NRA reports rise in newspaper display ads in 25 cities
NRA data show an 14 percent August advertising gain across 25 large cities from Atlantic to Pacific, signaling renewed business confidence. Roosevelt aides push recovery strategy while labor seeks higher wages and shorter hours, with hearings on code enforcement and tax penalties pending.
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Washington
NRA
Roosevelt
Atlantic
Pacific
Hough S. Johnson
Pennsylvania
Johnson
Eugene Block
Federal Reserve Board
Jesse
Jones
Reconstruction Corporation
American Federation of Labor
William Green
USA
Grean
Donald Richberg
Richberg
Better Business Bureaus
Girl Attacked by Kidnappers Found in East St. Louis
Evelyn Hyslop a 17 year old Terre Haute Indiana dance hall waitress located in East St. Louis after a kidnapping with an escort in Brazil Indiana by two men. The girl told authorities she was abducted while leaving a dance hall and later identified the captors.
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Evelyn Hyslop
Terre Haute
Ind
East St. Louis
Brazil
Weather Outlook Tennessee and Virginia
Mostly cloudy with possible showers tonight and Wednesday. Cooler in eastern Tennessee and western portions. Virginia generally fair tonight and Wednesday with isolated showers in extreme southwest and cooler in western and southern areas. High yesterday 92, low 66. no rain. Readings taken at 6 p.m. daily for the prior 24 hours.
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Tennessee
Virginia
Kentucky Whisky Tax Defeated in House Vote
FRANKFORT, Ky September 12 AP Administration forces sought to overturn Governor Ruby Laffoon s receipts tax bill after a prior defeat. Supporters won a 49 to 45 vote against a $1 a barrel tax on stored whisky. companion bills to amend the 1980 gross sales tax law to fund unemployment relief were introduced in both chambers. The Senate delayed while the House pursued revenue measures. A public utilities tax bill was on the agenda and Senate amendments to the beer tax bill were pending.
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Frankfort
Ruby Laffoon
Tawa
Assembly
Senate
House
Action Law Senate
Special Session Plea Planned in Tennessee
Nashville report says Governor McAlister may be asked to call a special session to authorize cities and counties to accept 30 percent grants and 70 percent loans from federal public works funds. Tennessee could lose about 16.0 million in gifts and 9.0 million in grants if restrictions block loans.
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Nashville
Harry &. Berry
Federal Public Works Program
Tennessee Advisory Board On Public Works
McAlister
Public Works
Tennessee
Berry
Washington
Advisory Board
Maine votes to repeal prohibition and convene 21st amendment delegates
Maine led the nation by voting two to one to repeal federal prohibition and elect an entire constitutional convention of 80 delegates pledged to ratify the 21st amendment. The convention will meet December 6. repealists led in all 16 counties.
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Portland
Maine
Pine Tree
Pearsall to Close Dairy Plant Over NRA Dispute
Benjamin A Pearsall head of a dairy products company in Elgin plans to close his plant at month end rather than operate under the National Recovery Act. He denounces the act as cancer and fear and notes turmoil in Washington with 4000 codes awaiting action, criticizing the Chicago shed code setting a 10 cent a quart price. He employs about 100 workers.
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Elgin
Lot
NRA
Benjamin A Pearsall
Pearsall
Washington
Hawaii
Chicago
NRA Compliance Boards Ordered For Every Town
Washington dispatch outlines a nationwide NRA plan to set up compliance boards in each city and town. Each board will investigate violations, hold hearings, seek voluntary compliance, and report to Washington if needed. Boards lack executive power and are named by NRA campaign committees. Members include two employee representatives, two employee spokesmen, a consumer representative, and a lawyer. They will select a neutral chairman and handle exemptions and extended hours under union contracts.
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Washington
NRA
Hugh 8. Johnson
Beig
Powder Plans to Start Wheels at Shoals Turning
Experiments under Dr Frederick Gardner Cottrell at American University may expand to Muscle Shoals, potentially jump starting production of nitrates. The Tennessee Valley Authority has not received lease offers from farm groups for nitrate plants, though the act authorizes economic and social development in the Tennessee River basin. Continued on page three.
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Washington
American University
Frederick Gardner Cottrell
Tennessee Valley Authority
Tennessee River
Transient relief plans studied by Southern states
Transients of the low mood and wandering by economic reverses are to be cared for under a combined state program. A plan to organize special state setups within relief agencies and regional centers was developed by a conference of relief directors in the Southeast and federal offices. The burden on the U. S. is noted, with recommendations for interstate wandering management.
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Atlanta
Sept
Perth
Relis
Read to Testify in Behalf Claire Windsor Case
Alfred C. Read Jr. testifies in defense of Claire Windsor in a $100000 alimony suit filed by Mrs Read. Windsor says Read proposed a romance after claiming he was unmarried. Read later disclosed marriage. Trial features Read and Mrs Read’s accounts, with defense aiming to finish today and plaintiffs planning rebuttal before jurors.
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Claire
Los Angeles
Alfred C. Read, Jr
Marian Young
Superior Court
Claire’ Windsor
Read
Miss Windsor
Leonard Wilson
Mrs. Read
Joye
Tobacco Reduction Campaign Seen Won In Carolinas
Raleigh reports the tobacco acreage cut campaign is considered won, with parity price near 17.5 cents for flue-cured tobacco, though reopening of auction markets in the Carolinas remains disputed. Gov Ehringhaus will not lift the tobacco holiday until the campaign justifies it, while other leaders weigh a restricted market reopening. Mass meetings sign up growers as they await processing tax details and a potential price rise when markets reopen.
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Raleigh
N. C
Tobacco Aereope
Carolinas
E. V. Webb
Kingston
Eastern _Nort Carolina Warehousemen’s Association
Whringhaus
Ibra ©. Blackwood
South Carolina
Washington
Balloonists Found Cutting Pole To Summon Aid In Canada
Ward T. Van Orman and Frank Trotter, along with Gordon Bennett cup racers, were found near Sudbury Ontario after wandering days in the wild. All three men were ill and in need of assistance.
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Ward T. van Orman
Frank Trotter
Sudbury
Ont
AIRMEN READY TO QUIT WILDERNESS
Injured and ill from a week of bush travel two American entrants in the Gordon Bennett balloon races were found near Sudbury Ontario and planned to canoe toward civilization. Ward T. Van Orman and Frank A. Trotter, in tattered clothes and exhausted, had walked 16 miles after landing last Tuesday and hoped to reach Thor Lake then Sudbury by freight train for care.
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Sudbury
Ont
Civilization
Ward T. van Orman
Frank A. Trotter
James Barrett
Hydro
Thor Lake
Thar Lake
van Orman
Officers Stand Firm Against Non-Com's Rule at Havana Hotel
Havana December 12 2 officers barricaded the National Hotel resisting President Grau San Martins demand to yield within 24 hours vowed to reinstate De Cespedes. Backed by ABG and OCRR, 300 to 500 officers prepared for a showdown amid food and water shortages and continued siege. Ambassador Welles noted Americans were sheltering. new revolts feared as Batista’s supporters looked to rally.
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Havana
National Hotel
Ramon Grau San Martin
de Cespedes
ABG
OCRR
Horacio Ferrer
Army and Navy
Sumner Welles
The
CORN
ABC
Fulgencio Batista
Grau
San Martin
Manuel Desraline
Joaquin del Rio Balmaseda
Manuel Costales Latate
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Kentucky
M’alister
Maryland
Minnesota
Colorado
Wile
U. S
Ccm
Star Witness
J, CG
Ehringhaus
North Carolina
Trotter
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