Telephone rate cuts to save North Carolina subscribers
The North Carolina Utilities Commission ordered Southern Bell to implement rate reductions from January 1, saving an estimated 321 897.72 yearly for about 78 000 subscribers across 58 exchanges. Company counsel prepared to seek court review while the commission cited favorable comparisons with other states.
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Southern Bell Company
Utilities Commission
Raleigh
North Carolina
Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company
Du Pont Airs Old Hickory Powder Plant Dispute
Pierre S. Du Pont told the Senate munitions committee that Newton D. Baker called the Du Pont Powder Company a species of outlaws for its demands in a 1917 power plant deal. He described negotiations for the Old Hickory Tennessee factory and Baker’s later contract cancellation.
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Nathan Robertson
Washington
Pierre S. du Pont
Senate Munitions Committee
Newton D. Baker
du Pont Powder Company
du Pont
Old Hickory
Tenn
Baker
Mother's Petition in Reynolds Smith Dispute Seeks Trust Review
In Winston-Salem Mrs Annie L Cannon of Concord asks Forsyth court to reject the proposed settlement of the Smith Reynolds trust and to appoint a master to hear testimony on the Reno divorce. She charges C A Cannon, Cabarrus Bank president, as an unfriendly guardian and notes a decade of armed neutrality between family branches.
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Winston-Salem
Annie L. Cannon
Concord
Anne Cannon Reynolds Smith
Anne Cannon Reynolds II
Forsyth Court
Smith Reynold Trust
Smith Reynolds
C. A. Cannon
Cabarrus Bank
Miss Holman
R. J. Reynolds
Christopher Smith Reynolds
Reynolds
Forsyth County
Ab Walker
Cannon
Baby recovered from brigands in China rescue
A report from Wuhu said three month old Helen Priscilla Stam, daughter of murdered American missionaries J. C. Stam and wife, was found alive. Rev. George Birch of Canada was believed to be escorting the infant to safety as government troops pursued the bandits who killed the Stams near Tsingteh.
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Shanghai
Tsingter
Helen Priscilla Stam
J. C. Stam
Wuhu
George Birch
Canada
China Island
Tsingteh
Stam
Paterson
N. J
China
EB. A. Koffield
Bend
Ore
China Inland Mission
Tunki
Washington
Peiping
Clarence Gauss
Legation
Nanking
Anhwe
Siam
Foreign Office
Census reports November cotton lint and linters totals
The Census Bureau reports November cotton production at 477,060 bales of lint and 51,8091 bales of linters, compared with October figures of 520,810 and 57,412 and November last year at 475,247 and 57,310.
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Washington
Census Bureau
Montrose Evacuations Ordered Amid Sierra Madre Flood Threat
Torrential rain in the Sierra Madre Mountains 15 miles north of Los Angeles prompts county flood control authorities to order more than 800 Montrose residents to evacuate immediately.
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Los Angeles
Sierra Madre Mountains
Montrose
Weiss Indicted In Tax Evasion Case In New Orleans
Seymour Weiss treasurer of Huey P. Long's political organization was indicted by a U.S. grand jury in New Orleans on charges of attempted evasion of income tax payments.
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New Orleans
Seymour Weiss
Huey P. Long
United States Grand Jury
Cotton control act retention vote reported in Georgia
Initial reports from Georgia on December 14 indicate support for renewing the cotton control act for another year. The Associated Press notes early figures reflecting local sentiment in favor of extending the program.
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Atlanta
Georgia
Selma Cotton Vote Violations Signal Favor Retention
Unofficial tally of Dallas county cotton farmers first 700 votes on the Bank head compulsory cotton production control bill shows 607 for retention and three for repeal. The report from Selma notes the small sample reflects early sentiment in the county.
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Selma
Ala
Dallas County
Byrd Seals First Contract for Smoky Mountain Parkway
Senator Byrd announced that Secretary Ickes approved the contract for the first eight miles of the Great Smoky Mountain parkway, marking a key step in the parkway project's early development.
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Washington
Byrd
D-Va
Ickes
Ireat Smoky Mountain Parkway
North Carolina Dairy Groups Form State Association
Asheville announces the consolidation of three dairy groups into the North Carolina Dairy Products Association, forming a 935 member board with directors including Dr. B. W. Kilgore Raleigh M. Scott North Wilkesboro Johnson Mooresville Grey E. Hughes Asheville A Corning Hamlet H. L. Ner Durham C H Willard High Point C B Martin Sham and G T Gustafson Neville.
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Asheville
Ree Dairy Products
North Carolina Products Association
Orth Carolina Ice Cream Manuuvers Association
North Via Milk Dealers Associat
North Carolina Tier Manufacturers Association
Tee
B. W. Kilgore
Raleigh
M. Scott
North Wilkesboro
Johnson
Mooresville
Grey E. Hughes
A. Corning
Hamlet
H. L. [Ner
Durham
H. Willard
High Point
C. B. Martin
Sham
G. T. Gustafson
Neville
Four shocks required to end life in North Carolina execution
Rufus Satterfield a 44 year old Wayne county farmer was electrocuted at the state prison. Four shocks delivered over six minutes and fifteen seconds produced the longest NC execution on record. He offered no statement and reportedly complained as the mask was fitted.
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Raleigh
Rufus Satterfield
Wayne County
Herbert Grice
Satterfield
State
North Carolina
H. H. Honeycutt
Jerry A. Terry
Guilford County
Warden Honeycutt
North Carolina Weather Fair Tonight Through Saturday
North Carolina forecast calls for fair conditions tonight and Saturday with rising temperatures on the south coast and in extreme northwest. Winds from Hatteras to Jacksonville shift from north to northeast, with fresh to strong northwest in Sandy Hook to Hatteras region and fresh north elsewhere. Official records note temperature and rainfall data for the prior 24 hours in Charlotte.
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North Carolina
Hatteras
Jacksonville
Sandy Hook
Charlotte
Official Weather Bureau
Farmers in Rolinas Cast Ballots on Bankhead Act Continuation
Farmers in Rolinas and nearby districts voted today on continuing the Bankhead cotton act under J Roy Jones as agriculture commissioner. In South Carolina leaders urged continuation with modifications while North Carolina expected a large vote. delegates were selected by county meetings called by Gov Blackwood.
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Easure
South Carolina
Columbia
Blackwood
North Carolina
Means of Death Studied by State
New Jersey prepares its theory of how the Lindbergh baby died and will answer defense questions. Dr Charles H Mitchell's autopsy found a fractured skull from external violence. Justice Trenchard ruled the state must respond within five days to specify the cause of death for Charlie Lindbergh Jr.
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Flemington
N. Sus
New Jersey
Lindbergh
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Charles H. Mitchell
Final Services For Mrs Reynolds To Be Held Saturday A M
Mrs. Robert R. Reynolds wife of North Carolina’s junior senator died here yesterday and will be buried at Riverside cemetery after a service at Reynolds Heights the home of Senator Reynolds’ mother. Eva Brady a former Follies beauty in New York died after months of illness. She retired from the stage and moved here in 1925. The couple wed February 27 1931 in Washington a few months before the Asheville attorney began his senate campaign.
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Asheville
Robert R. Reynolds
North Carolina
Riverside Cemetery
Reynolds Heights
Senator Reynolds
Reynolds
Eva Brady
New York
Washington
Ashville
Senate
Conference critique and weary wisdom from Hollywood
Hollywood observes another disarmament conference returning home with little consensus. The piece recalls London's 1930 delegation, notes Norman Davis as a contracted adviser, and mocks conferences for exposing national squabbles while hinting history shows wars rarely start without talks first.
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Hollywood
Calif
London
Roosevelt
Davie
Norman Davis
Rescue Told As Usworth Crew Survives Heavy Seas
Mackay radio reported that survivors of the British steamer Usworth were rescued today in mid Atlantic after a lifeboat from the Belgian steamer Jean Jadot capsized. Twelve crewmen were lost. two of the dead were Jean Jadot crew.
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New York
Mackay Radio
Ascania
Usworth
Jean Jadot
Useworth
Mackay
Black Gull
Jane Jabot
Cunard White Star
Machado evades German police as Cuba's ex-president flees
Gerardo Machado former Cuban president slipped away from Hamburg hotel with his entourage before German secret police arrived. He reportedly caught a train possibly bound for Switzerland. Havana says Cuba seeks his extradition on murder charges from his dictatorship. past escape to New York cited.
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Hamburg
Germany
Gerardo Machado
Cuba
New York
Poiice
Switzerland
Havana
Berlin
Machado
United States
Prison informer claims drugged escape from Karpis trio
Alfred Geonla, a former Kansas State penitentiary informer, was jailed in Joliet after claiming he escaped with Alvin Karpis and two others. He alleged Karpis fed him drugs then drove off. federal officials dismissed his tale as fantastic.
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Joliet
Mis
Alfred Geonla
Kansas State Penitentiary
Lansing
Alvin Karpis
Karpis
Edward G. Bremer
St. Paul
Geonla
Georgia Road
Plainfield
Jack Moxey
Kansas
Department of Justice
Kansas City
E. M. Stubblefield
Kansas Prison
Chicago
Elgin
Clyde Nemerick
Fred Reker
Karpie
D. M. Ladd
Department of Justice At
North Carolina Engineers Discuss Prison Maintenance Consolidation
Forty district engineers and prison camp superintendents met with district Engineer J. C. Gardner in Tarboro to discuss implementing consolidations of maintenance and prison departments across the state.
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Tarboro
J. C. Gardner
North Carolina
Grace Budd kidnapping murder solved by police
New York dispatch reports Albert H. Fish confessed after letters to the Budd family traced to him. Police found Grace Budd's body in three parts, skull buried near East Irvington, bones along a road, ending a six year mystery. Fish was captured in a Midtown post office substation awaiting remittance from a son.
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Henry Cassidy
New York
Grace Budd
Albert H. Fish
Fish
East
Irvington
America
Albert Budd
Edward
Grace
Budd
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