Franco Fights Revolts While Southern Railway Faces Cost Hurdles
Reports say Franco’s insurgents hit key centers as government drives claim successes in Guada ra and Cordoba. Durango bombing kills 60 and wounds 150 as European powers weigh Spain’s fate and Italy and Germany hint at action if aid continues. Meanwhile the Chamber presses Southern Railway for its share of a grade crossing elimination project with bids and PWA extensions shaping the funding deadline.
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Francisco Franco
Spanish Morocco
Val
Alegeciras
Ent
Guadara
Cordoba
Franco
Burgos
Durango
Bilbao
Europe
Italy
Germany
Spain
Mussolini
Hitler
Chamber of Commerce
Sheraton Hotel
Southern Railway Company
Public Works Administration
PWA
Southern
Japan Opposes 40-Hour Week At Textile Conference
Japan's chief delegate Jurien Kitaoka said Tokyo is not prepared to adopt a 40 hour week at an international textile conference to be held in Washington. He noted 1.3 million Japanese textile workers clock eight and a half hours daily six days a week and 326000 are in the cotton division with no unemployment reported.
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Washington
Japan
International Textile Conference
Juiien Kitaoka
International Labor
Kitaoka
Gedeon viewed by police in triple Beekman Hill murder
New York April 1 detectives watched Joseph Gedeon view the bodies of his artist model daughter Veronica and wife Mary slain with boarder Frank Byrnes Easter morning in a Beekman Hill murder. Police say a definite suspect exists and Gedeon faces a firearms violation charge over a revolver found at his apartment.
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New York
Joseph Gedeon
Veronica
Mary
Frank Byrnes
Beekman Hill
Gedeon
William C. Dodge
William T. Reynolds
Reynolds
Gas Inspection Law Amendments Strain Through Senate
Raleigh April 1 The misced amendments to the gas inspection law added in the senate late in the 1937 session are said to strengthen the law not injure it. Provisions aimed at Sections 24 and 25 would exempt franchise carriers buses and freight trucks from certain permits, and require gas tanks to be marked for gaso line. The drafting error placed amendments under Sections 25 and 26 due to mismarking.
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Sir Walter Hotel Raleigh
Senate
Zeto
Rutherford College Leased to National Youth Agency
Rutherford College near Hickory will lease its buildings and equipment to the National Youth Administration for a girls school. The new government school expected to open about April 12 will enroll one girl from each of North Carolina’s 100 counties, under a three month lease with an option to renew annually. Mrs Giles of Marion will head the educational institution.
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Hickory
Rutherford College
Burke County
National Youth Administration
George F. Ivey
Methodist Institution
Ivey
C. E. McIntosh
Raleigh
National Youth Program
North Carolina
Giles
Marion
Murder Victim Found Alive in Detroit Hint
Gadsden welfare executives said Mrs Ruby Harris long believed murdered in California last fall is alive and well in Detroit. Mrs Bessie Cochran of Gadsden identified a photo of the slain woman as resembling her sister. The case began last November with a woman found beaten to death near Temple City in the San Gabriel River bed California.
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Gadsden
Ala
Gadsden Welfare
Ruby Harris
California
Detroit
Bessie Cochran
Sit-in strike at Covington textile plant faces long fight
In Covington Virginia on April 1 the textile workers organizing committee assumed direction of the sit-in at the Rayon plant. Gaffney of United Textile Organizers pledged resolve to fight to the last and said future negotiations would go through the organizing committee while funds are raised to sustain the strike for a settlement satisfactory to the union.
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Vington
Textile Workers Organ Committee
Directoay
Covington
Jal Rayon Corporation
Gaffney
United Textile
Synthetic Yarn Federation
Textile Organizing Committee
Coal Miners Set for Nationwide Soft Coal Strike
New York April 1 An impending nationwide soft coal strike threatens 400 000 miners from Pennsylvania to Washington as wage talks stall. Mines run mainly in Illinois under Progressive Miners of America while UMW fields remain scant. John L Lewis Day observed as the old contract expires.
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New York
United Mine Workers
Pennsylvania
Washington
Illinois
Progressive Miners of America
John L. Lewis
Lewis
Stock market declines as labor disputes chill buying
New York on April 1 reports a downward trend in stock prices at the start of the month. Leaders fell while oils and specialties showed some resistance though overall declines were broad, with fractions to a point or more across the market. Trading was uneven and unsettled.
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New York
Unesnelly Liebe
North Carolina Preparatory School for Boys chartered
Arthur Kirkman and C. Arthur Kirkman of High Point are named incorporators. The North Carolina Preparatory School For Boys, Inc. with offices in Greensboro received a charter from Thad Ware secretary of state. Other Bostock Corp incorporators are Francis M. Borne and Jack Joyner.
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Raleigh
Apri
North Carolina Preparatory School For Boys, Inc
Greensboro
Thad Ware
Bostock Corporation
Francis M. Borne
Jack Joyner
C. Arthur Kirkman
High Point
Fascists Propaganda Drive In U S To Be Investigated
Washington April 1 a proposal for a congressional inquiry into American fascist propaganda won approval of the house rules committee. Dickstein of New York said 125 agents work for a fascist state in America and testified of a Nazi army drilled here with swastikas. A Detroit man Frits Kuhn was said to lead an organization of 200000 Nazi sympathizers. The inquiry moves to the house for final action.
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Washington
Poe
House Rules Committee
Dickstein
D-Ny
House Immigration Committee
America
Frits Kuhn
Rahe
House
Coan Seeks Waynick's Job As Highway Chairman
The Charlotte News reports George W. Coan Jr. has tossed his hat into the ring for Capus Waynick's state highway commission chairmanship. A public official received Coan's letter requesting Governor Heey’s endorsement, citing two years directing WPA operations and Raleigh developments.
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Charlotte
Charlotte News
George W. Coan, Jr
WPA
Capus Waynick
State Highway Commission
Coanbean
Raleigh
North Carolina
Heey
Hairman
Coan
Stalin Calls for Merciless Extermination of Enemies
Stalin urged merciless extermination of all Bolshevik enemies in a Kremlin address March 5, published April 1, dubbing counterrevolutionaries wreckers and murderers. He framed the move as a ultimatum to the Communist Party and signaled widespread arrests.
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Moscow
Joseph Stalin
Russia
Communist Party
Kremlin
Central Committee
Worker's
India Faces General Strike as New Constitution Takes Effect
Calcutta April 1. India's vast police and army stood on alert as a growing general strike challenged the new constitution for 11 provinces. Markets and shops closed and nationalist papers halted publication as semi home rule began.
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Calcutta
India
Norwegian Ship Taken In Tow Near Bermuda
The coast guard reported the Norwegian tanker Polartank towed the Norwegian freighter Akabahra 154 miles east of Bermuda last night. The Akabahra, enroute Bremen to Savannah, issued a distress call but specifics of the trouble were not disclosed. Ships were asked to remain on alert for any further assistance requests.
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Norfolk
Coast Guard
Polartank
Bermuda
Bremen
Savannah
Polar Tank
Probe of graft interrupted by grand jury sit down strike
San Francisco April 1. A sit down strike by a grand jury prying into graft in police corruption dominated proceedings. Judge George Steiger said the jury undermined public confidence with bickering and chaos and noted at least four jurors faced removal over disclosures tied to aspects of the probe.
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California
San Francisco
Vice
George Steiger
The
Chronicle
Ship bids filed for two US Lines cabin liners
Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co. submitted the lowest bids to build two cabin liners for United States Lines. The larger vessel design quoted $15,455,000 and the smaller $14,375,000, while New York Shipbuilding Corp. bid $14,995,000 for the smaller ship only.
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Washington
Newport News Shinbuilding and Dry Dock Company
Newport News
United States Lines Company
New York
Leviathan
New York Shipbuilding Corporation of
Camden
N. J
Kidnaping Suspect Freed By Sheriff
Tucumcari New Mexico April 1 Sheriff Fred White said Vern Charlton a 34 year old Seattle man held since Saturday for investigation of the kidnaping of Charles Mattson has been released. He left the jail and the sheriff said they have no further interest in him.
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Tucumcari
N. M
Fred White
Vern Charlton
Seattle
Charles Mattson
GM Plants Resume Work as Michigan Strike Totals Soar
About 7,200 workers return to the Fisher body plant in Cleveland while other GM sites face walkouts. Strikes hit Pontiac and Flint facilities including Yellow Truck and Coach in Pontiac and the Chevrolet final assembly line in Flint, lifting total idle auto workers in Michigan to over 100,000.
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Detroit
General Motors
Fisher
Cleveland
Yellow Truck Coach Manufacturing Company
Pontiac
Mich
Chevrolet Motor Company
Flint
Pontiac Motor Co
Chevrolet
Yellow Truck
Michigan
All Fools Day Origin Unknown
Atlanta April 1 1937 reports the origin of All Fools Day is unclear with historians unsure where the custom began. The piece notes some see April 1 as payday and miners as having a 48 hour week while dictionaries define the day as a time for sportive im positions.
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Atlanta
Bus and auto collide near Thomasville injure nobody
A Carolina Coach company bus and a car collided on the Lexington highway two miles from Thomasville. R. Stone was charged with reckless driving after deputies investigated. The car crossed into the bus path. No one was hurt and no charges against the bus operator were filed.
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Thomasville
Carolina Coach E Company
Lexington
R. Stone
BR. W Stone
Sheriff says 17 year old confesses attack in West Marion
Mc Dowell County Sheriff Grady Nichols reports Mann Smith, a 17 year old Negro, confessed to assaulting a 12 year old white girl in a near by area yesterday afternoon. The suspect was moved from McDowell to a county jail for safekeeping amid a tense night crowd. A posse had patrolled the Black Bottom area after the arrest.
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Marion
McDowell County
Grady Nichols
Mann Smith
West Marion
McDowell
Ville
Bun County
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Bierna
Associated Press
National Inventors’ Congress
Chicago
National Youth Agency
Arthur Kirkman
Eleanor. Young
Newport
Young
Woolworth
U. S
Faye
Waynick
Winstonelem
Eimer
Twistlefia
Saens
Pwittlettte
Stein
Newport News Company
Sherif
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