105 Men Trapped After Degnan McConnell Mine Blast
Rescue teams labor at Wilburton Oklahoma after an explosion entombs 105 miners at the Degnan McConnell mine. Eight are known alive at shaft bottom amid white damp gas while air and rescue efforts proceed with doctors nurses and emergency gear on site.
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Wilburton
Okla
Degnan-McConnell
J. B. Hynal
United States Bureau of Mines
McAlester
Hartshorne
T. L. Henry
Red Cross
A. P. Thomason
Degnan- McConnell Company
High Point drive for college pledges opens with goal of
The High Point College pledge drive starts tomorrow at 8 AM with breakfast at the Friend's hut on South Main. A luncheon follows at 12:15 and a 6:30 supper at the Methodist Protestant church. Over $25,000 must be raised by tomorrow night to honor the unpaid pledge. John Peacock leads volunteers aiming for a quick, efficient collection across the city.
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High Point’ College
South Main Street
Methodist Protestant Church
North Main Street
High Point
John Peacock
Inquiry Focuses on Coolidge Aluminum Matter
Senate committee questions the White House meeting between President Coolidge Secretary Mellon and Attorney General Sargent regarding the Aluminum Company of America inquiry. Donovan says the department issued a statement early in the day to counter attacks and justify due diligence. He asserts personal accountability and rejects claims of improper protection for Mellon interests.
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Washington
White House
Coolidge
Mellon
Sargent
Department of Justice
Aluminum Company of America
Senate
Donovan
Walsh
Montana
Erney
Donovan R
Department
Senate Committee
Col. Donovan
Justice Department
Mellon Company
New York
Federal Trade Commission
Western Union Case Games Up The First Of February
Petition filed last fall signals further action as Western Union faces pending raises and expected courtroom fights. Newspapers report the company aims to resolve disputes and push deadlines for February proceedings.
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Western Union
Navy Eyes New Airship as Shenandoah Succession Plan
Realignment of naval air defenses includes constructing a larger dirigible to replace the Shenandoah. Congress considers trimming enlisted ranks and retiring ships while expanding heavier than air facilities and testing metal dirigibles with Ford backing. Secretary Wilbur and Admiral Jones urge caution on lighter craft and emphasize aviation training needs.
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Washington
Lakehurst Naval Air Station
Los Angeles
Naval
Navy Department
Naval Aviation
Wilbur
Department
Airship Development Corporation
Henry Ford
Navy Aire
Navy General Board
Naval Air Service
Navy
Great Britain
Real
Hilary ] Jones
Generatrd
Limidhia Committee
Somva
Shen
Retary
House
Poison Attempt Leaves High Point Youth Critical Yet Improving
Vander Gedberry, a High Point youth, swallowed bichloride of mercury in a suicide bid early Monday. He is in Guilford General Hospital with a critical condition but shows slight improvement. Doctors warn permanent kidney damage may result if he survives. Gedberry allegedly offered no clear reason, muttering about trouble as he regained limited ability to speak.
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Vander Gedberry
High Point
Guilford General Hospital
I. T. Mann
Sedberry
Doris May Liles Dies in Infant Birth Home Service Today
Doris May, infant daughter of Mr and Mrs J T Liles, died early this morning at the parental Tryon street home. Services will be held at 3 30 this afternoon from the home. interment in Oakwood cemetery.
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Doris May
J. T. Liles
Tryon Street
Oakwood Cemetery
President Gaskell Held on Bond Over Bank Failure
D B Gaskell president of the defunct Bank of Whitakers was held on a $50 000 bond in Rocky Mount after arrest on embezzlement misappropriation and false entries charges connected to the bank’s failure. Preliminary hearing set for tomorrow before Justice Bullock as the bank already closed January 4 by the state examiner.
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New York
Pennsylvania Coal Company
Hart
Wilkesbarre
President Coolidge
Washington
Pennsylvania
Gaskell
Bank of Whitakers
Rocky Mount
D. B. Gaskell
Whitakers
Justice of the Peace
Bullock
Clarence Latham
Morgan and McLean to Fight in Oakland Tonight
Ted Morgan world junior lightweight champion and Stewart McLean of St Paul collide in a ten round bout at Oakland auditorium. They weigh in over the limit. past three confrontations yielded two decisions for Morgan and one draw.
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Oaklandes Calif
Ted Morgan
Stewart McLean
St. Paul
Oakland Auditorium
Market Opens Higher on Broad Stock Buying Surge
Wall Street reports a broad resumption of buying at the opening as favorable dividend, merger and recapitalization news from major firms prompts gains. Early leaders included Baldwin, Pullman, U S Steel, Sears Roebuck, National Biscuit, California Packing, Hudson Motors and Stewart-Warner.
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Wall Street
New York
Aldwin
Pullman
U. S. Steel
Sears Roebuck
National Biscuit
California Packing
Hudson Motors
Stewart-Warner
Nye questions world court idea as war makers' child
Senator Gerald P. Nye, seated from North Dakota, said his present view is that the world court concept is "the child of the makers of war" though he has not yet decided.
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Washington
Gerald P. Nye
North Dakota
Passenger dies in Virginia crash near Fredericksburg
Leon A. Nixon of Maynard Massachusetts was killed when the car he rode in overturned on a highway near Fredericksburg Virginia. The driver and companion was injured and hospitalized.
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Fredericksburg
Leon A. Nixon
Maynard
Mass
Charles Garland's Experiment Communal Living Now Is Bared
Allentown reports the disinterment order for the baby of Charles Garland and Bettina Hovey at the April Farm colony founded by Garland. District Attorney Boyle will seek details while Hovey explains the infant’s death from suffocation. Garland, charged with adultery, is free on bond awaiting hearing.
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Allentown
Charles Garland
Bettina Hovey
April Farm
Boyle
Miss Hovey
Garland
Mowglie
Quakertown
Total eclipse line traced across Africa to Philippines
Astronomers from eight nations map the total eclipse path from the Belgian Congo to Mindanao with Africa seeing over two minutes of totality and Sumatra and Borneo about three minutes. In Atlanta a shooting incident involving C. C. Lanier and his five year old daughter Katherine leaves Mrs. Lanier near death. Police investigate.
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Atlanta
New York
Central
Africa
Indian Ocean
Sumatra
Borneo
Philippine Islands
United States
Great Britain
Holland
Australia
Belgian Congo
Central Africa
Victoria Nyanza
Philippines
Mindanao
C. C. Lanier
Katherine
Kathrine
General Wu Te Chen and Sun Fo Arrive in Canton
General Wu Te Chen and Sun Fo, son of Sun Yat Sen, reached Canton today. The ongoing general strike situation remains unchanged.
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Canton
Wu Te Chen
Sun Fo
Sun Yat Sen
Chinese Republic
Intrastate zoning plan eyed for Western Union tariffs
The North Carolina Corporation Commission set February 1 for hearings on Western Union Telegraph Co. intrastate zoning rates. The plan would raise some flat rates up to 60 percent while neighboring zones could lower costs near origin, potentially affecting Postal rates and press messaging.
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Raleigh
Corporation Commission
Western Union Telegraph Co
Goldsboro
Waynesville
Western Union
Grand jury ends Rodgers case without charges in Wake
Wake county grand jury after about 20 hours on the P. B. Rodgers Jr. killing on December 31 returns with no facts to indict. Jurors considered three women in the house but found no evidence of involvement and said the boy died by his own action. Foreman Alfred Williams led the intelligent panel with Coroner Waring and Solicitor Evans contributing exhaustively but fruitlessly.
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Wake County
Rodgers
P. B. Rodgers, Jr
Lolita Clark
Bonnie Baste
Alfred Williams
Waring
Evans
Bishop Cheshire and Large Family Photographed in Raleigh
A portrait session captured Bishop Joseph B. Cheshire with 29 kinfolk including children and grandchildren. Dr. S. W. Tucker and family from China along with Joe Cheshire Jr and other relatives contributed to the photo. The bishop, famed for his child friendly apartment life, is noted for affordable rents and a kinder urban living vision. Governor Morrison visited recently.
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Joseph B. Cheshire
S. W. Tucker
China
Joe Cheshire
Raleigh
Farmers Raise the Ante On the Price of Corn
In St Joseph Missouri Farris proposes paying corn with Missouri mules and with jacks and jinnies to drive up corn value. He cites I H C A offer of $1 a bushel for corn in exchange for farm implements and calls for higher bids to lure hardware and lumber interests into the deal.
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Josephs
F. E. Farris
International Harvester Company of America
Missouri
St. Joseph
Landis Woman Dies From Highway Accident
Mrs. W. L. McLean a 60 year old Landis mill worker in Rowan died about 7 PM yesterday after being struck by a south bound automobile while walking along a highway in Landis. She died en route to Concord hospital. Survived by husband and several children.
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Salisbury
W. L. McLean
Landis
Rowan County
Concord
Seventeen Dead in Takamatsu Colliery Explosion
A mine explosion at the Takamatsu colliery in northern Kyushu killed seventeen workers and injured twenty three, according to vernacular dispatches from Fukuoka.
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Tokyo
Fukuoka
Takamatsu
Kiushiu
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Dayton
Scott Field
Ill
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Vander Ledberry
Doris May Liles
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