Southern Baptist Convention Opens In Chattanooga
In Chattanooga Tennessee May 12 the Sixty Sixth Southern Baptist Convention opens with welcome addresses and the election of a president and officers A marker speaker was S L Winburn Arkadelphia Arkansas The meeting notes record extensive Baptist women activity and 3564 new organizations formed in the past year Georgia leads in new groups bringing the total to 19485 and women seek representation on convention committees and boards.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Sixty-Sixth
Southern Baptist Convention
Kathleen ~ Mallory
Women’s Missionary Union
Georgia
Hoover Urged to Declare National Shipping Emergency
New York May 12 Winthrop Marvin secretary of the American Steamship Owners Association said Pacific coast operators telegraphed Secretary Hoover and Shipping Board Chairman Benson urging a national shipping emergency. The telegram asked the government to take over vessel manning if strikers do not return within 48 hours.
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New York
Winthrop Marvin
American Steamship Owners Association
Pacific Coast ‘Operators
Commerce
Hoover
Benson
The
Shipping Board
Dempsey Carpentier Fight Tickets Sell Out Jersey City
New York May 12 advance reservations for the Dempsey Carpentier fight in Jersey City show a record attendance likely to be surpassed. Official diagrams indicate the arena will seat fifty thousand or more spectators.
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New York
Jersey City
Geste
Caddy Killed by Lightning at Glen Arven Club
Buster Brown a Glen Arven Country Club caddy was struck and killed by lightning on Wednesday afternoon near the clubhouse. R D Kenny and another caddy were shocked, several others briefly stunned, as the bolt split the nearby oak and caused a power outage.
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Buster Brown
Glen Arven
Kenny
Buster
R. D
R. O
Edmorer
Tess
Gibson
Orrie
Test Case Appeals Over Stock Information in Sherman Act Case
Washington May 12 Appeals described as test case to decide if manufacturers may exchange information on stocks on hand past prices production and other data under the Sherman act were filed in the Supreme Court by the American Column Lumber Company of Memphis in a suit won by the government.
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Washington, D. C
Supreme Court
Column Lumber Company of
Memphis
Revelations Tap Hidden Activities of Omo Tokumo Cult in Japan
Police raids on the Aya be headquarters uncover a Deguchi portrait and a costume resembling Ama Terasu. News reports allege plots to install an Omo Tokyo dynasty and world dominion, with seditious literature seized and crypts where slain members are said to lie.
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Tokio
Japan
Omotokumo
Ayabe
Wamisaburo-Deguchi
Deguchi
Ama-Terasu
Sun Goddess
Public alarm over Omotokyo cult arrests in Japan
Tokyo April 2. Delayed report details the arrest of three Omotokyo priests linked to the Deguchi founded cult. Witnesses describe vanishings at Ayabe temple, a sacred well, and alleged large contributions while authorities suppress news. Mining engineers near the temple uncover water pipes feeding a subterranean hall beneath the gilded pavilion.
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Tokio
Omotokyo
Deguchi
Empire
Ayabe
Tamba
Kyoto
Naoki Deguchi
Kobe
Lonnie Eaton Sentenced to Life in Louisiana Penitentiary
Lonnie Eaton of Ouachita Parish was taken to the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Baton Rouge to begin a life term after a judge declared his prior death sentence commuted by Governor Parker. Sheriff Grant had reportedly failed to carry out the execution.
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Shreveport
Las
Lonnie
Eaton
Ouachita Parish
Baton ‘Rouge
Grant
Ouachita Paris
Parker
German Acceptance Sparks U S Trade Interest
Washington May 12 German acceptance of the Allied reparations plan boosts American business in German trade as inquiries to the State Department rise. Secretary Hughes allows free trade with German houses except for a few restricted articles. Capital reports show improved exchange conditions and Allied plan analysis finds no serious flaw.
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Washington, D. C
Germany
State Department
Hughes
Woman Dies in Lightning Strike as Husband Survives
Birmingham May 12 Mrs lhe Benyard was instantly killed at midnight by a bolt of lightning while sleeping in Sayre ton. The husband by her side was uninjured.
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Birmingham
Ala
Lhe Benyard
Sayreton
Brazen Swindle in New York Hospital Case
The legislative committee investigating the hospital project will turn over evidence to the Kings County grand jury. New York City paid 1,001,000 for construction that originally cost 557,000. Committee counsel Samuel Untermyer called the findings one of the most brazen swindles yet uncovered.
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New York
Combines
King’s County Grand Jury
New York City
Brooklyn Hospital
Samuel Untermyer
Cult Founder Hid Gold In Temple Floor Million Yen Kept
The founder of a cult allegedly buried one million yen in pure gold within the temple floor. Ten carpenters who helped build the hall reportedly never returned to their homes.
McNamara Freed After Ten Years In Prison
John J. McNamara the Los Angeles dynamiter was released from San Quentin at the expiration of a fifteen year sentence. He served less than ten years and no plans were known for re arrest by prison officials. Friends held a reception for him at the prison gate and he was invited to speak at a Bridge Structural Iron Workers meeting.
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San Quentin
John J. McNamara
Los Angeles
McNamara Brothers Plead Guilty in Times Bomb Case
In Los Angeles Superior Court on December 5 1911 John J Me Ie International Association of Bridge Ironworkers received a fifteen year sentence after pleading guilty to conspiring to dynamite the Llewellyn Iron Works plant. His brother James B McNamara pleaded guilty to murder and was sentenced to life imprisonment for the Times building explosion which killed twenty. The men and accomplices faced wider conspiracy charges tied to a nationwide dynamiting scheme amid labor strife.
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Los Angeles
May
John. J. Me. Ieternational Association of Bridge Af Structural Ironworkers
San Quentin
James
McNamara
John
McNamaras
Times
James McNamara
Lllewellyn Iron Works
Llewellyn
Ortie E. McManigal
McManigal
Fiat
California
Indiana
Indianapolis
John McNamara
Woman shoots husband child then herself in Memphis tragedy
In Memphis on May 12 Mrs Daniel Grace, wife of a seed merchant, shot her husband and four year old daughter, likely mortally wounding the child, then killed herself. The grim family shooting occurred inside the Grace home.
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Memphis, Tenn
Daniel Grace
Grace Home
Florida ready to discuss sale of western counties
Tallahassee May 10 A bill to appoint two commissions by the Governor to confer with the Alabama State Boundary Commission on the proposed sale to Alabama of nine Florida counties west of the Apalachicola river was introduced today in Florida.
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Senate
Alabama
West
Florida
Tallahassee
Fla
Alabama State Boundary Commission
Appalachicola River
Labor cost rise for class one roads in 1920 compared to 1917
Julius Kruttschnidt of the Southern Pacific told the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee that labor costs for class one roads jumped 115 percent from 1917 to 1920 while gross revenues fell by about 4 percent. He said freight rates did not reduce railroad freight business, noting the rise in rates coincided with weak general business conditions.
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Washington, D
Julius Kruttschnidt
Southern Pacific Railroad
Interstate Commerce Committee of
The
Senate
Kruttschnidt
Women Freed of Murder Charge in New York
Herkimes New York May 12 Mrs Jen nie Werner was acquitted today of first degree murder in the death of her husband Henry Werner a farmer by a jury that had deliberated since last evening She had been charged with plotting the murder with Rutger Warder the confessed slayer brought back from Sing Sing to testify against the widow
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Herkimes
N. Y
Jennie, Werner
Henry Werner
Rutger
B. Warder
Werner
Sing Sing
Mutinous convicts storm arsenal in Huntsville mutiny
More than twenty convicts mutinied in Huntsville overran the arsenal, fired on two guards, and escaped with weapons. Several inmates directly involved were reported.
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Huntsville
Ala
Georgia Jerseys set new dairy class records in state
Two two year old Jersey cows in Georgia broke class records, Buttercup Plymouth Girl and Roberta, with milk outputs of 9492.3 pounds and fat 612.96 pounds, surpassing previous leaders. Neel Brothers and other breeders boast large, well managed herds and foresee continued progress.
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Roberta
Thomas Live Stock Company
Gedneyy-Lad
Hig
Warthen
Buttercup
Plymouth
Neel Brothers
Thomasville
Georgia
Ogthy Neel
Raleigh
Louise
J.R.R. Humphries
Acworth
Ferein Serie F. W
FITCH
Germany Relaxes After Accepting Allied Ultimatum
Berlin May 12 The emotional tension eased in German political circles as the crisis over the allied ultimatum passed with acceptance of the terms by Chancellor Wirths ministry formed to tackle the emergency.
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Berlin
Wirth
Harvey Receives Letters of Credence at Buckingham Palace
American ambassador Col. George Harvey was received by King George at Buckingham Palace this forenoon and presented his letters of credence. The ambassadorial party traveled to the palace in royal carriages.
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London
George Harvey
George
Buckingham Palace
Palace
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