Deadly tornado roars through Rodessa injuring many
A night tornado in Rodessa Louisiana killed at least 21 people and injured more than 60 while causing up to 400000 in damage. Authorities in Shreveport Vivian and Atlanta Texas counted bodies and treated the injured, with eight deaths confirmed at area doctors’ offices. The storm struck at 9:42 p.m. as a large electric lock failed and the twister moved through the industrial section.
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Rodessa
Isiana
Shreveport
Vivian
Atlanta
Tex
Grostore Morgue
George E. Morrison
Arles Holt
James Haddock
B. B. Crowder
Annie C. Crowder
Japanese Forces Capture Sinxiang and Advance in China
Japanese troops reported to have breached heavy fortifications and taken Sinxiang, the last major Peiping Hankow railway stronghold north of the Yellow River. Flying columns pressed west along a branch as Chinese retreat continued amid reports of leadership changes in the Japanese high command. The Sinjiang detachment aimed for Chengchow, south of the Yangtze river junction.
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Shanghai
Sinsiang
Yellow River
Sunghai
China
Iwane Matsui
Japan
Shunroku Hata
Sinjiang
Chengchow
Langhat
Judge Certifies Supreme Court Decision on High Point Hydro Project
Greensboro February ruling certifies the North Carolina Supreme Court decision reversing a lower court denial of an injunction. The Superior Court judge enjoins High Point from issuing bonds or building the hydro electric plant at Styers dam on the Yadkin river, impacting the project though not the ongoing federal survey.
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Greensboro
High Point
Superior Court
FE. C. Bivens
Duke Power Company
Grover H. Jones
North Carolina Supreme Court
Supreme Court
J. Paul Williamson
Duke
Jones
Bivens
High Court
H. Hoyle Sink
Styers Dam
Yadkin River
Federal Public Works Administration
Knox in Conference With PWA Officials
City manager B. M. Knox met with Public Works Administration officials in Washington to discuss several phases of the proposed hydroelectric project. Knox departed last night and is expected to return to High Point tomorrow as details from the conference remain forthcoming.
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Knox
PWA
M. Knox
Ninth District Amer Legion Meet Planned in Smithfield
Smithfield hosts a gathering of the ninth district of the Amer Legion on Thursday. Local posts, veterans, and officers are expected to attend as plans unfold for district camaraderie and discussions.
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Smithfield
Amer Legion
Ursday
Townsend Leaves To Serve Jail Term For Contempt Of Court
Dr Francis B Townsend 71, pension campaign leader, departed by train from Los Angeles to Washington to begin a jail term for contempt after walking out on the Bell committee questioning his financing. Supporters cheered as he left.
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Townsend
Los Angeles
Francis BE. Townsend
Washington, D. C
Long Beach
Bell Congressional Committee
Wrenn Street opening delayed by city funding dispute
The opening of Wrenn Street has been delayed by six weeks due to Hig point’s refusal to spend 600 dollars for overlap work enabling grade cross elimination on the Wrenn Street bridge. City Manager B E Knox cites that PWA funds are earmarked for specified contract purposes and cannot be used for this work. A H Guion and company continue the project.
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State Highay Commission
Wrenn
Higuoint
BE. M. Knox
PWA
A. H. Guion and Company
Seven Escape Death As One Is Killed In Flooded Mine
At Hazleton Pennsylvania February 18 seven of eight trapped miners escaped unharmed after a flooding surge from a surface mining basin. One miner Paul Kuritz, 40, Hazleton was recovered dead as rescuers worked through debris overnight. Others named include Michael Olexa Stephen Sterfranko John Lavaraski Andrew Havrilla William Davis and Paul Molnar all from nearby towns. Bernard McAlarney and another survivor described dynamite timing and a surge that swept two others to safety.
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Hazleton
Jeanesville
Lehigh Valleympany
al Kuritz
Alence
Kuritzas
Michael Olexa
Joseph Fidishin
Stephen Sterfranko
John Lavaraski
Andrew Havrilla
Theseknow
William Davis
Hacleton Heights
Paul Molnar
Beaver Meadow
Bernard McAlarney
McAlarney and Schutter
Paul Kunitz
Hazleton Heights
Michael Qleza
Presidents Talk Depresses Market in New York
Stock leaders fell back after the president's press conference as inflation hopes cooled. Early gains in steels copper rubbers faded while the ticker lagged amid broad selling, then slowly recovered toward the fourth hour.
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New York
Mary O'Connor Acquitted of Child Murder
Philadelphia February 18 Mary O Connor a 19 year old girl athlete was acquitted today of all charges in the mud puddle death of five year old Nancy Glenn last Labor Day. The verdict ended a trial where she faced murder voluntary manslaughter and involuntary manslaughter charges.
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Philadelphia
Mary O'Connor
Nancy Glenn
Smith and Gibson Waive Hearing In Municipal Court
Jerry Smith and Theodore Gibson waived preliminary hearing in High Point Municipal Court after their cases were called. Bonds were set at 500 dollars each for charges of attempted bribery and intimidating a state’s witness involving Goldie Song in a prior incident.
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Jerry
Dutch) Smith
Theodore Gibson
High Point
Goldie Song
Spencer Made Director of Physical Ed
Charles B. Spencer, a longtime High Point educator and local insurance man, was named head of the health and physical education department for North Carolina public schools by Clyde A. Erwin. Spencer will relocate to Raleigh to lead programs for grades one through eleven and will not serve as interscholastic athletics arbiter. He previously directed High Point high school physical education, led a state championship track program, ran the Y M C A fitness department, then worked in insurance locally. He aims to assume duties by early March.
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Charles B. Spencer
High Point Insurance
Erwin
Spencer
High Point
High Point High School
Raleigh
State Department of Public Instruction
Liens Filed Against Five Local Concerns
Greensboro February 18 Charles H Robertson collector of internal revenue today filed liens against five High Point firms for unemployment compensation tax 1936. Firms named Frye Manufacturing Dermont Construction Atlantic States Motor Lines Greeson Knitting Mill Plymouth Hosiery Mill with amounts due 35.34 146.16 863.87 97.77 393.48 respectively.
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Greensboro
Charles H. Robertson
Internal Revenue
Ve High Point
Frye Manufacturing Company
Dermont Construction Company
Atlantic States Motor Lines
Greeson Knitting Mill
Plymouth Hosiery Mill
Parole Board Pick for Garland Midgette Roanoke Rapids
Garland Midgette, formerly with Allebrook and Benton, has accepted a position with the state parole board in Raleigh. He is the son of the late Judge Midgette.
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Roanoke Rapids
N. C
Garland Midgette
Allebrook and Benton
State Parole Board
Raleigh
Judge Midgette
Opposition Stews as Hitler Advances in Austria
A rising tide of opposition forms among monarchists and socialists in Austria as Hitler presses economic control. Leaders meet to draft a monarchist socialist accord while Schuschnigg faces Berchtesgaden pressures. Catholics and workers fear a loss of independence and constitutional rights amid talks of purges and press control.
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Arenes
Aula
Sees
Innsbruck
Berchtesgaden
Schuschnig
Arthur Seyser-Inquart
Berlin
Hitler
Seysz-Inquart
Germany
Exum and Smoak Executed in State Gas Chamber
Mil ford Exum 39 of Wayne county and Edgar Leroy Smoak 49 of New Hanover were executed today in the state prison gas chamber. Exum's 16 minute 20 second session set a record, while Smoak's 18 minute 33 second asphyxiation followed. Exum waved to witnesses and shaked hands with guards and officials before death.
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Raleigh
Milford Exum
Wayne County
State’s
Edgar Leroy Smoak
New Hanover
Exum
H. HW
Honey
Smoak
Britain weighs Austrian ties and central Europe fate
British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden told the Commons Britain would stay engaged in the Austrian question within the broader Central European context. He signaled a fuller statement after Hitler’s Reichstag address and emphasized concern for Austria, Czechoslovakia, and neighboring states amid German pressure.
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London
Anthony Eden
Commons
Europe
Britain
Germany
Hitler
Loyal troops suffer heavy losses in Hendaye battle
Insurgents report breakthroughs after a brutal bombardment in the Alhambra Teruel sector. They claim government lines fell in three points, with about a thousand government soldiers killed and several hundred captured, described as foreign volunteers.
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Hendaye
France
North Americana
Alhambra-Teruel
French Ship El Mansour Reports Attack Off Spanish Coast
The French passenger steamer El Mansour appealed for help claiming shelling by a Spanish squadron off the northeast coast of Spain while en route from Port Vendres to Oran. The later report said all well aboard with 55 passengers and freight aboard.
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Marseille
France
el Mansour
Spain
Port Vendres
Oran
Algeria
Cutter Plows 10 Aid of Freighter
Coast Guard cutter Tahoe battled 300 miles of heavy seas to aid the 5588-ton freighter Azalea City with 51 aboard, after the vessel lost its propeller in a northwest gale 135 miles southwest of Cape Race Newfoundland. The Azalea City, owned by Waterman Steamship of Mobile Alabama, wirelessed for help as Tahoe moved to the stricken vessel on ice patrol and was the only nearby cutter.
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Boston
Coast Guard
Cape Tace
Newfoundland
Waterman Steamship Company
Mobile
Ala
Tahoe
Brazen Hen Thieves Advertise Feat Here
Thieves broke into Sallie Hearndon’s hen house at 406 Hisie Street and stole four hens. They posted a sign reading Your Chickens Are Gone, turning an ordinary theft into a bold publicity stunt.
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Sallie Hearndon
Hisie Street
Hitler aims for economic union of Germany and Austria
Berlin dispatch reports Nazi spokesmen presenting Hitler as determined to unite Germany and Austria economically and financially after seven years since Britain and France blocked a customs union. The plan includes a monetary and customs union, a vast public works program to curb unemployment, and repeated talks with Austrian leaders.
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Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Austria
Britain
France
Hitler
Arthur Lysz-Inquart
Austrian Alps
Reidsville Burlington Mill to Reopen Next Month
Kenneth H. Boydell, general superintendent, said the Reidsville Burlington ilkmill with about 200 workers would reopen early next month after a temporary closure.
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Reidsville
Kenneth H. Boydell
Burlington «Ilk Mills
Roosevelt outlines balanced production plan for unemployment
President Roosevelt told reporters a balanced system of prices and growing production would raise national income and employment. He urged that some price increases are desirable for raw materials and finished goods while overall inflation should not be general. He emphasized easy credit as part of the program with Treasury and Federal Reserve cooperation. The Senate appropriations committee also favored a $250 million emergency relief bill excluding aliens from benefits unless they meet citizenship criteria.
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Washington
Roosevelt
The
Treasury
Federal Reserve
Federal Reserve Board
Senate
House
Adams
D-Colo
United
Aubrey Williams
W Progress
Williams
Hale
R-Me
Postmasters to Meet in Greensboro
The North Carolina association of postmasters holds its annual gathering in Greensboro on June 10 and 11, with plans for discussions on postal service operations and meeting schedules.
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Greensboro
N. C
North
Crolina
Retaining Wall Near Track Project Nears Completion
Concrete structure extends from Wrenn street along the south side of the cut toward the passenger station marking a key step in the grade crossing elimination project. Work has been delayed since October 14, with plans next week to determine remaining track and surface work for the Southern railway area.
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Wrenn Street
Blythe
Southern Railway
Dewey Beck Bound Over In Arson Case
Judge Teague found probable cause in the arson case against Dewey Beck 209 Joshua street a nightwatchman at the Wilson Upholstery plant Bond set at 500 pending Superior court appearance Beck called firemen at about 2 AM after gallons of shellac were found burning on three floors investigators say two attempts were made to ignite the building Beck said he had been at the plant only a few hours and police described the act as the work of a rank amateur with limited knowledge of shellac flammability
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Lewis BE. Teague
Dewey Beck
Joshua Street
Wilson
English Street
Bond
Superior
Beck
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Judge E. ©. Bivens
Legion
Ed Wrenn
Mary O’connor
Charles Eb, Spencer
Schuschnigg
Berchstesgaden
Wayne
H. H. Wilson
Great Britain
Appropriations Committee
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