Fire at Constanta destroys lumber stores
Bucharest June 6. Fire today destroyed a quantity of lumber stores and threatened warehouses full of cotton rubber and grain at the Black Sea port of Constanta. German troops and Romanian firemen reported they localized the blaze after a four hour battle. Origin of the blaze was unknown. Constanta has been a center of German military activity.
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Bucharest
Rumania
Black Sea
Costanta
Constanta
Roosevelt reveals Berlin orders through German propaganda bureau
President says he has a near complete view of Winant's London mission and Berlin directives to sympathizers in the United States. He notes public reports on Nomura and Japanese non aggression talks, but says he knows nothing definite. Hull supports unchanged Pacific policy and signals Tokyo actions will shape relations. Winant discusses war topics with Stimson Knudsen and other officials before returning to London.
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Berlin
Kichisaburo Nomura
Hull
Winant
White House
Stimson
William S. Knudsen
OPM
London
Roosevelt
Britain
England
Germany
United States
Hitler
New York Times
John Cudahy
Belgium
Luxembourg
Adolf Hitler
The
Times
Lst
Pacific
Japan
Tokyo
North Carolina Weather Outlook Tonight Through Saturday
Fall weather dominates with cooler nights and a warmer Saturday. Northwest to northerly winds shift to southeast by Saturday with fair conditions after tonight. From Block Island to Hatteras the forecast calls for diminishing winds and improving visibility as the system moves offshore.
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North Carolina
Bris
Hatteras
Jacksonville
Block Island
Two local girls receive A.B. degrees at Farmville State Teachers College
Pearl Thompson and Betty Lou Jackson return to Virginia Beach from Farmville Va where they earned A.B. degrees in English. Both transferred from Bre Naut College Gainesville Ga two years earlier and earned secretarial diplomas. Thompson daughter of J W Thompson 518 Parkway active in YWCA choral choir dramatic club archery and Beorch Thorn English sorority. Jackson daughter of Dr W L Jackson 1100 Forest Hill Drive active in college choir YWCA and English studies.
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Misses Pearl Thompson
Betty Lou
Jackson
Farmville
Farmville State Teachers College
Brenau College
Gainesville
Farmville College
Miss Thompson
J. W. Thompson
Parkway
Ing
Y.W.C.A
Beorch Thorn
Miss Jackson
W. L. Jackson
Forest Hill Drive
Britain and France face Middle East tension as Nazi claims rise
NBC from Ankara reports German troops near Damascus amid British Syria moves while Paris and Berlin deny Nazi presencia in Syria. London warns Britain’s Middle East stance is grave as Hore-Belisha calls for full war mobilization and US-UK common citizenship proposal. Daylight air raid alarms occur in London with minimal damage.
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France
Syria
NBC
Ankara
Turkey
Damascus
Trans-Jordan
Beirut
Palestine
Trans- Jordan
Berlin
Lebanon
London
Britain
Middle East
Hitler
Leslie Hore-Belisha
Churchill
Edinburgh
Scotland
Belisha
Great Britain
United States
Mesdames Culp And Poe Entertain At Thomasville Parties
Thomasville hosts a week of socials as Mesdames H R Culp and Henry Poe organize bridge parties with gladioli decor and pink and white ice. Prizes include vanity items and ivy bowls. guests include Mrs Charles Moore of Washington DC and multiple local leaders. Attendees arriving from Wake Forest UNC Guilford College and other institutions reflect end of term social activity.
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Thomasville
Mesdames H. R. Culp
Henry Poe
Roy Proctor
Alvah Boyles
W. G. Smith
Charles Moore
Washington, D. C
Claude Royals
Clyde Bartley
Mildred Carr
Moore
Fred Gray
Vernon Snider
Wake Forest
Royal Jennings
Edward Hobgood
Joe Greer
George Hubert Teague
Edwin Peace
Romulus Skaggs
University of North Carolina
Moyer Mendenhall
Joe Bales
Bob Crews
Charles Phillips, Jr
Elizabeth Owen
Maurine Perryman
Wake Forest Medical School
Julius Howell
Guilford College
Margaret Lee Bryan
Greensboro College
Josephine Pepper
Wilma Hall
Blackstone College
Daisy Fuller Hall
Richmond Medical College
Ishmael Dorsett
Mars Hill
Alice Britt Howell
Amos Ragan
Davidson
Weddie Huffman
Duke
Mary Alice Hoover
St. Mary's
Gertrude Kirk
Marjorie Webster
Keith Hudson
Everett Hudson
Douglas Bray
Harold Hinkle
Oak Ridge
Lytton Tingley
Meredith
Vernelle Gilliam
Pauline Gilliam
Mary Brown Crawford
Hobart Perdue
Appalachian
Bobby Carpenter
Clemson
Vichy Cabinet Discusses Hull Statements
Vichy leaders from Africa including Gen. Maxime Weygand joined a cabinet meeting where Hull's remarks were reportedly discussed. The aim was to establish better relations in Europe and safeguard the French empire and its communication lines against all attacks.
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Europe
Africa
Maxime Werygand
Hull
Evidence Heard in $30,000 Damage Suit
In Guilford Superior Court Mrs. A. B. Butler sues R. B. Gantt and wife of High Point for $30,000 alleging permanent injuries from a July 15 fall on trash and debris in the Arcade Building stairs. Evidence by the plaintiff dominated the morning. defendants prepared their case in the afternoon.
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Greensboro
A. B. Butler
R. B. Gantt
High Point
Guilford Superior Court
Chicago Produce Opens With Mixed Butter and Egg Prices
Chicago June 6. Butter receipts 1 305 099 with 90 centralized carrots 34 percent. Eggs receipts 31 217 with local fresh graded extra firsts at 24 1 4 and firsts at 24 2. Storage packed firsts 24 12. Other prices unchanged. A stray note claims terror from the 1680 comet led people to wear medals.
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Chicago
Bridal Shower Honors Miss Kennedy At Home Event
An early summer event at Mrs. Leon Blue’s Fisher Ferry Extension home honored Miss Lois Kennedy on the eve of her June 21 wedding. Guests enjoyed a miniature garden wedding scene, games, prizes, and a surprise lingerie gift. The Wesleyan Guild of Main Street Methodist Church heard Mrs. W A Redding speak on The Living Christ at the quarterly meeting.
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Leon Blue
Fisher Ferry
Donald Jarrett
Lois Kennedy
Jarrett
Blue
Helen Fouts
E. J. Jarrett
Oscar Lackey
Dale Jarrett
W. Bryan
Miss Kennedy
Imogene Kennedy
Velma Mason
Nel Jarrett
Mesdames
Eugene Kennedy
Raymond Mason
Roy Bray
E. J. Jarrett, Sr
Woodrow Hall
Lawrence Jarrett
Archdale
Wesleyan Guild of
Main Street Methodist Church
W. A. Redding
Asheboro
Wesleyan Service Guild of Western
Hobart Hall
Guild
Thomasville
L. F. Ross
Anderson New N C P A Chief Anderson New N C P A Chief
Ed M. Anderson publisher editor of Skyland Post was elected president of the North Carolina Press Association at the annual convention in Charlotte. He succeeds L C Gifford of Hickory Daily Record with Herbert Peele elected vice president and Beatrice Cobb re elected secretary treasurer. The executive committee includes Gifford Manning Miller Hoyt Price and Daniels. Paul O Nafe urged US relations with Central and South America and editors interchange between continents. A resolution supported foods program by NC State College Extension Service. Members were luncheon guests of Curtis B. Johnson of the Charlotte Observer.
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Gifford
W. C. Manning
Williamston
Julian Miller
Charlotte
W. K. Hoyt
Winston-Salem
R. E. Price
Rutherfordton
Frank Daniels
Raleigh
Paul O. Nafe
McDowell News
Marion
United States
Central and
South America
Lee B. Weathers
Shelby
North America
N. C. State College Agricultural Extension Service
Curtis B. Johnson
The
Charlotte Observer
Catawba River
Hold up at Minneapolis Brewery nets $50 000
Five gunmen raided the Minneapolis Brewery about 11 30 a m stealing an estimated 50 000 dollars from a cash on hand brought in from a bank. Employee wounded and a 23 to 24 year old brewery city desk foreman James Christiansen was shot in the back but not believed to be seriously hurt.
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Minneapolis
Frank Kiewel
Minneapolis Brewery Company
James Christiansen
City Desk
Kiewel
Colored Youth Bound Over On Serious Charge
William E. Johnson, a Negro of 303 Walnut Street, bound over to Superior Court without bond after probable cause found in an assault with a deadly weapon intent to kill. Johnson allegedly shot Andrew McGuier on May 23. McGuier remains in serious condition at a local hospital. Judge D C MacRae refused bond. Also disposed: Oscar Lee Jones, De Luxe Diner, assault with a deadly weapon, 30 days suspended on good behavior. Robert Royal, Greensboro route three, violating prohibition law, 12 months suspended for two years upon conditions. Pay $50 and jury costs. Nathan Sassafras, 401 Meredith Street, violating prohibition law, 12 months suspended for two years.
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William E. Johnson
Walnut Street
Superior Court
Andrew McGuier
McGuier
D. C. MacRae
Oscar Lee Jones
de Luxe
Robert Royal
Greensboro
Nathan Sassafras
Meredith Street
Pay With Tax Farmers Urge Defense Funding
CHICAGO June 6 Officers of three farm groups say they speak for 3,000,000 farm people in 48 states urging that unwarranted profits of industry labor and agriculture be recaptured by taxation to fund the defense program. The policy was drafted after a two day meeting by American Farm Bureau Federation National Grange and National Council of Farmers Cooperatives.
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Chicago
American Farm Bureau Federation
National Grange
National Council of Farmers Cooperatives
Roosevelt signs bill to seize idle foreign ships
President Roosevelt signed legislation authorizing the government to take over and operate about 80 idle foreign ships in U S waters. The Maritime Commission is ordered to implement the act, allow purchase requisition charter and operation, with fair compensation to owners and no belligerent charter without approval.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Maritime Commission
United States
Philippines
Canal Zone
Administratrix Named for W. P. Webster Estate
Greensboro June 6 Aliss Ellen P Webster of High Point qualified as administratrix of the estate of W P Webster who died June 1 The estate comprises 250 dollars in personal property and 2500 dollars in real estate She is the sole heir and appears as the executrix of record.
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Greensboro
Aliss
Ellen P. Webster
Willowbrook Street
High Point
W. P. Webster
War Department study highlights White House power in strikes
As the War Department reports the largest daily total of the year, attention centers on President Roosevelt and the possibility of invoking emergency powers to keep strategic plants running. The Defense Mediation Board moves on several fronts, including a new CIO wage proposal for southern coal and renewed talks with the United Woodworkers in the Pacific Northwest. The board suspends mediation on the North American Aviation strike while urging acceptance of a peace formula, and CIO leaders clash with orton over attacks on the agency. Meanwhile freight drivers and municipal workers in Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, and Detroit weigh wage demands and potential general strikes.
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War Department
FDR
White House
North American Aviation Company
California
Defense Mediation Board
Stephen Early
Roosevelt
O. MM. Orton
International Woodworkers of America
Pacific Northwest
Mediation Board
CIO United Mine Workers
CIO
United Automobile Workers (Cio
North American Aviation Corp
Englewood
Calif
Philip Murray
Puget Sound
Murray
Orton
L.W.A
Michigan
Ohio
Indiana
Teamsters Union
AFL
Detroit
Western Association of Railway
Anson County Negro Gassed at Central Prison
Jack Wall, 34, an Anson County Negro, was executed at Central Prison by inhaling hydrocyanic fumes after a 13 minute 50 second exposure. He confessed to beating his wife to death with a cross-tie fragment in March 1940. Governor Broughton declined to intervene.
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Raleigh
Fleet Jack Wall
Anson County
Central Prison
L. A. Watts
Wall
Paroles
Edwin Gill
State Supreme Court
Broughton
N C Projects Approved for Low Rent Homes
United States housing authority loans totaling 37,848,900 were approved by President Roosevelt to fund new low rent housing for 1,961 families in 16 cities. Loans cover 90 percent of costs, construction by local authorities, with Asheville and Fayetteville North Carolina among the recipients. Eagle Pass Texas is noted as the smallest and Fort Wayne Indiana as the largest in population among the borrower communities.
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Washington
United States Housing Authority
Roosevelt
USHA
Nathan Straus
Eagle Pass
Texas
Fort Wayne
Ind
Asheville
N. C
Fayetteville
Smith Takes Early Lead In U S Open At Colonial Club
Horton Smith, playing out of Pinehurst North Carolina, grabbed a 36 hole lead in the U S Open at Worth Texas after a five over par 75 on a rain drenched Colonial Club course for a total of 148. He nearly matched his opening 18 once but bogeyed the 15th after rough and a failed approach.
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Smith
Worth
Tex
Horton Smith
Pinehurst
N.C
Colonial Club
Labor unions push for wage hikes across member groups
Labor organizations have proved pay raises of 30 to 34 cents an hour for their 800,000 members. Five operating unions comprising engineers, firemen, conductors, switchmen, and trainmen voted May 193 to seek 30 percent increases for their 350,000 members.
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