House approves road construction bill for agriculture dept
The $213,064,000 agriculture department appropriation bill, with $125,000,000 for immediate road construction, passed the Senate and returns to the House. A late amendment reappropriates about $2,500,000 for loans to drought stricken farmers in several Southern states from repaid flood funds.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Senate
South Carolina
Georgia
Floria
Alabama
Fire threatens Roosevelt home at Oyster Bay
Theodore Roosevelt’s Hill home was briefly set aflame by sparks from a log fire last night. Mrs Roosevelt was alerted, a volunteer crew arrived with hoses and chemicals, and flames were put out in minutes causing about 1.90 in damage.
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Oyster Bay
N. Y
Theodore Roosevelt
Amore Hill
Rodset
Long Hill
Island Sound
Subpoenas Issued for 600 Persons in Alabama Grand Jury
Birmingham authorities announced subpoenas will total about six hundred persons to appear before the oral grand jury in session here. Officials indicated several former county officials are involved in the ongoing investigation, which has been underway for several months.
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Birmingham
Ala
Steden
Governor Blackwood Confined by Illness in January
COLUMBIA D C Jan 23 Gov Ibra C Blackwood was ordered to bed by his physician after a heavy cold keeping him at home with slight fever. A doctor was called in and he remained in bed as a precaution and for recovery.
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Columbia
D. C
Ibra C. Blackwood
Gardner To Attend Negro Funeral At State College
Governor O Max Gardner will suspend official duties to attend the funeral of Alan Hayward the longtime NC State College janitor fatally injured when hit by a car Hayward served since the college’s founding and was highly regarded by alumni faculty and students
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Raleigh
Max Gardner
N. C. State College
Alan Hayward
Hayward
Colege
Bills Passed By House Today
RALEIGH January 23 The House passed bills including HB 16 by Rogers Macon to abolish bonuses for prohibition arrests in Macon HB 117 Rogers Macon to amend Macon county statute relative to seizure of liquor cars HB 130 Huffman Rowan to validate marriages performed by W Julian HB 131 Huffman Rowan to provide for peace officers relief fund for Salisbury and Rowan county HB 1 Helmy Union to require unanimous consent and public notice before settlement of lawsuits by county commissioners of Union county HB 149 Johnson Halifax to name the bridge over Roanoke river on highway No 12 HB 77 Gattis Orange to authorize supreme court to set up general rules of procedure
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Raleigh
Rogers
Macon
Huffman
Rowan
W. Julian
Salisbury
Rowan County
Helmy
Union
Union County
Johnson
Halifax
Roanoke River
Gattis
Orange
Supreme Court
Senate Passes Bills in Raleigh Session Today
RALEIGH Jan 23 The Senate today approved several bills including HB 8 by White and Graham to abolish Robeson county tax collector, SB 26 by Pritchett to allow non residents to fish via leasing state property, SB 37 by Lovill Harmon relating to gathering Galaz leaves in Wa Mitchell and Avery counties, and SB 62 by McSwain to create the county auditor office in Cleveland County.
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Raleigh
Senate
White and Graham
Robeson
Robeson County
Pritchett
Bertie
Lovill and Harmon
Watauga
Avery
Mitchell and Avery
McSwain
Cleveland
Cleveland County
State Park Land Buy Near Smokies Final Option
The North Carolina park commission placed the Big Creek watershed tract in Haywood county under option at 5.50 an acre, completing most of the state’s park land purchases for the Great Smoky Mountains area. The 20 229 acre tract owned by the Byrd estate borders Champion Fibre holdings and includes Mt. Guyot’s eastern half with Ravensford and Suncrest Lumber nearby. A deed transferring 25 008 acres to the U S government is being prepared for March 1.
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Big Creek
North Carolina Park Commission
Asheville
Haywood County
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
United States
Verne Rhoades
North Carolina
Thomas R Byrd
Mt. Guyot
Champion Fibre
Tennessee Holdings
Ravensford and Suncrest Lumber Company
Hollywood Mourns Alma Rubens Death
Hollywoods make believe world dimmed by Alma Rubens death after a 60 hour pneumonia battle. She will be buried tomorrow. Her mother Mrs Theresa Rubens and sister Mrs Hazel Large received condolences from across the United States.
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Hollywood
Cal
Alma Ruens
Rubens
Theresa Rubens
Hazel Large
Madeira
United States
Noted Architect Claimed By Death
LATROBE Pa Jan 23 Brother Wolfgang Traxler 77 a member of the Order for 58 years died today at St Vincent Archabbey He designed and built most buildings housing members of the Order of St Benedict and students at St Vincent college His work was recognized nationwide He designed the early St Bede college at Peru Illinois and Belmont Abbey in Belmont North Carolina.
State's Prison Sees 143 New Arrivals This Month
RALEIGH Jan 23 Officials said the state's prison is on track for a monthly admissions record with 143 new arrivals already this month. The prior monthly high was 52 inmates in January 1930.
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Raleigh
Alibi Division Honored For Frank Wilms Of Chicago
Evanston judge entertains a quirky alibi in a motor speeding case as Frank A Wilms of Chicago seeks the all time alibi championship. The defendant claims marital quarrel led to a hat pin jab during a stop light sweep at 43 miles per hour. Magistrate Porter imposes a $10 fine plus costs but calls the tale the best alibi ever heard.
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Evanston
Frank A. Wilms
Chicago
Harry H. Porter
Riams
Porter
The Dunce n Now Guffaw Ateacher
An AP styled fragment from Washington describes a student named Johnny and a teacher in a garbled, unclear scene about mastery and knowledge. The text is incomplete and contains numerous errors, making precise details unavailable.
Chair claims first victim of new year in 1931
Giney Me Gets, a Durham negro, was electrocuted at the state prison for the murder of Etta Petty a Durham negress. He entered the death chamber at 10 34 and after two charges of electricity was pronounced dead at 10 39. Gattis made no statement after entering the chamber. He had told a reporter he shot the woman on a Durham street after she threatened to kill him. Negro ministers with him said he was calm and ready to pay with his life if the law of God ruled electrocution. He did not appeal and the governor declined intervention. The first to die in 1931 and the 107th overall since the chair’s 21 year installation.
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Giney Me Gets
Durham
Gattis
Gardner
Waitress Gets Life Sentence In Coffeyville Murder
Muriel Sullivan an 18 year old waitress pleaded guilty to the murder of Mrs. Maude Martin of Coffeyville and was sentenced to life imprisonment. She confessed she shot Mrs Martin to prevent her testifying against Dr S A Brainard in an illegal operation case. Sullivan said Paul Jones hired her to commit the murder and others were arrested with her facing murder charges.
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Independence
Kan
Muriel Sullivan
Maude Martin
Coffeyville
Seminole
Okla
Esther O’dare Nidiffer
Miss Sullivan
Paul Jones
Jones
Dr. Brainard
Milk White Mare Studies For Opera
Daisy the pure white milk wagon mare studies for grand opera in St Paul. She balked and tried to bite during a previous operatic appearance when Madame Johanna Gadski as Brunnhilde sang nearby. For the next three weeks a Civic club member will sit astride her back daily and sing to accustom her ears to music as the German Opera company plans a revival next month.
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ST. Paul, Minn
Daisy
Johanna Gadski
Brunhilde
Women's Civic Club
Anna Pavlova Dies After Railroad Accident in Dijon
Anna Pavlova, famed Russian ballerina whose dancing stirred millions, died in Dijon after a railroad accident. Her husband Victor DAndre, two Dutch physicians, and her Russian doctor were at her side. She planned to retire after completing a Japan and China tour, ending a life devoted to grace and beauty in movement.
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the Hague
Anna Pavlova
Dijon
France
Victor D’andre
Valerski
Japan
China
Eternal Triangle Blamed In Shooting
Greenville S C January 23 The eternal triangle was blamed for the shooting of Berry H Boyter 31 by his wife Boyter is in a local hospital with a bullet wound in the abdomen and his wife is in the county jail Mrs Boyter was said to have shot her husband when she saw him in an automobile in the business district with Mrs E L Cobb 29 Cobb was arrested as a witness but later released
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Greenville
S. C
Berry H. Boyter
Boyter
Vallee Vibes On As Grapefruit Fails To Stop Show
Rudy Vallee faced a disruptive incident during a Metropolitan Theatre performance when two overripe grapefruits were hurled from the balcony. One hit a cymbal, the other splashed the stage, but Vallee continued singing and dismissed hecklers, while three youths were detained and later released after no charges were pressed by management.
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Boston
Rudy Vallee
Metropolitan Theatre
Rudy
Vallee
Ask Removal Restrictions on Prescription Liquor
Senator Copeland of New York introduces a bill to remove restrictions on prescribing medicinal liquor by physicians. The Wicker sham commission had urged changes to reduce medical profession resentment and tighten public enforcement. The proposal would abolish statutory limits on prescribed liquor and the need to state the ailment on public files. Copeland, a physician, frames the move as regulatory regulation by more flexible rules.
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Wickersham Commission
Copeland
Democrat
New York
New Yorker
Law Enforcement Commission
Commission
Convicts Elude Police Cordon Near Badia Lake
Lexington January 23 Bill Payne and John McIver escaped convicts and alleged bandits, fleeing a police cordon around a remote house at the headwaters of Badia lake. Deputies and county officers pursued but bullets and jammed rifles failed to stop them as the two remain at large. Two weeks earlier Davidson Forsyth possemen captured Leon Phillips with the pair near the county line, but Payne and McIver again eluded capture.
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Lexington
Bill Payne
John Mcelver
Badia Lake
Liberty
Davidson
Montgomery County
Davidson and Forsyth
Leon Phillips
Payne
McIver
Davidson-Forsyth County
Brophy Biplane Forced Down in China Flight
G W Brophy of Los Angeles had his biplane forced down by fog at Chuchow Seman Chekiang while en route from Shanghai to Canton in the first leg of a China to Philippines trial flight. The craft stayed undamaged and Brophy planned to resume tomorrow.
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Shanghai
G. W. Brophy
Los Angeles
Chuchow
Seman Chekiang Province
Canton
China
Philippines
Bro
Recommit Power Group Members To Committee
The Senate recommitted to the Interstate Commerce Committee the nominations of three Power Commission members dismissed by President Hoover. The 45 to 32 vote opened a court test of their right to office. Nominees were Chairman George Otis Smith and Commissioners Claude L. Draper and Marcel Garland.
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Washington
Senate
Interstate Commerce Committee
Power Commission
Hoover
George Otis Smith
Maine
Claude L. Draper
Wyoming
Marcel Garland
Louisiana
Charles A. Russell
William V. King
King
Walsh
Montana
Rover
Gandhi to be released from Poona prison in India
New Delhi January 23 AP reports Viceroy Lord Irwin has decided to release Mahatma Gandhi the arrest dating from May last year after leading volunteers from Allahabad to the sea to make salt in defiance of British law. Release details to be arranged to avoid demonstrations. Police moved Gandhi in the night from Yeroda camp to special quarters in Yeroda prison. Many followers hoped London round table talks would yield his freedom. Prime Minister MacDonald had promised wartime political prisoners would be freed.
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India
Lord Irwin
Mahatma Gandhi
Yevada
Poona
Mahatma
All India National Congress
Allahabad
Gandhi
Yeroda
London
MacDonald
Tough Break Havana Waiters Win Big Lottery Prize
A Havana hotel waiter was fined ten lottery tickets by his union for tardiness. The tickets, worth $2.50 each, were pooled with others and today the eighty hotel waiters share $10,000 after the grand prize was won.
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Havana
Hotel
National
Constance Bennett To Get 800 Dollar Hourly Wage
Constance Bennett, a blonde film star, will earn more than 800 per hour under a contract with Warner Brothers. The deal pays 300000 for ten weeks of work at six hours daily six days a week, while she remains under Pathe until 1934 with ten weeks off each year.
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Hollywood
Cal
Constance Bennett
Warner Brothers
Miss Bennett
Pathe
Los Angeles Pilot Opens China Philippines Mail Flight Trail
G W Brophy of Los Angeles began a 110 horsepower bi plane journey from Shanghai to Canton as the first leg of a pioneering route linking China and the Philippines. The trip aims to prove feasibility for regular mail and passenger service via Foochow Canton Macao and possibly Hongkong.
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Shanghai
G. W. Brophy
Los Angeles
Canton
China
Philippines
Manila
Foochow
Macao
Hongkong
Spencer Citizens Oppose 10 Percent Teacher Salary Cut
Spencer North Carolina residents adopted a resolution last night protesting a proposed ten percent reduction in teachers salaries statewide. The action reflects local concern over impact on education and staffing.
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Spencer
N. C
Perjury Indictments In Election Probe Stir Nebraska
Victor Seymour former GOP campaign chief in Denver and grocer George Norris of Broken Bow are indicted on perjury charges connected to the Senate campaign fund inquiry. Witnesses describe a Nebraska straw vote and a typed political statement in Seymour's Lincoln office. In Allegheny County, ballot boxes in last year’s Republican primary showed apparent irregularities, with 64 boxes opened and many erasures and double markings.
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Lincoln
Victor Seymour
Republican National Senatorial Committee
Denver
George W. Norris
United States
W. Norris
United States Campaign Fund
Norris
Nurour
Gerald P. Nye
Neb
Esther Marie Alton
Seymour
Nebraska
Grocer
Stubbs
W. M. Stubbs
Nye
State Supreme Court
Washington
Allegheny County
Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
Senate Campaign Funds Committee
H. W. Bennett
Davis
James J. Davis
Senate
North Dakota
Bennett
Grand
Four Men Escape Beaufort Jail in Early Morning Breakout
Four inmates, two white and two black, picked their cell locks and walked from Beaufort county jail in Beaufort South Carolina early today. All are charged with store robberies.
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Beaufort
8. C
Beaufort County
Gun Battle Ends Gangster's Life
DETROIT January 23 The career of Frank Wh Kraft a member of the Flathead gang who committed robberies in Detroit and Beadling Pennsylvania ended when he was shot to death in a gun battle with two policemen.
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Detroit
Frank “Wh Kraft
Oera “Flathead
Beadling
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