Middlewest and South Face Surplus Pain, Calls for Policy
Chicago broadcasts a report on farm leaders from the Midwest urging a second national agricultural policy as southern cotton surpluses worsen. Leaders from eleven corn belt states, Illinois and Iowa officials, and the American Farm Bureau demand congress act to stabilize producer distribution and balance with industry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Midwest
St. Louis
Sam H. Thompson
American Farm Bureau Federation
John Himmill
Iowa
Southern Cotton Co-Operatives
Corn Belt
George N. Peek
South
Northwest
Peek
Congress
Middles West
The
West
American Cotton Growers Exchange of the
Earl C. Smith
Illinois Agricultural Association
Hammill
Thompson
Farm Bureau Federation
Smith
Fire destroys main LUMBERTON stores with heavy losses
A large fire in Lumberton caused more than 250000 in damage in the downtown business district. The L H Caldwell hardware furniture and grocery departments burned out, clothing suffered water damage, and Rosier Robbins McMillans Drug Store also sustained total or partial losses. Fire spread from a storage house as linseed oil turpentine and denatural alcohol exploded. Fayetteville Maxton aided while Fort Bragg trucks failed to arrive. Insurance partially covers the losses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. H. Caldwell
Fayetteville
Maxton
Fort Bragg
Fort Brass
State power capacity to rise with new units in NC
Electrical power programs in North Carolina will lift installed capacity by about 275 000 horsepower, exceeding twenty five percent of 1925 levels. The state’s total capacity stood at 1 060 150 horsepower in 1925, with hydroelectric and steam-produced power making up most of it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
North Carolina
Chas. E. Ray, Jr
Department of Conservation and Development
Union
Mississippi
New York
Great Niagara Falls
United States Geological Survey
Mussolini Embraces Risk as Public Life Expands
Rome reports Premier Mussolini, famed for “live dangerously,” is increasing public contact amid intensified protection. He walks the streets, rides in a daily limousine, reviews troops, and appears on the Chigi Palace balcony while a new regime defense law tightens surveillance and crowd controls to shield him from assassins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Mussolini
Duce
Bologna
Chigi Palace
Chamber of Deputies
Virginia Military Institute Plans Six Week Fort Bragg Encampment
Forty five students from V. M. I. Lexington will hold a six weeks annual encampment at Fort Bragg Fayetteville North Carolina announced by fourth corps headquarters. The camp will begin in June 1927.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
Lexington
Fort Bragg
Fayetteville
North Carolina
Fourth Corps
McLean Denies Bias in Budget Hearings Plan
Governor A W McLean issued a formal statement denying claims that the budget commission or its members favor state institutions or have made determinations. He said the hearings aim to collect detailed data on institutional needs for legislature review and finance committee consideration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Budget Commission
Budget Advisory Commission
Italian Aviator Shatters Seaplane Speed Records
Major Mario De Bernardi of the Italian royal air force set world speed records in seaplanes at Norfolk, clocking 246.496 mph average and breaking the 100 km and 200 km closed circuit marks. The Curtiss entry, piloted by Lt. George T. Cuddihy, faded on the final laps. Other Italian flyer Arthur Ferrarin led early before withdrawing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norfolk
Mario de Bernardi
Mussolini
Italy
United States
Red Creak
de Bernardi
Mai
America
George T. Cuddihy
Cuddihy
Arthuro Ferrarin
C. F
Adiano Bacula
Ww. G. Tomlinson
Love letters read in Hall Mills trial in New Jersey
In Somerville New Jersey on November 13 1924 Mrs Frances Stevens Hall listened as letters alleged to be from her dead husband Edward W Hall to Mrs Eleanor Mills were read in court The letters were presented as part of the murder case against Hall and two Stevens brothers The reading cited Maine correspondence and a December 1921 Christmas card amid diaries found in Mrs Mills residence The testimony followed earlier identification of the letters by the prosecution and defense efforts to suppress them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine
Edward W. Hall
Hall
Paris
Inspector Bringer
Secret Service
Francisco Macia
Ricciotti Garibaldi
Bringer
Nice
France
Catalonia
Macia
Pyrenees
Garibaldi
Spain
Tax Credit Plan Faces Opposition In Washington
President Coolidge's credit plan meets resistance as Rep John Garner of Texas and Rep Ogden Mills of New York arrive with conflicting tax positions. Garner backs a 12 percent corporation tax and repeal of the automobile tax while Mills and aides warn against permanent tax cuts before the short session, aligning with Secretary Mellon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Coolidge
Congress
John Garner
Texas
House
Ways and Means Committee
Tevan
Ogden L. Mills
New York
Ways and Means
Mills
Mellon
Uncle Joe Cannon Remembered as Danville Beloved Leader
Danville mourns Joseph Gurney Cannon with a nation aware of his role as a neighbor and benefactor. Citizens recall his civic projects from lights and a city railway to a soldiers home and federal building. Funeral at St James Methodist Church under Rev T N Ewing with Danville Legion pallbearers. Chas G Dawes to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Danville
His
Vermillion Street
Joseph Gurney Cannon
Joe
Canon
Uncle Joe
Washington
Cannon
Lincoln
T. N. Ewing
St. James Methodist Church
Kenan Gift Funds UNC Stadium to Honor Parents
William Rand Kenan Jr donates 275 000 dollars to UNC for a 24 000 seat Memorial Stadium to be built next season. The alumnus and Florida East Coast Railroad president honors Mary Hargrove and William Rand Kenan, with plans announced in Chapel Hill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina
William Rand Kenan
Florida East Coast Railroad
H. W. Chase
University
Mary Hargrove
Kenan
New York City
Chase
Charles T. Woolen
Robert Lassiter
Charlotte
Foy Roterson
East Franklin and
Columbia Streets
Thomas A. Kenan
James G. Kenan
Owen H
P. F. Venable
St. Albane School
Radford
Florida East Coast Hotel Company
Florida East Coast Car Ferry Company
Model Land Company of
Florida
Carolina Apartment Company
Wilmington
N. C
Niagara County National Bank of
Lockport
N. Y
Western Block Company
Emerson Field
Bystander Stops Robber With Flying Tackle In Times Square
Rudolph Beck hailed as innocent bystander uses a football tackle to pin a robber in a daylight jewelry store raid on Broadway and 39th Street. The felon wounded a police officer and a salesman before a second officer shot him. Beck was struck in the knee by a bullet as he restrained the suspect.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Rudolph Beck
Times Square
Beck
Henry Silberfeld
Broadway
Thirty- Ninth Street
Benjamin Grogan
David Jacobi
John Manigan
Grogran
Grogan
Jacobi
Hoffman
Lanigan
Rogan
Civic owners move annual session to Asheville NC
The civic owners of the American Association announced the annual meeting will be held in Asheville North Carolina on December 5 in connection with the National Association of Minor Leagues meeting, instead of meeting in Chicago as usual.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Wie
Asheville
Chicago
Civic Owners
American Association
North Carolina
National Association of Minor Leagues
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Lumberton
McLean
Robert E. Lee
Mary Lee Leach
Robert Bernard Harwood
Alabama
State University
Dora Leach
Wood
Gorge Wood
J. B. Vickers
W. M. Bond
Hall-Mills
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