Senate presses revenue bill amid tariff clash and conventions
Senate leaders urge continuous sessions through political conventions to pass the budget balancing revenue bill before July 1. Tariff votes loom on lumber and copper while oil and coal duties are debated. filibusters persist as Reed Moses and Hull push revisions to the Hawley Smoot law and Trammell seeks phosphate taxes.
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Washington
Senate
Congress
Tariff Coalition
Watson
Indiana
Robinson
Arkansas
Reed
Pennsylvania
Moses
New Hampshire
Capitol
Rainey
Illinois
Harrison
Mississippi
Hull
4. Tenn
Brookhart
J. Towa
Trammell
Fila
Hazardous Flight Ends Safely For Woman Solo Flier
Amelia Earhart Putnam landed in a field at Culmore Ulster after a hazardous flight from Harbor Grace Newfoundland encountering fog storm and exhaust flames. She will proceed to Croydon England in a borrowed plane leaving her monoplane for crating. She joins Lindbergh in transatlantic honors and reported she did it in 1 45 p m local time.
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Culmore
Ulster
North Ireland
Amelia Earhart Putnam
Atlantic
Aus Thhawes
Shea Nut
Wwer
Harbor Grace
Newfoundland
Robert Gallagher
Croydon
England
Lindy
Charles A. Lindbergh
New York
Bailey sentenced for highway robbery in North Carolina
Reese Bailey of Yancey county was sentenced to seven to ten years in the state prison for highway robbery in the death of Greenville officer A B Hunt. Bailey held up Officer Jack Green on April 2, the pistol was recovered near his Burnsville home.
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Asheville
N. C
Reese Bailey
Yancey County
Burnsville
A. B. Hunt
Greenville
8. C
Bailey
Jack Green
Buncombe County
Green
Supreee Court
H. Hoyle Sink
Ely
Iown
Six Dead and Many Hurt in Salvador Earthquake
Severe tremors rocked Central America with Zacatecoluca in El Salvador hardest hit. Six people were reported dead and many injured as buildings collapsed or were damaged. Shocks were felt in Nicaragua, Honduras, and Guatemala, with casualties also reported in San Juan.
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Associated Press
Central America
Zacatecoluca City
Republic of Salvador
Nicaragua
Honduras
Guatemala
el Salvador
San Juan
Curtis Sister To Speak In Greensboro
Mrs. Edward Gann of Weslington sister of Vice President Curtis will address a state wide gathering at the county courthouse Greensboro at 8 pm Thursday June 2 under the North Carolina Young Republicans. The event moves from a planned dinner to a public address in the main Superior courtroom.
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Greensboro
Edward Gann
Weslington
Curts
North Carolina
Young Republicans’ Organization
Gann
Burnett Named North Carolina Anti Saloon League Superintendent
George J. Burnett of Memphis accepts the post to lead the North Carolina Anti Saloon League in Greensboro duties to begin immediately. Dr. Arthur J. Barton calls him a leading Baptist layman and notes his prior roles with the Anti Saloon League and Tennessee colleges and Baptist bodies.
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Memphis
North Carolina
AntiSaloon League
C. A. Upchurch
Wilmington
N. C
George J. Burnett
Anti-Saloon League
Arthur J. Barton
Burnett
C. Almon Upchurch
Raleigh
Barton
Greensboro
South
Kentucky
J. H. Burnett
North Carolina antiSaloon League
Friends of Prohibition
Dr. Barton
North Carolina Post
Anti- Saloon League
West Tennessee
Tennessee College
Murfreesboro
Tennessee Baptist Convntion
Tennessee Association of Colleges and Universities
Baptist Brotherhood of the
Southern Baptist Convention
Convention
Reynolds Raps G P and Reiterates His Wetness In Address
Reynolds, candidate for the Democratic senatorial nomination, condemned Republican policies and Wall Street, urged repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment, and criticized Hoovers relief program. He favored government control of liquor and a tax on beverages for revenue, citing wealth inequality and hunger amid surplus wheat and cotton.
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Tarboro
R. R. Reynolds
Wall Street
Asheville
Hoover
Roosevelt Wins Nevada Delegates At State Convention
Nevada delegates at the state convention instructed the 12 delegates to back Franklin D. Roosevelt, each holding a half vote, securing the state's six votes at the democratic national convention.
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Las Vegas
Nev
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Nevada
New York
Amelia Earhart Transatlantic Broadcast Set for London
Amelia Earhart will address listeners from London in a transatlantic noon broadcast via the Columbia Broadcasting system network. The program, heard in New York, is slated for Eastern Standard Time tomorrow.
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New York
Amelia Earhart
Putnam
London
Columbia Broadcasting System
Giant DO X Reaches Azores In Atlantic Flight
The DO X giant seaplane completes the third leg of its homeward flight from Newfoundland to the Azores. It lands at Horta after 16 hours 55 minutes aloft, following a 10 hour 9 minute separation from Fraulein Putnam’s monoplane. If Fraulein Strassman joins the DC X onward, she would be the second woman to cross the Atlantic by plane.
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New York
Constance
Switzerland
Holyrood
N. F
Horta
Azores
Radio Marine Corporation
Fraulein Antonia Strassman
Amelia Earhart
Nam
Culmore
Northern Ireland
House Clears Decks For 2 75 Beer Vote Monday
Washington May 21 The house cleared the way for a Monday vote on 2.75 beer by weight as a senate sponsor urged the measure. The O’Connor Hill plan would tax beer and repeal 18th amendment limits, with anticipated votes around 30 in the senate. Anti Prohibitionists seek a record before the fall elections.
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Washington
House
Senate
O’connor- Hill
Bingham
Conn
Tydings
William E. Hull
Gossett Named Cotton Manufacturers' Head in Atlanta
B B Gossett of Charlotte was elected president of the American Cotton Manufacturers association. Don ald Comer of Birmingham and T M Marchant of Greenville were named first and second vice presidents with W M McLaurine re elected secretary treasurer. The convention closed after elections and sessions urging tariff action on jute and balanced federal budgeting.
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Atlanta
American Cotton Manufacturers Association
B. B. Gossett
Charlotte
N. C
Gossett
Cason J. Callaway
LaGrange
Donald Comer
Birmingham
Ala
T. M. Marchant
Greenville
S. C
W. M. McLaurine
George A., Sloan
New York
Cotton Textile Institute, Inc
Russell
Georgia
Wiliam CD
Congress
Final Tabulations In Oregon Show Votes For Roosevelt and France
Oregon's ten Democratic votes will go to Franklin D. Roosevelt and Maryland's Joseph S. France will receive Oregon's thirteen Republican votes at Chicago. Returns from yesterday's presidential preference primary show Roosevelt and France leading as delegations face unwritten pledges to support the primary victors.
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Oregon
Roosevelt
France
Portland
Ore
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Joseph S. France
Maryland
Chicago
Kentucky Official Denounces Communists in Rampage
Bell county Ky: Walter B. Smith county attorney accuses the American Civil Liberties Union and the Federal Council of Churches of spreading Communist propaganda under treasonous camouflage of free speech free press and free assembly. He defends Bell and Harlan county officials actions to bar investigative groups from coal fields.
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Cincinnati
Walter B. Smith
Bell County
American Civil Liberties Union
Federal Council of Churches
Free Press
Free Assembly
Sons of the American Revolution
Smith
Bell
Harlan Counties
War debt plan favors goods transfers over cash
Magnus W. Alexander reports Irene Du Pont and George H. Houston propose settling war debts by transfers of goods and services rather than cancellations. The plan would delay payment until needed materials arrive, avoiding disruption to US commerce, with the Hoover moratorium ending June 30 as urgency grows.
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New York
Magnus W. Alexander
National Industrial Conference Board
Irene du Pont
E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
George H. Houston
Galdwin Locomotive Works
Alexander
United States
King Seeks Halt on Postmasters Political Activity
Senator King proposes amendments to the treasury post office bill to withhold salaries from W Irving Glover second assistant postmaster general and from postmasters who engage in political activities while in office. He cites Glover’s Missouri postmasters convention urging active support for the president and threats to resignations.
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Washington
W. Irving Glover
Senate
King
Utah
Treasury-Post Office
Glover
Missouri
Murder Theory Grows After Hermit Mysterious Death
In Ayersville North Carolina police pursue a murder theory after the body of 72 year old James Russ Belfles is found with a bullet wound near a road close to the Stokes county line. A stash of about 744 in gold and currency is found hidden in his squalid hut. The recluse had lived alone with no near relatives and was discovered missing several days earlier.
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Ayersville
N. C
James Russ Belles
L. M. Sheffield
Beliles
Stokes County
Rockingham County
Belfles
Jersey baby case sparks hunt for rum runner and kidnapers
In Hopewell New Jersey police press the Lindbergh case into a wider search for a Maryland linked rum runner who boasted knowledge of the child’s kidnapping and death. Investigators say he described facts and named several involved, while lawyers move to seek bail for Curtis and related figures in Norfolk Virginia.
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John Hughes Curtis
Norfolk
Hunterdon County
Flemington
N. J
Curtis
Hopewell
Jersey
Aleady
East
Jatsie
New England
New York
Maryland
Arthur Mills
Maryland House of Correction
Baltimore
Mills
New Jersey
Charles Augustus Ludbergh, Jr
H. Norman Schwartskopf
New Jersey State Police
Ocean City
Schwartzkopf
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Yancy County
Salvador
George Burnett
Reynolds
Amelia
Connecticut
Charlotte Man
Cotton Manufacturers
Alexander and du Pont
du Pont
Mouston
Singer
Libby Holman
Smith Reynolds
Anne Cannon
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