Exiled Grand Mufti Directs Arab Fight From Syria
London dispatch profiles Haj Amin al Husseini a 43 year old Grand Mufti of Jerusalem guiding Arab resistance from French mandate Syria. The article notes his past as a soldier and nationalist, his role in opposing Jewish immigration, and possible refuge in Libya under Mussolini to mobilize Muslim support.
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Grand Mufti
Syria
London
Holy Land
Haj Amin al Husseini
Palestine
Jerussalem
Charaes
North Africa
Jerusalem
Near East
Mufti
Husseini
Britain
League of Nations
Mandate
Mosque of
Omar
Hageeini
Mussolini
Libya
Italy
Muscolini
Haj Amin el Husseini
North Carolina Fruit and Vegetable Market Report Summary
The latest farm market report details shipping point data for lettuce strawberries potatoes and peppers across major markets. Prices vary by region with California Florida Maine and Rhode Island entries showing demand steady to weak, while Washington and New Jersey report mixed firmness for onions and yams.
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F. O
Lower East Coast
U. B
U. S
Ize
Abbage
Rochester
N. Y
Washington
Tronger
Florida
Newark
Cleveland
North Carolina
Louisiana
Carolina
Nancy Alls
U.S
Jersey
Pittsburgh
Orth
South Carolina
New York
Maryland
Delaware
Philadelphia
California
Weather outlook for North Carolina and coast
Cloudy weather with possible mist or light rain in the mountains tonight and Sunday. East and Central portions expect partial clearing Sunday with warmer conditions. Coastal areas facing moderate to fresh southeast to south winds and intermittent rain, with overcast skies tonight and Sunday.
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North Carolina
Cape Hatteras
Sandy Hook
Hatteras
Jacksonville
Bombs Found Beneath Large Birmingham Stores
Two incendiary bombs were found under major Birmingham department stores as police search for terrorists. An apparent attempt to bomb a London railroad bridge and three simultaneous fires in Birmingham were also reported.
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London
Birmingham
Hickory Man Chides Groundhog Then Weather Changes
Hickory on March 4. W Ollie Webb praised groundhogs for peach trees budding and joked about apologies. By next day snow fell and Webb doubted the groundhog’s influence as he commented that the groundhog may have read his remarks and grew upset.
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Hickory
Ollie Webb
Webb
Groundhog
Baldwin Youth in Serious Condition After Collision
Paul Baldwin 17 remains in a semi conscious state at Guilford General Hospital after an auto bicycle crash at Ward and South Main Streets. An X-ray yesterday showed a brain concussion rather than skull fracture. His parents Mr and Mrs T F Baldwin from Wadesboro are at his bedside.
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Paul Baldwin
Ward
South Main Streets
Guilford General Hospital
T. F. Baldwin
Wadesboro
Ten Dollar Day Legislators Study Revenue Bill
A sub committee will study proposed registration changes and splitting of large precincts while the house had previously passed a bill to curb absentee voting. Merchants and various workers protested wage hour legislation at hearings, with support for an anti below cost sales measure. Senate amendments would give judges discretion in some death sentences, while a $30,000 appropriation for a Japanese beetle campaign and notes for state college expenses moved forward. A new state banking commission was proposed to replace the advisory body. The housing bill to condemn unfit houses was effectively killed, though another housing measure was approved for bonds and obligations.
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House
Senate
Joint Labor Committee
State Banking Commission
Advisory Banking Commission
Tangled Campus Murder Drama On City College Campus
Los Angeles police investigate the death of 24 year old Anya Sosayeva a Russian drama student and professional dancer on the City College campus. Investigators work to piece together clues amid a crowded scene as Beulah is referenced in the report.
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Los Angeles
Anya Sosayeva
Center
City College
Beulah
Dramatic Coach and Student Linked to Slain Girl Mystery
The report notes the dramatic coach and fellow student as witnesses to a mysterious income tied to the slain girl. Wally Meyers assisted in moving Miss Sosayeva to the administration office after she collapsed at his feet.
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Stanley
Wally Meyers
Sosayeva
North Carolina considers education and liquor bills
A bill to establish a school of printing at North Carolina State College and transfer a prison printing shop was reported. A Senate measure would curb alcohol orders to dry counties. a House bill would ban importing federally sanctioned liquor. Enactments include graduate courses at Negro colleges in Durham and Greensboro. ads on adulteration and mislabeling were proposed. a road-funding claim process was debated. Over 200 students protested education and health funding cuts.
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Orably
N. C. State College
Central Prison
Senate Finance Committee
House
Durham
Greensboro
Senate
United States Declares Religion and Democracy Essentials
President Roosevelt argues for the preservation of religion and democracy as core national values. He recalls historic friction with Congress and highlights how independence might have faltered without Europe’s conflicts. The address centers on rights and freedoms under democracy and contrasts them with opposing forces.
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Congress
Continental Congress
Great Britain
Europe
United States
Roosevelt
Democracy and liberty cited in anniversary remarks
The President warned against personal aggrandizement and the drift toward dark age justice, praising free speech and press while defending immunity for lawmakers. Chief Justice Hughes, Speaker Bankhead, and Senator Pittman joined the ceremony, with Bankhead noting tolerance of sinister influences.
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Congress
Hughes
Bankhead
House of Representatives
Key Pittman
D-Ney
United States
National Association of Retired Railway Employes Convention
Charlotte expects 1500 to 2000 attendees for the 1939 NA RRE convention to be held in May or June after a Chamber of Commerce announcement. The event will be hosted locally with organizers aiming to showcase the region.
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Charlotte
National Association of
Chamber of Commerce
Alamance County Rat Crisis Triggers County Rally
Alamance county residents flood Farm Agent J. W. Bason with reports of large rats terrorizing farms. One farmer claims killing a half bushel of rodents. A county-wide eradication rally is set for Monday night at the agricultural building to coordinate efforts.
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Burlington
Alamance County
J. W. Bason
Bason
Health Minister Watches Gandhi In Rajkot Fast
The Bombay presidency health minister arrived in Rajkot to observe Mahatma Gandhi as the fasting leader enters the second day of his protest fast unto death. Gandhi rests on a cot outside his hut while stock markets fall in response to his strike and calls for government reforms.
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Rajkot
India
Bombay Presidency
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Gandhi
Thakore Sahbeh
Dharmendrasinhji
Western India
State sets flat $2.40 book rental fee
E N Peeler secretary announced the state textbooks commission has established a flat fee of two dollars and forty cents for renting school books across the state.
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Raleigh
E. N. Peeler
State Textbooks Commission
Farmer Bob Doughton Misses 150th Congress Anniversary
Washington notes Rep. Robert Coughton known as Farmer Bob missed the 150th anniversary celebration of Congress due to bronchitis. The North Carolina Democrat, first elected in 1911, is expected back within a week or ten days after recovery at Navay hospital. He led the Ways and Means Committee shaping major New Deal legislation and spent summers on his North Carolina farm.
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Washington
House of Representatives
Congress
Robert Coughton
North Carolina
Navay Hospital
Parmer Bob
Farmer Bob
Mountain
Doughton
House
Ways and Means Committee
Roosevelt
Laurel Springs
N. C
Robert R. Reynolds
Japan
Land
Rubens Robeson Mystery Reopened
Indictment of nine people accused of supplying forged passports to a spy ring revives the Robinson-Rubens intrigue. The ring allegedly used tombstone birth certificates from New York cemeteries to create new identities for suspected spies, with Donald L. Robinson and Ruth Rubens among the indicted. The pair were linked to a 1937 Moscow hotel disappearance amid Soviet espionage claims.
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New York
Robinson-Rubens
Donald L. Robinson
Adolph Arnold Rubens
Ruth Marie Rubens
Moscow
Robinson
Mrs. Rubens
Tobacco Road Backers Rebuffed In Court Test
In Raleigh on March 4 Judge W C Harris refused to grant an injunction blocking city officials from denying use of Memorial Auditorium for a showing of Tobacco Road. He said the backers must pursue a civil suit.
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Raleigh
W. C. Harris
Memorial Auditorium
Tobacco Road
Harris
Chicago Produce Prices Steady Across Market
Chicago market report shows butter at 858,905 pounds with no change, eggs at 18,954 dozen steady, fresh graded extra firsts local 16 percent, and other prices unchanged as of March 4.
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Chicago
Mar
Clipper in Manila Arrives From Hong Kong
Pan American Airways new 74 passenger sea plane Clipper 18 reached Manila from Hong Kong today and is slated to depart for Guam on Tuesday.
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Manila
Pan American Airways
Hongkong
Guam
Henry Hull Born in Louisville and Broadway Worker
Actor Henry Hull best known for Tobacco Road was born in Louisville Kentucky. He traveled through Europe and North America, studied patent law in 1911, and worked as a stage manager with a New York repertory company, later marrying Jill Van Wyck Fremont on November 30, 1913 and having three children.
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Henry Hull
Louisville
Europe
United Sta
Canada
Jil van Wyck Fremont
New York
Repertory Company
Haichow Taken By Jap Troops
Shanghai reports the Japanese capture of Haichow the northernmost Chinese port on the Sunghai rail line from Suchow to the Yellow Sea. The drive included a 13 day mopping up across Hopeh with heavy Chinese casualties and prisoners.
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Shanghai
Haichow
Sunghai
Suchow
Yellow Sea
Kiangsu
Hopeh
Hankow
Yangtze River
Han River
Kiangeu
Yellow River
Grandy Canal
Lunghai
Lake Hungtze
Poland wooed by Italian press and fascist unity
Rome reports Dante Vir ginio Gayda tied Poland’s colonial aims to Italy and Germany, arguing three nations fit for expansion due to labor supply. The Il Dierno d Italia editorial framed a Polish Polish Italian German front, while a Turin Times discussion cited Britain and France as less suited.
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Rome
Virsginio Gayda
Poland
Italy
Germany
Britain
France
Gajda
Galeazzo Ciano
Warsaw
Il Diernale d'Italia
Times of London
Ciano
Joseph Beck
Morgenthau Says He Will Prepare Tax Revision Information
Secretary Morgenthau said he would be glad to prepare information for congressional leaders about possible tax revisions aimed at encouraging business.
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Washington
Morgenthau
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