Reed Delays Donation Vote on Red Cross Aid
In a move that delays the Senate action on a 25 million dollar appropriation to the Red Cross drought relief, Senator Reed of Pennsylvania pushed for postponement after a meeting with President Hoover. House leaders anticipate quick passage, while a wet bloc attacks prohibition enforcement and the Fish committee reports on communism.
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The
Cross
Reed
Pennsylvania
Hoover
House
Justice, State, Commerce and Labor Departments
Linthicum
Maryland
Igoe
Illinois
Black and Mead
New York
Prohibition Bureau
Fish Communist Investigating Committee
Nye
Campaign Funds Committee
Davis
Washington
Worker Freed After Oil Rig Arm Crushed by Steel Ring
In Hot Springs South Dakota a drilling crew wrestled to free Charles L Crayne trapped by a half ton weight pinning his hand under a six by ten inch ring. Fire crews used acetylene to cut a steel casing while gas dangers loomed. Crayne collapsed as the ring yielded and he was rushed to a hospital with doctors optimistic for his survival.
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Hot Springs
South Dakota
Osage
Charles L. Crayne
Crayne
Trusty A W C Lin Wild Escapade in Edenton
Edenton reports a Plymouth state prison farm trusty Charley Alexander drove a stolen car through town injuring a Black man named Jim Savage by running him down and breaking both legs. He collided with two autos and a tree before fleeing. Guards tracked him to his father’s home after a stop at a bootlegger’s.
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Edenton
Charley Alexander
Plymouth
Alexander
W. C. Spruill
Spruill
Windsor
Jim Savage
Marion Saunders Elected Director in Alumni Council
Marion Saunders of the University of North Carolina was chosen regional director for the third district of the American alumni council at the closing session of the annual convention in Birmingham Alabama on January 17.
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Birmingham
Ala
Marion Saunders
University of North Carolina
American Alumni Council
Public Building Expansion Plan Before Congress
Washington January 17 the administrations proposal for an immediate 100000000 expansion of the public buildings program to provide post offices and courthouses nationwide was laid before congress the plan lifts the outside DC total to 463090000 to speed up post office construction in revenue rich cities and to create 65000000 annually for construction increasing from 50000000 the measure removes the 10000000 yearly state cap hearings begin next week with Elliott and Keyes pushing for quick action and favorable action this session
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Washington
Congress
District of Columbia
Elliott
House Public Buildings Committee
Keyes
Senate Public Buildings Committee
Seizure Power Sought for Ballot Boxes in States
Washington January 17. Senator Norris Nebraska introduces a resolution giving the senate campaign funds committee power to seize and examine ballot boxes in any state. The move aligns with a Glass resolution to extend Nye committee authority over 1928 election fund handling. Heflin charges he was counted out in Alabama last election, Bankhead won, Heflin defends election as stolen.
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Washington
Senate Campaign Funds Committee
Norris
Nebraska
Nebraskan
Glass
Virginia
Nye Committee
Alabama
Heflin
Nye
John H. Bankhead
Senate
Black
Bankheag
Uniform license law sought in eleven states
New Orleans officials completed a conference favoring a uniform auto mobile license law. The plan is to seek enactment in 11 southern and mid western legislatures. License from any cooperating state would be valid for the entire year in which bought when traveling or residing in another member state.
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New Orleans
Clara Bow Talks Daisy DeBoe Case In Bedside Chat
Hollywood star Clara Bow, ill with bronchitis, discusses Daisy De Boe on trial for allegedly stealing 16 000 dollars from her. Bow recalls clashes over clothes and a photographer, claims Daisy’s money movements and poker games, and defends her own withdrawal from City Streets as due to a heavy role. She asserts Daisy bleaches her hair and seeks revenge.
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Jean Bosquet
Hollywood
Cal
Clara Bow
Beverly Hills
Daisy de Boe
Clara
New York
Daisy
Westwood
Representative Day Proposes Graduated Sales Tax Bill
North Carolina legislators introduced measures to fund six month school terms by taxing gross receipts and incomes over ten thousand dollars of professionals and retailers. The House and Senate moved bills aimed at revenue for schooling while local bills occupied agenda. Public hearings begin January 20 as departments present cases.
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Raleigh
General Assembly
Representative Young
Harnett
Baggett
Senate
Representative Day
Onslow
Jackson
Lee
Southport
South Carolina
House
Jeffress
Joint Appropriations Committee
Coal Miners Prepare to Return as Weavers Idle
London January 17. After over two weeks of idleness, 150,000 South Wales coal miners prepared to resume work on Monday while 250,000 Lancashire cotton weavers began an indefinite layoff. Since January 1 South Wales pits had been empty and Lancashire rooms idle since noon today amid sustained industrial strife.
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South Wales
Lancashire
London
Unmasked Bandit Robs Winston Man In Filling Station
WINSTON-SALEM January 17 An unmasked highwayman held up Nelson Still manager of the Standard Oil filling station at Burke street and Brookstown avenue here tonight and robbed him of about 30 dollars in cash. Still told police the man entered the station sat then asked the distance to Yadkinville. As he started to leave the man drew a pistol and ordered the cash be handed over.
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Winston-Salem
Nelson Still
Standard Oil Company
Burke Street
Brookstown Avenue
Yadkinville
House Wet Bloc Attacks Prohibition Agency Funding
In Washington on January 17, members of the house wet bloc opened a challenge to the prohibition bureau’s request for 500 new dry agents and about 2.5 million dollars in funding. Democrat Linthicum of Maryland led the attack, opposing wire tapping and accusing agents of running entrapment. New York lawmakers Black and Mead joined, urging delay for job relief.
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Washington
House
Wet Bloc
Prohibition Bureau
Law Enforcement Commission
Hoover
Commission
Representative Linthicum
Maryland
Black
Mead
New York
Justice Department
Police Increase Watch On Roads At Strike Scene
Danville Virginia January 17 police heightened patrols on roads into Schoolfield as reports stated a group of youths rocked a car and a driver was struck in the elbow. County officials also escorted two trucks through Schoolfield and a court made permanent a temporary restraining order barring strike interference at the mill gates.
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Danville
Schoolfield
W. T. Dodson
Dan River
Schoolfield-Greensboro
Dodson
L. L. Moore
North Carolina
Moore
Henry C. Leigh
Summerall Named Citadel President at Charleston
Major General Charles P. Summerall resigns as chief of staff and accepts the presidency of The Citadel South Carolina. He will assume duties at the start of the next college year on September 12 and oversee 700 cadets with a four officer staff on campus by the Ashley River.
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Charleston
8. C
Charles P. Summerall
Eustis
Fla
United States Army
Citadel
Military College of
South Carolina
West Point of the South
General Summerall
Ashley River
Military College
General Summera
West Point
Food price and banking probe set to open Monday
Senate committees plan two parallel inquiries starting Monday. Sen Glass will lead the banking study, covering stock market speculation, while Sen Capper chairs the food inquiry focusing on bread and sugar costs. Witnesses include Meyer and Pole for banking and Harrison, Hamlin, Case, and Miller for the Fed system.
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Washington
Senate
Glass
Virginia
Capper
Kansas
Brookhart
Iowa
Eugene Meyer
Federal Reserve Board
J. W. Pole
George L. Harrison
J. Herbert Case
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Charles S. Hamlin
Adolph C. Miller
Winston Grocer Dies At His Home
Winston-Salem obituary of Samuel Dunn Hancock 61 native of Scotland Neck and head of Hancock Grocery company since 1909 with R. B. Horne. Died at his home in Winston-Salem. funeral likely Monday.
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Winston-Salem
Samuel Dunn Hancock
Winston- Salem
Scotland Neck
Hanc@k
R. B. Horne
Hancock Grocery Company
Radio tax ruling blocks South Carolina set levy
A three judge federal court in Charleston ruled the 1930 act taxing radio sets unconstitutional and void. An injunction halted collection by the state income tax commission pending a final hearing. WSBT Charlotte was petitioner. about 23 000 already collected with potential 45 000 more. Proceeds funded a tuberculosis sanatorium.
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Charleston
S&s. C
South Carolina
General ‘Assembly
Estate Tax Commission
United States Court of the
Eastern District of South Carolina
John J. Parker
E. F. Cochran
J. Lyles Glenn
WSBT
Charlotte
N. C
J. Fraser Lyon
The
Tax Commission
Columbia
Lyon
Animal Trainer Bitten by Elephant in Macon
Frank Phillips, an animal trainer for the Downie Brothers circus in Macon winter quarters, was bitten when he put his head into an elephant's mouth. The elephant lightly closed its jaws, sending Phillips to a hospital with a concussion of the brain.
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Macon
Dan
Frank Phillips
Phillips
Downie Brothers Circus
Balbo Tells Of Experiences During Trans Oceanic Flight
Rio de Janeiro dispatch reports Italo Balbo and the Italian squadron completed a 10400 kilometre flight across three continents the Mediterranean and Atlantic in formation. While one plane was lost at Bolama another was disabled yet 12 machines would have reached the goal. One plane capsized near Natal during towing after forcing down at Fernando de Noronha.
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Balbo
United States
Associated Press
Rio DE Janeiro
Bahia
Continents
Mediterranean
Atlantic
Bolama
Portuguse Guinea
Natal
Fernando Do Noronha
Vengeance rumors trigger mass looting in Maryville
In Maryville Missouri on January 17 a rumor of five cars of Black assailants from St. Joseph and Kansas City seeking vengeance for Raymond Gunn prompted families to fortify homes and flood the town. A hardware store was looted of weapons and ammunition during a basketball game between Maryville State Teachers College and Central College.
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Maryville
St. Joseph
Kansas City
Raymond Gunn
Jeffeson City
Aia
Ma. Pville State Teachers College
Centrall College
Ava
Publisher files ten libel suits in Tennessee
Colonel Luke Lea, Nashville publisher, filed ten libel suits against the Chattanooga Times in Franklin county circuit court at Winchester seeking a total of 1 million dollars. Each suit asks 160 thousand dollars, alleging the paper accused him of controlling Tennessee affairs and blamed him for state money losses in used banks.
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Nashville
Tenn
Luke Lea
Today
Chattanooga Times
Franklin County
Winchester
Lea
Tennessee
United States
Port Arthur Man Is Shot Ten Death
O L Adams 23 a medical assistant was shot and killed in Port Arthur Texas. A B Johnson father of Elizabeth Johnson 17 surrendered to officers after December 27 discovery of the girl’s body in a parked car. Robert L Williams 17 a Texas university sophomore and former fiancé of Miss Johnson was charged with her murder but released after a jury declined indictment. He said he found her body in his car and left her there while he sought church intercession to reconcile with her. Claims involving engagement end and rumors of attentions from a married man are noted. Adams was married and a Tulane medical student former Guilt Refining company medical department assistant.
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Port Arthur
Texas
O. L. Adams
A. B. Johnson
Elizabeth Johnson
Robert L. Williams
Texas University
Williams
Miss Johnson
Adams
Tulane University
Tone
Guilt Refining Company
S Medical de
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Alfred
Jake” Lingle
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Italo Balbo
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Gulf Refining Company
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