Ninety-five dead, more than a score of persons missing, approximately 500 injured and property loss estimated at nearly $10 million was the toll taken by a series of storms which descended with tornadic violence upon the southeast, according to dispatches received at Atlanta, Ga.
The Fred Hartzok heard of 366 animals, valued at $426,000, all Holsteins which last year won 93 per cent of all the Holstein cattle awards in California and included the former world’s champion milch cow, Tillie Alcartfa, was driven into a trench, shot down, covered with quick-lime and buried at Lakership, Calif. They were stricken with hoof and mouth disease.
Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia university, declined to accept a challenge to debate the issue of prohibition before the Methodist general conference at Springfield, Mass., on May 22.
Telegrams from nine Democratic leaders in six states, intimating probable support of the candidacy of Governor Smith, of New York, for the democratic presidential nomination, were received by Franklin D. Roosevelt, director of the Smith boom.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, former assistant secretary of the navy and running mate with Governor Cox in the 1920 election, will manage the campaign for the nomination of Governor Al Smith as Democratic presidential candidate.
Letters of Philip Morgan Plant, young millionaire, in which he avowed an “undying regard” for Miss Helene Jesmer, former Greenwich Village follies beauty, were ready at the trial of Miss Jesmer’s $500,000 damage suit against Plant for injuries received in an automobile accident.
More than 3,000 iron workers of New York and vicinity have gone on a strike demanding a closed shop and a wage of $12 for an 8-hour day instead of $10.50.
An all-night search of the new German liner Columbus, which docked in Brooklyn after her maiden voyage from Bremen, failed to disclose Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, draft dodger, who was reported to have slipped aboard the vessel at the German port to return to the United States and surrender to federal authorities.
Postponement of operation of the Japanese exclusion provision of the immigration bill until July 1 is understood to have bene suggested to Senate and House conferees on the measure.
With returns complete from all but a little more than 1,000 precincts in Ohio, President Coolidge and James M. Cox, former governor of Ohio, were in the lead in the state’s presidential preference primary.
Raleigh W. Wright, “gentleman burglar,” who was wounded by Dan Conklin when discovered in the Conklin home, Atlanta, Ga., is at liberty under a $500 cash bond posted by a friend, whose identity no one would reveal.
Southern Methodist university, Dallas, Texas, seethed with revolt when 34 students were expelled and 22 others banned from college activities for participation in a recent wild party.
Warren T. McCray, who ceased to be governor of Indiana recently, a scarce half hour before he received one of the heaviest sentences ever imposed in the United States district court by Judge A.B. Anderson, is en route to Atlanta, Ga., to begin his 10-year term in federal prison.
From the front page of the Norlina Headlight, Friday, May 9, 1924
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