Smoak Appeals Death Sentence Raising 169 Trial Errors
Edgar L. Smoak, Wilmington railroad worker sentenced to death for his daughter's murder, asks the North Carolina Supreme Court to hear an appeal listing 169 alleged errors by Judge J H Clement. The brief frames the case as covert multiple murders and frauds tied to insurance, adultery and false statements. The appeal, filed by L Clayton Grant and William L Farmer, is set for next week's session with district cases from the Eighth district.
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Enterprise Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
Raleigh
Edgar L. Smoak
Wilmington Railroad
Supreme Court
J. H. Clement
New Hanover County
Smoak
Annie Thelma Smoak
Jeannette Harker
L. Clayton Grant
William L. Farmer
Wilmington
Eighth District
John J. Burrey
New Hanover
C. David Jones
Atlantic Coast Line
Annie Thelma
Annie Mason Smoak
Raleigh airport chief Leazar visits. warns on fund diversions
Guy Leazar former Raleigh municipal airport manager and Atlanta airport adviser is visiting Raleigh on vacation. He plans to return to farm life near Raleigh and is a Mooresville native with a long aviation background since 1915. Coleman W. Roberts of the Carolina Motor Club voices opposition to highway fund diversions.
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Raleigh
Guy Leazar
Atlanta
WPA
Leazar
Mooresville
Coleman W. Roberts
The
Carolina Motor Club
North Carolina eyes highway progress and electrification talks
S Gilmer Sparger tours Alexander Avery Watauga and Alleghany counties urging highway upgrades. Dudley Bagley to discuss North Carolina Electrification Authority lines with Sampson county officials as Carolina Power and Light explores service. Local snippets mention political maneuvering and a note on leafhopper affected peanuts. The piece ends with a Bolivia death and afterlife anecdote.
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S. Gilmer Sparger
North Carolina Petroleum Industries Committee
Alexander
Avery
Watauga
Alleghany
Sampson County
Pyriday
Dudley Bagley
Bagley
Carolina Power and Light Company
Pacifist Tide Alarms British Defense Chiefs at Universities
In Britain rising pacifism worries defense chiefs as university undergraduates show antiwar sentiment. Oxford and Glasgow vote for Peace Pledge Union candidate Richard L. Sheppard who wins with 638 ballots before dying days later. Churchill runs low and Dixon and Haldane trail. Sheppard’s work at St. Martins-in-the-Fields boosts church shelter efforts.
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London
Britain
Duff Cooper
Baldwin
Neville Chamberlain
Cooper
Admiralty
Leslie Hore-Belisha
Hore-Belisha
Oxford University
Glasgow University
Winston Churchill
MacNeile Dixon
J. B. Haldane
Richard L. Sheppard
Peace Pledge Union
Sheppard
Abou Ben Adhem
Dixon
Churchill
Haldane
Glasgow
England
St. Martins-in-the-Fields
Trafalgar Square
Congress Asked 10 Help Flying Trans Oceanic Air Service
The maritime commission urged Congress to provide 75 percent construction loans to back large new flying boats. If private money falters, government construction and charter to operators could occur. Commercial trans Atlantic service expected next spring amid 100000 miles of test flights by American German and British firms.
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Washington
The
Maritime Commission
Congress
Joseph P. Kennedy
North Atlantic
Pan-American Airways
Imperial Airways
England
United States Lines
Shakespeare Becomes Broadway's Best Author After 350 Years
New York a novelty claim sets Shakespeare as Broadway’s top playwright of the moment with three works running: As You Like It Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra. Orson Welles stars in a modern Julius Caesar at Mercury Theater with experimental staging and contemporary costuming and lighting.
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Shakespeare
Broadway
George Ross
New York
Nore
William Shakespeare
Will
Julius Caesar
Anthony
Cleopatra
Tallulah Bankhead
Jasper
Ala
The
Nile
Rowland Stebbins
Wall Street
Green Pastures
Tallulah
Conway Tearle
Marc Anthony
John Emery
Tegal
Octavius Caesar
Tal-lulah
Antony
Cleoatra
Julius
Sar
Julius Caesa
Mercury Theater
Brutus
Orson Welles
Alexander Woollcott
Katharine Cornell
Mercutio
Thibault
Miss Cornell
Country
Commercial Theater
WPA
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Wagger’s
Helbros
Wagger Jewelry Co
Elwood Hotel
Sir Walter Hote
Henry Averill
Liberal
Troxler Furniture CO
Cape Hatteras
Coast
Mendota
Morehead City
N. C
Co. L. Shuping
Greeneboro
Z. P. Metcalf
North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station
Bolivia
Rere
Loui A Troy
Richardson’s Dept
Winter
Hanes
Hanes Unionpunta, Op
Upton Suitees
Merrichild
Hanes Knitting Co
Winston-Salem, Co
Pema
Tubby
Canterbury
St. Paul's Cathedral
Oxfords
Goodyear
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