Surplus Inspires Talk of New Tax Reductions
Washington July 2 The 185,000,000 treasury surplus prompts discussions of tax cuts in Congress. Administration officials hedge, while Smoot Democrats push for further relief citing the surplus as justification. Senate Finance and House Ways and Means members weigh December prospects amid tariff hearings.
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Washington
Treasury
Mellon
Congress
Senate Finance
Smoot
Simmons
North Carolina
Harrison
Missisippi
Hawley
House
Ays and Means
Boulder Nyon Dam
Mississippi
Death of Educator Unsolved in Hartwell Case
Atlanta July 2 detectives probed the brutal murder of Professor A H Johnson Hartwell Ga veteran educator killed in his car near the National Education association convention. One man C Gossett 40 detained after straw hat purchase and inconsistent statements. Coroner found blunt instrument caused death. Johnson led two Hartwell schools and district training director.
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Atlanta
A. H. Johnson
Hartwell
National Education Association
C. Gossett
Johnson
Gossett
Southern Legislators Called Hypocrites And Cowards By De Priest
Congressman Oscar De Priest denounced southern state legislatures as cowards and hypocrites at a NAACP mass meeting in Cleveland. He argued his rights as a congressman and criticized efforts to censur e Mrs Hoover for inviting Mrs De Priest to a White House tea.
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Hoover
White House
Cleveland
Cleveland, O
Oscar de Priest
Chicago
Herbert Hoover
Congressman de Priest
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Illinois
Congress
Judge And Nurse Describe King Case On Second Day
In Chester on July 2 the trial of Rafe F King for wife murder heard Judge J Lyles Glenn describe ruptured throat vessels and burns on Mrs Faye Wilson King. Nurse Margaret Gartman testified of the night the body was found and noted a blood spot on a door sill and a lye can on the table.
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Chester
Ims
Faye Wilson King
Rafe F. King
United States
J. Lyles Glenn
Glenn
South Carolina
Margaret Gartman
Asheville
N. C
King
Kings Mountain
New Orleans Strike Squeezes Transit as Buses Take Over
In New Orleans a general streetcar strike prompts all available motor buses and taxis to be pressed into service. About 1800 workers were affected by a sudden suspension of work ordered by the streetcar union after failed arbitration with New Orleans Public Service Inc. A meeting backed a three paragraph contract and set the walkout to begin at 5:29 a.m., diverting night cars to the barns.
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New Orleans
Edwin Peyroux
al Carmen’s Union
New Orland Public Service, Inc
Death by Own Action Ends in Hospital Release
Edwards, 37, of Dillon South Carolina drank six tablespoons of salicylic acid in Stanly jail while held on a bad check charge. He was saved by doctors after his stomach was pumped, and released from hospital this afternoon.
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Albemarle
Edwards
Dillon
S. C
Stanly
Southern Cross Hops Off For Calcutta
Captain Charles Kingsford Smith and three companions aboard the Southern Cross left Angoon Burma for Calcutta at 19 a.m. on the way to London. They arrived Sunday from Singapore. The leg from Rangoon to Calcutta is about 704 miles.
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Angoon
Burma
Charles Kingsford Smith
Southern Cross
Calcutta
Lydy
N.S
London
Sygapore
Rangoon
Florence Trumbull Aims Coolidge For Harvard Summer Study
Miss Florence Trumbull daughter of the Connecticut governor and fiancée of John Coolidge arrives in Cambridge Massachusetts to enroll him in Harvard business school summer courses. He is arriving by roadster and she declines his use of her car stating he is there to study. Coolidge a 1928 Amherst graduate attends Harvard transportation course.
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Cambridge
Mass
Florence Trumbull
Connecticut
John Coolidge
Harvard Business School
Coolidge
The
New York
Haven & Hartford Railroad
Trumbull
Amherst
Harvard
Poisoning Case Brings 99 Year Sentence in Texas
Ocie Nix, a Malta farmer, was found guilty of poisoning his 17 year old wife Venita and sentenced to 99 years in prison by a jury in Boston Texas. The victim died June 18 after neighbors heard her scream and found her convulsing. An alleged confession was not presented at trial. The defense cited paralysis and mental imbalance.
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Texas
Ocie Nex
Malta
Venita
Nix
Shorty
Special Conference on Southern Textile Status Called
A special conference on the southern textile situation is set for July 14 in Rye New York on Mrs Daniel O Day estate. Thomas F McMahon UTW president announced the plan after a national executive board meeting July 11 12 13 in New York. Attendees include rayon workers from Elizabethton and cotton mill hands from North and South Carolina with speakers William F Kelly and Alfred Hoffman among them.
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New York
Thomas F. McMahon
United Textile Workers
Rye
N. Y
Daniel O'Day
Elizabethton
North
South Carolina
William F. Kelly
Alfred Hoffman
Tennessee
Prohibition Movement Condemned by San Francisco Board
In San Francisco on July 2, the board of supervisors adopted a resolution condemning the killing of innocents by prohibition agents and backing Congresswoman Florence Kahn's bill to grant $25,000 to dependents of those slain. Supervisor Sylvester Andriano denounced the movement as an evil tree leading to murder perjury lawlessness and hypocrisy.
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San Francisco
Cal
Florence Kahn
San Francisco Board of Supervisors
Sylvester Andriano
Prohibition
Crowell and Orr Reappointed to State Health Board
Governor Gardner reappoints Dr. A. J. Crowell of Charlotte and Dr. C. C. Orr of Asheville to the state board of health for six year terms. Crowell serves as board president. The board has nine members with five appointed by the governor and four elected by the state medical society.
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Raleigh
Gardner
A. J. Crowell
Charlotte
C. C. Orr
Asheville
State Board of Health
Crowell
State Medical Society
Hoover Sees Possible Tax Cut As Treasury Surplus Cools
President Hoover expressed hope that a year end treasury surplus could allow tax reductions. He cautioned that many factors must be assessed, including the fiscal impact of recent legislation, potential waste cuts, and revenue estimates. By November 1, final figures should be known.
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Treasury
Washington
Hoover
Congress
Prominent Greensboro Merchant Dies in Hospital
Greensboro July 2 Henry Charles Marley 45 well known merchant and business man died today after four years of declining health. Marley was a traveling salesman for 20 years and opened a Greensboro retail store 11 years ago which he ran until his death. He leaves a widow a son Joe a daughter Miss Margaret a sister Mrs George P Crutchfield and an aunt Mrs Sue Crutchfield both of Greensboro and an aunt Mrs H B Carter of Ramseur.
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Greensboro
Henry Charles Marley
Marley
Joe
Margaret
George P. Crutchfield
Sue Crut
Educators Warned Against Propagandist In Schools
The National Education Association committee warns public schools must develop critical judgment and not be used for propaganda. Edwin Do Broome, Philadelphia schools chief, declares children deserve a flexible mind for social evolution. Propagandists aim to teach what to think, opposing education's goal of teaching how to think.
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Atlanta
Committee On
Representative Assembly of
The
National Education Association
Edwin Do. Broome
Philadelphia
Spanish Airmen Are Honored By Nation
Major Ramon Franco and three companions arrived in Gibraltar aboard H M S Eagle after a weeklong trans Atlantic flight that began in Cartagena Spain. Thousands greeted them as flags and officials joined a cross channel welcome with Moroccan air forces and other dignitaries. General Primo de Rivera ordered their stay in Algeciras until Wednesday before a Madrid reception.
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Ramon Franco
H. M. S. Eagle
Azores
Cartagena
Spain
New York
H. M
Eagle
Britain
Fernandez Mulero
Burguete
No. 5
Tangiers
Senora de Franco
Franco
Eduardo Gonzales Gallarza
Julio Ruiz de Alda
Pedro Madariaga
Primo de Rivera
Algeciras
Madrid
General de Rivera
Labor government opens Parliament with throne speech
London July 2 Great Britain's new labor government opened its administration with the speech from the throne in the upper house. King George V did not read the speech himself, being absent from the throne for the first time since 1909. A royal commission read the address as eight bishops and nobles observed in orderly ceremony.
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London
Great Britain
George V
Sankey
George
Archbishop of Canterbury
Premier Tanaka Cabinet Resigns in Japan Crisis
Tokyo July 2 government of Premier Baron Tanaka resigns after a cabinet crisis sparked by an investigation into last year’s Manchuria assassination of Marshal Chang Tso Lin. Emperor Hirohito asks Yugo Hamaguchi to form a new cabinet. Prince Saionji is summoned to advise.
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Tokyo
Baron Tanaka
Manchuria
Chang Tso Lin
Hirohito
Yugo Hamaguchi
Saionji
Genro
Policing Of State Roads In Fifth District Began
State road patrols started in the fifth district under Lieut T A Early with three patrolmen and district engineer J W Mills to tour nine counties. The group trained at Camp Glenn Morehead City and will station crews in High Point Reidsville and Carthage while educating drivers and enforcing brakes lights and sobriety.
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North Carolina
Mebane
F. R. Bell
Greenville
High Point
Camp Glenn
Morehead City
Coun
Reidsville
Carthage
Early
National Banks Report Condition After June 29 Closing
The Comptroller of the Currency issued a call for the condition of all national banks as of the close of business Saturday June 29. The notice specifies reporting banks must submit figures and details on resources, liabilities, and reserves for regulatory assessment. This release outlines the deadline and submission format for bank reports.
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National Bank
Washington
Comptroller of the Currency Today
Endurance Plane Crash Ends Record Attempt Flight
Leo Nomis and Maurice Morrison tried for a new endurance flying record at Metropolitan Airport Los Angeles. Their tiny plane lost its motor at 5 000 feet and plunged through fog, crashing at the field edge after 41 hours 35 minutes aloft. Both pilots were cut about the face and head. they were treated on the field and planned to resume once repairs were done.
Negro Bishop Grace Freed on Bond After Threats
Bishop C. M. Grace a Black clergyman posted $2,000 bond to answer embezzlement charges in Charlotte. He warned he would pray the courthouse down to gain release, but supporters intervened and a band aided his escape from detention.
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Charlotte
C. M. Grace
House of Prayer
Prohibition Agents Arrested for Liquor Convoys on Long Island
Two federal prohibition agents named John J. Kerrigan and John J. Calnan were arrested in New York for allegedly escorting a caravan of five liquor trucks on Riverhead streets. They were held on bonds of $3,000 each after a deputy sheriff reported the convoy seen on the night of June 19.
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New York
Prohibition
Long Island
John J. Kerrigan
John J. Calnan
William Lindsay
Peconic
N. Y
United States
Riverhead
Gas From Electric Refrigerator Blamed For Chicago Deaths
Coroner's jury says ethyl chloride gas leaking from an electric refrigerator caused the death of Mrs. Violet Clark, 29, in her Chicago apartment. Health department estimates at least 15 deaths in recent months from the same cause, with four victims in the last 10 days.
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Chicago
Violet Clark
Department of Health
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