Hobart Steele Elected President of Layman's League
Hobart Steele of Burlington elected president at the second annual Laymen's League convention at St Marys Church Burlington site for 1937 meeting. Rt Rev Edwin A Penick bishop of North Carolina opened with service. Officers and executive committee named. talks by Kemp Yarr... and Thom Rice highlighted plans and projects from fifteen parishes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hobart Steele
Burlington
Ton
Edwin A. Penick
Peesan
Penick
Cv. Howards. Hartzell
St. Mary's
High Point
A. Parker
Greensboro
R. A. Jams
Kemp Borough
Louisburg
Fran P. Jenkins
Tarboro
H. C. Mall
Charlotte
Dr. Ed Blackman
Bish- Penick
Two Charlotte Women Recovering From Car Crash Injuries
Officials report Mrs. B K Slear and Mrs. B S Meinch Sr. of Charlotte are in satisfactory condition after injuries from an automobile accident near town yesterday.
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Charlotte
Bn K. Slear
S. Meinch, Sr
Pone
Jere the Ox Not For Sale in Madilla Georgia
Jere the ox is not for sale. A Ramsay explains the reasons: tractability, edibility, and publicity. He notes Jere can plow as well as a mule and may be fattened into beef if retired. A lady with 20 mules wanted a trade but he refused to have Jere pictured with them.
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Madilla
Jere
A. Ramsay
Ramsay
Commerce Dept Forecasts Sixty Billion Income for 1936
The commerce department is compiling estimates of national income since 1929 in response to a senate resolution for a study of the subject. The foreplay notes a sixty billion income projection for 1936 in trade and service activities.
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Commerce Department
Senate
Eugene Smith Takes Own Life In Wallburg Family Tragedy
Eugene F Smith killed himself at home in Wallburg after noon meal. His wife discovered him with a bullet wound to the forehead. He leaves parents Mr and Mrs Sanford Smith route 1 Winston-Salem and three sisters plus four brothers. Funeral set for 11 tomorrow at Wallburg cemetery.
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Sanford, Smith
Route 1
Winston-Salem
Fred Mack
Taft
Calif
Rosa Smith
Dessie Smith
Wallburg
Lee Smith
Palo Alto
Frank Smith
Ed Smith
Cletus Smith
Sears, Roebuck and Company
Charlotte
High Point
Mra M. Wrenn
Sight Restored By Operations
In Memphis three men over 70 regained sight after cataract surgeries. James L. Hughes 71 J C McMahon 80 both of Memphis and T J Hamm 74 of Ramer Tenn were pronounced cured and expect hospital discharge in about ten days. Hughes and Hamm recalled friendship from 40 years past and McMahon expressed plans to return to work as a farmer once discharged.
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Memphis
Tenn
James L. Hughes
J. C. McMahon
T. J. Hamm
Ramer
Hughes
Hamm
McMahon
Death of F. Vuncannon at 83 is noted in High Point
G F Vuncannon 83 died at the home of his daughter Mrs Denie Pickett 1711 Ogden Street yesterday morning after a period of declining health. Born June 2 1858 in Montgomery County he moved to High Point 12 years ago from Randolph County He leaves two daughters Mrs Denle Pickett and Mrs Ivey Hoover two sons Elwood and Arthur one brother Marshall Vuncannon and one half sister Amanda Fine along with 19 grandchildren and nine great grandchildren Funeral services are set for 1 30 PM at the daughter home and 3 PM at Charlotte Methodist Church near Asheboro with Rev C L Ruth in charge Interment will follow at Charlotte Church Cemetery.
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G. F. Vancannon
Denie Pickett
Ogden Street
Mr. Vuncannon
Montgomery County
John
Clementine Bledsoe Vancannon
High Point
Randolph County
Pilgrim Holiness Church
Denle Pickett
Ivey Hoover
Asheboro
Elwood Vuncannon
Near Farmer
Arthur Vuncannon
Jamestown
Marshall Vuncannon
Lakeland
Fla
Amanda Fine
Lexington
Charlotte Methodist Church
C. L. Ruth
Charlotte Church Cemetery
Four hotel murders haunt city as leads point to pattern
A notebook with racing data and a laundry ticket ties to the Trammell case. Officials note four hotel assaults in four months involve bludgeonings by a brick. Mrs. Lillian Guild and Mrs. Florence Castle were killed, with James Thompson and Audrey Vallette among other victims.
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John Fleming
Lillian Guild
Attleboro
Mass
Florence Thompson Castle
Devonshire Hotel
James Thompson
Thomas Starr
Townsend Hearing Delayed as Townsend Illness Quits Attendance
Justice Cacarow urged arrest of Townsend and Young in the deposition case. Attorney Hubbell received a telegram stating Townsend unable to appear due to illness and asked to seek a continuance. Townsend reportedly rests in a Chicago hotel with over exertion and fatigue.
Housing program to be continued in federal plan notes
A letter to General A. B. Wood, chair of the PWA Chicago housing board, urges continuation of a centralized housing program with a shift toward municipal and local enterprise implementation. It cites Techwood Homes in Atlanta as the first completed project, while Warner bill failure leaves the program with limited funds for remaining projects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. BE. Wood
PWA
Chicago General Advisory Board
Wood
Ickes
Kekes
Techwood Homes
Atlanta
Elevator accident decapitates boy in Jackson
In Jackson Mississippi an elevator counterweight decapitated 13 year old Fred Rhodes while he played on a building roof. Rhodes had opened a window into the shaft and the weight struck his neck as he looked in.
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Jackson
Miss
Fred Rhodes
Rhodes
Miner Refuses Million Dollar Offer For Nevada Gold Mine
San Francisco dispatch reports a gold mine near Jungo Nevada has been offering offers totaling ten million dollars including a bid from Herbert Hoover. George Austin keeper milled gold valued at five hundred dollars daily for a year and refused sale fearing wealth impact on his sons Kenneth and Wilfred.
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San Francisco
Jungo
Nev
Herbert Hoover
George Austin
Austin
J. C. Stagg
Fallon
Hoover
Chronicle
Kenneth
Wilfred
High Point Girl Wins Open at Mid-Atlantic Meet
Miss Margaret Reinhold of Tampa Florida won the senior women 500 yard dash in 32.5 seconds to open the Mid Atlantic swimming and diving meet in Charlotte. She beat Catherine Buist of Charleston and Mary Farrar of Chattanooga who tied for second. Chamblee of High Point placed fourth. Carolyn Perritt of Tarboro won the junior women 60 yard dash in 32.0 seconds, just misssing the meet record.
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Charlotte
Margaret Reinhold
Tampa
Fla
Reinhold
Catherine Buist
Charleston
8. C
Mary Farrar
Chattanooga
Tenn
Chamblee
High Point
Carolyn Perritt
Tarboro
Drunk Attendee Disrupts Judge’s Temperance Sunday Service
In Rocky Mount on August 17 a visibly intoxicated man disrupted Superior Court Judge M. W. Barnhill’s temperance class. He steadied himself at a light post, caused officers to intervene, asked for a hymn, wept, and left before the judge finished the lesson.
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Rocky Mount
Superior Court
M. W. Barnhill
Hearing Delayed on Tobacco Grading Injunction
Federal court in Columbia postponed the hearing on an injunction against government tobacco grading at three South Carolina markets. The challenge to the Tobacco Inspection Act was brought by operators at Lake City Darlington and Pamplico who argue grading falls outside interstate commerce. The restraining order against federal agents operating there was set for next Monday with no reason given for the delay.
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Columbia
D. C
South Carolina
J. Lyles Glenn
Lake City
Darlington
Pamplico
European Wheat Crop To Be Small
The Department of Agriculture reports Europe excluding Russia will harvest about 1.492 billion bushels, down from last year’s 1.574 billion. Danube basin nations should produce 359 million bushels, up from 301.69 million, improving export surplus to cover deficits while imports rise to build stocks.
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Washington
Europe
Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Russia
Danube Basin
Danube
Negro Is Jailed as Cards Fail Him in Lottery Claim
In Deland Florida on August 17 Fred Moore a Black man was jailed after a judge allowed a lottery prediction test. Moore could not match any of seven numbers from playing cards to the test lottery results and was sentenced for fraud based on the failed claim.
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Deland
Fia
Fred Moore
Justice of the Peace
Moore
Shepcards
Missing Plane Found After 24 Hour Search
SPRINGFIELD Missouri August 17 plane carrying Edward Nelson and Miss Ray Delaura of Manitowoc Wisconsin landed at the airport here after being unreported since leaving St Louis at 3 30 p m yesterday. They encountered bad weather after departing Bella Massachusetts at 5 p m yesterday and were forced to return there.
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Springfield
Edward Nelson
Ray Delaura
Manitowoc
Wis
St Louis
Bella
Nelson
John Walton Dies After Stroke at Burrus Clinic
John Walton a furniture worker of 900 East Russell Street suffered a stroke while visiting at 422 Tomlinson Avenue and died shortly after arrival at Burrus clinic. Ambulance from Koonce's responded to the Tomlinson address. Funeral details and survivors were not available at press time.
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John Walton
East
Russell Street
Burrus Clinic
Walton
Tomlinson Avenue
Koonce
War Department Rejects River Bridge Request
The War Department refused a petition by the state highway and public works commission to build an 80 foot draw bridge over the inland waterway at North River crossing Currituck and Camden counties. Navigation would be hindered and the span deemed too short. Capus M. Waynick, commission chair, stated they would attempt to overcome the objection.
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Raleigh
War Department
State Highway and Public Works Commission
Inland Waterway
North River
Currituck
Camden
Capus M. Waynick
Highway Commission
Birthday Observance for David Crockett in Greeneville
East Tennesseans gathered for the sesquicentennial birthday festival of Davy Crockett. A parade of pioneer vehicles moved past the cabin site near Greeneville, and a dinner featuring remarks by Governor Hill McAlister was scheduled.
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Greeneville
Tenn
Aus
Davy Crockett
Newspaper Still Closed By Strike
In Seattle on August 17 the Post Intelligencer remained shut as picket lines and police surrounded the Hearst paper amid the fifth day of a strike by the American Newspaper Guild. Officials said Sunday editions were not printed for the first time in nearly 40 years, with the paper not publishing since Thursday morning. The Seattle Guild chapter protested the discharge of two members.
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Seattle
Post- Intelligencer
American Newspaper Guild
Hearst
Guild
Forty other words avoided in strict format
Thirty nine persons were placed in jobs last week by the North Carolina State Employment Service according to manager Irene W Price. Forty percent of placements were in private industry while four went to public works. Only fifteen new registrations were received.
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North Carolina State Employment Service
Irene W. Price
Tobacco Workers Demand Higher Pay Parade in Westfield
About 300 tobacco field workers aged 14 to 18 quit work in Westfield after demanding a $2 minimum wage. Spokesmen said current pay ranged from $1.50 to $1.76 and that the boys, employed by American Sumatra Tobacco, Hathaway Steen and Shephard's plantations in Suffield, Conn., paraded with improvised banners.
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Westfield
Mass
American-Sumatra Tobacco Company
Hathaway & Steen
Shephard
Suffield
Conn
Miami Building Shows Increase
Tallahassee Florida August 17 pi Miami builders took out permits last month for construction of 84 hotels and apartment houses at a cost of about 1 800 000 dollars J B Sullivan state hotel commissioner interpreted the heavy building as an effort to avoid a housing shortage such as existed in the resort city during the height of its season last winter
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Tallahassee
Fla
Pi—Miami
J. B. Sullivan
Abbreviation Not Sufficient Here in City Hall
City officers and reporters adjust to abbreviations as H M Davis aged 88 of 112 Center Street Lexington is charged with driving a Model T Ford all over West End. The officer records it as Operating car under the influence of whisky.
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H. M. Davis
Center Street
Lexington
West End
Spanish Civil War turmoil reported in Madrid and abroad
Rebels said they allowed government troops to land and walk into a trap that reportedly wounded 500 and imprisoned 250. Government claimed capture of rebels in Gijon jail and defeats in Alberobajo Taller and San Daniel. Madrid seized millions in church assets as unrest grew. Executions occurred after uprisings at Montana barracks.
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London
Palma
Mediterranean
Gijon
Huesca
Alberobajo
Taller
San Daniel
Madrid
Russia
Fanjul
Col
Fernandez de la Quintana
Montana
Franco
Spanish Morocco
Montevideo
Uruguay
Americas
Paris
Biriatou
Great Britain
France
Hatchet Killer Sought After Two Fatal Bludgeonings
Pueblo police hunted a hatchet killer described as a sex mad maniac after a second fatal attack within two weeks. Dorothy Drain 15 and Barbara 12 were beaten in a home break in while their father a WPA foreman worked, and police questioned five men. Earlier a similar entry killed Mrs. C H Crumpley 72 and injured her niece Lilly McMurtree 47 in an unlocked door incident on August 2.
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Pueblo
Colo
Arthur Grady
Dorothy Drain
Barbara
Dorothy
WPA
Grady
C. H
Sally) Crumpley
Lilly McMurtree
Death of Mrs Purdie Former Randolph County Missionary
Word reached here of the death of Mrs Guilelma Purdie formerly of Randolph County at the home of her son Joseph M Purdie in Annapolis Maryland on August 8 She was born April 18 1850 to John and Elizabeth Hoover and married Samuel A Purdie in 1869 The couple served 26 years as missionaries in Mexico Cuba and Central America She returned to Randolph County about 40 years ago and moved to Annapolis five years ago Surviving are her son Joseph M Purdie of Annapolis three sisters and a brother plus three grandchildren and several nieces and nephews
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Guilelma Purdie
Randolph County
Joseph M. Purdie
Annapolis
Purdie
John and
Elizabeth Hoover
Samuel A. Purdie
Mexico
Cuba
Central America
Joseph M
G. W. Hoover
Asheboro
Route Two
Ruth Lowe
Wilson Harnes
8. A. Coletrane
Eli Hussey
High Point
Nineteen Girls Narrowly Escape Drowning on Lake Champatin
In Burlington Virginia nineteen girls aged 14 to 18 narrowly escaped drowning when wind capsized air canoes on Lake Champatin. The summer students from Ecole Champlain at West Ferrisburg clung to overturned canoes until rescued.
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Burlington
Lake Champatin
Ecole Champlain
West Ferrisbure
Spartanburg Man Sentenced In Concealed Weapon Case
Lindsay Henderson of Spartanburg pled nolo contendere to concealed weapon charges after admitting car possession in Richmond. He and Sam Langford were each sentenced to 12 months on county roads with cases for other defendants, including drunkenness and assault, disposed of or suspended with fines and costs.
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Lindsay Henderson
Spartanburg
D. C
Richmond
Sam Langford
Thomasville
Langford
Henderson
Gboro
M. O. James
Charlie Jones
James Millis
R. L. Tysinger
R George Johnson
Will Norris
Taft New
Costa
Etta Moore
Carrie Moore
Monarch Club Musical Program At Elwood Meeting
Bernard Fowler and His Rhythm Masters performed at a noon Monarch club meeting in Elwood. Participants included Vernon Kimrey Jack Robinson and Clarence Leonard with Elmer Hedrick welcomed as a new member. R A Wilson won the attendance prize.
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Bernard Fowler
Monarch Club
Elwood Hotel
Vernon Kimrey
Jack Robinson
Clarence Leonard
Elmer Hedrick
R. A. Wilson
Special Service At Gospel Tabernacle
The High Point Evangelistic club will hold a special service tonight at 7 30 at the Gospel Tabernacle. A special program has been arranged and friends are invited. The club organized two months ago on an inter denominational basis and includes 40 Christian businessmen. H B Smith is president and P F Sink is secretary.
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High Point
Gospel Tabernacle
H. 8. Smith
Dancer crowd shot. one dead in Welch
A fusillade from an automobile sprayed a Yukon dance hall crowd leaving by wells. One Negro, Richard Graham age 22, died from abdominal wounds while eighteen others were wounded, four in critical condition. State troopers recover shells to trace the killer.
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Richard Graham
Chicago Produce Prices For Butter And Eggs In Mid August
Chicago market report lists butter prices around 8 335 a week with various grades and ranges. Creamery specials hover around 45 percent while ex tras reach 84 percent and extra firsts near 33 to 34 percent. extras about 52 to 58 percent. Eggs show 9 582 steady with extra firsts near 43 percent and graded firsts around 28 to 23 percent.
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Chicago
Picture of Local Arcanum Ceremony Shown in Royal Arcanum Issue
Magazine carries a photo from the matalla proceedings and notes on the Baby Council In N Carolina. The Royal Arcanum issue covers the High Point Royal Arcanum Council No. 2220 installation of E F Mendenhoell Jr as regent and lists charter members.
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Carolina
Royal Arcanum Ba
High Point
Royal Arcanum Council
EF. &. Mendenhoell, Jr
Stock Market Shows Rough Day Amid Nervousness
New York trading was unsettled as nervousness over the Spanish Civil War and possible further readjustment weighed on prices. The market was quiet by midday with selected specialties posting gains while grains rose in Chicago and foreign currencies remained steady.
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New York
Althoug
Barrie
Grains
Chicago
Death of Henry Thomas of Charlotte Secret Service head
Henry Thomas, head of Secret Service operations in the Carolinas, died at 9 30 this morning at a local hospital as details from Sanford Aug date are released. He was associated with Charlotte operations and served in the Carolinas region.
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Sanford
Aug
Henry&. Thomas
Charlotte
Secret Service
Carolinas
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