City Scouts Run City Council Session in Special Assembly
An extraordinary city council session run by Boy Scouts rejected a plan to call a special election to raise taxes for schools. They approved a two-fire-drill monthly rule and a Locke Street sidewalk for about 700 students. The meeting also backed Boy Scout Week and sending the School Boy Patrol to camp. Ragweed triggers 70 percent of hay fever in America.
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Locke Street
Ture
Sidney Bailey
Chesapeake
James Cargall
Byron Grandjean
Troop 7
Grandjean
John McFarland
Troop 13
Gorrell Speas
School Boy Patrol
Wray Crawford
Don Michael
E. M. Knox
W. G. Friddle
E. K Ingram
Charles F. Carroll, Jr
Charles Shields
Pete Hill
Bill Lindsay
Paul Williamson
David Weatherly
Warner Lewis
Douglas Holbrook
Pope Pius XI Buried Beneath St Peter's Altar
Vivid page one account notes Pope Pius XI laid to rest beneath St Peter's Altar as Italian leaders Mussolini King Vittorio Emanuele and diplomatic corps prepare to attend a mourning Mass. Nuncio Father Francesco Borgongini-Duca will celebrate at Sant Andrea de la Valle.
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Mussolini
Vatican
Grand Council
Vittorio Emanuele
United States
William Phillips
Pius XI
Francesco Borgongini-Duca
Sant Andrea de la Valle
Pius
Local North Carolina Weather Near Term
Occasional rains tonight and Wednesday with warmer conditions inland. Coastal areas from Hatteras to Jacksonville face moderate to fresh winds from the south and southwest increasing midweek with overcast skies and showers. From Sandy Hook to Hatteras winds shift to southwest and bring rain tonight and Wednesday.
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North Carolina
Hatteras
Jacksonville
Sandy Hook
Committee Hearing Notes On Salaries And Voting Statutes
The committee planned to add demand warrants as needed and weigh another hearing for teachers salary raises. A two hour hearing produced no action on a bill to abolish the state dry cleaning commission. The house election laws committee will meet tonight to hear sub committee findings on revision of voting statutes.
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House
State
House Election Laws Committee
Millions View Pope's Body Before Burial at St Peter's
The Vatican records a vast throng as Benedict XV lay in state for a third day with crowds at St Peter's reaching about 56,000 per hour and estimates totaling around a million seen the body since Friday. The era’s diplomatic notes referenced Mussolini and the Vatican state settlement of 1929 as context.
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Mussolini
Benedict XV
Vatican
Pius
St. Peter’s
Speculation on Brandeis and Supreme Court appointments
Colorado Democrats praised Judge Sam Bratton of New Mexico while Senators Connally Hutcheson and Gillette weighed other candidates including Dean Wiley Rutledge and Justice Harold Stephens. Reported advisers floated Florence Allen Samuel Rosenman Ferdinand Pecora and James Landis, with Harlan McReynolds retirement eyed after 1940 election.
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Colorado
Sam Bratton
New Mexico
Connally
D-Tex
Joseph C. Hutcheson, Jr
Texas
Bratton
Gillette
Iowa
Wiley Rutledge
University of Iowa Law School
Felix Frankfurter
Justice Cardozo
Harold Stephens
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Stephens
Utah
Frankfurter
Harvard
Norris
Schnellenbach
Wash
Minton
D-Ind
Florence E. Allen
Ohio
Samuel Rosenman
Ferdinand Pecora
New York Supreme Court
Frank Murphy
Robert H. Jackson
James M. Landis
Harvard Law School
James C. McReynolds
Brandeis
City Firmly Keeps Hydro Plant For Local Power
The city will not abandon its hydro plant and will retain service for customers needing up to 100 kilowatt hours. Duke will contract to sell electric current to the city to support increased business. The city seeks a fair settlement in an overcharge suit, and state regulation can allow rate increases despite fixed contracts.
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Duke
Swiss Recognize Spanish Insurgent Regime as Government
The Swiss federal council announced recognition of the Spanish Insurgent regime as the official government of Spain and its intention to send a minister to Burgos, the insurgent capital, in a Feb 14 statement from Bern.
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Berne
Switzerland
Federal Council
Spain
Burgos
Death of William Wands Boilermaker Leader in Spencer
William Wands a Boilermaker for the Southern Railway and head of the Boilermakers Craft since 1924 died at his Spencer home after a heart attack. Born in Scotland he moved to Spencer in 1910 and was commonly known as Scottie Wands. He was a Mason with a Scotland lodge and survived by his widow and three sons. Funeral is set for 4:30 p.m. Wednesday in Spencer.
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Salisbury
N. C
William Wands
Southern Railway
Spencer
Wands
Scotland
Southern
South
Scottie Wands
Govans
Mrs Elmira Dorsett Dies After Stroke At Work
Elmira Brown Dorsett aged 44 died last night from a paralysis stroke at a local mill where she worked earlier. She is survived by her father R. E. Brown of Ula a sister Mrs Roscoe Coletrane of Ula four brothers E F Asheboro route three O R Climax E J Seagrove and G P Bynum. Funeral is set for Wednesday at 11 a m at Flag Springs M P church with Rev C H Hill officiating. Interment follows in the church cemetery.
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Asheboro
Elmira Brown Dorsett
R. E. Brown
Ula
Roscoe Coletrane
E. F
O. R
Climax
E. J
Seagrove
G. P
Bynum
Funeral service for G. I. Sharpe held in Kernersville
Reverend C. B. Way traveled from Rockingham county to Kernersville on Monday afternoon to conduct the funeral for G. I. Sharpe 78 who died suddenly Sunday. He was a brother of Miss Stella Sharpe former Kernersville school faculty member.
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Kernersville
C. B. Way
Rockingham County
G. I. Sharpe
Stella Sharpe
Kernersville School
Major Haynes Receives Medal in Washington Ceremony
Major Caleb V. Haynes, Mt Airy native, commands the army's Super Fortress on a Chile earthquake relief flight. He and 10 crew members will fly their 32 ton craft from Langley Field to Washington for the Distinguished Flying Cross ceremony where top American army and Chilean officials will attend. Haynes' parents from Mount Airy, North Carolina, were invited to the event.
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Washington
Caleb V. Haynes
Chile
Haynes
Santiago
Langley Field
Woodring
Caleb H. Haynes
Mount Airy, N. C
Democrats Rally To Preserve House Solidarity On Defense Bill
Democratic leaders convened over 261 members to prevent Republican gains in amending defense provisions. The debate centers on army air corps expansion to 6,500 planes by 1941, stronger Panama Canal defenses, and private industry munition education funds. Republican leaders oppose rapid increases, urging a 1,000 aircraft annual cap.
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May
D-Ky
Air Corps
Army Air Corps
Regular Army
Panama Canal Defense
Panama Canal
Rep. Andrews
R-Ny
Military Committee
Army
Malin Craig
Martin
Massachusetts
United States
Boxcar Corrigan’s Wrong Car Escape Tale
Peabody Massachusetts February 14 A 15 year old boy Russell C Donaldson known as Boxcar Corrigan recounts how he slept through a week in a locked weight car bound for Florida after boarding the wrong boxcar in Ohio He escaped when a truck driver opened a drainage pipe car door and notified authorities.
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Peabody
Mass
Russell C. Donaldson
Corrigan
Hitler christens Bismarck amid grand Elbe ceremony
Countess Dorothea von Loewenfeld christens Germanys largest battleship Bismarck as Hitler arrives by Hamburg government barge. Thousands line the Elbe shore while veterans, workers, and marines witness the event and the chancellor pledges defense forces to secure true justice.
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Dorothea von Loewenfeld
Bismarck
Fuehrer
Hitler
Free State of Hamburg
Hamburg
Elbe
Germany
France Delays Recognition Of Franco By Cabinet Fight
Paris Feb 14 The French cabinet, after three and a half hours of debate, delayed formal recognition of Francisco Franco as head of Spain’s insurgent government. Ministers favored leaving the diplomatic stance unchanged while sending Senator Leon Berard to Burgos on a second mission as an official agent. Strong opposition from ministers Campinchi Reynaud Mandel and Zay blocked immediate recognition despite Daladier backing Bonnet’s plea.
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Paris
Francisco Franco
Spain
Leon Berard
Burgos
France
Berard
Daladier
Franco
Georges Bonnet
Bonnet
Cesar Campinchi
Marine
Paul Reynaud
Georges Mandel
Jean Zay
Lebrun
Elysee Palace
No New Floods in Eastern North Carolina Rivers
Eastern North Carolina rivers show receded floodwaters with no immediate new flooding ahead, according to weatherman L. A. Denson. Cape Fear overflow passed Elizabethtown, Neuse dropping at Smithfield, Tar steady at Rocky Mount, Roanoke rising slowly at Weldon. new rains may complicate lower sections near Greenville, Williamston, Goldsboro, and Kinston.
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Raleigh
N. C
North Carolina
A. Denson
Cape Fear
Elizabethtown
Neuse
Smithfield
Rocky Mount
Roanoke
Weldon
Blunt Warning From Kundt Shocks Czechoslovakia
Ernst Kundt former aide to Konrad Henlein urged the Czechoslovak government to learn from 1938 events. He said Germans in the republic face unbearable conditions and deliberate hardship. Berlin papers headlined the warning with questions on nationality rights amid reports of discrimination.
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Prague
Little Republic
Ernst Kundt
Konrad Henlein
Sudetenland
Germany
Otober
Republic
Goernemin
Kundt
Berlin
This Morth
Man questioned in hammer slaying of Mrs Romig in Indianapolis
Indianapolis police questioned a 44 year old man in the murder investigation of Carrie Selah Romig aged 55 who was killed January 17. Chief Morrissey said the suspect was arrested on a vagrancy charge after William Butsch named him as the man who supplied pawned jewels later identified as Romig’s. Butsch and his stepdaughter Lydia Hatfield both face vagrancy charges. Seven detectives arrested a man named by Butsch.
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Indianapolis
Claw Hamm
Carrie Selah Rmig
Michael Morrissey
Willia R. Butsch
Louisville
Morrissey Sai
Romig
Butsch
Lydia Hatfield
Glealum
W. Va
AAA Announces Rate Payments for Price Adjustments
The agriculture department announced rate payments for price adjustments on crops within 1939 acreage allotments. Payments of 1.6 cents per pound cotton, 6 cents per bushel corn, 11 cents per bushel wheat, and 12 cents per hundredweight rice will be made from a 21 million dollar appropriation, with checks issued after proof of compliance. Tobacco excluded due to above parity prices.
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Washington
Agricultural Adjustme Administration
Congress
Pii Adjustment Fund
WPA Grants Fund 10 Projects in North Carolina
George W. Coan Jr announced 10 Works Progress Administration projects in North Carolina totaling 419,954 dollars supporting 744 workers. The state college at Durham receives 67,325 to build a gridiron bleachers fences and grade grounds. Other funds go to Macon County recreation facilities Rocky Mount Oak City Whitakers and Dare County among others.
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Raleigh
N. C
George W. Coan, Jr
Works Progress Administra
North Carolina College
Durham
Macon Coun
Rocky Mount
Oak City
Whitakers
Pine
Mencia
Hertford
Eson County
Dare County
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