Buzzard Roost hearing opens in Duke Power case
The Fourth U S Circuit Court of Appeals began reviewing Duke Power Co for Greenwood County South Carolina to build the Buzzard Roost project with a Public Works loan and grant. Duke argues the plan harms state authority over rates while supporters say it promotes a legitimate public works project and lower power costs.
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Asheville
U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Ickes
Interior Department
Duke Power Company
Greenwood County
South Carolina
Public Works Administration
O'B. Robinson
Charlotte
Duke
Buzzard Roost
Greenwood
W. H. Nicholson
Nicholson
Barkley Sees Adjournment Window By End Of Month
Majority Leader Barkley said Congress likely to adjourn between August 15 and 25. The wage hour bill tops unfinished business as the House labor committee delays action for labor groups to propose changes. President Roosevelt’s delay request reportedly came via William Green of the AFL.
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Washington
Barkley
Congress
Senate
House Labor Committee
Organized Labor
Norton
D-Nj
Labor Committee
Roosevelt
Hartley
Capitol
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Supreme Court
Sucessor
van Devanter
Labor factions claim gains in unions and organizing drives
The CIO and AFL report progress across several fronts. Contracts cover 23 000 workers in the Ohio valley with no strikes, while the transport union signs a closed shop deal for 1800 NYC drivers and mechanics. The textile drive reaches 42 000 of 58 000 in 136 plants and Marlboro mills seek relief from CIS obstructive action. Pacific coast federations oppose CIO activity as the Washington state federation accuses communist and socialist groups of undermining democracy.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
American Federation of Labor
Organized Labor Movement
Committee For Industrial Organization
Ohio Valley
Transport Workers Union
New York City Omnibus Corporation
Textile Workers Organizing Committee
South
A. F. of L
Marlboro Mills
Bennettsville
S. C
C. S. O. Textile Workers Organizing Committee
Washington State
Communist Party of America
Socialist Party
Japanese southward push nears Chinese line near Tientsin
AP reports Japanese infantry advancing from Tientsin along the Tientsin Pukow railroad toward southern Hopeh with clashes near Tehchow and Paotingfu. Japanese air strikes hit a Chinese vanguard as Moscow and Tokyo trade accusations amid North China fighting. Casualty figures rise and markets slip in Tokyo.
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Associated Press
Tientsin
Tehchow
Hopeh
Khatung
Tientsin-Pukow
Hopeh Province
Paotingfu
Peiping
Izvestia
Moscow
Japan
Japanese War Office
North China
Tokyo Stock Exchange
Tokyo
North China War
Benny Powell
Harry G. Martin
Boston
James A. Hunter
Peoria
Ill
Tungchow
Price Trends on New York Market Show Mixed Moves
New York August 3 AP prices varied across sectors with copper rubber and special ties advancing while steels and motors retreated from yesterday. Fourth hour gains ranged fractions to over two points while decliners fell, trading ahead of the prior session. Bond activity edged higher, and overall commodities showed uneven movement.
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New York
Congress
Small Fire at Carolina Bonded Warehouse
Fire crews responded to a blaze at 1 45 PM at the Carolina Bonded warehouse on Mallory street where a crate of furniture caught fire. No injuries reported.
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Carolina
Mallory Street
Hoey Sees New Market As Cotton Road Opens
Governor Hoey proclaimed the Clinton to Faison Cotton Road as a new era in road building and a new market for cotton. In Goldsboro a motorcade formed to honor the opening as North Carolina highlighted its progress to an international audience.
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Hoey
Cotton
Faison
Clinton
Goldsboro
Truck Driver Killed In North Carolina Crash
C C Pope age 25 was killed when his transfer truck went off the road between Jackson and Conway North Carolina and struck a tree.
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Jackson, N. C
C. C. Pope
Jackson
Conway
N. C
House approves Cape Hatteras seashore bill
The House passed a bill by Rep. Lindsay Warren to create the Cape Hatteras national seashore in North Carolina. It covers Chicamacomico Ocracoke Hodis Roanoke and Collington islands and awaits Senate action. Senator Josiah W Bailey supports the measure after about 80 years of study and Interior recommendations.
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Washington
House
Senate
Lindsay. Warren
North Carolina
Cape Hatteras National Seashore
Warren
United States
Chicamacombo
Ocracoke
Hodis
Roanoke
Collington Islands
Josiah W. Bailey
Oscar L. Chaman
No Pattern in Stabilization Dollar Value
President Roosevelt said in a letter to Senator Thomas that it would be dangerous to adjust to any rigid pattern in stabilizing the dollar. He cited the complexity of the rapidly shifting international scene and objected to a sliding scale by altering the dollar’s theoretical gold content. Thomas disclosed the letter at a Senate hearing on his bill.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Thomas
Dokla
Senate
Tobacco prices hold in Georgia opening week sales
The state bureau of markets reports opening week sales in 51 of Georgia's 59 tobacco warehouses totaling 12,010,160 pounds at an average 25.28 cents per pound. Receipts amount to $3,035,920.05 with 3 warehouses reporting no sales and five not yet heard from.
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Atlanta
State Bureau of Markets
Arraignment of Walter Caldwell in Statesville Court
Walter Caldwell 37 a Negro of Iredell county was arraigned in superior court in Statesville on a charge of criminally assaulting Mrs. Macie Smith 28 wife of local farmer George Smith. Trial set for 2 p m with court appointing lawyers and extra jurors. Patrols guarded the jail after the arraignment as a capacity crowd watched proceedings.
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Statesville
Walter
Preacher
Moore
Iredell
Caldwell
Macie Smith
George Smith
Claridge Promoted in State Forest Management Role
Raleigh August 3 F H Claridge formerly with the Federal Emergency Conservation program was promoted to assistant state forester in charge of forest manage.
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Claridge
Raleigh
F. H. Claridge
Federal Emergency Conservation Program
Armed bandits hold up beer truck near Cameron
Moore county officers chased three armed bandits who robbed a beer truck near Cameron. They tied the driver Hayden Horne and helper Malcolm Johnson to a tree, took the vehicle and $175, then left. The truck was later found abandoned. Searches focused around Carthage.
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Fayetteville
N. C
Moore County
Cameron
Hayden Horne
Malcolm Johnson
Horne
Carthage
Mrs. Eddie Duchin Dies In Sanitarium
Mrs Eddie Duchin wife of the orchestra leader died at Harbor Sanitarium at 6 30 AM from complications after the birth of a son last Wednesday. Duchin was by her bedside as he had flown from Chicago where he plays. The baby weighed nine pounds at birth and is reported well and strong. The former Marjorie Oelrichs a society beauty, she and Duchin wed June 5 1936.
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New York
Eddie Duchin
Harbor Sanitarium
Duchin
Chicago
Yearly Meeting Of Friends Opens At Guilford
About 200 attend the 240th North Carolina yearly meeting of Friends at Guilford College. The opening focuses on business, calls of representatives and epistles from Sweden the Netherlands and Germany. Rev. Errol T. Elliott of Indianapolis will speak this evening on The Spiritual Message of Friends.
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Yearly Meeting of Friends
Guilford
Guilford College
North Carolina Yearly Meeting of Friends
Samuel L. Haworth
Contentnea
Deep River
New Garden
Southern
Surry
Western
Yadkin Valley
Sweden
Netherlands
Germany
United States
Errol T. Elliott
First Friends Church
Indianapolis
Ind
Friends
Indiapolis
Organization
Board of Christian Education
Tammany Still Not Harmonious in New York Politics
Tammany Hall faces division as Christopher Sullivan wins leadership amid anti New Deal tensions. Copeland backed by Sullivan amid rival support for Whalen. Seabury criticizes county ticket as partisan while LaGuardia weighs GOP run options in a fractured city political scene.
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Christopher D. Sullivan
Manhattan
Tammany Hall
Sullivan
James J. Dooling
Tammany
New York City
New York
Christopher B. Sullivan
Sullian
Copeland
Smith
Roosevelt
Grover A. Whalen
Hall
Samuel Seabury
Citizens
Railroad Employes Reported Ready To Walk Out On Strike
Washington August 3 AP More than 700000 railroad employes prepared to strike as 88 percent of 800000 members voted to walk out unless carriers grant a 20 cent hourly wage increase. George M Harrison spokesman for 14 non operating unions said the push intensifies mediation efforts.
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Washington
National Mediation Board
George M. Harrison
Gardening Conference Opens at Blue Ridge
The annual vacation conference on gardening opened in Blue Ridge with Mrs. William Lanier Hunt of Chapel Hill directing and as a principal speaker. Other speakers include Dr. B. W. Wells from North Carolina State College, Dr. W. C. Coker of the University of North Carolina, Dr. H. L. Blomquist of Duke University, and Mrs. G. Latta Clement of Asheville.
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Edgar T. Pe Xoal
Duke University
South
Thompson
Arthur Raper
Agnes Scott College
Atlanta
W. D. Weatherford
Blue Ridge College
James Weldon Johnson
Fisk University
A. L. Chapman
Delta State Teachers College
Cleveland, Miss
Mark Etheridge
Louisville, Ky
Courier- Journal
Orville Park
Macon
R. B. Eleazer
The
Interracial Commission
Sessions
Blue Ridge
William Lanier Hunt
Chapel Hill
B. W. Wells
N. C. State College
W. C. Coker
University of North Carolina
H. L. Blomquist
G. Latta Clement
Asheville
Chinese Press chief to discuss Sino Japanese crisis at Duke
Dr. C Kuangson Young, managing director of the China Press, the leading English daily in China, will discuss the background of the Sino Japanese crisis tonight at Duke University in Durham North Carolina.
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Durham
N. C
C. Kuangson Young
The
China Press
China
Duke University
Fears for Alfred Knopf Jr are allayed by message
Alfred Knopf Jr nineteen year old son of a New York publisher disappeared from his Norwood Mass job last Tuesday. John L Ladd Polimpton Press general manager said Knopf sent a letter last week saying he was off on his own to make good and would not be heard from until he succeeded.
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Norwood
Mass
Alfred . Knopf, Jr
New York
John L. Ladd
Polimpton Press
Knopf
Phillips-Exeter Academy
Bank of France Cuts Rediscount Rate to 1 Cent
Paris August 3 AP The Bank of France lowered its rediscount rate from 6 to 1 cent, easing credit for a second time in a month after the government freed the franc to seek a lower value. The franc stood around 26.67 to the dollar.
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Paris
Bank of France
Hus
Ogre
Missing Santa Maria Amphibian Sparks Pan American Search
In Balboa Panama Canal Zone Aug the United States Navy and air units sweep sea and coast on both Atlantic and Pacific sides seeking the Santa Maria an amphibian airliner with eleven passengers and crew of three that vanished after overshooting Cristobal airport. Pilot Stephen Dunn reported attempting a descent through clouds but could not locate the field.
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Washington
War Department
Panama
American-Grace Airways
Cristobal
Navy
Deps
Fleet
Colon Break Light
Canal Zone
Guaya
Ecuador
Balboa
United States and Navy
Sea
Atlantic
Paci
Santa Maria
Guayaquil
Lima
Cris
Field
Stephen Dunn
Dunn
Latin America
Union Head Claims Will Have Contract With Ford Officials
DETROIT Aug. 3 Homer Martin president of United Automobile Workers America says the union will secure a Ford contract by year end. He demands recognition wages and improved conditions in the Ford plant and claims Ford wages lag GM and Chrysler. He warns the U A W could close Ford plants including the Rouge plant.
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Detroit
Homer Martin
United Automobile Workers America
Ford
Martin
General Motors Corp
Chrysler Corp
Roug
Farm and Home Week Opens At Raleigh
The Raleigh conference begins at N. State college with delegates from almost every North Carolina county. Commissioner W Kerr Scott welcomed delegates last night urging use of the extension laboratory test farm as the best seed lab in the South. John V Goodman noted strong unofficial enrollment as the program opened.
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Raleigh
N. State College
John V. Goodman
W. Kerr Scott
Agriculture
Scott
Seek Two Bodies In Potomac
Police dragged the Potomac River in a search for the bodies of Michael Feidsness known as the father of the Postal telegraphic agency and Charles Bord 18 Portsmouth Virginia. Feidsness established the agency in 1922 and was superintendent of the stamps division. A note described despair over ill health and a pedestrian found Bord’s suicide note stating he jumped off the bridge at 8 45.
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Washington
Potomac River
Michael Feidsness
Postoffice Department
Philatelic
Charles Bord
Portsmouth
Hidsness
Memorial Bridge
Brother
Highway Bridge
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Iron Lung
Duke Power
Frederick B. Snite, Jr
Borah
United States Army
Lewis
N.Y. Mart
Dr. Thompson
Mt. Olive
Charles M. Johnson
Thad Bure
Henry Stevens
American Legion
Errol T. Elliot
Far East
Potomac
Philatelic Agency
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