Klan Debate Sways Toward Secrecy At Nebraska Meet
Glenn Carter grand dragon of Nebraska led a Tuesday session urging KKK members to remain masked in public to protect membership secrecy. The meeting, at Buckeye Lake, discussed finances, accountability, and a shift toward reinforcing the organization’s social role while retaining anonymity.
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Buckeye Lake
Ku Klux Klan
Glenn Carter
Grand Dragon
Nebraska
Vwliey
Additon
Carter
Illinois
Springfield
Flames Yhward Voyage Sington Arctic Expedition
Sington August 26 Arctic expedition sustains a southward voyage after being weather bound for several days along the northwest coast of Greenland.
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Sington
Is Arctic
Resu
Creenland
Von Conrad Hoctzendorf Dies in Germany
Vienna August 26 Field Marshal Von Conrad Hoctzendorf chief of staff of the Austrian army in the world war and later commander in chief on the Italian front died today at Mersentheim sburg Germany.
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Vienna
von Conrad Hoctzendorf
Mersentheimsburg
Germany
Gasoline Flows From Town Pump In North Dakota Town
Residents believed a bonanza when the town pump poured gasoline as good as a filling station. Autoists filled tanks, but later a nearby garage found its storage tank empty after a leak.
Bid to Sell Confederate Scrip Faces Four Percent Discount
Georgia Governor Clifford Walker said an extra legislative session may be called to refine the Confederate scrip measure unless it can be sold for no more than a four percent discount. He plans to test legality and concerted sale by offering the entire issue to banks at a reasonable rate to gauge if it is worth full dollar value and to protect veterans from losses.
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Atlanta
Georgia General Assembly
Walker
Clifford Walker
Brown Likely to Run Again for Agriculture Post
Atlanta August 26 J J Brown Georgia commissioner of agriculture denied he said he would not seek re election He stated I am not a candidate at the present time but I reserve the right to run again for the office I desire and whether I offer for the post again depends on developments
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Atlanta
J. J. Brown
Commissioner of Agriculture
Athens
Ex-Day Agent Charged With White Slavery
Tampa Florida August 26 hearing for Donald C Campbell a former federal prohibition enforcement officer charged with violating the Mann act was postponed until Thursday morning. The hearing was set for today but carried over at the request of the defendant's counsel.
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Tampa
Fla
Donald C. Campbell
Atlanta Carmen Held for Murder
Fulton county grand jury and coroners jury indict Mc. C. G. Churchill motorman and C. B. Smith conductor for murder in the death of A. W. Mullins a street car passenger fatally knifed Saturday night. Both men are confined in jail since their arrest.
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Atlanta
A. P
Fulton County Grand Jury
C. G. Churchill
C. B. Smith
A. W
Texas
Mullins
Allo
French Garrison Seized by Druze Rebels in Syria
An Exchange Telegraph message from Cairo reports the French garrison at Dierezzo on the Euphrates right bank has been captured by Druze rebels. The report notes the uprising is spreading.
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London
Cairo
Dierezzo
Syria
Euphrates River
Gasoline cuts lift Americus price to 25 cents a gallon
Gulf Refining local manager H P Everett announced a one cent gasoline price cut effective Thursday morning, lowering the pump price to 25 cents per gallon in Americas. Standard Oil reported no notice of a cut, but may follow. Loving Oil also plans 25 cent gas tomorrow. Palladiums host 34 Boy Scouts as guests, urging reorganization of local troops, with committees formed from Palladiums Kiwanis and Rotary to coordinate efforts and a joint meeting planned.
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H. P. Everett
Gulf Refining Company
Americas
Standard Oil Company
Times- Recorder
G. C. Loving
Loving Oil Company
Palladiums
Americus
Turner
Kiwanis
Rotary Clubs
E. L. Thurman
J. I. Pinch
Joe M. Branch
Steven Pace
Sumter County
Fred Smith
Kiwanis Club
Frank Harrold
Rotary Club
Emmett Anderson
Mandolin Club
J. Ed Chapman
L. L. Lester
S. L. Hammond
Gordon Brooks
Palladium Club of Americas
Boy Scout Movement
Boy Scouts In Americas
City Gets New Thermometer
Americus faces a temperature dispute as GC F von Herrmann sends a replacement thermometer to J Parrot Poole, the local weather depositor, after prior readings hit 110 degrees. The battle over high heat registers ends with a new maximum thermometer mailed to Americus.
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Americus
Chamber of Commerce
F. von Herrmann
J. Parrot Poole
von Herrman
O. K
von Herrmann
Poole
Two slain in raid on Shanghai jail
Shanghai authorities report two men killed as police opened fire on a crowd of dockyard workers outside a city jail. Workers had surrounded the station demanding the release of four detained colleagues. Several others were injured in the confrontation.
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Shanghai
Stewart County Board Grants Three Mill Tax Increase
In Richland on Aug 26 the Stewart County Board of Education voted a three mill county wide tax hike, bringing total to eight mills to fund a nine month school term. Consolidation cut white schools from fourteen to six, with two colored schools partially Rosenwald funded. All teachers paid and the board claims to be debt free.
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Richland
Stewart County Board of Education
Stewart Couty
Walker Signs W. and A. Measure in Georgia
President J Howard Ennis announces senators Capp Guess and Knight appointed to the Western and Atlantic plenary commission for Chattanooga terminal property. Governor Clifford Walker signs the bill creating the commission with governor as member, plus state officials, senators, and house appointees including Fermor Barrett Ed B Dykes Bessie Kempton chairing the W and A committee.
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Atlanta
J. Howard Ennis
Georgia Senate
Chattanooga
Capp
Guess
Knight
Clifford Walker
Western and Atlantic
State of Georgia
Paul Trammell
Public Service Commission
Charles Murphey Candler
Senate
House
W. Cecil Neill
Farmer loses on large crop
Des Moines Iowa Aug 26 By A P A bumper corn crop does not guarantee farmer prosperity says C D Reed director of weather and crop reporting service He notes fewer dollars with more corn citing 1924 and 1921 as examples where high yields yielded low returns He warns less corn more dollars may occur in the future citing national agricultural history and income per acre figures
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Des Moines
Iowa
A. P
C. D. Reed
Weather and Crop Reporting Service
Lowa
Reed
Man Held for Passing Confederate Bill in Macon
In Macon on August 26 Sidney Brown is jailed for allegedly passing a $10 Confederate bill as legal tender. He is said to have given the bill to Charlotte High Tower for lodging Sunday night, receiving nine dollars in change. The bill is with the sheriff.
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Macon
Sidney Brown
Charlotte Hightower
Sidney
Fifth Trial for Banker at Cleveland Delays Defection
Josiah Kirby, founder of the Cleveland Discount Company, faces a new federal indictment for use of the mails to defraud as his fifth trial in Cleveland nears. Four juries have previously tried him. two deadlocked and two acquitted amid notes that his magnetism swayed jurors. Kirby, now in California, led a $40 million concern tied to the Rockefeller Building and a 1918 stock sale across Ohio while the company reorganizes under receivers.
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Cleveland
A. P
Josiah Kirby
Cleveland Discount Company
Kirby
California
Discount Company
Rockefeller
Sheffey Denies Murder Charge in Blount County Trial
William D. Sheffey, on trial for Luther Wells’s murder in Blount County, testified he was not the midnight marauder blamed for a decade of home invasions. He claimed he was with his sister in Maryville and in Knoxville on the nights of the offenses, returning home the next morning.
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Marvvnlls
Tenn
A. P
William D. Sheffey
Blount County
Luther Wells
Sheffey
Wells
Louis Erving
Knoxville
Maryville
Howard's Captives Evade Troops Take Doctor by Boat
In Habin Manchuria on Aug 26 American eye specialist Dr Harvey J Howard was taken by a band of Manchurian captors after evading Chinese troops. They moved upriver by boat toward Holunghiang province with the prisoner.
French Agree With Coolidge Debt Policy
Paris reports the French foreign office backs President Coolidge's capacity for payment principle as a fair rule for settling America's European debtors. Initial official reactions align with Swamp Scott's reaffirmation as conveyed in unofficial dispatches received here.
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Paris
Coolidge
Swampscott
America
Chinese Tong Warfare Draws Blood Across Cities
Nationwide clashes erupt as Chinese Tong feuds resume with gunfire in Boston and other towns. Victims include H Yen Yung of Hip Sing Tong and Ho Kee of On Leong Tong, with killings in Pittsburg Minneapolis St Louis and New York following a six month armistice enabling further violence.
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New York
A. P
Boston
United States
H. Yen Yung
Yee Yip
Joseph D. Crowley
Ho Kee
On Leong Tong
Chinatown
Pittsburg
Shing Sun
Low Suey
Chicago
Mineapolis
St. Louis
Leong Chooey
Hip Sing Tong
Hip Sing
On Leong Tongs
Lee Kue Ying
Hip
Steamship firms seek to extend lines to Miami
Washington August 26 The Illinois Central and the Central of Georgia applied to the Interstate Commerce Commission for authority to extend service through their subsidiary Ocean Steamship Company by establishing water lines between Savannah and Miami.
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Washington
Illinois Central and
the Central of Georgia Railroad
Interstate Commerce Commission
The
Ocean Steamship Company
Savannah
Miami
British Cabinet to Hear Churchill on Talks With Caillaux
London August 26 The British cabinet is summoned this afternoon to hear from Chancellor of the Exchequer Churchill about his progress in conversations with France Finance Minister Caillaux.
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London
Churchill
Cail«laux
France
Black man escapes city jail and is recaptured
A Black man named David Lewis, previously jailed for loitering, escaped the city lockup soon after sentencing. He was recaptured in Dawson on Tuesday afternoon and is to appear before Judge Harper on a misdemeanor charge, with possible additional time in jail.
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David Lewis
Bart
Dawson
Harper
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J. J
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von Hindenburg
Marshal von Hindenberg
Berlin
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Stewart County Board
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