Graham Named Head of Greater UNC University
Dr. Frank Porter Graham was elected president of the Greater University of North Carolina by the board of trustees. J. L. Foust and BE C Brooks were named vice presidents for the Woman's College unit in Greensboro and the State College unit in Raleigh. The board affirmed the merger plan and rejected demoting any member schools to junior college status. A committee was formed to draft resolutions on State College's future role and the petition criticizing the dual system and certain guest speakers was to be given due consideration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
Frank Porter Graham
University of North Carolina
Consolidated University
Graham
Consolidated School
J. L Foust
Woman's College
Greensboro
BE. C. Brooks
State College
Chapel Hill
State
Greater University
C. Max Gardner
L. A. Tatum
Belmont
Carolina
Langston Hughes
Bertrand Russell
Eight Missing Off Coast of Florida
Eight people were reported missing after venturing out in small boats in Biscayne Bay near Miami. Coast guard patrol boats and Pan American Airways planes searched the area for the group, which included L. C. Snider and L. V. Reed, plus an unidentified woman, with others named Roberts and Babcock among the missing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miami
Fla
Biscayne Bay
Coast Guard
Pan American Airways
L. C. Snider
L. V. Reed
Snider
O. H
Roberts
Babcock
Lower Bay
Turner Aims at New Transcontinental Flight Record
Colonel Roscoe Turner pursues a new east west air speed record. He flights from Columbus to Kansas City for fuel before continuing to Albuquerque and Los Angeles. The 15 hour Hawks record stands as the target for this modern challenge.
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Columbus
Roscoe Turner
Kansas City
New York
Angeles
Ned
Ohio
Albuquerque
N. M
Los Angeles
Frank M. Hawks
France approves fresh disarmament proposals
Paris reports the council of ministers formal approval of French denuclearization ideas to be presented by Rene Massigli at the Geneva disarmament conference. The plan calls for consultative treaties, security and arms equality, with a regional European pact and a shift toward defensive armaments and a potential conscript system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Council of Ministers
Rene Massigli
Geneva
Radical-Socialist Party
Geneva Conference Committee
United States
Europe
Germany
Billy Brock Dead Pioneer Pilot Dies of Cancer
Billy Brock, pioneer air mail flier and Atlantic crossing veteran, died last night after surviving early aviation dangers and wartime service. His career spanned pre war aviation to a record Atlantic flight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Billy Brock
Chicago
Atlantic
Fire transforms Santa Cruz del Sur amid Cuban hurricane havoc
Camaguey Cuba November 14 The town of Santa Cruz del Sur was burned by military order to curb sanitation risks after a hurricane left about 2,500 dead. President Machado prepared to tour the disaster zone as relief work accelerated. Dr Octavio Zubizarreta estimated 2,500 dead and carried rations for the homeless. Affected Camaguey City repaired water supply and ordered vaccination. An American colonist Mrs. W S Rogers of Gloria Camaguey was killed with her husband and sister injured. Garden City homes of several Americans were destroyed without casualties.
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Camaguey
Cuba
Santa Cruz del Sur
Gerardo Machado
Octavio Zubizarreta
Camaguey City
Santa Cruz
Gloria
United States
Garden City
Western Power Light and Telephone Company Placed in Receivership
Federal judge appoints equity receiver for Western Power Light and Telephone Company, a $20 million firm operating 19 utilities in 375 midwest communities serving 650,000 people. Creditors holding notes totaling $150,000 sought the action to protect assets. bond defaults include $465,802 due, with $2,999,000 due next February and $1,060,000 in December 1932.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
James H. Wilkerson
Western Power, Light and Telephone Company
Robert L. Tudor
J. A. Kennedy
Kansas City
Casey Sentenced to 25 to 30 Years in Murder Case
Kinston NC November 14 Casey the man five times sentenced to die faced a lengthy prison term after being convicted in a second degree murder trial for the killing of lumber man J C Lausey of Suffolk Virginia. Judge E H Cranmer imposed 25 to 30 years at hard labor with defense planning an appeal. The case followed a burned car death with robbery and possible prior execution dates.
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Kinston
Herman Casey
J. C. Lausey
Suffolk
Casey
E. H. Cranmer
Causey
Here
Week end Accidents Fatal To 14 In Dixie
Automobiles, guns and fire caused fourteen deaths across the south over the weekend. Motor car mishaps killed eleven, firearm accidents two, and five other deaths occurred from separate causes. Mississippi reported four fatalities, Alabama and Tennessee three each, Florida two, and Louisiana and Arkansas one each.
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Atlanta
South
Mississippi
Alabama
Tennessee
Florida
Louisiana
Arkansas
Murder charge bound over in Huntersville case
C M Webster aged 31 was bound over to superior court under five thousand six hundred dollar bond on a murder charge involving his 72 year old stepfather Joe White at Huntersville near here Friday.
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Charlotte
C. M. Webster
Superior Court
Joe White
Huntersville
Here
Western North Carolina M E. Church Appointments Read
Bishop Mouzon reads the annual minister appointments for the Western North Carolina Conference. Greensboro and Marion districts list presiding elders and numerous pastors, with selections for churches, supplies, and assignments across Asheboro Guilford High Point Jamestown Reidsville and more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winston-Salem
Edwin A. Mouzon
Western North Carolina
Greensboro
W. A. Newell
Asheboro
First Church
Trusdale
F. H. Shinn
Battle Ground
W. H. Grace
Cedar Ls
P. T. Newton
Supply
Coleridge
R. J. Barnwell
Farmer
Gibsonville
D. D. Holt
Bethel
Grace Reid Wall
Bessemer
C. P. Bowles
Carraway Memorial
J. S. Gibbs
Centenary
J. ©. Cornett
College Place
G. T. Bond
Glenwood
F. B. Jordan
Proximity
P. L. Shore
West Market
H. G. Hardin
Fletcher Nelson, Jr
Mt. Pleasant
L. R. Akers, Jr
North Carolina Methodist Protestant Conference backs prohibition push
Burlington reports the North Carolina Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church adjourned after choosing year appointments and adopting a resolution urging ministers to preach prohibition and temperance. It endorses stronger Anti-Saloon League action and church groups to promote 18th Amendment enforcement amid national repeal talk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burlington
North Carolina
The
Methodist Protestant Church
Anti-Saloon League
United States
Woman's Auxiliary
Sunday Schools Christian Endeavor Societies
Sap
Milk Strike Triggers Guard Request For Milk Trucks
Cincinnati authorities seek Ohio National Guard protection for interstate milk deliveries as a union drivers strike escalates. Non union drivers attacked. several incidents of violence reported. milk plants picketed and fears of further clashes grow.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Kentucky
Indiana
Adjt
Frank D. Henderson
Ohio National Guard
Cincinnati Milk Exchange
George White
Camp Perry
Fifth Grade Trip to South America Impresses Concord Class
In Santa Monica a North Carolina class writes to Mr. Rogers praising a journey through South America. The letter recalls visits to Buenos Aires Rio de Janeiro Santiago Lima and other stops and asks to accompany future trips. The writer calls themselves the Nicholas Murray Butler of Concord and signs Miss Pemberton's room in Long School.
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Santa Monica
Cal
South America
Rogers
Concord
North Carolina
Andes
Buenos Aires
Rio Janeiro
Santiago
Chili
Lima
Peru
Long School
Hoover Seeks Roosevelt Talks on War Debt Crisis
President Hoover speeds toward Washington to confer with President-elect Roosevelt on post mortem debt relief and a possible extension for December 15 payments. Britain and France press for relief as Congress weighs quick action and a special session.
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Hoover
Roosevelt
United States
Washington
New York
Albany
White House
Congress
Executive
N. Y
France
Great Britain
Walsh
Mont
Ragan
Ark
House
Ways and Mean
Revolution in Honduras erupts over President Carios Andino
Revolution against President Carios Andino has broken out in Honduras with heavy fighting reported along the north coast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tegucigalpa
Honduras
Carios Andino
Amy Johnson Heads South Africa Flight Record Bid
Amy Johnson an England premier woman flyer took off from Lympne for a long flight to South Africa to beat her husband’s record of 4 days 17 hours 19 minutes for the same trip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amy Johnson
Lympne
Eng
England
J. A. Mollison
South Africa
Hunt Conducted For Missing Children
An intensive search for two missing children was launched in Jacksonville under Mayor John T. Alsop Jr. The pair, Jane Sutton a 13 year old high school girl, and Billy Jim Finley a 12 year old, disappeared yesterday afternoon and morning respectively while apart from adults. Police mobilized every available officer and sought help from nearby communities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacksonville
Fla
John T. Alsop Jr
Jane Sutton
Billy Jim Finley
Rush Work On Hoover Dam To Mean Gold To Southwest
Boulder City November 14 150000 pounds of dynamite divert the Colorado River for Hoover dam construction. Explosions blast through canyon walls creating a mile long outlet as rock and dust surge down the gorge. The $165000000 project aims at power flood control reclamation and southern California water supply. Three thousand holes blasted into canyon walls on Arizona and Nevada sides. Work continues through the night to complete the outer diversion tunnel and bedding for the earth dam.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boulder City
Colorado
Hoover Dam
Titan
Arizona
Imperial Valley
California
Nevada
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Drs. Foust
Brooks
N. C
Camajuans
West Indian Islands
Turner
Wilkerson
Millon
Supreme Court
High Court
Dixie
Mouton
M. E
Western Conference of Methodist Episcopal Church
M.E. Church, South
Edwin D. Mouzon
New Hope
C. M. Smith
Pleasant
Garden
R. C. Kirk
Ramseur-Franklinville
A. C.tippett
Rancieman
J. CC. Grace
Randolph
A. C. Waggoner
Reidsville
Central
J. H. Barnhardt
T. V. Crouse
Ruffin
R. M,. Laughlin
Stokesdale
J. J. Edwards
Summerfield
W. F. Cooley
Greensboro College
W. M. Curtis
Duke University
Paul W. Garber
Christian Education
W. A. Kale
J. F. Kirk
Christian Advocate
A. W. Plyler
G. T. Rowe
Yale University
J. L. Stokes
J.C. Stokes
M. B. Stokes, Jr
M. P
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