Phillips Attacks Prohibition as Scrap of Paper Says Constitution
Washington March 16 AP Prohibition enforcement in the District of Columbia Maryland Delaware and Kentucky faces criticism from the Methodist board and Rep Phillips Pennsylvanias Republican in a week opening with calls to consider changes. The debate includes Senator Bruce Maryland replying to McKellar Tennessee as the Senate weighs peacetime modification bills.
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Washington
Mar
District of Columbia
Maryland
Delaware
Kentucky
Congress
Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals
Methodist Episcopal Church
Phillips
Pennsylvania
Rys
Senate
Bruce
McKellar
Tennessee
Board of Temperance Statement
Budnitz
Edmund Budnitz
Baltimore
Weller
William O. Mays
Selling Attacks In Stock Market Open
Selling attacks resumed as trading opened on Mar 15 as a result of expected tighter money conditions and a heavy turnover of tax and interest payments. Early declines ranged from one to three points for American Payments, American Smelting, Jordan Motors, and Chesapeake and Ohio, with fractional declines across motors and other industrial shares.
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New York
American Smelting
Jorden Motors
Nesapeake
Ohio
Kellogg Returns From Pinehurst Rest Improves Health
Secretary Kellogg returns to the state department after a week in Pinehurst North Carolina saying he is entirely fit and no longer troubled by a cold or grippe. He will begin a series of conferences on disarmament with Ambassador Hoxtchten from London and with their Russian counterpart.
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Kellogg
Washington
State Department
Pinehurst
N. C
Gin ‘Aries
Ambrassador Hoxchten
London
Ibsen Rane Ucheva
Pere
Probativ
Colonel Coolidge Improves. Brighter, Says Doctor
A bulletin from Dr. Albert M. Cram reports Colonel John C. Coolidge, eighty, father of the president, has spent a comfortable night and is somewhat better this morning. He received his pastor Rev. John White of Sherburne, who traveled to Plymouth to visit him.
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Plymouth
John C. Coolidge
Albert M. Cram
Bridgewater
John White
Sherburne
Colonel Coolidge
High Point Hosts Praised American Legion Convention
High Point received warm accolades for hosting the Andrew Jackson Post officers meeting and state Legion delegates. North Carolina commander Henry K. Stevens commended the hospitality, noting 700 attendees at the banquet and dance, and pledging full department support toward a 13 060 member convention quota. A local post meeting is announced for Thursday at 7 30 p.m.
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High Point
American Legion
Don C. MacRae
Andrew Jackson Post
Henry K. Stevens
Department of North Carolina
Legion
Shenandoah visitors laud High Point as South’s industrial city
Shenandoah Valley boosters rode the Apple Blossom Special to High Point for a luncheon at the Sheraton Hotel. Elwood Cox praised the city’s rapid industrial growth and the dozen plus plants, while Col onel Benchoff extolled Shenandoah Valley’s beauty and resources to Factory executives and furniture makers.
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Elwood Cox
Sheraton Hotel
High Point
Shenandoah Valley
Virginia
Old Dominion
South
Shenandoah Valley, Inc
Valley
Florida
Sunshine State
Stonewall Jackson
Atlanta
Charlotte
J. Elwood Cox
Sheraton
Colonel Benchoff
Stonewall” Jackson
Southlound
Unfavorable February Trade Balance Reported
The Commerce Department’s preliminary February estimates show an unfavorable trade balance of 36 million dollars. Exports totaled 353 million dollars while imports reached 389 million dollars, widening the gap from January and echoing last year’s deficit trends. Officials note a surge in rubber imports contributing to the excess.
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Washington
Commerce Department
Janary
Fatal car crash near Albermarle injures three
Mrs. Jap Odium was killed when a car skidded on the Troy road. Her husband, a State Penitentiary inmate at Raleigh, and Osis Kister Pincin and 3 Wale Somaniah were shaken in the crash near Albemarle.
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Albermarle
Mar
Jap Odium
Troy Road
Odium
State Penitentiary
Ralsigh
Gold
Ministers Demand Resignations Over Liberal Old Testament Views
Kansas City March 15 Liberal views of the Old Testament from Dr D J Evans and the Rev Clarence Reidenbach stirred protests and demands for resignations from the Kansas City Council of Churches and the Kansas City Ministerial Alliance. Evans urged discarding unfit portions while Reidenbach argued much of the Old Testament is unnecessary and too long for practical use.
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Kansas City
D. J. Evans
Noah
Reidenbach
West Minister Congregational Church
Evans
Pr. Burris A. Jenkins
Linwood Boulevard
Jenkins
L. M. Burkhead
All Souls Unitarian Church
Large Indictment Names 112 In Boothleg Conspiracy Figures
A federal grand jury in Cleveland returned an indictment charging 112 people across 12 cities in an alleged bootleg conspiracy to violate prohibition. The case covers 1923 to 1926 and names Philadelphia bootleggers Benjamin and Frank Fogel and Benjamin and David Gersonstein as organizers behind three Cleveland companies.
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Cleveland
St. Paul
Duluth
Philadelphia
Chicago
Minneapolis
San Jose
San Francisco
Pittsburgh
Detroit
Boston
Providence
R. I
Benjamin
Frank Fogel
David Gersonstein
True Bill
Permit Issued for Residence in Sheraton Hills
Chief A B Horney issued a permit for an additional residence at Sheraton Hills, part of Carolina Homes Inc. Construction proceeds with several homes under way. Sunset Drive pavement is nearly complete and connections to Colonial Drive please motorists, while developers promise quick completion and full modern amenities.
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A. B. Horney
Sheraton Hills
Carolna Homes, Inc
Sunset Drive
Colonial Drive
Sheraton Hill
Mills Report Idle Capacity At New Hampshire Textile Mill
Mills in New Hampshire show production at about zero percent capacity according to state labor department figures. The report notes operations are currently suspended with no activity at the cotton textile mill.
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New York
New Hampshire
State Department of Labor
Income Tax Returns Extended to March 20 Deadline
The return deadline for income tax reports has been extended by one week to Saturday March 20. Deputy sheriff R B Parker announced that deputy commissioner C B Bogart will visit High Point on March 18 and 19 to assist residents in preparing their tax forms in the assembly chamber of the city council.
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R. B. Parker
C. B. Bogart
High Point
Assembly
Best School Papers Picked In Southern Contest
The Lee School of Journalism at Washington and Lee University will host an all southern high school journalism contest. Invitations were sent to over 650 high schools and preparatory schools for the best high school paper magazine and annual. Silver loving cups will be awarded at a banquet closing the southern interscholastic convention on April 6 at Washington and Lee University.
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Lexington
South
Lee School of Journalism
Washington and Lee University
Young Woman Wounded in Kings Mountain Shooting
Mrs. Gertrude Bumgardner, 17, is seriously wounded in Gastonia hospital after being shot by her husband Charlie Bumgardner at their Kings Mountain home. She signed a declaration denying his blame and claiming the shooting was accidental.
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Gastonia
Gertrude Bumgardner
Charlie Bumbardner
Kings Mountain
Wuzede
Chicago Attorney Seeks Law Change on Radio Issue
Four men arrested as detectives round them up and accompany them to a cabaret where the arrest is made. The Chicago attorney seeks legal clarification on radio related regulations and procedures.
Crowe vows to punish radio slander to limit of power
Chicago authorities arrested four men at Moulin Rouge cafe after a radio announcer claimed State's Attorney Crowe attended a cabaret. Crowe seeks new laws to punish radio misinformation as he probes possible links to a North Shore Realty case and considers license revocation for the station.
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Chicago
Robert E. Crowe
Crowe
Phillip L. Friendlander
North Shore Realty Company
Friedlander
Northside
Mrs Nora Wade dies after 16 weeks of illness
Mrs Nora Jane Wade died at her home 222 Boulevard street High Point after a 16 week illness. Born January 15 1866 in Guilford County she was a nurse and lifelong High Point resident. Survived by four sons and several siblings, funeral at Springfield Friends church with multiple pastors and pallbearers, burial in Springfield church cemetery.
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Nora Jane Wade
Boulevard Street
Guilford County
John
Virena Frezier Little
High Point
William Wade
Gurney Wade
Robert Wade
Edward Wade
Hugh Point
James Little
Oscar Little
Randolph County
J. R. Long
W. L. Sechrest
Springfield Friends’ Church
W. R. Harris
Trinity Me
O. L. Ruth
The
Holiness Church
L. D. Claville
Arthur Shipwash
Virgil Gurley
John Walls
Ciycle Brown
Lawrence Robbins
Giddi Burke
L. D. Luther
Daddy Green
L. Roy Gibson
W M. Linthicumb
John Brown
J J Garland
Claude Sechrest
James Linthecunmb
Elias Rook
Schurch
Springfichi
Train wreck in Costa Rica kills hundreds near Cartago
A Costa Rican rail disaster left 248 dead and 98 injured when a six car train derailed at 8 15 am on the Alajuela Cartago line. About 1 000 excursionists were aboard as three cars plunged into the Varilla river and two dangled from a 190 foot precipice. Luxury carrier United Fruit rushed nurses and provisions from Port Simon to aid victims. The government ordered a pause to Sunday activities.
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San Jose
Costa Rica
Varilla
United Fruit Co
Alajuela
Cartago
The
Fruit Company
Port Simon
League chiefs urge Brazil to back Germany entry
Latin American delegates at the League secretariat vote that Brazil should not veto Germany and should support Germany’s immediate entry to the League and its council. The cablegram to Rio de Janeiro is drafted by the council and the Brazilian diplomat is not cited as the sender. No agreement reached on council reorganization after secret talks.
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Ceneva
Switzerland
Brazil
Uruguay
League Secretariat
Germany
League
Council
League of Nations
Rio de Janeiro
Associated Press
Viscount Ish
Afranio Mello Franco
Senor Mello Franco
Equneil
League of Nacions
Walters Defends Senate Dignity in Perjury Probe
Senator Walsh introduces a resolution urging the attorney general to advise whether the justice department will indict George B. Hayes for perjury in the Wheeler case. He calls the alleged testimony a blow to Senate independence and seeks a full accounting of related costs and actions.
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Washington
Justice Department
George B. Hayes
New York
Montana
Wheeler
Senate
Walsh
Hayes
Senatos Wheeler
Interior Department
Welsh
Gordon Campbell
Treasury Department
Harry M. Daugherty
United States
Gerald Chapman Denied Supreme Court Review
Gerald Chapman the mail bandit awaiting death on April 6 was refused a Supreme Court review. He argued the pardon to allow state execution should not bind him and objected to trial in Connecticut, but the court denied all challenges.
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Washington
Gerald Chapman
Supreme Court
Atlanta
Chapman
Coolidge
Connecticut
Catet Gastonia Plant Faces Idle Spindles
A Gastonia plant reports over one million spindles idle due to labor shortages and market conditions. Officials say additional nearby mills are affected and maintenance and production cuts continue as inspections and orders unfold in the region.
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Gastonia
N. Aaron
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