Lawmakers face broad issues as session enters third week
North Carolina legislators enter week three of the 1951 session with pivotal questions looming on appropriations the six month school term funding revenue sources and gas tax increases. A joint session will hear Rivers D. Johnson speak on Lee and Jackson as highway and tax bills move through committees and hearings begin on the appropriations bill.
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Tnalbeigh
North Carolina
General Assembly
Highway Commission
South
Robert E. Lee
Stonewall Jackson
Rivers D. Johnson
Senate
John Sprunt Hill
Durham
Col
T. L. Kirkpatrick
Charlotte
Good Roads
House
Neal
Bank at Marshall Opens Doors Today
MARSHALL N C Jan 19 The bank of French Board reopened this morning after a December 15 closure. By 11 AM deposits neared 25000 with expectations of more by day’s end. Depositors signed an agreement not to withdraw until July 1 1932. Capitalization 125000. Dr Frank Roberts president Eugene Rector cashier. No personnel changes.
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Frank Roberts
Eugene Rector
Senate Committee Favors Naval Bill
The administration's 99 million dollar construction bill passed the Senate Naval Committee. The measure includes a provision for a six inch gun cruiser, a feature rejected by the House Naval Committee.
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Senate
Washington
Senate Naval Committee
House Naval Committee
MacDonald backs all Indian federation proposal
London Jan 19 Prime Minister MacDonald endorsed the all Indian federation idea at the round table conference. He urged Indians to settle communal disputes and safeguard minority interests while Britain refrains from interference. He promised amnesty for political prisoners if civil order is maintained and urged Burma’s separation. The government will transfer full responsibility for India to federal and provincial legislatures as negotiations continue.
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London
Ramsay MacDonald
India
Round Table
Great Britain
Britain
Mahatma Gandhi
Burma
Oklahoma City Oil Well Blows Wild Injuring Worker
An oil well in Oklahoma City blew wild during startup, injuring a worker named A. Rush and threatening the Doorstep field and nearby districts. Guards were dispatched, fire crews stood by, and trains halted as authorities prepared to cap the well.
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Gil Well
Oklahoma City
Wapaco
T. B. Slick
Oklahoma National Guard
A. Rush
Dilton
Jim Hedgly
Missouri-Kansas-Texas
Rock Island
Express Crash Slams New York Bound Train at Readville
Boston January 19 The New York bound Colonial express of the New York Hartford line speeding through a heavy snow storm collided with a passenger local near Readville The locomotive crashed into the rear cars and overturned pinning engineer George Gladding of Providence R I in his cab The fireman Thomas McHugh also of Providence leaped free Four dining car employees and several passengers were injured with some fatally.
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Boston
Colonial Express
New York, New Haven and Hartford
Readville
George Gladding
Providence
R. 1
Thomas McHugh
Sprint Champion Is Bitten by Bulldog
Pasadena report says former sprint champion Charles Paddock went to aid his chow when a bulldog attacked the dog. He received deep gashes on his left arm and right hand and was treated locally.
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Pasadena
Cali
Charles Paddock
Chow
Paddock
Automobile Dealer Shot and Wounded in Tampa
Joe D. Johnson, 45, an automobile dealer, was shot in the chest last midnight by an unidentified gunman as he walked to his home after parking his car in the garage. The assailant escaped.
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Tampa
Fla
Joe D. Johnson
Johnson
Attack on Darrow Launched by Fish Attack on Darrow Launched by Fish
Representative Fish of New York, head of a house committee on communism, accused Clarence Darrow of aiming to undermine the U S government. Speaking before the Washington board of trade, Fish cited Darrow’s remarks to a Chicago audience alleging social equality discriminations, saying they seek to turn loyal Black citizens against the government.
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Fish
New York
House
Clarence Darrow
Chicago
United States
Washington Board of Trade
Darrow
Prohibition Report Submitted to President Hoover
The Law Enforcement Commission's prohibition report arrived at the White House and will be sent to Congress soon. Chairman Wickersham delivered the document and the president began reviewing it. The commission plans a spring final report and has included individual opinions from all eleven commissioners.
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Washington
Law Enforcement Commission
Hoover
Wickersham
White House
Congress
Soeeny
George W. Wickersham
Two Vessels Wrecked In Black Sea Storm
Istanbul Turkey January 19. Two vessels the British steamer Baron Catlen and the Turkish ship Yeshel Irmak were wrecked in a disastrous storm that swept the Black Sea last night and continued today. No lives were reported lost.
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Istanbul
Turkey
Baron Catlen
Yeshel Irmak
Black Sea
Old Human Bones Found in Gypsum Cave Near Las Vegas
In Los Angeles on January 19, Dr. James A. B. Schereign of the Southwest Museum announced the first sure proof of a dawn age man in southwestern America. Human bones were uncovered in Gypsum Cave near Las Vegas, Nevada, dating about 20,000 years ago.
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Los Angeles
America
James A. B. Schereign
The
Southwest Museum
Gypsum
Las Vegan
Nevada
Buncombe Schools Face Light Service Shutdown
Buncombe county school districts struggle to raise funds for electricity and power company officials have been asked to discontinue service, announced at the school board office in Asheville on January 19.
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Asheville
Buncombe County
Power Company
Armament rivalry blamed as chief war cause by Catt
Washington dispatch reports Carrie Chapman Catt opening the sixth annual world peace conference. She says competition in armament building is the chief cause of war and urges pacts of peace and disarmament as cures. James G. McDonald notes U S progress toward peace and Europe’s mixed gains and losses since the London naval conference.
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Carrie Chapman Catt
Washington
Carrie Chi Chapman Catt
Ana Sue
Gather To Formulate New Principals For Education
Nearly a score of educators met at Winter Park Florida to draft guiding principles for American higher education. Rollins College hosted four student faculty and alumni reports urging reforms in curricula. A radical student committee urged courses on health money value family citizenship arts and religion.
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Winter Park
Fra
Rollins College
America
Rollins
George Holt
Hamilton Holt
Youth Robs Union Station Offices
A slender youth in quiet dress robbed the Union Station ticket offices in Chicago of $10,000 in cash early today, locked the clerk in the vault, and escaped. The thief’s voice was described as quiet and the act committed before dawn.
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Chicago
Union Station
Ships Rush to Aid Grounded Steamer
The cruiser Memphis and the mine sweeper Bobolink were dispatched this morning to the aid of the 85. S. S. Yamachichi, aground one mile southeast of Cape Maysi, Cuba.
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Washington
Memphis
Bobolink
Cape Maysi
Cuba
Fire Sweeps Plant of Textile Company in Montreal
A spectacular fire swept the entire plant of the Dominion Textile Company Ltd in Montreal early today causing about 150000 dollars in damage and leaving 500 workers jobless.
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Montreal
Que
Dominion Textile Company, Ltd
Burglars Steal Pistol and $400 in Salisbry Home
Salisbury residents reported a burglary last night in which a pistol and $400 were stolen from a room where Buie Sowers and family members were sleeping. The incident was reported to authorities today.
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Salisbury, N
Buie Sowers
Cold Wave Abates In Wrecked Cities
Mexico City January 19 thousands of people left homeless by last weeks quake welcomed the return of normal temperatures aiding relief work. Across the disaster zone casualties rose to 114 with many injured and extensive damage reported.
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Mexico City
Honoring Lee and Jackson Across Carolinas
The 124th and 107th birth anniversaries of General Lee and General Jackson were observed across the Carolinas. The North Carolina General Assembly planned a joint session with remarks by Senator Rivers D. Johnson, while UDC chapters organized services and dinners in Charlotte Asheville Raleigh and other towns. A WPTF Raleigh broadcast highlighted Lee's life.
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Charlotte
Carolinas
Southland
Lee
Jackson
General Jackson
North Carolina General Assembly
Rivers D. Johnson
Senate
South Carolina
Lee-Jackson
United Daughter of the Confederacy
North Carolina
Stonewall Jackson U
Lee Jackson
Asheville
Raleigh
John H. Anderson
WPTF
Two RAF Officers Die As Bombing Plane Crashes
Winchester England January 19 two Royal Air Force officers died and nine people were injured when a bombing plane crashed into the air drome at Worthy Down near here.
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Winchester
Eng
Royal Air Force
Worthy Down
Here
Striking Miners Return to Work in South Wales
Cardiff Wales Jan 19. Miners who had been on strike since January 1 returned to the pits in full force. They won their demand that shortening the working day to seven and a half hours be not accompanied by a wage cut, while making balancing concessions.
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Los Angeles
Williams Doran
Daisy de Boe
Clara Bow
Daisy
Clara
Miss de Boe
Miss Bow
Freedman
Rex Bell
Cardiff
Wales
South Wales
Reed's Postpone Motion Out of Order in Senate
The Senate ruling sustained Curtis on Reed's bid to postpone action on a 25 million dollar Red Cross appropriation. Norris argued the motion out of order per prior agreement to vote today. The House advanced a calendar of minor bills including several bridge construction authorizations across the country.
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Senate
Red Cross
Broan
Curt
Reed
Sein Pennsylvania
Norris
Republican
Nebraska
Curtis
Robinson
Arthur Woods
Hoover
Woods
Copeland
New York
Woode
Appropriations Committee
House
Senate Banking Committee
Supreme Court Upholds N C Tax on Hire Vehicles
The North Carolina Supreme Court sustained a tax on motor vehicles operated for hire over fixed routes exceeding 50 miles. W C Clark of Pitt County argued the 1929 act section imposing the extra 30 license fee was invalid. He had paid 15 for short trips and claimed full 45 was unconstitutional discrimination.
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Washington
North Carolina
Supreme Court
W. C. Clark
Pitt County
Are Set To Begin Distribution Of Red Cross Relief
Government ready to distribute 45 million emergency relief funds as loans for crop production in drought states. Voucher forms for payment to distressed farmers in at least 25 states dispatched to field officers, to be available today.
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Washington
Goodman Endorses Jonas for Attorney
Wilmington January 19 Louis Goodman United States commissioner and North Carolina Republican executive committee member endorsed Charles A Jonas of Lincolnton retiring congressman for appointment as district attorney for western North Carolina to succeed Thomas J Harkins who resigned.
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Wilmington
Louis Goodman
United States
North Carolina
Republican Executive Committee
Charles A. Jonas
Lincolnton
Thomas J. Harkins
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