Convention delegate totals show Hoover and Lowden leads
May 12 report lists Republican Hoover with 436 delegates and Lowden 252 with many disputed. Curtis Norris Borah totals also shown. Democratic counts then detail Smith with 553 delegates and large disputes, including 79 percent in dispute for the bloc.
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Mellon Is Favorable To Hoover
Philadelphia dated report notes Secretary of the Treasury Mellon as chairman of the Pennsylvania delegation to the Republican national convention. He backs Hoover as closest to the desired standard but urges delegation unpledged until Kansas City caucus. Also reports bipartisan reorganization: General W. W. Atterbury named national committee member and General Edward Martin named state committee chairman.
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National Committee
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Atterbury
George Whart Pepper
Martin
William L. Mellon
Chicago Welcomes Bremen Flyers in Colorful May Day Parade
Chicago honored Fitzmaurice Koehl and Von Huenefeld of Bremen in a large parade along Michigan Avenue. Crowds cheered as the German aviators rode past in cars with officials and family members amid guards, scouts, and bands.
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American Legionnaires
Senate votes raise corporation tax cut to 12 1 2 percent
Congress faces party line split as Senate Republicans push a 12 1 2 percent corporate rate for a 200 million tax cut plan. Democrats counter with a graduated lower rate for small incomes, boosting the package by 24 million. The vote narrowly favored the higher rate 40 to 38 with two Republicans joining the Democrats.
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North Carolina
Big Projects Make Progress in Halfway Senate Push
Washington May 12 Congress closed the week with its big three legislative projects about halfway through. Flood control is finished and likely to win presidential approval. Farm relief has passed conference and awaits final approval from both houses and a White House decision on the retained equalization fee. Tax reduction remains under Democratic pressure with unclear fate. Debates and committee activity centered on Hoover spending, presidential campaigns, and Boulder dam prefrence while California and Arizona Utah blocs clash over lines.
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White House
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Hoover
Rules Committee
Boulder Dam
California
North Carolina Politics Sees Low Campaign Momentum
In Raleigh on May 12, with two weeks to precinct meetings, state political activity remains subdued. Anti-Smith forces review Alabama Texas and South Carolina primary results while Senator Simmons backs Cordell Hull. Zeb Vance Turington leads Hull’s NC campaign, and labor backs M. L. Shipman for labor commissioner as campaigns gear up in major cities.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Anti-Smith
Alabama
Texas
South Carolina
Simmons
Washington
Cordell Hull
Zeb Vance Turyington
Iredell
Hull
John D. M Langston
Durham
Sallie Gibbes Langston
Central Labor Union
M. L. Shipman
Former football star Melville A Hill dies after operation
Melville A Hill known as Bubbles, former tackle for the 1905 western championship University of Chicago team, died at St Luke's hospital after 45 volunteers offered blood transfusions. He had undergone three major operations and died shortly after a blood test this morning. Hill worked in the advertising department of a Chicago newspaper.
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Chicago
Melville A
Bubbles) Hill
University of Chicago
St. Luke’s Hospital
Hill
Budget Adoption Highlights Synod Meeting in Charlotte
In Charlotte on May 12 delegates at the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Synod adopted a budget of 110000 dollars for the next fiscal year. The convention’s business sessions closed today and the delegates will stay in the city tomorrow for further church meetings.
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Charlotte
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Synod Convention
Bishop McConnell Cleared by Church Conference in Kansas City
Bishop Francis J. McConnell of Pittsburgh received an overwhelming vote of confidence as the Methodist Episcopal general conference dismissed allegations of maladministration and immorality as groundless. The body ordered a review of the Cooke complaint and urged prompt reporting by May 15.
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Kansas City
Francis J. McConnell
Pittsburgh
Methodist Episcopal Church
McConnell
George A. Cooke
Wilmington
Del
McConnel
Drowning Fatality Near Atlantic Coast Line Pumping Station
Sam Bass, 26, drowned when a motorboat carrying P. M. Williams Mrs Williams a small child and an unidentified man capsized near the Atlantic Coast Line pumping station in Rocky Mount. Williams escaped aided by his wife and the unknown man who saved the child. Bass disappeared and was recovered two hours later near the sinking point.
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Sam Bass
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Lindbergh Advances in Aerial Navigation Study
At Curtiss Field New York on May 12 Colonel Charles A Lindbergh shows satisfactory progress in aerial navigation. Lieutenant Commander P V Weems says Lindbergh cut daytime line-of-position finding to three minutes and nighttime to one minute during crucial speed times. Weems, who tutored him, will return to his ship the Cuyama in Los Angeles tonight or tomorrow.
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Charles A. Lindbergh
P. V. Weems
Weems
Navy Department
Lindbergh
Los Angeles
Cuyama
Man kills wife then ends own life near Campbell
In Campbell Nebraska on May 12 Rein Koch a 37 year old oil driller struck his wife with their son's baseball bat and dragged her to a haystack. He then set himself on fire by burrowing into the stack. The couple were en route to Franklin Nebraska for a divorce with their children present.
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Reinhold Koch
Koch
Franklin
Nebru
Hoover campaign funds total $241274 with prior $225000
James W. Good former Iowa representative and Hoover campaign leader testified before the senate campaign funds committee that reported expenditures totalled 241 274 dollars up from 225 000 the figure reported yesterday. He said about 40 000 went to the Ohio primary and noted spending in other states while arguing the campaign’s expenditures were modest.
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James W. Good
Iowa
Herbert Hoover
Senate Campaign Funds Committee
Good
Carolina
Florida
Maine
Missouri
New Hampshire
Hoover
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Republic
Alfred E. Smith
Senate
Frank O. Lowden
Leonard Wood
Lowden
Steiner
Oregon
James E. Watson
Indiana
Barkley
Kentucky
Northwest
al Smith
Texas
Rush Holland
J. W. Ryan
Philadelphia
Mr. Holland
Arkansas
Mellon Words Elevate Hoover in Pennsylvania Delegates
Secretary Mellon praised Hoover as closest to the standards for the next president and urged pledges only as guidance. Pennsylvania’s 79 delegates were expected to back Hoover at Kansas City, while Mellon added an “however” urging unpledged status until the convention.
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Mellon
Herbert Hoover
Mr. Hoover
Coolidge
Black Hills
Hoover
Hoover Saw Mr. Mellon
Pennsylvania
Kansas City
Norris and
Borah
Is Sin Passe in Criminal Behavior Debate at Memphis Conference
The Memphis conference of the Social Service of the Protestant Episcopal church debated whether sin explains wrongdoing. Norman B. Nash argued sin now means a flawed mental attitude, while most crime stemmed from innate impulses and pathological causes. Mrs. Kate Burr Johnson and E. B. Bridges supported the view that criminality largely arises from maladjustment and physical factors rather than deliberate sin.
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Department of Christian Social Ethics
Cambridge Theological Seminary
Kate Burr Johnson
Public Welfare
Memphis
Nash
Mrs. Johnson
E. B. Bridges
Sioner
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