardon for Doty in French Legion. long distance talk Coolidge Calles
President Doumergue signs a pardon for Bennet J Doty a former American deserter from the French Foreign Legion to serve remaining months in Algeria under war ministry orders while international telephone links Washington and Mexico City enable a formal talk between President Coolidge and President Calles. The event marks progress in global communications as officials and bands participate in ceremonies.
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Paris
Doumergue
Bennet J. Doty
French Foreign Legion
Syria
Doty
Memphis
Tenn
War Ministry
Foreign Legion
Sidi- Del-Abbes
Algeria
Gilbert Clare
Marseilles
Washington
Coolidge
Calles
Mexico City
National Palace
M. Calles
Hall of the America
Pan-American Union
Walter S. Gifford
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
American State Department
Genaro Estrada
Ambassador Teller
Arthur Schoenfeld
United States Army
President Coolidge
International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation
Fresh effort to settle the coal dispute in Illinois
Chicago September 29 AP a new push to end the wage dispute that has closed the nations soft coal mines for nearly five months will bring Illinois miners and operators together tomorrow in joint session. Dwight W Miller Illinois Coal Operators said the outlook is promising but the miners attitude will determine the result. Railroad officials in Bloomington said a secret premeeting was planned to speed tomorrow's endorsement of terms.
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Chicago
Illinois
Dwight W. Miller
Hillsboro
Ill
Illinois Coal Operators Association
Bloomington
Seek Amnesty For Prisoners On Hindenburg Birthday
Berlin reports the German League for Human Rights has asked for amnesty for 800 prisoners on President Hindenburgs 80th birthday. The list was submitted to the justice minister and reflects a careful jurist committee selection from thousands of pardon petitions.
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Berlin
von Hindenburg
German League For Human Rights
Bishop Mouzon to Speak at Wesley Memorial Men's Meet
More than 200 members of the Wesley Memorial church Men's Club have reserved seats for tonight's 6:30 p m meeting. Bishop Mouzon will be the principal speaker and a chicken dinner will be served.
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Wesley Memorial Church
Bishop Mouzon
Nurse Under Fire Over Love Letters in Oklahoma Case
Mary Atkinson the nurse faces a continuing preliminary murder hearing after a revised pathology report found insufficient poison in the victim’s viscera. Letters to Rev Charles Bailey reveal a close relationship as investigators examine the minister and his family amid new testimony from Stuart Bailey and other medical witnesses. Across the state line in Rock Hill South Carolina a separate alert arises as a suspected fire bug strikes repeatedly, endangering residents and threatening downtown commerce with incendiary fires.
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Enid
Okla
Mary Jane Bailey
State Today
Mary Atkinson
Dan Mitchell
Miss Atkinson
Mary Jane
Stuart Bailey
Bailey
Dad
Mrs. Bailey
Texas
Remains of Old Glory Landed in New York
The Nerissa brought wreckage of the monoplane Old Glory to Brooklyn from Newfoundland after a fatal non stop flight from Old Orchard Maine to Rome. The 34 feet of wing and attached fuselage were recovered hundreds of miles east of Newfoundland by the Kyle and landed at St John s Newfoundland. The three men who perished were pilots Lloyd Bertaud and James D Hill and Philip Payne editor of the New York Daily Mirror and flight manager for financer William Randolph Hearst.
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New York
Red Cross
Brooklyn
New Foundland
Old Glory
Old Orchard
Rome
Kyle
Nerissa
St. John’s
N. F
Lloyd Bertaud
James D. Hill
Philip Payne
New York Daily Mirror
William Randolph Hearst
Wife of Nesse Dies After Illness in Miami Hospital
Mrs. C. H. Nesle wife of Pop Nesse American national jailed by British authorities over a rum seizure in British waters died at a Miami hospital after a lengthy illness. She had been in a charity ward while her husband lived on Cat Cay Bahama island fleeing justice and later contracted tuberculosis.
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Miami
Fla
C. H. Nesle
Pop” Nesse
U. S. Coast Guard
Nesle
Cat Cay
Bahama Island
Nesse
Woman Pays Alimony and Escapes Sentence
Daisy Lorentzen paid arrears and counsel fees to her ex husband H. J. Lorentzen in Los Angeles and avoided jail for contempt. The act ended the contempt charge and marked her as the first woman ordered to pay alimony under California's new law.
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Los Angeles
Daisy Lorentzen
H. J. Lorentzen
California
Body Of Man Seen In Bay May Be Flyer
Harbor Grace Newfoundland September 29 AP A report that a body wearing a pilot helmet was seen floating between Bell Island and Harbor Grace circulated today. Two men said they saw it while crossing to Bell Island and attempted to recover it but heavy swell prevented retrieval. The rumor sparked speculation it could be one of the airmen lost on transatlantic flights this year.
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Harbor Grace
New Foundland
Bell Island
Conception Bay
Europe
Chamberlain Expected to Attend Meeting
Sir Austin Chamberlain, British foreign minister, likely will attend the American Peace Society centenary in Cleveland next May unless international talks intervene. Premier Baldwin assured Theodore E. Burton of Ohio that Briand of France and Stressmann of Germany may also attend, Burton said after sailing to New York.
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Southampton
Eng
Austin Chamberlain
American Peace Society
Cleveland
Baldwin
Theodore E. Burton
Ohio
Burton
New York
George Washington
Briand
France
Austen
Stressmann
Germany
Murder Charge Against New Castle Woman
Mrs Ina Whittlach faced a murder charge after her husband William R Whittlach a railroad fireman died from bullet wounds. The shooting occurred last night in what authorities term a jealous rage. Three children were left fatherless by the tragedy.
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New Castle
Ina Whitlach
William R. Whittlach
Wealthy Young Couple Marry Near Chicago
Miss Alicia Patterson daughter of J M Patterson and James Simpson Jr son of James Simpson wed yesterday at the Patterson country place in Libertyville. The bride is daughter of Liberty magazine publisher and Chicago Tribune owner. groom's father is president of Marshall Field and Company. They depart for New York and a wedding trip abroad.
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Chicago
Alicia Patterson
J. M. Patterson
James Simpson, Jr
James Simpson
Patterson Country
Libertyville
Liberty Magazine
Chicago Tribune
New York
Dellp News
Marshall Field and Company
Mrs. Simpson
Coggins Seeks Lunacy Inquiry Before Execution
A day before Lerman Coggins scheduled electrocution in Nashville Tennessee his defense asks County Judge Litton Hickman to appoint a lunacy commission to decide his mental responsibility for an assault on an 11 year old girl. Attorney John W Hildrop plans to appeal to Governor Peay for more time for the commission to act.
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Nashville
Tenn
Lerman Coggins
Litton Hickman
John W. Hildrop
Peay
Soviet artillery shells two Bessarabian towns
Kishinev dispatch reports two towns along the Dniester river in Bessarabia were accidentally shelled by Soviet artillery during maneuvers. No casualties were immediately reported.
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Bucharest
Romania
Kishiney
Bessarabian
Dniester
Regular Transoceanic Air Service Promised By French Ace Of War
Captain Rene Fonck, famed French ace, promises regular passenger and mail air service between America and Europe by next spring with six planes, likely Sikorsky built, linking New York to Paris via Azores or Newfoundland and Ireland. Initial flights to prove safety before passenger service at low rates with future price increases as demand grows. Fonck will pilot one plane and seeks U.S. government mail contracts and rapid orders for two months of aircraft.
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Europe
Rene Fonck
France
Fonck
Sikorskys
trans-Atlantic
New Yor
Paris
Azores
New Foundland
Ireland
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Chamberlain
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