Primary Results in Thomas County Vote Count
Thomas County voters chose officers for four years with three races going to runoff on June 29. Sheriff and Tax Receiver contests narrowed to top two, while Judge of the City Court and Ordinary winners advanced. A large crowd gathered, and a court-house pool dunking greeted several winners.
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Thomas County
C. M. Heeth
H. J. MacIntyre
Frank Forester
Fred Singletary
W. E. Nichols
J. D. Cooper
J. F. Pittman
G. F. Hicks
W. L. Watkins
R. W. McMillan
B. C. Johnson
J. MacIntyre
J. E. Craig Wiles
MacIntyre
Thomasville
B. B. Earle
Earle
Forester
W. M. Jones
R. S. Burch
W. B. Cochran
Judge Jones
Mr. Burch
G. E. Davis
J. A. Cobb
H. H. Rehberg
Homer F. Glenn
Sam James
F. L. Bradshaw
Cc. M. Heeth
P. C. Searcy
Heeth
Mr. Searcy
Fred Norton
Guerry B. Isler
John Dixon
J. D. Atkinson
Isler
Meigs
Norton
J. G. Garrison
Boston
Mr. Garrison
Jeff” Cooper
Lonnie Barwick
Cooper
Pavo-Barwick-Ways
Berry C. Johnson
Lawson Hardy
Johnson
Hardy
E. E. Bishop
Clerk Singletary
Court House
Judge City Court
J. Bu. Craigmules
Lotter City Court
Frank L Forester
Gordon E. Davis
Hood
Sam B. James
R. S. Bure
Wm. M. Jones
D. Atkinson
Fred S. Norton
D. Cooper
E. H. Dyke
W. E
Lawson Ward
R Hicks
W. Lona
R. W Sone
TRYING TO BREAK HAWKS SPEED RECORD
Newark dispatch reports Captain James B. Dickson and three motion picture executives flew from Newark airport at 4 52 am to challenge the east west transcontinental record of 14 hours 74 minutes 30 seconds set by Frank YWanks. Accompanying Dickson were Arthur Loew Henry Ginsberg and William Melnicker with planned refueling stops in Indianapolis Wichita and Albuquerque.
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Newark
N. J
James B. Dickson
Motion Picture Company
Frank Ywanks
Dickson
Arthur Loew
Henry Ginsberg
William Melnicker
Indianapolis
Wichita
Albuquerque
Atlanta veterans rally for aid in food and transport plan
Atlanta plans a rally to aid about 180 World War veterans facing shortages. The event seeks provisions and transport to Washington for a demonstration demanding the soldier bonus payment. Promised are a rack and gasoline and oil for delivery, but reports say food has dwindled with only two medals per day for 100 men since last Saturday.
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Atlanta
Washington
Europe Needs U S Aid to Solve Global Problems
Lausanne conference opens with Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald warning that Europe cannot act alone and must rely on United States cooperation to address world economic troubles. He calls the crisis a world catastrophe and urges bold proposals to unite nations beyond Italy Germany America and Britain.
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Lausanne
Switzerland
Europe
United States
Ramsay MacDonald
Great Britain
Italy
Germany
America
Britain
Mr. MacDonald
Rigdon Ordered to Pay Wife Alimony and Fees
Atlanta June 16 The Georgia Supreme Court ruled former University of Georgia football player John Rigdon must pay $15 a month temporary alimony and $35 in attorney's fees to his wife Lovie Tees Rigdon. Muscogee Superior Court had ordered the payments on her cross bill in the divorce action. The divorce trial has not yet occurred. Rigdon claims income of $15 a week and works for a creamery.
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Atlanta
John Rigdon
University of Georgia
Pistol Point
Georgia Supreme Court
Muscogee
Lovie Tees Rigdon
Rigdon
Wartime reparations stance cited in diplomatic remarks
A statement denounces Germany's repudiation of war reparations, asserting engagements entered into cannot be broken unilaterally. The speaker calls for revision by mutual agreement when fulfillment becomes impossible and urges readiness to face facts on both sides.
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Germany
Man who jumped bail in Gastonia is caught in New York
John Gray identified as Kelly Yale Hendrix, 35, who fled a $20,000 bail after being convicted with others in the 1929 murder of Gastonia Chief of Police O. Aderholt. Arrested in a Manhattan apartment after six days in New York from Kansas City. Hendrix denied involvement in the Aderholt killing and said he fled to avoid a five to seven year sentence.
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New York
John Gray
Kelly Yale Hendrix
Gastonia
N. C
O. ¥. Aderholt
Hendrix
Radical Squad
East Tenth Street
Republican Platform In Briefs
The platform pledges include restoring economic life, Hoover’s rehabilitation program, and an emergency relief fund with loans to states while opposing a dole. It calls for cutting public expenditures, maintaining the gold standard, revising banking laws, and US participation in international talks on silver and commodities. It supports home loan discounts, farm cooperative marketing, tariff revisions for agriculture, and extended tariff protection for natural resources. It advocates veterans’ compensation, elimination of war as policy, world cooperation, and adherence to Kellogg Briand. it endorses the world court, navy parity, and the 1920s defense acts. It favors high wages and shorter work time, strict immigration enforcement, anti child labor and eight hour days, free speech, federal control of interstate utilities, railroad credit revival, Great Lakes seaway with Canada, and continued federal-state road cooperation. It backs crime stamping, drug control, civil service, prohibition reconsideration, forestry and conservation, Hawaii self-government, child welfare, and government bureau reorganization. It ends with rebuke of independents in favor of party regularity.
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Hoover
Dole
United States
Cooperative Marketing Association
Far East
Canada
Great Lakes
St. Lawrence Seaway
Hoover Gets G.O.P. Pledge as Convention Erupts
At Chicago Stadium on June 16 the Hoover surge drew roaring support from states while Dr. Joseph I. France was ejected after attempting to nominate Calvin Coolidge. France claimed credentials as Oregon delegate, challenged the chair, and was escorted out amid police action.
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Chicago
Herbert Hoover
Hoover
Joseph I. France
Maryland
Calvin Coolidge
Snell
France
L. B. Sandblast
Portland
Oregon
Nathan W. M. MacChesney
Everett Sanders
MacChesney
Senate Finance Committee Votes Adverse On Cash Bonus Bill
Washington June 16 The Senate finance committee voted 14 to 2 against the 2400 million cash bonus bill. The bill will be reported to the senate with an effort for a rapid vote. Opposing votes included Republicans Watson Reed Shortridge Couzens Keyes Thomas Metcalf Smoot and Democrats King George Walsh Connally Gore Harrison La Follette Jones. A Connally motion to pay veterans the present value of certificates and allow cashing or delaying until 1945 was defeated 4 to 11.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
Senate
Watson
Reed
Shortridge
Couzens
Keyes
Thomas
Idaho
Metcalf
Smoot
King
George
Walsh
Mass
Connally
Gore
Harrison
la Follette
Wis
Jones
Senator Connally
Texas
Convention moves to renominate Hoover at Chicago gathering
At the Chicago convention on June 16, Republicans move swiftly to renominate President Hoover and Vice President Curtis, settle second place on the ticket, and end the session after adopting the platform amid ongoing repealist pressures. Delegates show strong support for Hoover while Curtis opposition lingers in scattered delegations.
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Chicago
Byron Price
Associated Press
Hoover
Curtis
Nix to Speak Next Week in Cedartown Campaign Swing
Abit Nix campaign announces his first major speech of the governor bid set for Cedartown on Thursday night June 23. He backs state government reorganizations and reforms including judicial procedure revision and funding teachers and veterans. He opposes highway cuts and supports using federal funds while exploring funds for debt payment without harming the road program.
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Athens
Abit Nix
Cedartown
Nix
Board of Regents
Board of Control
Russell Attacks Republicans in Atlanta Report
Governor Richard B. Russell Jr told Atlanta Democrats that the Chicago assembly is not a Republican convention and warned of a democratic victory this fall. He condemned moratorium and GOP policies and lauded long Democratic rule. Mayor James L. Key predicted a Democratic win and labeled Hoover Republicans extinct.
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Atlanta
Richard B. Russell, Jr
Democratic Executive Committee
Assembly
Chicago
James L. Key
Atlantic Coast Line Cuts Salaries Ten Percent
Directors of the Atlantic Coast Line Railway approve a 10 percent salary reduction for all officers and supervisory officials effective July 1. A similar cut had been applied January 1.
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Atlantic Coast Line
New York
Atlantic Coast Line Railway
Weather forecast for the Southeast and Florida Panhandle
Alabama and extreme northwest Florida see partly cloudy conditions tonight with scattered thunder showers by Friday. South Carolina remains partly cloudy with interior thundershowers tonight into Friday. Georgia and Florida expect local thundershowers with partly cloudy periods tonight and Friday.
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Alabama
Florida
South Carolina
Georgia
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M'Intyre
Nichols
Davis
Cobb
Burch and Jones
Isler and Norton
J. Fred Singletary
Mr. Singletary
Mack Wilkes
Oscar D. Walden
A. C. Walden
Wilkes
Walden
Mr. Walden
Pelham
Times-Enterprise
HAWKS
Veterans Aid
North Carolina
Senate Finance
O. P
Russell
Thomasville and Vicinity
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