Methodist plan to revise church governance debated
Delegates at the Methodist Episcopal Church South conference discussed a proposal by Lews C. Wright to unify and reform church governance. The plan creates a commerce board with four divisions, shifts authority from independent boards, and alters terms for general and jurisdictional conferences, aiming for approval at the next general conference in High Point, North Carolina.
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Olumbus
Ameth Epicopal
Lews C. Wright
Iwin-Wallace College
Rman
Wright
Coinson
Ersonnel
Jonal Board
United States
Jurors Seated In Mansfield Murder Trial
In Mansfield Ohio jurors were seated for the first degree murder trial of Charles A Wilson as spectators filled the crowded Richland County courthouse. Twelve jurors were seated with more available for examination. prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty for the slaying of 17 year old Jean Mourbes. Judge Winston ordered doors closed once seats filled and the hall cleared at noon to avoid a repeat of a prior incident.
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Wilson
C. H. Winston
Ralph Moorhead
Sting
Undertaker First Passenger in New Ambulance
Delaware report says Seal Lewis, a Detroit undertaker, was the first passenger in his new ambulance. He was returning from Piava when his car swerved to avoid a dog and left the road into a ditch. A following car driven by S dner stopped and drove Lewis to a hospital. he was not seriously injured.
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Delaware
UR —Seal Lewis
Detroit
Piava
Lewis
S Dner
Coeds Called Thrifty in Salt Lake City Spread
City report says college girls practicing thrift amid expenses as Joseph B. Hubbard, Cambridge, Mass., national president of Alpha Delta Pi, visited Lisbon. May 3. Columbiana County commissioners offer a $5,000 reward for Earl Rogers, 27, East Liverpool, charged with murder, who escaped with two other prisoners from the 9 year old jail. A broken back saw blade was found under a mattress during an eight hour search on a tip that proved false.
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Salt Lake City
Fise
Joseph B. Hubbard
Cambridge
Mass
Alpha Delta Pi
Lisbon
Columbiana County
Earl Rogers
East Liverpool
Townsend Testimony Aims To Detail Pension Plot
Dr Francis E Townsend retired physician from Long Beach Calif was called to testify before the House investigating committee to detail the rise structure membership and political backing of his $200 a month pension plan Townsend expected to testify for most of the week as the committee weighs an audit of Old Age Revolving Pensions Ltd and the cost of a full probe members say the inquiry has stretched across Michigan and the West Coast with an appropriation of about 50000 for the study and investigation
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Washington
Francis E. Townsend
House
Long Beach
Calif
C. Jasper Bell
James R. Sullivan
Townsend
Michigan
West
Tedar
Mystic Seer Warns West Of Japanese Rise
Wu I ting, noted mystic and Confucian scholar, claims a resurgence of Japanese power. He recalls legends of Chin Shih Huang Ti sending youths to the Isle of the Brest to fetch a life elixir, saying descendants now return with modern weapons. He is a leading voice in Chinese philosophy circles.
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Tientsin
China
Chin Shih Huang Ti
Brest
Chin Shih Huang
Wu I-ting
Fifty-Two Advisors Named For Girls 4-H Clubs in Lorain County
Fifty-two Lorain County women begin work as advisors for girls 4-H clubs. forty-two clubs are assured with four more possible. Advisors meet May 15 in Elyria for final instructions. Clothing, room furnishing, and food projects dominate the lineup across numerous towns and clubs including Amherst South Amherst Brownhelm East Carlisle Carlisle Columbia Eaton Gulf Road Lake Avenue Markley Belcher Grafton Henrietta Huntington LaGrange Penfield Pictsfield Rochester Russia Sheffield Wellington and more.
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Lorain County
Alice Bird
Elyria Savings and Company Directors
Ambherst
Jacob Krieg
South Amherst
Ruth Moore
Hildegarde Mori
Alfred Rolls, Jr
Justus Mathis. Brownheim
Marguerite Bacon
Elmer Kreisel
Norma Huene
East Carlisle
Janet Balls
Carlisle
Margaret Pallas
Marian Lauer
Zelda Schramm
Columbia
Dorothy Dengier
Eaton
Louis Ward
Grace Strong
Marian Jackson
Gulf Road
E. D. Hoag
Lake Avenue
L. C. Hecock
George Phelps
Vanora Schaefer
Markley
F. H. Lewis
Rebecca Rea. Belcher
Ruth Stock
Grafton
Clifford McGill
Carl Shepard
Henrietta
Helen Bauman
Eleanor Pettr. Huntington
R. A. Caswell
LaGrange
Frances Miller
Olive Duserdahl
J. H. Curtiss
Penfield
Jean Fraunfelder
Ralph Bowman
Howard Andrews
Lucille Johnson
Pictsfield
Margaret Luikart
Rochester
Grace Williams
Russia
Leona Wellman
Lena Gerber
Dor Brrant
Sheffield
Ruby Rice
Wellington
Floyd Buswell
Kathryn Witbeck
Mildred Sanders
Harl Leach
Eleanor Mze Fullmer
Harry Wagner
Foca Club
Brownhelm
R. W. Bech
North China movement shadows revolt in Hopei
The report notes leaders of the Hopei revolt in the Fragrant River area as part of the North China autonomy movement. In Columbus Ohio, May 5, speakers and arrangements for the 1937 Ohio Pastors Convention will be finalized at the program committee meeting. The convention is scheduled for February 1 to 4. Communist and fascist forces are described as highly mechanized on Earth.
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North China Autonomy Movement
Hsianzhe
Fragrant River
Hopeirovince
Columbus
Mar Ih
B. F. Lamb
Ohio Council of Churches
Visa Red Tape Costly Steadier Currencies Aid Travel
A League of Nations committee reports simplified passport rules and steadier currencies would ease international travel. US travelers spent $157.1 million abroad in 1934, down from $446.0 million in 1922 and $868.0 million in 1929, with Canada, France and other nations showing large declines.
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Geneva
League of Nations Committee
United States
Canada
France
United Kingdom
Germany
Austria
Switzerland
Simple to Sew Dress Pattern Circulates to Readers
The ad offers a do it yourself dress pattern from an assistant professor at Teachers College Columbia. It highlights a purple belt and silk lacing with a violet crepe silk dress and suggests other fabrics and color schemes. Readers are instructed to send 15 cents for the pattern and include name address and style number, with the Spring Fashion Book costing 10 cents and the book and pattern together 25 cents.
Pulitzer Prize Winners Are Announced
The 1926 Pulitzers award winners include Robert E. Sherwood for Idiot's Detzhr, a anti war play. Will Barber posthumously receives for foreign or Washington correspondence. Honors go to Webb Miller Ashmun Brown Jay Harden A. Mints and Cedar Rapids Gazette. Harold L Davis wins best American novel Honey mai the Hore. Traveling scholarships go to Levellon Brown Helen Beak Louis Habbaum. Alternates named John A. MacWethy Philip D. Tannor Wirt Mitchell.
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New York
Robert E. Sherwood
Detzhr
Alfred Leot
Lynn Fontaneue
Sherwood
Columbia School of Journalism
Will Barber
Chicago Tribune
Washington
Ethiopia
Webb Miller
United Press
Ashmuen Brown
Providence Morning Journal
Jay G. Harden
Detroit News
A. Mints
Asso
Weert
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Europe
Newwspaper
Harold L. Davis
Honey Mai
School of Journalism
Levellon Brown
Providence R. I
Helen Beak
Delaware
Pluperfect Brain Trust Party Begun in South Bend
John J. Engeldrum leads the Pluperfect Brain Trust Party in South Bend as he markets a science based platform. The party’s brochure proclaims science and experience as essential for good government. The head claims the SGP aims to appeal to students and institutions across schools and universities.
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South Bend
Ind
the &Ciearitle
Federal Governae
John J. Engeldrum
Engeldrum
Scientific Government Party
Fath er Coughlin presses bill to print three billion for farmers
In Washington a debate over the Frazier-Lemke bill rages as Father Coughlin campaigns for three billion dollars in farm aid. He hammers Congress members in their districts while urban borrowers and debt-ridden farmers alike feel the pinch of inflation. Alice Longworth notes the political stakes amid radio messaging and public scrutiny.
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Washington
BD. C
Coughi
Nts Biretta
Detroit
Engeldrum Plan Seeks Science Based Political Roster
The proposed party would require senators and representatives to hold degrees in sciences such as eugenics biology political economy and constitutional law. Presidents would need degrees in eugenics psychology political economy and constitutional law. Cabinet posts would demand specialized degrees and factory experience. A permanent jury of seven educated men with diverse degrees would be appointed.
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United States Senate
Engeldrum
Parity
Secretary of Labor
United States Mail Service
Engeldrum Plans Tariff Based On Live and Set Live
Engeldrum proposed a vast program to address economic and social problems by a tariff system grounded in a live and set live principle. He would guarantee airing wage, boost production, and expand purchasing power while ensuring social justice. Future university-trained policemans would work out program details, with strict adherence to the constitution.
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Engeldrum
78 Years Too Late At Baker University Dance Cancelled
Baldwin Kan officials at Baker University granted permission for a school dance but interest lagged. The first planned hop was called off after lack of participants. Dancing has been allowed at fraternity and sorority houses since 1928.
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Baldwin
Kan
Baker University
Methodist
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