American Chinese Betting Million A Month On Chiang Kai-Shek
In San Francisco and major U S cities Chinese communities are mounting a monthly wager on Chiang Kai-Shek's war effort against Japan. The money, around a million dollars monthly, funds remittances to China via Hong Kong and Shanghai, supporting Chiang Kai-Shek’s treasury and personal networks.
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Rembert
James
San Francisco
Chiang Kai-Shek
Japan
Chinatown
China
New York
Chicago
Cincinnati
St. Louis
Seattle
Boise
Hongkong
Shanghai
Japanese demand surrender of four Chinese in Shanghai area
British informants report Japan issued an ultimatum to British concession authorities at Tientsin demanding the surrender of four Chinese suspected of killing S. G. Cheng, a Japanese customs official. If refused, Tokyo threatened to blockade the concession. London Foreign Office was notified.
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Shanghai
Tientsin
S. G. Cheng
London Foreign Office
Life of an Alligator in Uncle Rays Corner
Uncle Ray explains alligator life from egg to mature reptile in a concise nature feature. He covers egg production sexes nests and hatchlings, growth rates habitats distribution in the New World and China, farming and uses of hides, dangers of large individuals, and a teaser for tomorrow’s topic Riding an Alligator.
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China
New World
Gulf of Mexico
Florida
Georgia
Carolinas
California
Uncle Ray
Garden Club Social Hosts 11 Members in Deep River
Mrs. Philip Jackson led the Out Our Way club with 11 members at her home on Thursday. Two plant and flower guessing games preceded punch and cookies. Families of Jordan and Thrift attended a Greensboro birthday dinner for D. B. Thrift. Ed Thornton returned from South Carolina. Commencement at Women’s College Greensboro saw P L Jackson and Doris Marie Wilson present. Cecil Lowe and Cleo Lowe, with Lyttle Davis of High Point, spent Sunday in Stokes County. Westmoreland of Colfax visited daughter Mrs Hubert Jordan and returned home Saturday. C M Borum and family joined a 4 H Club meeting at Greensboro Court House.
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Philip Jackson
R. T. Jordan
Arthur Jordan
C. E. Jordan
D. B. Thrift
Greensboro
R. L. Borum
Claude Hiatt
Detroit
Mich
Ed Thornton
South Carolina
P. L. Jackson
Doris Marie Wilson
Womans’ College
Cecil Lowe
Cleo
Stokes County
Lyttle Davis
High Point
Westmoreland
Colfax
Hubert Jordan
C. M. Borum
Greensboro Court House
Dewey Ridge
Archdale
Guilford County Realty Transfers In High Point and Morehead
Realty transfers listed for Guilford County townships including High Point Morehead Gilmer and Friendship. Transactions show Prudential Insurance to Edward Davis and wife on Woodrow Avenue and multiple other tracts on Smith Street Allendale Allendale Road West Market Plaza East Market Street Mt Tabor Heights and South Ashe Street among named buyers and sellers. Social notes reference visits and visits by Dora Horney and Rebecca Fulcher in Badin and Atlanta respectively.
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Prudential Insurance Company of America
Edward James Davis
Woodrow Avenue
W. R. Malpass
PF. E. Edwards
Smith Street
Archie Fowler
Victor Fowler
F. E. Edwards
Co. H. Slater Realty and Mortgage Corporation
Jennie Lamet
Ashe Street
Johnson J. Hayes
R. Hill
Allendale Road
W. C. Johnson
Roy Isley
Mt. Tabor Heights
Mary E. Blair
Annabel Blair
Harvey West
West Market Plaza
Gilmer Township
Detroit Reopens after Auto Industry Strike End
Seventy thousand automobile workers return to their jobs in Detroit after the Briggs Manufacturing Co and Graham Paige Motors Corp strikes end. Eight Chrysler plants reopen along with Briggs and Graham Paige facilities, and two Chrysler plants in Indiana are affected. Briggs workers ratified a new contract with the United Auto Workers Union that ends the strike and runs to June 7, 1940.
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Detroit
Briggs Manufacturing Co
Graham-Paige
Tors Corp
Chrysler Corp
Briggs
Graham- Paige
Chrysler
Indiana
United Auto Workers Union
CIU
Dr Isaac Manning Retires From UNC Medical School
Chapel Hill June 8 Administrative officials of the University of North Carolina announced that Dr Isaac Manning after nearly 40 years at the medical school is retiring He served as dean from 1905 to 1933 and was a Pittsboro native who led the North Carolina Medical Association in 1933.
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Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina
Isaac Manning
University
Medical Schooa
Manning
Pittsboro
North Carolina Medical Association
One Arm Bandits Banned in Robeson County
Robeson County commissioners issue order banning all slot vending or music machines in the county in Lumberton on June 8.
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Lumberton
Robeson County
Air Show Sunday To Feature Ace Fliers At Greensboro Airport
Greensboro High Point air port hosts an air show Sunday afternoon under the Greensboro Junior Chamber of Commerce. Rupert Riser leads the program featuring top acrobatic stars including Vincent Burnett 1989 Freddie Lund trophy winner from Bluefield West Virginia. Also appearing are Jack Huber with two parachute jumps and Charles Abel of Chicago an American champion glider pilot performing in a motorless glider. Miss Aviation will be crowned from Greensboro.
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Greensboro-High Point
Greensboro
Bluefield
W. Va
Jack Huber
Charles Abel
Chicago
Miss Aviation
Asheboro Teachers Set for Summer School Session
Asheboro faculty members plan to attend the summer school session opening at Chapel Hill tomorrow. Attending are Miss Virginia Barker Miss Mae Black Welder Reginald Turner John Garrett and J H Schreyer from Asheboro City School.
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Asheboro
Asheboro Ciy School
Chapel Hill
Virginia Barker
Mae Blackwelder
Reginald Turner
John Garrett
J. H. Schreyer
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Studebaker
Uncle Ray’s
Deep River News
Guilford County Realty
High Point Township
D. H. Hall
Cecil W. Miller
Morehead Township
Central Investment Corporation
James A. Outlaw
East Market Street
Friendship Township
Price Hairston
C. V. Idol
Armfield
Claudia Thornton
Dora M. Horney
Badin
H. W. Horney
Mrs
Rebecca Fulcher
Atlantic
Salisbury
Wachovia
Raleigh
ER Federal Deposit Ins
Winston-Salem
Asheville
U.N. C. Medical School
Ystem
EFIRD
Marcy Lee
High Point, N. C
Oxford
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