Wiggins trial moved to Mecklenburg County court
Five men charged with second degree murder in the killing of textile worker Ella May Wiggins will have their trial moved from Gaston to Mecklenburg County. Judge J. H. Clement ordered the change at Gaston County Court this morning amid defense opposition. Trial set for February 24 in Charlotte.
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Wiggins
Mecklenburg
Stimson
Gastonia
Ella May Wiggins
J. H. Clement
Dennis G. Brummitt
John G. Carpenter
Clement
Mecklenburg County
Charlotte
Mecklenburg Superior Court
Carpenter
Gaston County
Lineberger
Eli Lineberger
Horace Wheelus
Troy Jones
O. H. Lunsford
Lowry Davis
Fred Morrow
Winston Man Ends Life By Jump From Hotel
A Winston-Salem man Harry H. Yacobs, about 50, was killed in Richmond when he jumped or fell from a fifth story hotel window. Coroner ruled death by own action. A telegram signed Nan noted arrival in New York. room contained a watch, small change, and keys with Winston-Salem on the ring.
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Richmond
Harry H. Yacobs
Winston-Salem
N. C
James N. Whitfield
New York
Nan
Fire Swept Through Hospital Basement But Patients Safe
A basement fire at Mercy Hospital in Chicago on January 16 prompted alarm among 350 patients. Six firefighters fainted from paint fumes but were not seriously harmed. no patients required removal. A baby was born to Mrs Veronica O Neill during the disturbance.
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Chicago
Mercy Hospital
Véronica O'Neill
Rotary Planning Big Ladies Night
High Point Rotary announces its annual Ladies Night at 6 45 pm in the Sheraton hotel ballroom. Notables include Rotary International President M Eugene Newsome with Mrs Newsome and Henry R Dwire Winston-Salem district governor. Prof E B Stimson will supervise a musical program with stunts and contests during dinner. Rev Tom Alderman Sykes serves as toastmaster.
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M. Eugene Newscome
Durham
Rotary International
High Point Club
Sheraton Hotel
High Point Rotary
M. Eugene Newsome
Newsome
Will Henry R. Dwire
Winston-Salem
Beal Arrested as Textile Protest at New Bedford
Police broke up a crowd of about 1000 as ten men and two women were arrested after organizers of the National Textile Workers Union attempted a protest. Fred E K Beal and Martin Russak were halted early. Beal proclaimed a message of the southern workers before police removed him to the central station.
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New Bedford
Mass
National ‘Textile Workers Union
Fred EK. Beal
Gastonia
N. C
Martin Russak
Beal
Former Colorado Governor Praises Independents in Congress
Former Governor William E. Sweet told at State College Raleigh that independents in Congress keep the government on a sane plane. He called them responsible for balanced prudent government and spoke on "The New Patriotism."
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Raleigh
William E. Sweet
Colorado
Congress
State College
Senator Wheeler calls Henderson to testify on KWKH language
In Washington on January 16 Senator Wheeler urged calling W K Henderson of KWKH Shreveport before the Interstate Commerce Committee to address criticism of profanity on his broadcasts. Chairman Couzens warned hearings could stretch, while Dill and Wagner pressed limits on perceived censorship and continued use of objectionable language.
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W. K. Henderson
KWKH
Shreveport
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
Wheeler
Montana
William S. Hedges
National Association of Broadcasters
Couzens
Hedges
Henderson
Senate
Radio Commission
The
Montanan
Dill
Wagner
New York
Taft Anxious To View Asheville
The weather cleared as Chief Justice Taft and wife prepared for a short auto ride around Asheville after noon. He has shown eagerness to see as much of the district as possible during his month there and dislikes being confined to his hotel suite.
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Asheville
Grove Park Inn
Taft
Nature Is Running Its Full Gamut Relief From Floods In South
A series of natural events across the United States includes a southern California earthquake, cold in the northwest and Rocky Mountains, and floods in the middle west and south. In Indiana 500 families fled the Wabash flood at Vincennes. in Ottawa 200 people were rescued from the Blanchard river. Denver reported six cold related deaths as temperatures fell seven degrees below zero. Snow blocked Colorado and New Mexico passes while the south stayed clear as floods receded in the Mississippi basin. Weather across New England and the Atlantic coast was cold with light snow flurries.
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Northwest
Rocky Mountain
Middlewest
South
Nature
United States
Los Angeles
Pomona
San Bernardino
Vincennes
Indiana
Ottawa
Blanchard
Mississippi Valley
Denver
Albuquerque
N. M
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New Mexico
Mississippi
New England
Atlantic
Grey Bodenheimer fined for assault with deadly weapon
In Forsyth county, undertaker Grey Bodenheimer was fined 3500 after pleading guilty to assault with a deadly weapon connected to a car accident last fall that fatally injured J. W. Johnson of Yadkin county. Dr Charles O'H Laughinghouse injured in Sanford crash en route to a safety banquet. William Green to speak in Asheville March 24. A man in Charlotte signed as a physician to a $20 check at a drug store. suspects tracked.
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Syton-Salem
N. C
Grey Bodenheimer
Forsyth County
J. W. Johnson
Yadkin County
Adi
Charles O'H. Laughinghouse
Sanford
Charlotte
Ambassador Bliss aboard Santa Barbara sails to New York
Valparaiso Chile January 16 American ambassador to Argentina Robert Woods Bliss was aboard the Santa Barbara which sailed yesterday for New York. He stopped at Santiago en route to Valparaiso.
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Valparaiso
Chile
Robert Woods Bliss
Argentina
Santa Barbara
New York
Santiago
American Delegation Advances Toward Five Power Naval Treaty
Ss. George Washington reports the American delegation led by Colonel Henry L. Stimson nearing English shores for the London five power naval conference. They aim to curb sea armaments under Hoover's ideal, with final preparations completed aboard ship and plans likely to be discussed with Prime Minister MacDonald on the conference opening.
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Paris
Tardieu
Stimson
London
United States
Great Britain
Dayland
Morning Post
Ramsay MacDonald
George Washington
Hoover
Henry L. Stimson
England
MacDonald
Sun Tan Tabooed By Cosmeticians
Chicago report says the 1930 summer sweepstakes topic deems sun tan a mud color. The American Association of Cosmeticians and hair artists backs the ruling that tanning ruins complexion. Ruth D. Maurer is cited in the dispute over the shade.
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Chicago
American Association of Cosmeticians and Hair Artists
A. A
H. A
Ruth D. Maurer
Heflin Attacks Papal Encyclical On Education
Senator Heflin of Alabama denounces Pope Pius XII encyclical released January 13 as the boldest and most direct attack on the American public school system since the pope's rise to pontificate. The Senate hearing follows the encyclical's statements on education.
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Washington
Senate
Heflin
Alabama
America
Pius II
Prohibition Turns Ten With Debate At Capitol
On its tenth anniversary the dry law is debated at the Capitol. Prohibition Commissioner Doran says large liquor operators are nearly out of business and enforcement tightens on smaller violators. House and Senate discuss repeal measures and enforcement realignments.
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Doran
Prohibition
Capitol
House
Senate
Prohibition Bureau
America
Oliver
New York
Blaine
Wisconsin
Children Blinded by Maladministration at Athens Eye Clinic
A London Daily Express dispatch reports 40 children at an eye clinic near Kesarion in Athens were blinded after attendants mistaken a powerful cauterizing fluid for medicine and applied it to them. The incident led the Greek health minister to order prosecutions of the involved oculists.
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London
A_ dispatch
Athens
Greece
London Daily Express Today
Capital
Kesarion
Smallest liquor fine set in federal court case
Morris Halverson, 20, a recent Canadian arrival, was fined two cents in federal court for selling home brew. The tiny penalty was claimed as the smallest ever imposed in a liquor case here.
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Battle
Wash
Morris Halverson
Canada
Supreme Court Asked to Rule on Radio Act Constitutionality
The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago referred a case to the Supreme Court seeking determination of the constitutionality of the Federal Radio Act. The request marks a pivotal legal question reaching the nation's highest court.
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Ashington
Dan
Supreme Court
Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals
Chicago
Fighting reported at Hoihow between anti Nanking forces and Canton navy
Reports say fighting broke out at Hoihow the main port of Hainan as anti Nanking troops clashed with the Canton navy. The British sloop Magnolia departed for Hoihow to protect foreigners there.
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Iong Kong
Hoihow
Hainan
Canton Navy
Magnolia
Hubbys Psittacosis Idea Ends With Parrot Still Safe
In Chicago on January 16, Ben Plonsky urged Dr. William Tyler to seize his wife’s parrot as a psittacosis threat. The parrot passed a full physical, with normal pulse and clear lungs, and Mrs. Plonsky resisted removal. Plonsky quipped the idea was swell, despite the parrot remaining in place.
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Chicago
Ben Plonsky
Plonsky
William Tyler
Health Department
Taylor
Plonsky Parrot
Senate Reverses Sugar Tariff Increases
The Senate voted 48 to 34 to retain the existing sugar tariffs, with 18 Republicans and 4 Democrats sustaining present rates. The move blocks the higher duties proposed by the finance committee and signals possible conference compromise with the House on tariffs and export debentures.
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Senate
Harrison
Miss
Finance Committee
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Ablen
Blaine
Borah
Brookhart
Capper
Gillett
Goff
Jones
Keyes
Hayden
Heflin
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Sheppard
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Steck
Swanson
Thomas
Oklahoma
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Tydings
Wagner
Walsh
Massachusetts
Wheeler
Farmer Labor
Shipstead
Broussard
Kendrick
King
Ransdell
Baird
Bingham
Couzens
Dale
Deneen
Frazier
Goldsborough
Gould
Greene
Grundy
Hale
Hastings
Hatfield
Kerbert
Howell
Johnson
Kean
McCulloch
McNary
Moses
Nye
Oddie
Patterson
Phippe
Shortridge
Smoot
Steiner
Sullivan
Idaho
Townsend
Wendenberg
Walcott
Waterman
Watson
Simmons-Norris
Democrats
Hoover
LaGuardia Seeks 18th Amendment Inoperative
Representative LaGuardia of New York introduces a resolution claiming the eighteenth amendment is inoperative because only ten states ratified it. He argues the amendment never reached the required number of states, asserting it was merely a joint congressional resolution to prohibit alcohol.
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Washington
Representative LaGuardia
New York
Congress
Report Ejielson Found Near Anguemy River
Reports reach Moscow that Carl Ben Ejielson and his mechanic Earl Borland were near the Anguemy river in Siberia. Soviet authorities dispatch a dog sled expedition to the area though no confirmation exists.
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Moscow
Carl Ben Ejielson
Earl Borland
Anguemy
Siberia
R-100 Heads Out on Test Flight from Cardington
The British airship R-100 departed its hangar at Cardington on January 16 for a test flight expected to last five hours or longer.
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Cardington
Eng
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