City Approves Hydroelectric Bond Plan With U S Grant
The city council amended a bond resolution and authorized electric revenue bonds up to 4 million dollars. A private sale to the United States through the Federal Public Works agency will fund 3.571 million, with interim receipt issued March 21 to accelerate funds for the hydroelectric project. The project totals about 6.43 million, financed by a 2.922 million grant and a 3.571 million government-backed loan.
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City
Electric Revenue
United States of America
Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works
Charles M. Johnson
United States
Knox
Local Government Commission
Raleigh
High Point
High Court
North Carolina House Advances Election and Budget Reforms
Raleigh March 22 The House advanced the compromise bill to end absentee votes in primaries and the 1959 41 biennial appropriations bill while sending a revised poll book and voter ree listing measure to the Senate. Lots of new bills surfaced as adjournment nears with calendar and school machinery acts set for action.
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Raleigh
House
Senate
Representatives
Joint Labor Committee
Wilson
Forsyth
Davis
Hyde
Swain County
Senate Committee
Memel Surrender: Lithuania Cedes Baltic Port to Germany
London reports Britain debates calling a League meeting as Germany pressures Lithuania to cede Memel. Parliament discusses military threats, staff talks with allies, and possible German expansion amid Baltic crisis.
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Britain
London
Germany
Lithuania
Memel
House of Commons
Samuel Hoare
Home Secretary
Chamberlain
Berlin
Memelland
Reich
Sweden
Yugoslavia
Rumania
Turkey
Greece
Netherlands
Munro
Josiah Wedgwood
United States
Sir Samuel
Philip J. Noel. Baker
Laborite
Geoffrey L. Mander
Immigration debate trains lens of reform in Senate
Senator Reynolds told a Senate Immigration subcommittee that Americans seek protection from an influx of aliens while Paul Scharrenberg of the AFL urged closing the gates for years to restore order.
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Washington
Mar
Reynolds
Senate
Paul Scharrenberg
American Federation of Labor
Ten Convicts Escape Prisons In Two Days
The penal division reports ten escapes in two days with four more fugitives listed. Bennon Orender, 67, escaped from Alexander Camp and was captured two miles away. Frank Gaddy and Walter Carr overpowered a guard at Union Camp and fled. Gaddy had 19 to 29 years for breaking and entering and larceny, while Carr had four to six years for the same charges.
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Raleigh
N. C
Mar
Bennon Orender
Alexander Camp
Frank Gaddy
Walter Carr
Union
Oscar Pitts
Gaddy
Pitt
Carr
Mecklenburg
Weir Calls Halting Steel Scrap Exports
Pittsburgh March 22. Steelmaker Ernest T. Weir urged a halt to steel scrap exports until United States builds up reserves to meet any emergency. He said such action would protect national supplies of a basic raw material.
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Pittsburgh
Ernest T. Weir
America
Reconciliation Sought Between France Italy
Paris dispatch reports Hubert Lagardelle, close Mussolini ally, urged early French overtures to Rome for a settlement of the Franco Italian quarrel. He conferred with Anatole de Monzie and carried private information on Italian public opinion and Mussolini’s plans.
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Tive
Mussolini
Hubert Lagardelle
Rome
Anatole de Monzie
Paris
Legardelle
Rules Committee Approves Thorough WPA Inquiry
The House Rules Committee approved a resolution directing the appropriations committee to conduct a thorough investigation of the Works Progress Administration. Rep. Cox introduced the measure, which seeks a report and possible legislation, with the inquiry to be conducted without Senate or presidential action. Debate is expected to reveal findings about WPA administration and related laws.
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Washington
House Rules Committee
Appropriations Committee
Works Progress Administration
Rules Committee
Rep. Cox
D-Ga
House
Congress
WPA
Senate
Sabath
D-Ill
Taylor
D-Cole
Appropriations
Cox
Roosevelt
Rules
Textile wage panel proposes 32 1 2 cent minimum wage
The Textile Industry Committee urged the wage hour administration to set a 32 1 2 cent an hour minimum for cotton, rayon, and silk workers totaling about 600,000 employees. If approved by Administrator Elmer Andrews, wages would rise for about 120,000 of the 365,000 cotton industry workers. The move hinges on resolving textile jurisdiction with the woolen and worsted committee.
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Washington
Textile Industry Committee
Wagehour Administration
Elmer Andrews
Andrews
NRA
Boy with Mumps Gets Suspended Sentence
Greensbor0 March 22. Harry Kellam 19 served one day of a 0 day sentence for drunkenness when Warden John B Long found he had mumps. Fearing an outbreak among Guilford County Jail inmates, Long appealed to Municipal Judge KE Long who suspended Kellam's sentence.
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Greensboro
Harry Kellam
Kellam
John
Long
Guiford County
KE Long
Mrs Phelps Dies At New Haven Home
Mrs Annabel Hubbard Phelps wife of Yale professor Dr William Lyon Phelps died suddenly at her New Haven home on the day after March 22. The notice names her husband and ties the death to Yale University circle.
Lewis Opposes Dissolution Of CIO Union
John L. Lewis opposed dissolving the Congress of Industrial Organizations saying unity is the goal and vowing to resist any plan to break up the CIO. He accused the AFL of trying to absorb CIO unions and warned patience could end if peace talks fail.
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New York
John L. Lewis
Congress For Industrial Organizations
Tas
CLO
American Federation of Labor
AFL
Washington, D. C
Lewis
CIO
U S Plans Latin Armament Help To South America
Washington officials told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that U S manufacture of ships munitions and arms for South American republics would deter aggression in the Western Hemisphere The testimony supported opening U S armament facilities to South American nations and set hearings on neutrality law changes for next week
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Washington
State, War and Navy Department
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
United States
Sumner Welles
William D. Leahy
Naval Operations
George C. Marshall
Army
Pittman
Dney
Leahy
America
United States Navy
Goering Sails for San Remo After Czech Coup
Field Marshal Herman Goering arrived by train in Genoa on March 22 en route to San Remo to resume an Italian visit interrupted by the Nazi coup in Czecho Slovakia last week.
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Goering
Genoa
Italy
Herman Wilhelm Goering
San Remo
Czecho- Slovakia
Italy Reaffirms Rome Berlin Axis Support in War Readiness
The fascist grand council declared Italy remains committed to the Rome Berlin axis, signaling readiness to join Germany in war if needed. It warned the democracies against a united front and tied Axis aims to Italy’s colonial ambitions in France and Central Europe.
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Rome
Mar
Grand Council
Virginio Gayda
Italy
Germany
Itay
Europe
Gayda
Berlin
Massolini
Rance
London
Ppris
Washington
Holy Alliance
Adolf Hitler
France
Austria
Czech Sudentenland
Bohemia and Moravia
Governors Fight Margarine Laws in Southern Conference
The Southern Governors Conference adopted a resolution to repeal margarine taxes and discriminatory laws, citing nationwide opposition. The meeting, led by Gov. Carl Bailey and Gov. K. D. Rivers, endorsed labor and federal action to attain freight rate parity and reaffirmed support for the rate challenge before the Interstate Commerce Commission.
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Atlanta
Southern Governors Conference
R. L. Turman
Atlant
Congress
Governors Conference
Edgar Watkins
William E. Lee
Lee
Carl E. Bailey
Arkansas
Organized Labor
K. D. Rivers
Georgia
Bailey
L. W
Chip) Robert
Democratic National Committee
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