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Four years ago Farmers Archie Clark and Oliver Lankford of Kaskaskia, involved with a group of Missouri farmers in a title dispute over a pasture in the Commons, were arrested for trespassing by Sheriff Henry Drury of Ste. Genevieve, Mo., clapped into his jail for seven days. Farmers Clark and Lankford, charging the complainants and Sheriff Drury with false arrest on the ground that they were arrested in Illinois and jailed in Missouri, last week got their $200,000 damage suit before Judge Moore. The defendants produced some witnesses old enough to recall how the river had changed its course...
...little Turn Bull, Tenn., a boy named Art Lankford stepped out of the old log schoolhouse and walked up the hill a ways and caught hold of the tail of a bull yearling, the young bull started to run, they both landed in the old schoolhouse in books hours...
...requiring all Congressional districts to be "contiguous, compact and of approximately equal population." The absence of such a provision in the present law compelled the Supreme Court last October to sustain gerrymandering in Mississippi's redistricting. ¶ Heard its first farewell speech from Georgia's "Lame Duck" Lankford. ¶ Passed District of Columbia bills to close local barber shops one day per week and to allow Capitol attaches Congressional automobile tags. ¶ Received from the Appropriations Committee the first supply bill-Treasury & Post Office. Its total, $961,416,597, had been cut $32,912,304 under President Hoover...
Virginia. Without opposition Democratic Senator Carter Glass was renominated, assured of reelection. In the Norfolk (2nd) Congressional District, Joseph T. Deal, Wet, won the Democratic nomination to oppose Republican Representative Menalcus Lankford who ousted him from his House seat in the 1928 anti-Smith turnover. In the Danville (5th) District Democratic Representative Joseph Whitehead was beaten for renomination by Thomas Burch on the charge that he was "too cold" toward the party's national ticket two years ago. In the Alexandria (8th) District Judge Howard Smith won the Democratic nomination over State Senator Frank L. Ball...
...near-sighted (practicing a side-slip landing at Cleveland); Edwin Kirk, Great Lakes Aircraft mechanic, Lady Heath's passenger; William Patterson MacCracken, retiring Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics (rushing from the races to greet the Graf Zeppelin at Lakehurst); Norma Stevens of Columbus, Ohio (parachute jumping); N. K. Lankford, Navy flyer (crashed at Lorain, Ohio...