Refugees Return to War Zone Amid Frontier Tensions
CERBERE France April 2 AP Spanish insurgent bombing aimed at the railway near the French Spanish border as four train loads of government militiamen arrived at Cerbere en route to Spain. Refugees loyal to the Spanish government crossed from Bagneres De Luchon to Cerbere while Franco loyalists advance.
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Mediterranean
Bagneres de Luchon
Barcelona
Local Naval Man Wins Promotion
President Roosevelt approved promotions of 192 naval officers to lieutenant commander and 273 to lieutenant. The Navy Department announced the list with assignments and home towns. Richard F. Johnson Jr. from Point, N. C., served as Office Chief of Naval Operations.
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Navy Department
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Naval Operations
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Congress Proposes Compromise on Reorganization Bill
Administration aides with President Roosevelt support offer a plan to let Congress veto presidential reorganization orders by simple majority, replacing the current two thirds requirement. The White House will meet leaders tomorrow as debate stalls in the House and tempers flare amid fights over the bill. Warren announces terms to a cheering chamber after talks with Roosevelt aides.
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Special Reorganization Committee
Oilmen Take Case Against Mexican Expropriation
Foreign oil firms from 17 American and British companies filed an appeal to Mexico's supreme court seeking to overturn Lazaro Cardenas expropriation of about 400 million dollars in property. They argue Article 27 limits expropriation to land and water and protest lack of due process and no prior indemnification.
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Supreme Court
Lazaro Cardenas
Mexico
N C Educators To Meet This Week
Concord North Carolina hosts the annual state conference of the North Carolina division of the Progressive Education Association next Thursday and Friday. Classroom teachers principals supervisors superintendents college instructors and education department members are expected to attend.
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Progressive Education Association
Roosevelt Heads to Washington for Anti-Monopoly Speech
President Roosevelt travels from Warm Springs to Washington aboard the presidential train to urge anti monopoly legislation. He confers with aides H Jackson and Benjamin Cohen about a study of monopoly and potential reforms to the Sherman and Clayton acts. He plans to press main points of his reform program upon arrival.
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Public Works
New Deal
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Warm Springs
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Cohen
Esident
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Chrysler Files Suit Against Antitrust Action Defense
Chrysler Corporation announces in Washington that attorney general Cummings plans anti trust actions and files a declaratory judgment in U S district court to assert its dealer financing contracts do not violate the Sherman act. Offense described as counter action amid kidnapping fear reports.
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Chrysler Corporation
Cummings
United States District Court
Car Abandoned in West Texas Hills Sparks Kidnap Search
PECOS Texas April 2 federal agents were called as Mrs Weston G Frome 46 from Berkeley and her daughter Nancy remain missing after an automobile abandoned in the Balmorhea area prompted a 10 mile square posse hunt. The husband an Atlas Powder company executive flew from California to aid the search. The car carried luggage and five gallons of gas. The women were en route to Parris Island to visit another daughter and carried about 125 dollars in cash plus jewelry and luggage.
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Berkeley
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Atlas Powder’ Company
California
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Toole
Balmorhea
Here
San Antonio
Parris Island
D. C
Benjamin McMakin
el Paso
Holdsclaw Must Serve For Year In North Carolina Case
Kohler Holdsclaw, once facing a death sentence in North Carolina, must remain in prison at least a year before parole review. Parole officials said the case will be examined March 12, 1939, a year after he reentered central prison to finish a 30-year term. He was recaptured in Michigan after living there 12 years as Frank Bentley and had been convicted in 1919 in Catawba county of first degree murder. the death sentence was commuted to 50 years by Governor Bickett. He escaped in 1927.
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Kohler Holdsclaw
North Carolina
Holdsclaw
Central Prison
Michigan
Frank Bentley
Catawba County
Bickett
Veteran Charlotte Railroad Man Dies
Captain W. S. Bradley, 30, a veteran railroad man and former freight agent for the Seaboard Air Line in Charlotte, died at his home today. He retired from active duty in 1932.
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N. C
Bradley
Seaboard Airline Railroad
Farmer sought as couple shot in Clinton house
Police said Carmen Tew, 21, a Clinton County farmer, was being sought in connection with the shooting of Grace Carter, 17, and Ronnie Smokes of New York at the Carter farm house near Clinton. Victims were hospitalized in Fayetteville in critical condition.
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N. C
EB. L. Cherry
Carmen Tew
Clinton County
Grace Carter
Ronnie Smokes
New York
Carter Farm
Here
Fayetteville
Britain and Italy Near a Friendship Pact Report
London reports say Prime Minister Chamberlain hopes a British Italian friendship pact could be signed within two weeks to ease tensions from the Ethiopian war era. Spain’s civil war and labor opposition to arming the Spanish government shape diplomacy, while talks in Rome press toward an Easter agreement with Mussolini seeking a deal before Hitler’s May visit.
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Neville Chamberlain
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Spain
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Italy
Europe
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House of Commons
Thomas Inskip
Benito Mussolini
Gandesa Falls Breaks Franco Drive Within 21 Miles Of Sea
News from the Spanish Civil War reports Gandesa's capture by Franco forces, bringing insurgents within 21 miles of the Mediterranean. About 2,000 prisoners were taken and the front extends over 125 miles from Barbastro to Morella as civilians flee barcelona and nearby towns.
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Victory Near Say Japanese Encircle Chinese Troops in Shan tung
A Shanghai dispatch says 150000 Chinese troops in Southern Shantung province were encircled and doomed to defeat. Japanese officials dismissed Chinese claims as fabrications and noted air attacks turning the Grand Canal red. Taierchwang near the Grand Canal endured heavy fighting with 40 tanks aiding Japanese assaults, leaving about 1000 dead as Chinese forces pushed back.
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Han Fu-Chu
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Shantung
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Folklore Expert Praises Southern Folksong Material
Dr. George Herzog of Columbia University told the Southeastern Folklore Society in Chapel Hill that the South yields the nation’s most abundant folksong material. He said Southerners remain least touched by industrial civilization and the field is open to study.
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N. C
South
George Herzog
Columbia University
Southeastern Folklore Society
Michigan Strikers Threaten Power as Murphy Convenes Talks
In Jackson Michigan about one million residents depend on Consumers Power striking workers for electricity and gas. Governor Murphy speeds to Detroit to meet with company officials and CIO U W O C leaders as the strike continues with no interruptions in service reported.
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Mich
Consumers Power Company
Saginaw Valley
Committee For Industrial Organization
Frank Murphy
Florida
Utility Workers Organizing Committee
Detroit
Albert Stonkus
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Stonkus
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American Federation of Labor Electrical Workers’ Union
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Daniel E Karn
Adolph Germer
CIO
George A. Krogstad
State Department of Labor and Industry
Raymond W. Stare
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