Cotton Advances in Sections Amid Frost Damage
Washington reports limited injury to North Carolina peaches from recent frost while the upper Ohio Valley and central Appalachians see notable fruit losses. Moisture favors cotton planting in the South though northern Georgia and Alabama face wet soils. Texas shows strong planting progress andearly germination in eastern districts. Late planted Florida cotton germinates slowly as chopping advances in coastal plains.
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Washington
Ohio Valley
Appalachian
Weather Bureau
Bureau
Virginia
West
Maryland
Pennsylvania
North Carolina
Georgia
Alabama
Texas
South Carolina
Florida
Anastace and Bride In Trouble In New York Sequel
Anastase Vonsiatskoy Vonsiatsky, 23, and his 47 year old bride Mrs Marion B Ream Stephens of Chicago sought counsel with attorney Clarence Blair Mitchell in New York about a sequel to their marriage that sparked social buzz after a February ceremony at a Russian cathedral in New York. The tale references a 1990 claimed wedding in Yalta Crimea involving a woman said to have wed Vonsiatskoy Vonsiatsky, questioned for baptism legality, and notes attempts to reach a Russian Catholic metropolitan in America. The groom remained silent. In Manchester Kentucky authorities ordered arrests for all residents over age 12 in Mill Creek neighborhood.
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Anastace
New York
Anastase Andrevitch Vonsiatskoy-Vonsiatsky
Baldwin Locomaotive Works
Marion B. Ream-Stephens
Chicago
Clarence Blair Mitchell
Vonsiatskoy-Vonsiatsky
Ridley Park
Philadelphia
Paris
Vonsaigekov-Vonsiatsky
Yalta
Crimea
America
Premier Poincare Calls After Deschanel Resigns Presidency
Paris reports former French President Paul Deschanel died after a brief illness. Deschanel had entered office February 19, 1920 after a sweeping parliamentary victory. His condition worsened after a relapse from a cold leading to double pneumonia. Premier Poincare visited Deschanel's home to express official condolences as the nation mourned a prominent statesman and author.
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Paris
Paul Deschanel
France
M. Deschanel
Mme. Deschanel
Premier Poincare
Deschanel
Paul Eugene Louis Deschanel
Beem
National Assembly
Thiers
Georges Clemenceau
Ional
Bitter
M. Clemenceau
India
Three Officers Slain in Beardstown Riot
Sheriff Ed Lash brook of Rushville and two deputies were killed in a clash with Greek section hands near Beardstown Illinois. Thirty-eight maintenance of way workers were arrested as they entered Beardstown on a train and were to be bound over to the grand jury on murder charges amid high tension over the officer deaths.
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Beardstown
Ill
Ed Lashbrook
Rushville
Maintenance of Way
Grand Jury
Patterson Heads Publishers Body In NY Election
Paul Patterson of the Baltimore Sun was elected president of the American Newspaper Publishers association at the convention's final session. Other officers named include vice president 8 B Thomason of the Chicago Tribune secretary John B Bryant of the Richmond News Leader treasurer Howard Davis of the New York Tribune and new directors T R Williams of the Pittsburgh Press Harry Chandler of the Los Angeles Times and Charles H Taylor of the Boston Globe.
Blight Increase in Exports of Cotton
Washington reports March cotton exports rose slightly from the prior year with 461000 bales valued at 43000000, compared to 757000 bales worth 27000000. For the nine months ended March exports totaled 5000000 bales valued at 442000000, against 4000000 bales worth 651800000 in 1931.
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Washington
Commerce Department
Flood Strikes Fort Worth Inundates City Streets
Fort Worth Texas reports widespread flooding from a heavy storm. Levees are blamed as dynamited by unknown parties prompting a grand jury probe. About 17 dead and property losses near one million dollars. Rescue efforts continue as power fails and Legion patrols aid police. Aeronautical research advances also noted at Langley Field.
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Fort Worth
Texas
John J. McCain
L. G. White
Red Cross Relief
Trinity River
Marine
Sycamore
Clearforks
Wollen
Sycamore Creek
American Legion
McCain
Cuban Cane Sugar to Pay Acceptances in May
New York reports the Cuban Cane Sugar Corporation will pay $7,000,000 of acceptances maturing May 1. The original $18,000,000 was reduced to $13,500,000 last October and another $6,500,000 payment was made in January.
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New York
Cuban Cane Sugar Corporation
Antilles
Indicted Ath Morse and Sons Over Mail Fraud Scheme
New York financier Charles W Morse and his three sons plus twenty others were indicted for conspiring since 1919 to defraud investors via advertising in mailings. The case targets misrepresentations about United States Steamship and related companies and their assets, profits, and contracts. William A Barber, ex-South Carolina attorney general, named among accused.
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New York
Charles W. Morse
United States Steamship Company
United States Transport Company, Inc
United States Shipping Corporaton
Erwin A
Benjamin W
Harry F. Morse
Martin J. Gillen
United States Shipping Board
William A. Barber
South Carolina
Mark L. Gilbert
Shipping, Construction and Trading Company
Stonington
Conn
George M. Burdett
Morse Enterprises
Richard O. White
United States Transport Company
Stuart G. Gibboney
Glenhard
Foster
Orange N. J
G. S. Foster & Co
Curb Brokers
Croton Iron Works
Virginia Shipbuilding Company
Hudson Navigation Company
Engine design claims 300 miles per gallon fuel
H H Elmer treasurer of the Globe Malleable Iron and Steel Co Syracuse announces a self designed engine achieving 300 miles per gallon of fuel costing five and one half cents at the annual meeting. International experts including Arthur West Bethlehem Steel inspected the engine and reportedly called it far ahead of its time.
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Syracuse
N. Y
H. H. Elmer
Globe , Malleable Iron and Steel Company
Arthur West
Bethlehem Steel Corporation
Clover to End Dust Cloud in Mexico City Lake Bed
Mexico City reports the Department of Agriculture will plant clover and alfalfa on the dry Lake Texcoco bed to invite moisture and reduce dust clouds that sweep the city seasonally. Experts believe verdure will lower dust in dry periods.
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Mexico City
Department of Agriculture
Lake
Texcoco
Old North State brief roundup of fires, deaths and local notes
Condensed notices from Winston-Salem to Greensboro report a forest fire fatality near Pink Hill, two Forsyth County women named as election registrars, a congressman returning to Scotland Neck for summer, a Granville sheriff’s passing, strawberry shipments from Rose Hill to Wilmington, Ye Old Tyme Fiddlers Convention in Scotland Neck, hotel management changes in Gastonia, a motorcycle accident near Salisbury, a Newton burial, a Morgan Mill road auto crash, a 20 year prison term for burglary in Gastonia, Tidewater Power stock sale by Hugh MacRae, Craven’s mayor catching a whiskey still, a Raeford farmer’s self-inflicted death, and Greensboro pool room legal fight set for May 8.
Pledge of $3,000 Aims to Fight Freight Rate Increases
In Raleigh a North Carolina Traffic association meeting pledged over $3,000 to oppose anticipated rate rises from the Interstate Commerce Commission hearing in Atlanta May 27. Chairman C. H. Ireland and attorney James Griffin spoke on lower classifications and commodity rates, urging unity among growers and jobbers to protect North Carolina rates. Also covered were warnings about tobacco overproduction by Richard R. Patterson of the Tobacco Growers Cooperative and a Hillsboro loss in a highway fight with Judge Kerr granting a temporary injunction against the state highway commission.
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Raleigh
North Carolina Traffic Association
Interstate Commerce Commission
Atlanta
M. R. Beaman
North Carolina
James 8. Griffin
Association
C. H. Ireland
Greensboro
House of Representatives
Capitol
Traffic Association
Ireland
Georgia
South Carolina
Virginia
Carolina
Virginia-Carolina
Hillsboro
Oxford
State Highway Commission
John B Kerr
Churton Street
King Street
Kerr
Highway Commission
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Upper Appalachian Mountain Regions
Manchester
Mill Creek
Clay County
Minn J. Johnson
Poincare
Lord
Lady Astor
National Press Club
Charles E. Hughes
Continental Memorial Hall
Hughes
Diplomatic Corps
The
Senator Swanson
Langley Field
National Advisory Committee For Aeronautics
Joseph A. Ames
National Academy of Sciences
ATH Morse and Sons
Old North
Winston
Moody Stroud
Pink Hill
Stroud
Winston-Salem
Winston Salem
Forsyth County
J. D. Rodwell
Joe Rogers
Scotland Neck
Claude Kitchin
Congress
Crawford Hobgood
Granville County
Goldsboro
A. Oc, L
Rose Hill
Wilmington
Dixie Theater
Banjonte
Harpleta
Gastonia
A. A. Armstrong
Gastonia Hotel Company
J. A. Griffith
Salisbury
Clay Holshouser
Newton
David H. Miller
Southern Railway
Augusta
Monroe
Mra
Mack Ford
Ford
Morgan Mill Road
Town
Arthur Bender
T. B. Finley
Tidewater Power Company
Hugh MacRae
A. B. Fitkin & Co
McRae
New Bern
Stonewall Jackson
Craven
Vanceboro
J. D. Williams
Mikson
Raeford
Edward A. McNeill
Interstate Commiree Commission
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