Mutiny Aboard Four Mast Schooner Off North Carolina Coast
Coast guardsmen from Oak Island near Cape Fear river try to board the four mast schooner Charles A Dean bound from Savannah to Baltimore after it ran ashore on Frying Pan Shoals. The captain reportedly held a gun and the crew demanded he yield command as the ship lay hard and fast on the shoals. Temperatures plunged across the south with much colder weather forecast and rain in several areas.
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Wilmington
Oak Island
Cape Fear River
Charles A. Dean
Savannah
Baltimore
Frying Pan Shoals
Economy to be big question in legislature
Enterprise Bureau notes Raleigh will resist cutbacks but statewide taxpayers demand value for money. The legislature likely to back existing cost-saving measures and maintain tight controls via the budget bureau, especially on purchases and expenditures of state institutions and departments, despite limits on a central purchasing department.
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Raleigh
Washington
Townsend Statement Signals Mixed Stand in Speakership Race
The Townsend statement outlines support for the administration’s fiscal program while keeping an open mind on other measures. He confirms general harmony with fundamental administration policies but denies seeking votes solely on that basis and suggests possible differences in non-fiscal areas. The remarks fuel discussion among Townsend Fountain and Connor contenders over alignment and independence.
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Raleigh
N. A. Townsend
Townsend
R. T. Fountain
H. G. Connor
Tug fleet speeds to aid four mast schooner ashore
Four tugs from Wilmington and Southport race to assist the unidentified four masted schooner named the Charles A. Bean, ashore at Frying Pan Shoals three miles from the Cape Fear river bar. Coast guard reports mutiny on board and the master refuses boarding. vessel carrying creosote cross ties from Savannah to Baltimore was driven ashore during the prior night. Captain L. D. Potter leads the tug operation, expecting to reach by noon.
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Wilmington
Southport
Frying Pan Shoals
Cape Fear River
L. D. Potter
Potter
Coast Guard
H. V. Stone
Stone
Charles A. Bean
Baltimore
Savannah
Schooney
Phillips Seeks Second Class Status for State Publication
Wade H. Phillips of the North Carolina Department of Conservation and Development goes to Washington to testify before a House postal committee on securing second class mailing status for the department’s Natural Resources publication. If approved, the change could save the state substantial postage.
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Raleigh
Wade H. Phillips
Department of Conservation and Development
Washington
Post Office Committee
House of Representatives
Natural Resources
Charles L. Abernethy
North Carolina
Phillips
Department of Conservatine and Development
Weather warning as cold snap hits Charlotte
Charlotte reports a sharp temperature drop following mild 62 degree early morning. Meteorologist Schworm warns residents to bundle up, conserve coal, and prepare autos as heavy rain totals of 1.31 inches in 24 hours are noted.
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Kentucky
Tennessee
Alabama
Georgia
Virginia
Florida
Jack Frost
Nashville
Tenn
Chattanooga
Mercury
Birmingham
Ala
Memphis
Richmond
Seaboard
Norfolk
Asheville
N. C
Charlotte
Greensboro
Schworm
Charlotte Weather Bureau
Final Defense Begins in Fall-Doheny Oil Conspiracy Trial
The defense opened a six hour reply window to argue there was no guilt in Edward L Doheny loaning $100000 to Albert B Fall while Fall was in the cabinet and before Doheny won Elk Hills lease. Prosecutor Roberts urged the jury to view the loan as part of a government fraud scheme.
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Washington
Edward L. Doheny
Albert B. Fall
Fall
Doheny
Elk Hills Reserve
Owen J. Roberts
Roberts
Senate
Joseph J. Cotter
Pan-American
Roosevelt Kin Clash Over Wilson Vision at Town Hall
A public clash erupted when Mrs Corinne Roosevelt Robinson challenged George Creel after his talk on Woodrow Wilson’s ideals. Creel defended Wilson’s wartime timing and Congress as war power, while Robinson pressed why war was not entered sooner. The event, tied to a six reel Wilson career film, was hosted by the League for Political Education.
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New York
Theodore Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
War Time Committee On Public Information
Wilson
Corinee Roosevelt Robinson
George Creel
Town Hall
Creel
Lincoln
Mr. Creel
Atlantic Seaboard
America
Mrs. Robinson
Mr. . Creel
Congress
Major Paul Trogdon Dies Suddenl y in Greensboro
Major Paul Trogdon 31, popular world war veteran and commander of the second battalion 252nd coast artillery NC National Guard, died unexpectedly at home. Survived by widow Margaret Thornton and parents S. L. Trogdon. burial expected at Greenhill Cemetery. his brothers and sisters also surviving.
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Greensboro
Paul Trogdon
252Nd Coast Artillery
North Carolina National Guard
Trogdon
Greenhill
Margaret Thornton
Newbvern
8S. L. Trogdon
Melbourne
Fla
Amarillo Lawyer Defends His Wife in Bank Robbery Case
Otis Rogers, a young Amarillo attorney, is to appear in district court at Austin to defend his wife Rebecca Bradley, charged with robbing Farmers National Bank at Buda. The couple married after meeting at the University of Texas. Rebecca allegedly drove to Buda and, with a pistol, forced two bank employees into a vault, escaping with about $1,000.
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Austin
Tex
Otis Rogers
Amarillo
Rebecca Bradley
University of Texas
Farmers National Bank
Buda
Georgetown
Texas
Law College
Rogers
Rebecca
Dan Moody
Otis
Briand Displeased Parisian Crowd Over Geneva Accord
Paris crowds greet French Foreign Minister Briand with shouts as he returns from Geneva where leaders of France Germany Britain Italy and Japan agreed to replace the inter allied military control in Germany with a League of Nations directed commission. Royalist demonstrators clash with police near the Cave de Lyon, about 1 560 in number per royalist chief, 250 per government estimates. twenty arrested, three released after identification.
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Paris
Briand
Berlin
Geneva
France
Germany
Great Britain
Italy
Japan
Inter-Allied Military Control Commission
League of Nations
Cave de Lyon
November cotton usage and stocks rise, Census reports
Cotton consumed in November reached 585 950 bales of lint and 62 978 linters, up from October figures. On hand at month end, consuming establishments held 1 497 844 bales of lint and 117 915 linters, while public storage and compresses held 6 517 565 bales of lint and 52 913 linters. Imports in November totaled 41 441 bales and exports for the month were reported.
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Washington
Census Bureau
Warrant Issued for Kenneth Ormiston in McPherson Kidnap Case
Chicago police issued a warrant for Kenneth Ormiston a former radio operator sought in California in connection with the Aimee Semple McPherson kidnapping case. Chief Morgan A. Collins announced the action.
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Ormiston
Chicago
Morgan A. Collins
Kenneth Ormiston
California
Aimee Semple McPherson
Tennessee to outlaw machine guns and make use a capital crime
Nashville AP reports attorney E W Eggleton will sponsor a bill at the January session to outlaw machine guns and impose the death penalty for violations. Mrs Eggleston notes guns could be bought even if not yet used by criminals.
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Nashville
Tenn
Tennessee General Assembly
E. W. Eggleton
Seventeenth Judicial District
Eggleston
Auction leaf tobacco market rebounds in week before holidays
Winston-Salem reports a strong return as leaf tobacco sales near Christmas. On Monday 500,938 pounds sold for 113,121.27 dollars at an average of 22.58 per hundred. About 750,000 pounds are expected to be sold today with the overall average around 22.00.
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Winston-Salem
Mystery Maid Returns After 300 Years Absence
Virginia Dare statue of the Lost Colony tale returns to its birthplace in Raleigh North Carolina. Carved in 1860 by Louisa Lander in Rome it survived a wreck and a studio fire before being bequeathed to the North Carolina Hall of History this month. The marble represents The Maid of Mystery grown to womanhood and hints at Dare's fate among coastal Indians.
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Virginia Dare
Rome
Louisa Lander
R. R. Cotton
Roanoke Island
America
Spanish
New York
Christmas Pleas For Help From Needy In High Point
A High Point mother with four children faces destitution as Christmas nears. Deserted by her husband, she cannot work due to disability and must provide rent, food, and clothing with no income while caring for a baby. Community assistance is urged to ease their hardship.
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High Point
Fog Causes Multiple Wrecks and Delays Around New York
A dense fog blanketing the New York region caused two railroad wrecks in New Jersey, a collision of river craft, and detentions of 25 ships near quarantine. Nine people were injured in the railroad incidents near New Brunswick and Trenton. The Atlantic City Express collided with the Commercial Express, derailing tracks and injuring five aboard. Fifteen hundred ferry passengers faced boat collision anxiety near the Statue of Liberty as the Richmond ferried to Manhattan. Twenty-five vessels including the Berengaria and Deutschland were detained while pilots avoided dangerous fog.
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New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania Railroad
New Brunswick
Baltimore & Ohio Railway
Trenton
Howe's Lane
St. Louis
Atlantic City
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Hopewell Junction
Berengaria
Cunard Line
Richmond
Staten Island
Sagamore
Jersey
Senate Rules Outline Hot Debate Uproar Over Prohibition Bills
Senate hearings turn to a heated, multi bill program from the rules committee. Rivers and harbors is set for today along with Gooding railroad refund Capper truth in fabrics Swing Johnson Boulder Canyon dam and 60 year old French abolition claims. Prohibition measures to elevate the prohibition unit and customs service to treasury bureaus and move enforcement under civil service. Interior department work continues as agriculture supply bill takes the floor.
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Washington
House
Senate
Rules Committee
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Boulder Canyon
Bureau of Domestic and Foreign Commerce
Prohibition Unit
Customs Service
Treasury Department
Civil Service
Interior Department
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