Leon Ellis Company Wins Low Bid For City Street Work
The Leon Ellis Company of Greensboro submitted the lowest bid in Raleigh for 1.49 miles of street approaches and bridge approaches tied to the grade crossing elimination project. The bid totaled 873 835.50 and was tabulated by the State Highway and Public Works Commission.
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Leon Ellis Company
Greensboro
Raleigh
State Highway and Public Works Commission
Kivett Drive
Wrenn Street
Dalton Street
Main Street
North Carolina House Appropriations Bill Advances
The House passed the biennial appropriations bill by voice vote today after increasing funds for vocational education and the weights and measures division. The measure moves to the Senate. German troops march into Czechoslovakia city Prague with occupation reported by Wittkowitz Iron and Steel Works official in Moravska Ostrava.
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Raleigh
House
Senate
Czbrch
Prague
Wittkowitz Iron and Steel Works
Moravska-Ostrava
Czech
Supreme Court strikes down 56 hour work week rule
The Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional the 56 hour state work week and upheld an injunction against enforcing the 1938 act, permanently barring the Labor Department from its enforcement.
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Columbia, D. C
Supreme Court
Circuit Court
Labor Department
Forty Die In Battle Near Bratislava Chust Clash
Reports from Bratislava on March 14 say forty people were killed in fighting between Czech troops and Carpatho Ukrainians at Chust. A German consul hotel was reportedly surrounded and the consul's safety was errorly feared as the situation unfolded.
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Bratislava
Mar
Chust
German forces move from Leitmeritz toward Liboch near Prague
Detachments of German artillery cavalry and searchlight units with full field equipment left Leitmeritz at 6 p.m. moving toward Liboch on the Czech border. Liboch lies across the post Munich frontier from Melnik about 24 miles northeast of Prague. The towns are in the Sudetenland occupied by Germany after the Munich pact.
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Leitmeritz
Sudetenland
Liboch
Melnik
Prague
Germany
Czecho- Slovakia
Poland boosts forces on Carpatho Ukraine border
The Polish government announced an increase of forces along the border with Carpatho Ukraine for protection. The exact troop count was not disclosed. Hungarian troops entered Carpatho Ukraine as Budapest issued an ultimatum to Prague to withdraw Czech troops within 24 hours.
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Warsaw
Poland
Carpatho-Ukraine
Budapest
Prague
New York Boxing Commission Considers Galento Louis Bout
The New York State Athletic Commission will approve a June 28 Yankee Stadium heavyweight title bid if Tony Galento proves fit. Chairman John J. Phelan announced after Mike Jacobs of the 20th Century Sporting Club requested the match.
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New York
Tony Galento
New York State Athletic Commission
O. K
Joe Louis
Yankee Stadium
John J. Phelan
Mike Jacobs
20Th Century Sporting Club
Mitt Sclons
Roosevelt seeks $150 million WPA appropriation to July 1
President Roosevelt warned Congress the relief situation is very serious and urged approval of an additional 150 million dollars for WPA through July 1. He noted no substantial change in unemployment and said failure to fund would discharge about a million and a quarter workers, urging Congress to decide with urgency.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Barkley
Kentucky
Senate
McNary
Oregon
House
Rep. Cox
D-Ga
Appropriations Committee
United States
Congress of the United States
House Ignores Economy Advocates By Boosting Allotments
Washington March 14 Speaker Bankhead said there would be no general revision of the tax laws this session. He warned there will be no program to remove so called tax deterrents to business. He noted small corporations would howl if rates rose from 1 or 2 to 18 or 20 percent. In Raleigh the house raised vocational education funding by 5000 to 325000 first year and 350000 second year as it boosts several allotments in the biennial appropriations bill.
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Washington
Bankhead
House Ways and Means
Congress
Raleigh
House
Hoey
University of North Carolina
Advertising Fund
North Carolina College
Kinston
Ward
Craven
Representative Caffey
Guilford
House Appropriations
Mull
Cleveland
Mallison
Pamlico
Patton
Macon
Abernathy
Nash
Moore
Wilson
Senate Naval Committee
Department
Walsh
D-Mass
Hull
Rep
Maas
Rminn
Guam
Japan
Johnson
Calif
Congress urged to curb President monetary powers
T Jefferson Coolidge former treasury official urged Congress to end the President's power to devalue the dollar, warning of an over flooded banking system due to gold policy. He opposed extending dollar devaluation authority and a stabilization fund. He testified before a Senate subcommittee amid broader discussions on WPA funding and labor act hearings.
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Washington
T. Jefferson Coolidge
Treasury
Congress
Coolidge
Senate Banking and Currency
Department
Boston
Roosevelt
Senate Labor Committee
New England Heads Toward Spring Fires Risk
New England mobilizes a regional preparedness drive against a serious spring fire threat across tangled post hurricane woods. State leaders await Roosevelt on a 5 million federal fire prevention fund covering timber from Long Island Sound to the Canadian border amid heavy northeast snow. Conservation Commissioner Ernest J. Dean warns of a potential holocaust that could outstrip the September disaster.
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Boston
New England
Roosevelt
Congress
Long Island Sound
Canadian
Massachusetts
Ernest J. Dean
Justice Roberts Confined to Hospital for Illness
Associate Justice Owen J. Roberts of the Supreme Court was at Jarfield Hospital for treatment of an undisclosed illness. Officials described his condition as favorable after he attended yesterday's session and appeared healthy.
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Washington
Owen J. Roberts
Supreme Court
Jarfield Hospital
Belnor Norwegian Ship Sends SOS Off Cape Henry
A distress call from the Belner, a Norwegian motor ship of 1673 tons, was picked up east of Cape Henry. The vessel reported water in the radio room and damage to the No 1 hatch. Excalibur reported aid was needed as heavy seas battered the ship.
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Chatham
Mass
Belner
Cape Henry
Radio Marine
Mackay Radio
Thomaston
Mackay
Maritime Bureau of the
Boston Chamber of Commerce
Belnor
Belships Company Limited
Atlantic
Cuba
Newcastle
England
Excalibur
Maritime Exchange
New York
Baltimore
Kirkenhead
Greensboro Firms Win State Charters
Josephine Mills Inc of Marion and Community Water Line Inc of Greensboro received charters today from Secretary of State Thad Eure. Mills plans hosiery and knit goods with $50 000 authorized capital. Carter Hudgins M H Witherspoon and Charles F Smith of Marion subscribed $7 500. Greensboro firm aims to build water lines for domestic and commercial use. W E Apple I B Hines J P Lanning and G S Troxler of Greensboro subscribed four shares for 200 shares authorized at no par value.
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Raleigh
Josephine Mills, Inc
Marion
Community Water Line, Inc
Greensboro
Thad Eure
Carter Hudgins
M. H. Witherspoon
Charles F. Smith
W. E. Apple
I. EB. Hines
J. P. Lanning
G. S. Troxler
Route Four
Express Agency seeks intrastate rate hikes
Raleigh March 14 The Railway Express Agency Inc of New York petitioned the Utilities Commission for higher intrastate express rates similar to increases recently approved by the Interstate Commerce Commission for interstate shipments. Utilities traffic director C H Noah announced today.
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Raleigh
Railway Express Agency, Inc
New York
The
Utilities Commission
Interstate Commerce Commission For Interstate Commerce
C. H. Noah
Dissolution of Czecho Slovak State and Slovakia Independence
Prague announced the formal dissolution of the Czecho Slovak federation as Slovakia declared independence with German protection. Carpatho Ukraine was partially occupied by Hungary and Prague retained Bohemia Moravia. The move ends the World War era federation created at Versailles with Slovak autonomy gone.
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Prague
Slovakia
Woodrow Wilson
Munich
Europe
Adolf Hitler
Carpatho-Ukraine
Hungary
Bohemia-Moravia
Barron Collier Taken By Death
Barron G. Collier, 65, died last night of a heart attack, leaving a self made advertising empire. He controlled subway and street car advertising and ranked as Florida’s largest landholder, with a Chesterfield of roles from director to philanthropist. He helped craft New York traffic controls and held estates in Pocantico Hills and Useppa Island.
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New York
Barron G. Collier
Memphis
Collier
United States
Florida
Barron G. Collier, Inc
Florida Gulf Coast Hotels, Inc
Pacific Railways Advertising Company
Empire State Development Company
United States Brokerage Company
Boy Scouts of America
New York City
John D. Rockefeller
Pocantico Hills
Tarrytown
N. Y
Useppa Island
Fla
Britain Declines Action Over Czechoslovakia Crisis
In London Prime Minister Chamberlain stated no British action would be taken on Czecho-Slovakia beyond the proposed guarantee against unprovoked aggression. The Prague crisis deepened as Slovakia declared independence under German protection, with Tiso named premier and discussions about a president ongoing. Carpatho-Ukraine remained undecided amid Hungarian troop movements.
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London
Chamberlain
House of Commons
Great Britain
France
Munich
Sudentenland
Germany
Britain
Poland
Hungary
Bratislava
Adolf Hitler
Slovakia
Hitler
Tiso
Tison
Czeeh
Behin
Republ
Bac
Berlin
Prague
Carpath Ukraine
Czech Slovakia
Carpatho-Ukraine
Hungaria
Sudeten tension eases as leaders meet in Berlin
Berlin reports a lull in troop movements amid a planned Germany Czech conference with Chancellor Hitler and President Emil Hacha. Leitmeritz and frontier areas show reduced activity while a Vienna parade proceeds to mark the Austrian German union anniversary.
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Berlin
Slovakia
Hitler
Germany
Sudeten
Leitmeritz
Vienna
Austria
Emil Hacha
Wilhelmstrasse
Czecho-Slovakia
Bratislava
First Year Teachers Clinic Set for March 25
A special clinic for first year teachers will be held at the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina in Greensboro on March 25.
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Teachers Clinic
Greensboro
Woman's College of the
University of North Carolina
Support Lined Up To Sell Munitions To Latin America
Congress backed a plan to allow Latin American republics to buy ships guns and munitions from U S government plants. Senator Barkley called for broad support while Chairman Pittman pushed the measure amid other wartime defense issues including Panama Canal locks and Guam fortifications.
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Washington
United States
Senator Barkley
Pittman
D-Ney
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
House
Panama Canal
Congress
State Department
Japan
Flood threat escalates after historic March snowstorm
Boston reports a severe flood threat following the worst March snowstorm in 51 years. New Hampshire observers warn of one to two and a half feet of snow and mud floods, Massachusetts engineers call the situation very serious, while officials fear sudden rain could unleash deadly floods as crews clear snow clogged streets at great cost.
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Boston
New England
New Hampshire
Massachusetts
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WPA
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AFL
William Green
Ben Moreell
Navy
Charles B. Robbins
Chicago
American Life Convention
Robert L. Hoag
Association of Life Insurance Presidents
Justice Roberts
Virginia
Greensboro Concern
Barron Collier
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