Britain Sets Terms for Italy and Germany in European Talks
London reports Prime Minister Chamberlain unveils new diplomatic push alongside Britain’s massive rearmament program. Ambassadors Perth Henderson await talks with Mussolini and Hitler while Ribbentrop prepares to visit.
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London
Great Britain
Italy
Germany
Earl of Perth
Rome
Neville Chamberlain
Viscount’ Halifax
Anthony Eden
Neville Henderson
Adolf Hitler
Cages von Ribbentrop
Bern
von Ribbentrop
Chamberlain
Lord Hall
Britain
Georgia approves first local liquor option vote in Dougherty
In Camilla Georgia Circuit Judge B C Gardner upheld the February 4 local option law and allowed Dougherty county to proceed with its wet vote. Dougherty voters favor repeal 985 to 395 in 1935 and 1 057 to 354 in 1937 while Albany remains under prohibition. Prohibitionists failed to delay elections in six counties.
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Camilla
Georgia
B. C. Gardner
Gardner
Dougherty County
Albany
Kansas
Oklahoma
Mississippi
Tennessee
Dougherty
Confession at Kremlin treason trial in Moscow
Nikolai Bucharin and fellow defendants in Russia's great treason trial confessed to leading an anti Soviet conspiracy aimed at restoring capitalism. They claimed foreign support from Britain Japan and partially England and said Trotsky guided operations while denying some crimes such as spying and sabotage.
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Moscow
Nikolai Bucharin
Leon Trotsky
Russia
Buchanin
Germany
Japan
England
Bucharin
Alexis Rykoff
Sergei Kiroff
Joseph Stalin
Yagoda
Great Britain
Christiaan Rakovsky
Rakovsky
Stalin
Trotsky
Secret Service
Lena Goldfields Company
China
Spain
Selensky
Britain
Lone Bandit Robs Bakery in Winston-Salem
Police report a lone bandit wearing a black hat robbed American Bakeries in Winston-Salem taking 595.13 dollars. He directed two employees J. W. Smith and W. H. Ellison away and forced J. C. Arthur and Paul Kiger to reveal the desk and cash, then escaped with the money.
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Winston-Salem
Oi Mar
American Bakeries Company
J. W. Smith
W. H. Ellison
J. C. Arthur
Paul Kiger
Arthur
Kiger
Senator Hatch Backing Tax Aid for Annual Wage System
Washington March 5 A senate unemployment committee member urged study of tax concessions to push industries toward annual wage plans instead of hourly pay Roosevelt supports annual wages for construction workers as a means to cut costs and boost jobs Hormel Packing data shows annual wages boosted efficiency and provided paid vacations and sick leave for thousands of workers while reducing depressions in future cycles
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Washington
Senate Unemployment Committee
Hatch
N. M
Roosevelt
Ich
New Mexico
Jay C. Hormel
Hormel Packing Company
Hormel
Atkinson resigns Guilford County Democratic chair
J Oscar Atkinson Jr of Greensboro resigns as Guilford County Democratic Executive Committee chairman to seek Congress. He will hold a meeting on March 12 at 2 PM to elect a successor. Since May 1934 he led the party through its peak majority, with 20 965 votes in the last general election.
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Greensboro
N. C
J. Oscar Atkinson, Jr
Guilford County Democratic Executive Committee
Askinson
Guilford County
Democratic Executive Committee
Atkinson
Bryce R. Holt
Japs Claiming Great Victory In Shansi Area
Shanghai reports Japanese claims of routing 200000 Chinese defenders in Shansi while Chinese sources cite new successes in North Honan. Tokyo also cites 20000 Chiang kai shek troops captured in Northwest Honan and 1800 wiped out in Shansi as both sides claim gains along rail lines and on the frontline near the Sunghal corridor.
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Shansi
Shanghai
Honan
Chiang Kaishek
Fenyang
Taiyuan
Paol
Taekow
Yellow River
Sunhsien
Sinsiang
Mengtsing
Kung-Hsien
Shensi
Sunghal
Naval Committee Defends Battleships Growth Plan
The House Naval Committee rejected substituting planes for battleships as based on a false premise. It urged passage of a three battleship expansion, noting great powers still build capital ships. The panel also backed 950 additional aircraft to support the fleet.
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Washington
House Naval Committee
House
Naval Aviation
White House
Snow White and the
Seven Dwarfs
Norris
Robert H. Jackson
Snow White Bob Jackson
Snow White Jackson
Frankin de Layne
Mr- Lott Business
Poliomyelitis Case Reported in Asheboro Worker
A poliomyelitis case was diagnosed Tuesday in Earl Brown, 27, of Asheboro route one. He is married with two young children and was at work in Asheboro when struck by the illness.
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Asheboro
Earl Brown
Cotton Crop Control Bill Urges State Farmers to Vote
Senator Bankhead warned that opposing the cotton control bill would bring destitution to the cotton belt and bankrupt courts. He predicted a drastic cut in this year’s crop to avert price declines and noted tobacco growers favor the quota. The speech emphasized federal support and $240 million in government funds for farmers, with $110 million for cotton.
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Charlotte
Bankhead
Ala
WBT
Congress
Roosevelt
FDR Love Meeting Stage Burlesqued by Capital Players
Washington March 5. A newspaper satire staged as a battle between Franklin De Layne and Miss Lotta Business mocked the administrations conference with business. Mrs. Roosevelt appeared as a complainant against the president as a mock marital board satirized wages and finances.
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Washington
Capital
Business Tonight
Franklin de Layne
Miss Lotta Business
Franklin Roosevelt
Kennedy sensational as ambassador makes hole in one
Joseph P Kennedy started as United States Ambassador with a sensational opening. On his first outing he holed his tee shot at the second hole, a 120 yard stroke, on the new course at Slough during the meeting at Poges.
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Kennedy
London
Joseph P. Kennedy
United States
Mee Poges
Slough
Methodism Emphasized At 200th Wesley Conversion Service
Bishop Paul B. Kern and Bishop Edwin H. Hughes spoke at Orangeburg commemorations of John Wesley's conversion 200 years ago. Kern urged that the twentieth century needs Methodism as much as the eighteenth. He cited four Methodist fundamentals: salvation by grace, spiritual growth, fellowship in experience, and the guiding spirit. The Aldersgate observance closes with Kern’s sermon tomorrow.
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Orangeburg
58. C
Paul B. Kern
Durham
N. C
John Wesley
Kern
North Carolina
South Carolina
Methodist Episcopal Church, South
Edwin H. Hughes
Washington
Methodist Episcocal Church
Aldersgate
British Mop Up Band of Arabs in Jerusalem Clash
In Jerusalem on March 5 British troops conducted mop up operations after nine RAF planes were hit and a band of Arabs was machine-gunned. Some 50 to 60 Arabs were involved. Sheik Attiyah was killed. Twenty six terrorists were captured amid a week long siege of the Nablus Jenin Tul Karm triangle. One British soldier was killed and two wounded.
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Jerusalem
Royal Air Force
Sheik Attiyah
Harold MacMichael
Nablus
Jenin
Tul Karm
Referenda urged for tobacco and cotton farmers in North Carolina
Governor Hoey and state leaders urged farmers to vote in the March 12 crop control referenda. They stressed the act's importance for tobacco and cotton growers, with officials from the farm bureau and State Grange voting campaigns under way and extension agents touring 81 counties.
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Raleigh
N. C
Hoey
North Carolina
Robert R. Reynolds
Dean I. O. Schaub
N. C. State College
State College Extension Service
Shelby
John H. Bankhead
Ala
Harold D. Cooley
Nashville
Edenton
Louisburg
Yadkinville
Gastonia
Whiteville
Elizabethtown
Dobson
Gatesville
California flood toll rises with thousands homeless
Southern California faces 159 dead and 74 missing as Red Cross reports 4 445 homes demolished or needing repairs. About 10 000 people are in Red Cross care in schools and shelters while counties work to repair communications and infrastructure amid a new coastal storm.
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Los Angeles
Calif
California
Associated Press
Riverside County
Ventura
Red Cross
Orange County
Los Angeles County
Bernardino County
Ventura County
Train Truck Collision Fatal to J R Gunn
J R Gunn died in Greensboro from injuries after his truck hit a train at Brown Summit crossing late yesterday. His wife three children and Mrs Gunns brother Fred McCauley were seriously injured. Gunn is brother of R H Gunn bursar at High Point College.
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Greensboro
Mar
J. R. Gunn
Brown Summit Crossing
France Blocks Rush To Build Larger Battleships
Washington reports France is slowing the rush by the United States and Britain to larger battleships. Paris seeks to cap battleship tonnage, urges sticking to the 1936 London treaty while proposing a separate Pacific fleet carve out. Officials say Britain would resist a dual approach affecting global naval balance.
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France
United States
Britain
London
Hall Ie
America
Europe
Germany
Italy
England
Great Britain
Pacific
Japan
Atlantic
Mediterranean
Russia
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Weather Bureau
Aleutian Islands
L. H. Daingerfield
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