Young Texas Attorney Takes Lead Over Ferguson in Democratic Primary
Dallas reports Moody leads Gov Miriam A Ferguson by about 35 000 votes with incomplete returns from 176 of 252 counties in Texas. Moody 96685 Ferguson 61672 Davidson 80048. Ferguson not discouraged, expects strong county support. Republican lead Harry M Wurzbach commands renomination race with 1855 to 296 in fourteenth district. About 656 000 Democratic ballots cast. no major disturbances recorded. injunction sought over ballot box handling denied.
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Texas
Miriam A. Ferguson
Dan Moody
Texas Election Bureau
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Ferguson
Lynch Davidson
Houston
Austin
Harry M. Wurzbach
Congress
South
Regula
R. B. Creager
Fourteenth
W. E. Knetsch
Creager
Knetsch
Bexar County
San Antonio
James Stevens
Ine Junction
Thurman Barrett
Barrett
R. B. Creag
No Hope For Recovery Of Hawkins Countian
Presley Smith of Goshen Valley Hawkins county was crushed under a Mead Fibre conveyor Friday morning while driving a wagon at the plant. He is at Riverview hospital paralyzed from the waist down with a complete spinal fracture, conscious and able to recount the accident. Smith, about thirty, married with two children, brought pulp wood to the plant and may undergo surgery if he lives until Monday. Local doctors say outside specialists may be called if needed.
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Presley Smith
Goshen Valley
Hawkins County
Mead Fibre Company
Riverview Hospital
Smith
Smits
Storm Warning From Weather Bureau on Tropical Storm
The Weather Bureau issued an advisory stating a tropical storm will pass near Turks Island tonight moving northwestward with no further danger anticipated on the Caribbean Sea. The notice also mentions an advisory named Bloom and forecast movement toward the Turks Island area.
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Washington
Weather Bureau
Turks Island
Great Inaugya
Carribean Sea
Relief From Heat Surges Into Roanoke With Cooler Winds
In Roanoke Virginia on July 24 cooling winds end a weeklong heat wave. The high for the day reached 87 degrees as scattered rain remained sparse.
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Roanoke
Democrats Predict Senate Control By Democrats In Next Session
Rhode Island Senator Gerry, head of the Democratic Senatorial campaign committee, predicts the Democrats will control the next Senate. He argues the Republicans are badly split over tariffs and unable to form a united policy, while Democrats will press for tariff revision and carry out a consistent program.
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Washington
Senate
Gerry
Rhode Island
Democratic
Congress
Democratic Assistaniee
Democratic Party
Gangland Claims Forty-Second Man in Chicago Shootings
In Chicago late last night a gunman killed Frank Conton, 25, in an outlying saloon. Gangland vengeance remains unprobed as the killers act in the code of silence. Investigators link the slaying to recent Chicago gangs and liquor wars amid ongoing jail scandal rumors.
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Chicago
Irill
Frank Conton
Chicagro
Phillip Piazza
Chicago Heights
McErlane
Canton Mayor Fires Chief Of Police For Lax Enforcement
Canton Ohio government moves to discipline Chief S A Lengel accusing lax law enforcement and department inefficiency. Safety Director Earl Wexamer named acting head as Lengel faces immediate suspension and civil service hearing. Ongoing Stark county murder probe intertwines with broader corruption suspicions from Cantons past.
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Canton
Nis Eabinge
My Swartz
Ise
S. A. Lengel
Swartz
Lengel
Earl Wexamer
Civil Service
Civil Service Commission
Mellet
Canton News
Orn Slater
Cincinnati
Wiehs
Slater
Stark County
C. B. McClintock
J. D. Cleary
Columbus
Vic Donakey
Frank JD. Henderson
Cleary
P. ¥. Thomas
Ohio State Penitentiary
Mansfield Reformatory
Boo Lereine
Naval Air Program Under Discussion
President Coolidge and Secretary Wilbur discussed the naval aviation program for the 1928 budget. A proposed dirigible three times Shenandoah’s size could cost 6 to 6.5 million dollars and may begin next year. details on Denmark Lake and other questions were reviewed. Assistant Secretary Warner is guiding policy for naval aeronautics amid inquiries and potential developments.
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Paul Smith
Naval Aviation Program
Coolidge
Wilbur
Navy Department
Ohio
West
United States Fleet
Congress
Shenandoah
Denmark Lake
Wilbert
Anawer
Warner
Naval Aviation
Mgr. Coolidge
Lake Denmark
Weather Brief for Virginia and Tennessee Regions
Partly cloudy with local thunderstorms possible in Virginia Sunday and Monday, temperatures little changed. Tennessee sees local thunder showers Sunday and Monday with mostly fair conditions and little temperature change.
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Virginia
Tennessee
North Carolina Man Killed Near Bristol
George Byrd, 24, of Tuckerville NC, was killed at 1 30 this afternoon when struck by an automobile near Hansonville about 28 miles from Bristol. He and two companions were walking across when another car hit him.
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Bristol
George Byrd
Tuckerville
N. C
Hansonville
Byrd
Eckie
W. Wa
Reed to Conduct Another Inquiry Into Senate Campaign
A Chicago inquiry opens with James A. Reed as chairman to probe the Republican Senate race financing and alleged vote manipulation. The committee will hear charges of slush funds, influence peddling, and connections to Cook County factions as it examines costs for Frank L. Smith and William B. McKinley and the opposition forces led by George Brennan.
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Chicago
Illinois
United States Senate
James A. Reed
Funien
Frank L. Smith
Wm. B. McKinley
George Brennan
Senate
Cook County
Smith
McKinley
Jaca
Pantady
Sendlenan
Teeod
Conk County
Gank County
Grand
Stite Prison
Condi ‘Tions
Hingis Palities i
Col Ned Green Suspended in California Nevada Prohibition
Washington reports Col Ned M Green suspended as prohibition administrator for Northern California and Nevada. Government agents seized liquor in his San Francisco hotel room as charges of misappropriating seized assets and misconduct in office await federal grand jury action. He defends his actions and states liquor arrived from unknown donors.
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Ned Green
California
Nevada
San Francisco
Ned M. Green
Washington
Gerrard B. Winston
Col. Green
Whitcomb
Engiele
George Hatfield
United States District Attorney
Green
Col Green
Monument to Wilson planned in Prague in front of William Station
Prague July 23 1930 a monument to the late President Wilson is to be erected in front of the William Station. Romas Capek a banker heads an American committee which has collected 12000 dollars.
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Wilson
Prague
Czecho-Slovakia
William Station
Romas Capek
Borah Advises London Critics on War Debt Policy
Senator Borah urged European critics not to attack U S war debt terms and warned against erasing Britain’s wartime territorial gains. He cited Winston Churchill as using Parliament to push debt cancellation and called for public education on the issue.
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Washington
United States
Borah
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
London
Winston Churchill
Great Britain
Earl of Dest
Mr. Borah
Nodshtas
U. S
Shylock
Churchill
Five Southwestern College Students Lost in Smokies Storm
Five students from Southwestern College Winfield Kansas were separated from a larger party on Mount TeConte in the Great Smoky Mountains. The group, consisting of three boys and two girls, survived by eating huckleberries and blueberries while awaiting rescue. They reported feeling hungry but hopeful as rescuers searched the area.
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Catlece
Winfield
Kansas
Mont TaConte
Great Smoky Mountains
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Harvard
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Naval Air Program
Wilbur of
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