Bailey Seeks Senate Bid to Face Simmons in Democratic Primary
The state eyes Josiah William Bailey to enter the race against Senator Simmons in the Democratic primary. Bailey may run if no other Democrat volunteers. He would campaign vigorously, rallying supporters who opposed Simmons in 1928 and those backing Al Smith. If he runs, Bailey could unify the party and mount one of the state’s notable campaigns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Josiah William Bailey
Senate
Senator Simmons
Bailey
Stacy
Supreme Court
Justice Brogden
Mr. Bailey
Simmons
al Smith
Raleigh
Byrd to be promoted to rear admiral in Navy honor
The article reports that Congress is moving to promote Commander Richard E. Byrd to rear admiral, with a likely House concurrence and President Hoover signature. It notes Byrd’s physical handicaps versus his exceptional spirit and achievement, asserting the honor reflects national appreciation rather than adding to his essential ranking as the explorer of the earth's literal ends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Richard E. Byrd
Navy
Swanson
Virginia
Senate
House
Hoover
Byrd
Admiral Syrd
What It Costs to Live in High Point
A High Point woman writes to The Enterprise describing her seven person household surviving on two dollars a day while she is ill and six children await Christmas. The father is dead leaving the oldest boy as breadwinner.
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High Point
Santa
Mexico City
Senorita Concepcion
Treo Anaya
Senorita Esperanza Hernandez Lopez
Senorita Esperanza
Corral
Cost of living scars a seven member family on two dollars a day
A letter urges readers to fund Christmas relief while highlighting a family of seven living on two dollars daily. It questions the real cost of living, noting rent fuel and clothing consume most income and meals may cost only two to three cents each, far below the American standard. It calls for reflection and action on escalating household expenses.
A Parable on Police and Radical Demonstrations
A Washington protest by communists at the White House was harshly broken up while a similar Cleveland gathering faced no interference. President Hoover urged release, framing the arrest as cheap martyrdom. The piece argues unequal treatment and media impact of arrests.
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Cleveland
Haiti
Wall Street
Foremost Dairies Plans 6 Million South Expansion Tour
Foremost Dairies Inc backed by J C Penney and Dr Burdette Lewis plans to invest 6 million dollars in the South, with 2 million in the Carolinas for experimental work, demo farms, and dairy plants to diversify agriculture and attract farmers from one crop systems as the tour goes through Charlotte and Greensboro.
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Foremost Dairies, Inc
J. C. Penney
Charlotte
Greensboro
Little Rock
Arkansas
South
Dr. Lewis
Denmark
Speech and Silence Tactics Controversy Sparks Debate
The article argues police actions against a speaker backfire by widening the audience. It notes Washington and other cities face lessons about suppression versus free speech. It contends clubbing and imprisoning a speaker amplifies attention while silencing him only muffles him temporarily.
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Cleveland
Washington
Dan Allen hailed as Raleigh King of the Underworld
An editorial in the High Point Enterprise praises Dan Allen real estate operator of Raleigh as a humane leader known as Raleigh’s King of the Underworld. It notes his death from angina pectoris after bronchial illness and lauds his charity, simplicity, and broad city influence. He shunned Prohibition yet aided drunks and other the distressed while maintaining personal humility.
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Raleigh Times
High Point Enterprise
Raleigh
Dani Allen
Dan Allen
Capital
Underworld
Dan
Christ
Temple
Louisiana woman shoots man not her husband
A Louisiana woman wounded a man who was not her husband, a deed likely to bring trouble. General Smethey D. Butler faced criticism again recently, noted humorously as a man for whom carpets were made. Hoovers commissions offer little to help when snow blocks a garage and the battery dies.
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Louisiana
Smethey D. Butler
General Butler
Senator Nye and Grundy clash over western states talk
After Nye’s reception for a new senator, Grundy argues western prairie states should speak bluntly. The remark suggests ongoing tensions about Senate conduct and regional influence in Washington.
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Nye
Senate
Grundy
Crain States
Alma Rubens Released From Insane Asylum
Alma Rubens, once a prominent stage and film actress, is discharged from the Patton state insane asylum after being treated for narcotic addiction. Officials say she was released as cured following conferences with state authorities. Her family denied her location, hinting at seclusion near Fresno, while a brother-in-law contradicted that claim.
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Los Angeles
Alma Rubens
Patton
Cal
Miss Rubene
LE Karly Jensen
G. M. Webster
Thos. Joyce
State Hospital
Spadra
Theresa Rubens
Fresno
Miss Rubens
Bruce Large
Rubens
Ricardo Cortez
Rail Commission Plan Flows Toward Broad Consolidation
The commission seeks to relieve its mandate to draft a consolidation plan amid rail realignment proposals. Eastman notes the plan is compulsory and lacks assurance of authority to implement. Proposals would reshape ownership, with B O heads group gaining major lines and new trunk systems forming around Wabash. New England and Atlantic routes recast and lines shuffled among Norfolk Southern and other carriers.
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Eastman
Eastern
New York Central
Pennsylvania
Chesapeake and Ohio
Erie
Pere Marquette
Baltimore and Ohio J
Reading
Central of New Jersey
Pittsburgh
West Virginia
Maryland
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company
Indiana
Detroit, Toledo and
Ironton
Seaboard Air Line
Florida
Baltimore and Ohio
Wabash
New England
Boston and Maine
New Haven
Boston and
Albany
Atlantic Coast Line
Louisville and
Nashville
Southern Railway Company
Florida East Coast Line
Norfolk Southern
Mobile and Ohio
Chicago, Indianapolis
Louisville
Northern
Wabash Seaboard
Lehigh Alley
Wheeling & Lake Erie
Pittsburgh & West Virginia
Akron, Canton & Youngstown
Toledo, Peoria & Western
Ann Arbor
Chesapeake & Ohio
New Jersey
Illinois
Jinistique & Lake Superior
Norfolk & Western
Detroit, Toledo & Ironton
Chaffee
East Berlin
Emmitsburg
Susquehanna & New York
Williamsport & North Branch
Chesapeake Western
Valley River
Big Sandy
Cumberland
Franklin & Pittsylvania
Marion and
Rye Valley
Virginia Southern
Cumberland & Pennsylvania
Aberdeen & Rockfish
Bennettsville
Cheraw
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Cliffside
Carolina & Northeastern
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Edgemoor & Manetta
Piedmont & Northern
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High Point
Thomasville & Denton
Lawndale Railway
Macon
Dublin
Atlantic
Yadkin
Townsville
Warrenton
Tampa
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Nashville, Chattanooga
St. Louis
Clinchfield
Atlanta
Birmingham & Coast
Gulf, Mobile & Northern
New Orleans
Alabama
Florida and Gulf
Ashland
Atlantic & Carolina
Charleston & Western Carolina
Rockingham
Black Mountain
Chattanooga Valley
East Carolina
Flemingsburg & Northern
Hampton & Branchville
Kentucky
Rockcastle
Laurinburg & Southern
Mammoth Caves
Manistee & Repton
Milstead
Lakeland
Northwestern
South Carolina
Norton and Northern
Ohio & Kentucky
Roaring Fork
Rockcastle River
Savannah
Tennessee, Alabama & Georgia
Tuskegee
Washington and
Lincolnton
Wilmington, Brunswick & Southern
Savannah River
Port St. Rock & Terminal
Southern Railway
Tennessee Central
Harriman
Florida East Coast
Chicago
Indianapolis
Appalachian
Augusta
Bamberg
Ehrhardt
Walterboro
Carolina
Dover
Gram County
Hartwell
Lancaster and Chester
Linville
Little River
Congress Passes Large Railroad Consolidation List
Congress enjoyed a productive session with approval of major railroad consolidations including the Wabash Seaboard and Atlantic Coast Line groupings. It also cleared nominations, moved public buildings funding, interior budget items, and prison reform plans, while advancing anti pest and court house projects.
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Senate
Jones
Republican
Washington
Joint Congressional Committee
Hoover
Prohibition Service
Lobby
House
Interior Department
Congress
White House
Florida
Supreme Court
Senators Warn Against Fast Action on State-County Plan
The article notes Democratic U S senators in Washington advised caution on a proposed action linking state and county offices. Senator Black of Alabama criticized the move while the national executive committee chair urged against it, stating the decision was not made hastily.
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United States
Washington
Senator Black
Alabama
National Executive Committee
Alabama votes and statewide margin in 1924 race
Birmingham attorney Locke cited a state committee ruling that left county committees to determine candidate qualifications as an arbitrary distinction amid 7 000 votes versus a nearly 68 000 margin in 1924 at a preliminary meeting with backers.
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Locke
Birmingham
State Committee
Gorman Guards Livermore Mansion After Nassau Detective Resigns
Frank Gorman, famed crack pistol shot and athlete, guards the Livermore mansion at Sands Point Long Island. He has resigned as Nassau county detective and stays in a room beside the stock operator's two young sons amid kidnapping threats. Some papers say the job protects against stock losers or against Arthur Barry who escaped prison for gem theft.
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New York
Jesse WL. Livermore
Frank Gorman
Nassau County
Gorman
Livermore
Exclusive Sands Point
Long Island
Arthur Barry
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