U S Steps To Break Down World Trade Barriers
The United States moves to end economic isolation by inviting 11 nations led by Canada Mexico Germany Britain and Japan to Washington for talks ahead of a London conference. Secretary Hull frames freer trade and tariff reductions as the path to revived global commerce while criticizing past policies.
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U. S
Washington
Roosevelt
Hull
United States
Mexico
Canada
William Phillips
London
State Department
Edouard Herriot
France
Ramsay MacDonald
Great Britain
Germany
Italy
Japan
China
Asia
South America
Argentina
Brazil
Chile
R. B. Bennett
Program To Free Frozen Dollars Takes Shape
The treasury outlines a concrete plan to restore solvency to thousands of state banks with Walter J. Cummings of Chicago appointed to supervise the effort. By March end about 5 387 banks had reopened with deposits around 26 billion dollars while 7 350 nonmember state banks also reopened. total U S bank deposits exceed 40 billion across 18 000 institutions. The plan may use Reconstruction Finance Corporation aid to fund private capital, matched dollar for dollar.
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Washington
Woodin
Walter J. Cummings
Chicago
Treasury
Cummings
America
Federal Reserve System
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Youth Held For Attempted Assault On 4 Year Old
Ves ter Allredge a 17 year old from the Gethsemane area Guilford County is in jail on 1000 bond after binding over to superior court on four counts of attempting a criminal assault on a four year old girl. James F Scholl the girl s father secured the warrant and Allredge pleaded not guilty though his answers suggested limited mentality. County physician Dr R M Buie testified on the child s physical condition. The alleged attack occurred near the Scholl home.
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Greensboro
Vester Allredge
Gethsemane
Guilford County
W. 5
Lyon
Allredge
James F. Scholl
Thomasville Youth Fatally Injured In Salisbury By Train
Joe Hunt aged 19, son of Frank Hunt of Thomasville North Carolina, was fatally injured in Salisbury when crushed between the tender and a baggage car of a Southern Railway locomotive in the depot yards about 10 15 p m He died about an hour and a half later at a hospital His cousin Harvell Hunt of Thomasville said they were riding south on a passenger train and could not explain the mishap
Duke Chapel Hosts First Wedding Since Opening
Miss Marion Noell Lyon of Durham, grand niece of James B. and B. N. Duke, and Lt. John Walker Sessums Jr. of the Army Air Corps were married in Duke University Chapel in a brilliant ceremony. It was the first wedding performed in the $2,000,000 chapel since its completion a year ago.
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Duke Chael Durham
Marion Noell Lyon
James B
B. N. Duke
John Walker Sessums, Jr
Army Air Corps
Duke University
North Carolina Solons Face Revenue Bill Worry
North Carolina’s 1933 general assembly stands at a crossroads with the biennial revenue bill, a three percent sales tax, and an appropriations measure. The House approved the conference report on the appropriations bill, awaiting Senate approval, while a sales tax remains contested. Debate centers on whether a balanced budget requires a general levy or a luxury tax, with party lines and regional influences shaping the outcome.
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H. BE. O'Keefe, JR
Raleigh
North Carolina
General Assembly
House
Senate
Assembly
Massenburg
Polk
Murphy
Rowan
Francis
Bowie
Ashe
Representativeewman
New Hanover
Hinsdale
Wake
Scottsboro retrial jury halts as verdict awaited in Decatur
In Decatur Alabama on April 8 the Scottsboro retrial jury deliberated hours with no verdict in sight for Haywood Patterson as Judge Horton granted severances for other defendants. Defense lawyers reported flaming crosses in Alabama hills and threats to their families amid tense courtroom testimony and alleged mob interference.
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Decatur
Aia
Scottsboro
Haywood Patterson
James E. Horton
Charlie Weers
Horton
Alabama
Joseph R. Brodsky
New York
Patterson
Huntsville
Wade Wright
Governor Seeks Renewal of Notes to Finance Deficit
North Carolina Governor J C B Ehringhaus plans a New York trip to renew notes used to cover a $12.5 million deficit for 1931 33. The legislature backs refinancing bonds as Treasurer Charles M Johnson accompanies Ehringhaus. Short term notes totaling about $12.23 million mature in April May and June across New York and NC banks.
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Raleigh
J. C. B. Ehringhaus
New York
General Assembly
John Hinsdale
Senate
Charles M. Johnson
Ehringhaus
North Carolina
Johnson
Davidson county man pleads guilty to beer possession
Lexington April 8 C L Hepler of Davidson county pleaded guilty in a county court to possession of beer. He was fined 25 dollars and costs with a two year suspended sentence requiring good behavior. The county court handled a heavy first week docket.
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Lexington
C. Ll. Hepler
Davidson County
North Carolina
Congresses probes airship Akron tragedy
A joint congressional committee will study America’s $20,000,000 airship program and the Akron disaster. The panel from both houses will include five senators and five representatives to review the Akron flight and broader airship issues. President Roosevelt plans memorial services for Akron victims on May 30 at Arlington National Cemetery.
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America
Congressional
House
Senate
United States
House Naval Committee
Roosevelt
Arlington National Cemetery
Washington Cathedral
White House
Capitol Hill
Bankhead
Alabama
Vinson
D-Ga
House Navy
King
Utah
McCintic
Okla
Akron
Sperker
Over 10 Million Off Beer Taxes in 3.2 Brew Surge
A nationwide survey shows more than 10 million dollars collected by municipal, state, and federal regions as the 3.2 beer spreads. About 1 to 1.5 million barrels sold, with federal revenue near 7.5 million over two days. Factories run double shifts, some 24 hours, to meet demand. Akron reports heavy need for brewery trucks.
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District of Columbia
Brewery Age
Cooperages and Glass Works
Akron
Jews Degraded To Second Class Citizenship By Act Now German Law
Berlin April 8 Julius Hitler cabinet civil service law formalizes the principle that only Aryans may govern Germany and defines a Jew as anyone with one Jewish grandparent. Thousands of officials will be ousted and Jews barred from public office. Existing pension rules are altered and exceptions apply to certain veterans and relatives of fallen soldiers.
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Louis P. Lochner
Berlin
Germany
Reic
Washington
Army
Navy
Roosevelt
Capitol Hill
Lewis W. Douglas
Congress
Armed Services
Navy Department
Swanson
Dern
Uncle Sam
Post Office Department
Farley
Agriculture Department
White House
Commerce Department
Washington Keeps Watch as Roosevelt Prepares International Outreach
Washington remains on alert as President Roosevelt mulls national rehabilitation before moving to international talks with leaders from eleven nations. Plans to raise commodity prices drive urgency amid deflation, with proposals to ease urban and farm debt and public works to boost purchasing power.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Canada
Mexico
Great Britain
France
Italy
Germany
Japan
China
Argentina
Brazil
Chile
Congress
Woodin
Army
Navy
Wagner
Senate
House
Mistrial Declared in Atlantic Coast Line Suit
A mistrial was ordered in the $150,000 damage suit against the Atlantic Coast Line railroad after a 24 hour jury deadlock over a grade crossing accident in Fayetteville last September that killed four people Eyland Canady Parker Armstrong Miss Mar ek Poteat and Miss Orion Damages of 50 000 per death were sought though the case for Canady had been remanded by Judge Devin who also found contributory negligence by the automobile driver.
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Fayetteville
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company
Eyland Canady
Automobile
Parker Armstrong
Marek Poteat
Orion
Canad
Devin
Republicans 10 Give Farm Plan
Washington reports a GOP plan to alter the farm bill with a substitute aiming to curb federal powers. The 10 point program seeks land retirement, limited irrigation, tariff changes, and consolidation of farm loan agencies, financed by a two percent sales tax on cotton and grain products.
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Washington
Wallace
Senate
Carey
Wyoming
Hyde
Special
Chamber of Commerce of the United States
Chamber
Robert B. Wood
Sears, Roebuck & Co
Chicago
Farm Board
National Economic Planning Committee
Republican Substitute
Treasury
Smith Cotton
Roosevelt
Federal Democratic Farm Program
Walker Compton vows postponed in Cannes
Betty Compton is ill with intestinal influenza delaying her marriage to former New York Mayor James J. Walker. The couple had planned to wed next Thursday morning, but her condition worsened last night and later improved with resting quietly under physician care.
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Cannes
France
Betty Compton
James J. Walker
New York
Miss Compton
Merchants Silence Sales Tax Protest at Raleigh Meeting
A Greensboro report says 30 merchant leaders declined to oppose a sales tax and instead urged a light, inevitable levy this term. The Raleigh statement critiqued Governor Ehringhaus and suggested efforts to block public dissemination of the merchants’ message. Continued on page eleven.
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Greensboro
Charles H. McKnight
North Carolina
Ralleight
McKnight
Raleigh
N. Clark
Tarboro
Sir Walter Hotel
eGovernor
Ebrinane
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Salisbury
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Congressional Committee
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AP Stall
W. A. Devin
Chamber of Commerce
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