Davis Wins Mayor Seat In High Point Election
W A Davis defeated D A Stanton by 312 votes to become mayor as four councilmen were elected. First ward winner H A Millis defeated C S Grayson. Second ward Charles J Blake over J C Sheloff. Third ward J W Clinard over B H Bradner. Fourth ward F F Conrad over J S Worth. Total vote 5697 with record turnout aided by car mobilization.
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Davis
Stanton
Millis
Blake
Clinard
Conrad
W. A. Davis
D. A. Stanton
H. A. Millis
Dr. C. S. Grayson
Charles J. Blake
J. C. Sheloff
J. W
High Point
Mr. Davis
Dr. Stanton
Gs«a
Worth
Stanton Forces
Grayson
Moffitt
R. E. Snow
Dr. Grayson
Mr. Millis
Mr. Sheloff
Mr. Blake
Bradner
A. Davis
Stanton Zil
Olden
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Cc Sheloff
H Bradner
North Carolina Faces Teacher Shortage and Training Gaps
State Superintendent A T Allen warns the state needs more teachers with better training, ideally educated in North Carolina, to reduce reliance on out of state hires. In 1925-26 498 teachers came from other states, 3,986 were beginners, creating an annual deficit of 1,655 trained teachers and forcing 2,331 inadequately prepared hires.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
A. T. Allen
Allen
M. C. Noble, Jr
Department of Seesace
Department of Education
Health Board Sends 7 Inspectors to Flood Areas
North Carolina health officials dispatch seven sanitary inspectors to Mississippi Arkansas and Louisiana flood zones at Red Cross request. J A McLeod to Greenville Miss John E Floyd to Greenwood Miss M M Melvin to Rolling Fork Miss and B F Rowland to Cleveland Miss join efforts to plan sanitation.
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The
Enterprise Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
Raleigh
Mississippi
Arkansas
Louisiana
North Carolina
C. O'H. Laughinghhouse
State Board of Health
McMullen
Red Cross
Memphis
Board of Health
J. A. McLeod
Concord
Greenville
Miss
John E. Floyd
Asheville
Greenwood
M. M. Melvin
Winston-Salem
Rolling Fork
B. F. Rowland
Cleveland
Laughinghouse
State Laboratory of Hygiene
U. S. Army
U. S. Public Health Service
Eastern Carolina Showman Sues 13 Film Firms Over Monopoly
Wilson owner H J Paradise seeks a temporary injunction against Paramount Famous Lasky Universal Pathe Nation al Pictures Liberty Educational Film Warner Bros and others for monopolizing film distribution in North Carolina. He says contracts force disputes to a distributor board, denying jury trial and court procedure. The suit covers Paradise's theaters in Wilson Tarboro Greenville Sanford and seeks to halt contract terminations.
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Wilson
Wilson Superior Court
North Carolina
H. J. Paradise
Paradise
Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation
Universal Films, Inc
Pathe Exchange, Inc
National Pictures, Inc
Liberty Distributing Film Corporation
Educational Film Exchange, Inc
Arthur C. Bromberg Attractions, Inc
Enterprise Film Corporation
Estraban Film Company
Warner Brothers Pictures, Inc
Wetro-Goldwyn
Charlotte
Film Board of Trade
Organization of Film Distributing
Tarboro
Greenville
Sanford
Southern Baptist meeting elects Truett president in Louisville
The 72nd Southern Baptist convention opened in Louisville with Dr. George W. Truett unanimously chosen as president. More than 1,700 messengers registered as the body discussed budget control and organizational reforms while Southern relief drives expanded for Mississippi flood victims. High Point joins in pledging substantial support as the fund goal rises toward ten million dollars with additional local gifts expected.
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Louisville
George W. Truett
First Baptist Church of
Dallas
Texas
Southern Baptist Convention
George W. McDaniel
Richmond
Jefferson County
Broadway Baptist Church
South
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
McDaniel
Wallace Bassett
Cliff Temple Baptist Church
Committee On
Austen Crouch
Murfreesboro
Tenn
High Point
Mississippi
C. E. Kearns and Son Hosiery Mill
Consolidated Veneer and Panel Company
PorRer
Iccca
BOO Jones and Peacock
Charles W. Bots
H. Li Cook
John R. Peacock
Bae
PRA Vinorg
Wesley Memorial
O.c
Monarch Club
Derigna
Wee
Ida Mungan
Emma Blair
Macross
Ena
Wilt
TOROS
Saan Ae
Iwee
Mita. W. Ds
TR Vois Cocica
J. E
Dred Peacock
Tom A. Sykes
M. C. Rowland
Friends
A. Es Botross
Britt Armfield
Wearen
A. Millis
Mye
Pigkett
G. T. Douglas
Kester Furniture Co
American Business Club
Dorothy
Eric Hinton
L. B. Williams
Carrie McLendon
AS Fampbell
Miss. W
Pollock
Loma
Gray Claims Mrs Snyder Planned Crime
Henry Judd Gray testified in New York that he struck the first blow in the murder of Albert Snyder but said Mrs Ruth Snyder pressured him to kill her husband. He said she sought poisons and discussed drowning or sleeping powders, and claimed she acted after trying poisons herself.
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New York
Henry Judd Gray
Albert Snyder
Ruth Snyder
Snyder
Gray
Miller
Hartford
Samuel Miller
Funeral Services for Mrs Rachael Copple Held at Trinity
Funeral services for Mrs. Rachael Elizabeth Copple died at her Trinity residence after several days illness. The Trinity Baptist church was crowded for the 11 o'clock service officiated by Rev. E C Roach assisted by Rev. Thomas Carrick. Burial followed in the family plot at Spring Hill cemetery. ministers paid tribute to her life and character. A large number of friends and relatives attended.
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Rachael Elizabeth Copple
J. E. Copple
Trinity
Trinity Baptist Church
E. C. Roach
Thomas Carrick
Spring Hill
Louisiana Flood Expands Across Parishes Meant To Rebuild
Devastation spreads across northeastern Louisiana as the Mississippi breaches levees between Vicksburg and Natchez. Refugee numbers rise toward 250,000 as floodwaters cover about 15,000 square miles in Louisiana, Arkansas and Mississippi.
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Louisiana
New Orleans
Mississippi
Vicksburg
Natchez
Carly Early Returns to Carville Leprosarium
John Early the leper who stirred western North Carolina by appearing near Burnsville and Tryon is en route back to Carville Louisiana with Dr Brough Barrentine of the U S Public Health Service. The state board of health received word he had begun the trip after resistance to removal subsided and the effort to persuade him peacefully succeeded.
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the Enterprise Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
Raleigh
John Early
Burnsville
Tryon
Carville
Early
Brough Barrentine
U. S. Public Health Service
State Board of Health
Barrentine
Pierce
Washington
W. C. Palmer
Tobacco King Thomas Gallagher Dies in Belfast
Thomas Gallagher 87 Ireland's tobacco king and the largest independent trader in the British Isles died last night in Belfast. AP report notes his prominence in the tobacco trade and his leadership in the industry.
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Belfast
Ireland
Thomas Gallagher
British Isles
Mississippi flood swells as Villa Cara breach hammers Louisiana towns
The Mississippi flood surge presses against a weak Villa Cara levee near St Joseph Louisiana after a new crevasse enlarges flood waters that have already inundated seven million acres and displaced over 200000. Refugees flee northeastern parishes while railroad service and rail yards are disrupted in the widening disaster.
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New Orleans
Mississippi
Louisiana
Villa Clara Plantation
St. Joseph
Red River
Louisiana Parishes
Morehouse
East
West Carroll
Ouchita
Richland
Madison
Franklin
Tensas
Catahoula
Concordia
Avoyelles
Mississippi River
Arkansas
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J. C. Baskerville
Eastern
Carolina
Snyder-Gray
Long Island City
N. Y
William E. Young
Charles B. Meissner
Philip McCabe
Alfred R. Kramer
Herman Ballweg
John Schneider, Jr
John F. Connolly
Louis Ruckdaschel
Everett J. van Vranken
George Ziegler
John Vanderhyde
Frederick J. Grob
Mardaschal
Red Cross Fund
Louisville, KY
Southern Church
Arkansas City
Tensas Parishes
Black
Ouachita
Glasscock
John M. Parker
Hoover
Weather Bureau
Angolia
Baton Rouge
Donaldsonville
Caernarvon
Carly
Carrville
River
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