Britain protests bombings in China and Spain
June 3 report notes Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain announcing new protests against air bombings in China and Spain while facing House of Commons calls for action beyond condemnation. Also part of the day’s sports page covers Walker Cup action in Scotland where Britain leads 2 to 1 after Crawley Pennink beat Haas Jr. and Reynolds Smith 2 and 1.
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Britain
London
Neville Chamberlain
China
Spain
House of Commons
ST. Andrews
Scotland
Leonard Crawley
Frank Pennink
Fred Haas, Jr
New Orleans
Reynolds Smith
Dallas
Roosevelt to send commission to England to study trade union act
President Roosevelt announced plans to dispatch a commission to England this summer to study the British trade union act. He said the study is his idea and aims to clear up misinformation in the United States about the law.
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Washington
Roosevelt
England
U S Protests Bombing of Civilians in China and Spain
The United States government voiced emphatic reprobation of civilian bombings in China and Spain. Undersecretary Sumner Welles, after a Roosevelt conference, issued the stern state department statement.
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U. S
Washington
United States
China
Spain
Sumner Welles
Roosevelt
State Department
Whitehurst praised as best sheriff in Greenville
Greenville June 3. S A Whitehurst's ouster hearing was recessed until Monday after defense presented about eighty witnesses. Solicitor D M Clark of the fifth judicial district testified Whitehurst was the best sheriff in the state and suggested investigators were misled biased or ill advised.
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Greenville
Heriff S. A. Whitehurst
D. M. Clark
Pitt
Notice to Enterprise Subscribers on Saturday Collections
Enterprise carriers collect from subscribers every Saturday. Readers should have 15 cents ready when the carrier calls to improve service and avoid extra wakeups. Carriers may collect credit beyond two weeks at their own risk and use their own judgment.
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Enterprise
Enterprise Park
Germany Protests Over Sudeten German Abuse and Nazi Emblem Seizure
Berlin protests Czech actions against the Sudeten German minority after soldiers seize a Nazi emblem from a Sudeten couple at Niederallersdorf and report mistreatment of a German by Czech troops. Berlin says no intent to martyr Konrad Henlein and treason charges may be dropped.
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Praha
Czechoslovakia
Ernst Eisenlohr
Czech Foreign Office
Exner
Niederallersdorf
Joseph Schnepf
Schnepf
Maehrisch-Schoenberg
Konrad Henlein
Berlin
Vlastislav Klima
Czech National Union Party
Klima
Czechs National Union Party
Deutsches Nachrichtenbuere
Saxony
DNB
Koenigswalde
Baerenstein
Hammer-Oberwiesenthal
Jap Raids Kill 50 In Canton
Japanese bombing planes struck a crowded Canton textile factory killing about 50 workers and harming houseboat residents along the Canton river. In central China, Japanese artillery and air attacks press toward Kaifeng Chengchow as Hankow defense weakens amid gear shortages and a looming offensive.
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Canton
Hong Kong
Shanghai
China
Central China Front
Kaifeng
Chengchow
Peiping-Hankow
Hankow
Lanfeng
Lunghai
Suchow
NC primary races shape NC state and federal contests
Raleigh June 3 Nominees for the senate and seven House seats plus state officials will be chosen in tomorrow's Democratic primary. Reynolds Hancock and other incumbents face opponents in seven of eleven districts as retirements prompt spirited contests and new candidates seek seats across North Carolina.
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Taleigh
Senate
House of Representatives
Superior Court
Atate Siies
North Carolina
Robert Anolds
Asheville
N. W. Hancock, Jr
Tang
Ach
Reynolds
Grady
Kenly
State Legislate
Stanley Win
John H. Kerr
Troy T. Barnes
Ion
Graham A. Barden
C. L. Abernethy, Jr
New Bern
A. L. Bulwinkle
Ham C. Jones
Charlotte
Zeb Weaver
R. L. Whitmire
Hendersonville
A. D. Folger
Mt. Airy
Marshall C. Kurfees
Winston-Salem
George Fulp
Leakaville
Hancock
Neapeening
William B. Umstead
George Penny
J. 0. Atkinson
Barnie P. Jones
Burlington
Walter Lambeth
George Ross
Jackson Springs
R. F. Beasley
Monroe
C. B. Deane
Rockingham
William ©. Burgin
Lesington
Giles. Newton
Gibson
Priest Killed Mysteriously in Centralia Rectory Invasion
In Centralia Missouri on June 3 an elderly Catholic priest Father Charles Emerg 65 was shot during a night rectory invasion. His housekeeper Miss Martha Rice 30 described two attackers one black and one white with the black masked and the white assailant using a blackjack. A gray cap found near the house is a clue. $10 remained in the priest’s wallet and robbery was not deemed the motive.
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Centralia
Charles Emerg
Martha Rice
Miss Rice
Castee
Fourteen More G Men Join In Hunt For Boy
Princeton Florida June 8 Divers searched a rock pit 40 miles south for the body of kidnapped James Bailey Cash Jr Federal agents reported a clue from a local resident aided the effort and unverified reports spoke of a blood stained cloth.
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Princeton
Fla
Here
James Bailey Cash, Jr
Kidnapped Jimmy Cash search widens to Florida Keys
A search for Jimmy Cash expands south toward the Florida Keys as J Edgar Hoover adds 146 agents by air. James Bailey Cash Sr leaves home after paying a 10000 dollar ransom and, with his brother and federal agents, drives to a dump east of the Homestead airport to inspect a lead, as Mrs Cash remains under a doctor's care.
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Princeton
Fla
Jimmy Cash
Florida Keys
J. Edgar Hoover
Federal Bureau of Investigation
James Bailey Cash
Schuschnigg Weds Countess in Vienna Proxy Ceremony
The marriage of Kurt Schuschnig, former Austrian chancellor, to Countess Vera Fugger von Babenhausen occurred at 1 p.m. in a Vienna Dominican church chapel. The groom attended in proxy, represented by his brother Arthur Schuschnigg who was detained by authorities after Germany’s 1938 annexation.
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Vienna
Kurt Schuschnig
Austria
Vera Fugger
von Babenhausen
Dominican Church
Arthur Schuschnigg
Yermany
Enterprise To Announce Democratic Primary Results Saturday
The Enterprise will reveal Democratic primary results Saturday night at its building rear via public address system. It will report High Point precincts as data arrives and share statewide results as received. Public urged to assemble. announcements start around 8 o clock and full results appear in Sundays edition.
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Enterprise
High Point
S E C Plans Cooperation With Exchange
William O Douglas of the Securities and Exchange Commission announced a round table cooperation plan with the New York Stock Exchange. He described weekly meetings and said no further laws were needed, anticipating assent from Martin of the exchange. The remarks touched on public power property purchases and utility holdco adjustments under regulatory aims.
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New York
William O. Douglas
Securities and Exchange Commission
Commission
New York Stock Exchange
Exchange
S.e.c.stock Exchange
Martin
William McC. Martin
The
Douglas
Tennessee
Colorful Career Of Former Sen Butler Brought To End
Former Senator Marion Butler of North Carolina died in Takoma Park Maryland at age 76. He served three parties including Democrat early in his career and Populists who sent him to the U S Senate in 1896, later aligning with Republicans. Butler helped form cotton and tobacco cooperatives and was a leading Populist figure as Reconstruction-era politics faded.
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Washington
Marion Butler
North Carolina
Takoma Park
Butler
North Carolina State Senate
Peoples Party
United States Senate
Republicans
Cotton and Tobacco Cooperative Marketing Associations
el- Mott, N. C
Senate
Grover Cleve
Retail Buying Climbs on Better Shopping Weather
Gains in retail buying at leading distribution centers this week averaged 3 to 5 percent above last week, aided by better shopping weather, but remained 10 to 18 percent below the year ago level for the nation. Dun & Bradstreet notes distribution advanced haltingly without payroll growth as a key booster.
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New York
Dun & Bradstreet
Hound Becomes Family as Fourteen Pups Arrive
Warden J K Halder explains messy dog control in Chester Virginia as his own stray hound leads to seven puppies and a terrier rescue spawns seven more. Town clerk David Hawkins ties into the odd dog tale as stray dogs multiply.
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Chester
J. K. Halder
David Hawkins
Colonial Heights
Halder
Senate approves $300 million slum clearance boost
The Senate approved adding 300 million dollars for slum clearance, raising the housing authority authorization to 3.722 billion. Senator Wagner advocated the move, aligning with Roosevelt’s relief message to increase lending authority from 500 million to 800 million. The action aims to expand urban renewal without new appropriations.
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Washington
Senate
Administration
Wagner
Roosevelt
United States Housing Authority
House
Housing Agency
Harlan Miners Exiled to Haven Rock under union probe
In London Kentucky on June 3 federal Judge H Charen Ford rebuked defendants in the Harlan anti union conspiracy trial for laughing during witness Homer Butts testimony about being exiled to Raven Rock a R C Tway Coal company mine. Miners testified punishment for union activity and reduced profits at Haven Rock loading.
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Ken White
London
H. Charen Ford
Homer Butts
R. C. Tway Coal Company
Haven Rock
Ford
Marshal
Raven Rock
Cummings Calls for Rule Making Power in Criminal Procedure
Asheville June 3 Attorney General Homer Cummings urged extending Supreme Court rule making to criminal procedure before verdict. He argued for a uniform, simplified system under court rules and warned against delays that obscure truth and hinder crime control.
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Cummings
Asheville
Homer Cummings
Fourth Circuit
Federal Judicial Conference
Supreme Court
Congress
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S.E.C
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Cincinnati
Lindbergh Heist
Trent
Sen. Butler
N. C
Simmons
Florida
James B. Cash
Cash
Yuge
Bill Nears
Townsend
R-Del
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Negro
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