Smoky Mountain booklet planned for scenic highway route
Grady Hunt, former publisher from Asheville, will produce a promotional booklet titled The Crest of the Blue Ridge Highway. Chambers of commerce along highways NC 10 and 28 from Virginia to Tennessee back the project as a step toward federal designation. The plan links Shenandoah to Great Smoky Mountains National Park, highlighting Blowing Rock, Mount Mitchell, Chimney Rock, and Sapphire Country to lure motor tourists. Hunt will visit each community to gain chamber and business support.
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Blue Ridge
N. C
Virginia
Tennessee
Grady Hunt
Asheville
Hendersonville
Chimney Rock
Blowing Rock
Lenoir Chambers of Commerce
Od Fort
Virginia Line
N. C. 28
R. L. Gwyn
Chambers of Commerce
Lenoir Chamber of Commerce
Shenandoah National Park
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Great Smokies
Mount Mitchell
Sapphire Country
The
Smoky Mountains National Park
Hunt
AFL Leader Predicts 13 Million Jobless This Winter
Washington reports William Green president of the American Federation of Labor warns that unemployment could top 13 million next winter if trends continue. He notes 1.2 million lost work from January to May 1932 with May jobless near 10.8 million and June figures rising. He cites city layoffs in Detroit Cleveland New York Philadelphia and urges federal action to create work opportunities.
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Washington, D. C
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Detroit
Cleveland
New York
Paterson
Chicago
Buffalo
Pittsburgh
Philadelphia
Denver
St. Louis
San Antonio
Green
Premier Mussolini Attacks U S Democracy and Prophesies War
London reports Premier Mussolini in a Daily Express interview criticizes the United States and democracy. He says America must choose wet policy, warns Europe faces disaster, and claims saviors are absent. The piece notes the pay-as-you-go plan and cucumber shipments by Craven farmers and Irish potato shipments by local growers.
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London
Mussolini
Daily Express
United States
Democracy
America
Il Duce
Prohibition
Lindbergh
Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr
Europe
Craven
The Cav a barge tragedy and a boy toward a harsh city
The early morning mist over the Hudson frames Johnny Breen on the Cavalier barge. A collision sinks the craft. Johnny survives and crawls ashore into a ghetto street where a hostile crowd and a police warning press in.
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Hudson
Havan
Cavalier
John Breen
Mother Breen
Breen
Johnny Breen
Captain Breen
Harriet Breen
Harriet
Mrs. Breen
Pable Barge
John
Johnny
East River
Fulton Ferry
Peruna
Haverstraw
McGartney Brothers Brick Company
Brooklyn Bridge
Manhattan
Brooklyn
Dolly
de Grogan Geng
Grogan Gang
Cut Out the Weeds In Lespedeza Fields
State College extension agronomist Enos C. Blair urges farmers to clip weeds in lespedeza fields as soon as plants reach four inches to protect hay quality and seed cleanliness. Clipping is best done about early July to maintain top growth and minimize weed seed mix.
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North Carolina Crop Improvement Association
Enos C. Blair
Extension Agronomist
State College
Blair
The Escape Into Darkness in a City Alley
A man named John ny dodges a dangerous crowd and leaps into an open basement doorway seeking safety. He hides in a dark damp hole as trains rumble overhead and a trap door locks him in, ending with the scene paused for next week.
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Johnny
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Italy
Wm. A. Barkley
Alfred E. Smith
William G. McAdoo
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Jouett Shouse
Kansas
Nat'l Command
Thomas A. Walsh
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Roosevelt
Arthur Mullen
Neb
John E. Mack
N. Y
James E. Farley
By Felix Riesenberg
Grogans
Lespedeza
Goodyear Speedway
el Goodyear
Becai
Goodyear
Central Tire Company
A. E. Hodges
Boone, North Carolina
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