Prohibition Fight Faces Senate Lobby Inquiry
Bishop James Cannon Jr of the Southern Methodist church says he will testify to the senate lobby committee about prohibition activities of his church board. Republican congressman Tinkham has demanded investigations into the Anti Saloon League and related temperance groups and will present evidence against Cannon and 24 large contributors to the Federal Council of Churches. Curran, president of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, also to appear next Tuesday.
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Caraway
Bishop Cannon
Southern Methodist Board of Temperance and Social Service
Tinkham
Massachusetts
Cannon
Southern Methodist Board
E. Lh. Crawford
Anti-Saloon League
Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals
Northern Methodist Church
Federal Council of Churches
Federal Council
Dwight W. Morrow
John OD. Rockefeller
J. E. Pierce
Huntsville
Ala
Times
J. W. Worthington
Tennessee River Improvement Association
Senator Black
Alabama
Henry H. Curran
Association Against the Prohibition Amendment
Naval Pact Takes Shape Scrapping Plans Outlined for Major Powers
The London naval treaty draft nears completion as experts resolve wording on scrapping schedules for U S Florida Utah and Great Britain Marlborough Emperor of India Benbow Tiger while France Italy reserve rights to pre 1920 capital ships. United States Britain and Japan retain training ships Arkansas Iron Duke Hi Yeion with obsolescence timelines.
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London
Sir Maurice Hankey
St. James
France
Italy
United States
Florida
Utah
Great Britain
Japan
Tariff Revisions Advance As Conferees Tackle Rates
Senate and House conference leaders reported progress on the tariff bill with harmonized duties for dropper tobacco and cotton textiles. Smoot predicted all duty differences would be resolved by midweek, paving the way for final passage before May 1. Separate action in Florida details followed, with Atlantic Coast Line train No 191 seized on delinquent taxes, impacting local service and mail movements.
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Harold Oliver
Associated Press
Washington
Senate
House
Smoot
Utah
Sebring
Fla
Atlantic Coast Line
Oscar Wolff
Ernest Amos
Avon Park
United States Mail
Hanes City
Lake Placid
Lee
Highlands County
Explosion at Irvington Cardiac Home Kills One
An oil fire at Irvington House Cardiac home in New York killed Edward Bryce, 28, a handyman, hours after an explosion. Seventy eight children, including sixteen bedridden, were rescued by nurses led by Miss Lena Buffton, with most evacuees kept safe outside on the grounds and neighboring facilities.
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Irvington
N. Y
Tivington House
Edward Bryce
Dobbs Ferry
Lena Buffton
Miss Bruffton
Ardsley Country Club
Ardsley
Hadson
Tarrytown
Herman Sehmitz
Irma Levy
Prohibition raid near Savannah nets 18 jailed
Prohibition agents from three states seized a liquor cache near Coosawhatchie South Carolina and arrested 18 people, confiscating four motor trucks six cars and about 885 cases of whiskey. Those named include Harry Freed C H Bell Wilson Jenkins and others with varied hometowns.
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Savannah
Coosawatchie
S. C
C. H. Bell
Savannah-Charleston
Harry Freed
Atlanta City
Coosawhatchie
Wilson Jenkins
B. R. Taylor
C. E. Price
Cincinnati
John Burke
Fort Lauderdale
Fla
J. B. Simmons
Denunciation of Cyanamid bid for Muscle Shoals lease
Representative LaGuardia denounces American Cyanamid efforts to lease Muscle Shoals for 50 years. House Military Affairs Committee considers Norris and Wright bills to govern or lease the Alabama project, with southern allies pushing swift action amid ongoing Senate scrutiny.
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Washington
American Cyanamid Corporation
Muscle Shoals
Washrinelon
House Military Affairs Committee
Norris
Senate
Wright
New Yorker
Senate Lobby Committee
Thas
Cyanamid Corporation
Congress
LaGuardia
Wounding of Twenty Marks Serious Situation in Bucharest
Meager dispatches from Bucharest report grave conditions after a demonstration for higher pensions by war widows and disabled veterans left twenty injured. The royal palace is heavily guarded with machine gun posts to prevent unrest, with rumors of deaths and a telegraph censorship in effect.
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Vienna
Bucharest
Royal
Bruening Cabinet Survives Vote and Faces Easter Break
In Berlin the Bruening cabinet blocks nationalist and socialist opposition in a Reichstag test vote 217 to 205 against tax and agrarian plans. The government then wins second reading of finance bills, boosting passage on third reading as President von Hindenburg’s dissolution decree weighs on lawmakers and Easter travel plans temper debate.
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Berlin
Bruening
Reichstag
von Hindenburg
Chicks and Dog Perish In Fire
A fire razed an old shoe shop in Rocky Mount and killed a dog along with 50 baby chicks. Investigators say an overheated brooder likely started the blaze.
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Rocky Mount
Planes Set New 30 000 Foot Combat Altitude Record
At Mather Field Sacramento April 12 19 planes of the 95th pursuit squadron led by Capt H M Elendorff set a world altitude record for combat formation at 30000 feet during army air maneuvers. The flight began at 9 am and returned two hours later with readings from 27509 to 36000 feet. An oxygen tube issue caused a brief dive but temperatures were extremely cold, 59 pounds of fur clothing keeping the crew warm. Brig Gen William E Gillmore praised the pilots and stressed training and individual skill as vital to modern tactics.
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Mather Field
Sacramento
Cali
95Th Pursuit Squadron
United States Army
H.M. Elmdorff
Elmendorff
William E. Gillmore
Grand Jury to Probe Buried Alive Case in Grayson Ky
Circuit Judge G W Wolfford announced a grand jury would be convened to investigate the burial of Susie Vickers a 63 year old woman whose funeral was held in Grayson Kentucky. Two sisters who previously worked for her testified they believed she was buried alive and reported moisture wiped from her face twice during the funeral.
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Grayson
G. W. Wolfford
Carter County
Susie Vickers
Wolfford
Vickers
George B. Clay
Hondell Johnson
Catlettsburg
Wastford
Davidson Republicans Elect Hulin Leader at Local Convention
H. Frank Hulin chosen to lead the Davidson County Republicans for the next term at the Lexington convention. C. M. Hoover withdraws after eight years as chairman. Hubert Swain of Thomasville elected secretary. No senator race mentioned and delegates received no instruction for state convention chairman.
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Lexington
H. Frank Hulin
C. M. Hoover
Hulin
Hubert Swain
Thomasville
Political Activity of Bishops Basis of Church Charges
The Rev. Rembert G. Smith of the First Methodist church in Washington Georgia says he will file charges at the Dallas general conference in May against Bishops Cannon Mouton Moore and DuBose for political activities in 1928 supporting Hoover and the Republican party, actions he says violated church and member rights.
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Washington
Georgia
Rembert G. Smith
First Methodist Church
Dallas
Golf clubs face extra costs from seed tariff hike
New York April 12 Proposed senate tariff rates set a 49 cents per pound duty on imported bent grass seed, up 38 cents from before. The Metropolitan Golf Association estimates the rise could add about 350000 dollars to U S. golf clubs' expenses.
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New York
Senate
United States
Metropolitan Golf Association
Gas explosion kills twenty at Carbonado coal mine
Twenty men died in a gas explosion at the Carbonado coal mine near Tacoma. Rescue teams faced deadly gas fumes that halted entry as authorities compiled a list of the dead and pursued efforts to reach victims buried deep inside the tunnel. Identification had not yet been made.
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Tacoma
Wash
Carbonado
Here
Strike at Lincoln Memorial University Triggers Expulsions and Riots
Harrogate Tennessee April 12 Two student leaders Clay McCarroll and Ernest Fields were arrested on disturbance and riot charges as Judge Morison, acting university president, expelled one student and threatened further action. Fields released on recognizance. Morison warned policy may remove up to 20 students if classes not resumed.
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Harrogate
Tenn
Lincoln Memorial University
J. H. S. Morison
Clay McCarroll
Knoxville
Ernest Fields
McCarroll
Fields
Mori
Morison
State Swelters In Summer Heat Across North Carolina
North Carolina towns sweltered in the 90s with Greensboro at 95 degrees Wilmington around 82 Henderson Goldsboro and other locales near 90 as April heat records faltered. People enjoyed Atlantic beaches and wore summer attire as spring turned summery statewide.
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Charlotte
North Carolina
Greenboro
Wilmington
Henderson
Goldsboro
Dr Butler Links Public Opinion to Armament Limitation
Dr Nicholas Murray Butler in the Carnegie endowment annual report argues disarmament will not happen overnight but will gain force as economic and moral gravity restrains weapons. He notes the Kellogg Briand pact makes war a crime and warns freedom of seas follows from keeping pledged word. He predicts Senate ratification of the world court protocol will come soon.
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New York
Nicholas Murray Butler
Carnegie Endowment For International Peace
Dr. Butler
Endowment
United States Senate
World Court
Skelton Plane Search Yields No Clue Over Lake Michigan
In Chicago on April 12 authorities and volunteers scoured Lake Michigan and the southern dune lands for clues to the fate of Ralph Fisher Skelton of Ann Arbor. The artist and licensed private pilot vanished after leaving Ann Arbor Thursday in a monoplane with a leaky tank. Despite planes and amphibians combing the lake, fog and open water kept his whereabouts unknown. Skelton had planned to fly across Lake Michigan someday and telegraphed a friend in Evanston about a late engagement that night. He departed at 4:30 p m and was not seen again.
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Chicago
Lake Michigan
Ralph Fisher Skelton
Ann Arbor
Mich
Skelton
Atlantic
Betty Cook
Evanston
First Rockingham County Woman Seeks State Legislature Seat
Mrs Lily Morehead Mebane of spray becomes the first woman to file for a public office in Rockingham county. She has entered the Democratic primary for a seat in the state legislature and is not expected to have opposition in the party primary.
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Reidsville
Lily Morehead Mebane
Spray
Rockingham County
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Southern Methodist Church
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Clewiston
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McCormick
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