Solons asked to refuse funds for farm demonstration agents
Legislators plan a counter move to preserve vocational training funds by shifting support from the farm demonstration program to the Smith-Hughes vocational education fund. The plan would cancel federal Smith Lever aid for county agents, freeing $130 000 for vocational education in Georgia high schools, with Rep C R Kittrell among supporters.
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Department of Agriculture
College of Agriculture
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Georgia
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Three Ships Vanish at Sea Amid Piracy Fears
Washington reports three coasting vessels missing since recent calm seas and one vessel found wrecked off Diamond Shoals North Carolina. A bottle from the Carol Deering claimed crew seizure by another ship. Hoover noted naval tracing efforts and possible pirate links with Bolshevik support.
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Kidd
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Department of Commerce
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Diamond Shoals
North Carolina
Hottie
Hoover
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Hewitt
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New Orleans
New England
Norfolk
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Commerce Department
Justice Department
Fifty Years Ago in Chattooga County Ku Klux Uniforms Reported
A report notes the governor stores captured Ku Klux outfits in Chattooga county consisting of red flannel trousers a black blouse with red trim a black cowl and cape a white eyed border and a red tongue piece and mentions headgear resembling rail horns and common hats. Also referenced are local incidents in Franklin University surveying a rail line and court news about bailiff Manson Stroud.
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Chattooga County
Opposition grows to paternalism trend at capital
Connecticut Senator warns of a logical end to federal control as centralization expands. He notes a split between supporters and opponents of federal regulation across parties and cites bills on grain futures coal regulation and Townsend road project as signs of continued government reach.
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Clark Howell, JR
Constitution Bureau
Staleigh Hotel
Washington
Constitution
Senate
House
Indictment of Williams and Sons Deepens Peonage Case
Federal grand jury returns indictments against John S Williams owner of Jasper county murder farm and his three fugitive sons Marvin Hyland and Leroy for conspiracy to violate the peonage law The panel also handed up 17 true bills from 19 notices including larceny from the mails against Austyn L Smythe of Atlanta and a case involving Frank Bedgely currently in the Atlanta federal penitentiary The proceedings suggest court records will reflect the indictments despite ongoing murder trial status concerns.
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Jasper County
Marvin
Hyland
Leroy
Williams
Austyn L. Smythe
Atlanta
Frank Bedgely
Atlanta Federal Penitentiary
Summer Solstice Forecast Spars With Comic Weather Talk
A weather forecast piece cites forecaster C F von Herrmann predicting official start of summer with the solstice and the longest day. He notes intermittent meteor showers, a potential Pons-Winnecke comet visit, and past Halley’s tail passage as context for celestial events and weather effects.
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Joshua
C. F. von Herrmann
von Herrmann
van Herrmann
Halley
Alleged Modest Dress Rule Case Opens in Zion Jail
Mrs. Sarah Johnson aged 21 of Winthrop Harbor near Zion faces trial in Zion jail on three counts of violating Overseer Wilbur Glenn Voliva insistence on modest dress. She was arrested after stepping from a train by Chief Becker for wearing short sleeves, a transparent blouse, and a blouse with a low neck. Her trial is scheduled for tomorrow.
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Sarah Johnson
Winthrop Harbor
Zion
Wilbur Glenn Voliva
Johnson
Becker
Great air fleet to begin tests and bombing today
Langley Field Virginia reports the largest peacetime air fleet assembled to attack an ex German submarine off Cape Charles with navy planes leading the assault. Bombers and torpedo planes will follow in a staged sequence and a second phase June 28 targets a radio controlled battleship Iowa no destruction intended.
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Virginia Cape
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Read
trans-Atlantic Bight
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Flyerg
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Iowa
Cape Henlopen
Tech Students Urge Bonus Bill Before Big Fight
Senator Harris received a petition from over 100 rehabilitation students at the Georgia School of Technology urging passage of the Gallivan bill to forbid the Dempsey Carpentier bout until Congress passes a World War I veterans bonus bill.
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HY Clark Howell, JR
Raleigh
Washington
Sinn Fein Peace Offer Rumor Linked to King Visit
London July 20 The Paris vary correspondent of Central News says a remarkable rumor is current that Sinn Fein intends to signalize the king s visit to Belfast by making a proffer of peace to his majesty.
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Pari Vary
Central News
Sinn Fein
Belfast
Britain Signals Friendly Tone on US Jap Pact Renewal
London June 20 British Prime Minister Lloyd George opened the imperial conference with remarks on Anglo Japanese relations. He cited wartime friendship and urged US discussion of Pacific armament limits while stressing sea power as the empire’s foundation. He said friendly cooperation with the United States is a cardinal principle and Britain desires to apply this friendship to pacific questions including China.
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America
Lloyd S George
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Great Britain
Pacific Ocean
Far East
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Pacific
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New Zealand
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Colunm
Atlanta Concern Claims Lease Violation by U S
Clark Howell reports from Washington that the Mason's Annuity builders claim the government ended a five year occupancy lease for the Mason's Annuity building at Edgewood avenue and Ivy street. Officials say no written lease existed while Mason's Annuity asserts about $30,000 spent on improvements. A telegram directs immediate termination of occupancy effective June 30, 1921, with no rental responsibility by the bureau or health service.
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Finleigh Hotel
Washington
Constitution
Mason
Edgewood Avenue
Ivy Street
R. E. Hawaras
J. T. Wright
Department of War Risk Insurance
Edwards
Atlanta
Bureau
Health Service
Uerty
Missing Georgia banker John D Walker found in San Antonio
Reports from Macon say John D Walker former Georgia bank head and state political and religious figure now in San Antonio Texas where attorneys plan to arrest him on a mishandling of bank funds warrant. He disappeared nearly three years ago on the eve of a bank crash leaving about three quarters of a million dollars in debt.
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Sparta
San Antonio
Texas
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Walker
A O. Park
T H. Huger
State Senate
Senate
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Central Financing Corporation
W. J. Speer
Aeg
Eighty-Second Men Aim for Ansley Hotel Dinner
The Atlanta Eighty-second Division Association calls all veterans who wore the unit or served with it to assemble at 4:40 PM Thursday in the Ansley Hotel main dining room. Generals and K.P.s urged. dinner costs two dollars per plate, with additional activities planned. Contact John White or members below for details.
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Sordon
Argonne
Ansley Hotel
Generala
K. P
Catl
John White
Atlanta
Plan Adopted to Prove Forge Work Loss Out
Shaw, Jones, Payne and Whatley lose out as the discharge is recommended. Lieutenant Waggoner and Detectives West and Arthur exonerated.
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Shaw, Jones, Payne
Whatley
Waggoner
West
Arthur
Council nullifies citizens committee report on police graft charges
Alfred C Newell, chairman, says council emasculated the report and used it as part of a system. He refuses to reveal next steps while Mayor Key considers the document after Chief Beavers and Chief Poole are removed. If vetoed, the matter returns to council. if signed, police board may adopt or reject recommendations.
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Council
Alfred C Newell
Citizens
John A. Boykin
Newell
Citizens' Committee
Key
Beavers
Poole
Police Board
Atlanta council exonerates Beavers and Poole in police inquiry
City council, after reviewing the majority report, exonerated Chief of Police James L Beavers and Chief of Detectives A Lamar Poole. It recommended dismissals for detectives T D Shaw O R Jones R E Whatley and W L Payne for incompetency or corruption while adopting committee recommendations to improve the department. Poole and Beavers cleared of incompetency. Beavers also cleared of corruption.
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City Council
Councilmanie Banco
James L Beavers
A. Lamar Poole
Atlanta
Council
T. D Shaw
Banco
O R. Jones
R. E Whatley
W. L. Payne
Henavers
Poole
James L. Beavers
Floyd Wood
Washington Forecast Partly Cloudy With Showers Likely
Partly cloudy for Tuesday and Wednesday with scattered thundershowers possible. Little temperature change expected. Local Weather Report notes high near 60, low around 8, mean near normal with no rainfall in past 24 hours and deficits since the first of the month and since January 1.
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