Important Commissions To Meet This Week End
Raleigh hosts four North Carolina commissions with key debates. The state highway and public works panel seeks 2.8 million from surplus to back a 10 million 1936 37 road and school bus program and will bid 750000 on 17 projects. The liquor panel arrives to review wet law regulations with Peter Bryant of Durham leading. A highway debt commission will hear county petitions totaling about 50 million in refunds, while a line terminal study group under Oscar Barker Durham plans its work.
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Raleigh
General Assembly
North Carolina
State Highway and Public Works Commission
Ehringhaus
Highway Commission
Liquor Commission
Peter Bryant
Durham
Iman
Wilson
Wilmington
Te High
Public Works Commi
Carll L. Bailey
Washcounty
Gating Body
Oscar Barker Durham
Family drops Moore appeal in Asheville
In Asheville on August 25 family members of Martin Negro convict Helen Clevenger the New York college student said they would not appeal the case. Civil rights groups said they would take the matter to the state supreme court. Moore on death row in Raleigh told questioners he would die. Relatives called an appeal a hopeless effort. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People planned fundraising to help finance the case.
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Asheville
Martin Negro
Helen Clevenger
New Yorkiversity
Naval Association For the
Moore
Raleigh
Tom Moore
M. L. Breeding
Negro Dent
National Association the Advancement of Colored PLC
Battery Park
Restraining Order Sought Against Railway Officials
The United States district court judge considered a plea to restrain six Railway Audit and Inspection Company officials from testifying before the senate floor investigating committee led by Irman LaFollette. L. D. Rice, vice president and general manager of the company, filed the suit after receiving a subpoena amid the committee’s probe into alleged civil rights violations during labor disputes.
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Washington
United States
Iet
Ralway Udit and Inspection Company
Senate
Irman LaFollette
L. D. Rice
The
Russians Execute 16 Conspirators Linked to Trotzky Plot
MOSCOW August 25 16 confessed conspirators were executed by firing squad after a secret 24 hour sentence. The group included Leon Kameneff and Gregory Zinovieff once allied with Stalin. The central executive committee declined mercy and did not disclose execution details or location.
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Moscow
Central Executive Committee
Soviet Union
Leon Trotzky
Leon Kameneff
Gregory Zinovieff
Joseph Stalin
Nikolai Lenin
Stalin
Kameneff
Zinovieff
Estranged Husband Murders Wife's Suitor and Kills Self
In Fredericksburg area, Gilmer L. Snyder and Clifford Thomas were killed after a man who was married to a woman passenger, Lillie B. Thomas, seized the car and shot Snyder. The husband then drove on to King George County and killed himself as authorities investigated.
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Fredericksburg
Gilmer L. Snyder
F. Street N. W
Washington
Clifford Thomas
B. Wyatt Walker
Commonwealth
Joseph A. Billingsley
King George County
Lillie B. Thomas
Thomas
Snyder
Woodlawn
Alexandria
Walker
King George Courthouse
Elmer Morris
First Cotton Bale Sold in Goldsboro Market
G P Daniels of New Hope township sold the first bale of the 1936 cotton crop in Goldsboro. The bale weighed 525 pounds and was offered about a week earlier than the usual first bale.
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Goldsboro
G. P. Daniels
New Hope Township
Mob Kills Two Japanese in Chengtu Hotel Attack
A mob of about 2,000 Chinese stormed the Changtu hotel in Szechuen’s Chengtu, killing two Japanese and wounding two others. Reports say two travelers were seriously injured and two kidnapped. The victims included two Shanghai reporters, a South Manchurian Railway official, and a Hankow businessman traveling under Chinese visas. Two Japanese police and a consular physician were sent by air from Chungking. Japanese officials view the incident as linked to pressure to reopen the Chengtu hotel.
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Shanghai
Szechuen
Chengtu
Changtu
South Manchurian
Hankow
Chungking
July Employment Shows Increase
Washington August 25 The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported a slight rise in industrial employment from June to July defying the usual mid summer decline. About 2000 workers were added as 62 of 90 manufacturing industries showed gains while non manufacturing sectors fell, though nine of sixteen showed upward trends.
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Washington
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Landon Expands New York Campaign After Chautauqua Speech
Gov Alf M Landon deepens campaign in New York moving from Chautauqua to Buffalo to meet leaders ahead of the state’s 47 electoral votes. He warns that federal machinery used to preserve the current administration risks propaganda, and declares support for academic freedom and media independence.
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Ripley
N. T
Alf M. Landon
New York
Chautauqua
Buffalo
Landon
Chautauqua Amphitheater
Kansas
Large Guilford county liquor haul nets thousands
Deputies C L Gray and W L Wireless seized about 8600 pints of tax paid liquor from the Plummer property on the Greens boro road near the city. The haul valued around 5000 dollars fills a transfer truck and county offices, with hundreds watching as officers transported the alcohol. An arrested man drank at the scene hinted at a cache, leading to the discovery behind a concealed door in the garage.
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Smith
C. L. Gray
W. J. Wireless
High Point
Guilford County Department
Plummer
Greensboro Road
Guilford County
West Washington Street
Gray
Officer Hussey
City Force
W. L. Wireless
Point County
Gray and Wireless
Convict Shot in Georgia Prison Riot
Roland Lawrence, superintendent of the Georgia State Penitentiary, reported one convict killed and fifteen wounded by gunfire in a riot. W. B. McDaniel, 31, Atlanta robber, was slain by guards during a dormitory outbreak as inmates rushed doors with iron beds. The coroner’s jury ruled the death in line of duty to prevent an escape and commended Lawrence for handling the situation.
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Middledgeville
Roland Lawrence
Georgia State Penitentiary
Lawrence
W. B. McDaniel
Atlanta
McDaniel
W. W. Miller
C. I. Newton
Baldwin Son Marries Joan Tomes in London Ceremony
Arthur Windham Baldwin, son of British Premier Stanley Baldwin, wed Joan Elspeth Tomes, daughter of the late C A Tomes of New York, in a London ceremony marked by society attention and royal blue stamp of approval.
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London
Arthur Windham Baldwin
Stanley Baldwin
Joan Elspeth Tomes
C. A. Tomes
New York
Pension Funds Spent As Dr Townsend Sees Fit
Dr Francis Townsend testifies on spending at the Old Age Revolving Pensions movement amid controversy over 500 dollars given to Townsend Visual Education and a call for accounting. Attorney demands, resignations, and a suit seek removal of Townsend and a receiver for over 1 million in movement funds.
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Townsend
Cleveland
Francis BE. Townsend
Ben Sacharow
Primaries Today Rally Across Three States
Mississippi features veteran Sen. Pat Harrison challenging former Gov. Sennett Connor for the Democratic Senate nomination with Sen. Bilbo aiding Connor. South Carolina presents a showdown between Sen. James Byrnes and New Deal critics Thomas Stoney and Col. William Harllee for the Senate seat. California hosts Townsen endorsed candidates in 20 districts amid a pension plan ballot test led by BE. Margett who claims victory in at least 18 districts.
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Petras Primares
Mississippi
Pat Harrison
New Deal
Goveror Sennett Connor
Connor
Bilbo
South Carolina
James F. Byrnes
Thomas P. Stoney
Charleston
William C. Harllee
California
Old Age Pension Movement
BE. J. Margett
Pension Plan
Bicyclists Warned In Henderson Over Siren Devices
Henderson authorities warn bicyclists to remove sirens from bikes or face prosecution under city ordinance banning sirens except on emergency vehicles.
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Henderson
Glass Will Vote for Roosevelt
Washington report says Senator Carter Glass of Virginia will vote for Franklin D. Roosevelt next November after a conference with the President. Glass, 78, undecided on speaking in the campaign, cited doctors' advice and noted a past radio speech for the Roosevelt-Garner ticket.
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Washington
Carter Glass
Virginia
Roosevelt
Gilas
Proposals To Curb Brutality In Spanish Civil War
AP reports diplomatic moves aimed at limiting mistreatment of civilians in Spain. Britain France and Italy discuss nonintervention and arms bans as Madrid and the rebels clash. A North European balance forms amid Hitler’s conscription decree and Soviet-Russian ties.
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Associated Press
Spain
France
Great Britain
Madrid
Daye
Pii
Ist
Italy
Russia
Britain
Mier
Jose Giral Pereirasa
Bay of Biscay
Adolf Hitler
Ukase
Reich
Hitler
Soviet Russia
Thatcher urges press to curb publicity in Hauptmann case
Boston August 25 Former solicitor general Thomas D Thatcher told bar association delegates that the press and radio fuel sensationalism in trials like the Hauptmann murder case He blamed public appetite for details courts pretrial publicity lawyers and police for contributing to the trend and called for a halt to sensational outpourings.
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Boston
Thomas D. Thatcher
United States
American Bar Association
Hauptmann
Thatcher
Conference of
Bar Association
Organization
Olson admits fatal ax and knife attack on daughter
Ester Olson 33 confessed to police that she killed her 16 year old daughter Rose on her birthday to “give her something nicer.” She said she acted after a grapefruit sugar moment and struck with an axe and then cut her throat with a butcher knife. The incident occurred after Rose had returned from a party and went to bed.
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Seattle
Ester Hilda Olson
K. Bodia
Rose
Bodia
National Defense Budget Increases Revealed In Tokyo
Tokyo reports the cabinet office has announced higher army and navy appropriations for the 1937 1938 year as part of the national defense budget. The upgrade reflects expanded military spending amid ongoing tensions.
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Tokyo
National Defense
Army
Navy
Weather for Carolinas Partly Cloudy with Swell of Showers
In North Carolina tonight and Wednesday partly cloudy skies give way to unsettled conditions with possible showers in the extreme north. South Carolina sees partly tonight and Wednesday with a somewhat settled Wednesday overall.
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North Carolina
North Portion
South Carolina
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