Wage-Hour Bill Lobby Strives for 18 More Signatures
House sponsors claim 200 pledges for wage-hour legislation hope to gain 18 more signatures to reach a majority and force a floor vote. Absent members are being urged to return and sign, with about 25 Republicans among the pledges. If 218 signatures are secured, debate could start May 23.
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Washington
House
House Rules Committee
Pepper
D-Fla
Senate
United States
Housing Authority
House Banking Committee
Congress
Harrison
Senate Finance Committee
Chrysler declares 50 cent dividend for common shares
Chrysler Corporation directors announce a 50 cent per common share dividend. In the previous quarter no dividend was paid. Also included are brief items about Dr. Arthur E. B. Morgan denying a defense fund for reinstatement at the Tennessee Valley Authority and Representative John O'Connor outlining a plan for a strong navy to defend the nation, as 5,000 attendees witness the launch of major naval additions at Norfolk.
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New York
Chrysler Corporation
Pittsburgh
Arthur EB. Morgan
Tenessee Valley Authority
Invincible Navy
Portsmouth
John O'Connor
Congress
Atlantic
Pacific
House
Les Committee
Orfolk Navy Yard
Peele Named To Care District In South Methodist Church
Charlotte News reports Dr W Peele assigned to the Care district of the Methodist Church South with residence in Charlotte He was elected on Tuesday in Birmingham and previously led the First Methodist Church here for nine years before a Greensbor o assignment over a year ago.
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Want Peele
N. C. Charlotte
N. C
The
Charlotte News
W. ’. Peele
Methodist Scopal Church
South
Charlotte
Peele
Birmingham
Greens
Pasquale Parisi Sentenced in Missing Person Case
Pasquale Parisi, 25, convicted of attempting to harm Murray Levine in the case linked to missing Peter Le Vie, was sentenced to Sing Sing today for a term ranging from two to five years.
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New York
Pasquale Parisi
Murray Levine
Peter Levie
Warns 0 Stay Prepared by War Woodring
Washington May 6 Woodring warns that continued aggression by dictator nations could force the United States into war if democracies fail to act. He cautions that while no immediate general war is seen, the danger of a larger conflict must be acknowledged and prevented before it escalates.
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Washington
Woodring
Wood
United States Chain of Commerce
Europe
Payne Case Actions Taken In North Carolina
Raleigh May 5 Ernest Fowler 49 convicted in one county of criminal assault Kenneth Taylor 26 convicted of murder faces death in the state’s chamber May 20 unless Governor Hoey intervenes The state supreme court denied appeals as it released 38 opinions in a day and failed to decide in the Payne case High Patrolman George Penn shot near Eville The court held that theft of a cow does not prove innocence of theft Justice Schenck noted a Superior Court erred in denying a new trial for Louie Haker
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Raleigh
N. C
Ernest Fowler
Kenneth Taylor
Klin County
Gov- Hoey
State Supreme Court
Bill Payne
North Carolina
Ace Fel
George Penn
Eville
Michael Schenck
Ter J. Bone
Louie Haker
Clare Purcell Named New North Carolina Episcopal Bishop
Clare Purcell, elected bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, assigned by the college of bishops to oversee the North Carolina Western North Carolina South Carolina and Upper South Carolina conferences. Born in Columbia Alabama in 62 years, educated at Birmingham Southern Vanderbilt and Emory. Former North Alabama conference member for 30 years and pastor of First Methodist Gadsden for seven years.
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Birmingham
Ala
Clare Purcell
Alabama
Methodist Episcopal Church, South
College of Bishops
North Carolina
South Carolina
Upper South Carolina
Bishop Purcell
Columbia
Birmingham Southern College
Vanderbilt
Emory
North Alabama
First Methodist Church
Gadsden
Tuscaloosa
Talladega
Fascist Mobilization Law Aids Japanese Drive in Shantung
Japan invokes a fascist style mobilization law to halt China’s rising power as it presses the second major offensive in southern Shantung province. Associated Press reports the action signals intensified wartime measures and broader mobilization.
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Associated Press
Japan
China
Shantung
Mother accuses son of four long unsolved murders
A 72 year old mother in Washington accused her son of four unsolved killings, detailing a murder in Seattle ten years ago and alleged prior slayings in Montana and Idaho. Deputy prosecutors arranged a first meeting in a decade as investigators used a ruse to obtain the tale. Both are jailed on grand larceny after the state could not prosecute for Bassett's disappearance.
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Walla Walla
Wash
John Schermer
King County
Mary Eleanor Smith
DeCasto Earl Mayer
James Eugene Bassett
Seattle
Joe McCauley
Mayer
Montana
Idaho
Ernest la Casse
Butte
Mont
Ole Larson
Anaconda
Randall
Bassett
Washington State
Chinese army seizes Matowchen as Shantung offensive continues
Shanghai dispatch reports Chinese forces capturing Matowchen four miles northwest of Tancheng, key to the Japanese advance toward the Lung hai railway. Tancheng encircled, while General Miao Chenlieu’s 57th army drives Japanese toward Antungwei near the Yellow Sea.
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Shanghai
Matowchen
Tancheng
Shantung Province
Lunghai
Talerhchwang
Miao Chen- Lieu
Antungwei
Yellow Sea
Shantung-Kiangeu
Haichow
Tourist Camps Rapped by Judge
Associate Justice Heriot Clarkson ruled the state can padlock the Greenwich Village tourist camp near Charlotte as a public nuisance. The decision in Solicitor John G. Carpenter v Dr M F Boyles was issued yesterday, with Clarkson comparing the action to ancient judgments against cities in the Jordan plain.
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Raleigh
Heriot Clarkson
Greenwich Village
Charlotte
John G. Carpenter
M. F. Boyles
Clarkson
Plain of the Jordan
Hosiery Workers Urge Delegates to Press Wage-Hour Bill
Emile Rieve of the American Federation of Hosiery Workers urged New England and Pennsylvania GOP delegates at the Charlotte convention to press Republican congressmen for a vote on the Wage-Hour bill in the current session. He warned action must come soon as the House Rules Committee blocked it last week amid GOP and Southern Democrat opposition. He cited telegrams from House leaders and a call from John L. Lewis to keep up the push.
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N. C
Emile Rieve
American Federation of Hosiery Workers
New England
Pennsylvania
House Rules Committee
Rieve
O'Connor D
Atlanta
International Ladies Garment Workers’ Union
David Dubinsky
Ben B. Douglas
National Executive Board
Emil Rieve
Philadelphia
Federation
Italy
Germany
Hitler
Enid
Czechoslovakia
Mussolini
Sudeten Germany
Japan
Burning Of French Liner Probed At Le Havre Dockyard
Le Havre France May 5 report that the French liner Lafayette nine years old burned in drydock. French minister ordered an immediate inquiry into the fire with one theory blaming a blow torch igniting oil tanks in the hold. The 25178 ton ship was reported to be insured for between 800000 and 1000000 pounds.
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LE Havre
France
Louis de Chappedelaine
Lafayette
London
Dempsey Testifies in Bribery Trial in Raleigh
Major James C. Dempsey of the Federal Alcohol Tax unit testified in U S district court in Raleigh that he tried to trap agents who built the case against him. He said he was taken into custody at Union Station and claimed others beat him to the evidence.
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Raleigh
James C. Dempsey
Wilson
Federal
Alcoholic Tax Unit
United States District Court
Union Station
Dempsey
W. A
Punk) Harris
Elizabeth City
Norfolk
France fixes franc at 2.79 cents in stabilization move
Paris reports the Daladier government set a new bottom at 2.79 cents per franc to anchor the franc to the pound. The measure caps the floating rate at 35.80 francs to the dollar and aims to curb price rises while police monitor currency-driven inflation.
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Daladier
France
United States
Britain
Ministry of Interior
Paul Marchandeau
Marchandeau
Finance
Taylor Receives Scholarship at NC State Awards
Louis V. Sutton warns NC State students that heavy specialization risks cultural growth while announcing 25 scholarship winners. Honors include Alpha Zeta cup to B A Heidlebach Jr and top averages for H M Taylor Jr and G B Achorn in engineering programs, with BK S Scott also noted among Raleigh entries.
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Raleigh
N. C
Louis V. Sutton
Carolina Power On Light Company
N. C. State College
Sutton
Alpha Zeta
B. A. Heidlebach, Jr
Danville
H. M. Taylor, Jr
High Point
Achorn
Danielson
Conn
Scott
Seven Children Born To Woman In Cuba Report
Dr Roberto Fonseca of a Bayamo hospital said a farm woman near Bayamo Oriente province gave birth prematurely to seven children, all of whom died before arrival. He visited the woman but the midwife had disposed of the bodies. the birth occurred Monday after three months gestation. The woman Rafaela Canova, 30, was recovering.
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Havana
Cuba
Roberto Fonseca
Bayamo
Oriente Province
Rafaela Canova
Senators Seek Federal Loans to Railroads to Rehire Workers
The Senate banking committee approved a bill to provide federal loans to railroads for equipment and maintenance. Reconstruction Finance Corp chair Jesse H. Jones testified the loans would substitute for WPA spending and require 75 percent used to reemploy workers dismissed between September 1 and May 1.
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Washington
Senate Banking Committee
Jesse H. Jones
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Jones
Harry Hopkins
WPA
North Carolina Truckers Seek Higher Intrastate Rates
The Utilities commission studied an application by North Carolina truckers to raise intrastate rates to the level approved for intrastate rail freight. If granted, class and commodity rates would rise 10 percent, with five percent increases for agricultural products livestock eggs lumber and cotton seed.
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Raleigh
The
Utilities Commission
North Carolina
War Readiness Demonstrated By Mussolini
Naples watchers witnessed Italy’s navy in a grand showing for Hitler with 200 ships and seaplanes. The 22,000 ton battleship Cavour led the fleet as Mussolini Hitler and King Vittorio Emanuele observed, while submarines and smoke screens underscored the display.
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Italy
Cavour
Hitler
Mussolini
Vittorio Emanuele
San Marco
Rome
Santa Marinella
Furbara
Trout Fishing In Refuges Planned
The department of conservation announced that Mt. Mitchell Daniel Boone and Sherwood Forest refuges streams will be open to fishing Saturday and Sunday and on July 3 4 and August 13 14.
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Raleigh
Department of Conservation
Mt. Mitchell
Daniel Boone
Sherwood Forest
AFL Peace Pact Sought At Chamber Convention
Washington May 5 6. AFL proposes a private peace pact to end industrial warfare with labor inviting industry to join in creating jobs through private enterprise The United States Chamber of Commerce approved the conciliatory approach as necessary to raise employment and boost production while urging government to reduce interference taxation and spending and to curb the labor board.
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Washington
Lewis E. Pierson
Irving Trust Company
New York
Pierson
American Federation of Labor
United States Chamber of Commerce
Federation
Tim
Chamber
George H. Davis
Kansas City
National Labor Relations Board
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