Great Smoky Mountains Park Lands Buy Authorized
The House sent to the White House a bill approving a 8743 000 appropriation to finish acquiring lands for Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina and Tennessee. The vote stood 108 to 10 as debate continued on the anti lynching bill with opponents seeking to sidetrack it and some leaders doubt its fate.
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Bulletin
Washington
House
White House
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
North Carolina
Tennessee
Rescue Office Floe Underway
Soviet authorities mobilized rescue forces to aid four scientists adrift on a crack ing polar ice floe in the Greenland Sea. They had manned Polar weather stations since last May and reported a six day storm splitting their camp about 1,100 miles from the North Pole.
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Moscow
Greenland
North Pole
Georgia Wet Measure Heads to Rivers for Signature
Atlanta February 2 A bill repealing Georgia's 22 year old hard liquor ban passed the state House by 105 to 85. The measure adopts a local option allowing counties to vote wet or dry. Governor E D Rivers was expected to sign promptly.
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Atlanta
Georgia
E. D. Rivers
House of Representatives
Senate
Rivers
Final Plans Complete For Statewide Baptist Meet Here
Last minute details set the two day statewide Baptist meeting in High Point with about 1000 Sunday school orders from 72 associations, hosted by First Baptist Church. Speakers and leaders include outstanding officials of the First Church.
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First Baptist Church
T. L. Holcomb
The
Baptist Sunday School Board
J. E. Dillard
Sunday School Board
Homer L. Grice
Department of
Nashville
Tenn
North Carolina
High Point
First Church
Employment in North Carolina Falls in January
Raleigh, N C February 2 A state labor department report shows a 0.3 percent decline in January employment from December. Manufacturing jobs fell 4.7 percent. Data drawn from 255 establishments cover the week ending January 15 versus the same week in December.
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Raleigh
N. C
State Department of Labor
Jap Leader States War Is Imminent as Clash Looms
Tokyo reports indicate Prime Minister Koki Hirota told the Diet a Chinese central government is not recognized by Japan and warned a state of war exists ahead of further hostilities. Foreign office and U.S. officials offered no comment on the remarks.
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Tokyo
Voreigen
Koki Hirota
Diet
Foreign Office
Hirota
State Dept Cannot Assess War Claim Broadly
State department officials said they lacked information to gauge the full implications of Foreign Minister Hi s statement to the diet that a state of war exists between the United States and Japan, noting the absence of complete details.
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Hull
Washington
State Department
Diet
Bettween
Japan
Chinese Reinforcements Push Toward Nanking Front
Chinese reinforcements moved forward by the thousands under heavy shellfire to close a widening gap in southern defenses along the Tsinpu corridor north of Nanking. Domei reports a major engagement was beginning as about half a million Chinese and Japanese troops massed for the fight urged by Chiang Kai-shek to yield no ground.
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Shanghai
China
Tsinpu
Nanking
Chiang Kai-Shek
Domei
Santee-Cooper Victory Upheld By Fourth Circuit
The Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a district court ruling denying three power firms an injunction against the $37.5 million Santee Cooper power and navigation project in South Carolina. The decision came at a brief conference after arguments by Carolina Power and Light of Raleigh, South Carolina Power of Charleston, and South Carolina Electric and Gas of Columbia.
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Charlotte
U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Santee-Cooper Power and Navigation
South Carolina
Circuit Court
Carolina Power and Light Company
Raleigh
South Carolina Power Company
Charleston
D.C
South Carolina Electric and Gas Company of
Columbia
Youth Held in Father's Death
Greenwood, Feb. 2. A coroner's inquest will be held tomorrow in the death of Ernest W. Stockman who deputy Calvin White said was shot by his 13 year old son. White quoted Charles Stockman saying I shot my daddy after he abused my sister and pulled her around and slapped my mother. Charles was held in the county jail. Officers said they would not decide upon their future course until after the coroner's jury renders a verdict.
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Greenwood
8. C
Ernest W. Stockman
Calvin White
White
Charles Stockman
Charles
Hospital Gets FDRs Approval for North Carolina Plant
Washington Feb 2 The Veterans Administration announced President Roosevelt formalLy approved construction of a 300 bed veterans hospital in eastern North Carolina with a $1 500 000 price tag. Funds would come from an independents offices bill carrying a $4 500 000 item for new veterans facilities. The measure has passed the House and is before the Senate.
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Washington
Veterans Administration
Roosevelt
Veterans Hospital
North Carolina
Independent Offices
House
Senate
German War Minister Werner Von Blomberg Resigns
Berlin February 2 1944 Marshal Werner Von Blomberg minister of war handed his resignation to Adolf Hitler. Reports note army officers opposed his marriage to Erika Grohn and remark the move mirrors the Wallis Simpson abdication controversy.
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Werner von Blomberg
Hitler
Berlin
Italy
Cermens
Wallis Simpson
Edward VIII
England
von Blomberg
Hismerrave
Fire Fatal to Six Negroes in Gates County Home
A rural Gates County house burned killing six occupants. Coroner Rawles said Mattie Hoffler Freeman, 45, and her four children perished in the blaze while Jane Hoffler, 73, died yesterday from burns.
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Gates County
Hertford
R. FE. Rawles
Mattie Hoffler Freeman
Jane Hoffler
Hattie
Begin Program To Aid Little Business Men
Fred Roth of Cleveland chairing the Roosevelt small business conference proposed a permanent advisory committee to represent little business similar to the big business advisory council. He urged forming a permanent organization to advise the Department of Commerce and planned a White House visit at 3 30 p m with merchants manufacturers and other small business leaders attending the session.
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Washington
Fred Roth
Cleveland
Ohio
Roosevelt
Business Advisory Council
Roth
Arief
BIG Business
Tl Am
Department of Commerce
Big
Emall
White House
Grocery costs take big drop in wholesale and retail markets
Chicago reports a sharp fall in grocery prices from fall highs. Wholesale meat prices show one of the steepest declines on record, with drops of 9 to 50 percent for all cuts. Retail prices also ease from previous peaks, marking the lowest level in over a year and a half.
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Chicago
New Storm Bites Pacific Coast as Snowbound Counties Struggle
A fresh storm moved toward the West Coast amid heavy snow and rain that already lingered for three days. The Weather Bureau warned it would strike before week’s end. Eight people remained trapped after snowfall. thirty three College of Pacific students were rescued yesterday by state highway snow plows.
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San Francisco
Pacific Coast
Weather Bureau
College of Pacific
Wright Recites Unwritten Law Slaying in Court
Los Angeles prosecutors clash with Paul A. Wright as he repeats his claim that he killed his wife Evelyn and John Kimmel after discovering them in “awful positions” at his Glendale home. He describes a nightcap, a nap, a piano scene, and a shocking reaction before the fatal act.
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Los Angeles
Paul A. Wright
John Kimmel
E. Roll
Wright
Kimmel
Union Air Terminal
Glendale
Death Sentences Of Smoak And Exam Upheld By Court
The North Carolina Supreme Court upheld death sentences for E. L. Smoak in New Hanover and Mil ford Exam in Wayne for their crimes. A new trial was ordered in a Greensboro damages suit by Nancy Flake over publication of her photo. The court also upheld a 1937 anti slot machine law and ruled an airport not essential in a Charlotte case.
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State Supreme Court
Raleigh
Supreme Court
New Hanover County
E. L. Smoak
Wayne
Milford
Nancy Flake
Greensboro News Company
Et al
Greensboro Daily News
Smoak
Annie Thelma Smoak
Exum
James Williams
Groundhog Sees Shadow Predicts Six More Weeks of Winter
Gobbler's Knob in Punxsutawney, Pa reports the 41st appearance of the groundhog who saw his shadow signaling six more weeks of cold. Across Pennsylvania, members of the Quarryville lodge held their ritual as the national weather claim is debated.
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Quarryville
TVA's Business Improves Much In Valley
TVA power business is booming with eight new applications since the TVA act was upheld in a Chattanooga court decision. Mayor Walter W. Mynatt of Knoxville said the first unit of a municipal system to distribute TVA power should start before February 15.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Tennessee Valley Authority
TVA
Chattanooga
Walter W. Mynatt
Jury selection continues in Miguel murder trial in New Iberia
In New Iberia Louisiana on February 2 the murder trial of Honora Miguel 31 moved into its second day with eight jurors chosen from eighty talesmen. Miguel a former state highway department employee is accused of fatally shooting Evelyn Allen Crawford 23 as she sat with her husband a Boston Massachusetts construction timekeeper visiting for work at a sugar mill.
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New Iberia
Honora Miguel
Evelyn Allen Crawford
State Highway Department
Boston
Mass
Power Plant Blast in Segn Causes 87 Deaths
Official report confirms 87 people perished in the Segn power plant explosion near Rome on January 29. Operations have resumed in most sections of the plant.
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Rome
Segn
High Point Victory in Hydro-Electric Case Reversed
North Carolina Supreme Court reverses Superior Court ruling in the J Paul Williamson et al case, granting injunctive relief and ruling High Point cannot proceed beyond the Revenue Bond act 1935. The decision allows the city to issue revenue bonds for the hydro project limited to the city and surrounding area, not a broad power venture.
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High Point
Nort Carolina Supreme Court
High Poin
Cour
Superior Court
H. Hoy Sink
J. Paul Liamson
Hig Point
Gewer Power
Williamson
Pew Company
General Pews
Police Capture Dixie Davis in racket-smashing drive
On Feb 2 in Philadelphia and New York authorities arrested Richard Dixie Davis and George Weinberg linked to the racketeering operation headed by the Dutch Schultz gang. District Attorney Thomas E Dewey announced the arrests tied to the New York indictment of the fugitive under investigation in the Dewey led crackdown.
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Dixie Davis
Dutch Schultz
Philadelphia
J. Richard
Dixie) da
New Y
Philadelphia Detect
Thomas Ewey
Davis George Weinberg
New Sand
Rose Rickert
Hope Dare
New York
Thomas Dewey
Richard
Dixie) Davis
Arthur
Dutch Ultz) Flegenheimer
George Weung
Davis
Carpenter Injured in Hospital After Altercation
Madison reports Dave Gatewood a carpenter in serious condition at a city hospital after a dispute yesterday. Gatewood was struck on the head with a piece of wood during the altercation involving Booker, a Black man.
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Madison
Dave Gatewood
Ville
Booker
Wentworth
Gatewood
High Point Council Scrutinizes Local Bus Service Standards
High Point city council met to consider Herman F. Falk’s petition for renewal of his street bus franchise. Members criticized bus appearance and general street cleanliness, sending the petition to the safety and law committees to review equipment safety and driver compliance with traffic rules. Councilman LeRoy Briges questioned why other cities’ buses looked better.
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High Point
Loia Welborn
Herman F. Falk
Mr. Falk
Duke Power Company
LeRoy Briges
Greensboro
Bose
Law
Earl N
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