Patronage Practices In Southern Federal Offices Condemned
A Senate inquiry report on federal patronage in Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Texas condemns the referee system for dispensing offices as most reprehensible. Senator Brookhart leads the investigation with Senator McKellar signing a supplementary critique of Texas and South Carolina officials and District Attorney J D E Meyer. Hastings submits a brief on South Carolina findings.
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South
Georgia
Mississippi
South Carolina
Texas
Brookhart
Iowa
McKellar
Tennessee
Hastings
Delaware
J. D. E. Meyer
Oil Magnate Doheny Bribery Case Rested After Testimony
The government rested its case against Edward L. Doheny after western oil men testified. Doheny, a wealthy oilman, faced charges of bribing former interior secretary Albert B. Fall.
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Washington
Edward L. Doheny
Albert B. Fall
Interior
Deadly naval battle near Navassa ends in quick battle
Two American fleets clashed near Navassa Haiti in a four day search and engagement off Cape Dame Marie. The Lexington led air attacks while ships sank and others maneuvered under admiralty review. Guantanamo will host a post battle critique by high officials and Admiral Magruder. Japanese papers report an American Japanese naval accord offering Japan about seventy percent of American auxiliary strength and fifteen 10000 ton cruisers built before 1936.
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Cape Dame Marie
Haiti
Lexington
Guantanamo
JT. P. Magruder
Tokyo
London
Japan
America
Great Britain
Tax Deadline Tonight Shapes Federal Revenue Outlook
March 15 marks the filing deadline for calendar year 1929 income tax returns. Government offices report long lines as millions rush to submit forms and advance tax payments. Officials anticipate corporate taxes may offset weaker individual receipts amid stock market declines and a reduced tax rate.
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Washington
Mar
Internal Revenue Collection
Uncle Sam
Treasury
Approval At Home Only Remaining Difficulty
London reports say a 100 percent agreement among the United States Great Britain and Japan exists in naval conference circles the only hold up is home government approval of the American Japanese settlement. Observers note a provisional accord may allow a three power pact if Britain France and Italy settle their Franco Italian crisis.
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Associated Press
London
United States
Great Britain
Japan
Reed
Matsudaira
Tardieu
Paris
MacDonald
Jackson Day Dinner Draws Elite Party Leaders In Raleigh
The Jackson Day Dinner hosted by the Young People’s Democratic Organization fills the Raleigh venue with 650 guests and tickets for 3,400 more as Jouett Shouse, Harry Byrd and O Max Gardner headline. WPTF will broadcast the speeches, and a late finish is expected around midnight.
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soVe Invileu
City Auditorium
WPTF
Raleigh
Federal Radio Commission
Shouse
Byrd
Gardner
Prohibition repeal hearings to renew before judiciary committee
Washington reports that Dry leaders plan to wrap up their defense as the judiciary committee resumes hearings next week on repealing the eighteenth amendment. The session will include testimony from Yale economist Irving Fisher and Methodist temperance official Clarence Trne Wilson.
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Washington
Mar
Judiciary Committee
Irving Fisher
Economics
Yale University
Clarence Trne Wilson
Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals
The
Methodist Church
William Tilton
Boston
Graham
Unitarian Temperance Society
Auto Wreck Fatal To Garland Greene
Garland Greene in Gaffney South Carolina dies at hospital after a car crash early today. Charles Largest is seriously injured when their vehicle struck a telephone post. Both men resided at Musgrove Hills.
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Garland Greene
Gaffney
Charles Largest
Greene
Musgrove Hills
Names Proposed for Ninth Planet Spark Debate at Lowell
At Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff observers consider names for the new planet with Atlas favored by Roger Putnam and Constance proposed in honor of Dr. Lowell’s widow. Dr. Shapley suggests Kronos while the Lowell name is largely set aside by the family. The planet, photographed as a faint blot, remains to be tracked to determine its orbit and distance, believed to be about 45 AU from the Sun.
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New York
Mar
Lowell Observatory
Flagstaff
Ariz
Roger Lowell Putnam
Springfield
Mass
Observatory
Percival Lowell
Constance Good
Constance
Lowell
Dr. Lowell
Uranus
Boston
Percival
Harlow Shapley
Harvard Observatory
Kronos
W. M. Slipher
Hera
Clyde Tombaugh
Slipher
C. O. Lampland
Al Capone Heads Home From Philadelphia Prison
Within hours of release from the Philadelphia penitentiary Capone plans to return to Chicago. He serves a year for carrying a concealed weapon with two months deducted for good behavior, and has booked a train ride for the afternoon. Capone vows Chicago is his home and says he has never run from anything.
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Philadelphia
Mar
Scarface al’ Capone
Chicago
Dr. L. W. Corbett Named Delegate To International Meet
Dr. L. W. Corbett of Goldsboro Wayne county health officer has been named to the U S official delegation to the 1930 International exhibition and World Health Congress in Dresden Germany He received the appointment from the American Public Health Association executive board He hopes to depart June 14 and return August 3 if he accepts the post.
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Goldsboro
L. W. Corbett
Wayne County
United States
Dresden
American Public Health Association
Corbett
Germany
Fate of air mail bill could save commercial aviation
Washington readers learn the Watres air mail bill may be acted on early next week by a House sub committee. The bill would pay passenger lines a guaranteed income based on mileage, not weight, to keep air transport viable and protect government investments in aviation. Postmaster General Brown says the measure aims to sustain essential air routes and prevent carriers from failing.
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Washington
Mar
Watres Air Mail
W. Irving Glover
House
Post Office Department
Watres
Pennsylvania
Department
Brown
Witness Finney Details Elk Hills and Pearl Harbor Lease Roles
In the Doheny bribery trial, E. Finney testifies that Albert Fall ordered oil contracts to be handled by the navy, a revocation Finney informed Fall of in December 1921. He notes Denby urged interior control, while Fall personally influenced Elk Hills and Tea Pot Dome deals and approved Pearl Harbor lease terms for Doheny.
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Washington
Mar
E. (. Finney
Edward L. Doheny
Albert B. Fall
Secretary of the Interior
Navy Department
Finney
Hogan
Frank Hogan
Interior Department
Elk Hills
Tea Pot Dome
Fall
Pearl Harbor
Hawaii
Doheny
Associated
Standard
Pan-American Oil
Bureau of Mines
Pan- American
Admiral Robinson
Denby
Doheny Concern
Elk Hills Naval Oil Reserve
Owen J. Roberts
Haw River Man Is Freed After Robbery Suspect Not Identified
Jack Robinson, 24, of Haw River North Carolina was released after holdup victims failed to identify him. He had been held on suspicion and arrested while buying ammunition for a pistol following a string of six store robberies in one hour.
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Baltimore
Jack
Robinson
Haw River
N. C
Barron Kidnaping Probe Moves to New York
Investigation into the kidnapping of Samuel Barron a wealthy New York real estate broker shifted to New York today. Detecive Merk Sacco of Monmouth county and state trooper George Westervelt traveled to New York to trace Barron's activities after four men attacked him and drove him away on Wednesday. No word has been heard from Barron since the incident.
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Asbury Park
Samuel Barron
New York
Merk Sacco
Monmouth County
George Westervelt
Fire destroys Hillcrest Institute dormitories near Tryon
Hillcrest Institute, a Presbyterian girls boarding school near Green's Creek, suffered two buildings burned to ground in a morning fire. Loss placed at 10 000 to 15 000 dollars. One Charlotte girl injured with a broken arm leaping from a second story dormitory. Rev. R D Byrd is headmaster. Dining hall and kitchen spared. Fire blamed on a defective furnace.
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Tryon
Mar
Hillcrest Institute
Green’s Creek
Charlotte
South Carolina
R. D. Byrd
New Smith
Martin Hall
Centenarian Hartman Dies in Hatfield
Mrs. Marvy M. Hartman aged 191 years died in Hatfield Pa. last night. The obituary notes her long life and residence in the area.
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Hatfield
Marvy M. Hartman
Parrot Fever Lab Suspends Work Amid Psittacosis Cases
The Hygienic Laboratory of the U.S. Public Health Service halted work with sick parrots after three new psittacosis cases appeared among its staff. The move aims to help find a cure for the tropical disease. Date March 15.
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The
United States Public Health Service
Mystery Letter Links Indian Woman to Marchand Slayings
The Buffalo Times printed a photostatic fragment of a letter on Buffalo Museum of Science stationery. The note purportedly from artist Henri Marchand names Lila Jimerson, an Indian woman, and ties her to the murder case involving Marchand’s wife Clothilde.
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Uffalo
N. Y
Buffalo Times
Benri
Buffalo Museum of Science
Henri Marchand
Lila Jimerson
Marchand
Clothilde
Hoover nominates Butner for brigadier general
President Hoover sent to the senate the nomination of Colonel Henry Wolf Butner of the field artillery at Fort Bragg North Carolina to be brigadier general. Butner is a North Carolina native.
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Hoover
Senate
Henry Wolf Butner
The
Field Artillery
Fort Bragg
N. C
Butner
North Carolina
Polish premier submits cabinet resignation
ARSAW Poland March 15 Premier Bartel whose government was defeated on a censure vote against the Labor minister yesterday presented the resignation of his cabinet to President Moscicki at noon today. The president withheld a decision.
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ARSAW
Poland
Bartel
Moscicki
FiveYearOld Shull Succumbs After Clothing Fire
Vertie Lee Shull, five, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T H S Shull, died from burns after her clothing caught fire while playing with matches.
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Olumbia, S
Vertie Lee Shull
Sigurd Ibsen Critically Ill in Nuremburg
Sigurd Ibsen former Norwegian premier and son of Henrik Ibsen is critically ill in Nuremberg Germany AP reports.
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Nreiburg
Germany
Sigurd Ibsen
Henrik Ibsen
Amplifying Outfit Planned for Greensboro Track Meet
Greensboro officials plan an amplifying outfit for the North Carolina Inter collegiate Track and Field meet and the Greensboro Civilian Scholastic event on May 3. If adopted amplifiers would be installed in Memorial stadium to benefit fans competitors and officials.
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Greensboro
North Carolina
Memorial Stadium
Gandhi Leads Ten Mile Civil Disobedience March
Fatigued but undeterred Mahatma Gandhi and his volunteers pressed on ten miles from Matar to Labhan amid crowds along the road. Villagers cheered as Gandhi continued on foot without a bullock cart, keeping up the march through fatigue.
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Madiad
Bombay
India
Mahatma Gandhi
Matar
Labhan
Gandhi
Queen Mary Dines and Learns in London Barroom
Queen Mary visits a London public house and learns how beer is drawn. She remarks it is a splendid cozy place and speaks with the bartender learning how beer is pumped from a cellar as workers explain their duties. The scene draws amused, respectful attention from patrons.
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London
Mer
Great Britain
Her Majesty
Mary
Four Jurists Nominated for Sanford Seat by Hoover
Washington reports four prominent jurists Henry W Anderson J J Parker A S Van Valkenburgh Xenophon Hicks recommended to President Hoover to fill the Supreme Court vacancy created by Justice Edward T Sanford. All save Van Valkenburgh are southern figures. Parker was previously urged by Representative Pritchard.
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Washington
Mar
Hoover
United States Supreme Court
Edward T. Sanford
Henry W. Anderson
Richmond
Virginia
Hoover Law Enforcement Commission
J. J. Parker
Fourth North Carolina Circuit Court of Appeals
A. S. van Vaulkenburgh
United States Highth Circuit Court of Appeals
Xenophon Hicks
Tennessee Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals
Whits House
South
van Valkenburgh
Missouri
Justice Sanford
Parker
Sanford
Pritchard
North Carolina
Planes Destroyed in Fire at Hadley Field
Thirteen airplanes were destroyed today when a fire gutted the hangar of New York Air terminals at Hadley Field. The loss was estimated at 200 900 dollars.
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South Plainfield
Nabs
New York Air Terminals
Hadley Field
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Young People’s Organization
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