Slane and Dowdy Decline Power Board Posts
Willis H. Slane and D. A. Dowdy, Republican candidates for mayor and city council, said they would not accept appointments to the new High Point Board of Power Commissioners. They cited their May 2 election plans and noted their willingness to serve the city in other ways. The council had appointed the two Republicans to join three Democrats on the hydro electric project board, with the Democrats sworn in recently.
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Willis H. Slane
D. A. Dowdy
High Point Board of Power Commissioners
Messrs. Slane
Dowdy
Power Commission
Council
Slane
Repubn
Greensboro
High Point
H. Hoyle Sink
Superior Court
Duke Power Company
Grover H. Jones
Roy L. Deal
Winston
Thomas Turner, Jr
Carter Dalton
John A. Myers
W. 8S
O'B. Robinson
Charlotte
Russell Robinson
B. S. Womble
Winston-Salem
Owen Reese
Perkins orders Bridges deportation hearing amid Communist party charge
Secretary of Labor Perkins directed the immigration service to proceed with a hearing on deportation charges against Harry Bridges West Coast CIO director The charges claim Bridges is a Communist Party member The hearing follows a Supreme Court ruling on prior membership not constituting grounds for deportation
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Washington
Secretary of Labor
Perkins
Immigration Service
Harry Bridges
West Coast Cio
Bridges
Communist Party
Supreme Court
Acquitted man Robert Newell in wife murder case
A jury acquitted 34 year old Robert Newell of murder in the January death of his wife Winnie Newell, 32, after 42 minutes of deliberation in York Pennsylvania. A separate incident in Wilson involved a jailed teen threatening another inmate with a chicken leg weapon improvised with a spur. In Lillington Agriculture Commissioner W Kerr Scott urged a $5 million federal appropriation to match state funds for marketing to strengthen the agricultural program.
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York
8. C
Robert Newell
Winnie Newell
Wilson
John W. Woodard
Woodward
Alonzo Pace
Lillington
W. Kerr Scott
Asheboro Hobby Show Opens With Noted Judges
The Asheboro Rotary Club hosts a hobby show at the community gymnasium starting this afternoon at 2 30 and running through Saturday evening. Several hundred exhibits are expected. Judges include Harry Davis of North Carolina State, Raleigh Joffre Coe archaeologist of the University of Carolina and Bunn Hackney Scout executive of the Uw Harrie Council.
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Asheboro
Rotary Club
Community
Harry Davis
North Carolina State Fenccon Raleigh
Joffre Coe
University of Carolina
Bunn Hackney
Uwharrie Council
Fleet Passes Manteo as Smoke Shrouds Ocean
The U. S. battle fleet was seen from the Outer Banks yesterday with smoke from the ships’ tunnels partially obscuring the sea for two hours.
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Manteo
U. S
Rwo
Resurrection Of World War Ties Sought By Moscow
The Associated Press reports Soviet Russia proposed reviving the Anglo French Russian entente as a bulwark against future German Italian or Japanese aggression. Foreign Commissar Litvinov allegedly urged Sir William Leeds to back a flat reciprocal military alliance.
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Associated Press
Soviet Russia
Germany
Italy
Japan
Maxim Litvinoff
William Leeds
Moscow
Hungary
Slovakia
Hitler
Berlin
Mussolini
Rumania
Poland
Russia
Roosevelt
Secrecy Shrouds Defending Air Fleet Off Rhode Island
Hillsgrove Rhode Island April 21 Secrecy shrouded a heavy concentration of aircraft defending the East coast against an invading fleet Six bombers left Boston airport at 650 am for a sea flight expected to last until mid afternoon Four hours later six reconnaissance ships swooped down on the field after a 3 am start Army and Navy officials said there was no information to be made public about the planes activities in the war game
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Hillsgrove
R. I
Boston
Army
Navy
Halifax
Royal Canadian Air Force
Ottawa
Fundy
Gaspe
Skeena
Saguenay
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Ontario
Niagara Falls
Ont
Queenston
Ontario Hydro Electric Power Commission
Canadian
Niagara Power Company
William Latter
Halifax Harbor
Campherdown
Harbor
Billie Bell
See
Woman seeks 10 year term to end love triangle
A blonde woman calling herself Barbara Williams pleaded guilty in circuit court to robbery without a deadly weapon after attempting to hold up two women with a toy pistol in a theatre. She said she came to Paducah to draw a prison sentence to avoid interfering with a young couple's romance in a northern city.
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Paducah
Barbara Williams
Charge Poles Baiting Nazis in Silesia Report
BERLIN April 21 DNB reports from Katowice in Silesia show the Polish West Society’s propaganda week spurring anti German agitation. Incidents include stoning German homes smashing German newspaper offices and vandalizing a school bus carrying German children. Police investigate as Governor Grazynski cites German minority trials and parallels with Czechoslovakia.
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Berlin
DNB
Katowice
Silesia
Poland
Polish West Society
Koenigshutte
Oberschlessischen Kuriers
Petrowitz
Kostucina
Michal Grazynski
Polish Silesia
Warsaw
Czecho- Slovakia
FDR Discusses World Plane Plans in Secret Lindbergh Talk
President Roosevelt disclosed he spoke with Col Charles A. Lindbergh on the world military plane situation but declined to detail the conversation. Lindbergh’s views on superior planes and limited production were noted in the briefing. On Capitol Hill Mrs Lelen Taft Manning urged stronger neutrality laws amid war in Europe and Asia. Senator Borah pressed for clarity on neutrality amid global conflict.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Charles A. Lindbergh
Army
Lindbergh
National Advisory Committee For Aeronautics
Hitler
Mussolini
Capitol Hill
Lelen Taft Manning
Taft
Ohio
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Europe
Manning
Bryn Mawr College
China
Borah
Idaho
Mrs. Manning
Public Schools Sex Instruction Sparks City Debate
New York educator Ellsworth Buck urged sex education in public schools arguing national survey shows rising illegitimacy and social disease tied to ignorance. He proposes a committee to study adding sex instruction in junior and senior high courses amid a divided board vote.
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New York
Ellsworth B. Buck
New York City
Bureau of Census
Buck
City Board of Education
Yonkers
N. Y
Richmond
DAR Appreciates Mrs Roosevelt for Arranging DAR Event
Washington April 21 The Daughters of the American Revolution adopted a resolution praising Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt for arranging an DAR visit this afternoon A DAR president general said the arrangement was coordinated by Mrs Roosevelt who had letters exchanged with the organization leading to the executive mansion reception Mrs Roosevelt resigned from the DAR in February after Marian Andersons 1939 hall denial and she invited Cordell Hull Henry Wallace and Francis Perkins to attend the mansion event
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Washington
Daughters of the American Revolution
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Dars
Henry M. Robert, Jr
Roosevelt
DAR
Marian Anderson
Cordell Hull
Henry Wallace
Agriculture
Labor
Francis Perkins
Executive
Government investigates income tax case against Philadelphia publisher
Attorney General Murphy announced the government is investigating an income tax case involving M. L. Annenberg, the Philadelphia publisher. He said the government has also pursued an anti trust case against Annenberg for a year or more.
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Philadelphia
Washington
Murphy
M. L. Annenberg
Annenberg
Prime Minister Names Wallace Transport Minister
Prime Minister Chamberlain named Euan Wallace as minister of transport to succeed Leslie Burgin who was selected yesterday to head the new cabinet ranked Ministry of Supply. Burgin will lead the new department with cabinet status.
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Burgin
London
Chamberlain
Euan Wallace
Leslie Burgin
Ministry of Supply
Chicago produce prices for butter and eggs on April day
Chicago traders report butter at 949654 with steady creamery grades 93 score 283 92 22 and 89 22. other butter prices unchanged. Eggs at 45091 steady on current receipts with 15 other prices unchanged.
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Chicago
Censorship Fears Raised by Mencken at Editors Meet
Henry Mencken warned that government press control in war would be worse than in World War I and editors discussed averting censorship. Walter Harrison of the Oklahoma City Oklahoman said he would raise the issue with the resolutions committee and urged reaffirming constitutional freedoms.
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Washington
American Society of Newspaper Editors
Henry JL. Mencken
Sadula
Mencken
United States
Walter Harrison
Oklahoma City Oklahoman
Resolutions Committee
Harrison
Improvement In Business Is Reported
A treasury analysis of March revenue shows higher current excise taxes than March 1938 with gains in gasoline liquor tobacco automobiles trucks and tires. The total for seven items reached 115 million dollars versus 102 million in the prior year.
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Washington
Treasury
FDR Studies Coal Report Amid Appalachian Shutdown Talks
President Roosevelt reviews a federal conciliator report as unions and operators renew efforts for a new contract to end the Appalachian coal strike. Steelman delivered negotiations findings to the President. UMW CIO plans a May 5 strike while coal reserves dwindle and output falls.
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New York
Roosevelt
Appalachian
Perkins
John R. Steelman
Labor Department
Steelman
Washington
Indiana
Ilinois
Kentucky
Charleston
W. Va
Progressive Mine Workers of America
AFL
National Labor Relations Board
Senator Van Nuys Undergoes Mayo Clinic Operation
Senator Frederick Van Nuys of Indiana underwent an operation at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester Minnesota. The surgeon reported the condition excellent and said recovery would allow him to be out of bed by Saturday and out of the hospital in four or five days.
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Rochester
Minn
Frederick van Nuys
Ind
Mayo Clinic
van Nuys
Plea Change Marked Start of Burlington Murder Trial
Defense and state counsel opened arguments in the Burlington first degree murder case with George Smith admitting to second degree murder as a state witness. Smith implicated Wade and Ralph Hanford in the gunfire that killed Sheriff Robertson and Officer Vaughn while Huffman and Roy Huffman fled. The defense called no witnesses as closing statements began and the jury was due to hear the judge’s charge.
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Graham
George Smith
Burlington
Smith
Roy Kelly
Wade
Ralph Hanford
Hanfords
Roy Huffman
Huffman
M. P. Robertson
Lonnie Vaughn
Kelly
Gars
Wade Hanford
Robertson
Vaughn
F. B. Bailiff
Hutflf
Helen Holder
R. B. Christian
West Virginia
West Virginia Hospital
Hanford
N. A. Sinclair
Monetary Bill Amendments Beaten Down
The House defeated an amendment to end the President’s devaluation power by 152 to 84 while voting 180 to 97 to reject Reed’s bid for GAO audit on the stabilization fund. Republicans pressed to kill features extending the silver purchase program and 9 percent dollar devaluation, while preserving the fund.
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Washington
Treasury
House
Luce
Rmass
Representative Reed
R-I
General Accounting Office
Submarine sightings trigger Halifax harbor alert
Halifax authorities and Canadian forces launch a joint search after reports of a mysterious submarine near the harbor. Ships and air units are patrolling as Mounties verify sightings while Ontario guards prepare at Niagara Falls for potential sabotage-linked duties.
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