North Carolina Senate Blocks Judicial District Bill in Heated Session
Raleigh reports the 1927 General Assembly pushed back a redistricting plan after long debate over extra emergency and regular judges. A bill to name six full time judges starting May would end in June 1929, while the house kept opposition and stalled the measure.
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Raleigh
Mar
General Assembly
Senate
House
Dave Smith
Charlotte
McLean
Womble
Smith
Mecklenburg
Supreme Court
Hancock
Granville
Dunlap
Anson
Woodson
Rowan
Legislators To Work For State Overtime Without Pay
ATLANTA March 5 AP Mrs Lean der C Gentle mother of 19 of her husband s 29 children called modern talks of economic pressure bunk and tommy rat She said they raise children to self respect and useful citizenship and are not under pressure She says she keeps up with affairs through her children and notes her son Charles is in China with the US Navy She emphasizes feeding children and a little spanking as vital and describes household routines and savings Planes
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Atlanta
Bunk
Tommy Rat
Leander C. Gentle
Mrs. Gentle
Charles
China
United States Navy
Mr. Gentle
Dellinger Plans Run for North Carolina Labor and Printing Commissioner
David P. Dellinger of Cherryville North Carolina reading clerk of the state house announced he will seek the statewide office of commissioner of labor and printing. He told friends he has major support and would run in the 1928 election to challenge Frank D. Grist.
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Raleigh
Mar
David P. Dellinger
Cherryville
N. C
Reading
House of Representatives
Dellinger
Friends
Labor and Printing
Frank D. Grist
State Officers Salary Increase Bill Passes Senate
The senate gave final readings to bills lifting salaries for the governor and other state officials who form the council of state. Governor salary would be 10000 yearly from January 1 1929, others 6000. The health secretary salary authority up to 8000 was approved, and traffic law amendments were concurred with.
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Raleigh
Mar
Senate
House
Secretary of State
Superintendent of Public Instruction
Council of State
Stacy Wade
Ator Hines
State Board of Health
Commissioner of Revenue
Senate to Probe Senatorial Elections Amid Ballot Box Seizures
Democrats in the senate conference backed continuing investigations into alleged fraud in recent senatorial elections. The Reed committee plans to seize additional ballot boxes in Pennsylvania and may face court tests over its authority in Luzerne Delaware Lackawanna and Schuylkill counties while funding for summer work is uncertain.
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Washington
Democrats
Senate
Reed
Missouri
Robinson
Pennsylvania
Wilson
Capitol
Reed Committee
Senate control looms as 70th Congress convenes
Washington March 5 AP reports a bitter fight over Senate organization as the 70th Congress prepares to meet in December. Deciding seats for Frank L. Smith Illinois and William S Ware Pennsylvania could tilt party balance, with 46 Republicans and 47 Democrats possible. The Farmer-Labor member Shipstead Minnesota could break a tie with South Carolina Democrat Please if he votes with Republicans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Mar
Senate
Frank L. Smith
Illinois
William S. Ware
Pennsylvania
Smith
Ware
Farmer-Labor
Shipstead
Minnesota
South Carolina
Moses
New Hampshire
Robinson
Arkansas
Gerry
Rhode Island
White Named Warden of Leavenworth Penitentiary
Thomas B. White was appointed today as warden of the Leavenworth federal penitentiary effective March 7. He had served as acting warden and previously held an executive role at the Atlanta penitentiary.
Grammar School Site Purchased by School Board
A seven acre site on the city s southeast knoll was bought by the local school board for the East Green Street grammar school. The purchase, part of a two year expansion that includes forty three acres for a $700 000 high school and six acre plots for Oak Hill and Mechanicsville elementaries, aims to ease congestion at Emma Blair and place all students on first floor facilities.
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Joe Worth
Oak Hill
Mechanicsville
T. Wingate Andrews
Emma Blair
Andrews
East Green Street
Coolidge Names Men On The Radio Board
President Coolidge issued recess appointments to two members to complete a five member federal radio commission and Secretary Hoover invited all five new commissioners to Washington. Orestes H. Caldwell and Henry A. Bellows received recess picks after Senate adjourned without confirmation. Hoover champions a five member independent body to regulate radio broadcasting.
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Washington
Mar
Coolidge
Hoover
Congress
Senate
Orestes H. Caldwell
New York
Henry A. Bellows
Minnesota
Recess Appointments to Federal Radio Board Made
President Coolidge issued recess appointments to Ores H. Caldwell of New York and Henry A. Bellows of Minnesota to the federal radio commission, expanding the agency's membership during the congressional recess.
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Washington
Coolidge
Ores H. Caldwell
New York
Henry A. Bellows
Minnesota
Federal Radio Commission
Rum Runners Captured In Chicago After Big Fight
Four members of the William O'Donnell gang were captured in Chicago after a dawn pistol fight while attempting to loot a government bonded whiskey warehouse. Each faced 50000 dollars bond. suspects included O'Donnell, James Sammons, James Barry, and James Driscoll. Detectives and prohibition agents conducted the operation and intercepted eight siphoned barrels before surrender.
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Chicago
Mar
William
Klondike) O'Donnell
Prohibition
O’donnell
James
Fur) Sammons
James Barry
Jimmy) Driscoll
Davis
Sammons
John Nolan
Baltimore
Morand Brothers
Barry
Shattered Seaplane Ends Trans Atlantic Flight
A shattered seaplane near a rivulet at the mouth of a river on the coast of un friendly African territory marks the end of the Uruguayan aviator Major Tadeo Larre Borgas and three companions trans Atlantic flight. The group left Casa Blanca Morocco on Wednesday morning and have since vanished with fate in doubt tonight.
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Paris
Tadeo Larre Borgas
Casa Blana‘a
Morocco
Goodnight 91st Birthday Ends with Quick Texas Wedding
Clarendon Texas March 5 Colonel Charles Goodnight pioneer landowner known as the father of the Texas Panhandle celebrated his 91st birthday by marrying Miss Corinne Goodnight of Butte Montana. The couple wed near his cattle ranch after a long courtship sparked by letters and her visit to his ranch home.
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Clarendon
Tex
Charles Goodnight
Texas Panhandle
Colonel Goodnight
Corrinne Goodnight
Butte
Mont
Goodnight
Miss Goodnight
Plains
Southwest
Panhandle
Robinson Reelected Democratic Senate Leader in 70th Congress
At a Democratic caucus today Senator Robinson of Arkansas was unanimously re elected as Democratic Senate floor leader for the 70th congress.
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Washington
Mar
Robinson
Arkansas
Senate
Uruguayan aviator’s seaplane found off Cape Jubi
The seaplane piloted by Major Taedo Larre-Borges, missing since Wednesday, was located in the Atlantic Ocean near Cape Jubi, Agadir Morocco. The discovery ends days of search efforts underway in the region.
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Agadir
Morocco
Taedo Larre-Borges
Uruguyan
Cape Jubi
Bladen County Cockfights Draw Sheriff Attendance
Elizabethtown mayor Ralph Bering says Bladen county cock fights occurred as advertised with the sheriff attending on both days. He describes a grandstand for 800 to 1,000 and four pens, a restaurant, and claims about 500 attendees despite bad weather. He suggests ongoing and expanded animal-fighting venues and notes a proposed cattle ranch near the site.
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Elizabethtown
Mar
Bladen County
Ralph Bering
Tex Rickard
Bladen
Conflict Over South Carolina Sunday Laws Faces Court and Governor
In a clash between South Carolina’s executive and judiciary, a circuit court injunction at Aiken sought to bar golf on two private courses on Sunday. Governor Richards ordered officers to ignore the order and arrest violators, while Judge Hayne F. Rice warned officers against interference and implied contempt of court.
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Columbia
Mar
South Carolina
Aiken
Richards
Hayne F. Rice
James E. Searles
Highland Park Hotel
Tragedy in Alexandria as six-year-old dies after assault
Police say Louis Boerzig killed Loretta Ridgeway, six, in her home near Alexandria. Her mother Mrs. George Ridgeway and sister Catherine, four, were injured with Catherine described as having a fighting chance for life. Boerzig was moved to Winchester jail amid fears of mob violence. Evidence includes a stove shovel, a baby chair and a club found at the scene.
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Alexandria
Louis Boerzig
Loretta Ridgeway
Winchester
George Ridgeway
Catherine
Ridgeway
Boerzig
McMillan to Preach at Mechanicsville Baptist Church
Elder McMillan will preach tonight at the Mechanicsville Baptist church. Announcement of the service was made last night by church members.
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McMillan
Mechanicsville Baptist Church
Judge blocks interference at Aiken golf links
Judge Hayne F. Rice granted a temporary injunction restraining W. W. Rogers and all state constables and Sheriff Nellie Robinson plus subordinates from interfering with golf play at Palmetto and Highland Park golf clubs in Aiken.
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Aiken
S. C
Hayne F. Rice
W. W. Rogers
Nellie Robinson
Palmetto
Highland Park
Judge Rice warns officers in injunction case at Aiken
Greenville reports Judge Hayne F. Rice forbids any officer acting for Governor Richards from arresting golf players tomorrow in Aiken in contempt of court. He notes the injunction targets officers, not the governor, and jokes he could not jail the governor.
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Greenville
S. C
John G. Richards
South Carolina
Aiken
Hayne F. Rice
Governor to Send Constables Over Golf Ban in Aiken
Governor John G. Richards announced he would dispatch state constables to Aiken to arrest anyone playing golf or polo tomorrow despite a temporary injunction. He defended enforcing the law, citing Sunday observance rulings and oath of office, and warned a broader deployment if needed.
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Columbia
John G. Richards
Aiken
Hayne F. Rice
Nellie Robinson
Aiken County
W. W. Rogers
Richards
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