High Point Officials Seek Washington Call To Save Tracks Project
A High Point delegation traveled to Washington to meet Southern Railway vice presidents and Public Works officials. They urged expanded cooperation to cover a 800000 dollar tracks project after estimates showed a 60000 dollar shortfall. Telegraphs from 1000 shippers and civic leaders pressed for action. The outcome of the meeting remained unavailable.
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Washington
Southern Railway System
High Point
Washington, D. C
ER. EB. Norris
A. A. Oliver
Public Works Administration
Food shortage warning issued by Lloyd George in Parliament
London March 12 David Lloyd George former wartime prime minister warned of a food peril in any new war. He urged more workers be sent back to the land and criticized the government for spending billions on war prep while neglecting the food front critical to the Empire's security.
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London
David Lloyd George
Great Britain
House of Commons
Dutch, Danish Officers Named to Lead Spain Blockade
London reports the international non intervention committee named Admiral M. H. Van Dalm to head the neutrality project for Spain. Admiral J. C. Oliver will direct naval patrols and Col. Christian Lunn will supervise frontier agents along the Franco Spanish border to curb foreign volunteers and munitions shipments.
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London
Spain
M. H. van Dalm
East Indies
J. C. Oliver
Netherlands
Daniel Col. Christian Lunn
Robbers Loot New York Bank in Kaneh Town Heist
Three men armed with a submachine gun and a pistol robbed the Northern Westchester bank in Katonah New York at 12 43 pm today. They herded eight people into a vault, took $15000 or more, jumped into a waiting car that crashed through a fence and overturned as they fled toward Putnam County.
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Katonah
N. Y
Westchester
Prth
Putnam County
Townsend gets month in jail
Dr. Francis E. Townsend received a one month jail sentence and a $100 fine for contempt of the house of representatives. Townsend and two aides faced the same charge after Townsend stormed from a committee room during pension inquiry and later faced a federal grand jury summons.
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Washington
Francis E. Townsend
House of Representatives
House
Townsend
Has
John B. Kiefer
Chicago
Clinton B
Rival labor forces seek finish fight
Rival union factions move to consolidate power as AF of L led by Green vows to expel any CIO controlled body. John L Lewis era CIO groups enroll more workers while Detroit CIO and UAW clash with autowork giants, with 70,000 idle amid Michigan plant strikes.
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William Green
American Federation of Labor
Washington
Committee For Industrial Organization Action
John L. Lewis
Detroit
Homer Martin
Automotive Cio Union
General Motors Company
John L. Lewis Committee
Steelworkers Organizing Committee
Pittsburgh
Philip Murray
Jarneyie Ilinois Steel Corp
United Automobile Workers of America
National Executive Board
Cleveland
Michigan
Nazis Recruit Patrol Vessels
Germany recruited a fleet of fishing steamers and trawlers to reinforce the Reich’s warships for the international neutrality patrol of Spain. The auxiliary ships will be placed under navy command this Sunday and will help seal the war zone against foreign volunteers as battleships Deutschland Graf Spee and the cruiser Leipzig Cologne join in Spanish waters with Admiral Scheer nearby.
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Berlin
Germany
Reich
Spain
Deutschland
Graf Spee
Leipzig
Cologne
Spanish
Scheer
Chamber of Commerce annual meeting draws 275 in Winston-Salem
Dr. Howard E. Rondthaler of Salem College gave a thoughtful address and tributes to past presidents. The event at the Sheraton ballroom featured balloting for 26 directors and highlighted new business interests and newcomers to the city. Amos R. Kearns chaired, presenting a favorable annual report as Rev. Tom A. Sykes concluded remarks.
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Howard E. Rondthaler
Salem College
Winston-Salem
Chamber of Commerce
Sheraton Hotel
Chaip
Amos R. Kearns
Tom A. Sykes
Madrid Drive Held in Check During Siege Bombardment
Madrid reports a police crackdown on an internal fascist plot to kidnap Gen. Jose Miaja commander of Madrid defense forces. Shells hit Gran Via area injuring and killing several. ambulances rushed to the shelled district. In Jaen province insurgents suffered heavy losses near Villanueva Del Duque with 300 killed or wounded.
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Madrid
Jose Miaja
Gran Via
Spain
Andujar
Villanueva del Duque
Jaen
Priest Joins Burlington Liars Club After Lecture
Milwaukee March 12. The Rev Edward A McGrath assistant professor of philosophy at Marquette University joins Burlington Liars Club after arguing that its members are not liars. He defined a lie as speaking against one’s own mind and a Burlington student praised the claim as a season’s best whoppers. President Hulett awarded him a membership card naming him a full fledged liar.
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Milwaukee
Edward A. McGrath
Marquette University
Burlington
Wis
Liars Club
Father McGrath
0. C
Hulett
Hearing Delayed On Delivery Tax Case In Western South Carolina
Spartanburg March 12 A hearing on injunction proceedings filed by fruit merchandise and produce companies against mayors police chiefs and license and tax collectors in towns across the western district of South Carolina was indefinitely postponed by mutual consent of counsel this morning before Federal Judge C C Wyche.
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Spartanburg
8. C
South Carolina
C. C. Wyche
American Jewish Press Correspondent Ordered to Leave Germany
Berlin reports that Boris Smolar, American Jewish Telegraph Agency correspondent, was ordered to depart Germany within three days. U S Ambassador Dodd and Franklin Lee delivered verbal protests over German press attacks linked to Fiorello La Guardia's anti Hitler remarks. Smolar disputes any link to the incident and seeks rescission through the U S consulate.
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Berlin
United States
William E. Dodd
Boris E. R. Smolar
Jewish Telegraph Agency
Smolar
Laguardia
Dodd
Baron Konstantin von Neurath
Frank Lee
Washington
New York
Fiorello H. Laguardia
Germany
Gestapo
Ambassador Dodd
Shippers Urge Southern Railway To Save Track Project
More than 100 High Point shippers and civic leaders urged the Southern Railway System to continue backing the track depression project. They signed telegraphs to the railroad executives and asked moving the freight station to a more accessible site, hoping for funds and cooperation to carry the plan forward.
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High Point
Oo Op
Southern
Furth
Southern Railway System
E. B. Norris
Washington, D. C
A. Oliver
Doomed prisoner shot by guard on death row
In Nashville Tennessee on March 12 Frank Haynie Jr. a negro awaiting execution next Thursday was shot and killed by a guard on death row after fatally stabbing Guard J L Sims. The prison operator said Haynie attacked Sims as a shard entered his cell with lunch.
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Nashville
Tenn
Frank Haynie, Jr
J. L. Sims
Haynie
Sims
Utility Firms Tell Of Power Sold In Santee-Cooper Area
In Columbia on March 12 testimony showed Carolina Power and Light’s power usage near the Santee Cooper site. R A Yoder, assistant to the CP L general manager, testified before Judge J Lyles Glenn as defense attorneys questioned him about potential purchase of power from the Santee Cooper plant.
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Santee-Cooper Area
Columbia
8. C
Carolina Power and Light Company
Santee- Cooper
R. A. Yoder
J. Lyles Glenn
Public Works Administration
South Carolina Public Service Authority
Yoder
R. M. Jefferies
Santee-Cooper
Wrights Honored as Pioneers of Early Flight Design
Washington reports that Wilbur and Orville Wright are praised by aviation engineers for three core elements of their Kitty Hawk aircraft. Fred L. Prescott of Wright Field notes gear system and fuel injection remain foundational to future aircraft design as engineers reintroduce their three wheel landing gear.
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Washington
Wilbur
Orville Wright
Fred L. Prescott
Army Air Corps
Wright Field
Dayton
Ohio
National Conference of Aviation Engineers
Kitty Hawk
N. C
Wright Brothers
Bodies Found in Macbeth Mine Blast in Logan West Virginia
Rescuers pulled five bodies from the Macbeth mine after a blast and said they located 11 more trapped miners. The third body was recovered, Floyd Fields, 30, a section boss, was among the dead as crews pressed on amid debris with 15 more feared dead. Fields left a wife and three children.
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Logan
W. Va
Macbeth
Inventor Sir Charles Rosa Reported Safe in Florida Coastguard
Coastguards report the safe arrival of Sir Charles Rosa, British inventor, in St. Petersburg Florida after his cabin launch trip from Pass-a-Grill. Rosa had been missing on the voyage when last seen on the Key West coast.
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Petersburg
Fla
Key West
Sir Charles Rosa
Passe-A-Grill
Charge Effort Made To Hide Real Truth
Senator Wheeler states in the Senate that in 1933 President Roosevelt wrote in Looking Forward that adding justices to the supreme court would simply add to the ravages of the disease. He frames the remark as an effort to conceal the real truth.
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Washington
Wheeler
Mont
Senate Today
Roosevelt
Supreme Court
Solons Elect Trustees of University
Raleigh March 12 The general assembly in joint session elected 25 persons for seven year terms and two to fill unexpired terms on the University of North Carolina board of trustees. Several proposed changes were tabled and elections were unanimous. The assembly did not adopt new bills at morning meetings. A record 266 introductions were filed Wednesday. Members doubted an immediate adjournment despite a resolution to ban new bills.
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Raleigh
General Assembly
University of North Carolina
Joint Committee On Trustees
Gravely of Nash
Dykstra Favored as Wisconsin Presidency Candidate
Clarence A. Dykstra of Cincinnati was chosen by the regents executive committee as the preferred candidate for the University of Wisconsin presidency. He is to be offered the post formally soon, with the board expected to act next week. Dykstra, then dean George Sellery serves as acting president amid ongoing selection talks.
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Madison
Wis
Clarence A. Dykestra
Cincinnati
Regents
University of Wisconsin
Dykstra
Board of Regents
Glenn Frank
Dean George Sellery
No Clemency For Hoeppel
Attorney General Cummings refused to recommend clemency for John H. Hoeppel former California congressman serving a year in the District of Columbia work house at Occoquan Virginia for conspiring to sell a West Point appointment His son Charles Hoeppel is jailed for the same term and both may seek parole on March 27.
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Washington
Cummings
John H. Hoeppel
California
West Point
Hoeppel
Charles
District of Columbia
Occoquan
Income Taxpayers Use Installments
Washington reports big income taxpayers favor the four quarterly payments option under the tax law while smaller earners tend to pay in a single lump by the approaching deadline next Monday.
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Washington
Uncle Sam
Former Minnesota Chief Justice Attacks Court Reorganization Plan
John Patrick Devaney, former Minnesota supreme court chief justice and head of the National Law Guild, testifies before the Senate judiciary committee on Roosevelt’s court reorganization plan. Senator Norris and Senator Andrews discuss constitutional amendments and retirements while Devaney argues the court’s impersonality fuels public doubt. The hearing delays other legislative work.
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Minnesota
Supreme Court
Senate
Norris
Washington
Minnesota Supreme Court
Stoc
John Patrick Devaney
United States Supreme Court
Devaney
National Law Guild
Sena’ Judiciary Committee
Presid Roosevelt
Ind-Neb
Andrews D-Fla
Retail sales move upward across the nation
New York reports a wave of pay increases and Easter demand lifting wholesale buying. Dun and Bradstreet estimates national retail sales 6 to 12 percent above last week and 15 to 30 percent higher than the year prior, with regional gains across New England through the Pacific coast.
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New York
Dun & Bradstreet
New England
East
Middle West
Northwest
South
Southwest
Pacific Coast
American Hurt In Spanish War
Valencia Spain March 12 Robert Meriman Californian and commander of the Abraham Lincoln brigade in the governments international forces was sent to a hospital with critical wounds today.
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Valencia
Spain
Robert Meriman
Abraham Lincoln
hosiery mills sharply reduced in Berks county
Four hosiery mills remained in operation in Berks county as strikes since March 1 cripple the industry. The Reading full fashioned hosiery plant, employing about 200 workers, closed after picket lines formed. Union leaders said about 8,500 county workers were affected, with two mills signing contracts and Berkshire Knitting mills still on strike.
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Reading
American Federation of Hosiery Workers
Berkshire Knitting Mills
Hugo Hemmerich
Berkshire
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