Tomlinson Plans Night Shift to Meet Demand at Kentucky Plant
Tomlinson Chair Manufacturing announces 100 more workers will join the plant, creating a 55 hour week with an 11 hour night shift five nights weekly. Company aims to sustain a strong business as orders stack up, with 800 workers currently on site and a hopeful 1930 growth outlook. In Breathitt county Kentucky a fatal feud flare left Chester Fugate dead and six kin named for murder charges as authorities prepare prosecutions.
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Tomlinson
Tomlinson Chair Manufacturing Company
H. Tomlinson
Igat
G. C. Watkins
Commonwealth
Fugate
Breathitt County
S. L. Combs
Moses
Amos Fugate
Green Watkins
Chester Fugate
Sewell Fugate
Clay Watkins
County Board of Education
Wakins
Hew Kilburn
Curtiss Jett
James Harris
Kentucky
Jett
James B. Marcum
James Cockrell
Harris
Breathitt
Lowman Defends Coast Guard Act
Seymour Lowman assistant secretary of the treasury defended the coast guard action in the shooting of a rum runner on Lake Erie. He said the vessel did not stop when signalled and that liquor presence was irrelevant as officers pursued in darkness under tariff act authority. The case was turned over to the Buffalo U S district attorney with treasury cooperation to establish all facts.
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Washington
Coast Guard
Lake Erie
Eugene F. Downey, Jr
Buffalo
N. Y
Seymour Lowman
the Treasury
Lowman
Downey
Coast
Treasury
United States District Attorney
Senator Copeland
New York
Niagara River
Erie Beach
Buffalo Coast Guard
Regulated Cotton Industry Urged by NYU Professor
Professor Louis Bader of New York University urged government supervision of the cotton industry at the intercollegiate mid winter conference. He argued regulation is needed to curb child and women labor, fix prices to market, and create a dominant industry pace, noting frequent fashion changes and scattered leadership as faults.
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New York
Louis Bader
Department of Economics
New York University
League For Industrial Democracy
South
Bader
Mother and Two Children Die in Farrell Fire
A mother and two of her children died today in Farrell Pennsylvania from suffocation in a house fire. Their bodies were found in a bathroom where they had fled as flames gutted the home.
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Farrell, Pa
Ku Klux Threat Heard In Alabama
The Birmingham News published what it claimed as an official Klan proclamation denouncing the state democratic committee for barring anti Hoover supporters from the primary. It names Senator Tom Heflin and Judge Hugh Locke as targets and vows to continue fighting opponents. James Esdale, grand dragon, declined comment on authenticity.
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Birmingham
Ala
Birmingham News Today
Ku Klux Klan of
Alabama
State
Democratic Executive Committee
the News
Tom Heflin
Hugh Locke
Hoover
James Esdale
The
Klan
Cotton Co op body taking shape for new national firm
Washington December 27 Two hopeful signals emerged as federal farm board members and cotton growers discussed final draft charter and by laws for the 30 million dollar cotton cooperative. Carl Williams said growers are ready to join locally if allowed to invest in the national body and that major incorporation questions have been settled with no delay anticipated. The plan requires compliance with state laws in 14 cotton states so local cooperatives may buy stock after forming under one state's laws. Actual incorporation awaits approval by the national organization committee in Memphis.
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Washington
Federal Farm Board
Carl Williams
Oklahoma
National Corporation
National Organization Committee
Memphis
Tenn
Williams
Washington Accepts Schurman Resignation
Berlin dispatch reports Dr. Jacob Gould Schurman has had his resignation as American ambassador to Germany accepted by the state department. Schurman, who turned 75 last May, served since June 1925 after a prior post as American minister to China. He was president of Cornell University from 1892 to 1920.
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Berlin
Jacob Gould Schurman
Germany
State Department
Ambassador Schurman
China
Cornell University
Deaths of Mother and Infant in Snowbound Alabama Mountains
In Huntsville Alabama on December 27 a mountaineer recounted the February following travel by Minnie Marcum and her mother Mrs Frank Marcum and two daughters. The mother and infant died from exposure after four days in the woods. The two girls survived after seven days on the mountain aided by the mother’s clothing for protection. The bodies were found Christmas Day and buried yesterday.
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Huntsville
Ala
Minnie Marcum
Frank Marcum
Mountain Home
Marcum
Fear Death Near For New York Man Hurt At Lumberton
H. B. Burroughs head of a New York engineering firm was completely paralyzed after a Sunday automobile accident near Lumberton. His car skidded on an icy road and overturned three times. He was en route from Brooklyn to Miami and treated at Baker sanatorium, where doctors feared he would not survive.
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Lumberton
H. B. Burroughs
New York
Baker Sanatorium
Burroughs
Miami
Fla
Brooklyn
Pittman Death Thought Accidental Near Grifton
The body of 21 year old Robert Earl Pittman was found in the woods with a gunshot wound to the chest. Relatives say he left home to go hunting two days earlier and believe a hunting gun discharged accidentally.
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Kinston
Robert Earl Pittman
Grifton
Greene Dies at Home in Bakersville N C
Charles E B Greene assistant district attorney and former Republican congressional candidate in the ninth district died suddenly at his Bakersville home Friday morning about 8 15 o clock.
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C. BE. Greene
Bakersville
N. C
Charles EB. Greene
A. S
Ninth District
Mellon Resignation Demanded By Norris
Senator Norris of Nebraska and Senator Borah of Idaho call for Secretary Mellon to resign as a first step in cleaning up prohibition enforcement. Norris criticizes political influence in the service and says enforcement is not generally upheld, urging an administration free from politics.
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Washington
Mellon
Norris
Nebraska
Ciry
Borah
Idaho
Enforcement Service
Andrew W. Mellon
Judiciary Committee
Andrew Mellon
Jones
Law Enforcement Commission
Wickersham
The
Treasury
Canada
Pittenger
Minnesota
Treasury lists refunds for lost airmen and tax errors
The Treasury announced a $190,000,000 tax error and refunds up to $25,000,000 to corporations and individuals including John D. Rockefeller Mary Pickford and the Carnegie Steel Company. The largest refund went to the William Waldorf Astor Trust and Daniel Guggenheim. One North Carolina refund goes to Mrs. Elizabeth B Adams for $1,013.45. In Alaska, search for aviator Carl Ben Eielson and mechanic Earl Borland continues with aid from Russia, Canada, and the United States and a reward offered for information.
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Washington
United States Treasury
John D. Rockefeller
Carnegie Steel Company
Mary Pickford
Rockefeller
Miss Pickford
Carnegie Company
William Waldorf Astor
North Carolina
High Point
Elizabeth B. Adams
Secretary of the Treasury
Seventy-First Congress
Fairbanks
Alaska
Carl Ben Eielson
Earl Borland
Siberia
Moscow
North Cape
Eielson
Borland
Alaskan
Bering Strait
Joe Crosson
Harold Gileam
Arctic
Twelve Miners Escape Blast Near Beckley
Twelve miners escaped unharmed from the Stotesbury mine eight miles from Beckley eight miles from here two hours after a local explosion in one entry of the mine. Two engineers were unaccounted for but believed to be elsewhere in the mine. Rescue crews moved toward the blast area as the twelve workers reached the surface. Cause of the blast undetermined.
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Beckeley
W. Va
Stotesbury
China and Japan In Strained Relations
Tokyo reports that China refuses to accept Torkichi Obata as Japanese minister. Obata, a former ambassador to Turkey, was charge d affaires in Peking during the 1915 demands. Japan will not withdraw the nomination, viewing it as a crucial test of Sino Japanese relations.
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Tokyo
China
Torkichi Obata
Japan
Obata
Turkey
Nanking
Peking
Lawson Family Tragedy Leaves Eight Dead in One Grave
Browder burying ground near Germanton prepares for a mass funeral as Charles Lawson, a Stokes county farmer, killed his wife and seven children on Christmas Day before taking his own life. Only son Arthur, visiting relatives, survives. Authorities cite progressive brain degeneration as the likely cause after autopsy findings.
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Walnut Cove
Browder Burying Ground
Germanton
Charles D. Lawson
Stokes County
Lawson
Arthur Lawson
Marie
Carrie
Maribelle
James
Raymond
Mary Lou
Charles Lawson
Mexican President-Elect Visits Mount Vernon and Arlington
Pascual Ortiz Rubio toured George Washington’s Mount Vernon and Arlington Cemetery with Colonel H H Dodge and Ambassador Manuel C Telles. A 21 gun salute honored the Mexican leader and wreaths were placed on Washington’s tomb and the Unknown Soldier as ceremonies proceeded with military guards and an army band.
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Washington
George Washington
Pascual Ortiz Rubio
Mexico
United States
Mount Vernon
Arlington
Potomac
Senor Ortiz Rubio
H. H. Dodge
Manuel C.telles
H. O. Williams
Curtis
Senate
Senora Ortiz Rubio
Johnson
Tunney Wins Damage Suit Against Katherine Fogarty
James J. Gene Tunney former heavyweight champion of the world won the $500 000 breach of promise suit filed by Mrs Katherine King Fogarty in Bridgeport Superior Court The judgment was entered in his favor and a stipulation signed by both sides. An injunction against Mrs Fogarty was prepared but not signed by Judge Carl Foster Pending careful reading.
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Bridgeport
Conn
James J
Gene) Tunney
Katherine King Fogarty
Fort Worth
Texas
Cabinet Returns To White House For First Meeting In 25 Years
The cabinet met in the White House study where Lincoln signed the emancipation proclamation, using chairs from Lincoln era and the desk Lincoln used. It marked the first meeting in the main building in 25 years as offices burned on Christmas Eve. The president planned to move to the old Navy Building offices later in the day.
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White House
Washington
Lincoln
Adams
United States
House
Roosevelt
Eld
State, War and Navy
Executive Avenue
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Charles G. Dawes
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Mussolini
Italy
Bureau
C. J. Helsebeck
Mt. Vernon
Tunney
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