Put God First Revival Opens With Culpepper at Wesley Memorial
Rev Burke Culpepper launches a city revival at Wesley Memorial Methodist Church with the slogan Put God First. A large crowd attends and delegates expect overflow crowds over the next three weeks as Greensboro Gas tonia and Salisbury visitors plan to attend. Culpepper promises a two week revival of old fashioned preaching and a shake up with stewards and their wives urged to sit upfront. Continued on Page Four.
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Burke Culpepper
Wesley Memorial Methodist Church
Greensboro
Gastonia
Salisbury
Culpepper
Rev. Culpepper
Johnson urges delay on league action to seek defeat
In St Paul Senator Hiram W. Johnson of California told a special legislative session that delaying league of nations action by 60 days would push the people to decisively oppose or seek amendments. He called immediate action misleading and argued the league’s true aim becomes clearer with time.
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ST. Paul
Hiram W. Johnson
California
League of Nations
Sugar Shortage Stalls High Point Grocers
Local merchants warn the sugar supply in High Point is critically tight as wholesalers report no shipments despite orders. Grocers say public belief that stores refuse sugar is false. efforts to secure government aid, including a carload through federal agencies, are being pursued by Mayor D A Stanton.
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High Point
D. A. Stanton
Stanton
Steel Strike Set to Hit Steel Mills Monday Morning
Detroit sailors vote to back the action as thousands prepare to walk out in sympathy. Pittsburgh dispatch notes national steel workers committee led by William Z Foster organizing district drives, with John Fitzpatrick in Washington reporting to Samuel Gompers and plans for a broad union meeting within two weeks.
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Pittsburgh
National Committee For Iron and Steel Workers
Cers
William Z. Foster
National Committee
United States
How About That Sam Browne General A E F Parade
A E F officers returning from overseas remark on Sam Browne belts. Officers who did not go over do not wear them, while First Division officers wore them in the New York parade.
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Sam Browne
First Division
New York
King of Hoboes Leads Striking Street Runners
In New York on September 19 a committee of striking Wall Street runners sought aid from Mayor Hylan. They were joined by Jeff Davis, known as the King of the Hoboes, as the workers pressed for higher pay and Mayor Hylan expressed hope for their success.
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King of Hoboes
New York
Wall Street
Hylan
Jeff Davis
Big Air Liner Sets Out On Transcontinental Flight
Lawson airliner carrying 14 passengers and five crew left Mineola for Washington as the first leg of a planned transcontinental journey. The craft had just completed a Milwaukee to Mineola hop.
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Mineola
Lawson
Washington
Milwaukee
Vienna Moves to Segregate Women of Underworld
Vienna authorities implement a segregation plan to quarantine women of the vice trade in barracks as part of steps to curb spreading vice.
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Vienna
Detroit Sailors Approve Sympathy Strike for Steel Walkout
Members of the sailors union in Detroit voted unanimously to strike in sympathy with the steel workers' September 22 walkout. Officials said the vote in support was announced today as cooks and stewards and other crews weigh their participation.
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Detroit
Sailors’ Union
Open shop pledge issued as Youngstown strike looms
Independent steel companies announce they will maintain the open shop and urge workers to stay at work on Monday. Organizers estimate about 54,500 workers in the Youngstown district will be affected by the strike.
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Youngstown
Independent Steel Companies
New York Police and Fire Creata Union Drive
New York City workers including police and firemen push to form a central union allied with the American Federation of Labor. The drive seeks wage increases and broader city employee organization with talks of up to 65 percent raises. The launch came after a secret conference with 30 executive council members representing over 100,000 members.
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New York
New York City
Central
American Federation of Labor
Antis League to Enter National Politics for Prohibition
The Anti Saloon League of America will enter national politics to push parties next year to nominate presidential candidates pledged to enforcing the prohibition amendment. The decision followed the executive board’s final meeting.
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Chicago
Anti- Saloon League of America
General Strike Talks Rise As Boston Labor Meets
Boston reports revival of general strike discussion after a day of strike action pause. Central Labor Union delegates prepare to vote on locals’ strike results as Curtis chairs a citywide recruitment drive to fill vacant police posts. Paris hosts peace talks with Bulgaria as Theodorff argues Bulgarian people bear shared blame.
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Central Labor Union
Central Committee
Man Loses Sight After Nail Accident at City Plant
R. E. Sayles, a white carpenter at the new city water plant, lost sight in one eye when a 20 penny nail glanced off a scaffold and struck his right eye. He was taken to a local sanatorium and is resting easy today.
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R. E. Sayles
City Water Works
Acci
Ship arrives with first German cargo since the war
The Kerr line steamship Jason arrived in New York from Hamburg carrying 350 tons of toys glassware and sugar beet seeds marking the first cargo from Germany since the war.
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New York
Kerr Line
Jason
Hamburg
Germany
Offer Wilson Aid In Industrial Plans
Resolutions offering President Wilson community councils to promote industry adoption of collective bargaining profit sharing and workers voice in management were drafted by Mrs. C. C. Rumsey Harriman and approved by the community industrial relations committee. If approved, the plan will be sent to the president for his industrial conference opening October 6.
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C. C. Rumsey
FE. H. Harriman
Community Industrial Relations Committee
Americans Buy Hun Steel Plant
The Roehler steel syndicate plants at Kansenberg have been bought by Americans. Upon taking charge the new owners notified the employer that a ten hour day and a piece work schedule would again be put in force.
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Berlin
Roehler Steel Syndicate
Kansenberg
Tages Zeitung
British Women to Seek American Husbands Arrive Soon
Five thousand affluent British women are set to travel to the United States in search of American husbands. Mrs. S. C. Seymour of Camden New Jersey, who supervised war brides for the military, warns that the matrimony corps has applied for passports and will arrive once travel restrictions ease, expected October 1.
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New York
United States
S. ¢. Seymour
Camden
N. J
Europe
Street Forges At Work On Cemetery Produce Results
Oakwood Cemetery shows marked improvement after J D Koontz action following recent criticism. Grass and weeds have been mowed. graves and tombstones are now more visible. other improvements are planned though the wooden entrance gate remains unattractive.
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Koontz
Ministers Say The Strike Plan Silly
In Richmond on September 19 Baptist leaders dismissed a proposed northern ministers strike as foolish and not to be followed in the south. Rev Dr T D Ray of the Southern Baptist foreign mission board called it a joke and noted Southern ministers have salary raises to meet living costs and pensions funded by the seventy five million campaign to protect aging ministers.
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Northern Baptist
South
T. D. Ray
Southern Baptist Foreign Mission Board
Death of H. J. Walker in mill accident at Montesville
Danville report states H. J. Walker president of Montesville Cotton Mills died in Montesville last night after a heavy safe fell on him during unloading from a wagon. He had been injured earlier as timber collapsed while the safe was moved.
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Danville
Walker
Montesville
Storm Victims Searched as Martial Law Spreads
Corpus Christi amid tropical storm devastation enters martial law as Governor Hobby orders censorship of private telegraph and news dispatches. W. B. Cooke acts as acting adjutant general leading about 400 state troops to control the stricken territory across Nueces San Patricio and Aransas counties.
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Corpus Christi
Neuces
San Patricio Aransas
Hobby
W. B. Cooke
Death toll rises as hurricane search expands in Corpus Christi
Corpus Christi reports 284 bodies found with 12 identified after the Sunday hurricane. Fifty seven bodies buried locally as 4,000 homeless receive aid. Rescue teams head to Mustang Island to search for 11 marooned aboard the wrecker launch Waldo, crewman J L Woodward arrives with word of their fate.
Clergy Identifies Bishop Mussbaum Listed Among Dead
Houston clerics say a telegram naming Bishop Mussbaum of Corpus Christi among storm victims is an error. He was in Houston last Friday night en route to the east and is believed to have left for New Orleans.
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Houston
Mussbaum
Corpus Christi
New
City May Purchase Fordson Tractor for Street Work
City officials consider buying a Fordson tractor to replace horses in the street improvement department. Superintendent J D Koontz argues the tractor would perform more work at lower cost and could be used where horses cannot. A board reports to Secretary Baker as Washington plans temporary summer camps for the national guard at Camp Bragg and Camp Denning with Lt General Robert L. Trullard leading the inspection team.
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Washington
Camp Bragg
North Carolina
Camp Denning
Georgia
National Guard
Baker
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