Campaign committee divides over Smith slush fund in North Carolina
In Raleigh on May 21 the Senate committee probing Alfred E. Smith’s campaign found no evidence of a slush fund in North Carolina. Tensions rose between Senator Furnifold Simmons and Smith backers over his candidacy, with local organizers denying state funds. Witnesses testified volunteer efforts supported Smith, noting expenditures slightly above two thousand dollars. Local officials like Robert H. Edwards claimed funds remained in-state and not sent to Smith, while defending the NC organization.
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Raleigh
N. C
North Carolina
Alfred E. Smith
Senate
Furnifold M. Simmons
New York
Injury At Start Halts Bremen Trip
Pictou Nova Scotia May 21 The attempt to fly the Bremen from Greenly Island to New York under its own power was abandoned after a failed take off the plane was badly damaged The Junkers pilot Fred Melchoir sent word to Major General Fechet that the Bremen would be shipped by steamer Fechet declined landing on ice and planned to proceed to Washington via Boston and New York The episode ends months of effort dating to the April 13 landing on Greenly Island by Von Huenefeld Koehl and Fitzmaurice
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Pictou
N. S
Bremen
New York
Labador
Greenly Island
Fred Melchoir
Junkers
Melchoir
James EB. Fechet
United States Army Air Forces
United States
Fechet
Army
Washington
Boston
Baron von Huenefeld
Koehl
Fitzmaurice
North Atlantic
Report on Chicago organized crime and big business links
A Chicago report from the Illinois Association for Criminal Justice traces two decades of organized crime tying gambling bootlegging vice and political interests to vast profits. It names Al Capone as chief of the ruling gang and links him to Colosimo and Five Points gang origins, noting ongoing political protection and failed prosecutions.
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Illinois Association For Criminal Justice
Chicago
the Chronicle
Andrew A. Bruce
American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology
al Capone
John Torre
Big Jim’ Colosimo
Five Point Gang
New York
McSwiggin
John Landeseo
American Institute
Bruce
Rush C. Butler
Illinois Bar Association
Carnegie Foundation
Industrial Club of Chicago
William OH. McSwiggin
Cook County
Special County
Bhut
O’donnell
Baptist Convention Denounces Wet Candidate. Tammany Allegation Denied
At the 73rd Southern Baptist convention in Chattanooga Tennessee Dr Arthur J Barton claimed a Tammany representative tried to block the resolutions denouncing a wet presidential candidate. Sam Whitaker Chattanooga attorney and Bible teacher denied the charge saying the claim harmed the separation of church and state. The body adjourned after memorial services for five officers.
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Tammany
Wet
Chattanooga
Tenn
73Rd Southern Baptist Convention
Arthur J. Barton
Sam Whitaker
New York
Barton
Tammany Organization
Conscience Is Clear Death Note Letter Reports Suicide
Detroit May 21 Dr Frank Remington Loomis denied murder and said his conscience is clear before he killed himself The Detroit News published the death note under copyright The note blamed political maneuvering for humiliation and disrespect and praised friends in Detroit It also mentioned a newspaper article in 24 or 48 hours and left the mailing recipient undetermined
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Detroit
Frank Remington Loomis
Detroit News
Mich
Injunction Bars Flowers After Divorce Fight
Mrs. Johnson obtained an injunction to stop her husband James Barrett Johnson from sending flowers, candies, or riding the same streetcars as she travels. Johnson seeks dissolution of the injunction, arguing constitutional right to send flowers. The case reflects a dispute over persistent floral gifts after marital breakup.
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Chicago
James Barrett Johnson
Johnson
US Warns Nationalists to Protect Americans in North China
The United States warns Nationalist forces in North China not to molest American nationals in Peking and Tientsin and pledges protection for Americans in these cities. The note notes restraint and non interference in Chinese affairs while referencing recent missionary killings. Japanese forces in Tsingtao receive the Nagoya division with welcome as seaplanes fly overhead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Peking
Tientsin
Shanghai
China
Edwin S. Cunningham
Nanking
President Coolidge May Veto Muscle Shoals Bill
The May 21 report notes the President may veto the Muscle Shoals bill. The compromise government operation bill agreed by Senate and House conferees still needs approval from both chambers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Coolidge
Senate
House
Presbyterian church body forms committee to study divorce
ATLANTA May 21 An ad interrupt committee to study the whole subject of divorce was appointed today by the general assembly of the Presbyterian church in the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church In the
United States
Damaged Bremen Plane Prompted Rescue. Sister Ship Under Construction
A telegram from Fred Melchoir reports the Bremen airship was 40 percent demolished during a failed takeoff from Newfoundland to New York. Melchoir was uninjured and the Bremen was to be removed by steamer while Junkers mechanics work on a sister trans Atlantic plane at Curtiss Field.
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New York
Fred Melchoir
New Foundland
Junkers
Curtiss Field
Otto Scherer
Erhardt Junkers
Junkers Corporation of
Germany
Melchoir
Bremen
Penny Cleared of Fraud Charges by Jury Verdict
In Greensboro a superior court jury acquitted George T. Penny of fraud in a Florida real estate deal involving G. H. Kearns. The verdict voided a High Point property deed made by Kearns Penny and H A Moffitt with an improperly filled grantee name. The plaintiff knew of the Florida transaction and related mortgage details.
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Greensboro
Superior Court
G. H. Kearns
George T. Penny
High Point
Penny
Florida
Kearns
H. A. Moffitt
Penny Deemed Not Guilty in High Point Fraud Trial
The jury acquitted George T. Penny, a High Point real estate dealer and businessman, after 36 hours of deliberation on the case brought by G H Kearns. Attorneys Brooks Parker Smith Wharton for the plaintiff and King Sapp King for Penny led the defense in Greensboro court. The verdict ends a widely watched civil dispute that occupied three court days.
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George T. Penny
High Point
G. H. Kearns
Brooks, Parker, Smith and Wharton
King, Sapp and King
Greensboro
Socialists Gain as Nationalists Lose in German Vote
BERLIN May 21 Returns from the Reichstag election show Socialists as the strongest group with decisive gains. Nationalists suffer large losses and likely exit from the next ministry. Coalition plans by Stresemann’s party Centrists People’s Party and Democrats loom.
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Berlin
Germany
Gustav Stresemann
Peoples Party
Reichstag
Center
Communists
Democrats
Economic Party
Fascists
Bavarian Peoples Party
Stresemann
Upper Bavaria
Upper
Lower
Bavaria
Ford interests back new transcontinental airline likely this summer
William B. Stout of Ford's airplane division said a Ford-backed transcontinental air service could start this summer with 24 hour Atlantic to Pacific service possible within a year. He spoke in San Francisco on May 21 amid plans for updated equipment and nationwide operation.
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San Francisco
the Examiner Today
William B. Stout
Ford Motor Company
Ford
Atlantic
Pacific
Lynching of Buddy Evins in Shelby County Courthouse Yard
Center Texas May 21. Buddy Evins a negro was lynched by a mob after being taken from two officers. He was hanged at about 7 30 a m from the same oak limb where another black man was lynched five years ago for an attack on a white woman. Evins had been charged with murder in a fatal assault on John Wheeler at Canton on May 12.
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Center
Shelby County
Tex
Buddy” Evins
Evins
John Wheeler
Canton
Note campaign funds committee calls off session in Washington
The Washington committee suspended its session due to the senate's early tax bill meeting. Chesley W. Jurney, secretary to Senator Copeland of New York, was invited to testify about his activities for Governor Smith.
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Washington
Campaign Funds Committee
Senate
Chesley W. Jurney
Copeland
New York
Smith
Crowds Pack Courtroom As Prosecution Resumes Heavy Attack
Crowds packed the Chatham county courthouse as W Herbert Lawrence of Durham faces trial for the murder of Annie Terry. Witnesses linked tire tracks from his green coupe to the crime scene while tests on blood and fingerprints awaited results. The defendant, attended by a physician and nurse, slashed his throat in custody during a prior interruption.
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Lawrence
Pittsboro
W. Herbert Lawrence
Durham
Chatham County
Annie Terry
Romulus A. Nunn
Clawson Williams
McAuley
Walker Blair
Chatham
Avents Ferry Bridge
Raleigh
Williams
Cal T. Desern
Three Owen Daughters Die in Mississippi House Fire
Three daughters of S F Owen former state senator perished when the Owen home burned in New Albany Mississippi on May 21 Dorothy 18 Elizabeth 16 and Helen 8 died as the roof collapsed The parents Mr and Mrs Owen escaped Mamie Owen is assistant state librarian and Kany editor of the New Albany Gazette was not harmed
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New Albany
Miss
S. F. Owen
Owen
New Albany Gazette
State Senate
House
Mamie Owen
Jackson
Mather Mine Disaster Toll Rises to Forty Six
In Mather Pennsylvania rescue teams recovered seven more corpses as 152 miners remained entombed after the blast. The known death toll reached 46 with bodies brought to the village morgue. Troopers and guards restrained onlookers while authorities reported locating 40 more bodies deeper in the mine. Names/ages of the recovered included Joe Stiles Alfred Reynolds William Smith Romane Stycnic and Walter Shoenberger.
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Mather
Renesses
Joe Stiles
Alfred Reynolds
William Smithh
Romane Stycnic
Walter Shoenberger
Rescue Work Continues For Miners in Mather Mine
Rescue crews push through the Mather mine rubble seeking the fate of 138 men believed trapped after a Saturday explosion. By midday 13 more bodies were recovered, lifting the total known dead to 60 as efforts continue.
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Mather
Mather Mine
Mine blast at Mather mines leaves 159 still entombed
Rescue teams push to reach 159 workers trapped after Saturday explosion that killed 39 and injured none reported. A coroner's jury and state bureau of mines inspect cause while families wait in quiet Mather as officials consider gas or dust as possible blast sources.
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Mather
Mather Mine
State Bureau of Mines
Andy Bootz
Bureau of Mines
Death at Tracks Claims Highland Youth
Roy Bradshaw, son of Mrs. Martha Bradshaw of Highland, was killed by a freight train near Bridgewater early today. Relatives received the report and left for the scene.
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Hickory
Roy Bradshaw
Martha Bradshaw
Highland
Bridgewater
Senate Near Final Vote On Tax Cut
Washington May 21 The senate prepared for a final vote on the tax reduction bill after a long session that cleared most controversial amendments. The measure would cut taxes by a little over 225 million, with potential votes on corporate rate relief and disclosure of open tax returns, as the majority seeks final passage.
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Washington
Senate
Coolidge
Mellon
House
Smoot
Utah
Simmons
North Carolina
Norris
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Baer Et Pean
al Smith
Dawson
John B. Dawson
Kinston
Larry I. Moore
New Bern
Steiner
Oregon
Bratton
New Mexico
Lst
Robert H. Edwards
Wayne County
Goldsboro
Edwards
George Gordon Battle
Labrador
Lahissa
Louis Conde
Man
Walter Femescour
Tsining
William Hobart
Taianfu
Tsingtao
Nagoya
Ford 10
Ed W. R. McAuley
Lee County
Cape Fear
Avents Ferry
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