Hoover Appeals for Generous Charity in Winter Calamity
Washington Sept 15 President Hoover urged national unity in a joint relief program to meet the approaching winter and curb hunger. He noted federal relief has backed private philanthropy and cited private efforts boosting employment and relief funds. Newton Baker pledged a national mobilization while outlining broad aims: feed the hungry, sustain relief agencies, maintain liberties, and foster spiritual service.
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Hoover
Mr. Hoover
Ivate
White House
Newton D. Baker
Inquiry Looms In Insull Collapse
Chicago September 15 State's attorney John A Swanson announced plans to aggressively investigate the Samuel Insull empire collapse that left creditors and investors facing losses estimated over 1 billion dollars A grand jury probe and a meeting with chief assistants were ordered to map the inquiry as bondholders seek litigation access to secure facts and accountability
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Shicago
John A. Swanson
Samuel Ingullich
Intors
Swanson
Tkholders
Generally fair weather forecast tonight and Friday
The forecast calls for generally fair conditions tonight with cooler temperatures. Friday will be cooler with continued fair skies and similar conditions into the daytime.
Swee p northeastward storms hit Florida and Georgia
Bulletin from Atlanta reports a tropical disturbance moving from the Gulf of Mexico toward the Atlantic, sweeping across the northern edge of Florida and extreme southeast Georgia. Unconfirmed word says it passed Carrabelle with heavy damage to the city, affecting communications, railroad telegraph, and ferry services. Carrabelle waterfront offices were closed and residents in Apalachicola sought higher rooms as high tides rose.
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Atlanta
Gulf of Mexico
Florida
Georgia
Atlantic Ocean
Carrabelle
Fla
Appalachicola
Methodical bank hold up nets ten thousand in Richwood
Eight persons at Richwood Banking Company were forced to lie on the floor while two men robbed the counters and safe of about $10,000. The robbers, wearing overalls and shell rim glasses, forced cashier J F Rapp to open the vault and escaped in an automobile. Kenneth Kyle and Clara Kyle were among the customers forced to the floor as a second robber entered. The heist lasted about 15 minutes and the bandits fled prior to any description by witnesses.
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Marysville
Richwood Banking Company
Richwood
Here
Insuranc
J. F. Rapp
Kenneth Kyle
Clara Kyle
Rapp
Tobber
Deputies Clear Highways of Pickets
Sioux City Ia Sept 15 Deputies used clubs to clear main highways east of Sioux City of farm strike pickets Twenty pickets were arrested when a squad of special deputies scattered the Farm Holiday forces posted several miles east of Sioux City Night sticks were swung as pickets resisted It was not learned immediately if anyone was injured The special force carried riot guns and tear gas bombs under orders to break up the traffic blockade renewed Saturday
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Sioux Cityy
Sioux City
Wreck of Troop Train in Atlas Foothills Reported Major Casualties
Survivors of a French Legion troop train wreck near Oran Algeria fear about 100 Legionnaires were killed and another 100 injured as the train plunged into a 256 foot ravine. First injured arrived at Tlemcen. One officer was killed, another badly hurt. A shepherd witnessed the disaster and fled to report it.
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Oran
Algeria
French Legion
Atlas
Tlemcen
Here
Oudja
Morocco
Abd-El- Krim
Atlantic Coast Storm Warned From Virginia Capes to Atlantic City
The U S weather bureau issued northeast storm warnings displayed north of the Virginia Capes to Atlantic City New Jersey. Warnings were lowered along the South Carolina and Georgia coasts as a disturbance central off Georgia moved rapidly northeastward.
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U. S. Weather Bureau
Virginia Capes
Atlantic City
N. J
South Carolina
Georgia
Hoover opposes cash bonus plan as fatal threat
President Hoover denounces the immediate cash bonus proposal as a fatal threat to recovery and a deadly blow to national welfare. He vows to oppose it to the end despite the American Legion's expected endorsement, warning it could wreck the currency and financial system. The statement, issued during the Legion Convention in Portland, was viewed as a bold national appeal beyond the Legion to the public.
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Hoover
American Legion
Portland
Ore
Legion
Alfred E. Smith
Garner
Committee Fails to Agree on Resolution at Legionmeet
At the American Legion convention in Portland Oregon a censure resolution condemning the administration for the eviction of the bonus army was to be introduced from the floor despite a resolutions committee vote against it. The scene forecast a potential floor fight with supporters of Hoover facing opposition from the delegation.
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Ore
Bonus Army
American Legion
United Press
George Howitt
Kansas
Washington
National Convention
Floyd Gibbons
Resolutions Committee
Civic Auditorium
George Browne
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Department
Hoover
Browne
United States
World Court
League of Nations
Legion
Henry L. Stevens
Fall Fiesta Gala Arranges Large City Entertainment
Downtown Elyria prepares for the Fall Fiesta with a full day of shopping and entertainment. Jim Armitage and colleagues oversee a program featuring Bobby Burns Rube Band Don Merthe string band a bicycle race and an Ely Park auto exhibit with cash prize for the oldest car. Evening events include an old time dance contest fiddlers contest and a fashion and beauty revue planned along Cheapside and Elker Hall depending on weather. Merchants trumpet rock bottom prices amid rising raw materials and expect crowds from Elyria and surrounding communities.
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Blying
Jim Armitage
Robert Byrne
Barry Shedd
Armitage
Bobby Burns
Rube Band
Don Merthe
Sveral
Ely Park
Broad Street
Elyria
Grafton
Belden
Elyria Township
Ridgeville
Lorain
Lorain County Bank
Elker
Plane of Ocean Flat Lin ERDUE Rome
The monoplane American Nurse en route from New York to Rome was overdue and feared out of fuel after 40 hours of flight. Aboard were pilot William Uldrich nurse Edna Newcomer Dr Leo Pisculli and Tailwind the mascot woodchuck. Beacons from Rome to Paris flooded the sky as officials awaited an anticipated landing at Ciampino near Rome.
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Rome
New York
Paris
Azores
William Uldrich
Edna Newcomer
Leo M. Pisculli
Ciampino
Italo Balho
South Atlantic
Littorio
Clampino
Bright Spots In Business World
A compilation of regional business notes reports varied activity. Bank closings fell sharply, Continental Can enjoyed rising August business, and Sinclair Refining ordered 1.2 million pounds of alloy steel tubes. Fremont Sugar reopens Sept 23. Homer Laughlin recalls 400 workers. Associated Gas & Electric reports factory expansions. National Retail Dry Goods Association expects 1.17 billion in purchases. Endicott Johnson sees orders up about 40 percent. Alliance Machine Steel Castings resumes 100 workers after idleness.
Flying Family Rescued In Greenland Snowstorm Tale
Exclusive United Press story recounts Col George R Hutchinson and family perilously crash landing near Angmagssalik Greenland. The "Flying Family" endured blizzard, ice, and wreckage, crew coping with SOS signals as Lord Talbot trawler closed in. Daughters Katherine and Janet Lee showed bravery amid freezing seas, with eventual shore landing and makeshift camp.
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United Press
Angmagsalik
Greenland
Julianehaab
Ikersuak
Fjord
Blizezard
Katherine
Janet
Lee
Gerald Ab
Talbot
Norman
Alley
Peter Redpath
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