Unanimous Move Toward M E P and M E Church Union
Western North Carolina conference unanimously backs plans for a three conference union between the Methodist Episcopal Church South and the Methodist Protestant Church with a modeled working basis in North Carolina. The resolution calls for fair fund distribution, education readjustments, gradual church consolidation, Protestant representation in the bishop's cabinet, and appointments to present the proposals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Asheville
Wstern
North Carolina
M. E
Methodist Episcopal Church
Methodist Protestant Church
General Conference
Greensboro
R. I. Farmer
High Point
Albemarle
N. C
South
Methodist Episcopal Church, South
Henderson
E. D. Mouton
Board of Finance
Methodist Protestant Conference
W. P. Few
W. A. Newell
Hoover to detail plans in annual message to Congress
President Hoover begins writing his annual message focusing on relief from the economic crisis. He plans to urge measures to reduce the deficit, broaden rediscount eligibility, and boost job creation, with World Court questions and emergency financing under review.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John F. Chester Washington
Hoover
White House
Congress
Texas
Federal Reserve System
National Credit Corporation
Federal Land Banks
War Finance Corporation
Credit Corporation
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Philippine Islands
Hawaii
Porto Rico
St. Lawrence Waterway
Muscle Shoals
Mother of Slain Youth Seeks Punishment Not Death
In Philadelphia on November 14, Mrs. Francis A. Donaldson Jr. states she does not want Edwin H. B. Allen executed for killing her son. She wishes he be punished to remember the crime. The case also includes a disputed romance between Donaldson’s son and Rose Allen, sister of the slain Edwin. The coroner’s jury found one wound caused the death.
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Philadelphia
Francis A. Donaldson, Jr
Edwin H. B. Allen
Edwin Allen
Francis A. Donaldson
Rose E. W. Allen
Edwin
Horace Allen
Rose
Donaldson
Donaldsons
Grape Bricks Sale Declared Not Illegal By AG
Florida Attorney General Cary D. Landis says concentrated grape bricks are not a prohibition violation. He wrote the opinion for a Pensacola business firm and compared it to selling grapes or corn and rye that could be used to make wine or whiskey.
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Tallahassee
Fla
Cary, D. Landis
Florida
Pensacola
Dramatic Recital of Baden-Baden Survival at Sea
Eleven crew members of the Baden-Baden recount three days in a storm tossed boat after the freighter sank off the Colombian coast. They describe rationing beans and cheese, hunger, fever, and hope upon sighting a U.S. minesweeper before rescue. Captain Hewitt Walters led the efforts and confirmed owners Hans J. Lau and Adolph Schoenck among the dead.
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William H. Ewing
Colon
Panama
Baden-Baden
Hewitt Walters
Mobile
Ala
Colon Hospital
United States
Swan
Walters
Hans J. Lau
Adolph Schoenck
Baden- Baden
Atlantic
October Cotton Consumption Dips Slightly From September
Census Bureau reports October cotton use at 462 025 bales of lint and 61 243 linters, down from September totals. In consuming establishments, lint 1 115 793 bales and linters 197 21. public storage and presses hold 9 149 487 lint bales and 39 878 linters. Exports reach 1 014 180 lint bales and 9 529 linters. spindle activity at 25 188 112.
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Washington
Census Bureau
Weather outlook for South Atlantic states next week
Occasional showers with mild temperatures in the first half give way to generally fair and colder conditions later in the week. Much colder air moves into the north and central portions by Thursday.
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South Atlantic States
Editors in Beverly Hills Stirred by VP Curtis Visitors
In Beverly Hills on November 14, Vice-President Curtis tours studios seeking a film role or political ally. The piece notes Japan and China have not declared war, while the ongoing fighting is described as rehearsal for a potential war, with casual remarks on the meaning of being killed now.
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Beverly Hills
Calif
Curtis
Mistrial Ordered In Case of Charlotte Cop On Liquor Count
In Shelby North Carolina a mistrial was ordered at 1 30 am in the case of Charles Cordell a Charlotte policeman charged with driving an automobile while intoxicated in Kings Mountain A retrial date was tentatively set for November 24 by county recorder M R Weathers Arguments began last night and the judge finished the charge shortly after midnight The jury had been deliberating about an hour with seven to five in favor of acquittal Cordell remains suspended from his duties pending the outcome of the case
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Shelby, N
Charles Cordell
Charlotte
Kings Mountain
M. R. Weathers
Cordell
Earache Leads to Spider Extraction in Georgia
Mrs Becky Wade, 56, went to Columbus hospital with an earache. Doctors removed a spider from her ear, apparently having crawled in while she slept and could not exit.
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Columbus
Becky Wade
Hoover proposes two billion for real estate aid plan
President Hoover outlined a plan to establish a national system of home loan discounts with about 1.8 billion dollars to help home ownership. The banks would rediscount mortgages up to 15 000 dollars to revive construction, relieve owners and banks, and curb unemployment across the building trades.
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Washington
Hoover
SS & 81
Federal Reserve
United States
China Fights Near Tsitsihar as Japanese Demand Troop Withdrawal
In Manchuria near the Nanni river gateway to Anganchi and Tsitsihar intermittent fighting continued with Japanese cavalry clashing with Chinese forces. General Ma Chan-Shan and ally General Chang Hai-Peng faced heavy skirmishes as Tokyo pressed for Chinese withdrawal by November 25.
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United Press
Harbin
Manchuria
Nanni River
Anganchi
Tsitsihar
Mah Chan-Shan
Cheng Hai-Peng
Japan
Ma Chan-Shan
Heilung Sang
Nannie River
Honjo
Chang Hai-Peng
Rumors of Red Mobilization False
United Press reports from Harbin and across Siberia to the Manchurian frontier find no evidence of Soviet military preparation in the Chinese Japanese conflict. The correspondent notes Stalin’s neutrality stance despite vast Manchurian interests.
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Frederick Kuh
United Press Staff
United Press
Harbin
Manchuria
Soviet Russia
Siberia
Manchurian
Anganchi
Texas election signals shift in House control
Washington Nov 14 Democrats expect to gain actual control of the House with a November 24 special election in Texas fourteenth district. A 218 vote majority would tilt power as Republicans hold 214 with vacancies in New Jersey and New Hampshire. Democrats target Garner for speaker and hope to win New Jersey’s fifth district December 1 as Ackerman’s seat opens. New Hampshire’s first district vacancy will not affect Johnson’s leadership, as Hale’s death leaves a January 5 vote too late for organization.
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Washington
House
Texas
New Jersey
New Hampshire
Sterling
Harry M. Wurzbach
Garner
Wurzbach
Harding
San Antonio
Ernest R. Ackerman
Harry Moore
David Baird
Fletcher Hale
Atlanta Street Car Conductors Select Own Free Groceries
Atlanta street car operators along suburban lines report easy grocery savings as they ride daily into town. Early today an operator halted twice to collect several large bunches of collards, joking he was seeking a piece of meat as he drove off.
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Atlanta
Bluebeard on Trial Pleads Not Guilty
Clarksburg West Virginia November 14 Harry F Powers pleads not guilty to charges of killing Mrs Asta Buick Eicher and her three children from Park Ridge Illinois and Mrs Dorothy Pressler Lemke Worcester Massachusetts. Powers lured victims with marriage promises then killed them and buried bodies in a ditch near his Quietdell garage. Disappearances dated back to June and bodies found in July and days later.
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Clarksburg
W. Va
Harry F. Powers
Asta Buick Eicher
Park Ridge
Iil
Dorothy Pressler Lemke
Worcester
Mass
Powers
Quietdell
Half a Billion Set for Christmas Shopping Payouts
About $600 million will be released to 12 million American Christmas club depositors over the next two weeks. Banks, merchants, and newspapers in over 4,000 communities will cooperate to promote prudent spending. The Bank of Manhattan will distribute $3 million, while Nantucket’s Pacific National Bank will average $69 per member. State totals include North Carolina $2.6 million, South Carolina $2.4 million, Georgia $3.3 million, Florida $1.0 million, Kentucky $3.6 million, Tennessee $4.8 million, Alabama $2.9 million.
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New York
New York State
Pennsylvania
Washington
Bank of Manhattan
Pacific National Bank
Nantucket
Mass
Cleveland Trust Co
New Orleans
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Florida
Kentucky
Tennessee
Alabama
Woman Thought Found Murdered Has Been Discovered Alive
Woodstock investigators reported Mary Stelmachowski, once identified as the woman whose body was found in a quicklime grave, is alive. The unidentified dissected body remains in a shallow country grave as authorities reexamine the case with conflicting clues.
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Woodstock
Ill
Mary Stelmachowski
Stelmachowski
Triple Thirteen Born at Jackson Park Hospital
Mary Joan Robert was born Friday the 13th at Jackson Park Hospital in Chicago at 8 13 p m. She is the thirteenth birth recorded that day and her mother occupies room 31 percent of the ward.
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Chicago
Mary Joan Robertson
Jackson Park Hospital
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Allen
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San Francisco
Portland
Ore
China
East
General Mad
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