Southern Baptists End First Convention Session At Galveston
Leaders close the inaugural Southern Baptist convention with a report urging liquor law enforcement and wiser laws on marriage and divorce while backing world peace talks as separate from the Federal Council. The body adopts a plan to unify convention control, endorses the Nashville Theological Seminary for training Negro preachers, and approves a fund drive for Montesuma College in New Mexico.
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Houston
Tex
Southern Baptists
Galveston
Social Service Commission
Federal Council of Churches of Christ In America
Layrmen
Mississippi River
Southern Baptist
American Baptist Theological Seminary At
Nashville
Amundsen Ellsworth Norge Safe over Arctic Route
Washington officials praise the Norge expedition with Amundsen Ellsworth and crew after the dirigible crossed the north polar route to Alaska. Word from Ellsworth reached President Coolidge by wireless as authorities awaited confirmation of the Norge’s safe arrival in American territory.
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Washington
Taald Amundsen
Lincoln Ellsworth
Norge
Spitzbergen
Alaska
North Pole
American
White House
Coolldee
Williamsburg
Ellsworth
Dawes
Biy
Coolidge Delivers Historic Festival Address at William and Mary
President Coolidge speaks at William and Mary during the sesquicentennial Virginia resolutions celebration urging unity beyond state lines. Governor Byrd presides as honors are conferred, with both leaders in cap and gown receiving honorary degrees amid applause. The event lingers on with calls for balance of local self government and federal authority.
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Williamsburg
Coolidge
William & Mary
Virginia
Byrd
Harry Flood Byrd
William and Mary College
Christopher Wrenhall
Coollidge
Epochal Trans Polar Flight Ends Amid Nome Wait
Nome Alaska May 15 The Norge dirigible led by Captain Roald Amundsen ends its trans polar flight as crew members including Amundsen Lincoln Ellsworth and two others head toward Nome by launch from Teller Port Clarence ice conditions delayed departure but authorities expect arrival tomorrow morning. An unidentified airplane was reported en route to Nome from Fairbanks.
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Rome
America
Associated Press
Norge
Nome
Alaska
Spitzbergen
Teller
Roald Amundsen
Amundsen
Lincoln Elsworth
Lomen
Nome Sigenal Corps
Port Clarence
Antundsen
Herd
Port Clarency
Fairbanks
Reorganization Approved for Atlanta Birmingham and Atlantic
Judge Sibley signed an order approving a plan of reorganization for the Atlanta Birmingham and Atlantic Railway. The Atlantic Coast Line will fund the plan with 3.677 million dollars cash and 5.2 million in preferred stock to bondholders, issuing 150000 shares of common stock in exchange.
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Atlanta
Samuel H. Sibley
Federal District Court
Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railway
Atlantic Coast Line
Norge Flight Sparks Nome Hopes Amid Static Delays
Air communications were hampered by static as reports reached Teller Alaska about the Norge dirigible. Nome residents anxious for Amundsen's flight into the Arctic unknown waited 48 hours with little sleep. Authorities struggled to determine the cause of delays and possible publicity motives behind the communication blackout.
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Preas
Brigidair
Teller
Alaska
Nome
North Pole
Arctic
Norge
Amundsen
Fox
Polish president and cabinet resign amid coup in Warsaw
In Paris a day after the coup ends civil strife in Poland as the president and cabinet surrender to Marshal Pilsudski. Bloodshed avoided but future policy remains uncertain with Poland leaning toward an alliance with France. An American nurse oversees wounded in Warsaw as Pilsudski consolidates power.
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Paris
Marshall Pilsudski
Europe
Poland
Warsaw
Helen Bridge
Marshal Pilsudski
Pilsudsk
Virginia business leaders to tour Virginia in 57 towns
A forty five member All Virginia tour led by Dr. Joseph H. Smith will travel about 200 miles daily across Southside and southwest Virginia visiting 57 towns. Governor Harry F Byrd will give nightly addresses. Bluefield West Virginia hosts a stop with Byrd speaking on Hampton Roads.
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Richmond
Virginia
West Virginia
Tennessee
North Carolina
Joseph H. Smith
Virginia State Chamber of Commerce
Richmond Chamber of Commerce
Southside
Byrd
Bluefield
W. Va
Hampton Roads
Peery
Ninth Congressional District
West
Unification Issue Makes Progress at Methodist Meeting
Memphis May 1 The general conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South accepted a special committee’s recommendation to form a four year research panel on unification. The eighty member church relations committee endorses the plan, says it cannot negotiate with other branches and will report in four years. Leaders call it a moral victory despite no constitution adopted yet.
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Memphis
Tenn
Methodist Episcopal Church
South
Sph
General Conference
W. B. Beauchamp
Nashville
Beauchamp
Carlins Denny
Board of Church Extension
Polish Cabinets Headed by Bartel
Warsaw reports a new cabinet formed with Professor Charles Bartel as prime minister and August Zaleski named temporary foreign minister. Marshal Pilsudski takes over as war minister. Bartel vows government until after the republic’s presidential election.
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Warsaw
Charles Bartel
August Zaleskia
Rome
Marshal
Pilsudski
Bartel
Colored Baptists of Virginia Close Meet
Staunton Virginia May 15. At its final session the Virginia Colored Baptist State convention chose Petersburg as next year’s meeting site. It invited Ohio and West Virginia Baptists to join in the enlargement program at the Virginia Theological Seminary and College in Lynchburg and authorized borrowing 125000 to refinance the seminary’s indebtedness.
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Staunton
Virginia Colored Baptist State Convention
Petersburg
Ohio
West Virginia
Virginia Theological Seminary
Lynchburg
Weather Outlook for Virginia and Tennessee
Virginia sees partly cloudy and cooler in the east Sunday with a slow temperature rise, Monday brings fair skies and fresh northwest winds. Tennessee experiences a fall with gradually increasing temperatures Sunday and Monday.
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Virginia
Tennessee
Texas League shortstop to join the New York Giants
Waco Texas May 15. Andy Cohen, shortstop for the Waco Texas League club, leaves tomorrow for Cincinnati to join the New York Giants. New York exercised an option on him for $20,000 cash. The Giants will turn over to Waco shortstop Novaka from the Norfolk, Virginia League club.
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Waco
Vex
Andy Cohen
Texas
Cincinnati
New York Giants
New York
Novaka
Norfolk
Sterling Returns To Gold Parity And Market Drift
New York May 15 The return of sterling to gold parity for the first time since 1914 followed soon after Britain’s general strike ending, marking the week’s key financial development. Latin currencies collapsed with the French franc hitting a record low around 3.01 120 and Italian lire sliding past 3.36. Stock trading was dull with motor shares slipping to new lows while the average industrials held near the week’s end. strong investment demand appeared in new high-year band averages and notable new offerings. Commodity markets fell on weather influenced trading with wheat futures down about 1 1/2 cents and cottonsoftening as coffee firmed.
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New York
Mexican Deportation of Papal Representative in Mexico
May 15 Mexico ordered the deportation of Monsignor George J. Caruana, an American papal representative, for allegedly concealing his identity and mission. Caruana said he would depart for the United States the next day. The entry via Juarez led to the dismissal of the local immigration chief who had warned against his entry.
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Meico City
George J. Caruana
Mexico
Monsignor
Caruana
United States
Jaurez
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