Piedmont and Northern Railways Starts Interstate Extension
Construction crews begin grading the 53 mile Spartanburg to Gastonia link as part of a 15.66 million expansion defying federal rulings. The plan includes a Charlotte to Winston-Salem segment and a later extension toward Durham, with directors meeting in Greenville authorizing the work.
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Charlotte
Mar
Gastonia
4. C
Spartanburg
S. C
Piedmont and Northern Railway
Greenville
Electric
Interstate Commerce Commission
Brawley Street
C. T. Wanzer
Duke Power Company
North
South Carolina
N. C
Wineton-Salem
Durham
Railway
Whisky Haul From Man In Front Of Greensboro Hotel
Greensboro police seize a bag from a man who stopped at a hotel entrance and find 46 pints of whisky inside. The 20 year old H V Shepard of Julian is arrested and charged with transporting the liquor.
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Greensboro
Mar
H. V. Shepard
Julian
Shepard
Woman Slashes Throats Three Small Children
In Elizabethton Tennessee on March 11 Mrs Lillian Masengill 32 slashed the throats of her three children with a razor and killed herself. One child died, two were believed beyond hope. The father Clyde Masengill found the scene after a commotion from a child alerting him. The sixth month old Fay and Blanche aged nine were found in the living room with severed throats while the noonday meal remained on the table. A 14 year old son was with the father in the field.
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Elizabethton
Tenn
Mar
Lillian Masengill
F. D
Blanche
Fay
Masengill
Langston Launches Broadside At Bailey
Langston leads Simmons campaign in North Carolina with a broadside accusing Bailey allies of seeking to punish Simmons for not backing Alfred E. Smith in 1928. Langston's three point defense argues punishment is undeserved, harms the party, and that Bailey is not fit to administer it.
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Langston
Bailey
Senator Simmons
North Carolina
Alfred E. Smith
Simmons
Smith
National Republican Club Backs Repeal of Eighteenth Amendment
In New York the National Republican club voted 461 to 335 to repeal the Prohibition amendment. The 2,000 member group, with leaders including Chief Justice Hughes and Theodore Roosevelt, urged Congress to restore the federal balance by repealing the Eighteenth Amendment. The session featured wet and dry clashes and a controversial proxy vote admission.
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New York
National Republican Club
Justice Hughes
Elihu Kot
Ogden Mills
Theodore Roosevelt
Hoover
Republican Party
Congress
Richard W. Lawrence
Prohibition Urges War to End Liquor Trade in Massachusetts
The Rev. William Bartlett urged that Massachusetts must be ready to go to war to stamp out alcohol at a Park Street Church meeting in Boston. Bishop Anderson warned repeal could turn Massachusetts into a bootleggers’ heaven while ex representative Lowrey noted Congress drinkers, and A Z Conrad urged Republicans to resist wets with Governor Allen named honorary chair of a May Boston Garden demonstration.
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Boston
William Bartlett
Chicago
Park Street
Massachusetts
Bartlett
Anti-Saloon League
France
William Fef. Anderson
Methodist Episcopal Church
B. G. Lowrey
Mississippi
Congress
A. Z. Conrad
Republican Party
Wets
Governor Allen
Boston Garden
Hoover Praises Boy Scouts on Twentieth Anniversary
President Hoover lauds the Boy Scouts and Taft on the movement’s 20th anniversary warning against destructive amusements. He praises scout work for discipline, sportsmanship, and guiding boys toward constructive leisure amid a period of complex civilization.
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Washington, Mar
William Howard ‘Taft
Hoover
Boy Scout Movement
Boy Scouts
Scout Movement
Washington
William Howard Taft
Taft
Loy Scouts
Luther elected president of Reichsbank
Dr. Hans Luther former chancellor and prominent postwar builder of Germany was unanimously elected president of the Reichsbank this afternoon. In other dispatches a woman in Washington fractured her leg, a jugoslavian crash killed two pilots, riots in Berlin claimed two deaths among wounded, Youngstown Sheet and Tube Bethlehem merger is deemed impossible, a fishing boat foundered near Veracruz with one survivor, and Germany approved the American liquidation agreement for reparations.
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Berlin
Mar
Hans Luther
Germany
Reichsbank
Leveland
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company
Bethlehem Steel Corporation
Andrews Resigns As College Head at High Point
Dr. Robert M. Andrews resigns as president of High Point College effective end of the current school year. He led the 1920 Methodist campaign that pledged $241,000 for buildings plus $100,000 from High Point and secured campus grounds. Andrews has been a churchman and educator since the college’s founding in 1924.
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Robert M. Andrews
High Point College
Board of Tustees
Andrews
North Carolina
Resigns From 1922 to 1924 as Field Agent
The article notes a resignation of a field agent who served from 1922 through 1924 for an institution preparing the September 1924 opening. The resignation occurs shortly before the institution was formally established.
Ford Charges Big Money Behind Bootlegging Plot
The New York Word quotes Henry Ford accusing big New York money interests of backing bootlegging in the United States. Ford says liquor interests are moving near his Dearborn Michigan factory area because he is a dry. He asserts Prohibition can be enforced by factory discipline and claims newspapers in New York are controlled to attack him.
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Ford
Dearborn
New York
Mar
Henry Ford
Mich
House Judiciary Committee
United States
Mes
Southern politics cited as roadblock to southern industry
At the southern division industrial conference in Little Rock Arkansas Richard H Edmonds editor of the Manufacturers Record urges southern states to form cooperative regional organizations to boost agriculture and industry over the next decade He notes internal party disputes hinder progress and cites the growing tourist industry with a five billion dollar annual impact led by six states Florida California Minnesota Michigan Wisconsin and Colorado.
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Little Rock
Ark
Mar
South
Richard H. Edmonds
The
Manufacturers Record of
Baltimore
American Mining Congress
Herbert A. Brooks
Clearwater
Fla
United States
California
Florida
Minnesota
Michigan
Wisconsin
Colorado
Brooks
Raleigh Honors Memory of Taft
North Carolina supreme court recessed its Tuesday session for appeals hearings from 10 o'clock to noon as a mark of respect for William Howard Taft whose funeral was held in Washington today.
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Raleigh
Mar
North Carolina Supreme Court
William Howard Taft
Washington
Youth says escape fueled by desire to see his mother
Archie Allred, 19, who escaped from Cary prison farm March 4, has voluntarily returned. He said the escape was driven by a wish to see his mother, tears in his eyes as Superintendent George Ross Pou commented. Allred was serving a sentence of two to four years for larceny in Randolph County.
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Raleigh
Archie Allred
Cary
George Ross Pou
Alfred
Twee
Randolph County
Davis Announces in Pennsylvania Senate Candidacy
Secretary of Labor James J. Davis said he would formally announce his Republican Senate candidacy in Pennsylvania on Saturday in Pittsburgh. William S. Vare withdrew his bid and urged supporters to back Davis for the nomination.
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Washington
Mar
James J. Davis
Secretary of
Labor
Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh
Philadelphia
William S. Vare
United States Senate
Taft Buried in Chief Justice Robes at Capitol
William Howard Taft lay in state in a black burnished casket beneath the Capitol dome wearing the robes of chief justice. The pallbearers and mourners noted the calm, grave expression as illness marks softened his features in the solemn procession and service.
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Washington
Mar
William Howard Taft
United States
Capitol
Byrd Greets America by Radio from New Zealand
Admiral Richard E. Byrd spoke from Dunedin New Zealand to greet the United States as part of his homeward polar voyage. The broadcast used a vast GE network linking Schenectady to listeners nationwide, with Byrd exchanging greetings with Adolph S. Ochs and other Times officials amid heavy static and interference.
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C. E. Butterfield
Associated Press
New York
Richard EK
Byrd
America
Dunedin
New Zealand
South Polar
Adolphs. Ochs
New York Times
Ochs
United States
Admiral Byrd
Paul Salisbury
the Times
Martin P. Rice
General Electric Company
Schenectady
Clyde Wagner
General Electric
Henderson Reports Suspicious Twenty Dollar Bills Circulating
Henderson citizens examined currency as merchants reported five dollar bills altered to twenty dollars in recent days. Local authorities investigated the counterfeit or altered notes affecting commerce and trust in daily transactions.
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Henderson
Mar
Quarantine Drops Three Tennessee Counties Over 105 Paralytic Cases
Johnson City Tenn March 11. A quarantine of 195 persons with a mysteri ous paralytic malady is in force in Washington Carter and Unicoi counties. Health officer Dr S B Moody says schoolchildren in affected families must stay home while adults may work with precautions. He cites liquor as probable but unconfirmed cause noting most patients are adult males and some report pain or inability to control movements.
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Johnson City
Tenn
Mar
Washington
Carter
Unicoi
Moody
Washington County
Dr. Moody
Taft Laid To Rest In Nation's Farewell Services
Tolling drums and silent crowds marked Taft's funeral as he lay in state under the Capitol dome then received burial at Arlington. President Hoover led tributes beneath the White House portico while All Souls church hosted a simple Unitarian service. The nation bid farewell to the only person to serve as both president and chief justice.
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All Souls Church
Sixteenth Street
Arlington
Hoover
White House
Mrs. Hoover
Soviet youths to lead anti religious campaign during Easter
Moscow reports the 2,500,000 member league of communist youths will form shock brigades to spearhead an anti God movement. They will probe schools and clubs for anti religious education and organize mock carnivals, atheistic meetings, torchlight processions and lectures as part of broader goals including collectivization and five year plans.
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Moscow
Mar
Soviet Union
League of Communist Youths
Russia
Texas Chain Store Tax Passes One Percent Levy
A bill approved by the Texas House of Representatives imposes a one percent tax on chain store gross receipts. The measure passed 76 to 25 in Austin, raising revenue for state needs.
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Texas
Austin
House of Representatives
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