Most Critical Week Of Session Opens In General Assembly
North Carolina's 1939 General Assembly enters a pivotal week as a controversial revenue bill heads to the full house for debate. Observers note potential clashes over a 400 page measure and a possible sales tax on basic building materials, with no certain path to adjournment or further votes in sight.
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General Assembly
Enterprise Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
Henry Averill Raleigh
North Carolina
Finance Committee
House
Senate
Raleigh
Debutantes and the Junior League Exam in 1939
Eleanor Roosevelt joins 75 Boston debutantes taking a three hour exam to prove fitness for Junior League membership. The process includes recommendations tea inspections field trips, courses, papers, and a social work volunteer phase ending with a difficult question on preventing delinquency. The goal is to gain acting membership and eventual marriage into social acceptance.
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Eleanor Roosevelt
Boston
New York
John Sise
NEA Service, Inc
Terrible Nightmare Slaying Revealed In Suicide Note
A 53 year old insurance man William P. Purkhiser left a rambling suicide note detailing a deadly incident in Oklahoma City involving 13 year old Haselteen Black. Police believe the girl was beaten and strangled with 22 blows to the head and a cord around the neck. Purkhiser shot himself after writing the note.
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ST. Joseph
Togay
Haselteen Black
Oklahoma City
B. W. Tadlock
William P. Purkhiser
Haselteen
R. W. Scharber
Purkhiser
Topeka
Kas
Sue Purkhiser
Sharbers
John Roddy
Election Reform Fervor Fades in North Carolina
A shooting in Madison county left Oscar Miller and H. H. Buckner dead and Herman Thomas injured. Thomas held at the Marshall jail. In Raleigh news, election reform zeal cools as lawmakers debate absentee voting and the NC marker system amid practical politics and partisan maneuvering.
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Asheville
Walnut Gap
Madison County
Oscar Miller
H. H. Buckner
Woodfin
Herman Thomas
Marshall
Revenue Bill Faces Quiet Path Through House
The Health Board appropriation of seventy thousand dollars is restored to advisory commission levels. Opponents warn of revenue limits but supporters rely on established committees. Reporters note floor rhetoric often yields to action, predicting a smooth passage with minor changes.
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Health Board
Advisory Budget Commission
Park Construction Starts in Lenoir March 18
Lenoir officials announce the start of an extensive municipal park project on March 18. The undertaking covers new green spaces, recreation facilities, and walking paths to serve residents and visitors.
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Lenoir
Legion Meeting Reports at North Carolina Conference
Committee and board reports were presented at the first general session of the annual Post Officers conference of the North Carolina American Legion. About 1,000 Legionnaires attended the two day event, with a memorial service held last night and speeches by national commander Stephen F. Chadwick and national Auxiliary president Mrs. James J. Morris. A high school band contest and parade were scheduled for this afternoon.
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Shelby
Post Officers Conference
North Carolina Department of the American Legion
Stephen F. Chadwick
Seattle
Wash
James J. Morris
Bismarck
N. D
Auxiliary
Police seek Mundin kin after fatal Hollywood crash
Hollywood police search for relatives of Herbert Mundin, 40, English film comedian killed in a Saturday night collision. Mundin, who rode with a friend, was thrown from the car after it struck another. His widow Ann Shaw, an actress, reportedly lives in New York.
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Hollywood
Herbert Mundin
Ann Shaw
New York
Mundin
Dallas youth executed after reprieve controversy
Winzell Williams, 19, of Dallas, was electrocuted at the Texas State Prison after Gov. Lee O'Daniel had reprieved him a month earlier to spur public debate on capital punishment. O'Daniel had urged abolition and defended the stay as a means to arouse opinion against the death penalty.
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Huntsville
Tex
Winzell Williams
Dallas
Lee O'Daniel
State Prison
O'Daniel
Williams
O’daniel
Helen Wood Breaks Into Hollywood Circles
Clarksville Tennessee native Helen Wood rose to prominence after graduation when Sam Goldwyn offered a contract. She appears weekly on a coast to coast radio show and stars in Sorority House. Photographers named her among Hollywoods 10 most photogenic new faces and she became a popular figure on the RKO lot.
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Helen Wood
Clarksville, Tenn
Sam Goldwyn
Hollywood
RKO
Martin Seeks Ban on Communists at UAW Convention
Detroit March 6 The United Automobile Workers convention called by Homer Martin debated resolutions including banning Communists from the union renaming the union and creating machinery to organize aircraft industry workers The factional split pits Martin against a CIO aligned leadership with a rival convention planned for March 27 in Cleveland Delegates reportedly represent up to 62 500 members in 120 locals with more rank and file delegates expected to attend and Martin estimating the union in good standing at about 200 000 members in 225 locals
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Detroit
United Automobile Workers Union
Homer Martin
Martin
UAW
CIO
Cleveland
Unit Heatmaker Unveiled At Iron Fireman Convention
C. G. Bedford reports a new Unit Heatmaker heater introduced at the Iron Fireman dealers convention in Atlanta. The self contained coal burning heater features automatic temperature control forced warm air circulation and humidity. A national advertising and sales push will back the product.
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Atlanta
C. G. Bedford
Bedford Sales Company
Bedford
World’s Largest Watch Displayed at National Museum
A 9 percent inch diameter watch is shown in the National Museum in Washington D C. It is claimed to be the largest watch in the world.
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National Museum
Washington, D. C
Nervous Weakness and Swollen Ankles Ad in 2000
Ad claims excess acids from kidney and bladder disorders cause symptoms like getting up at night burning passages swollen joints backache circles under eyes leg pains and dizziness. Promotes Cystex as kidney detox with money back guarantee offering 3 cents per dose and gift protection.
Capitol Shorts on Teachers Pension Sparks Assembly Fight
Raleigh reporters flag looming battle over a teachers retirement measure as sponsors like Victor Bryant Gregg Cherry and Hugh Horton push for action. The piece notes Swain County relief prospects and a proposed Cape Fear Valley Authority plan while mentioning Forrest Pollard’s April 15 deadline and Swain’s tax loss from national park inclusion. Borneo fact closes the column.
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Raleigh
General Assembly
Victor Bryant
Gregg Cherry
Hugh Horton
Pleads for Peke in Highest Court
Dr Mont R Reed of the University of Cincinnati warns the United States has a national disgrace in appendicitis deaths, urging public education to prevent 25 000 to 230 000 deaths yearly. He cites school programs in Cincinnati Atlanta and Philadelphia cutting rates by a third and urges broader physician training to recognize early signs.
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Stephen J. McDonough
Associated Press
Atlanta
Southeastern Medical
Mont R. Reed
Unversity of
Cincinnati
Reed
Sweden
America
Hcal
Cicinnati
Philadelphia
ABC
Mem
Seven Killed In Three Car Crash Near Washington Indiana
Seven men died and four were injured in a three car collision on U S Route 50 in Indiana during rain. The victims include five Martin County residents returning from a sectional high school basketball tournament and two soldiers from Fort Knox. Names list Shoals Connell and relatives, Halbert Township official, Loogootee, Vincennes, and Bicknell among the dead.
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Washington, Ind
U.S. Road 50
Here
Martin County
Fort Knox
James Tranter
John King
Carl Connell
Shoals
Connell
Fred
Halbert Township
Charles Ef, Willis
Loogootee
Everett Lessing
Bicknell
Robert Welton
Vincennes
Evidence to be placed before coroner's jury tomorrow
Winston Salem police chief said all evidence in the deaths of 11 year old Maxie Lee Stanley and her 69 year old grand-uncle Henry P. Stanley will be presented to a coroner's jury by tomorrow. The pair were found burned to death in Henry Stanley's home and Charlie Stanley, the girl's father, was detained and questioned over the weekend amid discrepancies in his story.
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Winston-Salem
Walter F. Anderson
Maxie Lee Stanley
Henry P. Stanley
Charlie Stanley
Anderson
Tri County Medical Society to Meet Friday
The Tri County Medical Society of Martin Tyrell and Washington counties will hold a meeting here Friday. Physicians from the three counties are expected to attend and discuss local medical matters and cooperative efforts.
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Plymul
Tri-County Actical Society
Martin, Tyrell
Washington Counties
Patrio tic Order Sons of America Planned Nationwide Drive
Hugh G. Mitchell national president announced the Patriotic Order Sons of America would launch a nationwide membership drive from Statesville with plans to recruit members across the country.
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P.O
Statesville
Hugh G. Mitchell
Sons of America
Federal government spends six billion in eight months
Treasury figures show the federal government spent more than $6 billion in the first eight months of the fiscal year from July 1 to March 3. The shortfall over income pushed the national debt to about $39.93 billion, with the WPA cited as a major spender.
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Washington
Treasury
Treasury Stateme
Speeuty
WPA
High Point Student Earns NC State Honor Society Bid
Fifty freshmen at North Carolina State College were invited to join Phi Eta Sigma, the scholarship fraternity for top scholars. High Point student L. J. Ingram was among those honored. The pledges will be inducted at the annual banquet next month.
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Raleigh, Ma
Rch
State College
Phi Eta Sigma
L. J. Ingram
High Point Bo
England's railway system handles nine million passengers
A historical note reports a single death in an evening incident and states England's railways carried about 9,000,000 passengers, highlighting the era's vast transport scale and safety concerns.
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Ingland
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