Supreme Court to limit Scopes case to teaching evolution law
Tennessee Supreme Court rules the sole issue on appeal is the constitutionality of the state’s law banning the teaching of evolution in public schools. The record including Bryan’s testimony will be excluded. The case, Scopes v. State, now heads to Nashville for trial after January 1 following an agreed postponement.
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Supreme Court
Knoxville
Tenn
Tennessee
Supreme Court of Tennessee
John Thomas Scopes
Dayton
William Jennings Bryan
Tial
Greene
John T. Raulston
Raulston
Thompson
Nashvil
Scopes
University of Chicago
John R. Neal
Scopes Counsel
G. W. Rappelyen
Greeks May Face Mobilized Enemy Dispatches Say
Dispatches from Belgrade report Bulgaria mobilizing and 40 irregulars en route to Melnik to reinforce the army. Greek shelling of Petrich continues as Bulgarian claims of invasion reach 240 miles of territory. The League of Nations plans to meet in Paris to seek settlement and prevent further hostilities. Bulgaria confirms troops sent to the war area to halt Greek incursions under Neuilly treaty terms.
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Vienna
Belgrade
Bulgaria
Comitadjis B. Ds
Melnick
Council of the League
Petrich
Macedonia
Athens
Greece
Shéefia
Council of the League of Nations
Paris
Aristide Briand
Sofia
Neuilly
Carolina convict under arrest in Philadelphia return
Deputy Warden McKernan carried requisition papers to Philadelphia for Richard Russell Brown, a Rowan county theft convict who escaped from North Carolina State Prison in 1922 and has ties to car theft rings with the federal government seeking his return. He will be turned over to federal authorities after completing the state sentence.
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Raleigh
McKernan
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Richard Russell Brown
State Prison
George Ross Pou
State
Brown
Rowan County
Salisbury
Poll
West Palm Beach
Fla
North Carolina
Pou
Four-Company Phonograph Merger Reported
The Columbia Phonograph company announced a merger of four leading phonograph firms with about 17 million dollars in capitalization and operations in 11 countries. The alliance ties together major players in the global record industry.
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New York
Columbia Phonograph Company
Weather outlook for week in south Atlantic and east Gulf
Weather outlook for the week beginning Monday shows showers probable in the South Atlantic and East Gulf states. Cool Monday, warmer Tuesday or Wednesday, then near normal temperatures thereafter.
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Washington
South Atlantic
East Gulf States
Highwayman Freed By Governor McLean
Robert C. Bair of Buncombe County was paroled by Governor McLean on the recommendation of Pardon Commissioner H. Hovle Sink. He will go to Charlotte under guard for a federal medical examination. The federal government will cover transport costs and the parole credits will count toward his 12 month highway robbery sentence.
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Raleigh
Robert C. Bair
Buncombe County
McLean
H. Hovle Sink
Charlotte
Bair
Buncombe Superior Court
First Train Load of Water Leaves for Asheboro
Nine tank cars filled with water departed High Point at 8 a.m. to ease Asheboro’s drought induced shortage. Each car holds 10 000 to 12 000 gallons, totaling 90 000 to 108 000 gallons for daily relief. High Point will supply about 100 000 gallons daily until further measures, with pumping at Asheboro.
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Asheboro
High Point
Main
Wrenn Streets
Dock McCrary
Special taxes on luxuries up for discussion
Washington October 24 AP The house ways and means committee wraps two weeks of public hearings on the revenue law revision with talks on reducing taxes on automobiles admissions and tobacco. Mellon favors repeal of the auto truck tire tax saving about 35 million of a 50 million miscellaneous tax cut while preserving admissions tax and tobacco levies. Tobacco merchants urge cut to reduce cigar prices arguing funds used to offer customer value. Proposed cuts include 2 per 1000 on five cent cigars 3 on two for fifteen cents cigars and 4.50 on the ten cent grade. Treasury estimates tobacco taxes will yield 360 million next year.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means Committee
Mellon
Tobacco Merchants Association of the
United States
Charles Dushkind
New York
Treasury
Stocks Reach New Highs on Unprecedented Volume
New York stocks rose to record highs amid heavy trading above two million shares daily. Bond prices stayed firm while French francs hit a yearly low on French budget issues. Motorola and other groups saw gains as dividend hikes and U S Steel output supported optimism. Sloss Sheffield hit a new peak at 115 with leaders American Can and US Realty near record levels.
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New York
Wall Street
Locarno
Baltimore and Ohio
Southern Railway
New York Central
General Motors Common
Underwood Typewriter
United States Steel Corporation
Sloss-Sheffield
American Can
U. S
International Business
General Railway Signal
U.S. Realty
Dredge and equipment worth 50900 lost in gale off Frying Pan Shoal
Wilmington report says a barge and dredging gear valued at 50900 vanished in a 70 mile gale Thursday evening. Captain John Whalen of the dredge 1 of the P Sanford Ross Co NJ says the dredge and tug Wood towing here remain missing until weather moderates. The dredge is bound for Miami for land reclamation work.
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Wilmington
Frying Pan
John Whalen
P. Sanford Ross Company
New Jersey
Wood
Miami
British Cabinet Aide's Hartford YMCA Lunch Invitation Withdrawn
An invitation to Arthur Henderson, home secretary in the British labor cabinet under Ramsay MacDonald, to speak at a Hartford Connecticut YMCA business luncheon was withdrawn after protests by the National Security League.
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New York
Arthur Henderson
Ramsay MacDonald
Hartford
Mrs A A McLean Sr Dies in Gastonia Typhoid Fever
Gastonia resident, society matron Mrs A A McLean Sr, dies early today from typhoid fever. She had nursed her son through a late summer illness, reflecting her devoted family role in the city.
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Gastonia
A. A. McLean
Episcopalian Letter Urges World Brotherhood and Faith
A triennial pastoral letter from the Protestant Episcopal bishops warns against separating the religion of Christ from the religion about Christ. It urges unity, strong faith, and a new preaching of the gospel amid global tensions, social change, and moral decline. The message, read in New Orleans, calls clergy and laity to repentance, prayer, and witness.
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New Orleans
Protestant Episcopal Churches of
United States
William T. Manning
New York
Christchurch
House of Bishops
Christ
Jesus Christ
God
China
Asia
Africa
Europe
Protestant Episcopal Church
Christ Church Cathedral
Trophy Seaplane Race Postponed in Baltimore Weather
The international Schneider trophy seaplane race at Baltimore was postponed to tomorrow due to white caps on the Chesapeake and strong easterly winds with squalls of rain. The British team will try to qualify their reserve plane tomorrow morning to replace Cap ee Henry C Biard's Napier S-4 wrecked in a prior tryout.
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Bay Shore Park
Baltimore
Chesapeake
Capee Henry C. Biard
British Seaplane Pilot Fails to Qualify for Schneider Race
British reserve Gloster Napier III driven by Bert Hinkler cannot qualify as engine stalls off Bayshore Park in Baltimore. Weather winds and heavy seas hindered attempts. if race delayed Britain may field a substitute for the wrecked Napier S-4 while others prepare for the Jacques Schneider seaplane trophy event today.
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Bayshore Park
Baltimore
Bert Hinkler
Great Britain
Hinkler
Italy
England
United States
Curtiss
Naval Air Service
Geo. T. Cuddihy
Ralph A. Ofstie
James H. Doolittle
Riccardo Morselli
Giovanni de Briganti
Hubert Broad
Doolittle
Broad
Cuddihy
Ofstie
de Briganti
Morelli
South Carolinian Lieutenant Identified From S-51
One of two bodies recovered from the sunken navy submarine S 51 was identified as James Dudley Masleden Jr. lieutenant junior grade of Dillon South Carolina at Newport Naval Hospital by fingerprint expert J H Taylor. Identification of the remaining bodies may be delayed due to condition pending further records from Washington.
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Newport
R. L
James Dudley Masleden, Jr
Dillon
S. C
Newport Naral Hospital
J. H. Taylor
Bureau of Identification
Washington
Taylor
Mrs Lillian N Duke Remains Critically Ill
Mrs Lillian N Duke wife of the late James B Duke remains in critical condition at her home. Dr Byron G Clark reports she grew weaker since yesterday after suffering two cerebral hemorrhages Thursday night. Her left side is paralyzed and she is semi conscious.
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New York
Lillian N. Duke
James B. Duke
Byron G. Clark
Evangelist Stephens to Stay for Another Week in Tabernacle
At a service in the Stephens tabernacle the campaign to extend meetings was approved by unanimous show of hands. Evangelist George T. Stephens consented to remain after Fred N. Tate announced next week would be the campaign’s greatest, with free will offerings collected at Sunday services.
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J. Worth Bacon
Stephens Tabernacle
Tabernacle
Evangelist George T. Stephens
Fred N. Tate
Evangelist Stephens
Mr. Tate
Mr. Stephens
Tate
God High Point
God
George T. Wood
Communists Organize Negro Forge in America Warning
The American Federation of Labor discusses the matter with Negroes as concerns arise over communist efforts to organize African Americans in the United States.
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Negro Forge
America
American Federation of Labor
Federation chief denounces Communist designed negro congress
Mr. Green of the Federation warns that the American Negro Labor Congress meeting in Chicago is organized by Russians and Communists to awaken revolutionary significance in the black race. He says the manifesto aims to instill race hatred and abolish Jim Crow, with delegates invited from trades unions warned against involvement.
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Washington
American Negro Labor Congress
Chicago
Russia
America
Congress
Atlantic
Third Internationale
Lovett Ford-Whitman
American Federation of Labor
William Green
Mr. Green
North America
Secretary Kellogg Seeks Panama Treaty Negotations
Secretary Kellogg expects talks with Panama to replace the Taft agreement and conclude within a few days.
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Washington
Kellogs
Panama
One Pair of Teams to Decide Old Tie
Southern football results show Washington and Lee and V P I tied 0 0. Alabama beat Georgia Tech 14 0 with a long forward pass and Brown’sbreakaway run. Georgia edged Vanderbilt 3 0. Kentucky beat Sewanee 7 0. Auburn 17 0 over Howard. Florida 34 0 over Wake Forest.
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New Orleans
Washington and Lee
Alabama
Georgia Tech
Atlanta
Brown
Georgia
Vanderbilt
Kentucky
Sewanee
Auburn
Howard
Florida
Wake Forest
Centenbary
Tennessee Doctors
Furman
Davidson
Arkansas
Phillips
Williams and Mary
Duke
Roanoke
Hampden Sidney
Richmond
Randolph-Macon
Lansdowne Article on Shenandoah Probe Questioned
A naval court of inquiry questioned the authenticity of a Saturday Evening Post Shenandoah article published posthumously under Commander Zachary Lansdowne. The panel asked whether the piece was accurate and complete as written by him.
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Washington
Naval Court of Inquiry
Shenandoah
Saturday Evening Post
Zachary Lansdowne
Pleaded Guilty by Loyal Baseball Rooters Members
John Ross and Leonard Schwab of the Loyal Baseball Rooters of Cincinnati pleaded guilty in St Louis to possession of real beer on the group's trip last spring. They were fined 390 dollars each by Federal Judge Faris.
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IT. Louis
John Rossopf
Leonard Schwab
Loyal
Baseball Rooters
Cincinnati
Faris
Egge Resigns Air Mail Chief. Cisler Named Successor
Omaha Neb Oct 24 Carl F Egge resigns as general superintendent of the air mail service and S A Cisler is appointed general superintendent of the Omaha division of the railway mail service to succeed him the AP reports today
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Taner
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Ignazio
Paul C. Grening
House Ways and Means
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Episcopal Letter
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Continue Stephens
Boy Scout
Charles R. Clay
Blaine
Wash
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Green
Federation
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