Plan to resist extradition of Lea family to North Carolina
Nashville officials announce Luke Lea and Luke Lea Jr plan to resist extradition to North Carolina. Chief counsel H L. Gwinn says habeas corpus may be used if needed to challenge enforcement of North Carolina convictions in a bank conspiracy case. The Leas remain in Nashville while awaiting further court action and bond conditions.
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Nashville, Tenn
North Carolina
Luke Lea
IL. E. Gwinn
Meeewinn
Lea
Nettles
Asheville
Luke Lea, Jr
Gwinn
J. G. Lackey
Colton, Dickinson and Tillman
Luke
Leas
Double Barrellled Attack on North Carolina School System
In Raleigh the general assembly heard a plan to abolish county superintendents of schools and county boards of education in North Carolina's 100 counties. It proposes 30 division boards of education and 30 division superintendents, with some larger city districts retained. A separate bill would allow small counties to form joint supervision with neighboring counties if enrollment was under 5,000 in 1931-32.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
General Assembly
Senator Ingram
Randolph
Representative Makepeace of
Lee
House
Senate
Aycock
Wake
Thompson
Columbus
Washington editor proposes state role in farm relief allotment plan
W R Ronald editor of The Evening Republican proposes state responsibility for enforcing acreage cuts under a domestic allotment plan as a condition for receiving allotment funds. He argues the House tax plan would require heavy administration and risk centralizing power, while his approach ties payments to verified state reductions.
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Washington
Senate Agriculture Committee
W. R. Ronald
Evening Republican
Mitchell
D. C
House
Ronald
Norbeck
Nations That Paid Installments Free to Receive Invitations
Washington January 24 The Roosevelt administration opened debt discussions to all non defaulting powers that met the December 15 payment deadline.
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Washington
Jan
Roosevelt
Irish Go To Polls In Fianna Fail Rivalry
Ireland with a new Dail to elect the head of government, De Valera and Cosgrave end campaigns with optimistic claims. Proportional representation will reveal support as counting begins tomorrow. Stimson arrives at the White House for cabinet talks amid questions on debt policy and world economic measures.
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Dublin
Irish Free State
Eamon de Valera
William T. Cosgrave
de Valera
Cosgrave
Dail
Free State
Czechoslovakia
Great Britain
Ferdinand Veverka
State Department
Italy
Hoover
Roosevelt
Stimson
White House
Death Valley Scotty and the Farewell Folly
A letter from Beverly Hills California recounts a tale of Death Valley Scotty and a supposed farewell, with playful quips about Huey Long and a claim Scotty will return to Italy. The writer asserts Scotty’s fame and mystery, ending with a personal sign off.
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Beverly Hilia
Cal
Dan
Oklahoma
Canyon
Italy
Death Valley
Remonetization Debate Roils Senate Over Silver 16 to 1
In Washington on January 24, the Senate heard liberal Democrats push to attach a remonetization of silver at 16 to 1 to the Glass banking reform bill. Senator Wheeler urged reviving the 1890s issue, while Carter Glass resisted as non germane and urged tabling the proposal.
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Washington
William J. Bryan
Senate
Carter Glass
Virginia
Wheeler
Montana
Glass
Japanese raids intensify in Kailu Jehol theater
Japanese planes bomb Kailu for the fifth time in less than two weeks signaling possible new offensives into Jehol. Chinese leaders meet at Nanking while Marshal Chang Hsiao Liang returns to Peiping and authorities report reinforcements moving toward Shanhaikwan.
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Associated Press
Kailu
Jehol
Nanking
Tuan Chi-Jui
Chang Hsiao-Liang
North China
Peiping
Shankaikwen
Chaoyang
Chang
Tientsin
Shanhaikwan
John Galsworthy in Grave Condition in London
London January 24. John Galsworthy British novelist and 1932 Nobel laureate is gravely ill with anemia and markedly weaker at his Hampstead home. A heavy December cold worsened his condition preventing his Stockholm appearance to accept the Nobel prize. a representative attended in his stead.
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London
John * Galsworthy
Galsworthy
Hampstead
Stockholm
Regulation Of Lobbyists Becomes State Law Today
The North Carolina General Assembly approved the Ewing lobbyist reform by a wide margin. It requires lobbyists to register on a public docket report money received and spent and prohibits them from the assembly floor. The session also touched on school administration reorganization and other measures.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
General Assembly
Senate
Ewing
House
Assembly
Reorganization Committee
Office of
Legislative Reference Librarian
Attor
Robbery at Stokes County filling station prompts alert
Two unidentified white men, one masked, held up H. H. Tuttle at his filling station near a Y M C A camp in the Saurtown mountains, escaping with 20 dollars.
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Winston-Salem
H. H. Tuttle
Stokes County
Saurtown Mountains
Retail Merchants oppose sales tax at annual meeting
The Winston-Salem Retail Merchants association voiced opposition to a sales tax in any form at its annual meeting, signaling a unified stance against new levy proposals.
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Winston-Salem
Winston-Salem Retail Merchants Association
Two Hour Parade At Inauguration
The inaugural committee decided on a two hour parade limited to about 10 000 marchers. Four divisions will be led by General John J Pershing as grand marshal. Units include army navy coast guard marines governors national guard organized reserves and citizen training reps.
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Washington
John J. Pershing
Army
Navy
Coast Guard
Marines
National Guard
Roosevelt Asks Stimson To Arrange Separate Talks
President elect Roosevelt authorizes Secretary Stimson to hold individual conferences with European debtor nations that have met obligations and seek relief talks. He endorses access to creditors but rejects a general war debts conference, stating Italy has requested and received authority for a debt discussion.
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Warm Springs
Roosevelt
Stimson
Italy
Merger Of Colleges Discussed At Lexington Session
Lexington January 24 details the merger plan for Davenport college of Lenoir and Greensboro college of Greensboro. Committees of the Methodist conferences in North Carolina study the merger with Bishop Edwin D. Mouton presiding. No final decision announced as negotiations continue.
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Lexington
Jan
Davenport College
Lenoir
Greensboro College
Greensboro
Edwin D. Mouton
Charlotte
Western North Carolina Conference
North Carolina
Morristown Bank Suspends, Turns Over Affairs
The First National Bank of Morristown with $100,000 capital and over $1,000,000 in assets suspended operations today and turned its affairs over to the comptroller of the currency.
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Morristown
Tenn. Dan
First National Bank of
Coast Guard Seizes Schooner Tanner With 840 Boxes of Quorn
Officials said the cutter Modoc would bring in the schooner Tanner captured off Cape Hatteras Saturday with 840 cases of liquor aboard. The vessel was reported en route to Wilmington for suppression of smuggling.
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Wilmington
Coast Guard
Modoc
Cape Hatteras
Nationalist Government Demands Japanese Withdrawal From Shanhaikwan
The Nationalist foreign office in Nanking sent a new note to Japan reiterating that Japan was responsible for the Shanhaikwan clash and renewing demands that Japanese forces withdraw from the city.
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Nanking
China
Foreign Office
Japan
Indictment in Guilford homicide targets two Durham men
Dave McNair and Joe Willie Gireen, both described as Durham Negroes, were indicted for first degree murder in the death of Mrs. J. W. McCown at a Greensboro filling station during a November 11 attempted holdup. The Guilford county grand jury returned the indictment today.
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Greensboro
Dave McNair
Joe Willie Gireen
Durham
Protest Against Moore Tax on North Carolina Trucks
Representatives of farmers, newspapers, manufacturers, truckers, and bus companies protested the proposed gross ton mileage tax by Senator Moore. They argued it would cripple motor vehicle transport, with leaders from the North Carolina Truck Owners Association, newspapers, and textile firms saying the measure is unenforceable and punitive. The committee postponed action and will hear supporters again tomorrow.
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N. C
Moore
Raleigh
Joint
General Assembly Committee On
Craven
North Carolina
el. A. Hiller
Charlotte
John L. Wilkinson
North Carolina Truck Owners Association
North Carona
East
W. P. Horton
Pittsboro
H. D. Horton
Texas
Horton
H. P. Brawner
East Coast
Kirkpatrick
Mecklenburg
Night Club King Is Killed In Boston
Boston police report Charles King Solomon a noted night club proprietor was fatally wounded outside a city nightclub. He had been indicted by a New York federal grand jury in a $14 000 000 rum smuggling conspiracy. A taxi driver found him lying on the sidewalk after gunfire. Solomon died shortly after at a local hospital.
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Boston
Charles “King” Solomon
New York
Solomon
Roosevelt to reserve authority on debt talks in Washington plan
London dispatch reports Premier MacDonald likely to lead the British delegation to Washington for Anglo American debt negotiations with President elect Roosevelt to retain final authority. The Daily Mail notes strong official expectation that MacDonald will head the talks.
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London
Roosevelt
MacDonald
Washington
The
Daily Mail
Underworld figure Stankey Anderson shot dead by deputy sheriff
Stankey Swede Anderson, a St. Louis underworld figure who escaped marshals north of New Orleans, was killed near Baton Rouge while fleeing north on a freight train. Deputies say he declined commands to halt and fell after a riot gun shot. Letters on his body identified him as Anderson. a murky case linked to Louis Cheramie’s disappearance years earlier is noted.
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Baton Rouge
Stankey
Anderson
St. Louis
United States
New Orleans
Louisiana State University
Louisiana
Kenner
Lutcher
Sheriff's Office
Ed Whitney
Thomas Kehoe
Louis Cheramie
Donaldsonville
Kehoe
Cheramie
Eramie
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Rome
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Kailu City
John Galsworthy
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