MacLean bill passes after long debate in 86 to 32 vote
In Raleigh the House backed the MacLean substitute bill pledging state support for a six month school term. The measure passed 86 to 32 on second reading, with amendments to limit or deny ad valorem taxes and a debate over funding. Senate deferred action pending House decision and both chambers planned to reconvene.
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Raleigh
House
General Assembly
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Jeffress
Guilford
Senate
Halstead
Camden
Equalization Fund
McRae
Mecklenburg
Spence of
Moore
Conenor
Wilson
Court Rules Black People Must Die In Chair
The North Carolina Supreme Court split decisions on contempt and capital cases. Dr. Hayes received ten days in jail for refusing to testify without promise of compensation. the ruling upheld the industrial commission’s power to cite a witness for contempt. Three capital appeals were denied, setting automatic execution dates for Chevis Herring, Sampson County, and Dave McRae, Scotland County, unless the governor acts.
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Hayes
Allen
Supreme Court
The
Industrial Commission
Chevis Herring
Sampson County
Dave McRae
Scotland County
Ernest Herring
Chevis
F. Newton
Kerr
Joe Baker
Harold A. Moore
Wake County
Baker
Greenville
Moore
Buncombe County
Clara Bow Pleads for Daisy De Boe in Jail Case
Los Angeles Jan 27 Clara Bow reveals a softer side as Daisy De Boe faces another week in county jail. Bow pleads mercy for Daisy convict in a grand theft case, but the deputy district attorney declines to present the appeal to Judge William C. Doran who could impose a one to ten year term. Daisy wins a continuance for sentence and an attorney asks for a new trial.
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Los Angeles
Clara Bow
Daisy de Boe
Clara
Daisy
Bow
William C. Doran
Doran
David
Ku Klux Forum Editions Talsin Fall Costs Kentucky Election
Louisville newspaperman Gordon Huff testified before the senate campaign funds committee that 100000 copies of a Kentucky edition of the Ku Klux Klan Forum were distributed to Republican headquarters. Forty thousand copies were burned before the election and 30000 afterward. Huff said Robsion approved the editions and likely did not know they were burned, while the Forum’s reach hurt several Republican incumbents in Kentucky.
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Kentucky
Fellowship Forum
Ku Klux Klan
Robsion
Senate Campaign Funds Committee
Gordon Huff
Louisville
Huff
Republican State Central Committee
Forum
State Committee
Robsson
Craddock
Langley
Salisbury Reduces School Book Fees
Salisbury North Carolina January 27 The city school board today reduced book fees 40 percent effective February 2 in response to general low mood and families difficulty in keeping children in school.
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Salisbury
N. C
City School Board
Suspect Held in Murder Charge at Spartanburg
Spartanburg police report Charlie Smith an 18 year old African American man is held on suspicion of fatally shooting a railroad depot keeper in Fayetteville North Carolina last fall. Officers say he matches the killer’s description.
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Spartanburg
D. C
Charlie Smith
Umter
Fayetteville
N. C
Smith
Electric chair executes James Harris in Knoxville killings
James Theodore Harris, a 21 year old houseboy, was executed in the Tennessee state penitentiary for the December 24 1929 slayings of Dr B J Jones Mrs Jones and 13 year old George Lane. He confessed after the incident in the Jones basement and said he killed the doctor after the other two were slain.
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Nashville
Tenn
James Theodore Harris
Knoxville
State Penitentiary
Harrie
B. J. Jones
Jones
George Lane
Mrs. Jones
Plans for drought areas in North Carolina
Dr Cr W Warburton director of extension for the U S department of agriculture arrived in Raleigh to discuss federal aid loans for drought stricken farmers. Loans up to 600 dollars per farmer to enable planting the next crop with notes due November 31 1931. He planned stops at Henderson and Elkin and listed drought counties Allegheny Ashe Caswell Forsyth Franklin Granville Guilford Person Rockingham Stokes Surry Vance Warren Wikes Watauga Yadkin.
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Cr. W. Warburton
U.S. Department of Agriculture
North Carolina
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Henderson
Elkin
Caroline
Allegheny
Ashe
Caswell
Forsyth
Franklin
Granville
Guilford
Person
Rockingham
Stokes
Surry
Vance
Warren
Wikes
Watauga
Yadkin
Arkansas Legislature Proposes Jim Crow Bus Law
LITTLE ROCK ARK Jan 27 A Jim Crow law for buses has been proposed in the Arkansas legislature The bill requires bus companies to segregate riders by race white and negro persons in buses would be separated under the measure The proposal reflects ongoing segregation policy debates in the state legislature
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Little Rock
Ark
Arkansas
Will Recommend Mercy For Davis
RALEIGH Jan 27 Odus M Mall executive coun sel announced after a in the case today he would rec ommend that Governor commute the death sentence of George Davis due to be electro cuted Friday but would not inter fere for Lacey Sterling convicted of the same crime The negroes were convicted in New Hanover county for killing John Brown a storekeeper was identified as the man's slayer by his sister who testified she could not identify Davis as having been with Ster-
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Raleigh
Odus M. Mall
George Davis
Lacey Sterling
New Hanover County
John Brown
Davis
Ster
Muscle Shoals Conferees Fail to Agree Again
Washington January 27 Conferees on Muscle Shoals legislation failed to reach a compromise between Senate and House proposals for the 150 million project in Alabama. Representative Reece of Tennessee blamed persistent Senate rejection of the House compromise and any plan allowing fertilizer nitrate plants. He accused Senator Norris of Nebraska of trying to block legislation to push a federal power distribution system competing with private interests.
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Muscle Shoals
Senate
House
Alabama
Reece
Tennessee
Norris
Nebraska
Former German Head Keeps His Birthday in Exile
Doorn Holland January 27 Former Kaiser Wilhelm II celebrated his seventy second birthday at Doorn House in exile. He received messages of congratulations from Germany and American friends. He continued his daily routine working in his Rosarium and taking his constitutional walks. Most of his family were present except Prince Oscar hospitalized in Berlin after an operation.
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Holland
William Hohenzollern
Doorn House
Germany
Kaiser
Prince Oscar
Berlin
Funeral rites for Dr W N Tate Confederate veteran
Dr W N Tate aged 85, a longtime local physician and Confederate veteran, died after a long illness. Funeral services will be held this afternoon in Mebane North Carolina where he practiced for 50 years.
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Mebane
N. C
W. N. Tate
General Butler in Trouble Over Italian Ambassador Complaint
Brigadier General Smedley Butler faces controversy after a Philadelphia speech. Ambassador De Martino of Italy protested to the state department over alleged Mussolini references. The navy department and state department planned investigations into the remarks about Mussolini and the Italian premier’s actions.
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Smedley Butler
Marine Corps
Ambassador de Martino
Italy
State Department
Philadelphia
Navy Department
Mussolini
Butler
Duce
Europe
Postpone Trial of James Maxon Again
New York January 27 The trial of James Matthew Maxon Jr for the killing of David Paynter a lodger in a West End Avenue rooming house brawl was postponed again. He is charged with second degree murder. It was delayed until Friday because a juror in another case before Judge George L Donellan in general sessions court returned after illness. The other case proceeded and the Maxon trial that was to begin last week was deferred.
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New York
James Matthew Maxon, Jr
David Paynter
West End Avenue
George L. Donellan
General Sessions
Maxon
Objects To Govt Unemployment Insurance
Washington January 27 John E Edgerton president of the National Association of Manufacturers opposed government unemployment insurance saying it would subsidize idleness He urged thrift and conservation of surplus earnings as the path to economic safety before a conference on permanent prevents of unemployment organized by church groups
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Washington
John E. Edgerton
National Association of Manufacturers
National Conference On
Concord Police Adopt Shoot First Policy in Crackdown
Concord North Carolina January 27 Police chief B F Widenhouse orders officers to shoot first and ask questions later to curb rising banditry and theft. Officers given new Tiog guns to carry out the instruction as part of the crackdown.
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Concord
N. C
B. F. Widenhouse
Laval Forms New French Ministry
Paris date Jan 27 Senator Pierre Laval 47 leads a new rightist French cabinet forming a policy declaration ahead of a parliamentary test. Andre Tardieu returns as agriculture minister while Aristide Briand resumes Quai dOrsay duties. Blaise Diagne listed as under secretary of colonies, a first for a negro in a French government.
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Paris
Pierre Laval
Chamber of Deputies
Chamber
Andre Tardieu
France
Coast Guard Cutter Aids Freighter Off Newfoundland
The Coast Guard cutter Champlain was sent from New York to help the large freighter West Kyska in trouble off Newfoundland. The freighter lost its propeller about 1000 miles east of Boston.
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Washington
Coast Guard
Champlain
New York
Shipping Board
New Foundland
Boston
Grain Proposal Passes Senate In Relief Aid Bill
Senate approves a 20,000,000 bushel wheat transfer from the farm board to drought and unemployed sufferers while backing a 25,000,000 Red Cross relief fund. The action draws criticism from some administration supporters over reimbursements and potential peacetime funding concerns. House hearings continue with testimony from Surgeon General Cumming and Army engineers chief Lytle Brown as Democrats accuse Republicans of stalling.
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Senate
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Farm Board
Cumming
Lytle Brown
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Red Cross Fund
Hyde
MacDonald
Public Roads Bureau
College Student Dies of Poisoning
New Orleans January 27 A coroner s examination disclosed James B Pharris of Opelousas La 13 year old student at Holy Cross college died last night from blood poisoning not poison liquor as first thought Charges of administering poison against Mr and Mrs Sam Perniciaro bootleggers named by police were ordered dropped
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New Orleans
James B. Pharris
Opelousas
Holy Cross College
Sam Perniciaro
Ploié
Divorce Granted to Mrs. Helen Reed
Mrs. Helen Reed, 72, was granted a divorce in Los Angeles after charging her husband Edward George Reed, 72, with striking her in the face. The court ordered Mrs. Reed to pay $500 for a quitclaim to the property.
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Los Angeles
Helen Reed
Edward George Reed
Reed
Withers Recovers After Emergency Appendectomy
Grant Withers, a young motion picture actor, rests in hospital after an emergency appendix operation performed early today. He underwent the procedure following appendicitis symptoms that required immediate care.
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Withers
Chicago
Grant Withers
Noted Flyer Lundborg Dies After Plane Crash
Stockholm reports Swedish aviator Captain Einar-Paal Lundborg, famed for rescuing Nobile during the polar Italian flight, died of injuries from an airplane accident. He cracked up in a new army testing plane diving from 150 feet. both legs and arms broken, but doctors hoped for recovery.
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Stockholm
Lundborg
Einar-Paal
Mn Nobile
Spitsbergen
Nobile
Krassin
Prohibition Commission Faces Internal Dissent Over Leaflet
The Wicker Sham Commission shows signs of dissatisfaction within its enforcement group as reports claim a separate leaflet highlighting conclusions drew disproportionate emphasis. Senator Tydings proposed a Senate inquiry, but Senator Norris blocked it. The panel’s conflicts contrast with debates on Howard enforcement and the capital plan amid war department funding discussions.
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Washington
Wickersham Commission
Tydings
Maryland
Senate
Norris
Nebraska
Judiciary Committee
Prohibition
War Department
Fire Hydrant Burns Fire in Greenville
A Greenville Ohio passerby lit a cigar on a fire hydrant, causing a blue flame from the valve. The hydrant contained gas fumes and steam, fueling the blaze until the supply exhausted. A nearby gas main leaked while no fire department was summoned.
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Greenville
8. C
McFadden accuses Meyer of seeking Federal Reserve post
Washington January 27 Chairman McFadden of the house banking committee told the senate banking committee that Eugene Meyer Jr of New York is a seeker after public office. He said it is a well known fact in Federal Reserve board circles that Meyer was after a job on the board.
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Washington
McFadden
House Banking Committee
Senate Banking Committee
Eugene Meyer, Jr
New York
Federal Reserve Board
Swedish Aviator Injured In Crash
Swedish aviator Captain Einar Lundborg was seriously injured when his plane crashed during a 140 foot practice flight in Stockholm. He previously rescued Italian General Nobile after the polar expedition.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Einar Lundborg
General Nobile
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