Taft’s Condition Compared as Cabinet Fights Loom
Paris dispatch reports Andre Tardieu forming a second cabinet with Briand and Maginot in play to shore up support for a confidence vote next Thursday. The plan aims to steer the delegation to the London naval conference, despite a fierce leftist opposition and threats of general elections.
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Paris
Andre Tardieu
Chamber of Deputies
London
M. Tardieu
Chamber
Henry Cheron
M. Briand
M. Maginot
Series Of 20 Shocks Rattle Brawley California
A sequence of twenty earth tremors struck Brawley California injuring one person and damaging nearly all main street businesses. The epicenter was centered in the Imperial Valley with fires started by falling debris and authorities halting presses as shocks continued past four o’clock.
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Brawley
Imperial Valley
E. C. Dunham
Main Street
Brawley News
el Centro
Calexico
State's Federal Tax Collections Continue Larger
Raleigh report shows North Carolina 1930 federal tax receipts up by 1.52 million over February 1929. For the first eight months of the fiscal year, collections rose to 176.82 million, a gain of 14.28 million from the prior year, attributed to higher tobacco consumption. New York remains the only state with higher federal collections.
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Raleigh
N. C
North Carolina
Gilliam Grissom
United States
Internal Revenue
New York
Hertford Woman Attacked by Negro in Como Farm Home
Mrs. Frank Bailey of Como Hertford County was wounded in a home invasion by a Black man around 1 am. She fought off the assailant and was hospitalized with bullet wounds and bruises. Harvey Lawrence, 23, was arrested and jailed for the attack as sentiment grows in Franklin and Wake counties. A Simmons campaign conference in Raleigh failed to set firm plans.
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Raleigh
Hertford County
Harvey Lawrence
Frank Bailey
Como
Franklin, Va
Winton
Willys Name Is Sent to Poland For Approval
President Hoover sent John N. Willys of Toledo Ohio to Warsaw for approval as American ambassador to Poland. The White House declined to release the successor to the late Alexander P Moore of Pittsburgh pending formal Warsaw approval but reports indicate Willys has been chosen. Willys had begun entering the foreign service after selling his car business.
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Washington
Mar
William Howard Taft
Hoover
Taft
Herbert
John N. Willys
Toledo
Ohio
Poland
White House
Alexander P. Moore
Pittsburgh
Warsaw
Willys
Foreign Service
Seattle Girl Reverts To Skirts After Arctic Voyage
Marion Swenson, 17, who spent eight months disguised as a boy aboard the fur schooner Nanuk after drifting off the Arctic Siberian coast, returns to Seattle and shops with her mother and sister. She notes weight gain and ill fit of her old wardrobes, and recalls the deaths of aviator Carl Ben Eielson and mechanic Earl Borland during the journey.
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Seattle
Wash
Marion Swenson
Arctic
Siberian
Marion
Nanuk
Carl Ben Eielson
Earl Boarland
Teller
Alaska
Landers brothers acquitted of murder charge in Marshall
Sampson and Arnold Landers were acquitted of first degree murder after a several hour jury deliberation. The defendants, tried for the deaths of Albert King and Arthur Stanton in a Laurel mountains highway gun battle, pleaded self defense and said Stanton fired first. Stanton's 12 year old daughter Agnes was seriously wounded. The trial spanned from Wednesday to Friday with extended sessions ordered by Judge Cameron MacRae.
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Laurel Mountains
Stanton
Agnes
Cameron MacRae
Asheville
Borah Urges London Conference Action to Curb Armaments
Senate Chairman William Borah warned on radio that failure of the London naval conference will push the world toward heavier armaments and mass suffering. He urged open talks in London to reveal arguments justifying pledges and warned governments to lift the armament burden or face consequences. In Greensboro a Black man, John Brittain, was arrested after a fatal accident involving Miss Elmina Siler near Guilford College.
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Washington
Mar
London
Borah
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Idaho
United States
Greensboro
John Brittain
Guilford Battle Ground
Elmina Siler
Guilford College
North Carolina College For Women
Atlanta Officials Indicted in Graft Probe
Twenty people including five city councilmen and several city officials were indicted by a Fulton county grand jury amid graft charges in Atlanta city government. The panel criticized the mayor Ike Ragsdale, council members, a city alderman, and officials such as Willis A. Sutton and Richey of the public schools, urging removals and naming collusion among non indicted officers.
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Atlanta
Fulton County
Ike Ragsdale
Willis A. Sutton
Richey
Grand Jury
Harry York
W. E. Saunders
J. E. Turner
Charles L. Chasewood
Jack Hardy
J. Allen Couch
Walter C. Taylor
W. P. Price
Bruce Baxter
William A. Hansell
J. R. Leach
City Dairy Farm
Gray Haired Mother Weighs Closing Stage Hit in Amarillo
Mrs. Ella Blake of Amarillo faces whether to shut The Last Mile, a Broadway sensation, to protest capital punishment after her son Robert Blake died in Huntsville electric chair in 1929. She will travel to New York to decide if the play, which copies a copyrighted article, may continue if it stirs anti-execution sentiment.
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Amarillo
Texas and News
Texas
John Wexley
New York
Wexley
Blake
Robert
Three Overtaken By Tragic Deaths
LAKE CITY South Carolina March 1 three people returning to Norwalk Connecticut after attending a Florida funeral were killed when their car overturned in a water filled ditch. The victims were Stanley Charlton 31 in charge of L G Balfour jewelry New York City Mrs Charlton and Ramon Del Rio Mrs Charlton s brother. The coroner ruled an unavoidable accident and the bodies were to be sent to Norwalk. Charlton was a Chicago native and University of Illinois graduate class of 1919. He belonged to Delta Tau Delta and was secretary of its New York club.
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Lake City
S. C
Norwalk
Conn
Florida
Stanley Charlton
L. G. Balfour and Company
New York City
Charlton
Ramon del Rio
West Palm Beach
Fla
Chicago
University of Illinois
Delta Tau Delta Fraternity
Delta Tau Delta Club
Prayers Rise Across England for Naval Disarmament Parley
In London on March 1 thousands attend intercession services for naval disarmament. A Bishop addresses worshippers at City Temple before a 1500 strong march to Westminster Abbey. The procession passes war memorials to Nurse Edith Cavell and Britain’s WWI dead, underscoring public desire for peace.
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London
England
Andre Tardieu
Paris
City Temple
Winchester
Westminster Abbey
Edith Cavell
Great Britain
Jimison Withdraws From Senate Race To Back Jones
Charlotte attorney Tom P. Jimison withdrew his name as a Democratic candidate for the Ninth District congressional nomination in the interest of party harmony He will support Hamilton C Jones another Charlotte attorney in the primary and end his bid thus uniting the party for the contest in the district
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Charlotte
Mar
Tom P. Jimison
Jimison
Hamilton C. Jones
Coast Guards Seize New 60-foot Boat near Newport
New London March 1 A 60 foot craft named Madame X owned by Charles Travers of New Bedford Massachusetts was seized by the coast guard after warnings were ignored. The boat was taken into custody at Newport Rhode Island last night and brought to New London with no one aboard.
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New London
Conn
Charles Travers
New Bedford
Mass
Coast Guard
Newport
R. J
Shipping Board Lines Favored In Mail Contracts
The House passed the Hite bill by 180 to 27 to grant preference to purchasers of Shipping Board lines in mail contract awards. Opponent LaGuardia argued the buyers were favored pets and wasteful administration under the Snow White act. Proponents say it builds an adequate merchant marine to compete with foreign firms.
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Washington
House
Shipping Board
LaGuardia
New York
Auto Runs Away But Little Girl Escapes
Four year old Altice Gwendolyn Griffin narrowly escaped death when a runaway car sped through a drive, clipped a tree, crossed two lawns and hit a truck in Charlotte. She suffered a chin cut from flying glass as her mother had sent her to fetch paper. brakes were believed released as she entered.
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Charlotte
Altice Gwendolyn Griffin
Scales Of North Carolina Grocers Found Inaccurate On Both Sides
Raleigh report by C B Baucom of the states weights and measures division says many grocery scales are inaccurate. A January drive found dozens of errors with 100 pounds of sugar weighed incorrectly at a Raleigh store. Owners are warned and repeat offenders face a judge.
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North Carolina
Raleigh
N. C
C. B. Baucom
State Department of Agriculture
Baucom
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Francis R. Hagner
Thomas A. Claytor
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Robert A. Taft
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James Hartness
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Salmon
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Wake
Sphague Silver
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J. W. Bailey
Ben Eielson
Earl Borland
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W. U. Siler
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