Roosevelt Leads In Early Democratic Delegate Counts
Illinois boosts Roosevelt with 216 pledged delegates while Lewis places second due to Illinois favorite son support. Hoover gains by convention votes, with South Carolina backing him. Illinois results show Horner leading for governor and Small ahead in GOP. Turn to page five.
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Charles W. Bryan
Senators to Hear Secretary Mills Again on Tax Proposals
Washington April 13 A Democratic charge that Secretary Mills avoids proposing new taxes prompts an invitation for a second appearance before the Senate finance committee. Mills will meet with the panel tomorrow to discuss budget balancing and respond to Senator Harrison's claim he won’t assume new tax duties. Chairman Smoot backs Mills noting two tax programs already submitted and pledges to cooperate.
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Smoot
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Smith Announces Decision To Fight Roosevelt Advance
A dramatic political clash unfolds as Alfred E. Smith publicly rejects Roosevelt’s path to the nomination. Smith calls for a longer, bolder convention and attacks demagogic appeals while urging a public works bond issue and tariff reform. The scene center on Jefferson Day amid Democratic tensions in Washington.
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Hitler disbands Nazi army as police seize headquarters
Berlin reports President Hindenburg signs an emergency decree dissolving all Nazi quasi military groups including storm troops and related staffs. Police invade Nazi offices nationwide, seizing war material and propaganda as dissolution penalties threaten members with imprisonment and fines.
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Adolf Hitler
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Paul von Hindenburg
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Aviation, Automobile and Sanitation Corp
Federal expense cut program lags in Hoover talks
Washington April 13 divided house economy committee wins to decide tomorrow whether to sponsor a federal salary cutting plan. Moe announces a vote on 11 percent salary reductions above 1000 to be attached to the 20 million legislative supply bill. Hoover favors delaying action to include staggered employment.
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Bailey Lumber buys Wytheville plant in Virginia
The Bailey Lumber company of Bluefield has purchased Gibson and Davis’s Wytheville plant in Virginia, bringing its total to five southern West Virginia and southwestern Virginia mills. W. F. Gibson Jr. will run the Wytheville operation, now under Bailey Lumber, with details of future operations still being finalized. The deal was closed yesterday and valued as a substantial sum.
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Wytheville
West Virginia
Virginia
C. S. Cheyney
Bluefield
W. F. Gibson Jr
Matoaka
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Main Street
Spring Street
Cheyney
Two Renrico Residents Charged in Burn Attempt
Richmond Virginia police arrested Warren Wade age 18 and Earl Adolph Wade age 27, relatives of seven year old William Earl Sheets, on charges of attempting to burn him alive. Sheets was hospitalized April 3 with burns to legs arms and face. Police had conducted a secret inquiry prior to the arrests.
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William Earl Sheets
Warren Wade
Earl Adolph Wade
Pittsburgh police hunt The Black Paw gang after kidnap attempt
Pittsburgh police search water fronts and other hideouts for a gang calling itself The Black Paw suspected in an attempted kidnapping of the roadhouse keeper’s young daughter. A woman and two men tied and gagged the child, then fled. a note warning of death was left. The child remains under guard as Clarence Langdon reports pressure to sell his business.
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Italy Supports U S Disarmament Plan
Geneva reports Italy backs the American disarmament scheme led by Foreign Minister Dino Grandi. He proposed abolishing battleships air carriers and bombing planes while urging gradual destruction to lower costs and strengthen national self defense. Turkey and Brazil supported the American plan with his stance.
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United States
Andre Tardieu
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Poland
Yugoslavia
Spain
Uruguay
Persia
Organization of Peace
Naotake Sato
Signor Grandi
Aylesworth Named President of Radio-Keith-Orpheum
Merlin H. Aylesworth was elected president of the Radio-Keith-Orpheum corporation at a board meeting after the stockholders annual meeting. He will continue as president of the National Broadcasting Company.
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New York
Merlin H. Aylesworth
Radio-Keith-Orpheum Corporation
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National Broadcasting Company
Smith Breaks With Roosevelt at Jefferson Day Rally
Alfred E. Smith openly voiced his break with Franklin D Roosevelt at the Democrats Jefferson Day rally. Former Governor Byrd of Virginia proposed submitting prohibition to a referendum. Senate passed interwar department appropriation bill cut to 45 million. Federal reserve instructions urged broader credit and government security purchases. Hoover outlined saving plan to trim employment costs by 96 million. Mills to testify again on taxes after Democratic charge. Foreign relations panel defeated plan to seek world court interpretation. Women's prohibition reform group urged congressmen and possible presidential candidates about state convention repeal votes.
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Senate Finance Committee
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Women's Organization For National Prohibition
Federal Reserve Urges Wider Use Of Credit Power
Washington reports the Federal Reserve System backs expanded credit facilities under new legislation. It will boost government security purchases and lower bankers acceptance yields to widen market liquidity. Governor Harrison said the program was decided after a Reserve Board meeting, signaling renewed anti deflation aims.
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New York
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Arkansas House Defies Governor to Halt Session
In Little Rock on April 13 the Arkansas House, with over two thirds of members, refused to recognize Governor Parnell’s order dissolving the special session and moved to enact economy measures. The body declared Irving C. Neale removed as speaker and elected Dick Mason, while storms over the speaker’s chair led to the arrest of former chief clerk W H Phipps. Members accused the governor of adjourning to shield allies and tax money.
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Dr Condon Traces Leads in Lindbergh Kidnapping Case
Dr John F Condon 72 known as Jassie continues public quest for the Lindbergh baby while police chase a ransom bill. A New York housewife reports a $20 note matching treasury numbers. Norfolk Va intermediaries visit Col Lindbergh. Royal Canadian Mounted Police asked to aid in tracking Harry Fleischer.
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John F. Condon
New York
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St Thomas
Ontario
Lindberghs
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Harry Fleischer
Detroit
Beanl
Halifax
New Jersey
Optimistic Norfolk Dean Reports Progress in Lindbergh Kidnap Case
Very Rev. H Dobson Peacock said progress may be made in recovering the Lindbergh baby. He cited a communication from John Hughes Curtis who visited Charles A Lindbergh. missing Norfolk negotiator Rear-Admiral Guy H Burrage’s whereabouts were not disclosed.
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H. Dobson-Peacock
Lindbergh
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John Hughes Curtis
Curtis
Charles A. Lindbergh
Guy H. Burrage
Dean Dobson-Peacock
Miners March at Somers Coal Mine. Demonstration Ends Quietly
Striking workers moved on the Somers mine near Adena Ohio with about one thousand men. twenty automobile loads of miners passed through the line escorted by Sheriff Maurice Wooster. The mine operated normally. no violence occurred as union members sought a conference with manager W. F. Hazen, which was refused.
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Somers
Adena
Maurice Wooster
W. F. Hazen
Princeton Girl Among Five Injured in Highway Crisis
Five youths from Commonwealth College in Arkansas plan legal action after ejection near the Kentucky border. They conferred with attorney W. J. Stone of Pineville and discussed alleged harassment following a relief-distribution mission for Kentucky unemployed miners. Lucien B. Koch led the group and said they would return to Arkansas via Knoxville after meeting in Cumberland.
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W. J. Stone
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Harlan County
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Arkansa
Knoxville
Eight Die In Hensheytown Fire Near Altoona
Eight people perished in a blaze at Hensheytown near Altoona eight miles east of the city. Seven were children of Mr and Mrs Michael Dillon and Mrs Goldie Hollowbaugh Kruber and her infant also died. The fire started from an overheated stove and spread to adjoining property as Tyrone and Altoona fire crews battled the flames.
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Stull Loses High Court Plea Over Boy's Boiling Death
The West Virginia Supreme Court denied Minnie Stull of Princeton a new trial on her life sentence for the murder of her eight year old stepson Mickey Stull who died after being scalded in a tub of boiling water. The case originated in Greenbrier county with trials in Mercer and Greenbrier counties and involved disputed accounts of how the accident occurred.
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Princeton
Mickey Stull
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Summers H. Sharp
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Mercer County
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Bluefield
Virginian Engineer Fatally Injured Near Mullens
Joseph Weaver, 55, engineer for the Virginian railroad, was fatally injured at Alpeca near Mullens when a bridge girder knocked him from his electric locomotive. He had cut power to drift the engine, then stepped onto a ladder and was washed into the creek after failing to notice the approach of the bridge.
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Collision near Mercer County seat kills student in two-car crash
A heavy sedan plowed into a lighter car on the Princeton Athens road injuring three occupants and killing Miss Josephine Hadden 18 a Concord College student and Princeton merchant daughter. Miss Nell Elliott 18 injured seriously others treated at Memorial hospital. Spangler and Lowery two Princeton men also seriously hurt.
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Concord Teachers College
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Concord
Concord College
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John W. Lowery
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Lowery
Versal Lambert
Roy Lambert
Ada Elliott
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Princeton Hospital
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Jenkin Harrington
Mercer County
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Harry Hadden
Pittsburgh
Earl Hadden
Mildred Hadden
Charleston
W. Va
Mrs Fortescue Weeps In Court In Kahahawai Case
In Honolulu on April 13 Mrs Granville Fortescue cried as prosecutors tied her Carter to the Joseph Kahahawai lynching case. Evidence cited a shot near her home at the time of the killing and suggested Mrs Thalie Massie may have been an accessory. Sir Thomas Massie and two enlisted men are charged alongside them.
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Joseph Kahahawai
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