Beach trip testimony in Kane murder case shocks mother
Hampton Va Sept 30 hearing for Professor Elisha Kent Kane on charges of drowning his wife was interrupted when Mrs W C Graham mother of the dead woman sobbed and collapsed on the stand after detailing breakfast and the couple’s beach plans She described her daughter’s fear and a plea to accompany her husband in the bid to swim and escape death Coroner Vanderslice had testified earlier urging the case toward its conclusions.
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Hampton
Elisha Kent Kane
W. C. Graham
Professor Kane
Grand Jury to Review Bishop's Campaign Acts
Washington District Attorney Rover announced that a District of Columbia grand jury will probe Bishop Cannon for alleged violations of the corrupt practices act in the 1928 presidential campaign. The panel begins October 8 and will seek whether Cannon and Miss Burroughs failed to report campaign expenditures to the House clerk, with about a score of witnesses, including bank officials and Methodist Episcopal Church south figures, subpoenaed. Names of the bishop, Miss Burroughs, and senators are not listed in the witness roster.
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Washington
Rover
District of Columbia
Cond
Tames
Tee
House of Representatives
Methodist Episcopal Church
South
Miss Burroughs
Navy seeks cut in expenditures for 1933
Secretary Adams and the Navy seek reductions to 340 million dollars from 401 million for 1933 while preserving the current construction program. The White House withheld approval for four destroyers, trimming the proposed eleven ships to five. General expenditures are expected to bear a 35 million dollar cut.
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Washington
Adams
Naval
Hoover
Navy
Congress
White House
Battered Tin Bucket Saves Pipe Plasterer
PORTLAND Oregon September 30 Wilbur C Bathe a 45 year old plasterer was buried under a ton of sand in a deep sewer trench yesterday when the wall gave way His half filled plaster bucket fell over his face keeping his mouth and nose free He was dug out after ten minutes and revived by fellow workers.
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Portland
Ore
Wilbur C. Bathe
Chinese Foreign Minister Resigns Amid Manchuria Crisis
Dr. Cr. T. Wang resigns as foreign minister of the Nanking government after mob attack by students blaming him for failure to secure League of Nations intervention in Manchuria. Alfred Sze named to succeed him. Frank W. Lee to act as foreign minister pending Geneva arrival. Officials deny spontaneous independence movements in Manchuria and attribute unrest to Japanese instigation.
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Nanking
Cr. T. Wang
League of Nations
Manchuria
Alfred Sze
Great Britain
China
League Council
Dr. Wang
Kuomintang
See
Geneva
Frank W. Lee
Mexico
Lee
New York City
Foreign Office
Japan
Relief Efforts To Be Carried To All Sections Of State
Raleigh news says a state relief and unemployment committee met with Gov. C. Max Gardner to plan a full state wide program addressing food clothing fuel and shelter. Plans call for club women to organize needle guilds and community groups. The governor praises cooperation and notes relief is a local matter awaiting federal aid. The statewide program could be announced tonight.
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Gardner
Raleigh
Special State Committee On
C. Max Gardner
R. W. Henninger
State Council On Relief
Washington
Stuart Cramer
Federal Relief Commission
North Carolina
Southern California Will Come East In '32
Gainesville Fla September 30 Edgar Jones Florida athletic director announced nearing completion of arrangements for the University of Southern California to meet the Florida Gators in December 1932 at Gainesville The date tentatively set for December 26 may change Florida plays USC in Los Angeles this year
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Gainesville
Fla
University of Southern California
University of Florida
Gators
Edgar Jones
Florida
Jones
California
Los Angeles
Drake to stand trial in Raleigh banking case
W. B. Drake, former Raleigh Bank and Trust president, faces state banking law charges and will be tried October 12. A special venire from Chatham County will supply 40 jurors after Judge Walter L. Small granted motions for immediate trial and cross-county jury selection.
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Raleigh
Ww. B. Drake
Raleigh Bank and Trust Company
Chatham County
Walter L. Small
Drake
Weather Halts Flight Takeoff From Samushiro Island
Bad weather in the Aleutians forces American fliers Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon Jr to postpone their takeoff from Samushiro Island for a projected non stop flight to the United States.
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Samushiro
Japan
Aleutian Islands
Clyde Pangborn
Hugh Herndon, Jr
United States
Mephitis Mephitica Drives Rogues Toward Homeward Polecat Tale
In Rogers Park Chicago a false alarm about a fierce animal prompts a playful chase. Desk Sergeant Lyng and Officers Beehan Mickle Ruh respond as Jancin confirms the creature is a polecat, and Beehan and Mickle are said to have captured it before being sent home.
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Chicago
Rogers Park
Michael Lyng
William Beehan
Jancin
William Mickle
Sebastian Ruh
Sergeant Lyng
Solid Front for Hoover Drives 1932 Republican Rally
Washington reported that Calvin Coolidge urges a solid front to support President Hoover while retirees and independents discuss chances for Hoover’s renomination. Key Republicans including Borah Norris Johnson La Follette and Pinchot are named as potential candidates or supporters amid mixed reception from northwest independents and some regulars keeping quiet.
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Washington
Calvin Coolidge
Herbert Hoover
Coolidge
Saturday Evening Post
Northwest
Hoover
Brookhart
Iowa
Flo
Borah
Idaho
Norris
Nebraska
Johnson
California
la Follette
Wisconsin
Pinchot
Pennsylvania
Feldspar Mine to Resume Output in Western North Carolina
The Bartlett and Buchanan Mining Company announces immediate restart of operations at the Bear Creek feldspar mine near Ledger Mitchell County. The mine will produce at least 500 tons monthly and employ about 25 workers. Ore will be trucked to Spruce Pine for Carolina Mineral Company, with output contracted for by the lessee.
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Bakersvile
N. C
Bear Creek
Ledger
Mitchell County
Bartlett and Buchanan Mining Company
E. C
G. F. Bartlett
Willard Buchanan
Carolina Mineral Company
Spruce Pine
Black Woman Finds Body of Husband in Creek Near Beaufort
Black women foraging for crabs in a creek near Beaufort South Carolina on Sept 30 found a man's body. The deceased was identified as the husband of one of the women. He had been struck to death, investigators said.
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Negress
Husband
Beaufort
S. C
Lindberghs aid aerial survey of China flood area
Colonel and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh and Dr. Borchc completed a flood survey flight from Nanking to Hankow. They traveled via Wuhu and the Yangtse river, landing near the Hermes and surveying flood damage beyond the direct distance. The group faced anxieties over landing notices but were sighted by a Chinese military aircraft at Wuhu.
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Hankow
China
Charles A. Lindbergh
Borcic
League of Nations
Wuhu
Yanktse
Nanking
Lindberghs
Borchc
Yangtse
Hermes
Dr. Borchc
Yangtse River
Edison Shows Signs of Weakening in Illness
In West Orange New Jersey on September 30 Thomas A Edison is reported by his physician Dr Hubert Howe to be weakened by a complication of diseases. The bulletin says he has less interest in things and his strength has failed somewhat in the past few days.
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West Orange
N. J
Thomas A. Edison
Hubert §. Howe
Edison
Howe
Increased Retail Trade and Cotton Use Noted in South
The Atlanta federal reserve’s August review shows department store sales up 9.4 percent from July, cotton consumption rising in Georgia Alabama and Tennessee, and district textile mills increasing cloth production for August. Unfilled yarn mill orders exceed a year earlier by 31.2 percent. mill employment remains below last year.
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Atlanta
Alabama
Tennessee
Monthly Business Review
Bank OT
United States
Georgia
Judge Bramham Supervising Cubs And Sox in Series
Judge W. G. Bramham, president of the Piedmont League, is in Chicago presiding over the Cubs and White Sox series. Commissioner K M Landis asked Bramham to represent him.
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Judge Bramham
Cubs
Sox
Durham
W. G. Bramham
Piedmont League
Chicago
Windy City
White Sox
K. M. Landis
Bramham
Rail wage cut tied to rail rate boost says attorney
Washington dispatch reports the Interstate Commerce Commission closed hearings on a 15 percent freight rate increase request. Railroads argue a failure to raise rates would trigger a nationwide wage cut controversy, with final decision due in three to four weeks.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Interstate Commerce Commission Today
Greenville Clark
New York
Clark
Trainload Mounties Quell Riot in Estevan
In Estevan Sask September 30 police and 400 striking coal miners clashed as Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrived to restore order. Police fired into the crowd after attempts to disperse the marchers. Two strikers were killed and 22 people injured, including 12 policemen and 10 civilians.
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Estevan
Sask
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Town Hall
Vera Leonard Murder At Randleman Road Burned Home
In Greensboro on September 30 an 9 year old Vera Leonard, daughter of farmer Tom Leonard, was found beaten and her home burned. Three suspects, Will Moore 68 Crutchfield 25 and Wilson 18, were arrested as fingerprints linked to a bucket near the house. The attack likely occurred between 8:15 and 9 am. the body was wrapped in a quilt and burned.
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Greensboro
Vera
Will Moore
Crutchfield
Wilsonen
Policy Headquarters
Leonard
Tom Leonard
Fred
Randleman Road
French Ministers in German Parley Praised for Work
Paris reports Premier Laval and Foreign Minister Briand presented Berlin trip results to the cabinet. A unanimous resolution praised their efforts. Laval indicated a U.S. departure soon, with the American embassy proposing October 14, aiming to avoid Hoover’s Yorktown commitments.
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Laval
Briand
Berlin
America
Paris
Doumer
M. Laval
United States
Hoover
Yorktown
Statesville Boy Killed by Automobile
Statesville N C Sept 30 A police investigation continued into whether Bristol Ayers youthful driver of an automobile bears blame for the death of Glenn Mills five son of Mr and Mrs G E Mills who was struck and killed in Statesville yesterday witnesses say the child ran into the street to meet his father Ayers swerved off the road in an apparent effort to dodge him the accident was described as unavoidable by witnesses
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Statesville
N. C
Bristol Ayers
Glenn Mills
G. E. Mills
Ayers
Fire Threatens Wharf In Charleston Harbor
Fire at the Seaboard Air Line wharf late yesterday threatened to destroy the wharf and seafront structures in Charleston Harbor but was extinguished with small damage.
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Charleston
Seaboard Air Line
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NEA
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Raleigh Bank
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Indi
Carolina
Thomas Edison
Britain
Grenadier Guards
John Bull
Bank of England
London
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Federal Reserve Bank
Vera Leonard
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