Germany Accepting Allied Ultimatum Likely
Paris reports indicate French officials believe Germany will meet all ultimatum conditions. Terms call for roughly 33.75 billion dollars in payments and disarmament as required by Versailles. Berlin crisis notes show President Ebert to form a new ministry with Paul Liebknecht ally Leebe and ex-finance minister Wirth involved.
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Paris
Associated Press
Berlin
Germany
Ebert Today
Paul Leebe
Reichstag
Dr. Wirth
Fehrenbach
Mexico Emerging From Chaos Says Dr Monsen
Dr Frederick Monsen argues Mexico is emerging from revolution and chaos after studying the Diaz era and Villa’s rise. He praises Obregon as a capable leader and warns against premature disarmament as chautauqua continues with The Man From Home tonight and a poetry recital this afternoon.
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National Singers
Frederick Monsen
Mr. Cox
Harry Lauder
Bert Williams
Mexico
Franciso Villa
Dr. Monson
Villa
United States
Obregon
Monson
Dr. Monsen
Monsen
Reichstag anticipates acceptance of allied reparation terms
Berlin reports the Reichstag expected to accept the allied ultimatum on reparations today. The majority Socialists, after a conference, are believed to back yielding to Entente demands. Democrats and German People's Party members debated but opposition waned as the Peoples Party prepared to join the majority Socialists.
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Berlin
Reichstag
Democrats
German Peoples Parties
Peoples Party
Dynamiter McNamara Freed After Nine Years At San Quentin
John J. McNamara was released from San Quentin after nine years and five months for dynamiting the Lewellyn Ironworks in Los Angeles in 1910. He had been sentenced to fifteen years but earned the maximum conduct-based reduction.
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San Quentin
Cal
John J. McNamara
Lewellyn
Los Angeles
Mittle Sentenced Nine Years in Jail
Edward M. Mittle prominent Greenville banker and businessman was convicted of the slaying of J H Patterson last November. Judge Bowman sentenced him to nine years at hard labor in the state penitentiary. Counsel for Mittle gave notice of appeal and he was released on an $18 000 bond.
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Orangeburg
S. C
Edward M. Mittle
Greenville
J. H. Patterson
Bowman
Mittle
Ten Girls Escape From Bedford Reformatory
Nine of ten girls who slipped from the Bedford reformatory for girls were recaptured in Connecticut woods and brought back to the institution early today. The escape stunned authorities as the ring leader remains at large.
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Bedford
N. Y
Bedford Reformatory
Connecticut Woods
Organized Labor Against Sovietism in United States
Cincinnati May 10 The executive council of the American Federation of Labor meets to prepare data for the Denver convention showing that organized labor cannot support any movement to recognize the Soviet Russian government.
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Cincinnati
Executive Council
The
American Federation of Labor
Denver
Old Hickory Club Directors Meet at Club Farm
Directors of the Old Hickory club gathered at the club farm near High Point this afternoon. Work on the clubhouse is advancing and the contractor stated completion will occur not later than June 1.
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Old Hickory Club
High Point
Dan
Secretaries Hold Convention in Jacksonville
The executive committee of the Southern Commercial Secretaries association met in Jacksonville Florida to prepare for the annual convention opening tomorrow. The event runs through Saturday with members expected to attend.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Southern Commercial Secretaries Association
Receiver Appears at Greensboro Hearing
R B Terry receiver for the Ejec to-File company went to Greensboro this morning to attend a hearing scheduled today on the case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. B. Terry
Greensboro
Student Entered Not Guilty Plea In Hazing Case
R N Mc Comb of Hickory a junior at North Carolina College pled nolo contendere to assault. He was arraigned in Wake county court on hazing charges and the judgment was continued in the costs. He also pled not guilty to hazing indicted weeks earlier. The incident involved breaking into a room and roughing freshmen. state investigators and grand jury actions followed. Hazing remains a statutory offense in North Carolina.
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Raleigh
R. N. McComb
Hickory
North Carolina College of Agriculture and Engineering
Wake County
McComb
North Carolina
Barrel stave saves life of boy in sea rescue
Mayor Ed ward L. Bader chauffeur Harry Jackson and Patrolman McNiel rescued seven year old Harry Lou from strong storm tides near Iowa avenue. They paddled in a rowboat using a barrel stave as a paddle. The boy was unconscious but revived at City hospital and is expected to recover.
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Atlantic City
Harry Jackson
Edward L. Bader
McNiel
Harry Lou
Iowa Avenue
City Hospital
Jackson
Bader
Market declines on foreign unrest
The cotton market opened steady to lower in New York as investors priced in effects of a coal strike and reparations news. Futures for May and other months showed selling pressure with May at 12.64 and other contracts opening around 12.61 to 14.00, signaling a cautious start amid overseas unrest.
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New York
Liverpool
New
Italian Former Finance Minister Francisco Tecesco Dies by Suicide
Rome reports Francisco Tecesco former minister of finance and treasury and vice president of the chamber of deputies leapt from a window and died. Authorities cite his illness nephritis as a contributing factor in the tragedy.
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Rome
Francisco Tecesco
Finance
the Treasury
Chamber of Deputies
Teases Bear Gets Clawed by Enraged Exhibit
In Hagerstown Maryland on May 9 Albert Cunningham seventeen was injured when a carnival bear reached through cage bars and clawed him on the head and face during a teasing stunt at the street carnival.
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Hagerstown
Albert Cunningham
Cunningham
Strikebreakers Seek Protection In Federal Building At Baltimore
More than three hundred alleged marine strikers and sympathizers stormed the Baltimore customs house seeking safety for a group of fleeing black strike breakers. Police arrived and drove off rioters after several people were injured.
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Federal
Baltimore
Customs
Fed
Seveal
Local Car Owners Must Face Charges In Greensboro
High Point automibile owners face speeding charges after summonses issued to appear in Greensboro justice court. Eighteen to twenty local car owners are affected for taking part in the National Good Roads visit, with cars used by visitors in a motor parade. Some owners did not accompany their cars, leaving chalfeurs to drive them. A Glenwood area peace officer, not a regular city employee, filed the cases.
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High Point
Justice of the Peace Court
Greensboro
National Good Roads Association
Glenwood
Alls Not Juice In the Lemons Sold By Chinamen In Pittsburgh
Two detectives investigated a lemon market in Pittsburgh's Chinatown and found opium inside the fruit. Lemon sellers allegedly peddled stock at high prices, with one lemon seized revealing opium substitution. Two Chinese men were arrested for further investigation.
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Pittsburgh
16 year old to die in Sing Sing cell of horrors
Ossining New York May 10 a 16 year old boy Peter Nunziata awaits execution on June 5 in Sing Sing Cell 13 the so called cell of horrors. He is accused of murder after drinking whiskey then attacking educator Dr Wilfred Kotkoy. His companions await trial and officials note a youth and a woman may be executed for murder for first time in years.
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Ossining
N. Y
Peter Nunziata
Sing Sing
Hattie Dixon
Nunziata
Wilfred Phineas Kotkoy
Lewis Lawes
Thompson Held on Robbery Charge in South Carolina
Luther Thompson, white, once jailed in municipal court for riding on a train, is returned to Greenwood S C and held on highway robbery charges. He allegedly rode atop a train with three others, possibly Lenoir College students, in a case that may include murder and burglary. Thompson denies Greenwood involvement.
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Luther Thompson
Kirkman
Greenwood
S&s. C
South Carolina
Thompson
Lenoir College
S. C
Sugar Crop Breaks Records Despite 1920 Limit
Final figures from the crop estimate bureau show 1920 sugar production at 1,266,148 tons, beating the 1916 record by 12 percent. Beet sugar accounts for 6 percent of the total with about 28 percent of cane acreage in seed cane.
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Washington
Crop Estimate Bureau
Col Harvey Arrives in Southampton as New U S Ambassador
Col George Harvey arrives in Southampton England this May afternoon as the newly appointed ambassador to the court of St James. He travels from the United States to assume duties and represents the United States in Britain.
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Col. Harvey
Southampton
Eng
George Harvey
Court of St. James
United States
Far East trade growth urged for U S prosperity
The article argues sustained U S foreign trade is essential and outlines strong profits from manufactured goods with the Far East. It highlights China and Japan as key markets, notes rail and transport improvements, and urges American merchants to seize growing opportunities amid a favorable outlook and pending China act.
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Far East
America
Ito
United States
France
England
Italy
China
Japan
Philippines
U. S
Shanghai
Senate
Britain
Cina
Made in Carolinas Exposition Planned in Charlotte
The Carolina Exposition Company received a state charter to build a 250 by 400 foot, one story exhibition hall in Charlotte with 100000 feet of floor space to display Carolina made products. Promoters expect 100000 attendees over two weeks in September and will feature machinery, textiles, furniture, and many other Carolina goods from over 2000 local manufacturers.
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Monster Building
Secretary of State
Carolina Expossion Company
Charlotte
A. J. Draper
American Cotton Manufacturers’ Association
United States
J. B. Btird
Eaird
Charles Parker
Parker-Gardner Company
Norman A. Cocke
The
Southern Power Company
David Owens
J. B. Ivey and Company
H. O. Miller
Carolina Baking Company
S. B. Alexander, Jr
Southern
Crompton-Knowles Loomworks
Joe Fitzsimmons
Carolinas Auto Supply House
Lane Etheridge
Pyramid Motor Company
John L. Dobbs
DuPont
J. C. Patton
Charlotte Observer
Carolinas
America
Monument
Two
South
Alrady
American Tobacco Company
Anderson Motor Company
Rock Hill
8. C
Durham Hosiery Mills
P. H. Hanes Knitting Mills
Liddell Foundry
Cement Products Corporation
Willmington
American Products Corporation
Reidsville
Geoghegan Shirt Company
El-Rees-Lo Cigar Company
Greensboro
Southern Ice Machine Company
Lance Packing Company
Charlotte Marble and Granite Works
Tomlinson Chair Company
High Point
Citizens Lumber Company
Biltmere
W. J. Squire
J. 8. Rust
W. C. Dowd
the Evening News
A. G. Walton
H. ©. Miller
BE. C. Griffith
E P. Coles
Margaret Holt
Carolinas Exposition Company
P. O
A. B. Carter
Greenville
S. C
Southern Textile Exposition Company
Wwe
South Carolina
Carolina
Britain withholds formal recognition of Russian Soviet
London May 10 The British foreign office announced there has been no formal recognition of the Russian Soviet government and the status remains unchanged since the Russo Anglo trading agreement. The house of commons noted the preliminary pact was equivalent to recognition though not in the regular diplomatic sense.
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London
Great Britain
House of Commons
Polish Insurgents Capture Kosel After Hard Fighting
Insurgent Polish forces crossed the Oder and captured Kosel after three days of fierce combat. The town’s population fled in panic and French troops sought shelter in barracks as Poles fired on them. Casualties were reported at Kosel railway station.
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Opeln
Upper Silesia
Associated Press
Oder River
Kosel
Four Brothers Die in Cambridge Fire
Four brothers were burned to death when a fast moving blaze destroyed their Cambridge home. The fire started at the front of the house and blocked the only entrance to the attic where the bodies were found by firemen.
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Cambridge
Mass
Funeral for Gertrude Ritch Tomorrow in Springfield
The funeral for Gertrude Ritch who died yesterday at her parents home 102 General Street will be held in Springfield tomorrow at 10 30 AM. Rev O L Ruth will officiate and burial will follow in the church graveyard.
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Tittle Gertrude Ritch
Seneral Street
Springfield
O. L. Ruth
Southern Baptist Association Opens 69th Session in Chattanooga
Officers and messengers of the Southern Baptist association arrive in Chattanooga for the 69th annual session opening Thursday. Williams of Sanford North Carolina, enrollment clerk, is among early arrivals.
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Baptist Association
Cliatyanooga
Tenn
Southern Baptist Association
Teo. Williams
Sanford
North Carolina
Brown Named to Commission by President Harding
Washington May 186 Wailer Brown of Toledo is appointed by President Harding as personal representative on a commission reorganizing the executive branch of the government.
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W. F. Brown
Washington
Wailer Brown
Toledo
Harding
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