Local High Point Commits to NRA Drive War Aims
Flog Logan Porter chairs a High Point group pledging 100 percent support for the Roosevelt administration's National Recovery Act program. He frames the effort as a national war to restore employment, praising industrial codes and the blanket code to raise buying power and quickly place workers back on the job.
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Washington
Rto
Mr. Porter
Roosevelt
Hugh S. Johnson
United States
Army
Navy
High Point
Ashington
Johnson
Igh Point
America
Rellas
New York Cotton Futures Close Firm in Mixed Session
Cotton futures in New York closed firmer with gains of 6 to 11 points. Trading ranged from 10.18 to 11.35 as October through December contracts showed mixed moves and closing prices near session highs.
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New York
P.C
Vewee
Jar .Ceess
Automobile Dealers to Meet Over N R A Code
Local automobile dealers filling station operators and independent garage owners will gather tonight at 7 30 in the municipal building court room to discuss complaints and the blanket code under the NRA program. Frank J Sizemore Chamber secretary will preside.
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N. RB. A
Frank J. Sizemore
Chamber of Commerce
Lindale Dairy Opens Modern New Plant
The Lindale Dairy Corporation observ es a formal opening of its West Lexington Avenue plant with general manager C H Willard inviting the public to inspect and sample products. Plant superintendent G A Coble and secretary G A Covington head the staff along with experienced dairy personnel. The facility, focused on Grade A pasteurized milk, also makes creamery butter sweet cream butter ice cream buttermilk and cottage cheese under the motto Safe service to the community.
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Lindale Dairy Corporation
Lexington Avenue
C. H. Williard
Williard
G. A. Coble
G. A. Covington
Does Practice Make Perfect Subject At Wesley Memorial
Pope, associate pastor of Wesley Memorial church, will speak at the mid week service tonight on Does Practice Make Perfect. The talk is fifth in a Chalk Talks series Learning To Live As Christians and will discuss conditions for learning to live the Christian life in the church basement starting at o'clock with special music.
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Listen Pope
Wesley Memorial Church
Pope Addresses A B Club On The Test Of A New Day
Liston C. Pope, director of religious education and associate pastor at Wesley Memorial, spoke to the American Business Club in the Elwood hotel dining room on The Test of a New Day. He outlined three tests for any new deal focusing on public good, concrete contribution, and forward looking attitude as essential criteria. President Mike Boyce formed six month committees at the meeting.
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Liston C. Pope
Wesley Memorial Methodist Church
American Business Club
Elwood Hotel
Mike Boyce
Pope
Council Meeting in High Point Delayed Indefinitely
High Point city council session postponed when a quorum of five of eight members was not reached. Mayor Grayson and three members attended, leaving several items to be rescheduled for a later date.
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High Point City
Grayson
Convict Claims Harsh Conditions at Caledonia Prison Farm
Belving Penninger, an escaped convict from Caledonia prison farm serving a 500 year sentence for murder, alleges in The Charlotte News that inmates face beatings with cue sticks, solitary confinement in dark cells, and inadequate medical care. He was recaptured in Union County and held for transfer to a state camp.
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Charlotte
Caledonia
Durham Leads June Building Permits In District
Durham North Carolina posted the strongest June permit value relative to population in the fifth federal reserve district with 101 855 dollars in new work compared with 23 250 a year earlier The district as a whole reported 2 457 469 dollars down 28 percent from 1932 North Carolina cities showed gains over June 1932 in most cases with Winston Salem the exception.
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Richmond
Durham
North Carolina
Federal Reserve District
North Carolina Tobacco Center
Federal Reserve
Winston- Salem
Asheville
Charlotte
Greensboro
High Point
Raleigh
Salisbury
Lone Rocky Mount
Wilmington
Winston-Salem
Death of Advance depot agent Charles L Cook at 59
Charles Lewis Cook, 59, Southern Railway depot agent at Advance North Carolina, died at home after a long illness. Born August 28, 1873 in Stokesdale, he served 35 years with the railway and leaves a son L R Cook of High Point. Funeral services are scheduled for Stokesdale M E Church with Masonic graveside rites.
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Charles Lewis Cook
Southern Railway Company
Advance
N. C
Mr. Cook
Stokesdale
J. H. Cook
Southern Railway
Susie N. Reynolds
L. R. Cook
High Point
Cook
M. B. Church
Cooleemee
Masonic Order
Red Men
Sechrist Funeral Home
Stokesdale M. E
Mr. Edwards
Gandhi imprisoned in Yeroda jail amid civil disobedience drive
Mahatma Gandhi was jailed today in the Yerode jail at Poona after arriving from Ahmadabad. He was arrested with his wife and 32 followers as they prepared to launch a new movement for India’s independence.
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Poona
India
Mahatma Gandhi
Yerode
Jai
Gandhi
Ahmadabad
Campaign to Be Launched Over Nation
Heat waves grip the Northeast with 90 degree readings in Boston and rising. Daily deaths in the region total over forty, with reports of prostrations flooding in as forecasts look to relief from the northwest. Temperatures across Ohio and Minnesota fall back into the seventies after overnight rain.
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New England
Atlantic Seaboard
Boston
Weather Bureau
Ohio
St. Paul
Minn
Youth kills his friend on boat with a pistol
A young man on a boating trip near New York fired his .45 by accident killing a companion. The shooter, nephew of prominent early 20th century banker Karl Werner Heye, had lived in New York since his father's death in 1932 and inherited most of the Heye estate.
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Manger
Us Manger
Mancase
Heye
Karl Werner Heye
Rochester
Young Heye
New York
Mauritian tortoise noted in 1810 treaty transfer
A large tortoise long lived on Mauritius became a national possession and was explicitly named in the 1810 treaty when Mauritius was ceded by France to Britain.
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Mauritius
England
Grocery code signed by 40 High Point dealers
About forty local grocery and meat market dealers signed a tentative code drafted by a High Point committee. The agreement sets open hours from 7 30 a m to 6 p m Monday to Saturday and caps labor at 48 hours weekly. More names likely signed as of noon today.
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High Point
Home Food
All Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co
Save It
Robbins Fish Market
Piggy Wigely
National Market
Brown's
W. H. Bowen
N. Main Cash
Blm Street
Lambeth
T. 8. Bouldin, Jr., East Side Grocery
Brentwood Grocery
Quality Food
W. R. Grant
City Grocery
Chestnut Street Grocery
Moser Cash Grocery
W. C. T. Carter
R. W. Yountsa
Waynick Awaiting Confirmation of His Appointments
Capus M. Waynick, director of the re employment work in North Carolina, has moved to Raleigh for campaigning. His wife joins him as Washington confirms several of his designates before any aero for the present. Waynick’s background includes service in the 1933 senate and 1931 house, shaping his readiness for the job. Raleigh anticipates the arrival of the two Waynicks and notes the novelty of the “Sir Walter Cabinet” wives among the lawmakers.
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Cnetet Bureau
Sir Walter Motel
Raleigh
Capus M. Waynick
North Carolina
Senate
Guilford and Wake County Start Reemployment Effort
Wake county forms to act as the national re employment service unit with plans to open registration offices for unemployed workers. Guilford county is nearly ready to begin. field agents are chosen though not yet approved. The first major work targets highway construction projects worth 11 million dollars and about 11 000 jobs. The Wake committee includes J R Witherspoon H O Lineberger C L Mann S O Garon Karl G Hudson A Brame and J M Judd.
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Raleigh
Capite Waynick
Wake County
National
Waynick
Guilford
J. R. Witherspoon
Durham Life Insurance Company
H. O. Lineberger
C. L. Mann
N. C. State College Engineering Department
Butter And Eggs Prices Steady In Chicago Market
Chicago August 2 reports butter at 10,939 and eggs at 4 6 cents per dozen with prices unchanged and market steady.
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Chicago
Dismissal in Manslaughter Case Leads Municipal Docket
In Municipal Court Judge Lewis E Teague dismissed the manslaughter charge against Willam Jamison in the death of four year old Louise Covington. The docket included embezzlement cases and multiple driving while intoxicated charges with penalties ranging from fines and costs to jail terms and road duty.
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Willam Jamison
Louise Covington
Lewis E. Teague
Leroy Watts
Columbus Harris
Wilson Hargrove
Albert Wood
Dora Hill
A. F. McGirt
Coats
North Carolina
Talt Sullivan
Evans Teddy
President assigns Moley to survey treasury cash balance
On August 15 the new government paper goes on sale and the treasury will hold about 1.5 billion in cash, the largest vault total in U.S. history. Government financing for the rest of the year is expected to ease, with about half a billion for public works and Reconstruction finance programs. A strong August offering of 859.6 million boosts odds of converting part of a six billion dollar Liberty loan callable October 1.
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Treasury
New Marine Coron Ambulance Plane Displays Reserve Litter Capability
At Quantico Virginia the Marine Corps unveils an ambulance plane with two litters in addition to crew. The item notes the craft is over eleven feet long and carries a small brain size relative to body, citing a stegosaurus analogy for its brain capacity.
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Marine Coron
Quantico
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