Real Estate Board Opposes Municipal Levy for Relief
The High Point Real Estate Board approved a resolution in Raleigh urging relief administration consolidation and proper care of the county's poor and unemployable. It favored economies in other funds to supplement relief and rejected a municipal levy, hoping to avoid higher property taxes. A committee will present the resolution in Raleigh.
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High Point Real Estate Board
State Senate
Raleigh
Ihs
Blood exposure method used by Indian snake charmers
A fragment notes that introducing small quantities of snake venom into the blood at intervals can build immunity to snake bites, a practice reportedly used by Indian snake charmers.
Smith Backs Impounding 6.5 Million Bales of Cotton
Senator Smith of South Carolina, chairman of the senate agriculture committee, plans to impound 6,500,000 bales of government equity to support cotton prices and export trade. He hints at limiting merchandise cotton this year and notes possible loans per pound beyond 12 cents if circumstances justify. He dismisses forecasts of increased total from small grower exemptions.
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Washinton
Smith
South Carolina
Senate Agriculture Committee
Wallace
Agriculture Department
Hollywood Gambles Shape Film Boom and Stars
A candid look at gambling in Hollywood as film executives directors and stars bet on movie outcomes and new talent. Grace Moore Nelson Eddy Garbo Tod Browning Reginald Owen and Ann Harding are cited as examples of industry risk taking and career gambles amid production plans and celebrity bets.
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Hollywood
Agua Caliente
Santa Anita Race Track
Grace Moore
Grace
Hunt Stromberg
M-G-M
Nelson Eddy
Eddy
Stromberg
Garbo
Tod Browning
Browning
Prague
Carroll Borland
University of California
Reginald Owen
Louis XIV
Madam DuBarry
Foresters Inspect Erosion Work and Highway Beautification
Dr. E V Jotter chief of the Soil Erosion Service and M E Deters associate forester with S E S arrive in High Point to review Deep River forestry work and the highway beautification along North Carolina Route 10. They seek a seedling supply for next year with help from the Bureau of Plant Industry nursery at Statesville.
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E. V. Jotter
Soil Erosion Service
Washington
S. B. Detwiler
Bureau of Plant Industry
M. E. Deters
High Point
Forestry Department
Deep River
North Carolina
Death Claims Mrs J L Hepler of Kernersville
Mrs J L Hepler of Kernersville died after several weeks illness. Her step-daughter Mrs Van Holt cared for her during the sickness. The funeral will be held at First Baptist Kernersville Wednesday at 2 pm with interment in Kernersville. Survived by husband step-daughter a daughter Miss Fana line Hepler and a son C P Hepler with Soil Erosion Service in this area.
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J. L. Hepler
Kernersville
Germany Confirms Existence of Air Fleet Under Goering
Berlin report says Reich aviation minister Wilhelm Goering announced the air force is formed with him in command as general officer. Germany’s civilian air sport body is absorbed into the Reichswehr, with a clear military role and separation from civilian aviation.
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Wilhelm Goering
Berlin
Wilhhelm Goering
Germany
Reichswehr
Goering
Music Box on Walcheren Plays Classical Selections
A large music box on Walcheren Island in Holland plays Mozart on the half hour and Beethoven Moonlight Sonata on the hour. It offers twenty five hundred musical combinations on its vast cylindrical keyboard.
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Walcheren
Holland
Two Men Die In Freight Train Auto Collision At State Line
J Roy Turner and T G Mize of Schoolfield died when a southbound Southern freight crashed into their auto on the North Carolina Virginia line. An inquest was scheduled. Turner, 45, formerly of Reidsville, and Mize, 37, a textile worker, left behind widows and two children each.
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Reidsvile
J. Roy Turner
T. G. Mize
Schoolfield
North Carolina-Virginia
Southern
Turner
Danville
Mize
NSW council member’s rail pass valued high defaced with diamonds
A New South Wales legislative council member owns a rail pass worth about 4000. The pass was studded with diamonds, the largest at 9 percent carats, and the councilor does not want to ruin the trinket while paying his train fare.
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New South Wales Legislative Council
January Hosiery Shipments Rise Across Sectors
Hosiery shipments in January reached 8.6 million dozen pairs, up from 6.8 million a year earlier, with total output just under 10 million dozen. Full fashioned goods climbed to 3.1 million dozen, seamless totals were about 6 million, while overall output and specific segment figures reflect a stronger month for the Hosiery Code Authority.
Sun Rays Not Heat But Energy Form Radiation
The article explains that sunlight is not heat but a form of energy called radiation. It distinguishes radiant energy from thermal heat and outlines how light waves transfer energy to objects.
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Elva Statler Davidson
Pinehurst
N. C
Bradley Davidson, Jr
Richard
Mra
Curtis Campaigne
Bofise Gueata
Orient
Ann Harding
Honolulu
Richard Dix
West End
Beauty Shop
Europe
Gece
Ladies’ Shop
Goodrich
Buvcer
Perth
Carolina Vulcanizing CO
North Wrenn Street
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