North Carolina Social Service Conference Debates Pellagra
Dr. Frederick R. Taylor warned pellagra deaths rose eightfold from 1923 to 1930 as North Carolina faces high birth and infant mortality. He advocated governor drive live-at-home to improve health and curb poverty through education, care, and welfare initiatives. Frank Graham urged workers' right to organize amid North Carolina's industrial revolution impacting all citizens.
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Charlotte
North Carolina
Frederick R. Taylor
High Point
Conference For
Social Service
Taylor
Social Service Conference
Union
Frank Graham
Commonwealth
Law Lays A Hand On Anderson Cove
In Asheville on April 15 federal prohibition officers and Buncombe County sheriff's deputies raided a still near Haw branch in Anderson Cove. McKinley Anderson, son of Big Bob Anderson, was arrested along with the copper still and two barrels of mash. The raid followed the burial of Big Robert, Big Bob’s eldest son, two months earlier for the murder of Lonzo Anderson.
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Big Bob
Anderson
Mountain Country
Asheville
Anderson Cove
Prohibition
Buncombe County
Big Robert
State Penitentiary
Lonzo Anderson
Heiress Elopes Despite Mother's Protests World Court Praise
President Hoover urged American adherence to the world court in a D A R address praising international law and a London Naval Conference outcome. He argued for a permanent international court to resolve disputes, reduce friction, and advance peaceful settlement of controversies through lawful, independent decisions.
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Hoover
Washington
Ilindie
International Tribunal
Ex-parson Pierce Criticizes Ainslie Over Chaplains Remark
The Rev. Jason Nobile Pierce, former Coolidge pastor, demands Ainslie account for statements insulting army and navy chaplains. Col. Julian E. Yates, chief army chaplain, joins in denouncing the sermon and notes a spirited but nonpublished reply. Attending delegates include WWI chaplains and D A R members at Baltimore service.
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Washington
Jason Nobile Pierce
Calvin Coolidge
Peter Ainslie
Baltimore
Army
Navy
Yates
Pierce
Army Chaplains
Julian E. Yates
Ainslie
Tinkham Attacks Anti-Saloon Figures Before Senate
Rep Tinkham of Massachusetts accuses the Anti-Saloon league of repeatedly breaking the federal corrupt practices act. He cites $67,565,313 raised and spent since 1883 and says only nominal returns were filed. He seeks names of major contributors and asks for several church and temperance group records.
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Washington
Anti-Saloon League
Senate Lobby Committee
Tinkham
Republican
Mass
House of Representatives
James Cannon, Jr
Methodist Episcopal Church, South
Southern Methodist Board of Temperance and Social Service
Cannon
Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals
Methodist Episcopal Church
Federal Council of Churches
Graf Zeppelin Sets Course for Seville on Iberian Cruise
The Graf Zeppelin begins a cruise with twenty passengers from Friedrichshafen to Seville. It will fly over southern France to the Bay of Biscay then Cape Finisterre and down the Iberian coast. After a brief stay in Seville the airship returns to Friedrichshafen, expected Thursday evening.
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Friedrichsafen
Germany
Seville
Spain
France
Bay of Biscay
Cape Finisterre
Iberien
Friedrichshafen
Bailey Dry Politically And Personally Shaping States
Asheville April 15 Josiah W Bailey as the democratic senatorial candidate is described as politically and personally dry in the full meaning of the word by C L Shup ing state manager of the Bailey campaign committee The Raleigh attorney has long opposed liquor and the liquor traffic in his public life and never missed an opportunity to speak out against it The statement was issued Tuesday
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Asheville
Josiah W. Bailey
C. L. Shuping
Bailey Campaign
Raleigh
G. Lyle Jones
Bailey
Buncombe County
Shuping
Prohibition
Mr. Bailey
Judge York Heads North Carolina Social Service Conference
Judge William M. York of Greensboro was named president of the North Carolina conference for social service at its Charlotte convention. New officers include Miss E Grace Miller Asheboro first vice president and Miss Harriet Herring Chapel Hill second vice president. The body approved Frank Graham's statement urging labor rights and impartial textile industry investigation.
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Charlotte
William M. York
Juvenile Court
Greensboro
North Carolina
E. Grace Miller
Asheville
Harriet Herring
Chapel Hill
J. S. Holmes
Raleigh
Gertrude Weil
Goldsboro
Frank Graham
W. S. Rankin
Leroy Jackson
Dudley Davidson
Duke University
W. T. Best
W. B. Waddell
Henderson
Hugh McRae
Wilmington
R. Grady Rankin
Gastonia
City begins restoration of Andrew Johnson home in Raleigh
Work has begun to restore the former home of Andrew Johnson in Raleigh placed in Pullen Park. The city requests four box bushes to crown the corners formed by an old-fashioned paling fence surrounding the site.
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Raleigh
Andrew Johnson
United States
Pullen Park
Nineteen Hurt In Calcutta Fighting
Calcutta Bengal April 15 Nineteen persons were seriously injured in heavy fighting between nationalists and police around burning tram cars in the Bhowanipore Sikh quarter. A mob protesting Mayor J M Sen Gupta s arrest stoned a fire brigade. Six European officers were injured. Durant, a man among the injured, was hospitalized. A European woman cyclist was stoned and forced to dismount. Ten Khalasis were injured.
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Calcutta
Bengal
India
Bhowanipore
J. M. Sen Gupta
Durant
Law Convinced Trucks Hauling Mineral Water
Pittsburgh April 15 two state troopers stopped two trucks near New Castle and found cases and barrels of mineral water. After questioning the drivers and inspecting the cargo the troopers were convinced the load was legitimate and not contraband.
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Law
Pittsburgh
New Castle
Women Enter Elective Offices Nationwide, League Finds
The League of Women Voters reports a rapid rise of women into local elective and appointive posts across four states. Connecticut Michigan Wisconsin Minnesota show sharp percentage gains from 1925 to 1929 and 1927 to 1929, with increasing numbers of state legislators and justices of the peace.
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Washington
Justices of the Peace
League of Women Voters
Connecticut
Michigan
Wisconsin
Minnesota
City Delays Bond Sale Amid Bid Conditions and Uncertainty
City officials again put off any action on $1.5 million in school and sewer bonds. Two bids were received from Stranahan-Harris Otis and Eldridge of New York with conditions, and Caldwell and Company of Nashville with a separate condition. Officials will reexamine tomorrow at 2 PM, amid concerns the State Steering Fund might not approve if bids are accepted.
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Stranahan-Harris and Otis
Toledo
Ohio
Eldridge and Company
New York
North Carolina
North Carolna Bank and Trust Company
North Carolina Bank and Trust Company
Caldwell and Company
Williams
Provident Savings Bank and Trust Company
Cecil Marainer
Commercial National Bank
State Sinking Fund Commission
Missionary Seized by Bandits on Yangtze River
Chinese bandits captured Canadian C A Bridgeman and a Chinese pastor at Changchow on the Yangtze Kiang about 60 miles below Chungking. They were taken inland and a ransom of 2006 000 was asked in the report from Peiping dated April 15.
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Peiping
China
C. A. Bridgeman
United Church of Canada
Changchow
Yangtze Kiang
Chungking
Agreement Reached on Escalator Clause in Naval Pact
London April 15 The American and British naval delegations reached a broader safeguard clause for the tri lateral naval treaty to allow increases for non signatories. Ambassador Morrow predicted signing by the Americans next week and a plenary session the following Tuesday. France requires preliminary Italian agreement and may reject Washington percentages if Germany expands.
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London
Morrow
France
Italy
Washington
Souvenir Shell Wounds Veteran In Arizona Hospital
In Tucson on April 15 a veteran named George Sandrock, who returned from overseas service in 1919 uninjured, was wounded when a shell he kept as a sou vvenir exploded. He is now in a government hospital receiving treatment for a shrapnel wound in the shoulder.
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Tucson
Ariz
George Sandrock
D A R Publishes Mrs Hobart Report On National Defense
Washington April 15 The indomitable Americanism report of Mrs Lowell Fletcher Hobart president general of the Daughters of the American Revolution was ordered printed for national circulation by the 29th continental congress of the DAR.
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Washington
Lowell Fletcher Hobart
the Daughters of the American Revolution
Continental Congress
D. A. We
Cunard Plans New Leviathan
London April 15 Cunard plans a new liner described by Syren and Shipping. The 1000 foot waterline vessel will have a 115 foot beam and a measured mile speed of 32 knots. It will carry first second and tourist class passengers and immigrants with many first class staterooms featuring attached bathrooms and a double tiered smoking room with balcony.
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London
Cunard Company
Syren and Shipping
Europa fastest Atlantic liner sets cross record details
The North German liner Europa now holds the Atlantic crossing record of four days and seventeen hours. She measures 935 feet in length and 101.6 feet in width. During trials she reached 27.67 knots and her top speed on the voyage was 29.1 knots.
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Europa
Parker Endorsed for Supreme Court Justice Seat
Henderson bar association endorsed Judge John J. Parker for supreme court justice in a telegram to Senator Lee Overman. Announcement dated April 15 reflects local support from the Henderson legal community.
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Parker
Henderson
John J. Parker
Supreme Court
Lee
Overman
Henderson Bar Association
Theodore Lewis Dies After Caledonia Riot
Theodore Lewis one of eleven prisoners shot in a riot at Caledonia prison farm died at the prison hospital. State prison superintendent George Ross Poll said death was due to heart failure, not injuries from shotgun bird-shot. Lewis had escaped in 1929 and was recaptured later that year.
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Raleigh
Apr
Theodore Lewis
Caledonia Prison Farm
Caledonia
George Ross Poll
Lewis
Fou
C. L. Jenkins
Clyde Lane
Poll
Lane
Pou
Harry Jones
Buncombe County
Gardner to Charlotte conference, address in Raleigh note
O Max Gardner left Raleigh for a social service conference in Charlotte where he will deliver an address tonight before attending the event. He travels from Raleigh to Charlotte on April 15, keeping with the day's schedules and appearances.
Lowell Observatory scientist asserts Planet X is trans-Neptunian planet
Dr. W M Slipher of Lowell Observatory says evidence shows the discovered Planet X is the long sought trans-Neptunian planet and not a comet. He cites misinterpretation of his announcement and notes observations confirm the March 10 discovery as the ninth planet predicted by Percival Lowell.
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Flagstaff
Ariz
W. M. Slipher
Lowell Observatory
Slipher
Percival Lowell
Striking Lincoln Memorial Students Face Expulsion
Harrogate Tennessee April 15 Striking students at Lincoln Memorial University face possible suspension for not returning to classes Judge J H S Morison acting president said he warned yesterday that those not back today would be suspended A temporary injunction bars McCarroll field and Miller from aiding strikers and a hearing was set for Ernest Fields on riot charges The strikers protest faculty dismissals seek investigations into school recognition by educational bodies
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Harrogate
Tenn
Lincoln Memorial University
J. H. S. Morison
Clay McCarroll
M. G. Miller
E. van Diller
McCarroll
Ernest Fields
Southern
Nation
Case's Apartment House Bombing Hits Chicago Area
In Chicago on April 15 a bomb was thrown into the apartment home of Charles Center Case a former special prosecutor who helped convict over 30 people in 1926 election frauds. Case was slightly injured by glass his 19 year old daughter Elizabeth was struck by plaster his wife and another daughter Winifred 15 were also hit while seated inside.
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Chicago
Charles Center Case
Case
Elizabeth
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