Kiwanis Club Elects Arthur A Ruffin President For Year
Arthur Ruffin, longtime Kiwanis secretary, was unanimously elected president for the coming year at a meeting where three candidates stood. Bryce Little and Bill Lucas declined, and Ruffin pressed to serve in a back rank role before being elected. Joe Eagles was named vice president, and Tom Woodard joined as a new member. George Stanton and Bill Williams attended as guests. Entertainer cigars circulated and George Watson led the singing.
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Arthur A. Ruffin
Cretary
Kiwanis Club
Arthur Ruffin
Bil Lucas
Bryce
Bill
Arthur
Wade
Joe Eagles
Tom Woodard
George Stanton
Bill Williams
Raleigh
Carl Capps
Cigars
Will Dailey
George Watson
Clapp Denies Motive Charge In Underwood Inquiry
Edwin J. Clapp, editor of a Hearst morning paper, testified before a Senate investigating committee that he did not impugn Senator Underwood of Alabama. The panel, ordered by the senator, plans to wrap up the inquiry before holiday recess.
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Washington
Associated Press
Underwood
Democrat
Alabama
Seme
Edwin Js Clapp
Hearst
Underwood Muscle ‘Shoals
Clapp
Senaté
Spencer
Cox withdraws from race for North Carolina speaker
Winston Salem December 18 R M Cox withdrew from the race for speaker of the North Carolina house citing grave forthcoming problems. He said he did not want to divide the house or impair cooperation and thanked supporters while pledging full cooperation if Edgar Pharr of Charlotte is elected speaker.
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Winston-Salem
R. M. Cox
North Carolina
House of Representatives
General Assembly
Edgar Pharr
Charlotte
No True Bill For John Pratt Found By Jury in Murder Case
In superior court yesterday the grand jury did not indict John Pratt colored in the Erwin Langley Jr. auto murder case. Quart seeks murder verdict against Joe Cockerell for Joe Jackson’s killing. Walter Hayes white boy to three months for larceny. Other disposals include Jim Peacock embezzlement guilty. Claudie Price weapons guilty. Price assault not guilty. Norman Bynum larceny not guilty. Arthur Simms robbery not pressed. Lonnie Wesly house breaking larceny not guilty. J P Vick forgery not pressed. George Bannan assault with intent guilty as assault on female, two years on roads.
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John Pratt
Erwin Langley, Jr
Quart
Joe Cockerell
Joe Jackson
Walter Hayes
Jim Peacock
Claudie Price
Norman Bynum
Arthur Simms
Lonnie Wesly
J. P. Vick
George Bannan
Prison Wardens Charged With Accepting Bribes
A deposed warden A Sartain and suspended deputy warden J Pletcher in Atlanta faces charges of soliciting and taking bribes from prisoners. Bond set at 5000 each. government seeks hearing date set for 1 PM tomorrow. Local bondsmen signed for Sartain and Fletcher while defense calls it a political frame-up.
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Atlanta
Hk. A
Sartain
J. Pletcher
United States Penitentiary
Sarfdin
Fletcher Spring
Abbott
Oelock
Gompers Buried At Sleepy Hollow in Historic Ceremony
Samuel Gompers was laid to rest in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery Tarrrytown after a two hour service in New York City. A funeral train and escort accompanied the cortege through suburban streets to the sacred plot. Masons led the rite with the bronze casket lowered amid evergreen banks and wreaths.
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Tarrytown
N. Y
Samuel Gompers
Sleepy Hollow
America
Elks Lab
News York City
Gompers
Ichabod Crane
Mr. Gompers
American Federation of Labor
All Trades and Free Masons
Rock Ridge Triumphs In Narrow County Basketball Classic
Rock Ridge High School edged Lucama High 44 to 13 in a tense county game on Lucama’s court. Neal starred for Rock Ridge with standout play as the teams traded leads in a hard fought contest.
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Rock Ridge High School
Lucama High School
Neal
Rock Ridge
Newsome
Lucama
Rock Rain Realia
Wilkerson
Congressman Kahn Dies After Long Illness
San Francisco report says Julian Kahn longtime representative from California’s fourth district and longtime chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee died after an extended illness. Funeral services planned in San Francisco. no further plans announced by relatives.
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San Francisco
Julian Kahn
Congress
California
House
Kahn
Indictments Dismissed Against Harry Thaw in New York
The Court of General Sessions dismissed three indictments against Harry Kendall Thaw from December 18 in New York. The cases stemmed from his alleged whipping of Frederick Gump, a Kansas City high school boy, on December 26, 1916. Thaw is now free to move in New York state without arrest threat.
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New York
Court of General Sessions
Harry Kendall Thaw
Frederick Gump
Kansas City
Thaw
New York State
Negro held as suspect in murder of game warden
Richmond Va Dec 18 Officials of the state game department cooperate with Greenville county authorities in the investigation of the killing of J J Powell a game warden Powell was found dead in a field with a gunshot wound to the abdomen A Negro suspect has been arrested
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Richmond
State Game Department
Greenville
J J. Powell
Powell
Air Mail Link Planned Between Great Britain Ulster
Arrangements completed for year round air service between Great Britain and Ulster. A company with 2 500 000 capital formed and three airplanes purchased. The scheme aims to speed mail to and from America and Europe.
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Belfast
Great Britain
Ulster
America
Europe
Albanian President Fan Noli seen fleeing after uprising
London dispatch reports Fan Noli, head of the Albanian government, fleeing as the uprising gains ground. Noli had held power only a few months during the brief upheaval in Albania.
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London
Albania
Fan Noli
North Carolina Tennessee Back Park Fight In Congress
Washington, Dec. 18 AP Indications grew that North Carolina and Tennessee may unite to defeat Virginia in the Eastern National Park fight. The House Public Lands Committee will decide among four park site bills after the commission favored Virginia Blue Ridge, with NC and TN likely to present a united claim opposing Virginia.
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Washington
Virginia
Eastern National Park
Nrrth
Carolina
Tennessee
Old Dominions
Independent Commission
Blue Ridge Mountains
House Public Lands Committee
Doughton
North Carolina
Bulwinkle
Weaver
Reece
House
Old Dominion
Sleeping sickness cases alarm British physicians
London reports rising sleeping sickness cases with 4,747 total in England and Wales from January 1 to November 15, surpassing 1919 1923 levels. Eight week span shows 377 notifications vs 98 the prior year as health officials seek cause and a cure.
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London
Great Britain
England
Wales
Ministry of Health
Youngest Chesapeake Bay Captain Dies at 19
Winlter Meekins of Baltimore dies of typhoid fever at nineteen. He owned a 250-ton three masted schooner at sixteen and held a master's license. He sailed the Josephine Wiwasatt, with home port in Washington, hauling merchandise between Baltimore, North Carolina and Virginia.
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Baltimore
Winlter Meekins
Chesapeake Bay
Josephine Wiiasatt
Meekins
Washington
North Carolina
Virginia
Naval Bill Provisions Approved by House
The naval appropriations measure to maintain the Navy at its present strength of 86,000 enlisted men received House approval this afternoon.
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Washington
House
Tuneful Chimes by Radio to Tell Time of Day
Stockholm plans after January to broadcast new high noon chimes to amateur radio stations across Sweden. The city hall chimes, completed at a cost of four million dollars, will replace the metallic clock click with melodic tones signaling noon and the hour.
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Stockholm
Kingdom
United States
Senate Deadlock Delays Muscle Shoals Vote Beyond Christmas
Senators fail to fix a final vote time on Muscle Shoals with action delayed past the Christmas recess. Proponents of a commission plan push for a compromise as Norris opposes hurried debate while Underwood may keep the issue in session until March 4.
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Washington
Senate
Muscle Shoals
Aff Compra
Alabama
Isearlé Republican
Nebraska
Norris
Underwood
Commission
Eastern Carolina Chamber Proposes Regional Projects
The Eastern Carolina Chamber of Commerce in Kinston approves boll weevil control and a large scale drainage plan, endorses a traffic bureau for Eastern North Carolina, and votes to raise 10000 dollars for boll weevil control. The meeting lists attendees from LaGrange Goldsboro Newbern Greenville and Kinston.
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Kinston
N. C
Eastern Carolina Chamber of Commerce
North Carolina
N. G. Barrett
Miles
Robersonville
Clinton
Williamston
Washington
Snow Hill
Grifton
Ayden
Goldsboro
Selma
Clayton
Warsaw
Smithfield
Winsdor
Raleigh
Pinetops
Farmville
Boll Weevil
Extension Service
Carolina
J. W. Stanton
D. L. Fields
LaGrange
George C. Royall
H. B. Barlow
C. (. Kirkpatrick
W. W. Griffin
Sam B. Bledsoe
Newbern
J. E. Winslow
Greenville
C. W. Howard, Jr
H. Galt Braxton
S. L Stough
H. H. McCoy
John G. Cox
J. C. Rasberry
L. J. Newborne
T. W. Newborn
W. T. Kyzer
Kyzer
Moving Picture Actor Faces Law In Richmond Suit
Richmond detective to return Stuart Grant a moving picture actor from Los Angeles for failure to support his wife and child residing in Richmond. Grant is a member of a prominent local family and was charged in Richmond.
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Richmond
Stuart Grant
Los Angeles
Cotton futures steady as spots hold at New York market
In New York on December 18 spot cotton remained quiet with middling at 24.00 cents. Futures closed steady with December at 23.45, January 23.55, March 23.98, May 24.33, and July 24.52 cents.
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New York
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Pharr
Superior Court
Sartain and Fletcher
Austen Chamberlain
Premier Herriot
M. Herrriot
Quai @ Orsay
Paris
Love, Capps
Newagne Seem' Lamm
Ellis
Hinton
Congressman Kahn
Harry Thaw
Treland
New Park
E. C. Commerce Chamber
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