Happenings Of Interest From All Points
A mixed global roundup reports tensions in Honduras with a regional peace, a French legal case and Rajah Sir Hari Singh blackmail probe in London, British beer hall alcohol levels, Monte Carlo tennis fashion, a radium find in Sweden, Dart and Taungs missing link claims, France debate over Vatican ambassador, Geneva opium plan rejection, and a stalled European conference with final adjournment looming.
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France
Holy See
Chamber of Deputies
Ihs
Geneva
Europe
Noth
Jones Named To Lead Coast And Geodetic Survey
The president nominates B. Lester Jones of Virginia for reappointment as director of the coast and geodetic survey. Other items note Coolidge urging farm legislation, extra Senate session planned for March, Alabama Coosa River bridge approval, and postal rate hikes to cover salary increases.
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B. Lester Jones
Virginia
Coolidge
Coast and Geodetic Survey
Congress
Senate
American Railway Association
Defendants Cut in Bailey Brothers Case and Other News
Government suit against Bailey Brothers Inc officials and stock salesmen shrank from 41 to 36 in Greens boro North Carolina as verdicts of not guilty were directed for five salesmen. Rum runner Pescawha held in Astoria Oregon for saving nine seamen. Former New Orleans mayor Behrman to face Maloney in second mayoral primary. Oklahoma tragedy of George Hicks and Cora Forrser elopement ends in murder. Wall Street hears radio company consolidation underway by New York banking syndicate. Nashville police reserve riot control after 100 negro demonstrators clash with university president. Horace Cooper of Wilmington to plead not guilty in banking case. Preparations for second trial of Dr George Edwarde begin after mistrial. Gasoline up again in New Orleans. Quadruplets born in Bethlehem Tenn three survive. ACC derailment at Florence South Carolina kills negro fireman. engineer injured. L C Humes of Memphis dies of heart attack. Dam breach floods Vale and Milkhour river valley area with $250000 loss. Nebraska antigossip bill proposes fines and jail time. Pennsylvania Shoe Retailers favor ankle length spring dresses. Warren Lincoln denies confession in Geneva murder case.
South Carolina Fisheries Board Proposes Tax and Rules
The state fisheries board urges legislature to tax shad at ten cents and oyster shocks at five cents per gallon, raise terrapin minimum size to six inches, and extend a shrimp closed season from March to June. Violations carry at least a $100 fine and seizure of gear. The report also notes January motor tax revenue of $1,003,299.40, with $944,728.40 from license fees and 52,563 vehicle registrations.
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Columbia
South Carolina
State Board of Fisheries
Palmetto
Highway Department
L. H. Thomas
State Highway Commission
Time Extension For Paying Fees
The House of Representatives signals it will pass the Goodwin extension resolution and the state highway commission will suspend collection of state motor vehicle license taxes until final action on the measure. The extension, already approved by the Senate, is highly likely in the House, with two prior approvals indicating the will to grant the extension.
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House of Representatives
Goodwin
State Highway Commission
Senate
Goodwin Joint
Chester Senator Introduces Ginger Prohibition Bill
Senator Hamilton of Chester introduces a bill to ban possession transportation storage and sale of Jamaica ginger or any ginger compounds containing over 50 percent alcohol for unlawful purposes. Determination of unlawful purpose is a jury question. Unusual handling of the compound is evidence of violation. Violators face penalties as for illegal transport or sale of alcohol.
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Hamilton
Chester
Jamaica
Senate Favors Dental Measure Passes Second Reading
The senate backed a bill by Senator Jeffords to create a state mouth hygiene department under the state board of health with funding. Senator Patterson of Barnwell county opposed. The measure advances to a third reading and likely moves to the house for further action.
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A. B. Patterson
Barnwell County
Senate
Jeffords
Darlington
State Board of Health
McDonald Introduces Bill to Forfeit Liquor Transport Vehicles
Senator R D McDonald of Oconee introduces a bill to repeal Section 85, Volume 2, Code of 1922, on seizure and sale of vehicles used to transport alcoholic liquors. The bill would forfeit such vehicles to the county where the violation occurs and sell them at public action after 21 days notice.
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R. D. McDonald
Oconee
Coolidge backs postal pay and rate bill in Cabinet review
President Coolidge indicated approval of the House postal pay and rate increase bill. Postmaster General New reported the department’s views as satisfactory. The measure would raise annual revenue by over 60 million dollars and make retroactive pay from January 1. Critics said the bill risks business disruption and favors some classes of mail over others. Protests against rushing the bill were sent by BE. B. Raid of the American Farm Bureau Federation, who argued salaries are generally declining and that rate hikes are excessive for money orders and other services used by farmers.
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House
Richard H. Lee
The
Direct Mail Association
Associated Advertising Clubs of the World
Lee
Chamber
BE. B. Raid
Washington
American Farm Bureau Federation
Co. O. D
World Cotton Figures Released by Washington
Washington reports world cotton production may reach 24,000,000 bales this crop year based on revised foreign county estimates. Last year’s global crop stood at 19,500,000 bales, with reporting countries accounting for 23,366,000 bales to date, including the American share of 13,153,000.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Department
Desperation Ends in Millenium Warning Suicide in Shickshinny
In Shickshinny Pennsylvania Mrs Andrew Korts 53 hanged herself in a garage after declaring fear of the end of the world. Family said she warned her husband and three sons not to go to work that day.
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Shickshinny
Andrew Korts
Man shoots wife then kills himself in Temperance home
Karl Frederick Danielsen, 49, a farmer near Temperance, fearing doomsday predictions, shot his wife and then killed himself with the same revolver. His wife said he had become terror-stricken over apocalyptic forecasts and a fear that his years of savings would be worthless.
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Karl Frederick Danielsen
Temperance
Produce More Electricity Washington Record Power Output
Washington reports a new annual electricity production high with 58.966 billion kilowatt hours, rising six percent from 1923. Generating capacity climbed across the nation as industry and households demanded more power.
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Washington
United States
Means freed on $10,000 bail after conspiracy conviction
Gaston B. Means, recently convicted with Thomas B. Felder of conspiring to bribe federal officials, was released from Tombs prison on $10,000 bail. He remains free under $40,000 additional bail on other untried indictments while awaiting appeal.
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Means
New York
Gaston B. Means
Tombs
Thomas B. Felder
Large Road Funds Authorized by Senate Vote
Washington The senate passed a house bill authorizing 150.9 million dollars for road construction and 15 million dollars for forest improvements over the next two fiscal years. The measure, approved 66 to 5, would split the funds evenly between the two years under a program extending the Good Roads Act of 1996, continuing prior annual authorizations.
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Washington
Materials Arrive as Broad River Plant Advances at Parr Shoals
Materials come for a large steam plant being built by Broad River Power company on Broad River at Parr Shoals. Weather last week slowed foundation work but with clear weather the project will proceed. Brick from Columbia and Spartanburg, structural iron, and towers for the high tension line are en route. A substation at Gervais and Cist streets in Columbia is under foundation and will be a two story building.
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Columbia
Broad River Power Company
Broad River
Parr Shoals
Coffer
Spartanburg
Bookman
Parrshoals
Gervais and
Cist Streets
Meeting place of next convention deferred by secretaries
Rock Hill final session of the North and South Carolina commercial secretaries convention deferred the choice of next meeting location. Invitations from Asheville, Durham, High Point, and Greensboro will be sent to the membership committee. No officers were elected. Brent S. Drain of the UNC Geological and Economic Survey gave the keynote address on the economic value of the Negro to the South at Winthrop College Auditorium.
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Rock Hill
North and
South Carolina
Asheville
Durham
High Point
Greensboro
N. C
Winthrop College
Brent S. Drain
Geological and Economic Survey
University of North Carolina
Woolsey’s Cleveland Cotton Tops South Carolina Test
In Clemson college station tests of 39 cotton varieties Woolsey’s Cleveland, bred by C B Woolsey, ranked second in lint percentage marking improvement from 1923 when it was third in 30-variety tests. Woolsey began breeding in 1917 and Cleveland seed has high demand, shipped to growers across the South.
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Woolsey
Cleveland
C. B. Woolsey
Clemson College
South Carolina
South
Egg Laying Contest Attracts County Breeders
Eighty farm poultry breeders in Columbia state sign up for the six month egg laying contest opened by Miss Juanita Neely of Winthrop college. Over 25 counties compete with pens of standard bred birds to test egg production across four high and two low months. The event aims to boost statewide interest in better breeding, management, feeding, and meticulous records.
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Juanita Neely
Winthrop College
Fourth Car Eaves Laurens Poultry Shipment
Under the cooperative plan led by C L Vaughan county farm agent the Laurens county fourth car lot of poultry totaled 15 500 pounds selling for 2030. Fountain Inn supplied 6550 pounds Gray Court 4500 Laurens 4200 Clinton 400. The shipment moved via Southern Produce company of Hamlet North Carolina.
Engineers Survey Roads York For Paving Bids
Civil engineers employed by the York permanent highways commission survey roads slated for hardsurfacing to prepare maps and arrange details ahead of paving bids. Roads include Sharon to Rock Hill via York and Tirzah, York to Clover via Filbert, and Rock Hill to the Chester county line, totaling about 42 miles.
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York
York Permanent Highways Commission
Sharon
Rock Hill
Tirzah
Clover
Filbert
Chester County
Joint-Ease Promises Quick Relief for Joint Pain
Stiff swollen joints find an emollient remedy named Joint-Ease that aims to ease rheumatic pain. The ad claims the lotion relieves agony, reduces swelling, and loosens joints after ordinary cures fail, urging readers to rub a tube on the affected area and ask for Joint-Ease.
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Cannes
Republic of Honduras
Managua
Nicaragua
William Cooper Hobbs
London
Hari Singh
British Columbia
A. M. Manson
Monte Carlo
Holtsijunga
Halland
Sweden
Raymond Dart
Taungs
Bechuanaland
England
House Committee On
State of
Alabama
Coosa River
Gadsden
Ala
North Caroline
Senator Overman
North Carolina
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Santen River
Pinckim
James Ferry
the Bourne
Guardia
Henry Frank
United States Bureau of Mines
Philadelphia
Prohibition Enforcement
Pittsburg
Moses
House Post Office Committee
Bailey Brothers, Inc
Winston-Salem Tobacco Concern
Astoria
Oregon
Martin Behrman
New Orleans
Paul H. Maloney
George Hicks
Cora Forrser
A. B. Forest
Walters
Okla
Wall Street
Setaia
Nashville, Tenn
F. A. McKensie
Fiske University
Horace ©. Cooper
Wilmington
George T. Edwarde
Bessemer
Ann
George Heflin
Bethlehem
Tenn
Atlantic Coast Line
Florida
Florence
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Camp 63
Southern California Edison Company
Siérras
Fresno
Calif
L. C. Humes
Union and Planters’ Bank
Memphis, Tenn
That City
Vale
Malhour River
Bully Creek
Yale
Nebraska
Pennsylvania Shoe Retailers Association
Atlantia City
N. J
Warren J. Lincoln
Byron Shoup
Ill
Hoheries Board
Thomas
New
Monroe, Mich
Aiken Cotton
Aiken
Clemson College Experiment Station
Kaew
Gan
Atlanta
DSS
Beecham
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B. F. Allen Co
Canal St
Oxticura Laboratories
Dept
Maiden, Maes
James Bail
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