Taxing North Carolina's 1927 legislature seeks funds
Raleigh dispatch surveys the 1927 general assembly as it faces funding state operations for the coming biennium. It notes rejection of ad valorem and sales taxes, the need to revise the revenue act, and a heated race for speaker between R A Fountain H G Connor and N A Townsend while highway financing remains unsettled.
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Burau
Sir Walter Hotel
Raleigh
General Assembly
State of
North Carolina
Appropriations
Democratic Party
Fivery
House of Representatives
R. A Fountain
Edgecombe
H. G. Connor
Wilson
N. A. Townsend
Harnett
Genral Assembly
McLean
Fire destroys half a Mount Airy business block
A fire in Mount Airy, North Carolina, destroyed half of a business block after an explosion of dynamite in a hardware store. Fire still raging at midnight. Mount Airy population about 5,000.
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Winston-Salem
Mount Airy
Unarmed Man Robs Store Then Is Apprehended in Chicago
Douglas Craig, described as a burglar and bond forfeiter, robbed the Fair department store of jewelry valued at 11000. He smashed a showcase with a brick, trigger fireworks left in his hotel room, and was chased by clerks and a mounted officer who tackled him on State Street. Five diamond bracelets a diamond pendant and pearls were recovered along with fireworks. Craig, from Pittsburgh, had a prior forgery conviction in Los Angeles and served time at San Quentin. Police suspect a career crime spree.
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Chicago
Douglas Craig
Fair
State Street
Craig
Pittsburgh
Los Angeles
San Quentin Penitentiary
Langley Granted Parole From Atlanta Prison
John W. Langley of Kentucky, a former House Republican leader, is granted parole after serving one year of a two year sentence for conspiring to violate prohibition law. He will likely be released Monday but retains no civil rights. a presidential pardon could restore them.
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Washington
John W. Langley
Kentucky
House of Representatives
Atlanta
Langley
Sargent
White House
Department of Justice
Public Buildings Committee
House
Congress
Department
Warren T. McCray
Indiana
Elizabeth Harrison sues Francis Burton Harrison for divorce
Paris, Dec 18 AP Elizabeth Wrentmore Harrison of Berkeley California sues Francis Burton Harrison former governor general of the Philippines and NY political figure for abandonment divorce. She cites seven year marriage and three children with custody granted while he has not appeared or defended. The case follows a prior divorce decree in favor of his second wife Mabel Judson Cox Harrison.
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Paris
Elizabeth Wrentmore Harrison
Berkeey
Calif
Francis Burton Harrison
Philippines
New York
Harrison
Chicago
Mabel Judson Cox Harrison
Christmas Aid Plea From Two Desperate Families
Two letters to the Christ mas Empty Stocking Fund describe a widow with two children and a sick wife with medical bills who cannot afford clothes or Christmas toys. The paper notes each case is investigated before aid and urges contributions to the Enterprise editor to fund the relief effort.
Six Men Perish When Coast Guard Schooner Burns Off The North Carolina Coast
A coast guard schooner burned off Cape Lookout leaving six dead after an explosion suspected. Lincoln a supply ship based at Cape May was destroyed. two survivors rescued. search ordered for bodies. Survivors Gordon J. Schultz and Howard Carter are identified, with mothers named.
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Coast Guard
North Carolina
Lincoln
Cape Lookout
Navy Department
Modoc
Cape May
N. J
Defender
Gordon J. Schultz
Howard Carter
Carter
Rose Weaver
Ann Arundel County
Maryland
Schultz
Mary Schultz
Poman Avenue
Chicago
Lincoln schooner off course after fire near New York
The schooner Lincoln, built in 1920 in Essex Massachusetts with home port Gloucester, sailed December 1 from St John New Brunswick for New York. Local mariner D Maffitt says it was badly off course during a reported fire possibly caused by a northwest gale. Net tonnage is 352.
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Orris
Washington
Lincoln
Cape Lookout
St. John
N. B
New York
D. Maffitt
Mariner
Essex
Mass
Gloucester
Southern Presbyterian budget set at 4.365 million
Chattanooga December 18 The Southern Presbyterian church stewardship committee announced the total Benevolences budget for the year beginning April 1 1927 amounts to 4 365 000 across church missions.
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Presbyterian Tudget
Chattanooga
Tenn
Southern Presbyterian Church Stewardship Committee
Southern Presbyterian Church
Coast guard schooner Lincoln destroyed by fire off North Carolina
The Lincoln with seven crew aboard under Boatswain A Erlingson was lost to fire off North Carolina. The vessel carried a Diesel engine and three small oil stoves and sailed from Cape May for Baltimore then Morehead City for metal transport. Crew included Olaf Levson Olaf Hansen Adolph Quiroga Gordon Schultz William H Alston Jr Howard J Carter William E Hunnicutt and Alison Was son of Coxswain William H Alston Sr.
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Cape May
N. Jd
Coast Guard
Lincoln
North Carolina
A. Erlingson
E. F. Addison
Baltimore
Morehead City
N. C
Erlingson
Olaf Levson
Olaf Hansen
Washington, D. C
Adolph Quiroga
Trenton
N. J
Absecon
Howard J. Carter
Pasadena
Maryland
Seaman
William E. Hunnicutt
Cleveland
Ohio
Wate
Alison
William H. Alston, Sr
Boy Murder Suspect Named After Dying Confession
Harold J. Croarkin 20, son of a flour dealer, was sought after a youth confessed to priests at St. Vincent's church that he attacked six year old Walter Schmith. The boy died of a fractured skull after being found in a hay loft at the Devon Riding Academy. Police searched the North side and the priests testified at the coroner's inquiry.
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Harold J. Croarkin
Walter Schmith
St. Vincent’s Church
L. J. Sweeney
Croarkin
Nicholas Vietor
Devon
Northside
Walter
Anthony Norwick
Mr. Sweeney
Rendezvous Mountain Becomes North Carolina State Park
The state acquires Rendezvous mountain in Wilkes county as North Carolina’s third state park. Judge and Mrs. T. B. Finley deed the 140 acre site to honor Revolutionary heroes, with a DAR monument to 225 Wilkes soldiers who joined Kings Mountain forces under Clevaland and Lenoir.
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Raleigh
Rendezvous Mountain
Wilkes County
N. C
Quaker Meadows
Kings Mountain
North Carolina
Wade H. Phillips
Department of Conservation and Development
Wilkesboro
T. B. Finley
North Wilkesboro
Daughters of the American Revolution
Burke County
Identification efforts fail in case of the Young Joe Wolcott strangler
Philadelphia police drop charges after a pawnshop clerk states that Young Joe Wolcott was not the man who pawned items stolen from one of the slain women's homes. The investigation into the three killings in the city last year continues unresolved.
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Philadelphia
Joe” Wolcott
Wolcott
Tog
Senate Leaders Refuse Illinois Senator Oath
Democratic leaders in the senate at a conference decided to resist any attempt by Frank L. Smith of Illinois to take the oath as a senator.
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Washington
Senate
Frank L. Smith
Illinois
Congressional acceptance sought for Muscle Shoals bid
Senator Heflin and Representatives Hill and Allgood announce pursuit of congressional acceptance for the American Dynamid company's Muscle Shoals bid. The Alabama trio says they work in harmony with other supporters in the House to secure approval before adjournment.
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Washington
Dec
Congress
Muscle
Heflin
Hill
Allgood
Alabama
Norfolk Woman Kills Husband After Quarrel Over Her Son
In Norfolk a quarrel over a 14 year old son ends with Timothy Patrick J. Power a Norfolk Ire department district chief shot dead by his wife Ethel G. Power who says she fired in self defense after abuse and a threat. She was arrested on murder charges. Power leaves a widow and three young children.
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Norfolk
Timothy Patrick J. Power
Ire
Ethel G. Power
Ita
Aad
Power
Norfals
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D. T. Yow
Edgedale Street
Susan Foust
Reid Street
F. E. Warriner
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Finleys
Manchester
Gastonia
John Maynard Keyes
Aston County
A. G. Myers
Myers and Dilling Mills
Armstrong and Rankin
Japan
England
Sam A. Robinson
McDowell
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Washington and Lee University
C. W. Henkle
Statesville
University of North Carolina
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