Hoover Attacks Smith Program as Socialism at Madison Square Garden
Herbert Hoover denounces Alfred E. Smith’s Prohibition farm relief and hydro power plans as state socialism before a huge Madison Square Garden crowd. He warns government in business would undermine self government and warns against federal control of resources and markets.
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Thomas L. Stokes
United Press
New York
Herbert Hoover
Alfred E. Smith
Smith
Madison Square Garden
Hoover
Dawes
Bach
Desert prospector to receive $30 million from furnace patent
George Campbell Carson, who pursued gold across Colorado Nevada and California, gains a $30 million fortune after the US Supreme Court refused to review Anaconda Copper Company’s case. The case centers on his side feeding reverberatory furnace used in copper smelting and royalties due for the invention. Carson, 61, now lives in San Francisco and plans a laboratory to continue work.
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United Press
Francisco
George Campbell Carson
Carson
United States Supreme Court
Anaconda Copper Company
Desert Rat
Anaconda Company
Supreme Court
Colorado
Nevada
California
Seattle
San
San Francisco
Youth killed as weather snarls city traffic
Orville Amick, 21, a draftsman, died when his car collided with another at Thirtieth and Meridian streets at 1 a.m. Five others, including Ruth Black, 23, were injured. John R. Murray and John Watkins were arrested for involuntary manslaughter.
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Orville Amick
Spann Avenue
County Surveyor’s Office
George Amick
Thirtieth
Meridian Streets
Ruth Black
North Meridian Street
John R. Murray
Buckle Street
John Watkins
East St. Louis
Miss Black
Amick
Watkins
Sterling Marshal
Murray
Fred Montgomery
West Thirteenth Street
Technical High School
N. A. Stoler
Eastern Avenue
Aoache Street
Stoler
City Hospital
Katherine Carper
North
la Salle Street
Nell Welch
Oakland Avenue
Tragic kerosene stove blast ends in double tragedy
In Reading Pennsylvania a kerosene stove exploded as a mother tried to light it. Mrs Overton Gentry hurled her 20 month old son Malcolm from a second story window then leaped after him. The child died from his injuries and the mother was badly hurt. Several spectators fainted and were hospitalized.
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United Press
Reading
Overton Gentry
Malcolm
Madman Invades Play Room Scalds Girl in Local Capers
Frantic neighbors guard children on Pruitt Street as police hunt a demented man seen at large. Dorothy Hopping, seven, suffered burns to the neck chest face and arm when a jar of hot water was dumped on hot coals in a basement stove. A similar prowler was reported four weeks earlier and other residents chased or encountered a man matching the description.
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Dorothy Hopping
John Hopping
Pruitt Street
Jack
Dorothy
George Gary
Furney Lee
Odds On 1940 Election Swings For Hoover In New York
Arnold Henry & Co of Wall Street Betting Commissioners said 25000 was offered at even money and taken up in minutes. They expect odds to shift to 6 to 5 or 11 to 10 in favor of Governor Smith before Hoover's Nov. 6 speech. National odds favor Hoover at around 4 to 1.
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Ey United Press
New York
Arnold Henry & Co
Wall Street
Herbert Hoover
New York State
Smith
Hoover
Indiana Lawyer Quits to Join Prohibition Office
E A Miles, an attorney for the Indiana Anti Saloon League, will resign within weeks to become attorney for the Indiana prohibition enforcement office. He scored 83 on civil service, and the salary for the new post ranges from 3000 to 3600 dollars, with potential advancement to 5200 to 6000 in a senior role covering the Indiana Ohio district.
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E. A. Miles
Indiana
Anti-Saloon League
League
Indiana Prohibition Enforcement Office
Miles
Prohibition Department
Indiana-Ohio
Textile Walkout Settled in Lodz District
War saw dispatch reports the great textile strike in the Lodz district has been settled today with workers returning to factories.
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Warsaw
Poland
Lodz Dis
Oh Dear I Learned About Women From Her
Vincent Titus an eight year old from Bellaire Long Island told police after a two day runaway that he saved a stake for cake but spent it on sweets and bad company. He said he likes men and that women say Oh dear and he leaves them. His father Papa Titus took him from the police station and urged him to learn from his mother.
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United Press
New York
Vincent Titus
Bellaire
L. I
Papa Titus
Robbed and Thrown Out of Taxi Cab in Early Morning Attack
Police held two men and a woman today in a case tied to Everest Newton who says he was beaten robbed and dumped from a taxi at Arlington avenue and Twenty-first street at 5 am The suspects invited him for a ride and took him to Miss Robbie Wilsons apartment where the robbery continued Newton says they stole 160 dollars a diamond ring and a stickpin valued at 350 He identified the ring and stickpin later found on Harry Hardackre Additional arrests included three other men and a woman and charges ranged from vagrancy to robbery and assault and battery separate thefts include 14 50 taken from Walter Meyers and other burglaries and jewelry worth 150 to 100 were reported.
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Everest Newton
East Eleventh Street
Arlington Avenue
Twenty-first Street
Pau Fdson
Massachusetts Avenue
Harry Hardackre
Holloway Avenue
Tomlinson Hall
Newton
Robbie Wilson
East North Street
Edson
Hardackre
Miss Wilson
Ann Earls
Walter Meyers
Riley Avenue
Villa Avenue
Prospect Street
Tell Cunningham
East Pratt Street
Delma Ensey
Bernard Kentfield
Spink
Meridian
Jackson Streets
Marathon dancers settle in for winter at Tomlinson Hall
The fourteen hoofers, seven couples, have entered the 472d hour of grinding at noon. The long winter job brings free meals, good music, heat, and ample sleep with chances to dance when desired.
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Tomlinson Hall
Fatless fame figure Maud Weiss dies at 48
Maud Weiss, once billed as the world’s fattest woman and a touring circus attraction, was found dead at her home in Galesburg NL. once weighing 600 pounds, she had shrunk to 300 pounds and had been ill nearly a year.
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United Press
Galesburg
Maud Weiss
Traffic Officials Plan City Traffic Code Revisions
Traffic experts from the Hoosier Motor Club the Indianapolis safety council and the Indianapolis Street Railways Company will meet with the city council and safety board this afternoon to discuss downtown traffic issues a revision to the traffic code and a report on taxi stand ordinance violations with expected strict enforcement.
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Hoosier Motor Club
Indianapolis Safety Council
Indianapolis Street Railways Company
City Council and Safety Board
Indianapolis
Cops Warn Against Police Involvement In Elections
Police Chief Claude M Worley warned that officers will not back political campaigns. After weekend gambling raids led to 69 arrests the cases were continued to after the election. Democratic observers alleged GOP district chairman George W Coffin helped arrange attorney ties and bond for the defendants.
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Claude M. Worley
Worley
Clifton R. Cameron
George W. Coffin
Cameron
Chinese ranch hand Leong Ling commits suicide in San Quentin cell
Leong Ling, a young Chinese inmate condemned for the murder of eleven countrymen, hanged himself with a towel in his death row cell at San Quentin on Monday night. The cell also held Leon Fook. fate of the other inmate remains unclear.
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United Press
San Quentin Prison
Cal
Leong Ling
Ying
Leon Fook
Fook
Petroleum Expo Expected To Break Attendance Record
Tulsa crowd surpasses fifteen thousand with day two of the International Petroleum Exposition as officials forecast more record attendance today.
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Tulsa
Okla
Bridge puzzles begin on Page 4 of The Times
The Times introduces a daily series of thirty bridge puzzles. The first diagram shows five cards left per player with one winning line for the prider to take three of five tricks. Try it and compare with the printed solution.
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The
Times Today
Pridder
Investigation of Slurs Against Governor Smith at New Haven School
Charges that Mary G. Moody a Hillhouse high school teacher made derogatory remarks about Governor Alfred E. Smith and Mrs. Smith in a classroom prompted an inquiry in New Haven Connecticut. Democratic Town Chairman David E. McCoy filed the charges and the board of education referred them to the schools committee for a thorough investigation with Moody and McCoy likely to be questioned.
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United Press
New Haven
Conn
Alfred E. Smith
Muncie school treasurer ordered arrested for embezzlement
State accountant chief Lawrence Orr advised Joe Davis Muncie prosecutor to arrest George L. Haymond 60 former treasurer of Muncie city schools as quickly as possible after a $53 000 shortage emerged. Davis aims to present the case to the grand jury with Orr’s guidance and an affidavit signed by taxpayers.
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Joe Davis
Muncie
Lawrence Orr
State
George L. Haymond
Haymond
Davis
Indianapolis
Orr
Arthur L. Gilliam
State Board of Accounts Examiners
William F. White
White
J. Lloyd Kimbrough
Indiana Bridge Company
New York businessman to give away million in 1924
Oscar F. Grab plans to give $1,000,000 to fourteen employees when he becomes executive vice president of Lefcourt Normandie National Bank on January 1. The Austrian immigrant and head of O F Grab & Co says he wants to try a new business path and credits his team for the success.
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York
O. F. Grab & Co
New York Harbor
Oscar F. Grab
America
Lower East Side
Grab
Lefcourt-Normandie National Kk
Ambassador Moore to Undergo Minor Operation in New York
United States ambassador to Peru Alexander P. Moore will enter New York Medical Center Presbyterian hospital for a slight operation this afternoon and is expected to leave in a few days.
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New York
Alexander P. Moore
United States
Peru
New York Medical Center Presbyterian Hospital
Towne Dies in Arizona After Illness
Former United States Senator Charles A. Towne of Minnesota died in Tucson Arizona from pneumonia after a severe cold struck during a speech in South Dakota for Governor Alfred E. Smith. He was hospitalized as his condition grew critical and passed away within hours.
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United Press
Weather clock readings missing context
A jumble of times and numbers lists readings such as 6 a.m. 45 and 11 a.m. 50 with similar values at 7 a.m. 43 8 a.m. 44 9 a.m. 46 10 a.m. 48 12 noon 51 and 1 p.m. 53, but contains no clear event or locations.
Talk on Italy Slated by Dr. D W Irwin at Kiwanis Luncheon
Dr Samuel W Irwin president of the College of Monte Mario Rome Italy will address the Kiwanis club at the Claypool luncheon on Wednesday topic How Goes Italy Today He is described as a personal friend of Mussolini.
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Italy
Samuel W. Irwin
College of Monte Mario
Rome
Kiwanis Club
Claypool
Irwin
Mussolini
Man 65 Shoots Self on New York L Train
Edmund Himmier, 65, a mild mannered mechanic, drew a pistol and killed himself on the last car of a Second Avenue L train in New York causing a panic among passengers and prompting police response.
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United Press
New York
Edmund Himmier
Second Avenue L
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Robert Hayes Smith
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State Accounts
Minnesota
D. W. Irwin
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