Television 10 Be Available at New York World's Fair
David Sarnoff announced at the New York World's Fairgrounds that television would launch a new American industry. The RCA broadcast from the fair building marked the opening of commercial television program service and receivers to the public this week. A business audience attended the fair grounds ceremony, while eight miles away at Rockefeller Center an RCA audience watched.
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New York
David Sarnoff
Radio Corporation of America
RCA
New York World’s Fairgrounds
Saranoff
Radio Corporation of American
Rockefeller Center
Kendrick Wins Rosenwald Fellowship at UNC
John Kendrick of Greensboro, a University of North Carolina graduate student, was awarded the Julius W. Rosenwald Fellowship of 1000 dollars for study in sociology and economics.
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Chapel Hill
John Kendrick
Greensboro
University of North Carolina
Julius W. Rosenwald
Betty Mary Jordan Uncovers Smuggling Links At Border
Betty Mary Jordan, a border patrol secretary, reports that a woman and child are involved in smuggling. She deduces Luis Barro’s hangouts in Juarez and notes Barro’s orders to staff to show courtesy to her, hinting at a larger narcotics operation and potential submarine shipment via the Peraltas. Sheridan Starr and Hope Kildare monitor a bridge for clues, focusing on Tafoya and her young daughter Angelina.
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Border Patrol
Sheridan Starr
Hope Kildare
Starr
Luis Barro
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Betty Mary
el Casino Tecolote
Jaurez
el Paso
Senorita Jordan
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Senorita
Don Data
Don Lyle
Uwuh
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Hope
Sherry
McKenney on Bridge Quiz Fifth in Series
The article presents the fifth bridge quiz in a series by WM B McKenney. It lists four problems with point rewards and provides solutions detailing bidding and play strategies for each scenario including trump considerations, opening bids against no trump, card led plays, and spade unblocking to prevent declarer from making the contract.
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East
West
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South
Fast
French Seek Clues In Fire On Liner Paris
French authorities pursue a theory foreign agents started the Paris blaze and question crew members while denying a bomb finding on the Normandie. Officials report threats to the Normandie amid the drydock propeller change near the Paris wreck.
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LE Havre
France
Paris
Normandie
Louis de Chappedelaine
Italian Troops in Spain Concentrate for Return
Burgos April 21. Large contingents of Italian troops including the Red Green and Black Arrow Divisions concentrated at Alicante Almeria and Albacete preparing to depart for Italy. Reliable reports say only the Littorio Divisions under General Gastone Gambara will take part in the Madrid Victory Review May 15 with the rest returning home before month’s end.
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Red
Green
Alicante
Almeria
Albacete
Italy
Gastone Gambara
Madrid
Bonnet urges renouncement of aggression in Europe
Paris dispatch reports French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet called on governments to renounce military aggression following President Roosevelt's message to Hitler and Mussolini. He framed Franco-American cooperation for peace as a new base for shared welfare amid Europe’s tense moment.
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Paris
Georges Bonnet
Roosevelt
Hitler
Musolini
Cooperation For
Europe
Elizabeth City honors Herbert Peele with desk set tribute
Former Governor J C B Ehringhaus and the Elizabeth City Rotary Club paid tribute to Herbert Peele founder and editor of the Elizabeth City Advance at a recent dinner. The desk set inscription praised his unselfish devotion to community and friends.
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Elizabeth City
J. C. B. Ehringhaus
Cotton Spinning Industry Operated At 60 Percent Capacity
The Census Bureau reported that in March the cotton spinning industry operated at 60 percent of capacity on an 80 hour two shift basis, down from 78 percent in February and 66.6 percent in March last year.
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Washington
Census
Soil Conservation Checks Total $128,223 in Wayne County
Wayne County Farm Agent C. S. Mintz announced that 1938 Soil Conservation checks had been received this week, totaling $128,222.80. The funds support farm practices and land stewardship programs in the region.
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Goldsboro
Wayne County
C. S. Mintz
Doll Adulation Tangles Tafoya Case In Drug Ring
In a perilous mystery scene Hopey and a companion discuss a Tafoya family doll stash. Police seize more than a gallon of cocaine capsules used as doll stuffing and arrest Mrs Tafoya and her daughter for the third time as the tale continues.
Food production in Germany slides amid labor shortage
Germany sees declining production of certain foods as labor scarcity worsens and rural exodus accelerates, prompting concern over agricultural output and regional food supplies.
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Germany
Non-Intervention Group Dies After Spanish Civil War
The international non intervention committee, which worked to remove foreign fighters from Spain and keep arms out, was buried quietly. It terminated its land and sea observation schemes in a final meeting chaired by Lord Plymouth at the Foreign Office nearby.
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London
International Non - Intervention Committee
Spain
Lord Plymouth
Locarno
Foreign Office
Japan Unmoved by Fleet Return to Pacific
Tokyo says the United States fleet transfer back to the Pacific is a routine move to return to its bases after Roosevelt urged a ten year peace agreement with Germany and Italy. A naval spokesman stressed no concern and a calm view of the action.
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Pacific
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United States
Roosevelt
Germany
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