President May Veto Farm Bill
Washington dispatch reports President Roosevelt weighing a veto of the 3 6 9 5 000 000 Farm Supply Bill due to a ban on selling government stock below parity The House and Senate clash over CCC use of funds for surplus sales The veto could push Congress to resume consideration to avoid delaying farmer benefit payments The House trimmed funds from the Bankhead Jones Farm Tenant Act and Rural Rehabilitation program Tarver of Georgia postponed vote on the $25 million reduction today
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Rendleman Elected President of Woman's College Student Government
Greensboro March 13. Mary Jo Rendleman of Anna Illinois has been elected president of the Student Government Association at Woman's College.
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Mary Jo Rendleman
Anna, Ill
Woman's College
Inspecting Lime Rock Quarry Politicians Visit Yadkin County
Gov Broughton and Highway Chairman Ben Prince travel to Yadkin County to inspect the Lime Rock Quarry and decide if the state should mine it. Experts doubt viability due to cost and a federal law barring funds for wartime labor. Inflation, carpet shortages, and sesquicentennial plans also feature in the roundups.
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Hospital Probe Begins Thursday
STATESVILLE March 13 The Burke County committee in Morganton will start hearings next Thursday morning to investigate conditions at the State hospital for the insane. The panel will convene Wednesday to inspect the hospital, with Tom P Jimison among the first witnesses. He is a former lawyer and columnist who spent months as a patient and wrote about hospital conditions. The inquiry was ordered by Governor Broughton after a series of published articles.
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State Hospital
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Special Venire Summoned For Fertilizer Trial
WINSTON-SALEM March 13 A special venire of 150 men was summoned to report Monday to supplement the regular jury list for the fertilizer anti trust trial in U S district court. The case involves 64 individuals 36 firms and two associations with 102 named in the indictment charged with conspiring to fix fertilizer prices and regulate distribution. Twenty one have pleaded nolo contendere and nol pros was entered for two. Pre trial conferences between government and defense lawyers scheduled for yesterday were cancelled.
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Cotton Growing Again Marks NC Drive for Farm Profit
War demands revive cotton profits in North Carolina as a joint committee from State College outlines a statewide drive. Plans include full acreage in cotton, scientific cultivation, better ginning, long staple experiments, high quality marketing, and strong boll weevil combat. Also notes McMichael seeks reelection, a New Mexico bandit arrest, a reidsville court find, and palm oil import data for 1939.
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King Cotton
North Carolina
Cranium Grackers River Lore Quiz from Ad Page
A playful quiz notes rivers shaping U S history and literature. It asks which rivers flow through their states, the Sleepy Hollow valley, Connecticut River boundary, a Tennessee River New Deal project, and the Lewis and Clark expedition river.
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Kentucky
Mississippi
Colorado
Connecticut
Tennessee River
Lewis and Clark
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Insane Patient Kills Himself at State Hospital
A 50 year old inmate George C Batts of Wilson County killed himself by diving headfirst onto a stone court at the State hospital for the insane in Raleigh Coroner Roy M Banks noted this was the fourth self inflicted death and fifth violent death at the institution in the last year with another inmate killed by a fellow patient.
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State Hospital For the Insane
Roy M. Banks
George C. Batts
Wilson County
Banks
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