Compromise Reached In Robbins Case
The assault case against Lester Robbins, owner of an East Washington street fruit stand, was not presented to a jury after a settlement in the civil action Gray v. Robbins for 10000 was reached. Robbins agreed to pay Gray the civil judgment costs while both sides awaited final signing. Discon threats and other charges against co defendants were disposed with costs paid or dismissed.
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Lester Robbins
Washington ‘Street
N. O. Gray
Robbins
Gray
Brock Moore
J Smith
Atkins
Negro cafe operator gives $50 to High Point Memorial fund
Charles R. Rountree of 512 Leonard Street, owner of a cafe, is among the first Black citizens to contribute to the High Point Memorial Hospital fund. He says the hospital will serve all races and hopes his gift will spur others to invest for the community's health and happiness.
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Charles R. Rountree
Leonard Street
High Point Memorial Hospital
Norfolk
Ark
Not Guilty Verdicts and Suspended Sentences in Local Court
The docket reports not guilty outcomes for chair Jim C. Irwin and Mrs. Viola Carmack on prostitution charges. Elbert M. Ellis received a suspended 60 day sentence and a $25 fine plus costs for disorderly conduct and assault on W. B. McLamb. Mildred Bates pleaded guilty to prohibition violations with a four month suspended sentence and $15 fine plus costs. The Negro calendar showed many waivers and continuances. only 20 Negro cases remained for trial with several defendants failing to appear.
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Jim C. Irwin
Viola Carmack
Elbert M. Ellis
W. B. McLamb
Mildred Bates
Earnest Goins
Roy Joyner
Frank McFadden
Curtis Lew
Germans Report Break Into Ruhr Center and Coburg Capture
German communique claims the North army breached Bichum in the Ruhr trap, a coal steel rail hub. American troops reportedly capture Coburg, about 49 miles from the Czechoslovak border and near Plauen, as fighting rages near Leipzig and other fronts.
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Saxony
Leipzig
Bichum
Ruhr
London
Coburg
Reuters
Plauen
Allied Forces Break German Defense In Central Europe
The Allied armies push into German-held territory with Crailsheim, Brun, Nordhausen, and Celle in sight, as Berlin remains within reach by land. Bremen besieged. Hannover, Deventer, and Dutch strongpoint on the Issel river fall to advancing Canadian forces.
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Munich
Danube
Brun
Berlin
Nordhausen
Bremen
Aller
Celle
Hannover
Germany
Bpoon
Wate Ee Od
William 'S
German air force executes 102 officers to crush revolt
Reliable information from 12th Army Group HQ reports 102 German air force members were executed on March 31 to quell an officers' revolt. Included among the executed was a general named Baber.
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12Th Army Group
Baber
Russian forces advance as Berlin front braces for new offensives
Moscow reports 2,000 Germans captured and 72 field guns inside a city, with 42,000 killed and 92,000 captured in the Koe nigsberg campaign. German losses near 6,000 dead in Vienna area as Malinovsky’s units drive toward Bratislava and Hodonin with rapid advances across Slovakia and neighboring fronts.
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Red
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Berlin
Oder River
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Goeding
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Malinovsky
Luddenburg
Breclav
Czechoslovakia
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Reg
Germany
Silesia
Stettin
Moscow
Slovakia
Malinov
Bratislava
Trencin
Vah
Andrei Yeremenko
Koeniigsberg
Allied air power pins Germans in northern Italy via Brenner Pass
The piece notes Allied tactical air forces have rendered the Brenner railway virtually useless for 60 days, trapping German forces in a narrow Italian corridor. It highlights Allied momentum on both British and American flanks and frames the Brenner Pass as the remaining critical route. It recalls Hitler and Mussolini’s five year old meeting in Mussolini’s rail car, a symbol of past fortunes. The article also mentions von Vietinghoff as a notable German threat.
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Yugoslavia
Germany
Italy
Brenner Pass
Alps
Mediterranean Zone
Brenner
Hitler
Mussolini
I Duce
Acess Ares Ra
Europe
von Vietinghoff
Mill Folks Plan Action on Rollback Rule
Print cloth mill representatives in the southeast will meet soon to address a rollback of one cent per pound in ceiling prices. C. £. Hatch of Greenville S. C. and Han as the prints group head the move, with Ellison A. Smyth noting the rollback is hard on mills amid rising costs.
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Southeast
Hatch
Greenville
8. C
Norte Corporation
Han
Ellison A. Smyth
Til
Hendersonville
Balfour Mills
OPA
Three Places Fight Across Front Near Bologna
Reported fighting across the north and south sectors of the Italian front as forces crossed streams near Fusignano and San Sero. The Eighth Division pressed south of highway 9 with minefields and heavy artillery aiding links formed Monday night. Italian troops advanced west of Alfonsine amid tough resistance.
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Forli
Faenza
Imola
Bologna
Fusignano
San Severo
Alfonsine
Capture of Anese Home Islands Stalled in Rugged South
Allied forces pressed a daylong battle along the northern advance and a brutal clash persisted in the southern sector amid the Pacific war’s fiercest artillery duel. Japanese counterattacks cost heavy casualties and prisoners as they held a cave maze ridge while artillery and mortars rained down.
Chinese In Pursuit Of Japanese Forces
Chinese forces press the retreating Japanese east from the Shensi border town seized by the Chinese high command. They advance from Sichuan toward the Shensi line as street fighting erupts near Jinan and Hankow Peiping railway.
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Chungking
Shensi
Henan
Sichwan
Hankow-Peiping
Jinan
Hankow
Funeral Rites for Mrs Addie Black Hepler
The funeral service for Mrs Addie Black Hepler wife of Edgar L Hepler of Thomasville route two was held at Liberty Baptist Church where she was a member. The service conducted by Rev E C Roach and Rev T R York followed by pallbearers E T Kennedy H C Beck Earnest Bl John Myers Clifford Lambeth Earnest Lawrence. Music by Ruth Kennedy and Florence Wray with piano by Mrs Austin Sink. Interment was in the family plot at the church cemetery with flowers carried by church groups Hannah and Hope Hepler.
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Thomasville
Addie Black Hepler
Edgar L. Hepler
Liberty Baptist Church
E. C. Roach
T. R. York
Mount Zion
Church
Hannah
Hope Hepler
Nazi Aerial Attacks Ground 336 German Planes and Bomb Berlin Area
German air force halted by Allied counterstrikes as 336 aircraft were grounded and 61 shot down amid heavy raids on 26 or more enemy fields. U S Eighth and Ninth Air Forces suffered 25 bombers and 15 fighters lost. British bombers hit Leipzig and Plauen while Mosquito aircraft targeted Berlin. Jet fighters accounted for much of the enemy air losses.
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U. S
Eighth
Ninth Air Forces
Leipzig
Plauen
Berlin
Langston Dies at 70. Noted Businesman in Goldsboro
W H Langston 70, a retired businessman and brother of Col John D Langston assistant director of selective service, died in a Washington NC hospital yesterday of heart disease. Funeral plans are incomplete.
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W. H. Langston Goldsboro
W. H. Langston
John D. Langston
Selective Service
Washington, N. C
New Mexico Caverns Harbor 3 Million Bats
The Carlsbad Caverns region is said to shelter about 3 million bats. A king bird hunts hawks crows and eagles but avoids tiny hummingbirds, fearing their swift defense.
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New Mexico
Carlsbad Caverns
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