Police Search Woods For Man Named Collins
Police hunt Cleveland Collins 39 after he shot Harry McLean 32 near High Point on the Greensboro road. A stray bullet wounded neighbor Howard Watkins 14 as officers encircled wooded areas and Collins fled on foot. McLean was hospitalized in Greensboro in fair condition. witnesses say McLean attacked Collins earlier in the night and Collins warned he would kill them.
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Cleveland Collins
Harry McLean
High Point
Greensboro
Howard Watkins
Sheriff's Department
Collins
McLean
Clinic
Young Watkins
R. C. Smith
Rufus, & Son
Cleveland
Smiths
FDRs Cruiser Uses Whaleboat To Aid Injured Sailor
The Philadelphia carrying President Roosevelt diverted from a vacation to assist an injured sailor aboard the Norwegian steamer Marathon Montreal to New Orleans. A surgeon boarded via whaleboat after a 6:20 p m SOS, the doctor removing a steel splinter from the seaman's eye and leaving medicines for treatment.
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Charleston
Philadelphia
President Roosevelt
South Atlantic
Navy Yard
Montreal
New Orleans
Fanning
Oscar Davis
Davis
Younts Held For Shooting After Night Club Fight
Henry Younts of near Thomasville is jailed on assault with deadly weapon charges. Nellie Davis of High Point, 19, holds as a material witness as Bill Adkins fights for life from a stomach wound inflicted by Younts with a .32 pistol at the Reed Moore filling station on the Thomasville High Point highway after a party dispute over a bill. Davis, an eyewitness, said a prior argument occurred during a dancing party before leaving the station.
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Thomasville
Henry Younts
Nellie Davis
Davis Street
High Point
Bill Adkins
Younts
Reed Moore
Thomasville High Point
Adkins
Enterprise
Miss Davis
X Rays Offer New Hope To Save Life And Eyes Of Baby
Chicago reports that five week old Helaine Colan has glioma spreading along her optic nerves. Doctors propose radiation therapy starting Monday to try to save the infant’s life and eyes. surgeons doubt surgery will help, while some see a potential but unproven benefit.
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Helaine
Chicago
Helaine Colan
Herbert EB. Schmitz
Mercy Hospital Institute For Radiation Therapy
Schmitz
Morris Hershman
Cassius C. Rogers
Garfield Park
Rogers
Herman Colan
Estelle
Rose Scorzo
New Deal May Push Definite Program
Washington May 7 AP A definite administration legislative program for the remainder of the session may flow from White House conferences with party leaders next week. Roosevelt returns from a Caribbean fishing trip and will confer on wage hour revival and other program items with leaders before adjournment.
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Washington
Congress
Florida
House
White House
Roosevelt
Warm Springs
Pepper
Jurist Atty Gen To Be Nominated In Raleigh Meeting
R Gregg Cherry, state Democratic chairman, called the committee to meet in Raleigh May 18 to nominate a state supreme court jurist and attorney general. The vacancy followed the death of Associate Justice C W Connor two weeks earlier. Seawell had been appointed to the court from the attorney general post, and McMullan filled his former role.
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Gastonia
R. Gregg Cherry
Democratic Executive Committee
Raleigh
Supreme Court
C. W. Connor
Hoey
A. A. F P. Seawell
Seawell
Harry McMullan
Cherry
Box Office Stars Draw Big Bucks For Last Year
The Independent Theater Owners' Association faces a clash over glamor versus figures as top salaries are listed. Clark Gable earned 5000 a week and Shirley Temple 125000 plus per picture, with others like Gary Cooper and Bing Crosby charging high sums, while Miss Temple has led the box office for three years and Astaire and Rogers head the turnstile champions.
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Independent Theater Owners’ Association
Clark Gable
Shirley Temple
Robert Taylor
William Powell
Jane Withers
Gary Cooper
Bing Crosby
Myrna Loy
Sonja Henie
Miss Temple
Astaire
Rogers
Bloodshed Threats Halt Jersey City Political Rally
In Jersey City on May 7 Vito Marcantonio of the ILD called off a planned speech by Jerry J. O Connor and John T. Bernard amid warnings of bloodshed from a mob linked to Mayor Hague. Thousands gathered as veterans and labor groups protested, with police present and no demonstrations by the crowd.
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Jersey City
N. J
Vito Marcantonio
International Labor Defense
Jerry J. O'Connell
Dmont
John T. Bernard
FL Minn
Journal Square
Marcantonio
New York
ILD
Frank) Hague
O'Connell
Bernard
Col
Hugh Kelly
A. Harry Moore
State League of War Veterans
Veterans and Labor Organisations
Jerry O'Connell
Journal Savare
Hague
Col. Kelly
Hudson River
Frank Hague
York Rite Masons Open Meet In Greensboro
York Rite Masons from across the state gather in Greensboro for their annual open meeting starting Sunday and running through Wednesday. The Grand Commandery of Kaighta Templar begins with a uniform assembly at the Masonic Temple at 7 30 p m followed by a divine service at 8 o'clock at the First Baptist Church led by Rev W C Cravner grand prelate.
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Greensboro
Grand Commandery of
Kaighta
Mutual Aid In Remaking Of Europe Hinted By Dictators
Britain and France push peaceful solution to Czechoslovakia while Mussolini and Hitler seal Rome-Berlin alliance. Diplomats inform Prague of Western stance as Mussolini pledges loyalty and asks for calm amid German minority tensions.
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Fuehrer
London
Britain
France
Adolf Hitler
Czechoslovakia
Rome
Germany
Praha
Kamil Krofta
Berlin
Neville Henderson
Ernest Woermann
Benito Mussolini
Italy
Il Duce
Samuel Hore
Home Secretary
Blackpool
Hitler
Geneva
Adal Hitler
Palazzo Venezia
Alpine
Alps
Berlin-Rome
Mussolini
der Fuehrer
Duce
Rebels Break Loyal Defense
Spanish insurgents broke government defenses in Eastern Spain and pushed toward the lifeline highway linking Madrid with the ports of Castellon de la Plana and Valencia. They captured Portell and advanced from Cindorres, widening a coastal offensive to cut supply routes into government-held territory.
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Hendaye
France
Spain
Madrid
Mediterranean
Castellon de la Plana
Valencia
Castellon
Portell
Garcia Valino
Cindorres
Teruel
William Bernard Passes at UNC Chapel Hill
William Stanley Bernard longtime UNC Greek professor died at 7 PM from a heart attack after a brief illness. He would have turned 71 in September. Funeral set for Monday at noon with Rev. Alfred Lawrence officiating, burial in Chapel Hill cemetery. He is survived by daughter Mary Stanley and stepdaughter Mrs Lawrence London. Mrs Bernard preceded him in death.
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Chapel Hill
William Stanley Bernard
University of North Carolina
Alfred
Lawrence
Episcopal Church
Bernard
Mary Stanley
Lawrence London
Air Mail Pickups Planned in North Carolina May 19
James H. McKenzie state chairman National Air Mail Week announced pickup by airplane at 69 towns in North Carolina on May 19.
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Salisbury
James H. McKenzie
National Air Mail Week
North Carolina
Guerrillas Attack Japanese Forces In North China
Chinese guerrilla armies struck across North China with 13 000 irregulars concentrated at Peiping and aiding Nantungchow fighting. Japanese garrison of 300 faced 3 000 Chinese forces as the Lunghai corridor came under pressure.
Drunk Driver Crashes Into Fire Hydrant
Romaine Pitts 22 of 121 Thurston Street jailed for DUI after a car trailer left the highway at 1 30 this morning at Montlieu Avenue and Blain Street, breaking a fire hydrant and hitting a telegraph pole. Pitts was bruised and shaken.
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Romaine Pitts
Thurston Street
Montlieu Avenue
Blain Street
Pitts
Cambodian King Cuts Wives To Hundred In Frugal Era
Phnom Penh reports King Sisowath Monivong, nearly sixty, will halve his number of wives from about two hundred. Remaining wives will pursue Cambodia’s famed dancing art. French authorities back the economy move amid a modest royal allowance of about 275000 dollars yearly.
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Cambodia
Indo-China
Associated Press
Sisowath Monivong
Asia
France
Empe Bao Dai
Annam
Cochin-China
Kingdom
Phnom Penh
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