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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1925
Page
5
The Associated Press reports at Washington on January 13 that the annual meeting of the Association of General Contractors of America focused on internal industry issues. Taxation labor relations working schedules and contract forms dominated today's discussions.
Market quotations show Chicago prices for wheat corn oats rye and lard with figures for January May and September contracts. Turpentine firm at Sic and rosin firm in Savannah Georgia are noted.
St Louis wheat and corn prices firm or mixed with May and July contracts noted. New York stocks firm but foreign exchanges lower and cotton quiet. Chicago wheat higher with steady corn and cattle, Jiggs higher. New Orleans cotton futures quoted for January through October contracts with several points moved.
A Maryland senator criticizes Western farmers for overreliance on government aid and urges relief through market and livestock industry reforms. The agricultural commission reviews livestock relief proposals for submission to President Coolidge, while awaiting Fred H. Bixby’s return from the national livestock convention.
County commissioners met in executive session after new members were sworn in to discuss continuing the county police and officer J O Stewart. Judge H W Hopkins led appeals from multiple organizations and individuals urging the continuation, while others questioned enforcement and operations.
Washington January 13 drastic shifts in prohibition enforcement appear to occur with Charles B Warren becoming attorney general replacing Harlan F Stone. The White House signals a overhaul of the system and increased Justice Department control amid Senate cautions about political dangers and Mrs Mabel Willebrandt's potential California appointment.
The Alabama Polytechnic Institute board of trustees met with Governor Brandon to hear charges of incompetency and inefficiency against Dr. Smith Dowell, president of the college. They adjourned to February 11 at the governor’s office after demanding written complaints from alumni and extending time for written affidavits.
Wil lam Macintyre of the Thomasville Sales Company presented a paper on tractor use and farm machinery. He noted a 13 percent drop in farm operatives and a similar rise in production, signaling broader adoption of cost effective machinery. Guests included Dr. Barker and Rev Bunyan Stephens as Tallahassee Rotary praises. Dr J C Schwencke joined as a new member introduced by Robert Thomas.
Buffalo as chairman of the bankruptcy committee and Howard Carlisle head of ethics for the Commercial Law League of America led talks on a model code of criminal procedure. Charles A. Poston started fundraising to index and digest current federal legislation. Willian Draper Lewis discussed the project with Mr. Boston. Americanization and citizenship will feature in the year’s program as Josiah Marvel reports progress building citizenship committees in every state and school outreach gains focus.
A shooting affray in a fashionable Bombay residential quarter killed Abdul Kadir Dawla, a wealthy citizen, and badly wounded Lieutenant Seagard and Englishman Mathews and a woman. All were taken to a hospital.
Two hundred Barnard Manufacturing Company weavers quit work in Fall River Mass in protest of a ten per cent wage reduction effective yesterday. The strike brings total workers on strike to over seven hundred across the mills.
Atlanta police and St Louis investigators seek to identify C. J. Lind registered from a Missouri city who committed death by own action in a downtown hotel room yesterday. Other investigators began work on the case as details emerge.
Miss Margaret McKenzie a bank clerk crawled into the vault and rang the burglar alarm as five men shot at the Trenton State Bank. Assistant cashier Harry Roehrig was seriously wounded. The robbers fled as authorities opened fire from the town hall steps.
Detectives read a letter left for the county coroner that shows deep familiarity with local matters. The note asks to deduct hotel and burial expenses from money in the dead man’s pocketbook after he slit his throat with a razor. The body lay in a bathroom. Lind died before doctors arrived.
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