Tariff Revision and Silver Value Urged by Senator Robinson
Auburn May 19 AP Senator Joe T Robinson urged downward tariff revisions and restoring silver as money in India to revive prosperity. He warned high tariffs create surplus production and unemployment, urged a gold standard shift for India, and argued limited world money hampers global trade and agriculture markets.
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Auburn
Ala
United States
India
Joe T. Robinson
Arkansas
Robinson
Alabama Polytechnic Institute
Congress
Tariff Commission
China
Globe
South America
Asia
Europe
Auto Accidents Fatal To Pair
Nashville carpenter Sam T. Card 45 and Murfreesboro insurance man C. W. Bumpus 47 died in two separate crashes blamed on driving errors. Card died after his car veered toward a driveway backing out, while Bumpus’s vehicle left the road near Murfreesboro, plunged into a ditch, fracturing his skull and crushing his jaw.
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Nashville
Murfreesboro
Sam T. Card
C. W. Bumpus
Card
Sumpus
Knoxville Gets Palm Beach Clothing Factory
Knoxville will house the exclusive manufacture of palm beach clothing for men for Goodall Worsted of Sanford Maine after 1931. D and D Manufacturing Co in Knoxville, led by Mack Gordon, will take the entire output and operate a five story factory near the business district for light weight palm beach cloth production.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Mack Gordon
D. and D. Manufacturing Corporation
Goodall Worsted Company
Sanford
Maine
Palm Beach
Th Maine Company
D. and D. Mann- Paeturing Corporation
Doak Links Wage Cuts to Confidence Violation
Doak says any broad wage reductions will be treated as a breach of confidence, justifying stronger demands by workers and prompting a tougher stance from the administration.
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Washington
Doak
Ena Boatright Leads Campaign For Chrysler Prize
Mrs Ena Boatright heads The Times Campaign with Gate City representative Ena Foatright taking the Chrysler position. Gayle Fuller trails in second. Mrs W M Fleenor and Mrs R L Wood tie for third. Seven contestants have over ten subscriptions. Grand prize is a $1075 Chrysler Sedan with other cash prizes. Added prizes include a $150 diamond ring and $50 cash, awarded May 30. Active effort and daily subscriptions can boost standings before the close. Territory has ample room for more subscriptions.
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Times
Gate City
Ena Foatright
Chrysler
Gayle Fuller
W. M. Fleenor
R. L. Wood
The
Planes Rush to Defend Chicago in War Drill
Fairfield Air Depot in Dayton Ohio reports Uncle Sam ordered nearly 670 Army Air Corps planes to rush to Chicago for a noon air defense drill. The fleet, fresh from a dress rehearsal the day before, simulates protecting the middle west from an imagined attack amid cool weather.
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Fairfield Air Depot
Dayton
Sam
Army Air Corps
Chicago
Illinois
Middle West
Contracts Ready for Textbooks in Tennessee
Nashville May 19 Contracts for new school book adoptions for the five year period starting July 1 were completed by the state textbook commission and sent to Attorney General L D Smith for approval. The state affairs committee aims to delay letting the contracts until the legislature reconvenes next week, but Gov. Horton will sign when presented. Secretary Haston said the process will take time. More than half of the current textbooks were readopted, said P L Harned, state commissioner of education and secretary of the commission.
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Nashville
Tenn
State Textbook Commission
Atty
L. D. Smith
State Affairs Investigative Committee
Henry H. Horton
Ernest N. Haston
P. L. Harned
Education
Commission
Ex-Wives Get Cash in Hugo Meyer Alimony Case
Hugo Meyer, head of the National Motorists' Association of Illinois, faces yearly disbursements totaling 25,200 to three ex wives. The third wife received 300 a month as temporary alimony, while 1,000 monthly goes to the second wife and 800 monthly to the first.
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Chicago
Hugo Meyer
Treasury receipts and expenditures for May 16 in Washington
Treasury receipts for May 16 were 3.456 million dollars with expenditures at 10.323 million and a balance of 192.979 million. Customs receipts for the month ending May 16 totaled 16.038 million dollars.
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Washington
Treasury
Southern Pines hotel destroyed by fire
A hotel in Southern Pines North Carolina was destroyed by a fire. No injuries reported and cause under investigation as firefighters battled flames through the night. The property loss was extensive with remaining debris suggesting total collapse of the structure. Local officials urged residents to avoid the area while investigations continue.
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Southern Pines
N. C
Good Will Meet Ends In Discord In New York
A May 19 meeting of 500 people celebrating International Good Will Day in New York ended in discord as James W. Gerard refused to put a motion by John Haynes Holmes condemning army air maneuvers. Speeches by George Gordon Battle Channing Pollock Rabbi Israel Goldstein and Mrs James L Laidlaw urged an end to war and the audience clapped and hissed during the dispute at the West 43rd Street town hall. Holmes proposed petitioning President Hoover to stop the maneuvers and preserve good will amid economic distress, but Gerard held that Americans should trust that maneuvers were not hostile gestures.
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New York
James W. Gerard
Germany
John Haynes Holmes
Army Air
Town Hall
West 43Rd Street
George Gordon Battle
Channing Pollock
Israel Goldstein
James L. Laidlaw
Holmer
Hoover
Gerard
America
DRY AGENTS RAID LAS VEGAS SALOONS TO CLEAN UP TOWN
LAS VEGAS NEV May 19 More than eighty people were jailed or under bond after raids on liquor dispensaries in Las Vegas the base for Hoover Dam work. About 45 federal agents from Los Angeles San Francisco and Reno led the operation closing twenty five night clubs roadhouses and saloons five breweries and three stills. United States Commissioner W J Hooper booked defendants set bonds with arraignments to follow. Prohibition not enforced by state authorities and the town faces continued gambling activity as a model town for dam workers.
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Las Vegas
Nev
Hoover Dam
United States
W J. Hooper
Raiders
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Reno
Prohibition
George Seaver
Boulder City
Hoover Plans to Cut U S Government Expenses
President Hoover expects to save between 125 and 150 million dollars next year under a broad economy program. Aimed cuts include 20 to 30 army posts and other military reductions, with interiors about 4 million in savings first year and up to 17 million over three years. No public project providing employment will be halted.
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Washington
Hoover
Rapidan Mountain
Interior and War
War Department
Law Tears Family From Father Over Immigration Fees
Mrs Pigon said she did not realize she was doing anything legally wrong as Secretary of Labor William N Doak faced a flood of letters urging a more humanitarian approach to immigration violators. The Pigons and their children are mentioned in the case.
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Poland
France to prosecute beauty contest winner for murder
Mrs. Charlotte Nixon-Nirdlinger, 26, former St. Louis beauty contestant, faces trial in Nice for the murder of Philadelphia theatre owner Fred Nixon-Nirdlinger. Prosecution seeks murder with provocation. defense led by Louis Gassin aims for self defense. Magistrate Vauchier to preside. jury drawn from local businessmen. Mrs. Nixon-Nirdlinger has admitted firing two shots after alleging threats from her jealous husband. Her mother, Mrs. James B. Nash, travels from St. Louis to attend.
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Nice
France
Charlotte Nixon-Nirdlinger
St. Louis, Mo
Fred Nixon-Nirdlinger
Philadelphia
Louis Gassin
Riviera
Vauchier
Nixon-Nirdlinger
James B. Nash
St. Louis
California Red Flag Law Invalid Supreme Court Decision
The U S Supreme Court found California’s red flag law defective after Yetta Stromberg was convicted for displaying a red flag at a camp where children saluted the Russian Soviet flag. The ruling sends the case back to state court, noting the right to free political discussion.
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Washington
Supreme Court
California
Yetta Stromberg
Hughes
British Court To Receive U S Debs
London May 19 King George Queen Mary with the Prince of Wales will receive ten American debutantes and the wife of an American minister at Buckingham Palace in the first court presentation of the season. Gossamer gowns of tulle lace and pearls predominate with feather fans preferred. Mrs Charles Gates Dawes will present guests including Mrs Ralph Booth Miss Barbara Hutton Miss Louise Behn and Miss Virginia Penn among others.
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London
George
Queen Mary
Prince of Wales
Buckingham Palace
Charles Gates Dawes
Court of St. James
Ralph Booth
Denmark
Detroit
Barbara Hutton
Louise Behn
Virginia Penn
New York
Helen Brinton
Margaret
Second Asheville bank trial opens in Buncombe County
In Asheville North Carolina May 19 AP selection of a jury began in superior court for two former bank executives and five former Buncombe county officials indicted after a wave of bank failures last fall. They face charges of conspiring to divert county funds to bolster Central Bank and Trust Company which closed with 8 million dollars in public deposits. Wallace Davis president Russell Davis vice president L L Jenkins former county treasurer and bank president James Grimes J O McElroy Newton Anderson former county commissioners and Co N Malone former county bond attorney are named defendants. Davis was recently convicted of making and publishing a false bank report.
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Asheville
N. C
Buncombe County
Superior
Central Bank and Trust Company
Wallace B. Davis
Russell Davis
L. L. Jenkins
American National Bank
James Grimes
J. O. McElroy
Newton Anderson
Co. N. Malone
Wallace Davis
Weather Outlook for Tennessee and Virginia
Tennessee shows showers and thunderstorms with cooler air in the west tonight and Wednesday cloudiness in the east and central portions. Virginia will be mostly cloudy with showers in the west and north late tonight or Wednesday, spreading to the southeast Wednesday, as east portions warm and west portions cool, with strengthening southerly winds. High yesterday 90, low 59. same date last year 82 and 56. rainfall yesterday 0.10 inches, 0.08 last year. Readings taken at 6:00 p.m. daily for the past 24 hours by T. C. Harris, U.S.W.O.
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Tennessee
Virginia
T. C. Harris
U.S.W.O
Administration fights pay cuts in Hoover pact breach clash
Washington May 19 AP reports the administration moves to block wage reductions citing the 1929 labor industry pact from Hoover era. Through Secretary Doak workers and employers are warned that any general pay cut effort would violate the agreement and the wage safeguards remain in effect.
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Doak
Washington
Hoover
Briand Steps In As Tension Looms Over Austro German Pact
Geneva May 19 The League council formally votes to send the Austro German customs accord to the World Court but tension rises as Aristide Briand works to ease unease. Yugoslav foreign minister Markin kovitch and German counterpart Julius Curtius dispute the council’s competence on political aspects of the arrangement and urge broader peaceful considerations.
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Geneva
Switzerland
League of Nations Council
World Court
Aristide Briand
Vogislav Markinkovitch
Jugoslavian
Julius Curtius
Germany
League Council
League
Girls go on trial charged with burning dormitories
Sixteen girls aged 16 to 18 faced first degree arson charges in Carthage North Carolina for alleged March 12 fires at Samarcand state institution for delinquent girls. Moore county grand jury returned indictments. trial date eyed as soon as possible.
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Carthage
N. C
North Carolina
Samarcand
Moore County
Don Phillips
Nell Battle Lewis
Raleigh
National Guard Fends Off Mob in Elberton Paris Riot Scene
In Elberton two Black men, Hirak McCorley aged 17 and John Dower 25, were hidden in trees around the jail by National Guardsmen after a white girl assault accusation. They were transported to Fulton Tower in Atlanta. Guardsmen then ferried 200 troops back to Elberton Monroe and Atlanta as six others were arrested. Four others, The deus Cade 22 Roy Huff 25 Ernest Hill 26 Frank Jungerv 25, were taken from Elberton to Athens and then to Atlanta.
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Atlanta
Elberton
Fulton Tower
National
Hirak McCorley
John Dower
S. C. Seymour
Athens
Thedeus Cade
Roy Huff
Ernest Hill
Frank Jungerv
Elberton Jail Mob Sparks Guard War Injuries
In Elbert on Georgia two white men were hospitalized with gunshot wounds as guardsmen defended the jail from a mob seeking to seize two black suspects accused of assaulting a white woman. The mob, aided by tear gas and water, pressured authorities as more guardsmen arrived.
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Elberton
National
Atlanta
Athens
L. G. Hardeman
Elberton Fire Department
Emory Edwards
Lynn Crowder
Edwards
Crowder
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