NRA forms textile code panel to avert spring strike
Discontent swells among manufacturers and labor as the NRA establishes a special board to study textile industry conditions and potential code revision. The move aims to forestall a threatened spring textile strike while New England leaders meet with Congress to push import limits, tax relief, wage alignment, and standardized war-time processing.
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Associated Press
Washington
NRA
Curley
Massachusetts
New England
Edith Nourse
Growers Back AAA Tobacco Control Plans at Raleigh Meeting
At a Raleigh gathering, tobacco growers and representatives from five states voted to continue AAA control of flue cured tobacco. Senator J W Bailey pressed questions while Governor Ehringhaus backed tax relief proposals for growers and a possible reduction in tobacco stamps.
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AAA
Wallace
Raleigh
J. B. Hutson
WeInes
Memorial
J. W. Bailey
North Carolina
Bailey
Ehringhaus
R. T. Fountain
Rocky Mount
Secreaary Wallace
Ehbringhaus
Alabama Votes On Dry Laws In Three Referenda
Birmingham dispatch reports Alabama voters facing a three part referendum on the 20 year old dry laws. Governor Graves had promised the vote to guide the legislature returning from recess April 30, with liquor prohibitions remaining in force until repeal or modification acts pass.
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Birmingham
Ala
Alabama
Bill Graves
Three Women Injured In Auto Crash Near Spring Hope
Three women from Henderson were injured when their car lights went out and the vehicle struck a highway bridge near Sapony Creek, one seriously. Mrs J G Robinson was reported in serious condition at Rocky Mount hospital.
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Spring Hope
Here
J. G. Robinson
Merle Robinson
Leona Arthur
Henderson
Rocky Mount
Sapony Creek
Deadlock on relief bill stalls White House plan
Congress faces a stalemate over the $4.88 billion work relief bill with prevailing wage amendments and a $50 monthly wage target dividing lawmakers. Officials await President Roosevelt's return for guidance as social security and transportation control face uncertain futures. Bethlehem Steel head Eugene Grace reported wartime bonds totaling $3,669,000.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Apitel Hill
White House
House
Senate
Hyde Park
Pennsylvania Avenue
Senate Munitions Committee
Eugene Grace
Bethlehem Steel Corporation
Storms Bring Death and Injury Across Midwest
Blizzard conditions tornadoes and dust storms ravaged the Midwest killing four people and injuring more than 130. Tornadoes traced a path from Wichita to Commerce and Joplin with damage over 200000 dollars. Miss Ellen Teague 69 died in a tornado near Commerce and Douthat Oklahoma. Ruby Reiff 16 died in an overturned car in Orwar Colorado. Two Chicago women died in wet snow related accidents. Dust snow sleet and rain caused widespread travel disruption as a norther neared the Texas coast.
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Kansas City
Midwest
Mississippi
Rockies
Wichita
Kas
Commerce
Okla
Joplin
Ellen Teague
Douthat
Ruby Reiff
Orwar
Colo
Chicago
Kansas
Colorado
Panhandle
Texas Gulf Coast
American girls jump to death to be with lovers in Rome verdict
A coroner's jury in Romford, England, finds Elizabeth and Jane Du Bois died by their own actions while of unsound mind after letters to their parents revealed their grief for two Royal Air Force officers killed in Sicily. The girls leapt from a commercial aircraft last week, hoping to unite with their lovers.
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Romford
Eng
Elizabeth
Jane du Bois
Coert
du Bois
United States
Naples
John A. C. Forbes
Henry L. Beatty
Messina
Sicily
Royal Air Force
Franklin D. Gowen
Gowen
Court du Bois
Gowep
DuBois
Darling Court
Charles
John A. OC. Forbes
Grace defends wartime bonuses in Senate testimony
Eugene Grace, head of Bethlehem Steel and Bethlehem Shipbuilding, testifies before the Senate munitions committee defending wartime bonuses as an incentive for production. He says bonuses did not produce extra government services and argues for fair compensation for private capital rather than a 100 percent war profits tax.
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Washington
Senate Munitions Committee
Eugene G. Grace
Bethlehem Steel Corporation
Bethlehem Shipbuilding Company
Nye
RND
Grace
Clark
Bethlehem Steel Chief Kidnap Plot Dismissed As Wind
Justice Department agents in Philadelphia discounted an alleged plan to kidnap Eugene G. Grace, head of Bethlehem Steel, for a $25,000 ransom calling it a wind. State police pursued the tale, tied to four men in custody over bank robberies and holdups in Bethlehem, Pa.
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Department of Justice
Bethlehem Steel
Bethlehem
Eugene G. Grace
Bethlehem Steel Company
United States Investigation Division Bureau
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Carolinas Plan Trade Mission to Puerto Rico
R. B. Hanna, president of the South Carolina Economic Association, announced a 35 member Carolina business delegation will sail from Charleston on May 2 for Puerto Rico. The group aims to boost exports and imports between the Carolinas and the island and will return May 16. Several veterans of previous trips are expected to join this voyage.
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Cheraw
8. C
R. BE. Hanna
South Carolina Economic Association
Carolina
Charleston
Puerto Rico
Carolinas
Roosevelt rests in Hyde Park during brief respite from White House duties
In Hyde Park New York President Roosevelt enters the second day of a four day rest from White House pressures while staying in touch with national affairs. Ten people are missing after a heavily laden excursion boat capsized off St Lucia with 70 rescued from the same incident near Choiseul and Laborie.
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Hyde Park
N. Y
Roosevelt
White House
Castries
St. Lucia
Windward Islands
Choiseul
Laborie
George
Murder mystery as legs found under Waterloo train seat
In London on February 25 two severed legs were found under a Waterloo train seat. Railway police, unsure of the victim’s sex at first, called in Scotland Yard. Detectives then confirmed the limbs belonged to a man as a coach cleaner inspected a third class compartment.
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London
Waterloo Station
Scotland Yard
Criminal Investigation Division
Waterloo
Irish horse wins big Santa Monica race set
In Santa Monica on Saturday an Irish seven year old horse won the day’s feature race, besting twenty American rivals after a record purse. Eight hundred thousand dollars was wagered across the eight races, while Los Angeles stores ran a dollar sale and Iowa hosted a larger picnic crowd.
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Santa Monica
Calif
Peb
Los Angeles
Iowa
Eight Vessels in Trouble at Sea in Severe Gale
A three day gale sweeping North Atlantic lanes battered France and the Bay of Biscay, adding to the death toll and disrupted shipping. Earthquakes hit the eastern Mediterranean with deaths in Greece and Malta, plus an explosion off Tunisia injuring several and killing four aboard the S S Gouverneau General.
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Greece
Malta
Cairo
Gouverneau
Desperado Hamilton Flees With Three Boys Toward West
Raymond Hamilton escapes a police ambush after being wounded in the jaw and flees west with three abducted farm boys J C Leftice 16 Buster Mayes and J C Harlow from near Celina Texas. Officers say a fourth man with them is possibly a west Dallas hoodlum.
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Mckinney
Texas
Raymond Hamilton
Desperado
Here
Celina
J. C. Leftice
Buster Mayes
J. C. Harlow
Hamilton
West Dallas
Elizabeth City Man Held In Fatal Wreck
A York man was killed in a five mile north of here crash. J. B. Hughes of Elizabeth City North Carolina faced detention pending investigation. Elmer H. Yin died from head and chest injuries in a separate auto driven by Walter F. Eberly of York. Hughes on the Susquehanna Trail toward York escaped serious injury.
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York
Here
J. BE. Hughes
Elizabeth City
N. C
Elmer H. Yin
Walter F. Eberly
Hughes
Eberlly
Mayors' director predicts mobilization over work relief bill
Paul V. Batters, director of the United States Conference of Mayors, warned at Hyde Park that a mobilization in bed of work relief could rival the Bonus Army if the $80,000,000 bill passes. He cited 500,000 workers without work as potential sparks and argued the threat to 15 million dependents on federal relief. Roosevelt watched Senate actions and considered asking for reconsideration.
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Washington
Paul V. Batters
United States Conference of Mayors
Senate
McCarran
Hyde Park
Roosevelt
Appropriations Committee
MA Roosevelt
Betters
Three Big Bills Hold Up Solons in Raleigh
In Raleigh the General Assembly reached its ninth week with no initial committee action on three major issues. The house notes Rep McDonn ald Forsyth who opposes sales tags, delaying the revenue bill. Committee chairmen had aimed for a February 15 report, but progress stalled.
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Raleigh
General Assembly
North Carolina Weather Forecast Rain Tonight and Warmer East
North Carolina forecasts rain tonight with likely rain into Tuesday morning. Temperatures rise in eastern regions while the extreme west faces a dip below Tuesday.
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Jacksonville
Sandy Hook
Ewan “A
Asheville
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Birmingham
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