President Roosevelt seeks industrial truce in labor war
President Roosevelt to convene leaders from industry and labor to seek a voluntary armistice and settle disputes by mutual agreement or federal mediation. AFL chief William Green calls the fireside chat timely and praises the appeal to use government for cooperative purposes. NRA gains and price controls face review as recovery programs continue.
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Washington
Roosevelt
William Green
American Federation of Labor
San Francisco
National Association of Manufacturers
Herbert Hoover
America
NRA
Congress
Railroads ask $170 million annual rate increase
Washington dispatch reports R V Fletcher behalf of the Association of Railway Executives urged the Interstate Commerce Commission to raise freight rates by 170 million dollars per year. He cited rising wages and material costs as key drivers, noting railroads may miss fixed charges by about 73 million this year without rate relief.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission Today
R. V. Fletcher
Fletcher
The
Association of Railway Executives
United States
Coordinator of Transportation
Bus Surge Signals Upturn In Monroe Economy
A rise in local bus travel shows a strengthening economy in Monroe with two buses often needed for Shreveport to Meridian trips. One driver recently carried 199 passengers over 185 miles, underscoring ongoing growth as observers note economic optimism and longer-distance commuting.
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Monroe
Shreveport
Meridian
Allen Expected to Call Election in Louisiana
Gov. O. K. Allen plans to call an election within sixty days to replace the late Judge Jerry Cline of the 14th district who died last week. Judge Cline’s term expires December 1, 1936, prompting possible supreme court action to appoint from an adjoining district until a new judge is elected. Jury term opens October 15 with over twenty trials, including a Humphrey murder case appeal involving Elijah Catholic, a Lake Charles longshoreman, charged in a May Day clash.
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Lake Charles
O. K. Allen
Jerry Cline
14Th Judicial District
Cline
State Supreme Court
Fourteenth District
Thomas F. Porter
Porter
Humphrey
Elijah Catholic
Murphy Humphrey
International Longshoremen’s Association
Bribery Charged to Pair Held in Scottsboro Case
Two men arrested after arriving from Cincinnati face bribery charges tied to the Scottsboro case. Sheriff J. E. Murray said one man, Daniel Swift, is charged in a Huntsville warrant. the other, Sol Kane, is jailed on unknown grounds. Victoria Price, key witness in the case, was rumored to be the bribery target but reportedly did not cooperate.
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J. E. Murray
Huntsville
Ala
Murray
Cincinnati
S. Kone
Louisville
D. Swift
Dan Swift
Sol Kane
Nashville Tennessean
Swift
New York
Daniel Swift
Alabama
Tennessean
Victoria Price
Scottsboro
Trade Increase Noted in Dixie Department Stores
The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta reports August gains across the sixth district with cash registers up 24.1 percent from July and 60 firms lifting sales, the highest monthly index since 1931 at 90 percent of the 1923–25 level. Cotton, wholesale trade, and crops show mixed changes amid crop and season trends.
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Atlanta
Federal Reserve District
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Georgia
Tennessee
Alabama
Louisiana
Florida
Department of Agriculture
Dr Sara Ruth Dean Appeal Hearing Set for November 26
The Mississippi Supreme Court set November 26 for the hearing of Dr Sara Ruth Dean of Greenwood, convicted of murdering her fellow physician Dr John Preston Kennedy in LeFlore County and sentenced to life in the state penitentiary. The court granted a continuance while other reviews of trial records are conducted.
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Jackson, Miss
Mississippi Supreme Court
Sara Ruth Dean
Greenwood
LeFlore
John Preston Kennedy
High Court
West Virginia NRA law ruled unconstitutional by judge
In Welch West Virginia Circuit Judge Beno F. Howard held the state industrial recovery act unconstitutional. He ruled the act not a valid exercise of the state's police powers in denying a sheriff injunction against sawmill operator C G Killem over alleged excessive hours and subminimum pay.
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Welch
W. Va
West Virginia
NRA
Beno F. Howard
Howard
Wilson Anderson
McDowell County
C. G. Killem
Lumber and Timber Products Industry Code
Killem
Circuit Court
Court of First Instance
State Supreme Court
Patman Backs Measure to Pay Soldiers Bonus
Representative Wright Patman of Texas told the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Louisville that he already has a bill on file for immediate payment of adjusted service certificates. He plans to push the measure when Congress opens, proposing 2.2 billion dollars in certificates usable as currency backing for veterans. He said the treasury holds enough gold to support significant currency expansion and warned against inflation.
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Louisville
Wright Patman
Texas
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Texan
Congress
Pursuers After Band of Raiders In Ozark Toll
In Madison county Illinois four slain in tavern holdup by the Bish Perkins gang. Two bandits Eugene Goodman and Webb Perkins killed. Victims Floyd Hartman and Lee Holden dead. Harold Shannon wounded. Proprietor Elmer Jackson repelled attackers from the tavern with a shotgun as five raiders entered. Continued on Eighth Page.
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Harold Shannon
Elmer Jackson
Long Campaign Push in Louisiana Supreme Court Race
Senator Huey P. Long spoke in the third supreme court district for his candidate Lieutenant Governor John B. Fournet in the October 9 Democratic primary. He warned of actions against New Orleans Mayor T Semmes Walmsley and his alleged city ring, while continuing investigations into New Orleans city politics.
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Lafayette
Huey P. Long
Supreme Court
John B. Ffournet
Thomas F. Porter
Lake Charles
Long
Walmsley
T. Semmes Walmsley
New Orleans
Nashville Girl Believed Safe By Police Inspector
Police Inspector John Griffin said Dorothy Distelhurst may be alive and in friendly hands. Governor McAlister posted a $500 reward for the kidnappers as 250 National Guardsmen joined searches around the Distelhurst home in east Nashville, yet no definite clue emerged.
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Nashville
Tenn
Dorothy Distelhurst
John Griffin
Hill McAlister
John Stark
117Th Infantry
Distelhurst
Rescue Vessels Race To Ships Off Coasts
Rescue ships raced to the aid of a small steamer ashore off Massachusetts and a crippled liner at sea off Florida. The Konigsstein of Arnold Bernstein line battled a fire in her hold off Nova Scotia but the blaze was extinguished. She will reach New York Tuesday with 120 passengers from Antwerp and Havre. Sixty five passengers were saved from the New Bedford after a hole ripped in her side near Uncatena Island. The captain and crew remained aboard.
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Associated Press
Massachusetts
Florida
Konigstein
Arnold Bernstein Line
Nova Scotia
New York
Antwerp
Havre
New Bedford
Uncatena
Elizabeth
Romanian Cabinet Resigns. Tatarescu Forming New Government
The cabinet of Premier George Tatarescu resigned suddenly in Bucharest after internal differences. King Carol accepted the resignation and asked Tatarescu to form a new government.
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Bucharest
Romania
George Tatarescu
Carol
Tatarescu
Airplane fishing party found after missing voyage
Walter Wedell and six friends, reported missing after taking a giant amphibian from Patterson Sunday for a coast fishing trip, were found safe on Last Island off Louisiana. A six-aircraft search led by P Williams and led Wedell Williams Air Service officials located the party. Johnny Wortham, a speed pilot, reported the discovery.
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New Orleans
Walter Wedell
James R. Wedell
Last Island
Grand Isle
Louisiana
Patterson
P. Williams
Wedell-Williams Air Service Corporation
Wedell
Jimmy
Johnny Wortham
Wortham
Plans to boost DIXIEs tung oil trade revealed
Washington reports government plans to expand a domestic tung oil industry by planting about 100000 acres of tung trees under a relief project. C C Concannon of the commerce department aims to triple gulf coast cultivation, study nut condition, and develop a southern paint and varnish market with locally produced oil.
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Dixie
Washington
C. C. Concannon
Commerce Department
Gulf
Concannon
Relief Administration
Florida
Georgia
Alabama
Mississippi
Louisiana
South
China
Latin America
Gainsville
Fla
Shots Fired On Russian Border Protest Planned
The Japanese military in Manchukuo planned to protest to Soviet Russia after an exchange of rifle fire last Tuesday on the disputed eastern border. No casualties were reported. The Japanese said Russians fired at a surveying party near Sanchakou. Russians say 25 Japanese cavalrymen fired on six Russians in Soviet territory, who withdrew.
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Tokyo
Manchukuo
Soviet Russia
Manchoukuo
Sanchakou
Pledge of Support for Judge Porter by Young Democrats
A telegram from the Independent Young Democrats of Louisiana Fifth District pledges cooperation to Judge Thomas F. Porter for the Louisiana Supreme Court race. Dated Monroe September 30 1934 the message offers services to Porter at no cost and is signed by Albin P Lassiter and Ben C Dawkins Jr.
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Thomas F. Porter
Supreme Court
Third District
Young Democrats
Fifth Congressional District
Albin P. Lassiter
Ben C. Dawkins, Jr
Porter
Lake Charles
Monroe
Louisiana
Young Democrats of
Murder hearing grips Wilkes-Barre in Pennsylvania
Robert Allen Edwards, 21, a mine surveyor calling himself a ladies man, pleads not guilty to an indictment accusing him of bludgeoning Freda McKechnie to death at Harvey's Lake on July 3 to marry Margaret Crain. Earl Campbell, a Pittston laborer, is named as first juror amid predicted jury difficulties.
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Wilkes-Barre
Robert Allen Edwards
Freda McKechnie
Pennsylvania
Harold Flannery
Miss McKechnie
Harvey's Lake
Daniel
Coal Company
Edwardsville
Edwards
Freda
Margaret Crain
East Aurora
N. Y
Earl Campbell
Pittston
Jinky Business Taking Town by Storm
The town swarms with Jinky fever as merchants distribute Jinky receipt blanks. Headquarters at 135 North Second Street becomes a hub for entrants, with thousands of blanks in circulation to craft Jinkys over the next three months.
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World
News-Star
North Second Street
World and News-Star
Johnson Farewell to NRA Employers Announces Loyal Support
Hugh S. Johnson said goodbye to NRA employers in Washington and urged continued loyal support for successors in an emotion-choked voice. The remarks followed his departure as head of the NRA on a Monday in October.
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Washington
Hugh S. Johnson
NRA
New Jersey Governor Signals Hauptmann Extradition Move
Gov A Harry Moore said New Jersey would likely seek Hauptmann extradition before his New York extortion trial. He noted the decision depends on evidence state investigators may develop and discussed moving in the near term.
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Trenton
N. J
A. Harry Moore
New Jersey
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Carpenter
New York
Hauptmann
Several Psychiatrists To Conduct Mental Test
New York October 1 4 Several psychiatrists and not three as originally announced will conduct mental tests of Bruno Richard Hauptmann indicted as an extortioner in the Lindbergh kidnap case. The court dismissed the short affidavit used to hold Hauptmann and he awaits trial.дв
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New York
Bruno Richard Ee
Lindbergh
Danetorney Samuel J. Foley
Hauptmann
William Pe Oe
Foley
New Jersey
S. Philip Goodhart
Extortion Case Clean-Up Begun
New York officials began a clean up week in the Lindbergh ransom extortion case. Bronx County seeks dismissal of an affidavit charging Bruno Richard Hauptmann with extortion, an indictment has superseded it. A mental exam was arranged and a 200 member special jury panel may be sought. New Jersey pursues extradition with slow, possible spurts.
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New York
Lindbergh
Bronx
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Hauptmann
Samuel J. Foley
New Jersey
Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr
Liberty defined and debated in a Rogers New York letter
A writer argues about the meaning of liberty in modern life, noting that what one person calls liberty may be harmful to others. The letter asserts that true liberty ends where harming others begins and urges readers to settle the meaning by personal responsibility and restraint.
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New York
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