Fokker Praises Balchen in Byrd Flight Tale and Critiques Byrd
The Flying Dutchman author Anthony H. G. Fokker lauds Bernt Balchen for navigation and piloting over Paris amid Byrd's trans Atlantic flight while criticizing Byrd and praising Balchen's beacon finds. Bert Acosta and Neville are described as failing in the voyage. Balchen retells the perilous night voyage with notes to Byrd.
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New York
Riverside Drive
Anthony H. G. Fokker
Flying Dutchman
Admiral Richards
Fokker
Byrd
Bernt Balchen
Paris
Lindbergh
Balchen
France
LeBourget
Bert Acosta
Neville
Outlaw Band Seizes Cabo Gracias a Dios Nicaragua
A radio report claims Sandino bandits captured Cabo Gracias a Dios and destroyed the U S weather observatory. U S State Department notes U S S Rochester at Cabo Garcias a Dios with few Americans, possibly radio operators whose whereabouts are unclear. The revolutionaries had earlier concentrated forces at Chamelecon and were defeated after 48 hours of fighting.
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New Orleans
Cabo Grancias A Dios
Nicaragua
United States Weather Observatory
Cabo Gracias A Dios
Puerto Cabezas
Cape
Tr. S
Port Washington
State Department
U.S. S. Rochester
Cabo Garcias A Dios
Foreign Relations Department
Revolutionary Movement
Chamelecon
Carlos Perdomo
Hickory Man Nominated Rotary District Governor
H Hickory North Carolina resident H Brent Schaeffer was nominated for district governor by Rotary’s 58th district convention in Greenville South Carolina. If confirmed at the Vienna international convention he will succeed J Boone Aiken of Florence South Carolina.
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Greenville
8. C
H. Brent Schaeffer
Hickory
N. C
Rotary
Schaeffer
Vienna
Austria
J. Boone Aiken
Florence
Rotary Cluba
North Carolina
South Carolina
Roy
Z. Thomas
Rock Hill
S. C
Abu Nix
Athens
Myron J. Crocker
Concord
Gar Wood Plans New Attempt To Break Speed Record
Gar Wood, in a telephone call from New York, said he would return to Miami Beach to renew his bid to surpass the world speedboat record of 103.49 miles per hour held by Kaye Don of England. Wood previously made nine tries here ten days ago, with his best time just under Don's mark.
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Miami Beach
Fla
Gar Wood
New York
Kaye Don
England
Wood
Don
Conferees Predicted To End Revenue Bill Discord Tonight
Raleigh April 24 AP Senate conferees and the house group have been at odds over the biennial revenue bill since Tuesday. A meeting produced no definite agreement as Dunlap of Anson and MacLean of Beaufort held secret talks. A likely plan would favor a temporary commodities tax for school funding to be voter approved next election, while the house would back the Folger machinery bill with a 10 percent teacher pay cut and other cuts.
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Senate Group
House
Dunlap
Raleigh
Senate
Anson
MacLean of
Beaufort
MacLean
Clarkson Measure Passed By House
RALEIGH April 24 The House passed the Clarkson bill to extend the Ewbank law to tax suits for 1930 and later years attaching a maximum attorney fee of 10 dollars. The measure, introduced in the Senate as a substitute after the Whedbee act, would cap costs at 12 dollars and deny attorney fees. It becomes law upon ratification.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
House
Senate
Explosion of Glass Eye Triggers Damage Suit
S H Beasley sues Dr W W T Ferneyhough and American Optical for 15000 after his glass eye burst while he read, causing serious wounds and 38 days of work loss. Beasley says the eye, supplied by the optical firm, fractured due to a flaw later admitted by the defendants who provided a replacement eye.
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Greensboro
S. H. Beasley
W.W. T. Ferneyhough
American Optical Company
Beasley
Optical Company
President Urges Solution of Negro Housing Problem
President Hoover urged solving the negro housing problem in a message delivered by Secretary Lamont. At the opening meeting of the committee on Negro housing, the national group urged focus on improving black housing as their primary work.
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Washington
Hoover
Lamont
Commerce Department
Six Firemen Injured in Flames at Montreal Flour Mill
Six firemen were injured as walls collapsed during a blaze at the Western Canada Flour Mills plant in Montreal. The fire, the second in two years, caused about five million nine hundred thousand dollars in damage.
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Montreal
Que
Black Square
Western Canada Flour Mills Company
North Carolina Senate Revises School Funding Totals
The North Carolina Senate reversed earlier changes and restored an $18.5 million house allotment for school support in the biennial appropriations bill. The University of North Carolina receives $759,000 annually under the final bill, with other institutions set at specified amounts. Money to support schools will be added later in a supplementary act after the revenue bill passes.
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Raleigh
Senate
Committee of the Whole
House
University of North Carolina
Appalachian State Teachers College
Western Carolina Teachers College
Negro Agricultural and Technical College
Eastern Teachers College
N. C. State
N. C. Cy
Department of Labor
Third gruesome death uncovered in San Diego
San Diego police uncover a third murder amid two grisly slayings. Mrs W D Ribbens 35 was found dead in her apartment with unknown cause as a newspaper dated April 16 suggests time of death. The apartment was ransacked and linked to the Agua Caliente race follower.
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San Diego
Cal
Virginia Brooks
Louise Teuber
W. D. Ribbens
Philosophical Society Adds 27 New Members
The American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia announces the election of 27 new members. The list includes prominent scholars and scientists, reflecting the society’s tradition of selective membership.
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Philosophical Band
Philadelphia
The
American Philosophical Society
America
Ballot Boxes Impounded in North Carolina Senate Contest
The senate elections sub-committee ordered the impounding of ballot boxes in the North Carolina senatorial contest between Pritchard and Bailey. Governor Gardner's proposal to seize the ballots and registration lists was accepted, with post office inspectors to transport them to Washington for guarding. Counting and inquiry will wait until the next session in December when funding is expected.
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Washington
North Carolina
Senate
Moses
New Hampshire
Gardner
Post Office
Pritchard
Bailey
Trial dates set for Chimney Rock Trust officials
In Rutherpordton North Carolina on April 24 the defunct Chimney Rock Trust company officials M Flack and L Cobb face trial at the May term of superior court on charges of taking deposits while knowing the bank was insolvent. The items note other regional briefs from Durham Asheville and Salisbury.
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Rutherpordton
N. C
D. M. Flack
L. ©. Cobb
Chimney Rock Trust Company
Superior Court
Daniels Speaks to North Carolina Collegiate Press Group
Josephus Daniels editor of the News and Observer told the North Carolina Collegiate Press association in Raleigh that dullness in journalism is unforgivable and urged students to be crusaders editorially. Attending schools included Duke Eastern Carolina Teachers College Meredith North Carolina State Elon Wake Forest and others. The convention continues with officer elections and a banquet tonight.
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Raleigh
Josephus Daniels
News and Observer
North Carolina Collegiate Press Association
N. Cc
Meredith
N. C. State
Elon
Greensboro College
Wake Forest
Queens
Guilford
Davidson
Queens-Chicora
General Butler to Organize Police
Major General Smedley Butler of the United States Marine Corps will be granted several weeks leave to organize the state police of Oregon. The move aims to bolster local law enforcement and public safety in the state capital and surrounding areas.
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Washington
Smedley Butler
United States Marine Corps
Oregon
Moss Cherry Bill Sent To Conference For Licensing Charge
Raleigh April 24 The house refused to concur with the senate amendment on the Moss Cherry bill to license automobiles at 60 cents per hundredweight instead of horsepower. The house set 55 cents, but the senate restored 60 cents. The measure goes to a conference committee.
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Raleigh
House
Senate
Court reverses receivership order in Home Mortgage Co case
The United States circuit court of appeals reversed Judge J. M. Meekins decision granting a receivership for Home Mortgage Company of Hickory North Carolina. The case is remanded to Raleigh with instructions to vacate the receivership discharge receivers and return property to the mortgage company. Mrs Margaret Ramsey of Norfolk filed the action alleging missed payments on eight thousand five hundred dollars.
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Charleston
United States Circuit
Court, of Appeals
J. M. Meekins
Eastern
North Carolina
Home Mortgage Company
Hickory
N. C
Meekins
Raleigh
District Court
Margaret Ramsey
Norfolk
Murder trial set for May 11 in Rutherford court
In Rutherfordton North Carolina on April 24 the murder trial of Mrs John Lynch and John Paul Searcy was set for May 11 in Rutherford Superior Court. The investigation tied Searcy a former Lynch employee to the slaying after a January 25 shooting that killed Lynch following a threatening call.
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Rutherfordton
N. C
John Lynch
John Paul Searcy
Lynch
Searcy
Forty Negroes and Police Fired Upon
Forty black dock workers and a policeman on a riverfront truck were fired upon from ambush during ongoing longshoremen strike disorder in New Orleans.
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New Orleans
Resignation Petition Circulated for Bishop Cannon
Reports from Bristol and Birmingham say a petition asking Bishop James Cannon Jr. to resign the Methodist Episcopal Church South bishopric is circulating among Methodist leaders. The item notes Cannon's bid for president of the college of bishops would be delayed by rotation and that Bishop W N Ainsworth denied knowledge of the petition.
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Herald Courier
Ainsworth
Bristol
The
Herald-Courier
James Cannon
Methodist Episcopal Church, South
Cannon
College of Bishops
Horace M. DuBose
Nashville
W. B. Beauchamp
Paroseaid
Samuel R. Hay
Houston
Tex
Beauchamp
Birmingham
Ala
W. N. Ainsworth
Methodist Episcopal Church
South
James Cannon, Jr
Honduran Revolution Declared Terminated by Government
An official communication from Honduras to the legation announced that the revolutionary movement has been terminated. The report notes the most severe fighting occurred yesterday as government forces defeated the rebels.
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Washington
Honduras
Legation
Honduran Gov Forces Clear Rebels From Puerto Cortes Area
Government troops push rebels into Honduran interior after three attacks on Chamelecon near San Pedro Sula. Rebels suffer heavy losses with no current threat to the city. Salvadorean authorities intercept a rebel group preparing to invade from the Salvador border led by Ladislao Vasques and Pedro H. Ordonez.
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Tegucigalpa
Honduras
San Pedro Sula
Honduran
Puerto Cortes
Chamelecon
Salvador
Ladislao Vasques
Pedro H. Ordonez
Valle
Fonsedéa Bay
Pretender Lays Claim to Spanish Throne from Paris
Don Jaime de Bourbon Anjou, cousin of deposed Alfonso, claims the Spanish throne in a manifesto from Paris. He urges Spaniards to vote republican or monarchist in elections and advocates a monarchy renewed as progressive and decentralized led by a king head of a federation. He notes support among republicans and once served as a czarist army colonel and is 60.
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Paris
Jaime de Bourbon-Anjou
Alfonso Andd
Spain
Federation of
Dan Jaime
Baggett Introduces Salary Cut Measure
Raleigh April 24 Senator Baggett of Harnett introduced a bill in the general assembly to prohibit any appointive state officer from earning a salary higher than the lowest pay constitutional elective officers. He denounced excessive salaries and urged immediate passage, noting the measure would require a two thirds vote to suspend rules.
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Raleigh
Baggett
Harnett
General Assembly
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