Tennessee Delegation Pledges To Hull At Nashville Convention
Tennessee’s 24 electoral votes were pledged to Congressman Cordell Hull at the state Democratic convention in Nashville with unbroken harmony. The delegation was instructed to back Hull while he remains a candidate for the Houston convention. The event included a wrangle over binding instructions and a recount showing Mrs. Anthony ahead, with her seating confirmed by the chair.
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Cordell Hull
Times
Nashville
Tenn
Tennessee
Houston
Hull
Jackson
Johnson
Polk
White House
A. I. Broadbent
Clivile
Elh. Crump
Memphis
Benton McMillin Nachvila
Thomas
Preston Chattanoora
Mitchell Bang
Knoxville
Charles A. Miller
Nalivar
J. S. Gillentine
Hessie Taylor Anthony
Trenton
Mere
Anthony
Mulwall
Resolutions Committee
Gillentine
Austin
Wrecheck
Aust
Scott Fitzhugh
Lateg
Fitz Hall
Nash
George Wilkins Begins Polar Region Tour From Spitzbergen
Capt George H Wilkins and Lieut Carl B Eielson left Spitzbergen aboard the sealing vessel Hobby Sound for Tromsoe Norway after a farewell festival at Green Harbor radio. They walked six miles on snow shoes to reach the ship and will load their airplane at Bjorn layers to continue their polar flight.
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Green Harbor
Spitzburgen
George H. Wilkins
Carl B. Eielson
Spitzbergen
Hobby Sound
Tromsoe
Norway
Hobby
Wilkins
Bjoerndalen
Eio Son
Dowd
Senate G O P Hurries Tax Cut Battle Opens
Washington May 11 Republican senators pressed speedier tax cut actions as Democrats face defections over measures on club dues admissions taxes and stock transfer sales. The panel restored sales tax on capital stock transfers and reimposed House repealed exchanges while arguing over 200 million dollars in estimated revenue.
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Washington
PKK
Senate
Republsho
House
Italian dirigible Italia starts north pole flight from Kings Bay
General Umberto Nobile leads the Italia on a first leg toward the Arctic Ocean from Spitzbergen. The crew prepared at 6 am and tested motors as the airship began its expected forty hour journey, aiming to reach the North Pole region before returning to Kings Bay.
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King's Bay
General Nobile
Grand Old Men Of Dixie Prepare To March On Parade
The Grand Old Men of Dixie prepare for a parade ending the 38th reunion in Little Rock. The United States Marine Band, featuring grandsons of both sides, will head the march while veterans ride or watch. Leaders of Confederate groups choose commanders and plan a joint reunion with the Grand Army of the Republic, amid deaths and shifting plans.
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Dixie
Marine Band
Little Rock
Ark
Vicksburg
Forrest
A. ‘T. Gomlwyn
Kimore
Ala
J.C. ‘Forter
Houston
Tex
Charlotte
N.C
Wiles
Dittle Ftook
Sons of Confederate Veterans
L. W. Stephens
Coushatta
Department of
Tendessee
Ds A. Yearger
Tulsa
Oklo
trans-Mississippi Department
Homer Atkins
Richmond
Department of Northern Virginia
United Confederate Veterans
Grand Army of the Republic
Song of Veterans
Congress
Z. A. Warlin
Uties, Miss
Rowntown
Nashville
Tenn
W. R. Binkley
Binkley
Friends of Haywood in Chicago Say Soviet Life Has Calmed Him
Chicago friends recall Big Bill Haywood, long a labor icon, now in a Russian hospital. They describe a changed man, calm and philosophical in middle age, contrasting with his fierce labor past. Details recount his 1928 draft arrest, forfeiture of $20,000, and life with a Russian wife.
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Haywood
Chicago
Bie Haywoud
Industrial Workers of the World
Jabar
Rip HW
Saviet Bayesia
Russia
Reitman
Maywood
Raymarket Square
Hoe
Rand
Jahov
Bix Bill
Farm Relief Bill Faces Prolonged Congressional Battle
Washington May 01 The McNary Haugen farm relief plan remains the central issue as Congress and President Coolidge near adjournment. Senate and House splits require a conference to resolve differences, with Senator McNary pressing for an early decision though he warns several days may pass to finalize the bill before sending it to the White House.
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Congress
Coolidge
Washington
McNary-Haugen
President Coolidge
Senate
House
Sennitor McNary
Oregon
White House
Senate ties reveal long friendship between Gov Smith and NYC contractor
Senate campaign fund testimony shows William F Kenny, a New York contractor, gave 20000 and loaned 50000 to Governor Alfred J Smith's presidential bid. Kenny, once a Texas cowboy and railroad worker, built his fortune in New York and has known Smith since boyhood on the Lower East Side.
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Senate
New York
Lower East Side
William F. Kenny
Alfred J. Smith
Kenny
Texas
Tractor So
Senate Campaign Fund
George KR. van Namec
Smith
Benny
Chicago curfew: nightlife ends at 1 a.m. order
Chicago police Commissioner Hughes has ordered a 1 a.m. curfew for nightlife and warned deputies to enforce strict time limits. He called for immediate action against gambling and vice and said noncompliance would lead to appearance before the police trial board. The reform mandate follows a recent primary election showing voter demand for change.
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Chicago
Hughes
Toman
Missouri
Mike” Hughes
Chanses
Positice Trial Board
Shantung Capital Under Japanese Control After Bloodshed
Reports from Shanghai recount Japanese forces clearing Shantung’s Tainan area after a week of clashes. Casualties were heavy among both Chinese and Japanese as 400000 residents faced turmoil. foreigners evacuated and anti Japanese boycotts spread. American consuls Edwin F. Stanton and Ernest B. Price aided civilians amid gunfire.
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Shanghai
Pj—Tsinan
Canton
Shameen
Flonzkongi
Taiwan Bank
Tsiwan
Edwin F. Stanton
Ernest B. Price
Foochow
Shantung
Tainan
Shantung Railway
Yellow River
Kouen
C. C. Wu
Nanking
Washington
Hwang Fu
Nankig Forese
Tsingn
Paris
United States
Tsinan
Tokyo
Taiwan
Weather Outlook for Tennessee and Virginia Tonight and Saturday
Cloudy skies and likely thundershowers in Tennessee tonight and Saturday, cooler conditions Saturday in western and northern areas. Virginia expected showers tonight and Saturday with generally fair conditions in the north Saturday. Data from U S weather station here by C L Bunn shows yesterday's high 86, low 44, average high 84, rainfall 0.00 inches.
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Tennessee
Virginia
U. S
C. L. Bunn
Ryading
Srtveseenecee OU
Early Settlement of War In China Forecast by Loh
Geneva May 11 Cheng Loh Chinese member of the council on the League of Nations told AP that there is every hope of direct negotiations between the Chinese and Japanese governments The Peking government had not yet decided its attitude toward the Nanking protest to the league and he had received no official instructions from Peking He spoke by telephone and said hopes for direct talks with Japan may shape its stance
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Geneva
Cheng Loh
Counsell
League of Nations
Associated Press
Nanking
League
Japan
China
Peking
Paris
Snd
Airship Lands on Moving Steamer to Speed Trans Atlantic Travel
The army non rigid dirigible TC-5 landed briefly on the deck of the United States Shipping Board liner American Trader off Ambrose light ship, while the ship moved toward Plymouth and London at six knots. The craft remained three minutes, allowing mail and a passenger pickup before returning to its Lakehurst hangar. O'Connor praised the test as advancing air and water transport coordination for American merchant marine.
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New York
Ambrose
United State Shipping Board
American Trader
Plymouth
London
Lakehurst
Army
Shipping Board
O'Connor
Shippng Board
Rockefeller Jr Ovation At U S Chamber Banquet
John D. Rockefeller Jr received a lengthy ovation at the annual banquet of the U S Chamber of Commerce in Washington. He called for the resignation of Robert W. Stewart, chairman of Standard Oil Co of Indiana, after Stewart's testimony before a committee, while declining to comment further on the matter.
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Col. Stewart
Washington
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Chamber of Commerce of the United States
Rockefeller
Robert W. Stewart
Standard Ol Company
Indiana
Stewart
Chicago
Standard of
American missionary killed in Taianfu China amid fighting
Shanghai dispatch reports Mrs William T Hobart of the American Methodist Mission at Trinity here killed April 20 by a bullet through her bedroom window during clashes between nationalist and northern forces in Taianfu. Details come from a letter by Miss Helen Stumley, noting escape attempts and evacuation uncertainty as missionaries and Chinese students sheltered in the mission basement. The Hobarts, from Evanston Illinois, arrived in China in 1882 and have two daughters who are missionaries in China.
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Shanghai
William T. Hobart
Trinity
Pot
Hobart
City Hall
Fred
Taiwan
T. Dr. Hobart
Misse Ances Mender
Lilian Green
Hoebarts
Evanston
Illnois
China
United States
Woman in Bed Accused of Slaying Stepmother
Townville South Carolina May 14 a farmer's wife Tony Richardson accused of killing her stepmother Elizabeth Parker with a concealed gun while threats to keep her on “her side of the hill” preceded the shooting. No eyewitnesses. daughter in law saw Parker enter the sick chamber before the gunfire. A coroner's jury found the shooting occurred after threats to confinement. The prisoner remains in custody awaiting transfer to the county jail.
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Townville
S. C
Tony
Mayer Richardson
Elizabeth Parker
Stard
Tookkl
Woodle Parker
Parker
Hig House
Walker
Tay
Conner
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Mike" Hughes
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Farmer
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