Child receives pioneering x ray therapy for glioma
May 7 Chicago AP report on five week old Helaine Colan whose grandfather Dr Morris Hershman arranged x ray treatments at Mercy Hospital Institute for radiation therapy to save sight and life. Dr Herbert Schmitz says two similar male patients were treated recently, with five years needed to gauge success.
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Chicago
Helaine Colan
Herbert BE. Schmitz
Mercy Hospital Institute For Radiation Therapy
Morris Hershman
Thom s town man near death after shooting at station
Bill Adkins lies near death in a local hospital from a gunshot wound to the stomach allegedly inflicted by Henry Younts during a confrontation at the Reed Moore filling station on the Thomasville High Point highway. Nellie Davis of High Point is held as a material witness in Thom asville jail.
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Thomasville
Bill Adkins
Henry Younts
Reed Moore
Thomasville High Point
Nellie Davis
High Point
Sir Samuel Hoare Warns Dictators as Democracies Face Facts
In Blackpool on May 7 AP reports Sir Samuel Hoare telling a Rotary International club conference that democracies will flourish beside the Juggernaut machines if they face facts. He argues democracies cannot countenance antisemitism of the German dictator or the Russian dictator's class distinctions between rich and poor.
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Blackpool
England
Samuel Hoare
Secre
Rotary International Club
Abbeville Teen Killed in County Line Car Crash
Thomas Jack Blanchett an 18 year old of Abbeville was killed when his car overturned near the Greenwood Abbeville county line Charlie Boseell also of Abbeville the other occupant was slightly injured.
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Abbeville
Thomas Jack Blanchett
Greenwood - Abbeville
Charlie Boseell
Labor leader warns Lewis would push to capture PA primary
James L. McDevitt of the Pennsylvania State Federation of Labor says CIO Chief John L. Lewis would be on the march to the White House if he gained control of the majority party in Pennsylvania. He calls Lewis’ interest in the May 17 primary a last desperate effort to control the Keystone State.
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Philadelphia
James L. McDevitt
Pennsylvaniatate Federation of Labor
CIO
John L. Lewis
White House
Pennsylvania
Lewis
Murder Roxboro Youth Is Mystery
The bullet pierced body of Lee Laws, 20, Rougemont youth, was found yesterday in a mill pond near Roxboro. Friends said they last saw him at a Rougemont filling station last Saturday afternoon without a tie.
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Roxboro
Lee Laws
Rougemont
Here
Laws
Jersey City clash looms as speeches denied to two congressmen
In Jersey City two U S representatives were barred from public talks by Public Safety Director Casey who called them obnoxious to citizens over communistic efforts. O Connell and Bernard pressed on planning a mass meeting with potential for clashes with police and city veterans backing Mayor Hague amid civil rights protests.
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Jersey City
N. J
Frank Hague
Jerry O'Connell
Montana
John T. Bernard
Minnesota
Norman Thomas
United States
Publi Safety
Daniel Casey
Jerry J. O'Connell
D.-Mont
F.-L.minn
Journal Square
Casey
Democratic National Committee
Hague
O'Connell
Bernard
Washington
New York
Hudson River
CIO
A. F. of L
Hudson County Building and Construction Trades Council
Central Labor Union
Michael F. Condron
Orange
State Federation of Labor
America
Editor Henry Hufner Dies by Suicide in Shanghai
Shanghai city editor Henry Hufner of the Evening Post leaped from the navy Y M C A sixth floor and left a self written obituary for his paper. The notice said he wished to be with his fiancée Violet Thompson and requested they be buried together. Hufner had come to Shanghai from Whitestone Long Island New York.
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Shanghai
Henry Hufner
Shanghai Evening Post
Navy Y. M. C. A
The
Evening Post
Hufner
Violet Ethel Thompson
Whitestone
Long Island
N. Y
Worst Features Of Old Feudalism Combined In South
AFHW delegates toured Piedmont as part of southern unionization efforts. Leeds Moberly argued the South blends feudalism with 20th century capitalistic exploitation, criticizing clerks of clothing mills and wages, while the convention prepared to elect officers Tuesday.
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AFHW
Charlotte
American Federation of Hosiery Workers
Piedmont
Leeds Moberly
Philadelphia
Democrats Name County Delegates
Democratic party machinery began functioning with precinct meetings from Manteo to Murphy to name delegates to county conventions on May 14. County conventions select delegates to the state convention on May 19. There are 3,614 delegates to the state convention. Registration for the June 4 primary opened today and runs through May 21.
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Raleigh
Manteo
Murphy
Hopkins Indicates WPA Costs Could Reach Three Billion
WPA Chief Harry Hopkins told a House subcommittee the relief program may cost about 3 billion dollars in the full fiscal year, up from the 1 billion initial estimate. He projected winter relief could peak at around 3.1 million clients, with average 2.8 million over seven months.
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Washington
Congress
Harry L. Hopkins
Works Progress Administrator
Budget Bureau
House Appropriations
Roosevelt
Hopkins
Public Works Administration
Farm Security Administration
Speed Sought For Wage Hour Bill Petition Demonstration
Washington May 7 House proponents of wage hour legislation press to bypass the rules committee and have the measure considered immediately. They cite 218 signatures in about two hours as a mandate for preferential status, though under rules the earliest date for action is May 23.
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Washington
House
Rules Committee
Chinese Guerrillas Move To Annihilate Nantungchow Base
Chinese guerrillas in Nantungchow threaten to annihilate the Japanese garrison at the supply base on the Yangtze north bank. Japanese reinforcements flee Shanghai to save the decimated town as civilians suffer in street fighting and mass killings.
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Nantungchow
North
Kiangsu
Shanghai
Yantze River
Wantungchow
Lunghai Railway
Fowang
Yangtze
Two Die In Flames After Auto Sideswipes Vehicle
The May 7 Thomasville crash left two men dead as a tangled wreck burst into flames. Walter E. Walker, identified by his wife, was among the victims. the other man remained unnamed. A coroner jury attributed the deaths to the unidentified driver’s whisky influence after the collision near Thomasville while returning from Lexington.
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Enterprise
Thomasville
Lexington
W. E. Walker
Tipton Street
J. R. Terry
Walker
Walter E. Walker
High Point
Walter EB. Walker
A. H. Denton
Top Award Won By Deacon Paper
Wake Forest's Old Gold and Black won the class A award for best college newspaper in North Carolina at the North Carolina Collegiate Press Association spring meeting. Davidson college's Davidsonian won the class B award for schools with fewer than 1,000 students.
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Charlotte
Wake Forest
Old Gold and Black
North Carolina
North Carolina Collegiate Press Association
Davidson College
Davidsonian
Parents Face Life or Death Choice Over Baby’s Cancer
In Chicago a five week old girl with glioma in both eyes weighs surgery that may save life but cause blindness, against letting nature take its course. Parents, doctors, and a grandfather debate an operation that likely would remove both eyes to save the child. The decision rests with Dr. Herman Colan and Estelle Colan amid family and medical counsel.
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Chicago
Helaine Colan
Herman Colan
Estelle
Morris Hershman
Baby Colan
Hershman
Colans
Shariene
KKK Warns Against Mayor Recall In Florida
In Miami a Ku Klux Klan warning claims to halt a mayoral recall drive targeting Mayor Robert R. Williams and City Commissioners J. W. DuBose and R. B. Ferguson. Harry J. Tryon says a Klan signed message was mailed to recall headquarters warning to stop recall activities. Tryon notes appeals to Washington for protection of two Filipino coast guardsmen and their white wives cited in Klan threats.
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Miami
Fla
Ku Klux Klan
Washington
Harry J. Tryon
Robert R. Williams
J. W. DuBose
R. B. Ferguson
Tryon
Florida Power and Light Company
Cleveland Relief Crisis Sparks City Action
May 7 Cleveland amid an unheard welfare crisis as indigent residents crowd relief offices. Mayor Burton says no funds exist yet but cabinet meets to consider emergency steps while a $50,000 stopgap may run out Monday for the aged infants and ill.
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Cleveland
Harold H. Burton
Insurance policy simplification urged at Asheville meeting
Chris D. Sheffe of New York urged streamlining insurance policies at the American Association of Insurance Agents annual meeting in Asheville. He warned against cumbersome tripartite forms covering fire life and casualty, predicting their abandonment. He was the principal convention speaker as officers awaited election.
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Asheville
Chris D. Sheffe
New York
Sheffe
American Association of Insurance Agents
War fears rise as France and Britain urge restraint over Czechoslovakia
Paris May 7 notes dispatched by French and British ambassadors to Germany and Czechoslovakia warn against violence over Nazi minority demands in Czechoslovakia. Mussolini reportedly seeks to pressure Berlin while Britain and France push for calm. Italy chases forced recognition of its Ethiopia conquest via the League as Rome seeks broader appeasement.
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Paris
London
Europe
Germany
Czechoslovakia
Mussolini
Hitler
Czechoslvakia
Italy
Chamberlain
Daladier
Ethiopia
League of Nations Council
China
Russia
Britain
Haile Selassie
Lasley Chosen Head of North Carolina Science Academy
J W Lasley, UNC mathematics professor, was elected president of the North Carolina Academy of Science. Donald B. Anderson of NC State was named vice president and C Bradbury of Wake Forest joined the executive committee succeeding E W Speas of Wake Forest. The action took place in Raleigh on May 7.
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Raleigh
North Carolina Academy of Science
J. W. Lasley
Lasley
University of North Carolina
E. W. Speas
Wake Forest College
Donald B. Anderson
State College
C. Bradbury
Death by own action of pretty unknown Brunette at bus terminal
Police seek identity of a young brunette who swallowed poison at a midtown bus terminal after leaving a note signed The little girl in grey. The note urged warning to other girls about running away from home and hinted at a life of danger. A second note named Vernie Keen of Brook as having seen the girl in grey during a Lyons Georgia trip. The deceased was about 5 feet 6 inches, brown eyed, and described as 14 to 16 years old with a perceived bad reputation.
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New York
Baloha
Grey
Vernie Keen
Brook
Lyons
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