Noted fliers to attend decennial Greensboro High Point airport opening
Dick Merrill will head a list of renowned pilots at the Friendship airport decennial celebration marking its reopening. Captain Frank Hawks and other leading aviators from across the country are expected, as Greensboro and High Point push civic ties and aviation prominence.
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Dick Merrill
Frank Hawks
Greensboro High Point Airport
John 8S
Lambie
Greensboro High Point
Friendship
Merrill
J. T. Martin
Greensboro
Charles L. Kearns
Martin
High Point
Guilford
Kearns
Haworth Addresses Supreme Court Proposal at Lions Club
Byron Haworth local attorney spoke at the Elwood hotel to the Lions club on President Roosevelt’s proposed Supreme Court change. He argued the proposal is less dangerous than opponents claim and noted historical changes to the court since 1905. He urged a constitutional clarifying amendment as the better remedy.
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Byron Haworth
Lions Club
Elwood
Roosevelt
Supreme Court
J. B. Fink
Haworth
High Court
Glenn R. Ward
Frank Massey
Guilford College
Stock market recovers as steel shares rise modestly
Labor tension eases in the steel field and many diving stocks climb back on the recovery platform with gains from fractions to over two points. Trading stays quiet with profit taking near the four hour mark limiting extreme advances in a few cases.
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New York
Body Of Woman Found In English Channel
The body of a woman in a flying suit was recovered from the English Channel five miles off the coast by a train ferry crew. The pilot of the Duchess of Bedford says the body could not be his employer who vanished on March 22, leaving identity a mystery. The text also notes a whippet’s claimed speed, racing 200 yards in 12 to 16 seconds.
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Dover
Eng
English Channel
Duchess of Bedford
Cotton Textile Firms Seek to Recover Taxes in 10 Suits
Ten lawsuits filed in United States District Court seek to recover more than two million dollars in principal taxes paid under protest by cotton textile manufacturers. Plaintiffs claim the taxes on processing and floor stock were unconstitutional under the Agricultural Adjustment Act as held in Hoosac Mills.
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Greensboro
United States District Court
Collector of
Internal Revenue
Charlies H. Robertson
Washington Mills Company
Forsyth County
Mineola Manufacturing Company
Guilford County
Gibsonville
Tabardrey Manufacturing Company
Alamance County
Asheville Cotton Mills
Buncombe County
Travora Manufacturing Company
United States Supreme Court
Hoosac Mills
Air Lines Names Robert Turner To Manage Traffic
Robert L. Turner of Beaumont Texas has been named district traffic manager for Eastern Air Lines Greensbor o High Point airport. Turner arrives with Sam Wilkes who becomes divisional traffic manager. Resumption of air mail passenger and express service will bring three planes daily with arrivals 11 35am 10 35pm and 3 20am. Formal dedication set for May 28 29.
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Greensboro
Robert L. Turner
Beaumont
Tex
Eastern Air Lines
Greensboro-High Point
Turner
Sam Wilkes
Atlanta
O. Henry
Airfail
Charlotte
North Carolina Ranks Seventh in Life Insurance Payments
A National Underwriter compilation shows North Carolina policyholders and beneficiaries received 31,000,000 in 1936 84 931 per day while state per capita payments stood at 8 97. Charlotte led with 1 558 000 followed by Winston Salem Raleigh Asheville Greensboro and Durham among others.
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North Carolina
Charlotte
Winston- Salem
Raleigh
Asheville
Greensboro
Durham
High Point
Wilmington
Rocky Mount
Gastonia
Wilson
Thomasville
Kinston
Concord
Salisbury
Goldsboro
Fayetteville
New Bern
Garland Motors appoints Clarence W Haley to sales dept
Gaines Garland, president of Garland Motors Incorporated, announces Clarence W Haley is joining the sales department. Haley brings years in the automobile business in High Point and will work in both the used and new car divisions.
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Gaines Garland
Garland Motors, Incorporated
Clarence W. Haley
Mr. Haley
High Point
Government to map 980 square miles for 4800 dollars
The Agriculture Department will spend about 4800 dollars to air map 980 square miles in High Point area. Standard Aerial Surveys of Hackensack New Jersey submitted the low bid. Maps cover Guilford Davidson Forsyth and Randolph counties with work to start within 30 days and finish this summer.
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Washington, D. C
High Point
Department of Agriculture
Hackensack
N. J
Guilford County
Davidson County
Forsyth County
Randolph County
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Moon Phases Explained by Earth Moon Sun Geometry
The moon’s phases result from the changing relative positions of the earth the moon and the sun. As the moon orbits earth sunlight illuminates different portions of its visible surface creating new crescent quarter gibbous and full phases.
Civic Center and Library Open in Morehead City
The civic center and public library, gifts from Mr and Mrs Earle Webb of New York and Morehead City, opened to the public today.
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Morehead City
Civic Center and Public Library
Earle Webb
New York
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