Lost airliner search continues amid mountain storm
Fresno reporters chronicled a struggle to reach a 200-foot scar in the Sierra where a TWA Skyliner vanished in a Tuesday night storm. Snow and a swollen river hampered air and ground teams as investigators weighed reports of a flare and distant plane sounds. The craft carried nine aboard, including pilots John Graves and C W Wallace and Stanford students Tracy and Mary Lou Dirlam.
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Fresno
Calif
Were
TWA
Bud Rhodes
Rhodes
Camp
Huchines
High
Sierras
Fresno County
Scar
San Francisco
Albuquerque
N. M
Los Angeles
John D. Graves
Atherton
C. W. Wallace
Tucson
Ariz
Martha M. Wilson
Philadelphia
Tracy Dirlam
Mary Lou Dirlam
Mansfield
Stanford University
L. B. Watts
Victor Krause
Lincoln
Neb
Piedmont and Greyhound Fight Bus Franchise in North Carolina Hearing
Witnesses testified that public convenience would be served by granting a bus franchise from Wadesboro to Winston Salem via Thomasville. Attorneys for Atlantic Greyhound urged a franchise for Thomasville, opposing Piedmont's request for that leg of the proposed run.
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Thomasville
Raleigh
N. C
Piedmont Coach Company
Wadesboro
Winston- Salem
Atlantic Greyhound Bus Company
Piedmont Company
Deputy Collector Killed on Stairway in Orlando
Frank K. Bartholomew, 52, deputy collector of internal revenue, was shot and killed on a narrow iron stairway outside the federal building in Orlando. Duty Marshal Howard Brown said the bullet entered the left side of his head and questioned the possibility of a self-inflicted death.
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Orlando
Fla
Frank K. Bartholomew
Internal Revenue
Federal Building
Howard Brown
Bartholomew
Brown
Medwick Signs One Year Deal With Cardinals
St. Louis Cardinals inked Joe Medwick, National League batting champion, to a one year contract on March 8 in St. Petersburg. Salary terms were not disclosed.
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Medpwick
ST. Petersburg
Fla
Joe Medwick
St. Louis Cardinals
Strike Threat Looms Over Baltimore Longshore Pay Cut
Harry Bridges warned that a strike would be called in Baltimore unless the Merchant and Miners Steamship Line restores longshoremen wages to 15 cents an hour. Pacific Coast CIO leader discussed the Baltimore issue at a press conference.
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Washington
Harry Bridges
Baltimore
Pacific Coast CC
I. O. Chieftain
Five Winners In Tournament Crowned At Southeastern Forensic
Champions in five classes were named at the Southeastern Forensic tournament kickoff with 16 colleges taking part. Harold Zekarias of N C State won after dinner speaking and Max Rogers of High Point College spoke before a hostile audience. Eugene Worrell and Robert Helms of Wake Forest earned prizes in group discussion and forming group opinion, while J F Highsill of Wake Forest took the problem solving award. The event is sponsored by the North Carolina Association of Speech Teachers with Edwin H Padget as president.
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Harold Zekarias
N. C. State College
Max Rogers
High Point College
Eugene Worrell
Wake Forest
Robert Helms
J. F. Highsill
North Carolina Association of Speech Teachers
Edwin H. Padget
Des Robinson
Wake Forest College
Western
J. D. Rankin
Appalachian State College
Albert Kieser
Lenoir- Rhyne
Treasury sells more gold to foreigners
The treasury sold $9,981,062 worth of gold to foreign countries on March 1, the second such sale in a week. Earlier on February 25 it moved $13,000,000. Purchasers were not identified. The sales reduce the inactive gold fund to $1,190,585,498.
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Washington
Treasury
Swift Attacks By Guerrillas Hit Japanese Lines North of Nanking
Shanghai dispatch reports that Chinese guerrilla units carried out rapid attacks over the past week, reclaiming miles of territory seized earlier after Nanking’s fall. Guerrillas cut rail communications and pressured Japanese columns from Nan king to Hwaiyuan Linhwaikan and Pengpu, forcing withdrawals and intense battles along the Tientsin Pukow line and near Chanpaling. West of Peiping, Japanese search hills for a kidnaping band including a German student.
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Shanghai
Nanking
Tientsin-Pukow
Tsinpu
Sunghai
Chanpaling
Gline
Manking
Hwai River
Hwaiyuan
Linhwaikan
Pengpu
Hwai
Antiewei Province
Peiping
Rolf Hildebrandt
Fire at Wrenn-Columbia Furniture Plant Damages Machinery
Firemen battled a blaze at the Wrenn-Columbia Furniture factory unit yesterday afternoon. The two story frame building with corrugated iron walls, closed for two years, suffered $5,000 to $7,000 in damage, mostly to machinery, as crews kept the fire from spreading against a stiff west wind. Photo by Eccles D. Everhart.
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Wrenn-Columbia Furniture
Enterprise
Eccles D. Everhart
Tax Bill Promises Stimulus Says Doughton
House debate on the new tax bill featured Doughton of North Carolina stating the measure would stimulate and encourage business. The Ways and Means Committee heard witnesses claim undistributed profits tax harms expansion, while Coughton asserted the bill would improve equity and certainty though some legislators seek repealing the tax. A naval expansion program of 1.113546 billion was approved, and calls for TVA investigation were noted in both chambers.
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House
Naval Committee
Washington
Doughton
D-Nc
Ways and Means Committee
Naval
Navy
Roosevelt
Coughton
Senate
Tennessee Valley Authority
Unemployment Committee Hearings Highlight Annual Wage Gains
Jay C. Hormel of Hormel Packing Co reports annual wages boosted labor efficiency by 10 to 20 percent and extended coverage to 2,373 of 4,000 workers. He notes vacations and sick leave tied to yearly pay and limited hour checks to information purposes.
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Washington
Senate Unemployment Committee
Jay C. Hormel
Hormel Packing Company
Austin
Hormel
National Association of Manufacturers
Senate
Elmer T. Cunningham
New York
Radio Corporation of America
Peach Orchards Damaged by Frost In Ridge Section
In Columbia South Carolina on March 3 severe frost damaged a number of peach orchards in the Ridge section. Clemson extension service marketing specialist Tom A Cole reported after touring the area.
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Columbia
8. C
Ridge
Tom A. Cole
Clemson Extension Service
Federal Bureau Report Shows Crime Rise in High Point
FBI data show High Point 1937 crime up in robbery aggravated assault burglary grand larceny petty theft and auto thefts while murder stayed at eight. Robberies rose to 23 from 11 and aggravated assaults 220 from 186 with burglary 122 from 119 petty theft 231 from 212 and auto thefts 105 from 64. National total major crimes 1,415,816 up 6.2 percent.
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Washington
High Point
Furniture City
Federal Bureau of Investigation
FBI
Britain boosts army budget by 23 percent in 1938-39 plan
London reports a 23 percent rise in army appropriations for the coming year, lifting army spending to £106,500,000 ($535,500,000) as Britain advances its five year rearmament program. Defense costs widen, new taxes likely, navy estimates to follow.
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Britain
London
Great Britain
Airforce
Admiraltty
John Simon
French Ambassador Rene St Quentin Assumes New Posting
Washington March 3. French Ambassador Rene St Quentin presented his credentials to President Roosevelt and takes a new post after a year and a half as ambassador to Italy where he never served in Rome.
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Washington
Rene St. Quentin
Roosevelt
Italy
Rome
Peter Levine Case Hopes For Break In Missing Boy
New Rochelle New York March 3 1949 police expected a break in the case of 12 year old Peter Levine missing one week with reports of contact with the alleged kidnappers. Murray Levine the boy's father refused to confirm payment of the 60000 dollar ransom and Rabbi Abraham Rowak and his wife returned home after a four hour absence declining to explain.
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New Rochelle
N. Y
Peter Levine
Murray Levine
Abraham Rowak
Two Get Death For Dynamiting in Elizabethton Case
White Tollett and Church Laster were convicted and sentenced to the electric chair for the dynamite deaths of three Gouge children in January. Co defendants Lee Walker and Ulysses Walling received 21 years each. Crave Tollett was acquitted. Gouge family member injured.
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Elizabethton
Tenn
White Tollett
Church Laster
Pikeville
Lee Walker
Ulysses Walling
Crave Tollett
White
Walling
Walker
Harmon Gouge
Gouge
Sonia
Luena
Roma Jean
Pershing's Slow Yet Steady Recovery Alarms Officials
In Tucson on March 3, doctors monitored General John J. Pershing as his condition showed slower improvement than the past two days. Dr. Roland Davison stated the general is not out of danger and will stay under constant care at the sanatorium.
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Tucson
Ariz
John J. Pershing
Roland Davison
Davison
Flood Devastates Southern California Leaving 18 Dead
Floods and a cloudburst swept Southern California from Ventura to San Juan Capistrano. At least 18 killed, 10,000 homeless, bridges and roads destroyed, waterlogged streets, and the Los Angeles River turned deadly near Long Beach. Communications collapsed, emergency councils mobilized, and riverside fatalities mounted as rescue efforts continued.
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Los Angeles
Sowern
California
Long Be
Santa Ata
Ventura
San Juan Capistrano
Ocean
San Bernardino Mountains
Desert
Frank L. Shaw
National Guard
Ocean's Edge
Long Beach
Bell District
Gage Avenue
Universal Studio
San Fernando Valley
Elysian Park
Officials to survey local site for location veterans hospital
Guilford county delegation reports to Washington that the Veterans Bureau will survey all proposed sites for a new veterans hospital before any location is chosen. The group emphasized the High Point Greensboro area and Sedgefield as likely sites and urged politics not to influence the decision.
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Veterans Hospital
Guilford County
Veterans Bureau
Washington
Greensboro
High Point
Sedgefield
W. C. Idol
Bureau
Idol
George L. Stansbury
Guilford
High Point-Greensboro
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Mountaineer
STAG
South Atlantic
Yellow River
Peach Orchards Inc
Federal Bureau
U. S
Joe
Ralph Stout
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