Gardner Declines Hands Off Chairmanship Picks
Governor Gardner says he will not influence 1931 General Assembly committee chairmanships. He notes cordial ties with candidates and will rely on the group representation rather than his office. Announcement of committee chairs may take a week. Lieutenant-Governor Fountain and Speaker await selections.
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Raleigh
House
Senate
Co. Hinx Gardner
Gardner
R. T. Fountain
Cus
British weavers strike over double loom rule in Burnley mills
Nine cotton mills shut down in Burnley as 3,500 weavers walk out against owners’ demand to double looms per worker. The union fears mass layoffs while talks faltered, with potential nationwide impact on up to 200,000 men.
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Burnley
Eng
Tenn Legislature Opens At Noon Big Tasks To Be Faced
Nashville January 5 The Tennessee legislature begins a 5 day biennial session at noon with a focus on state finances. An inquiry into public funds tied up in three closed banks is urged. Governor Horton pledges a fair impartial investigation to punish the guilty and exonerate the innocent. Over 3 million dollars of state funds are on deposit in the Bank of Tennessee and other funds sit in Holston Union National Bank and Liberty Bank and Trust Company.
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Nashville
Tenn
Tennessee
Henry H. Horton
Bank of Tennessee
Caldwell and Company
Nashville Investment Banking
Holston Union National Bank
Knoxville
Liberty Bank and Trust Company
Typhoon Toll Mounts in Central Philippines
Reports indicate at least 82 people killed and 50 missing after a recent typhoon in the central Philippine Islands. Many fishing boats were sunk and Leyte and Cebu suffered heavy property damage. Wires and roads were damaged, delaying reports.
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Manila
Philippine Islands
Leyete
Cebu
Packers May Expand Lines Under Court Ruling
Washington dates a shortened summary notes Justice Bailey in the District of Columbia supreme court modified the consent decree to allow four leading packers to handle vegetables fruits milk coffee teas cereals and other products up to retail doors while prohibiting meat and other unrelated lines. The ruling finds no monopoly by Swift Armour Wilson and Cudahy and counters government charges. Morris and Company merged with Armour as litigation continues from 1920.
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Washington
Jennings Bailey
District of Columbia Supreme Court
Justice Bailey
Swift and Company
Armour and Company
Wilson and Company
Cudahy Packing Group
Morris and Company
National Wholesale Grocers Association
American Wholesale Grocers Association
Supreme Court of the United States
Dry Cleaning War In Greensboro Aimed At High Point Concern
Greensboro dry cleaners clash over prices as the local association aims to drive out the Leonard company. Independent plants in Greensboro High Point and Thomasville cut rates to 15 cents per suit, five cents under Leonard, with picketing beginning this morning.
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Greensboro
France pays homage to Joffre at his bier
Thousands file past the body of Marshal Joffre at the Ecole Militaire as France prepares a state and religious funeral. His flaggy decors, plain catafalque, and single decoration reflect a storied career from Timbuctoo to the Marne. The queue lengthens, with 15,000 already seen, as civilians and veterans mourn this revered commander.
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Adelaide Kerr
Associated Press
Paris
Marshal Joffre
Marne
Nee
Ecole Militaire
Old Military Academy
Timbuctoo
St. Jean Dedieu
Joffre
Marshal Foch
Notre Dame
Arc de Triomphe
the Invalides
Napoleon
Saint Jean de Dieu
Great War School
Storm Warning Issued for Southeast to Jacksonville
Weather bureau advisory issued at 10 a m foresees southeast storm warnings from Eastport Maine to Cape Hatteras North Carolina and small craft warnings south of Cape Hatteras to Jacksonville Florida. Disturbance of marked intensity centered over Tennessee moving northeastward.
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Washington
Weather Bureau
Eastport
Cape Hatteras
N. C
Jacksonville
Fla
Tennessee
Goosebone Prophet Versus Science In Weather Guessing Duel
Philadelphia hosts a one month weather forecast contest between George Bliss a government weather expert and Sam Brunner a veteran goosebone prophet. Bliss claims an 800 accuracy and Brunner 600 with daily forecasts, Bliss predicting mostly cloudy with moderate winds and Brunner predicting clear and cold. The public divides into camps as the year begins with clear skies and warming winds.
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Arwindvane
George S. Bliss
Government Weather Bureau
Sam Brunner
Philadelphia
Dudley
Bliss
Brunner
Fach
Brenner
Mr. Bliss
Mr. Brunner
Hunger Revolt Quieted by Red Cross Aid in Arkansas
In England Arkansas hunger unrest from drought and failed cotton crops prompted farmers to threaten merchants. Red Cross officials arrived with food and promised policy guidance as local authorities urged orderly supply requests. County Red Cross Chairman Albert Walls pledged no one would starve, aiming to steady desperate farmers.
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England
Ark
Red Cross
Albert Evans
Arkansas
Henry M. Baker
National
Albert Walls
High Point Cases Docketed Today in Guilford Superior Court
The Guilford superior court opened a two week term with Judge Finley presiding. Several High Point cases appear on the docket including Prudential Insurance vs Welborn continued for the term and City of High Point vs Durham postponed. Armfield and allied cases also continued with settlement hoped. Austin vs City moved to motion docket for transfer to High Point court. Welborn vs City set tentatively for Jan 15.
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Greensboro
Guilford
High Point
Bettie Welborn
Prisoners Return Home On Christmas Paroles In Alabama
More than 300 state prisoners returned today to roads leading to home as Christmas paroles, lasting until 6 p m tomorrow, bring them back to Kilby Speigner Atmore and road camps. A lifer said, Things ain't like they used to be, after a brief stay of freedom.
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Montgomery
Ala
Bibb Graves
Kilby
Speigner
Atmore
Dependents of Two North Carolina Congressmen to Receive 10000
The first deficiency appropriation reported by the House Appropriations Committee provides $10,000 for the dependents of two recently deceased North Carolina congressmen. The widow of Representative William C. Hammer and the daughter of Representative Charles M. Stedman will receive the funds, a long standing practice of granting one year’s salary to dependents of members dying in office.
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Washington
North Carolina
Congress
House Appropriations Committee
William C. Hammer
Charles M. Stedman
Hydraulic Robber Floats $57 From Oil Company Safe
Kansas City reports a hydraulic robber flooded a filling station money vault with water and withdrew 57 dollars through a top slit. An oil company investigator reported the loss to police yesterday, describing the method as flooding the safe with water to float out currency.
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Kansas City
O Brien Fortune Myth Bursts As Fact Demands Power
In Columbia South Carolina on January five an itinerant Linotype operator Cornelius O'Brien was sought by his Dublin brother James who sought a power of attorney to sell property. Rumors of a half million dollar fortune proved false as Cornelius was found penniless in a cheap lodging house. The legal document described the property as a plot connected to Kilmainham. Cornelius's Ireland address was listed.
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Columbia
8. C
Cornelius O'Brien
James O'Brien
Dublin
Ireland
Cornelius
America
Kilmainham
Con
Transatlantic Fliers Plan hop Tomorrow
Mrs Beryl Hart and Lieutenant W S MacLaren said they will attempt a six am departure tomorrow on their pioneering trans Atlantic flight to Paris weather permitting The damaged sextant was replaced and naval mechanics at Hampton Roads naval air station overhauled the motor ahead of the takeoff Financial arrangements were made through MacLaren friends in New York for the needed gear and support Mrs Hart expressed confidence and noted fuel capacity concerns for the Bermuda to Azores leg
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Norfolk
Beryl Hart
W. S. MacLaren
Paris
Bermuda
Naval
Hampton Roads Naval Air Station
MacLaren
Mrs. Hart
Annapolis
New York
Azores
Hampton Roads
South Carolina Lieutenant Governor Dies After Stroke
UNION South Carolina January 6 Lieutenant Governor Thomas Bothwell Butler died in a hospital this afternoon after a paralysis stroke he suffered last night. He was stricken while visiting at his brother's home in Carlisle and died two hours after arrival. Funeral arrangements were not yet announced.
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Union
S. C
Thomas Bothwell Butler
South Carolina
Butler
Carlisle
Fog Blamed For Death Of Three In Plane Crash
Dense fog contributed to a fatal plane crash near Overton Texas claiming the lives of three people. Pilot H Addison Noever, 26, from Kansas City. student flier Tom Holcombe, 20, of Midland. and Horace F Clark, 26, president of United Guaranty Company of Dallas, were killed.
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Overton
Tex
H. Addison Noever
Kansas City
Tom Holcombe
Midland
Horace F. Clark
United Guaranty Company of
Dallas
Supreme Court hearing urged postponed to April 15
Government asks the Supreme Court to delay until April 15 the appeal from the New Jersey decision on the eighteenth amendment. Frederick M. Pearse dismisses the Solicitor General brief as incomplete and says the court is not foreclosed from considering the issue of ratification by state conventions. Pearse argues enforcement would be hindered and the amendment was proposed to the states, not through Congress.
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Washington
Supreme Court
App
New Jersey
Clark
Frederick M. P. Pearse
Thacher
Pearse
Congress
Cold and hunger drive Morton brothers to surrender in jail
Two middle aged brothers Clyde and Tom Morton surrendered to Sheriff Westbrook in Lenoir county jailed for the December 20 ambush that killed Asa Hawkins and wounded B R Morton. They had evaded capture 15 days in the Pocosin swamps aided by cold and hunger. The trio joins their brother Ben Morton and Lever Conway in custody. All have prior prison terms or records.
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Kinston
White Oak
Lenoir County
Clyde
Tom Morton
Asa G. Hawkins
B. R. Morton
J. R. Westbrook
Jones County
Pocosin
Tom
Ben
Lever Conway
Hawkins
Morton
Maysville
Clyde Morton
Princess Louise Dies at 63 in Sleep
London reports the death of Louise Princess Royal at Sandringham from heart disease. King George ordered four weeks full mourning and two weeks half mourning. Eldest sister of the king, she married the Earl of Fife at 22 against Queen Victoria’s wishes.
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London
Britain
Louise
Princess Royal
George
Sandringham
Princesse Royal
Earl of Fife
Queen Victoria
Army gets 446 million for maintenance and waterways
Washington Jan 5 The war department is apportioned 446 024 000 for next fiscal year in the annual supply bill received by the house The military activities total 334 956 000 with 134 664 000 for pay and engineering at 111 067 000 including 60 000 000 for rivers and harbors 35 000 000 for Mississippi flood control and 1 000 000 for Sacramento river flood control The pay provision covers 118 000 troops Two provisions would bar army purchases of raw materials made abroad within the continental United States and would require further action on a second rule.
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Washington
War Department
House
Mississippi
Sacramento River
Continental
United States
Arrests Start For Motorists With 1930 License Tags
North Carolina motorists operating autos without 1931 license plates were being arrested in some localities as the motor vehicle bureau began enforcement today. Localities varied in stoppages with some issuing 48 hour warning cards before arrest if licenses are not displayed.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Motor Vehicle Bureau
Motor Bureau
G. O. P. Expenditures Reported for 1930
Washington January 5 reports show the Republican National Committee spent 743 949 dollars in 1930. Treasurer Joseph R Nutt presented the figures to Congress.
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Washington
Republican National Committee
Congress
Joseph R. Nutt
Girl Fliers Seek Endurance Record in Los Angeles
Los Angeles January 5. Bobbie Trout and Edna May Cooper, girl pilots, attempt to set a new women's endurance flight record in the endurance ship Lady Ralph. They began at 2 30 p m with light load and completed three refueling contacts before dark, facing a wind and rope snag that they untangled in a daring catwalk maneuver.
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Los Angeles
Bobbie Trout
Edna May Cooper
Miss Trout
Elinor Smith
Dale Jackson
Forest O'Brine
St. Louis
Lady Ralph
Miss Trent
Hudd Hussey
Mics Cooper
Senate Adds 15 Million For Food Loans Amid Appropriation Debate
Congress approved drought relief funding with seed and fertilizer loans totaling 45 million and the Senate added 15 million more for food purchases by farmers hit by crop losses. The bill returns to the House as final session actions loom, with debates on veterans bonuses railroad unification and power commission nominations amid a March 4 adjournment.
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Washington
Congress
Senate
House
Caraway
Arkansas
Power Commission
Hoover
Fires Hit Non-Union Workers Homes in Danville Mills
In Danville Virginia two non-union workers homes at Riverside and Dan River Mills burned amid an incipient strike. Guardsmen saved one house as investigators probe for incendiary causes. Five men were questioned and four held after gasoline cans and a funnel were found in a nearby residence.
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Danville
Riverside
Dan River Mills
Charles Johnson
Schoolfield
W. T. Dooley
Reese T. Grubert
Dooley
Highway Patrolman Injured In Motorcycle Mishap
Burlington dispatch reports Pi W. B. Lewis a state highway patrolman in the fifth district was badly injured early today when his motorcycle wrecked while avoiding a vehicle entering from a side road near Haw River. He was taken to a local hospital and physicians are hopeful for his recovery.
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Burlington
Fifth
Haw River
Lentz
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Joffre Bier
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Govt. Brief
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