Sholapur cleared of foreigners after rioting toll feared
Reported upheaval in Sholapur ends with Europeans evacuated to Poona as death toll appears lower than feared. Officials fear Bakrid riots tomorrow amid continued arrests in Peshawar Kohat and Lahore areas. national leaders detained on sedition charges as crackdown on Gandhi campaign intensifies.
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Bombay
India
Sholapur
Poona
Talegaon
Mahatma Gandhi
Bakid
Simla
Congress Committee
Kohat
Peshawar
City Congress Committee
Ashia Hussian Fourchand
Frontier Advocate
Gopichand
Lahore
all-India Congress Committee
Old Controversies Stir at Methodist Conference and Persia Earthquake Toll
In Dallas a Methodist Episcopal Church South conference considered a constitutional article and discussed charges against Bishop James Cannon Jr while denying any charges. Separately, a Persian earthquake near Salmas caused about 2000 deaths and 5000 homeless, per a Teheran telegram.
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Dallas
Texas
James Cannon, Jr
Richmond
F. C. Culver
General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South
Rembert Smith
Washington, Ga
John M. Moore
H. M. DuBose
Nashville, Tenn
Edwin D. Mouton
Charlotte
N. C
W. A. Candler
Atlanta
Culver
Washington
Salmas
Persia
State Department
Henry 8. Villard
Teheran
Uramia
N C C W Plans Budget Slashes To Meet Cuts
North Carolina College for Women at Greensboro will cut expenditures next year by 20 percent as part of statewide efforts. The full board of trustees backed Governor Gardner's retrenchment plan, seeking consolidation and savings totaling about 100000. Out-of-state registration fees will rise 25 dollars for about 300 students. President J I Foust reported college activities and the revised budget plan.
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Maleigh
North Carolina State College For Women At
Greensboro
Gardner
J. I. Foust
Prominent Winston-Salem Merchant Dies
Burt Miles Hitchcock 73, a leading Winston-Salem merchant, died at his home after a week of illness. He had fallen ill last December, recovered enough to return to business, but was stricken again last Thursday and his condition worsened.
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Winston-Salem
Burt Miles Hitchcock
Miami City Manager Beaten and Ordered Out of Town
Miami City Manager Frank H. Hinson and his brother in law Albert P. Hinson were attacked on a causeway between Miami and Miami Beach. Hinson said he was warned to leave town due to his anti Capone activities. The assault followed Capone and associates being released from jail under a habeas corpus writ.
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Miami
Fla
Frank H. Hinson
Albert P. Hinson
Hinson
Scarface al Capone
Chicago
Country Causeway
W E Stroud of Goldsboro Heads Bankers
W E B Stroud of Goldsboro was elected president of the North Carolina Bankers Association at its annual convention in Pinehurst. R M Hanes of Winston-Salem was named first vice president, Robert M Page of Aberdeen second vice president, Forest Eskridge of Shelby third vice president, and J K Dorsett of Spencer treasurer.
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Pinehurst
W. E B. Stroud
Goldsboro
North Carolina Bankers Association
R. M. Hanes
Winston-Salem
Robert M. Page
Aberdeen
Forest Eskridge
Shelby
J. K. Dorsett
Spencer
Red Cagle to resign after West Point graduation
West Point New York May 9 AP Christian Keener Cagle will resign after graduation June 12 to take a coaching post at Mississippi A and M and to work for a large commercial house. The Army football star plans immediate resignation following his graduation.
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West Point
N. Y
Christian Keener Cagle
Army
Military
Mississippi A
Britten proposes $937 million naval building plan
Chairman Britten of the house naval committee introduced a bill authorizing 936.995 million for warship construction to reach parity with Britain under the London treaty. The plan funds light six inch cruisers destroyers submarines and aircraft carriers over eight years, in addition to earlier authorized costs.
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Washington
Britten
House Naval Committee
Great Britain
Adams
Commercial Autos From S. C. Must Buy State Plates
North Carolina highway patrols ordered all South Carolina trucks used for commercial work in North Carolina to acquire North Carolina licenses. Captain Charles D. Farmer said reciprocal agreements failed and enforcement will mirror South Carolina rules for out of state commercial vehicles.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
South Carolina
Charles D. Farmer
Farmer
Music Federation Set to Close Its Greensboro Session
Delegates at the North Carolina Federation of Music clubs in Greensboro finish business today after electing officers. Goldsboro was chosen for the 1931 meeting site with Greens boros Mrs. P D Gilreath recording secretary and Mrs Eugene Davis, Mrs C Maxie Mayton and Mrs C C Tomlinson elected to other posts.
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Greensboro
North Carolina Federation of Music Clubs
Goldsboro
P. D. Gilreath
Eugene Davis
Statesville
C. Maxieunn
Charlotte
CC. F. Tomlinson
High Point
Gilreath
Miami Cracks Down on Capone Under Chicago Plan
Miami authorities follow a Chicago style crackdown on Al Capone, detaining him for two and a half hours on a habeas corpus writ and promising further arrests when he appears. Capone left Palm Island estate after losing cash and a diamond seized by police, as he faces civil and criminal actions in state and federal courts. His brother John and associates Albert Drignano and Nick Circules were arrested and released after booking.
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Miami
Fla
Chicago
Scarface al Capone
Capone
Palm Island
Florida
Doyle Carlton
John
Albert Drignano
Nick Circules
C. H. Reeder
Caipone
Whiskey Airways Haul Liquor To Chicago Territory
Federal agents uncovered a whiskey air service that has moved over 14 000 cases of Canadian liquor into Chicago territory in eight months. Two planes, a $60 000 tri motor cabin craft and a smaller plane, operated round trips from Windsor Ontario to Chicago six days a week. Since last August about 200 flights allegedly carried liquor worth 1 400 000 dollars.
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Chicago
the Tribune
Windsor
Ont
Horton Smith Defeated in English Championship Start
Horton Smith, the young American golf pro, failed to win on English soil as Archie Compston posted 285 to 289 for the Northern Professional Championship at Southport. Smith stayed near the leaders through 72 holes but settled for runner up.
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Southport
England
Horton Smith
Smith
Archie Compston
High Lights Of Roberts Life
Born May 2 1875 in Germantown Philadelphia son of Josephus and Emma Lafferty Roberts. Educated at Germantown Academy and University of Pennsylvania graduating law 1898 with first honors. Served as instructor and professor at university later district attorney assistant and special deputy attorney general in 1918. Married Elizabeth Caldwell Rogers in 1904 they have one daughter.
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Germantown
Philadelphia
Josephus and
Emma _ Lafferty Roberts
Germantown Academy
University of Pennsylvania
University
Stuides
Bar
Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce
Rodman Wanamaker
Wanamaker
Elizabeth Caldwell Rogers
Fairfield, Conn
Roberts
Fladelphia County
Pennsylvania
Supreme Court
Reed
Watson
Indiana
White House
Rangers Use Tear Bombs to Disperse Sherman Mob
In Sherman Texas on May 9 four Texas rangers and Gray county peace officers fired tear bombs to break a crowd of hundreds attempting to lynch George Hughes 41 a black man charged with attacking a white woman. The mob swelled around the courthouse as Hughes faced arraignment after a recent alleged assault. The governor ordered the rangers to intervene and police and fire crews battled the crowd inside and outside the building.
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Texas
Sherman
Texas Rangers
Grayson County
George Hughes
Dan Moody
Hughes
Henderson Population Increases Over 1922
Henderson North Carolina reports population now 12,345, up from 5,222 in 1922, a gain of 21.5 percent as of May 9. The release notes the surge in residents and outlines the growth trend for the town.
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Henderson
N. C
Ernest Brumfield Pays With His Life
Ernest Brumfield a Union county Black man was executed at the state prison for first degree burglary He was the third person in the state electrocuted for that crime and the 108th to die in the electric chair He entered at 10 29 and was pronounced dead at 10 37 after two shocks and died insisting on his innocence.
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Raleigh
Ernest Brumfield
Union County
Brumfield
Goldsborough Seeks West East Flight Record Start
Frank Goldsborough a 19 year old aviator took off from El Paso Municipal Airport at 8 12 a m for Dallas Texas aiming to set a junior west east continental flight record.
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Goldsborough
EL Paso
Tex
Frank Goldsborough
Dalia
Texas
Wilkins Plans Sub Ice Voyage Using Obsolete Submarine
Captain Hubert Wilkins and Simon Lake asked Navy Assistant Secretary Jahneke to sell an obsolete submarine converted into a submersible boat for a planned Arctic underice voyage next year. Wilkins aims for scientific gear over fighting weapons as the craft cools into the north, dives under the ice, then surfaces.
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Wilkins
Arctic
Washington
Hubert Wilkins
United States
Explorer
Simon Lake
Jahneke
Navy
Revision of Criminal Procedure Aims for Streamlined Justice
A proposed model code of criminal procedure gains partial approval at the American Institute of Law meeting. Key provisions include extra juror selection, judge examinations, summonses for minor arrests, admitted material witnesses to bail, information prosecutions, and simplified indictments. Jurists move to the parallel Restatement of the common law, a 22 volume project due to complete in 1941.
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Washington
Movement of Justice
American Institute of Law
Pro
Capone Seeks Injunction To Bar Police From Arrests
Federal Judge Halsted L Ritter orders a hearing on Capone injunction request to prevent Miami police from arresting Al Capone without a warrant. The hearing is set for 5 pm Eastern time after Capone, his brother, and two aides were briefly detained following a habeas corpus release.
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Miami
Fla
Halsted L. Ritter
al Capone
Chicago
Vincent €. Goblin
Capone
Whalen Declines to Testify on Red Menace Evidence
Washington May 9 Grover Whalen New York City police commissioner refused to tell the house immigration committee what he calls evidence of a red men ace.
Roberts Nominated for Supreme Court in Oil Case Ties
President Hoover nominated Owen Roberts of Philadelphia for the Supreme Court. The government oil cases, including Teapot Dome, boosted his credentials as Pennsylvanian Republicans and Senate leaders voiced favorable views. If confirmed, the court would shift one seat from the south to the north, with Norris and Parker among notable figures weighing in.
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Owen J. Roberts
Teapot Dome
Hoover
Justice Sanford
Washington
Roberts
Administration
Charles E. Hughes
John J. Parker
Norris
Judiciary Committee
Hughes
Parker
Nebraska
Tennessee
Four Indicted in Death After Raleigh Fight
Wake county grand jury returned a true bill against F. E. Harris Mae Redman and Alice Stone all of Raleigh and W Fisher of Grove City Pa for affray in the brawl that led to the fatal wounding of James I Miller of Freedom Pa at Alice Stone’s home on March 15. Beaman Smith is alleged to have dealt the fatal blow with a smoking stand but was not arrested. The six will be tried on affray charges stemming from the incident started when Fisher tried to enter the Stone home after being denied entry.
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Raleigh
Wake County
F. E. Harris
Mae Redman
Alice Stone
Fisher
Grove City
James I. Miller
Freedom
Beaman Smith
Miller
Smith
Tew
Stone
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Bead
Blaine
McBride
General Conference
The
Methodist Episcopal Ahaswah
Soulll
A. J. Lamar
Nashville
Tenn
Commission On Constitution
Warren A. Candler
Appelate Council
Edwin Dubose Mouton
Methodist Episcopal Church
South
Committee On Episcopacy
Anti-Saloon League
Born of God
F. Scott McBride
Senate Lobby Committee
Kingdom of God
Wisconsin, & Net
Wayne B. Wheeler
Wheeler
John F. Kramer
Kramer
E. C. Yellowley
Prohibition
League
Roy A. Haynes
Haynes
N.C.C.W
Winston- Salem
W E Stroud
Red Cagle
Naval Building
S. C
Music Federation
Whiskey Airways
Chicago Territory
Associated Press
Senate
Court
Sanford
Senator Walsh
Montana
Walsh
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