Formal Request to Use Muscle Shoals Power to Aid South
Raleigh February 11 Joint resolution seeks Congress to allocate surplus Muscle Shoals power for southern industry. MacLean introduced in the House and passed. now moves to Congress after House ratification. Also Johnson tail light bill passes Senate. Klutz working hours bill faces vote. Sutton game bill advances. local measures in House include Sunday sales ban in Rockingham county and town boundary extensions.
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Raleigh
Congress
Muscle Shoals
Senate
House
McLean
Beaufort
MacLean
Johnson
Duplin
Klutz
Norwood
Halifax
Oscar Haywood
Everett
Sutton
Morrison Training School
Rockingham County
Fountain
West Hickory
Wilkes County
North Carolina Senate Passes Key Projects As Bill Moves On
Raleigh reports three major measures progress with the Smoky Mountains National Park and Cape Fear bridge bonds under review. The Bible League anti evolution bill gains a committee vote next Tuesday as highway bonds for Wilmington move toward funding and construction. Senate also favors liquidating state banks through the corporation commission to speed up processes.
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Raleigh
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Cape Fear River
Wilmington
Senate Appropriations
House
House Education Committee
North Carolina Bible League
State Highway Commission
New Hanover
Highway Commission
New Hanover County
Washington
Simmons
Overman
John B. Hill
Beaufort
Hill
Mclean
War Department
Senate Education and Counties, Cities and Towns Committee
House Judiciary Committee
Joint Finance and Appropriations Committee
Senate Banking and Currency Committee
Corporation Commission
Senate
Royal
Wayne County
President Coolidge Sees Naval Arms Limitation Divide
Boston Feb 11 AP In Geneva talks President Coolidge flags the core split in armament limits as subcommission A outputs diverging views. Five methods proposed for restricting navies, with disagreement between big and small powers over tonnage personnel and class based limits. The president favors extending Washington ratios to additional classes of vessels.
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Boston
Geneva
Coolidge
Denys P. Myers
World Peace Foundation
France
Great Britain
Italy
Japan
Poland
Rumania
Jugo-Slavia
Spain
Belgium
Czecho-Slovakia
Finland
Germany
Netherlands
Sweden
United States
Argentina
British Empire
Chile
Washington
1927 State Legislation Appropriations Totals Uncertain
The article notes the 1927 state legislature budget total is unknown until the appropriations committee reports, assemblymen review each item, and a vote follows. It cites 1925 appropriations of $12,983,678 and revenue shortfall of $11,494.03, with 1927 28 requests for $16 million plus and budget commission estimates of $14,686,105 and $15,124,059 for 1928 29.
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Raleigh
Appropriations Committee
Assemblymen
Budget Commission Eent
Meekins Orders Immediate Imprisonment In Edgewater Case
Judge Meekins revoked yesterday's stay and ordered DeWitt Turner Clifford Kinder and Cecil Kinder to be jailed at once. Kinder and Turner receive 18 months to Atlanta, Clifford Kinder six months in county jail, with Turner reduced to one year and a day. The defendants face Tombs confinement pending transfer.
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New York
Fed
Meekins
Ekerrum
Atlanta
Meyor
Edgewater
N. J
DeWitt Turner
Clifford
Cecil Kinder
Turner
Kinders
Clifford Kinder
United States
Stichman
Washington
Descendants of Hopkins heirs plan California suit
Salisbury reports families in Rowan Cabarrus and Stanly counties claim 350 million dollar Hopkins estate left by Mark Hopkins. They say 75 percent of the fortune could go to the three counties if their suit succeeds in California courts on February 15.
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California
Cantonese Party May Split In Nationalist Ranks
Washington February 11 AP Indications of a split within the Cantonese nationalist movement show conservative and radical wings drifting apart. Observers note potential conservative control and a possible Chiang Kai Shek alignment with Northern Tuchuns, contingent on front-line fighting and trust between regional leaders as they eye Hankow.
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Washington
China
Chiang Kai-Shek
Chang Tso-Lin
Central China
Hankow
Peking-Hankow
Hwang-Ho
Yellow River
Ponzi to be Returned to Boston Next Week
Charles Ponzi, held in Harris County jail, is wanted in Massachusetts on charges of being a common and notorious thief and will be sent back to Boston next week according to present indications.
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Houston
Tex
Charles Ponzi
Harris County
Massachusetts
Boston
W H Morgan Killed In Car Crash Near Tallahassee
W H Morgan of Jacksonville was killed and his wife and two children injured when their automobile overturned on the Jacksonville highway near Tallahassee early today.
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W. H. Morgan
Tallahassee
Fla
Jacksonville
King Gets Fee of Four Hundred Forty One Thousand for Plan
Government outlines ties between Thomas W. Miller and John T. King as part of a case charging Miller and Harry M. Daugherty with defrauding the United States over assets of the American Metal company. Witness Richard Merton said a 441 000 dollar fee was paid to King on October 1, 1921, linked to transfers amid hotel suites and champagne dinners at the Ritz Carlton and McAlpin.
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New York
American Metal Company
Thomas W. Miller
John T. King
Connecticut
Miller
Harry M. Daugherty
United States
Richard Merton
King
Edith Walker
McAlpin
T. Coleman Dupont
Daugherty
Jess W. Smith
Arthur Harnett
Ritz- Carlton
Merton
Missing $51,000 on Pan American mail liner Columbia
The Pan American mail liner Columbia, bound for San Francisco from Champerico, Guatemala, carried $51,000 shipped from La Libertad Salvador to Bank of Italy San Francisco. Customs searched baggage of 100 passengers and crew but found no trace of the money after the ship left Guatamalese coast February 2. Captain Robert H. Judson reported no near shore stop since Champerico.
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San Ferdo
Calif
Columbia
San Francisco
la Libertad
Salvador
Bank of Italy
Lower California
Champerico
Guatamela
Robert EH. Judson
Twenty-Two Clubs to Take Up Home Demonstration Work
Twenty two women’s clubs have elected officers and committees and will pursue home demonstration work this year in Newton. Anna C Rowe reports clothing work by ten clubs kitchen improvement by seven and nutrition by fire. food selection and preparation to begin county wide in July. Attendance reached one hundred percent in both women’s and girl’s clubs last month.
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Newton
Anna C. Rowe
Miss Rowe
Halifax Industrial Art Contests Engage County Youths
In Halifax Roanoke Rapids on February 11, AP reports Hazel Ervin, home agent, that 21 rural schools host industrial arts contests for club boys and girls. Each month features a different project with prizes awarded. this month girls craft hot dish holders and boys build rat traps.
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Roanoke Rapids
Halifax County
Hazel Ervin
Rail executive Edward Chambers dies after four story plunge
Edward Chambers of Chicago, vice president of the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, leaped four stories from a hospital window in San Francisco and died instantly. He had been hospitalized for a minor operation and reportedly showed normal progress before an apparent mental lapse. Chambers, 68, had served 49 years with the railroad.
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San Francisco
Edward Chambers
Chicago
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
Chambers
United States
Hospital adds maternity annex at High Point
A contract awarded by Dr. J. T. Burrus to E. T. Hedrick and Son for a red brick addition to High Point hospital to house a modern maternity department and nursery. The project, about 75 new beds, will be fire proof and equip a state of the art maternity unit, aiming for rapid completion.
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High Point Hospital
J. T. Burrus
E. T. Hedrick and Son
Burrus
Dr. Burrus
High Point
British Move Closer to Ghinese Concession Agreement
London reports resumed talks between Charge d Affaires O Malley and the Cantonese foreign minister in Hankow yielded an agreement on the British concession. No accord on troops en route to Shanghai. Shanghai situation unchanged though rising likelihood of Changchow becoming untenable for northern forces. Troop dispatch to Shanghai explained. Citizens urged to remain in Shanghai.
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London
O’malley
Hankow
Austen Chamberlain
House of Commons
Shanghai
Changchow
Wizard Edison on immortality on his eightieth birthday
Thomas A. Edison, at eighty, says a supreme intelligence pervades the universe and that while immortality is plausible, he has not changed his views. He envisions billions of cellular entities leaving the body after death to continue in space and cycle again. He and Henry Ford arrived at the Edison plant and lab for the day’s events.
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West Orange
N. J
Thomas A. Edison
Menlo Park
Wizard
Henry Ford
Edison
Ford
Coolidge Naval Limitation Plan Receptive Abroad
Washington Feb 11 The white house proposal for further naval armament limits drew a receptive response from maritime powers. Early dispatches indicate the Geneva conference next month will likely discuss the plan though specific limits should be decided by the talks.
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Washington
Coolidge
Geneva
Coolidge proposes naval aviation restrictions in disarmament talks
Washington notes public and official praise abroad for President Coolidge’s proposal to restrain fighter craft as a supplement to the 1921 Washington accord. British, Italian, French, and Japanese reactions vary while Geneva presses toward renewed disarmament talks next month. International coverage in Rome and London praises the overture, yet skepticism remains about acceptance and scope.
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Coolidge
Washington Capital
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Great Britain
France
Italy
Japan
Geneva
League of Nations
Frances
Westminster Gazette
The
Daily Sketch
Rome
Dispatches
Europe
Tokyo
Scripps-Howard Wins New York Evening Telegram
The New York Evening Telegram becomes part of Scripps-Howard holdings as William T. Dewart confirms he will focus on the New York Sun. Roy W. Howard states no radical changes to editorial content and the current staff will transfer in full.
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New York
New York Evening Telegram
Scripps-Howard
William T. Dewart
New York Evening Sun
New York Telegram Company
Telegram
Sun
The
Roy W. Howard
Scripps- Howard Organization
Night class organized for home demonstration work in Laurinburg
A night class in home demonstration work was organized at East Laurinburg in Scotland County. It operates as a regular enrolled club with weekly meetings at Right, accommodating mill workers. Nutrition and clothing programs are planned with co operation from ministers and teachers.
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Laurinburg
East Laurinburg
Scotland County
Katherine Millsaps
Migs Billsaps
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