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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1924
Page
12
In Fayetteville a heavy truck carrying 14 Fayette County High School students overturned on a downhill stretch near a bridge. C B Thornton 16 and Frank North 17 were severely injured with possible skull fractures and unconscious on rescue. Other occupants bruised but not seriously hurt.
Belfast November 19. Cardinal Logue primate of all Ireland died this morning at Ara Coeli Armagh. He celebrated mass this morning and visited the Blessed Sacrament the night before dying. Born October 1 1840 at Raphoe he was created cardinal in 1893. His successor as archbishop of Armagh will be his coadjutor Archbishop Patrick O Donnell.
Mrs. Cecil Ware of New Orleans obtained a warrant for Clark G. Kaney, a former banker at Three Lakes Wisconsin, charging him with stealing a diamond ring. She claims she lost about 80 000 dollars due to their association after meeting in 1928 at New Orleans races and travelling to Houston Birmingham and Three Lakes. She says she invested 52 000 with him and advanced 20 000 by a New York draft.
Beginning this morning Georgia opens the season for quail wild turkeys plovers akunk maxkrat raccoon beaver otter bear and wildcat. Hunters may kill 25 quail per day two wild turkeys per season and up to 50 migratory ducks or 25 doves per day with 25 as the limit on all other game. State game and fish warden Peter S. Twitty urged lawful hunting and good sportsmanship to preserve wildlife for future generations.
Brent Glasscock, leader of the train bandit crew behind the Rondout mail train robbery, testifies in the William Fahy case. He describes planning, passing information on to Murray, and burying loot totaling about 1 million dollars apart from additional money. He cites bonds delivered to Tulsa authorities and identifies Floyd Murray and Willis Newton as field leaders, while Fahy is named as an alleged conspirator.
National Commander James A. Drain announced in Kansas City that the Legion has drafted a universal draft bill to empower the government to seize key industries for war. The plan would let the government set prices for munitions and related goods to remove profits from wartime production. Drain was en route to El Paso, Texas, to address AFL delegates after greeting local Legion officials.
Miss Julin C. Lathrop, head of the Illinois League of Women Voters and the national league, urged federal safeguards for child education at a National WCTU gathering in Chicago. She warned Congress will pass laws if pressed and urged defining children rights. Police noted enforcement gaps after the eighteenth amendment, citing moonshine dens and breweries as evidence of law evasion.
Marion O. reports Mrs Warren G Harding critically ill for two weeks and worsening. Bulletin from Dr Carl W Sawyer says she is worse and dull, with signs of coma forming at White Oaks sanitarium where she resides. details issued in an afternoon update.
In Richmond on November 19 a motor truck driven by B A Waldrop struck a line of John Marshall High School cadets during drill. Two boys, John Wood and Lewis Berry, suffered serious injuries with Wood possibly fatal. Ten others were hurt. some were taken to Sheltering Arms and Memorial hospitals. Waldrop was arrested for careless and reckless driving while under the influence.
Eight suspects remain jailed in Stewart death inquiry after Mrs. Robert Stewart was shot while intervening to stop the attempted abduction of Rev. Robert Stewart. Governor Walker offers $200 rewards for unidentified slayers as prosecutors prepare for a preliminary hearing in the Tallapoosa circuit.
Agnes Scott college hosts daily short addresses led by Dr Gray Lilly of the Southern Presbyterian church. Meetings run 9 AM and 7 PM through Sunday with public invitations extended. Sunday morning services move to Decatur Presbyterian church. The Wembley exposition at Tandon ended with a large deficit and fewer women entered medicine in England this year.
The Continental Baking Company in Baltimore is being investigated by the federal trade commission over a proposed merger with major bakers. Included in the potential marriage are United Bakers, Ward Baking, General Baking, Fleischman Co of New York, American Baker Co of St Louis, and Toose Wiles Biscuit Co of St Louis.
A damaged OCR fragment appears to reference an act devel or promise about reins being violated. Readable text is minimal, offering insufficient context for a full event or involved parties.Further details unknown without complete source.
B. F. McKellar Sr., president of the People's bank, convicted in county court of violating state banking law, shot himself in his backyard in Greenwood South Carolina. He was to be sentenced with O D Duckett cashier, who also faced charges for excessive loans to Pennie's Trust company under the same state law.
Athens November 19 The Georgia Association of Graduate Nurses capped its seventeenth annual convention with a banquet. Speakers included Dr Bernard W Carey director of the Athens Child Health demonstration and Miss Marie Phelan from the Children's Bureau in Washington. The Public Health Nurses of Georgia begin a three day convention tomorrow. A self club with changeable heads for universal shaft use was announced. Dixie Coaches announce routes to Rome Cartersville and Athens starting at 5 AM from Peachtree.
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