Germany 1923 shipping revival contrasts with debt risk
Milton Bronner reports from Hamburg on Germany’s postwar port rebound led by Hamburg and Bremen. Despite higher tonnage and more ships, most freight now sails under foreign flags and imports exceed exports, keeping Germany in debt. German lines like Hamburg American and North German Lloyd expand, yet coal costs and currency issues bar profits. sailors seek higher wages or dollars. Tomorrow: Politics in Germany.
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S. S. Bayern
Bremen
Hamburg
Germany
America
Latin America
Palestine
Egypt
Asia
Africa
Hamburg-American Line
Lloyd of
Division of Poard Splits Salaries in Americas Budget
Americas Georgia city officials meet to adopt a 1923 budget with drastic salary cuts across all departments led by Mayor J Elmore Poole. E J Witt opposes executive session and seeks open government while A D Gatewood Jr elected clerk and treasurer. detailed line items show major reductions in police fire street and water services.
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J. W. Harris, Jr
J. Elmore Poole
E. J. Witt
A. D. Gatewood, Jr
E. Joe R. E Pe
J. E. Poole
R. E. Allison
H. L. Mize
E. L. Carswell
W. E Mitchell
Poole
Tie
City of Americas
Georgia
Mitchell
Mize
Allison
Witt
Carswell
Allison Mitchell
Lee le
Secretary Fall to Quit Cabinet
Secretary Wall of the Department of the Interior will resign from the Harding cabinet on March 4. The White House announced the decision, citing pressure from private business interests that require his personal attention.
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Washington
Wall
Department of the Interior
Harding
White House
Fall
Ding
Jennings Guards Ordered Out by Governor
The Jennings cavalry of the Louisiana National Guard were ordered to entrain for Morehouse parish under Major Miller. They head to Bastrop amid investigations into the kidnapping of Harold Teegestrom, a 19 year old spy plant timekeeper. Sheriff Carpenter said he believes Teegestrom is alive and fled, with 16 unidentified men reportedly seizing him at the carbon plant bunk house and driving off into the woods. Details remain undisclosed.
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Jennings, Ka
Jennings Calvary
Louisiana National Guard
Morehouse Parish
Miller
Bastrop
Morehouse
Harold Teegestrom
Star State Witness
Sheriff Carpenter
Spyker
Teegestrom
Inter-Club Kiwanis Meet Thrills Cordele Crowd
Cordele hosts an inter club Kiwanis gathering with six clubs from Cordele and its region. The event showcases enthusiasm for the inter club concept and agriculture as the 1923 lead promotion. Nearby cities like Tifton Albany Americus Hawkinsville and Fitzgerald are expected to organize similar programs. The Friday night assembly is regarded as the most important meeting of its kind in the area.
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Cordele
South Georgia
Tifton
Albany
Americus
Hawkinsville
Fitzgerald
Cordele Kiwanis Club
Old Cordele Law Firm Whipple and McKenzie Disband
The firm Whipple and McKenzie dissolved at the start of the year after 15 years together in Cor dele. Judges A. V Whipple and W H McKenzie will practice separately, the partnership noted for strong friendship, now ending to allow each to pursue his own path.
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Cordele Cordele
Whipple and McKenzie
Cordele
A. V.,whipple
W. H. McKenzie
Cordele Tries City Management On New Year
Cordele on January 2 adopted the city manager form of government with C. D. Terrell in charge. No immediate changes were made and none promised. A plan of improvements will be announced soon and no employees have been let go yet.
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Cordele
C. D. Terrell
Funeral today for Mrs. Georgia Roberts
Funeral services for Mrs. Georgia Roberts 69 died Monday morning at 10 30 at the Cobb home were led by Rev Henry T Brookshire pastor of Central Baptist Americus. Interment was in Leslie cemetery. Surviving are three daughters Mrs J D Wright Mrs Frank M Sparks and Mrs Lena Skinner and two sons A J Roberts and N E Roberts. She was a longtime Sumter county resident and member of Leslie Baptist church.
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Georgia Roberts
Cobb
Henry T. Brookshire
Central Baptist Church
Fla
Lena Skinner
Miami
A. J. Roberts
Valdosta
N. E. Roberts
Leslie Baptist Church
Cordele Law Firm Forms New Year Partnership
Cordele January 2. Judge O T Gower leaves the Cordele circuit bench to form a law partnership with Judge E F Strozier. The two will practice together with offices currently occupied by Judge Strozier. Both are long standing lawyers in South Georgia.
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Cordele
O. T. Gower
E. F. Strozrer
Strozier
South Georgia
Poincare Proposes Plan to Cut German Reparations
ARIS Jan 2 Raymond Poincare French premier offers a 50 billion gold mark reparations figure with a two year moratorium and firm guarantees to assure future payments. Allied leaders including Lloyd George and others attend as debate centers on moratorium terms and German resource seizure on the Ruhr and left bank. France insists on using productive German resources as guarantee and reiterates Versailles rights.
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Aris
Raymond Pyncare
France
Great Britain
Belgium
Marquis Della Torretta
Permier
London
Bruusels
Germany
Rhine
Ruhr
Millerand
German proposal on disarmament pact rejected by France
The state department said Hughes did not formally transmit Germanys plan for a generation long promise among France Britain Italy and Germany to refrain from war without a plebiscite. An informal inquiry showed the French government found the proposal unacceptable.
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Washington
France
Great Britain
Italy
Germany
United States
Hughes
Seagraves Held for Slaying in Athens
Harvey H. Seagraves, night watchman for the Seaboard Air Line in Athens, is confined in Clark County jail on a murder warrant relating to the death of Paul Smith, yardmaster for the same railroad. A coroner’s inquiry followed a jury verdict that Seagraves’ shooting of Smith was justified.
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Athens
Harvey H. Seagraves
Seaboard Air Line Railroad
Clark County
Paul Smith
Seagraves
Smith
Berry G. Benson, Confederate Veteran, Dies at 80
Berry G. Benson aged 80 died after a brief illness in Augusta. For many years a conspicuous figure at Confederate reunions across the South. A sculptured likeness of the veteran stands on the Confederate monument in the city center.
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Augusta
Berry G. Benson
South
Dixie Flyer Derails Near Macon injuring several
A Dixie Flyer wreck near Rivoli seven miles west of Macon injures two seriously and seven others. Mrs J A Kitchens and Jack Faulkner are among the gravely hurt. others include W H Smallwood T F Payne and Gertrude Butler. J R Liles and Mrs Liles plus Elise Liles are also hurt but not seriously.
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Macon
Jacksonville
Chicago
Rivoli
J. A. Kitchens
Sylvester
Jack Falkner
Central of Georgia
Dr. Carl Minor Among Train Passengers Safe
Dr. Carl W. Minor pastor of the First Baptist Church in Americus was aboard the ill-fated train traveling to Atlanta for a state board session. He wired relatives that he was safe. Also aboard, 80 year old G T Mills visited his granddaughter in Americus and escaped unharmed, though shaken by the crash.
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Carl Minor
Carl W. Minor
First Baptist Church
Americus
Atlanta
State Board
G. T. Mills
E. T. Kirkland
Americas
Sitios
Liles
Davis Victim of Religious Panic in Atlanta Case
In Atlanta on January 2 a board of physicians examined Ben Davis, the convicted slayer set for execution Friday. They reportedly found Davis to be a victim of religious mania. Governor Hardwick has not received an official report on his condition.
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Atlanta
Hardwick
Ben Davis
Davis
Nunnally Surrenders to Sheriff at Sylvania
In Sylvania on January 2 Mims Ninnally surrendered to Sheriff Griffin after disclaiming any part in the killing of Albert Jones, an elderly Black man. Joe Atkins remains at large as authorities seek the shooter.
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Nunnally
Sylvania
Mims Ninsnally
Albert Jones
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NEA
Erlin
Isles
Allison and
Witt, Carswell and
Jennings
MER Rouge
Thomas S. Richards
F. Watt Daniel
Lake la Fourche
Rudolph Percy
W. W. Cooper
156Th Infantry
Krret
Louis Hayden
Roberts
Poincare
Dixie Flyer
J. R. Liles
Mirs. Liles
Miss Life Liles
Dr Carl Minor
Seaboard Railway
Board of Physicians
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