Harding cabinet picks advance as Denby Hoover Davis await acceptance
President elect Harding works toward final cabinet as Edwin Denby, Herbert Hoover, and James J. Davis await formal acceptances for navy commerce and labor posts. Hoover’s possible decline is dismissed by Harding aides. Denby leaves Detroit for St Augustine to confer with Harding amid nationwide appointment talks.
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ST. Augustine
Fla
Associated Press
Harding
Edwin Denby
Michigan
Herbert Hoover
California
James J. Lewis
Pennsylvania
Navy
Commerce
Hoover
Detroit
Petitions Call For Tax Revaluation Act Change
In Raleigh on February 23 petitions from twenty counties urged a general land value reduction for taxation and protested the revaluation act as unjust. The house spent most of the day on minor committee reports linked to a bill to move the county seat from Wentworth to Reidsville. The committee reported unfavorably, but the house voted 77 to 29 to override and pass it.
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Max Abernethy
Raleigh
House
Wentworth
Reidsville
French Ships Fire On Soviet Forces
Constantinople dispatches report French destroyers patrolling the eastern Black Sea coast engaged Soviet forces. Bolsheviks suffered heavy losses from the warships, and Tiflin remained in Georgian hands with heavy losses there. The 11th Soviet army advance against Bolshevists was reportedly checked by Moscow.
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Constantinople
Associated Press
Black Sea
Tiflin
Moscow
Magazine Publishers Declared Bankrupt
In New York on February 23 an involuntary bankruptcy petition was filed in federal court against the Judge Leslie company and Fifth Avenue Publishing by three creditors claiming over 600,000 dollars. Liabilities were listed at 2.2 million and assets at 420,000, with Thomas C. Selder named receiver for the firm.
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New York
Judge Leslie Company
Fifth Avenue Publishing Corporation
Thomas C. Selder
Two Cadets Die in Austin Plane Crash
Cadets KE. E. Allen and Virgil Veath of Kelly Field No. 2 San Antonio were killed when their plane crashed on Pean field one mile south of Austin during a practice takeoff. Allen hailed from Columbus Georgia and Veath from Nashville Tennessee. they led a squadron formation from Kelly Field.
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Austin
Tex
KE. E. Allen
Virgil Veath
Kelly Field No. 2
San Antonion
Peanfield
San Antonio
Allen
Columbus
Beech
Nashville
Killing of Officer A Closed Incident
Officials said the Vladivostok shooting of Lieut. W. H. Langdon by a Japanese sentry is closed except for reparation. Japan renewed its expressions of regret in a reply to the American note, ending the incident.
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Washington
W. H. Langdon
Vladivostok
Lawyers clash as Warner suit nears verdict in federal court
In Greensboro on February 23, attorneys argued in the trial of Mrs. Florence C. Warner v Lexing ton newspaper and business man for reasonable subsistence. The defense pressed innocence of immoral relations with Bax ter McRary while the plaintiff’s counsel urged vindication of her conduct. Jury selection with twelve seasoned jurors drew a crowded courtroom as the case proceeds toward an afternoon verdict.
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Greensboro
Florence C. Warner
Lexington
J. C. Bowers
E. E. Raper
Central
Carolina
Mrs J D Dorsett to Hear Contest Case
SALISBURY Feb 23 The Campbell Doughton election contest hearing in Rowan begins Monday at 10 o clock before Mrs J D Dorsett commissioner of testimony She is a notary public wife of a Spencer Republican and daughter of the late Congressman R Z Linney Sister of state Republican chairman Rank Linney
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Salisbury
Camphbell-Doughton
Rowan
J. D. Dorsett
Plans for Seventh Bi annual Presbyterian laymen convention
Greenville South Carolina prepares for the Seventh Bi annual Laymen Missionary movement convention with over a thousand Presbyterian laymen from Georgia Florida North and South Carolina expected March 8 and 9. Hotels cannot house all guests so private homes are being canvassed for accommodations and a parallel meeting by the women's auxiliary will run alongside.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greenville
S. C
Georgia
Florida
North
South Carolina
The
Presbyterian Church
Trans continental mail flight lands in Chicago
In Chicago on February 23 Jack Wright completed over 1200 miles piloting an eastbound mail plane from Iowa City arriving at 8 40 a m. Twenty minutes later J O Webster began the next leg eastward. Pilot Eight, though weary, pressed on from Cheyenne to Chicago.
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Chicago
Jack Wright
Iowa City
J. O. Webster
Eight
Cheyenne
Western Union plans South American cable landing in Miami
Miami officials learned from Newton Bh. Carlton, president of Western Union, that the South American cable will eventually be landed at Miami. Carlton and several company vice presidents arrived to personally review the cable controversy.
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Miami
Fla
Western Union Telegraph Company
Newton Bh. Carlton
Carlton
Labor, Rotary, and Washington: Conference and Birthday Observed
Leaders recount a Labor Federation conference in Washington on a bill of rights and compulsory arbitration amid a deflation crisis and coal industry woes. In High Point Winston Rotary marked its sixteenth anniversary with Dr. Rondthaler and talks on Rotary’s aims, progress, and Chicago headquarters.
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Rotary
Wntons
Gompers
Organized Labor
Executive Council
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers of America
Warrenton Builds Hotel With Bond Issue
Warrenton North Carolina a town of under 1000 owns water works electric plant ice plant opera house and a four mile municipally owned railroad to Warren Plains. It is building a hotel costing 140000 to be paid by a bond issue. Horace Greeley was married there in 1836.
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Raleigh
Warrenton
Warren County
North Carolina
Warren Plains
Seaboard Air Line Railway
Tasker H. Polk
Horace Greeley
Revenue Officers Arrest Whisky Head
Chicago February 23 internal revenue officers arrested L T Cox president of Louis Stern and Company liquor dealers in a bid to break up a nationwide whiskey ring. Several minor employees were seized and the office sealed pending further investigation after a three week probe by Jos A Tapro of the internal revenue department.
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Chicago
Internal Revenue Department
L. T. Cox
Louis Stern and Company
Jos. A. Tapro
Cotton Declines on March Contracts in Inactive Market
New York statement shows notices against March cotton contracts at 70 000 bales. Early prices drift lower with March down 53 points while later months vary 16 to 19 points, new crop firmer. Futures opened steady with March 12.30 and later months 13.16 13.83 14.35 14.73.
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New York
Soldiers Killed in Ireland At Dublin Castle Gate
Three members of the Royal Irish Constabulary stationed at Dublin Castle were fired upon by civilians at the castle gate. Two were killed and one seriously wounded. The attack occurred in Dublin, and details follow from the Associated Press report.
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Ireland
Dublin
Associated Press
Royal Irish Constabulary
Dublin Castle
Castle Gate
Sixty Corporations Named in Federal Suit Against Southern Pine Association
The government filed injunction proceedings in federal court against the Southern Pine Association naming sixty one corporations and sixty nine individuals. It accuses the group of conspiring to withhold supply and raise yellow pine lumber prices. A March 15 hearing is set.
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Southern Pine Association
ST. Louis, Mo
Government Today
Federal District Court
Carrol
Palmer
Farriss
Federal Trade Commission
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Texas
Louisiana
Missouri
Alabama
Alexandra
Hattiesburg
Miss
Little Rock
Ark
Birmingham
Ala
Church resources shown by the war address Episco pal council
Bishop Thomas Nicholson told the Epispocal council of cities in Buffalo that world war costs reach 348 billion dollars and 43 million lives, urging the church to adopt modern business methods and expand spiritual power to match industrial progress. He cited lakes steamers and outdated engines as a warning to upgrade church power.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Thomas Nicholson
Episcopal Council of Cities
Nicholson
Great Lakes
Bss
God
American Legion Opens North Main Headquarters
The Andrew Jackson post of the American Legion opens its headquarters in the old Moose Club rooms above Rowe's store on North Main Street. Dr. T. Mann says furniture and reading material will be provided to aid members. Commander Mann and Adjutant J. S. Burton expect nationwide leader Frederick W. Galbraith to visit High Point, speak in the afternoon, and address a mass meeting at night, likely at the high school auditorium. Galbraith spoke in Raleigh yesterday and is due in Asheville and Charlotte in the coming days.
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High Point Rotarians
Commercial Club
Rotary
George Washington
Harry Raymond
Carter Dalton
Will Lambeth
Wesley Memorial Church
Howard
Howard Rondthaler
Salem College
Winston-Salem Club
Rondthaler
Greensboro
High Point
Winston-Salem
Randthaler
Fred N. Tate
Paul Harriss
Michigan Boulevard
Chicago
Andrew Jackson Post
The
American Legion
Moose Club
Rowe’s
North Main Street
T. Mann
Legion
Mann
J. S. Burton
Raleigh
Frederick W. Galbraith
High School
Galbraith
Chamber of Commerce
General Assembly
Asheville
Charlotte
Co Operative Marketing Bill Advances as Marriage Registry Fails
Raleigh report shows several measures moved through the North Carolina House. The cooperative marketing law cleared three readings to aid farmers pooling products. The marriage registration bill was defeated after debate led by Williams of Cabarrus Graham of Orange and Monroe of Lee, with costs projected to rise.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
House of Representatives
Judiciary Committee No
R. L. Davis
The
Anti-Saloon League
Templeton
Wake
Coennor
Wilson
House
Williams
Cabarrug
Graham
Orange
Monroe
Lee
State Board of Health
General Assembly
Woman killed at Godwin crossing near Fayetteville
Mrs. John McNeill aged sixty was killed when a passenger train struck her at a railway crossing near Godwin, Fayetteville, as she attempted to cross the tracks late yesterday.
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Fayetteville
John McNeill
Godwin
Government spends 30 cents per hundred on agri culture research
A critique notes that out of every $100 spent by the government annually only 30 cents go toward agriculture development through scientific study. The remark highlights funding shortfalls for agricultural research.
Army River on the Way Across Country
A fragmented report describes Lieut. Coney and crew attempting a trans continental flight with a forced landing near Bronte Texas, Love Field in Dallas, awaiting rerouting and return to Dallas after a disrupted schedule and an estimated $30 cost.
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Army River
William Tk
Coney
Calife
Dallas
Cronley
Bronte
Tex
Aleo
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Tate
Windy City
Charles Perry
Mt Tate
Wil Lambeth
Rotary Progress
Roary
Fine Utilities
Atlantic
Africa
U. S. Army Air Service
Roma
Italy
J. M. Biedenbach
W. He Koffman
M. J. Beale
H. Chapman
R. C. McNally
W. J. Reed
J. G. Thornel
Dale Mabry
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