Duke endowment defense opens ICC hearing in Charlotte
In Charlotte on June 21 AP reports Cameron Morrison and L B Jeffries led a heated session before ICC examiner H C Davis over Piedmont and Northern Railway extension requests. Readings from the endowment indenture highlighted gifts to hospitals churches and educational institutions with Duke interests cited in cross examination.
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Charlotte
Duke Endowment
H. C. Davis
Interstate Commerce Commission
Piedmont and Northern Railway
Cameron Morrison
L. B. Jeffries
Washington
Southern Railway
Morrison
Jeffries
North Carolina
Duke
James B. Duke
Duke Power Company
W. S. Lee
Southern Power Company
Lee
E&e. Thomasson
Examiner Davis
Davis
Mr. Jeffries
Aluminium Company of America
Judson Mills
Greenville
S. C
Duke Power Company of
Western Carolina Power Company
Great Falls Power Company
Wateree Power Company
Southern Public Utilities Company
Prp. & N
Carolinas
Carl H. Davis
Atlantic Coast Line
Salisbury
Concord
Nearly half of new car licenses issued as deadline nears
Raleigh June 21 The Enterprise Bureau reports only fifty thousand of the new automobile licenses have been sold in the first 21 days of the registration period. Authorities warn remaining licenses totaling 350000 to 375000 must be issued in the next 10 days to meet the July 1 deadline. Officials urge immediate applications to avoid penalties and note plates cannot be attached before July 1.
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the Enterprise Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel Raleigh
R. A. Coughton
Commissioner of Revenue
Doughton
Raleigh
Myth Of The Ideal American Family Debunked By Studies
Asheville June 21 AP The idea that a normal American family has two parents and three children is challenged by Dr Hazel Kyrk of the University of Chicago. Census data show Chicago families average 3.8 members with variations by occupation and nativity, and most households with three or more children would struggle to support four members.
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Asheville
Hazel Kyrk
University of Chicago
American Home Ecconomics Society
Census Bureau
Chicago
Kyrk
Bureau of Census
Bureau
United States
Carroll Improves at Atlanta Federal Prison Hospital
Mrs Earl Carroll watches as her producer husband nears better health after a breakdown, aided by warden John W Snook who relaxed contact rules and instructed inmates to talk to Carroll while avoiding the bath tub party memory. Carroll rests under attendants while letters pour in and visitors remain absent.
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Atlanta
Earl Carroll
Atlanta Federal Penitentiary
Carroll
Greenville
S. C
New York
John W. Snook
Snook
Car
James
Norman Cara
Weather blocks Byrd monoplane America flight
New York reports that the four man crew aboard the monoplane America cannot take off for France tonight or tomorrow morning due to unfavorable atmospheric conditions. Meteorologist James H. Kimball notes a northeast moving storm from Hatteras, now near Nantucket and Halifax, with considerable intensity.
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New York
France
America
James H. Kimball
Weather Bureau
Hatteras
Nantucket
Halifax
Czecho Slovakia Airmen Plan Prague to New York Flight
Two Czecho Slovakia airmen Captain Franz Malkovsky and Lieutenant Ludwig Pavlovsky announced plans to fly from Prague to New York and return in August. The aircraft and its motors will be manufactured in Czecho Slovakia.
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Prague
Czecho-Slovakia
Franz Malkovsky
Ludwig Pavlovsky
New York
Courtroom barred as Burley case called in Mississippi
In Jackson Mississippi Judge Potter barred all newspapermen from the Hinds county court room as Walter Burley accused killer of two white women faced the assault indictment. Burley also faces murder charges in the killings of Mrs. O S Rees and Miss Martha Rees.
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Jackson
Miss
Hinds County Court Room
W. H. Potter
Walter Burley
Potter
W. S. Wells
National
Burley
O. S. Rees
Martha Rees
Miss Rees
Duke Line Aims to Link Carolinas to Virginia Coal Mines
Piedmont and Northern Railway officials testifying before Interstate Commerce Commission outlined plans for a new electric line connection from Winston-Salem to Virginia coal fields. Duke line would form the shortest route into the Carolinas and possibly extend to Durham, with Norfolk and Western involvement noted.
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Charlotte
Piedmont and Northern Railway
Carolinas
Virginia
EK. Thomasson
H. ©. Davis
Interstat Commerce Commission
Thomasson
Norfolk and Western Railway
Winston-Salem
N.C
W. O S. Lee
Southern Power Company
Duke
P. and
Winston- Salem
Durham
Daughters of Ransom Leader Fannie Williams Dies at 71
Mrs. Fannie Ransom Williams 71 a nationally known UDC figure died at her Newton home after a week with paralysis. Funeral at Presbyterian church with Confederate veterans as honorary pallbearers and World War veterans as active pallbearers. Surviving children listed among eight.
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Newton
Fannie Ransom Williams
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Presbyterian Church
Newton Ransom Sherrill
National Organization
New Orleans
Washington
D. C
Catawba County
Condition Unchanged for Veteran Actor John Drew
In San Francisco on June 2 AP report says John Drew remains critically ill in a local hospital. The veteran actor suffers arthritis and complications and has remained in grave condition for more than a week.
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San Francisco
John Drew
Drew
Wife Appeals for Parole After Liquor at Prayer Meeting
In Raleigh on June 21 a wife writes to E B Bridges claiming her husband, now in prison for possessing liquor, was framed by liquor brought to a home prayer meeting. She asserts the liquor was not his and asks Bridges to investigate for parole, with the pardons commissioner calling for a thorough review.
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Raleigh
E. B. Bridges
Bridges
Commissioner of Pardons
Byrd To Fly Official Transatlantic Mail Mission
Commander Richard E. Byrd to carry official trans Atlantic mail aboard the monoplane America bound for Paris though weather kept the craft grounded at Roosevelt Field. Postmaster General New designated the flight as official mail service with By rd to begin as soon as conditions improve.
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New York
Richard E. Byrd
America Today
Atlantic
Grover A. Whalen
American Trans-Oceanic Company
New
John Kieley
Byrd
Clarence D. Chamberlin
Charles A. Levine
Columbia
Post Office Department
Hempstead, L. I
Washington
Virginia Capes
America
Hoosevelt Field
Weather Bureau
Durham Boy Not Found Rabies In Death Says Dr Shore
Enterprise detail reports Dr Clarence A Shore of the state laboratory of hygiene declares 12 year old Jesse Pope of Durham, who died June 15 after a dog bite and meningitis, did not have rabies. No signs of rabies found. death due to meningitis.
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Shore
Great Britain
Woman Seeks Work to Support Child in High Point
A High Point mother of four, with three children in an orphan home, seeks work to keep her remaining child. She offers to keep house for a small weekly sum to avoid parting from her child. Interested parties may contact the Board of Public Welfare and Mrs Ham mond for full details.
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Board of Public Welfare
W. ©. Hammond
Coolidge May View 10000 Farmers in Ardmore Picnic
President Coolidge may attend a July 16 farmers picnic in Ardmore South Dakota inviting 10 000 farmers from South Dakota Nebraska and Wyoming. If he goes he would also tour Black Hills towns Deadwood and Beulah and be invited to Pine Ridge Indian agency round up events in the North Dakota region. The rapid City report notes a northern hills trip for a western celebration already planned.
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Rapid City
Coolidge
Ardmore
S. D
South Dakota
Nebraska
Wyoming
Black Hills
Deadwood
Bele Fourche
Pine Ridge Indian Agency
Tripartite naval conference to form technical experts panel
The executive committee led by Hugh S. Gibson proposes a technical expert exchange among Great Britain the United States and Japan to clarify naval programs and tonnages and to study the five proposals with aim of an agreed basis of fact Washington officials view Japan's proposal as conciliatory but deem Britain's plan unsatisfactory re opening Washington treaty questions and base fortifications discussions continue.
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Geneva
Switz
Tripartite Naval Conference
Hugh S. Gibson
United States
Great Britain
Japan
Washington
Singapore
Hawaii
Far East
Police Payroll And Staffing In High Point City Department
The High Point police department lists 33 officers including the chief, an assistant chief, three captains, four sergeants and 24 patrolmen. Monthly payroll totals 34 542 dollars with the chief paid 200 dollars, assistants and superior ranks 145 dollars, patrolmen 135 dollars. Since June 1 1925 officers have handled 9 331 cases with police connected to every municipal court matter. One patrolman serves part time.
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High Point
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Duke Foundation
I.C.C
Cam
Pacific
Honolulu
Dallas
Hongkong
Seattle
Tokyo
Army
Navy
Citizens’ Flight Committee
San Francisco-Honolulu
W. E. Easterwood, Jr
Texas
B. H. Griffin
Oklahoma City
Griffin
James D. Dole
Navy Department
Los Angeles
Lakehurst N. J
Lakehurst
Eielson
George H. Wilkins
Ernest L. Smith
Air Mail
Richard Grace
Hollywood
Manukai
Steamship Company
Grace
Clifford Cox
Dorothea Walser
Fairmount
Ind
Duke’s Line
Ransom
DYNDS
Jesse Pope
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