Prohibition Topic Roars In House Hearings Amid Election Duel
Rep LaGuardia urges wets to force candidates to declare wet or dry stance as hearings before the House Judiciary Committee yield divergent views. Drys claim the anti prohibition case shows breakdown of the 18th Amendment while wets call hearings educational and demand open positions from all candidates.
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Washington
LaGuardia
New York
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Judiciary Committee
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Curran
Henry H. Curran
Congress
New Yorker
Association
Faryland
Final Tariff Vote Set After Long Senate Session
The Senate wrapped seven months of tariff wrangling with plans for a final Monday vote and a conference with the House. Debate featured stalled changes to oil rates, with agricultural protections locked in as critical to the measure. Senator Thomas proposed recommitting to strike all rate changes except agriculture, but the move was blocked.
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Associated Press
Washington, Mar
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Oklahoma
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Doheny Acquitted Of Oil Lease Bribery
Reports indicate Doheny acquitted in oil lease bribery case as federal judiciary leadership advances. Senate confirmation of Judge Thomas Day Thacher as solicitor general progresses amid scrutiny of stock holdings and past rulings on deportation cases.
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Federal Judiciary
New York
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North Carolina
Supreme Court
Senate Judiciary Committee
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Thacher
Overman
Borah
Oil magnate acquitted in seven year old Elk Hills bribery case
In Washington, Doheny was found not guilty today by a District of Columbia jury of bribery involving the Elk Hills lease. The nine women and three men returned a unanimous verdict on the first ballot, with Doheny tearful and grateful as his wife Mrs. Doheny embraced him. Fall, tried in the same court, is free on bond pending appeal.
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Doheny
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Elk Hill
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Elk Hills
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California
Fall
Washington
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Chairman Refuses to Yield Republicans Face Huston Crisis
Washington dispatch reports Claudius H. Huston under pressure as lobby committee probes Muscle Shoals ties and a $36100 payment from Union Carbide. Party leaders expect a resignation only after committee action, with Hoover eyeing the unfolding friction and 1930s recall of pending leadership change.
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Mar
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Tennessee River Improvement Association
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Mally
Musele Shoale
Union Carbide Company
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Nebraska
Congress
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Committee Interviews Faculty on University Presidency
CHAPEL HILL March 22. The J N C committee named to advise on selecting a successor to President Harry W Chase is interviewing faculty members. H Graham Leslie Weil and Charles Whedbee are conducting brief consultations while Stahle Linn and Judge J J Parker are absent. Interviews continue tomorrow and Monday to gauge faculty opinion on the succession.
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Chapel Hill
Mar
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Leslie Weil
Charles Whedbee
University Justees
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Stahle Linn
Udge J. J. Parker
Sfort
Chase
Forsyth Savings and Just Becomes Wachovia Third Street Branch
The Forsyth Savings and Just Company, a black owned bank in Winston-Salem, will become a Wachovia Bank and Trust Company branch. The Third Street location will open Monday morning March 4 under President F. H. Fries.
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Mar
Forsyth Savings and Just Company
Negro Bank
Wachovia Bank and Trust Company
Third Street
F. H. Fries
Machovia Bank and Trust Company
Winter Lingers as Spring Hints Return in Carolinas
In Charlotte on March 22 winter again grips the Carolinas with snow sleet and icy gusts despite officials signaling its exit two days earlier. The cold snap prolongs the season as temperatures dip and wind chills rise across the region.
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Charlotte
Mar
Naval Parley Idle as Five Power Talks Stall at London
London reports the five power naval conference has become merely formal as Paris and Rome deadlock over parity and Tokyo's reply to the tri party disarmament talks lingers. A favorable Tokyo response could salvage the three power treaty but an unfavourable one risks a collapse akin to 1927 Geneva. Meanwhile a spring thaw brings bare roads and scattered snow across North Carolina with several cities counting on a cold weekend ahead.
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Italy
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Cemetery Plumbing Fixtures Stolen in Orangeburg
Meanest ORANGEBURG S C March 22 Someone stole the cemetery water lines and fixtures during the night leaving water running at full blast. The act exposed the cemetery to disruption and vandalism in a small South Carolina town.
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Orangeburg
Mussolini Marks End of Eleven Fascist Anniversary
Rome reports Premier Mussolini's message from the Fascist party paper marking eleven years since founding combat groups. He declares unity, discipline, and resolve against subversive forces, urging Italians to face the future with confidence as Fascism enters its second decade. The premier’s address will be read aloud by Fascist branch secretaries across Italy at tomorrow’s commemoration.
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Missionaries in Kiangsi Declared Not in Peril
Eleven American Catholic missionaries in Kanchow Kiangsi province were said to be in no imminent peril according to Bishop Sheehan. He described ongoing depredations by communists and bandits as not worse than previous months and did not indicate any withdrawal plans despite Washington's request for troop protection. The bishop blamed Nanking and provincial authorities for the banditry and lack of control.
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Wide Search For Missing Minister
Hundreds of Jackson county residents will join a county wide hunt for the Rev. Thomas Hawkins who has been missing for several days. A continuous search has been in progress from his home, but tomorrow the county will be laid out systematically and volunteers will augment hunting parties.
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N. C
Jackson County
Thomas Hawkins
Patients Safely Evacuated From Chester Hospital Fire
Twelve Pryor Hospital patients were removed safely as a three story building burned in Chester on March 22. Fire likely started in an elevator shaft from wiring. patients carried on beds or through windows due to smoke. Mayor Carter estimated damage well over 810,000 as hospital staff and residents aided the evacuation.
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S. C
Pryor Hospital
S. ©. Carter
Stocks Prices In New Tumble
The New York Stock Exchange saw profit taking interrupt a week of gains with a 52 minute session after hours. The 90 issue price index slipped two points for a weekly net gain of 5.7, while Western Union fell to a yearly low before a late rebound as Newcomb Carlton cited a quarterly earnings drop due to repairs from earthquake damaged trans Atlantic cables.
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New York
New York Stock Exchange
Western Union
Newcomb Carlton
Downey Acquittal Echoes Hope From Doheny Case
Albert B. Fall, convicted of taking a $100000 bribe in the Elk Hills oil dispute, urges readers to view his conviction's puzzle against Edward Doheny's acquittal by the Washington jury. Fall hails the Doheny verdict as truth and innocence prevailing and awaits appeal action as he misses Washington events.
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el. Paso
Texas
Albert BK. Fall
Edward Ll. Doheny
Elk Hills Naval Oil Reserve
Washington
Waterfront Fire Threatens Ho boken Ships
A mile of waterfront in Hoboken New Jersey was reported aflame and menacing three ships including one loaded with crude oil docked at the piers, as of this evening per AP dispatch.
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Hoboken
N. d
Europa Battles Heavy Seas On Maiden Atlantic Run
The North German Lloyd liner Europa, amid heavy seas and strong headwinds, logged 703 miles on her first day toward New York, averaging 28.15 knots. Bremen’s four day 17 hour 42 minute crossing record looms, but officials say the Europa is just on its maiden voyage and not chasing a speed mark.
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America
Bremen
Cherbourg
Europa
Ambrose
New York Harbor
Royster Funeral For Pr Jael Finch Royster In Chapel Hill
In Chapel Hill North Carolina on March 23 funeral services for Pr Jael Finch Royster dean of the universitys graduate school and head of the English department will be at the Royster home on East Franklin Street. Rev A S Lawrence will conduct the service followed by burial at Chapel Hill cemetery Honorary pallbearers include Harry Chase Francis Venable Walter D Tov Addison Hibbard W W Pierson William Cian Clyne Fubanks M E Hog an and Dr James K Hall Active pallbearers are Russell Potter George Coffin Taylor Howard Mumford Jones Louis Graves Dr Charles S Mangum Dr William De R MacNider W F Thrall and Frank P Graham
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dJael Finch Royster
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Royster
East Franklin Street
A. S. Lawrence
Chapel Hill Cemetery
Harry Chase
Francis P. Venable
Walter D. Tov
Addison Hibbard
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