Roosevelt Aims for Health Renewal at Warm Springs
Franklin D. Roosevelt, former Navy secretary and 1920 Democratic vice presidential candidate, plans to return to Warm Springs, Georgia around October 10 to seek renewed health. He first sought the springs after his 1921 infantile paralysis attack and returned last year, noted for his prior athletic vigor at Harvard and Columbia University.
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Warm Springs
Wranklin D. Roosevelt
Pine Mountain
Roosevelt
Harvard
Columbia Universities
Atlanta Votes Down Theater Censorship
Atlanta voters reject an ordinance to censor vaudeville and theater acts by 24 to 7 in city council defeat. Proponents included Councilmen Horace Russell and John A. White while opponents were Alderman Jesse Armstrong and Councilmen T. L. Blappey and A. J. Orme.
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Atlanta
Paas
Horace Russe
John A. White
Jesse Armstrong
T. L. Blappey
A. J. Orme
New Rotation Ship Improves Speed Over Flettner
Engineer Frana Struzina builds a two tower vessel using adjustable air funnels to harness wind from any compass direction. During trial, the ship achieved much higher speed than the Flettner design.
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Muehlheim
Flettner
Frana Struzina
Federal government steps into Marco island land dispute
Marco Florida October 7 federal interior department officials arrived to survey lost land amid a long running dispute between Baron G Collier of New York and local homesteaders. Officials plan a new survey to determine true island lines citing an 1879 map and Williams claims of government ownership. Sheriff W R Maynard has arrested several homesteaders on trespassing charges.
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United States Department of Interior
G. Collier
New York
W. G. Williams
Marco
antiCollier
Interior Department
Williams
Collier
W. R. Maynard
Former Anti Soviet Leader Seeks Japanese Citizenship
Nagasaki Sept 16 By Mall Ex Ottoman Semenoff former Russian White leader who fled the Soviet Union and now resides in Nagasaki has reportedly applied for Japanese naturalization. The Home Office is expected to waive the seven year residence rule for the Russian refugee. Semenoff plans a campaign to improve economic ties between Japan and Mongolia.
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Nagasaki
Mall
Attoman Semenoff
Home Office
Gen. Semenoff
Japan
Mongolia
Griner to Seek New Trial in Manslaughter Conviction
Deputy Sheriff George Griner, found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in Berrien County, seeks a new trial. He was sentenced to one year in the state penitentiary for the shooting of John Hiers after Griner went to serve a peace warrant at Hiers' home near Nashville, with defense arguing self defense and the state contending Hiers was unarmed. Witnesses testified about Hiers' reputation, and Griner reportedly locked himself in the jail and handed keys to a sheriff family member.
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Moultrie
George Griner
Berrien County Superior Court
Nashville
Griner
State Penitentiary
John Hiers
Berlin
Hiers
Macon Gets Right to Try Officials
The Supreme Court dismissed as moot the appeal of John L. Anderson against Macon Georgia city officials. He sought to stop the mayor and council from trying him on charges affecting his fitness to serve on the water commission and Baconfield park commission after being accused of larceny from a machinist lodge.
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Washington, D. C
Supreme Court
John L. Anderson
Macon
Anderson
Board of Water Commissioners
Baconfield Park
State Supreme Court
Hagood Takes Command of Fourth Corps Area
Major General Johnson Hagood reports for duty as the new commander of the Fourth Corps Army Area at Atlanta headquarters. A South Carolina native and West Point graduate of 1896, Hagood served in World War I with the Coast Artillery and the American Expeditionary Forces, later earning the Distinguished Service Medal and foreign decorations. He rose to major general in 1925 after a long career in the Coast Artillery and Army, including leadership in Germany and at Camp Meade.
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Fourth Corps
Coast Artillery
Pershing
National Army
Germany
Army of Occupation
Army, Artillery
66Th Field Artillery
United States
30Th Brigade
Coast Artillery Corps
Camp Fustis
Second Coast Artillery District
Fort Totten
N. Y
Samuel D. Sturgie
Legion of Honor
France
Italy
Georgia Hero Seen In Submarine Rescue Parallels
Atlanta observers recall the sinking of the S-51 near Block Island and compare it to the U-5 disaster off Panama in 1928. Lieutenant Commander R H English and crew salvaged operations praised for skill as divers and cranes prepared to lift trapped sailors.
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Panama
Henry Berault
R. H. English
Georgia Tech
Warrenton, Ga
English
Panama Canal
Colon
Berault
Lawrence Brown
Hog production decreases in the South
Atlanta officials from the Georgia Department of Agriculture report a Southern drop in hog production. They warn producers that despite higher market prices, farming must supply food and feed on the farm to avoid losses from importing meat and feed.
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Atlanta
South
Georgia Department of Agriculture
Ann
Agricultural Department
Railroad Schedules at Thomasville Stations
Passenger train arrivals and departures for A C L and A B A railways listed for Thomasville with times in Eastern and Central standards. Schedule notes state times are information only and not guaranteed and explain time zone differences.
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Thomasville
Georgia
Polish Police Study Foreign Languages
Warsaw reports Polish policemen are being taught foreign languages. Those proficient in non native tongues wear on their arm the initial letter of the language they speak.
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Warsaw
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