Taft Arrives in Asheville for Month-Long Rest
Chief Justice William Howard Taft arrives in Asheville for a month of rest. Mrs. Taft physician Dr. Thomas A. Claytor and a nurse accompany him as Grove Park Inn hosts the party. Taft praises the hotel and local scenery en route from Washington.
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Mrs. Taft
Mountain City
Asheville
William Howard Taft
United States
Taft
Grove Park Inn
Old Fort
Andrews Geyser
Black Mountain
Oia Fort
Col. Andrews
North Carolina
Greensboro
Charlotte
Nine Are Acquitted By Grand Jury Report
Gaston County news reports grand jury returns true bills of murder indictments against five of fourteen men in the slaying of Ella May Wiggins a Bessemer City textile striker. Trial postponement cited for venue affidavits as Brummitt avoids pre announcing strategy.
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Gastonia
Ella May Wiggins
Jan
Gaston County
Grand Jury
Bessemer City
Wiggins
P. A.mcelroy
Gardner
Dennis G. Brummitt
National Textile Union
Winter Storm Threatens Western States And Coast
A major winter storm grips the northern Rocky Mountains and eastern Continental Divide, stranding motorists in Colorado and New Mexico as temperatures plunge. In California and Las Angeles, snow flurries persist but rescue crews report marooned families in Lake Arrowhead district aided with fuel and provisions. The Cunard liner Aquitania anchors in Ambrose Channel due to dense fog affecting New York harbor traffic.
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Denver
Rocky Mountains
Continental Divide
New Mexico
Basin
Mont
Medicine Bow
Wyo
Durango
Silverton
Colo
Los Angeles
San Bernardino
Forest Rangers
Lake Arrowhead
Marie Prevost
Buster Keaton
Hollywood
Fraser National Park
Bakersfield
Tehachapi
New York
Cunard
Aquitain
Ambrose Channel
Income tax extension possible for 1929 returns
Washington January 15. Commissioner Lucas of the internal revenue bureau said extensions may be granted upon satisfactory requests. No general extension is planned. limits run 30 to 90 days with a tentative return due by March 15 and at least one quarter of tax paid. Interest at 6 percent applies to deficiencies.
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Washington
Lucas
Internal Revenue Bureau
Tunney Reports Stable After Operation at Presbyterian
Gene Tunney remained comfortable and in good condition after an operation on Monday at Presbyterian hospital. A bulletin issued this morning confirmed the former heavyweight champion is recovering well.
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New York
Gene Tunney
Presbyterian Hospital
Infanta yacht christened for Barrymore family
John Barrymore’s $500000 steel yacht The Infanta awaited launching in Long Beach California with Mrs Dolores Costello naming the craft. Chicago bombing damages a west side tailor shop blamed on labor troubles. Heidelberg University marks cornerstone for American Hall funded by former ambassador Jacob Gould Schurman.
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Ong Beach
Cal
John Barrymore
Barrymore
Dolores Costello
Erlin
Heidelberg University
Jacob Gould Schurman
Doctor McClanahan, McKinley Physician, Dies in Colorado
Dr Rice K McClanahan 55 personal physician to Mrs William McKinley during the McKinley era died in Colorado Springs. The report confirms his death on January 15 and notes his long service to the First Lady.
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Colorado Springs
Colo
Rice
K. McClanahan
William McKinley
McKinley
Isolated Island To Get Supplies In Wales
In Pellheli Carnarvonshire a lifeboat carries foodstuffs and Christmas parcels to Bardsey Island cut off since December 15. Past attempts failed against fierce seas. the four hour voyage began with cheers from townspeople and will report back this evening on the marooned islanders.
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Pellheli
Carnarvonshire
Wales
Bardsey Island
Korean Students On Strike Arrested Across Seoul
About a thousand Korean students including 250 girls were arrested during a strike in thirteen colleges and high schools in Seoul. The walkout, totaling roughly 10,000 students in mock sympathy with 900 peers detained last month, stemmed from long standing clashes between Japanese and Korean middle school students.
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Seoul
Korea
Greensboro names deputy Daffey as new police chief
REENSBORO AP Deputy Sheriff Daffey, after ten years in Guilford County, is named Greensboro chief of police to replace the dismissed George Crutchfield. In Columbia, Ton Earle elected SC Bar president succeeding Frank Miller killed in a recent auto crash. In Wilmington, the steamship West Canada grounded damaging its hull, rudder jammed, en route to New Orleans.
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Reensboro
N. C
Suke D. Caffey
Guilford County
Greensboro
George P. Crutchfield
Olumbia
S. C
Wilton H. Earle
Greenville
South Carolina Bar Association
Frank A. Miller
Hartsville
Ilmington
West Canada
New Orleans
Clemson professor named head of entomology group
Professor Franklin Sherman of Clemson College has been named president of the American Association of Economic Entomologists. In North Carolina James M. Hollar, 48, died from a carbolic acid dose, believed accidental. In Charlotte trainmen mistook a living man for a dead body on tracks, later found alive after alcohol. in Asheville four hundred delegates attend the Western North Carolina pastors conference at Calvary Baptist Church.
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Lemson College
5. C
Franklin Sherman
Clemson College
American Association of Economic Entomologists
Tatesville
N. C
James M. Hollar
Harlotte
Sheville
Western North Carolina
Calvary Baptist Church
Capper Backs Bounty Model for Sugar Growers
Senator Capper of Kansas endorsed a federal bounty for continental sugar growers and refiners, arguing it would aid American sugar farmers and that a higher tariff on Cuban imports would not benefit domestic beet and cane growers. He warned a tariff would raise free imports from the Philippines and fail to meet U.S. sugar needs.
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Washington
Janu
Senator Capper
Kansas
Senate
Capper
United States
Philippines
World War Veteran Dudley Truve Ends Life in New York Hotel
Dudley Truve, 37, a World War veteran from Forest City North Carolina, unable to provide for his wife and daughter after a failed job search, shot himself in his New York hotel room today with his service revolver.
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New York
Forest City
N. C
Dudley Truve
Stimson Heads American Delegation To London Talks
The arrival of the American delegation in England for the London naval conference signals tense early discussions. Colonel Henry L. Stimson seeks to avoid any Anglo American domination impression while urging restraint from any general limitation pact. The group plans preliminary reception talks as they speed toward Plymouth.
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Stimson
MacDonald
England
America
Hoover
George Washington
Plymouth
Ambassador Dawes
Lindbergh Plane Declared a Flying Laboratory
The new monoplane built for Col. Charles A. Lindbergh is described as a flying laboratory. It is designed to test high altitude flight in preparation for aerial transport development. Experiments will involve naval meteorology experts at Lakehurst and work with the United States Weather Bureau.
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Los Angeles
Charles A. Lindbergh
J. L. Maddux
Naval Meteorological
Lakehurst
N. J
Naval Air Station
United States Weather Bureau
Col. Lindbergh
Maddux
Harvard Locker Building Burns in Cambridge
Fire at the Harvard locker building beside Soldiers Field in Cambridge Mass destroyed trophies, athletic gear, and equipment. Loss estimated at 100000 dollars. Dennis Enwright and his family escaped from an adjacent house. Allan Hoover, son of the president, was among business school students at the scene.
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Cambridge
Mass
Harvard
Soldiers’ Field
Dennis Enwright
Allan Hoover
Enrichetta Requests Immediate Aid After Fog Collision
The Italian steamer Enrichetta, sailing from Rotterdam to Naples, wirelessed from 30 miles west of Gibraltar that it needs immediate assistance after a collision with an unidentified British steamer in dense fog.
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U. S
Gibraltar
Enrichetta
Rotterdam
Naples
Pollard Urges Election Reform and Tax Relief in Inaugural
Virginia Governor John Garland Pollard called for election law reform and county government changes, a state wide primary to curb cross party influence, creation of a commission to revise election laws, and growth in education health and welfare funding. He framed law enforcement as tied to public sentiment and sought higher workmen compensation awards.
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Virginia
Richmond
John Garland Pollard
Aasamannulenann
Aelmane
General Assembly
Pollard
Relief Promised Flood Sufferers
Memphis dispatch reports continued rain in the Mississippi valley with a cold snap anticipated. Levees along the Mississippi hold, but tributaries like the St Francis and White threaten farms and towns with rising waters. Sandbags have been dispatched to Arkansas levee districts including Piggott Marked Tree and Big Lake while Cassidy bayou dynamiters remain uncaptured.
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St. Francis
Arkansas
Memphis
Piggott
Marked Tree
Big Lake
Ouachita
White
Black
Cache
Quitman
Cassidy Bayou
Clarendon
Ark
White River
Newport
Arkansas River
Flood-threatened towns seek relief as temperatures drop
Citizens in many cities along the Wabash and White rivers and tributaries faced rising flood threats and awaited promised cooling today, hoping the expected temperature drop would ease the danger to homes and property.
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Indianapolis
Negro Believed To Have Escaped From Reidsville
REIDSVILLE Jan 15 Officers hunting Robert Carter accused of attacking a young woman here Monday believe he has escaped this section. No clues in three days despite a continued search. Rewards total 1000 offered for his capture with 500 from the city and 500 from Rockingham county. The estate is expected to offer another reward.
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Reidsville
Robert Carter
Carter
Rockingham County
Gardner
Mary Pickford Wins Estate Tax Battle
Mary Pickford, celebrated actress and wife of Douglas Fairbanks, defeats a state attempt to collect 90 284 interlitance tax on her mother Charlotte Pickford Smiths estate. Pickford contends 780 009 of the estate was a trust fund she created from earnings, and that 28 284 already paid as executrix is all due. The mothers estate exceeded 1 000 000.
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Mary Pickford
Los Angeles
Charlotte Smith
Douglas Fairbanks
Charlotte Pickford Smith
Governor urges harsher penalties to curb liquor traffic
In his annual message Governor John G. Richards calls for making the whiskey buyer equally guilty with the seller and to impose mandatory jail terms on a second prohibition law violation. He blames liquor use for widespread crime and urges enforcement to curb bootlegging and reduce suffering.
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South Carolina
Columbia
S. C
John G. Richards
South Carolina General Assembly
A. E. Hutchison
House
Richards
Dorsett Won't Run for Senate Nomination
Raleigh officials report that Rev Henry Grady Dorsett of Wake Forest will not contest the Republican senatorial nomination. The Wake Forest minister had announced his candidacy and planned to enter the primary, but local Republicans intimate he would be wasting his time and would not pay the $5 entrance fee.
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Raleigh
Raleigh Times
Henry Grady Dorsett
Wake Forest
Dorsett
Steamers Hit Off Gibraltar Collision Near Gibraltar
The Italian steamer Enrivhetta and the Swedish steamer Adriatic collided in a fog thirty miles west of Gibraltar. The Enrivhetta was damaged and sent a distress call. Adriatic crew were rescued by Enrivhetta as they proceeded toward Gibraltar.
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Gibraltar
Enrivhetta
Venice
Rotterdam
Adriatic
Rural roads urged to lure farmers back to fields
Nashville highway commissioner R H Baker told the 27th annual American Roadbuilders Association convention in Atlantic City that rural road construction can bring farmers back from cities by enabling quick access to markets and better merchandising of crops.
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Atlantic City
R. H. Baker
Nashville
Tennesee
American Roadbuilders Association
Tennessee
Baker
Gas Fumes Halt Blue Star Liner Axon Star
In Panama City on January 15 a Blue Star liner Axon Star arriving from Vancouver halted its voyage to the British Isles due to deadly fumes in the hold. The fumes result from burning coal combined with borax cargo. Two crew members have died and two others were partly overcome by the fumes.
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Panama City
Panama
Blue Star
Axon Star
Vancouver
British Isles
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