Russia Seen as Great Market for U S Trade
Under Secretary Davis, in Washington on February 18, said the Wilson administration's Russia policy will pay off once a responsible government is in place and will unlock vast U S Russian trade. He cited that two thirds of Russians did not recognize the Bolsheviks and only 600,000 professed communists, with Russia and Siberia as tremendous potential markets if a short sighted policy is avoided.
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Washington
Wilson
Russia
America
Davis
Siberia
United States
Mr. Davis
Japanese Sentry Act Viewed Justifiable in Diet
In Tokyo a resolution by an opposition member urged that the sentry who killed Naval Lieutenant Langdon of the Albany be not punished. The measure argued the act was justifiable to preserve army discipline. A Yokohama regiment opposed punishment, while junior officers planned a Manchurian move to sway opinion.
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Tokio
Associated Press
Langdon
Craser Albany
Vishivyostok
Yokohama
Manchuria
Market Nervous On Early Trading In Cotton
The cotton market opened nervous and irregular in New York with Liverpool futures barely up as news of a Boston trust company failure weighed on sentiment. Early trading showed Wall Street and southern selling with declines of two to 16 points across the board. Futures opened steady with March at 12.26, May at 18.70, July 14.18, October 14.55, and December 14.81.
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New York
Liverpool
Boston Trust
Wall Street
Marth
Mey
The Ascension exhibition opens in High Point chamber
Under the Wo mans club of High Point the masterpiece The Ascension will be shown in the chamber of commerce room tonight through Sunday from 7 to 9 30. Brought from Greensboro where it was shown a week the work valued at 50000 is sent by a Washington physician raising funds to erect a hospital for orphans. No admission but a liberal offering will be taken.
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Woman's Club of
High Point
Chamber of Commerce
Greensboro
Washington
Women Jurors Acquit Judge in Murder Case
Judge W H McGannon was acquitted of second degree murder in the death of Harold C Kagy by a jury composed of three women and nine men in Cleveland.
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Cleveland
W H. McGannon
Harold C. Kagy
Gravvy Cravath Offers Joe Jackson A Bee Ball Club Job
In Salt Lake City on February 18 Gravvy Cravath names Joe Jackson for a position with his Bee baseball club, clarifying no relation to Shoeless Joe.
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Joe Jackson
Salt Lake City
Gravvy Cravath
Joe
Corbett Plans Boxing Club in Denver
Johnny Corbett, manager of Young Corbett who defeated Terrible Terry McGovern, announces plans to open a boxing club in Denver. Corbett is described as a square shooter.
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Corbett
Denver
Johnny Corbett
Young Corbett
Terry McGovern
Evansville Team Features Brothers from Wire and Mann
Evansville Indiana on February 15 discusses the Evansville club lineup with brothers of Wire and Mann among the players this season. The report highlights family connections within the squad and notes expectations for the team’s performance.
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Evas
Evansville
Ind
Wire
Mann
Thirteen Witnesses Testify In Varner Case in Gate City
In Greensboro federal court today thirteen witnesses testified for the defendant in the suit of Mrs. Henry Varner seeking subsistence. Witnesses described late night movements at the Varner home and a servant carrying a note to Melrary, with cross examination from the plaintiff side and tears from Mrs. Varner and Henry Varner during testimony.
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Varner
Gate City
Greensboro
Henry Varner
Warner
Wupon
Lexington
Pach
O. P. Dickerson
Warner Home
Lloyd George Reaffirms Germany Must Pay to Capacity
In the House of Commons on February 18, Prime Minister Lloyd George declared he stood by his pledge that Germany must pay to the limit of her capacity. He defended reparations, trial of war criminals, and other peace treaty provisions against criticism from Horatio Bottomley and others. The premier said allies chose the best advice and must enforce the demands.
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London
Lloyd George
House of Commons
Germany
Horatio Bottomley
Welborn Fined for Assault in Municipal Court
Butch Welborn white was found guilty of assault on Tom Martin proprietor of a Greek stand on North Main. Judge Kirkman fined Welborn $50 and costs and ordered he pay $26 for damages to Martin's property. Blain Guyer convicted of vagrancy fined $50 costs with $500 bond. Eugene Martin found guilty of vagrancy but dismissed on costs. Clyde Gilliam found not guilty of similar charge. W D Welborn found guilty of disorderly conduct fined $10 costs. Sidney Bain indicted on similar charge found not guilty.
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Butch Welborn
Tom Martin
North Main Street
Kirkman
Welborn
Martin
Blain Guyer
Eugene Martin
Clyde Gilliam
W. D. Welborn
Sidney Bain
Stock Law Passes and Amendments Defeated in NC Legislature
Raleigh February 18 The senate approved on third reading the statewide tick bill while the house favored the Martin measure to place twenty two eastern North Carolina counties under the stock law Amendments were debated with a key territorial clash as the Western side won defeating a statewide provisions amendment 70 to 28 The house vote followed a long session beginning after 1 30 p m with amendments rejected
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Man Abernethy
Raleigh
Senate
House
North Carolina
Mob Leader to Be Sentenced Today
Mob leader B. Fu trelle of Wayne County faces sentencing by Judge Calvert at 4 o clock this afternoon after a superior court jury convicted him of leading the Goldsboro mob on December 3 in an attempt to seize three Black men tied to a white man's murder. The verdict included a plea for mercy.
Colder Weather Forecasted Across East Tuesday
The weather bureau announces a special bulletin predicting the coldest spell of the winter for the eastern half of the country. Temperatures will fall to freezing and teens along the coast early next week extending from the Gulf to the South Atlantic States.
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Washington
Bpeb
Merch
Rocky Mountains
Weather Bureau
Gulf
South Atlantic States
Chilean Consul Faces Misde meanor Warrants in Norfolk Party
Norfolk police issued misdemeanor warrants for John Raymon Escobar Chilean consul here after a party at the consulate. Officers watching from an adjoining window observed women’s conduct and arrested them as they left. Escobar claimed diplomatic immunity and was not arrested. One woman was fined 50 dollars for a statutory offense, another held as a witness.
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Norfolk
John Raymon Escobar
Escobar
Chilean official reassigned to Norfolk to relieve consul
T Hieto Del Rio of the Chilean bureau in New York is ordered to Norfolk to relieve Don Escobar the Chilean consul at Hampton Roads and to investigate police charges against him, announced by the Chilean embassy.
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Washington
T. Hieto del Rio
Chilean Bureau of Information
New York
Norfolk
Don Escobar
Hampton Roads
General Allen Acts on Own Authority in Bergdoll Incident
Paris Feb 18 Major General Henry T Allen apologized to Germany for the attempted arrest of Grover C Bergdoll by two alleged U S Justice Department agents. The Coblenz dispatch says the move was taken on Allen's own initiative and not ordered from Washington. Allen commands American troops in the Coblenz occupation zone.
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Paris
Henry T. Allen
Germany
United States Department of Justice
Grover C. Bergdoll
Philadelphia
Washington
Coblenz
Chicago Tribune
General Allen
Seek to Restrain Higher R R Fares
Attorney General Wolf and former Assistant Attorney Lumpkin plan to file in Charleston tonight for an injunction before Judge Smith in the eastern district of South Carolina. They seek to restrain railroads from applying the new state passenger rate of 3.6 cents per mile as ordered by the Interstate Commerce Commission. They will appear before Judge Smith on Saturday.
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Ui Mon
D. C
Wolf
Lumpkin
Charleston
Fight Over Disarmament at National Women’s Party Convention
Washington February 18 A heated debate erupted at the national women s party convention over a minority report urging immediate world disarmament as the future policy of the party. The discussion centered on whether to endorse a resolution calling for swift arms reduction.
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Washington
National Womans’ Party
Women’s Party
Harding and Hughes frame a foreign policy plan
President elect Harding and Charles Evans Hughes of New York meet at St. Augustine to outline steps for the new administration foreign policy. They discuss the inaugural address on an association of nations and consider diplomatic appointments before the inauguration.
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ST. Augustine
Fla
Harding
Charles Evans Hughes
New York
Association of Nations
Hughes
Hatfield Confesses Killing Three in 1919 Battle
Sid Hatfield testified in a Matewan trial that he killed three Baldwin Felts men in the May 1919 pistol and rifle clash. He named Albert Felts, Lee Felts, and C. B. Cunningham as the fatalities, a revelation stirring the courtroom audience.
Virginia Court Upholds Hangings Return
The United States circuit court of appeals sustains the conviction of William Turner a Black man for the May murder of T Morgan Moore a torpedo expert and government property custodian in Alexandria Virginia The execution date has passed and U S district Judge Waddell must resentence Turner The plan calls for Turner to be hanged in the courthouse yard marking a rare legal hanging in Virginia after a change to electrocution as the method of capital punishment.
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Richmond
wWilliam Turner
T. Morgan Moore
Alexandria
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Turner
U.S
Waddell
Brownhill Leaves After Raleigh Visit
Ernest Brownhill, guest of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Luther, departed last night for Raleigh where he will spend several days.
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Mr. Brownhill
Ernest Brownhill
Frank Luther
Raleigh
Noted Tenor Enrico Caruso Reports Favorable Health Updates
New York reports say Enrico Caruso had a fairly restful night with reduced fever and better respiration. He drank liquids and talked at intervals while doctors warn he remains gravely ill and not yet out of the crisis.
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New York
Enrico Caruso
Theinger
Informa
Women's Christian Temperance Union appeals for broader scope
Mrs. Linnie Carl of Portland addresses Friends church, urging the W C T U to expand its worldwide civic role beyond national prohibition. She backs the Volstead Act, praises Prohibition Commissioner Kramer, calls for pro-Prohibition Congress members, cites enforcement gaps, and urges censorship of motion pictures and Sunday amusements to curb youth immorality. She notes the WCTU does not seek to ban tobacco.
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Women’s Christian Temperance Union
Linnie Carl
Portland
Ore
Friends Church
Carl
Kramer
Congress
United States
Prominent Bishop Speaks at Wesley Church Next Week
Bishop U V Darlington of Huntington West Virginia will deliver the Monday 7:30 pm address at Wesley Memorial church in High Point. A banquet precedes the talk with the three Methodist churches represented. Dr T F Marr of Salisbury will also speak and Rev W A Lambeth invites the public.
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U. V. Darlington
Huntington
W. Va
Wesley Memorial Church
High Point
Darlington
Wesley Church
T. F. Marr
Salisbury
Marr
North Carolina House Delays Road to Tax Law Committee Action
North Carolina legislators push good roads work into a tense tax and appropriation push. Night sessions continue as committees map tax legislation and consider reducing 1919 property valuations. Censorship of moving pictures spurs citizen opposition from Tom Dixon with broader budget and banking law measures advancing.
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Raleigh
General Assembly
North Carolina
State Tax Commission
Rufe Doughton
Doughton-Connor-Bowie
House
Senate
Gallert
Harry Grubbs
Tom Dixon
Committee On Education
Dixon
Prominent Winston Citizen Dies After Operation
Winston Salem February 18 W C Ruffin age 55 a well known cotton mill man died at his home following an operation two weeks ago for appendicitis He served as secretary and treasurer of Washington mills Fries Virginia and Mayo mills Mavodan North Carolina He was the son of the late Judge Thomas Ruffin.
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Winston-Salem
W. C. Ruffin
Washington Mills
Fries
Mayo Mills
Mavodan
N. C
Thomas Ruffin
States challenge ICC rail rate regulation before Supreme Court
In Washington on February 17, nineteen states including Wisconsin joined a conference of attorney generals to contest the Interstate Commerce Commission’s right to regulate railroad rates under the Transportation Act.
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Washinton
Wisconsin
Supreme Court
Interstate Commerce Commission
P. O. Bill Rider Fails of Passage
Washington volleyed a post office bill with a $100 million road construction appropriation as a rider. The attempt to attach the rider failed in the Senate by 41 to 33, short of the needed two thirds.
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Washington
Eforts
Post Office
Senate
Giants Sign Elizabeth City Pitcher Raymond Evans
New York National League club announced the signing of Raymond Evans a right handed pitcher from Elizabeth City North Carolina. Evans was recommended by a Giant scout and is said to possess a peculiar delivery puzzling to batsmen.
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Giants
New York
New York National League Baseball Club
Raymond Evans
Elizabeth City
N. C
Evans
Banquet Planned for Cubs After Island Trip
ROCK ISLAND sets a banquet for the Cubs on their return from the Celina Islands. The team will attend an exhibition game on April 11. Four business clubs organize the event to honor the players and staff.
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Cubs
Rock Island
Cwetilina Islands
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R. R
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Williamson
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Detroit Tigers
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Florida
Calvin Coolidge
Mrs. Coolidge
Northampton
Mass
Spears
U V. Darlington
Farly Action
Thomas Dixon
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