Revenue from liquor sales rises in North Carolina
Raleigh July 15. Figures from the State Board of Alcoholic Control show total revenue from legalized liquor sales reaching 8 357 985 66 for the fiscal year ended June 30. This is a rise of 542 216 17 over the prior year. Board Chairman Cutlar Moore credits most of the increase to federal taxes effective July 1, 1940.
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State Board of Alcoholic Control
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Murray Confined to Mercy Hospital After Collapse
Philip Murray CIO president collapsed Sunday during a badminton game at a family outing and will be confined to Mercy Hospital for a few weeks, according to his physician.
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Pittsburg
Philip Murray
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Mercy Hospital
National governors seek energy relief to extend Daylight Time
N C READY continues from page one noting governors were advised that daylight saving should be issued to their states. Efforts are underway to meet rising power needs. Emergency transmission links could move excess power between regions. Southeast relief is urged to address shortages promptly.
British claim 98,500 tons sunk amid war losses tally
British figures show 98,500 tons sunk in a showing that totals 878,783. Officials call this an exaggeration of 165 percent. Monthly losses for the six months to July 1 average 430,000 tons for all ships, with wartime monthly averages and totals for the period July to December 1940. Allied and neutral losses are also itemized, and coin operated phonographs arrive in Brazil.
Churchill Expands View of Allied War Alliance
Churchill stated the Britain Russia wartime pact created a co belligerent relationship rather than a mere alliance. He affirmed both nations would pursue total war against Hitler Germany and avoid separate peace. He noted Britain helped unite the Russian Soviet state with the Polish government in exile and referenced potential release of about 200000 Polish soldiers held by the Red Army.
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Churchill
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Union of South Africa
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Hitler
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Britain
London
Poland
Red Army
Army chief urges short draft term and moves to weed slow officers
Marshall testified that extending the one-year draft would drain trained forces and hamper shipping. He urged Congress to declare a national emergency and to permit 12 month service with possible extensions only in national peril. He proposed a five member board to weed out slower officers, with final decisions by Stimson and the Secretary of War. Senate hearings on the bill were set for tomorrow.
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Hillman Says No Labor Row Across Nation
Sidney Hillman told a House Committee that there is not a single strike troubling the Office of Production Management and that U S production exceeds that of totalitarian states. He warned of unemployment if workers displaced by shifts to defense work are not reallocated. He cited 2,700,000 defense workers now employed versus 400,000 a year ago and projected 5,700,000 later. He noted 1,400,000 more workers needed by April 1942.
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Sidney Hillman
OPM
United States
Office of Production Management
House
Hitler
Hillman
Jap Leaders Reach Silent Decision Amid War Cabinet Absences
Report states no official announcement was made as the absence of the foreign minister and ministers for war and perhaps others hints the decision concerns domestic policy. The article notes a push to strengthen the economy and mentions new airline service expanding into interior Netherlands New Guinea.
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Cision
Lawmakers push to lift ban on sending draftees outside hemisphere
Conference with President Roosevelt yielded no decision on removing restrictions. Majority leaders Barkley and Hill signaled a possible bill to permit service extension, while Senator Wheeler claimed the president backed away. Chairman Reynolds said hearings would start Wednesday, keeping opposition in place yet seeking full testimony.
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Kentucky
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George C. Marshall
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Wheeler
Administration Foreign Policy
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Reynolds
D-Nc
Military Committee
Defendants In Lottery Case Found Guilty
Judge D C MacRae found Ritz Theatre owner Max Zager of Greensboro and manager Frank C Hall guilty of operating a lottery in a bank night case. The court held a prize and consideration made the event a lottery and fined Zager $50 while Hall’s judgment was suspended on condition of no repetition.
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Harviss H.arrell
Ben L. Herman
Supreme Court
Max Zager
Greensboro
Frank C. Hall
Stalin's Front Stubbornly Holds as Invasion Pushes On
Soviet units clash with German and Romanian forces along central and northern fronts amid ongoing heavy fighting. Rome reports show Italian reinforcements moving to aid Hitler while Moscow-German accounts conflict on southern battles near Kiev. Moscow denies reports of Soviet government fleeing to a provisional eastern capital.
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New York Poll Rejects US Entry War Vote Results
New York voters rejected entering the war in a state referendum. Of 696,011 ballots sent, 173,309 responses were tallied with 31,507 saying yes to entering the war and 122,802 voting no. Spain encourages the production of Spanish motion pictures.
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Deile News Togay
United States
RSC Settles Labor Claims
Washington July 15 AP The labor board announced an agreement settling all outstanding unfair labor practice cases involving Republic Steel Corporation. It requires reinstatement with back pay at Canton Massillon Youngstown Warren and Cleveland plants and compliance with examiner reports for Chicago and Buffalo plants and settlement of the Monroe Michigan plant case.
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Labor Board
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Ohio
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Buffalo
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Monroe, Mich
Neuse Fund Approved for Navy Shore Stations
President Roosevelt signed a bill authorizing the Navy to spend about 331 million dollars on ten shore stations including a Neuse River North Carolina marine aviation base. Allocation lists 14.99 million for Neuse River base training facilities buildings land purchase and related costs. A second item notes conscription of labor in Manchuria to finish the Yunnan Burma Railway.
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C10 Closes Steel Plant Amid Labor Dispute
The Great Lakes Steel Corporation main plant at Ecorse Michigan closed today due to a labor dispute as 8000 workers faced a walkout affecting 65 percent of defense orders. SWOC said a contract would be signed at 2 pm tomorrow but workers refused to wait. Other units remained open. A separate strike tied up Copperweld Steel in Warren Ohio with CIO organizers calling it unauthorized.
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CSO
Great Lakes
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Joca
Orville Kincaid
SWOC
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Warren
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Notice of Sale of Land by City Council of High Point NC
By order of the City Council of High Point on February 5 1941 the undersigned offers for sale at public auction to the highest cash bidder at Guilford County Building High Point NC at 11 00 AM on July 21 1941 the described parcel in High Point Township Guilford County North Carolina Lot Nine in Stock Four West View plats recorded in Guilford deeds Plat Book 2 Page 150 bounded on the east by Tipton Street about 40 by 150 feet The City reserves the right to reject any and all bids.
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High Point
Guilford County
North Carolina
High Point Township
West View
Office of Register of Deeds
Guillard County
N.C
Tiptan Street
High Faint
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