Cape Henry No-Address Ceremony Honors 1620 Landing Band
President Hoover and Governor Pollard join Virginians and North Carolinians in a religious observance at Cape Henry to honor the 1620 landing by the English. Bishop Thomson conducts services as a large choir from Norfolk and Portsmouth performs with the Twelfth Coast Artillery Band.
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Cape Henry
Hoover
Pollard
Arthur C. Thomson
Episcopal Diocese
Virginia
Norfolk
Portsmouth
A. J. Lancaster
Twelfth Coast Artillery Band
Governor Pollard
Chesapeake Bay
Sarah
Constant
Godspeed
Christopher Newport
Cape
Prince Henry
England
Little Creek
Hopi Indians protest use of tractors for reservation roads
Hopi Indians in Flagstaff complain to the government that tractors and graders planned for reservation road projects will displace hundreds of workers. They say modern machinery harms employment and community welfare.
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Flagstaff
Ariz
Pigs Set Litter Record at West Point Farm
West Point Nebraska report says William Pagels Jr. sire of 36 piglets born to three litters of 11 12 and 13. The front page feature highlights the unusual litter count and local farming achievement.
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West Point, Neb
West Point
William Pagels, Jr
Brass Ankle gives Broadway audiences stark clash of race
New York critics praise Dubose Heyward play The Brass Ankle for close writing and Alice Brady’s strong performance. The drama deals with miscegenation as a white southern woman learns of her mixed blood and ends with the mother’s death.
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New York
Dubose Heyward
Broadway
Alice Brady
Deep South
North
South
South Carolina
Senator Bailey to Speak at North Carolina Student Congress
Senator Josiah W. Bailey will address the second annual congress of the North Carolina federation of students at Duke university on May 16. The topic will be What the Nation Expects of Its Youth, with E. R. Murrow expected to participate. The federation, formed in Chapel Hill last spring, now lists 20 colleges and universities.
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Durham
Josiah W. Bailey
North Carolina Federation of Students
Duke University
John Lang
Bailey
E. R. Murrow
National Student Federation
Chapel Hill
Clover Apple Preserved 62 Years In Worcester
Mrs. Charles Rollins of Worcester Massachusetts owns a clove apple preserved sixty two years ago. The fruit was picked nearby as part of the crop and kept as a local curiosity from a long ago harvest.
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Worcester
Mass
Charles Rollins
A Lifelong Worker for Better Things Mrs Hammer
Asheboro figure Mrs Wm C Hammer has spent decades in church and civic service. From Mission work to leadership roles in the United Methodist Women's groups she influenced Randolph County history and managed The Asheboro Courier after her husband’s political years.
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W. C. Hammer
Wm. C. Hammer
Asheboro
J. M. Hancock
Jane Page Hancock
James Page
House of the Confederacy
Richmond
Randolph
Gettysboro
Randolph County
Salem College
Salem
Minnie Hancock
North Carolina
Women’s Foreign Missions
Methodist Protestant Church
Missionary Society
National Board of Home Missions
General Conference
Randolph County Historical Society
Hammer E
Hammer
Congress
North Carolina Educators Push Ambitious School Plan
The NC Education Association closed its 57th annual convention in Raleigh endorsing a statewide program. It calls for a state board of education and superintendent, extended six to eight month terms, local control with state supervision, higher teacher salaries, and a pervasive character development program. New officers named John H. Cook as president and R. G. Fitzgerald as vice president.
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Raleigh
North Carolina Education Association
Board of Education
North Carolina
John H. Cook
North Carolina College For Women
Greensboro
E. T. Coltrane
Salisbury
R. G. Fitzgerald
Pitt County
Mr. Cook
Daylight Saving Time Adopted Across 483 U.S. and Canadian Cities
The Associated Press reports 483 cities and towns moved clocks from 2 a.m. to 3 a.m. to begin daylight time. New York City and most big New York and New Jersey areas observe daylight time. Syracuse and Rochester did not. Some New Jersey towns delayed. Connecticut bans clock displays, yet many banks and industries switch. Forty seven Canadian communities also shift. Railroads mostly stay on standard time.
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Associated Press
United States
Canada
New York City
New York State
New Jersey
Syracuse
Rochester
East Orange
N. J
Connecticut
Guilford College Plans First Woman to Deliver Finals Adress
Guilford College announces an historic finals plan with Mrs. Lucy Jenkins Franklin of the University of Boston as commencement speaker marking the first time a woman will deliver Guilford’s address. Dean Clyde A. Milner will give the baccalaureate sermon as about 40 students expect to receive bachelor’s degrees on June 1 along with additional summer graduates.
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Guilford College
Guilford
Lucy Jenkins Franklin
University of Boston
South
Binford
Franklin
Clyde A. Milner
Memorial
Founders Hall
A. Wilson Hobbs
College of Liberal Arts
University of North Carolina
Daughters of the American Revolution End Fortieth Annual Congress
Washington April 25 The Daughters of the American Revolution closed their fortieth annual congress with about 4000 delegates in a harmonious session. They rededicated to fighting communism and boosting national defense funding and manpower. Judge Harold B. Wells of New Jersey spoke at the banquet while Mrs. Lowell F Hobart praised the absence of internal strife.
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Washington
Daughters of the American Revolution
Gterg
Harold B. Wells
New Jersey
Lowell F. Hobart
Man builds 500-pound loco from junk in yard
London resident John Parker spent years collecting odds and ends then two years ago began a small locomotive from junk. The finished engine weighs 500 pounds and can haul about two tons at 20 mph, with a frame built from an old bedstead and a boiler from an oxygen tank.
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London
John Parker
Guilford Choir Plans Two Concerts Across Two Cities
Guilford College hosts two A Capella choir concerts with a Friday afternoon show in Concord at First Presbyterian and an eight fifteen evening sacred music program in Salisbury at the Lutheran church. Singers Sarah Davis Sinclair Williams and John Hugh Williams hail from Concord and student effort under Max Noah remains steadily improving.
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Guilford College
Concord
Salisbury
First Presbyterian Church
Cabarrus
Sarah Davis
Sinclair Williams
John Hugh Williams
Guilford
Lutheran Church of Salisbury
Max Noah
Holt Passes in Greensboro
Dr. William Thomas Holt age 77 of McLeansville eastern Guilford county died shortly before noon at his son Dr D W Holt home in Greensboro. Funeral 3 p m at Mt Pleasant Methodist Church with burial in church grounds. Survived by wife Louizania Speas and children Dr D W Holt Bryce R Holt Miss Myrtle Molt Mrs R L Donnell A Bascom Holt Mrs Edward L Davis and William Holt.
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Greensboro
William Thomas Holt
McLeansville
Guilford County
D. W. Holt
Thisty
Mt. Pleasant Methodist Church
Holt
Louizania Speas
Observe National Boys' Week In U. S. Beginning Today
President Hoover commends National Boys Week as it begins tomorrow in the United States. He says the celebration highlights youth’s priceless qualities, inspires fathers and sons, and provides guidance through interest and companionship.
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U. S
Washington
Hoover
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