Federation Discusses Problems Of Working Women
The federation, led by W A Gresham, advocates examining females before marriage and supports child welfare, education, a state tuberculosis hospital, and library creation. It backs modest hours for women in commerce, prisoner humane treatment, and extending aid to families, urging Alabama club women to investigate prisoners' conditions and promote schooling and welfare across counties.
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Proes
Alabeme
Department ‘of Public Welm
Sftates
Alten
Paddock Sued for 100000 in Heart Balm Case
New York May 1 AP Papers in a 100000 breach of promise suit have been served on Charles W. Paddock Olympic sprint star by Miss Madeline Lubetty a 26 year old actress. Lubetty says their engagement was announced in Cleveland last August and they were to marry last October. Paddock, believed on the Pacific coast, denied the claim through his lawyers.
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New York
Charles W. Paddock
Madeline Lubetty
Lubetty
Paddock
Cleveland
Pasadena
Cal
Pacific
Lee Phillips Held in Geneva County Jail in Avant Case
Lee Phillips, a teacher from Slocomb, is held in Geneva County Jail on first degree murder charges related to Professor Claude Avant’s death. He allegedly confessed to hitting Avant with a hammer after Dr. G. W. Smith offered money to remove Avant. Phillips, released from Kilby prison, was arrested immediately. no bail set yet. Other defendants remain free on bail as hearings proceed. Trial date undisclosed, expected at next Geneva circuit court criminal docket.
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Lee Phillips
Claude Avant
Slocomb
Geneva
The
Eagle
D. C. Hughes
Phillips
G. W. Smith
Randall Jones
Charles “Stown
Avant
Smith
Kilby
Hughes
Professor Avant
Dr. Smith
J. Norton Mullins
Geneva County
Phillipe
Self-Control Seen as Solution to Prohibition
Delegates at the National Congress of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Charleston heard Dikty Panier Bo Barh of Vermont declare that self-enforcement is the only solution to the prohibition problem. He said the law of Jesus Christ and individual responsibility to society are the strongest forces to solve it.
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Charleston
8. C
National Congress of the
Proestant Episcopal Church
Dikty Panier Bo Barh
Vermont
Jesus Christ
McCormick Testifies on Senate Campaign Spending
Mrs Ruth Hanna McCormick, Illinois Senate candidate, tells the Senate campaign funds committee she spent 25272 dollars from her own funds in the race and received only family donations plus support from two Cook County groups the Voters Progress Club and the Ruth Hanna McCormick Volunteers. She urges tighter scrutiny of campaign activity. Senator Deneen reports 24193.21 in expenditures with a large 107518.20 county budget item and later adds 14313 in supplemental spending.
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Washington
Ruth Hanna McCormick
Illinois
Senate Campaign Funds Committee
Cook County
Voters’ Progress Club
Ruth Hanna McCormick Volunteers
Deneen
Mré
McCormick
Mra
Six Hoover Cabinet Members Touted Over Prohibition Failure
William H Stayton told the senate lobby committee that six of President Hoover s cabinet believed prohibition would fail He named Secretaries Stimson Davis Lamont Mellon Brown and Davis Stayton said their committee inquiry suggested possible substitutes for liquor distribution and that some lawmakers sought new plans for distribution of liquor Colonel Henry W Anderson of the Hoover Law Enforcement Commission said he knew of no approved plan under consideration for liquor distribution.
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Washington
William H. Stayton
Board of Association Against the
Senate Lobby Committee
Hoover
Stimson
Davis
Lamont
Mellon
Brown
Slayton
Law Enforcement Commission
Commission
Carraway
Stayton
Richmond
Henry W. Anderson
Hoover Law Enforcement Commissio
Senate
Mother Jones Celebrates Hundredth Anniversary
SILVER SPRINGS Md May 1 AP Mother Jones marks her hundredth birthday with a short speech to cameramen on her porch while labor leaders including Senator Borah and Secretary of Labor Davis plan visits. A large birthday cake and tributes from labor groups accompany the event as she reflects on a life in labor activism.
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Silver Springs
Talking Pictures
Jong
Davis
Ritchie
Maryland
Borah
Washington Trades Building Council
Associated “Press
Mother Jones
Labor
Walter Burgess
San Francisco
New York
Hfe
Mrs. Burgess
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Ludlow
Colorado
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Senator Borah
Knight of
Chicago Federation of Labor
Mary Jones
Canada
Guards Stay On Duty At Ohio Penitentiary After Mutiny
At least two weeks of guard duty are planned after a prison mutiny at the Ohio Penitentiary. About 600 inmates were moved to a stockade and 700 to a dormitory or other state prisons as officials seek to repair damage, restore order, and ease overcrowding. Col. Robert Haubrich oversees the guards.
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Columbus
Ohio
Ohio Penitentiary
White City
Robert Haubrich
Ohio National Guardsmen
Haubrich
Stockade
Preston E. Thomas
Three Under Arrest For Dynamiting Fish
In Birmingham on May 1, three men Francia Hardin Lin Edwards and Lionel Wallace were arrested by deputy sheriffs and jailed in default of $200 bonds each for dynamiting fish in a local stream. About 20 pounds of fish were killed or stunned by the blast.
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Birmingham
Francia Hardin
Lin Edwarda
Lionel Wallace
Few Women Voters In Jefferson County
Jefferson County Alabama sees a continued decline in qualified women voters since the ratification of the nineteenth amendment. County board chair John Sprinkle notes about 14,264 women are qualified now, down from 15,492 two years ago, as total qualified voters rise to 55,161. Male white voters increase, while Negro female counts fall from 24 to 414.
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Pirmingham
Ala
Jefferson County
John Sprinkle
Registrara Asid
Sprinkle
Planes Carry Liquor Freight From Walkerville to U S
Detroit Free Press reports a licensed air freight line using six planes has flown daily to the United States from Walkerville Ontario for two weeks with cargoes of liquor. Canadian customs officers supervise the export. Duncan B. McColl, manager of the Walkerville airport group, says exporters bring freight by truck to the field for loading. he does not know the U S terminal location.
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Detroit
Detroit Free Press
United States
Walkerville
Ont
Duncan B. McColl
McColl
Strong action to be used against Mahatma Gandhi
London reports say the Indian administration plans immediate action with Home Office approval to quell Gandhi and Congress civil disobedience. Gandhi's arrest is anticipated though previously rumored. Some papers suggest a mysterious plan linked to the Tapti river incident at Surat and a messenger delivering instructions. Public demand grows for full government disclosure.
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Mahatma Gandhi
London
Mahatma Gandh
all-India National Congress
Gandhi
Bombey
Tapti
Surat
Adopt Reece plan to lease Muscle Shoals
Washington May 1 AP The House military committee completed a draft report urging adoption of Rep Reece Tennessee plan to authorize a three citizen board to lease Muscle Shoals for fifty years, with war clause and performance safeguards. Estimated Cove Creek dam cost 37 million, government exponent 160 million. Plan aims to win executive and congressional approval this session.
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House Military Committee
Washington
House
Reece
Tennessee
Hoover
Congress
Senate
Cove
Cove Creek
Muscle Shoale
Ree
Frank Goldsborough Arrives In El Paso
Frank Goldsborough, 19, a transcontinental flyer, arrived in El Paso at 6 30 p m after a night halted east of here by darkness. He said he spent the night in his ship, took off at daylight for El Paso, struck a tele phone pole on takeoff and continued. The ship was being repaired at El Paso airport. He planned to depart at noon for Tucson, Arizona. He reported he could not communicate with El Paso last night and was very hungry.
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Montgomery
Ala
W.W. Curtis
Pbie
Pistole
EL Paso
Texas
Frank Goldsborough
Filer
Here
Midland
Federal Dry Agents Raid Fraternity Club in New York
Federal dry agents posing as college men raided a fraternity club building in New York, arresting five members including a captain, a valet, a head welter, a wart er and a man in charge of a bet. Lockers and basement searched, 101 bottles seized. Officials say the raid targeted prohibition law violations.
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New York
Aps
Fraternity Clube
Watera
Waz
Stquor
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Charlie Paddock
Aversted
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Ruth Hanna
M’cormick
Board of
Association Against Prohibition
Col. Anderson
Los Angeles
Air Nymphs
Katherine Morgan
Marion Johnson
Veriinne Reid
Maria Hiruzillo
Marjorie Petersen
By Sue Biacnamara
Bombay
India
London Daily Express Today
Crrtia
Tuskegee
Montgomery-Atlanta
Mose Stuart
Curtis
Honduras
Erfcts
Tegucigalpa
Latin America
Atudio Orchestra
WGY
Schenectady
Federal Dry Agents
Fraternity Club
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