Insurance Officers And Directors Re-Elected
Officers and outgoing directors of Colonial Life Insurance Company were re elected at the annual directors and stockholders meeting in the Commercial National bank directors room. Fred N. Tate president John C Abels first vice president and manager J Elwood Cox second vice president H F Abels secretary and assistant treasurer C M Hauser treasurer Dr D A Stanton director and Peacock and Dalton general counsel were re elected. Outgoing directors J W Lambeth Jr Thomasville Frank Wineskie R R Ragan G W Mountcastle Lexington and H N Wade Charlotte were also re elected. Net gain in insurance in force rose to 587765 with total in force 9127710. Admitted gross assets were 928698.26 and gross capital and surplus 226629.43. Abels noted a 1930 lapsation loss replaced by 2284 paid for business yielding a 6.9 percent net gain. Policyholders received 128448.02 in death claims dividends and surrender values.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred N. Tate
John C. Abels
J. Elwood Cox
H. F. Abels
C. M. Hauser
D. A. Stanton
Peacock and Dalton
J. W. Lambeth, Jr
Thomasville
Frank Wineskie
R. R. Ragan
City
General Butler plans 10 resignation as lecturer
Major General Smedley D Butler announced plans to retire from the Marine Corps next September to become a lecturer. He said he signed a contract to deliver a series of lectures starting October and that a Mussolini incident and Navy Department reprimand had no bearing on his decision. He expected no opposition and noted Washington officials were aware of his plan.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Smedie
D. Butler
Marine Corps
Mussolini
State Department
Butler
Navy Department
Washington
General plans retirement to begin lecture tour
Buffalo says he will retire after a 32 year service to pursue a lecture tour. He signed up for lectures last October and states retirement is unrelated to the Contem orary club incident. He emphasizes eligibility after thirty years and dismisses a Ca one reply.
U. S. Marines Kill Many Insurgents Near El Tule
The navy department says 25 insurgents were killed on February 16 near El Tule in Nicaragua. A 30 minute contact by the guardian patrol under Captain Oregon A Williams routed 35 insurgents with five wounded, destroying their camp. Lieutenant Floyd M. McCorkle pursued the fleeing group and reported 25 additional casualties.
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Washington
Navy Department
el Tule
Nicaragua
F. M. Bradman
Second Marine Brigade
Oregon A. Williams
San Diego
California
Floyd M. McCorkle
Wilmar
Hold Three Youths In Fatal Stabbing
SPRUCE PINE Feb 19 three youths were charged with fatally stabbing Turner Carpenter at Three Mile. Lafayette Taylor Walter Wiseman and Ade Franklin remain under bond awaiting trial at the April term in Newland. Preliminary hearing says Taylor stabbed a participant during a drunken home brawl with the others involved.
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Spruce Pine
Turner Carpenter
Newland
Lafayette Taylor
Walter Wiseman
Ade Franklin
Taylor
Spenter
Oak Hill Club To Meet Tonight
The Oak Hill church men's club holds its regular meeting tonight at 7 30 in the old Oak Hill schoolhouse. An oyster supper will be served and music provided by the club band. All members are urged to attend.
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Oak Hill Church
Oak Hill School House
Hit-and-run case suspect released on bond
Burch Durham of near High Point, held since Monday night as a suspect in a fatal hit-and-run on Springfield road last Friday that fatally injured 16 year old Woodrow Medlin, a paper carrier for The High Point Enterprise, was released on $300 bond to report back March 2. Judge Lewis E Teague ordered the release. Durham is the third suspect in the case police are still pursuing. Two High Point boys were arrested the night after but released with alibis. Sherwood and Owen Sorrell of Willows street testified to being elsewhere or at work.
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Burch Durham
High Point
Springfield Road
Woodrow Medlin
High Point Enterprise
Lewis E. Teague
Durham
Sherwood
Owen Sorrell
Willows Street
Charlotte
Stout Dies At Springfield Home After 10 Day Illness
B F Stout longtime Springfield resident died at his High Point Route 3 home after a ten day illness. Born March 24 1882 in Randolph County he was a son of Simon and Lucinda Yeargan Stout. Survived by widow six daughters two sons step mother four brothers and other relatives. Funeral set for tomorrow at Mount Vernon M E Church with burial in church cemetery.
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B. T. Stout
Springfield
High Point
Mr. Stout
Randolph County
Simon
Lucinda Yeargan Stout
Mount Vernon M. FE
Randolph
Susie Fields
B. R. Coltrane
H. W. Boyles
Ua Mae Stout
Estelle
Martha
Ruby
Home Place
Johnny Stout
Lawrence Edward Stout
Jane Stout
Walter
T. L
Archdale
Elliott
Charlies
Plainview
Tex
Mount Vernon M. E
Clara J. Cox
Springfield Frieads
Hold Rites For Lillian Leitzel
Funeral services for Lillian Leitzel, renowned circus star, were held in Copenhagen in a chapel filled with American colony members and friends of Leitzel and her husband Alfredo Cadona, a trapeze artist. She died from injuries after a fifty foot fall during a Valencia theater performance. The body will be cremated and Cadona will transport the ashes to California.
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Copenhagen
Denmark
Lillian Leitzel
Alfredo Cadona
Miss Leitzel
Valencia Theater
California
Shaw on Wilson: fame like Lincoln if assassinated
George Bernard Shaw writes in What I Really Wrote About the War that if Woodrow Wilson had been assassinated at peak popularity his fame would match Lincoln's. He adds the peace strain broke Wilson and that Clemenceau soon discarded the fourteen points.
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New York
George Bernard Shaw
Woodrow Wilson
Lincoln
Clemenceau
Muscle Shoals conference report filed for final action
Washington February 19 The conference report on government operation of Muscle Shoals was filed in the House and will be acted on tomorrow The agreement covers leasing the nitrate plant for serfiizer production and federal operation of the power plant Reece of Tennessee signed the report joining other conferees except Peer of Pennsylvania Hoover White House officials said the president does not yet know the conference terms and veto chances remain unclear
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Muscle Shoals
House
Wurzbach
Republican
Texas
Peer
Pennsylvania
Reece
Tennessee
Senate
White House
Hoover
Conference report on Muscle Shoals near completion
The conference report on Muscle Shoals is finished and likely to be submitted to the House late today with a view to timely action. The move signals progress on the bill and potential division among members over key provisions and fiscal impacts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Muscle Shoals
Mystery Plane Owner Killed In Crash Near Roosevelt Field
The inventor of a tandem monoplane, described with a square-shaped fuselage and equal wing lengths, died when the craft crashed while being towed by a car near Roosevelt Field. Co-pilot Carl Nelson was slightly injured in the accident.
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Roosevelt Weifld
N. Y
Blan
Carl Nelson
Davis
Mysterious Inventor Fends Secrets Behind Locked Hangar
Field officials say the inventor, who lived at a hotel near the field, carried on experimental work in a locked hangar and spent about $100,000 on his ship over the last two years. Little is known about him beyond his reclusiveness.
Negro Church Keeps Two Preachers Amid Lockout
In Wallington New Jersey the First Baptist Church for Negro worship has two preachers and a padlocked door. Rev B G Crawley says his yearlong term not complete while Rev Elisha Harrison wins trustee support. a trustee is accused of snapping the lock. Police called as the door remains closed and services canceled.
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Wallington
N. J
First Baptist Ch of
B. G. Crawley
Elisha Harrison
Field
T Church
Chinese Women Gain Ground Under Family Relations Law
Chinese officials announce a new family relations law aimed at elevating women to parity with men. The measure, praised by reformers, is designed to grant women many of the rights traditionally held by Western women and reduce gender-based oppression.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nank
T West
Col A K Sanders Dies in Washington D C
Col A K Sanders a former Sumter county legislator and state penitentiary superintendent died at his Washington home after an illness of several years. He was a notable public figure in Columbia and served in the state legislature.
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Columbia
D. C
Col
A. K. Sanders
Colbia
Sumter County
State Penitentiary
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