Roosevelt appeals for private aid to meet welfare needs
President Roosevelt urged private charities and citizens to support local relief efforts as four weeks mobilization for human needs began led by Newton D Baker. He defended keeping government from starving and called recipients of aid not to rely on the state alone, stressing individual and local community responsibility with federal help as a last resort.
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Washington, D
Roosevelt
Newton D. Baker
Government ready for trial of Urschel kidnaping duo
United States prosecutors prepared to try Cass Coleman Jr and his wife on charges connected to the Urschel kidnapping case. The defendants are accused of harboring George Kelly and his wife Kathryn, who were fugitives during the high profile $200000 ransom affair involving Charles Urschel.
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Urschel
San Angelo
Charles F. Urschel
Okla- Roman
United States
Clyde Baetus
Cass Coleman, Jr
Coleman County
George Kelly
Kathryn
Coleman
Fastus
A. K .Baker
Roosevelt plans $1 billion in frozen bank asset liquidation
Washington officials move to convert frozen bank assets into cash for depositors. Roosevelt orders liquidation divisions and new advisory committees to accelerate payouts and orderly asset disposal, aiming to reduce delays and prevent asset dumping at fire-sale prices.
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Washington, D. C
Roosevelt
Reconstruction Corporation
R. F
Insull Defense Challenges Washington Case at Hearing
Samuel Insull’s defense argues the Washington accusation rests on faulty bookkeeping, constituting only technical infringement, not a real offense. He met with two Greek lawyers to review final preparations for Thursday’s hearing.
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Athens
Samuel Insull
Chicago
Washington
Insull
Tasuil
Missouri Supreme Court Ousts St. Louis Attorney
In Jefferson City, October 1, the Missouri Supreme Court disbarred Paul Richards, a St. Louis attorney, amid allegations of involvement in a kidnaping plot targeting wealthy dealer Alex Berg. The ruling marks a harsh sanction against a prominent local legal figure.
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St. Louis
Jefferson City
Missouri Supreme Rourk
Paul Richards
Loni
Alexara Berg
Canonization of Two Approved by Papal Consistory
Vatican City reports a morning consistory approving the canonization of Blessed Bernadette Soubirous of Nevers France and Blessed Jean Anien Thouret founder of a branch of the Sisters of Charity. Treasury receipts in Washington show monthly and fiscal year figures with large totals and emergency expenditures across customs and other categories.
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Vatican City
Pius
Bernadette Soubfrous
Bislers of Christian Instruction
Nevers
France
Jean Anidaï Thouret
Sisters of Charity
Treasury
Washington, D. C
Open Forum Calls for Central Post Office Site
The Light editor notes letters must be signed for publication and argues against preserving the present site. A new post office and federal building should be near town center, railways, airport, and industrial area for efficiency and economy, benefiting city, county, state, and public needs.
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the Light
Billings
Airport
San Antonio
Jobe
Investigation of Relief Board in State Amendments
Senate floor amendments bar counties from hiring out of state staff for a year and require local boards to investigate relief workers. Undeserving relief recipients should be removed and replaced by destitute citizens. Office jobs go to capable relief dependents. Heads of destitute families favored.
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Relief Board
The
Senate
Dod
Sambles
Vienna Students Hail Germany Action at Geneva
Vienna students rioted to day in sympathy with Germany. A huge swastika banner at the Institute of Technology sparked wide city and university protests with smoke bombs and chants of Hell Hitler. Officials and politicians showed mixed reactions while rumors circulated about possible Austrian shifts regarding the League of Nations.
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Vienna
Germany
Institute of Technology
Hell Hitler
Rony
Austria
League of Nations
Wiel Huneary Whso
Soviet Press Warns of World Peace Peril
A Soviet editorial argues that world peace is endangered by Western actions and the disarmament conference failures. It criticizes the League of Nations and notes financial strains affecting peaceful efforts.
Child killed by lightning near Durant Oklahoma
A lightning strike at the Potter home four miles west of Durant killed five year old Johnny Potter and seriously injured his father Will Fotter. A hailstorm damaged cotton and trees nearby. Earlier, a tornado near Sayre killed farmer Frank Yandell, his wife, and his great grandson Luther Lawrence, with Nadine Lawrence injured.
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Durant
Okla
Johnny Potter
Will Fotter
Potter
Here
Colbert
Sayre
Frank Yandell
Midland Abandons 14 Miles of Line in Texas
The Interstate Commerce Commission authorized Midland Railroad as lessee to abandon 14 miles of track between Greenville and Commerce Texas. It also granted Midland and Texas and New Orleans authority to operate under trackage rights over an adjacent line of St Louis Southwestern of Texas.
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Washington, D. C
INS
Interstate Commiette Commission
Texas. Midland Railroad
Greenville
Commerce
Texas
Midland
Texas and New Orleans
St. Louis Southwester
Legion Bans Politicians From Texas Conventions
Austin report says the American Legion executive committee banned politicians from convention speakers in Texas. In Amarillo a coroner ruled Mrs Luvena Roland was assaulted by her husband Charles Roland who died after ingesting poison. the coroner classified it as suicide and attempted murder with no motive assigned.
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Austen
INS
American Legion
Texas
Amarillo
Luvena Roland
Charles ¥. Roland
Man Delays Death Just Long Enough
NEW YORK men recount a bank holdup where Henry Harmon died of a heart attack just after the alleged crime. If he had died earlier the surviving suspect William Buff would face murder charges, while Harmon’s death prevented the case from reaching a stronger verdict.
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New Tork
Henry Harmon
Harmon
Laok
Wiilliam
Merman
McKee Defends Jewish Issue in New York Mayoral Contest
In New York the mayoral race sharpens over anti semitism questions as Joseph V McKee denies attacking Jewish school children while Fiora llo La Guardia accuses him of misreading a 20 year old article. Untermyer demands clarification amid a heated battle over religious tensions and election registration nears two million voters. Nathan Straus Jr a Jew, says McKee is free of religious intolerance and Tammany Hall supporters claim high registration favors O Brien.
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New York
Joseph Vi McKee
Fiorallo A. la
Samuel Unter Myer
McKee
Recovery Party
Untermyer
McKer
Nathan Straus Jr
Aldermenic
Tammany Fees
Tammany
John P. O'Brien
Bevan Bitten by Rattlesnake at Brackenridge Park
W. A. Bevan, curator of the Rep tile garden at Brackenridge Park, was bitten on the left hand Sunday afternoon while demonstrating a rattlesnake to a crowd. He was rushed to Robert B. Green hospital and reported out of danger on Monday. He had been feeding the snake when it struck. Mrs. Ellen S. Quillen notes rattlesnakes are more dangerous as they seek denning sites for winter.
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W. A. Bevan
Brackenridge Park
Robert B. Green Hospital
Bevan
Ellen S. Quillen
Witte Memorial Museum
Telephone Stock Earnings Reported For Nine Months
New York September 16 American Telephone and Telegraph company reports for the nine months ended September 30 a net income of 101,225,417 after charges and taxes, equal to 5.42 a share. For the prior year period net income was 110,704,774 or 5.93 a share. Quarterly net income totaled 35,110,508 or 1.88 a share, versus 34,059,282 or 1.82 a share in the prior quarter and 35,413,993 or 1.90 a share a year earlier.
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New York
American Telephone and Telegraph Company Today
Eight States Hunt Escaped Convicts After Auburn Hold Up
Police from three states pursue two escaped convicts who seized the Auburn police arsenal after locking two officers in a cell. One suspect is identified as Walter Dietrich, 27, a St. Louis felon who escaped Indiana’s Michigan City prison on September 26.
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Auburn
Ind
Walter Dietrich
St. Louis
Indiana
Michigan City
Officer Injured as Autoist Charged in Assault Case
Guilford Hanne of Caldwell County faced an aggravated assault by automobile charge in Austin after a motorcycle officer W. M. Sivert was critically injured Saturday night. Stuart remained in critical condition from injuries suffered when the motorcycle and Hanne’s car collided.
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Guil
Ford Hanne
Dale
Caldwell
W. M. Sivert
Stuart
Lylernes
Henna
Doctor Makes Rheumatics Happy with New Prescription Enabler
A bold claim describes a ready remedy for rheumatic pain enabling sufferers to return to work. The feature extols a famous prescription and public benefit, promising relief from neuralgia, neuritis, and nerve pain with rapid results and a refund guarantee if not satisfied.
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Jor
iiLda
Anil
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