North Carolina Senate Race Focuses on Al Smith Split
In Raleigh the 1928 Hoover Smith split is the central issue as Senator Furnifold M. Simmons, 76, seeks a sixth term against Josiah W. Bailey, 57, regular Democrat. Bailey touts party loyalty while Simmons defends his break with the Democratic line over Smith. The June 7 primary pits factions with statewide implications.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Talley
NEA
Raleigh, N. C
al Smith
Furnifold M. Simmons
North Carolina
Raleigh
Simmons
Senate
Josiah W. Bailey
Hoover
Smith
O. Max Gardner
Grant
Rowan County
Lee S. Overman
Gardner
Bailey
Anti-Saloon League
Mellon
Butler
Democratic Party
Suit Dismissal Sought in Daytona News Journal Case
Fred C. Gause moves Judge Baltzell to dismiss the federal suit brought by Julius and Herbert M. Davidson against Eugene C. Pulliam and Raymond A. Thomas for want of equity. The action concerns the sale of a controlling interest in the Daytona Beach News Journal to the Davidsons who paid $62,000 of $112,000. the remaining debt remains in court pending adjudication.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Julius
Herbert M. Davidson
Eugene C. Pulliam
Raymond A. Thomas
Robert C. Baltzell
Fred C. Gause
Daytona Beach
Fla
News-Journal
Davidsons
Army Surgeon Held on Fugitive Warant by U S Authorities
Major Charles A. Shepard army surgeon at Fitzsimons hospital Denver was held by federal authorities on a fugitive warrant from Topeka Kan. The arrest parallels the 1929 death of his wife at Ft. Riley Kansas with reports she died from poison.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Denver
Colo
Charles A. Shepard
Fitzsimons Hospital
Topeka
Kan
Ft. Riley
Shepard
Lewis sees Mooney parole delay as Communist propaganda
Sinclair Lewis visits Tom Mooney in San Quentin and condemns the continued imprisonment as political. He argues the Mooney Billings case harms California and questions Governor Young's inaction while main witnesses have been exposed as perjurers.
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Scripps-Howard
Alliance
San Francisco
Tom Mooney
Warren Billings
Sinclair Lewis
Lewis
San Quentin
Trusty
Mooney
Mooney-Billings
California
East
Young
City politics under siege says church leader
Dr. James A. Crane of the Disciples of Christ told a Marion County Sunday School gathering at the Third Christian church that municipal government in American cities has fallen to the level of common scandal. He spoke Monday night during a pre Easter meeting of the Marion County Christian Sunday School Association.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James A. Crane
Board of Temperance
Disciples of Christ Churches
Marion County Christian Sunday School Association
Third Christian Church
Artist Not an Angel Faces Quiz in Killing Case
Henry Marchand the sculptor sits in a county jail as a material witness while Lila Jimerson is tried for conspiring to kill Clothilde Marchand. The case alleges Jimerson exploited Indian superstition to influence Cayuga woman Nancy Bowen to murder Clothilde, linked to witchcraft claims and a series of waxwork models.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Buffalo
Henry Marchand
Lila Jimerson
Marchand
Clothilde
Miss Jimerson
Nancy Bowen
Hundred Million Program Aims to Fight Forest Fires
Washington reports a hundred million dollar forest fire prevention program likely to be before the house this week. Rep Englebright of California introduces the bill backed by Hoover's budget message and endorsed by the budget bureau and the secretary of agriculture. The plan would raise annual spending to 4.5 million for three years and four million thereafter, completing in twenty one years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance
Washington
House
Committee On Agriculture
Hoover
Congress
Representative Englebright
California
Budget Bureau
Secretary of Agriculture
Englebright
Democrats Promote Farm Relief in Campaign Address
John E. Frederick of Kokomo, president of the state Chamber of Commerce, told members of the Progressive Democratic League Monday night that present day business and agricultural conditions are blameable on the Republican party. Frank E. Woolling and T. P. Sexton, candidates for county treasurer, also spoke.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Republican Party
John E. Frederick
Kokomo
State Chamber of
Commerse
Progressive Democratic League
Frank E. Woolling
T. P. Sexton
Midwest states study uniform aviation laws at parley
Milwaukee reports the midwest air parley last month urged uniform aviation legislation and a permanent Midwest state aeronautical council to oversee reforms. Wisconsin leads the effort with Governor Kohler’s appointee poised as council chairman. Each state votes once, with additional representatives as appointed. A new tax idea proposes directing aviation revenue to support growth, with a gasoline tax as the preferred form.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Milwaukee
Midwest
Legislative Air Parley
Midwest State Aeronautical Council
Wisconsin
Kohler
Permanent Aeronautical Council
Rare solitary gorilla may be myth says Yale Carnegie study
Dr Harold C Bingham of Yale and the Carnegie Institution report in Africa that solitary gorillas are extremely rare, if they exist at all. After weeks in the Kivu region the team found only one nest at 14 000 feet, with most sleeping sites in groups.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Science Service
Washington
Africa
Kivu
Central African
Harold C. Bingham
Yale University
Carnegie Institution of Washington
Yale
Carnegie Institution
Bingham
Gorillas Nesting Habits Observed In Field Study
Dr Bingham and colleagues report on gorilla nesting behavior. Gorillas build rude night nests from branches and leaves either high in trees or on the ground, sometimes under rock ledges, and do not reuse night nests. Day nests are lighter, formed from feeding litter of plant stalks.
Doctor's Favorite Prescription Endorsed by Women
A vintage advertisement extols Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a tonic for run down nervous weak women with functional disturbances. It cites a mother's testimony of regaining strength after childbirth and claims sixty years of benefit across the nation, noting doctors often recommend the product.
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Dr. Pierce
Earl Hawkins
Bates Street
Logansport
Ind
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Washington, D. C
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Castor
Tee Cental
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Solon
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League
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the Life Insurance Company of Virginia
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Bradford H. Walker
United States
Life Insurance Company OF Virginia
Bureau of Insurance
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Richmond
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Meyer-Kiser Bank
Indianapolis, Ind
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Eaton
Ohio
Cutloure Laboratories
H. Malden
Nanette Guilford
New York
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Citizens Gas CO
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