Textile strike tensions rise in Carolinas with new walkouts
In Gastonia North Carolina demonstrators clashed with police after a parade. About 50 to 75 additional strikers joined the National Textile Workers Union idle ranks. Dacotah mills in Lexington reopened with near full staff as Wennonah mills remain closed.
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Charlotte
National Textile Workers Union
Dacotah
Lexington
N. C
Gastonia
Carolinas
Calvine Mill
Chadwick-Hoskin
Wennonah
WN. C
Russell Knight
Loray
Robbers And Inspector Shoot It Out In Chicago Hotel
Chicago on April 23 postal inspector Evan Jackson led a trap for four robbers at the Hawthorne Arms hotel. Jackson was shot three times but wounded suspect Clyde Mackin was captured. A woman, Marian Courtney, was injured after leaping from a window. The gang fled. three escaped. Jackson dictated a deathbed statement and identified money orders totaling 1,100 dollars cashed at a store.
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Chicago
Evan Jackson
Hawthorne Arms
Jackson
Clyde Mackin
Marian Courtney
Morris Stein
Stein
Postal Service
Mackin
Harris Travis
Eddie Courtney
William Doody
Hoover Plan Setback In Committee
In Washington and the Mississippi and Illinois river basins, a Hoover plan faced delays. The Senate immigration committee postponed action on repealing the national origins provisions, while discussions continued on farm relief tariff revision and census reapportionment. The House debated the farm measure as senators debated funding for the special session.
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Washington
Hoover
Senate Immigration Committee
House
Senate
Nye
Republican
North Dakota
Reed
Pennsylvania
McNary
Agriculture Committee
Capitol
Kincheloe
Kentucky
Reparations talks limp toward final report
Paris experts failed to bridge the reparations gap as the committee began final work. The German group hoped to reopen talks while French and Belgian officials stood firm, with a report planned on disputed points and a separate noncontested section. Participants include Dr. Schacht Owen Young Emile Moreau Emile Francqui Sir Josiah Stamp and Kenso Mori.
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Hijalmar Schacht
Berlin
Dr. Schacht
Owen D. Young
Emile Moreau
Emile Francqui
Commandatore Pirelli
Kenso Mori
Sir Josiah Stamp
US Stand On Armaments Interests
In Geneva on April 23 American push for drastic naval cutbacks continued to echo in League circles. Reports say Ambassador Hugh L. Gibson’s Geneva remarks are studied by European chancelleries as a high level state document. The American delegation repeats there are no instructions for Gibson to negotiate with any naval power. If the disarmament commission accepts American methods, progress toward a future conference is possible, with debates over fleet tonnage limits expected.
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Geneva
League of Nations
Hugh L. Gibson
Europe
Gibson
Preparatory Disarmament Commission
Primary Election Returns Tonight From Enterprise
Returns from today’s city council primary will be announced from the Enterprise building tonight after tabulation. The Enterprise office expects results to begin around 7:30 and final ward results to be known before nine o’clock.
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Enterprise Building
Enterprise Office
Hoover Expands Law Enforcement Emphasis Across Levels
President Hoover broadens his crime crackdown to include state local and federal laws. He aims to aid state crime commissions and push judicial and enforcement improvements to curb the national crime wave. He framed enforcement as a national citizen responsibility and leadership duty.
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Associated Press
Washington
Hoover
United States
New York City
Prohibition of Poison Gas Adopted by Geneva Commission
In secret session the League of Nations preparatory commission on disarmament adopted Belgian proposals for a reciprocal ban on poison gas and a total ban on bacteriological warfare. It also backed a Soviet draft urging ratification of the 1925 Geneva protocol.
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Geneva
Preparatory Commission On Disarmament
League of Nations
Autopsy Performed on Veteran Curator Dr Daniel Lamb
Washington April 23 autopsy conducted on Daniel Smith Lamb veteran curator of the army medical museum under army medical corps Major G R Callendar performed the dissection per Lambs last wishes The autopsy aimed to reveal medical secrets and preserve his brain for study in line with his instructions to his friends and colleagues.
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Washington
Daniel Smith Lamb
Army Medical Museum
Ales Hrdlicka
National Museum
Marshal Chang Departs for Japan After Defeat in Shantung
Chefoo China April 23 Marshal Chang Tsung Chang and his routed forces left Chefoo for Dairen in Japanese territory after a two month stay in Shantung. Nationalist General Lieu Chen-Niem led a night sortie into Ninghaichoe, winning a smashing victory and driving Chang’s retreat with little opposition. Merchants feared depredations as the northern province lost its feared leader.
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Chefoo
Shantung
China
Chang Tsung Chang
Shantung Province
Lieu Chen-Niem
Chang
Robbers Take $150 From Hendersonville High
Hendersonville April 25. Robbers pried open the high school vault and carried off about $150. About $125 in quarters came from student deposits on locker keys. The rest belonged to high school literary societies. Officials deem the crime amateurish and say no clues were left. Sheriff and city police are investigating.
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Hendersonville
Hendersonville High School
Sheriff's Department
Policeman suspended over attack on Gastonia newspaperman
W T Rankin Gastonia mayor says special city deputy W Binedeman struck Legette Blythe in Loray strike zone and faced suspension while a full inquiry is launched. Blythe, hit on the head and knocked unconscious, says he was alone and aware of no motive. Solicitor J G Carpenter also orders an investigation.
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Gastonia
W. W. Bindeman
Legette Blythe
Loray
W. T. Rankin
Blythe
John G. Carpenter
John F Curry Heads Tammany Hall Leader
John F. Curry, a wealthy New York insurance man and longtime west side district leader, was elected chieftain of Tammany Hall to succeed the resigning George W. Olvany.
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George W. Olvany
New York
John F. Curry
West Side
Tammany Hall
Vanderburg to face murder trial over farmhouse killings
Jacob Vanderburg a 17 year old Gaston County farm boy is slated to go on trial in superior court on charges of murdering his parents two sisters a brother and setting fire to the farmhouse. The state plans to prove the axe murder and arson while the defense will raise mental condition and lack of knowledge of the killings as two main issues.
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Gastonia
Jacob Vanderburg
Gaston County
Jacob
Wembley to add seats for FA Cup final crowd
LondonApril 23 3000 seats at Wembley were inadequate to host the Portsmouth versus Bolton Wanderers FA Cup final crowd. Officials announced 20000 extra seats will be added after tickets sold out a month earlier.
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London
Wembley Stadium
Portsmouth
Bolton Wanderers
Furniture Strike Negotiations Open in Staunton
Staunton and Waynesboro workers from three furniture plants walk out in sympathy with a Waynesboro plant strike. About 600 employees involved. Key demands include discharge of the Waynesboro plant manager, dismissal of nine newly hired women, and restoration of jobs for older workers and those who quit. Julius L. Witz says no formal complaints reached him yet but will meet with the negotiating committee.
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Staunton
Waynesboro
J. L. Witz Furniture Company
Basic Furniture Company
Basic Company
Julius L. Witz
Spanish flyers take off with important papers
Lima dispatch reports Spanish fliers Captain Ignacio Jimsiez and Francesco Iglesias flying from Arica Chile toward Lima with supposedly decisive documents in the Tacna Arica dispute between Chile and Peru.
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Lima
Ignacio Jimsiez
Francesco Iglesias
Tacna- Arica
Chile
Peru
Arica
Monophone proposal aims for wired broadcast revolution
Major General George O. Squier outlined a monophone system using telephone and power lines to deliver three programs into homes with switch or button control. The system promises no tuning, adjustable volume, and elimination of static and fading, favoring education and a future super-university via chain broadcasting.
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Washington
National Academy of Sciences
George O. Squier
Church of England in Canada warns divorce a moral peril
The House of Bishops issued a clergy proclamation in Toronto urging seriousness over divorce. They warn that the breakup of families, increased grounds and facilities for divorce threaten the stability of modern civilization and run contrary to New Testament teaching.
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Church OF England
Canada
Toronto
House of Bishops
Christ
Attempt to undermine Romanian government foiled in arrests
In Bucharest on April 23 police arrested thirty five communists at Belkogen after uncovering a plot to undermine the government. Earlier in Kishinev clashes occurred at a communist burial and at Turnu Severin another outbreak was suppressed by police.
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Bucharest
Romania
Belkogen
Kishinev
Turnu Severin
Hoover's Hat Holder Defendants in Big Suit
J W Reeder who held President Hoover's hat on inauguration day is named defendant in a district court suit by his five sons to set aside the trust deed to their father s $509 000 estate. The father deeded his estate to Arthur Lund as trustee for heirs and filed an agreement on disposition. Dr Grant S Reeder of Fremont Neb and four other sons object to the plans arguing the attorney has absolute authority over the property.
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Tifton
J. W. Reeder
Hoover
Reeder
Arthur Lund
Grant
Fremont, Neb
Believe 200 Drowned In Sea Disaster
Tokyo dispatch reports the Toyo Kuni Maru sank after striking rocks off Cape Erine in Kokkaido. About 209 aboard, 176 fishermen to Makchatka headed north. Rescue ships found 97 survivors early today as search efforts continued with limited hope for more.
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Tokyo
Cape Erine
Kokkaido
Kakodate
Ominato
Makchatka
Adjutant General Metts to Attend Washington Meeting
Adjutant General J. Van B Metts, who had served in the Piedmont strike zone, traveled to Washington for a meeting of adjutants general at the war department. Col. Gordon Smith also went to attend a conference of U.S. property and disbursing officers for the national guard.
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Raleigh
J. van B. Metts
Piedmont
Washington
War Department
Col
Gordon Smith
U.S
National Guard
Senate Votes to Defray Marine Band Visit to Veterans Reunion
The Senate approved a 7500 appropriation to send the Marine Band to North Carolina for the Confederate veterans reunion in June. Debate centered on whether such bills should originate in the House with several senators voicing opposition before the measure passed without objection.
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Senate
Marine Band
Washington
North Carolina
Smoot
Finance Committee
House
Swanson
Virginia
Warren
Appropriations Committee
Young Bill Tilgham Returned to Jail After Bus Capture
In Daenport Oklahoma on April 23, Young Bill Tilgham escaped from Tennessee prison to avenge his father Bill Tilgham a famed frontier peace officer. He was captured by Police Chief Marvin Roberts a quarter hour before Wylie Lynn the former prohibition officer who killed Tilgham Sr. arrived. Tilgham allied as F B Wilson served for attempted robbery before escaping. Lynn had been acquitted for the killing and later jailed briefly for contempt.
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Daenport
Okla
Bill” Tilgham
Tennessee Penitentiary
Bill Tilgham
Young Tilgham
Marvin Roberts
Wylie Lynn
Cromwell
Lynn
F. B. Wilson
Tennessee
Memphis
Tilgham
Dodge City
Kan
United States
Oklahoma Territory
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