Russia Holds Whip Hand In Wheat Market
The Farm Board chairman urged American farmers to feed wheat to cattle to curb demand and lower prices as Soviet grain sales push world prices down. Congress moves toward hearings on Russian short selling with subpoenas for New York brokers and All-Russia Textile Syndicate officials amid ongoing political debate on futures trading.
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Washington
Legge
Farm Board
U. S
Chicago
Russia
United States
Soviet Republics
New York
House’ Communist
Fish
All-Russia
Hyde
Chicago Board of Trade
Department of Agriculture
Pat Harrison
Mississippi
Civil War Veteran Stedman Dies at 89 in Washington
Congressman Charles Manly Stedman of North Carolina, the last Civil War veteran in Congress, died in Washington after an apoplectic stroke at Mount Alto hospital. He had served ten terms since 1911 and was affectionately known as a veteran and long-time lawmaker.
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Washington
Charles Manly Stedman
North Carolina
Congress
Lee
Jackson
Mount Alto Hospital
Katherine Palmer
Greensboro
N. C
Stedman
Major Stedman
Joe Cannon
Doughton
Coughton
Pittsboro
Raleigh
O. Max Gardner
Jones shoots to par in national amateur round
In the national amateur golf tournament Bobby Jones and Emery Stratton staged a second round with Jones hitting long drives and making birdies including a downhill putt for two at the third. A water penalty on the fifth and a creek drop ended Jones's clean run, leaving him one over par after five holes as spectators lined the first fairway.
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Bobby Jones
Emery Stratton
Bob
Jones
Two Americans in Chilean Trouble
In Baltimore Maxwell C. Byers president of the Western Maryland Railroad was shot and killed in the Standard Oil Building offices. Dudley D. Gray, vice president of the railroad, was seriously wounded as a pistol battle occurred. Gray later died? The report notes Gray survived initial surgery. In Chile two American aviators Edward Orville de Larin and Reed Smith Doyle faced court martial after aiding a Concepcion uprising. A special tribunal and Major Federico Barahona were named to oversee their case.
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Western Maryland Railroad
Baltimore
Maxwell C. Byers
Dudley D. Gray
Roda
Standard Oil
Byers
Mr. Gray
Gray
Santiago DE Chile
Concepcion
Carlos Ibanez
Carlos Freedden
Associated Press
Edward Orville de Larin
Reed Smith Doyle
Chacabuco
Conocepcion
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Ohio
Ohio State University
Baltimore & Ohio
Pittsburgh
S. C. Republicans May Unseat Tolbert
Columbia Sept 23 The South Carolina Republican convention debates unseating national committeeman Joseph W. Tolbert as party boss and patronage dispenser. An open move to remove him as state chairman gains momentum with delegates assembling.
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Columbia
S. C
Joseph W. Tolbert
South Carolina
Talk Isn't Cheap In Rives Court
In Greensboro on September 23 Emma Mitchell, an African American woman, was held in police court on vagrancy. Judge E E Rives sentenced her to ninety days more for contempt after she taunted the court. The total penalty grew to nine months.
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Rives
Greensboro
Emma Mitchell
E. E. Rives
Emma
Gant Resigns as Guilford Clerk of Court
Mason W. Gant resigns as Guilford Superior Court clerk amid nine indictments over pension fund irregularities. He cites physical condition and vows to prove innocence. Judge Shaw to appoint a successor for the term ending December 31. charges include forgery embezzlement abstraction and misapplication of Confederate pension funds totaling 1377.50.
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Greensboro
Mason W. Gant
Guilford Superior Court
Thomas J. Shaw
12Th District
Gant
Shaw
Bonynge accuses German agents of spreading germs in U S actions
Robert Bonynge, commissioner for the United States in the German American mixed claims tribunal, charged that German agents in the United States before the war spread disease germs and arson to hinder American interests. He cited claims of germ warfare tied to Captain Winsch and German agent Captain Von Rintelen, with plans to burn and destroy munition targets.
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Hague
Netherlands
Robert Bonynge
United States
Mixed Claims Tribunal
America
Ine
Winsch
Baltimore
Bonynge
Felton
Europe
Norfolk
Newport News
New York
Hopewell
Virginia
Dupont
Hermann
von Rintelen
Sex Determination Not Likely To Be Reached
Pasadena scientist reports a balance of multiple cellular elements guides sex, not just chromosomes. Dr Calvin Bridges of California Institute of Technology studied fruit flies showing other particles affecting sex alongside chromosomes, suggesting human application remains distant.
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Pasadena
Cal
National Academy of Science
Calvin K. Bridges
California Institute of Technology
Bridges
Haice
Body Taken From New York Bay Not That of Crater
Police said the body recovered from the upper bay today is not that of missing Supreme Court Justice Joseph F. Crater who vanished on August 6. Initial descriptions from Staten Island suggested teeth absent and a mutilated finger, but investigators found several teeth and concluded the finger was mutilated after entering the water.
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New York
Supreme Court
Joseph F. Crater
Staten Island
Eat White Bread To Solve Wheat Surplus Says Barton
Bruce Barton, the New York advertising man, urged the American Bakers Association to back a nationwide government sponsored advertising push by the Federal Farm Board to restore white bread to the American diet. He argued that with 136 million people and 130 million excess bushels of wheat, government influence used in World War I could cut wheat use again to boost consumption.
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Bruce Barton
Atlantic City
N. J
New York
American Bakers Association
Federal Farm Board
United States
Barton
Dempsey Injured in Auto Accident in New Orleans
Former heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey was struck by a slipping car door as he returned from a Roosevelt Hotel reception. He received stitches for a arm wound at a local hospital and, undaunted, planned to officiate at a fight in Alexandria, Louisiana tonight.
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New Orleans
Jack Dempsey
Roosevelt Hotel
Dempsey
Alexandria
Raymond Associates With Dempsey In New Orleans Visit
Harry Ramond of this city is with Jack Dempsey in New Orleans as guests of Mayor Harry Hartwell. Ramond planned to attend a dinner at the Roosevelt Hotel in honor of Dempsey but reports on the heavyweight champion’s accident did not confirm his presence. He will depart New Orleans for High Point late today.
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Bruening
Associated Press
Reich
von Hindenburg
United States
Germany
Harry Ramond
Jack Dempsey
New Orleans
Harry Hartwell
Mr. Raymond
Dempsey
Roosevelt Hotel
High Point
Russian workers call for death sentences for counter revolutionaries
Moscow reports hundreds of factory meetings issuing resolutions against a counter-revolutionary society. They demand executions for all 25 members and vow to purge food distribution networks of non soviet elements. The secret police are praised as the sword of the proletarian revolution and urged for the Order of Lenin.
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Moscow
Counter-Revolutionary Society
Soviet Union
Peiping Entered By Changs Men In Peaceful Invasion
Three Manchurian battalions moved into Peiping and arranged a smooth transition of city control. Posters framed the move as peaceful mediation and urged an end to civil war. General Feng Yu-Hsiangs forces face retreat to Shensi and Kansun areas as the conflict shifts.
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Peiping
China
Chang Hsueh-Liang
Nanking
Feng Yu-Hsiang
Shensi
Kansun
Confederate Vets Gather In Winston for Reunion Start
Winston Salem report on the opening of the North Carolina division reunion of the United Confederate Veterans. Major H P Watson of Winston Salem to call the gathering to order. Major General W A Smith of Ansonville to review the veterans parade the next day.
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Winston-Salem
North Carolina
United Confederate Veterans
H. P. Watson
W. A. Smith
Ansonville
The
Gray
Wood Reported In Community Again
Otto Weed known as a troublesome figure in Piedmont North Carolina was said to have visited Kenney's lunch stand on the High Point Greensboro highway last night with Mrs. Robert Wood. Detectives Smith and Whitlow learned of the stop after court in Greensboro and reported the sighting, noting Weed asked for a ham sandwich but ate a banana sandwich when ham was unavailable.
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Otto Weed
Rrison
Willo’-The
Kenney
Wood
High Point Woman Charges Brother In Law With Assault
Elsie Durham of High Point accused her brother in law R. J. Riggs in county court of attempted criminal assault. The case was dismissed when she failed to provide corroborating evidence.
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High Point
Charlotte
R. J. Riggs
Elsie Durham
Tobacco prices rise as border markets open sales
Raleigh reports higher early prices across border and middle belt tobacco markets. Henderson leads with about 350000 pounds offered, early bids from 8 to 12 cents with top grades near 44 cents. Durham, Louisburg and Aberdeen show mixed starts as warehouses fill and farmers stay satisfied.
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Raleigh
Bright Belt
Middle Belt
Henderson
Durham
Louisburg
Aberdeen
Sanford
Former Gaffney Banker Shoots Self in Home Crisis
R S Lipscomb 70 former cashier of Merchants and Planters bank Gaffney shot himself at home early today. Physicians fear the wound will prove fatal. Lipscomb had been cashier until recently with no irregularities found in his accounts per bank president C M Smith. The bullet entered just above the heart.
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Gaffney
R. S. Lipscomb
Merchants and Planters Bank
Lipscomb
C. M. Smith
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League of Nations Assembly
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Great Britain
Philip Baker
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Walter Riddell
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