Plan To Eliminate Race Problem Revealed In Jury Scrutiny
Marion scene in November hearing as 19 of 100 Rutherford county jurors excused for Alfred Hoffman trial. Hoffman and seven others face riot and insurrection charges tied to United Textile Workers actions. Judge Cowper urges grand jury to probe labor disturbances amid 119 cases at the term. Troops had earlier converged after a mill gates gunfight that left six dead and twenty wounded.
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Marion
Rutherford County
Alfred Hoffman
United Textile Workers of America
G. Vernon Cowper
Hoffman
Will Russell
W. L. Hogan
Wes Fowler
del Lewis
J. Hugh Hall
Hall
Cowper
Grand Jury
Clinchfield
Marion Manufacturing Company
American Federation of Labor
North Wilkesboro
National Guard
South Carolina Jury Drank Up Evidence Case Heads to Court
The South Carolina Supreme Court weighs a ruling in a Buckhalter case where a jury in a lower court allegedly consumed 47 bottles of homebrew during deliberations. Lawyers argue the jurors became witnesses and lost their impartial juror status.
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Columbia
S. C
South Carolina Supreme Court
George Buckhalter
Buckhalter
Gale Toll in Britain as Storm Ravages coast and towns
London reports eight dead and many injured as a Baltic gale lashes the British Isles with 50 to 70 mph winds and gusts to 90 mph. Cross channel steamers faced massive waves while the Belgian steamer Jan Breydel sought Dunkirk after hours of peril. R-101 endured the storm at Cardington and rivers flooded farmland across South Wales.
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Jan Breydel
Ostend
Dover
Dunkirk
England
Cardington
Severn
Dee
Wye
South Wales
Rhonda Valley
Welsh Coal District
Marion plane jump ends in death of Ruth Rockwell
Ruth Rockwell an 18 year old from Philadelphia leaped 2000 feet from a Curtiss airport plane in Valley Stream New York. She left a note claiming despair and included a $175 burial gift and a request to communicate with relatives after death. Pilot Edward Booth said the flight began normally and the passenger appeared frightened before the jump.
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Valley Stream
N. Y
Ruth Rockwell
Philadelphia
Curtiss
Miss Rockwell
Donald Rockwell
Yonkers
Curtiss-Wright Flying Service
William B. White
Edward F. Booth
Booth
Hoover calls for peace through justice and maritime freedom
President Hoover outlined a foreign policy aiming to secure justice at home while ensuring no foreign troops land on American soil. He urged freeing food ships from wartime interference and proposed reducing U.S. naval strength in line with other nations, stressing international goodwill over formal covenants. He spoke during an Armistice Day event hosted by the American Legion.
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Washington
Hoover
American Legion
South American
United States
Church Conference Targets Card Playing and Sunday Selling
The North Carolina Conference of the Methodist Protestant church at Greensboro adopted a social reform report urging members to avoid card games and prize dancing and to sell merchandise on Sunday only when absolutely necessary. The session also announced layman H A Garrett's list of appointments and several clergy transfers across multiple charges.
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North Carolina
Methodist Protestant Church
Greensboro
Committee On Social Reform
Albemarle
AL $ Oclobk
H. A. Garrett
J. D. Williams
Liberty-Siler City
West End
G. F. Milloway
Concord
Mount Pleasant
Mr. Milloway
J. R. Hutton
G. H. Hendry
Lexington
N. G. Bethea
Lobby Probe Shows Plan To Blacken Democrats
The senate lobby committee opened a probe into alleged schemes to form a southern republican council to dominate southern politics by racial segregation. A letter by J A Arnold of the southern tariff association discusses using negro Democrats to influence Congress from St Louis Chicago Harlem and other colored districts and to seek Hoover approval before acting.
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Washington
Senate Lobby Committee
Southern Republican Council
J. A. Arnold
Southern Tariff Association
Congress
St. Louis
Chicago
Harlem
Arnold
Vance Muse
Tariff Association
Caraway
Darkey
Curtis
Hoover
South
Democratic Party
Republican Party
German Novelist Wins Nobel Prize
Thomas Mann, famed German novelist of The Magic Mountain fame, wins this year's Nobel Prize for literature announced in Stockholm.
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Stockholm
Thomas Mann
Committee To Boost Maxwell With Hoover
A Charlotte committee of B Alexander Jr H M Nicholson W E Creighton J D Sargeant Airy L S Owens J Allen Taylor R A Poole and George Dewey with President Eggleston of the Raleigh chamber of commerce depart for Washington to press President Hoover for Alan J Maxwell state tax commissioner appointment to the Interstate Commerce Commission. The delegation will meet the President at 11 tomorrow morning.
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Charlotte
B. Alexander, Jr
H. M. Nicholson
W. E. Creighton
Eggleston
Raleigh Chamber of Commerce
J. D. Sargeant
Mr. Airy
L. S. Owens
Winston-Salem
J. Allen ‘Taylor
Wilmington
R. A. Poole
George Dewey
Goldsboro
Washington
Hoover
Alan J. Maxwell
Interstate Commerce Commission
Creighton
Huge Stone Crashes Through Seven Floors in Bank Building
A twenty ton stone fell from a lifting cable inside the new 70 story Bank of America building in Wall Street, crashing through seven floors to the basement. Authorities could not immediately confirm injuries or deaths as workers in the financial district panicked, initially fearing bomb explosions.
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New York
Bank of America
Wall Street
Financial District
Filming of Turkish Talkie Surges Into Fatal Accident
Constantinople November 21 The first Turkish talkie filming ended in a serious on set accident when a speeding automobile carrying smugglers overturned near the city outskirts. One Armenian actor was killed and three other actors were seriously injured.
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Constantinople
Stock Prices Close At New Low Levels
The New York market closed at a new bottom as liquidation pushed many leading issues down from 1 to 12 dollars a share. Cotton and wheat also fell while 10 000 to 20 000 share blocks traded as Wall Street dumped weak accounts. Directors of General Asphalt declared a 1 dividend, Pro-Phy-Lac-Tic Brush declared 50 cents extra, and Best and Co. stock moved to a 2 annual dividend. Total NYSE volume reached 6 442 770 shares.
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New York
U. S. Steel
General Motors
General Electric
Radio
Montgomery- Ward
Bethlehem Steel
Anaconda
Kennecott
Westing
Chicago
Wall Street
Financial District
General Asphalt Company
Man Killed In Wreck Thought Trespassing
H W Miller, vice president of the Southern railway, said Marion Bradshaw of St Augustine Florida was a trespasser who had not paid his fare when killed in a Southern railway wreck near Oakdale Tennessee on Monday. Miller noted reports portraying Bradshaw as a regular passenger were erroneous and Bradley was riding between the tender and the postal car.
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Washington
H. W. Miller
The
Southern Railway
Marion Bradshaw
St. Augustine
Fla
Oakdale
Tenn
Bradshaw
Lack of Funds Hinders Proposed Coast Artillery Improvements
Major General Andrew Hero Jr reports to the Secretary of War on persistent funding gaps delaying modernization and anti aircraft defense programs. He cites the 1919 harbor defense modernization, fire control installs for 16 inch batteries, and delays in Hawaii Battery Williston work due to limited appropriations.
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Washington
Coast Artillery
Andrew Hero, Jr
Good
Continental
United States
Pacific
Panama Canal
Hawaii
Williston
Portrait of Lacy Unveiled in Raleigh Capitol
In Raleigh on November 12 a portrait of Benjamin Rice Lacy, state treasurer for 28 years, was unveiled in the House chamber. Capt. Nathan O Berry, his successor, presided. Angus W McLean presented the piece on behalf of Gov. O Max Gardner, who was away at a Baptist convention. Lacy’s grandsons B R Lacy III and Julian J Lacey did the unveiling.
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Raleigh
Benjamin Rice Lacy
North Carolina
House of Representatives
Nathan O'Berry
Mr. Lacy
Angus W. McLean
O’berry
O. Max Gardner
Shelby
B. R. Lacy
Lil
Julian J. Lacey
S A L Recapitalization Plan Approved by ICC
The Interstate Commerce Commission approved Seaboard Airline Railways recapitalization involving 2,994,420 shares of no par stock with warrants for 250,000 shares, 12.5 million dollars in first and consolidated mortgage bonds, and exchange terms for 375,000 shares plus warrants. Proceeds fund debt repayment, additions, working capital, and other corporate needs.
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Washington
Seaboard
Interstate Commerce Commission
Guaranty Trust Company of
New York
Bishop Cannon Responds From Uruguay On Virginia Vote
In a Montevideo cable, Bishop James Cannon Jr. laments Virginia's gubernatorial result while linking national issues to state politics. He supported Republican anti-Smith Democrats against John Garland Pollard, who won by about 79,000 votes, and warns of continued prohibition battles and Raskob liberalism in Democratic defeat.
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Washington
Virginia
James Cannon, Jr
Methodist Episcopal Church South
Montevideo
Uruguay
Cannon
William Mosely Brown
John Garland Pollard
Pollard
Smith
Raskob
Tammany
Harlem
Nationalists Score Victory Reported by Hankow Dispatches
Japanese press from Hankow reports nationalist troops defeated the rebellious people’s army at Mihsien Niannan province driving Kuominchun forces westward to Taeffent. The people’s army entrenches at Tengteng. One thousand wounded revolutionists reached Hankow and 1,000 Kuominchan prisoners were interned at Wuchang. Two shiploads of wounded nationalists arrived at Woodsung.
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Shanghai
Hankow
People’s Army
Mihsien
Nonan
Taeffent
Firemen Overcome by Smoke in Medford House Fire
Eighteen firemen were overcome by smoke while fighting a two family wooden house blaze in Medford Massachusetts. All occupants escaped unharmed. Damage was estimated at 35000 dollars.
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Medford
Mass
Giant Mountain Lion Falls To Colorado Hunters After Ten Year Run
After a decade eluding pursuers, a giant mountain lion terrorizing Ute Pass ranches was killed near Colorado Springs. Six hunters pursued after the deer kill, dogs disturbed the lion, and Mark Dusenburg finally felled the crouching animal with a single shot as it leaped.
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Colorado Springs
Col
Ute Pass
Mark Dusenburg
Dusenburg
Ex Collegian linked to five central Indiana bank robberies
Gene Alger 25, released on parole from the state reformatory last May, was captured with wife Josephine and two others after a high speed chase in Clark county near Henryville. Authorities say the group robbed banks in Paris Crossing Summitville Gaston Matthews and La Fontaine, with Alger in the act at each stop.
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Jeffersonville
Ind
Indiana
State Reformatory
Gene Alger
Clark County
Alger
Hal K. Hughes
Henryville
Josephine
Gail
Burnette
State Bureau of Criminal Identification
Paris Crossing
Summitville
Gaston
Matthews
la Fontaine
Sheriff pushes Madison county murder probe forward
Marshall November 12 Sheriff Ramsey of Madison county continued the investigation into the killing of Ambrose Randall a Madison county farmer.
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Marshall
Ramsey
Madison County
Ambrose Randall
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