Women in Thick of Chicago Battle
Louisiana women entered national political fray in Louisiana this week as factions over Huey Long clash. Candidates for committeewoman include Gladys Breazeale, Emile Bienvenu, and Genevieve Clark Thompson. Dorothy Dix declined. Mrs. Edward Pilsbury led anti-Long efforts while Stella Hamlin supported representation. hearings continued with a full committee to follow.
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Chicago
Huey Long
Long
Breazeale
Emile Bienvenu
New Orleans
Dorothy Dix
Edward Pilsbury
Pilsbury
Louisiana
Woman's Choctaw Democratic Organization
Champ Clark
Genevieve Clark Thompson
Stella Hamlin
Party platform framers gather to draft 1920s plank list
Senate quotes Nebraska's Hitchcock urging nonpartisan view on prohibition as issue while focusing on economic crisis. He supports tariff reduction toward Underwood 1913 levels. Open hearings begin as a tentative slate of committee members from Kentucky to Virginia is named for the platform drafting panel.
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Senate
Nebraska
Hitchcock
Kentucky
Urey Woodson
Maryland
E. Brooke Lee
New York
John Dooling
Ohio
Senator Bulkley
Tennessee
Hull
West Virginia
Senator Neely
Virginia
Glass
Rail Executives Plan New Finance System
Cleveland June 23 Rail way Labor Executives association backs a plan for a reconstruction style corp to finance the common man. They seek emergency loans up to 500 dollars to unemployed household heads via a federal agency akin to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. The plan aims to lift millions from unemployment, spur demand, and avoid the failures of bank and railroad financing under the RFC.
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Cleveland
Railway Labor Executives Association
Congress
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Association
Reconstruction Corporation
Four men plead not guilty to murder in Murray death
Ironton Ohio June 23 four men Massie Napier Johnson and Elkins pleaded not guilty to first degree murder charges in the death of Luke Murray 24 Atlanta Ga whose body was found in the Ohio river after being taken from the South Point jail They admit taking the man from the jail boat but say he fell from a rowboat during transport toward the West Virginia shore Three others are held pending further action.
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Ironton
Ohio
Luke Murray
Atlanta
Ohio River
South Point
Lawrence L. Massie
Taylor Napier
Theodore Johnson
Clyde Elkins
West Virginia
Tammany Tepee Chief Enthroned in Wigwam Rallying Hall
The Wigwam of Tammany Hall shows a tropical throne room with tiger emblems and carved brass tigers. Curry controls access to the chief for job leads and favors as maps of Manhattan districts hang on the wall. He is 58, Irish born, in New York since infancy, and led Tammany from 1929 after 37 years in office.
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Tammany
Curry
Manhattan
May Transfer Central Franchise to Wheeling
South Bend Central League club must repay 1500 by Saturday or risk transfer to Wheeling West Virginia. EB O Miller for F W Howell says raise funds to keep the club in South Bend with a league funded night lighting plant and improvements.
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Central
Wheeling
South Bend
W. Va
EB. O. Miller
F. W. Howell
Gene Venzke Receives High School Diploma
Gene Venzke, star miler and a leading Olympic hopeful, received his diploma as part of the Pottstown high school graduating class. He is 23 and resumed his studies two years ago after dropping out earlier.
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Pottstown
Gene Venzke
America
Pottstown High School
Venzke
12 Year Old Mount Hope Golfer Hits Hole In One
Mount Hope West Virginia June 23 K M Tutwiler Jr aged 12 can claim to be among the youngest hole in one club members. He sank a 140 yard ace on the No 8 hole at White Oak Country Club course.
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Mount Hope
W. Va
K. M. Tutwiler Jr
White Oak Country Club
Swedish Crown Prince's son to wed Princess Sibylle of Saxe Goburg Gotha
Romance sparked at an English wedding ends in engagement between Prince Gunetov Adolf eldest son of the Swedish crown price and Princess Sibylle of Saxe- Goburg-Gotha. They are second cousins with Gunetov in direct line for the throne.
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England
Gunetov Adolf
Price
Sibylle
Saxe- Goburg-Gotha
Logan Man Faces Charge of Slaying Policeman's Wife
Robertson, head of Logan city commission and bank book keeper, is charged with slaying a policeman's wife. Authorities ruled out robbery as motive. The Thurmans, married about 12 years, recently moved from Harlan Kentucky. they had no children.
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Logan
Poligeman
Robertson
Logan City
Thurman's
Harlan
Chicken Thieves Strike Virginia Avenue Roost
Mrs Mathena reports at city police headquarters that twenty four chickens were stolen from her Virginia Avenue pen last night including four old hens and twenty trieze. The complaint lists the theft as a crime against her flock and seeks investigation by authorities.
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Virginia Avenue
Mathena
Veteran Tazewell editor critically ill
J. A. Leslie, veteran editor of the Clinch Valley News, is critically ill at his Tazewell home. Information received last night by the Daily Telegraph said his condition was grave and physicians feared he would not survive the night.
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J. A. Leslie
The
Clinch Valley News
Tazewell
Daily Telegraph
Mr. Leslie
London Weather Pride or Vanity: Prof Forbes Captioned
Fragmentary clipping notes Prof. V. B. Forbes of Cambridge discussing themes of pride and vanity in London weather. The snippet hints at an observational or humorous essay but offers few concrete details.
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London
V. 8. Forbes
Cam
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