Condensed News From The Old North State Highlights
North Carolina items show Dr N Sisk elected county physician in Winston Salem Burke county. body of Lester Bromo sent to Virginia. $45,000 damages suit in Catawba for shooting by deputy Huss. Asheville seeks $200,000 federal building funds. Auto hold up near Goldsboro fails. Dillingham jailed over larceny case with $8,600 bonds. Trinity College hosts regional church conference in June. Sam Elliott burglar note incident in New Bern. Plans advance to convert US women’s training camp site to a park near Asheville. two white convicts reported at large near Charlotte. Moonshine bottle claim nearStantonsburg. Claude Rivenbark murder remains unsolved in Kinston. Hickory rail and express totals show $1,000,000 in regional business. county birth rate notes and census growth.
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N. Sisk
Burke County
Georgia
Reidsville
Lester Bromo
Schoolfield
Progress in naval treaty talks outlines ship scrapping split
The five powers made further progress on the naval treaty but split on how to scrap proscribed battleships with Americans and France backing rendering vessels useless while Britain and Japan favored reuse as harbor guards or training ships. Talks detailed the first treaty annexes, with a plenary session possible once fortifications are settled, and focus shifting to broader Far Eastern negotiations alongside the China question.
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Washington
France
Italy
Great Britain
Japan
Shipping Board seeks additional 50 million for claims
Washington. The shipping board asked Congress for 50 million dollars to settle claims, adding to 50 million already sought for expenses in the next fiscal year. The request was sent to Speaker Gillett by President Harding from the budget bureau.
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Washington
Congress
Shipping Board
Gillett
Harding
Budget Bureau
Tariff protection urged for South by Harding
President Harding reportedly told a Southern Tariff Association delegation at the White House that he favored a tariff granting the same protection to the South as to the North and to farmers as to factory workers, aiming for parity in protection for all earners.
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Washington
Hardings
Southern Tariff Association
White House
South
North
Transport Crook Reaches Safety After North Atlantic Gale
The army transport Crook, moving eleven knots under temporary repairs, fought northwest gales predicted to hit the North Atlantic coast as it tried to reach shore shelter. Carrying 842 A.B.F. men from Germany, the vessel broke off near the Newfoundland banks in heavy seas. a late radio message declared danger passed and all was well.
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New York
Weather Bureau
North Atlantic
Crook
A.B. F
Germany
New Foundland
Wall
Weeks to Confer With Ford Over Muscle Shoals Deal
Washington officials expect an early conclusion of war department talks with private interests on the lease purchase and operation of Muscle Shoals nitrate and water power plants. Henry Ford’s pending visit could push Secretary Weeks to decide whether to accept the Detroit manufacturer's proposal or report facts to Congress for a decision.
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Washington
War Department
Muscle Shoals
Ala
Department
Con Breas
Henry Ford
Weeks
Detroit
Congress
Ford
Marion Butler
North Carolina
Frederick Engstrum
Newport Shipbuilding Company
Wilmington N. C
Butler
Engineera
California
Airplane Will Aid In Search For Missing Cook County Official
St Paul Minn governor authorizes use of a National Guard airplane to aid the search for James Maher Cook county commissioner missing for 14 days and believed lost on Lake Superior Tugboats to scout Thunder Bay islands Maher left Grand Portage December 27 for Port Arthur Ontario last heard from Cloud Bay
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St. Paul
Minn
National Guard
James Maher
Cook County
Lake Superior
J. A. O. Preus
Thunder Bay
Maher
Grand Portage
Port Arthur
Ontario
Cloud Bay
Blackstone Institute Burned in Virginia Fire Loss
A fire destroyed Blackstone Female Institute in Blackstone Virginia causing about 175000 dollars in damage. Faculty trustees and students lost nearly all clothing and personal property but no lives were lost.
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Blackstone Institute
Richmond
Blackstone Female Institute
Blackstone
Five Die From Poisoned Liquor In Hoboken Case
Five men died after consuming poisonous liquor in Hoboken New Jersey authorities suspect the booze came from sailors aboard an incoming steamship. Police believe longshoreman James Sheehy died in Jersey City from the same poison and may have bought it from the same sailors. Investigators began searching piers and steamships to stop further sales.
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Hoboken
N. J
James Sheehy
Jersey City
Jand
Legion to Add Civics Chapter to North Carolina Textbooks
American Legion officials in North Carolina announced a plan to add a chapter on the flag and the meaning of the banner to the state public school civics text. State Commander Tom Byrd and Adjutant Dale Burgess met with Dr. E. C. Brooks as the department of education approved the change. The executive committee will meet January 18 in Greenville to discuss membership drives and further campaign details. Governor Morrison and other legions leaders were briefed on the plan.
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Raleigh
American Legion
E. C. Brooks
Department of Education
North Carolina
Tom Byrd
Asheville
Dale K. Burgess
Brooks
Byrd
Legionaires
Greenville
Burgess
Morrison
Legion
J. R. Hollis
Wilmington
T. G. Vickers
Ayden
Robert 8. McNefill
Fayetteville
G. G. Dixon
R. T. Allen
Kinston
Tom C. Daniels
New Bern
Officials meet on Mes senger of Peace case in Wilmington
Conference in Raleigh with District Attorney Tuckery and State Prohibition Director Kohless examines the British schooner Messenger of Peace and its cargo of wet goods in the Wilmington customs house. They prepare a strong case against the ship's captain and owner, rejecting claims of forced port entry in distress.
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Raleigh
Tuckery
Kohless
Messenger of Peace
Wilmington
Briand resigns as French premier in Genoa talks
Briand announces resignation to President Millerand after a cabinet shock. He says France must attend the Genoa conference with the United States aboard, urging deputies to accept or reject key issues including the Anglo French pact and Germany reparations.
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Paris
Millerand
Briand
Barthou
Poincaire
Kely
Bysee
Chamber of Deputes
M. Briand
Mariand
Germany
Chamber of Deputies
United States
France
Means End to Genoa Conference in Paris Turmoil
In Washington the lack of local conference progress shifts focus to Paris where French Premier Briand resigns. The move, expected since his departure a month prior, signals a long pause in American participation in European reconstruction plans.
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Genoa
Washington
Paris
M. Briand
Conference at Cannes Adjourns After Resignation News
The allied supreme council adjourned indefinitely after learning Briand cabinet resignations. Walther Rathenau spoke on Germany's January reparations default, with no action taken on his remarks. Detroit plan by Henry Ford aims to transform Muscle Shoals project into a national industrial model center in Alabama.
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Cannes
Allied Supreme Council
Briand
Walter Rathonat
Council
Germany
Ford
Detroit
Mich
Muscle Shoals
Henry Ford
America
Alabama
South
Associated Press
Shantung Talks Center on Far East Settlement
Washington reports the naval treaty near completion as delegates shift focus to Shantung. Japanese and Chinese negotiators agreed to open the Kiang-Chow leased territory to foreign trade while other leasehold issues in China are reviewed. Final naval details remain, with a plenary session planned after a full committee review.
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Washington
Shantang
Far East
Shantung
Kioa-Chow
China
Tokio
Naval Committee
Federal Authorities Hold Liquor Ship Message of Peace
Federal authorities in North Carolina control the disposition of the British schooner Message of Peace seized with liquor off the North Carolina coast. Prohibition official Kohles and Justice Department leaders conferred, but no statements were issued and further developments are expected from federal authorities in North Carolina.
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Washington
Wilmington
N.C
North Carolina
Justice Department
Coast Guard Service
Kohoss
Prohibition
Kohlesa
Prohibitions
Haynes
Kobless
Kobloss
Paris Tribune Reporter Held Over Wife Poisoning Case
Thomas Stewart Ryan of the Chicago Tribune Paris staff protested his innocence while held in Santa prison amid a probe into his wife Audrey Creighton’s critical poisoning illness at a hotel. Doctors in an American hospital gave little hope for recovery.
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Paris
Peison
Thomas Stewart Ryan
The
Chicago Tribune
Santa Prison
Ryan
California
Audrey Creighton
American Hospital
Four Killed by Cave-In at Glen Alfen Mine
In Scranton Pennsylvania four men are known to have died after a cave in at the National mine of the Glen Alfen Coal company in Minooka near the city boundary. Escaped miners say about twenty men remain trapped behind barriers with unconfirmed reports that nearly fifty men were caught.
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Scranton
Glen Alfen Coal Company
Minooka
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