French Fliers Sought at Sea as France Seeks US Aid
The French embassy in Washington asks for American assistance in locating missing fliers Captain Charles Nungesser and Francois Coli. The state department pledges full efforts and coordinates with the navy and coast guard to place search craft on alert for the aviators.
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France
Washington
Charles Nungesser
Francois Coli
State Department
Navy
Treasury Departments
Coast Guard
Fog Hampers Search For Missing French Aviators
New York report on May 10 details heavy fog delaying an expansive search for Captains Charles Nungesser and Francis Coli after their 3,800 mile flight from Paris to New York. Government forces, ships, and air patrols scoured from Newfoundland to New York amid hopeful but cautious notes about possible downed craft and potential rescue plans.
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New York
Charles Nungesser
Francis Coli
Paris
New Foundland
New England
Nungesser
LeBourget
Nautical Observatory
St. John’s N. F
Grand Banks
Lloyd W. Bertaud
Bellanca
Columbia
Washington
Boston
Coast Guard
Halifax
Squantum
Mass
Naval Air Base
Army and
National Guard
Long Island Sound
Mackem
Harry G. Hawker
MacKenzie Grieve
Atlantic
John Rodgers
Pacific
Hawaiian Islands
Hawker
Grive
Orkney Islands
Rodgers
France
Lumber Prices Rise as Flood Cripples South Lumber Mills
A Southern flood along the Mississippi has submerged over 200 mills and slashed hardwood lumber output to less than 40 percent of normal, triggering a 5 to 15 percent price rise on lumber used by High Point furniture plants. Dealers warn the market will stay tight for months as mills remake, logs are stranded, and transportation remains halted.
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Mississippi
South
High Point Furniture
Louisiana
Aged Asheville Woman Found Dead With Throat Cut
The body of Mrs. A. S. Cooper a 61 year old Asheville woman was found near a vacant lot by Montford avenue with the throat cut. Blood along the fence and steps near her home raise questions about suicide. Cooper a native of Ireland had lived in the region since girlhood, with cousins in Savannah Ga as her only relatives.
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Asheville
A. S. Cooper
Montford Avenue
Savannah
Battle Over Estate of Judge Brown Begins in Washington
In Washington North Carolina on May 10 AP reports the widow wins the first round in the contest over the will of late Judge George H. Brown. The court grants the widow’s counsel opening and closing arguments though relatives' lawyers protested citing the will’s execution and their caveat. The estate valued at about half a million dollars benefits the widow and excludes the relatives. The judge reserved the right to modify the ruling as jury selection proceeds.
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Washington
N. C
George H. Brown
Missing Catawba County youth Harley Huffman
Harley Huffman 28, son of farmer G. Lee Huffman, left a Selma Alabama lumber camp around Christmas bound for his Catawba county home and has not been heard from since. His parents and friends launched a wide search and fear foul play may be involved. M Wilkey of Selma reported Huffman arrived in Hickory before Christmas after leaving Alabama.
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Hickory
N. C
Harley Huffman
G. Lee Huffman
Catawba County
Selma
Ala
M. Wilkey
Young Huffman
Wilkey
Hufman
Alabama
High Points asks for $3,000 Red Cross quota
The Mississippi River flood leaves thousands homeless as the National Red Cross seeks $15 million. High Point must raise $3,000, matching appeals that already surpassed earlier goals in Charlotte, Winston-Salem, and Greensboro. Citizens urged to unite and donate to aid the flooded district.
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High Point
Red Cross
National Red Cross
Charlotte
Winston-Salem
Greensboro
Little Runaway Spends Night in Woods Near Kernersville
Emnice Freeman four year old daughter of Joh Freeman farmer near Kernersville wandered from home yesterday afternoon. After an all night search by her father and neighbors she was found at 7 this morning in the woods a mile and a half from home. She slept on the ground and said she got lost and grew sleepy when dark.
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Winston-Salem
Emnice
Joh Freeman
Kernersville
Fannice
Editor Charged After Alleged Police Cash Split
Raleigh May 10 AP Watan gian editor W E Wilson of State college literary monthly journal was arrested for speeding on June 25 but city court records show no trial. Police records list a defendant as W E Wilson of Asheville a student docketed at 12 05 am released at 1 25 am with no disposition recorded. Police chief offered no comment on the data found in the record book.
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Raleigh
Ww. E. Wilson
Watangian
State College Literary Monthly
Raleigh Police Department
Wilson
W. E. Wilson
Asheville
Bryan
Merchants Association to Hold Member Meeting Tonight
An important meeting of Retail Merchants Association members will be held at the association's office. The meeting opens at 8 o'clock tonight and will cover several important matters. Bob Harris, president, urges all members to attend.
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Retail Merchants Association
Wachovia Bank Building
Bob Harris
Navy Launches Search for Lost Transatlantic Fliers
The U S Navy began a search at 6 50 a m in Boston for Capt Charles Nungesser and Capt Francois Coli missing on a trans Atlantic flight. The crews mounted the hunt as word spread of the dangers and the effort expanded.
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Navy
Boston
Charles Nungesser
Francois Coli
Absessed Ear Prevents Leaving Of Governor
Governor A W McLean canceled a trip to Kinston for Memorial Day due to an absessed ear and painful condition. Dr J B Wright advised against the long automobile drive. J B Clark of Fayetteville will deliver the address in his stead.
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Raleigh
A. W. McLean
Kinston
J. B. Wright
J. B. Clark
Fayetteville
Asheville youth editor testifies to Wake grand jury on police liquor rumors
W E Wilson editor of a State College literary publication appeared before the Wake County grand jury to discuss alleged Raleigh police liquor sales and speeding fines splitting. He declined to reveal statements to the jury, saying the editorial reflected personal experiences and views on law enforcement hypocrisy.
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Raleigh
W. E. Wilson
Asheville
State College
Wake Grand Jury
Wilson
State
Untitled US Steel orders show April decline in tonnage
New York May 10 AP United States Steel Corp reports April orders totaling 3 456 132 tons, down 97 098 tons from the end of March.
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New York
United States Steel Corporation
Mrs Snyder Collapses After Murder Verdict
Ruth Snyder and Henry Judd Gray face a possible death sentence after the jury found them guilty of murder. Snyder collapsed in her jail cell, doctors treating suspected epilepsy like episodes, while Gray kept a stoic calm awaiting the next steps toward the electric chair.
Jury doubts Ruth Brown Snyder verdict in murder case
Jurors in the Ruth Brown Snyder case say they believed her testimony was false and favored Henry Judd Gray’s statements. The Long Island City jury, after two weeks as virtual prisoners, announced conviction for first degree murder of Albert Snyder amid news of a south flood and the Paris to New York flight attempt by Nungesser and Coli.
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New York
Ruth Brown Snyder
Henry Judd Gray
East Orange
N. J
Ruth Snyder suffers second collapse in cell
Mrs. Ruth Snyder, famed for the Snyder-Gray murder case, fainted in her cell and was attended by physicians for nearly an hour, the doctors describing it as an attack of hysterical epilepsy.
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New York
Ruth Snyder
Snyder-Gray
River Flood Keeps Large Forces At Work On Levees And Danger is Not Past
Large levee teams continued work along the Mississippi River and at Bayou des Grasses as flood threats persisted north of Baton Rouge and in surrounding parishes. Rescue and relief talks included Hoover and war secretary Davis. Mississippi and Arkansas plan a $1,000,000 finance corporation for flood rehabilitation.
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New Orleans
Mississippi
Baton Rouge
Bayou Des Grasses
John C. Gotwall
Corps of Engineers
Natchez, Miss
Caernarvon
Old River
Bayou Des Glasses
Separe
Moreauville
Red River
Alexandria
Ouachita
Monroe
Herbert Hoover
Commerce
Dwight L. Davis
Louisiana
Finance Corporation
Arkansas
Delta
Tornado Toll Rises Across Midwest and South
From Arkansas to Missouri to Texas and Illinois, storms kill hundreds and injure many as relief teams tally deaths in dozens of communities. Arkansas leads with around 70 dead and 300 injured while Missouri reports about 67 deaths and 42 bodies in morgues.
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Illinois
New Columbia
Chicago
Hinckley
Rushville
Jacksonville
Missouri
Arkansas
Wyoming
Sioux City
Tornado Levels Poplar Bluff Business District
A tornado struck Poplar Bluff Missouri yesterday afternoon leaving a jagged ruin line and 60 people dead bodies in improvised morgues. Sixty seriously injured and 200 with minor injuries. The storm devastated four blocks by ten in the town center. Fire followed but was quenched by heavy rain. Two children died when the Fast Side school collapsed.
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Poplar Bluff
Public hearing planned on permanent flood control policy
Memphis May 10. Secretary Davis of the War Department orders a public hearing to consider all suggestions for a permanent flood control policy as part of rehabilitation efforts for the flood swept Mississippi Valley.
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Memphis
Davis
War Department
Mississippi Valley
Search in English Channel for Nungesser plane fails to reach coast
Channel coast patrols are sweeping the English Channel with destroyers submarine chasers and seaplanes in response to the possible loss of Captain Nungesser's trans Atlantic aircraft before it reached England.
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Cherbourg
France
English Channel
Nungesser
English
Nungesser Plane Sighted Near Fast Net Rock
Early reports, though unconfirmed, place the Nungesser plane last seen off the Fast Net rock on the southern Irish coast. A possible sighting has prompted ongoing maritime searches and official inquiries into the disappearance.
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Nungesser
Fast Net Rock
Irish
Southern Railway tests short haul fares May June
Atlanta May 10. The Southern Railway begins an experiment through May and June to boost short haul travel with low round trip rates. In designated Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and east Tennessee zones up to 150 miles, return tickets the day after outbound cost one fare and a third. five day return tickets cost one and a half. Local agents provide full station details.
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Atlanta
Southern Railway
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
East Tennessee
tIsecal
Receivers Control Co op Litigation In Tobacco Group
In Richmond on May 10 the chancery court heard that receivers of the Tobacco Growers Cooperative Association control the litigation over 1922 to 1925 reorganization matters rather than individual members. Judge William A. Moncure noted the receivers may settle as they desire and that a compromise settlement was agreed upon by the receivers in the $500,000 suit brought by J. E. Wagstaff of Person, North Carolina. Wagstaff asked for dismissal at the hearing.
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Richmond
Tobacco Growers Cooperative Association
William A. Moncure
Chancery Court
T. C. Watkins
R. RB. Patterson
F. R. Edmonds
J. E. Wagstaff
Person
N. C
Association
Wagstar
Moncure
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