Colonel Dan Smith to Speak in Kingsport
Colonel Dan Morgan Smith famed as commander of the Battalion of Death will address First Baptist Church in Kingsport on Tuesday night March 27. The Anti-Saloon League speaker will recount the St Mihiel battle and the battalion’s near destruction, highlighting courage, trenches, marches, and leadership in World War I.
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Dan Morgan Smith
St. Mihiel
First Baptist Church
United States
Anti-Saloon League
St. A
Smith
History of American Legion Exposes the Opposition
Reviewers call the unofficial insider account a graphic history of the American Legion’s opposition, recounted in a book titled A History of the American Legion. Written from a critical perspective, it portrays internal conflicts and power clashes within the organization.
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American Legion
Indianapolis
Ind
The
Ameram Roe Es
Safer trans Channel air trips near Paris tested
Air trips between London and Paris are being made safer with rapid rescue plans for water landings. The air ministry tested a royal air force flying boat forced to land on the sea and coordinated signals with Croydon Lympne Pulham and Dover stations. Night operations will continue as regular night service to Paris nears.
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London
Paris
Air Ministry
trans-Channel
Royal Air Force
Croydon
Lympne
Pulham
Dover
A C Devault Dies At Bucyeto Cuba
Kingsport sisters announce the death of A C Devault in Bucyeto Oriente Cuba on February 12 at age 47. He was the youngest child of J M Devault of Old Kingsport.
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A. C. Devault
Bucyeto, Cuba
J. W. Devault
J. W. Keller
W. L. Hargis
Kingsport
Bucyeto
Oriente, Cuba
J. M. Devault
Old Kingsport
Danish violinist Skovgaard to give recital in Kingsport
Danish violinist Skovgaard will appear in a recital at the Central High School auditorium next Monday night. He has earned praise in major U S cities and is hailed in Germany, Norway, and Denmark as a consummate musician. His training with Europe’s great masters marks him as a finished artist with a vast repertoire and adaptable program for touring the United States.
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Skovgaard
Central High School
Kingsport
United States
Germany
Norway
Denmark
Europe
Russia Defends Grain Exports Amid War-Time Trade
Russian officials defend grain exports while allowing Western shipments to and from Soviet ports. They say export grain is private property from peasant cooperatives and surplus pledged to obtain implements and goods, while famine relief imports proceed under foreign aid. One official argues requisition would derail two years of policy toward free trade and peasant incentives.
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Moscow
Western
Europe
American Relief Administration
Russia
Famous Legion film to screen in Kingsport
Hammond Post No 3 of the American Legion brings the film The Man Without a Country to Strand Theatre for Monday and Tuesday March 26 27. Arnold Daly stars as Philip Nolan in a patriotic drama based on Edward Everett Hale's story. Proceeds fund a local Boy Scout camp as part of the Legion’s 1930s youth program.
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Kingsport
Legion Post
Hammond Post
American Legion
Strand Theatre
Washington, D. C
New York City
Edward Everett Hale
Arnold Daly
Philip Nolan
Aaron Burr
Oscar Wells
Legion
Former Queen Milena of Montenegro Dies in Antibes
Antibes France former Queen Milena of Montenegro dies at 76 after a chronic illness. One daughter is the queen of Italy. Her husband King Nicholas died here two years ago after abdication in 1918, the family had settled in Antibes.
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Antibes
France
Associated Press
Milena
Montenegro
Italy
Nicholas
Eight killed in Mississippi tornado wrecks Savage town
Memphis reported eight persons killed and more than fifty injured as a storm struck Savage in Tate County Mississippi late yesterday. The destruction stretched into Panola and Quitman counties. Merchant John Kerr died when his Savage store collapsed. A man named Chambers his wife and son drowned after being swept into the river. Four Black workers were killed on a plantation near Lambert.
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Mississippi
Memphis
Savage
Tate County
Panola
Quitman
John Kerr
Chambers
Lambert
Efficient robbers raid Wellston bank in under two minutes
Six masked bandits held up the State Bank of Wellston just west of St. Louis today lining up eight employees and three customers against the wall. They seized about $15,000 from the cashier's cage and escaped in an automobile. The robbery took less than two minutes.
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St. Louis
State Bank of
Wellston
Lenglen Routed by Malory in Nice Final
American tennis champion Susanne Lenglen was defeated by her rival Molla Bjurstedt Malory in Nice France 6-0 6-0. Lenglen managed only eight points and was outplayed in all facets as the French opponent dominated from start to finish.
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French Nice
France
Susanne Lenglen
Molla Bjurstedt Malory
Primitive people found in central Russia
Moscow reports Dr F A Golder of the Hoover Foundation found a mountain village in Daghestan housing a tribe so primitive they imagine Americans live at the world’s bottom walk upside down and plow while hanging candles from an ox’s horns, believing the world is table shaped with themselves on top.
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Russia
Moscow
Associated Press
Daghestan
F. A. Golder
Hoover Foundation
Golder
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