Justice Sutherland Announces Retirement From Supreme Court
Justice George Sutherland informed President Roosevelt he will retire from active service on January 18. The 75 year old associate justice cited age and 15 years on the court under the Summers Act of 1937. Roosevelt gains a second opportunity to appoint a new justice following Van Devanter's retirement.
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Washington
George Sutherland
Supreme Court
Roosevelt
White House
Supreme Court of the United States
FDR
Sutherland
Supreme Rt
Willie van de Vanter
van Devanter
City and Blythe Brothers Reach Arbitration Promise
Justice George Sutherland announced his January 18 retirement from the Supreme Court bench, noted as a conservative leader against New Deal laws. A grade crossing excavation impasse in High Point caused by contract interpretation will be solved as the city votes to submit the dispute to arbitration with Blythe Brothers, Charlotte contractors.
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City of
High Point
Blythe Brothers
Charlotte Contractors
Payne Faces Murder Trial in Buncombe
William Bill Payne and Wash Turner alias Jack Borden were arrested in Sanford and are to stand trial in Buncombe Superior court on January 24 for first degree murder in the shooting of George A Penn a state highway patrolman on August 22. Judge Johnson J Hayes of the Middle District United States Supreme Court signed an order directing delivery to state authorities for trial on the capital charge.
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Greensboro
William
Bill) Payne
Wash Turner
Jack Borden
Sanford
Buncombe Superior Court
George A. Penn
Johnson J. Hayes
Middle District
United States Supreme Court
Forecast Of FDR Would Cut Outlay Over Half Billior
The budget in brief for 1939 shows expenditures of 6.869 billion and receipts of 5.919 billion with a net deficit of 949.6 million and debt at 38.528 billion. For the 1988 fiscal year the president revised figures to 7.409 billion in expenditures and 6.321 billion in receipts with a net deficit of 1.881 billion and debt of 37.604 billion.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Treasury
Arma
Japanese Seizes Shanghai Functions and Extends Control
Japanese authorities announced they had taken over all Chinese government functions in Shanghai and other occupied territories, with plans to censor news dispatches. Detachments raised the Rising Sun flag as they consolidate control across five northern Chinese provinces and the lower Yangtze river valley.
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Shanghai
Japan
North China
Yangtze River
Chufu
China
Confucius
Bennett's Girl Not Lost But Honeymooning
Rose Sell Hughes and Gertrude Hughes, both named in the report, are honeymooning after eloping to be wed Monday night in Auburn Indiana. Harry H Bennett, Ford Motor Co personnel director and the bride’s father, halted a police search once he learned of the marriage.
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Detroit
Rosesell Hughes
Gertrude Hughes
Harry H. Bennett
Ford Motor Co
Bennett
Hughes
Auburn
Tnd
F B I Agent Says William L Player To Face Rape Charge
Edward Schecht, head of the FBI office in Charlotte, announced that William L. Player, 36, would be brought from Columbus, Georgia to Rocky Mount, North Carolina to face a rape charge.
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Charlotte
Edward Schecht
Federal Bureau of Investigation
William L. Player
Columbus
Rocky Mount
N. C
Banks Ordered To Report Condition At Close Of Year
The comptroller of the currency issued a call for the condition of all national banks at year end. The Deposit Insurance Corporation issued a similar call to insured state banks, totaling 18 860 banks asked to report detailed loans investments assets and liabilities.
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Washington
Comptroller of the Currency
Deposit Insurance Corporation
State banks ordered to report condition by Friday
Hood, state bank commissioner, issued a call for all state banks to report their condition as of the close of business Friday December 21.
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Ralehigh
Dan
Apme Gurney FP. Hood
Core Drilling Contract Let To New York Firm
Core drilling work tied to a hydro electric project on the Yadkin river was awarded to Standard Drilling Company of New York City. The firm bid 11 860 dollars for the job and agreed to complete it in 65 days. AFL leader William Green pledged to oppose any law restricting labor unions and noted President Roosevelt’s address on labor responsibilities.
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Washington
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Anyle
Green
Roosevelt
Congress
A. F
Ike
Yadkin River
Standard Drilling Company
New York City
New York
Young Parents Future Studied in Bloomfield Court
Bloomfield Ind Jan 5 Judge J Raymond Powell said he is receiving sage advice in letters from across the Middle West about the case of a baby boy born to Betty June Lacer a 12 year old Linton school girl The great majority urge the judge not to let the two children marry as they are too young.
Newsmen Meet On January 20 In Chapel Hill
The 14th annual newspaper institute of the North Carolina Press Association, UNC and Duke opens Thursday night January 20 in Hill Music hall at 8. Arthur Hays Sulzberger of the New York Times will speak. Talbot Patrick will introduce him. W Curtis Russ presides and Frank P. Graham welcomes the delegates. sessions run until Saturday noon.
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Chapel Hill
North Carolina Press Association
University of North Carolina
Duke University
Arthur Hays Sulzberger
The
New York Times
Hill Music Hall
Talbot Patrick
Goldsboro News-Argus
Curtis Russ
Frank P. Graham
North Carolina University
FBI Chief Says Paye and Turner Admit More Bank Robberies
Edward Schedit head of the FBI office in Charlotte said Bill Payne and Wash Turner admitted numerous other bank robberies beyond those already disclosed. Schedit noted he directed the capture of the long sought fugitive.
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Charlotte
Edward Schedit
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Bill Payne
Wash Turner
Schedit
Sitdown Strike at Caledonia Farm Falls Through
In Halifax county at Caledonia prison farm a threatened sitdown strike did not occur as 19 alleged leaders remained in solitary at the state's prison. Oscar Pitts said convicts planned the action to protest farm work and seek transfer to road camps while federal agents questioned recaptured inmates in Charlotte.
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Raleigh
Caledonia
Halifax County
Oscar Pitts
Pitts
Charlotte
William Payne
Jack Borden
Peace Time Atlantic Fleet Proposal For Training and Defense
Representative Hamilton of Virginia introduced a bill to Congress for a permanent peace time training and defense fleet on the Atlantic coast. The plan aims to establish and maintain a fleet of surface ships and aircraft on the eastern seaboard, to be as effective in action as the Pacific coast fleet.
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Washington, Jan
Atlantic
Congress
Hamilton
D-Va
Naval Affairs Committee
Pacific
Roosevelt weighs planned industrial production system
President Roosevelt disclosed he is studying a national plan for coordinated industry and government to align production with consumer demand without price controls. He cautioned against implying revival of the NRA and noted anti trust concerns. He cited labor responsibility and praised the ILGWU for transparency while contrasting with strikes and a lumber boycott affecting Portland area.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Senators Study Jobless To Consider Compensation
Washington bulletin reports employment peaked in 1929 before the recession as Virg il Jordan of the national industrial conference board tells the Senate employment committee. A J Altmeyer of the social security board urges Congress to amend the act to speed unemployment benefits to states.
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Washington
Alranean
Virgil Jordan
National Industrial Conference Board
Senate
A. J. Altmeyer
Social Security Board
Congress
Lester Hill Is Made Senator From Alabama
In Birmingham Alabama on January 6 1932 Lester Hill claimed victory over J Thomas Heflin and Charles W Williams for the Senate seat left by Hugo Black Roosevelt's platform and the Democratic banner backed Hill as unofficial returns from 1608 of 2220 boxes showed Hill 76371 Heflin 41521 Williams 4437 Hill called it a victory for human welfare per the Democratic platform and Roosevelt.
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Birmingham
Ala
Lister Hill
Roosevelt
Senate
Hugo W. Black
Supreme Court
J. Thomas Heflin
Charles W. Williams
Alabama
Hill
Heflin
Williams
Franklin D. Roosevel
Senate committee explores unemployment data report
Chairman Eccles of the federal reserve board says more government spending would improve business as a senate panel orders a weekly count of unemployment compensation registrations. Senator Byrnes notes the United States employment service will collect figures from all 48 states to aid a job solution search.
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Washington
Senate
Eccles
Federal Reserve Board
Byrnes
D-Sc
United States Employment Service
New Zeppelin to Fly Ocean with Helium L2130
The United States will supply helium filled gas cells for the new zeppelin L2130 to cross the Atlantic from Germany to the United States. It will serve Europe and America with three trips a month, completing 15 to 18 flights before seasonal operations end next fall.
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New York
Germany
Atlantic
Europe
United States
Lakehurst
N. J
Court Upholds Death Verdicts In Four Forsyth Cases
The North Carolina Supreme Court today upheld four death sentences and sent one back for record correction as it ruled on 24 cases. Among the capital appeals, Tom Linney alias Buffalo and T. J. Jefferson were affirmed for Herman W. Fogleman murder, James Sermons’s appeal was not perfected, and Henry Mosley’s record was corrected to reflect first degree murder for the Clarence Black killing.
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Raleigh
Supreme Court
Superior Court
Forsyth Cauty
Tom Linney
Buffalo
T. J. Jefferson
Herman W. Fogleman
James Sermons
Carlile Miller
Henry Mosley
Clarence Black
Crutchfield Paroled in Forsyth Manslaughter Case
Horace Crutchfield, convicted of manslaughter in Forsyth county in the death of Dick Spears, was released on parole today by Governor Hoey. Sentenced in January 1935, Crutchfield is now at liberty.
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Crutchfield
Raleigh
Horace Crutchfield
Forsyth County
Hoey
Dick Spears
Fugitive Bowers Confesses Slaying Widow Wilma Carpenter
Wendell Forrest Bowers 23 confessed killing Wilma V. Carpenter 38 in her suburban Philadelphia home. Arrested in Louisville on a vagrancy charge he faces federal unlawful flight to avoid prosecution and murder charges in Pennsylvania. Identity revealed by fingerprint check showing alias George Francis Lewis of San Diego California.
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Louisville
Wendell Forrest Bowers
Pennsylvania
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Wilma V. Carpenter
Philadelphia
Bowers
U. S
Ray Kirchdorfer
Washington
George Francis Lewis
San Diego
California
City Officials Face Charges in Embezzlement Case
Two former Spartanburg city officials were bonded today on embezzlement charges. Former City Clerk and Treasurer T. K. Fletcher is charged with embezzling $7,065.98 between 1936 and 1938, while G. E. West, former chief of police, is charged with embezzling $900. Warrants sworn by Mayor T. W. Woodworth.
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Spartanburg
8. C
T. K. Fletcher
G. E. West
Wee
T. W. Woodworth
Prince of Greenville Quits Politics After Conspiracy Case
Representative Lewis Prince of Greenville county announced he would give up politics to take up the cloth. He cited a mistrial in a conspiracy case involving slot machines and said his plan to announce earlier was delayed by concerns it might seem mocking to some.
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Greenville
D. C
Jan
Lewis Prince
Greenville County
Prince
Aspiracy
Chary
Identification of Ruth Rubens Ties Woman to Mrs Donald Robinson
In Moscow a passport photo of Ruth Marie Rubens of New York was identified as the woman who used the name Mrs Donald L Robinson before disappearing on December 9. The woman was interviewed at a Moscow hotel and later reported under arrest as the embassy waits Washington guidance. A photo of Adolph Arnold Rubens could not be identified. The man known as Donald L Robinson disappeared December 2 and had not visited the American embassy or been seen by Americans as far as could be learned.
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Moscow
Ruth Marie Rubens
New York
Donald Ll. Robingson
State Department
Washington
United States
Foreign Office
Adolph Arnold Rubens
Donald L. Robinson
Federal Collections in N C Reach New High Total
Greensboro January 5 Internal Revenue Collector H Robertson announced that North Carolina fed collections for the year reached a new high of 324 657 303 12 dollars. He noted the figure was 2 716 008 21 dollars above the 1936 federal collections of 941 204 91 dollars.
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Greensboro
Internal Revenue
H. Robertson
Fed
North Carolina
Buncombe Gets Federal Grants for Improvements
George W. Coan Jr state director announced federal sponsor funds totaling 29533 for Buncombe county sanitation and 16012 for Asheville school grounds improvements.
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Buncombe Gprts
Raleigh
George W. Coan, Jr
Asheville & School Grounds
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State Supreme Court
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Wilma Carpenter
Spartan
Lewis G. Prin
Donald Robinson
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