Granting of Near Beer Permit May Bring Wide Probe
New York AP report notes a separate inquiry may start in Washington into granting a brewery permit for Palmer Canfield, prohibition official. Eight defendants convicted in Studson New York conspiracy case. $16,000 to $20,000 vanished at a Roosevelt Hotel meeting. Canfield linked, details lead to official corruption probe. Highway bids opened in Tennessee for seven road and bridge projects totaling about $680,000. contracts to be awarded after tabulation.
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New York
Washington
United States Attorney's Office
Hare
Palmer Canfield
Albany
N. Y
Columbia County Cereal Beverage , Company of Studson
Canfield
Regul Aryisar
Prohibition Bureau
Jade John Me Woolsey
Joseph E. Walsh
Welsh
Michael A. Devasto
George H. Burt
Compans
Roosevelt
Campbell
United States
J. Hen-vick Terry
Ginister
Albert Cashdollar
Nashville
State Highway Department
Hamilton
Haywood
Putnam
Cheatham
Wayne Counties
Yhe
Two Die in Crash at Glen Flore Crossing Illinois
Wau—Ill April 1 Two persons were killed and three injured when their car crashed through guard gates at Glen Flore crossing and was struck by a northbound North Shore electric train. The dead are Louis Koppel 30 and Harold Grisky 26 both of Chicago. Mrs Louis Koppel 2 Mrs Jaump and Bernard Reinschrieber all of Chicago were seriously injured.
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Wauqegan, Ill
Glen Flore Crossing
North Shore
Louis Koppel
Harold Grisky
Chicago
Jaump
Bernard Reinschrieber
Delay Senate Action on Treaty In London Conference Context
President Hoover may wait for the American delegation to return from the London conference before deciding to seek Senate ratification of the new naval treaty. Senate leaders favor deferring action until tariff bill passage and study by colleagues. Delegation includes Reed of Pennsylvania Robinson of Arkansas and Ambassador Morrow, expected back in early May.
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Washington
Hoover
Senate
Reed
Pennsylvania
Robinson
Arkansas
Dwight W. Morrow
Republican lawmakers weigh Parker withdrawal from Supreme Court nomination
In Washington April 18 administration leaders in the Senate discussed calling Judge John J. Parker before the judiciary committee to answer protests by labor and negro groups over his nomination. Some Republicans consider appealing to President Hoover to withdraw Parker while others seek explanations of his views on race.
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Senate
John J. Parker
Judiciary Committee
Supreme Court
Hoover
Parker
Letter Refuses Love He Personal Crisis Reports
In New York on April 1 a four page letter from a young woman breaking an engagement was believed by police to trigger the death by suicide of Joth Douglas a Yale graduate and son of Fargo physician Dr. John Rindlaub. His body was found hanging in his West Side YMCA room from a steam pipe by a length of electric wire. the letter signed Dana and dated April 12 was found on a table.
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New York
Joth Douglas
Yale
John Rindlaub
Fargo
N. D
West Side
Dana
Machines may pilot big planes in future wars
San Francisco April 18 AP The army air corps tested an aircraft flight across country with no human pilots at the controls The bomber took off from Mather Field bearing four men and a compact machine The pilot Major Hugh Ene r handed control to the machine which flew to San Francisco Then the device guided the 18 000 pound craft for 20 minutes and returned to Sacramento The flight aimed to prove automatic piloting for large planes as weapons of destruction Sperry inventor of the automatic pilot and supervisors Hana Adamson Lawrence B Sperry Master Sergeant Dudoff were aboard The system uses two gyroscopes weighing under 50 pounds It detects plane movements and automatically right ships on course
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San Francisco
Army Air Corps
Mather Ficia
Sacramento
Plang
Hugh Eneer
Bay City
Kneer
Hana Adamson
Secretary of War of Aviation
Lawrence B. Sperry
Dudoff
Army
Rudoff
Mather Field
Sperry
Weather Update From Tennessee and Virginia Reports
Fair and colder conditions forecast for Tennessee tonight and Saturday with colder spells in the southeast portion. Virginia expects cloudy skies and a cool spell with possible rain this afternoon or tonight in the southeast, breezes northeast shifting to west on Saturday, and slightly warmer conditions. Readings show yesterday's high near 93 and similar lows to prior year. data collected at 6:30 p.m. daily by C. L. Bann, U. & W. 0.
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Tennessee
Virginia
C. L. Bann
Hoover Doubts On Prohibition Enforcement Cited
Washington April 18 AP W H Slayton chairman of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment says President Hoover is beginning to doubt if prohibition can be enforced. The view came in a February letter to Charles S Wood of Philadelphia used in testimony before the Senate lobby committee Curran president of the association says the tide is turning against prohibition in Congress He predicted the Sheppard and Wicker bills would fail this session Blaine Wisconsin asked Curran if the group had acted on the bills and he replied We havent lifted a finger.
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Washington
W. H. Slayton
Association Against the Prohibition Amendment
Hoover
Senate
Slayton
Charles 5. Wood
Philadelphia
Net
Congress
Henry H. Curran
Curran
Sheppard
Wickersham
Jones
Blaine
Wisconsin
Night air mail truck looted in Chicago kidnapping
In Chicago on April 18 a night air mail truck was seized by five armed men. The driver Adolph Stehno was kidnapped and later released after the mail pouches, five total with two registered, were moved to a sedan. Pilot Mensing aided loading and the robbers fled. postal inspectors study past robberies for suspects.
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Chicago
Adolph Stehno
A. ER. Mensing
Oshkosh
Wis
Repeal Vote Leads Across States in Prohibition Poll
The Literary Digest poll shows repeal leading with 1 308 815 votes and modification at 931 475 while enforcement trails at 415 681 from 3 173 972 ballots. Kansas remains the dry exception. Connecticut and Rhode Island vote for repeal.
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Wisconsin
Judge Sinclair to face liquor charges in Selma
Selma North Carolina April 18 Judge N A Sinclair of the North Carolina Superior court was summoned to answer federal prohibition charge after a prohibition agent found a pint bottle of whisky in his handbag March 20 when stopped on a highway between Williamston.
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Selma
N. C
N. A. Sinclair
North Carolina Superior Court
Sinclair
C. S. Coats
Jurists
Williamston
Jerusalem braces for holy days with machine guns on streets
Jerusalem deploys machine guns and guards in front of the former Russian compound to curb potential religious unrest during Easter observances. A Jewish resident group barred from traveling to Amman amid safety concerns as Orthodox ceremonies unfold with a grand procession to the Holy Sepulchre and the patriarch's arrival.
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Jerusalem
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Amman
Transjordania
Professors Resign Amid Lincoln Memorial U Strike
Harshaw and Dollarhide step down as heads of agriculture and economics at Lincoln Memorial University in Harrogate Tennessee amid a nine day student strike. Fourteen expelled boys, including student president Clay McCarroll, and eviction hearings stall campus life as legal actions loom along with injunctions restricting students and faculty from aiding the strike.
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Harrogate
Tenn
H. H. Harshaw
D. A. Dollarhide
Agriculture and Economics
Lincoln Memorial University
Clay McCarroll
M. H. Miller
van N. Diller
K. W. Berongé
Department of Languages
John R. Neal
Miller
J. H. 5. Morison
Youth claims bishop as father in homicide case
Janes Mathew Maxon Jr aged 21 says he is the son of a Protestant Episcopal bishop of Chattanooga Tennessee. He was arrested in New York on a homicide charge connected to the death of an aged man in an upper west side furnished room Maxon occupied. Witnesses stated Maxon was drinking and a boarder in the same house tried to stop the youth from beating the landlady.
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New York
Ats
Janes Mathew Maxon, Jr
Oak Street
Chattanooga
Tony
Upper West Side
Maxon
Bishop Maxon Son Charged in New York Homicide Case
Jackson, Tenn April 18 Bishop James M Mayon of the Protestant Episcopal Church canceled services after learning his son James M Maxon Jr was arrested in New York on a homicide charge. Maxon Jr a journalism student at Columbia University allegedly assaulted a 73 year old man David Paynter and others in a house. Police reconstructed events saying Maxon drank prior to the incident. He claimed to be a Sewanee graduate and noted a broken nose from Columbia football. He gave conflicting statements as police investigated.
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Jackson, Tenn
James M. Mayon
Protestant Episcopal Church
Jackson
St. Luke’s Episcopal Church
New York
Hame
Chattanooga
Maxon
James M. Maxon, Jr
Columbia University
Sewanee University
University of the South
Sewanee, Tenn
Ipo- Tiee
Mur
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