Rowdy Political Affair Aims at Tokio County Weevil War
Dr J C Maness tours Sumter county urging aggressive cotton weevil control. He prescribes three calcium arsenate dusting applications aligned to crop growth stages, with a fourth if needed. Emphasizes thorough coverage, weekly checks, and gathering punctured squares to prevent eggs. He warns: failure to kill all hibernating weevils risks reduced yields and higher costs.
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Tokio
Maness
Dr. Maness
Disorder Probed At Imperial Hotel in Tokyo
Japanese authorities vow a thorough probe of a Saturday dance demonstration by political ruffians at the Imperial Hotel. Foreign Office says no official action will occur until investigation concludes, while agitation over the immigration law appeared to ease but may last two or three weeks.
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Tokio
Japan
Imperial Hotel
Japanese Foreign Office
Associated Press
Georgia Schools Lose Contribution Amid Education Row
Atlanta June 9 Funds previously allotted to Georgia by the General Education Board of New York have been withdrawn after a dispute between state superintendent N H Ballard and Walter Hill supervisor of Georgia negro rural schools. Ballard denies Hill was discharged, but says funds were pulled following his request for Hill’s resignation and ensuing controversy. Ballard notes the board remains the appellate body on education in the state.
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Atlanta
Georgia
General Education Board of
New York
N. H. Ballard
Walter B. Hill
Ballard
Hill
General Education Board
Mr. Hill
Dr. Ballard
George M. Napier
Walter FP. Hill
Negro Rural Schools
State Board of Education
Nother State
State Board
Weeklong South Atlantic forecast shows showers
Warlington June 9. The outlook for June 9 to 14 in the South Atlantic and East Gulf states calls for partly cloudy skies with occasional thunder showers and temperatures near normal.
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Warlington
South Atlantic
East Gulf States
Noraml
Another Funshi Staged by Japanese Protest
Tokyo report says a Japanese youth committed death by own action in Miyazaki Kyushu to protest the new American immigration law. A letter on the body claims the act was to protest U S attitude.
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Tokio
Nichi Nichi
Miyazaki
Kyushu
United States
McAdoo Wins Florida Democratic Preference Vote
William G. McAdoo leads in Florida with about 40,000 votes to Oscar Underwood's 20,167 in the presidential preference tally. Across the five-cornered race for governor, John W. Marin leads with 52,138 votes while Sidney J. Catts and Frank E. Jennings follow.
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Jacksonville
Wiliam G. McAdoo
California
Oscar W. Underwood
Alabama
McAdoo
John W. Marin
Sidney J. Catts
Frank E. Jennings
Worth W. Trammell
Charles H. Spencer
Insurgent Moves in Republicans Over Daugherty and Klansman Evans
In Cleveland on June 9 insurgent Republicans from Wisconsin call for condemning Harry M. Daugherty and Albert B. Fall. Imperial Wizard Evans arrives from Atlanta backing Senator Watson for vice president. Campaigns center on anti Klux plank while Lowden seeks the VP nomination amid convention turmoil.
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Cleveland
Wizard Evans
Ku Klux Klan
Atlanta
Watson
Indiana
Evans
James E. Watson
Wisconsin
Harry M. Daugherty
Albert B. Fall
Opy
Robert M. L. .Follette, Jr
Lowden
Imperial Wizard Evans
Miss Zenobia Godwin Dies After Brief Illness
Miss Zenobia Godwin 71 a lifelong Sumter County resident died at Americus and Sumter County Hospital after a brief gastritis illness. Funeral services were held at Rylander Methodist church with Rev C A Phillips officiating. She is survived by three sisters Mrs W H Holland Mrs Josephine Godwin and Mrs John Mohrman and many nieces and nephews. She lived with Mrs Andrews on West Church street before hospitalization.
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Zenobia Godwin
Americus and
Sumter County Hospital
Rylander Methodist Church
Americus
C. A. Phillips
Plains Lutheran Church
Sumter County
Methodist Church
Celia Ah
Tokio theater boycott of American films begins July 1
In Tokio, owners of motion picture theaters voted to halt buying renting or showing American films starting July 1 citing public demand. Several theaters showing American films were forced to close after ruffians invaded Saturday night.
Bust of Bucknell Students Triggers Williamsport Turmoil
Police called to control 200 plus youths alleged to be Bucknell students rampaged through Williamsport Pennsylvania. Cannon crackers and dynamite fired on Main Street, cars set ablaze, a woman’s dress burned off, flags trampled at a veterans cemetery, a soldier dead’s rock toppled, windows smashed, and a wagon with burning boxes dragged along. The burgess and water were also threatened. State police declined aid. local officers and college authorities remained unable to quell the disorder.
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Willamport
Bucknell University
Earl Miller
Lewisburg
Veterans” Memorial Cemetery
H. O. Miller
Six Die When Planks Collapse in Campagna Sewage Pit
In Rome on June 9 six children fell into a 40 foot deep sewage pit after the covering collapsed. Patrons from a nearby restaurant attempted rescue but were overcome by fumes. Firemen recovered the bodies and found two injured.
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Rome
Plains woman Lucy Forth dies suddenly at 64
Mrs Lucy Brantley Forth a Plains resident and(active) Plains Baptist church member died suddenly this morning after 9. She was born March 20 1860 in Meriwether county and married Frank Forth in 1881. Survived by five sons and two daughters including Herman Key West Florida Palmer Plains Carl San Francisco Frank Clearmont Stanley Homestead Marguerite and Jessie Belle Forth Funeral services held after word reached children.
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Herman Forth
Key West
Fila
Palmer Forth
Plains
Carl Forth
San Francisco
Calif
Frank Forth
Clearmont
Fla
Stanley Forth
Homestead
Jessie Belleorth
Marguerite Forth
Plains. A Sad Co Incidence Attending the Death of Mrs. Forth
Macon
Lightning bolt kills two convicts in Zebulon area
In Zebulon on June 9, Fred Johnson and Will Allen, Pike county convicts, were killed when lightning struck as eight other men sought shelter in a barn near Taylor Springs on the Zebulon Thomaston road. Two injured men were taken to area care, names not learned. Guards were with the workers.
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Zebulon
Fred Johnson
Will Allen
Pike County
Taylor Springs
Thomaston
Rich Gibson
Georgia Youth Faces Florida Jury For Mother's Murder
Frank McDowell stands trial in Clearwater on charges of murdering his parents in St. Petersburg last February, and he previously confessed to the killings of his two sisters in Decatur, Georgia. The jury selection began today as prospective jurors were impaneled.
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Clearwater
Fla
Frank McDowell
St. Petersburg
McDowell
Decatur
Summer school plans announced for Third Aggie school
John M. Prance announces July 3 start for a State Board of Education aided summer school at Third Aggie school. Tuition 16 for boarders, 4 for city residents, up to 2.50 for materials. Faculty includes Arithmetic Swain primary W Leftwich geography Hinson English Jago art Wheatley with lecturers such as G V Cate Sanford Brown Fort Rickner Faulkner Simpson Coventry Gallagher Stancil Crawford Cresswell Mathews Baldon Mettler Thompson Lane Parker Temple and supervisors Duggan Godard Martin Pound Smith.
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John M. Prance
Aggie
State Board of Education
Prince
Ballard
Sarah Cobb
W. Leftwitch
P. F. Brown
State Normal School
M. A. Fort
Rickner
Moving Pictures
Faulkner
M. . 1. Duggan
George D. Godard
J. C. Martin
E. A. Pound
I.S Smith
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J. C. Maness
Imperial Hotel Hop
Foreign Office
Georgies
Michael C.gilbridge
Lowell
Mass
John King, Jr
King
Inset
MADOO
Florida
Daugherty
Junior LaFollette
Imperial Wizard
P.W Leader
Alvin T. Hert
Linsville
Harriet Taylor Upton
Ohio
Republican National Committee
Upton
Congress
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American Pictures
Lightning Bolt
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