Record Poll Tax Receipts and Auto Tag Sales Boost County Voting
Miss Jewell Davidson and deputies issued about 2000 poll tax receipts setting a county record as auto tags went on sale. Voting strength climbs toward 12,000 with 250 mail ballots and 2900 exemptions noted. Tags must be on by April 1 though they can’t be placed before March 1, under potential highway patrol penalties. The tax office closed at midnight and reopened this morning.
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Jim Ferguson
Jewell Davidson
Davidson
Highway Patrol
Battle on the Rawka Opens in 1915 Campaign
25 years ago today on February 1, 1915 the battle on the Rawka near Bolimoy began marking a start to a major 1915 campaign. Russian and German forces clashed as artillery prepared for early actions. The engagement set the tone for subsequent offensives in the region.
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Rawka
Bolimoy
Germans Say Altmark Reached Germany With 300 British Seamen
German sources report the escort ship Altmark has penetrated the British blockade and arrived in Germany with 300 British seamen aboard, following the battleship Admiral Graf Spee’s voyage.
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Buenos Aires
Altmark
Graf Spee
Germany
Knife and Fork Dinner Time Shift for Duff Cooper Visit
The Amarillo Knife and Fork Club will start dinner at 6 PM next Tuesday as Rt. Hon. Alfred Duff Cooper departs for California at 10 PM. Cooper will speak on The World We Live In, possibly accompanied by his wife Lady Diana Manners. Club reservations close by 1 PM Tuesday. no late bookings.
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Alfred Duff Cooper
California
Amarillo Knife and Fork Club
Cooper
British Admiralty
Diana Manners
Women Urged To Help With Finnish Relief
Lena Madesin Phillips, president of the International Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs, lauds Finnish relief effort. She notes Finland's 1906 universal suffrage and 1926 rise of women to deputy social affairs minister, praising Finnish women’s professional presence and equality.
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New York
Finland
Lena Madesin Phillips
International Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs
Minna Silanpaa
Miss Phillips
Herbert Hoover
Finnish Relief Fund, Inc
Southern Homemade Bomb Wrecks Feola Bunting House
A south side resident in Clinton North Carolina reports a home made bomb thrown into Feola Bunting's house. The device used dynamite placed in a water bucket sealed with a stove lid and caused substantial damage and injuries.
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Southern Homemade Bomb Works
Clinton
N. C
Feola Bunting
Germans See Call for Help In Prime Minister's Speech
German observers argued that Prime Minister Chamberlain again urged neutrals to run ships through combat zones with British convoys as a path to widen the war. Authorities compared the move to British efforts to unsettle German relations with Balkan states and warned that any widening of the conflict served British policy.
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Berlin
Chamberlain
Germany
Balkan
Patrol Destroyed on Western Front Reported in Command Communique
The high command reports destruction of an enemy patrol on the western front in the daily communique. No further details are provided about location or casualties.
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Berlin
Western Front
High Command
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