Council Appointments Slated For Tonight
City council plans to act on an organization ordinance and appoint a large group of city employees including police, with key posts such as public works head Sam Strickland and water utilities chief P J Dishner targeted for reappointment. Prosecution, street superintendent, and sanitary officer posts also to be filled as session opens.
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Police Department
Council
Sam H. Strickland
Public Works Department
P. J. Dishner
Public Utilities Department
Gurney T. Royals
Claude Hussey
George Wimberley
B C Headache Remedy Promises Fast Relief
A North Carolina druggist created a blend of ingredients claimed to relieve any headache within three minutes. The ad asserts immediate, safe, complete relief for all headache types and promotes B C as a remarkable, guaranteed remedy.
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North Carolina
Free Swimming Week at the Y Opens For Boys
W F Bailey, physical director of the YMCA, announced free swimming week with daily sessions for any boy who brings a soap cake a towel and a smile. A 65 student class started yesterday teaching basic afloat techniques with no pool or instruction charge.
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W. F. Bailey
Bailey
City police to add ranks as Friddle reviews force
The superintendent of the city prison farm may be recalled to head the detective division. Plans call for 16 patrolmen three desk sergeants four motorcycle officers four detectives a jailer and a fingerprint officer. The three street sergeants may be deferred until Chief Friddle can assess the force.
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City
Friddle
Police Department
Public Welfare Department
Committee On Public Safety
Sechrest
Knox
Public Works
Public
Committee On Public Works
Bar Association To Hold May Meeting On Tomorrow Night
The High Point Bar association will hold its May meeting in the Elwood hotel private dining room Wednesday evening at 7 o'clock. Lawyers may raise any matter for general discussion as announced by president Carter Dalton.
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Bar Association
High Point Bar Association
Elwood Hotel
Carter Dalton
Retailers 10 Open Meet Tomorrow in Southern Dealers Group
The 19th annual convention of the Southern Retail Furniture Dealers Association opens tomorrow at the Sedgefield Inn with 150 to 200 members from North and South Carolina and Virginia attending. Sessions run through Thursday with speeches by J E Kester R W Catshall and Clarence Niss and a banquet at 6:30 p.m. at the High Point Country Club chaired by George Hackney.
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Southern Retail Furniture Dealers Association
Sedgefield Inn
High Point
Winston-Salem
Greensboro
North
South Carolina
Virginia
J. E. Kester
Kester Furniture Company
City
R. I. Farmer
T. Wingate Andrews
R. W. Catshall
W.S. Ryland
North Carolina Bank and Trust Company
Cc. 0
Kester
Charlotte
High Point Country Club
Piedmont Furniture Manufacturers Club
George Hackney
Lexington
Filling station robbed at Hillcrest corner
The Hillcrest filling station of the Marine Oil Co. at Prospect and Ward streets was broken into last night and over 30 dollars worth of cigarettes and merchandise stolen. The break-in followed a weekend of robberies. no suspects yet. Police list items found missing and estimate loot at 32.60. Detectives Batley Nance and Hoover led the investigation.
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Hillcrest
Marine Oil Company
Prospect
Ward Streets
Marvin H. Griffith
Woman seeks annulment of bigamous marriage in Gailford court
Leona Williams Wagner, age 20, sues in Gailford Superior Court for an annulment of her marriage to Ralph F. Wagner, a former lumber inspector, claiming the union in Bristol Virginia on January 22 this year was bigamous as Wagner already had a wife, married March 17, 1920. The plea seeks restoration of her maiden name Leona Williams.
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B. 8. Sikes
Leona Williams Wagner
Gailford Superior Court
Ralph F. Wagner
Wagner
Bristol
Wagener
Leona Williams
Radio Artists Entertain At Civitan Meet
Civitan luncheon at the Elwood hotel featured radio broadcasting duo Mr. and Mrs. Happy Lawson performing songs and piano selections. Judge Lewis E. Teague guided the program with guests Dr. J. W. Tankersley and Royster Thurman in attendance. George Elliott won the attendance prize.
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Civitan Club
Elwood Hotel
Float operated automatic pump removes water from cellars
A newly invented pump uses a float to operate automatically and drain water from flooded residence cellars, providing a quick and unattended solution to basement flooding.
Fascist Attack on Vatican City Mail Van Drivers
In Vatican City on a May Sunday morning a blackshirt leaped onto a Vatican mail van carrying papal mail and struck a driver. A fascist militia officer beat the other driver. one man was injured for days and the second lightly hurt. Vatican authorities offered no motive.
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Vatican City
Pius XI
Vatican
Palazzo Venezia
Benito Mussolini
Rome
Action Squad
Whcch
Guards on Duty at Downer Trial in Elberton Ga
National guardsmen guarded the county jail and courthouse in Elberton during the John Downer trial for attacking a white woman. Two white men were wounded in a jail mob May 1. three other arrestees from Atlanta are to be witnesses.
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Elberton
National
John Downer
Isaac McCauley
C. Otis Cade
Frank Cade
Downer
Atlanta
Mid-Week Service At First Methodist Protestant
The mid week service of the First Methodist Protestant church will be held tomorrow evening at 7 45. The Rev R I Farmer will be in charge and speak on As They Went the Going Religion. All are welcome to attend and participate in this hour of meditation.
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First Methodist Protestant Church
R. I. Farmer
Robert Learns Kearns dies after stroke in High Point
Robert Larkin Kearns aged 48 died at 6 am at his home 320 Greer street after an illness that began with a stroke. Born in Randolph county April 4 1883 he was married to Fannie Warner in 1904 and survived by son A L Kearns of High Point brother Marvin of Trinity and half sister Augusta Sikes of Trinity. He lived in High Point 24 years, worked last at Giant Furniture, and belonged to Back Creek Quaker church Guilford Council No. 23 Jr O U A M and Sons and Daughters of America. Funeral Thursday at 2 pm at South Main Street M E church with burial at Oakwood Memorial Park cemetery.
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Robert Larkin Kearns
Greer Street
Randolph County
John
Lou
Winston Kearns
Fannie Warner
A. L. Kearns
High Point
Marvin Kearns
Trinity
South Main Street
M. E
Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery
Protest Over Pope Pius XI Note Studied by Madrid
Madrid May 26 The provisional government studied the Pope Pius XI protest against Spain's anti Catholic riots. Interior Minister Miguel Maura said the note was cordial and declined to reveal its contents. It protested attacks on church property and mistreatment of clergy and cited Cardinal Segura’s exile from Spain.
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Madrid
Pius XI
Spain
Miguel Maura
Pedro Segura
Toledo
McKinney's Knob Shop Reports Small Fire
A minor blaze in the finishing room at McKinney's Knob Shop yesterday at 5:15 p.m. drew Company Three firefighters who extinguished it with only slight damage. The cause remains undetermined.
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McKinney’s
McKinney's Knob Shop
Death of L. O. Steele at 604 West Green Street
L O Steele aged 89 died at his home at 604 West Green Street at 5 20 am after a five year illness. Born July 18 1875 in Stokes County he moved to High Point 25 years ago. Survived by wife Nannie Vaughan two sons Harry Dunn and Billy Claude and three daughters Jennie Allred Ruth O Neal Nina Mae. Funeral Thursday 2 30 pm at Green Street Baptist with burial in Oakwood Cemetery.
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L. C. Steele
West Green Street
Stokes County
William and
Evaline Hudson Steele
High Point
Rothingham County
Southern Chair Company
Nannie Vaughan
Turner Discusses Insurance Laws at Greensboro Luncheon
Representative Thomas Turner Jr. spoke to the Greensboro Insurance Exchange about new NC laws. He highlighted a resident agency examination requirement and exams for existing agents with expiring licenses. He also noted a 1931 statute requiring motor vehicle drivers with court judgments to pay or post bond before driving again.
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Thomas Turner, Jr
Guilford
General Assembly
North Carolina
Greensboro Insurance Exchange
Greensboro
Turner
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Strickland and Dishner
J. E. Black
Cable St
High Point Ice and Coal CO
West Broad
Clyde Farley
College Street
Max Bones
Optometrist
North Main
Auto Laundry
Wrenn Street
Hiatt Motor Company, Inc
N. Main St
West Broac
Betsy Ross
Washington
Mildred Morgan
Eleanor Washington Howard
George Washington
Mount Vernon
James E. Fecher
William A. Moffatt
Lowell Fletcher Hobart
Opal L. Kunz
New York
Women’s Air Corps
Sedgefield
Illing Station
Civitan Meet
Pope Pius XI
Japan
Lindy
U. S
Cameron Forbes
Seiji Yoshiwara
Tokio
Pacific
United States
Gaishi Nagaoki
Robert L. Kearns Bies
Randolph Counties
Paul Y. Adams
Burrus Clinic
North Main Street
Wilson Motor Company
Hedgecock Rooting Co. Ward St. H. P. Frb
Insubelssroof
Walter E. Crissman
Commerce St
Graham
South
Wrenn St
Matton Drug Company
W. M. Tucker
Mgr
LO. Steele
High Point Perpetual Building and Loan Association
Commercial National Bank
V. A. J. Idol
Vice-Pres
Treas
H. Ellis
Sec'y
Seidman and
Seidman
Certified Public Accountants Audits — Systems — Tax Service
309 Commercial Bank
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