Hopkins Promises Action To Back Up Business Recovery Promises
Secretary of Commerce Hopkins pledged positive action to back cooperation claims and aid recovery. He said discussions with government agencies would yield concrete proposals, including tax revision, to boost business and lift national income from 1938 levels toward 68 to 70 billion dollars. He dismissed claims of an appeasement policy and stressed actions would follow words.
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Washington
Hopkins
Des Moines
Iowa
Morgenthau
John W. Hanen
the Treasury
WPA
Roosevelt
Senator Lewis pushes repeal of Neutrality Act in Senate
Washington March 8. Senator Lewis of Illinois proposed repealing the neutrality statutes of 1935 1936 1937 and 1938 and directing the President to enforce neutrality by appropriate executive orders. The House rejected Senate amendments to the army expansion bill and set a joint committee to work out a compromise. Navy officials urged Guam improvements be included in air base legislation despite opposition.
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Washington
Lewis
D-Ill
Senate
United States
House
Guam
Senate Naval Committee
Ben Morrell
Johnson
Calif
Moreell
Damaged Plane Taken to Bragg for Repairs
An airplane damaged in a forced landing near Goldsboro airport during a storm was moved to Fort Bragg for repairs. Miller, head of the air safety board recommendations division, and Roland Roth, board adviser, were aboard and uninjured. They were traveling from Jacksonville Florida to Washington DC.
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Goldsboro
Fort Bragg
Army Field
Miller
Air Safety Board
Bureau of Civil Aeronautics
Roland Roth
Jacksonville
Fla
Washington, D. C
Supreme Court Decisions Include Wilson Education Case
The North Carolina Supreme Court decided 20 cases, 18 civil, with the Wilson board of education losing its appeal to obtain 1701.30 for tangibles tax shares. It found the act did not recognize school boards as recipients and noted no Wilson school debt to apply the funds. Other rulings included affirmed and reversed cases across Nash, Buncombe, Wilson, and Washington counties.
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Raleigh
Supreme Court
Wilson Board of Education
Wilson
W. I. Tanner
Nash
E. B. High
Steve Norggins
Warren County
Gregory Company
Southern Railway Company
Rockingham
State
High and Tanner
Finch
Town of Spring Hope
Fox
Army Store, Inc
Buncombe
Outlaw
City of
Asheville
West
Woolworth
Woodbury
No-Enamel Corporation
Manufacturing
Company
Pridgen
Wilson County
Affirmed
Banking and Trust Company
Toney
Washington
Weiss
Insurance Company
Adams Urges Support for Wage Hour Bill in Raleigh
Henry I. Adams of the Textile Workers Organizing Committee urged the joint labor committee to report favorably on a wage hour bill. Critics said it would ruin business, while Adams argued a 44 hour week and 25 cent minimum wage would not hardship. He noted he lacked Southern figures and warned against exploiting labor to stay in business.
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Raleigh
Henry I. Adams
Textile Workers Organizing Committee
Joint Legislative Labor Committee
Daniel Bells
Pittsboro
State Association of Automobile Dealers
Adams
F. H. Shuford
American Federation of Labor
Labor Parley Recesses Until Tenth In N Y C
The AFL and CIO peace committees recessed their first joint conference on a settlement of their labor war and will reconvene in New York City on March 19 at 8 p m. Harry C Bates disclosed the action in a press statement. The talks opened at Roosevelt’s request and discussed a preliminary canvass of problems with the secretary of labor.
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Washington
March
AFL
CIO
New York City
Harry C. Bates
American Federation of Labor
Secretary of Labor
John L. Lewis
Congress of Industrial Organizations Negotiating Committee
United Labor Movement
GIO
AFI
Lewis
Congress of Industrial Organization
Roosevelt
William Green
Yess
Plans for $200 000 Gold Mining Survey Approved
The Charlotte News reports a WPA project approved for a $200000 gold mining survey in North Carolina. State ecologist Herman J. Bryson notified John James that a federal and state plan will cover Mecklenburg Gaston Cabarrus and Lincoln counties with headquarters in Charlotte and involve several hundred workers.
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Charlotte
North Carolina
Charlotte News
Herman J. Bryson
John James
Works Progress Administration
Mecklenburg
Gaston
Cabarrus
Lincoln
Will Run Again Goldsboro Mayor Announces Reelect Bid
Goldsboro March 8 Mayor J H Hill announces candidacy for re election with election set for May 1.
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Goldsboro
J. H. Hill
Hotels hit by Washington strike over closed shop demand
Pickets surrounded 13 major hotels in Washington as 2,200 kit chen dining room and bar staff prepared to strike after a 5 am vote. Mayflower residents Speaker Bankhead and Senator Carter Glass faced possible cross lines, while hotels offered union preferential hiring to avoid a closed shop and argued against dual management in the service industry. Samuel Levine said preferential hiring could erode union strength.
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Washington
Bankhead
House of Representatives
Carter Glass
Virginia
Osgood Roberts
Roberts
Chinese currency fund backed by Britain to stabilize yuan
Sir John Simon announced in the House of Commons that China formed a 10 million pound currency stabilization fund. Two British banks contributed five million pounds, with the British treasury likely guaranteeing the subscribed five million.
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London
John Simon
House of Commons
China
North Carolina Cotton Growers Chief to Speak at Farmers Meet
TO ADDRESS FARMERS CHARLOTTE March 8. M. G. Mann of Raleigh general manager of the North Carolina Cotton Growers' Association will speak at a farmers meeting here March 23.
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Charlotte
M. G. Mann
Raleigh
North Carolina Cotton Growers’ Association
Appeal For War Sufferers At Baptist Union Session
Dr. Roberta Ma spoke at the 49th annual Baptist Woman's Missionary Union session at Green Street Baptist Church urging aid for Chinese war victims. Delegates and visitors registered near 1,000 as Mrs. J. Clyde Turner urged action guided by the motto The love of Christ constraineth me.
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Roberta Ma
China
Baptist Woman's Missionary Union
Green Street Baptist Church
Union
J. Clyde Turner
Greensboro
High Point
First Baptist Church
Green Street Church
Christ
Turner
J. S. Farmer
Raleigh
Ora Alford
Edna Harris
Mary Currin
N. Royal
Peter Hamlett
North Carolina
Asheville
J. R. Morgan
Waynesville
Charlotte
B. K. Mason
Winston-Salem
Elizabeth City
E. B. Beasley
Fountain
Ira D. S. Knight
Durham
Wilmington
Macy Cox
Magnolia
M. A
Revolt in Madrid Suppressed by Miaja Forces
Madrid reports General Jose Miaja's national defense government announced the surrender of republican army chiefs amid a Communist uprising. Fighting ceased in the capital as rebels ceded key positions under tank and hand grenade pressure, with Madrid quiet by noon and fresh clashes noted at 8:30 p.m. local time.
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Madrid
Jose Miaja
National Defense
Radio Today
Miaja
Spain
Francisco Franco
Miami
Carabineros
Miapa
Republican Army
Wallace Submits New Cotton Plan
Secretary Wallace proposed a certificate plan in a Washington leglty conference with Southern lawmakers. The measure would pay cotton farmers 3 cents a pound for every pound bought under the current program, in addition to existing payments, as Congress reviews the administration cotton plan amid 11,000,000 bales on government loans and falling exports.
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Wallace
Congress
Walace
British Defense Expansion Outlined By War Minister
War Minister Leslie Hore-Belisha outlined a plan to expand and equip the British army for European war, build imperial reserves, create an anti air command, and speed mobilization. He said 1,000 officers and 16,000 regular reserve would train in September amid large mechanized maneuvers in Yorkshire. Local overseas port defenses would rise to 9,500 by 1939 while Britain keeps 19 divisions ready.
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London
British Empire
Leslie Hore-Belisha
House of Commons
Middle East
India
Great Britain
Yorkshire
Belisha
Britain
Record tax bill advances as house votes 92 to 1f
North Carolina lawmakers push the 1939-41 tax measure on second reading by a lopsided 92 to 14 vote. Exemptions for Bibles from the general sales tax are adopted. other changes proposed in committee are rejected. Final passage expected tomorrow as senators send back amended provisions on newspaper legal ads and a new state bank commission.
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Raleigh
House
Bank Commission
Joint Legislative Labor Committee
Textile Workers Organizing Committee
House Committee On
Erlanger
Lexington
Quinn
Turlington
Iredell
Parkways Await Funding Changes In House Bill
The Interior Department budget request for parkways faces cuts. The House Appropriations Committee proposed 4 million for next year for Big Ridge and Natchez Trace parkways, reducing the Parks Service ask by 1 million. The Blue Ridge funding would drop to 2.5 million, with Natchez Trace at 1.5 million, amid notes that carryover funds and additional impact aim to keep construction moving.
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Interior Department
Congress
House Appropriations Committee
Big Ridge
Natchez Trace
Budget Bureau
Parks Service
Blue Ridge Parkway
Virging
North Carolina
Nashville
Tenn
Natchez
Miss
Park Service
Natchez Trace Parkway
Virginia North Carolina Parkway
Washington
Washington Women Flood Embassy With Invitations
Washington women flood the British Embassy with calling cards aiming to secure invites to a garden party for King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. The surge began when Sir Ronald and Lady Lindsay reopened the embassy last month after a several weeks’ absence, creating a two foot high stack of cards for the season.
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Washington
George
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