Rex Tex Hosiery Mill to Reopen as Silverknit Hosiery
The Rex Tex Hosiery Mill on West Market Street will reopen within 10 days as Silverknit Hosiery Mill under new owner Milton Silver of High Point North Carolina. W F Hedges will serve as general manager, bringing years of hosiery experience. 45 Scott and Williams H H Spiral machines and ample equipment will enable production up to about 600 dozen pairs daily.
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Rex Tex
West Market Street
Milton Silver
High Point
N. C
United States
Mr. Silver
Scott and Williams H. H
H. H
Hedges
Kingsport Hosiery Mills
Silver
Heflin Leads Independents In Alabama Republican Split
Alabama Republicans meet in Birmingham with no state ticket in sight as delegates favor backing the independent slate led by Senator J Thomas Heflin and Hugh A Locke. Dempsey Powell and other independents seek office while some urge a full ticket to seize the Democratic split. Judge Reynolds warns against abstaining from a contest.
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Birmingham
Ala
Alabama Republicans
Heflin
J. Thomas Heflin
Hugh A. Locke
Dempsey Powell
Greenville
L. H. Reynolds
Chilton County
Weather Across Regions With Slight Temperature Shifts
Tennessee looks for mostly fair weather tonight and Friday with little temperature change. Virginia remains cloudy and cool with possible coastal showers and strong northeast winds. Readings taken at 6:30 p.m. daily by C. L. Bunn, U. S. Weather Office.
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Tennessee
Virginia
C. L. Bunn
Six Believed Dead In Yacht Wreck At Fowey Cornwall
A yacht Islander wrecked on Lantivet bay rocks during a night storm with at least six believed dead including two or three MPs and possible women aboard. Commodore Henry Douglas King chartered the vessel. rescue attempts failed as the ship broke up amid jagged coast and rough seas. Coast guards reported no survivors so far.
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Parliament
Islander
Lantivet Bay
Henry Douglas King
John N. Diggle
Royal Yacht Squadron
Fowey
U S Ruled by 59 Powerful Men Says Former Envoy
Former ambassador James W. Gerard asserts 59 men control the United States through wealth and corporate power, omitting Hoover and other officeholders. He lists Rockefeller Jr, Mellon, J. P. Morgan, Baker, Ryan, Tagle, Weyerhaeuser, Taylor, Farrell, Schwab, Grace, Warner, Zucker, Corcker and others as the nation s hidden power figures.
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U. S
New York
James W. Gerard
Germany
United States
Gerard
New York Times
Viscount Rothermere
Lord Beaverbrook
Hoover
Mr. Gerard
John D. Rockefeller
Andrew W. Mellon
J. P. Morgan
George F. Baker
John D
Ptage
Illinois Democrats Back Wet Platform in Senate Race
Springfield Aug 21 The Democratic candidate James Hamilton Lewis will push repeal of all prohibition laws. The state convention adopted an anti dry plank calling for immediate repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment Volstead act Jones law and Illinois search and seizure act. The platform favors light wines and beer and opposes restoring the open saloon. The convention was led by temporary chairwoman Sarah Bond Hanley of Monon. Democrats also assailed Republican Ruth Hanna McCormick's campaign expenditures.
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Springfield
James Hamilton Lewis
Senate
Illinois
Lewis
Cook County
Chicago
Resolutions Committee
Memphis business owner dies from bullet wounds
George Paris a 60 year old proprietor in Memphis died from bullet wounds inflicted by a Negro bandit last Friday. The assailant remains at large and has yet to be captured.
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Memphis
Tenn
George Paris
Case
Jack Zuta and the underworld rise in Chicago heist era
Chicago biographers recount Jack Zuta a little known yet powerful vice lord. From a 1916 east side saloon to a west side vice empire he led a mob, endured a major gang war, and evaded indictment while expanding into Loop real estate and alliances with Skidmore Bertsche and Bugs Moran.
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Jack Zuta
Chicago
Zuta
East Side
West Side
Mike DePike
Heitler
Monkey Face
Charley’ Genker
Genker
Aielio Brothers
Tony Lombardo
Pat Roche
States Attorney's Office
Billy” Skidmore
Barney Bertsche
George
Bugs’ Moran
Average Citizen Not Law Abiding Says Wickersham
George W. Wickersham told the American Bar Association that the average citizen generally does not obey laws and must accept restraints by law or government breaks down. He argued there is no individual right to elect which laws to follow and noted the vast volume of statutes in force. The commission opposes the Jones act approach to enforcing prohibition and the ABA session discussed prohibition and the Farm Board amid other issues.
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George W. Wickersham
Hoover
Commission On Law
American Bar Association
Federal Congress
Law Enforcement Commission
Bar Association
Federal Farm Board
King Carol insists on no reconciliation with Helen
A Bucharest linked Romanian statesman said King Carol’s postponement of the coronation stems from the monarchs obstinate stance against reconciliation with his wife Helen. He cited her betrayal and divorce bid as motives, blaming Bratianu dictatorship and foreign foes for the estrangement and citing personal revulsion toward reconciliation.
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Vienna
Bucharest
Carol
Maniu
Romania
Romanian King Carol Denies Divorce Crown Plan
The Romanian legation in London issued a denial of a report that King Carol plans to divorce Queen Helen and be crowned alone. It called the claim that he intends to marry a French woman of high birth entirely without foundation.
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London
Carol
Helen
Legation
Aimee McPherson to Deliver Pulpit Message Sunday
Aimee Semple McPherson plans to preach Sunday amid a growing rift with her mother Mrs. Minnie Kennedy who accuses her of a wrestling incident. Kennedy, staying in a sanatorium, says she may go to Olympia to attend a church dedication and will not return while Mae Waldron remains. Dr. Edward H. Williams says McPherson likely to return to the pulpit as she desires.
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Los Angeles
Aimee Semple McPherson
Angelus Temple
Minnie Kennedy
Olympia
Wash
Chinese Troops Crush Reds in Kiangsi and Wusueh
Dispatches report 4000 communists slain and 2000 Red rifles captured by provincial forces in western Kiangsi. Wusueh in Hupeh burned by communists. residents flee toward Kiukiang as foreign gunboats arrive in Hankow. Reds had threatened Hankow Wuchang and Hanyang but were deterred by ships from the United States Britain and Japan.
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Hankow
Kiangsi
Yangtse
Wusueh
Hupeh
Kiukiang
Changsha
Hunan
Wuchang
Hanyang
Yangsze
Professor E P Balliot Dies at 95 in Montgomery near Paris
Professor emeritus E P Balliot formerly of Evanston Illinois and Northwestern University died at his home in Montgomery near Paris on Monday. He was a longtime educator and figure in academia.
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Paris
E. P. Balliot
Evanston, NL
Northwestern University
Montgomery
Plumbers Union Officials Slain in Chicago Shootings
Bernard Ruberry a Chicago Journeyman Plumbers Union figure died from bullet wounds after his union chief Charles Mulcahy was killed nearby at a Lane Technical high school site. Police search for contractor Courchene and Stein. graft complaints and strong arm methods tied to the union surface as investigators probe the deadly dispute.
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Nard Ruberry
Chicago
Journeyman Plumbers’ Union
Charles Mulcahy
Mulcahy
Plumbers’ Union
Ruberry
New Lane Technical High School
Charles Courchene
Courchene
Charles A. Stein
Carl Stein
Stein Company
Stevens
Arthur F. Albert
Edgar Cook
John A. Swanson
Max Danner
Steamfitters’ Union
King George and Queen Mary Head North to Balmoral
King George and Queen Mary will travel to Balmoral tomorrow for the first Scottish visit since his illness. The Duke of Gloucester and Prince George will accompany them, while the Prince of Wales is not expected to go north.
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London
King George
Queen Mary
Balmoral
Duke of Gloucester
Prince George
Prince of Wales
Milk Racket Raises Daily Milk Costs Across City
New York reports show milk profiteering adds about 1.155 million dollars weekly to consumer bills. Health officials and the attorney general's probe estimate loose milk rose from 5 to 11 cents per quart, with daily excess costs around 165 thousand dollars based on 2.75 million quarts consumed.
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New York
Health Department
Attorney Generals
Horton appoints state's drought relief committee
Governor Horton names a drought emergency panel to meet in Nashville to address critical feed crops and emergency needs across Tennessee. The committee includes Dr. W. J. Fitts, Dr. H. A. Morgan, J. F. Porter, J. B. Hill, Joel B. Fort Jr, C. W. Bailey, Dr. E. L. Bishop, William A. Burnett, C. E. Brehm, D. M. Clements, and Kelly D. Phillips, with Hoover program guidance in mind.
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Nashville
Horton
W. J. Fitts
Agriculture
H. A. Morgan
University of Tennessee
J. F. Porter
Columbia
Tennessee Farm Bureau Federation
J. B. Hill
N. C. and
St. L
Fitts
Van Lear Black Ends Search For Publisher In Maryland
Baltimore publisher and world traveler Van Lear Black is presumed dead after vanishing from his yacht Monday night. The search ended as hopes faded, with will filing expected to delay a week or more. Black, longtime Baltimore Sun publisher, was reputed Maryland's wealthiest man. Captain John J. Kelley plans to resume a body search near the yacht’s last position off the New Jersey coast. Jessie Gary Black and two of their five children travel home from England aboard the Majestic after the disappearance.
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Baltimore
van Lear Black
Black
Baltimore Sun
Evening Sun
Maryland
New York
Steamuip
John J. Kelley
New Jersey
Kelley
Jessie Gary Black
England
Southhampton
Mr. Plack
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By Leon J. Ryan
Wickersham
Doyle E. Carlton
Florida
Henry Halsema
Jacksonville
Frank Rawls
Fred H. Eberhardt
Tallahasseee
Central Press
M. Bratianu
Bratianus
Aimee
van Lear
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