Timber lands under threat from concentrated ownership
Washington reports Luther Conant Jr urges expanded federal ownership of forests including Alaska, warns against private takeover under settler pretexts. He cites a 1910 report and calls for more forfeiture actions, stronger public control, and retention of timber lands to protect national forest integrity and public value. He highlights major holders like Amalgamated Copper and Pacific railways.
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Washington
United States
Luther Cunant
Conerporations
Tate
Bureau of Corporation
Congress
Alaska
Conant
National Forest
Mary
Pecbert Knox
Ken Peet
Weeernaens Timber
Repere
Eperes
Othe Pacific
Charles A Soltho
Minneapolis
Whenmas BB
Wheeler
Mine of Endeavor
Jet Starkhelder
AR. Hammond Commans
New Jersey
Puget Sound
Tsuheidiars
St. Paul
Southern Pacific
Northern Purcelse
Government delays on timber prices and land control debated
Commissioner Conant warns against tying stumpage to growing costs, arguing it would hasten high prices and reduce timber conservation. He notes rising stamp age values, fears government land ownership extension, and cites forfeiture probes into Northern Pacific to curb lavish timber land holdings benefiting financiers.
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Conant
Gonant
Northern Pacific
Congress
Bureau of Corporations
Utah Condemned May Kill Selves
Salt Lake City January 12 The Utah legislature discusses execution methods with a proposal allowing condemned criminals to take their own lives after appeals. Governor Spry favors the electric chair. Judge Thomas Marioneux cites a Chinese custom permitting self-inflicted death.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Spry
Thomas Marioneux
Magid Faces Perjury Trial Over Merger Fight
Louis B. Magid, president of the L BR. Magic company, indicted on six counts for perjury in a bid to block the merger of the Georgia Railway and Electric into the Georgia Railway and Power company, says a satisfactory defense will prove his innocence. Trial set for 9 o'clock today in the criminal division of the superior court amid related lawsuits seeking $2,181,000 and disputes over stock ownership and statements regarding the merger and stockholdings.
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Louis B. Magid
L BR. Magic Company
Bankers
Candler
Grand
Aisault
Georgia Railway and Electric Company
Georgia Railway and Power Company
Superior Court
Magid
Supreme Court
Georgia Power Company
Atlanta Power Company
Atlanta Hydro-Electric Company
Tock
Musideveral
Wilson Studies Capital Guide Book in Washington
Princeton dispatch reports President elect Wilson reading a guide book of Washington in spare moments as he prepares to assume the presidency. He has seen little of the government buildings of the capital since youth and will visit the White House interiors for the first time on taking office. A springlike day brought visitors to the Wilson home with Gov Mel Wilson and Mrs. Tey among those walking with the host.
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Princeton
N. J
Wilson
Washington
Sot O
White House
Mapeh Ft
Executive Mansion
Willson
Mel, Wilson
Ellenwood Sets Sunday Decision On Elgin Call
Rev. and Dean Ellenwood, pastor of the First Universalist Church, will announce next Sunday whether he will accept the Elgin Illinois call recently extended. After talks with trustees urging him to stay in Atlanta, he indicated he had not fully decided but would likely state his choice. Pressure grows to remain, yet the Klein church offer includes support for study at Chicago University, influencing the decision.
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Dean Ellenwood
First Universalist Church
Elgin
Atlanta
Atelanta
Klein Church
Chicago Universit
Women Fight Levee System Over Mississippi Land Loss
Washington dispatch on January 19 details test cases challenging $7 million in land flooding along the Mississippi tied to federal levee construction near Vicksburg. Plaintiffs Mrs. Mattie J. Jackson and Mrs. Mary B. Hughes claim floods worsened, destroying 1,700 acres and homes, while the government argues the levee aids navigation and was not a taking. The Supreme Court decision, sought within weeks, follows prior rulings in the Court of Claims upholding the government and a Timberlake plantation award of $90,900 to Mrs. Hughes.
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Washington
Mississippi River
Supreme Court
Mississippi
Vicksburg
Miss
Mattie J. Jackson
Mary B. Hughes
Bougere
Court of Claims
Jackson
Mortuary notices list several deaths and upcoming funerals
Joan Sherlock a traveling horse trader aged 55 died Sunday morning in a private sanitarium. She is survived by one son and four daughters and four brothers. The body was sent to Nashville for funeral and interment. Agnes McAllister six months old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R G McAllister died Sunday morning at a private sanitarium. No funeral details. John Terry aged 67 died Saturday night at a private sanitarium. Body held at Harry G Poole's chapel awaiting relatives. E T Whittemore of Ball Ground 66 died Sunday afternoon at a private sanitarium. Survived by parents two brothers and one sister. Body to Poole's chapel then Ball Ground for interment.
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Joan Sherlock
Wive
Nashville
Tenn
Agnes McAlister
Agnes Jewell McAllister
R. G. McAllister
Scottdale
John Terry
Harry G. Poole
E. T. Whittemore
T. Whittemore
Ball Ground
Sanstarium Sunda
KB. K. Whittemore
Poole's
Willl
Mrs Jane R Wilkes Dead in LRATIveL ON
Jane St Wilkes a prominent state figure died today at age 50 founder of the womens auxiliary of the Episcopal diocese of 7th Carolina and a prime mover in founding St Peters hospital and Good Samaritan hospital colored in this city
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Levy Ars
Jane St. Wilkes
Womans Auxiliary
Episcopal Church
7Th Carolina
St. Peter's Hospital
Good Samaritan Hospital
Colored
New Spanish Premier Favors Wide Reforms
Madrid January 19 Count Alvar de Romanves the new premier will publish his program after the King returns from a Granada hunting trip. The plan, marked by liberal aims, includes religious freedom secularization of communities civil marriage non-elective senator limits with more elected senators education reforms and naval expansion. King Alfonso I plans visits to Parta London Berlin in spring and Rome in autumn.
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Madrid
Alvar de Romanves
Granada
Association
Vatican
Alfonso I
Parta
London
Berlin
Rome
Birthday of Robert E. Lee Observed Across Georgia
Across Georgia the birthday of General Robert E. Lee was marked with special services in churches and public gatherings. Daughters of the Confederacy chapters led events, with sermons at First Baptist Athens and a lecture at the University of Georgia chapel. In Thomasville and Greensboro veterans joined in the tributes. Crosses of honor were to be awarded in Toccoa, while Moultrie held commemorative services in the Presbyterian church led by Dr. R Harris.
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Robert E. Lee
South
Daughters of the Confederacy
Athens
Confederacy
First Baptist Church
J. W. Lynch
D. D
Lee
Laura Rutherford
YT. W. Reed
University of Georgia
Robert BE. Lee
College
Greensboro
Baptist Church
Liebert E. Lee
L. E. Dutton
L. E. ‘Dutton
Moultrie
Presbyterian Church
United Daughters of the Confederacy
R. Harris
Cairo
Vet
Electoral votes must be rushed to Washington
Washington dispatch reports that all states must have their electoral returns in the president of the Senate’s hands by Monday January 27 to avoid penalties or loss of votes. The law also withholds mileage pay for messengers from late deliveries, though penalties are optional and rarely used.
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Washington
Toe
Senate
Fellow Chinamen Will Bury Sulley Lee Here
Gulley Lee a 58 year old Chinese man who died Saturday in Birmingham Alabama will be buried in Atlanta Monday with ceremonies by the Chinese Free Mason society of this city. Although he had no relatives in Atlanta and had not lived here for five years his body was brought by his many Chinamen friends. Burial will be in Greenwood cemetery Monday afternoon with funeral services at 1 o'clock in Harry G Poole's chapel.
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Thowaarville
Thomasville
Richmond Mitchell
Lee
Richmond
Marie Bob Mitchell
Gineral Lee
Gordon
Robert G. Mitchell
Gulley Lee
Birmingham
Ala
Atlanta
Birthday of Robert E Lee Observed in Georgia
In Macon and Talbotton Georgia on January 19 public services marked the birthday of General Robert E. Lee. Dr. B C Darman preached on Robert B Lee the Christian Soldier and Brigadier General W A Harris received a loving cup. At Talbotton the Alice Beall Matthew chapter staged a Daughters of the Confederacy event with crosses of honor to J B Garrington and R M Kellum and Ross C Grant as orator. Local businesses were asked to close for the observance.
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Macon
Robert E. Lee
B. C. Darman
First Baptist Church
Robert B. Lee
W. A. Harris
W.N. McGehee
Missea Ruth Arnold
Libbie DeLoache
Louise McGehee
Susie Harnest
Lucy Kimbro
The Grand Vaudeville Week At Keith Theater
The Grand reports a strong advance sale with blocks reserved for all shows this week. The Providence Players debut in Who tia Brown with Kathleen Clifford and a cast including the DeLasso Brothers and Ben Linn. The Merry Widow comes to Atlanta with Mabel Wilber and Charlies Meakins, plus Ward and Vokes at the Lyric in A Run on the Bank. The Atlanta theater presents The Woman by Blasco with Gladys Hanson in a three night plus matinee run starting Thursday.
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Keith
Providence Players
Tia Brown
Kathleen Clifford
DeLasso Brothers
Hmeraon and Baldwin
Ben Linn
Atlanta
Henry W Savage
Mabel Wilber
Santa Heres
Charlies Meakins
Danilo
Happy Close
Mr. Savage
David Blasco
Gladys Hanson
Ward and Belmont to be consolidated in Nashville
Nashville Tenn January 19 The announcement authorized today that on June 1 Belmont college and Ward seminary two of the largest female colleges of the south both located at Nashville are to be consolidated The designation of the new school is Ward Belmont The consolidated school will be on Belmonts hill suburbs of Nashville and will use Belmonts ten buildings plus two new halls for administration and dormitory Ward seminary founded in 1835 Belmont ...
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Nashville
Tenn
Belmont College
Ward Seminary
South
Ito
Ward-Belmont
Belmont S Hill
Ward- Belmont
Ward Seminary Ae
Belmont
Dr F H Orme Nearing End of Long Illness in Atlanta
Dr F H Orme, pioneer physician and longtime Atlanta citizen, is described as growing weaker daily at his home on Ponce de Leon Avenue. At 78 the veteran fighter for recovery is believed to be nearing his last illness after a hard battle to regain his health.
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F. H. Orme
Atlanta
Ponce de Leon Avenue
Dixie Educators Meet Here Today in South Plan
Southern educators gather at the Piedmont hotel to shape the negro question policy and November agenda. Leaders from Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama discuss laboratory study methods, community extension, vocational training, and school workshop cooperation. Candidates for the 1933 convention include Asheville, Nashville, and Charleston.
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Southern Educational Association
Piedmont Hotel
M. L. Brittain
Georgia
Association
Association of Southern Educators
Brittain
W. K. Tete
Columbia
D. C
South Carolina
W. F. Feigin
Alabama Department of Education
Montgomery
Ala
Gary, Ind
Asheville
N. C
Nashville
Tenn
Charleston, & C
Briand to Accept Premiership in Paris
Paris January 19. Briand the minister of justice, tasked by President Fallières to form a cabinet, was busy interviewing political leaders all Sunday and had not finalized plans. He could not give a definite reply to the president until tomorrow, but his acceptance of the premiership now appears likely.
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Briand
Paris
M Briand
Falliers
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