Radio Commission Clears 25 Broadcast Channels for Clear Reception
The Federal Radio Commission, in its latest general order, lists 25 channels clearing interference by December 1. The map covers 600 to 1000 kilocycles with stations nationwide and highlights cross continental reception for rural listeners and coast to coast dance broadcasts. Chicago leads with five cleared waves, while WEAF WJZ WOR and WABC gain dedicated 5000 watt channels effective December first.
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Washington
Federal Radio Commission
Pacific Coast
San Francisco
Newark
Portland
Long Island
Koa
Denver
Colo
New York City
Porto Rico
Lousville
Kentucky
New York
WEAF
WJZ
WOR
WABC
Chicago
United States
Lowden Moves For Indiana Presidential Preference
Indiana supporters announce a statewide campaign to back Former Illinois Governor Frank O. Lowden for the Republican presidential preference vote in the May primary. Indiana Senator Alonzo H. Lindley says Lowden’s Illinois friends, led by Clarence F. Buck, will organize a vigorous campaign with a conference in Indianapolis the week of November 28.
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Indianapolis
Indiana
Frank O. Lowden
Illinois
Lowden
Alonzo H. Lindley
Kingman
Lindley
Illinois Friends of
Clarence F. Buck
James E. Watson
Watson
Charles G. Dawes
Oregon
Ill
Leonard Wood
Hiram Johnson
California
Warren G. Harding
Wood
Johnson
Harding
Judge Siddons orders public letters part of record in Teapot Dome probe
Justice Siddons demanded that correspondence between himself and District Attorney Peyton Gordon be entered in the record as he investigates potential contempt in the Fall Sinclair Teapot Dome trial. The letters show discusssions over Gordon serving on a committee to rule on contempt and related grand jury probes. Gordon confirmed the prior disclosure in about thirty words.
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Washington
Peyton Gordon
Frederick L. Siddons
Sinclair Teapot Dome
Gordon
Burns
Justice Siddons
H. M. Blackmer
Supreme Court of the District of Columbia
United States
Snyder
Paris
Albert B. Fall
Harry KF. Sinclair
Liberty
Fall
Sinclair
Naval Oil Reserve
Blackmer
Senator Walsh
Montana
Senate Oil
National Savings and Trust Company
Marshal Snyder
Harry F. Sinclair
Supreme Court
Walsh
Remus Plans His Opening Address To Jury After Outburst
George Remus sat in a Cincinnati jail cell library planning his opening defense statement after an angry courtroom outburst during his first degree murder trial. He taunted prosecutor Carl Basler and hurled insults at juror taft while his remarks drew loud reaction from the Hamilton county courtroom.
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Cincinnati, CO
George Remus
Cincinnati
Hamilton County
Charles P. Taft
William Howard Taft
United States
Taft
Yale
Carl E. Basler
Remus
Chester R. Shook
Basler
Memorial services honor Confederate torpedo sailors at Charleston
Memorial services for thirty Confederate torpedo boat sailors who died defending Charleston harbor opened the final day of the United Daughters of the Confederacy convention in Charleston South Carolina. A harbor boat ride and wreaths on the water paid tribute with Rev. S Cary Beckwith conducting. Mrs W C N Merchant of Chatham Virginia was welcomed as president general succeeding Mrs St J Allison Lawton of Charleston. election had occurred Thursday with installation planned for today.
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Charleston
S. C
Confederate Torpedo Boat Service
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Trbute
S. Cary Beckwith
St. Phillips’ Episcopal Church
W. C. N. Merchant
Chatham
St. J. Allison Lawton
Pitcairn Aviation Wins Bid for Atlanta Miami Air Mail Route
The Pitcairn Aviation Inc of Philadelphia offered the lowest bid at 1.46 dollars per pound for all mail carried on the Atlanta Jacksonville Miami route. Award likely within days with service possibly starting after the New York Atlanta route opens around March 1. The plan includes a feeder Tampa line if mail volume justifies it and enables New England mail to reach Cuba via Miami.
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Washington
Pitcairn Aviation Inc
Philadelphia
Post Office Department
Atlanta
New York
Tampa
New Brunswick
N. J
Middle West
Southwest
Pacific Coast
Child Is Better After Bus Collision Near Beulahville
In Kinston on November 19 AP reports six year old James Ives who was struck by a school bus near Beulahville is recovering. He arrived with heavy bleeding controlled and his arm severely crushed requiring amputation.
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Kinston
James Ives
Beulahville
Contempt Inquiry in Fall Sinclair Case Delays Oil Trial
A three member committee named by Justice Siddons to probe contempt charges in the Fall Sinclair mistrial faced a vacancy as District Attorney Gordon resigned, citing inconsistent role. Siddons defended the probe as essential, while Gordon urged grand jury action. Kidwell seeks contempt prosecutions as the investigation stalls awaiting grand jury indictments.
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Washington
Frederick L. Siddons
Sinclair
Peyton Gordon
Justice Siddons
Burns
Gordon
Siddons
Edward "J. Kidwell
Double Duty Stork Report Sparks Twin Fever
In Scotland Neck on November 19 AP reports multiple families welcomed twins as a single neighborhood records three sets of twins. One mother notes aunts were twins two brothers had twins a sister has twin girls and her son is a father of twins.
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Scotland Neck
British aviator Giles aborts 9600 mile Pacific flight
Captain Frederick A. Giles, solo flyer from San Francisco to New Zealand, abandoned his start after fog forced a return 20 miles from the Golden Gate. He dumped 288 gallons of fuel, declared the flight off for now, and towed the plane to the hangar for adjustments.
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San Francisco
Piury
Golden Gate
New Zealand
Honolulu
Frederick A. Giles
Millsfield
Giles
Weather Bureau
Samoa
Upolu Island
Suva
Fiji Islands
Brisbane
Padgett Surrenders After Mecklenburg Jail Break
Padgett and five other prisoners escaped Mecklenburg county jail last night and he surrendered today. He was wounded in a clash with Rural Policeman Henry Moseley and held pending charges. Attorney H. L. Strickland arranged the surrender, with Padgett turning over to Sergeant Gardner. Other escapees Lendel Sherrell John McKay A B Orr Pearl Carpenter and Turner Sinclair remained at large.
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Charlottes
Romeo Padgett
Mecklenburg County
Padgett
Henry Moseley
H. L. Strickland
Concord Road
Strickland
Gardner
Charlotte
Lendel Sherrell
John McKay
A. BE. Orr
Pearl Carpenter
Turner Sinclair
Cotton growers in Davidson county report slow ginning
In Lexington on November 19, 421 bales of cotton had been ginned in Davidson county this season, a sharp drop from 855 bales by November 1 last year. The Cotton Growers report notes widespread delays in ginning across the county.
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Lexington
Davidson County
Captain Miles Defies Ritz Tower Siege at Park Avenue
New York reports Capt. A Graham Miles occupying his Ritz tower apartment amid manager bid to remove him as an obnoxious guest. He has lived on apples and sandwiches for two weeks while hotel cuts services and plans to lock him out. A $250000 suit for damages will be filed, alleging denial of his daughter and physician access. Miles plans to depart for Aiken South Carolina for winter.
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New York
Ritz Tower
Park Avenue
A. Graham Miles
Aaron H. Kaufman
Miles
Kaufman
Capt. Miles
Aiken
Arctic radio program for men nears winter season
Westinghouse station KDKA in Pittsburgh will broadcast a special Arctic program tonight at 11 p m. Messages from wives mothers and friends will be sent to men in distant northern wastes to cheer traders Northwest Mounted and Canadian government employees and missionaries. The program inaugurates the fourth season of these messages.
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Pittsburgh
Westinghouse
KDKA
Northwest Mounted
Guns Seizure Sparks DOJ Probe Into Arms Smuggling
A Justice Department inquiry is planned after the Albany California raid on John Mannerstam president of the Pacific Arms company. Agents seized machine guns rifles revolvers and cartridges and searched for Guilermo Rosas Jr. Rosas and Mannerstam face possible charges tied to alleged arms smuggling with Mexican revolutionists.
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Department of Justice
John Mannerstam
Pacific Arms Company
Albany
Cal
United. States
George J. Hatfield
Mannerstam
San Francisco Examiner
New Orleans
Guillermo Rosas, Jr
Rosas
Texas
Freeman Departs for Pittsburgh as Tabernacle Welcomes New Pastor
Reverend Ira Freeman, D. D., former Tabernacle Baptist pastor for 27 months, has resigned effective November 15 and departed for Pittsburgh to lead a large Baptist church. Reverend W. Ross Yokeley, newly chosen, arrived with his family and will start services tomorrow at Tabernacle, inviting Baptists and residents to meet him.
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Lexington
Ira Freeman
D. D
Tabernacle Baptist Church
Pittsburgh
W. Ross Yokeley
Oak City
Rev A P Stephens to Fill Lexington Baptist Pulpit
In Lexington the First Baptist church plans two services by Rev. A P Stephens of Red Springs tomorrow. He preaches at 11 a m and 7 30 p m and is considered for Lexington’s vacant pastorate.
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Lexington
First Baptist Church
A. P. Stephens
Red Springs
Stephens
Policeman Indicted in Fayetteville Mail Attack Case
Fayatteville November 19 AP. Policeman Charles Jones and Charles Driver await a hearing before a U.S. commissioner on charges they delayed the mails and attacked mail carrier Gordon Harris who says he was assaulted when his car passed a traffic signal on a local corner.
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Fayetteville
Gordon Harris
Charles Jones
Charles
United States
Harris
Million to Divide for Tobacco Growers Group
United States Judge I M Meekins ruled the defunct tobacco growers association in receivership since 1926 will likely yield at least one million dollars to be divided among its former members. The decision comes as the organization’s affairs are settled after years of legal action.
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Durham
North Carolina
America
McLean
Raleigh
Tobacco Growers Association
United States
I. M Meekins
Baruch Prize Awarded to Carpenter of Durham
Jesse T. Carpenter, a Durham graduate student and instructor, won the Mrs. Simon Baruch University prize of one thousand dollars for a paper on southern thought and politics. Second and third prizes went to Haywood J. Pearce Jr. and Rebecca Pearly Russell among twenty-one states represented.
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Charleston
S. C
Jesse T. Carpenter
Durham
N. C
Harvard Graduate School
Haywood J. Pearce, Jr
Georgia
Ben Hill
University of Chicago
Rebecca Pearly Russell
University of Texas
Ulrich B. Phillips
University of Georgia
University of Michigan
Dougas S.S. Freeman
Richmond News Leader
Matthew Page Andrew
Baltimore
Young Carpenter
Trinity College
Duke University
Iowa University
Harvard
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