Legion relief store aids over 30 families in High Point
The American Legion relief store at 127 North Main Street reported serving more than 36 needy High Point families with groceries yesterday and eight more orders filled by noon today. The welfare board will review all cases before any assistance, and officials urged donations of shoes and clothing for boys aged 8 to 12.
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American Legion Relief Atore
North Main Street
High Point
Board of Public Welfare
W. C. Hammond
Welfare Board
Lyceum Concert Pleases High Point College Audience
The Musical Art Quartet gave a highly praised chamber performance at High Point College with excellent blending and tasteful program. Sascha, the renowned violinist, delivered a standout solo and the ensemble received multiple encores as the series third Lyceum event.
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High Point College
Sascha
College Lyceum
Grandmother of Child Blamed for Death in Charlotte
Coroner's jury ruled Beverley Payne died last Friday by strangulation at the hands of Mrs. Sarah C. Ashe. The 57-year-old grandmother, found in a towel-knot, is to be placed in an institution for the criminally insane. The boy died at Dr. John R. Ashe's home. a servant found Mrs. Ashe unconscious in a straight jacket due to her violence.
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Charlotte
Beverley Payne
Sarah C. Ashe
John R. Ashe
Sarah Ashe
Budget Chief Calls for Early 1932 Estimates With Economy Push
Director Root announced to department heads that the president seeks strict economy in federal expenditures but will not set a fixed limit. Heads must submit 1932 appropriations figures by July 15 1930 with explanations for any increases, as he urged careful scrutiny of every item.
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Glass
Capitol
John Garner
Texas
Root
Budget Bureau
Bureau of Budget
Watson
Indiana
Heated Session in Power Probe
Washington headlines detail the senate interstate commerce committee's power probe into the federal power commission. F B Bonner accuses Charles A Russell of a false affidavit to obtain 700 dollars from the retirement fund as Russell counters with charges of irregularities and personal attacks. A memorandum lists more than 27 million dollars in valuation accounts for power permits questioned by commission accountants.
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Washington
Senate ‘Interstate Commerce Committee
Federal Power Commission
F. BE. Bonner
Commission
Charles A. Russell
Russell
Bonner
Dill
Democrat
Interstate Commerce Committee
Civil Service
Senator Dill
Power Commission
William V. King
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
F. E. Bonner
Hoover attacks White House on budget plan
Senator Glass of Virginia renewed his Capitol Hill attack on a White House expenditures statement issued yesterday. He called the president's plan a straw man and said it shifts spending burdens to Congress. The White House warned Congress that after planned expenditures about 50 million dollars would remain for other needs and that passing all spending proposals could require a roughly 40 percent tax increase.
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White House
Glass
Virginia
Capitol Hill
Congress
House
Wheelus Trial Testimony Contradictions Feature Day
Judge J H Clement sustained an objection on a question about the Gastonia tent colony used by striking textile workers. Witness W O Bradley, a Dallas painter, gave different statements from a prior hearing and defense attorney A C Jones pressed inconsistencies. George Ingerfelt was recalled to challenge earlier testimony as the defense argued it had shifted.
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W. O. Bradley
Dallas
N. C
Painter
A. C. Jones
Jones
George Ingerfelt
Tully Defendent In Divorce Case
James A. Jim Tully, the red haired hobo author, stood as defendant in a divorce suit filed by his wife Mrs. Margaret Myers Tully in Las Vegas Nevada. The couple quarried with guests present and he threatened her with great bodily harm.
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Las Vegas
Nevada
James A
Jim’’ Tully
Margaret Myers Tully
Tully
Ruth Chatterton in The Laughing Lady at the Broadhurst
Ruth Chatterton stars in The Laughing Lady at the Broadhurst in a sequence of three talking pictures praised for serious drama. Critics note her restrained, convincing performance with an excellent supporting cast in a film acclaimed for its lack of musical gimmicks.
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Ruth Chatterton
Broadhurst
Miss Chatterton
Wilmington to issue 300000 bond for street improvements
Wilmington plans a 300000 bond issue to fund street and related improvements. The state sinking fund commission has approved the bonds and city commissioners are expected to give final approval.
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Wilmington
State Sinking Fund Commission
Huston Drafted Muscle Shoals Planks Probe
Senate lobby committee hears testimony that Claudius H Huston then chair of the Republican National Committee helped prepare Muscle Shoals planks for 1928 party platforms. Gray of the American Farm Bureau says he and Worthington drafted resolutions urging Cyanamid bid and Farm Bureau delegation to conventions.
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Washington
Claudius H. Huston
Republican National Committee
Muscle Shoals
Senate Lobby Committee
Huston
Tennesee River Improvement Association
American Cyanamid Company
Senator Black
Alabama
Chester H. Gray
American Farm Bureau Federation
J. W. Worthington
Tennessee River Improvement Association
Worthington
Gray
Hoover
Tennessee
Senator Brock backs pill group in Muscle Shoals debate
Gray named Senator Brock of Tennessee a supporter. Brock is a Democrat and long-time contributor to the Tennessee River Improvement Association. Gray said the organization has a "fine contact" with President Coolidge, who is described as opposing government operation of Muscle Shoals.
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Gray
Brock
Tennessee
Tennessee River Improvement Association
Coolidge
Muscle Shoals
Three-Power Pact Deemed Possible Amid Conference Talks
London officials note unofficial discussion of a three-power pact among Great Britain United States and Japan. Observers say France's uncertain return keeps options open with a five-power goal while Italy seeks parity with France and safeguards for Britain if Paris builds a bigger navy.
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London
United States
Great Britain
Japan
France
Italy
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