Talk Is Revived Over Calling Justices Before Court Hearing
Washington March 17 Justice McReynolds suggested his remarks on the Roosevelt court reorganization may prompt questioning of Supreme Court justices before Congress. Senate officials indicated any justice hinting at a formal hearing would be invited to appear. Professor Corwin urged a broader constitutional view and retirement plan. Also, probes into Goodyear labor conditions resumed and the Senate Commerce Committee proposed 14 million dollars for air travel safety upgrades.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Justice McReynolds
Roosevelt Court
Supreme Court
Supreme Bench
Senate Civil Lberties Committee
Goodyear Tire Company
Senate Commerce Committee
Irish Honor Patron Saint Parade in New York
March 17 crowds fill Fifth Avenue from 44th to 110th Street for the citys largest St. Patrick procession. Cardinal Hayes presides at St. Patricks Cathedral while bands and bagpipes lead the green clad revelers past midtown onlookers and a favorable weather forecast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
St. Patrick
Fifth Avenue
44Th
110Th Street
St. Patrick's Cathedral
Cardinal Hayes
Ireland
Girl Is Found Lying By Road
Point Pleasant West Virginia March 17 night police chief Grover Hite said a well dressed young woman about 20 found beside the Charleston Point Pleasant road was identified as Ary Hughes of Rocky Mount North Carolina. Hite added she could not identify herself and was remembered as a girl who came to Point Pleasant after the February flood looking for a job. Road commission workers found her about six miles from here.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
W. Va
Grover Hite
Charleston Point Pleast
Ary Hughes
Rocky Mount
North Carolina
Hite
Road Commission
Mussolini defends rearmament amid Libyan voyage show
Premier Mussolini addressed about 100,000 in Tripoli asserting Italy must rearm to meet threats from others. He criticized what he called alarmist anti Italian sentiment in democratic nations and defended Italy's military buildup across sea, sky, and land. He spoke from a pavilion near the governor's palace during his first Libyan visit in a decade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tripoli
Libya
Mussolini
Italy
Mediterranean
Il Duce
Civil Service Commission Requests $1625 For Remainder Of Year
The High Point Civil Service Commission asked the city council for 1625 to operate the office for four months. Councilors referred the request to the finance committee hoping to lower it and questioned the 250 monthly salary for secretary E. H. Smith. The budget notes stenographic fees may come from Smith’s salary. The council opposed setting a 250 monthly salary precedent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Council
High Point Civil Service Commission
Commission
E. H. Smith
Smith
Nevada Divorces Lead as Notables Flock to Reno Courts
Reno, March 17. Stage and screen figures head the 1937 Reno divorce parade as lawmakers study liberal laws for their states. Reno courts dissolve marriages at over 150 monthly. thirteen prominent couples from New York, Washington, Boston, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Chicago already divorced this year with more expected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reno
Nevada
Stara
New York City
Washington
Boston
Philadelphia
San Francisco
Chicago
LaGuardia Remarks Stir German Government Again
German Ambassador Hans Luther planned to lodge new representations with the United States over Mayor La Guardia’s Madison Square Garden anti Nazi speech. Luther scheduled a meeting with Secretary Hull after a prior protest and apology from the State Department. He is said to have called Hitler a map without honor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Hans Luther
Adolf Hitler
la Guardia
New York
Hull
Estate Department
Madison Square Garden
Carrier Stocks Register Gains
New York March 17 carrier stocks spattered the market ticker tape with gains of fractions to 2 or more points. Slight selling pressure appeared in many other sections of the market.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Queen Dowager Marie of Romania Faces Crisis
In Bucharest a crisis developed in Queen Dowager Marie of Romania after two days of apparent recovery from a gastric illness. Doctors planned an early operation decision as injections were given and surgeons debated its necessity. The 61 year old queen dowager was attended by at least one physician and a lady in waiting. Her daughters Queen Mother Marie of Yugoslavia and former Queen Elizabeth of Greece stayed nearby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bucharest
Rumania
Maren
Marie of
Marie
Yugoslavia
Elizabeth
Greece
Gossett Mills Increases Pay Across Carolinas and Virginia
B. B. Gossett announces a 10 percent general wage increase for about 4,000 workers across 14 textile plants in the Carolinas and Virginia, effective March 29. Plants are in Charlotte, Anderson, Calhoun Falls, Martinsville, Pineville, Williamston, and Pendleton. This is the second raise in five months for the chain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlotte
B. B. Gossett
Carolinas
Virginia
Chadwick-Hoskins Company
Gossett Mills
Anderson
8. C
Calhoun Mills
Calhoun Falls
Martinsville Cotton Mill Company
Martinsville
Planta
Pineville
Williamston
Pendleton
Randolph County Votes On Roosevelt Court Reform
CUTHBERT Georgia Randolph county ballots on March 17 showed support for President Roosevelt’s federal court reform proposals marking the first county nationwide to register a ballot box opinion. The vote also included a tax collectorship option with a simple for or against query on the plan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cuthbert
Randolph County
Roosevelt
Payne Reported Near Charlotte
Mecklenburg county police patrolling county highways to locate Bill Payne an escaped convict and a companion reported by witnesses in the sector near Charlotte.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlotte
Mar
Mecklenburg County
Bill Payne
Mrs Hoskins Succumbs After City Crash
Mrs Bascom Hoskins of 412 Gatewood avenue died at 2 10 pm after a crash at Willowbrook and Taylor streets yesterday morning. The 412 Gatewood resident, a city tax collector bookkeeper, suffered skull base and internal injuries and multiple bruises. Her husband, linked to Blair Hoskins shoe and Welborn’s house furnishing firms, died in 1921. An ambulance brought her to the hospital during the accident. She was active in the First Baptist church and local social circles. A taxi driver Paul Vincannon, 21, was reported at the wheel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bascom Hoskins
Gatewood Avenue
Willowbrook
Taylor Streets
Myrtle Desk Company
Hoskines
Rust praises Soviet farmer in Memphis report
John Rust, co inventor of a mechanical cotton picker, said Soviet collective farmers have a far greater measure of security than southern tenant farmers. He spoke after returning from Tashkent in the USSR where he and his brother Mack demonstrated the picker for Soviet officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Memphis
Tenn
John Rust
Soviet Russia
Rust
Tashkent
Republic of Uzbec
Mack
Kidnapping Case To Be Dropped In Orange Court
Hillsboro March 17 Solicitor Leo Carr said the case against William J. Anderson of Elizabeth City charged with kidnapping the wife of Walter W. Cohoon would be dropped when called in Orange superior court It may be called today for action by the court and prosecutor's office
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hillsboro
Leo Carr
William J. Anderson
Elizabeth City
N. C
Walter W. Cohoon
Pasquotank County
Orange Superior Court
Amelia Earhart Eyes Weather Go For Honolulu Flight
Amelia Earhart awaited a weather bureau go signal to launch from Oakland toward Honolulu on the first leg of a 27,000 mile world flight. She and three male companions planned to take off between 4 and 5 p m local time after a three day delay with favorable conditions reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oakland
Calif
Amelia Earhart
Weather Bureau
Honolulu
State payrolls top 350 million in 1936
Raleigh March 17 The state unemployment compensation commission announced it seems reasonable to estimate that all classes of employers in North Carolina had payrolls which reached or exceeded 350,000,000 for the year 1936.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
State
North Carolina
Madrid Bombarded as Loyalists Decry Neutrality Breach
Insurgent artillery hit central Madrid in a government clash over neutrality. Anthony Eden was told two German ships loaded with war materials headed for an insurgent port in violation of the pact. A Dutch coaster was seized near Ceuta prompting four submarines to readiness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madrid
London
Anthony Eden
August Corps
Consul Corps
Eden
Non-Intervention Control Board
Spain
Ceuta
Morocco
Siguenza
Brihuega
Doctor charged in Charlottesville death case
Dr. R G Miller a middle aged dentist was charged in Albemarle circuit court with killing Cleo Sprouse by chloroform given willfully deliberately and with intent to cause death The bill filed by Commonwealth's attorney W O Fife alleges the chloroform was administered while the doctor was engaged in a felony attempt to produce an abortion or miscarriage
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlottesville
R. G. Miller
Albemarle Circuit Court
Cleo Sprouse
Commonwealth
W. O. Fife
Rail pension talks push for $360 million wage rise
Washington reports railroad leaders reached a retirement system agreement for 1.5 million workers and plan to seek national wage conferences rather than system by system talks. George M. Harrison said lines may accept a national conference. The plan taxes worker incomes and employer payrolls at 21 1 2 percent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
George M. Harrison
Railway Labor Executives Association
Harrison
J. J. Pelley
Association of American Railroads
City seeks more PWA funds for grade crossing work
The High Point City Council approved resolutions to ask the Public Works Administration for additional funds to advance the grade crossing elimination project and to request a 30 day extension for letting contracts. The move follows bids higher than estimates and will await a meeting of engineers city officials Southern Railway officers and the State Highway Commission to determine changes and a specific funding amount. The initial PWA grant was deemed insufficient and bids are being held while plans are reviewed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point
Public Works Administration
E PP Ee
No DB Astewa
Southern Railway
State Highway Commission
B. M. Knox
PWA
Senate Completes Work On School Machinery Measure
RALEIGH March 17 The senate finished work on the school machinery and motor vehicle code bills and sent them to the house for concurrence in amendments. Lawmakers, not expecting adjournment, pushed to wind up business quickly. The senate also passed the amended highway and public works commission reorganization bill and adjournment sine die could come by midnight Saturday if no major changes occur and the house accepts the senate changes. The Volger voting hours bill was enacted establishing polls from 7 am to 7 pm with no polls opening after sunset.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
Senate
House
Highway and Public Works Commission
Horton
Volger
Locarno Pact Father Dies in London at 73
Sir Austen Chamberlain, called father of the Locarno treaty, died of a heart attack in his west end home aged 73. The former Chancellor of the Exchequer and foreign secretary served 45 years in public life, was son of Joseph Chamberlain and half brother of Neville Chamberlain, with tributes pouring in from British statesmen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sir Austen Chamberlain
London
Austen Chamberlain
House of Commons
West End
India
David Lloyd George
Joseph Chamberlain
Neville Chamberlain
Blum Demands Free Hand In Settling Aftermath of Riots
Paris dispatch says Socialist Premier Leon Blum threatened resignation to win free rein over the aftermath of the Clichy riots. Leftists clashed with police leaving five dead and around 300 wounded as Blum sought unity within the Popular Front to handle the crisis. Maurice Thorez and Jacques Duclos were said to be asked to grant him leeway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Leon Blum
Popular Front
Clichy
Maurice Thorez
Jacques Duclos
People's Front
M. Blum
FDR Recalls Wedding Day From Warm Springs
The Roosevelts marked the 82nd anniversary of their wedding with telegraphic greetings as President Roosevelt relaxed at his Georgia retreat while Mrs Roosevelt stayed away from a White House family dinner, recalling the Saint Patrick’s Day wedding in New York when Teddy Roosevelt gave Anna Eleanor Roosevelt away.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warm Springs
Mrs. Roosevelt
St. Patrick’s
New York City
Teddy
Anna Eleanor Rosevelt
White House
Washington
Income tax receipts set a new state record
Income tax payments for the fiscal year to yesterday reached 8,701,116.16 dollars, beating expected 8.6 million and the previous record of 8,200,000 dollars, according to Revenue Commissioner A. J. Maxwell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
A. J. Maxwell
Negro Pays With Life For Murder
In Nashville Tennessee at 5 30 a m Anderson Berry 24 was executed in the electric chair for the murder of 65 year old Hugh Matlock a Fayetteville stonecutter beaten to death near Fayetteville in October 1935 Berry and James Smith were convicted with Smith executed earlier in the year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nashville
Tenn
Anderson Berry
Netro
Tennessee
Hugh Matlock
Fayetteville
Matlock
Governor Murphy Proposes Mediation to End Chrysler Strike
Detroit March 17 Governor Frank Murphy proposed mediation groups to settle labor disputes as thousands of sit down strikers outside Chrysler plants defied an injunction. About 6 000 union members gathered for the tenth day, while two UAW leaders declined Murphy’s invitation. The plan includes tribunals handling grievances and county mediation boards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Frank Murphy
Stri
Chrysler Automo
Strr
Conse
Uni Automobile Workers of
Amer
Murphy
Cooperative Action
Mders
Michigan
Circuit
al Campbell
Sire Thomas C. Wilcox
Corporatio Legal
Com
Thomasville approves municipal building project in PWA plan
Special election returns a large majority in Thomasville with 333 for and 42 against the municipal building plan to use a $10 000 estimate funded by 45 percent PWA grant and 55 percent city funds. Two sites under consideration, old R L Held homeplace or city lot with fire station on East Guilford street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomasville
PWA
R. L
Salem
East Guilford
Iater
North Carolina Death Rate Drops Sharply in February
Raleigh report from the bureau of vital statistics shows North Carolina's February death rate at 9.9 per thousand, down from 12 last February. Influenza deaths totaled 143 vs 270 a year earlier, pneumonia 347 vs 555, births 6,159 vs prior period, and violent deaths rose to 186 from 1. There were 2,865 deaths from all causes that month.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
North Carolina
Bureau of Vital Statistics
Also Mentioned on This Page
St. Patrick’s Day
Civil Service Body
LaGuardia
Hitler
Georgia County
Payne
Amelia
Associated Press
Brevard
Macon
W. H. Bowden
Ruth Owen
Bowden
Greenville
S. C
Locarno
Blum
Fdr
Negra
Establis Murphy If
Junction
Thomasvilla
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!