House Loses Members by Vote Verdict
A Washington dispatch reports that the House sheds five members more than the Senate as primaries prune incumbents. Defeated are Willis Sears, Grant Hudon, W W Chalmers, John Franklin Miller, and John C Box with others likely to retire. Miller and Hudson, both drys, lose to wets amid liquor issue tensions. James O Connor will contest his defeat in New Orleans.
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Associated Press
Washington
Senate
House
Louis C. Cramton
Michigan
Georgia
Thomas H. Bell
James O'Conner
New Orleans
Willis J. Sears
Nebraska
W. W. Chalmers
Ohio
Grant M. Hudson
John Franklin Miller
John C. Box
Texas
Joseph Whitehead
Virginia
J. Zach Spearing
Louisiana
Miller
Hudson
Michigan Anti-Saloon League
Chalmers
Wilbur M. White
Negro Hangs for Shamrock Woman Slaying in Texas
Huntsville reports Jesse Lee Washington, a young Black man, executed in the state penitentiary for the July murder of a white woman near Shamrock. Luz Arcos, a Mexican, granted a one week stay by Gov. Moody after intervention by Father Finnegan. Washington delivered a defiant final speech claiming innocence and seeking forgiveness as he died at 12:13 a.m. J. P. McClintock, Seaboard Life Insurance official, returned from Waldmer Camp after a two week convention.
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Associated Press
Huntsville
State Penitentiary
Dan Moody
Jesse Lee Washington
Luz G. Arcos
Hugh Finnegan
Arcos
Washington
Henry Vaughn
Shamrock
J. P. McClintock
The
Seaboard Life Insurance Company
Waldmer Camp
Gov Dillon to Lead N M Delegation at Tri-State Fair
Gov Dick Dillon of New Mexico will head a state delegation to the Tri-State Exposition. Wilbur C. Hawk, president of the fair association, learned the plan during a long distance call with Portales official Don Howard who will oversee New Mexico exhibits. Portales schools will close for Por
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Dick Dillon
New Mexico
Wilbur C. Hawk
The
Fair Association
Don Howard
Portales
Portales High School to Lead Parade at County Fair
The fair will host a large number of Portales High School students and other New Mexico residents with many cities represented. Howard asserts New Mexico will display its finest agricultural exhibit in a 48 foot booth in the agricultural building. A unrelated Birmingham police report notes a thief case involving a suspect found wearing two new yellow left shoes.
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Portales High School
New Mexico
Howard
United Press
Birmingham
Ala
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N.C
Simon Newell
Meridian
Exeul Store
Energine
Adlerika
Coty
Paris
Petro
Lugar
Phillips Milk
Lydia E. Pinkham
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Absorbine Jr
Liniment
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Neet
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Carolina San Jacinto
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