Grist Keeps Four Federal State Bureaus Open Pending Budget
Raleigh July 20 Frank D Grist State Commissioner of Labor said four federal state employment bureaus will stay open while he works out budget allotments for the current biennium. The budget memo shows appropriations for regular employment bureaus the state employment service for the deaf and labor service with totals and specific salaries travel and postage costs. Burke announced the legislature trimmed general department appropriations by 6 300 but left the employment service funds intact.
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Raleigh
Frank D. Grist
Grist
Henry Burke
Commissioner of Labor
Department of Labor
Industrial Commission
Bureau of Standards and Inspection
Lesber
Feneral
M Grist
Appropriations Committee
Burke
Popular Graduate of Local College Claimed by Death
Mrs. Frank Hart of Clinton, formerly Eva Ellis and a popular 1930 graduate of High Point College, died yesterday after an operation in an Oxford hospital. She was married late in 1930. The funeral was held this afternoon near Henderson.
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Frank Hart
Clinton
Eva Ellis
High Point College
Oxford
Protests Rise Over Brazil Religion in Schools Decree
In Rio de Janeiro protests erupt as police disperse a parents meeting opposing a federal decree mandating religious instruction in schools. Reports say educational leaders have discussed with President Vargas possible revision or option to make religion teaching optional.
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HE Janeiro
Brazil
Gao Paulo
Vargas
Guard clash in Tennessee ends with demotions and arrests
In Tullahoma Tennessee a Memphis and a Cleveland Tennessee national guard unit fought aboard a railroad car before a summer encampment ending with about twenty casualties. Lieutenant Dudley M Tipton of Cleveland led an assault prompting arrests and a court action for felonious assault.
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Tullahoma
Tenn
Memphis
Cleveland
Tennessee National Guard
Camp Peay
W. C. Boyd
Dudley M. Tipton
Tipton
Boyd
Cleveland Company
Coal Mine Strike Breaks Out Anew In Ohio
In eastern Ohio 250 alleged striking miners from Jefferson county marched on Belmont county mines. Sheriff Howard Duff mobilized 25 special deputy sheriffs to the mine tipples to avert disorders. Snipers fired about a score of shots into the Powhatan mine, 35 miles away, but no one was hurt.
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ST. Clairsville
Ohio
Jefferson County
Belmont County
Howard Duff
Powhatan
Ford rubber plantations in Amazon seen as sound future
Archie Johnston, plantation manager, asserts Ford interests in the Belem area have a bright outlook for profitability. The 1500 plus workers already on site benefit from modern village amenities as forests recede and planting resumes in the rainy season.
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Belem
Para
Brazil
Ford
Amazon
Archie Johnston
London
Fordlandin
Johnston
Arrest of Jim Jackson on brass and wire theft charge
Jim Jackson, a Black man from Lexington, was arrested last night and detained in the city jail on charges of stealing brass and wire from the city lot on North Hamilton Street. He had a complete bag of tools when taken.
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Jim Jackson
Lexington
Hamilton Street
Women Workers Move to Industry in Russia Plan
Moscow reports plans to place 800000 women in industry and agriculture, with about 750000 in industry mainly textiles and metals. Officials estimate currently 55 percent of women workers are unskilled, signaling a major skill development push.
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Moscow
Russia
Officials seek 10 aid to jobless in Henryetta
Henryetta Oklahoma July 20 officials faced high joblessness among miners and smelter workers. A hunger march drew about 500 residents as civic leaders planned city and county projects and discussed a municipal commissary to provide work. Unemployment estimates ranged from 8 000 to 12 500 while drought damaged gardens adding to relief needs.
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Henryetta
Okla
C. W. Byford
American Federation of Labor
W.4. Murphy
Oklahoma Commission of Labor
Byfor
Murphy
Wisdom of Raising Rates Questioned By Commissioner
Interstate Commerce Commissioner Eastman challenged the wisdom of increasing freight rates amid falling general prices while hearing railroads seek higher charges. Witness Fairman R. Dick of Roosevelt and Company defended the move saying taxes and branch line operations necessitate the higher rates.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce
Eastman
Fairman R. Dick
Roosevelt and Company
New York
Inquest Into Death Postponed After Husband Shot Self
Wilmington reports an inquest into the death of Mrs. Bertha Epworth Quirasco postponed while the husband Jose Quirasco a seaman on the U S S Modoc lies wounded with possible lung injury. He is held on a charge of murder. He claimed it was a little accident after saying get excited grabbed gun.
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Wilmington
Bertha Epworth Quirasco
Jose Quirasco
Modoc
Quirasco
Muter
Caudle Begins Indeterminate Sentence in Raleigh
Ray M. Caudle former clerk of the High Point municipal court started a one to five year term for embezzlement and misapplication of county school funds after surrendering to Sheriff D B Stafford. Friends seek executive clemency arguing bookkeeping faults. lower court ruling upheld on appeal to the state supreme court.
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Ray M. Caudle
High Point
Greensboro
Raleigh
Caudle
D. B. Stafford
Caudie
State Supreme Court
Students Register for Second Term at High Point College
The High Point college summer school second term begins tomorrow with registration today. Dr. C. R. Hinshaw reports satisfactory early registration and invites new entrants to register any day this week. Eight students completed B A degrees in the first term, with more expected as some needed two terms for credits.
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High Point College
C. R. Hinshaw
Wingate Andrews Attends Greensboro School Conference
Superintendent Wingate Andrews of the local schools visits Greensboro to confer with County Superintendent T. R. Foust and Greensboro City Schools Superintendent Guy B. Phillips on the coming six month budget to be sent to Raleigh for state Equali zation board approval.
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T. Wingate Andrews
Greensboro
T. R. Foust
Guy B. Phillips
Raleigh
State Equalization Board
Requisition Issued For Nick Saleeby
Gov. O Max Gardner issued a requisition to the governor of South Carolina for the return of Nick Saleeby who is wanted in Wayne County on a charge of obtaining goods under false pretenses and is at large in Florence.
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Nick Saleeby
Raleigh
Max Gardner
South Carolina
Saleeby
Wayne County
Florence
Auto Crash Kills Mercer Graduate and Royston Girl
Paul Siegler a 24 year old Mercer University graduate and his sweetheart Miss Willie Mae Bowers 21 died from an automobile overturn near Anderson South Carolina. The crash occurred seven miles from the city when the steering rod broke sending the car off the road. Miss Bowers died four hours after being taken to a hospital. Their companions escaped.
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Anderson
8. C
Paul Siegler
Mercer University
Willie Mae Bowers
Miss Bowers
Royston
Seigler
Asheville
N. C
Mrs Pripps Weds Football Player In London Ceremony
Nora Langhorne Phipps sister of Lady Astor wed Maurice Flynn former Yale football player at the Princess Row registry office. The ceremony signed by Flynn's father and Reginald Harvey as witnesses followed her recent divorce from Pam Phipps. Flynn, a three times married man, is linked to the Langhorne family once famous as the GibsonGirls.
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London
Nora Langhorne Phipps
Lady Astor
Charles Dana Gibson
Princess Row Register
Maurice Bennett “ Flynn
Yale
Joseph Augustus Flynn
Reginald G. Harvey
Flynn
Mayfair
Lady Herensdels
Joyce
Reginald Grenfell
St. Margaret's Church
Umstead Addresses Theater Owners at Wilmington Convention
Sixty delegates from the North and South Carolina Theater Owners association gathered at Wrightsville Beach for their annual meeting. State Senator John Umstead of Orange county addressed the group on the theater as an institution while Charles W. Picquet of Pinehurst chaired. H. E. Buchanan of Sylvia spoke on the legal effects of the last legislature on theater owners. Officers were to be elected the next day.
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Wilmington
North and South Carolina
Theater Owners’ Association
Wrightsville Beach
John Umstead
Orange County
Charles W. Picquet
Pinehurst
H. E. Buchanan
Sylvia
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Boy Scouts
Oklahoma
Lewis Strahley
Pittsburgh
Kid Gleason
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