Arrests Planned in Stavisky Affair in France
Paris February 24 cabinet session focused on the Stavisky scandal and Judge Albert Prince’s murder. Henry Cheron said new arrests were planned as Premier Doumergue pledged to oversee investigations with eron and two investigating commissions for widest facilities.
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Paris
Henry Cheron
Stavisky
Albert Prince
Gaston Doumergue
Serge Stavisky
Bayonne
Doumergue
Eron
Chamber of Deputies
Brittin Released Seeking New Work
Washington February 24 former Northwest Airways vice president Brittin was freed from DC jail after a ten day contempt of the senate sentence. He and attorney William MacCracken were jailed for removing subpoenaed documents during the senate mail investigation. MacCracken planned an appeal. Brittin said his first task is finding any job.
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Washington
P—L. HH. Brittin
Northwest Airways
District of Columbia
Senate
William PB. MacCracken
Senate Aimmail
MacCracken
Brittin
AT Fails in Charleston Airport Economy Move
Kk. A. T. fires help Charleston. The local airport today had but one employee. The others were discharged yesterday in a cost cutting move after cancellation of all mail contracts.
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Charleston
G. C
BE. A. T
Fiddler Contest Scheduled at Sea Gate March 2
Wilmington event sponsored by Bradley Creek P T A invites entries for best fiddler to win prize, ugliest man to be judged, and best rolling pin aim contest amid a lighthearted gathering of locals.
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Wilmington
Sea Gate
Here
Bradley Creek P.T. A
Waynick Compiles Tenant Firing Lists Amid Contracts
Enterprise Bureau Raleigh Feb 24 Capus M Waynick state director of the National Reemployment Service is compiling lists of tenant farmers and families cut off by tobacco farmers claiming to have signed tobacco acreage reduction contracts. He cites landlords who reportedly had agreed not to reduce tenants since 1933 but are terminating tenants, a charge challenged by Dean I O Schaub US Extension Service. Waynick has written to county reemployment office managers requesting lists of unemployed tenants who say landlords cut them off due to cotton reduction contracts and asked for names.
New Tobacco Counties Report Tenant Farmers Cut Off
The Lenoir county reemployment office lists 42 tenant farmers who lost work after landlords ended their contracts under new cotton acreage reduction terms. Each registrant represents a family, and the list names the landlords who cut them off. Similar reports from Person Wake and Wilson counties are expected daily as offices report more cases.
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Lenoir County
Tobacco
Person
Wake
Wilson
State Employees to Talk Unionization at Today's Session
The Raleigh Times reports state employees of the highway and public works commission are organizing into unions to pressure for higher pay. Governor Ehringhaus and Highway department Chairman Jeffress are aware, with C. M. Gaskill linked to the effort, and R. R. Lawrence of the State Federation of Labor probing workers about unionizing. Meetings were held in Cary and Fayetteville as plans progress.
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Raleigh
Raleigh Times
Highway and Public Works Commission
Ehringhaus
Jeffress
Highway Department
C. M. Gaskill
State Federation of Labor
R. R. Lawrence
Cary
Fayetteville
Bird House Contest Displays Set For March
The Garden Club council sponsors the third sanctuary contest as part of a state project. Displays will run March 2 and 3 at Efird's Depart ment store with space provided by M. F. Crooks. Prizes include two $5 and two $2.50 awards for design, durability, workmanship and originality.
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M. F. Crooks
Garden Clubs
Baird’s
A. BE. Frazier
C. EB. Sheloff
Juvenile and Parks Commission
New York Seer Talks of Stage Struggle and Hollywood Deals
Young actor Douglass Montgomery explains his shift from Broadway to Hollywood and back, seeking meaningful parts in Gentlewoman while fearing postponed shoots. He reflects on being stage driven, not content with screen work, and recalls the lure and misfires of film contracts.
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New York
Douglass Montgomery
Hollywood
California
Mr. Montgomery
Montgomery
Asheville Jail Cuts to Two Meals Daily
City jail chief W. J. Everett announces a new policy of only two meals a day at the Asheville jail, effective immediately, signaling a shift in inmate welfare.
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Asheville
W. J. Everett
California fish culturist raises trout to nineteen years
W. H. Shebley, a California fish culturist, reports a trout he raised lived 19 years. The long lived fish underscores remarkable longevity in cultured trout.
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California
W.H. Shebley
Fired Russian director confronts Hollywood boss
The Russian director Stravitskoi returns to Hollywood to claim work and pay checks. He tells Mr Glotz he has been employed for six months, but Glotz dismisses him and fires him on the spot.
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Hollywood
Glotz
Cinemaster
Honorary Titles To Be Barred Under Bill Introduced In House
Representative Cannon introduces a bill to bar honorary titles for film stars and celebrities lacking military service. The measure would limit titles or commissions to army navy marine corps officers and other recognized military and training units. Names cited include Marion Davies Bebe Daniels Will Rogers Gene Tunney Jack Dempsey Anita Loos.
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Kentucky
Representative Cannon
D-Wis
Cannon
Army
Marion Davies
Bebe Daniels
Will Rogers
Gene Tunney
Jack Dempsey
Anita Loos
Navy
Marine
Naval Reserve Corps
Officers Reserve Corps
Naval
National Guard
Pleasure Cruise at Carolina Wednesday
The Fox Film comedy Pleasure Cruise with Genevieve Tobin and Roland Young plays at the Carolina Wednesday. A glamorous ocean liner setting frames a cautious wife and an adventurous husband in a diverting romance with a strong comic ensemble including Una O Connor, Herbert Mundin, Minna Gombell, Theodore von Eltz, Frank Atkinson, Robert Greig and Arthur Hoyt.
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Genevieve Tobin
Roland Young
Carolina
Ralph Forbes
Una O'Connor
Herbert Mundin
Minna Gombell
Theodore von Eltz
Frank Atkinson
Robert Greig
Arthur Hoyt
Tharmadillo Reproduction By Budding In Four-Young Broods
Tharmadillo reproduces partly by budding with each brood arising from a single germ that buds into four parts, yielding four young per original.
Forsyth Man Held For Assault On 12-Year-Old Girl
Will Lawson, 22, is jailed in Forsyth County charged with criminal assault on a 12-year-old white girl. Leona MacKmore, a young white woman, is held as an accessory before the fact. The incident began when the girl was visiting a MacKmore girl. Lawson allegedly forced her into a cabin and assaulted her after being picked up in a car on the Roanoke road. The girl was found badly injured by city physicians. A second male driver is unidentified and at large.
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Winston-Salem
Will Lawson
Forsyth County
Leona MacKmore
MacEmore
Lawson
Roanoke
State to announce 1934 supply bids today
Raleigh clears bids submitted yesterday for miscellaneous supplies to be furnished in 1934 by the state. The division of purchase and contract will name the successful bidders in a forthcoming announcement.
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Raleigh
Division of Purchase and Contract
Salisbury Golfer Carded a Hole In One
Salisbury banker BE Woodson joined an elite club of golfers with an intentional hole in one at Salisbury Country Club on February 24. The feat came on the number six green as his caddy teased the moment and Woodson, though modest, called it his biggest kick in fourteen years of golf.
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Salisbury
BE. H. Woodson
Woodson
Salisbury Country Club
St. Andrews
Definition of a circular inch area
A circular inch refers to the area contained by a circle with a diameter of one inch. It represents the unit area equal to pi divided by four square inches.
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