Roosevelt views on control of public utilities
On a westward tour Roosevelt outlines his plan for regulating public utilities in electricity. He advocates full disclosure, holding companies regulation, and the actual money prudent investment basis for rate making. He presses that federal ownership should not be blanket.
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Roosevelt
San Francisco
Portland
Franklin D. Roosevelt
California
John N. Garner
Chicago
William Gibbs McAdoo
Redding
McAdo
West
Hoover
United States
Federal Power Commission
Public Utilities Commissions
Nurse Describes Camp Conditions at Mississippi Works
Washington reporter recounts Miss Helen Boardman testimony before Brig. Gen. Pillsbury on contractors camps for flood control projects. She described brutal discipline, beaten workers, rifles among foremen, extreme heat reaching 120 degrees, and workers terrified in swampy camps with mosquitoes.
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Washington
Sept
Helen Boardman
Red Cross
G. B. Pillsbury
Army Engineers
Mississippi
Miss Boardman
Hoover to View Protest Parade of Farm Groups
Milo Reno national president of the Farmers' Holiday Association asks Iowa farmers to assemble in Des Moines for a protest parade on October 4 when President Hoover speaks. He hopes 20,000 will join to show conditions faced by farmers. Senator Stockhardt rallies at Moville calling for federal purchase of surplus farm products and a five billion dollar farm aid package. Farmers push for a special congressional session, moratorium on chattel mortgages, currency increase, refinancing under farmer control, and farm price support at cost of production. Picketing continues in Worthington and Montevideo with limited clashes and small-scale activity.
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Des Moines
Hka
Milo Reno
Farmers’ Holiday Association
Iowa
Hoover
Reno
Ilowa’s Farmer’s Union
Congress
John A. Simpson
Farmers’ Union
Worthington
Minn
Montevideo
Dipper Ride Fatal at Nashville State Fair
Loy H. Leuthall a 22 year old mechanic died after falling from a car on the big dipper ride at the Nashville State fair. He struck his head on a cross tie and died of a fractured skull at a local hospital.
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Nashville
Loy H. Leuthall
Leuthol
Tax Revenues Near Maximum as Deficit Grows
Tax collections under the billion dollar revenue law edge toward peak yields, threatening a deficit that has already risen near 400 million since July 1. August receipts total 79.94 million, up from July and August 1931, with gasoline, check, automobile, and other taxes driving gains, though officials expect higher returns under the 1932 act as inventories thin out. For July and August the fiscal year totals 141.63 million, versus 142.56 million a year earlier.
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Washington
Treasury
Weather Summary for Tennessee and Virginia
Tennessee cloudy with probable showers in extreme west portions this afternoon and in east and central portions tonight and Friday. Virginia cloudy with likely occasional showers tonight and Friday. Temperatures similar to yesterday with highs around 51 to 62 and little change overall. Readings taken at 6:00 p.m. daily for the preceding 24 hours.
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Tennessee
Virginia
Two Day Agents Shot After Raid Near Memphis
In Memphis on September 22, deputy prohibition administrator Larkin and officer Sullivan were ambushed after leaving their cars at a raid site. A negro prisoner, Oscar Wilson, was wounded and arrested earlier. the men pursued attackers into woods as more assailants fled. The 750 gallon still was seized nearby.
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Memphis
A. Larkin
Prohibition
Paul Sullivan
Detroit
Sullivan
Shelby County
Larkin
Oscar Wilson
Wilson
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Socialist plans speaking drive across 17 states
Norman Thomas, Socialist presidential candidate, heads an ambitious travel schedule from New York on a 17 state campaign. He will deliver day and night speeches, ride in sleeping cars, and travel alone with minimal funds under $60,000. He doubts immediate relief without a party majority, warns that Hoover or Roosevelt could mean national calamity, and may be joined by Mrs. Thomas or a publicity man en route.
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New York
West
United States
Northwest
California
Texas
Norman Thomas
Senate
Hoover
Roosevelt
Thomas
Funes
Gandhi Weakens After Two Days of Fast
Roona India Sept 22 AP Mahatma Gandhi weakens rapidly after two days of his death fast. Hindu emergency committee seeks quick compromise on electoral rights for the depressed classes. Ambedkar planned to visit Gandhi as the government weighs limits on visitors. Gandhi drinks water and keeps spinning and praying.
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Roona
India
Mahatma Gandhi
Gs BP. Birla
Hindu Emergency Committee
Mahatma
Oved
Gandhi
MacDonald
Cenfer
Bhimrao Ramji Ambekhar
Emerncy Committee
Cambodia eyes Mississippi tax data and Indo China claim
In Jackson Cambodia sought state sales tax details from Secretary of State Wood who after sharing information studied maps and declared Cambodia a French possession in Indo China. In Windhoek Chief Impumbu faces a cattle fine after pursuing his daughter to a mission station claiming family governance.
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Jackson
Miss
Cambodia
Mississippi
Wood
New York
Windhoek
South Africa
Impumbu
League Sino-Jap Report Delayed Before League Council
Geneva Sept 22 The league council delays consideration of the Lytton report on Japanese Manchuria operations. The session opens ahead of the assembly with Eamon De Valera presiding. Key issues include whether the council or assembly will pursue concerted action under the covenant and Japan's response.
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Geneva
League Commission of Inquiry
Manchuria
Council of the League
League Assembly
Eamon de Valera
Lytton
Japan
Council
Assembly
League
Curtis Stresses Economics Tariff in Knoxville Speech
Vice President Curtis on a southern campaign tour praised the administration’s economic measures and tariff legislation. He defended loans by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, saying three-fifths of loans aided 3,600 banks and urged loyalty to weather the depression. He spoke after a Knoxville rally and planned brief stop at Athens.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Curtis
Chattanooga
Tennessee
John F. McCall
Memphis
Reece Macey
State Utilities Commission
Howard Shoffner
Republican Executive Committee
J. Will Taylor
Athens
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Madrid
Spain
Republic
Birmingham
Ala
Jack McKinny
Doty and Simpson Get Ten Year Compromise Sentences
Alden Doty aged 38 and Jess Simpson aged 47 faced murder charges for the December 21, 1951 stabbing death of William Orgie Cox in Postons store Highland Park. The two men accepted a compromise for 10 year terms each at the Sullivan county circuit court after earlier 18 year sentences were reassessed.
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Alden Doty
Jess Simpson
William Orgie Cox
Poston
Highland Park
Doty
Simpson
Sullivan County
John R. Todd, Jr
W. T. Coleman
Cox
Coleman
H. Tyler Campbell
Todd
Treasury receipts and expenditures for September 20
Treasury reports dated September 22 show receipts for September 20 at 11,719,490.84 dollars with expenditures of 5,143,985.64 dollars and a balance of 880,960,740.44 dollars. Customs duties for the first 20 days of September amount to 5,499,644.70 dollars.
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Washington
Treasury
Blue and Gray Not to Parade
General Charles A. Desaussure opposes a grand review uniting Confederate veterans with Grand Army of the Republic members before the U S president. He says no bitterness toward the north, but warns it would revive unpleasantness. A union veteran proposed the idea to 2000 delegates at Springfield encampment. reception mixed among leaders.
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Memphis
Charles A. Desaussure
Grand Army of the Republic
South
United States
Desaussure
Confederate Veterans
Homer Atkinson
Petersburg
Grand Review
Springfield
Ill
Strike Over Miss Bond Triggers Gate City High Walkout
Forty five seniors and juniors walked out of Shoemaker high school in Gate City at 10 45 this morning ending a protest begun last Monday over the transfer of Miss Mary Ruth Bond to P Cove and the appointment of Mrs Rhea Suacn. The strike grew as Latin classes were skipped and then leadership formed in the library with placards readied for the town march.
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Gate City
Shoemaker High School
Mary Ruth Bond
Cove
Rhea Suacn
Smith
A. W. Stair
Stair
Miss Bond
Film Beauty in Alienation Suit
Hollywood reports that Corliss Palmer denies stealing the love of Albert J. Cohen in a $100000 alienation of affections suit filed by Cohen’s wife Estelle A. Cohen. Palmer said she believed Cohen was unmarried and ceased contact when told he was married.
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Hollywood
Albert J. Cohen
Corliss Palmer
Georgia
Miss Palmer
Estelle A. Cohen
Eugene V. Brewster
Cohen
Brewster
Eleanor Brewster
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