Cotton Acreage Reduction Is Next Move in North Carolina
Governor A W McLean called a Raleigh conference for November 8 at 1 PM to devise a uniform state plan for cotton acreage reduction and crop diversification. Farmers from cotton counties and representatives from organizations were urged to attend. The Cotton Finance and Warehouse committees named a panel including W A Graham and A B Blacklock, with NC Bankers Association and State College leaders backing the plan.
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Raleigh
Cotton Finance Committee
Cotton Warehouse Committee
A. W. McLean
House of Representatives
W. A. Graham
A. B. Blalock
North Carolina Bankers Association
N. G. Bartlett
Eastern Carolina Chamber of Commerce
E. C. Brooks
State College
Mcvein
North Carolina Cotton Finance Corporation
Greensboro
Federal
McLean
J. W. Simpson
Jeffreys Reprieved in Death Sentence Stay
James Jeffreys of Wake County a Negro condemned for criminal assault was reprieved by Governor McLean delaying execution to December 8 to allow further mental status review. He maintains innocence, identified by an elderly white woman as the victim.
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Raleigh
James Jeffreys
Wake County
McLean
De Molay committee names for Thanksgiving dance and Endowment Fund drive
Local De Molay orders appoint committees at a banquet held at Mrs. Elia Dallas residence on South Main. A Thanksgiving dance will be at the Sheraton hotel the Friday after Thanksgiving with likely music by Kike Kysers Cheerios from the State University. The Endowment Fund campaign aims to raise $200 as the local quota, launching Friday.
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Elia Dallas
South Main Street
Sheraton
Kike Kysers
Cheerios
State University
Beverly Yates
Dick Marshall
William Ragan
Charles Brooks
Max Parrish
Albert Edwards
Tony Antonakos
Babe Yates
Edgar Hartley
High Point Y. M. C. A
de Molay
National Endowment Fund
Henry Gurley
Order
Ward Parker
George Ridge
Boyd Pierce
Theodore Antonakos
Keith Harrison
Bill Edwards
Victor Dallas
Paul Callahan
Water Recedes From Mine Shaft Aiding Recovery Efforts
In Spruce Michigan the Barnes Hecker mine disaster sees water in the flooded shaft recede on its own, revealing stripped bracings and wreckage. Officials hope draining the cavern-linked passages will expose the first level where many of the 44 missing miners may lie, though the rescue remains perilous.
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Speming
Mich
Barnes-Hecker
Railroads to Cut Veg Freight Rates Between Carolinas
North Carolina officials at a Wilmington ICC hearing say railroads must make substantial reductions in vegetable freight rates to eastern markets. The commission members expect lower charges will boost shipments from the Carolinas.
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Raleigh
Carolinas
State Corporation Commission
Interstate Commerce Commission
Wilmington
Drive on Vare began early in Senate rings
Senator Norris Republican of Nebraska who spoke against Ware in Pennsylvania during the campaign opens up against him now that he has won the election. Strenuous fight against seating him is anticipated.
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Norris
Nebraska
Ware
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Contest Opens In Senate Race For Ware
The drive to seat republican William S. Ware as Pennsylvania junior senator in the seventieth Congress accelerates. Senator Norris accuses Philadelphia machine tactics and alleges fraudulent results, citing 76 precincts with implausible vote totals. Senate reconvenes to hear potential contests as Florida-bound Senator-elect Vare departs.
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Committee of Seventy
Philadelphia
Wilson
Pennsylvania
Senate
George W. English
Illinois
Maine
Norris
Ware
Vare
United States
Florida
Seventieth Congress
Five Die In Louisburg Highway Crash
On the Louisburg highway last night a car driven by a Black man struck a woman and swerved into another auto. Lena Wright died, and H F Probst Tom Purnell Bennie Green Irving Hayes were killed. Julia Probst was badly injured. Green drove the car that sparked the crash.
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Pranklinton
Louisburg
Here
Lena Wright
H. F. Probst
Tom Purnell
Bennie Green
Irving Hayes
Green
Julia Probst
Mecklenberg Board of Canvassers Delayed Vote Tally
Charlotte reports the Mecklenburg county board of canvassers will not finish tabulating the general election vote until late today or tomorrow. The delay affects local tally updates and final certification.
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Charlotte
Mecklenburg County Board of Canvassers
Pratt Receives Silver Cane After 30 Years With Whiston Letter Carriers
Winston Salem reports John Pratt a retired letter carrier after over 30 years service was presented a silver headed cane by former coworkers and voted an active life membership in the National Association of Letter Carriers.
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Winston-Salem
John Pratt
Sife
National Association of Letter Carriers
Champagne Bath Tub Party Staged During Coast Guard Chase
Six million dollars worth of liquor was in the Keep Warehouse Inc and 19 men were indicted as marine bootleggers who staged a champagne bath tub party aboard the schooner Elma as a coast guard destroyer chased their vessel. The warehouse, seized by Prohibition officials, contained 5 000 barrels of whiskey and had a prior theft of 23 barrels from a related incident. Walter Weider was arraigned as the federal case unfolded in court.
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New York
Prohibition
America
Coast Guard
Keep Warehouse, Inc
Chester P. Mills
Mills
Walter Weider
Elma
Cape Herteras
Five MIT Students Face Court Over Cambridge Boston Riot
Five Massachusetts Institute of Technology students appeared in court on malicious destruction charges after a riot in Cambridge and Boston damaged property worth thousands. Freshmen clashed with seniors during a sopomore banquet, tearing windows, wrecking cars, and disrupting transit, with arrests and bail set at $200 each.
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Boston
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge
Harvard Square
University
Harvard
Tremont
Boylston Streets
Boylston Street
Harvard Bridge
Charles River
Technology
Halian Police Suspected Part in Spanish Plot
Evidence that Italians orchestrated the attempted Spanish revolutionary movement is said to exist with the French surete generale. Officials believe the plan aimed to strain France Spain relations after arrests near Perpignan. Col. Ricciotti Garibaldi, arrested at Nice, was held on this basis. French authorities cite large remittances to Italian agents in France from official sources.
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Faris
Surete Generale
Perpeignan
France
Spain
Col
Ricciotti Garbaldi
Nice
Garibaldi questioned over Franco-Italian frontier incidents
Col Ricciotti Garibaldi, kinsman of the Italian liberator and anti-Fascist leader in Nice, is said to have been in close relation with the Fascist police. He was questioned at police headquarters about frontier incidents and the Perpignan plot to invade Catalonia, and he denied the charges while pledging to clear himself.
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Nice
France
Col
Ricciotti Garibaldi
Liberator
Garibaldi
Perpignan
Catalonia
Spanish ambassador links gunmen to Catalan border revolt
London November 5 AP The Spanish ambassador to Great Britain Marquis Alfonso Merry Del Val Y Zulueta said a belief exists that professional gunmen anarchists and Bolshevik emissaries were involved in the failed Catalan revolution on the French border in a statement today.
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London
Illinois Colleges Face Prohibition Drinking Probe
Chicago dispatch reports federal agents probing liquor sales to students at several colleges. Illinois University of Illinois officials say discipline actions already taken. other academics note decreased student drinking since national prohibition. University leaders cite cooperation with federal authorities.
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University of Illinois
The
Herald and Examiner
Chicago
University of Wisconsin At
Thomas Arkle Clark
Council of Administration
Dean Clark
Bis
Herald Examiner
Max Mason
University of Chicago
Walter Dil Scott
Northwestern
Clarence Little
University of Michigan At
Ann Arbor
Local library opens Armistice Day with public viewing
High Point public library officially opens on Armistice Day November 11 with hostesses from the Woman's club. Doors open to the public at 3 pm though no books issued yet. Visitors will meet the librarian, learn book arrangement, and enjoy light refreshments funded by the club. The library opens for home use the next day 2 to 6 pm daily except Sunday, with evening hours Tue Thu Sat to 9 pm. Children’s department to open later. library on Municipal building third floor with elevator in operation. Membership open to any resident of High Point or Guilford County at no charge.
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High Point Public Library
Woman's Club
High Point
Guilfora County
Guilford County
Mills Testifies In Hall Mills Murder Trial
James Mills testified about his last sight of Eleanor Mills and quoted Mrs Hall saying the couple would not have fled together. The trial heard testimony from former state police officer Dickman and introduced photographs and the first priestly portrait as evidence. Senator Case questioned witnesses on farm-to-lane distances while exhibits included a bloodstained handkerchief later identified as Mills.
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Somerville
N. J
Jarac
Gibson
Hall-Mills
James Mills
Eleanor R. Mills
Mills
Hall
Henry L. Dickman
Dickman
Episcopal Church
Clarence E. Case
Defense
Phillips Farm
de Russeys Lane
Jane Gibson
James Major
Somerset County
Azariah Beekman
Simpson
Cost Of Bobbing
In Charlotte the county health officer Dr. W A McPhaul warns bobbing will alter female appearance in the next decade. He predicts many women will adopt wigged styles while others may show hairless looks. He foresees a rise in shiny tops among women similar to current male trends.
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Charlotte
INS
W. A. McPhaul
Baker adds Portsmouth college gift to his benefactions
George F. Baker, 86, New York banker, expands philanthropy to Portsmouth. He is revealed as the donor of 1,000,000 dollars for a library and previously gave 5,000,000 to Harvard Business School and contributed to Cornell. He never attended college. his son did.
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Hanover
N. H
George F. Baker
New York
Portmouth
Harvard
Business
Cornell
Lincoln’s physician Dr. Joshua Hayes dies at 95
Dr. Joshua R B Hayes, longtime Lincoln physician and author of a 29 year old longevity treatise advocating light wine and beer over distilled spirits, died yesterday at age 95. He sought a century life and served as a medical adviser in the capital.
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Washington
Joshua RB. Hayes
Lincoln
Yale Alumni Fund Prevents Deficit in Wordy Totals
New Haven reports the Yale alumni fund now exceeds 38 million dollars preventing a deficit. In the last fiscal year the fund supplied 526,586 to cover university expenses totaling 4,575,441 dollars.
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New Haven
Yale
Prohibition Referenda Spark French Dream of Wine Trade
In Paris the I Intransigeant notes that US prohibition vote results fuel hopes of renewed American wine purchases. The newspaper suggests many Americans doubt the prospect of repaying the French debt, while still dreaming of a possible wine trade revival.
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Paris
United States
France
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High Point Womans Club
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