Regimentation and defense mix mark postwar politics
The column surveys President Roosevelt’s hardening stance on labor and conservatives, and his shifting Soviet line, while noting probes into a national defense racket selling training “schools” for youngsters. It also highlights Navy sea-boats readiness and Flynn on armament gaps, with Stark as a forgotten New Deal figure.
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Supreme Court
Britain
Lloyd C. Stark
Missouri
Kansas City
Mr. Roosevelt
Annapolis
Stark
Army
Navy
Secrtaryship
Knox
Missourian traces Stark split on reform and defense stance
The Missourian notes Stark faces machine-politician foes over reform efforts while his supporters recall his wartime stance defending Western Hemisphere defense and his refusal to join a pro Allies group. Associates warned him politically then, and their recollection now echoes about his current desuetude. The piece also briefly mentions barbed wire, lack of seacoast for Bolivia and Paraguay, dental fish parasites, a butterfly fish, and the Franciscan monks owning the Garden of Gethsemane.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missourian
William Allen White
Stark
White
America
Blind bridge player Dunne shines in New York hand
J Patrick Dunne, a totally blind ex Miami Bridge League president, joined a New York duplicate game. He held South and won with a sequence of ruffs and trumps after a losing heart lead, showcasing skill in a Have-a-Heart charity event. The piece also notes Marines in Nicaragua using mercurochrome to detect repeaters.
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American Contract Bridge League
Elizabeth Banfield
New York
James B. Skuse
Russell J. Baldwin
Cleveland
Florida
J. Patrick Dunne
Miami Bridge League
Pat
Dunne
East
North
Car theft tale ends with surprising twist in Charlotte
In Charlotte on June 25 a Mt. Pleasant prison inmate serving a hit and run sentence sought an arrest for his friend's alleged theft of his car. State Patrolman Frank Reynolds found the companion was already wanted in Miami for stealing the same vehicle. The inmate also faced a parole issue from Mt. Pleasant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlotte
Mt. Pleasant
Miami
Fla
Frank Reynolds
Reynolds
Ling
Raiders and Lions Feature in Forsyth County Oddities
In Forsyth County deputies, led by Daniel Tise after a split vote, entered a lions cage to seize five pints of liquor hidden under the floor. Elsewhere, an Anderson man detains bootleg liquor after delivering a jar to the wrong customer. A Dunn man plans safer address habits, as a Goldsboro minister stops for mackerel at a fish market.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. Burton Heath
America
Manhattan
George Washington
Navy
Coast Guard
Ben
Forsyth County
Winston-Salem
Charles Anderson
J. E. Rhoades
Daniel Tise
Tise
Dunn
Jim Pipkin
Greene Named NCEA Officer
Fred W. Greene supervising principal of Danville VA schools is elected executive secretary of the North Carolina Education Association. He will earn 4500 dollars annually, taking office July 1 along with editor Jule Warren. Warren’s contract nonrenewal sparked internal protests.
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Raleigh
Fred W. Greene
Danville
North Carolina Education Association
Jule B. Warren
North Carolina Education
K. G. Phillips
Winston- Salem
Greene
Warren
Association
Phillips
Police seize odd trinket finds in pocket search
Spartanburg police stopped a 45 year old man during a search and recovered a raw chicken foot and leg in his pocket. The incident highlights unusual items found during routine stops and ongoing patrol activity.
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Spartanburg
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United States
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U. S
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Flynn
Philco
Miss Bean
Ingram Furniture
North Main Street
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English Street
Clemmons Furniture CO
Robt. Ripley
France
Louis XI
Philip
Spain
Charles I
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King Pracare Synibcate, Inc
The
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Paraguay
Garden
Gethsemane
H.S. Clark
Bluffton, and
Harry
McKenney
By William E. McKenney
America’s Card Authority
N.T
West Pass Pass
Nicaragua
Raid Lions' den
Abner
NCEA
William Jennings Bryan
the Commoner
Ray Nally
Burtington
Natty
Mann’s
Eckerd’s
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Ruth Bean
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