Caracas revolt clashes with Gomez regime and student aid
In Caracas Venezuela a military mutiny aided by students was suppressed with bloodshed. Loyal troops killed and captured rebels while President Gomez blamed unrest on mobilized student factions as raids and arrests followed the early morning insurrection. Public reports from nearby Colombia noted Baldo as a potential candidate and the unrest affected regional politics.
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Caracas
Venezuela
Gomez
Miraflores
Juan Vicente Gomez
Ramon Gonzalez
Anibal Garcia
Rafael Alvarado
Barrios
San Carlos
Alvarado
Juan Palacios
Federation of Students of the University
la Manana
Cucuta
Colombia
Jose Antonio Baldo
Baldo
Trujillo
Cipriano Castro
Europe
New Michigan Senator Vandenberg Seated in Senate
Arthur H. Vandenberg, Republican editor of the Grand Rapids Herald, is appointed by Governor Fred W. Green to succeed the late Woodbridge N. Perris, Democrat, as U.S. senator for Michigan.
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Michigan
United States Senate
Arthur H. Vandenberg
Grand Rapids, Mich
Herald
Vandenberg
Fred W. Green
Woodbridge N. Perris
Night Riders To Inspire Ohio Terror
In federal court Dayton witness J R Ramsey former Night Rider says Ku Klux Klan organized a terror campaign in Ohio including church burnings bombings and assassinations He testified a Klansman in Ohio ordered killings and that he helped escort a man to Bellaire to be killed Ramsey said he refused to kill and returned the man alive He named a Mr Bronson as a Night Rider and Ohio Grand Dragon guard G-2 Roy G Barclary testified about riots and Klan activity in Niles
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Pittsburgh
Ku Klux Klan
Ohio
J. R. Ramsey
Dayton
Ramsey
West Dayton
Bellaire
Mr. Bronson
Ohio Grand Dragon Guard
Night Riders
van A. Barrickman
John H. Connaughton
Roy G. Barclary
Niles
Fire at Chicago kills four in home blaze
Four people died and four were injured when a northwest Chicago house fire destroyed a home on April 10. Leslie Whitaker struggled through flames while police and firefighters rescued a woman. Whitaker and his wife Elizabeth Brayton, 22, along with their children perished. An aunt and a grandmother were among the injured. The blaze is believed to have started from a shed oil tank.
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Chicago
Leslie Whitaker
Whitaker
Elizabeth
Eizabeth Brayton
Carrensburg
N. Y
Co. B. Whitaker
Tobias Piff
Women Flying Rivals Fail To Reach Cape Town Flight
London dispatches report Lady Mary Bailey crashed while attempting to land at Tabora Tanganyika on a London Cape Town flight. Lady Heath was barred from continuing from Cape Town with her plane locked in an army shed near Cairo.
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London
Cape Town
South Africa
Exchange Telegraph
Mary Bailey
Tabora
Tanganyika
Cairo
Daily Mail
Heath
Elliott Lynn
Bailey
German Bremen trans Atlantic flight delayed by stormy weather
The German plane Bremen will not start its trans Atlantic flight today from Baldonnel Airfield Ireland. Weather reports show an unfavorable eastern Atlantic and fading daylight constraints push the earliest start to tomorrow to begin in daylight.
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Baldonnel
Irish Free State
Bremen
Atlantic
Ireland
Reed’s Fiery Comeback in Missouri Politics
Washington analysts hail Senator James A. Reed of Missouri as making the greatest comeback in political history. The Democratic presidential hopeful is described as a fighter with a colorful personality, and NEA writer Robert Talley reveals behind the scenes views in a three-part series beginning on page 3 with installments to follow tomorrow and the next day.
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Washington
James A. Reed
Missouri
Reed
Robert Talley
NEA
The
High Point Enterprise
North Carolina Holds Final Round in Republican Delegates
Hoover and Lowden camps claim wins as district conventions select delegates in Raleigh Greensboro Taylorsville and other sites. Four at large delegates vote tomorrow in Raleigh with total 20 Kansas City delegates. Work projects 14 votes for Hoover while Bramham forecasts 15 for Lowden.
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Raleigh
Hoover
Lowden
North Carolina
Lowdon
Kansas City
Willis Briggs
Ezra Parker
Smithfield
Johnston
Wake County
Greensboro
Taylorsville
City
Brownlow Jackson
Hendersonville
David Blair
Winston-Salem
Charles A. Jonas
Lincolnton
W. G. Branham
Durham
Blair
Jonas
Jackson
Bramham
State
Hubert Work
National Hoover
W. G. Bramham
Durham Celebrates Charter Anniversary With Civic Exposition
Durham marked the 59th anniversary of its charter with the opening of a civic exposition. Senator A. W. Barkley of Kentucky opened the program urging limits on federal power over local matters and calling for respect for local governance.
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Durham
Chesterfield
A. W. Barkley
Kentucky
America
Sinclair Before Jury in Fraud Trial Over Bribes to Fall
The government accuses Harry F. Sinclair of paying Albert B. Fall $293,000 in four bribe payments for oil leases, while the defense argues the money came from legitimate business deals. Judge Bailey and witnesses including E. H. Quigley and banker L. T. Rule testified as the trial opened.
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Sinclar
Washington
Harry F. Sinclair
Albert B. Fall
Sinclair
Owen J. Roberts
Fall
Daniel Thew Wright
Sinclair Legal
Roberts
Wright
Denby
Navy
Jennings Bailey
E. H. Quigley
Interior Department
Falls
L. T. Rule
First National Bank of Pueblo
Everhart
el Paso
Robbery on Acron Hill Road Net $837 From Salesman
W N Hill, a traveling salesman from Elizabeth City, was stopped at pistol point on the Acron Hill road 18 miles northwest of town. Two bandits in a car without a front plate robbed him of 837 dollars and allowed him one dollar to buy supper. He was en route from Sunbury to Elizabeth City.
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Elizabeth City
Pistol Point
Here
W. N. Hill
Hill
Sunbury
Gates County
Boldup
South Carolina Democrats Back Dry Plank at State Meet
In Columbia on April 10 a conference of prohibition supporters unanimously adopted resolutions urging the state Democratic convention to nominate only delegates who are dry in fact and practice, opposing any who are not, as candidates for president and vice president.
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Columbia
S. C
United States
Postmaster Nominated by President Coolidge
Washington on April 10 reports the president named Atherton B. Hill as postmaster for Scotland Neck North Carolina among several nominations.
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Washington
President Coolidge
Scotland Neck
N. C
Atherton B. Hill
Sinclaire Charged Over Teapot Dome Payments
Washington dispatch reports Harry F. Sinclair, lessee of Teapot Dome, is charged with giving Albert B. Fall a total of 293000 dollars in payments. The case centers on improper financial dealings surrounding the oil reserve and related contracts.
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Washington
Harry F. Sinclair
Teapot Dome
Albert B. Fall
Walker Delivers Dignified Speech At Lee Memorial Unveiling
Mayor James J. Walker of New York spoke at the unveiling ceremony of Robert E. Lee's statue on Stone Mountain Georgia. He praised Lee as a warrior and saint and received hearty applause from Confederate veterans and a national dignitary crowd despite rain.
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Ker
Lee
New York
Miller Faces 18 Months In Atlanta For Gov’t Fraud
Col. Thomas W. Miller, ex alien property custodian, has only a few days of liberty left before reporting to Atlanta penitentiary to serve an 18 month sentence. He was convicted of conspiring to defraud the government by returning $7,000,000 in American Metal property seized during the war to a Swiss firm. The U.S. Supreme Court refused to review the conviction.
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New York
Thomas W. Miller
Atlanta
American Metal Company
Supreme Court of the United States
United States
Col. Miller
Charles H. Tuttle
District Court
Washington
Miller
Wilmington
Del
Hoover Attacked by Farmers Over Agriculture Record
A group of six farmer representatives challenge Herbert Hoover's stance on farming. They accuse propaganda of misrepresenting him as a farmer friend and say farmers suffered under his policies. The pamphlet calls for an impersonal, candid appraisal of Hoover's farm record to prevent nomination on false grounds.
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Washington
Herbert Hoover
Commerce Secretary
Farmers’ Committee
Harden to run in fifth district against Stedman
Junius Harden of Burlington was chosen by the Fifth District Republican convention in Greensboro to oppose Mayor Charles M. Stedman, the Democratic candidate for Congress. Delegates to the national convention and state executive committee members were also chosen, with J. Elwood Cox declining the nomination.
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Greensboro
Stokes
H. E. Hughes
Alamance
S. O. McQuire
C.A. Reynolds
Winston-Salem
J. Elwood Cox
Major Stedman
Cox
Lee's great grandson to join Walker staff as four year old
Atlanta April 10 The mayor James J Walker told reporters he would appoint four year old Robert EF Lee IV to his official staff after a visit to Stone Mountain where work on the equestrian statue of General Robert E Lee is planned. Walker said he would have the boy wear a copy of the Confederate general's uniform on state occasions.
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Atlanta
New York
James J. Walker
Robert EF. Lee
Stone Mountain
Lee
Bolling Lee
New York City
Walker
Robert
General Lee
Richmond
Ferree to Run for Congress in Seventh District
Asheboro April 10 Republicans of the seventh district nominated A Idol Ferree of Asheboro to oppose W C Hammer the Democrat from the same city. Clifford Cox presided as county chairman and delegates E Brown Wilkes County and H Seawell Moore County were chosen uninstructed for the national convention. All counties but Hoke and Union sent delegates. Four new state executive committeemen were elected J S Lewis Asheboro H F Javin Sanford Mr Shoaf Davidson and Mr Trivett Wilkes.
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Asheboro
Seventh Congressional District
Idol Ferree
United States Congress
W. C. Hammer
Clifford Cox
P. E. Brown
Wilkes County
H. §. Seawell
Moore County
Hoke and
Union
J. S. Lewis
H. F. Javin
Sanford
Shoaf
Davidson
Trivett
Wilkes
Senator George Headlines Eastern Carolina Exposition
George, U. S. Senator Walter Franklin George of Georgia, Democratic presidential candidate, visited Goldsboro for the Eastern Carolina Exposition. He delivered the main address as Duke Parks? no. He headlined the program while Senator Barkley of Kentucky spoke at the Durham civic exposition opening. John G. Dawson of Kinston introduced Senator George.
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Goldsboro
U. S
Walter Franklin George
Georgia
Barkley
Kentucky
Durham
Earthquake Recorded Near St Louis
A moderate quake about 860 miles from St Louis was detected at St Louis University seismograph today. First phase occurred 10 51 25 a m and second at 10 53 49 a m. Dr James B Macelwane, seismologist, said direction could not be determined but likely northwest or southeast.
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ST. Louis
St. Louis University
James B. Macelwane
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Neree
Finance Committee
Aristotle M. Collins
Deneen
Collins
Near North Side
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Congress
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Treasury
Hugh Satterlee
American Bar Association
Satterlee
William A. Brady
Brady
Simeon PD. Fess
Kluckers
Jim Reed
Secretary of the Interior
South Carolina
Jimmy Walker
Robert E. Lee
Liberty
Supreme Court
Harden
Stedman
Ferree
George
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