Local Weather Outlook for Carolinas and Coast
Fair tonight and Wednesday with moderate temperatures in North and South Carolina. Hatteras to Jacksonville reports NW winds fresh at times over extreme north portion with partly overcast conditions tonight and Wednesday. Sandy Hook to Hatteras notes fresh to strong NW winds diminishing late tonight with fair weather tonight and Wednesday.
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North and
South Carolina
Hatteras
Jacksonville
Sandy Hook
Bay City Woman Attends College as 50 Year Old Student
Mrs J H George of Bay City Michigan is a 50 year old student at Bay City Junior College. She started after not attending college since 1910 and admits flunking geology and astronomy but remains positive toward her instructor and husband Prof J H George who heads the geology and astronomy department.
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Bay City
Mich
J. H. George
Bay City Junior College
Civil Service Papers Graded For City Jobs
Papers graded for city civil service posts in accounting collections and a parks division were turned over to the secretary. Examinees will be notified of their grades as the civil service commission plans to issue eligible lists for two accounting and two collections vacancies. The new Negro recreational park project is among the parks positions opening this summer.
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Division of Parks and Recreations
The
Civil Service Commission
Wade P. Renfrow
Commission
New Negro
Suits Seeks Tax Breaks in State Exemption Plan
J A Suits of Jamestown township seeks assembly seat and endorses using new state power to exempt homesteads from taxation. He proposes a $1000 exemption per taxpayer and favors lowering corporate taxes to boost business. Suits, a longtime political participant, is a first time candidate in the Democratic primary on June 4.
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General Assembly
J. A. Suits
Assembly
Jamestown Township
Democratic Party
Appropriations Panel Opposes Earmarking in New Measure
The House panel opposes earmarking in a $4.5 billion program to fund public works and relief. WPA would gain $1.25 billion to create 2.8 million jobs from July to February. Public Works Administration would run through June 30, 1940 with $965 million for construction projects.
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Public Works Administration
National Youth Administration
Civilian Conservation Corps
House
Works Progress Administration
Cat on Organ Causes Buffalo Church Rescue
Organist Abram Butler Jr heard distressing mews during Sunday service and looked to find an angry cat with five kittens inside the church organ. Animal control removed part of the instrument to free the felines and end the commotion.
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Buffalo — Church
Abram Butler, Jr
Butler
P.C.A
World Fair courier welcomed in city
A welcoming party for World Fair courier Mr. Hoskins includes local civic leaders and business figures. The visit covered fair plans and a luncheon with remarks about New York’s 1939 fair project near Flushing Meadows. The piece details the vast grounds, investment, and anticipated crowds and transportation preparations.
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Tate
Hoskins
Manhattan
Flushing
Long Island
New York
Mr. Hoskins
Abner H. Holton
The
Merchants Association
Amos R. Kearns
Prencent-Ereet Rotary Club
Threatened Labor Trouble at Michigan Steel Castings
Detroit May 10 Police showed force as union pickets briefly paraded and were dismissed by 3 pm after reports UAW CIO would try to dislodge a crew inside the Michigan Steel Castings plant where 11 were injured yesterday.
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Detroit
Michigan Steel Castings Company
United Auto Workers (Cio
Ouster action against Pitt County Sheriff Whitehurst proceeds
In Pitt County Superior Court five relatives of the late Jesse Smith testified that Sheriff Whitehurst visited Smith before federal raids and accepted money on several occasions. The sheriff denied the charges and called them maliciously false while facing claims of improper jail fees and attempts to influence the grand jury.
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Greenville
N. C
A. Whitehurst
Pitt County Board of Commissioners
Jesse Smith
G. W. Cowper
Smith
Charles Smith
Jesse
Noah Jones
Cowper
Whitehurst
ABC
Blast Fatal to Miner in West Virginia
A blast at a Welch shovel mine killed 33 year old Arthur Brooks of Key rock and injured two other workers. L D Adams 26 suffered a possible skull fracture, loss of both eyes and a severed hand. Wayne Cook 43 sustained three broken...
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Wyoming
W. Va
Welch
Red Jacket Junior Coal Company
Arthur Brooks
Keyrock
L. D. Adams
Wayne Cook
Courier Hoskins Honored by Carriers and Clubs
Mr Ha worth cited Lyles Chevrolet High Point Hardware Beeson Hardware Texas Oil Yale Towne Carolina Motor Club among contributors to the welcome for Courier Hoskins. The American Automobile Association representing the Carolina Motor Club provided courtesy provisions and protection for the couriers.
Unification Foes Incorporate to Oppose Merger
G Sears Aiken, Atlanta attorney, filed for incorporation of Loyal Southern Methodist to fight the Methodist unification approved by the church’s Birmingham conference. The group seeks to preserve church principles and acquire churches schools and hospitals without pecuniary gain or stock.
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Atlanta
G. Sears Aiken
Southern Methodist
General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South
Birmingham
Ala
Methodist Episcopal Church
South
Methodist Protestant Church
Methodist Church
Methodist Episcopal Church South
State business indices improve despite recession says Hoey
Hoey notes heavy employment in North Carolina with better than other states as textile profits lag but mills kept running to provide work. He cites slight textile improvement but widespread strength in other trades and optimism for a broad recovery. State revenues remain strong but council warns of reductions if commerce does not rebound.
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Hoey
North Carolina
Mother's Day Program in Kernersville Highlighted by Shreve Talk
A near full Kernersville Methodist Protestant church auditorium hosted a Busy Bee society Mother's Day program. Attorney Clyde A. Shreve of Summerfield delivered the address, praising motherhood as shaping national destiny. Rev. Stikeleather of Kingswood, Kentucky, will preach at the Kernersville Pilgrim Holiness church Tuesday night, followed by a church conference led by Stikeleather, district superintendent for the southern territory.
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Kernersville
Methodist Protestant
Busy Bee Society
Clyde A. Shreve
Summerfield
Shreve
Stikeleather
Kingswood
Pilgrim Holiness Church
C. A. Brown
Stikefeather
South
North Carolina
Revival Services At Sandy Ridge Church Near Colfax
Large crowds attended revival services at Sandy Ridge Methodist Protestant Church near Colfax starting Sunday morning. Knuckles the local Baptist minister preached morning and evening. Rev C B Way preached afternoon, with Rev C A Brown of Kernersville Pilgrim Holiness Church to speak Wednesday night.
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Sandy Ridge Methodist Protestant Church
Colfax
Eeeee Knuckles
C. B. Way
C. A. Brown
Kernersville
District Legion meeting to elect leaders in High Point
High Point American Legion members from posts in Greensboro Burlington High Point Reidsville Madison Leaksville Roxboro and Yanceyville gather at the Jefferson club for a district barbecue and social. Hector Blackwell state commander will deliver the keynote speech and 8 Amos Maynard district commander presides with a district officer election on the agenda.
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Jefferson Club
Legion
1Ifth
Hector Blackwell
Fayetteville
Greensboro
Burlington
High Point
Reidsville
Madison
Leaksville
Roxboro
Yanceyville
Amos Maynard
Contractor to Work Westward on Grade Crossing Project
Blythe Brothers, contractors on the grade crossing elimination project, move a shovel from the eastern end to begin excavation westward from Perry street. The auxiliary track has been pulled up to Wrenn street to allow grading, with the belt line left to serve Beeson Hardware. The new Beeson belt line should be finished soon.
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Blythe Brothers
Perry Street
Wrenn Street
Beeson Hardware Company
Beeson
Attempted Break in at Industrial Lithograph Plant
A smashed office window at the Industrial Lithograph company sparked police to suspect a last night break in but an early inventory found no entry or missing stock. Superintendent Harvey A Mills reported nothing was taken.
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Harvey A. Mills
Chinese Delegates Demand League Aid Against Japan
Chinese delegates urged the League of Nations to apply covenant provisions and implement resolutions to stop Japanese aggression. They argued firm action could hasten hostilities’ end and uphold the league’s peace principles. British Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax praised the Anglo-Italian agreement as a peace contribution, with France's Georges Bonnet supporting the France-Italy talks.
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Viscount Halifax
League of Nations Council
France
Georges Bonnet
Funeral services held for A. W. Davis at Marlboro Church
A. W. Davis, 79, prominent Marlboro farmer, died at his son J. C. Dav is home in Greensboro. Services were held Monday at 3 p m at Marlboro Friends Church, with Rev. Ed Harris Rev T J Hendricks and Rev W R Phillips leading. The church choir sang and Dean J D Messick sang. Grandchildren, friends and neighbors carried flowers. Pallbearers included Cecil Farlow Wesley Ridge Elmer Beeson Frank Davis Percy Farlow and Carl Beeson. Burial followed in the church cemetery.
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A. W. Davis
Marlboro
J. C. Davis
Greensboro
School Closing Plays At St Mathew Co M E Church
The senior ushers of St Mathew Co M E church Hay and Leonard streets present two one act plays this evening at 8 o'clock. A small admission will be charged. Fairview Street school hosts its annual food and flower show on May 24 under the PTA with prizes for foods flowers minis gardens art and more.
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St. Mathew Co. M. E. Church
Hay and
Leonard Streets
Fairview
Fairview Street
Parent-Teacher Association
James Ross
P.T. A
Will Saunders
Eula Amaker
M. C. Robinson
William Penn P T A Holds Final Meeting of Year
The William Penn P T A met in the school cafeteria Monday evening for its last meeting of the year. Principal E. Burford led a brief recreation period after the social hour. Mrs. Hayes won the monthly prize donated by Washington Street Pharmacy and Drake's Place.
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William Penn P.T. A
William Penn High School
Exchange Club Group Back From Eastern N C
Twelve members of the High Point Exchange club returned from a weekend trip to Paradise Point. They reported rich catches of fish and crabs and enjoyed speed boating sailboat trips canoeing swimming and other sports while discussing the club motto Unity for Service and planning civic undertakings.
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High Point
Ward Street Methodist Men’s Bible Class Homecoming Day
The Ward Street Methodist Men’s Bible Class will observe Homecoming Day next Sunday at 9:45 a.m. J. W. Johnson, a former teacher, will speak. The class began October 3, 1926, with the Sunday school in the first Methodist church at Oak Hill near the present Ward Street building. Former members and others are invited.
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Ward Street Methodist Church
J. R. Shelton
J. W. Johnson
Oak Hill
Ward Street
Shelton
Mapes and McLean May Allow House Wage Hour Vote
Two Republican members Mapes of Michigan and McLean of New Jersey signal willingness to waive rules and bring the wage hour bill to a House vote ahead of May 23. They oppose delay, aligning with the O Connor resolution to let the measure be called up any time. The bill sets a 25 cent minimum wage and 44 hour maximum workweek, with Senate differences pending. The AFL cites unemployment near 1936 levels at 11,232,000 idle.
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Washington
House
Mapes
R-Mich
McLean
R-Nj
Congress
O'Connor
Rules
Roosevelt
Senate
Barkley
Kentucky
Chicago Market Butter and Eggs Steady Prices May 10
Chicago producers report butter at 988 465 pounds with steady prices across creamery specials and extra firsts plus 93 score. Egg totals reach 28 419 with prices unchanged as of May 10.
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Chicago
Eges
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