North Carolina Methodist Conference backs League of Nations
The North Carolina conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South voted to support the United States joining the League of Nations. Chairman Josephus Daniels was to telegram President Hoover urging enforcement of the Kellogg Pact and peace provisions. Prohibition was praised for enforcing law and improving life in the report.
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M. P
Greenville
N. C
North Carolina
The
Methodist Episcopal Church, South
United States
League of Nations
Committee On
Temperance and Social Service
Josephus Daniels
Raleigh
Navy
Wilson
League
Daniels
Tariff Increase Proposed in British Trade Retaliation
Washington officials reveal plans to raise US tariffs on British goods under the Hawley Smoot act using countervailing duties. Rep. Collier, likely Ways and Means chair, says Britain’s new anti dumping measures spur retaliation and cites Canadian and Italian tariffs as similar moves.
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The
Treasury
United States
Commerce
Department of Commerce
Customs Bureau
F. X. A. Eble
Commissioner of Customs
Collier
Mississippi
Ways and Means
House
Gandhi Shames Fashion at Lady Astor Reception
Gandhi attended a reception at Lady Astor's home and denounced the gowns of the guests saying tropical India women worship fashion. He warned that beauty doctors mar the faces God has given them and distort features.
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London
Mahatma Gandhi
Lady Astor
India
Acceptance Unthinkable in Manchuria Truce Talk
Tokyo rejects armistice proposals as unthinkable stating it would mean surrender of Japanese aims. Dawes aided talks in Paris as Manchuria war nears possible end with private negotiations resuming at the League of Nations.
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Tokyo
Manchuria
Paris
Kenkichi Yoshizawa
League of Nations Council
League
Namni
Chingchow
Chang Mhsueh-Liang
U. S
Charles G. Dawes
Ching
Alfred Sze
Cotton ginnings announced for current crop to Nov 14
Washington reports the census bureau's tally of 14,210,301 running bales for this year's cotton ginned by November 14, with 484,684 round bales counted as half bales and 6,184 American-Egyptian bales. State totals are listed, led by Texas, Alabama and Arkansas, with an estimated final crop of 16,903,000 bales.
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Census Bureau
Department of Agriculture
Alabama
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Florida
Georgia
Louisiana
Mississippi
Missouri
New Mexico
North Carolina
Oklahoma
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
Virginia
States
Mother Dies Trying To Save Her Child
In Toronto on November 21 a young mother of three perished with her five year old son Tommy while saving him from a fire. The father escaped with the other children as flames trapped the trio.
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Toronto
Ont
Tommy
Tennessee faces further special session over taxes and budget
Nashville reports Tennessee must raise taxes and cut spending to cure its fiscal ailment. Gov Horton plans a second extraordinary session within weeks to balance the budget, while a joint legislative committee surveys finances and seeks new revenues as lenders demand a balanced plan.
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Nashville
Tenn
Tennessee
Henry H. Horton
General Assembly
Young Stock Exchange Member Dies Today
John W. Pope aged 32 a New York Stock Exchange member died in New York after a several day illness following an operation. He was regarded on Wall Street as a brilliant young trader who came from Harvard Business School nine years ago and allegedly built a fortune of about 20 million dollars from an initial thousand.
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New York
John W. Pope
New York Stock Exchange
Pope
Wall Street
Harvard Business School
Woman Dies in Sugar Hill Fire Near Fayetteville
Fayetteville area November 21 reports Helen Tyndall burned to death when a house she shared with two other women caught fire. Companions say they pulled her through a window but she slipped back inside as flames engulfed the building.
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Fayetteville
Helen Tyndall
Sugar Hill
Crayton Sentenced Four Years Or Fined For Misconduct
Greensboro November 21 Judge Walter E Moore sentences W F Crayton magistrate to four years on county roads or a $2000 fine with costs estimated at $500 or more He is removed from office The case opens a set of 15 pending indictments against magistrates and their officers for office malpractices in Guilford County The judge calls the county justice of peace system the worst he has seen and says the mess will be cleared up.
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Greensboro
Walter E. Moore
W. F. Crayton
Drayton
Supreme Court
Grand
Moore
Justice of Peace
Guilford County
Beane forecasts cotton prices rise by 1932
A. C. Beane, senior member of Fenner and Beane, predicts the cotton market will turn upward early in 1932 or sooner. He notes current distress overprices but says a reversal is likely once a trend change occurs, despite unfavorable near term factors.
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New York
A. C. Beane
Beane
New Orleans
Far East
Associate Editor of Constitution Dies in Atlanta
Dr. Samuel White Small longtime associate editor of the Atlanta Constitution died at the United States Veterans Hospital in Atlanta in his 80s. He suffered injuries in a fall at the 1928 Republican National Convention and had been in failing health, returning from Walter Reed after a blood transfusion.
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Atlanta
Samuel White Small
Atlanta Constitution
United States Veterans Hospital
Small
Kansas City
Walter Reed Hospital
Washington
Veterans Hospital
Double Slaying in Memphis Spurs Sheriff Probe
In Memphis Tennessee on November 21 authorities questioned unnamed suspects about the three man execution of farmer J. D. Smith, 64, and Earl Sheridan, 30, who were kidnapped from their homes and found shot in a ditch. Isham G Harris, 38, a great grandson of a former governor, denied knowledge of the killings and allegedly accused the victims of insulting Harris’s wife.
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Memphis
Tenn
Here
Sheriff's Department
J. D. Smith
Winchester Pike Farmer
Earl Sheridan
Isham G. Harris
Tennessee
Harris
Smith
Three Killed and Ten Injured In Tanker Explosion
Three men burned to death on the Standard Oil tanker Charlie Watson after three blasts caused a roaring fire. A fourth man died later after falling from a dock piling. Nine others were injured as gasoline discharged from a leaking pump line. The hull suffered heavy damage but likely remained intact.
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San Francisco
Standard
Charlie Watson
Murder Trial Nears End in Harlan County Coal Field Case
Final arguments in the trial of William Burnett charged with the murder of Deputy Sheriff Jess Pace in the Harlan county coal field labor disorders were to be completed today in Sterling Kentucky.
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Mt, Sterling
William Burnett
Jess Pace
Harlan County
Brothers Live As Women For Thirty Years Seek Legal Sex Change
In Anderson Indiana two brothers Geneva and Nola Armstrong aged 33 and 31 for three decades lived as women due to their mother's wishes. They have filed for legal acknowledgment of their male sex and request name changes to Gene and Noel. Their attorney Arthur Call noted the surprise at their true identities. Court action awaits the January term with the daughters’ names remaining until then.
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Noel
Arthur Call
Armstrong
Jeffersons Own Story To Be Told For New York Society
Thomas Jeffersons own account of how he wrote the Declaration of Independence will be retold December 3 before the New York Southern society. George Gordon, president, will host three historical afternoons at the Waldorf Astoria as part of a busy winter calendar of events for the society founded in 1886 to celebrate ancestral customs and character.
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New York
Thomas Jefferson
New York Southern Society
George Gordon
Waldorf-Astoria
Isham Harris Confesses to Kidnaping and Slayings in Memphis
ISHAM G. Harris 38 a great grandson of a Civil War governor confessed today to participating in the kidnaping and murder of farmer J D Smith and the slaying of Earl Sheridan in Shelby County Tennessee Sheriff W J Bacon quoted Harris as saying he helped abduct Smith and participated in the killings though he denied firing the shots Harris was charged with the murders and led officers to the ditch where Smith lay his wife reported an insult but prosecutors say the negro may have aided the killing due to knowing too much Harris had a long arrest record and was once pardoned by former Governor Alf Taylor
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Memphis
Tenn
Isham G. Harris
Tennessee
W. J. Bacon
Hartris
J. D. Smith
Harris
Smith
Biondi
Alf Taylor
Johnson City
James Harris
Grandi Ends Rest in Philadelphia Before Baltimore
Italian Foreign Minister Dino Grandi and Signora Grandi rest in Philadelphia after arrival in the United States. They plan to view Joseph E. Widener’s art collection at his Elkins Park estate before continuing to Baltimore under heavy police escort.
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Philadelphia
United States
Dino Grandi
Signora Grandi
Baltimore
Signor Grandi
Joseph E. Widener
Elkins Park
Bellevue Stratford
Widener
Vigilantes Trap Cop Killing Thugs in Oregon Hills
In Oregon vigilantes and hundreds of citizens and peace officers surrounded a woodland area between Grant's Pass and Rogue River, believed to trap two heavily armed killers of Special Patrolman Victor Knott after a tip from a school janitor. The mob halted bloodshed as searches continued.
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Salem
Ore
Grant’s Pass
Rogue River
Victor Knott
Maxwell stays in governor race amid withdrawal rumors
Alien Jay Maxwell, candidate for governor, denied rumors he would quit the race. He stated he remains in the contest, citing a deep conviction to present vital issues and a program of substantial spending readjustment from federal to local levels. He emphasized the need for less government spending to avoid harm.
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Raleigh
Jay Maxwell
Maxwell
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