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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1931
Page
3
The ad claims Lucky Strike cigarettes remove harsh irritants from raw tobacco via an exclusive toasting process. It states this makes Luckies less irritating to the throat and advises careful cigarette choice.
Four Georgians died from the heat or heat related causes in two days. Homer R. Thompson, 39, collapsed from a heat induced heart attack while waiting in police court. Three others drowned seeking relief from the heat: Mrs J J Black Jr of Marietta, John G Jones of Elberton, and 10 year old C M Hart Jr in the Satilla River near Waycross.
The International Cotton Congress debates U S held stocks of 3,000,000 bales controlled by the cotton stabilization corporation and Cotton Cooperative Associations. Delegates appeal to the federal farm board to announce a definite daily selling program without large market impact and without fixed prices. A sub committee on new uses for cotton is named, with members from Britain France Germany Italy and Switzerland.
In Atlanta on June 25 R. B. Harwell 34 was fatally shot at Fraser Street and Georgia Avenue as four assailants fired on an automobile driven by Patrolman H J Waters. Waters had earlier killed M C Pitts after a disturbance near the same corner. Around midnight another car approached and three occupants opened fire wounding Hartwell in the back and prompting Waters to pursue.
Five Americans were elected today to the directorate of Rotary International. They are F A Shaffer from Grove Arizona. Robert Heap of Richmond Indiana. Dr Joseph W Jackson of Madison Wisconsin. Colonel Abit Nix of Athens Georgia. and Walter Wapthall of San Antonio Texas.
Georgia's total government outlay for the coming year is 29,760,492.19 dollars, exceeding anticipated revenue by 1,974,691.96. Governor Hardman received Comptroller General William B. Harrison's report, alongside state schools superintendent M. L. Duggan's on unpaid school appropriations totaling 3,740,148.39 for 1928 to 1930.
Negotiations among the Bank of England the Bank of France the Federal Reserve and the Bank for International Settlements consider a short term 100 million loan to the Reichsbank to cover month end losses as capital flight reverses but gold coverage remains fragile at 40.4 percent well below earlier levels with hopes of returning to higher coverage via the Hoover plan.
Andrew W. Mellon the American secretary of the treasury will lunch with Premier Laval at the ministry of the interior in Paris tomorrow. The premier's secretary said the luncheon is not official and no formal announcement will be issued.
The local weather report notes high atmospheric pressure over the eastern third of the U S and low pressure over the northern Rockies. Precipitation in the last 24 hours was light and scattered with showers in Texas and along the lower Atlantic coast. Temperatures remain high in the Gulf states and Mississippi Valley with cooler readings in New England and the far northwest.
Madrid June 25 The stormy career of Major Ramon Franco Spain’s only trans Atlantic flier and candidate for the national assembly was halted when the platform at Toro Del Rio theatre buckled. He suffered a fractured right leg and body lacerations while a mass of planks buried him. His ally Senor Rada and an army captain had minor injuries. The accident came just after a government order to stop distributing campaign leaflets and amid Franco’s sharp attacks on the government.
Miss Ellen Edstrom, 17, reported kidnapped from Uncle Charles Johnson in Bournedale, Mass. During the assault a man allegedly threw a blanket over her head and tried to strangle her. She escaped to neighbor Louis Norris’s home. Johnson was bound and gagged by several men who entered at about 2 a.m. The incident prompted police investigation.
Miss Ina D. Russell a Washington lawyer visits Atlanta to have her father Chief Justice Richard B. Russell administer the oath of the Governor's office to her brother Richard B. Russell Jr. Miss Russell arrived with friend Miss Lelia Brown. The inauguration is set for Saturday.
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