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...fact there were some indications that although the strike seemed to be gaining momentum in New England, it had passed its peak in the South. Protected by guardsmen and deputies, some mills in the Carolinas which had been forced to close by flying squadrons of strikers, began to reopen, their workers to return to work when promised protection...
...doctors complained that they had run out of gasoline while making calls. Last week panic-stricken motorists rushed to filling stations with cans and jugs for extra supplies as the independents threatened to stop pumping too. Promptly at midnight 689 independents shut down, did not reopen...
...Guardian Trust Co. Ferdinand Pecora's staff blamed: 1) mismanagement; 2) a lax-Ohio Banking Department; 3) evasions of the spirit of the law. The investigators declared that Guardian Trust was "hopelessly insolvent" a year before it was closed by the banking moratorium, never to reopen, that it "has never published a statement of condition which has shown the true facts." Last month Joseph R. Nutt, onetime National Republican treasurer and Union Trust's onetime chairman, was indicted along with the bank's president and Oris Paxton Van Sweringen for an allegedly fraudulent deal to tone...
Next day the public schools opened as usual, laid plans to run extra shifts for the parochial pupils. Threatened with tar & feathers, Prophet Voliva declared himself a two-gun man ready to kill at the drop of a hat. Then he announced that he would reopen all but the lower grades of his parochial school, require every pupil to take an oath of allegiance to him. Satan and his imps would try to destroy the world sometime in September, he said, and he needed an organization "like Hitler's" to combat them...
...Nutt-Van Sweringen transactions were first discovered last year after Union Trust Co., which failed to reopen after the bank holiday, was taken over by liquidators. The State Senate had spent most of the summer raking over the muck left by Union's failure and the failure of another large Cleveland bank, Guardian Trust Co. But Cleveland businessmen raised their eyebrows skeptically over the rash of bank indictments that followed, including one against Guardian Trust's homely, church-loving President James Arthur House. They were ready to listen ast week to the explanations of Messrs. Mutt...