Nations Begin Blockade Of Spain
Warships from Britain France Italy and Germany began policing Spanish coasts under the 27 nation neutrality pact. A new international blockade committee planned to meet in London to finalize plans for frontier agents and legal requirements, aiming to halt munitions and volunteers reaching Spain.
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London
Great Britain
France
Italy
Germany
Spain
International Naval Patrol
City secures time extension for $800,000 rail project
A city delegation and Harold Ickes secured a time extension to start work on an $800,000 tracks project. The agreement enables necessary adjustments with Southern Railway and funding arrangements. The group will return to High Point after morning talks in Washington with plans to proceed promptly.
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High Point
Harold L. Ick
Ickes
W. Umstead
Durham
R. L. Coughton
Frank Sizemore
Chef of Commerce
Southern Railway System
B. Norris
Tim
Sizemore
More
Washington
E. Knox
Briggs
Earl N. Phillips
S. Grayson
Frank T. Miller
Roosevelt To Tour Big Farm In Warm Springs Ga
President Franklin D Roosevelt continues his southern vacation from the Little White House at Warm Springs. He plans a morning swim in 85 degree water at a glass pool and a drive to his 2800 acre farm to inspect spring plowing and observe cattle chickens and his two mules Tug and Hop.
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Warm Springs
Roosevelt
White House
Infantile Paralysis Foundation
Defunct Gastonia Bank Pays Depositors In Full
Trustees of the defunct First National Bank of Gastonia announce payment in full to depositors. About $133,000 was paid today, marking the final settlement of obligations of the failed bank.
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Gastonia
First National Bank of
Akr
Bid On Mills Raleigh Report On Dacotah Cotton Mill
Robert P. Dicks of Rockingham and the R. Dickson Company submitted a joint high bid of 119000 dollars for the Dacotah Cotton Mill of Lexington. The mill was closed for 17 months.
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Raleigh
Robert P. Dicks
Rockingham
R. &. Dickson Company
Dacotah Cotton Mille
Lexington
Duke PR Chief Advocates Four Ideals at Asheboro Chamber Banquet
Henry Dwire of Duke University spoke before the Asheboro Chamber of Commerce annual meeting and banquet in the new community gymnasium. He urged individualism optimism sane patriotism and sensible idealism during his remarks introduced by the chamber president.
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Duke University
Asheboro Chamber of Commerce
Asheboro
Henry Dwire
Department of Public Relations
Court Reform Dominates Washington Week
In Washington the Roosevelt court bill dominates the week’s agenda as testimony and speeches eclipse other social and farm legislation. The House approves the Guffey-Vinson soft coal regulation plan while the Senate Agriculture Committee backs a crop insurance bill. President Roosevelt begins a two week Warm Springs stay after denouncing what he calls court overreach.
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Washington
Roosevelt
House
Senate Agriculture Committee
Senate
Warm Springs
Supreme Court
Wheeler
D-Mont
Pilot lands safely after night snowstorm near Cheyenne
In Cheyenne Wyoming on March 13 a pilot flying a nitroglycerine cargo made a forced landing at Fort Warren due to a night snowstorm. The flier D A McIntyre reported he could not find Cheyenne airport as heavy snow described by weather officials marked the season’s most extensive storm.
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Cheyene
Wyo
Fort Warren Military Reservation
D. A. McIntyre
Cheyenne
Weather Bureau
Security Pact Objections Pointed Out By Nazi Envoy
German Ambassador Joachim von Ribbentrop outlined German objections to a Western Europe security pact to Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden. The envoy spoke after Berlin sent Locarno not reply notes on a proposed pact replacing the Rhineland era agreement, with Italy backing the objections and no official disclosure of notes.
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London
Germany
Italy
Western Europe
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Anthony Eden
Foreign Office
Berlin
Locarno
Rhineland
Western
Europe
Rome
Spain protests to League over Italian German warship actions
Spain charges in a note to the League of Nations that Italian and German warships in the Euro neutrality patrol threaten Barcelona and Valencia. It accuses Germany of sending regular troops to Madrid and claims foreign forces violate the League covenant by disrupting Spain's territorial integrity and independence.
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Geneva
League of Nations
Euroneutrality
Celona
Valencia
Spain
Hunger Deaths Mount in Szechuan Province
Chinese dispatch reports a drought in Szechuan that has left two thirds of the population at risk of starvation and about 3000 deaths since January. Similar famine and cold tolls are feared in Henan, with aid from APRI and Canadian missionaries aiding relief efforts.
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Chungking
Szechuen’ Province
China
Szechuen Province
Henan Province
Bank of Montgomery Robbery Loss Reported
An audit shows $5,388 loss with $3,383 stolen by two bandits who held up the Bank of Montgomery in Troy on Wednesday.
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Troy
Bank of Montgomery
Revenue Bill Ratified As State Legalizes Betting
In Raleigh on March 15 the legislature approved over 85 measures and advanced others before adjourning sine die. The record 76 million biennial revenue bill, largest for the general fund, was ratified, with the Senate concurring in a House change and enacting the Flanagan anti slot machine act.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
Senate
Recess Halts Private Power Hearing Over Santee Cooper Project
A two day recess interrupted testimony in a private power companies case opposing the 37 million dollar Santee Cooper hydroelectric and navigation project. Judge J Lyles Glenn adjourned until Monday after officials Ernest Godshalk of South Carolina Power and James Crist testified private firms could serve the coastal area without diverting customers from established utilities.
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Columbia
Santee-Cooper
U. S&s
J. Lyles Glenn
State Public Service Authority
WPA
Ernest L. Godshalk
South Carolina Power Company
James F. Crist
Santee- Cooper
Inventor Elihu Thomson Dies at 83 in Swampscott
Elihu Thomson 83 inventor of electric arc welding and GE employee died at his Swampscott home after a long illness. He earned his first welding patent in 1886 and was surrounded at death by widow Clarissa Hovey and three sons Roland Malcolm Donald.
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Swampscott
Mass
R. Elihu Thomson
General Electric Company
Thomas A. Edison
Clarissa Hovey
Boston
Roland D. Thomson
Schenectady
Malcolm Thomson
Donald T. Thomson
Rye
N. Y
Detroit
Lynn
Dr. Thomson
Farmer Faces Death Sentence in North Carolina Murder Case
Melvin Coggins, 32, tenant farmer, was convicted of first degree murder for the February 23 shooting of neighbor Henry June Fogleman, a Nash County jury deliberated about an hour and faced him with a mandatory death sentence.
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Trader
Peninsula General Hospital
Nock
Nashville
N. C
Melvin Coggins
Henry June Fogleman
Nash County
Coggins
Brevard Police Seek Ruth Owen Missing Brevard Student
Brevard police chief asked Greenville police to help locate Ruth Owen a Brevard high school senior who vanished during a visit to Greenville South Carolina on Thursday.
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Brevard
B. H. Freeman
Greenville
D. C
Ruth Owen
South Carolina
Neurath replies to Dodd on German press attacks
Foreign Minister Konstantin Von Neurath, per sources, said Berlin papers did not intend to offend in response to U.S. Ambassador Dodd. He cited Mayor La Guardia’s remarks as provoking righteous German indignation and noted some papers exceeded bounds due to that excitement. He stressed no insult to the United States was meant and accused parts of the American press of spiteful misrepresentations.
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Berlin
Konstantin von Neurath
Wilhelmstrasse
United States
William E. Dodd
von Neurath
la Guardia
New York
Reich
Baron von Neurath
Showdown in Motor Strike Approaching Detroit
Circuit Judge Allan Campbell deferred a decision on Chrysler’s bid to eject sit-down strikers at eight Detroit plants. About 60,000 idle workers awaited rulings as UAW pressed exclusive bargaining rights for 67,000 Chrysler workers. Also linked to GM disputes, sit-downs at Hudson and Reo plants added to the nationwide labor tensions. Governor Murphy met with Detroit labor leaders amid talk of a broader settlement.
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Detroit
Allan Campbell
Chrysler Corporation
Associated Press
Carysier Motor Corporation
United Automobile Workers of America
Chrysler
General Motors Corporation
Hudson Motor Company
Reo Motor Car Company
Lansine
Mich
Hudson
Reo
Frank Murphy
Michigan
General Motors
Impasse in Firestone dispute leaves 11500 idle workers
The industry conflict was labeled serious and unfortunate as 11,500 Firestone workers in Akron, Ohio, remained idle. Across Chicago 11 sit down strikes and walkouts added to labor unrest as tensions over preserving law and order persisted.
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Dustry
Firestone Tire & Rubber Company
Akron
Chicago
Income Tax Rise Expected to Add 300 Million
Treasury officials forecast that higher surtaxes on individuals and new corporate levies will bring over 300 million dollars in additional revenue by July 1. About half may arrive by filing deadline Monday midnight as March receipts near 840 million and the changes aim to capture roughly 18 percent of total revenue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Treasury
Nine Bodies Recovered as Mine Blast Traps Debris
Rescue workers in Macbeth West Virginia dig through slate blocks to reach nine bodies pulled from Hutchinson Coal shaft after a deadly explosion that killed 18 workers. Crews report seven more may be buried under debris with two machinemen trapped nearby.
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Logan
W. Va
Maren
Macbeth
Hutchinson Coal Company
West Virginia
Belgian Consul Acquitted in Alabama Disorder Charge
Belgian Consul A. J. Tellier was acquitted of disorderly conduct stemming from his opposition to a city sewerage tax. His arrest followed an attempt to block water shutoff at his MOBILE home.
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Mobile
Ala
A. J. Tellier
Compromise Ends $25,000 Slander Suit Against Dare Sheriff
Raleigh reports a compromise judgment ended a $25,000 slander suit filed against Dare County Sheriff Victor Meekine by H. B. William, a Raleigh motorcycle police officer.
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Raleigh
Victor Meekine
Dare County
H. B. Williamson
Alabama Ends Prohibition as Dry Law Repealed
Governor Bibb pledged to end 22 years of dryness in Alabama. A state count across 67 counties showed 24 voting wet with margins over 2,000. With 2,201 precincts reporting, repeal votes were 97,863 to 100,293, and state operated stores will begin April 1. possession of liquor becomes legal statewide.
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Birmingham
Ala
Alabama
Bibbura
Hitler Ally Said to Flee to Spain
Friends of Ernst Sedgwick H Staengel Jr, a Harvard educated former associate of Adolf Hitler, said he traveled to Spain on a secret mission and might not return. They asserted he is no longer chief of the Fore Press department of the party.
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Berlin
Ernst Sedgwick Hstaengl, Jr
Fu Adolf Hitler
Spain
Reich
Merchants Association Elects Bert Meldrin President
Heads Merchants Rockingham report Bert Meldrin chosen as president after local directors election held in Rockingham.
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Rockingham
Merchantssociation
Bert Meldrin
Meckland County Bar Elects T. Cansler Sr. President
In Charlotte on March 13 the Meckland County Bar Association elected T. Cansler Sr. as president. The vote confirms leadership for the local legal community.
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Charlotte
Meckland County Bar Association
T. Cansler, Sr
Franco's Drive Weakens Madrid Offensive
Madrid reports Franco's major drive losing strength as government says Franco's north eastern assault tiring. Madrid militiamen gain the offensive though the capital faces a grim weekend on the Guadalajara front about 44 miles away with snow sleet and rain turning roads to mud and hampering mechanized thrusts. Minor engagements occur on Madrid's southeastern Jarama front but the deadlock persists.
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Madrid
Francisco Franco
Guadalajara
Aragon-Madrid
Franco
Southeas
Jarama River
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