France stiffens stance over anti Japanese attacks
France and Japan exchange notes as Paris orders its ambassador to deny claims of widespread arms shipments from French territories to China. Ambassador Charles Arseneury was instructed to counter Japanese press accusations regarding support to Chiang Kai-shek's regime.
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France
Japan
In Yo
Ign
Charles Arsenery
French
China
Chiang Kai
United Wins Thames Cup for Third Straight at Henley
The United States team captured the Thames Cup at Henley on the Thames with Kent School Connecticut defeating the Don Rowing Club to seal the win in a repeat of last year’s success.
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Vv. S&s
Britain
Henley-On-Thames
Eng
United
Thames
Kent School
Connecticut
Don Rowing Club
Japanese Reinforcements Land After River Assault
Japanese transport pushed up the Yangtze amid heavy machine gun fire and breached a sunken barrier at a river boom. Shock troops landed and advanced through marshy terrain to charge Chinese positions, sparking a bitter engagement.
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Shanghai
P— Ng
Angtze
Chinpositoins
Mystery Death of Kin D Gray Cameraman Stirs NY
Detectives questioned witnesses today in New York about the death of Kin D Gray 52 a leading film cameraman found shot in his car outside a post office Jealousy and possible robbery are suspected The pocket held a $63 salary check and a letter from another woman tied to a quarrel Mrs Myrtle Gray widow of the star maker is named in a report from J J Jones
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Nywood
Per
King D. Gray
Gray
Myrtle Gray
Rudolphine
Mary Pickford
Fairbanks
J. J. Jones
Heroes Not Wanted in Del Monte Campus Clashes
In Del Monte California the Phi Beta sorority rejects a campus athletic star as a husband and hero candidate after a vote at the international convention. The decision reflects a view of unsuitable matrimonial material amid campus reputations.
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del Monte
Calif
Ma Phi Beta Girls
U S Ships Rush To Swatow To Save Americans
The destroyer Edeall and gunboat Tulsa head to Swatow to join Asheville in protecting Americans as Japanese raids threaten the port. Reports say 400 civilians, including 200 schoolchildren, were killed or wounded in yesterday’s attack. Americans near Swatow consider evacuation and some seek refuge aboard Asheville pending confirmation.
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Hongkong
China
Asheville
Shoe Salesman Killed In Wreck Near Bristol
BRISTOL Tenn July 2 A veteran shoe salesman about 70 P P Shipley of Jefferson City Tenn was killed early today in a highway collision ten miles east of Bristol. He was traveling from Abingdon Virginia to Knoxville Tennessee. The truck occupants escaped serious injury. Shipley is survived by his widow and three daughters all of Jefferson City.
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Tenn
P. Shipley
Jefferson City
Here
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Knoxville
Shipley
Franco Proposes Neutral Port In Reply To British Protests
London dispatch reports Generalissimo Franco replying to British protests by proposing a neutral Spanish port for bona fide shipping. He urged listing contraband items under the non intervention committee and pressed for oil coal and motor trucks to be excluded from the list as a wartime measure.
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London
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Britain
Tral
Spain
Viscount Hall
Robert M. Hodgson
Burgos
Sol
Robert
Vote results to be announced at The Enterprise building
Tonight the second primary results will be announced by loudspeakers at The Enterprise rear. Teague vs Barker for congressional run off and Simpson vs Freeman for county coroner fill the key contests with results expected by 8 or 8:30 p.m. precinct by precinct broadcasts invite public attendance.
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Guilford County
Enterprise
Lewis RE. Teague
Oscar G. Barker
James M. Simpson
Wallace G. Freeman
Enterprise Office
Enterprise Building
Benjamin B. Lyons Sr dies in Baltimore at 69
Benjamin B. Lyons Sr father of silent film actor Ben Lyon died in Baltimore after an illness aged 69. He formerly managed the High Point North Carolina Simmons Bed Co. branch before retiring three years ago and moving to Baltimore. He was known in High Point as a Johnson Street resident and is survived by two sons.
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Baltimore
Benjamin B. Lyon
Ben Lyon
London
High Point
N. C
Mr. Lyon
Johnson Street
Bebe Daniels
Screen
Two Indicted in Smithfield Elections Probe
Smithfield July 2 two Johnston county election officials Ralph Nowell and Arthur Hinton were indicted by a grand jury for fraudulent manipulation of returns from the June 4 primary. The court heard the panel would stay in session to continue the probe with witnesses summoned for Tuesday. Bonds were set at 200 dollars for Hinton and Nowell for the August term. The indictment alleges subtraction of 20 votes from Elmer Wellens and addition of 29 votes to J. B. Benton.
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Smithfield
Johnston County
Ralph Nowell
Arthur Hinton
J. Monroe Parker
Superior Court
W. C. Harris
Hinton
Howell
Hinton and Nowell
Elmer Wellens
J. B. Benton
Benson
Hague inquiry eyed by Senate panel on Jersey City policies
The Senate Civil Liberties Committee plans to turn its focus to Mayor Frank Hague and Jersey City policy complaints when next in session. Chairman La Follette says the panel must finish its labor relations inquiry first, with a $60 000 Senate appropriation recently received.
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Washington
Senate Civil Liberties Committee
Frank Hague
Jersey City
Congress
la Follette
Senate
Hague
New Jersey
O'Connell
D-Mont
Bernard
House
Norman Thomas
CIO
Weather Outlook For South Atlantic States
Occasional showers likely across the northern portion of the district all week while the south remains generally fair early. Afternoon showers increase midweek with warm conditions in Georgia and extreme north Florida. Temperatures rise above normal by Tuesday in the Carolinas.
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South Atlantic
South
Georgia
Florida
Carolinas
Voters Report High Point Runoff Turnout At Noon
A noon survey in High Point shows 2 223 total votes with 559 absentee ballots. Precincts 8 and 6 report heavier turnout than June 4, while others lag by 10 to 15 percent due to rain. Officials say results for congress and county coroner will be ready tonight with two sets of ballots to be counted.
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High Point
Enterprise
Greensboro
Teague
Ter
Hoey backs electric chair for North Carolina death penalty
Raleigh July 2 Governor Hoey said the general assembly would be justified to restore electricity as the method of execution in the state under the 1935 law which replaced the electric chair with lethal gas. He cited reports of executions and asphyxiations and called electrocution the humane and instantaneous method.
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Raleigh
Hoey
General Assembly
North Carolina
Concentration Of Economic Power Probed
The monopoly investigat ing committee began a preliminary study of what to include in its general inquiry into concentrations of economic power. Six subgroups, each with a member of Congress and an executive agency representative, gathered on topics like taxes profits patents prices production distribution consumption and unemployment. Senator O Mahoney was elected chairman at the organization meeting and said subcommittee recommendations would be discussed at a full committee meeting next Thursday to decide on a general course of action.
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Washington
Congress
O'Mahoney
D-Wyo
Teague Ends Campaign With Vigorous Address In High Point
Judge Lewis E. Teague wrapped up his bid for Congress in High Point criticizing the Guilford county grand jury for secret investigations and blanket indictments. He denied plans for a political dynasty and urged voters to support his bid against Oscar G. Barker as campaign staffers amid final rallies.
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Lewis E. Teague
Congress
Guilford County
Teague
High Point
J. Archie Myatt
Judge Teague
Wade Renfrew
Oscar G. Barker
Grover H. Jones
Durham
Gaston A. Johnson
Money Allotted For Smoky Park
Secretary Ickes announced federal funds to buy the final land for the Great Smoky Mountain National Park in Tennessee and North Carolina. The deficiency appropriation provides 748,205 dollars to acquire 26,000 acres, completing the 486,900 acre park as planned.
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Washington
Ickes
Great Smoky Mountain National Park
North Carolina
Tennessee
Iekes
Rain Predicted For July Fourth Holiday Weekend
The weather bureau indicated possible local showers and thunderstorms across most of the country during the two day Fourth of July holiday, challenging the popular belief that it always rains on Independence Day.
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Washington
Weather Bureau
Four year old slaying solved in New York
The four year old William Snyder case appears solved as Morris and William Goldis plead guilty to first degree manslaughter. Morris Goldis, 28, said to be the trigger man, admitted before a grand jury. The brothers were arraigned with co defendants Max Silverman and Sam Schorr, linked to labor racketeering. District Attorney Thomas E Dewey highlighted the case in a political campaign.
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New York
William Snyder
Morris
William
Wolfie) Goldis
Morris Goldis
District Attorney's
Supreme Court
Ferdinand Pecora
Goldis Brothers
Max Silverman
Sam Schorr
Thomas E. Dewey
Roosevelt plans July 7 Pacific campaign and cruise
President Roosevelt will begin from Washington on July 7 for a cross country speaking tour ending in San Diego. After a two week Pacific cruise and Panama Canal trip, he returns to New York for possible California appearances as his political and campaign schedule stretches through Ohio Kentucky Oklahoma and Colorado. Crown Princess Louise of Sweden visited Hyde Park as Roosevelt entertained royalty.
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Secret Service
New York
Federal Building
Hyde Park
N. Y
Pacific
Washington
San Diego
California
Panama Canal
Crown Princess
Louise of
Sweden
Gettysburg
Ohio
Kentucky
Oklahoma
Colorado
White House
Sixth Trapped Miner Dies After Rescue
Six miners died in the Praco coal mine cave in Birmingham Alabama after a rock fall trapped nine men. J D Painter, last brought out, died en route to the surface after pleading to be blasted out. Earlier victims included J I Wingard Leonard Docking Lloyd Painter and Howard Morgan with others injured or rescued.
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Birmingham
Ala
Praco
J. D. Painter
Painter
J. I. Wingard
Leonard Docking
Lloyd Painter
Howard Morgan
Carl Shackelford
Willard Elmore
Gurlis Hyde
Napus
Government Deficit Smallest In 8 Years Amid Spending Rise
Washington reports the fiscal year closed with a $1.524 billion deficit on expenditures of $7.77 billion and receipts of $6.24 billion. Debt increased to $37.16 billion, or $285.70 per person, while revenue grew and customs duties fell due to reduced American imports.
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Washington
Treasury
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