Blair Nomination to Win Senate Finance Committee Vote Today
The Senate Finance Committee considered David H. Blair for internal revenue commissioner with a vote expected at the day’s session. Republicans largely back Blair while Democrats oppose, as the primary issue of binding delegates is disputed by Blair and Marion Butler who argued the Republican primary is not binding on Chicago delegates.
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Washington
Internal Revenue
Mellon
M. F. West
Senate
David H. Blair
Winston-Salem
N. C
Revenue Post
Senate Finance Committee
Palmer
Johnson
California
Republican Committee
Blair
Marion Butler
North Car
Pritchard
Chicago
Warning of Bergdoll Escape Sent to Justice Dept
John F. O'Connor special agent testified before the house investigating committee that a warning about Philadelphia draft evader Grover Bergdoll escaping was sent to the department of justice while Bergdoll was in custody. He said, to his knowledge, it was never transmitted to military authorities.
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Washington
Grover Bergdoll
Philadelphia
Department of Justice
Bergdoll
John F. O'Connor
Department
House
O'Connor
Yeges Pool Cops With Repairs
Police on patrol misperceived a burglary at the Mary Anderson theater as repair work by four men under bright lights. In the morning the manager found the night watchman and a stage worker bound and gagged, the office safe open, with 5500 dollars and two thousand dollar bonds stolen. The theater is part of the Keith vaudeville chain in Louisville.
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Yeges Pool
Louisville
Mary Anderson
Yverggs
Keith Vaudeville
Moonshiner Informer Killed Near Petersburg
Harmon Bell a 40 year old farmer from near Hopeville Grant county West Virginia was shot from his horse and killed at North Fork Gap seven miles west of Petersburg Sunday morning unidentified assailants believed tied to moonshine enforcement ill will from neighbors had ordered him to leave Bell had informed on a draft evader and on revenue officers the horse he rode was also killed in the attack
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Cumberland
Harmon Bell
Hopeville
Grant County
W. Va
North Fork Gap
Petersburg
Bell
Beld
Woman Dies After Son's Murder Conviction in Kentucky
In Whitesburg Kentucky Mrs Caroline Hunsucker aged seventy died reportedly from a broken heart after her son Arlie Hunsucker aged twenty one was sentenced to life in the state penitentiary for killing his father William Hunsucker. The mother attended the trial and collapsed upon conviction.
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Lexington
Whitesburg
Kky
Caroline Hunsucker
William Hunsucker
Arlie
State
Farmer and son held after fatal Wells assault in Travelers Rest
In Greenville South Carolina on May day a man died from a head wound after a quarrel with Walter Bower 40 and his son Carl 20 in Travelers Rest. Andy Wells 37 a prominent farmer died in a local hospital leaving a wife and eight children. The Bowers men are jailed claiming self defense.
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Greenville
S. C
Walter Bower
Carl Bowers
Travelers Rest
Andy Wells
Bowers
Wells
Shinbone Transplant Lets Woman Return to Housework
New York May 12 Mrs Flomentine Karpienka has regained ability to do housework after doctors replaced a bone in her arm with part of her shinbone in a pioneering operation. The unusual procedure highlights advances in orthopedic surgery.
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New York
Flomentine Karpienka
American business houses eye Germany trade openings
Germany's acceptance of the allied reparations terms spurs U S business inquiries. Secretary Hughes says Americans may trade with German firms freely except for a few restricted articles. The interest mirrors reports from allied capitals.
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Washington
Germany
State Department
Hughes
British Soldiers Riot In Sympathy Across Britain
Unrest spreads from the coal miners strike to armed reservists in the army and navy. At Ports mouth Aldershot Colchester and Doncaster officials report demonstrations looting and clashes. Colchester reservists from coal districts sided with strikers fueling battles until infantry and cavalry restored order. Lancashire miners in defense corps questioned loyalty as authorities worry about arming them.
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London
Portsmouth
Aldershot
Colchester
Doncaster
Lancashire
Defense Corps
Clara Hamon Relinquishes Estate Claims in Settlement
Clara Smith Hamon waives all claims to the estate of Jake L. Hamon in a settlement announced in Los Angeles. The move follows her acquittal by an Oklahoma jury in the alleged murder case. Attorney J. P. Champion disclosed the agreement.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Clara Smith Hamon
Jake L. Hamon
Oklahoma
J. P. Champion
Man in Five Hour Laundry Escape and Arrest
Cleveland, May 11 A man identified as George Maney was imprisoned five hours inside a washing machine after a pistol battle with police in a downtown laundry. He was later captured by the laundry owner and remains in custody on seven charges including desertion from the army aviation field and parole violation. A man and a woman were slightly wounded in the firefight as police tried to detain the pair.
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Cleveland
George Maney
Maney
Army Aviation Field
Aberdeen
Elmira
N. Y
Detroit Bandits Take $20,000 Payroll in Three-Car Hold-Up
Twelve men in three autos held up the Detroit United Railway payroll car at Illinois Avenue and Russell Streets. They forced the car to stop and fired shotguns at three payroll riders. The robbers rifled the lock boxes and fled in different directions.
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Detroit
Detroit United Railway
Illinois Avenue
Russell Streets
Missing Girl Back Home in Vermont
Anna Stetson, 11, daughter of William Stetson, returned unharmed to her West Hartford home after being missing since last Saturday afternoon. She had followed a mountain road to check her father's cows and said she was held by a man described as dark and short.
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West Hartford
Anna Stetson
William Stetson
Packers Must Give Tax Data
Providence May 11 Wilson and company Chicago packers were directed by the Superior court to furnish to the tax commissioners information about its business as may be deemed necessary for the assessment of a corporate excess profit tax in this state.
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Providence
Wilson and Company
Chicago Packers
Superior Court
Miss Tate Undergoes Operation at Guilford General
Miss Isabelle Tate daughter of Mr and Mrs A E Tate underwent an operation last night at Guilford General Hospital. She is doing nicely today according to reports.
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Miss Tate
Isabelle Tate
A. E. Tate
Guilford General Hospital
Baptist Women Drive Funding for Southern Mission Campaign
Southern Baptist women report 22 million dollars contributed to a 75 million campaign and 3.1 million raised by the women’s missionary branch in the past year. Georgia led new chapters with 44 openings, Texas 43, and North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia also listed substantial totals. Women seek representation on convention committees and boards based on active support and organizational growth.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Chattanooga Tabernacle
A. W. Chambless
J. W. Ensor
First Baptist Church
Order of Business Committee
O. L. Haley
Nashville
Missionary Board
Southern Baptist Association
W. C. Lowndes
Baltimore
North Carolina
South Carolina
Virginia
Market reacts on early trading in cotton futures
In New York on May 12 the market opened steady with a slight decline of 8 to 11 points. Trading showed some buying on foreign exchange firmness and domestic goods optimism while the south acted as a moderate seller. Futures prices opened steady with May 12.77, July 13.20, October 13.72, December 14.10, and January 14.16, sliding about 18 to 28 points from the morning highs.
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New York
England
South
Wall Street
Legion Post Meeting Tonight Invites Ex Service Men
An important meeting of the Andrew Jackson post of the American Legion will be held tonight at 7:30 in the legion rooms on North Main street. Dr. I T Mann, commander, asks all members to attend. Ex service men of High Point are invited.
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Andrew Jackson Post
The
American Legion
Legion Rooms
North Main Street
I. T. Mann
High Point
John Ward Waives Examination in Local Arraignment
John Ward waived examination when arraigned before Magistrate W G Brown and was bound over to Guilford Superior Court on $500 bond. Ward was arrested near the city after officers found whiskey in his possession, it is alleged.
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John Ward
W. G. Brown
Guilford Superior Court
Ward
Pension plan eyed by railway telegraphers group
Savannah Ga May 12 Work ing committees have been appointed for the convention of the order of railway telegraphers They are now at hard work It is said a plan will likely be worked out to pension the old members of the organization.
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Savannah
Order of Railway Telegraphers
Charlotte man speaks at High Point Rotary about youth work
J Wilson Smith, Charlotte general secretary of the YMCA in North Carolina, tells High Point Rotary that the city ranks highly in civic interest in the organization. He outlines a fourfold boys program and traces youth development from savage to Arab stages.
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High Point
Wilson
Young Men’s Christian Association
J. Wilson Smith
Charlotte
North Carolina
High Point Rotary Club
Commercial Club
Smith
United States
Kiwanis Club
Will Lambeth
Tax plan tightens rates as Congress eyes revenue changes
Washington May 12 Congress moves toward a new revenue bill after months of doubt. Proposals include repealing excess profits and some consumption levies while lowering top surtaxes, raising the corporate tax and undistributed profits levy, boosting tobacco taxes, and imposing higher liquor and auto levies with ongoing opposition.
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Washington
Congress
No Increase in Telephone Rates Likely in North Carolina
North Carolina's Southern Bell case will keep rates flat overall with only possible small rises in some instances. The state corporation commission prepares its decision, while statewide talk of a state constabulary in anti-Volstead enforcement cycles continues amid revenue agent changes and historic distillery captures.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
State Corporation Commission
Southern Gell Telephone Company
Southern Bell
North Carolina Corporation Commission
Southern Bell Company
Washington
J. W. Bailey
Washingon
General Assembly
R. Brame
T. W. Bickett
Southern Power Company
Supreme Court
Stacy
North Carolina Public Service Company
Greensboro
High Point
Guilford Court
J. Bis Ray
Superior
Improved Schedule for Southern Railway No 137
Local Passenger Agent H D Saunders announced an updated timetable for train No 137 on the Southern line. The schedule, effective next Sunday, improves connections to Atlanta and western cities with earlier departures from Greensboro to Spartanburg and Greenville before arriving in Atlanta at 4 50 p m.
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Southern Railway
H. D. Saunders
Atlanta
Western Cities
Greensboro
High Point
Thomasville
Lexington
Salisbury
Concord
Charlotte
Gastonia
Blacksburg
Gaffney
Spartanburg
Greenville
Seneca
Meeting Postponed for Carolina and Yadkin Railway Bondholders
The meeting of manufacturers and merchants of High Point and L H Hole representing the bondholders of the Carolina and Yadkin River Railway has been postponed from tonight to Monday afternoon at 2 30 in the chamber of commerce rooms.
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High Point
L. H Hole
Carolina and Yadkin River
Chamber of Commerce
Lonnie Eaton Sentenced to Life in Louisiana Case
Lonnie Eaton, a Black man, was moved from Caddo Parish prison to Baton Rouge to begin a life sentence after a sheriff forgot to execute him. Governor Parker commuted his death sentence to life after the error in Monroe’s murder conviction.
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Hane
Shreveport
Lonnie Eaton
Caddo Parish
Baton Rouge
Grant
Eaton
Parker
Monroe
Go Operation 1 Grocers Urged to Unite in Trade
F K Kamper of Atlanta urged greater cooperation between wholesale and retail grocers at the Southern Wholesale Grocers association meeting in Cincinnati. He called for an educational campaign to align jobbers with retailers, stressing unified planning, training, and up-to-date merchandising to strengthen independent grocers against chains.
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America
United States
King Receives New US Ambassador at Buckingham Palace
Col George Harvey the new American ambassador was received in the forenoon by King George at Buckingham Palace presenting his letters to the king.
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Col. Harvey
London
Col
George Harvey
George
Buckingham Palace
Hoover Sees Industrial Turn Corner Amid Readjustments
Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover argues the United States has turned the corner from economic trouble but faces further readjustments. He cites no monetary panic, praises the Federal Reserve, and stresses time, patience, and parity of profits, prices, and wages across industries to sustain high living standards.
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Hoover
America
Cour
Federal Reserve System
Europe
Beause
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Clara Hamon
Women of South
Legion
Charlotte Mans
Rotary Club
Young Men's Christian Association
Bell Company
Herbert Hoover
Commerce
He. N. Rickey
Secretary of Commerce
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