North Carolina Weather Turn Cloudy With Rain Likely
Weather summary reports cloudiness across North Carolina tonight and Thursday with rain expected in the east and south portions. Winds shift from west and northwest to easterly with fair conditions tonight and Thursday. Temperatures and rainfall figures for major cotton regions are listed for March 1 with varying readings across stations including Raleigh 46 1.10 and Greensboro 56 44 82.
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Sandy Hook
Hatteras
Jacksonville
Weather Bureau
H. Il
Asheville
Atlanta
Augusta
Birmingham
Charleston
Evésion
Charlotte
Seeeneeeee
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Dever
Detroit
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Sssssreee
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Seeserees
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Os Nee Eeeseeeene
Washington
What Causes Epilepsy and Is There a Cure
Free booklet from the Educational Division of New York asks readers to request opinions from famous doctors on epilepsy. Send request to 551 Fifth Avenue New York NY Dept m-418.
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Fifth Avenue
New York
N. Y
Dept
Butter and Eggs Prices Steady in Chicago Trade
Chicago March 1 butter prices steady at 792.322 with eggs at 17,916 unchanged. Storage packed extras quoted 171-2, firsts 171-4, other prices unchanged.
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Chicago
Eggers
Longest Senate Session Debates Newspaper Definition
North Carolina senators spent an hour debating a bill to define what counts as a newspaper for legal notices. The measure, pushed by the State Press Association and Senator Gold, requires a paper to be published for one year before first insertion to qualify for notices. Critics warn of fly by night papers and political motives. Senator Cogburn argues opposition papers could be started to gain county advertising.
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Enterprise Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
Lynn Nisbet
Raleigh
State Senate
State Press Association
Gold
Judiciary No. 1
Board of Commissioners
North Carolina
Jefferson
Jackson
Chester Cogburn
Haywood
Canton
Court Rules Realty Act Unconstitutional
Judge Clarkson voids the Realty Act as unconstitutional citing general laws and conflict with the state wide license. A dissent argues the act is within legislative power and not for the courts to veto. The appellate list includes Cahoon v Roughton and others with mixed reversals and affirmations.
Street Car Crash Kills Six in Dorchester, Boston
A trolley crash in Dorchester near Franklin Park Zoo killed six people and injured about forty. Officials blamed a broken brake part on the elevated line, saying the car lost control on an incline and struck a tree after failing to navigate a turn. All victims were residents of greater Boston.
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Boston
Boston Elevated Company
Dorchester
Franklin Park Zoo
Greater
Court Docket Movements Across Counties
A sequence of civil actions listed with parties and outcomes: several new trials granted or reversed in Caswell, Nash, Edgecombe, Mecklenburg, Iredell, and Iredell with mentions of Pasquo tank and Caswell county. Decisions include affirmations remands and dismissals across multiple dockets.
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Stiers
Rockingham
Calhoun
Stephens
Johnson
Caswell
Barrett
Williams
Pasquotank
Cartwright
Jones
Bank
Davis
Als
Stokes
Caswell County
Scott
Grant
Long
Edgecombe
Johnson Vs
Insurance Company
Nash
Retirement plan report sought for law officers fund
Raleigh March 1 George Ross Poll chairman of the commissioners handling the law enforcement officers benefit fund said the state insurance department actuary has been asked to report within 30 days on payments needed to create a retirement fund The actuary will also study payments for line of duty injuries The fund held 40340 38 on February 21 It is funded by half of 1 assessed in court costs with the other half going to the investigation bureau Magistrates are covered and 2151 letters were sent The commission did not hire a new field agent but will have Police Chief Haynes contact magistrates while field agent Morris is on legislative leave The commission paid 7800 under the old law for death benefits funeral expenses and minor children}
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Raleigh
George Ross Poll
State Insurance Department
Pou
Treasury Expects Record Tax Returns This March
The treasury opens March with expected income tax collections around 425 million dollars. The March 15 deadline for the first 1938 tax instalments tests how 1938 business compares with 1937. Last year’s March receipts reached a record 723 million, while officials aim for about 425 million this month.
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Washington
Treasury
Army Plans and Air Corps Upgrading for World War II
Army details defense planes and new air corps innovations. Arnold describes 879 fighting planes plus 104 observation craft totaling 1 428 units, with plans to bid plastic training planes and reduce rivets by stainless welding. Substratosphere craft and the Airacuda highlight future bomber developments.
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Arnold
United States
National Guard
Air Corps
Army
C. M. Wesson
Army Ordance
Wesson
S. C. Rivers Expected to Pass Flood Stage Today
The Weather Bureau said central South Carolina rivers except Congaree would run above flood stage by late today. Wateree at Camden and Broad at Blairs to peak tonight. Saluda and Santee rising rapidly. Congaree unlikely to flood here. drivers warned to use caution at bridges, especially in Florence County where major bridges are extremely dangerous to cross.
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Columbia
N. C
Weather Bureau
South Carolina
Camden
Blairs
Florence County
Fred Jones
Middle Of The Road Senators Seek To Avoid Third Roosevelt Term
Y M C A membership drive resumes with a goal of 3500 funded by the Community Chest. Na than Ayers and J Harris co chair a March 7 8 campaign to enlist 400 boys for a year of health and camaraderie. Colonels W R B McEwen Amos Kearns Otis Jeffcoat T V Rochelle will begin organizing captains at a Sheraton meeting Friday at 5 pm. John Mebane named publicity chairman for The Enterprise.
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Nathan Ayers
J. Welch Harriss
Community Chest Fund
Hartley
W. R B. McEwen
Amos Kearns
Otis Jeffcoat
T. V. Rochelle
Sheraton Hotel
John Mebane
Enterprise Staff
High Point Man Begins Sentence for Hemingway Bank Robbery
Worth Davis of High Point North Carolina began a 10 year sentence for his role in the Hemingway bank robbery on March 2 2008. Davis alias Wash Turner Jack Borden and an unseen accomplice forced cashier D L Taylor to open vaults and escape with nearly seven thousand dollars. The crime linked to Bill Payne and Turner who were later gashed in a patrolman slaying near Asheville. Davis previously was arrested in Durham in 1926 for bank robbery and escaped the state penitentiary in 1934 before being recaptured.
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N. C
Worth Davis
High Point
Bill Payne
Hemingway
Davis
Payne
Wash Turner
Jack Borden
D. L. Taylor
Turner
Asherville
E. C. Dennis
Bureau of Investigation
Durham
Raleigh
State Penitentiary
City Defendant In $15000 Suit In High Point
Pat tie Maek Newlin and eight Newlin family members sue the city of High Point in Guilford Superior Court for 15000 claiming their land at the southwest corner of South Main and West Green streets was seized for street widening without notice or compensation. They say the city graded and diverted West Green Street and denied a claim presented February 15.
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Pattie Maek Newlin
Newlin
High Point
Guilford Superior Court
City of
South Main
West Green Streets
South Main Street
West Green Street
Investigate Nazi Spies In Mexico
Mexican press links the hunt for an unlicensed radio transmitter to a broader probe of German espionage. Reports identify eight detainees, including Baron Hans Heinrich Von Holleufer, linked by marriage to Berlin police head Count Wolf Heinrich Von Helldorf, as Berlin intervenes via the German legation to seek a stay in deportation proceedings.
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Mexico City
Berlin
Hans Heinrich von Holleufer
Wolf Heinrich von Helldorf
Legation
Mexican Foreign Relations Office
Little Miss Loretta Myers Observes Birthday in Thomasville
Loretta Myers, three, daughter of Mr and Mrs Bruce Myers of Thomasville route one, is pictured during the birthday observance. The photo credit goes to Stones Studio.
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Loretta Myers
Bruce Myers
Thomasville
Stone
Recall Election in Miami Today
Miami voters faced a recall election targeting Mayor Robert R. Williams and City Commissioners John W. Dubose Ralph B Ferguson. Rival E G Sewell aims to succeed Williams if recall succeeds while charges previously involved bribery and corruption before acquittals and a quashed case for Ferguson.
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Fla
E. G. Sewel
Robert R. Williams
Williams
John W. Dubose
Ralph B. Ferguson
Dubose
Ferguson
Florida Power and Light Company
Revolt to Kill Measure Fails 64 to 45 in Vote
Discussion in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park area notes the defeat of a revolt to kill a measure by a 64 to 45 vote. The text mentions tax valuations before and after park creation and lists multiple state bills on education for exceptional children, rural telephone surveys, egg classification, life insurance rates, liquor transport limits, damaged vehicle reporting, and public funds investments.
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Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Mecklenburg
McBryde
Cumberland
Representative Gass
Forsyth
Carruthers
Guilford
ABC
Quinn
Duplin
Rasberry
Greene
House
Senate
Larkins
German refugee baron among those detained in Mexico City
Laron Von Holleufer, who arrived in 1931 as a refugee from pre Nazi Germany, represented several German firms and was detained after authorities traced an unregistered short wave radio transmitter in a Mexico City suburb. Sources say most detainees were Germans and signals were strongest near the Spanish cemetery on the city’s edge.
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Ceedings
Laron von Holleufer
Germany
Mexico City
Communications Department
Senators weigh third term issue as Democratic rifts widen
Middle of the road senators urge Holt to drop a third term resolution while others seek to avoid a Senate clash. Wheeler leads group wary of increasing party bitterness amid Roosevelt succession questions and differing views on Hopkins and spending policy.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Holt
D-Wva
Senate
Wheeler
D-Mont
Garner
Minton
D-Ind
Pepper
D-Fla
Democratc
Hopkins
Britain's Budget Surges Past One Billion Pounds in 1939
London reports unprecedented peacetime defense costs lifting the 1939 budget beyond 1 billion pounds and boosting armed manpower to 63,700. Army and territorial force totals rise with a 79,857 gain. naval estimates follow at 153,666,681 pounds for 1930 40. Civil non defense spending set at 534,596,081 pounds. War Minister Belisha notes regular home army up to 185,700.
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London
Britain
United States’ National Guard
Jessie Hores Belisha
India
Burma
US apple per capita consumption halves to half an apple daily
The report states that the average American consumes about half an apple per day. It applies to men women and children across the country, indicating lower fruit intake than prior expectations.
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United States
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