Fifty Thousand People Must Be Rescued From Flooded Area
New Orleans May 5 AP The relief machine in Louisiana focuses on rescuing 50 000 people cut off by breaches in the Mississippi levee Overhead air support comes from navy planes while life savers from the lighthouse service aid evacuation to concentration camps in state and Mississippi towns The scene recalls harrowing memories as families cling to hope and livestock struggles to swim against the floodwaters Engineers and workers race to divert floodwater back into the Mississippi to save the sugar belt of the south-central state
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Louisiana
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Great Lakes
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McLean
National Guard
Halifax County
van Metts
Warrington
Wilson
George Ross Pou
Pau
Pou
Mr. Pou
Associated Press
Relief boats move refugees from flooded Mississippi valley
Memphis dispatch reports fleets of relief boats evacuating refugees as the Mississippi flood expands. Medical teams and the Red Cross establish centers and distribute medicines, food, clothing, and tents to nearly 200000 people in the upper valley with concern over typhoid and smallpox. Colonel Spaulding leads the rescue fleet as crews evacuate those willing to leave Natchez by steamers Dorothy Barrett and John Barrett.
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Memphis
Louisiana
Gulf
Mississippi
Upper
William R. Redden
American Red Cross
George Spaulding
Army Engineering Corps
Natchez
Dorothy Barrett
Winter Haven
Water Craft Transportation Department
John Barrett
Flood Threat Looms Over Mississippi Delta Towns
Fifty thousand people faced flood threats as the Mississippi and its tributaries released waters from torn levees. The rising lakes swallowed lowlands and covered crops, advancing toward homes and farmlands in May.
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New Orleans
Court ruling finds home liquor for personal use not illegal
Gaston county bootlegger Lester Mull, serving two years, is discharged by the North Carolina Supreme Court. The decision rejects the sale-violation point and holds that possession of liquor in a home for personal use is not unlawful under the Turlington act when there is no allegation it is kept for sale.
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Lester Mill
Gaston County
Supreme Court
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Dr Laughinghouse Addresses High Point Rotarians on Public Health
Dr Charles O H Laughinghouse executive secretary of the state health board spoke at the High Point Rotary club luncheon. He urged mass instruction to raise individual disease prevention awareness and self protection while noting rising deaths from heart kidney and nerve diseases. He cited North Carolina using public health resources for Mississippi Valley flood relief and invited volunteers to assist relief efforts.
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North Carolina
Charles O'H. Laughinghouse
State Health Board
High Point Rotary Club
Laughinghouse
John T. Burrus
North Carolina Medical Society
Mississippi Valley
McMullin
Memphis
Britain and Mellon war debt notes spark diplomatic exchange
Washington reported Britain issued an official note addressing Secretary Mellon's Hibben letter on war debts. Kellogg replied the matter remained domestic and no diplomatic exchanges were sought. Britain disputes Mellon's statements about debtors and emphasizes continental debt concerns without aiming to provoke US controversy.
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Great Britain
Mellon
Hibben
Princeton University
Kellogg
Treasury
United States
England
Mr. Mellon
Germany
London
Downing Street
Associated Press Today
Frank B. Kellogg
Dr. Hibben
Mellon-Hibben
Rebel General Galleger Shot in Guanajuato
Former General Rodolfo Galleger, labeled the sole prominent rebel in Guanajuato, was shot dead by pursuing federal forces near Lost Oreganos yesterday.
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Mexico City
Rodolfo Galleger
Guanajuato
Election of Officers for East Carolina church
ELIZABETH CITY May 65 AP The election of officers and selection of time and place for next year’s convention were slated for disposal at the East Carolina Protestant Episcopal church.
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Elizabeth City
East Carolina Protestant Episcopal Church
Two More Fatalities in Naval Air Service
In Norfolk Virginia two naval officers died in air accidents raising the toll to ten in two weeks. Lieutenant Commander Hardy B Page and Lieutenant Russel V Pollard were killed when their plane crashed about 500 feet from the ground near a grain elevator. Witnesses differed on whether the craft burned in flight or after impact.
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Norfolk
Navy
Hardy B. Page
Russel V. Pollard
Earth
American Balloonist Reaches Record Free-Balloon Altitude
Captain Hawthorne Gray, Army aeronaut, ascends to about 41 000 feet in a free balloon near Scott Field Wellville US. He flies four hours from 1 33 p m to 4 p m, landing 100 miles away at Golden Gate Alabama, surpassing the former 36000 foot German record. Gray previously finished near Mount Holly North Carolina in Bennett Cup trials after starting from Little Rock Arkansas.
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Wellville
America
Hawthorne
Gray
Army Aeronaut
Bureau of Standards
Washington
Golden Gate
Hawthorne C. Gray
Mount Holly
N. C
Little Rock
Ark
Three Donations To Flood Fund Recorded Today
In Little Rock on May 5 the Enterprise reports only three contributions to the flood relief fund amid post lynching unrest. Militiamen with fixed bayonets patrolled as Governor Martineau rushed home, aiming to restore order after a Black man was lynched and his body burned.
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Little Rock
Martineau
National Guard
van Buren
John Cartr
Glennie Stewart
B. E. Stewart
Robert Love
Grays Cross Examinations Detail Snyder Killing
Henry Judd Gray testifies in the Ruth Snyder murder case detailing the assault on Albert Snyder with a window weight. He describes burying evidence, attempting a burglary cover story, and traveling from Queens Village to Syracuse before returning to New York.
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Henry Judd Gray
Ruth Snyder
Albert Snyder
Gray
Snyder
Justice Scudder
Jamaica
Queens Village
Snyders
Grand Central Terminal
Syracuse
Samuel Miller
Onondaga
Haddon Gray
Haddon
Mamie
Albany
Miller
Firay
Southern Baptist Convention Day Discusses Report
Louisville May 6 The Southern Baptist convention debated thecommittee on business efficiency report amid warnings of heated discussion. The plan calls for enlarging the executive committee and halting or shrinking several boards while a minority opposes extra Christmas cash offerings and a tithe goal.
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Southern Baptist Convention
Committee On
Austin Crouch
Murfreesboro
George W. McDaniel
Inter-Board Commission
American Baptist Theological Seminary
Education Board
Mountain Counties Extend Trout Stream License Rules
The eight mountain counties Buncombe Mitchell Surry Jackson Haywood Yancey Avery and Alleghany now require a state fishing license for all methods of taking fish from trout streams. The notice from Assistant Director J K Dixon of the Conservation and Development Department cites the Angler's Act extension by petition of county commissioners and orders enforcement in these counties.
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Mitchell, Surry
Jackson
Haywood
Yancy
Avery
Buncombe
Alleghany
Board of Conservation and Development
City School Music Department Presents Two National Week Programs
Greensboro on May 5 reports the city school music department staged a vocal mass chorus of 500 last night and will present an instrumental concert at the Odell Memorial building tonight. Grady Miller, director, leads the two programs. the vocal event drew great praise.
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Greensboro
City School
Odell Memorial Building
Grady Miller
City Council Postpones Most Business. One Meeting Called
City council members met briefly and adjourned around 10 PM with most items postponed. Mayer Moffitt named for another session tomorrow night after issuing today’s noon call for the meeting.
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Mayer Moffitt
Boothe Enters Third Week With Dead Lungs
Walter Boothe, 338 hours after his lungs collapsed during spine surgery, began a third week on artificial respiration at Roanoke hospital. A bulletin said he was having a good day but doctors remained hopeful only for a possible continued life, not recovery.
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Roanoke
Walter Boothe
Boothe
Duke endowment funds aid hospitals and orphanages
Eighty one hospitals and orphanages in North and South Carolina received part of a $383,583 distribution from the Duke endowment fund. North Carolina institutions got $278,939 and 36 orphanages received $111,543, split between the two states.
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Charlotte
North Carolina
South Carolina
Duke Endowment Fund
B. J. Duke
French aviator sails toward nonstop Atlantic flight
Dakar dispatch reports Capt. Saint-Roman, a French aviator, departed St. Louis Senegal at 6 30 this morning aiming to cross the Atlantic non stop to Permanhaco Brazil a distance around 1875 miles.
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West Africa
Saint-Roman
St. Louis
Senegal
Atlantic
Permanhaco
Brazil
Meyer named head of farm loan board in wartime plan
Washington May 5 AP appointment of Eugene Meyer, chairman of the War Finance Corporation, to lead the Farm Loan Board. The administration also accepts the resignations of Robert A. Cooper and Edward E. Jones as board members.
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Washington
Eugene Meyer
War Finance Corporation
Farm Loan Board
Robert A. Cooper
Edward E. Jones
Red Cross Relief Fund Surges Toward Eight Million
Washington May report shows Red Cross relief fund rising sharply with overnight subscriptions pushing total to 7,183,548 dollars. The drive gains momentum as more donors contribute to support disaster aid.
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Washington
The
Red Cross
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