Market Prone Rally As Rates Ease And Commodities Shift
The week saw irregular stock gains amid easier money rates and lower grain prices. Demand for rails and high grade investments rose while steel and sugar lagged. cotton rose about two dollars a bale and wheat fell on weak export demand. A Thanksgiving relay race linking Greensboro and High Point Y associations features two runners per side and a Beeson Hardware trophy to be won outright after three victories.
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New York
Brazil
Thanksgiving Stage Relay Race Between YMCAs
On Thanksgiving day a relay race will run from High Point to Greensboro between the High Point YMCA and the Greensboro YMCA. Each association fields 17 men and 17 boys with two runners posted every half mile. The 1928 route will reverse, starting at Greensboro and finishing at High Point, and the event will become an annual Thanksgiving tradition.
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High Point
Greensboro
High Point Y. M. C. A
Social Notes From Martinsville Area Visitors and Travel
Mr and Mrs L C Matton visit relatives in Buchanan Virginia with plans to return Sunday and Mrs Matton to stay about a month. Mr and Mrs Henry D Perry depart for Wheeling West Virginia by motor for about a week. Miss Dorothy Stevens returns to Martinsville Virginia after guesting with Miss Mary Muse. Miss Ruth Holton visits Greenville District of Washington DC for the weekend. Migg Lulg Johnson of Greensboro is in town. C A Voncannon battles influenza as Mrs Von cannon improves at home on West Green street. Marvin Shumaker and Richard Shumaker return from Statesville after Otis Shumaker’s funeral at Mount Airy. Edwin Koonce, NC University student, visits home for weekend. Adelaide Armfield of Asheboro visits Jamestown with Miss Mary Ragsdale. Richard Armfield of the University of North Carolina spends weekend with parents in Roland Park.
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Henry D. Perry
Wheeling
West Virginia
Marvin Shumaker
Richard Shumaker
Statesville
Otis Shumaker
Mount Airy
Adelaide Armfield
Asheboro
Mary Ragsdale
Jamestown
Richard Armfield
University of North Carolina
Mrs
W. F. Armfield
Roland Park
Washington
New England
President Coolidge
War Department
Coolidas
Plymouth
Potomac
Sargent
Mrs. Sargent
Aviator Gray Dies After Balloon Crash Near Illinois
An aviator parachuted to save his life and died when a balloon wreckage was found along a Cumberland range after pursuit by planes in fog over southern Illinois. The body in the balloon basket was discovered by a boy and confirmed by physicians as death likely from suffocation or heart trouble. Arlington burial requested by his widow.
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Gray
Ashley
Ill
Illinois
Cumberland Mountains
Scott Field
Arlington Washington
Captain Hawthorne Gray Buried at Arlington Ceremony
The body of Captain Hawthorne Gray will be buried at Arlington National Cemetery. Born in Washington in 1889, he served in the Idaho National Guard before joining the regular army in 1915 to pursue aviation. He represented the Army Air Corps in the Gordon Bennett balloon race at Antwerp, Belgium, finishing second over 699 kilometres.
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Captain Hawthorne Gray
Arlington National Cemetery
Captain Gray
State of
Washington
Idaho National Guard
Regular
Army Air Corps
Antwerp
Belgium
Gray Ready For Final Flight In High Altitude Attempt
Captain Hawthorne Gray prepared for a third world altitude record attempt with a two and a half hour oxygen supply heated goggles and an electric coil to keep lenses dry. He wore a leather suit under army gear and a sand weighted basket held radios and ballast controls for the mission.
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Scott Field, Ill
Hawthorne Gray
Gray
John C. MacReady
Post Hospital
Study planned of instruments after Gray balloon fall near Sparta
The national aeronautics association intends to examine the barograph and other instruments from the balloon in which Captain Hawthorne C. Gray, army aviator, died near Sparta Tennessee to determine if the world free balloon altitude record was broken.
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Washington
National Aeronautics Association
Hawthorne C. Gray
Sparta
Tenn
W. S. Moye Favored for Raleigh State Fair Secretary
The Raleigh state fair likely to appoint W. S. Moye of Rocky Mount as secretary and manager when the new board takes office on November 23. The Old Agricultural Society and Raleigh expect to pay $200,000 by then, with $125,000 from subdivision sales and $75,000 from city bonds approved.
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W. S
Bill) Moye
Rocky Mount
Moye
Old Agricultural Society
General Assembly
Raleigh
Agricultural Society
City of
State of
North Carolina
Royal wedding procession in Naples and ceremony plans
Naples witnessed Bourbon and Orleans entourage following the couple amid clatter as King Alphonso and guests joined the royal palace processions. Monsignor Becceria prepared to receive the couple at the church of San Francesco di Paula, while Cardinal Ascalesi, slated to perform, was indisposed at the last minute.
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Bourbon
Orleans
Alphonso
Royal Palace
Monsignor Becceria
Admiral McCulley Wedding Near Anderson
Mrs. Carrie McCulley of Anderson marries as the admiral’s sister and Carrie Mc Culley Patrick of Anderson join in Charleston with seven adopted orphans. Letter mailed from Revel October 16, the day after the wedding. The admiral expects to return to the United States with his party.
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Patrick
Feoder
Admiral McCulley
Charleston
Carrie McCulley
Anderson
Carrie McCulley Patrick
Revel
United States
Flood Areas (Continued from page 1) Across New England
Reports from Vermont and surrounding states describe a devastating flood that breached the Pittsford dam near Rutland and forced evacuation in Springfield and Agawam. Widespread deaths are feared with Barre listing 25 victims and Waterbury reporting heavy losses. Army troops and relief supplies are being mobilized as bridges collapse and cities face isolation.
New England Flood Toll Rises With Dead and Missing
Rescue workers struggle over impassable roads as floods devastate Vermont and surrounding areas. Power and rail service crippled, relief hampered. Calvary troops deployed from Fort Ethan Allen to Montpelier. In Vermont and eastern Quebec the toll and damage mount with dozens identified dead and many missing.
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Boston
New England
Waterbury
Red Cross Plans Relief for New England Floods
National chairman John Barton Payne telegraphed Governor Fuller of Massachusetts and Weeks of Vermont that the Red Cross will use existing funds to meet relief needs. He said no special national appeal will be issued unless the disaster worsens, and that local chapters may spend their own funds and request additional national aid if needed.
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Washington
American Red Cross
New England
John Barton Payne
Fuller
Massachusetts
Weeks
Vermont
Payne
New England Red Cross
Nady Cates Jr Transferred From Guilford Hospital
Nady Cates Jr who has been confined to Guilford General hospital for six weeks was moved to a hospital in Hot Springs Arkansas. He was accompanied by Miss Hazel C Williams of Guilford General who left Friday at 6 30 am and arrived safely at Hot Springs yesterday afternoon.
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Nady Cates, Jr
Guilford General Hospital
Hot Springs
Ark
Nady
Captain Barrett Ordered to Leave High Point for Charleston
Captain W J Barrett who led Salvation Army work in High Point for eighteen months has orders from Charlotte to depart Tuesday. He will command the Charleston post and begin his new duties at once. Ensign Obferne will arrive to replace him.
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Salvation Army
Charleston
W. J. Barrett
High Point
Charlotte
S. C
East Russell Street
Ensign Obferne
Barrett
Theater Collapse Kills Dozens in Shanghai
A three story theater in Shanghai collapsed during a union meeting killing at least 185 women and children and injuring about 200. Yen Hain, a labor leader, is the only known male casualty as the structure failed during applause.
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Shanghai
China
Chapel
Yen Hain
Collapse Traps Hundreds as Floor Falls in Chinese Structure
A section of a crowded building housing about 600 people collapsed when the floor gave way. Bricks and timbers rained down as victims were buried under the wreckage. Chinese troops and police swarmed the site after the disaster.
Motion Picture Industry Grows to National Scale
The industry has expanded over three decades and now ranks fourth in the United States. It produces about 90 percent of the world's motion pictures. The text notes workers respond to accidents and injuries during work.
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United States
Buckingham Palace Reworks One Room as Dentist Office
A single room in Buckingham Palace is converted into a dentist office. The announcement lists diverse topics from harbor upgrades in Prussia to nutrition notes about bananas and aging, plus wind, water and forestry facts.
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Buckingham Palace
Prussia
New South Wales
Lachlan
Poland
England
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Mary Muse
Martinsville
Ruth Holton
Greenville, D. C
Migg Lulg Johnson
C. A. Voncannon
Mrs. Voncannon
West Green Street
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N. C. University
J. D. Koonce
COR
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St. Louis
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Mass
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W. J. Newcomb
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Here
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Hana
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Lewis E. Teague
B. H. McCain
Commercial National Bank Building
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