Ford Takes Lead In Volume Of New Car Deliveries Since June
Since new Ford V 8 deliveries began in June Ford has led national motor car sales in June July and August according to J L Turner Jr local Ford dealer reports covering 34 states Ford held the largest shares in passenger cars commercial vehicles and trucks Ford led in major cities during the first 10 days of September in Georgia Ford accounted for 43 percent of state new passenger car sales and Ford sold 1807 of 4200 cars in June July and August statewide.
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Ford
3. L.turner, Jr
Thomasville Sales Co
J. L. Turner, Jr
United States
Ford Commercial
Ford Trucks
Georgia
Turner
Court of Appeals affirms Bibb Superior Court ruling
The Court of Appeals upholds the Bibb Superior Court decision denying Mamie Martin’s suit for 500 dollars against Georgian Power Company. The case began after Macon Municipal Court dismissed it on demurrer. Martin claimed the street car stop was unsafe and she was struck by a passing car.
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Atlanta
Court of Appeals
Bible Superior Court
Mamie Martin
Georgian Power Company
Two Regulars Return to Y. P. 1 Squad Today
Blacksburg Virginia Polytechnic announces two regulars return to Y. P. 1 squad today as football practice resumes after a pause. The team seeks to sharpen offense and defense ahead of upcoming schedule.
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Blacksburg, Va
Virginia Poly
Clark Howell to join railroad commission study task
Clark Howell editor of the Atlanta Constitution agrees to accept a place on a nonpartisan railroad commission to study the rail situation affecting the nation. He outlines the commission's goal to assess bedrock factors, propose practical relief, and restore value to railroad securities amid a widening national crisis.
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Atlanta
Clark Howell
Atlanta Contitution
Student of Transportation Problems
Railroad Commission
Calvin Soolidys
Howell
Bowell
Commission
Wall
Avtosuil
Technic Institute Football Faces Georgia With Limited Linemen
Technic Institute prepared for a game at Athens Georgia with two guards Gene Hite and Johnny Murphy back from injuries. Captain Bill Grims and Bill Betts remained hurt and unlikely to play though expected to travel.
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Technic Institute
Georgia
Athens
Gene Hite
Johnny Murphy
Bill Grims
Bill Betts
Local residents and visitors listed in town notes
Dr H A Wall of Ochlocknee is temporarily in Townsend Georgia. Shumate and Mason travel to Miami for several months. Edith Copeland recovering after appendix operation at John D Archbold Memorial Hospital. Claude Rountree’s condition improved and he left hospital. J S Hancock of Cleveland visits for a day. H B Royal of Jacksonville among brief visitors. J E Hester of New York spent part of the week on business. F H Grooms of Waycross a business visitor. E M Fuller of Gainesville and M E McRae of Meigs in town for business. Margaret McDougald of Liberty Missouri staying with grandmother Mrs Arthur Patten. Nell Duff recovering from illness. Warren Williams of Birmingham and Dennis Williams of Music Shoals Alabama return from visit to sister Mrs Thomas Yarbrough on Summer Hill road.
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Warren Williams
Birmingham
Dennis Williams
Music Shoals
Ala
Thomas Yarbrough
Summer Hill Road
Notable visitors arrive in Thomasville from Brunswick and Dublin
Mr Otto Vogel of Brunswick visits Thomasville briefly. Messrs J H Whitaker and Harry L Taylor of Dublin are guests here for a short stay. Mr and Mrs Shepherd of Chicago spend the day in Thomasville with Mr and Mrs Fraser Driver. Mrs Shepherd is formerly Miss Violet Harris of Ocala and a frequent Thomasville visitor.
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Otto Vogel
Brunswick
Thomasville
Messrs
J. H. Whitaker
Harry L. Taylor
Dublin
Shepherd
Chicago
Fraser Driver
Davis Opposed Prize Schemes at Moose Charity Balls
Former Baltimore mayor William F. Broening testified at Senator James J. Davis trial that Davis refused to back prize schemes tied to Moose charity balls in 1930 and 1931. Broening recalled Davis saying he could not be a party to any plan to raise money with prizes, at a Cardiff Wales conference. The government argues prize drawings in Moose charity events were illegal lotteries and Davis knew of and approved them.
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Morris
Watson New York
William F. Broening
Baltimore
James J. Davis
Brokening
The
Loyal Order of Moose
Davis
Moose
Broening
Charles H. Tuttle
Defense Counsel
Cardiff
Wales
Jim Davis
Dnieprostroy Dam Dedication Signals Soviet Industry Rise
The Dnieprostroy hydro electric plant, 140 feet high, will become the world’s largest dam and power source as Soviet industry accelerates. It will supply about 2.52 billion kilowatt hours annually, with nine turbines totaling 756000 horsepower. Colonel Hugh L. Cooper led the American effort alongside Soviet officials and was honored with the Order of the Red Star.
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Associated Press
Soviet Russia
Dnieprostroy
Russia
Soviet Union
Volgastroy
America
Niagara Falls
Muscle Shoals
Order of the Red Star
Dnieper River
Black Sea
Dnieper
Ukraine
Hugh L. Cooper
Mooney Case Shift as New Confession Emerges in 1916 Bombing
Portland reporter notes Paul Callicotte, a 32 year old Oregon climber, held without bond after claiming he unknowingly placed the dynamite suitcase that exploded at San Francisco's 1916 Preparedness Day parade. He says he was paid $5 and raced the device across the bay. The Mooney Bills team remains imprisoned in California.
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Portland
Ore
Paul M. Callicotte
San Francisco
Tom Mooney
Warren K. Billings
California
Callicotte
Industrial Workers of the World Hall
Oakland
San Francisco Bay
Stewart and
Mooney Defense League
Mooney
Woman Falls From 15th Floor Window in Park Avenue Hotel
New York police say Ruth Irwin wife of a S. W. Straus and Company official died after falling or jumping from a 15th floor window of the Ambassador Hotel on Park Avenue. The circumstances were unclear and under investigation.
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New York
Ruth Irwin
S. W. Straus and Company
Ambassador
Park Avenue
Gasoline Prices Cut One Cent in Atlanta
Gasoline prices were reduced by one cent per gallon in Atlanta today with most large companies adopting the new rate. First grade gasoline dropped to 21 cents per gallon in the market.
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Atlanta
Weather Bureau Faces Difficult Tracing of Path
(Continued From Page One) amid a strike atmosphere farmers faced injunctions against blocking highways. Despite the order, several hundred gallons of milk were dumped and halted on the road as protests continued.
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Weather Bureau
Prothcts
Rochester Milk Producers Association Forming
Rochester dairy farmers from four counties gathered at West Henrietta to outline plans for a permanent Rochester Milk Producers Association. With milk surplus and strike chances fading, the group aims to organize as the new dairy cooperative.
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Rochester Dairymen
Rochester
N. Y
Rochester Milk Producers’ Association
Producers’ Association
West Henrietta
H. Hampton Halsey
Aiken Woman Candidate for Senate
Columbia reports Miss Clara Harrigal of Aiken a hotel operator announced her bid on the Republican ticket to oppose Senator E D Smith in South Carolina’s first woman Senate campaign. The Republican state committee made the selection public.
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Columbia
S. C
Congress
South Carolina
Clara Harrigal
Aiken
Senate
Harrigal
E. D. Smith
Republican State Committee
Former Senator Williams of Mississippi Dies at 78
Former Senator John Sharp Williams, known as the gentleman from Mississippi, died at his Cedar Grove plantation home near Yazoo City at age 78. A celebrated orator and veteran of the House and Senate, he retired from public life in 1923 after a long career. Funeral services are set for tomorrow at 10 a.m. on the Cedar Grove grounds with interment in the family burying ground.
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Yazoo City
Miss
John Sharp Williams
Mississippi
Congress
Here
Sharp Williams
Heidelberg
South
Woodrow Wilson
Senate
League of Nations
Wilson
United States Senate
Conegress
Williams
Memphis
Shiloh
Tennessee
Kentucky Military Institute
University of the South
Sewanee, Tenn
University of Virginia
Germany
Dial Webb
House of Representatives
House
Joe” Cannon
James i. Vardaman
Vardaman
Pat Harrison
Senator Williams
McCumber
Cedar Grove Plantation
Negro masquerade case ties to estate handwriting tests
Georgia case centers on a young Macon barber Carter claiming to pass as German and Russian handwriting samples. Ivan Skura says he will present Loh estate handwriting to compare with a 1899 letter. Rosetta Perdue seeks to prove kinship for a $10,000 bequest and a larger estate portion, while Sarah Elliott, Loh's longtime secretary, must provide handwriting specimens.
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Rosetta Perdue
Lol
Mary Carter
Daisy, Carter
Macon
Sarah Elliott
Loh
The Vegetable by A F Wilkinson on fall garden
A. F. Wilkinson of Millpond Plantation presents a detailed guide on a fall vegetable garden. He emphasizes growing and cooking vegetables properly, soil preparation, crop rotation, soil-building cover crops, and planting dates for a small plot to yield a variety of staples through winter and into spring. He covers seed selection, seed sowing, and transplanting with home grown plants for stronger establishment.
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Garden Club
A. F. Wilkinson
Millpond Plantation
City Council Minutes Record Milk Bottle Ordinance in Thomasville
Official minutes from September 26 1932 show Mayor Hay presiding with Aldermen Powell Williams Steyerman Jay McGrew Dobbins Scott. The third reading and adoption of an ordinance prohibiting sale and purchase of milk and soft drink bottles outside licensed dealers, plus related penalties, and other routine actions including finance loan, street light requests, and marshals report.
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Hay
Powell
Williams
Steyerman
Jay
McGrew
Dobbins
Scott
Thomasville
City OF Thomasville
City of
Farmers To Pay Twenty Five Percent Of Loans
Washington reports a White House plan allowing farmers with crop production loans to repay 25 percent of what they owe now and seek the remaining 75 percent on terms Congress may authorize. The move aims to ease winter risk amid low farm prices as Hyde seeks congressional action.
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Washington
Upit
White House
Congress
Hyde
Agriculture Department
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Student of ‘Transportation Problems
Coolidge
Atleas
Coolidge Commission
Bolt
H. A. Wall
Ochlocknee
Townsend, Ga
Di-R. Shumate
Mason
Shumate
Miami
Edith Copeland
John D. Archbold Memorial Hospital
Claude Rountree
Cleveland
Jacksonville
J. E. Hester
F. H. Grooms of
Waycross
E.M. Fuller
Gainesville
M. E. McRae
Meigs
Margaret McDougald
Liberty
Missouri
Arthur Patten
Nell Duff
J Li Walker
N. Hansell
Oregon
Mountaineer
Old School
Venters
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
Thomas County
Albany
Savannah
Joe Goldberg
Park Ave
Grant
Blackshear
Golden Bros. Co
Water and Light Committee
Marshal
S. P. Doss
A. A. Jordan
Meyer Lewitt
Ed Holmes
Wofford Oil Co
H. B. Fuller
Council
D. Roy’ Hay
Pittman
Fifas
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