Wife Held After Fatal Shot At Home In Davis Case
Walter V. Davis, 43, a filling station operator, was shot multiple times at his home on Wilrook Street. His wife, in hysterics, admitted firing the shots and was taken to jail after police obtained a statement. Neighbors heard the volley and rushed to the scene as officers investigated the fatal encounter.
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Walter V. Davis
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Olice
Ters
Ellender Halts Arguments For Anti Lynch Measure During Mix-Up
Senate chaos scuttled debate on the anti lynching bill as Ellender controlled the floor by misforged consent. Rep Fish urged Britain to expand its fleet amid calls for a disarmament conference.
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Japanese advance near Lunghai railway threatens Hankow line
Report from Miles from Shanghai dated February 15 says a Japanese army vanguard about ten miles north of the Lunghai line and opposite Kaifeng occupied the northern bank of the Yellow River. A 60 000 strong force pushed south through North China aiming to cut Lunghai and trap Chinese forces guarding the corridor to Hankow.
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China
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Yellow River
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North Carolina
Yangtze River
Hankow
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House Appropriations Committee Pushes $250 Million Relief Bill
The House Appropriations committee urged immediate approval of a $250 million emergency relief appropriation for four months to sustain at least 2,000,000 relief recipients. Without funds 600,000 would be denied aid and 200,000 on rolls would be laid off. The money would come from reserves and fund WPA and Farm Security Administration direct relief and loans for tens of thousands more families. Aubrey Williams, acting WPA official, highlighted dire need including 25,000 direct relief cases and 65,000 loan needs.
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Farm Security Administration
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Wall Tightens Defenses After Halting Rebels
IBNDAYE France Feb 15 dispatches say Spanish government forces stabilized lines after fighting off wide insurgent thrusts on southern and eastern fronts. Government reports note tightened defenses and quiet across sectors. Insurgent activity shifted as insurgents prepared for a potential spring offensive near Jaen.
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High Point City Petition Under Study by State High Court
In Raleigh on February 15 the state supreme court reviewed a petition from High Point seeking to reconsider its ruling restraining a $5.5 million municipal electric system. City attorneys complained the opinion was unintelligible and contradictory and urged affirming the lower court or sending the case back for a new trial. The suit to block bonds and federal funds was led by J P Williamson with Duke Power as an intervenor. The Superior Court injunction was reversed by the appellate court on grounds of High Point's intended use of power.
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Supreme Court
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J. P. Williamson
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Appelate
Guilford County Revenue Notes Sold to Wachovia
The local government commission sold 76 000 Guilford county revenue notes to Wachovia Bank and Trust of Winston-Salem at a premium of 3.26 dollars with interest at 1 percent.
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Winston-Salem
AcIntyre Dies Before Dream Home in Gatewood
Gallipolis mourns O C AcIntyre once famed as the best bicyclist in Gallia county. He died in New York at 53 before his dream home gift to his wife Maybelle Small. Body returned to Gatewood for lying in state and a funeral Thursday with closures of local businesses.
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Gallis
O. C. Tyre
Gatewood
Gallia County
New York
Maybelle Hope Small
Gallipolis
Georgia Moves 10 Get Liquor in Local Option Vote
Petitions signed by 35 percent of voters were circulated in 19 of Georgia counties to trigger local option liquor elections. Baker County has already called an election for February 21 under the new law. If Baker votes wet, package liquor sales from private stores would be legal 15 days after certification.
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Georgia
Baker
World armaments seen excessive by naval leader
Rear Admiral Arthur J. Hepburn, former fleet commander in chief, says powers have twice what they need in armed might. He notes naval and land armaments are too high worldwide and suggests halving them would still suffice. He spoke after directing Pacific maneuvers last summer.
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Arthur J. Hepburn
United States
Pacific
U. S. Planes Start Voyage to Buenos Aires Inauguration
A squadron of Pi-Six bombers from Langley Field Virginia left the base today for Miami and then a long over water flight toward Buenos Aires for the inauguration of President Roberto M Ortis. The formation climbed to 15500 feet and taxied into the air before 9 o clock.
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Fire damages 38 year old deaf school building
Morganton officials report the west hall of the State School for the Deaf high school burned yesterday. The blaze caused about 75000 dollars in damage to the 38 year old building with 22 classrooms empty at the time. The fire threatened other campus structures but a cause was not known.
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West Hall
State School For the Deaf
Trade Experts to Travel for Anglo American Treaty Talks
London reports a nine member British government delegation of trade experts will sail on the Queen Mary to Washington for talks on a new Anglo American trade treaty. Oliver Stanley announced the plan in the House of Commons but did not reveal details. A. E. Overton will head the party.
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Washington
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Dunkleberger Wins First Round in Golf Club Champions
At St Augustine Florida on February 15 Burleigh Jacobs of Wauwatosa Wisconsin defeated Medalist Carl Dann Jr of Orlando Florida in 2 and 1 match play. Bobby Dunkelberger of High Point North Carolina beat Tom Summerville of Montpelier Station Virginia 5 and 4 in first round of the annual championship.
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Orlando
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Farm Bill Ready To Begin At Once After Roosevelt Signs
Agriculture department officials said over 156000 people will help carry out the new half billion dollar farm program once President Roosevelt signs the measure. The plan, approved by Congress, creates a production adjustment system for wheat corn cotton rice and tobacco with quotas and penalties for non compliance.
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Beal Returns To N C To Face Murder Accusations
Fred Beal the former Gastonia police chief fugitive heads to North Carolina by car with lawyer George Roewer to surrender voluntarily as a state house session looms where Attorney General Seawell will seek extradition. Meanwhile Soviet scientists aboard the Murman see their rescue ship after eight months adrift on an Arctic ice floe led by Ivan Papanin.
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Massachusetts
German Question Freezes Austria Ministers Sought
Vienna Feb 15 The deadlock in Austrian negotiations over appointing Nazi sympathizers as cabinet ministers to satisfy Germany's demands deepened. Fatherland Front leaders from nine provinces were summoned to join a conference resolving clashes between President Miklas and Chancellor Schuschnigg over naming a Nazi interior minister in charge of police.
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Kurt Schuschnigg
Greensboro auditor dies in hotel in Shelby
F B Best of Greensboro passed away from a heart attack early today in a Shelby hotel. He was a member of an auditing firm in Greensboro.
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Shelby
F. B. Best
Greencore
Relief Promised California Today
Siteless California battered by gales and 19 days of rain, promised only cloudy weather today with possible sunshine. Weather officials said 24 hours without rain would ease flood dangers in many valley sectors.
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San Francisco
California
Old Post in Church Dean Seeks Johns Hopkins Health
The Rev. Israel Harding Noe supervised packing for a trip to Baltimore where he will enter Johns Hopkins hospital. He hopes to confer with Bishop James M. Maxon, who removed him as Dean of St. Marys Episcopal Cathedral last month, to gain full restoration of health and return to church work.
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Tenn
Israel Harding Noe
Baltimore
John Hopkins Hospital
James M. Maxon
St. Mary's Episcopal Cathedral
Johns Hopkins
Michigan Flood Waters Subside and Rehab Begins
Detroit reports flood waters receded at most points and rehabilitation work started. Unofficial damage estimates vary from a few hundred thousand dollars to a million.
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Detroit
Michigan
Black Uses Jury Preference In Dissenting Supreme Court Record
Justice Black has dissented 13 times in five months on the Supreme Court, filing seven dissents and six concurring opinions. He favors trial by jury over trial by judge and notes a Texas gas rate case upheld by the court where he concurred with the majority on the result but differed on method.
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