Tariff Walls and Taxes Stir Carolina Farm Debate
Governor Clyde Hoey and Senator Smith argued that higher federal tariffs burden farmers across North and South Carolina. They urged domestic production, market expansion, debt relief, and policies to reduce dependence on imported goods, asserting rural poverty and housing issues demand federal attention. The exchange highlighted regional tensions over taxes and national economic policy.
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TTE
Vernor Clyde Hoey
Carolina
Senator Ith
South Carolina
Carolinas
Lina
North
Smith
South
Ian Miller
the Observer
I cans Backing in Georgia
A Washington dispatch to the Tribune says the National Committee is pressing Georgia’s Republican leadership to unite behind a single candidate in the upcoming primary. It reports Arnold and Roosevelt aides urging Republicans to vote for the Democratic backed figure in September.
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York
Tribune
Washington
National
Arnold
Georgia
Walter Democrat
Pro Tem Dips Ton Mayor of Kinston Dies
M Herbert a 6 percent mayor and local businessman in Kinston died today in a town event. The report notes his leadership and ties to the business community in the region.
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M. Herbert
Kinston
Urehman
Japs Prepare For New Drive East of Hankow
Japanese forces concentrate on the north bank along the Hupeh Anwei border as they plan an overland push toward the provisional Chinese capital. Chinese reports place troops between Hwangmei and Susung with Kwangtai defense positions threatening Wusueh on the Yangtze. The Monocacy likely stays near Kiukiang for another week per U S Navy exchanges.
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Yangtze
Hankow
Shanghai
Hwangmel
Susung
Hupeb-Anbwei
Hofei
Anhivet
Kwangtsi
Hwangmei
Kwangtai
Wusueh
Washington
Kiukiang
Koshiro Oikawa
Harry E. Yarnell
Tobacco Growers in N C Optimistic on Bright Belt Prices
Eastern North Carolina farmers were cheered by a forecast that tobacco would bring more than 25 dollars per hundred pounds at 14 new bright belt markets opening next Thursday. W. P. Hedrick marketing specialist said growers are optimistic about price outlook. He noted border belt farmers are slightly higher and that the bright belt average last year was 25.48. Officials said the crop is unusually good quality and of a splendid cigarette type.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
W. P. Hedrick
State Department of Agriculture
Border Belt
BE. Y
Floyd
AAA
Loyals Hold Gains Despite Fierce Attack
In Hendaye on August 20, Spanish insurgents pressed the Ebro counter offensive targeting Villalba de Los Arcos supported by fifty tanks and one hundred planes. Government air forces claimed seven insurgent planes shot down while no ground loss north of Gandesa was reported and Pandos hills changed hands amid heavy fighting along the Segre front.
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Hendaye
France
Ebro
Villalba de Los Arcos
Catalonia
Gandesa
Pandos
Barecelona
Segre
Sau Spain
Almaden
Four men fined in Smithfield for election law violations
Four men including Johnston County Democratic state senate nominee E J Wellen and three colleagues were convicted in Smithfield on charges of election law violations. Each was fined 26 dollars and costs after they removed June 4 primary boxes from the home of poll-holder Henry B Wall. The defendants appealed to the state supreme court but later said they would not perfect the appeal. Judge Clawson L Williams urged enforcement of election laws, hoping the cases deter future violations.
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Smithfield
Johnston County
State Senate
State Supreme Court
E. J. Wellens
J. R. Pool
J. R. Lynch
Wilders Township
Chester Barnes
Ilegally
Henry
Wall
Clawson L. Williams
North Carolina
Chisel Death Puzzles Wake County Officers
Wake County officers debated if a man could kill himself by driving a chisel into his head after the body of W C O Connell a 61 year old unemployed carpenter was found near Cary. A hatchet lay nearby and doctors called the death incredible to be self inflicted. Officials said there was no motive and called it a puzzling case.
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Raleigh
Wake County
W. C. O'Connell
Carpenter
Cary
Numa F
Turner
F. R. Yarborough
O'Connell
Roy M. Banks
Battle Over Big Business Methods In Hines Trial
In New York on Aug 2 the conspiracy trial of James J. Hines of Tammany Hall opens a clash between criminal protection networks and the Dewey anti crime machine. The week outlines a fight over Schultz numbers operations versus Dewey's organized prosecution. The case hints at a $500 weekly retainer allegedly paid to Hines to fix arrests, with potential witnesses from San Quentin.
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New York
James J
Jimmy) Hines
Tammany Hall
Hines
Dutch Schultz
Thomas FE. Dewey
Manhattan
Dewey
Schulte
Los Angeles
San Quentin
Max Silverman
Schultz
Silverman
Silver
Too Hot To Pull Fodder Ends In Marriage
LILLINGTON August 20 Miss Elle Baggett assistant registrar of deeds reported the latest excuse for marriage. While applying for a marriage license a strapping farm youth told her it was too hot to pull fodder today so he decided to get married.
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Lillington
Elle Baggett
Guilford Farms Cited in Dairy Amendment Compliance
The Agricultural Adjustment Administration lists 75 counties in 13 states as out of compliance with the dairy amendment of the 1938 farm act. Guilford County North Carolina is named along with Davie and Rowan as counties where farms may be deemed out of compliance if they increased dairy herds by more than two cows and used shifted land for commercial dairy production. A farm by farm check will determine which remain noncompliant and which payments are unaffected.
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Washington
Agricultural Adjustmen Administration
AAA
North Carolina
Davie
Guilford
Rowan
Dr Matthews Threatened After Testimony On Communists
The House Un American Activities Committee assigned a plainclothes guard to Dr J B Matthews as he left the room after detailing threats against him for testifying on Communist influence. Matthews said he exposed Soviet front groups and linked Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt to Communist maneuvering during World Youth Congress events. He claimed authorities and officials were connected to the American League for Peace and Democracy.
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Washington
House Committee On
J. B. Matthews
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Matthews
Communist Party
Russia
United Front
World Youth Congress
Vassar
Mre
Soviet Union
Roosevelt
American League For Peace and Democracy
Camp Defends Roosevelt Intervention in Georgia Senate Race
In Marietta near Atlanta Lawrence Camp Roosevelt's candidate defends the president's intervention in the Georgia primary. Camp says Roosevelt's action serves Georgia while attacking Walter F. George's record and accusing opponents of hiding it with a subsidized press and entrenched greed.
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Atlanta
Roosevelt
Senate
Lawrence Camp
Georgia
New Dealer
Walter F. George
Camp
Marietta
State Rings Block on Senate Nomination Reforms
The article notes constitutional barriers and state party resistance to a drastic congressional or constitutional change to U S senatorial nomination methods. Senator Morris Sheppard cites a federal amendment would be needed to regulate state nominating processes, with likely negligible chances for submission or ratification.
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KIRKE
Simpson
Washington
Morris Sheppard
Sheppard Committees
Senate
Kentucky
Tennessee
Roosevelt Seeks Labor Law Changes Amid O'Connor Race
President Roosevelt plans changes to the Wagner Labor Relations law after talks with AFL President William Green. Mayor La Guardia predicts O'Connor will face renomination challenges from James H. Fay on a New Deal platform, with Roosevelt opposing O'Connor as an obstructionist.
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Hyde Park
Aus
Roosevelt
William Green
American Federation of Labor
A. F. of L
Weevils and Army Worms Ravage Delta Cotton Crops
In the Mississippi delta and nearby regions boll weevils and army worms threaten thousands of acres of cotton. Agr icultural extension agents say the mid-South harvest could drop by a third to half, raising production costs by four cents per pound.
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Memphis
Tend
Mississippi Delta
Memphis Commercial Appeal
mid-South
Building and Loan Associations Lend $1,700,000 in July
North Carolina savings building and loan associations issued loans totaling over 1.7 million dollars in July. Wheeler Martin, vice-president of the Building and Loan Leagues, reported that more than half of the 1000 loans funded construction, about one quarter funded new home purchases, with the remainder for repairs and miscellaneous needs.
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Raleigh
North Carolina Savings, Building and Loan Associations
Wheeler Martin
Williamston
Building and Loan Leagues
Martin
Fear Demands On Hungarians Stir Europe In 1938
London dispatches report Germany signaling force and courting Hungary while Britain and France face renewed tensions over Czechoslovakia and Spain. Hitler greets Regent Horthy ahead of a state visit as Runciman presses for a Sudeten compromise. Angl o-Italian ties fray over arms to Franco’s Spain and Mussolini’s stance.
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Germany
Hungary
Evmeee
Czechoslova
Britain
France
Rome-Berlin
Paris
Hitler
Fuehrer
Runciman
Czechoslovakia
Europe
Praha
Sudetenland
Chamberlain
Vienna
Franco
Spain
Frost
Rome
Mussolini
Italy
Rumania
Horthy
Southern Retail Merchants Plan To Meet Soon
Richmond, Va august 29 retail business conditions in eight southern states will be discussed by more than 800 merchants at the 25th annual meeting of the Southern Retail Merchant conference opening here Monday. Delegates will come from Virginia North Carolina South Carolina Georgia Florida Tennessee West Virginia and Maryland.
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Southern Retail Merchante Conference
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Florida
Ten- Sawnee
West Virginia
Maryand
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