Clark Takes Refuge Now In The Law
Sheldon Clark, vice president of Sinclair Refining, declined to testify before the grand jury probing the Fall Sinclair oil conspiracy surveillance. He said he does not know anything yet will give a statement later. Jury members testified to being approached by strangers outside the courthouse during the mistrial inquiry.
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Harry F. Sinclair
Sheldon Clark
Clark
Sinclair Refining Company
Chicago
Henry Mason Day
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Burfig
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Gardner P. Grenfeld
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Teapot Dome
Harry Jeffreys
Sinclair Consolidated Oil Company
Burny Detective Agency
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Norman J. Glascock
Potomac
Harris R. Lamb
Justice Department
Glascock
Lamb
Ohn J. Costinett
Gardner P. Greenfield
Cotton Crop Prospects Indicate 12 842 000 Bales
Washington reports a 12 842 000 bales equivalent crop, down from last year's 17 977 374, with state by state yields listed. The department notes warmer October, harvest progress, and reduced rot from pests, while Texas trails forecasts and Alabama Mississippi Oklahoma show gains.
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Department of Agriculture
Crop Reporting Board
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Worldwide Armistice Day prayer urged for China
A Shanghai message asks Christians worldwide to observe Armistice Day November 11 as a day of prayer for China amid civil turmoil. The appeal cites 5000 missionaries forced to evacuate, persecution of Christians, and seeks divine wisdom for Chinese churches and revival. In Washington, Ways and Means debates repeal of the federal inheritance tax, with testimony from Blodgett, Edmonds, Timmerman, and others.
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China
George T. D. Davis
Shanghai
Foreign Mission Board of
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V. F. Love
Southern Baptists
Washington
House Ways and Means Committee
White House
National Council of State Legislatures
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House
Ways and Means Committee
Garner
Texas
William H. Blodgett
Connecticut
Legislative Council
J. A. Arnold
Taxpayers League
Blodgett
Kentucky Governor Race Sees Sampson Lead Increase
Flem D. Sampson’s majority over Democrat J G W Beckham rose to more than 9 404 as additional returns from yesterday’s election were reported. Final tallies showed Sampson 334 017 Beckham 324 565 with three counties and several precincts still incomplete.
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Louisville
Flem D. Sampson
J. G. W. Beckham
Kentucky
Sampson
Beckham
Cotton Crops News From New Orleans Market
The cotton market in New Orleans rose 125 to 130 points after the government crop report. It shows an indicated yield of 12,842,000 bales and total ginning to November 1 at 9,925,725 bales.
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New Orleans
Navy
Dr. Mann Named By Legion Folk
Dr. I. T. Mann of High Point has been reappointed representative of North Carolina for the American Legion on the national rehabilitation commission. W. P. Rousseau, retiring department adjutant, announced on his return from Greensboro.
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Charlotte
I. T. Mann
High Point
North Carolina Department of the American Legion
National Organization
W. P. Rousseau
Greensboro
Model of American Girl plane built from sweets
Ruth Elder displays a sweet model of her ill fated plane the American Girl. The ship's chef crafted the confection and it sits on her dining table as a decorative reminder at meals.
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S. S. Aquitania
Ruth Elder
American Missionaries Fired On Near Canton
Twenty American missionaries in a launch on the North River near Canton were fired upon by Chinese soldiers. The Chinese engineer was the only reported injury as the launch allegedly disobeyed orders to halt, according to official dispatches from Canton.
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Shanghai
China
North River
Cannton
Canton
Duke Power officials to visit High Point Friday
Thirteen Duke Power company and Duke foundation officials will visit High Point Friday for a banquet at the Sheraton Hotel at 6 30 p m. The group includes W S Lee N A Cooke C I Burkholder and E C Marshall among others and will be guests of the local chamber of commerce and business groups.
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Chamber of Commerce
Sheraton’ Hotel
Duke Power Company
Duke Foundation
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John Paul Lucas
Southern Public Utilities Company
North Carolina Public Service Company
Sheraton Hotel
The
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Monarch
American Business Clubs
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Southern Power Company
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Duke Endowment
N. A. Cooke
Duke
C. I. Burkholder
E. C. Marshall
Koennecke Is Ill And Broke In Flight Mission
The German consul general in Calcutta reports Otto Koennecke is ill and penniless in India and wishes to abandon his plane and return home. The foreign office sees this as the end of his ill fated attempt to reach the United States via the Orient.
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Calcutta
Ger
Berlin
Foreign Office
Erman
India
Otto Koennecke
United States
Cotton Ginnings Reach Over Nine Million Bales
Washington November 9 AP Census Bureau reports that by November 1 the 1926 cotton ginnings total 9,925,795 running bales and 343,689 round bales. This compares with 11,253,873 bales last year and 11,207,197 bales in 1925.
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Washington
Big NY Vote Defeat Fails For Four Year Governors
New York voters reject the proposed constitutional change to elect governors in presidential years by a wide margin. Governor Alfred E. Smith weathered the backlash, while eight other amendments backed by his campaign appeared to pass with large majorities. The results boost Smith as a presidential hopeful and show continued Republican gains in the legislature.
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Alfred E. Smith
New York State
Smith
New Jersey
Theodore Roosevelt
George W. Alvany
Tammany
New York City
James J. Walker
Assembly
Women’s Athletic Club Elects New Officers
The Y M C A hosted a physical education class despite bad weather where about 50 women and girls participated. Officers elected: Mrs. Myrtle Perry Allred president, Miss Vandia Ingram vice president, Miss Mabel Coble secretary, and Miss Bertie White treasurer.
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Athletic Club
Myrtle Perry Allred
Vandia Ingram
Mabel Coble
Bertie White
Unemployed Rally Winds Toward London With Petition in Boats
About 400 jobless march from New Port Monmouthshire to London to deliver a petition in boats to Parliament on the Welch coal fields crisis. A. J. Cook, secretary of the British federation of miners, recruited the march but was detained in London.
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New Port
Monmouthshire
London
Welch
A. J. Cook
British Federation of Miners
Romania in turmoil as Carlist plot arrests spark fear
In Bucharest on November 9, authorities arrest an intermediary linked to former Crown Prince Carol amid renewed unrest. Censorship returns to Romanian newspapers while charges of a plan to crown a dictatorship spread. Colonel Carapancea heads to Jassy to probe Manoilescu’s role in the Carolist plot.
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Rumania
Caro
Bratianu
Carapancea
Second Army Corps
Jassy
Moldavia
M. Manoilescu
Capital Punishment Opposed by People in Bayboro Jury Pool
In Pamlico superior court at Bayboro jury selection stalled as anti death penalty sentiment delays proceeding in the Luther and Virgil Sermons case. Luther faces charges for firing the fatal shots that killed Prohibition Officer W T Lewis near Fort Barnwell. Virgil is charged as an accessory. Lee Sermons is a material witness. Virgil was wounded in the altercation.
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Pamlico Superior Court
Bayboro
Luther
Virgil
W. T. Lewis
Fort Barnwell
Craven
Pamlico
Lewis
Lee
Virgil Sermons
Cotton Prices Fall on USDA Crop Report In New York
Prices on the New York Cotton Exchange dropped four to six dollars per bale after the Department of Agriculture released its crop estimate showing production at 12,842,000 bales, up 164,000 from October.
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New York
New York Cotton Exchange Today
Department of Agriculture
Murder shatters youths dreams of grand opera
Leonard Cota and Howard Kramer face charges for the murder of Mrs. Elizabeth McKitrick in Zwingle Iowa. Detectives noted rouge and marcels on the youths as they awoke, learning of her death after being detained at a hotel. Cota, 18, and Kramer allegedly robbed the grandmother of about 23000 in cash and securities to fund operatic training.
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Leonard Cota
Howard Kramer
Cota
Elizabeth McKitrick
Zwingle
Iowa
Altoona
Wis
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