High Cost of Living Blamed on Waste War Sacrifices
Four recent fatal accidents on the High Point Greensboro highway prompt calls for two motorcycle officers to patrol the road and curb speeding. County officials worry over cost, but supporters argue patrols could pay for themselves by reducing crashes and safeguarding lives. Knox jail guarded by deputies after threats and rioting with possible lynching of Maurice Mays reported.
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Squire Dave Collins
Greensboro
Nashville
Machinesun
Knox County
Maurice Mays
Accidents at Main Street Corner Prompt Traffic Calls
A near serious collision occurred at Main and East Washington when William McGhee was run down by J H Snider driving on the left side. The bicycle was demolished and officials fear more wrecks without traffic police to enforce right side driving.
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William McGhee
J. H. Snider
Main
East
Washington Streets
Snider
Young McGhee
Five Strikers Killed in Hammond Clash with Police
In Hammond Indiana Sept 9 five strikers were killed and 15 wounded when about 1 000 former Standard Steel Car workers clashed with police. Officers and guards fired about 75 rounds after leaders refused to disperse. No policemen or guards were injured.
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Hammond
Ind
Standard Steel Car Company
Stone
Union Proposal to Silence Picketing Rejected by Deputies
A municipal clash over open shops ends when Deputy Sheriff rejects a union plan to force manufacturers to close plants. Mayors and union leaders clash with open shop demands near Prospect settlement as picketing resumes with renewed spirit. authorities also report a separate whiskey seizure at Joe Welborn’s home with a $100 bond set.
Autochrain mobile hospital aids wounded near Budapest
American Red Cross gift to Queen Marie enables a mobile authochair hospital to treat Romanian and Hungarian wounded. Major J B Bayne from Chicago commands the unit as it moves with the army, featuring operating rooms, X-ray, sterilizing gear, water and ice, and a 4000 man capacity.
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Bucharest
Ruman Nian
Budapest
American Red Cross
Marie
Romania
J. B. Bayne
Chicago
American Red Cross Commission
Balkans
Red Cross
West Front
Europe
President Wilson Advocates Peace Roles in World
President Wilson addressed Minnesota legislators urging a world peace framework and U.S. leadership to set peace standards, align labor and capital, and boost global economics. He praised woman suffrage ratification and pressed for railway and international labor organization reforms amid rising living costs. He urged cooperation to prevent wars and cited the United States as vital in shaping postwar orders. Continued on Page Five.
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Wilson
United States
International Labor Organization
Flo
Minnesota
Cardinal Mercier Arrives in New York to Thank U S Aid
Cardinal Mercier primate of Belgium will land in New York aboard the Northern Pacific late today to express gratitude for American assistance during World War I. He travels from Europe to acknowledge wartime aid and visit allied supporters.
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New York
Cardinal Mercier
Belgium
Northern Pacific
America
Relief Work Brings Joy in Mitylene Greece
American relief workers enter towns on Lesbos Island to a triumphal welcome as olive factories halt and residents gather in public squares. 52,000 refugees receive first clothing in four years, and soup kitchens feed the poorly nourished population with one meal daily.
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Mitylene
Greece
American Red Cross
Edward Capps
Princeton University
Freight rate proposal draws North Carolina ire
High Point shippers expect a Raleigh meeting of chamber of commerce secretaries and traffic heads to discuss a railroad plan to raise freight rates into North Carolina from the north east and west. Chambers call the move discriminatory as it would not raise rates into surrounding states and would not benefit southern railroads.
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High Point
Chamber of Commerce
Raleigh
Chambers of Commerce
North Carolina
South
Ohio
Potomac
McGill appeals to foreign relations panel for justice
Chicago on September 9 James Ek McGill father of Herbert McGill killed by Mexican bandits has appealed to the foreign relations committee to press for justice against the murderers.
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Chicago
James_ Ek. McGill
Herbert McGill
Foreign Relations Committee
Romania refuses to sign Austrian peace treaty
The Romanian delegation at the peace conference announced it would not sign the Austrian peace treaty. Austria was scheduled to sign tomorrow at 19 o'clock in Paris. Dr Karl Nenner the Austrian chancellor and peace delegation head arrived in Paris from Vienna.
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Rumania
Austria
Paris
Karl Nenner
Vienna
Businessman shot near Nashville in unexplained attack
Leroy Harch president of Imperial Motor company and wealthy young executive was fatally shot on a farmhouse porch near Nashville. Police search for a woman named by Harch as his assailant. His car was found nearby and investigators believe he and the woman fled the scene. Harch was a son of notable local businessman H. A. Harch, once from Columbus Ohio.
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Nashville
Leroy Harch
Imperial Motor Company
Harch
H. A. Harch
Columbus
Ohio
Gas Under Street Causes Explosion
An explosion on Third Avenue at Forty second Street injured several people as accumulated gas under the pavement shatters hundreds of windows and sends glass flying. Fire crews investigate the gas buildup and determine the source of the blast.
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New York
Third Avenue
Forty-second Street
Water In High Point Declared Pure By State Chemist
The state chemist advised city authorities that samples of High Point water are pure. The findings were reported after city officials submitted the samples several days ago.
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High Point
Suppression of 30 Tokyo newspapers over rice prices
Tokio reports that thirty newspapers were suppressed after attacks on the government over rice costs. The Yamato accuses ruffians from the Seigurki or government party of threatening its chief editorial writer, calling it an oppression of free speech.
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TOKIO
Yamato
Seigurki
Smuggling by Air Reported in North Buffalo
Sept 9 in North Buffalo a wrecked airplane believed from Canada led to the first air smuggling charge in the district. The crew escaped injury and fled in a car after the crash. A deputy was posted to deter souvenir hunters. The craft reportedly traveled from Toronto to Gloucester Mass with no duty paid. Libel proceedings began and the plane was stored in a government warehouse after five days with no claimant.
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Buffalo
Canada
United States Customs Department
Toronto
Gloucester
Mass
Plans to merge patriotic veterans groups proposed
Columbus September 9. Commander Adams of the Grand Army of the Republic says plans are under way to form one federation by merging all soldier societies and auxiliaries. The tentative plan includes the G A R, Confederate veterans, Spanish war veterans, and World War I veterans.
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Columbus
Adams
Grand Army of the Republic
Aviators Land in New Orleans Seaplane After Florida Flight
Lieuts. Allen Snowby and Wright, U S aviators, landed in New Orleans in a seaplane after a flight from Pensacola, Fla. The return trip to Pensacola was planned for today or tomorrow and the flight duration was one hour and 55 minutes.
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New Orleans
Allen Snowby
Wright
United States
Pasacola
Fla
Pensacola
Pershing Stays in Hotel All Morning
General John J. Pershing avoided a public greeting by remaining at his hotel until the 2,000 boy scouts were ready to march to Central Park for his address to 50,000 school children. Tonight he attends an Elk reception.
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Pershing
New York
John J. Pershing
Central Park
Cscar
General Pershing
el Paso
Cotton Mill at Rock Hill Sold for 750000
Chester S C Sept 9 announcement that the Manchester Cotton mill at Rock Hill was sold to A C Barrow of the Jobbers Overall company Lynchburg Va for 750000 with transfer set for January 5.
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Rock Hill
Chester
8. C
Manchester
A. C. Barrow
Jobbers Overall Company
Lynchburg, Va
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