Simmons and Gooding clash over farm tariff duties in Senate
In Washington on June 9 a Senate floor clash pits Democrat Simmons of North Carolina against Republican Gooding of Idaho. They spar over farm product tariffs, with Simmons alleging pro-farmer concessions enabled high manufactured-product duties. Gooding denies any bloc agreement, noting the bill’s protection levels and voter intent.
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Washington
Senate
Senator Simmons
Northwyn Carollina
Senator Gooding
Idaho
Republican Agricultural Tariff Bloc
Simmons
Finance Committee
Gooding
North Carolina
Carraway
Arkansas
Kellogg
Negro mail clerk held for robbery in Goldsboro
Post office inspectors arrested Van Buren King a negro mail clerk charging theft of a registered package containing 1000 dollars in cash on December 26 and a second package in January with 3500 in cash and 450 in Liberty bonds. King fled from Hamlet to Weldon and is to have a hearing later today. Shipments came from Aberdeen Trust Company and Louisburg Bank to northern points.
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Goldsboro
Post Office
van Buren King
Negro Mail Clrk
Hamlet
Weldon
I King
King
Aberdeen
Louisburg Bank
French Mission to Sail for America
Paris announces that the French financial mission to consult with the war debt funding commission will sail for the United States on June 24. M Parmentier will head the mission and has booked passage on the liner Paris bound for New York.
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Paris
United States
War Debt Funding Commission
M. Parmentier
New York
Publisher Guy Barham Dies in London
The Dow Jones ticker carried a London dispatch reporting the death early today of Guy Barham publisher of the Los Angeles Herald. Barham, who had traveled to London with the William Randolph Hearst party, died after a throat operation.
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New York
Dow Jones New Ticker Service Today
London
Guy Barham
Los Angeles Herald
Barham
William Randolph Hearst
Steeplejack dies after 56 foot fall at North Wilkesboro
Lie Lee Goforth a 22 year old steeple jack and smokestack painter from Winston-Salem died in a Statesville hospital after a fall from a smokestack at North Wilkesboro yesterday. He suffered multiple fractures including arms legs and jaws. His father died in an auto accident here nine months ago.
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Statesville
Willie Lee Goforth
Winston-Salem
John Goforth
North Wilkesboro
Goforth
Rail rate fight threatens High Point trade gains
High Point may lose gains from a 10 percent freight rate cut if the railroad proposals before the Interstate Commerce Commission go through. Southern Furniture Manufacturers' secretary T. J. Ryan warns local shippers could suffer from higher rates and tougher competition, as carriers seek to raise north bound tariffs. A hearing will be held in Asheville later this summer with further sessions planned in other locations to present the shippers' side.
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High Point
Interstate Commerce Commission
T. J. Ryan
Southern Furniture Manufacturers’ Association
Southern Trafts League
Virginia
North Carolina
Brooks G. Brown
Southern Railroad
Commerce Commission
Cincinnati
Louisville
Interstate Commercce Commission
Chamber of Commerce
Southern Furniture Manufacturers, Association
Southern Traffic League
South
Asheville
Venerable Citizen of Jamestown Dies at 73
Albert L. Wagoner, a longtime Jamestown resident and church member, died yesterday at age 73. Survived by five children including J O Wagoner and J B Wagoner and ten grandchildren, funeral was held at his Jamestown home at 1 PM conducted by Rev. Loflin. Interment in Rehobeth Cemetery.
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Albert L. Wagoner
Jamestown
J. O. Wagoner
Lexington
J. B. Wagoner
Haw River
J. M. Wagoner
Pink Brown
First.s Bivins
Greensboro
Mr. Loflin
Pleasant Garden
Rehobeth Cemetery
Rehobeth Church
Railroads allowed to file tariffs with 3 day notice
The Interstate Commerce Commission granted permission for the nation's railroads to file tariffs in line with the 10 percent freight rate cut effective July 1. Tariffs may be filed with three days notice instead of ten, and certain technical publication requirements are waived.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Garrett Declared County Nominee for Commissioner
G A Garrett was named the Guilford County nominee for county commissioner by a 19 vote margin over D A Huffines after a board of elections review. Garrett 1734 votes to 1715 for Huffines, with an earlier error in High Point precinct No 1 corrected. The board refused a recount and allowed Garrett to proceed to the November general election alongside Rankin and Donnell.
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G. A. Garrett
D. A. Huffines
Guilford County
O L. Sapp
D. R
Board of Election
High Point
Board of Elections
Mr. Garrett
J. al Rankin
Db.l. Donnell
Cotton declines after the opening on New York markets
The cotton market opened with a small advance but soon dropped to 2 to 14 points lower as weekend selling and Wall Street pressure spread. First sale absorbed, prices firmed on New Orleans activity and reports of unsettled southern weather with trade buying. July 21.35, October 21.40, December 21.40, January 21.40, March 21.15.
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New York
Wall Street
New Orleans
South
Rickenbacker Reaches Chicago on Fast Transcontinental Flight
Eddie Rickenbacker arrived in Chicago at 7 o clock this morning during a coast to coast flight and departed one and a half hours later for Omaha and Denver. He expected to reach Denver by 3 p m and planned to fly to Salt Lake City tomorrow and then San Francisco in the afternoon.
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Chicago
Eddie Rickenbacker
Here
Omaha
Denver
Salt Lake City
San Francisco
Portuguese Airmen Continue Trans-Atlantic Flight to Rio Janeiro
In Pernambuco on June 9 captains Coutinho and Sadadura who completed a Lisbon to Brazil crossing yesterday pressed on to Rio Janeiro with a planned first stop at Bahia.
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Pernambuco
Brazil
Coutinho and
Sadadura
Lisbon
Rio Janeiro
Bahia
Avery Concedes Defeat in Democratic Nomination Fight
Morganton June 9 A C Avery issued a statement conceding his defeat by incumbent W T Lee for the Democratic nomination to the state corporation commission in the statewide primary held last Saturday.
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Morganton
A.C. Avery
W. T. Lee
State Corporation Commission
Possible Telegraphers Strike Not Expected to Hit Railways
Chicago reports say telegraphers 81 000 strong likely excluded from third wage cut by the Railway Labor Board due to local line conditions. Experts say railways can run for a time even if clerical, maintenance, and shop workers strike without telegraphers and train crew.
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Chicago
Railway Labor Board
Marine Department
Former mayor dies in packing plant
M. C. Holland, former mayor of Peaufort, and superintendent of Southgate Packing, was found dead in the plant power room in New Bern. Authorities believe electrocution caused his death after he left home Wednesday night and failed to return. He leaves a wife and two children.
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New Bern
M. C. Holland
Peaufort
Southgate Packing Company
Holland
Carteret County
East Indian Railway Strike Ends After Two Months
The general East Indian railway strike ends as workers accept a railway agent's offer and resume duties along the line. Mediator F C Andrews, a former missionary now advocating home rule for Indians, helped facilitate conciliation.
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Calcutta
F C. Andrews
Andrews
Bowers Guilty on Liquor Charge Fined 350
Virgil Bowers white was fined 350 dollars and costs by Judge Walter Royal in city court for liquor possession with intent to sell. Officers found five gallons of liquor at his Park street home during a prior search. Bowers appealed and bond was set. Grady Burke convicted of breach of peace, fined 15 dollars and costs. Ernest Phillips likewise convicted and fined 15 dollars and costs. Burke acquitted on a charge of automobile while intoxicated. West Page Service station paid speeding costs.
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Virgil Bowers
White
Walter Royal
Bowers
Park Street
Bond
Grady Burke
Ernest Phillips
Burke
West Page
Mob kidnaps couple in front of home in Anderson
Police investigate the kidnapping of Robert W. Sullivan and Miss Ruby Floyd as they sat in an automobile. Abductors wore Ku Klux Klan garb and warned the pair not to be seen together again. Sullivan denied severe beating. reports conflict on injuries. White officers were alerted. suspects fled to their homes after three miles in the countryside.
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Sullivan
Floyd
Captain Parkin Dies at Trinity in Charity and Respect
Captain Jos Parkin of Trinity dies at his home after a six month illness. Funeral at Trinity Methodist Church tomorrow at 2 PM with pallbearers from his late wife’s funeral. Born in Cornwall England in 1847 he came to the United States about 40 years ago and left surviving children in Trinity Thomasville North Wilkesboro Whiteville Ashford and Will Roy Parkin plus Mrs Covington and Miss Nell and Miss Jewel Parkin.
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Jos. Parkin
Trinity
Trinity Methodist Church
Captain Parkin
Cornwall
England
High Point
T. J. Covington
Nell
Jewel Parkin
Ashford
Will Roy Parkin
E. F. Pepper
Thomasville
Joseph Parkin
North Wilkesboro
Charles Parkin
Whiteville
Oklahoma Preacher Beaten by a Mob
Rev. Thomas J. Irwin former pastor of the First Presbyterian Church was attacked near Lawton Oklahoma. Officials found him at H F Wood’s home nine miles from Lawton in a weakened condition with clothes torn. Irwin and church elders had been indicted on arson with a preliminary hearing set for Thursday. He says enemies were behind two church fires and his earlier abduction.
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Lawton
Okla
Thomas J. Irwin
First Presbyterian Church
Irwin
H. F. Wood
Reidsville Plans New Tobacco Warehouse Purchase
Canvassing committees in Reidsville moved fast and raised the capital stock for a cooperative tobacco warehouse. They secured the minimum $25,000 needed and purchased the Piedmont warehouse site on West Market and North Scales streets. A brick warehouse 128 by 235 feet is planned at North Scales, with an estimated cost near $40,000 including the lot.
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Reidsville
Co-Operative Marketing Warehouse
Piedmont
West Market
North Scales
Rockinghan Storage Warehouse Company
North Scales Street
Griffin murder trial heads to jury over self defense claim
NORFOLK June 9 The case of Courtney Griffin charged with killing his stepfather Peter B Knight is expected to go to the jury late today. Defense argues self defense and insanity at the Griffin farm home on March 4 when Griffin fired a revolver wounding his stepfather mortally and his mother slightly.
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Norfolk
Courtney Griffin
Peter B. Knight
Griffin
Griffin Farm
Tariff Discussion By Foreigners Is Dropped
The public tariff debate involving Italian Ambassador Ricci has been definitively closed for the American government. After a meeting with Secretary Hughes, a conference concluded the matter and no further action was taken.
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Washingdon
Ricci
Italy
Senate
Hughes
Police Chases Fugitive After Main Street Rush
Officer H D Stout chased R M Galloway for several blocks after a theft report tied to a stolen tire. Shots rang out, crowds gathered, and two whisky bottles broken as Galloway attempted escape before the car was recovered and taken to the station.
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Main
R. M. Galloway
H. D. Stout
Galloway
J. W. Thacker
Stout
W. G. Friddle
Royal Cafe
Thacker
Raid Denied on Shriners Train Baggage Cars
Federal and state officials denied a raid on baggage and commissary cars of the special train carrying Shriners to the San Francisco convention. They suspect impostors posed as enforcement officers hoping to find liquor during the prohibition era.
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Milwaukee
San Francisco
Prohibition
Veteran Engineer Dies in Savannah After Illness
Albert H. Lodge longtime Plant System and Atlantic Coast Line locomotive engineer died in Savannah Georgia after months of illness. He began service in 1872 and once drove engine No 111 recording 120 miles per hour to win the Washington to Jacksonville mail contract. In recent years he worked on the Havana special between Savannah and Jacksonville.
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Savanah
Albert H. Lodge
Atlantic Coast Line Railway
South
Atlantic Coast Line
Washington
Jacksonville
Havana
Savannah
Jacks
Ford Offer Declared Only Worthy of Consideration
Washington reports outline three congressional recommendations on private development of the Musette Shoals Alabama nitrate plant project. The majority says the Ford proposal is the only serious option, while the minority supports full Ford terms including the Gorgas steam plant.
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Washington
Congress
Musete Shoals
Ala
House
McKenzie
I Ilinois
Ford
Gorgas
Wright
Georgia
James
Michigan
Gergas
County Agent Removal Dominates Gaston County Meeting
Gaston County commissioners reopen the fight over county agent C Lee Gowan amid petitions urging his removal. State officials from the agriculture department visited earlier to mediate. A June 30 memorandum ending the state share of Gowan’s salary remains in force, with a decision pending after an upcoming meeting.
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Gastonia
Gaston County Board of Commissioners
C. Lee Gowan
E. S. Millsaps
J M. Gray
State Department For Agriculture
J. M. Gray
North Carolina Extension Department
Gowan
Raleigh
State Department
Owner of Cleveland Ball Club Dies Today
James Dunn, president and chief owner of the Cleveland American League baseball club, died in Chicago at 6 140 o clock this morning after a long illness that became acute last February.
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Chicago
James Dunn
Cleveland American League Baseball Club
Mr. Dunn
Cleveland Game Called After Dunn's Death Message
Cleveland manager Tris Speaker announced the game with Washington would not be played after receiving news from Chicago that Mr Dunn had died.
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Cleveland
Maager Tris
Chicago
Dunn
Washington
France Opposes Report Reducing German Reparations
Paris June 9 The reparations commission votes on a recommendation for German reparations reduction. The majority favors the proposal while France alone opposes the measure.
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France
Paris
Relic Washed Ashore at Margate City Beach
A weathered remnant of a wooden vessel washed ashore on the Margate City beach near Atlantic City. Coast guardsmen examined the debris and speculated it may be remains of a German submarine from the war era. The finds included a long segment of wood and a 60 foot length, with some damage noted.
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Atlantic City
Margate City
Lometh
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Board
Rickenbacker
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Oklahoma
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Lee Gowan
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