Wallace Presence Pleasing at Paris Allied Conference
Paris May 9 United States ambassador Hugh C Wallace resumed his seat at a council of ambassadors session after receiving new instructions from Secretary Hughes to represent the United States. The Upper Silesia issue dominated discussions with French officials warning that German incursions would violate the Versailles treaty while Berlin considered cooperation with allies on reparations terms.
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Paris
Hugh C. Wallace
Council of Ambassadors
Ambassador Wallace
Hughes
United States
Foreign Office
Cambon
France
Wallace
M. Cambon
Upper Silesia
Roland W. Boyden
State Department
Berlin
Matin
Beuben
Oder River
Canvassers Meet With Board Over High Point Community Service Drive
Canvassers aimed at 800 members for High Point community service plan to report progress to the organization’s board in the Commercial Club building Tuesday at 1 30 PM. The campaign, started last week, continues after delays with several teams having met quotas.
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High Point
Commercial Club
New Orleans Woman Says Husband Deserved Death After Desertion
Mrs. Frederick D. Levee, a former Cleveland court stenographer, says she shot her Los Angeles attorney husband after he abandoned her for a cabaret singer in Manila. She recounts a quarrel over pending perjury charges and maintains she fired in self defense. The victim died at the busy corner of St Charles and Gravier streets.
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Frederick D. Levee
Cleveland’ Court
Los Angeles
St. Charles
Gravier
New Orleans
Levee
California
Arkansas
Lynchers Hanged Sam Ballinger Near Laury Florida
In Starke Florida on May 9 a mob seized Sam Ballinger, a Black man who earlier killed Deputy Sheriff R D Bennett. At the Bradford County jail the keys were demanded at gunpoint, Ballinger was taken to a nearby home and hanged from a tree with his body riddled by bullets. Only the sheriff and jailer knew of the lynching until daylight.
Japanese Prince Hirohito Arrives For Three Week Visit
London May 9 United Kingdom extends full state honors to Prince Hirohito heir to the Japanese throne on his first foreign visit since 1914. He arrives at Victoria station from Portsmouth aboard a special train accompanied by the Prince of Wales amid ideal spring weather.
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London
British Empire
Hirohito
England
Victoria Station
Portsmouth
Prince of Wales
Italian Pickpockets Protest Robbed Claims
Genoa May The chief of police reports a letter from the tramway pickpocket association complaining that victims inflate losses to police. The missives say false claims create tension among pickpockets and that when a thief returns a few hundred lire the loser claims thousands, inviting caution toward alleged honesty.
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Genoa
Tramway Pickpocket Association
Negroes accuse Georgia courts of denying equal protection
J E Sistrunk a Atlanta negro attorney filed a Supreme Court brief claiming Georgia court processes deprive blacks of property and due process. He represents several complainants in cases involving about 150 000 dollars in Atlanta tracts and nearby farms, seeking review of records in multiple suits.
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Washington
Georgia
Supreme Court
J. E. Sistrunk
Atlanta
Parilee Hunt
George Stivy
Albert Ford
The
Georgia Loan and Trust Company
O. B. Stevens and Others
A. S. Elders
Sistrunk
Supreme Court of Atlanta
Express Service Inaugurated Today On Southern Railway
The Southern railway announces today in its local office new and more frequent express service for routes from Washington to Atlanta and Charlotte to Augusta. Express cars will operate on Washington to Atlanta trains 29 80 35 36 137 138 and on Washington to Augusta trains 31 22. Express to and from Baltimore on West Point Virginia to Atlanta main line train 29 and 12 connects with Richmond division trains 15 19 8 and 16.
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Southern Railway
Washington
Atlanta
Charlotte
Augusta
The
West Point
Baltimore
Richmond Division
Bavarians Called to Civic Duty Under Labour Law
London May 9 All classes of Bavarian society are summoned to perform state work under the compulsory labor law now in force. Men 20 and women 16 must serve. men 12 months and women six. About 700000 fall under the law with 600000 already at work on road making, sanitary service, canal projects and school buildings.
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London
Mmisgyvaria
Speedy Cruiser 10 Be Launched at Tacoma
The scout cruiser Cincinnati, third of three sister ships to be the fastest U S navy lighting vessels, launches at 6 36 P M in Tacoma. Sponsor Mrs Charlie E Tudor breaks Ohio river water on the stern. Cincinnati measures 5590 5 feet long, 55 4 feet beam, 7100 tons, 105 000 horsepower, four propellers. Trials target 35 knots. Armament includes twelve 6 inch rifles two 8 inch anti aircraft guns two 3 pounders two machine guns and two torpedo tubes.
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Tacoma
Cincinnati
U. S. Navy
Seleck
Charlie E. Tudor
Director of Safety
Ohio
Uncle Sam
Puget Sound
Omaha
Milwaukee
Cinccinnati
Mittle Found Guilty of Killing in Orangeburg
E N Mittle was found guilty of manslaughter in the killing of J H Patterson of Roseville. The jury left Saturday night and returned Sunday morning with mercy recommendations. Sentencing set for tomorrow by Judge Bowman with a range of two to 30 years. appeals anticipated if over ten years. Patterson was killed last November as he left Mrs Starr Jacksons home before divorce. Mittle claimed self defense.
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Orangeburg
S. C
E. N. Mittle
J. H. Patterson
Roseville
Bowman
Court of General Sessions
Patterson
Starr Jackson
Veteran tries to save shipmate but is arrested in Norfolk
In Norfolk Virginia on May 9 Samuel Phillips attempted to free James Woods a submarine E 1 crew member under arrest for firing a pistol in a lane with black residents. Phillips forced the officer to release Woods, grabbed a .45 revolver, fired hitting Woods in the stomach and killing him. Phillips is jailed for murder. Woods, 18, was from Oklahoma City.
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Norfolk
Samuel FE. Phillips
James 5
Woods
Messick
Wood
Phillips
Oklahoma City
Popular National Male Quartet Concert and Lectures
Record crowd enjoys a concert by the National Male quartet and an illustrated lecture The Truth About Mexico by Frederick Monsen. Dr Frank Loveland presents a Tuesday afternoon talk on The Perils of Pentocracy with Dr Loveland.
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Mexico
Frederick Monsen
Dr. Prank LL. Loveland
Ben Greet players draw largest crowd at chautauqua
The Ben Greet company performed As You Like It to the largest audience of the chautauqua with strong praise for the actors Hubbard Wirkpatrick Marion Evenson and Curtis Karpe and Edward Forbes as Touchstone. Musical features by Spaulding and Paine preceded a crime lecture by Harry J. Loose. The National Male Quartet appeared with Dr Frederick Monsen to follow and The Man From Home with a New York cast is set for Tuesday night amid high expectations.
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Ben Greet Players
Hubbard Wirkpatrick
Orlando
Marion Evenson
Rosalind
Curtis Ka
Loose
Lyceum
National
Frederick Monsen
Mexico
William Hodge
New York
Death of Gertrude Ritch at parental home
Gertrude Ritch dies this morning at 10:30 at her parents home 102 Benevi street after a two week illness. Born August 20 1919. Funeral Wednesday at 10 o clock with interment in Springfield graveyard.
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Gertrude Ritch
Benevii Street
Springfield
Collision of Automobiles Sparks Fatal Shootout
J P Miller electrician at Lake City S C was shot and killed Saturday night near Case. Thomas Poston of Williamsburg County was arrested charged with the killing after a collision between the two cars. Poston was moved Sunday to the state penitentiary in Columbia for safekeeping. Miller formerly played ball in the Southern Association.
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Charleston
S&s. C
J. P .Miller
Lake City
S. C
Case
Thomas Poston
Williamsburg County
Poston
State Penitentiary
Columbia
Miller
Southern Association
Injured in Wreck Near High Point
Marvin Tuttle is in serious condition at High Point hospital after a Saturday night crash on the Winston Salem road when a Ford turned over several times. Bob Osborne and Arthur Small sustained injuries, with Small suffering rib fractures. Another mishap on Archdale road left Haywood Bickey and D B Tysinger seriously hurt and taken to the same hospital.
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Marvin Tuttle
High Point Hospital
Bob” Osborne
Arthur Small
Winston- Salem Road
Osborne
Tuttle
Small
Haywood Bickey
D. B. Tysingier
High Point
Archdale
Bickey
Tysinger
Rev P D Brown to Leave City for Columbia South Carolina
Rev P D Brown longtime pastor of the Lutheran church in High Point resigns to accept a call from Ebenezer Lutheran church Columbia South Carolina. The congregation approves the move citing his leadership and the church growth including a new building valued at sixty five thousand nine hundred dollars. A committee will seek a successor and Brown leaves with many friends in High Point.
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P. D. Brown
Lutheran Church
Ebenezer Lutheran Church
Columbia
S.C
High Point
Mr. Brown
Roanoke College
Salem
Mr Brown
Lutheran Theological Seminary
Brown
Main and
Howell Streets
English Street
Columbia Church
South
Henry Ford Aims to Jitneyize U S Rail Travel
Detroit May 9 Henry Ford plans to halve national transportation costs by lighter locomotives cars and roadbeds. He bought two locomotives, experiments at Dearborn, plans gas driven passenger cars and steam freight, and envisions faster schedules and cheaper rates. Ford’s ventures include the Dearborn Independent Ford Institute of Technology and a Troy plant with vast self sufficiency.
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Detroit
Henry Ford
Ford
Dearborn
Mich
Toledo
Ironton
New York
San Francisco
Europe
Ford Institute of Technology
Dearborn Independent
Troy
Cotton futures open steady amid mixed regional selling
The New York cotton market opened steady with an advance of 8 to 6 points on Wall Street and Liverpool buying. New Orleans and southern selling around 13.50 for July and 123.70 for October kept the market barely steady, with July at 13.96 and early quotes May 12.70 July 13.20 October 13.73 December 14.07 January 14.15.
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New York
Wall Street
Liverpool
New Orleans
Southern
Boy Blown to Pieces in Explosion at Portsmouth
A 15 year old boy Carl Newman and six companions were injured when a lighted cigar ignited dynamite sticks in his pocket. The blast occurred Sunday and left a 13 year old boy without a leg.
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Portsmouth
Carl Newman
Newman
France names her Vatican ambassador
Paris reports Charles Jonnart is named France's ambassador to the Vatican for a six month term subject to renewal. Pope Benedict selects Mons Cerretti as papal under secretary of state in Paris, to serve in Rome.
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Paris
Charles Jonnart
Athens
Vatican
France
Pope Benedict
Mons. Cerretti
Box Party To Raise Funds For Piano In Russell Street School
A box party will be held in the new Russell Street school building on the evening of May 19 to raise funds for a piano. Ice cream will be sold and many boxes offered for sale with music furnished by the Elks' band.
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Russell Street
Elks’ Band
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Bults Industrial Empire
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Ben Greet
Marvin Tuttles
P.D. Brown
U. S
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