Hoover Silent as Parker Senate Rejection Sparks Debate
Washington May AP President Hoover remains silent after the senate rejected Judge John J. Parker for the supreme court. Vice President Curtis discussed the situation at the White House while a formal statement was not planned today.
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Washington, May
Hoover
Senate
John J. Parker
Supreme Court
Curtis
White House
Capitol
Parker
Watson
Indiana
Arlea S. van Valkenburgh
Missouri
William S.S. Kenyon
Iowa
John H. Cotterall
Oklahoma
Fenton Whitlock Booth
Illinois
Federal Court of Claims
Robert S. von Moschizker
Pennsylvania Supreme Court
Aid Rushed to Destitute in Texas Tornado Zones
Relief efforts surge in central and south Texas as Red Cross and volunteers aid dozens of homeless. Texas towns Frost and Corsicana report heavy damage with many dead and injured. communities from San Antonio to Nordheim mobilize shelters, water repairs, and clothing drives as death toll rises.
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Central
South Texas
Red Cross
American Legion
Score
Texas
Frost
Navarro County
Corsicana
San Antonio
Cuero
Nordheim
Range
Yorktown
Kenedy
South
McBride Testifies Before Senate Lobby Committee
F Scott McBride of the Anti Saloon League testifies before the Senate lobby committee detailing last year’s finances with expenditures of 273049 and receipts of 269916 including 164154 from popular subscriptions. He notes the league monitors prohibition actions by lawmakers and district attorneys and a records check will be conducted at its Westerville Ohio HQ.
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Washington
F. Scott McBride
Anti- Saloon League
Senate Lobby Committee
Caraway
League
Westerville
Ohio
McBride
Gandhi Spirited Away Amid Indian Civil Strife
Serious and continued clashes between civil and military forces and Gandhi adherents unfold in India with over 27 police and natives killed in Sholapur. Gandhi is moved from Yerada prison to Purandhar fortress. A large cotton fire in Sewri destroys about 75000 dollars worth of baled cotton. Ratanji Morarji resigns from Bombay council of state protesting crackdown.
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Mahatma Gandhi
India
Sholapur
Yerada
Poona
Purandhar
Bombay
Sewri
Ratanji Morarji
Council of State For
Lord Irwin
Wickersham attacks present methods of dealing with crime
Wickersham in a speech before the American Law Institute assails current criminal justice practice as flawed. He chairmen the Hoover commission on law enforcement and cites overcrowded, unsafe institutions needing immediate reform while Chief Justice Hughes praises the Institute’s effort toward a restatement of common law.
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Washington
American Law Institute
Wickersham
Hoover Law Enforcement Commission
Hughes
Institute
Prison guardsmen shoot sleeping convicts at Ohio penitentiary
In Columbus two inmates were killed by a machine gun discharged by national guardsmen guarding the prison yard after a fire. Another convict was wounded as the weapon fired through a barred window at dawn. The men were identified as James W. Ross and Albert Freeman.
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Columbus
Ohio
Ohio Penitentiary
Ohio National
Ross
Freeman
Bayonne
N. J
Gulf Refining Company
Constable Hook
Tidewater Oil Company
Standard Oil Company
Sehburchia
Gunner Frieden
Carl Nospahl
Eris Haaslans
Newark
Ernest Warren
Cuyahoga County
Warren
Robert SS. Haubrich
Parole Granted for Austin Davis in Raleigh
Austin Davis, jailed 18 months for a dry violation, was granted parole after his wife Mrs. Davis and eight ragged children, ages 10 and under, visited Governor Gardner in Raleigh on May 8. Davis is now a free man.
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Raleigh
Austin Davis
Lie Detector Solves Chicago Murder Claim
Chicago reports a breakthrough with the University of Chicago lie detector aiding the murder case of M. A. Douglas. Lieutenant Leonard Keeler cites sailors at the Great Lakes naval training school confessing after tests showed irregular graphs, though coroner Bundesen withheld confirmation.
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Chicago
Science
University of Chicago
M. A. Douglas
Leonard Keeler
August Vollmer
Great Lakes Naval Training School
Herman N. Bundesen
Keeler
Douglas
Detroit
Madison Street
Heflin Predicts True Democratic Party Formation
U S Senator J Thomas Heflin spoke in Prattville saying a true democratic party could form soon and that definite plans exist though held pending the Alabama supreme court ruling on Horace Wilkinson's petition. Wilkinson sought to halt the Democratic primary in Jefferson County and regain a hearing after prior rulings.
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Prattville
Ala
United States
J. Thomas Heflin
Alabama Supreme Court
Horace ©. Wilkinson
Birmingham
Jefferson County
Heflin
Herbert Hoover
Wilkinson
Jefferson Court of Equity
Supreme Court
High Court
State
Democratic Executive Committee
Maturity Processes Of Modern Child Not Like Grandfather
Dr. S M Gruenberg of Columbia University told the International Congress on Mental Hygiene that today's youth shows less maturity and responsibility than his grandfather did at a similar age. He said youths are appallingly unaware of alternatives and nearly innocent in making choices, and that extended schooling and reduced economic duties delay maturity.
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Washington
S. M. Gruenberg
Columbia University
International Congress On Mental Hygiene
Dry Agents Scare Detroiter to Death
Frank Leto, 43, collapsed and died after police raided his home basement brewery in Detroit. He protested there was no reason for the visit while talking to Sergeant Walter Storch. A patrolman announced the discovery of the home brewery, and Leto dropped dead.
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Detroiter
Detroit
Frank Leto
League Furnishes White House Information On Appointees
The league says it provided information on prospective appointees to the White House while denying broader political pressure on Congress. Chairman Caraway questions the league’s neutrality, noting its support for both parties and minimal lobbying. Representative Tinkham accuses the league of law violations for underreporting political campaign expenditures totaling $67,565,313 from 1883 to 1926.
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Congress
League
White House
Caraway
Ciry Association
Tinkham
Massachusetts
Methodist Episcopal South Convenes To Set Church Laws
The 21st quadrennial general conference of the Methodist Episcopal church south opens with 3,000,000 adherents in mind. Bishop Warren Akin Candler leads off with humor, while Bishop Collings Denny is set to preside and committees begin drafting four year church governance. A potential challenge to bishops by Rev. Rembert C. Smith is anticipated but not expected to derail the agenda. Forney Hutchinson is named chair of the Episcopacy committee, seen as significant for possible bishopric consideration.
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Dallas
Tex
Methodist Episcopal Church
South
Warren Akin Candler
Atlanta
Collings Denny
Richmond
Rembert C. Smith
Washington
College of Bishops
Smith
James Cannon
Virginia
E. D. Mouton
North Carolina
H. M. Dubose
Tennessee
H. M. Moore
Forney Hutchinson
St. Luke's Methodist Church
Oklahoma City
Okla
Hutchinson
Parker Urged as Republican Senate Candidate in North Carolina
Judge John J. Parker, rejected yesterday by the senate as an associate justice, is being mentioned as a possible Republican candidate for the U S Senate in North Carolina. Gilliam Grissom says Parker may run, with J Elwood Cox pushing for his entry though some prefer 1932.
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Raleigh
N. C
John J. Parker
Senate
Supreme Court
Gilliam Grissom
Internal Revenue
North Carolina
Executive Committee
Judge Parker
J. Elwood Cox
High Point
Parker
Baltimore Ends Record Heat Day With Fatalities
Baltimore endured a blistering day with a pre-summer high of 96 degrees reported by officials. At 9 a.m. the temperature was 84 as meteorologist John R. Weeks warned of no relief. One death and one prostration were blamed on the heat.
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Baltimore
John R. Weeks
Former Women’s Golf Champ Profits in Oil Deal
Marion Hollins former national golf champion of 1921 garners a reported 2.5 million profit from the sale of Kettleman Oil Company for about 10.5 million. Purchasers include Pacific Western Oil Standard Oil California and Honolulu Consolidated Oil with eastern investors also benefitting.
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Los Angeles
Kettleman Oil Company
Marion Hollins
Pebble Beach
Cal
Pacific Western Oil Company
Standard Oil Company of California
Honolulu Consolidated Oil Company
Eastern Capitalists
Harold E Talbott, Jr
New York
Walter P. Chrysler
Samuel McRoberts
McKim Hollins
Payne Whitney
Miss Hollins
Franklyn P. Kenney
Marland Oil Company
Kettleman Hills
Marland
Kettleman Company
Farm Boy Dragged To Death by Mule
Andrew Clay, 17, of Cabarrus County farm near Concord, rode a mule home after work when his foot caught in a trace chain. The mule dragged him through woods and fields until relatives stopped it, leaving almost every bone broken. Funeral services are planned for tomorrow. he is survived by his father W. M. Clay, a stepmother, and several siblings.
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Concord
N. C
Andrew Clay
Cabarrus County
Here
Clay
W. M. Clay
Tar Heel Insurance Bill 70 Million During Last Year
North Carolinians paid about 9.7 million in insurance premiums in 1929, per state insurance commissioner Dan C. Roney. Per capita spending neared 23.33 dollars with a state population around 3 million. Life premiums topped 42. million. fire about 15. million. casualty near 8. million. compensation about 5. million.
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Raleigh
Danc. Roney
Boney
Exhumation in Suspected Death Case Sparks Family Action
The body of Mrs. George M. Gay, 22, mother of two, was exhumed after relatives alleged suspicious circumstances surrounding her death ten days earlier. In Mindanao, Philippine constabulary clashed with Moro guerrillas, leaving one officer and three privates dead and others wounded in Kawayan district.
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Hill, N
George M. Gay
ANILA
Phillipine Constabulary
Mindanao
Constabulary
Kawayan
Governor and Doctor Reel In Big Catch Near Manning
Governor Richards and Dr. William Barron fished near Manning and caught between 40 and 50 pounds of fish. He said the bite was fast and the hook got hot as the fish snapped at the bait.
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Governor Richards
William Barron
Columbia
Manning
Pittsburgh Business Man and Wife Killed in Wilmington Wreck
Prominent Pittsburgh steel man Jack V. Hurd and his wife were killed when their open car left a curve near a Wilmington bridge and plunged into a creek. The bodies were recovered from 14 feet of water as investigations noted the crash likely caused their deaths.
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Pittsburgh
Wilmington
Jack V. Hurd
Hurd
N. S. Hurd
Pinehurst
C. M. Phillips
N. C
Dorothy Campbell Hurd
United States
Great Britain
Canada
Caroline McCord Butterfield
Columbus, O
New York
Butterfield
Toronto Church Calls for Prohibition Action
The Presbyterian synod of Toronto and Kingston adopted a resolution urging both provincial and federal governments to curb liquor traffic toward ultimate prohibition. Critics argued public opinion would reject outright prohibition, while the synod supported federal moves to deny liquor clearances to countries with prohibitory laws.
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Toronto
Ontario
Presbyterian Synod of
Kingston
W. G. Wishart
University of Toronto
John Lennon
Havelock
Lennox
Rupert G. Stewart
Doris Duke Leads 17 Women Presented to Queen in London
London report lists Doris Duke of Durham North Carolina among seventeen prominent American matrons and debutantes to curtsy to Queen Victoria at Buckingham Palace in a royal court. The event is scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday at the Royal Court.
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Doris Duke
London
King George
Quee
Lucington Palace
Wemuen
Durnhan
N. C
Lutheran Meeting Elects Vice President in Gastonia
In Gastonia on May 8 the southern conference of the Lutheran church concluded a two day session. Rev N D Young of Bessemer City was elected vice president. Dr J J Morgan spoke on funds for the church college and Rev E Ridenhour addressed Friendship for the College.
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Gastonia
N. D. Young
Bessemer City
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