Joke on Modern Schools of Art Backfires on Smith
Los Angeles January 27 AP Paul Jordan Smith, author, admits he created the Pavel Jordanowitch persona to mock ultra impressionist works. He painted Exaltation Aspiration Adoration and Illumination without painting skill to prove critics wrong. The stunt backfires as the works gained fame and threaten to outlive the ruse.
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Los Angeles
Paul Jordan Smith
the Modern School
Smith
Pavel Jordanowitch
Sarah Smith
Claremont
Calif
Chicago
New York
Boston
Yel Jordanowitch
Pavel
Athens Business District Fire Destroys Two Buildings
A daytime blaze in Athens Tennessee wiped out two principal structures in the business district. Officials estimate the damage at sixty thousand dollars. The concrete and brick wood buildings housed four stores and were believed to have started from an overheated stove. Owners S. L. Wilson and Mrs. Effie Horton reported partial insurance coverage for losses.
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Athens
Tenn
Grere
S. L. Wilson
Effie Horton
Gas and Match Foil Burglars in Wichita Fire
Two men broke into a Wichita dry cleaning shop after hours. They struck a match to light their way, triggering a blast that hurled them into the street and started a fire. The burglars fled, discarding burning coats as they ran. Police continue to investigate whether they found what they sought.
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Wichita
Kas
Jail Safest Place Hide From Police
Mrs W G McDowell asked police to search for her husband who had been missing. The man was found later in the police station prison after arrest without charge on Saturday night. He was docketed for carrying a pistol and told his wife it was this way.
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Memphis
W. G. McDowell
Bootlegging Convict Faces Fine Or Jail In San Francisco
In San Francisco on January 27 the convicted bootlegger Alfred Dees chose a $500 fine over 200 days in jail. He told the judge he could not pay, and the judge then gave him 48 hours to raise the money, noting the appeal to his bootlegging business.
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San Francisco
Alfred Dees
Burgess
Conferees Fail To Reconcile Muscle Shoals Plans
Washington January 27 Conferees on Muscle Shoals legislation fail to agree for a second time over operation of the 150 million project in Alabama The House Republican conferee Representative Reece cites Senate’s persistent refusal to accept the House compromise proposal as blocking nitrate plant operation Senator Norris Nebraska opposed the measure to push a federal power distribution system The group adjourned with no indication of further conferences and one senator hinted at a possible continuation on page six
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Washington
Muscle Shoals
Senate
House
Alabama
Reece
Tennessee
Norris
Nebraska
Smith
South Carolina
Manufacturers Oppose Government Unemployment Plan
John Edgerton of Lebanon Tennessee president of the National Association of Manufacturers argues against government unemployment insurance as subsidizing idleness. He tells the National Conference on Permanent Preventives of Unemployment that thrift and conservation of surplus earnings are key to the country’s economic safety amid droughts storms and other disruptions.
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Washington
John &. Edgerton
Lebanon
Tenn
National Association of Manufacturers
National Conference On
Edgerton
Theodore Harris Executed in Nashville for Knoxville Family Slayings
James Theodore Harris, a 21 year old African American, was electrocuted at the Tennessee state penitentiary after confessing to killing Dr B J Jones his wife and their 13 year old nephew George Lane in December 1929. The three killings were carried out with an axe and other blunt instruments. Harris was executed at 5 10 a m after appeals. He stated he was ready to die and offered no reluctance in discussing the crime.
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Nashville
James Theodore Harris
Knoxville
State Penitentiary
Harris
B. J. Jones
Jones
George Lane
Dr. Jones
State Supreme Court
Weather Fair and Colder Across Regions
Tennessee expects generally fair and colder conditions tonight and Wednesday. Virginia forecast shows fair to cold weather with extreme west cooling late tonight and colder Wednesday and night. Yesterday’s high 58, low 29. figures from 6 p.m. readings by T. C. Harris U.S.W.O. No precipitation reported.
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Tennessee
Virginia
T. C. Harris
U.S.W.O
Bishop Attends His Son's Murder Trial
The Right Rev James M Maxon bishop coadutor of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Tennessee attends the murder trial of his son James M Maxon Jr charged with slaying David Paynter 73 a fellow lodger last April. Maxon Jr free on 15000 bail. attorney Martin W Littleton. Jury of middle aged business executives selected. maximum penalty life imprisonment.
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New York
James Matthew Maxon
Protestant Episcopal Diocese of
Tennessee
James M. Maxon, Jr
David Paynter
Liberty
Martin W. Littleton
Corporation
Southern Society
Court of General Sessions
Contention Over Midwest Federal Judge Appointment
Attorney General Mitchell and Senator Schall clash over the nomination of a Midwest federal judge. Schall endorses Ernest A. Michel. Mitchell says he cannot support that choice and urges offering additional names. Mitchell criticizes political influence in the appointment process and defends Hoover’s nonpolitical standards.
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Senator Tilt
Washington
Mitchell
Minnesota
Schall
Michel
Farm women learn tourism management at Tennessee week
Tourist camp management is being taught to 200 Tennessee farm women attending the annual farm women's week at the University of Tennessee. Instructors say better roads and more tourists have created a new business avenue for rural women.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Tennessee
University of Tennessee
Veterans travel by freight to press insurance bonus claims
Thirty five Seattle World War veterans boarded box cars bound for Washington, D. C., to press cash settlements on their bonus insurance certificates after leaders failed to secure motor transportation.
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Seattle
Wash
Gandhi's Release Sparks Massive Welcome in Bombay
Mahatma Gandhi arrives from Yeroda Prison to roaring crowds in Bombay. Worshipers garland him with flowers and homespun yarn while volunteers urge restraint as he pleads for calm and to go home. His frail 96 pound frame is carried into his lodging amid religious fervor.
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James A. Mills
Associated Press
Bombay
Mahatma Gandhi
Yeroda
India
Gandhi
Tipton to Testify as Tennessee Inquiry Resumes
Nashville January 27 The legislative investigating committee planned to hear Nat Tipton assistant attorney general as it resumes its probe into state finances Deposits in closed banks exceed 36 650 000 The attorney general said the state may recover about 15 percent of 3 340 000 from Bank of Tennessee Auditors to audit each department were to be chosen today Ernst and Ernst or Haskins and Sells favored for the audit firm
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Nashville
Tennessee
Legislative Investigating Committee
Nat Tipton
Legal Departments
L. D. Smith
Comitee
Henry Hi. Horton
Bank of Tennessee
Walter Faulkner
Attorney General’s Office
Roy Beeler
Tipton
Scott P. Fitzhugh
Senate
Ernst & Ernst
Haskins & Sells
Memphs salesman killed in Wallingford bus collision
Joseph Watkins aged 55 from Memphis Tennessee was instantly killed in a head on collision between a car and a bus in Wallingford Connecticut early today.
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Wallingford, Conn
Joseph Watkins
Memphis
Tenn
Graca Aranha dies at 62 in Rio de Janeiro
Graca Aranha former ambassador to Paris and author of Canaan and other fiction died in Rio de Janeiro at age 62 yesterday.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Graca Aranha
Paris
Bills Pour Into Hopper In Tennessee Senate Session
Tennessee Senate session sees a flood of bills as six week recess nears. Marshall Priest introduces two per cent gross premium tax on insurers and ten cent per gallon tax on syrup for soft drinks. Other measures name a memorial bridge, authorize Madison county road bonds, and honor Will Cummings for aiding the state highway.
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Nashville
Tennessee
Senate
Marshall Priest
Huntingdon
Horton
Leighton Ewell
Coffee
Duck River
Manchester
Coffee County
Madison County
House
Chattanooga
Jasper
Will Cummings
Hamilton County
Position of Rum Runner Disputed In International Tangle
New York January 27 A dispute over the Canadian rum runner Josephine K s position when shelled by the coast guard and her master fatally wounded deepens international tensions at a crew arraignment. U S Atty Watts urged high bail claiming the vessel was sighted within the 12 mile limit breaching a Britain United States treaty.
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New York
Josephine K
Coast Guard
United States
Cotton
Robert B. Watts
Great Britain
Seymour Lowman
the Treasury
Senate Piles Up Bills on House
Senate proposals for relief moved to the house doorstep in a day of action. The appropriations committee sped hearings on a 25 million dollar Red Cross fund while the chamber passed a bill to hand 20 million bushels of farm board wheat to drought and unemployment sufferers and another bill to bar homesteaders from residence on their lands in 1929 1930 if drought forces them off. A dozen minor measures cleared too. Night session saw the grain plan pass the senate without objection though some administration supporters frown.
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Washington
Senate
House
Appropriations Committee
Two-Thirds of County Dependent on Red Cross Rations
Forest City Arkansas dispatch notes two-thirds of St. Francis County population relies on Red Cross food, with 21,000 on the dependent list from a 33,500 total. County relief chief Parker predicts 25,000 covered soon, leaving about 8,000 not fed by the charity.
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J. C. Stark
Forest City
Ark
St. Francis County
Red Cross
National Relief Organization
George E. Parker
Associated Charities
Tennessee Governor urges higher gas tax for roads
Gov Henry Horton asks lawmakers to raise the gasoline tax from five to six cents a gallon to fund secondary roads and proposes a small state driver license fee. He cites a budget shortfall of over eight million dollars and urges minimal legal changes while stressing road development and state authority.
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Nashville
Tenn
Henry H. Horton
Tennessee
Horton
Cotton in serious condition after spinal operation
Joseph P. Cotton under secretary of state remained in a serious condition at Johns Hopkins hospital after surgery to remove a spinal tumor. His condition was reported virtually unchanged from the previous day.
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Cotton
Baltimore
Joseph P. Cotton
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Rockefeller Jr Donates 250000 to Red Cross Relief
John D Rockefeller Jr contributes 250000 to the Red Cross drought relief effort. The gift supports emergency aid and relief supplies for affected regions and communities facing water shortages and hardship.
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New York
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Red Cross Drought Relief Fund
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