Move to Adjourn Assembly Sine Die Discontinued
In Raleigh on April 10 during a joint session Senator Rivers Johnson offered a joint resolution to adjourn the 1938 assembly sine die on April 11 after the University of North Carolina board of trustees election. Representative Connor raised a point of order that adjournment must be concurrent, and the session was dissolved before a ruling or further action.
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Raleigh
Rivers Johnson
Duplin
General Assembly
Assembly
House
Senate
University of North Carolina
Johnson
Connor
Wilson
Lawrence of
Hertford
Plans to oust Smith from power seat move forward
Senate plans action to remove Power Commission Chairman Smith. Davis and Groesbeck named as counsel to represent the Senate in the suit to begin next week. Key figures include Senator Walsh, Norris, and Attorney General Mitchell. Pep per aids defense for Smith as papers are gathered.
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Washington
Senate
Smith
The
Power Commission
Senate Judiciary
Norris
Walsh
Montana
John W. Davis
Alexander J. Groesbeck
Michigan
Davis
Groesbeck
George Wharton Pepper
Pennsylvania
George Otis Smith
White House
Hoover
Mitchell
Train bearing body of Longworth leaves en route
The special train bearing the body of Nicholas Longworth from Aiken to Cincinnati arrived in Columbia at 1:30 this afternoon, after a 10 minute delayed departure and a five minute stop en route.
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Longworth
Cincinnati
Columbia
U S. C
Nicholas Longworth
Aiken
Aiken Aiken
E. Ss. T
Women pledge to help Hoover enforce dry law
A group of prominent women advocates of prohibition presented President Hoover with a composite report on enforcing the 18th amendment based on the Wickersham study. Mrs. Henry W. Peabody led the briefing at the White House and the press soon published the document.
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Henry W. Peabody
Wickersham
Washington
Hoover
Women’s National Committee For Law Enforcement
National Commission For Law Enforcement
Rabbit foot luck helps Burlington mayor win re election
Mayor Earl B. Horner credited his 2 to 1 victory to a grave-yard rabbit foot given by Charlie Bain of Graham. The coinci dence was reported in Burlington as the factor behind the political success.
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Burlington
Earl B. Horner
Charlie Bain
Graham
Charlotte
Eva H. Byrd
Toledo
Spanish-American War Veterans Auxiliary
Forsyth Senator press for sales tax reconsideration in Raleigh
In Raleigh, April 10, the senate defeated Hendren of Forsyth 28 to 21 on reviving the Day general sales tax proposal. Hendren urged reconsideration of the one percent gross receipts tax and sought limits on debate to reach a vote by 6 p.m. The motion to report the bill with unconsidered sections was also defeated 43 to 1.
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Forsyth
Committee of Whole
Raleigh
Senate
Hendren
Grier
Iredell
Committee of the Whole
Hinsdale
Clement
Rowan
Clarkson
Mecklenburg
Ward
Beaufort
Johnson
Duplin
Baggett
Harnett
Pritchett
Bertie
State hospital funding rises to 377 894 dollars
Raleigh April 10 The House amended its substitute appropriations bill to raise Morganton State Hospital funding to 377 894 dollars while the original budget and substitute proposed 346 100. Ervin argued the increase covers inmate food and nursing costs, with funds from inmate fees redirected to the general fund. The amendment passed unanimously as lawmakers also debated UNC projections and a Durham Negro college grant.
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Raleigh
House
Morganton
Ervin
Burke
Budget
Harris
Ewbank of
Henderson
University of North Carolina
Sutton
Lenoir
Norman
Washington
Holmes
Pitt
Moye
Greene
Newman
New Hanover
Ewbank
Harmony
Whitley
Wake
Crudup
Vance
North Carolina House Approves 62500 For Farm Demonstration Agents
The North Carolina House passed an agriculture committee measure allocating 62500 from the agriculture fund to pay salaries of farm demonstration agents. The act splits costs 25 percent county, 25 percent state, 50 percent federal, with the fund funded by fertilizer taxes. Opponents warned of budget shifts and department impact while supporters argued for farmer input and agent value.
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Raleigh
House
Agriculture Committee
State Agriculture Fund
Appropriations Committee
Edwards
Cleveland
W. A. Graham
Hanes
Forsyth
Johnson
Pender
Department of Agriculture
White
Robeson
Davis
Hyde
Mebane
Rockingham
Mill Worker Dies In Wave of Heat
A record-breaking heat wave in Ohio caused the death of Michael Kugish, 41, a steel mill worker in Youngstown. He collapsed at work as temperatures reached 80 degrees.
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Youngstown, O
Hio
Michael Kugish
General Assembly Names New Consolidated Board Of University Trustees
The North Carolina General Assembly in joint session names the new consolidated board of trustees for the Greater University of North Carolina and fills 29 vacancies on the existing university board until July 1, 1932. The session approves trustees for N C State College with changes, retaining Irvin B Tucker and substituting Homer L Lyon. The list ranks members by term.
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General Assembly
Consolidated Board of University Trustees
Consolidated Board
Sidney B. Alexander
Mecklenburg
Pascal
S. Boyd
Iredell
Josephus Daniele
Wake
Arthur M. Dixon
Gaston
Richard T. Fountain
Edgecombe
C. W. Gold
Guilford
Annie Shepherd Graham
Graf Zeppelin Flies Over Cairo Inzeppelins Voyage
The Graf Zeppelin passed Cairo at 4 20 p m and asked about landing but was told not yet ready. The airship will use the delay to voyage over upper Egypt and reach Almaza airfield at 5 30 a m tomorrow as planned.
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Cairo
Egypt
Upper Egypt
Almaza Airrome
Protest Telegrams Over Scottsboro Trials Reach Alabama
Governor B M Miller said he received three telegraphs from New York groups protesting the Scottsboro trials of nine negroes for attacking two girls. The International Labor Defense urged stay of execution calling it legal lynching. The League of Struggle For Negro Rights accused a frameup, and Robert W Dunn of the Anti Imperialist League urged unconditional release.
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Montgomery
Ala
B. M. Miller
New York
Scottsboro
International Labor Defense
League of Struggle For Negro Rights
B. D. Amis
Joseph Bachelor Held For Robbery
Joseph Bachelor, previously of Jacksonville, Fla., was arrested in Newark as he entered a home owned by a private citizen. Police say the arrest follows alleged robberies of homes belonging to Mayor Jerome T. Congleton Chief Justice William B. Gummere Prosecutor Joseph L. Smith and former U S Commissioner George R. Sommer. The homeowner held no public office.
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Newark
N. J
Joseph Bachelor
Jacksonville
Fla
Jerome T. Congleton
William 8. Gummere
Joseph L. Smith
United States
George R. Sommer
Scott Breaks Record For England-Australia Flight
Charles W. A. Scott set a new England to Australia flight record landing at Port Darwin after a 9 days 3 hours 20 minute journey covering about 11000 miles. He beat Wing Commander Kingsford Smith by 19 hours 40 minutes.
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Port Darwin
North Australia
Charles W. A. Scott
Timor Sea
England
Australia
Eurasia
Malay Archipelago
Charles Kingsford-Smith
Kingsford-Smith
Scott
Charles William Anderson Scott
Royal Air Force
Lympne Airdrome
Belgrade
Aleppo
Bushire
Karachi
Rangoon
Surabya
Bima
Java
Alleged Army Deserter Held in Jail for Murder
Rufus Lam, 24, an alleged deserter from Fort Humphreys, Va, is jailed in Harrisonburg on a murder charge for the shooting death of 55 year old Robert Davis, father of six. Lam reportedly admitted the killing, citing Davis associations with Lam’s younger sister.
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Army
Harrisonburg
Rufus Lam
United States Army
Fort Humphreys
Robert Davis
Lam
Davis
Small Boy Falls From High Window at Pritchard Hotel
A two year old boy fell from the seventh floor of the Pritchard hotel in Huntington West Virginia after pushing a screen and losing balance. He suffered a broken collar bone, broken thigh, broken rib and a cut lip but physicians say he will recover. The parents Mr and Mrs Beardsley of Little Rock Arkansas were in the room at the time.
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Huntington
W. Va
Pritchard
Beardsley
Little Rock
Ark
Farmer Held on Criminal Assault Charge in Virginia
Henry L. Taylor 55, a Westmoreland County farmer, was jailed in Fredericksburg after arrest for alleged criminally assaulting a married woman near Oak Grove on Wednesday afternoon.
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Fredericksburg
Henry L. Taylor
Westmoreland County
Oak Grove
Super Boosted For New Judge Soper in Fourth Circuit
Baltimore April 10. Friends launch campaign to appoint Federal District Judge Morris A. Soper to replace Judge Edmund Waddill Jr. in the fourth circuit. Soper, 58, appointed in 1923, has been named as a potential successor in previous years and is invited as guest jurist for the April meeting in Charleston. The fourth district covers Maryland Virginia West Virginia and the Carolinas.
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Baltimore
Morris A. Soper
Edmund Waddill
Circuit Court of Appeals, Fourth District
Jony
Waddill
Richmond
Soper
John (. Rose
John J. Parker
Supreme Court
Charleston
S. C
Maryland
Virginia
West Virginia
Carolinas
Former Teacher Held for Slaying in Forty Fort
Luzerne county authorities said they were satisfied beyond a doubt that Frances Thomson, 29, a Wellesley College graduate and former schoolteacher, killed Miss Minnie Dilley, 76, in Forty Fort. Thomson was arrested in Pittsburgh and claimed Miss Dilley influenced her husband and urged a love cult of former teachers. She denied the slaying.
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Wilkes-Barre
Luzerne County
Frances Thomson
Wellesley College
Minnie Dilley
Forty Fort
Here
Three Railroad Workers Killed in Kentucky Collision
In Somerset Kentucky on April 10 a head on crash between two railway motor trucks on the Southern railway killed three workers and fatally injured one more. The dead are Dewey Brassfield Walter Brown Joshua Bray and Garfield Gibson. Thirteen others were injured.
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Somerset
Here
Southern Railway
Dewey Brassfield
Walter Brown
Joshua Bray
Garfield Gibson
Longworth Home Town in Grief
Cincinnati mourns as Nicholas Longworth dies. The city, once proud of his childlike promise and civic achievements, prepares to bid farewell to the last Longworth linked to its history. The family helped shape arts and civic enterprises in the Queen City of the West.
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Cincinnati
Nicholas Longworth
Nick
Rookwood
Longworths
Paulina
Alice’ Longworth
Mr. Longworth
West
Longworth
Eight Negroes Riot After Scottsboro Death Sentences
At Etowah county jail in Gadsden Alabama eight condemned negroes rioted to protest death sentences for attacking two white girls while traveling as hoboes on a freight train. Guards subdued them with irons after guards entered the bull pen. The inmates hurled oaths at officials and demanded special food. Sheriff Griffin sought military aid. the 167th Infantry moved in to restore order.
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Gadsden
Ala
Scottsboro
Etowah County
T. L. Griffin
Griffin
W. M. Thompson
167Th Infantry
C. C. Whitehead
Paralysis Fatal To Alfred Hickman
Alfred Devereux Hickman, 57, actor and husband of Nance O Neil, died in his sleep after a cerebral hemorrhage following paralysis. He appeared in films with Nance O Neil Pauline Freder ick Margarite Clark Elsie Ferguson and Thomas Meighan and was a member of the Lambs club and the Masquers of New York.
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Los Angeles
Alfred Devereux Hickman
Nance O'Neil
Hickman
Miss O'Neil
Pauline Frederick
Margarite Clark
Elsie Ferguson
Thomas Meighan
The
Lambs Club
the Masquers of
New York
Youth charged with murder in Camden street fight
In Camden New Jersey on April 10 a 17 year old boy Renof Thompson Jr was arrested and charged with killing his father Renof Thompson Sr 45 after a street corner fight. The youth said his father attacked him and he struck once causing the elder man to fall and strike his head on the curb.
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Camden
N. J
Renof Thompson, Jr
Renof, Sr
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Archibald Roosevelt
Campbell Hodges
Roosevelt
Kermit
B. A. Wallingford
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Fayetteville
Langley Field
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State Hospital
Morganton Institution
Charles F. Tomlinson
J. Ed Millis
Greater” University of North Carolina
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Greater” University of North Resci
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Alfred Hickman
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