Roosevelt Leads In Early Primary Returns Amid Cox Hopefuls
President Roosevelt builds a Pennsylvania lead to 442 delegates with total 487 pledged plus 106 instructed for the Cleveland convention. Governor Landon of Kansas and Senator Borah of Idaho show support as parties gauge write in and unpledged delegates. Turn to page five.
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Ashington
Roose
Gov Landon
Kansas
Borah
Idaho
Ophim
Elming
Henry Kenridge
Pennsylvania
Philadel
London
Massachusetts
Frank Knox
Kusetia
Landon Sepportere
Hoover
Tieup Of Dam Project With Legislation For Flood Relief Proposed
High Point considers tying the Smith Mountain dam project to federal flood relief legislation. City officials have contacted Senator Josiah W. Bailey and seek Virginia legislators support. Army engineers traced Roanoke floods to the upper watershed and proposed dam-based river improvements, with Smith Mountain Gap as the top dam. plan to build there and raise the dam height if feasible.
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Smith Mountain Dam
High Point
United States
Smith Mountain Project
Josiah W. Bailey
Virginia
Senator Bailey
Roanoke River
North Carolina
Bailey
Army Engineers
Smith Mountain Gap
Smith Mountain
Independent Air Inquiry Board Recommended
Eugene L. Vidal urged the Senate Air Safety Committee to create an independent accident board to investigate air crashes. He argued it is embarrassing for bureau personnel to judge their own inspection and airways services and cited the 1935 Missouri crash that killed Senator Bronson Cutting and four others as a key reason for the change. Vidal said statistics show air travel is six times safer than in 1930 and urged the panel to consider non bureau members for future investigations.
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Washington
Senate Air Safety Committee
Eugene L. Vidal
Air Commerce Bureau
Bronson Cutting
New Mexico
Missouri
Vidal
Bureau
Senate Passes 503 Million Tax Bill Aimed at Farm Relief
Washington April. The administration 803 million dollar tax bill cleared the heavily Democratic House by 267 to 92 votes. It envisions a corporate income tax rising to 29.5 percent for small firms and 42.5 percent for large earners, with windfall and excise levies boosting revenue to meet farm relief and debt needs. Senator Morgenstern to testify as committee weighing the measure anticipates Senate approval amid some protests over process.
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Washington
Burns
Senate
Morgenthaw
Senate Committee
Democratic Committee
Earminga
Roosevelt
Wage and m Committees
B Hess
Weather Report Overcast North Carolina with Wind Shifts
The bulletin notes mostly cloudy conditions across North Carolina with tonight and Thursday fronts and winds shifting from easterly to southerly. It lists temperature readings across cotton growing areas and rainfall measurements, including highs around the upper 70s to low 80s and various 24 hour totals, amid scattered showers and unsettled wind patterns.
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Carolina
Hatteras
Roosevelt Urges New Coal Wage Agreement To Avert Strike
President Roosevelt asked the anthracite wage conference in New York to reach a wage and hour pact without a strike as the current five year agreement for about 150 000 miners in Pennsylvania expires at midnight. Negotiations after three months failed to secure a new contract with miners seeking higher pay shorter work week and union dues deducted from wages.
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Washington
Roosevelt
New York
Pennsylvania
United Mine Workers
Labor Department
Two Guilty in December Home Burglary at High Point
In Guilford Superior Court Walter Bridgeman and Robert Grady of High Point were found guilty of breaking and entering the home of Jim Welch on North Wrenn Street December 27 and stealing a shotgun valued at $20. Sentences pending. Sam Sellars, charged with carnal knowledge of a girl under 16, pleaded guilty to forcible trespass. judgment suspended pending payment of costs after he married Pauline Roberson of High Point.
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PECL
Greensboro
Walter Bridgeman
Robert Grady
High Point
Guilford Superior Court
Jim Welch
North Wrenn Street
Sam Sellars
Pauline Roberson
Russians Discover Huts Once Used By American Explorers
A Russian aviator reported revisiting Baldwin and Fiala huts on Rudolf Island near Franz Josef Land. Bald win’s food stores remained, while Fiala’s huts were ice bound. Fiala noted excess materials remain buried in ice. Baldwin died in a Washington, D C car crash. Vodopyanoff planned May 1 flight toward 85 degrees latitude.
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Moscow
Evelyn B. Baldwin
United States
North Pole
Michail Vodopyanoff
Radio Today
Rudolf Island
Franz Josef Land
Baldwin
Anthony Fiala
Fiala
Brooklyn
N. Y
Washington, D. C
Vodopyanoff
Takhaya Bay
Takhaya
Franz Josef Islands
Frans Oe Land
V. Makhotkin
William Ziegler
Woman in Red Departs for Romania on President Harding
Anna Sage known as the Woman in Red sailed from New York aboard the President Harding at noon, deported to Romania after aiding federal agents in Dillinger's death. The 44 year old brunette spoke from her cabin, confirming she received 5000 dollars for informing and saying she would do her duty again. She declined to discuss her relationship with Dillinger.
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New York
Anna Sage
John Dillinger
Chicago
Harding
Romania
Dillinger
America
Deputy sheriff makes easy arrest after River Street liquor store break in
Greenville North Carolina April 29 Deputy sheriff A Batson says he made the easiest arrest on record. He met 21 year old Jift Taylor who admitted breaking into the River Street liquor store and agreed to accompany Batson to jail.
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Greenville
8. C
A. Hatsom
Jift Taylor
Taylor
Batson
River Street
Carolinas Building Materials Institute Adopts Protest Resolution
In Charlotte on April 29 the institute adopted a resolution protesting asphalt roofing manufacturers bidding directly on WPA and other federal relief projects.
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Charlotte
Carolinas Building Materials Institute
Goldsboro to Host North Carolina Coal Dealers Convention
Greensboro April 29 The North Carolina Coal Dealers association will hold its annual convention in Goldsboro on June 10 11 The meeting also discussed the Guffey Act case hoping for a Supreme Court ruling against it and reduced rail coal rates George Neill of Fayetteville a coal and tee dealer was endorsed for lieutenant governor.
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Greensboro
North Carolina Coal Dealers Association
Goldsboro
Supreme Court
George Neill
Fayetteville
Coal and Tee
North Carolina to Pay Bond Debt July 1
State Treasurer Charles M. Johnson announced that $6,126,044.50 will be paid on July 1 to retire $2,600,000 in maturing securities and cover interest on remaining bonded debt. The move lowers total state debt from $166,914,000 to $164,314,000.
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N.C
Raleigh
Charles M. Johnson
Martin named state chairman for flood relief program
PJ T Martin, president of a local department store, is appointed state chairman by the Federal Housing Administration to lead flood and storm relief efforts.
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Greensboro
PJ. T. Martin
Federal Housing Administration
State militia aids Greensboro tornado relief effort
Adjutant General J Van BB Metta reported 150 officers and men from the North Carolina militia were on three days tornado duty in Greensboro this month. The effort cost 1 01.23.
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Raleigh
J. van BB. Metta
Subermanatorial Candidates Hit Campaign Trail in North Carolina
Three of four Democratic subernatorial hopefuls and William H. Griffin pursued active speaking tours. John A. McRae spoke in Chapel Hill, Clyde Hoey in Morganton, Ralph W. McDonald in Yanceyville and at Boone and Burlington, Sandy Graham in eastern counties, while Griffin spoke at Morehead City Beaufort and New Bern.
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Raleigh
William H. Griffin
John A. McRae
Chapel Hill
Clyde &. Hoey
Morganton
Ralph W. McDonald
Yanceyville
Boone
Burlington Tentaht
Sandy Graham
Griffin
Morehead City
Beaufort
New Bern
Vandeyville Gubernatorial Candidate Visit Report
Vandeyville dated April 29 reports Ralph W. McDonald a Democratic gubernatorial candidate. The item notes his campaign activity and remarks during a city event.
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Vandeyville
Ralph W. McDonald
Nazi Plot Foiled in Budapest Raids on May 1
Police in Budapest report a nationwide raid uncovering a Nazi conspiracy to stage a May Day putsch. Eighteen Hungarian Nazi leaders including Dr Zoltan Boszormeny were arrested and 40 army uniforms found in his home. Authorities warned sympathizers in various districts to come to Budapest May 1, pledging the plot crushed. Admiral Miklós Horthy remains regent of Hungary since 1920 after ousting Bela Kun. Hungary remains a monarchy in name only.
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Budapest
Zoltan Boszormeny
Colomela
Dr. Boszormeny
Nicholas Horthy
Hungary
Bela Kun
Tear gas used to disperse crowd at Miller case in Huntsville
National guardsmen used tear gas bombs to break up a crowd outside the courthouse where Walter Miller, a Black man, pleaded not guilty to assault and murder. About 400 to 500 people gathered as Miller was taken from the courtroom to a truck en route to Birmingham for safekeeping. judge set trial for May 13. Two men were arrested amid disturbance accusations. Authorities reported a signed confession.
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Huntsville
Ala
Walter Miller
Vivian Woodward
Birmingham
Miller
Paul Speake
Congressman Zioncheck Confounds Reporters On Marriage
Washington April 2 Representative Marion Zioncheck of Washington state faced reporters while confirming his recent marriage to Rubye Louise Nix 22 as he refused to discuss the union. He joked about privacy while offering a brief immunity from arrest and fielded questions about a range of topics before the briefing ended.
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Washington
Marion Zioncheck
Washington State
Rubye Louise Nix
PWA
Newemen
Paul R. Diehl
Annapolis
Randolph Indian Village Site to Be Excavation Site
North Carolina researchers plan excavations at a Randolph County site believed to be a Keyaunee village linked to an extinct tribe. The project, funded with 200 dollars, aims to uncover remains on the old Indian trading route once noted by John Lawton in 1701.
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Winston-Salem
North Carolina
Archaeological Society
Douglas EL. Rights
Randolphounty
Randolph
John Lawton
Lawson
Augusta
James River
Virginia
Banks Opened In North Carolina To Serve Counties Without Banks
Raleigh April 29. Bank Commissioner Hood announced twelve teller window branches have opened in North Carolina since March 15 to provide banking facilities for counties lacking banks.
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Raleigh
Gurney BP
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McRae and Hoey
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