Secret Plans Seen in Probe
WASHINGTON September 7 The War department turned over secret anti-aircraft gun plans to the Driggs Ordnance and Engineering Company and aided its business in 1929 a letter from T L Driggs to a Poland agent said cooperation was 100 percent The senate munitions committee resumed its inquiry into government control of armament production The testimony also touched on pay disputes over gun designs and a pending bill allied with a favorable policy toward the company Officials linked to Electric Boat Company were said to have aided placements on the house rules committee and to have influenced submarine contracts further inquiry was promised and L L Driggs of the Driggs company is expected to testify on the matter page six.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wastington
Driggs Ordnance and Engineering Company
Gongern
Senate Munitions
T L. Driees
Concern
Poland
War Department
Sill
Congress
Driggs
Department
Washington
Sind Place
Senate
Electric Boat Company
Fort
New Jersey
Martin
Massachusetts
House
Sterling J. Joyner
Ernest Lee Jahneke
Louisiana
John Q. Tilson
Connecticut
L. L. Driggs
Drigas Ordnance and Engineering Company
Pope
Weather snapshot Tennessee and Virginia briefings
Mostly cloudy in Tennessee with occasional rain in east and central areas tonight. West Tennessee fair Saturday with possible rain in extreme east. temperatures rising there. Virginia sees occasional showers tonight and Saturday rain with winds increasing offshore, gale force possible late tonight or Saturday. Yesterday’s highs near $38, lower than a year ago. rainfall yesterday minimal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tennessee
West
West Portion
Virginia
Legionnaires Set Nashville Meet for 16th Convention
Tennesseans who served in World War armies will reconvene in Nashville for the 16th annual American Legion convention opening Sunday night with Edward A. Hayes as national commander. A mile long parade leads to the War Memorial building where Governor McAlister and state officials will review veterans. Leonard Sisk and Grover Boyd headline for state commander with voting set for Tuesday to fill posts and select a 1935 site.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nashville
Fighting Sons of the
Volunteer State
Edward A. Hayes
War Memorial
Richard Turned
McAlister
Legion
Liberty League declares plan to press ahead nationwide
The American Liberty League says it remains determined to defend its view of constitutional rights and will stage a nationwide broadcast tonight led by President Jouett Shouse. For now, day to day campaigns against alleged infringements will pause until December, with leaders including Alfred E. Smith and John W. Davis vowing to energize support for property and human rights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wasitngton
Sophie
American Liberty League
Filip
Jouett Shouse
Alfred E. Smith
John W. Davis
James W. Wadsworth
New Deal
Property Owners Organization
Roosevelt
Suspension of Work on TERA Projects Recommended
Nashville Sept 7 report from TERA administrators cites Colonel Walter L. Simpson stating that all work relief projects should be suspended temporarily. The aim is to cut deficits and balance county budgets, though some counties may continue projects if their allocations remain within limits. Needy families on relief will keep grocery orders. the measure emphasizes equitable fund distribution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nashville
Day
Walter L. Simpson
Clale
Simpson
Sanity hearing set for Kent in kidnapping case
In Fincastle, Judge A C Buchanan ordered a sanity examination of Major Robert C Kent Jr to determine mental condition during the kidnapping trial of Mrs Mary J Rastings. The defendant told physicians he did not know the trial or his victim and struggled through questions, with doctors split on whether he feigned unconsciousness. Kent miscounted and muttered about hats as sheep during testing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fincastle
A. C. Buchanan
Robert C. Kent, Jr
Mary J. Rastings
Kent
Mary Jane Hastings
Ay Dejarnette
Western State Hospital
W. N. Breckenridge
Des
Memphis Humane Society at fair rodeo judged cruelty unproven
Memphis Tenn Sept 7 AP officers of the Memphis Humane Society visited the mid-south fair rodeo to assess alleged cruelty to animals. After witnessing a rough ride and two cowboys injured staff planned no legal action, declaring evidence of cruelty unlikely.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Memphis,tenn
Memphis Humane’ Society
Neeing
Trial testimony in Lynchings at Manchester Tenn
Testimony was given in a murder trial of eight white men charged in the death of Dick Wilkerson a Black man killed after an incident at a Negro party near Manchester Tennessee The case entered its fourth day with potential for a late jury deliberation as defense and state witnesses testified including John Gibson and Willard Keele who described events following the white man’s assault and a warrant issued for Wilkerson Continued on page six
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manchester
Tenn
Dick Wilkerson
Diemer Lamb
Levial Mash
Wilkerson
IGM
John Gibson
Gibson
Willard Keele
Editor Gilford Shot Down by Gunmen in Minneapolis Car
Howard Guilford, 40, former editor of the Saturday Press and Pink Sheet, was killed when a gunman in a companion’s car shot him at close range as he drove home on a south Minneapolis street. The editor’s work attacked vice and gambling and he had previously been threatened. The incident echoes a 1925 fight over a state suppression law later ruled unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minneapolis
Howard “Gilford
Guilford
Saturday Press
Minnesota
United States Supreme Court
Minnesota Supreme Court
May Spill Blood In Political Feud On Election Day
New Orleans reports Huey Long's dictatorial program effective at noon extends governor's militiary power, creates a state constabulary, protects registration books from court injunction, allows extra polling officials, limits local police appointments, frees arrestees for certain city ordinances, grants pardons power, and imposes penalties on lotteries and racing books. Demonstrates tense political clash as Jackson Barracks mobilization alarms city leadership.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Long
Parish Boards of Supervisors
Huey P. Long
New Oxbang
L Enure
Louisiana National Guard
Jackson Barracks
St. Bernard Parish
T. Semmes l Welmsley
Taylor Denies Guilt In Faye New Killing Trial
Birmingham reporter notes Harold Taylor, 28, on trial for stabbing Faye New, a pretty co ed, as he testifies his alleged actions during an automobile ride. He denies forcing sex or killing the girl, while prosecutor Roderick Beddow presses with questions about the knife and the ride. The courtroom crowd follows the cross examination as Taylor recounts his version of events and the knife remains unfound.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Als
Harold Taylor
Faye New
Taylor
Roderick Beddow
Beddow
Kmife
Two Women Face Death Penalty for Murder in Insurance Plot
In Cooperstown New York Eva Coo and Martha Clift were tried for murdering Harry Wright for life insurance. Coo, called Little Eva, was sentenced to death in Sing Sing’s electric chair while Clift, 27, pleaded guilty to second degree murder and received 20 years to life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cooperstown
Eva Coo
Martha Clift
Sing Sing
Bedinson
Eva’ Coo
Eva" Coo
Bya
Harry Wright
Tate
Coo
Harry Nabinger
Coe
Nabinger
Fisherman nets fish wearing spectacles in Illinois river
Jacksonport, Ill. fisherman Howard Anders recalls astonishment when he landed a fish with glasses still on its gills. He believes another fisher dropped the glasses into the water, and the spectacle chain caught the fish during the catch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacksonville
Howard Anders
Japan vows naval armament to rival United States and Britain
Tokyo reports that Japan will seek total parity in naval power with the United States and Great Britain. The cabinet approved a naval program based on high officers’ recommendations and the plan awaits imperial sanction. It targets abandoning the ratio limits of the Washington treaty, with December 1 as a possible date to act.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokyo
Japan
United States
Great Britain
Minea Osumi
Keisuki Okada
Aval
Supreme War Council
Osumi
London
Washington
Roosevelt textile strike board signals quick settlement hopes
Secretary Perkins voiced confidence that Roosevelt's textile strike board can arrange a settlement as the panel begins work at headquarters. The group plans multiple conferences with strikers and employers, including Francis J. Gorman, to assess core issues and consider relief implications while Danville tensions rise and secret orders push for action before week's end.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Perkins
Roosevelt
Labor Department
Francis J. Gorman
Miss Perkins
Sept
TPO
Textile Strike Inquiry Board
Also Mentioned on This Page
Maniton
Zaharoff
Henry R. Carse
Groton, Conn
Senate Munitions Investigation Committee
Vickers Company
England
Basil Za~have
Carse
Legionnaires
Tennessee Legionnaires
Liberty League
Humane: Society
Man Hunt Gibson
Keele
Reform
National Guard
Walmsley
South Carolina
Seneca
Handys
Board of
Memphis
Hardiwood Manufacturers' Institute
Institute
Lumber Code Authority, Inc
A. B. Knipmeyer
Danville, Va
Anville
Francis J. Georman
Dan River Mills
United Textile Wockers
Carolina Mills
United Textile Workers
Danville
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!