Roosevelt links democracy to citizen satisfaction in children conference
President Roosevelt told the White House Children’s Conference that democracy’s success rests on citizen satisfaction rather than territory power or armaments. He urged training leaders through health and education for a free society and cited Pan American Day and peace appeals in his remarks.
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Washington
Roosevelt
White House
Children's Conference
Reichsfuerher
Hitler
Mussolini
Mr. Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Navy partial reopening speeds warship construction
The Navy ordered partial reopening of its 25 million dollar World War ordnance land at South Charleston West Virginia to hasten battleship building. Representative Tabor of New York moved to block Roosevelt’s government reorganization plan by offering a resolution disapproving plan number 1.
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The
Navy Today
World War Ordnance
South Charleston
W.a
Tabor R. NY
Roosevelt
New Yorker
House
Tabor
Congress
Governor appoints Cherry to unexpired school commission term
Raleigh April 26 Governor Hoey named R Gregg Cherry of Gastonia to serve the unexpired term of the late Grady Gaston on the state school commission Cherry who is Democratic state chairman a legislator and was speaker of the House in 1937 will serve until May 31 along with the other members and was expected to be re appointed.
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Raleigh
Hoey
R. Gregg Cherry
Gastonia
Grady Gaston
Cherry
Alien Bill May Hit House Floor
The House Rules Committee moves to debate a Hobbs measure to detain certain deportable aliens pending removal. Critics Celler and O Day warn of detention camps. opponents call it unconstitutional. Also noted, Martin hints at public salary disclosures and a conference panel drops a Senate aero nautical center amendment.
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House Rules Committee
House
Hobbs
D-Ala
Celler
D-Ny
O'Day
Martin
Massachusetts
Senate
Sunnyvale
Calif
Governor Hoey Pushes National Cotton Deck Use
Raleigh April 26 Governor Hoey urged emphasis on cotton goods and new uses of cotton at the National Cotton Deck event set for May 22 to 27. He called attention to the campaign and stressed the crop’s economic importance.
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Raleigh
Hoey
National Cotton Deck
Public Support Ends Criticism in Press Conclave
President James G. Stahlman of the American Newspaper Publishers Association urged stronger public service and financial strength to weather criticism and misjudgment. He called for unified efforts to boost press efficiency and win advertising revenue, warning newspapers to launch a robust public relations campaign and better promote their own business.
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New York
James G. Stahlman
American Newspaper Publishers Association
Association
Stahlman
Nashville (Tenn
El Moroco Closes After Park Avenue Altercation
New York April 26. Police suspend El Morocco cabaret license for 48 hours after a clash between owner John Perona and importer Frederick S. Wildman. The fashionable Park Avenue spot yielded its license as a penalty for the incident.
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New York
el Morocco
Park Avenue
John Perona
Frederick S. Wildman
Farmers Protest 15 Union Charge on Pennsylvania Highway
Embittered farmers and laborers marched along a seven mile stretch of Pennsylvania's Dream Highway halting work as they protested a $15 union initiation fee. About 100 pickets appeared at the eastern tip, with workers joining them as crews quit tools and left sites.
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Somerset
Pennsylvania
County Construction Company
AFL Construction, General Labor and Material Handlers
Neutrality Act repeal urged by column writer
Dorothy Thompson urged Congress to repeal the Neutrality Act to gain freedom of action amid global turmoil. She told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that current law would not have kept the U.S. out of war and noted much of the world is at war again. AFL official Paul Scharrenberg opposed changes, while Pittman contemplates extending Cash and Carry to munitions to aid sea‑control nations.
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Washington
Dorothy Thompson
Congress
United States
Miss Thompson
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Paul Scharrenberg
American Federation of Labor
William Green
AFL
Pittman
D-Nev
Senate Foreign Relations
China
Great Britain
France
Japan
R. Walton Moore
State Department
White Senate
House
Appointee May Balk Revision to Wagner Act Debate
Senators weigh impact of William M. Leiserson on Labor Relations Board replacing Donald Wakefield Smith as AFL criticisms mount. Holt and Neely see Leiserson softening calls for amendments while Burke and Burke oppose the change. AFL and CIO officials respond guardedly.
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Washington
William M. Leiserson
Labor Relations Board
Leiserson
National Mediation Board
Donald Wakefield Smith
AFL
Roosevelt
Senate
Smith
Senator Holt
D-Wva
Labor Committee
Holt
Thomas
Utah
Congress
Neely
Wva
Burke
D-Neb
William Leiserson
William Green
Federation
Lee Pressman
CIO
Clo
Czecho Slovak Officials Refuse Consulate Surrender
Czech officials in New York refuse to relinquish the Czecho Slovak consulate general to Germany within three days. Acting Czech consul Karel Hudec has received two cable orders but has not replied. Hudec, after talks with Eduard Benes and Czech Minister Vladimir Hurban, plans to disregard Prague’s instruction.
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New York
Prague
Karel Hudec
Hudec
Eduard Benes
Munich
Vladimir Hurban
Washington
Negrin Sails for New York Aboard Normandie
Juan Negrin the last premier of the Spanish Republican regime sailed for New York today on the liner Normandie. He declined to reveal any future plans.
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Negrin
New York
LE Havre
France
Juan Negrin
Normandie
British Message Reaches Hitler Amid Conscription Talks
Sir Nevile Henderson finally conveyed Chamberlain's note on peacetime conscription to Chancellor Hitler via Baron Weizsaecker. Hitler planned a Reichstag reply to Roosevelt while Mussolini stays fully briefed. German officials call England's plan a possible provocation depending on its motives.
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Louis P. Lochner
Berlin
Nevile Henderson
Britain
Hitler
Chamberlain
Baron Ernst von Weizsaecker
Foreign Office
Joachim von Ribbenstrop
Fuehrer
Alexander Cinca-Markovich
Yugoslavia
Roosevelt
von Weizsaecker
von Ribbentrop
Theeichstag
Mussolini
Italy
Il Duce
Germany
China coast bombing kills forty in Foochow raid
Japanese planes bombed the China coast south of Shanghai with a Foochow raid that killed about 40 and wounded 100. Wenchow and Amoy were also attacked, with forts at the Wui River shelled by warships and commerce disrupted. Guerrillas on Quemoy Island reportedly killed 200 Japanese.
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China Coast
Foochow
Shanghai
Wenchow
Chekiang Province
Wui River
Amoy
Quemoy Island
Polish Woman Sentenced in Danzig for Slandering Hitler
The Danzig emergency court sentenced Felixa Lawikowska, a Polish citizen, to two months in prison for slandering Chancellor Hitler and will be expelled as an undesirable alien after serving the sentence.
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Hitler
Danzig
Felixa Lawikowska
City awards two hydro project contracts amid high court hearing
In a special session the High Point City Council awarded two contracts related to the six and a half million dollar hydroelectric project. Realty Bond Company won a $14,969 bid for four cottages and a dam site garage, and Brewer Heating and Plumbing Company won a $6,808.06 bid for water and sewage. The council also accepted resignations of E. L. Briggs and F. Logan Porter and leased a small property at Redding and West Green Streets. Tomorrow a Greensboro court will hear suits seeking to block the hydro plant, with Duke Power Company intervening.
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High Point
Realty Bond Company
Winston-Salem
Wich
Brewer Heating and Plumbing Company
BE. M. Knox
E. L. Briggs
F. Logan Porter
Board of Control
Redding
West Green Streets
Mallpass
Utilities Committee
Amos R. Kearns
Knox
J. W. McGuinn
Duke Power Company
H. Hoyle Sink
Nazi Guards Beat American Doctor in Vienna Cafe
Dr Oscar Lavine of Mount Rainier Maryland says S A I Nazi Guard men beat Jewish guests in the Stadt Theatre cafe during blackout drills in Vienna He sustained minor injuries and escaped Lavine reported to the U S consulate to forward a written account to Washington.
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Vienna
Oscar Lavine
Mount Rainier
United States
S. A
Lavine
Stadt Theatre
Washington
French Chiefs Discuss Near East Problem
Premier Daladier convened a high level meeting with military and diplomatic chiefs in Paris to shape France's stance on the Near East crisis. Discussions centered on Syria Hatay transfer to Turkey and compensating Syria, with General Gamelin joining the talks due to regional military implications. Bonnet to meet Turkish envoy and greet Romanian Foreign Minister Fafencu in London. France and Britain eye a formal conscription announcement to steady the international situation amid Hitler’s upcoming address.
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Daladier
France
Near East
War Ministry
Syria
Republic of Hatay
Alexandretta
Turkey
Georges Bonnet
Gabriel Puaux
Maurice Gustave Gamelin
National Defense
Foreign Office
Hatay
Romania
Bonnet
Grigore Fafencu
London
Great Britain
Adolf Hitler
French Ambassador Coulondre Returns to Berlin
Robert Coulondre, French ambassador, returned to Berlin today after leaving March 18 to report on Germany’s protectorate over Prague. No foreign office officials greeted him at the station.
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Berlin
Robert Coulondre
Germany
Prague
Foreign Office
Fight Looms As Uniting Conference Opens Today
Delegates from eight million Methodist members launched a historic uniting conference amid threats of an injunction to block consolidation. A laymen’s group pressed federal action to stop the merger and seize church properties, while Negroes would run via a separate conference under the planned structure. A mass communion service opened the day with bishops from Northern, Southern, and Protestant divisions officiating.
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Kansas City
Methodism
George ©. Spence
Atlanta
America
Protestant Methodist Church
Methodist Episcopal Church
South
Episcopal Cathedral of Grace
Holy Trinity
Herbert Welsh
Wallace E. Brown
C. W. Flint
Samuel R. Hay
W. W. Peele
C. C. Selecman
E. A. Sexsmith
S. W. Rosenberger
Chamberlain Proposes Six Months Military Training for All Britons
Prime Minister Chamberlain announced in Parliament that all British men in their twenty first year would be liable for six months of military training. A bill to enforce conscription will be introduced next week, signaling Britain's first modern compulsory peace time service and a warning to Axis powers. The move follows claims of readiness to discuss a general settlement with Germany if it yields useful results, while Labour vows to oppose the bill.
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Chamberlain
Hitler
Berlin
Britain
Territorial Army
National Guard
Roosevelt
Italy
Germany
Labor Party
United States
Dominions
Poland
Romania
Greece
Tobacco workers in closed shop deal end nine day strike
Employees at Liggett and Myers tobacco plants in Richmond and Durham returned to work after a 900 worker strike. Union leaders called the agreement a 99.99 percent closed shop as company and union spokesmen announced terms including union membership for non members and wage increases for several classifications.
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Richmond
Liggett and Myers Hobacco Company
Durham
N. C
International Tobacco Workers Union
W. O. Hartbarger
Department Store Sales Rise 8.9 Percent in March
The Federal Reserve Bank reports fifth district department store sales rose 8.9 percent in March from March 1938. District sales for the first quarter were 2.3 percent higher than the same period last year, based on 30 stores. Easter buying shifted earlier into March in 1939. District covers Virginia West Virginia North and South Carolina Maryland and the District of Columbia.
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Federal Reserve Bank
Virginia
West Virginia
North
South Carolina
Maryland
District of Columbia
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