Hoey Leads In Early Noon Gubernatorial Vote Plurality Grows
Early noon tallies show Clyde R. Hoey ahead of Dr. Ralph W. McDonald in the state governor race with about 2,305 ballots cast at noon across 12 precincts. Absentee ballots total around 450, and precinct counts range from 113 to 344 votes, with police on duty at several polls amid a peaceful election day.
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Muspus
Clyde R. Hoey
Shelby
Ralph W. McDonald
Winston- Salem
Hoey
R. F. Cameron
McDonald
Charlotte
Mecklenbd
Beth City
Asheville
Hickory
Hubert E. Olive
Jefferson Battle Echoes in Roosevelt Fourth of July Address
President Roosevelt, at Monticello, urged renewed pursuit of true freedom, praising Jefferson as a great gentleman and commoner. He warned that modern liberty must resist economic royalists and called for education and preparedness to sustain democratic institutions.
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Roosevelt
Monticello, Va
Thomas Jefferson
Mountain Home
Mr. Roosevelt
Jefferson
Hoey Wins First Precinct Counted in Primary Votes
Henderson records show Cyde R. Hoey with 23 votes to Ralph W. McDonald 7 in Nut Bush precinct Vance countyding, the state’s first precinct to report in the second Democratic gubernatorial primary. Graham eliminated after first primary results.
Alleged Child Killer Found Guilty Again in Arkansas
Minnie Rose Jenkins, 32, convicted by a circuit court jury of poisoning her four children, three of whom died. The trial followed a previous reversal by the supreme court over husband testimony. An attorney faced charges for allegedly seeking perjury for a second trial.
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Little Rock
Ark
Minnie Rose Jenkins
Supreme Court
Gilbert W. Fife
D. J. Draper
Jenkins
Alta Fern
Sible
Obelee
Charles Jenkins
Dudley Bryant
Ball Game Under Midnight Sun in Fairbanks Fourth
Fairbanks residents ignored heat and a quake to start Fourth of July celebrations with a baseball game and boxing tournament under the midnight sun. Juneau anticipates its first holiday swimming meet while Nome reports temperatures above 80.
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Fairbanks
Alaska
Juneau
Nome
Delegation Has Travel Troubles
A 300 member Canton delegation seeking opposition to Japanese aggression faced travel problems. They planned to sail to Nanking to demand action from Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek, but Shanghai authorities blocked landing as a shipping line refused entry. Officials said the group would sail on a different vessel.
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Hong Kong
Canton
Nanking
Chiang Kai- Shek
Shanghai
Roy H. Slade Dies After Auto Crash in New Mexico
Roy H. Slade a longtime Caswell County figure died in a New Mexico hospital from a fractured skull after an auto accident. Funeral services are set for Tuesday in Sentinel, Oklahoma. He is survived by his widow and a son.
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Reidsville
Roy H. Slade
Caswell County
New Mexico
Sentinel
Okla
Safe And Sane Fourth Plans Across Nation
Authorities adopted special precautions for a safe and sane Fourth as a weekend holiday raised fears of higher casualties. Insurance experts projected 450 deaths nationwide, with 300 highway and 150 drowning. Military posts prepared 48 gun salutes in a nationwide salute to the union.
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Eastern
Seaboard
Great Britain
Philadelphia
Resolution Offered To End Sanctions Debate
SEATTLE July 4 Zioncheck promises probe of Washington treatment after a chaotic week. The 33 year old congressman, having escaped a Maryland institution, plans a quiet Fourth with his wife and mother while pledging to uncover who was responsible for his commitment and why. He predicts many heads will be hammered down as he pursues his political enemies.
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Washington
Seattle
Wash
Marion A. Zionbheck
Maryland
Zioney-over
Ers
Zioncheck
Gallinger
Sheppard Pratt Hospital
Congress
Funeral Held While Yet Alive in Liberty Hill
Mrs. Butler Funderburk 73 requested funeral services to be conducted while she could hear. Rev J B Little led the service with prayers and songs including Shall We Gather at the River and God Be With You Till We Meet Again. Her six sons served as pallbearers as the graveside rite mirrored the living service.
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Liberty Hill
Butler Funderburk
J. B. Little
Egbert Funderburk
Liberty Hill Baptist Church
Osmond
Paternity Hearing Set for Nine Month Triplets
Circuit Judge C E Chillingsworth weighs claims from T J Miller of West Palm Beach and Louis D Pierre of Miami as each seeks fatherhood and custody of nine month old triplets. Pierre won an order demanding release or proof, with July 10 as the deadline to oppose.
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West Palm Beach
Fia
C. E. Chillingsworth
T. J. Miller
Lois Johnson
Louis D. Pierre
Miami
Pierre
Ballot Party At The Enterprise To Broadcast Returns
The Enterprise invites the public to a ballot party this evening to hear second Democratic primary returns. A special leased wire will deliver across the state to The Enterprise office and be flashed by microphone as soon as available. Returns are expected around 8 30 with faster results than the June 6 primary. The field has fewer contestants this time.
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Enterprise
Dope Seizure Nets High Point Woman
Federal and city officers arrested three people in a local hotel room at 1 o'clock this morning on narcotics charges after 90 grains of morphine were found. The trio Inez Brown of High Point Praston Ray Scott and Bill Robinson were jailed in default of bond and will face city court Monday morning.
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Greensboro
Inez Brown
High Point
Praston Ray Scott
Bill Robinson
Filling Station Robbery Leaves Man Shot in Raleigh
In Raleigh early today two unidentified men robbed and shot 36 year old Norman B Buffaloe at a Fayetteville road filling station. Buffaloe was taken to Rex Hospital in serious condition from blood loss as deputies Clyde Whitaker and Woody Maddrey investigated.
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Raleigh
Norman B. Buffaloe
Fayetteville Road
Rex Hospital
Buffaloe
Clyde Whitaker
Woody Maddrey
Newspaper man dies in California
Frank J. Rucker aged 63 longtime newspaper executive died in Santa Monica California yesterday He had previously served as general manager of the Tucson Daily Citizen Arizona and had a prominent career in journalism.
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Santa Monica
Calif
Frank J. Rucker
Tucson, Ariz
Daily Citizen
Italo Ethiopian War Debate Pushed To Steering Committee
In Geneva July 4 the League of Nations steering committee submitted a lengthy resolution to end debate on the Italo Ethiopian war. Delegates asked time to study the document before action on the motion to suspend sanctions and reform collective security.
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Geneva
League of Nations Assembly
Paul van Zeeland
Belgium
Assembly
Italy
East
Africa
League
Highway Program Progress in North Carolina 1936
Raleigh July 4. W Vance Baise chief highway engineer said more than half of the 1936 program is underway. Construction or repair covers all 100 counties and over 62 percent of federally financed work is under contract. By June 30, $9,682,916 of $15,421,445 in federal allotments were under contract or allotted.
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Raleigh
W Vance Baise
Highway and Public Works Commission
Baise
L. W. Payne
Alleged Spy Is Given Freedom
Alleged Soviet spy Arvid W. Jacobson, a former fruit school teacher, sentenced to five years, was released today under a presidential amnesty order issued by President Evind Svinhufvud of Finland.
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Helsingfors
Finland
Arvid W. Jacobson
Truit
Toay
Evind Svinhufvud
Finand
Drowns While Fishing in Rabun Creek
Douglas Barnett aged 46 drowned last night while fishing in Rabun creek near Laurens County. His body was recovered by local authorities, and a investigation is pending.
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Laurens, &. C
Douglas Barnett
Rabun Creek
Here
Tar Heel Voters Slow In Second Democratic Primary
Reports from Raleigh indicate voters in North Carolina’s second Democratic primary weighed in smaller totals than June 6 as the Fourth of July holiday and adverse weather reduced turnout.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Tar Heels
Talmadge Seeks Senate Seat in Democratic Primary
Georgia Governor Eugene Talmadge announces his candidacy for the U S Senate as the Democratic nominee opposing incumbent Richard B Russell Jr The move follows Redwine’s qualification for governor and signals a slate of anti Talmadge challengers in the September 9 primary. Voter turnout varies across cities with light middays and scattered showers reported.
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Talmadge
United State Senate
Georgia
New Deal
Aviatrix Ruth Nason Dies In Omaha Air Crash
Government inspectors probed the flaming death of Ruth Barron Nason 25 a Rochester New York aviatrix after a small racing craft she piloted burst into flames and crashed near the Omaha municipal airport yesterday evening authorities said
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Omaha
Neb
Ruth Barron Nason
Rochester
FBI Asked to Probe Greenville Kidnapping Case
Federal agents in the Carolinas division were asked to investigate Mrs. Carl Anderson of Greenville who reports her husband was kidnapped by two men and a woman on June 26. She says the trio came from Tennessee, intoxicated him, and moved him to North Carolina and then Tennessee.
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Greenville
D. C
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Carolinas
Carl Anderson
Tennessee
Floggings Probe Stalled By Holiday In Columbus County
Wilmington reports the investigation into a night riding vigilante band paused for the weekend. Solicitor John J. Burney pledged a hard line against the masked group calling themselves moral enforcers, while Sheriff John W. Hall’s wife notes he is campaigning. A self described member provided a confession listing eleven alleged vigilantes.
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Wilmington
Columbus County
John J. Burney
John W. Hall
Burney
Star-News
Charge of vote buying alleged in Fayetteville affidavit
Mrs. M. L. Williams testified before a magistrate that she was paid fifty cents to vote for a candidate and that the same political worker paid at least two other persons 75 cents each.
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Fayetteville
M. L. Williams
Hoey leads in North Carolina run off as polls show gains
Telegrams from Chowan County indicate Hoey polling well with Nat Bush precinct in Vance County reporting 26 votes for Hoey. Dr. Ralph W. McDonald heads Hoey’s operation from Winston Salem and predicts a strong showing in a large coastal district. Absentee ballots rise as a holiday runoff reduces in person voting. The $10 million sales tax remains a key issue with McDonald seeking repeal or limited scope.
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Chowan Coun
Hoey
Nat Bush
Vance County
Ralph W. McDonald
Pi County
Winston-Salman
Evien
McDonald
Long
W. P. Horton
Paul Grady
Stacey W. Wade
Thad Bure
Donald
Sandy Gra
Statesville observes July Fourth with parade and speakers
Statesville marked the Fourth with a parade, patriotic oratory, beauty and hook and ladder races, dancing and fireworks. An estimated 10,000 gathered as Rep. Robert L. Coughton urged devotion to the nation, urging continued commitment to democracy and the general welfare.
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Statesville
Independence
Robert L. Coughton
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