Traffic League meets in Raleigh votes on headquarters
North Carolina Traffic League holds a member meeting in Raleigh to elect an executive secretary and establish a state headquarters. Frank Page of Raleigh resigns as chairman. board members present include Julius W. Cone, George S. Dewey, W. Austin Emer son, C. R. Collins, Sam Siskenson, and others from Greensboro, Goldsboro, Wilson, Charlotte, and more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
North Carolina Traffic League
League
Frank Page
O. Max Gardner
North Carolina
Julius W. Cone
Greensboro
George S. Dewey
Goldsboro
W. Austin
Emerson
C. R. Collins
Charlotte
Sam S&sickenson
Wilson
C. A. Flynn
Washington
R. A. Poole
Wilmington
Thaxton Richardson
J. T. Ryan
High Point
C. W. Strickland
Prohibition Officials Press Fight as Chicago Mob Sought
Police and prosecutors chase a Chicago gang linked to the Lingle killing. Foster is in custody along with five others. an undercover force aided the hunt. A woman held in technical custody is identified as Mrs Frank Bowmhan. The Doran report outlines cooperation with real estate boards and the use of lease cancellations for violations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lingle
Blaney Matthews
Foster
Chicago
Matthews
United States
Taylor
Frank Bowmhan
Prohibition Chief Calls for Eighteenth Amendment Repeal
A top prohibition official accuses enforcing officers of insincerity and politics. He argues that moving enforcement to the justice department will fail where local sentiment is wet and says prohibition is not the logical temperance solution, urging repeal of the eighteenth amendment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Department of Justice
United States
Prohibition Bureau
Prohibition Officials Take Oath In Justice Department
James W. Woodcock, director of prohibition, and Howard T. Jones were sworn in this morning as new enforcement officials. Seymour Lowman and Campbell clashed over enforcement in New York as changes in responsibility were announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Mitchell
Campbell
James W. W. Woodcock
Prohibition
Justice Department
Howard T. Jones
Department of Justice
Local Berry Pickers Kill Remarkable ThreeandHalfFoot Rattle Snake
A rattlesnake measuring three and a half feet with 12 rattlers and a button was killed on Long Arm mountain in Randolph county near the High Point Asheboro road this morning around 11 by J M Beeson and a party from the city who were blackberry picking. The snake was brought to High Point shortly after 2 pm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Long Arm Mountain
Randolph County
High Point
Asheboro
J. M. Beeson
Senate approves cotton price decline investigation
A federal inquiry into cotton price declines for 1916 1926 1927 1928 1929 and early 1930 would be launched by the Grain Futures Administration under a Senate Agriculture Committee resolution. The plan would authorize 125 000 dollars for the probe to identify causes short selling on exchanges responsible parties and effects on prices to help farmers gauge conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate Agriculture Committee
Sheppard
Democrat
Texas
Department of Agriculture
Grain Futures Administration
Epworth League Assembly Opens At Junaluska
The western North Carolina Epworth League assembly began class work at Lake Junaluska after a July 1 banquet that drew about 300 enrollees. Dr. W F Quillian of Nashville spoke on youth guiding the church’s future as head of the new Christian Education board. The temperance and social service board meeting opens Wednesday night by telegram.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lake Junaluska
North Carolina
Epworth League Assembly
Assembly of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, South
W.F. Quillian
Nashville
Quillian
Board of Christian Education
Board of Temperance and Social Service
James Cannon, Jr
Notable Obituaries Across North Carolina Localities
Notices report the deaths of Dr. W. Barrett 69 a Baptist minister in Aurinburg H L Rowland 70 prominent farmer Henderson Mrs Fannie Andrews 89 Tarboro resident Marboro and James P D Proctor trustee of UNC active in state religion politics in Umberton N C.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aurinburg, N. C
W. ©. Barrett
Marboro
Y. C
Fannie Andrews
Tarboro
Umberton
N. C
James PD
Proctor
University of North Carolina
Joseph W. Terry Veteran Dies in North Carolina
Joseph W. Terry, 35, a Confederate veteran, is reported in Xington, North Carolina. The brief AP item notes his veteran status.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fxington
N.C
Joseph W. Terry
Helmstetler Pleads Guilty in Drunken Driving Case
John L. Helmstetler, 60, of near Lexington, pleads guilty to six charges arising from a July incident in which his car struck Mauline and Coline Davis while he was intoxicated. The girls were knocked unconscious with injuries. their condition improving. Prosecutor notes aggravating factors but accepts defense portrayal of remorse. parents express reluctance to pursue harsher action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lexington
John L. Helmstetler
Recorder’s Court
Mauline
Coline Davis
Helmsteler
Philips
Bower
Witneses
Hemisteler
P. V. Critcher
Helmstetler
Judge Combines Charges in $100 Fine Case
Judge A J Newton merged six charges to impose a total fine of $100 and costs. He also ordered Helm Stetler to care for all the orphaned girls. It was shown he had already paid their doctor bills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. J. Newton
Helmstetler
Court Grants Citizenship to Dr MacIntosh and Miss Bland
The U S court of appeals ordered the admission of Rev Dr Douglas Clyde MacIntosh Yale Divinity School professor and Marie Averil Bland to citizenship. Both born in Canada and English/French the pair cited conscience and religious scruples about bearing arms, reversing lower district court denials in New York and Connecticut.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
United States Court of Appeals
Douglas Clyde MacIntosh
Yale Divinity School
Marie Averil Bland
Connecticut
MacIntosh
Miss Bland
France
Flying Exhibition Sunday to Honor Byrd at Charles-Kenner Field
A Sunday aviation exhibition at Charles-Kenner field honors Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd for polar flight feats and the film With Byrd at the South Pole. Parachute jumper Buddy Plunkett of Atlanta, 16, will perform a delayed jump from a speeding plane, followed by fancy flying and dead stick landings by Pilot Paul F. Davis. The timing hinges on air conditions, with jumps likely around 5 p.m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles-Kenner
Richard E. Byrd
South Pole
Byrd
Broadhurst Theater
Buddy Plunckett
Atlanta
Young Plunkett
Paul F. Davis
Supreme Court backs pacifist immigrant in Schwimmer case
Presiding Judge Martin T. Manton noted Dr. MacIntosh and Miss Bland differ from Sosika Schwimmer who was denied citizenship for pacifist views. The Supreme Court upheld the refusal, with Schwimmer described as an absolute atheist lacking nationalism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martin T. Manton
Dr. MacIntosh
Miss Bland
Sosika Schwimmer
United States Supreme Court
Manton
Mme. Schwimmer
Stirewalt Family Returns From Virginia Motor Tour
Dr and Mrs N S S Stirewalt and family have returned from a motor trip through Virginia They visited Richmond and Washington and traveled back via the Shenandoah Valley
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stirewalts
N. S.S. Stirewalt
Virginia
Richmond
Washington
Shenandoah Valley
Fire Loss In State Ahead of 1929 First Half
Raleigh July 1 The North Carolina fire losses in the first six months of this year are expected to exceed the same period in 1929 by about $500 000 Dan C Boney state insurance commissioner said The six month loss for 1929 was 3 036 803 and for the first five months this year was 3 375 593 With June losses placed at 225 000 the six months total would reach 3 600 592
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
North Carolina
Dan C. Boney
Flour as a Combustible Sub stance
A scientific note explains flour is combustible when dispersed in air. Each particle contacts oxygen in the cloud and a flame or spark can ignite it, causing burning in a room.
Jones Peacock G2 Moves Offices to Commercial Bank
Offices of Jones and Peacock Inc moved today from North Main Street to the Commercial National Bank at 164 South Main. The main suites 413 414 415 house the general offices, with the London Guarantee and Accident claim and inspection departments in 402. The firm established 1917 names John R Peacock president and Miss Lucille Goldston secretary treasurer. Robert W Russell becomes a new member and head of the general agency department. Other staff include W C King in claims and C M Hurt in inspections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jones and Peacock, Inc
North Main Street
English
Commercial National Bank
South Main Street
London Guarantee and Accident Company
Bankers and Shippers Insurance Company
New York
American Constitution Fire Insurance Company
New Jersey Insurance Company
Newark
Stuyvesant Insurance Company
Richmond Insurance Company
John R. Peacock
Robert W. Russell
Lucille Goldston
Russell
Ber
Raleigh
North Carolina Insurance Company
Automobile Insurance Company of
Hartford
Another Newspaper Girl Weds Scion of Prominent Family
Joseph Field age 19 son of Stanley Field married Frances Batty a former Kansas City and St. Louis reporter at a Philadelphia ceremony May 31. The couple learned of the marriage only after he returned to their country estate with his bride. Batty 32 a connoisseur of paintings and art buyer. Joseph Field is a grand nephew of Marshall Field.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Joseph Field
Stanley Field
Philadelphia
Frances Batty
Kansas City
St. Louis
Waverly
Ill
Field
Field Museum
Edward H. Batty
The
Tribune
Europe
Marshall Field
Truck overturns near Pilot Mountain. two escape injury
Walter Snow and a small boy were thrown clear when their truck overturned and burned two miles from Pilot Mountain while returning to Rocky Mount from Pinehurst with a load of peaches. Both escaped unharmed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pilot Mountain
Walter Snow
Rocky Mount
Pinehurst
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Youngquist
Department
Woodcock
James M. Doran
Treasury
Harry J. Anslinger
Narcotic Bureau
Doran
South Carolina
High Prohi
Big Rattlesnake
Junaluska
Yenderson
H. L. Rowland
Farmer
T. C. Johnson
Jones-Peacock
Commercial Bank
Insurance Corporation
Raleigh Man
Rolle
National Bellas Jess Co
Hardley
Georgettes
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