Global Dispatches and British Strikes Highlight Evening Briefs
Col George Harvey new US ambassador to Britain met King George at Buckingham Palace after presenting credentials. Britain faces acute industrial crisis risking revolution beyond wage disputes. Reports note Soviet defeats in Siberia and Germany accepting Versailles terms. Belgium’s Albert expected in England July 4 to 8. Cuba eyes changes to US trade treaty negotiations. Cuba orders vigilance over rail lines amid ten day strike. London transport workers ban handling foreign coal. Livestock losses drop per agriculture report. Southern railroad VP Green cites watermelon pricing at Albany conference. Government aims at retailers. Senate passes tariff and anti dumping bill. Minneapolis Reserve Bank lowers rediscount rate to 6 1/2%. Uncle Joe Cannon at 85. Navy command changes forthcoming. Hoover asks 600000 for foreign trade extension. Senate approves Steuart census director and Goodwin interior assistant secretary. Atlanta Constitution notes US foreign status returning to prewar stance with Harding edging into alliances.
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George Harvey
England
King George
Buckingham Palace
Harvey
Great Britain
Col
United States
Earl Carson
Foreign Office
Copenhagen
Germany
Reichstag
Albert
Belgium
Alfredo Zayas
Cuba
Camaguey
Transport Workers of London
Department of Agriculture
Green
Southern Railroad
Albany
Interstate Commerce Commission
Southern Pacific Ane
Finance Committee
Minneapolis Reserve Bank
Federal Reserve Board
Joe” Cannon
Congress
United States Navy
Navy Department
Commerce Hoover
House
Senate
William M. Steuart
Francis M. Goodwin
Interior
Atlanta Constitution
Harding
Republican Party
Wilson
Senate Confirms E Mont Reilly as Porto Rico Governor
Washington reports the senate confirmed E Mont Reilly of Missouri to be governor of Porto Rico. Other items note progress in cotton relief for the South and President Harding’s hope for farmer prosperity, plus various federal appointments, budget moves, and disarmament debates.
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Senate
E. Mont Reilly
Missouri
Porto Rico
South
Harding
United States
J. E. Dyce
Jake Hannon
Atlanta
Fred G. Zerbst
Department of Justice
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll
France
Marine Workers
Davis
House
United States Department of Agriculture
Kentucky
G. F. Holmes
University of Virginia
Virginia
Tennessee
North Carolina
Georgia
Alabama
Arkansas
National Forest Reservation
Shields
Thomas J. Muncy
King
Utah
Multiple crimes and economic news ripple through 1920s cities
Reports describe a Chicago bank robbery of seven thousand dollars by three masked bandits, coal price assurances from Richmond merchants, and storm damage in Chester South Carolina. Other items note a Chattanooga Baptist convention crowd, a fatal shooting in Tennessee, a well rescue in Dyersburg, a Greenville coroner case, a banker's conviction in Orangeburg, and Germany accepting allied reparations terms.
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Chicago
Commercial and Savings Bank
National Retail Coal Merchants
Richmond
Chester
S. C
J. F. Hawk
Chattamooga
Greenville
Andy B. Wells
Traveler's Rest
New Haven
Conn
Alabama, Tennessee and Northern Railroad
Alabama Railroad Commission
Walter Tray
Dyersburg
Tenn
Southern Baptist Convention
Chattanooga
Edward N. Mittle
J. H. Patterson
Rowesville
Court of General Sessions
Orangeburg
Atlantic City
N. J
Southern Railway Company
New York
Foreign Exchange
Germany
Campaign Against Pink Boll Worms Targets Non Cotton Zones
A new Department of Agriculture initiative to stamp out pink bollworm in cotton regions forms a plan after a conference with cotton growers and officials. A Federal Horticultural Board chair proposes non cotton zones in infested areas as the principal eradication method while Texas delegates claim the issue is national in scope.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Marlatt
Federal Horticultural Board
Texas
Winter Wheat Acreage Down in Northern Hemisphere
Washington reports winter wheat planted across 17 countries in the Northern Hemisphere at 99.4 million acres, down from 103.2 million acres last year.
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Washington
Hemisphere
Newberry Sees Harding in First White House Call
Senator Newberry of Michigan republican who had resumed duties after Supreme Court reversal of his corrupt practices act conviction made his first call on President Harding in Washington.
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Newberry
Harding
Washington
Michigan
Supreme Court
Dial Bill Delayed in Senate on Baseball Arbiter Pay
Washington reports the Dial bill to block Judge Landis from retaining his $42,500 a year role as national baseball arbiter was briefly taken up in the Senate but then postponed.
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Washington
Judge Landis
Chicago
Senate
Government Redistributes Estate of Liberty Bonds
Washington reports 83 million dollars in outstanding temporary Liberty bonds awaiting redemption. Also in Washington the Supreme Court upheld the government claim that increases in capital value must be included when computing a corporation's profits for tax purposes.
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Washington
Unccle Sam
Treasury
Supreme Court
147-Year-Old Turk Claims Long Life Through Work
Constantinople Zora the human pack horse claims he is 147 years old and still carries 200 pounds. He attributes his health to hard work and a proper diet.
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Turk
Constantinople
Zora
Senate subcommittee sets army at 175000 men
Washington reports the senate sub committee approved an army size of 175000 in the army appropriation bill after the house had passed for 450000. The dispute centers on the scale of force to be funded and managed by the government.
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West Point
Washington
Pershing
Army
Weeks
Harbord
March
Senate
House
Asheville
Railways of
South
North Carolina
Estate Tax Validated by Supreme Court
Washington. The estate tax under the 1918 revenue act was upheld as valid by the Supreme Court during the appeal of executors of J. Harsen Purdy, deceased, of New York.
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Washington
Supreme Court
J. Harsen Purdy
New York
Aviatrix Sets World Loop the Loop Record
Miss Laura Bramwell, 23, in Mineola New York, broke the world loop the loop record for her sex by completing 199 loops from a height of 8 000 feet in a single flight setting a new mark for women aviators.
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Aviatrix
Mineola
N. Y
Laura Bramwell
Plan for Marketing Cotton Crop in Washington
A conference in Oklahoma City adopted a plan to market virtually the entire national cotton crop through a national growers sales organization. The move aims to unify marketing efforts and strengthen farmer bargaining power across the United States.
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Washington
Oklahoma City
Lucknow Square Use Proposed in Dunn Civic Plan
Dunn plans a three story community building for Lucknow Square with rest rooms for farmers on the first floor, offices for local groups on the second, and a full auditorium on top. The effort aims to end the title suit with the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad and create a central hub for town organizations.
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Dunn
Lucknow Square
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company
T. L. Riddle
Chamber of Commerce
Riddle
Harnett County Fair Association
Woman
Raleigh Names Sam B. Underwood New City School Chief
Raleigh residents welcome Sam B. Underwood of Pitt County as superintendent designate for Raleigh city schools with a four year contract. He will succeed Harry Howell who leaves office July 1 and Underwood takes charge on that date to build a creditable system for the state.
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Raleigh
Sam B. Underwood
Pitt County
Harry Howell
Underwood
Yadkin Fish Fry Highlights Spencer Flag Raising
The Spencer council held a flag raising in front of Yadkin school with a crowd of several hundred enjoying Erlanger band music and a large fish fry on the Yadkin river banks. Also noted were major ham shipments to Spencer, church leadership changes, a local mill sale, and road project updates.
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Erlanger Band
Big Cotton Ginnery Burned in West Rockingham
Fire destroyed the large eight-gin Dockery Farms complex and its warehouse in West Rockingham. The gin stood as the county's largest eight-gin system and 200 bales of cotton were in the warehouse, all lost. Insurance covered 240 bales. total loss estimated at 25 000 to 30 000 dollars for the cotton, gin, and warehouse.
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Rockingham
Dockery Farms
West Rockingham
Richmond County
Deserter Arrested for Theft Near Scotland Neck
Harland Grey an acknowledged navy deserter was arrested in Rocky Mount on a charge of stealing a horse and buggy from Ed Watson here. He has been held for the next term of Halifax superior court. Grey says he left Tennessee four years ago and had not returned since. He was granted a 16 days furlough from the navy last Thanksgiving and had wandered between places until captured.
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Scotland Neck
Harland Grey
Navy
Rocky Mount
Ed Watson
Halifax Superior Court
Young Grey
Tennessee
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the News OF the South
Southland
Danville
Bright Belt
W. Crews Wood
Danville Tobacco Association
Wooding
Mobile
Ala
E. D. Flynn Export Company
Lucknow
Lumberton
Winston-Salem
Booker Ervin
Dwight McCann
Cherry Lane
Wilkes County
Guilford County
Ervin
McCann
Alleghany County
Farmville
Lenoir
Jim
Ed Sharpe
Alonso Burleson
Albemarle
Boston
Roanoke Rapids
Durham
Methodist Episcopal Church
Trinity College
Ben O. Townsend
Harnett
George L. Cannaday
Pascal
Shelby Council
Junior Order
Greensboro
A. V. W. Darlington
Huntington
W. Va
John C. Kilgo
Charlotte
W. F. McMurray
Louisville
Mississippi
Shelby
W. T. Love
Gastonia
Brison Manufacturing Company
The
Buffalo Mills
W. D. Anderson
Kinsten
Rutherfordton
Charlotte- Asheville
Here
Chimney Rock
Green Hill
Flynn
Marion
Kinston
Clarence Bond
Norfolk
R. H. McComb
North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering
Wake County Criminal Court
Carthage
Larkin Smith
Ing
Rexall Store
C Greene
W. F. Clegg Cigar Company
Greensboro, N. _L
Matton
Eastman [Kodak and
Matton Drug Company
North Main St
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