State Sues W P Flora Over Misappropriated Funds
The State of Tennessee brings a chancery suit against W P Flora claiming he misappropriated 4830 dollars and 38 cents in coal oil inspector duties in Kingsport district since 1926. The bill seeks attachment of Flora property to secure payment and requests priority in the attachment. Also noted is a separate prior case alleging a $15,000 shortchange in Flora’s deputy clerk role.
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W. OP. Morn
Vlore
Law Court
Kingsport
Chancery Court
Tennessee
L. D. Smith
Keneral
Charles M. McCabe
Flory
Gity
Trix
Feus
W. P. Flora
Flora
Whangery Court
Mivas Nu
Joe B. Anderson
Protest Petition Challenges Trevecca College Move
A protest petition filed in Nashville on August 21 challenges Trevecca College of the Church of the Nazarene being relocated from its current site on a former Roger Williams University campus in Northeast Nashville to buildings formerly used by a Negro university. The petition asks the denomination's general board to review the trustees' decision to move the college.
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Nashville
Trevecca College
Church of the Nazarene
Vhurch
Saugh Nashvill
Roger Williams University
Nego University
Uncle Alf Returns to Happy Valley in Tennessee
Former Governor Alfred A. Taylor, after nearly four months in Appalachian hospital, is home in Happy Valley near Johnson City. He was near death during an emergency kidney operation but has rallied and is slowly improving under constant physician care.
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Johnson City
Tenn
Aus
Alfred A. Taylor
Happy Valley
Appalachian
Taylor
Ile
News services to battle lotteries in Australia
The Associated Press, International News Service and United Press pledge full cooperation with the post office department to halt distribution of sweepstakes lottery material. Arch Goleman, acting postmaster general, announced the pledge, stating the agencies will refrain from distributing such stories or photos to members or clients, as they do with other foreign lotteries.
Hoover to discuss unemployment at Rapidan camp
President Hoover will travel to his Rapidan Virginia mountain camp for a weekend conference on unemployment with Walter S. Ford, newly named head of relief activities. Gifford, head of the American Telegraph and Telephone Company, will join and help finalize plans for the new relief organization and its name.
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Washington
Virginia Mountain
Hoover
Walter S.ford
Rapidan
Gifforys
American Telegraph and Terephone Company
Advicr
Gifford
Walker's Personal Bookkeeper Sought for Quiz by Gotham Prothers
New York Aug 21 mayoral probe seeks Russell T Sherwood the mayor's personal bookkeeper for questioning over matters where he acted as the mayor's agent. Samuel Seabury said Sherwood refused to appear and evaded subpoenas while Sherwood's sister said he is on vacation.
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Walker
Gotham Prothers
New York
Russell T. Sherwood
Samuel Seabury
Sherwood
Seabury
Murooney
Suffern
N. Y
Mildred I. Sherwood
Mer. Seabury
Blauvelt and Warren
John J. Dunningan
Legislative Committee
Mr. Seabury
Ly Sherwood
Lindbergh Plane Nears Nemuro End of Tow Rope
The Lindbergh monoplane, stranded since Wednesday by fog and engine trouble off Ketoi Island, was towed toward Nemuro and anchored at Shimushiru. Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh planned a three hour engine test after swift salvage by the government steamer Shimoshiru Maru. The couple described their first night afloat as the worst ever, enduring cramped quarters near rocky shores. Separately, Hisashi Fujimura, a Japanese importer, revealed life insurance worth 290000 dollars linked to his Bergenland disappearance.
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Nemuro
Japan
Keto
Island
Hiuble Archipelago
Charles A. Lindbergh
Ketoi
Nomura
United States
Tokyo
China Flood Is Major Disaster
The Yangtse floods devastate vast areas in China. Some 80 million homeless and extensive property loss reported as Hankow nears destruction. Northern counties face three to ten feet of floodwater, wiping out crops and threatening food supplies for months. Government floats a 10 million dollar flood relief bond in Nanking.
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Associated Press
Yangtse
Fife
Hankow
Fighty
Nanking
Weather Fair No Change Across States
Tennessee forecasts show generally fair skies tonight and Saturday with little temperature change. Virginia remains mostly cloudy with showers tonight and east portions Saturday, with cool highs in the north and moderate northeast winds on Saturday. Temperatures yesterday peaked at 80 and dipped to 64 yesterday last year, with no rainfall recorded then. Readings taken at 6:00 p m daily by T C Harris U S Weather Bureau.
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Tennessee
Virginia
T. C. Haris
U.S.W
Long Fights for a Cotton Holiday in New Orleans
In New Orleans on August 21 Governor Avey P Long of Louisiana outlined a plan to curb cotton production next year to raise prices for planters. He called a conference open to all to discuss measures to reduce the current surplus and restore cash crop profitability, inviting other governors including Blackwood to join in crafting restrictions on crop output.
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New Orleans
Avey P. Long
Isiana
Louisiana
Votentton
Hele
Long
Blackwood
Day Agent Taken For Ride In Knox County
Three Knoxville men Roc Whaley Dude Austin and James Nedlin were jailed on charges of detaining and beating J T Bruce a 45 year old prohibition informer Bruce said Whaley led him to a secluded spot where Austin and Whaley assaulted him with a club and knuckles. They held him for several hours at Whaley s home before his escape when Whaley s wife retrieved a back screen in the house.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Apg
Knox County
J.T. Bruce
Bruce
Roc Whaley
Austin
James Nedlin
Whaley
Costly Crime Drive in Tennessee Cities Revealed
Wickersham commission figures show Tennessee cities spent 243 551 915 dollars on criminal justice in the fiscal year 1930 across Chattanooga Knoxville Memphis and Nashville. Per capita costs ranged from 3 10 to 4 57 with Chattanooga highest at 4 57. Statewide 1928 figures cited for penal and corrective institutions accompany the Tennessee totals.
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Washington
Wickersham Commission
United States
Tennessee
Goldthwaite H. Dorr
Sidney P. Simpson
New York
Chattanooga
Knoxville
Memphis
Nashville
Kentucky Indicts County Officials In Paducah
A Paducah report states a special McCracken County grand jury returned indictments against County Judge W. A. Middleton County Attorney Holland Bryan and County Court Clerk J. M. Pols amid a probe into courthouse record disappearances and federal prohibition activities.
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Paducah
McCracken
W. A. Middleton
Holland Bryan
J. M. Pols
Cuban Rebels Ready to Carry Fighting Into Havana
Havana reports say rebels and loyalists clash with one man killed. insurgent leaders claim the revolution hangs by a thread as fighting continues. authorities deny major success. A council of officials notes scattered uprisings and arrests, while a 200-strong rebel force is said defeated near Gibara with heavy casualties.
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Havana
Havan
Wilfredo Hernandez
Machado
Porrs
Robérto Mendez Pelnate
Miguel Matin Gomez
Santa Clara
Reyolt
Nuevitas
Gibara
Fernandez Quevedo
Navy
Frederekaborg
Antilla
Ghost towns in Idaho burn as forest fires sweep state
Forest fires race through Quartzburg Granite Creek Placerville and Centerville in Idaho mining district. Refugees shelter on sand flats while two residents stay to defend the Daly home. Granite Creek loses church and barn. Quartzburg mine buildings burn. Red Cross plans aid for Placerville as firefighters race to contain eleven fires sparked by lightning.
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Idaho
Boise
Apt .Quartzburg
Granite Creek
Es Loday
Placerville
Centerville
Hittie
Tday
Quartzburg
Igor
Fred Daly
Daly
H. Burroughs
Lizzie Robington
Lorena
Henrietta
Idaho Forest
Red Cross
Cost of crime in U S tops one billion yearly
The Wickersham commission estimates the annual economic burden of crime in the United States at over 1.2 billion dollars with prohibition enforcement alone consuming about 54.8 million from federal criminal justice funds in 1929-30. City and state expenditures reach hundreds of millions, while indirect costs run into hundreds of millions more.
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Washington
Wickersham Comicssit
Hoover
Coldthwaite H. Dorr
Sitney P. Simpson
New York
United States
Graegs
Conmission
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Muroton Bay
Wateri Lindy
Hisashi Fujimura
Iier Bergenland
China
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