Hoey Edges McDonald in North Carolina Democratic Primary Lead 4342
Complete returns from last Saturday's Democratic primary show Clyde R. Hoey of Shelby leading Dr. Ralph W. McDonald of Winston-Salem by 4,342 votes for the gubernatorial nomination. Hoey carried 60 counties to 27 for McDonald with 515,254 total votes, the highest in state history. Bailey led the Senate race with a wide margin, while Lt. Gov. candidates Grady, Horton and McNeill trailed as precincts remained unreported.
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Clyde R. Hoey
Shelby
Ralph W. McDonald
Winston-Salem
Superior Court
Associated Press
Granville
Hoey
McDonald
Graham
McRae
North Carolina
Anson
J. W. Bailey
Bailey
Richard T. Fountain
William H. Griffin
David J. Strain
Paul Grady
Senate
W. P. Horton
Chatham
George McNeill
Fayetteville
Hoover to Speak Tonight at Republican National Convention
Former President Herbert Hoover will deliver an address before the Republican National Convention in Cleveland tonight. The address targets the party gathering with a focus on national policy and party unity.
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Herbert Hoover
Cleveland
Ardent New Dealer Beaten In Runoff
In Alabama George Huddleston lost the Democratic runoff for Congress to Luther Patrick in the Ninth District by about 6 000 votes. Patrick, a 42 year old lawyer poet and radio entertainer, accused Huddleston of disloyalty to the New Deal. In the Tennessee Valley district John Sparkman and R T Simpson Jr fought a tight race awaiting final box results.
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Ala
George Huddleston
Congress
Luther Patrick
Huddleston
John Sparkman
Huntsville
R. T. Simpson
Florence
Tennessee Valley
America Wins Hurlingham Club Polo Match
America opened the International Polo Cup defense with a 10 to 9 victory over England before a fashionably large crowd of about 10 000 in London.
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Hurlingham Club
London
America
England
Weather Snapshot North and South Carolina
Partly cloudy with scattered showers tonight or Thursday. North Carolina portions warmers tonight and cooler in the southwest Thursday. South Carolina slopes toward partly cloudy with possible showers tonight and Thursday.
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North Carolina
South Carolina
Drought Front Still Unbroken Across Southern States
Showers lingered over the Carolinas Georgia Tennessee and Alabama but failed to end a severe drought across five southeastern states. Washington warned housewives may face higher potato prices as the Agriculture Department forecasts reduced Southeastern yields.
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Atlanta
Washington
Carolinas
Georgia
Tennessee
Alabama
Department of Agriculture
Roosevelt To Make Commemorative Talk
President Roosevelt arrives in Hot Springs for a busy day of inspections and pageantry before his Little Rock address commemorating Arkansas' 100th year of statehood. Roosevelt and Mrs Roosevelt tour crowd lined streets and visit the army and navy general hospital and a school children pageant.
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Ark
Roosevelt
Little Rock
Arkansas
Memphis
Tenn
Army and Navy General Hospital
Solons Seek Compromise on Tax Measure
Washington June 10. Conferees for the 74th Congress prepared to seek a compromise on the tax bill after adjournment. Differences center on undistributed corporate profits tax with House favoring a graduated rate up to 42 1/2 percent and Senate preferring a flat seven percent. Corporate income tax also diverges with House repealing the graduated rate and Senate maintaining a graduated scale. Bill expected to be ready not later than Wednesday after the Republican convention.
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House
Senate
Congress
Asheboro Becomes First Class Post Office
Five North Carolina post offices will be raised to first class status on July 1, Department officials announced. Asheboro Chapel Hill Henderson Hendersonville and Mount Airy will join others as second class offices are elevated.
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North Carolina
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Chapel Hill
Henderson
Hendersonville
Mount Airy
Black Mountain Farmville
Hertford
Red Springs
Siler City
Valdese
Windsor
Garland Motors Inc Chartered in North Carolina
Two firms received charters today from secretary of state Stacey W. Wade. Garland Motors Inc of High Point was authorized to deal in automobiles and accessories with authorized capital under $100,000 subscribed by C. M. Scott, Scott Samuels, and Mrs. Ona H. Garland, all of High Point.
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Stacey W. Wade
Garland Motors, Inc
High Point
C. M. Scott
Scott Samuels
Ona H. Garland
Italy May Make Token Payment on War Debt Installment
Paris based political writer Genevieve Tabouis predicted Italy will make a token payment on its war debt installment due the United States on June 15. She said the maneuver aims to dodge the Johnson law ban on new loans by U S Nationals to debtor nations.
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Genevieve Tabouis
L'Oeuvre
Italy
United States
U. S
Death by own action linked to Black Legion probe
Detroit report on a possible Black Legion disciplinary act as a supposed self inflicted death is investigated. A woman, Margaret O Rourke Dean, claimed Black Legion plots against Father Coughlin and identified Dayton Dean as the killer. Police will question her before Circuit Judge Chenot in a grand jury probe.
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Charles BE. Coughlin
Margaret O'Rourke Dean
Dayton Dean
Charles A. Poole
Dean
Father Coughn
Circuit
James EB. Chenot
The
Black Legion
Funeral honors for Dr J T Burrus longtime surgeon and senator
Hundreds attended the funeral for Dr John T Burrus who died of a heart attack Monday. Services at the Burrus home were led by several ministers, with interment at Oakwood cemetery. Notables including Dr Ralph W McDonald and J Paul Leonard attended, as did many civic and medical figures.
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Southside Baptist Church
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Oakwood Cemetery
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Emmett Sumner
O. B. Bonner
E. F. Long
Saunders
K. B. Geddie
Burrus Memorial Hospital
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Ralph W. McDonald
Burrug
Andrew Jackson Post No
American Legion
Dr. Burrus
Legion
North Carolina Fair Tax Association
Order of Ahezpa
General Greene
Drunken Driving Arrests Decline in May
Raleigh report shows 266 drunken driving arrests in May, down from 275 in April. Total patrol arrests reached 2,423, with 2,010 convictions and penalties totaling 20,388 dollars in fines and 14,863 dollars in costs.
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Raleigh
Highway Patrol
Charles D. Farmer
Monroe approves 16 cent school tax for ninth month
A 16 cent property levy to finance a ninth school month was approved in a special election yesterday by a 166 vote margin in Monroe.
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Monroe
Negroes Fire Bee Tree. Bees Yield Honey Then Fined
In Tarboro on June 10, Roland Kenny North Kenny and Claude Bellamy, young Black men, found a bee tree and burned it to reach the honey. The fire burned more than 80 acres of woods. Forest Warden M W Haynes brought them to court where they were each fined 2.50 dollars.
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Roland Kenny
North Kenny
Claude Bellamy
M. W. Haynes
Prisoner Killed In Escape Attempt
Raleigh June 10 Oscar Pitts acting director of the penal division said James D Debose prisoner shot while attempting to escape from the New Hanover county prison camp last week died in Wilmington Saturday A coroner s jury ruled that B E Rae a guard shot Debose in discharge of his duty
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Oscar Pitts
James D. Debose
New Hanover County
Wilming
BE. F. Rae
Dehose
Major Planks Conflict May Prolong Convention
North Carolina Republicans praised Senator Steiner for his keynote at the national convention in Cleveland. Delegates planned a second caucus to chart a state program and consider the presidential nomination amid a Landon leaning, with eight delegates committed to Judge I. M. Meekins for a first ballot complimentary vote.
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Steiner
Rore
North Carolina
W. C. Meekins
Hendersonville
Charles A. Jonas
Lincolnton
Tar Heels
Alf. M. Landon
Kansas
Kansan
I. M. Meekins
Elizabeth City
Spirited Speakership Contest Emerges After Primary
Raleigh June 10 Unofficial returns from Saturdays primary indicate a lively contest for the 1937 North Carolina House speakership if Democrats win in November R Gregg Cherry of Gaston and Victor Bryant of Durham are renominated F B Thomas Anson has announced his candidacy for speaker.
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House of Representatives
R. Gregg Cherry
Gaston
Victor Bryant
Durham
F. B. Thomas Anson
Landon Promises White House Feed After Bet
Topeka Kansas June 10 Gov Alf H Landon promised Harry H Woodring an invitation to dine at the White House if he loses his election Woodring Democrat and former Kansas governor who was defeated by Landon in 1932 joked he had lost a bet of sixty dinners Landon said the invitation would be forthcoming regardless of the outcome
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Kan
Alf H. Landon
Harry H. Woodring
Woodring
Kansas
Landon
Arizona Delegation Sends Vote to Landon at Caucus
Arizona's six Republican votes will go to Gov. Alf M. Landon on the first ballot at the convention. The delegation's decision was announced at a caucus. The Puerto Rican delegation also declared its two votes for Landon in a simultaneous move.
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Cleveland
Arizona
Alf M. Landon
Landon
Chinese Troops Clash as Faction Fights in Fukien
Fighting broke out between rival Kwangtung factional troops in southeastern Fukien with reinforcements sent by the Canton government. One faction opposed action against the Nanking government while the other supported it. Military authorities in neighboring Jiangxi mobilized vehicles to move troops toward Hunan, and twenty Nanking airplanes arrived at Hankow before departing to an unknown location.
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Kwangtung Province
Fukien
South China
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Kwangsi Province
Hunan
Hankow
British Garrisons Get Reinforcements in Palestine
Jerusalem June 10. New reinforcements from Egypt increased the British garrison in troubled Palestine to nearly 8,000 officers and men. The Dorsetshire regiment’s second battalion arrived, joining eight battalions plus air corps, tank and artillery units. They face Arab anti Jewish disorders that have claimed nearly eighty lives since April 19.
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Jewish Telegraphic Agency
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Selected Stocks Advance On Mart
Selected stocks today moved forward amid a choppy market. Buyers showed appetite for rails utilities merchandise and specialty issues but profit taking capped gains as most groups paused or slipped. Rail bonds edged higher while commodities and foreign currencies hardly moved.
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New York
Tax proposal for ninth school month approved in Lumberton
In Lumberton yesterday a 15 cent property tax proposal to fund a ninth school month carried 387 to 12 amid a total registration of 684 voters. The vote shows strong local support for extending the school year.
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Lumberton
Blum Faces Possible Split Over 40 Hour Week Plan
Paris June 10 A split in the Socialist government looms as Premier Blum pushes a 40 hour work week with paid vacations and pensions reforms. Bre Nouvelle opposes the measure warning of higher costs and lost markets. Strikes ease as deputies begin debate and miners in the north suspend the strike to return to work.
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Paris
France
Leon Blum
Bre Nouvelle
Eve Nouvelle
Chair of Deputies
Hotel operator dies in Charlotte after heart attack
Selwyn hotel operator W. C. Petty, who had run the hotel for 15 years, died today in Charlotte from a heart attack.
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Charlotte
W. C. Petty
Conciliatory Gestures At Bor Create Convention Tension
London forces seek reconciliation with Senator Borah and others as party planks clash at the convention. Governor Landon and allies push a platform while Borah demands stronger terms and a chance to defend proposals on the floor. White conveys assurances, but Borah seeks broader invitation and clarification.
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Cleveland
London
Idaho
Alf M. Landon
Kansas
Aborah
Resulu
William Jon White
Landon
Borah
White
Governor Alf Landon Declines Attending Convention
Topeka Kansas June 10 Gov Alf M Landon said today he will not go to Cleveland to attend the Republican national convention amid reports of developments that could influence the party.
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Topeka
Kas
Alf M
Cleveland
Republican National
Landon Seeks GOP Nominating Votes as Convention Delays
The platform committee debates foreign policy planks as Alf Landon gains Pennsylvanian support. Governor Landon wins about half of the state’s votes on the first ballot while subcommittee meetings push the resolutions session to late today.
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White
London
Borah
Alf M. Landon
Thomas Escapes Criminal Act foj
London june 10 J H Thomas the colonial jary who resigned from the riot because he disclosed bu secrets faces no criminal eution by the British govern for his act Sir Donald Somervell atso general announced to them of commons today that he w not institute criminal proceed against any of the participants the budget leakage scandal
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London
J. H. Thomas
Jary
Donald Somervell
Atso General
Them
of Commons
Van Mungo Quits Brooklyn Dodgers
Van Lingle Mungo, right hander for the Brooklyn Dodgers, suddenly quit the team today. He failed to appear at the ballpark as the Dodgers began their series with the Pittsburgh Pirates and had reportedly arranged to head to New York.
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van Lingle Mungo
Brook Dodgers
Mungo
Dodgers
Pitburgh Pirates
New York
Deputy U.S. marshal traps alleged illicit still suspect
Denver June 10 tipster Potter pursues Eloy Martin wanted in Raton New Mexico on illicit still charge. Martinez alias Skeptical used by clerk sign for registered letter as Marti. Officer arrests man after letter reads see you soon.
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U. Marshal
Eloy Martin
Raton
N .M
Marti
Bhe
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