Roosevelt urges prompt settlement in coal strike talks
President Roosevelt stepped into deadlocked soft coal negotiations urging operators and workers to reach a fair workable wage agreement promptly. He sent a telegram to John R. Steelman noting the bloc is not insurmountable and bargaining should continue in the public interest.
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Washington
Roosevelt
United Mine Workers
Steelman
John R. Steelman
Labor Department
Conciliation Service
New York
White House
Perkins
CIO
John L. Lewis
Secretary of Labor
The
United States
High Point Officials Lead North Carolina Monogram Conference
Bill Simmons of High Point elected president of the second annual North Carolina High School Monogram Conference at the closing session. Fred Cooper of Roanoke Rapids becomes former president. Ed Short of High Point named vice president and Wells Tillery of Lexington treasurer. The UNC Monogram Club president for 1939 40 will serve as secretary for the high school group.
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H. P. Boys
Chapel Hill
Bill Simmons
High Point
North Carolina
Derby field trimmed to nine as Challege withdraws
Churchill Downs Louisville May 6 The Kentucky Derby field was cut to nine horses after William Woodward's giant bay colt Challege was withdrawn. A crowd of more than 175 000 was expected for the 65th running under a hot sun and a mild southern breeze.
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Churchill Downs
Louisville
William Woodward
Challenge
Pepper urges repeal of all neutrality legislation
former Senator George Wharton Pepper of Pennsylvania told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that Congress should repeal neutrality laws to show no commitments and to doubt the present world emergency requires such legislation.
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Washington
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
George Wharton Pepper
Pennsylvania
Congress
Damage suit against Dodd dismissed by Virginia jurist
In Fredericksburg Virginia Judge Frederick W Coleman dismissed the $25 000 damage suit brought on behalf of a Glass Grimes Negro child injured by Dr William E Dodd last December The defense noted that Dr Dodd s insurer paid 3500 for the child s benefit as a compromise
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J. W McGuinn
Duke Power Company
High Point
Guilford Lubor Court
United States
Grover H. Jones
A. Wayland Cooke
Superior Court
H. Hoyle Sink
Guilford Superior Court
Fredericksburg
Frederick W. Coleman
William E. Dodd
Germany
Glass Grimes
Dr. Dodd
North Carolina Collegiate Press meeting elects officers
Delegates at Greensboro held their annual North Carolina Collegiate Press Association session on May 6 to elect officers and discuss editorial issues. Charles B. Driscoll of New York delivered a talk to student journalists last night.
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Greensboro
N. C
North Carolina Collegiate Press Association
Charles B. Driscoll
New York
Gas Truck-Train Crash Takes Toll Of 3 Lives
Three fatalities and a critically burned survivor followed a northbound Atlantic Coast Line freight train collision with a Gulf gasoline truck in Fayetteville. The blast destroyed nine boxcars and two houses, with fire spreading and power lines to the waterworks cut. Victims included engineer A F Buchanan and driver George W Barbee.
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Fayetteville
Atlantic Coast Line
Gulf
A. F. Buchanan
Rocky Mount
George W. Barbee
Early Powers
F. H. Fowler, Jr
Barbee
Buchanan
Powers
Clark Opposes Neutrality Act Amendments in Senate
Senator Clark of Missouri pledges no policy to choose sides in advance of war and criticizes the Thomas amendment. He backs a Nye Bone plan to keep embargo powers, authorizing Congress to decide when war is in progress if the president does not.
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Washington
House
Congress
Representative Cox
D-Ga
National Labor Relations Board
House Labor Committee
Cox
Labor Committee
Senate
Burke
Dneb
Clark
D-Mo
House of Representatives
Thomas
Dutah
Pittman
Dnev
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
United States
Missourian
United States Senate
Nye
Bone
New North Carolina Academy of Science President Named
May 6 report from Wake Forest notes Dr. H. L. Blomquist of Dale University elected president of the North Carolina Academy of Science. He won the post on the first day of the joint session with the North Carolina section of the American Chemical Society.
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Wake Forest
H. L. Blomquist
Dale University
North Carolina Academy of Science
North Carolina
American Chemical Society
North Carolina Seeks Opportunities for Negro Workers
At a Raleigh conference on the Negro’s employment problems leaders said the state’s undeveloped potential of its 29 percent Negro population is the key issue. Harold L. Trigg urged equal opportunities to earn living in all occupations, with Dr. Graham stressing a balanced, more just inter racial state through education and cooperation.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Harold L. Trigg
Trigg
Graham
Liberalized divorce rules urged for new united church
A special committee recommended liberalizing divorce regulations for the unified Methodist Church to recognize mental and physical cruelty as valid grounds alongside adultery. Delegates will decide, with ministers allowed to remarry the innocent party. The convention faces funding pressures and shortened schedule through May 10.
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Kansas City
New Unified Methodist Church
Orion W. Fifer
Cincinnati
Pittard Heads North Carolina Chiropractors Association
Dr Hal K Pittard of Oxford was elected to lead the North Carolina Chiropractors Association for the coming year as the two day convention neared close. Other officers elected were Paul W Transon and S D Coleman. Limbaugh spoke on the Limbaugh Technique and Brown discussed new ideas in spinal orthopraxy.
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Hal K. Pittard
Oxford
North Carolina
Chiropractors’ Association
Pittard
Association
E. P Brenner
High Point
Sheraton Hotel
Paul W. Transon
Winston-Salem
S. D. Coleman
Limbaugh
H. A. Limbaugh
Asheville
Carl H. Peters
State Board of Chiropractors
General Assembly
Peters
E. I. Nott
Graham
A. C. Sikes
Concord
H. A. Limbaush
Asheville and
Transon
Ball Foundation Reclaims Alleghany Stock Ties to Note
Counsel for the George and Frances Ball Foundation said Robert R. Young and associates turned over 1 200 000 shares of Alleghany Corp common stock used as collateral for a 2 575 000 note. The move revests ownership of the stock in the foundation which established the rail network tied to the Sweringen heirs.
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Cleveland
George and Frances Ball Foundation
Robert R. Young
Essociates
Alleghany Corp
van Sweringen
Chesapeake and Ohio
Nickel Plate
Pete Marquiette
Erie
Missouri Pacific
Chicago
Illinois
Young
The
Ball Foundation
George A. Ball
Muncie
Ind
Norwegian Press Opposes German Non-Aggression Pacts
Oslo reports widespread disapproval in Norwegian press of German proposals for non aggression pacts with four Scandinavian countries. The reaction highlights tensions amid German diplomacy in May.
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Oslo
Norway
Diplomats Flee Chungking Area After Bombing
Foreign diplomats fled Chungking as Japanese raids caused 4 000 to 5 000 casualties. The British consulate moved to the Yangtze south bank while German officials sought new quarters on the outskirts. Chungking’s population shrank as refugees streamed away amid fires and water shortages.
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Thungking
Yangtze River
Robert Leslie Craigie
Tokyo
Renzo Sawada
Chungking
British King and Queen sail to Canada and United States
King George VI and Queen Elizabeth depart from Portsmouth aboard the Empress of Australia on a historic six week journey to North America. Crowds cheer, salutes thunder, and Prime Minister Chamberlain and US Ambassador Kennedy bid farewell. Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret wave from the pier.
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Portsmouth
England
George VI
Queen Elizabeth
Canada
United States
Australia
London
George
North America
America
U. S. VA
Chamberlain
Joseph P. Kennedy
Princess Elizabeth
Margaret Rose
Poland Rallies Behind Becks Firm Refusal
Poland backed Foreign Minister Joseph Becks rejection of German demands on Danzig and the Polish Corridor. Berlin hinted at talks with Ribbentrop in Milan while Britain eyed a Soviet mutual aid basis and Rome pressed for moderation in Axis diplomacy.
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Associated Press
Free City
Danzig
Germany
Berlin
Joachim, von Ribbentrop
Milan
Galeazzo Ciano
Joseph Beck
Pomorze
Aatican
Italy
Pius XII
Poland
Hitler
Cesare Orseigno
Robotnik
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Rome
Count Ciano
von Ribbentrop
Britain
Soviet Russia
Soviet Union
London
Moscow
Russia
France
Romania
Viscount Halifax
Ivan Maisky
Mediterranean
Turkey
Akhham
Ankara
Berchtesgaden
Count Galeazzo Ciano
Weather outlook for South Atlantic states rain and fair spells
The period starts with rain across the South Atlantic states then clears by midweek with fair conditions. Temperatures run near normal, slightly cooler in the northern portion midweek.
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Orrereaae Weerk
South Atlantic
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