Open Belt Tobacco Markets Open With Sharp Price Drops
The first day of sales in the old belt tobacco markets saw prices plunge with an average around $2 per hundred for 500,000 pounds offered. Crowds of growers protested in warehouses as Howard Terry called a mass meeting at Chatham to urge warehouse closures and voluntary crop withholding. Opening sales at Roxboro moved slowly with prices near eight to ten dollars per hundred, while Winston-Salem and other markets reported historically large opening breaks amid claims costs weighed on profits.
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Danville
Howard Terry
Pittsylvania County
Chatham
Roxboro
Winston-Salem
Coolidge Retires From Presidency and backs Hoover
New York Sept 29 Former President Coolidge appears in the Saturday Evening Post with a farewell political piece backing President Hoover. Copyright limits prevented republication and Coolidge’s secretary said the article reflects his views with no further comment. General tenor of his stance drew widespread attention including radio mentions.
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New York
President Coolidge
Saturday Evening Post
Hoover
Coolidge
Post
George Horace Lorimer
Edi
Tor
New Legion Chief Enters Warsaw In True Hero Fashion
Henry L. Stevens Jr the Warsaw attorney chosen as commander of the American Legion returns to North Carolina for a hero’s welcome in Warsaw. A big parade with soldiers bands and radio broadcasts marked his reception as governors and senators praised his election at Detroit. He pledged devoted service to the Legion and its members.
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Warsaw
Goldsboro
Henry L. Stevens, Jr
American Legion
North Carolina
Tar Heels
Henry
Stevens
Henry Til
Sept
New
Henry Stevens, Jr
Wilmington Light Infantry
120Th Infantry
Fort Bragg
Goldeboro
Wilmington
School House
Detroit
Gardner
WPTF
Raleigh
Josiah W. Bailey
Cameron Morrison
Legion
Legionnaires of America
Mod
Bailey Stevens
Senator McKellar backs Roosevelt for 1932 nominating
Senator Kenneth D. McKellar of Tennessee was endorsed for the 1932 Democratic presidential nomination by state leaders in Rogersville. He urged support for Franklin D. Roosevelt, saying he is a man who, if nominated, will be elected, amid a rally of more than 700 Democrats from eastern Tennessee.
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Rogersville
Tenn
Kenneth D. McKellar
Tennessee
Franklin D. Roosevelt
New York
McKellar
Mississipi
East Tennessee
International Printing Pressman and Assistants’ Union of North America
National Organization
Democratic Party
Roosevelt
King Is Opposed To Election, Minister Told To Carry On
Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald visited Buckingham Palace to ask the king if Parliament should be dissolved and a general election held. The king reportedly urged the government to carry on through the financial crisis, resisting an immediate election.
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King
London
Ramsay MacDonald
Buckingham Palace
MacDonald
Armament Truce Planned by League of Nations Members
The twelfth assembly of the League of Nations adjourned after initiating an armaments truce beginning November 1. The council stayed to address the Sino Japanese conflict in Manchuria, while urging efforts to make February’s disarmament conference a success. The U S was praised for its cooperation with the league’s peace efforts. The assembly admitted Mexico, invited non members including the United States to disarmament talks, and noted other procedural steps.
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Geneva
League of Nations
League Council
Manchuria
United States
League
Henry L. Stimson
Assembly
Mexico
America
Brazil
Costa Rica
Egypt
Turkey
No Low Mood Here 60 Society Buds To Make Debut
Washington society columns list more than 60 debutantes for the season with Wilma Fulmer, daughter of Representative Hampton P. Fulmer of South Carolina, among them.
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Washington
Wilma Fulmer
Hampton P. Fulmer
South Carolina
Greensboro Girl Ten To Hear Case In Philadelphia
Two girls Frances Trackett of Greensboro North Carolina and Margie Saylor of Girardville Pennsylvania are held as suspicious characters in an attempted holdup investigation. Magistrate Usilton set October 5 for the hearing after the municipal court sent the case back. Archie Glenn of Winston Salem admitted involvement with another man. he is held without bail while the second suspect is sought.
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Philadelphia
Frances Trackett
Greensboro
N. C
Margie Saylor
Girardville
T. Usilton
Asilton
Ralph Allen
Municipal Court
Archie Glenn
Winston-Salem
Glenn
It Was Overalls Not Beach Wear in Pig Cruelty Hearing
Irene Castle McLaughlin testified at William Schroeder's appeal over a $10 fine for cruelty to pigs. She said she wore overalls not a yellow lace beach costume during her pig investigation. Schroeder claimed his pigs received the best care and minerals, while the trial may carry a maximum $200 penalty if found liable.
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Irene Castle
Chicago
Irene Castle McLaughlin
William Schroeder
Wheeling
Ill
Schroeder
McLaughlin
North Shore Society
Schroe
Der
Prystalski
McLaughlin-Schroeder
Episcopal Church to Take No Stand on Volstead Act
Denver set to report a split in the Episcopal Church over the 18th amendment and marriage canon. Bishops back diocesan courts with baptized partner rule. deputies favor mandatory ecclesiastical courts and wider remarriage rights under ecclesiastical approval. Differences seen as technical. consensus hoped.
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Episcopal Church
Denver
Colo
House of Bishops
House of Deputies
Protestant Episcopal Church
Mountain Youth May Escape Death Penalty
Willie Rector, condemned for assaulting Burke county girl Louise Yancey, faces possible clemency as she appeals to Governor Gardner to spare him. The case has drawn pleas from Yancey, her father, the jury nine members, Judge Walther E. Moore and Solicitor L. S. Spurling, with a gubernatorial decision expected today or tomorrow.
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Raleigh
N. C
Willie Rector
Louise Yancey
Burke County
Gardner
South Mountains
State
Louise
J. O. Yancey
Walter E. Moore
L. S&s
Harris Foresees Roosevelt Nomination on First Ballot
Senator Harris of Georgia predicts Governor Roosevelt of New York will be nominated for president by the Democratic party on the first ballot at the upcoming convention. He believes Roosevelt would win the presidency if nomination fails. Harris met Roosevelt during a vacation trip as he returned from Albany to Washington.
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Washington
Harris
Georgia
Roosevelt
New York
Albany
High Court to Decide Legality of Casey Electrocution Date
In Raleigh on September 29 the North Carolina Supreme Court heard a bid by Herman Casey for a new trial in the murder case of J C Causey. Attorney J A Jones argued the 1925 act fixing automatic execution dates does not shift jurisdiction from superior to supreme court. Judge W A Devin ruled no jurisdiction due to affirmed death sentence, contending the higher court certification should guide the lower court’s final judgment.
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Raleigh
Supreme Court
State Supreme Court
High Tribunal
Herman Casey
Lenoir County
J. C. Causey
Suffolk
Goldsboro
J. A. Jones
Casey
W. A. Devin
Lenoir
Jones
Devin
Superior Court
Bomb Explosion Threatens 50 Children in Church School
Denver police investigated a series of six bombs fired within hours last night. One blast endangered fifty children at Holy Family church school and caused a panicked exodus as a theater across the street stopped its film. A nearby home was destroyed and a Barnum house burned. Suspect described as a stout man seen leaving a car near the church.
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Denver
Col
Valverde
Holy Family
Oriental Theater
Mary Jackson
Custer Rand
Barnum
Rand
Lindberghs Survey Flooded China by Air
Col and Mrs Lindbergh with Dr Borgic of the League of Nations travel toward Hankow for their third aerial survey of flooded regions in China.
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Nanking
China
Charles A. Lindbergh
Borgic
League of Nations
Hankow
Hindenburg Line Was Crashed 13 Years Ago Today
In Charlotte on September 20, Warsaw celebrates Commander Henry L. Stevens Jr. of the American Legion with an early morning attack that reached three miles by afternoon. The gains suggested Allied victory and Armistice came just over a month later.
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Hindenburg Line
Charlotte
N. C
Warsaw
Henry L. Stevens, Jr
American Legion
Goldsboro Adopts Warm Welcome For Legion Leader Stevens
In Goldsboro the aging Legion leader Stevens received a ceremonial escort by the Wayne post drum and bugle corps City fire and police departments and Goldsboro Boy Scouts as he departed for his hotel. Col Freeman presided and Freeman extended congratulations The Wayne post chaplain gave grace with Freeman noting Stevens will be guest of many posts in 12 months Mayor Hill welcomed him and Royall spoke for the Wayne post in a district where no elective office rivals the presidency in esteem.
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L. A. Beasley
Kenansville
Beasley
Wayne Post
Goldsboro
Royall
Pennsylvania Coal Mines Reopen With 12000 Jobs Restored
In Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania on September 29 Lehigh Valley Coal Company reopened twenty one collieries that had been shut for months and some over a year providing work for more than twelve thousand men.
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Wilkes-Barre
Lehigh Valley Coal Company
Ex-Chinese Emperor’s Girl Wife Seeks Divorce
Shu Fei, daughter of a Manchu noble and former wife of the boy emperor Pu Yi, fled to a relative and said she would seek divorce on grounds of ill treatment. Supporters condemn her, while a monarchist brother urges her to return and warns of ruined reputation.
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Tientsin
China
Huan Tung
Henry Pu Yi
Peiping
Shu Fei
Arkansas Governor to Call Extra Session on Cotton Acreage
Governor Parnell announced plans to convene four extraordinary sessions of the Arkansas legislature. He aims to pass laws limiting cotton acreage and sent letters to all members requesting they serve without expense to the state.
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Little Rock
Gold shipments depart U S for Europe in record volume
A about 20 million dollars in gold left the United States in a single day, the largest outflow in over two years, with the shipment bound for Switzerland and France.
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U. S
New York
United States
Switzerland
France
Wilkins Granted Permission to Sink Nautilus in North Sea
Sir Hubert Wilkins received approval from the shipping board to sink the submarine Nautilus in the North Sea off the coast of Norway amid the Scuttle Wilkins sub affair.
Capone Income Tax Case: Judge Overrules Demurrers
Federal Judge James H. Wilkerson overruled demurrers to indictments charging Al Capone with dodging federal income tax and ordered the gangster's trial to begin a week from today.
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Capone
Chicago
James H. Wilkerson
Scarface
al Capone
Edison in worse condition reports indicate danger
Edison, the famed inventor, was shown to be in a deteriorating state in a bulletin from his attending physician Dr Hubert S Howe. The long illness since his return from Florida continues to weaken him.
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Edison
West Orange
Thomas A. E.hson
Huberts. Howe
Mm Edison
Florida
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J. L. Roupe
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Hayes
McMillan
Roupe
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Yorktown
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