First Morning Uptown Furnish Market Sets Record
A new all time first morning registration record marks the opening of the annual mid summer Southern Furniture and Rug market. Over 140 buyers registered by 10 o clock despite rain. Hotels filled to capacity and overflow lodging expected as market officials work to secure accommodations. Buyers came from multiple southern states and optimism runs high for fall retail demand.
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Jack Appleyard
Sedgefield Inn
Greensboro
Winston- Salem
Chamber of Commerce
North Carolina
Georgia
South Carolina
Virginia
Florida
Alabama
Tennessee
West Virginia
Kentucky
Prison Officials Cleared by Jury
In Charlotte on July 22 a Mecklenberg County jury acquitted six prison officials and guards in the case of two short term black convicts who had feet amputated after confinement in a dark cell at a prison camp. T. M. Gordon and J. W. Eady received directed verdicts of acquittal. Others cleared include Dr. C. B. McLaughlin county physician, R. P. Rape guard, and Captain Henry C. Little former camp supervisor.
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Robert Barnes
Dr. C. 8. McLaughlin
Henry C. Little
Senate approves farm import quotas amid AAA protections
The Senate voted 60 to 17 to validate crop control contracts and enable the President to impose import quotas to safeguard price gains from the domestic farm program. Sen LaFollette led the amendment, backed by many Democrats and Republicans, against the House language. Senator Smith opposed, arguing it expanded the protective system.
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Arthur Vandenburg
Senate
Washington
Agriculture Department
LaFollette
House
Smith
D-Sc
Senate Agriculture Committee
Senator Vanden
Japanese Gunboat Fires On Missionaries In China
American missionaries at Huping college in Yochow Hunan report July 18 machine gun fire from an unidentified Japanese gunboat near Tungting Lake endangering residents but causing no injuries. Rev. Edwin Beck of Tiffin Ohio reports the incident amid suspicions of espionage during a YMCA conference at Hupin college. Japanese officers in Hankow declined to comment.
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Hankow
China
American Missionary School of Huping College
Yochow
Hunan Province
Tungting Lake
Edwin Beck
Tiffin
Ohio
Hoping College
The
Reformed Church of the United States
Philadelphia
Beck
Huping College
Yangtze River
Diplomats in Ethiopia Move to Djibouti Amid War Fears
Report from Rome states Addis Ababa diplomats plan to relocate to Djibouti French Somaliland as Italy eyeing potential war. US Britain France Japan legations already securing Djibouti sites while archives move. Mussolini and Mussolini's paper weigh league of nations appeal and possible rejection.
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Rome
Addis Ababa
England
France
la Stampa
Turin
Djibouti
Eric Drummond
Remosmege
Benito Mussolin
League of Nations
Il Duce
Paul de Chambrun
Mussolini
Popolo D'Italia
Milan
Rioting injures youths in Belgrade and Zagreb clash
AP reports three young men carrying a Yugoslav flag were seriously injured in Zagreb when attacked by a crowd of Croats. The incidents occurred as tensions between groups rose in belgrade Yugoslavia.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Zagreb
Relief rolls trimmed as relief agency suspends work orders
Pierre South Dakota July 22 AP The relief administration halts harvest labor amid ongoing complaints that clients refuse work The order removes 19 000 family heads from relief rolls tonight and ends further labor supply across the program
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Pierre
8. D
South Dakota Relief Administration
Ths
Fire kills three at Feums Del Monte Hotel in Aberdeen
Three men died in the blaze that gutted the three story Feums Del Monte hotel in Aberdeen Washington on July 22. One man was in critical condition, two others were badly injured and two more were seriously hurt as the fire swept through the building.
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Aberdeen
Wash
Foss
Feums del Monte
German player Cramm beats Allison to level Davis Cup final
Baron Gott-Fried Von Cramm defeated Wilmer Allison in straight sets to level the interzone final at one match apiece for Germany and the United States. The scores were 6 6 4.
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Wimbledon
Eng
Baron Gott-Fried von Cramm
Wilmer Allison
Germany
United States
Polish flyer sets open gondola balloon record high
Capt. Znigiew Burayncki of Warsaw reports reaching the stratosphere and establishing a world record for open gondola balloons at an altitude of over 32,000 feet after the Gordon Bennett cup race in Chicago 1933.
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Warsaw
Znigiew Burayncki
Chicago
Mystery Soviet Plane Flight Kept Secret Before Departure
Moscow reports a 6259 mile non stop flight to San Francisco with all details held secret. Officials offer no departure location or time beyond a 7 am start, while Ambassador Bullitt awaits notice and watchmen confirm a Sunday takeoff.
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Moscow
North Pole
San Francisco
William C. Bullitt
State workers gain 20 percent pay rise across state
Raleigh reports that Frank L. Dunlap says new salary schedules for all state employees total a 20 percent rise in personal service costs. Individual increases vary, with most around 20 percent, though some will be higher or lower. Paychecks issued on the 25th.
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Raleigh
Frank L. Dunlap
Dunlap
School Commission
Miller to Confer with Coan on Thursday in Raleigh
RALEIGH July 22 Malcolm J. Miller regional field representative of the federal works progress administration will confer here Thursday with directors of North Carolina George W Coan Jr state administrator said today. The eight district directors their assistants and other members of their staffs are expected to attend the conferences and they may run through Thursday and continue on Friday.
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Raleigh
Malcolm J. Miller
Federal Works Progress Administration
North Carolina
George W. Coan, Jr
Coan
Japanese deny Yochow gunboat attack on American mission
Shanghai reports quote Japanese naval authorities and embassy officials saying they were not informed of an alleged incident at Yochow where a Japanese gunboat fired on an American mission school and other property. US legation in Peiping also says they have no knowledge of the incident.
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Shanghai
Yochow
United States Legation
Peiping
Agua Caliente Folds Under Mexican Gambling Ban
Agua Caliente resort shut down by decree of President Cardenas forbidding all gambling at the famed resort after Saturday night. Hotel Spa bars and racing ceased as guests were ordered from rooms and horses moved to American tracks. Costs cited range from 6 to 10 million dollars. Tijuana casinos also affected.
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Agua Caliente
Mexico
Cardenas
Baron Long
Tijuana
Bonus Bill Rise In Congress Faces Opposition
Roosevelt forces seek to block Borah's push to attach the Patman bonus bill and the Frazier Lemke farm mortgage bill to tax legislation. Senate Democratic Leader Robinson argues adjournment by August 15 and separate action on the bills totaling 6 billion dollars is needed, while Speaker Byrnes notes the House would accept a bonus rider if approved by the Senate.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Borah
Idaho
Congress
Robinson
Byrna
House
Senate
Italian Press Attacks Japan Over Ethiopian Dispute
Rome reports published editorials in Italy denouncing Japan over conflicting statements to the Italian foreign office by Ambassador Sugimura and a Japanese foreign office spokesman. The cabled extracts from Tokyo provoked concern that the bitter tone would prompt a diplomatic protest.
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Rome
Japan
England
Germany
Sugimura
Ethiopia
Tokyo
Tevere
Hosiery Workers Endorse Alternate Shifts At Mills
Delegates at the American Federation of Hosiery Workers 24th annual convention vote 180 to 18 for enforcing an alternate weekly shift plan in plants with double shifts. They also discuss a 30-hour week and press for terms in a new labor agreement with the Association of Full Fashioned Hosiery Manufacturers.
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Philadelphia
American Federation of Hosiery Workers
Association of
Eleven Highway Fatalities In Carolinas Over Week End
Eleven people died in highway crashes across the Carolinas and one drowning during the weekend. Victims included W W Hughes of Atlanta in Laurens South Carolina and M B Perry of Charlotte in Durham North Carolina, among others.
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Carolinas
Associated Press
South Carolina
North Carolina
Laurens
8. C
C. L. Ownes
W. W. Hughes
Atlanta
Rhett Hill
Laurens County
Goldsboro
N. C
Kenneth Mornegay
Chatham Township
Bamberg
William Gilchrist
Catholic Youth Groups Banned in German Palatinate
Berlin dispatch reports that on July 22 Wilhelm Frick ordered all state governments to ban Catholic and Lutheran youth organizations from wearing distinctive garb or marching together. The Nazi press labeled political Catholicism Public Enemy No 1 as bans extend to flags emblems and athletic activities.
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Associated Press
Berlin
Palatinate
Germany
Wilhelm Frick
Reichsfuehrer
Hitler
Voelkischer Deobachter
Reich
Nine Polio Cases In State On Week End
Raleigh dispatch reports nine new cases of infantile paralysis in North Carolina over the weekend, raising the year total to 421 with about 100 still contagious. Cases came from Durham, Burke, Greene, Guilford, Johnston, Rocky Mount, Sampson, and Vance counties.
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Raleigh
State of Health
North
English Author Anne Douglas Dies in London
Anne Douglas 62 an English author born in Englewood New Jersey died Friday in Hampstead London publication note July 22 1949 obituary indicates she was born in Englewood N J and died in Hampstead England after a life in literature
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London
Anne Douglas
Englewood, N. J
Hampstead
Weather forecast for North and South Carolina and coastal waters
North Carolina expect generally fair conditions tonight and Tuesday with local thundershowers in east and central areas and possible showers in the far west, slight temperature change. South Carolina remains fair to tonight and Tuesday with isolated afternoon thunderstorms in the north. Winds along Sandy Hook to Hatteras shift southwest with local showers. Hatteras to Jacksonville shows light to moderate south and southwest winds and mostly fair weather tonight into Tuesday.
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South Carolina
North
Sandy Hook
Hatteras
Jacksonville
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