FDR Speaks on Prosperity at Green Pastures Rally
President Roosevelt hurries to Washington after a rain soaked Charlotte speech promoting New Deal prosperity and states rights. He touted economic gains, farm and factory recovery, and individual liberties preserved, while praising NRA AAA and federal leadership at the seven state Green Pastures event.
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D. Harold Oliver
Associated Press
Roosevelt
Washington
Charlotte
N. C
Charlotte Stadium
World Power Conference
Constitutional Hall
White House
North Carolina
NRA
AAA
Oal
WPA
Council thrift shop in Cleveland sells hats and coat
The Council of Jewish Women opened a thrift shop to raise welfare funds. A shopper bought a green felt hat for 25 cents and a tweed coat for 1.25 dollars, then disappeared. Later co-chairman Mrs. Milton P. Schlesinger discovered the hat and coat had been resold.
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Council of Jewish Women
Milton P. Schlesinger
Weather Outlook Across States With Warm Weekend
Tennessee sees generally fair and warm conditions tonight through Saturday, with Sunday bringing thundershowers and a cooling trend. Kentucky remains fair with nightly warmth, cooler by weekend. Virginia expects fair weather tonight and Saturday with slight interior warmth and Sunday thundershowers. North Carolina reports fair conditions tonight and Saturday with no rain yesterday. readings at 7 am show highs near 90 and lows near 61.
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Tennessee
Kentucky
Virginia
Nor
Carolina
Landon Rides Into GOP Strongholds on Campaign Train
Gov. Alf M. Landon travels by special train toward Maine for a Portland speech on government and business. He expresses confidence Maine will lead to a national GOP victory, aiming to repudiate the present administration. Gifford Pinchot says the Portland address has punch. trip continues to Illinois.
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Landon
Maine
Alf M. Landon
Illinois
Washington
Portland
Jon
Topeka
Gifford Pinchot
Pennsylvania
GOP to Back Independent in Railway Race in Tennessee
East Tennessee Republicans plan to endorse an independent candidate for the railway and public utilities commissioner race in November. The state executive committee empowered the Eastern division to choose a candidate opposing Leon Jouromon, Knoxville lawyer and Democratic nominee. Shofner reelected chairman, with Mrs. Hughes as vice chair, Lillard as treasurer, Tipps as secretary, and campaign manager appointments to be set with candidates and district leaders. The 1929 veteran leader noted the election is not a normal party contest.
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Nashville
East Tennessee
Knoxville
Indorse
Leon Jouromon
Tennessee
Howard B. Shofner
Hughes
Murfreesboro
R. Q. Lillard
Lebanon
Maynard Tipps
Shofner
Hal H. Clements
J. Will Taylor
New TVA Pool Proposal Reported for Southeast
The News-Sentinel said Roosevelt and TVA directors are weighing a plan to pool all power manufactured in the southeastern states and supply customers at uniform wholesale rates via TVA and private lines. The move could erase competition between government and private utilities and affect municipal ownership. The policy stems from TVA contracts with Commonwealth & Southern expiring in November.
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Knoxville
Tenn
The
News-Sentinel
Roosevelt
Tennessee Valley ‘Authority
TVA
News- Sentinel
Basle
Commonwealth & Southern Corportion
Mercy delays six‑murderer gallows in Washington state
Walla Walla, Wash. Sept. 11. A mother flew to Olympia and then to Walla Walla to plead for mercy for her son Leo Hall, 34, accused of killing six people in a 1934 robbery. Gov. Martin granted a delay and the execution was postponed to 11 p.m. to allow the visit. Hall was convicted of murdering Eugene Chenevert. his companion Peggy Seulas’s confession aided the case.
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Walla Walla
Wash
Leo Hall
J. M. McCauley
Elizabeth Hall
Seattle
Martin
Hall
MecCauley
Eugene Chenevert
Erland’s Point
Peggy Eeulas
Indian Chief Wants Lupe
Skeptical police detained Milwaukee man Frank Joseph Wittman after he shouted on a Hollywood street that he is chief of the Creke tribe and Lupe Velez is his squaw. He claimed a tribal right to Lupe and said he had sent word to a guardian in Hollywood. His mother said he had long been obsessed with Lupe Velez and had visited the city since 1935.
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Los Angeles
Frank Joseph Wittman
Milwaukee
Hollywood
Lupe Velez
Lupe
Wittman
L. Baraba
Ed Correll
Johnny Weissmalter
Mary Wittman
War planes mass in demonstration at Nurnberg
About 400 Nazi warplanes, including trimotored bombers and pursuit craft, assembled at airports around Nurnberg at dawn. The display accompanied delegates and visitors arriving for a Nazi convention as German leaders began discussing the anti Bolshevist campaign and steps against Bolshevism.
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Wade Wernee
Associated
Prenay
Nurnberg
Germany
Power Delegates Hear F D R Today
A huge gathering of power experts from many nations meets in Washington to hear President Roosevelt speak and watch him flip a switch starting Boulder Dam turbines. About 3,000 delegates attend as officials note the dam's completion and ongoing river projects costing hundreds of millions.
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Constitution Hall
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Boulder City
Nev
California
Legal battles over TVA begin in Tennessee courts
In Cookeville Tennessee on September 11 UPI reports the first clash in a long fight between private power companies and the Tennessee Valley Authority. Lawyers argued before Judge John J. Gore on federal court jurisdiction as TVA moves to dismiss the suit claiming the federal court lacks jurisdiction.
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Cookeville
Tenn
UPI
Tennessee Valley Authority
Federal District Court
John J. Gore
TVA
Baker
Newton D. Baker
James Lawrence Fly
Republicans Plan Campaign Attack
Republican leaders from 43 states were invited to two special conferences to plan organization programs and campaign activities for the balance of the pre election drive. National chairmen and state officials from 26 western states would meet in Chicago next Monday while 17 eastern states would confer in New York City next Thursday. Invitations extended to leaders of young Republicans and service men’s leagues under national command.
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National Committee
New York City
Party
Service Men's League
South
John D. M. Hamilton
Drought Outlook Mixed as Rains Aid Crops
Washington experts say continued rains late frost and mild winter may erase drought scars before next growing season. Crop board notes 1986 yield down about 2 percent vs year prior and calls drought 1986 less damaging than 1934 arid season with two thirds of interior drought area recovering while conditions remain serious in the southwest.
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Edwin ER. Harinson
Associated Press
Washington
Federal Crop Reporting Board
Crop Board
Docteur and Mata Hari Among World War Spies
New York reports two women stand supreme in WWI spy history. Madamoiselle Docteur and Mata Hari, infamous agents in Germany s secret service, are described as the Blond Demon and the Red Dancer. Docteur, Anne Marie Lesser, a German art dealer s daughter, is portrayed as a pale beauty with a cold mind capable of killing without remorse.
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Dewitt Mackentzie Eile
Mile Docteur
Matt Hari
Vais Serins
Kingaport Times
New York
Secret Service
Germany
Madamoiselle Docteur
Mata Hari
Mile
Anne Marie Lesser
Herilim
Imother
Liberalists Map Campaign Issues in Executive Session
Wisconsin Senator Robert M. LaFollette Jr and eight sponsors led a conference of Progressives Farmer- Laborists and Liberals from several states to discuss endorsing a presidential candidate and campaign principles. Mayor LaGuardia and two southern Democrats attended as others anticipated Roosevelt support. LaFollette remained noncommittal about duration and outcomes.
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Chicago
Sept. Il
Wisconsin
Farmer— Laborites
Minnesota
Robert M. LaFollette, Jr
LaFollette
Hauptmann Widow Barred from Canada Over Citizenship
Mrs. Anna Hauptmann, widow of Bruno Hauptmann, was barred from entering Canada after failing to prove U S citizenship. An immigration inspector inquired about her location as she appeals to Ottawa for permission to continue to Montreal, while her unidentified attorney cited ongoing efforts to prove Hauptmann innocent in the Lindbergh kidnapping case.
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Rousehs Point
N. Y
Anna Hauptmann
Canada
United States
Montreal
Emile Levin
United States Immigration Service
Hauptmann
Cantic
Que
Levin
Ottawa
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Gale
Soprano Galli-Curci to sing again with Chicago Opera
Amelita Galli Curci has recovered from a goiter operation and will return to the stage with the Chicago City Opera Company. Manager Paul Longone announced a November 17 to 20 engagement, marking a renewed career nearly a year after the operation and amid her Hollywood sojourn with husband Homer Samuels.
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Chicago
Amelita Galli-Curci
Paul Longone
Chicago City Opera Company
Auditorium Theater
Hollywood
Homer Samuels
Seized Guns Mark Spain Civil War Strife Escalates
The Associated Press reports the rebel junta claims a major setback after an abortive Mallorca attack and battles around Oviedo San Sebastian and Burgos. Government and rebel sources trade conflicting claims amid fears of wider international fallout and continued siege conditions in Spain.
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Mallorca
Oviedo
Madrid
Burgos
San . Sebastian
Bngbao
Miguel de Cervantes
Paris
Africa
Leon Blu
San Sebastian
Arenas de San Pedro
Avila
Strange Tale of Nell the Mare and a Missing Tail
Lebanon dispatch reports K. P. Hutchenson stating Nell, a gray mare, has only one third of her tail left. He says a calf is the other two thirds and the calf is recovering while Nell seems unfazed by the loss.
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K. P. Hutchenson
Nell
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