Negro killer confesses to multiple murders in riot case
Will Lockett, a black man, confessed from death row to strangling ten women and a girl, including Geneva Hardman, in 1912 to 1917 incidents. He claims his true name is Petre Timbrough and says he attacked women near Carmi Evansville and Camp Zachary Taylor. He is slated for execution by electric chair on March 11.
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Eddyville
Will Locket
Geneva
Hardman
Lexington
Todayv
Warden Shelton
Carmi
Evansville
Zachary Taylor
Lockett
Petre Timbrough
Pembroke
Asheboro Citizen Monroe Cox Ends Life at Home
Asheboro March 8 Special Monroe Cox Randolph county prominent citizen shot and killed himself at his Route 1 home. Despondency over ill health thought responsible. Funeral services led by Rev T J Greene and burial at Pleasant Ridge. Thomas J Redding died at his home in Jack-Creek aged 73. he served Randolph in the legislature four terms. Mrs Redding survives three children and a brother. Funeral and burial at Old Union cemetery. E E Yow sold store at Coleridge to W F Lambert and son and J Crawford of Winston-Salem.
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Asheboro
Monroe Cox
Randolph
Randolph County
Kidnapping Ring Bares Cross Border Plot Against Americans
Mexican foreign office reports a co operative kidnapping association aimed at abducting and holding for ransom foreigners, preferably Americans, with Mexicans and Americans on the border. The group allegedly seeks to incite trouble between Mexico and the United States and promoters are blamed as rebel agents. The war department was instructed to dismantle the organization. Handbills advertised a May 5 coup by a reorganized government of free Mexicans.
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Washington, March
Foreign Office
Mexico City
War Department
Government of Free
Death pursues Russian refugees aboard Navajo in Black Sea
In Constantinople on March 8 refugees fleeing Russia on the steamer Navajo faced death from disease and cold. The Red Cross chartered vessel drifted four days as a gale consumed fuel and coal, a typhus outbreak spread, and many bodies were thrown overboard before another ship appeared.
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Constantinople
Russia
Fighteen
American Red Cross
Black Sea
Hotel Blaze at Old Point Comfort Sparks Fatality Rumors
George S. Adams manager of the Chamberlain hotel reported a second check shows no deaths in the blaze that destroyed the hotel yesterday at Old Point Comfort Virginia. Earlier rumors said two people were burned to death.
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Old Point Comfort
George S. Adams
Chamberlain Hotel
Speeding bankers wow Motorist in Kansas City
Three wealthy Oklahoma bankers and a fast demonstration car, driven by a speed-loving salesman, faced Matt Clark in a nighttime chase. After the car hit sixty for blocks, Clark halted it. the bankers thanked him and praised the vehicle, noting the salesman would forfeit a 26 bond in the deal.
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Kansas City
Mareh
Matt Clark
Ace
Clark
Welborn Funeral for Roxie B. Welborn. Hayes burial in Charlotte
Mrs Roxie B Welborn died Saturday afternoon at her son's home in Salisbury. Funeral held Sunday at 3 PM at Wesley Memorial Church with choir selections and dedications. Interment at Oakwood cemetery. Pallbearers listed. Also obituary notes Mrs Lucie Morrow Hayes 69, died Sunday. survivors include Dr W A Hayes Montrose M Hayes Lily Hayes. Funeral to be held in Charlotte at 2 PM tomorrow from Miss Blanche Morrow's residence.
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Roxie B. Welborn
John
Welborn
Washington Street
W. A. Lambeth
Lucie Morrow Hayes
W. A. Hayes
East Russell Street
Mecklenburg County
Old Morrow
Charlotte
Blanche Morrow
Charles P. Cobl
Daniel Kerson
Tenth Avenue Presbyterian Church
Charfotte
Wilson Out Again Police Guard Him
President Wilson rode today in an open car with Mrs. Wilson Rear Admiral Grayson and Wilmer Bolling. He wore a heavy overcoat and golf cap and appeared healthy despite last October’s illness. Photographers were again barred by police.
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Washington
Wilson
Grayson
Wilmer Bolling
Knife Knife Stuck Eye Victim Fatally Wounded in Alley
Frank Petrichez rushed into a Chicago drug store with a knife handle protruding from his left eye. The druggist refused to pull it out and police took him to a hospital where doctors removed the knife. Doctors fear brain injury and possible death from the stab by a companion.
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Chicago
Frank Petrichez
Pope decries feminism at men's gathering in Boston
Cardinal O Connell warned that growing feminism undermines men and the family in a Boston talk. He argued men must assert authority at home to preserve morality, saying too many fathers overlook daughters and morals, while women appear masculine and men feminine.
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Boston
Cardinal O'Connell
French Officer Beaten by Prince Joachim at Adlon Hotel
Marcus Gustave Notske, minister of defense, ordered the arrest of Prince Joachim Albert of Russia and Daren von Platten after they assaulted a French officer at the Adlon hotel. In the dining room the prince and companions threw missiles as the orchestra played Deutschland uber alles. The officer was beaten and clothes torn. the prince later left after being told he could not be served. It is unclear if France will act, though tensions rise amid waiter union tensions and perceived reactionary influence.
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Berrien
Marcus
Gustave Notske
Minster
Defense
Joachim Albert
Russia
Daren von Platten
Adlon Hotel
Adlon
Order Restored by Portuguese Cabinet Reshuffle
Washington dispatch reports Portugal has restored order after last week’s strike. The Cablegram explains the cabinet resigned as ministers withdrew after the majority failed to back proposals to dismiss striking employees.
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Washington
Marek S
Portugal
Legation
Supreme Court Rules Income Tax Act Unconstitutional
Washington reports the Supreme Court declares provisions taxing as income stock dividends declared by corporations from earnings after March 1 1913 unconstitutional under the 1916 income tax act.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Australia praised as modern Utopia by Anzac veteran
An Anzac veteran E. W. Connolly hails Australia as a modern utopia during a Chicago visit. The note highlights cozy bunga lows with gardens at seven dollars weekly and six course dinners for 75 cents, plus other priced items and a call to "Go southwest, young man."
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Chicago
March
Heaven
Australia
E. W. Connolly
Superior Court opens in Greensboro for two week civil term
Guilford superior court convened in Greensboro at 10 o clock with Judge P A McElroy presiding for a two week term. Fourteen divorce actions are expected all uncontested and several cases involve the Texas company over explosions at its oil plant in Greensboro last spring. Plaintiffs John G Stone James A Fox and Nancy E B Newman seek property damages from the blast.
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Guilford Superior Court
Greensboro
P. A. McElroy
Marshall
Texas Company
John G. Stone
James A. Fox
Nancy EB. Newon
Cotton futures edge up then ease in New York session
New York cotton prices opened steady with March at 39.18 and May 35.90 while July 33.02 October 30.25 and December 29.50. Active months rose 6 to 35 points on scattered Wall Street demand but traded 9 to 24 points above Saturday's close. After the call the market softened.
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New York
Liverpool
Wall Street
Commission House
Man Bribes Judge In Hosiery Theft Case
Benton Harbor March 8 Herman Marniz of St. Joseph offered Judge Charles E White $150 to leniently pass sentence for stealing hosiery from Cooper Wells Company mills in St. Joseph. The original six months was lengthened to two and a half years in Jackson prison after the bribery attempt.
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Benton Harbor
Herman Marniz
St. Joseph
Charles E. White
Cooper-Wells Company Mills
Jackson
Lumbermen Deny Trust Existence
In Memphis on March 8 lumbermen deny that the open competition plan formed a conspiracy in restraint of trade. More than 300 lumbermen defend the plan as legal arguing that sharing basic industry facts may not violate the Sherman anti trust act.
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Memphis
American Hardwood Manufacturers Association
Whittier Club’s Snowbound Plans Hale in Blizzard
The Whittier club planned a realistic staging of Snowbound in a warm theatre but a Illinois blizzard halted their train. Twenty five members rode out, two men searched for relief and were lost, a rescue snow plow retrieved them at dawn, leaving a vow of never again.
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Chicago
Whittier Club
Whittier
Elgin's Welcome Home Arch Finally Demolished
Elgin's Welcome Home arch on the main thoroughfare was pulled down after weeks of controversy. Citizens called it unsightly and unappreciative of aesthetic taste. a proposed arson attempt by A E F heroes prompted a mayoral threat of jail, ending with the arch given to a city employee for disposal as kindling.
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Elgin
Welcome Home
E. F. Heroes
Hen Lays Unusually Large Egg in Ohio Backyard
A Scranton Rhode Island red owned by Ed Linghoff of Norwood near Cincinnati laid an egg a little over 3 1 2 inches long. The note says the hen has unusually large eyes and is described as a biddy with double volks.
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Cincinnatti
Ohio
Scranton
Rhode Island
Ed. Welinghoff
Norwood
Cincinnati
Liquor Salvage Rules Bar Reexport of Shipwrecked Stock
Washington officials state liquor salvaged from sunken ships that sailed before January 16 the export deadline cannot be brought back into the United States or re exported by any authority of the internal revenue bureau said today.
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Washington
Internal Revenue Bureau
Craps in Court: Gillespie Fined for Dice Game
In Auburn Nebraska Justice Davis presided over a court where a dice game called craps broke out after Wallace Gillespie was arraigned for "rolling the dillies." Gillespie demonstrated by shaking the sheriff, rolled seven and eleven, spectators produced cash, and he was fined 15 dollars.
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Auburn
Neb
Court of Justice
Davis
Wallace Gillespie
Gillespie
Davidson
Pretty girls vow not to wed until fund is raised
Six young Baptist women in Chicago pledge to stay single until the Chicago branch raises its quota of the $160,000,000 fund campaign. They vow to devote energy to raising the $100,000,000 fund and forego courtship until the Northern Baptist convention meets the goal.
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Chicago
The
Baptist Church
Northern Baptist Convention
Boy pinned under car dies in plunge near Carthage
Charlies Lambeth eleven was frozen to death after a motor car plunged over an embankment near Carthage Missouri. Two companions Charles Kitterman and Steve Grady were in the car and were injured and exposed. They were under the wrecked vehicle for three hours before rescue.
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Carthage
Here
Charlies Lambeth
Charles Kitterman
Steve Grady
Lambeth
British Control World Oil Supply Says Expert
Judson C. Welliver testified before the Senate Commerce Committee that Britain, via Royal Dutch, now controls oil development and supply across Canada Australia South Russia Mesopotamia Mexico and the Americas including the Philippines. The claim emphasizes a British stranglehold on global oil.
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Washington
March
Great Britain
Senate Commerce Committee
Judson C. Welliver
Royal Dutch Company
England
Canada
Australia
South Russia
Mesopotamia
Mexico
South and
Central America
Philippines
Carpentiers Married Today in Paris City Hall
Georges Carpentier wed today at Paris city hall. The bride, who dislikes boxing, said she would not watch his fights. Her opposition was cited as a factor in plans that his manager had described as Carpentier final bout with Jack Dempsey.
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Paris
Georges Carpentier
Carpentier
Jack Dempsey
Lloyd George denies selling West Indies to settle debts
London March 8 Premier Lloyd George answered questions on the idea of transferring the West Indies to the United States as payment for British debts. He stated there was no intention by the British government to barter or sell any part of the islands.
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London
Marth
Lloyd George
West Indies
United States
Pastor Issues Don’ts for Courtship in Boston Speech
The Rev. Henry P. White of New York delivered a lecture in Boston listing courtship do nots. He advised limits on courting to one year, avoid marrying frivolous or doubtful partners, let habits change themselves, and kiss openly after engagement while keeping affections in abeyance and prioritizing serious principles.
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Boston
Henry P. White
S. J
New York
Maine faces record cold as ice age mood returns
Thomas Patten, noted philosopher and student of historical climate, warns that winters in Maine show a clear shift toward frigid conditions. He cites recent severe cold and heavy precipitation as evidence of a slow return of an ice age influenced temperate zone patterns.
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Thomas Patten
Pegis Eist
Patten
Maine
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