Soviet three pilots land near San Jacinto after polar flight
Three Soviet airmen led by Mikhail Gromoff landed in a pasture west of San Jacinto California after a 6700 mile polar flight from Moscow. They faced fog and a fuel leak, landed safely at 6 27 AM PBT, and requested bath food and sleep through prearranged notes. A local guard oversaw the scene.
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San Jacinto
Calif
Here
North Pole
Moscow
Mikhail Gromoff
Andrei Yumosheff
Sergei Danilin
Pacific
San Diego
Marah Field
March Field
Prison walls hold Smith in Arkansas death case
Gray penitentiary in Arkansas houses Robert Smith, the escaped North Carolina killer, as officers seek a red haired woman who allegedly aided him in killing Policeman Sowell at Lancaster. Sheriff Sessions said a wide search spanning three states is underway, with eight others jailed and questioned in connection with Smith’s activities.
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Columbia
8. C
Gray
Robert 8. Smith
North Carolina
Smith
E Sowell
Lancaster
W. C. Sessions
Horry County
Lowell
Sessions
Conway
Myrtle Beach
Leo Jenkins
State Highway Patrol
C. H. Stroupe
Charlotte
Highway Patrol
Tennessee
Caledonia
Halifax County
N. C
Georgia
South Carolina
Senate leaders consider aborting Roosevelt court bill after Robinson death
Washington July 14 Senate leaders called the death of Robinson a serious blow to the Roosevelt court bill and predicted the measure might be abandoned. Wheeler lamented the loss of a friend and urged the President to drop the court fight as he quoted scripture regarding Robinson’s death.
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Washington
Senate
Robinson
Arkansas
Roosevelt
Wheeler
D-Mont
Joe Robinson
Arkansan
O'Mahoney
D-Wye
Senator Smith
Dso
South
Joe
Roosevelt's Chief Adviser Dies of Heart Attack
Senator Joe T. Robinson, Roosevelt's longtime chief Senate adviser and Democratic leader since 1922, died suddenly today in his Washington capital apartment.
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Roosevelt
Washington
Joe T. Robinson
Senate
Death of Senator Robinson Shocks Capitol Leaders
Washington reports the death of Senator Joe Robinson at age 64 from heart disease. Tributes pour in from leaders across parties noting his leadership as majority leader and his long service in the Senate and House. Plans discuss burial in Arkansas as Capitol figures react to the untimely loss.
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Warren
DNC
Guffey
D-Pa
Robinson
Supreme Court
Doughton
D-Nc
House
Ways and Means Committee
Joe Robinson
Vandenberg
Rmich
Senate
Robert R. Reynolds
North Carolina
Calver
Copeland
Arkansas
Robs
Harrison
D-Miss
Walsh
D- Mass
Edna Mills to Open Its Doors
Edna cotton mill treasurer W B Pipkin announced reopening on one shift tomorrow and double shift Friday after last week’s shutdown. About 25 spinners and doffers walked out, said L E Brookshire, a TWOC organizer rep, who added the walkout violated the mill contract and the workers were expelled from the local union. The national CIO affiliate had not approved the strike. A May strike led to a contract.
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Reidsville
W. B. Pipkin
Edna Cotton Mill
Doffere
L. E. Brookshire
Textile Workers Organizing Committee
Brookshire
National
Committee For Industrial Organization
Steels Carry Up Other N Y Stock
Steele thrust upward in the stock market today carrying the balance of the list fractions to a point or more higher. Grains tilted backward and cotton was a little lower. Oils and utilities were in favor with motors adding slight gains. Farm implements staged a mild rally on light volume.
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New York
Steele
School Commission Takes Office Oath
Raleigh July 14 AP told by Governor Hoey that no other state commission has a task as important the new school commission took office today and re elected Lloyd Griffin of Edenton as its executive secretary Associate Justice George W Connor administered the oath to 10 of the commissioners in the offices of the governor John A Oates of Fayetteville the 11th member is ill Taking office for the first time were Archie C Gay of Jackson and Jule B Warren of Raleigh and starting new terms were T B Atmore of Washington A McL Graham of Clinton Henry R Dwire of Durham John H Folger of Mt Airy C J Holler of Union Mills W Grady Gaston of Gastonia Edwin Pate of Laurel Hill and B B Doughtery of Boone
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Raleigh
Hoey
Lloyd Griffin
Edenton
George W. Connor
John A. Oates
Fayetteville
Archie C. Gay
Jackson
Jule B. Warren
Gallery Gopher Returns to Capitol Hill for Supreme Court Bill
Washington July 14. Gallery gophers, spectators in the Senate and House galleries, return as the Supreme Court bill looms. Ushers report three nabbed in the President's gallery, six in the senatorial reservation, one in the diplomatic reserve as long sessions and sharp rhetoric fill the chamber.
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Washington
Capitol Hill
Senate
House
Huey Long
Supreme Court
Hunt for Amelia Earhart to be abandoned
Honolulu dispatch reports naval authorities narrowing a vast equatorial air search for Amelia Earhart and navigator Frederick Noonan after 12 days missing. Seventy planes had scanned 21 000 square miles before a tropical storm halted operations. officials planned a last chance search before ending the hunt.
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Honolulu
Equator
Amelia Earhart
Tceday
Filer
Lexington
Aviatrix
Frederick J. Noonan
New Guinea
Howland Island
South Pacific
Howland
James Roosevelt to Speak at University
James Roosevelt eldest son and secretary of the President will speak at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill tonight under the Carolina political union auspices. Members of the North Carolina Bankers conference, in session here this week, will attend the address.
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Chapel Hill
James Roosevelt
The
Carolina Political Union
University of North Carolina
North Carolina Bankers Conference
State Medical Society rejects federal control of indigent care
In Raleigh on July 14 the state medical society executive committee adopted a resolution opposing any plan for federal control over the medical care of indigents. The declaration signals clear resistance to federal involvement in local health funding and administration.
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Raleigh
State Medical Society
Tobacco crop to rise sharply in 1937 NC yield set at 841.62 million pounds
W H Rhodes, chief statistician for the agriculture department, forecast a North Carolina tobacco crop of 841.62 million pounds for 1937, about 18.4 percent higher than last year. Acreage up 12.1 percent to 669,000 acres, with 67 percent of normal conditions. Nationwide flue cured acreage rose 11 percent to 958,000 with 68 percent normal conditions. Severe insect attacks reduced yield in some counties.
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Raleigh
W. H. Rhodes
Agriculture Department
North Carolina
Rhodes
Department
Bright Belt
Brady Laurence Given 60 Day Reprieve From Execution
Raleigh July 14. Commissioner Edwin Gill says a 60 day reprieve was granted Brady Laurence an Iredell Black man convicted of murder. Laurence had been due to die Friday in the lethal gas chamber. The governor will not intervene in cases of Fred Steele and Sam Jones. Laurence’s execution date was set for October 1, the third Friday after the reprieve ends.
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Raleigh
Edwin Gill
Brady Laurence
Iredell Negro
Mecklenburg
Gill
Fred Steele
Sam Jones
Mecklenburg County
Laurence
Ramsey Elected Legion Commander In Asheville Post
Claude B Ramsey, veteran local newspaperman, was elected commander of the Kiffin Roewell post of the American Legion. He leads the 18th district with posts in Buncombe Yancey Haywood Madison and McDowell counties.
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Ramsey
Asheville
Claude
Kiffin Roewell
American Legion
Buncombe
Yancey
Haywood
Madison
McDowell
Condition Critical Moseley Kornegay in Dudley Auto Crash
Hospital attaches said Moseley Kornegay aged 19 of Dudley remained in critical condition today after his back was broken in an automobile accident last night in Goldsboro.
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Goldsboro
Moseley Kornegay
Dudley
British Ship Captured While Entering Santander Port
British ship captured today while attempting to enter Santander, Spain, as Duff Cooper reports to the house. He declined to identify the vessel and noted the warning to British merchantmen about Santander risks amid the insurgent northern campaign.
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London
Alfred Duff Cooper
The
Admiralty
House of Commons
Santander
House
Duff Cooper
Clement R. Attlee
Francisco Franco
Lloyds
Peiping Peace Talks Under Way On North China Crisis
Peiping July 14. Peace negotiations are under way to resolve the North China crisis without Nanking’s consent. Conferees include Hopei-Chahar officials and Japanese military authorities. Japan seeks troop withdrawal from Wanting Hsien, damages compensation, suppression of anti-Japanese activity, and a campaign against communism. Nanking says no local agreement will be recognized.
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Peiping
North China
Nanking
Hopei-Chahar Political Council
Japan
Wantping-Hsien
China
Governors Widows to Receive Pensions in North Carolina
Raleigh July 14 AP The widows of two former North Carolina governors will get 1200 dollars yearly each Mrs Charles B Aycock Sr Raleigh and Mrs Locke Craig of Asheville are 65 and eligible after council of state approval following a recent legislature action granting pensions to governors widows.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Charles B. Aycock
Locke Craig
Asheville
Council of State
Iron Lung Patient Improves and Heads Home
A 6 year old girl Betty Sue Martin recovered from three months in an iron lung after diphtheria. Doctors in Baltimore say she can return to her North Carolina mountain home within weeks, though a cold could trigger pneumonia. Her parents, Mr and Mrs Elmer Martin, live in Trade Tennessee and cannot visit.
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Baltimore
Betty Sue Martin
North Carolina
Johne Hopkins Hospital
Elmer Martin
Trade, Tenn
Greenville DeMolays Win Big at Conclave Award Night
Greenville DeMolays captured multiple honors at the 13th annual North and South Carolina conclave. Raymond C. Smith of Greenville earned the Charlee G. Fogle trophy as the most outstanding member, while the Greenville club received the plaque for initiating the most new members since the year began. Asheville took the athletic trophy.
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Winston-Salem
Greenville
8. C
North and South Carolina Association of the Order
Raymond C. Smith
Charlee G. Fogle
Associaton
Greenville Club
Asheville
Clipper Lands In Irish Free State
Pan-American Clipper II lands at Foynes in the Irish Free State completing the first leg of its trip from Southampton to the United States. The flying boat touched down shortly before 1 p m local time, about seven a m EST.
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Clipper
Irish Free State
Foynes
Irish Free States
Southampton
Eng
United States
Injuries Prove Fatal To Philadelphia Man
Rockingham July 14. Injuries from an automobile accident proved fatal for a Philadelphia man tentatively identified as John Paul Meagher, 25. Francis Daughtry of Walton, Texas, who rode with Meagher, sustained minor injuries.
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Rockingham
John Paul Meagher
Philadelphia
Francis Daughtry
Walventon
Teas
Meagher
Ford plant worker testifies at NLRB hearing on dismissals
Detroit July 14 A Ford Motor Co worker Elmer Mackie testified before an NLRB examiner that his May 22 dismissal was preceded by a foreman admitting the "unsatisfactory work" notation was used to justify action. Mackie, from the cushion department and a United Auto Workers member since April, said Rudolph Prokot denied firing for that reason. The NLRB complaint charges the company discharged or suspended nearly forty men for activity.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Com
National Relations Board
Elmer Mackie
United Autobile Workers Union
Jo T. Lindsay
NLRB
Ford Company
Mackie
Rudolph Prokot
Sperintendent
Whisky Seizure Ruling Alters Dry County Sale Plan
Shelby July 14. County attorney McSwain said Attorney General Seawell ruled Cleve county cannot sell confiscated tax paid whisky in a dry county. Whisky consigned to Morganton from Charleston was seized weeks ago and plans were announced to sell it to North Carolina county operated whisky stores.
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Shelby
McSwain
A. A. Seawell
Cleve County
Cutler
Alecoh Beverage Control Board
Morganton
Charleston
North Carolina
Court Vacancy Question Up In Washington
The death of Democratic Leader Robinson shifts focus to who will fill the Supreme Court seat left by the retirement of Justice Willis Van Devanter. Senators named potential successors include Cummings Stans Reed Jackson Landis Frankfurter Murphy Richber Miller Pecora Hand and others.
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Washington
Robinson
Supreme Court
Willis van Devanter
Harrison
D-Miss
Arkansan
Cummings
Stans Reed
Atto
Robert H. Jackson
James M. Landis
Securities Commission Chaiman
Felix Frankfurtes
Harvard Law Scho
Frank Murphy
Michigan
Donald R. Richber
NRA
Inel Miller
Board of Te Appeals
New York
Ferdinand Pecora
Ed Hand
Samuel Man
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Holt
D-W. Va
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George W. Calver
Cepitol
Edna Mills
N. Y
Gopher
Amelia
Iredell
Pitt County
Robert Glenn Brown
Brown
Craven County
J. B. Peacock
Joseph T. Robinson
Ford
Dry County
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