Bandits Seize Peking Express. Foreign Captives Untold Story
Reports from Tientsin on May 9 recount the Peking express raid near Suchow. Thirteen passengers escaped while many foreigners including four American missionaries are believed captive. British manager R H Rowlett and Italian Miss A Coralli are named among those affected. Day describes a harrowing escape and abduction sequence as brigands moved into the hills with prisoners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lowe
Hhas
R. H. Rowlett
Reiss & Company
Tients
Day
Shantung
Kweiteh
Loa Yang-Jen
A. Coralli
Allen and
Pingar
Great War Association
Peking
Moonight
Rowatt
High Point Chamber Set for Mass Meeting Friday
High Point city officials call a 7:30 p.m. Friday meeting at the high school auditorium to reorganize the chamber of commerce and elect a new board. The session follows a new state law authorizing a city levy of 1-39 to 1-10 percent for chamber support and stresses annual $1 dues and broader citizen membership.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point Chamber of Commerce
Chambers of Commerce
Chamber of Commerce
General Assembly
High Point
Simmons to Draw $1000 Monthly From the Ku Klux
In Fulton County Georgia Judge E D Thomas issues decree declaring Wim J Simmons emperor founder of the Ku Klux Klan to receive 1000 dollars monthly for life and widow 1000 dollars upon death. Simmons must transfer all rituals literature costumes and paraphernalia to the order.
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Atlanta
iIn
E. D. Thomas
Fulton County Superior Court
Ku Klux Klan
Imperial Wizard of the Klan
Order
Post Office Blocks Mail to Fort Worth Oil Promoter
Washington May 18 The Postmaster General issued a broad order targeting wild cat oil promoters directing that all mail addressed to the General Lee development interest of Fort Worth Texas be returned to the senders as part of a campaign by the post office department.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Post Office Department
Wildcat
Postmaster-General New Today
General Lee Development
Fort Worth
Texas
Cotton Growers to Nearly Complete 3 Million Dollar Disbursement
Raleigh May 9 The North Carolina Cotton Growers Co operative plans to nearly finish distributing about three million dollars to 30 000 Tar Heel cotton growers this week. The third advance averages four cents a pound on 135 000 bales, bringing each member to nineteen cents a pound basis middling. Further advances and final accounting on last year are expected, as mortgage and free cotton disbursements proceed with verified accounts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
North Carolina Cotton Growers’ Co-operative Association
Batega
Cattom
Davis Inspects Richmond Schools for High Point
J. A. Davis, treasurer of the High Point school board, returned from Richmond, Virginia after a brief inspection of its graded school system. He focused on heating plants for the future Cloverdale school in High Point and praised Virginia's system while noting some North Carolina schools lag behind in growth and efficiency.
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J. A. Davis
High Point
Richmond
Cloverdale
Davis
Virginia
North Carolina
Pinehurst Golfer Breaks 80 In C G A Qualifier
E L Schofield of Pinehurst topped the field in the qualifying round of the Carolina Golf Association event today at Pinehurst breaking an 80 for the first 18 holes.
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Pinehurst
E. L. Schofield
Carolina Golf Association
Rotarians vs Civitan baseball clash caps Thomasville week
In Amazon park on Friday afternoon Rotarians meet Civitan club in a boutique spring classic with ticket proceeds aiding the Woman's club social service department. The town also awaits Rev. J M Trueblood's appointment to First Baptist and a Dayton conservatory song fest next Sunday.
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Thomasville
Rotarians
Civitans
Amazon Park
Social Service Department
The
Woman's Club
J. M. Trueblood
Norfolk
First Baptist Church
Trueblood
J. H. Roebush
Dayton Conservatory of Music
Dayton
Unity Chapel
Joe Bryant
Roebush
Jasper Belk
Jackson Creek
Randolph County
Heis
Bert Derk
High Point
G. H. King
Abe Harris
Trawler Lord Astor Seized Near Murmansk Coast
The English trawler Lord Astor has been seized by a Tunisian gunboat off the Murmansk coast. The seizure reportedly relates to fishing inside Russian territorial waters.
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Hull
Lord Astor
Murmansk
Central News
Negro murderer silent as he is executed in Raleigh
Wiley Perry Negro convicted in Granville county for the murder of deputy John Aiken was executed at the State prison Raleigh He walked into the death chamber waved to a neighbor and spoke no words until the chair rendered death The battery delivered two shocks 95 seconds and 30 seconds The witness list was limited to a few Granville county residents Oscar Brothers a long time motor operator for electrocutions completed his last duty today and was discharged Perry had fired six shots at officers during the Creedmoor incident Deputy Sheriff Aiken died in the arrest attempt
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Raleigh
Wiley Perry
Granville County
John Aiken
Perry
Oscar Brothers
Brothers
Pamlico
Bickett
Aiken
Creedmoore
Miss Aldrich and Miss MacFadden Separated by Bandit Capture
Peking dispatch reports Miss Lucy Aldrich sister-in-law of John D Rockefeller Jr and Miss MacFadden were seized when bandits attacked the Peking express near the Shantung border. They reached Tsinanfu separately and later met in a hospital. Both are reported not seriously injured and Aldrich heads toward Tientsin. Robert Scripps, initially thought captive, has arrived in Peking.
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Rockafeller, Jr
W. Aldrich
Rhode
Lucy T. Aldrich
C. John
United States
Ness Island
Shantung Border
Peking
Lucy Aldrich
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Senator Aldrich
Rhode Island
Miss MacFadden
Shantung
Aldrich
Tsinanfu
Standard Oil Company
Miss Aldrich
Tientsin
Robert Scripps
Negro progress in America shocks South African visitor
Dr. James Henderson, a South African educator visiting Atlanta in May, states that the American Negro is a century ahead of South Africans in development. He cites earlier contact with Christian civilization and greater education opportunities as the reason, and notes strong economic progress among U S. Blacks.
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Atlanta
America
South Africa
James Henderson
Round Up of Irish Irregulars Near Blessington
Irish irregulars are being hunted in the Wicklow mountains near Blessington. Central News reports heavy firing this morning and later more than a dozen prisoners were brought into the town.
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Dublin
Blessington
County Wicklow
Central News
Guard cutter Snohomish rushes to aid Lake Gehart near Uamtilla reef
In a wireless message Seattle reports the guard cutter Snohomish rushing to assist the Alaska S teamship Lake Gehart after it ran aground near Uamtilla reef.
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Seattle
Wash
Snohomish
Alaska Steamship Company
Lake Gehhart
Uamtilla Reef
Supreme Court to Hear Wake Jury Dismissal Challenge
Supreme Court test of a judge’s right to dismiss a jury will be argued in Wake County. Judge Cranmer discharged the regular jury after a group of blockaders was acquitted, prompting appeals and debate among eminent lawyers over the authority to fire a jury. The case could set a precedent for peremptory jury discharge.
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Raleigh
Supreme Court
Cranmer
Bethune
Central
State Board of Public Welfare
Council of State
Morrison
Morison
Department of Public Welfare
State College
Roanoke Rapids
Rosemary Mills
S. F. Patterson
Big Mill Company
Mannufacturer
State
Trinity
Boston Woman Indicted in Schwab Forgery Swindle
Mrs Myrtle B Hayes of Boston now residing in New York was indicted on one count for forging Charles M Schwab's name on a $25000 note linked to a Boston hotel project. The swindle allegedly involved about $300000 in forged notes in the names of financial figures. Federal detectives surveil the prime suspect as the probe widens.
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Myrtle B. Hayes
Boston
New York
Myrtle Dbayes
Charles M. Schwab
Chatham
Cleveland
Schwab
Henry A. Mark
Masonic Bodies Gather in Charlotte for Annual Meeting
Masons of the three York Rite bodies of North Carolina met in Charlotte for their annual sessions May 8 through Thursday. Royal and select masters led today’s activities, with royal arch grand chapter sessions to follow and Thursday’s Knights Templar convocation. A public parade and drill from the Masonic temple to the auditorium is slated as the highlight. Delegations, especially from larger cities, arrived by special trains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlotte
North Carolina
Royal Arch Grand Chapter
Grand Commandery
Knights Templar
Masonic Temple
Municipal election re-elects Hedrick and council
Mayor John W. Hedrick and all city council members were re-elected in a quiet High Point vote. Only ward one incumbent Dr C S Grayson faced opposition from T Reighter, with light turnout and official tallies released by City Manager R L Pickett.
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John W. Hedrick
C. S. Grayson
First
T. Reighter
High Point
R. L. Pickett
Dr. C. 38. Grayson
First Ward
W. A. Davis
E. K. Ingram
F. P. Conrad
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Linchen
Lett
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Vagmasville
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Chair City
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Uranner
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