Cost of Special Automobiles Cost Primary Would Be Less
Raleigh May 19. Debate over the unofficial Hull Smith primary cost centers on printing ballots. Department of Labor and Printing says 1,000,000 ballots cost about 350 dollars, with 175 dollars per side for each faction. Officials express faith in fair, legal conduct and no widespread fraud anticipated.
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J. C. Baskerwill
Raleigh
Cordell Hull
Alfred KE. Smith
Raleigh Times
R. A. Doughton
Smith-Hall
Hull
Smith Forces
Hull Forces
Times
Frank Nash
George P. Pell
The
Corporation Commission
Frank Nashid
Doughton
Zeb V. Turlington
Door handles on Oakland improved
Oakland and Pontiac Six buyers gain stronger theft protection via a new outside door handle that resists wrenching. If forced, the handle simply turns, preserving the door catch. The system, from the Oakland Motor Car Co and Fisher Body, includes a semi coincidental lock that secures ignition and transmission with a key, plus a sliding plunger in an armored cable.
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Oakland
Pontiac
Oakland-Pontiac
Oakland Motor Car Company
Fisher Body Corporation
Thieves Hit with Long Federal Sentences in last Year
Federal court records show automobile thieves received combined sentences totaling 2798 years and fines totaling 63297 dollars after convictions last year.
Glasgow to Edinburgh Super-highway Project Planned
A 42 mile two lane road is slated to run from Glasgow to Edinburgh Scotland. The proposed alignment would feature lanes each 30 feet wide and an estimated cost of 195000 dollars per mile, totaling about 8.19 million dollars.
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Glasgow
Edinburgh
Scotland
State committee to decide use of primary ballot boxes
The manager noted that presidential primary ballot boxes are currently kept in every county precincts and that only the state executive committee can authorize their use for the primary, with election officials handling the process as in prior years.
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State Executive Committee
Master Scale Built to Keep All Freight Weights Accurate
The master scale for railroad weighings, completed in Chicago, uses a two section plate fulcrum track to measure loads up to 120000 pounds with one tenth of a pound accuracy. It will serve to calibrate about 12000 track scales nationwide, ensuring consistent freight charges and accurate interstate commerce.
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Chicago
America
H. M. Roeser
United States Bureau of Standards
Washington
Bureau
Campaign funds probe in Raleigh eying Smith expenditures
Enterprise Bureau Raleigh May 19 Investigators reach Raleigh Monday to probe campaign funds in North Carolina tied to the Smith Reed and Hull forces. Focus rests on Smith money flows and whether a statewide structure existed to direct donations.
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John G. Dawson
Kinston
Democratic Executive Committee
Smith
North Carolina
Dawson
Flint Growth Since 1904 Buick Start Sparks Population Boom
Flint Michigan has grown dramatically since Buick Motor Car company began operating in 1904. The city’s population rose from about 15,000 to an estimated 1,000 percent higher over the ensuing decades.
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Buick Motor Car Company
Flint
Mich
North Carolina Delegates Attend Sons of the American Revolution Meet
Twelve delegates and alternates from North Carolina will travel to Washington for the National S A R convention at the Mayflower Hotel May 20 to 23. The state will receive a large charter member scroll, and Park Mathewson will carry the state flag in the opening demonstration. Delegates include Harrison Otie Norman Chambliss William Graham Park Mathewson Daniel Smithwick G Hill Yarborough James Houston Harry Northrup Lorenzo Winston William Bramham DeR Conger and William Hammer.
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North Carolina State Society
North Carolina
Park Mathewson
Raleigh
State Society
Harrison G. Otie
Norman Y. Chambliss
Rock, Mount
William A. Graham
Daniel T. Smithwick
G. Hill Yarborough
Louisburg
James A. Houston
Harry CC. Northrup
Charlotte
Lorenzo
Winston
Greensboro
William G. Bramham
Durham
Demand
der. Conger
Edenton
William CC. Hammer
Asheboro
London Hospitals Hit by Near Half Million in Anonymous Donations
Over the past five years London hospitals have received close to $500,000 from unknown donors. The figure highlights a surge in anonymous giving and the ongoing reliance on private generosity to support medical facilities.
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London
Maine to survey industrial social resources statewide
Maine plans a comprehensive stock-taking of its resources using corporate appraisal methods. The study, led by notable figures including MIT president Dr Samuel W Stratton and former Chamber of Commerce leader Julius H Barnes, will review climate industrial resources labor power costs and transportation to guide state policy.
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Maine
Bangor
Samuel W. Stratton
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Julius H. Barnes
United States Chamber of Commerce
United States Grain Corporation
Maine to survey living conditions of citizens
The Maine Development Commission will gather a hundred prominent Maine citizens to study food costs rent clothing housing conditions and labor supply. Survey committees will assess schools recreation theatres churches hospitals sanitation water health and land topography.
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Maine
Maine Development Commission
Van Lear Black Resumes World Air Tour Toward Khartum
Cairo May 19 Van Lear Black resumed his 40 000 mile world air tour taking off for Khartum with his crew. He likely spent the night at Wadi Halfa about halfway to Khartum. Intense heat prevailed in Egypt and the Sudan.
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Cairo
Egypt
van Lear Black
Khartum
Wadi Halfa
Sudan
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National Industrial Conference Board
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Marvel
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St. Louis
Charles Lindbergh
Smithsonian Institute
Washington, I
Lindbergh
Raleigh Inquiry
Mr. Dawson
New York
George Gordon Battle
William B. “Buck” Jones
J. S. Griffin
Jones
Senate Committee
John C. Dawson
Zeb. W. Turlington
Hall
Walter Murphy
Salisbury
Reed
Sumter C. Brawley
W. B. Jones
Robert H. Edwards
Goldsboro
Thomas A. Jones
Jesse Davis
Larry I. Moore
New Bern
James E. Carraway
J. Y. Jordan
National Society of Sons of American Revolution
Mervin
Mary Wolfe
West Side
Maxwell Tegerdine
Landau Sedk
Fisher
Cenerel Motors
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