Prohibition Backed by Edison Ford Signatures Voice Call
A New York message to the American people urges that prohibition be given an honest trial and enforcement. Signers include Henry Ford Thomas Edison Captain Robert Dollar J C Penney and other business leaders. A letter from critics of a lawyers committee and its reply follow in the publication.
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New York
Henry Ford
Thomas A. Edison
Robert Dollar
J. C. Penney
Ralph H. Burnside
Portland
Ore
Patrick Henry Callahan
Louisville
Frederick
Chase
Waterbury
Conn
Charles WP. Cook
Hartford
W. H. Crosby
Buffalo
N. Yt
R. Fulton Cutting
San Francisco
West Orange
N. J
Detroit
Alfred C. Fuller
A. A. Hyde
Wichita
Iansas
James N. Jarvyle
Clarence H. Kelsey
R. A. Long
Kansas City
George F. Milton
Chattanooga
Tenn
J. C
Penney
George A. Plimpton
James H. Post
Fred W. Ramsey
Cleveland
Winslow Russell
William Jay Schieffelin
Alfred P. Sloan, Jr
Ambrose Swasey
Machine Tools
A. A. Welch
Insurance
Joseph H. Choate, Jr
Levee Breach Near Greenville Triggers Rush to Protect City
Greenville Mississippi faces rising flood danger after a Mississippi River levee break at La Grange four miles south of town. Engineers raced to plug the breach as convicts and workers rushed to shore up the levee with sandbags while residents evacuated and prepared for possible floodwater.
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Greenville
Miss
Mississippi River
Land Poe
Mias
la Grange
Walter
Eutaw
Mounds Landing
North Carolina Printing Bids Opened for Biennium
The state printing commission opened bids today for official North Carolina printing for the next biennium. Estimated at 300000 dollars. Seventeen North Carolina printers and one from Indiana submitted bids for consideration.
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Raleigh
N. C
State Printing Commission
North Carolina
Indiana
Wife’s $14,000 policy tied to boyhood romance murder
Whart Manchester of Rochester Michigan confessed to Macon Georgia police that he killed James Parks, a young printer, after being promised $1,000 by Mrs. J. C. Powers, a rooming house keeper. Powers, beneficiary of Parks’s $14,000 life insurance, is held as an accomplice.
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Whart Manchester
Rochester
Mich
Macon
James Parks
J. C. Powers
Confederate Veteran Killed by Train En Route to Reunion
Elam Houser aged 84, Confederate veteran, was struck and killed by a Seaboard Air Line train at Lincolnton North Carolina while traveling to Charlotte for a Confederate veterans reunion. He lived on a farm in Lincolnton County.
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Reunion
Charlotte
N. C
Elam Houser
Seaboard
Lincolnton
Houser
Lincolnton County
Static candidate fails to inspire voters in campaign
The text argues a candidate remains static and undynamic in the campaign, unable to attract votes or generate enthusiasm, and suggests no willingness to back a talented figure unless they are better suited to win support.
La Coste Triumphs Over Borotra In French Final
Rene La Coste defeated Jean Borotra 6 3 2 6 6 0 2 6 8 1 to win the French championship in Paris. The match featured alternating sets with La Coste securing the decisive fifth set to claim the title.
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Paris
Rene Lacoste
Jean Borotra
Dark Horse Seen As 1932 Democratic Nominee
Washington dispatch reports Democratic leaders favor a dark horse for 1932, with Alfred E. Smith urged not to run. They favor Governor Roosevelt as a possible compromise and believe a lesser known candidate of high character could win. The talk stems from Congress friction and tariff worries, with Roosevelts and a reshaped party HQ boosting optimism.
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Senate
House
Alfred E. Smith
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Congress
Jouett Shouse
Raskob
National Committee
Hoover
Roosevelt
Washington
Smith
New York
National Party
Davis
Simmons Bill Gets Favorable Report
Washington June 3 The Simmons bill to authorize 12 million dollars to foster diversified farming in ten southern states was reported favorably to the Senate. The plan would let the interior secretary establish communities in Alabama Arkansas Florida Georgia Louisiana Mississippi North and South Carolina Tennessee and Texas each community with acreage for 200 farms.
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Washington
Simmons
Senate
Secretary of the Interior
Alabama
Arkansas
Florida
Georgia
Louisiana
Mississippi
North
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
Smoot Expects Senate Finance Panel Open Hearings Today
Chairman Smoot of the senate finance committee said he expected committee approval today of a plan for open hearings on the house bill. Hearings would be conducted simultaneously by five or six subcommittees in Washington.
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Washington
Smoot
Senate Finance Committee
Roosevelts Bag Rare Giant Panda
The first giant panda shot by white men was taken by Colonel Theodore Roosevelt and his brother Kermit in Tibet. The animal, a zoological enigma, resembles a bear in size yet has raccoon like features. A Paris Museum exhibit shows a similar specimen obtained sixty years ago from natives through a missionary.
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Theodore Roosevelt
Kermit
Tibet
Paris Museum
Graduating Class Told to Be a Snob by MIT Professor
Boston June 3 The MIT professor Robert Emmons Rogers urged graduates to embody snobbishness as a social code. He advised dressing and behaving like a gentleman and joked about marrying the boss’s daughter over a stenographer. He criticized Harvard for publicity and money.
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Boston
Robert Emmons Rogers
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Rogers
Baldwin to Resign After Election Defeat
London report says Prime Minister Baldwin will resign after the Conservative Party’s defeat in last week’s general elections ends five years of government.
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Baldwin
London
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