Durham Wins State High Cage Crown
Durham high school's basketball squad repeated as Class A champions by defeating Charlotte 34 to 22 in Chapel Hill. Cary won Class B 20-17 over Mount Airy while Pilot Mountain claimed Class C 45-25, with standout performances from Gantt for Durham and Holleman for Cary.
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Chapel Hill
Durham High
Charlotte
Cary
Mount Airy
Conway
Pilot Mountain
Durham
Bulldogs
Bob Gantt
Doug Holleman
Surry County
Flinchum
P. Nelson
Nelson
War Admiral's illness jeopardizes Widener Cup at Hialeah
War Admiral may skip the $50,000 Widener Cup at Hialeah Park after a fever spiked to near 102 degrees. Trainer George Conway will decide if the Sam D. Riddle colt runs Saturday amid talk of a possible Stagehand challenge. The public anticipated a marquee duel reminiscent of Seabiscuit versus the Admiral at Pimlico.
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Miami
Pla
War Admiral
Hialeah Park
Samuel D. Riddle
George Conway
Conway
Admiral
Hialeah
Maxwell Howard
Seabiscuit
Pimlico
Recreation Night at Wesley Memorial Church
Recreation hour at Wesley Memorial church runs 7 30 to 8 30 with popular games led by Miss Margaret Andrews and Mrs Geddie Strickland. Rev James Rink will lead a meditation at 8 30 as a large crowd gathers for fellowship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wesley Memorial Church
Margaret Andrews
Geddie Strickland
James Rink
Wailing Wall Proposed For Santa Anita Handicappers
In Los Angeles on March 1, Santa Anita may build a dusk wailing wall after a $100,000 race to honor handicap losers. The piece notes Seabiscuit fans, facing past defeats by Stagehand in 1938, forming mourning groups with factions Kayak II Cravat Whichcee and Specify rooters anticipated to unite for the fifth running.
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Los Angeles
Mar
Santa Anita
Southern California
Aching Hearts Society
Seabiscuit
Cravat
Whichcee
Royal Arcanum Meets Tonight
The Royal Arcanum local council on Old Plank Road holds its first regular meeting after reorganizing with officers including Logan Porter as Past Regent and Byron Haworth as Regent. The session at 8 o clock covers business and a 40 minute entertainment lineup staged by Orator Joe Edmondson.
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Old Plank Road Council
The
Royal Arcanum
Council
Logan Porter
Byron Haworth
Joe Edmondson
J. A. Norris
Arthur Davis
Ham Briggs
Alan Williams
L. Hugh Baker
Clyde Bass, Jr
Buster Moffitt
R. H. Sechrest
Cotton price at historic low sparks production talk
M. G. Mann, general manager of the State Cotton Growers Cooperative Association, told Columbus county farmers that world cotton prices are the lowest ever. He urged increasing American cotton consumption to raise per capita usage from 25 to 40 or 50 pounds with more clothing and cotton goods.
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Whiteville
M. G. Mann
State Cotton Growers Cooperative Association
Columbus County
America
California crewmen earn straight A grades at Berkeley
Three California crewmen John Cooper Robert Johnson and Walter Connolly from Berkeley made straight A's in their scholastic work last semester at the university.
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Bright
Berkeley
Calif
Mar
California
John Cooper
Robert Johnson
Walter Connolly
Western Carolina Boxing Tourney Opens in Hendersonville
A two day Western Carolina boxing tournament sponsored by the Rotary club for the benefit of the Blue Ridge School for Boys opened in Hendersonville on March 1.
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Hendersonville
Mar
Western Carolina
The
Rotary Club
Blue Ridge School For Boys
Cardinals Conclave Begins Amid Splendor and Simple Cells
Vatican prepares for the conclave as 62 cardinals retire to numbered cells with plain furnishings. Mundelein of Chicago occupies cell 54, while meals come from a limited kitchen staffed by twelve nuns. The Sistine Chapel hosts voting beneath Michelangelo’s Last Judgment as secrecy measures seal off the enclosure.
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Rome
Vatican
Father Degrelle
George William Cardinal Mundelein
Chicago
Mundelein
Borgia
St. Damasus
Pauline Chapel
Sistine Chapel
Michaelangelo
Botticelli
Ghirlandaio
Perugino
Signorelli
Farm Market Report Highlights Regional Fruits and Vegetables Prices
North Carolina and U S markets show varied demand and steady to stronger trends. Prices across lettuce strawberries potatoes cabbage apples sweet potatoes peppers squash lima beans cucumbers snap beans tomatoes reflect regional supply, quality, and shipping conditions with numbers from 0 75 to 2 40 per unit and assorted crate and sack terms.
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North Carolina
U. S
Plant City
Fla
Presque Isle
Aroostook County
Maine
U. 3
Green Mountains
U. 8
Lower East Coast
Rochester
New York
Washington
Florida
W. Va
Yorks
Pittsburgh
South Carolina
Philadelphia
New Jersey
Jersey
Cuba
Auto kills Wake County farmer near home
Raleigh dispatch says Zen nie Johnson a 68 year old Wake County farmer was struck and killed by an automobile near his home yesterday. The crash occurred on a rural road as Johnson was at his residence.
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Auto Raleigh
Zennie Johnson
Wake County
Weather Woes Hit Broad Regions With Mixed Conditions
AP notes widespread storm activity with heavy snow in the Midwest and Iowa's 18 inch snowfall blocking highways. Rain and flooding affect Georgia Florida Alabama while California sees warm early bud development. High winds of 65 mph caused power outages in Akron area.
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Naturee
Middlewest
Waton
California
Iowa
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Texas Panhadle
Upper Michigan
Georgia
Florida
Alabama
New England
Akron
Cuahogs Falls
Cleveland
Bailey Graham and Rust to Discuss Dixie Problem
Senator Josia Bailey President Frank Graham of UNC and John Rust will discuss Is the South Our Number One Economic Problem on March 30 at the University of North Carolina. The Carolina Political Union sponsors the non partisan program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chapel Hill
South
Josia Bailey
Frank Graham
University of North Carolina
John Rust
Carolina Political Union
Child Drowns in Ditch Near Lumberton Home
Charles Daniel Musselwhite, two, died after falling into a ditch at his rural Lumberton area home yesterday. Local authorities investigated the accident as a drowning.
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Child
Lumberton
Charles Daniel Musselwhite
Ciano Welcomed in Warsaw as Polish Demonstrations Rise
Italian Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano received a festive welcome in Krakow and Warsaw as he neared departure from Poland. Police used rubber truncheons and hoses to deter student protests against Germany and Italy's axis partners.
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Warsaw
Krakow
Galeazzo Ciano
Poland
Germany
Italy
Ciano
Hitler
Col
Joseph Beck
Wawel Castle
Marshall Pilsudski
Berlin
FBI to Aid Dies Committee in Un-American Activities
Attorney General Murphy pledged Justice Department support to the Dies Committee. He suggested designating a staff member to assist on specific requests while the FBI remains too overburdened to lead a long term investigative group.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Murphy
Justice Department
Dies Committee On UN
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Deaths: Thomas McCorkle Warlick in Newton
Funeral services were held today for Thomas McCorkle Warlick age 50, brother of Judge Wilson Warlick. He died yesterday after a two weeks illness and was an automobile salesman.
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Thomas McCorkle Warlick
Newton
Mar
Wilson Warlick
Warlick
French Diet Rules Between Meals
A quirky note asserts the French custom of eating nothing until noon except for a roll and chocolate with rising appropriation act.
Labor Leaders Await Signal From FDR To Start Parleys
Labor leaders from the AFL and CIO, representing about seven million workers, awaited a signal from President Roosevelt to begin peace talks. CIO's John L. Lewis and vice presidents Sidney Hillman and Philip Murray joined CIO negotiators as AFL chief William Green prepared for preliminary meetings this week.
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Washington
American Federation of Labor
CIO
Roosevelt
Perkins
John L. Lewis
AFL
William Green
Lewis
Sidney Hillman
Philip Murray
Green
Samuel Gompers
Cake in suspicious package shocks Scranton police
Emil Kiefer feared a mailed package might be a bomb and called police in Scranton Pennsylvania. Two officers submerged the box in water then opened it to find a cake that had been soaked and was no longer edible. It had been sent by Kiefers sister.
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Scranton
Emil Kiefer
Kiefer
Oyster investor finds pearl worth a fortune
Paul Safchuck bought oysters for a dollar and earned a hundred thousand percent profit. He found a pearl in one oyster which a jeweler valued at more than eight thousand dollars.
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Baltimore
Paul Safchuck
Utah Licensing Error Delays Plates for Inmates
The state tax commission reported mismatched license plate sets produced at a plant. The workers blamed are inmates at the state penitentiary, and no one faces firing.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
State Tax Commission
State Penitentiary
Oklahoma official revokes youth driver license
J M Gentry state safety commissioner revokes a youth license after the driver asked for action amid several complaints about reckless driving. Gentry says investigation found some complaints justified.
Professionals Set for St. Petersburg Open
The winter touring golf troupe tees off in the eighth St. Petersburg open with Henry Picard of Hershey Pa favored after a 68 in practice. The 18 hole round starts today and 36 holes Thursday, with total prizes of 3250 dollars. Johnny Revolta won last year.
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ST. Petersburg
Fla
Henry Picard
Hershey
Picard
New Orleans
Thomasville
Johnny Revolta
Local man held on family mistreatment charge in Louisburg
Louisburg March 1 A man identified as H C Dick Askew 50 a former Harris township constable was jailed on a family mistreatment charge after his daughter 18 who married at Christmas secured the warrant Askew held in default of a 2000 bond filed by deputies Holmes and Gilliam at the public safety office
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisburg
Mar
D. T. Holmes
Spencer Gilliam
H. C
Dick) Askew
Harris Township
Askew
Peace Seekers Named to Labor Peace Negotiating Committee
Three A. F. L. leaders are named to a committee to negotiate labor peace. Harry Bates, president of the bricklayers' union. Matthew Woll, vice president of the photoengravers' union. and Daniel J. Tobin, president of the Teamsters union, are listed among the members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry ©. Bates
Bricklayers’ Union
Matthew Woll
Photoengravers' Union
Daniel J. Tobin
Tteamsters’ Union
Intermediary Held On Kidnap Charge
A friend of George Katz, Brook race track bookmaker, acting as intermediary in the ransom for Katz’s four year old son Michael, was arrested along with two associates. Charles Mitchell, 31, the intermediary, and Sol Schwartz, 2, confessed. Mrs Nellie Resnick, 3, Schwartz’s sister, held for questioning. All three charged with kidnapping and the sister charged with withholding information. Mitchell earns 60 dollars weekly, Schwartz 45. The father paid 180 of a 7000 ransom. the boy was released after payment.
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New York
George Katz
Brook
Katz
Michael
Frank C. Bails
Charles Mitchell
Sol Schwartz
Nellie Resnick
Schwartz
Woma
Balssai
Michael J
George K
Mitchell
Poli
Headache and Bad Breath Signal Toxics of Constipation
A health note compares headaches and bad breath to warning signs of digestive trouble. It touts BLACK-DRAUGHT as an all purpose intestinal tonic laxative that awakens the insides and strengthens bowel muscles, claiming wide usage.
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Paul Revere
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Ludovico Chigi
Associated Press
Bailey
Graham
Rust
Dixie
FBI Will Aid
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Daniel Tobin
Harry Bates
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