Rabbits Feet Sent to Duke and Mrs Simpson in France
Police in Tours guard gifts to the Duke of Windsor and Mrs Wallis Simpson over fear of bombs. Parcels were taken from the post office to the Chateau de Candé, with Mrs Simpson inspecting sender addresses. More packages were expected as preparations for the wedding near.
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Edward
Wallis Simpson
George VI
London
Duke
Duchess of Kent
Marina
Greece
Eari
Harewood
Mary
Britain
Raskob Paid No 1930 Income Tax Revealed
New York May 6 John J. Raskob multimillionaire ally of DuPont and former D N C chairman paid no income tax in 1930, evidence in the 1929 tax deficiency case shows. Raskob reported 1930 income 799181.94 with deductions 867263.54 amid a wider $1.8 million attempt to collect taxes from him and DuPont.
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New York
John J. Raskob
Pierre 8. DuPont
Democratic National Committee
Mason B. Leming
Internal Revenue Bureau
Raskob
Richard Disney
U. S. Board of Tax Commissioners
Joseph Hartfield
Disney
Federal
DuPone
Wall Street
Giant Zeppelin to land today at Lakehurst
The German dirigible Hindenburg, delayed by headwinds, heads toward Lakehurst naval air station New Jersey for an early-evening landing. It was about 450 miles from the airport at 4 10 a m EST and arrival was moved from 6 am to 5 pm EST. The crew was told to report at the new hour with a return flight planned for 11 pm EST.
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Lakehurst
N. J
Naval Air Station
United States
Nova Scotia
George F. Watson
Hindenburg
Frankfort-Am- Main
Man Killed As Car Skids Onto Sidewalk
Winston Salem May 6 Kermit McGee 28 was killed and Walter Settle 24 was in serious condition after a whirling automobile skidded onto a sidewalk striking two pedestrians. H N Foster driver of the car was injured slightly.
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Winston-Salem
Kermit McGee
Walter Settle
H. N. Foster
Man Arrested In Death Of Brother
Clyde Honeycutt, 45, was held under $500 bond for the fatal shooting of his brother Thomas, 56, in a kitchen attack at their Mooresville home. A third brother, Frank Honeycutt, told Sheriff John White Moore that Clyde, who is crippled, acted after Thomas attacked him.
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Mooresville
Clyde Honeycutt
Thomas Honeycutt
Frank Honeycutt
John White Moore
Kerr Names New Leaders At Pinehurst Election
Frank P. Spruill of Rocky Mount was elected president succeeding R. E. Kerr of Charlotte. R. L. Pope of Thomasville was elected first vice president and W. H. Woolard of Greenville was named second vice president.
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Pinehurst
Frank P. Spruill
Rocky Mount
Elation
R. KE. Kerr
Charlotte
R.L. Pope
Thomaaiile
W. H. Woolard
Greenville
Bankers Hear Kerr Warn Of Liquidity Menace In 1936
President R Emmett Kerr told the North Carolina Bankers Association in Pinehurst that bank liquidity and the administration s reflation policy could threaten the country s economy. He noted an overall upward business trend in 1936 with moderate price rises and rising profits.
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Pinehurst
R. Emmett Kerr
North Carolina Bankers’ Association
Charlotte Banker
Julian 5. Miller
Charlotte Observer
Manhunt for Ebb Cathey in Wife Slaying Near Belmont
Belmont police with Gaston and Mecklenburg officers hunted the Mecklenburg side of the Catawba river for 30 year old Ebb Cathey, accused of fatally shooting Bedelia Cathey near their home in South Point township. Margaret Smith, the dead woman's cousin, said Cathey had been in a jealous dispute since Saturday and attacked her with a shotgun butt after shooting.
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Belmont
Gaston and
Mecklenburg County
Mecklenburg
Catawba
Ebb Cathey
Bedelia
South Point
Margaret Smith
London streetcar workers halt strike threat in May talks
London 10 000 streetcar workers decided to stay on the job after a conference despite union orders to strike. Ernest Bevin of the transport union promised an early settlement of the busmen strike which has jammed subways and streetcars, and warned that further action could jeopardize the busmen’s demand for a shorter eight hour day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Ernest Bevin
The
Transport Union
Bousmen
Bevin
Hughes backs court status in talk on judiciary strength
Chief Justice Hughes urged a competent independent judiciary parallel to legislative and executive branches to protect individual rights. He spoke to the American Law Institute stressing reason over force and noted no delays in Supreme Court work as term nears end.
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Washington
Hughes
American Law Institute
Roosevelt
Supreme Court
Wheeler
D.mont
Confessions Read In Court Record In Lindbergh Case Trial
The four repudiated confessions of Paul JH Wendel were read into the record at the conspiracy trial of Ellis H Parker and his son in Newark. Prosecutors contend the texts were used to block Hauptmann’s execution and boost Parker’s fame and finances as the detective who supposedly solved the famous case.
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Newark
N. J
Paul JH. Wendel
Burlington County
Ellis H. Parker
Ellis, Jr
Parker
Bruno
Richard Hauptmann
Tobacco Hit by Blue Mold Shrinks North Carolina Crop
K. J. Shaw of the North Carolina State College agricultural experiment station said blue mold would have reduced about one fourth of the 1937 tobacco crop in the state once the outbreak ended. The disease had spread from Georgia and had already affected around 75 percent of tobacco in border counties and about 10 percent in eastern North Carolina.
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Raleigh
K. J. Shaw
N. C
Farley Nearly Misstates Raleigh Landing in Virginia
At Arlington Virginia a postmaster general correction shifted Farley memory remarks during a post office dedication. He first claimed Raleigh landed in 1585 in Virginia but then corrected to 1685 noting Raleigh landed in what became North Carolina.
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Washington
Farley
Arlington
Walter Raleigh
Virginia
Warren
Sir Walter Raleigh
North Carolina
Ellenbogen Plans Textile Bill Change
Representative Henry Ellenbogen proposes dropping fair trade provisions from a textile bill that would set an 18 dollar minimum wage and an 85 hour week for about 1.25 million workers. He says the labor provisions, including ending third shifts, will stay, but questions the need to force fair trade practices if the industry does not want them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Henry Ellenbogen
D-Pa
Court closes new business with payroll tax case
The Supreme Court ended new business for the term after hearing arguments on the constitutionality of payroll taxes tied to the federal old age pension system. The court plans to decide remaining social security cases after the summer adjournment while questions from Justice Stone raised doubts about jurisdiction. George P. Davis of Boston sought to halt the Edison Electric Aluminating Co. from paying the payroll tax.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Stone
George P. Davis
Boston
Edison Electric Aluminating Company
Glass dresses expected to debut soon
Buffalo report from May 6 notes a glass fabric breakthrough by Corn ing’s Lester W. Moring at the northeastern convention of the American Institute of Electric Engineers. Fibrous glass fibers 1 to 20 inches long and 1-15th the diameter of hair can be colored, sewn like cloth, and withstand up to 1000 degrees, with a silk like feel.
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Buffalo
N. Y
So-And-So
Lester W. W. Moring
Corning
American Institute of Electric Engineers
Kentucky Coalfield Witnesses Flee After Senate Inquiry
A small group of Kentucky mountain residents sought new homes to escape vengeance after testifying on labor conditions in Harlan county. Witnesses said they feared retribution from gunmen used by coal operators to disrupt the miners union. La Follette extended subpoenas and required weekly whereabouts updates, stressing that violence toward witnesses is a federal offense.
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Washington
Kentucky
Harlan County
Senate Civil Liberties Committee
Harlan
Hugh Taylor
Virginia
la Follette
Senate
Theodore Middleton
Middleton
Jeopardy over Denhardt jury discharged in Kentucky case
In New Castle Kentucky on May 6 the circuit court discharged the jury in the Henry H. Denhardt trial after 14 days of testimony. The twelve farmers and a filling station operator stood seven for acquittal and five for conviction in a deadlocked vote. The judge said the case must be tried again. Denhardt, a 61 year old, listened as each juror refused to change their vote.
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New Castle
Henry H. Denhardt
Verna Garry Taylor
Charles C. Marshall
Soil Conservation Managers Meet to Study District Law
Eight North Carolina project managers gathered with regional director Dr. T. S. Buie of Spartanburg South Carolina and state coordinator E. B. Garrett to study the law dividing the state into soil conservation districts as enacted by the last general assembly.
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North Carolina
T. S. Buie
Spartanburg
E. B. Garrett
General Assembly
Department of Agriculture
Garrett
Bute
North
South Carolina
Virginia
Alabama
Georgia
Florida
Mississippi
J. E. Michael
Wadesboro
BE. Maurer
Greensboro
L. A. Carter
Reidsville
EB. C. Jernigan
Lexington
D. H. Massey
Franklinton
A. A. Cone
Charlotte
H. M. Kelly
Burlington
KE. T. Erickson
High Point
Byrd Pushes Three-Unit Merger for Federal Home Loans
Senator Byrd proposed consolidating three Federal Home Loan organizations to save an estimated 24.5 million dollars annually. He chairs the Senate Government Reorganization Committee and argued other significant savings could follow if the plan receives a hearing. The meeting also covered soil conservation law explanations for project managers and regional directors across multiple states.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Byrd
D-Va
Senate
Trading Is Slow On Stock Market
New York traders moved with small selling orders as leading issues pulled back. Ticker activity showed light pressure with many declines of fractions to around a point by the fourth hour.
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New York
County Board of Education Meets in Asheboro
The county board of education met in regular session Monday in the superintendent T F Bulla office. Present were Chairman J L Ross and members J A Martin D J Boyles Charles M Kennedy and A F Cox as they heard many requests from various county sections.
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Asheboro
County Board of Education
T. F. Bulla
J L. F. Ross
J. A. Martin
D. J. Boyles
Charles M. Kennedy
A. F. Cox
Taylor Death Again Probed
District Attorney Baron Pitts renews investigation into the William Desmond Taylor slaying. Subpoenas issued for Mary Miles Minter, Mrs Charlotte Shelby and Mrs Margaret Fillmore to testify before the county grand jury. Diaries cited as new information. deposition in civil suit referenced. seeking $48,000 allegedly taken from a bank safe deposit box.
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Los Angeles
Baron Pitts
William Desmond Taylor
Mary Miles Minter
Charoltte Shelby
Margaret Fillmore
Fillmore
Fitts
Grand Jury
Labor Feeds Search for Site for 1937 Convention
The executive board of the State Federation of Labor sought a meeting place for its August 12 convention. L. D. Warren of Asheville’s central union said the Asheville invitation was withdrawn for financial and other reasons.
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Winston-Salem
State Federation of Labor
L. D. Warren
Central Labor Union
Asheville
Four hundred killed and thousand wounded in Barcelona revolt
Four hundred people killed and about one thousand wounded in the anarchist revolt at Barcelona, reported by a Barcelona radio station at 5 40 p m local time.
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Perpignan
Barcelona
Mass evacuation from Bilbao as war widens in Spain
Five thousand refugees including women and children fled Basque Bilbao under British warship protection. Two Spanish steamers carried them toward the Bay of Biscay as insurgent air raids bombarded Basque centers. Barcelona, Valencia and Teruel report heavy fighting, with estimates of 100 plus dead and troops redeployed to the embattled zones.
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Guerril
Valencia
Sebastian Pozas
Paris
Bilbao
Emiiio Mola
Barcelona
Teruel
Mediterranean
Sierra Palomera
Death claims widow of Ochs in New York
Mrs. Adolph Ochs, widow of the New York Times publisher, died suddenly at Hillandale in White Plains after a heart attack. She was born Iphigene Miriam Wise of Cincinnati and married February 28, 1883. Survived by daughter Mrs. Arthur Hays Sulzberger and four grandchildren.
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New York
Adolph Ochs
The
New On Times
Hillandale
White Plains
Chattanooga
Tenn
Ochs
Miriam Wise
M. Wise
Cincinnati
Hebrew Union College of American Hebrew Congregations
Mr. Ochs
Chattanooga Times
Arthur Hays Sulzberger
New York Times
Marian
Ruth
Judith
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
Strikers Seek Nationwide Boycott of Hollywood
May 6 report says striking motion picture crafts appeal for a broad boycott and theater picketing after rejecting a peace plan that lacked closed shop and union recognition. Producers accepted the plan from the Los Angeles central labor council and AFL group. The proposal asked striking workers to return to work and for wage and working condition negotiations by union representatives.
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Hollywood
Los Angeles Central Labor Council
American Federation of Labor Group
Sai Charles Lessing
Federated Motion Picure § Erafig
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