Williams accuses Reserve of favoring large banks
Former comptroller of the currency John Williams testifies before the congressional agricultural commission in Washington that Reserve banks charged 200 to 300 percent collateral and aided big banks while small cotton lenders faced ruinous rates. He cites a southern bank fined for high rediscount rates as evidence of injustices in progressive rate policies.
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Washington
Ohn
Williams
Congress Agricultural Commission
Federal Reserve System
Representative Mills
New York
Mr. Mills
Reserve Board
Southern Bank
Myr
Mills
Federal Reserve Board
Friendly boxing bout turns fatal in Bessemer City
In Bessemer City on August 3 an 18-year-old, John Holland of Bessemer City, died after a street side boxing match with Dawson Wall. The youths were in a friendly scuffle near a moving picture theater when Holland collapsed and died before medical help arrived.
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Gastonia
John Holland
Bessemer City
Dawson Wall
Moving Picture Theatre
Flolland
City Council Meeting Approves Garage Near Church
City council meets Tuesday evening to discuss routine matters. They repeal the garage proximity ordinance and grant C F P Morrison permission to build on Jordan Street near the new Sheraton hotel with closing hours 10 PM to 3 AM Sundays. Funds of 140 are allotted to firemen for the Gastonia convention and dust from Lassiter road machinery is ordered halted until nuisance is abated.
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Gastonia
C. F P. Morrison
Jordon Street
Sheraton
Lassiter Company
Carolina and Yadkin River
Legion Luddies Sail for France to Do Over landers Fields Again
NEW YORK Aug. 3 With the flag of the national commander of the American legion flying at her masthead and more than 250 members aboard the American steamship George Washington sailed today for Cherbourg and Bremen. The regionaries will disembark at the first port to visit the battle fields where they fought against the German forces for more than a year.
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New York
American Legion
George Washington
Cherbourg
Bremen
Guilford County Tobacco Outlook Sparks High Points
Special to The Enterprise. Wilmington Aug 8. Col Thomas Graham of Chadbourn Greensboro says the Greensboro High Point area offers the best tobacco crop in North or South Carolina though rains slow eastern harvests. He notes low prices stem from domestic buyers dominating sales, with Chadbourn tobacco selling for a penny a pound and buyers offering at most 26 cents per hundred. Still, Graham predicts Guilford county growers may set price records as domestic users push quality to compete for stronger demand.
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Wilmington
Greensboro
High Point
North
South Carolina
Col
Thomas
Graham
Chadbourn
South Atlantic
Winston-Salem
Wrightsville Beach
United States
Foralan
Interprise
Landis bars indicted players from baseball after acquittal
Chicago August 3 indited American League players acquitted of conspiring to throw the 1919 World Series face no immediate return to organized baseball. Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis stated that rules prohibit any participant in a game throwing, entertaining offers to throw, or failing to report schemes. Prosecutors disclosed immunity waivers and ongoing investigations into a wider gambling ring with eastern mob enforcers seeking $10,000.
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Chicago
Cincinati
Bsudge
Kenesaw M. Landis
Ne Laver
G Amblers
Bageball
Robert B. Crowe
Tam
Roane
Meotte, Jackson and
Williams Anc
Amblers
Trinkle and Tucker lead in Virginia primary returns
Richmond Virginia August 3 unofficial returns from yesterday's primary show state senator Te Lust Trinkle of Wytheville nominated for governor by a substantial margin over Henry St. George Tucker of Winchester. Junius EB West of Suffolk appears to have won the lieutenant governor nomination over Julian Juan of Neptune county in a close race.
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Richmond
Te, Lee ‘Rinkle
Withville
Ffarry St. George ‘Tucker
Vexinucton
Junius EB. West
Suffolk
Julian Juan
Nereco County
Ppeneme
Bond issue to be considered for Kinston schools
Kinston voters may decide on a bond election for 906000 to fund new school facilities. The proposal, backed by education officials, would be the largest bond in the region for a small city and is to support a school set to open September 6. The issue has lingered for about two years amid push from various groups. If approved, construction could ease the crowded conditions noted last year.
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Kinston
Labor Delegates to Attend North Carolina Federation Meet
Asheville Aug 3 The Asheville labor delegation to the fifteenth annual convention of the North Carolina State Federation of Labor will leave for High Point Sunday to be present at the open meeting next Monday morning. Representatives from each local organized craft will attend.
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LABOR
Asheville
Asheile
North Carena
Chamber leader urges nationwide protest on tariff and tax
Akron Ohio August 8 G L Knight popular congressman from Ohio urged chambers of commerce businessmen and corporations nationwide to protest the Fordney tariff bill as one of the worst pieces of legislation in a half century He also attacked the tax system and President Harding saying the welfare bill with a 200 million appropriation is mere playacting and discriminatory toward high earners.
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Akron
Chamber of Commerce
United Itates
G. L. Knight
Ohio
House Wayy and Means
Eric Knight
CIA
Harding
Congress
Fewer Pellagra Deaths Mark North Carolina 1917-70
Health statistics show a downward trend in Pellagra deaths in North Carolina from 1917 to 1970 with 297 deaths last year, and 605 in 1917. Dr. W S Rankin leaves Aug 3 for Washington to attend a conference on the Pellagra situation as state officials from 13 southern states participate.
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Raleigh
State Board of Earth
North Carolina
U. S
W. S. Rankin
Washington
Pnlike Health Service
South
Ben
Rankin
Red Cross
Commissioner of Revenue
Watts
Ublic
North ‘Carolina
Watts Gas
State Corporation Commission
Ater
M. L. Shinman
Ives
Charlatta
Mont
Wilmington
Winston-Salem
Jeansborg
Greensboro
Caro
Eralina
Mderoramba
Wenoir
Lenoir
Malara
Pumping Plan Aims to Empty Raleigh Quarry
August 3 Raleigh mechanical superintendent Charles J. Parmer of the slate highway compression reports the quarry pit bottom likely to be seen by next Wednesday as drainage work follows an underground tunnel drainage scheme. A new ditch is opened and gasoline pumps move about one half inch of water from the pond hourly.
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Raleigh
Old Rock
Werdnes Jay
Charles J. Parmer
Slate Highway Compression
Farmer
Naples and Italy Honor Caruso as Body Lies in State
Naples and Italy paid tribute to tenor Enrico Caruso who died in Naples. Thousands filled a Madonna Bella church where a quiet requiem honored the great star. The bier lay in the room of his death as crowds filed past, garlanded and lit by candles. Caruso, aware of his critical illness, warned friends he might not escape. He reportedly left about thirty million lire, roughly six million dollars.
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Naples
Italy
Ascoc Jated
Wnrico Caruso
Madonna Bella
Gracia
Hotel Vesuvius
Caruso
Carusa
Roanoke Island to Film State History Series
In September a film will recreate Roanoke Island history for North Carolina readers. A large cast from Manteo Elizabeth City and Dare County will portray early colonists and battles using actors guided by Captain Alo. Gis ment and Miss Grimball. Filming will cover Amudas and Barlowe caravels and John White scenes near the original site with staged villages and Raleigh’s colonization ventures. The project draws historians nationwide and aims to preserve the state’s first filmed history.
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Elizabeth City
Atle
Roanoke
North Carolina
Amudas and
Barlowe
John White
Tatph Jone
Raleigh
Caouniey
Ralph
Jone Wader
Alo. Giement
Goldshoro
Pic
Ayios Elizabeth 3
Gasimball
New York
Miss Grimball
Manteo
Roanoke Island
Identon
Mavet Evans
Dare County
Catherine Albertson
Aebeth City
Nature Rebuilds Stretch of Beach at Wrightsville
Wrightsville Beach, once battered by a January nor'easter, regains sand as favorable winds return. The coast shows more sand than in years, attracting visitors from across central North Carolina. The Wilmington area notes a rising tide of beach recovery and linked rail service boosts access to the seafront and Cape Fear activities.
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Wrightsville
Wilafington
Wrightsville Beach
Addieteen
Jamuery
Larmiva
Southern
Athintic Coast Line
North Carolina
Detrabius
Evangelist Ham Stirs Goldsboro to Great Fervor
In Goldsboro on August 3 Evangelist Ham drew over a thousand converts and sparked a clash of church and city government. Citizens seek to oust City Manager Ritch for indifference to the revival and for enforcing Sabbath-only rules on cigars and liquor. Tension grows between the manager and police chief Ed Tew, who ordered luxury sales banned Sundays, prompting petitions for Ritch’s dismissal as aldermen weigh action. The affair has energized local politics and religious activism, with Major John Langston elected president of a federation aimed at sustaining community interest.
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Goldsboro
Felvin Ham
North Carolina
Voldsboro
Wayne
Ritch
Chile
Tew
Shiet Tew
United States
Evangelist Hani
Evangelist Ham
Plang
Wayne County
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