Britain Italy Face Break Up Over Spain War
Rome reports La Tri buna says outcome hinges on Italian volunteers in Spain and Mussolini sent a note to London amid fears of a Franco victory. London Cabinet plans in response to warnings of strained Anglo Italian ties under the Mediterranean accord and Ethi opia crisis.
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Rome
la Tribuna
London
Dino Gandi
Spain
Francisco Franco
Italy
Mussolini
Guadalajara
Eric Drummond
Europe
Ethiopia
Britain
House of Commons
Addis Ababa
Rodolfo Grazinani
Lord
Plymouth
Dino Grandi
College heads oppose liquor in Durham and Orange counties
A joint statement by Duke University President William P Few and UNC President Frank P Graham urges voters in Durham and Orange counties to consider the universities when liquor referendums are held. They say liquor stores harm the physical intellectual and spiritual development of young people who come to Duke and UNC.
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Greensboro
Mar
William P. Few
Duke University
Frank P. Graham
University of North Carolina
Durham
Orange Counties
M. T. Plyler
Masters to Speak at North Carolina Neuro-Psychiatric Meeting
The North Carolina neuro-psychiatric society will meet at the state hospital in Raleigh on Friday afternoon. Dr. Howard R. Masters, president of the tri-state medical society, will deliver the keynote address.
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Raleigh
Mar
North Carolina Neuro-Psychiatric Society
State Hospital
Howard R. ‘Masters
Tri-State Medical Society
Defenders Hold Madrid Front as Insurgent Siege Presses
News from Madrid reports insurgent forces, now on the defensive, digging in northeast of the capital as government assaults resume. A sea sortie near Castellon de la Plana reportedly killed seven and injured eighty, including women and children, while air attacks hit the Guadalajara and Jarama lines as Franco's forces entrench against a siege.
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Madrid
Febus
Castellon de la Plana
Valencia
Benicasin
Castellon
Guadalajara
Jarama
Francisco Franco
Insurgente
Allred seeks data on London school blast findings
Gov. Allred in a novel move asks the military court of inquiry for recommendations after the London community school blast deaths. Captain Edward Clark of Austin notes evidence favors accidental gas buildup due to heating and a faulty pipe, with no person clearly responsible.
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Austin
Tex
James V. Allred
Military Court of Inquiry
London Community School
Gaston Howard
Edward Clark
Clark
Joe Hill
Henderson
Liquor Stolen From Nashville ABC Store
Thieves broke into the Nash county ABC store in Nashville last night and took 11 cases of whiskey and assorted stock. Officials report the robbery was the first at this store since its creation, with two bars pried apart and a window raised. No clues to the robbers’ identities were found early this afternoon.
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Nashville
Nash County Abc
Peaches Estate Case Wins for Frances Browning Hynes
Albany March 24 Mrs Frances Heenan Peach es Browning Hynes widow of Edward W Browning Happy over New York Court of Appeals ruling upholding her dower rights in her first husband estate Rejecting Dorothy Browning Hood adopted daughter of the Browning estate operator Theodys Denver wife of a theater manager said she was told of the decision and doubted the amount she will receive and that the marriage was legal despite court business she added she does not know how much she will get.
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Albany
N. Y
Frances Heenan
Peaches
Browning Hynes
Edward W
Daddy) Browning
New York
Dorothy
Sun
Shine) Browning Hood
Dunn
N. C
Denver
Princeton Leaders Oppose Roosevelt Court Bill in Senate Testimony
Princeton University President Harold W Dodds and Louis J Taber of the National Grange condemned the Roosevelt court plan as a step toward authoritarian government. They testified in the Senate Judiciary Committee as Wheeler argued changes not needed and urged state laws to govern child labor products.
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Washington
Princeton University
National’ Farm
Today Am
Senate Judiciary Committee
Harold W Dodds
Princeton
Louis J. Taber
National Grange
Grange
Senate
Wheeler
D.mont
Roosevelt
Supreme Court
Desperado Bill Payne Sought by Multi-County Police Chase
Six carloads of armed officers from Scotland Harnett Cumberland and Robeson counties chase Bill Payne an escaped prisoner last seen near Red Springs and reported blocking a motorist on a highway after fleeing from Caledonia prison farm. The pursuit spans from Wagram to Lillington with sightings of a mud spattered car.
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Fayetteville
Mar
Scotland
Harnett
Cumberland
Robeson
Here
Lillington
Bill Payne
Red Springs
Payne
Caledonia
Wagram
Scotland County
18 Killed As Bus Crashes At Salem Bridge
Salem Illinois March 24 A special chartered bus crashed into a bridge abutment west of town and overturned. The Salem hospital reports 18 killed and five seriously injured with flames observed after the crash and fears of a higher total. Ambulances rushed to the scene and the dead were taken to local funeral homes.
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Salem
Ill
Salem Hospital Today
Here
Farley Ranks Court Plan as Grave Error in Party
James A. Farley told a Texas legislature joint session that Democrats opposing President Roosevelt's court plan are making a grave error. He warned they lend aid to the enemy and urged action after the November election. He contrasted 1933 conditions with today and faulted the Supreme Court for limiting New Deal measures.
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Texas
Austin
Tex
James A. Farley
Roosevelt
Cuhuutl
Wweeneny
Democratic National Committee
Congress
House
Senate
Farley
Supreme Court of the United States
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Bids for County Building Work Exceed Appropriation
County commissioners in Greensboro opened bids for a High Point branch county office building and found the total low bids about 14195 above the appropriation. They discussed with architects the possibility of altering specifications to use cheaper materials and reduce costs.
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Greensboro
High Point
Dieckhoff Appointed German Ambassador to United States
Berlin reports that Dr Hans Heinrich Dieckhoff, head of the German foreign office American section, has been chosen as Germanys next ambassador to the United States. The formal announcement is pending but his name was proposed to Washington and accepted.
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Berlin
Hans Heinrich Dieckhoff
German Foreign Office
Third Reich
United States
Hans Luther
State Department
Washington
Vessel blaze under control near Pacific coast
Honolulu march 24. A motorship named Fijan reported flames brought under control after most of the crew fled to lifeboats. A gasoline explosion in the forward hold injured two Chinese crewmen of 30, while the rest fought the blaze with a skeleton crew. The sho shone coast guard cutter stood by at Jarvis Island but could not reach due to low fuel.
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Honolulu
Pacific
Fijan
Coast Guard
Janeta
Pago Pago
United States Coast Guard
Shoshone
Jarvis Island
Child Killer in Asylum in Spartanburg Case
Probate Judge Dewey D. Foster ordered Mrs. Eliza beth Shell committed to the state hospital for 30 days for observation after a coroner's jury verdict in Greenville found her mentally deranged at the time of drowning her 14 month old son in a bathtub. Milan B. Christman, her brother in law, said she had been despondent since her husband’s death and fled Spartanburg for Greenville, registering under an assumed name.
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Spartanburg
8. C
Dewey D. Foster
Elizabeth Shell
State Hospital For
Greenville
Milan
Christman
Shell
Extortion Plot In Film Colony Probed
HOLLYWOOD investigators probe an extortion plot targeting film figures. Notes threatened Anna May Wong and Mrs. David Selznick with harm unless $20,000 was paid, with links to Louis B. Mayer and a proposed Biblical film featuring Aimee Semple McPherson. A Dr. Foote acted as witness after receiving a note.
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Hollywood
David C. Selznick
Anna May Wong
Miss Wong
Clyde Plummer
David O. Selznick
Louis B
Plummer
Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson
Mrs. McPherson
Angelus Temple
Dam Would Aid Malaria Fight in Santee-Cooper Basin
In Columbia, testimony in federal court hearings on the Santee-Cooper hydro project estimated annual malaria control costs at 50000 dollars. Dr. R. G. Hamilton testified that proper mosquito control could make much of the state livable, but he doubted feasible control in the low country swamps and streams under present conditions.
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Columbia
8. C
Santee-Cooper
R. G. Hamilton
S. C. Board of Health
Santee
Hamilton
Governor Hoey to Announce Appointments After Session
Raleigh March 24 Governor Clyde R Hoey says he will begin naming many commissions and other appointive positions created by the recent legislative session within the next few weeks. He noted that after adjournment he will concentrate on these appointments and announce them as rapidly as possible with attention to state wide liquor issues.
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Enterprise Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
Raleigh
Mar
Clyde R. Hoey
General Assembly
Hoey
Kidnap Case Suspect Hangs Self in Cell
Buenos Aires report says Gancendo Gonzalez known as Lingera, tied to Argentina Lindbergh case, hanged himself in Dolores jail while awaiting trial. He had confessed kidnapping and killing two year old Eugenio Bereyra Iraola, son of a wealthy cattleman, found strangled Feb. 27 on the estate. He began re enacting the crime for officers before stopping.
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Buenos Aires
Ose Gancendo Gonzalez
Lingera
Gancedo Gonzales
Eight Negroes Poisoned In North Carolina Bread Incident
In Rocky Mount North Carolina eight Nash County residents were poisoned after bread baked in the same oven was seasoned with a pesticide bought to kill potato plant pests. A 43 year old farmer Johnnie Whitehead near Castalia his wife and four children and two relatives were hospitalized with hopes for full recovery. A quantity of poison was found near the flour container at the Whitehead home.
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Rocky Mount
Nash County
Johnnie Whitehead
Castalia
Whitehead
Fewer Job Seekers Reported in North Carolina
The State Employment Service in Raleigh says active job seekers fell to 98,740 for the week ending March 18, the first sub 100,000 figure since June 1935. It placed 1,818 persons in jobs, including 1,053 active placements.
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Raleigh
State Employment Service
Chrysler Strike Talks Hear UAW Officials Step In
Reports from Lansing indicate proposals for peaceful evacuation of striker occupied Chrysler plants will be submitted to high UAW officials. Governor Murphy said the conference with Walter Chrysler and John L. Lewis has been satisfactory but no settlement was reached.
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Lansing
Mich
Chrysler Corp
United Automobile Workers
Chrysler
Walter P. Chrysler
John L. Lewis
Murphy
Washington
Kaut
D.-Mich
National House of
Ham Martin
Walter Chrysler
John Ll. Lewis
Lace factory sit down closes in Pawtucket and Boston strike
In Boston heavy police kept watch as 6 sit down strikers forced the closure of a Pawtucket lace mill. C I O leaders promised updates within a week as Am Textile officials said the Pawtucket plant would shut at noon. Workers slept on tables at the third floor. no formal demands were presented.
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Boston
Pawtucket
Edward W. Fallon
S&s
Ame Textile Company
Pawtuck
Edward J. Brown
Lace Makers Union
Berea College Leader Hutchins to Speak in Greensboro
Dr. William J. Hutchins president of Berea College in Kentucky will be the principal speaker at the meeting of the Piedmont club of Berea College alumni here on April 11.
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Hutchins
Greensboro
William J. Hutchins
Berea College
Kentucky
Strikers Fire Upon Lumberton Mill Pickets
Douglass Prevatt and Ada McLean mill striker filed assault warrants against Cliff Taylor and Purley Thompson after a dawn firing incident near the Ada mill yard. Prevatt led about ten pickets who were sprinkled with shotgun pellets and escaped with scratches. He said a shotgun blast under a nearby building and shell fragments were linked to Thompson as the group fled toward the darkness. Prevatt described the strike as peaceful and aimed at better hours and higher wages.
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Picke
Taylor
Thomson
Prevatt
Thompso
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