Woman wakes in Greensboro hospital with missing memory
Mrs. Bertie Dunn 25 of High Point was found unconscious at Eugene and Battleground streets and brought to a Greensboro hospital. She recalls little beyond her name and says she may suffer spells. Police seek her uncle by marriage Jack Johnson. She planned to ride to Washington for work. $10 and a Washington ticket disappeared. Her husband left her last October after the death of a child.
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Greensboro
Bertie Dunn
West Green Street
High Point
Jack Johnson
Dunn
Road bill looms in legislature in North Carolina
Raleigh Feb 23 The North Carolina General Assembly faces a showdown tonight over the administration road bill as the two houses hold noon sessions. The week promises action on budgets and bills including a parole system and a local government commission while tax and sales tax plans are discussed to fund schools and state operations for 1931 33.
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North Carolina General Assembly
South Carolina
Appropriations Committee
Senate
Sinking Fund Commission
Acceptance Continued From Page One Power Line Plan
The article details the continued discussion on acceptance and the compromise feature of transmission lines for distribution of power. Officials, likely city or utility representatives, pursue agreement on the plan and its implications for local services and ratepayers.
Bill on leasing nitre plants and Cove Creek dam plan
The measure allows leasing nitrate plants to private interests for fertilizer production or, if no lessee is found in a year, government experimental fertilizer use. It also authorizes Cove Creek dam on the Clin River Tennessee, boosting Wilson Dam capacity to 400 000 to 500 000 horsepower, with initial construction bills proposed. Senate vote 55 to 28. two democrats with Republicans. 36 Democrats and 20 Republicans in favor. 2 Democrats and 25 Republicans against.
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Mississippi
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Lurid Crime Tale of Schroeder and Dague Ends in Death
Irene Schroeder and Walter Glenn Dague, once lovers and career criminals, were executed after a spree of robberies and killings. They fatally shot Corporal Brady Paul near New Castle PA on December 27 1929 and wounded Patrolman Ernest Moore. Their flight included crimes in St Louis and Arizona before arrest. Schroeder was 20, mother of a four year old, and had been a waitress in Wheeling.
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Walter Glenn Dague
Schroeder
Wheeling
W. Va
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Wheeling Automobile
Brady Paul
Pennsylvania Highway Patrol
New Castle
Ernest Moore
St. Louis
Arizona
Death Penalty Hopes Fade In New Castle Gun Battle Case
Dague’s wife testifies Crawford was fatally shot in the New Castle gun battle and buried. Earlier, in January, Deputy Sheriff Joe Chapman was kidnapped at Florence Arizona by a woman and two men. Arizona officers fought the fugitives. Chapman and Deputy Lee Wright were wounded, Wright fatally. Mrs. Schroeder and Dague faced repeated legal losses in state courts and before the pardon board and two governors to avoid the death penalty. Governor Pinchot refused to intervene, ending the last hope.
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Crawford
New Castle
Joe Chapman
Florence
Ariz
Arizona
Chapman
Lee Wright
North Carolina Legislature Delays Road Bill Amid Fiscal Contests
The legislature debated the Mac Lean measure amid pledges to delay passage until school revenue bills pass. The Whedbee bill sets up operation of a six month school term with a 20 cent ad valorem tax for schools, challenging the Mac Lean law. The house approved a governor report request and a survey of NC development costs, while the senate completed the finance bill and set it as a special order. Former governor Byrd to address the assembly tomorrow.
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Unemployment and Relief Council
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Edgecombe
Halstead
Candidate for Presidency Sets Padded Cell Afire
Henry W. Hayssen, a self declared presidential candidate advocating public beer fountains, awaited a sanity hearing in a bare city jail cell after he fired his padded cell yesterday, causing one death. He told his sailors he started the fire to force removal from confinement.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Henry W. Hayssen
Hayssen
Man Pleads Guilty to Kidnapping Charge
Cambridge Illinois February 23 Orville Whiskers pleaded guilty today to kidnapping Earl Yocum Galva bank president Captured on an Iowa farm last Saturday he was brought back and arraigned in Henry county court where three alleged confederates in the $50 000 ransom plot of last October were to go on trial today Sentence was deferred.
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Ill
Orville Whiskers
Earl Yocum
Galva Bank
Iowa
Henry County
Two Hold Up Men Loot Asheville Oil Station
In Asheville North Carolina two unmasked white men held up a Standard Oil station on Black Mountain road early today tied the manager Hilliard Kirby in a lavatory and escaped with 200 dollars from the open safe. Deputies reported no arrests and Kirby suspected the robbers used a Virginia or South Carolina license. A customer arriving for 10 gallons was allowed to depart with the pump payment and the money. Kirby was released 15 minutes later by Bill Dalton of Southern dairies.
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Ashville
N. C
Standard Oil
Black Mountain Road
Laurence E. Brown
Hilliard Kirby
Virginia
South Carolina
Kirby
Ine
Bill Dalton
Southern Dairies
Yacht Ingomar sinks after hitting Frying Pan Shoals
Southport N C Feb 23 The yacht Ingomar 120 feet owned by A L Hoffman of New York struck a ledge of Frying Pan Shoals late Saturday and sank nearly immediately Nine crew led by Captain Leif Sparre used a motor launch to reach safety arriving at Cape Fear coast guard station late Sunday They were en route from Oxford Md to Florida and the West Indies via Charleston heavy seas hindered rescue none injured per Coast Guard Captain C H Bartlett wreck about 30 miles southwest of Cape Fear light.
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Ingomar
A. L. Hoffman
New York
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Cape Fear Coast
Charleston
Hoffman
C. H. Bartlett
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Cape
Bombs Explode In Halls Of School In Havana
Several small bombs exploded this morning in the halls of Havana's school of arts and handicraft, one of the few government schools still open. Two hundred students poured out shouting against the government and broke windows while police reserves were summoned. No arrests were reported.
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School of Arts and Handicraft
Dry Democrats Gird for Battle in Washington
Washington February 23 Dry Democrats prepare to push their stance as the Democratic National Committee plans a March 5 meeting called by Chairman Raskob. Rumors of a resolution to steer the party off the wet side circulate amid North Carolina Senator Morrison claiming enough votes to defeat any wet measure. Other leaders urge shelving the issue while Roosevelt and Ritchie and Senator Lewis emerge as likely presidential contenders as the dry faction mobilizes.
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Congress
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Georgia
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Roosevelt
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Ritchie
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Illinois
Leaves Chicago To Scotland Yard
Big Bill Thompson of Chicago derides English rule and argues Scotland Yard could clean Chicago but would face a massive task. Cecil Bishop notes the yard would confront corrupt police first, with gangster control easier. Prohibition repeal likely before success.
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Bill’ Thompson
Chicago
King George
Scotland Yard
Cecil Bishop
U. S
Investigation of Death Begun in Charlotte
Charlotte February 23 investigators began the grand jury inquiry into the death of Newton Farris Mecklenburg county merchant found dead in his store on the old Salisbury road two months ago. Solicitor John G Carpenter announced the body would be exhumed for chemical analysis following a demand by Mrs Farris attorneys. Walter Phifer a deformed black man is held as a material witness. no charges have been filed and over twenty witnesses are summoned for the inquest.
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Newton Farris
Mecklenburg County
Almet
John G. Carpenter
Farris
Salisbury Road
Walter Phifer
Lewis for President Leads Chicago Victory Parade
February 23 Chicago crowd greets senator-elect James Hamilton Lewis returning from Arizona. Dozens of banners parade through downtown streets while motorcycles keep pace. Col Lewis, recovering from throat ailment, rides in open automobile amid cheers. Anton J. Cermak, Cook County Board president and mayoral candidate, leads the demonstration.
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Cage Democracy
James Hamilton Lewis
Ilinois
Arizona
Lewis
Col. Lewis
Anton J. Cermak
Cook County Board
Rescue of thirteen patients from Mount Regis Sanitorium fire
Salem Va February 33. Thirteen patients were rescued as a basement and lower floor fire swept the Mount Regis Sanitorium. Night nurse Miss Loveleen Dawson and firemen carried out four emergency patients while others used ladders to descend from the building.
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Salem
Mount Regis
Air travel safety improves in France says ministry
Paris report notes air ministry data show flying becoming safer with 1929 one serious accident per 325 613 miles in commercial aviation and 1928 one per 197 096 miles. Officials expect 1930 figures to show further improvement. Read Enterprise want ads for results.
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Air Ministry
France
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