Senate Conservatives Fight PWA Funds to Cut Public Works
A Republican and conservative Democrat bloc in the Senate vows to remove all Public Works Administration funds from the $3.154 billion Roosevelt lending package, cutting the program by about half. Led by Sen Byrd they oppose pump priming but back other relief agencies.
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Washington
Senate
Roosevelt
Byrd
D.-Va
House
Ho Bard
Gerry
R.R. I
Socialist party charges La Follette led Progressives fascist move
The national action committee of the Socialist party asserts the new La Follette led National Progressives of America Inc moves toward fascism. Ramseur Hosiery Mills of Asheboro received a state charter to manufacture buy and sell textile products with Johnson Craven Underwood and McCrary subscribing part of the capital.
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Chicago
National Action Committee
Socialist Party
la Follette
Raleigh
Ramseur Hosiery Mills, Inc
Asheboro
Thad Bure
M. EK. Johnson
I. F. Craven
Ramseur
W. A. Underwood
McCrary
U S Secretary Hull Refuses Comment on Mussolini Blocs Claim
Secretary Hull declined to comment on Mussolini's accusation that democracies are forming blocs against totalitarian states. He said U S policies continue on the same democratic principles traditional in United States history.
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Washington
Hull
Mussolini
United States
Hopkins Denies Charge on WPA Discharges
Administrator Marty L. Hopkins says politics played little part in Pennsylvania WPA discharges. Telegram to John B. Kelly Philadelphia Democratic city chairman notes that in substantiated cases disciplinary action has been taken.
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Hopkins
Washington
Pennsylvania
WPA
Marty L. Hopkins
John B. Kelly
Philadelphia
Moody defeats Law in North London final tennis match
In a 50 minute duel at North London yesterday Helen Wills Moody defeated England's Mrs Yvonne Law 6 2 7 5 to win the final round title.
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Mrs. Moody
Tondon
Helen Wills Moody
Yvonne Law
England
North London
Chile to quit League if covenant not reformed
Chile announced an intention to leave the League of Nations citing the council's failure to reform the covenant. Resignations would take effect after two years, with Chilean minister Edwardo stating a return if reforms occur in that period.
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Chile
League Geneva
League of Nations
Edwardo
London
Glady
Geneva
Germany to cut US tobacco imports via Austrian farming push
The Agriculture Department received word from Berlin that Germany will reduce American tobacco imports by encouraging Austrian farmers to grow the crop. Austria has had no prior commercial tobacco production.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Berlin
Germany
Austria
Rotarian Leader Says Washington Centralizes Power
Durham May 14 J Fred Essary of the Baltimore Sun told the 189th district Rotarians that there is a colossal centralization of power in the federal government and that no organized minority is strong enough to brake the Republican party He warned the party was leaderless after the 1936 elections but not dead yet as the Rotarians convention ended.
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Durham
J. Fred Essary
Washington
Essary
Baltimore Sun
Republican Party
Hancock to Speak in Winston Tonight
Rep. Frank Hancock campaigns in Winston Salem opposing Senator Reynolds for the Democratic nomination. His speech will be broadcast. Reynolds plans his first Raleigh speech next Tuesday to launch formal campaign activity.
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Winston-Sallem
Frank Hancock
Robert R. Reynolds
Senator Reynolds
Raleigh
Tuesay
Democrats Name Delegates Today to State Convention
North Carolina Democrats named 3 619 delegates at county conventions to go to the state convention in Raleigh on May 19. Wake county used Josephus Daniels as keynote speaker, the U S ambassador to Mexico. A county earns one delegate per 150 votes or major fraction from the previous gubernatorial election.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Wake County
Josephus Daniels
United States
Mexico
Foreign Help Alleged Behind Greenshirt Revolt in Brazil
President Vargas charged that the Integralists faced foreign help in their attempted overthrow. Forty greenshirts aboard the Celeste were arrested off the coast while others linked to the ban were seized at the presidential palace. Police pursued Primo Salgado, the elusive Integralists chief, as Brazil tightens control amid Nazi concerns.
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Raul Leite
Manuele Bernardi
Gustavo Barroso
Integralists
Madeira Cafreitas
Faselat
Primo Salgado
Mexico Breaks Diplomatic Ties With Great Britain
Mexico severs relations citing Britain's unfriendly stance after President Cardenas expropriated British oil properties valued at 250 million pesos. Mexico withdraws ambassador Primo Villa Michel and closes the legation. Britain may retaliate with economic measures as O Malley denounces the action as denial of justice. Continued on Page 10.
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Mexico City
Mexico
Great Britain
Britain
Cardenas
London
Primo Villa Michel
Owen St. Clair O'Malley
O'Malley
United States
Aquila
Royal Dutch Shell) Oil Company
Loyal Planes Lead Attack in Spain Front
A 650 plane government air assault on the eastern Spanish front near Cantavieja and Barcelona challenged the insurgent force in Valencia. Insurgents claimed seven enemy aircraft shot down while bombers struck Barcelona twice, killing and wounding about 200 people. Ground gains followed a breach northeast of Teruel ending a long defensive stand by Franco forces.
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Headaye
France
Valencia
Spain
Cantavieja
Teruel
Barcelona
Francisco Franco
Tallant Tubbs Leaves To Join U. S. Net Star
Tallant Tubbs former state senator and frequent escort of Mrs. Helen Wills Moody departed for England where the tennis star is competing. Reports link their names to a romance. Moody had a Reno divorce from Frederick 8 Moody last year. Tubbs is also divorced.
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San Francisco
Tallant Tubbs
Helen Wills Moody
England
Moody
Frederick 8. Moody
Tubbs
WPA Allots $75 000 For Work To Be Started Here This Month
WPA projects totaling about 75 000 dollars are to begin in High Point and surrounding areas between now and May 25. Two allotments have been approved in Raleigh for High Point college athletic field development and clerical work in the city. Additional funds, including a 6 933 dollar allotment to resume a suspended clerical project, are authorized for field work, gymnasium construction, and painting of school buildings. A separate Rockaway River note found by a boy near Morristown raises questions about a missing child, Peter Levine, as authorities compare handwriting with a similar disappearance case in New Rochelle.
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Morristown
N. J
Peter Levine
Rockaway River
George H. Ritz
Rockaway
David Allen
New Rochelle
N. Y
WPA
High Point
W. L. Smith
High Point College
Raleigh
Allen Jay High Schhool
Agnes King
Chalmers Will Deliver Elon College Commencement Address
Dr Allan Knight Chalmers pastor of Broadway Tabernacle New York City will give the literary address on the final day of Elon College commencement exercises from May 28 to May 31 the AP reports The event marks the close of Elon College's commencement program with the noted clergyman as speaker for the culmination ceremony.
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Elon
Allan Knight Chalmers
Broadway Tabernacle Church
New York City
Elon College
Hungary Moves Closer to Axis Under New Premier Imredi
Budapest reports Bela Imredi, newly formed government head, says Hungary grows closer to Germany and Italy while maintaining active peace aims. He notes ties with Poland as well amid internal fights with anti Nazi groups. Spaak forms Belgian cabinet to tackle heavy budget deficit.
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Hungary
Spaak
Budapest
Bela Imredi
Rome-Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini
Imredi
Germany
Italy
Poland
Lunghai Railway Cut By Japanese Army East of Tangshan
Japanese army communique says the Lunghai line in Central China was cut east of Tangshan and a bridge blown as traffic blocked by prior air bombardment. The Suchow junction of Lunghai and Tientsin Pukow railways faced heavy bombardment with civilian deaths amid a broader push toward Foochow and Canton Hankow routes.
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Shanghat
Lunghai
Central China
Tangshan
China
Suchow
South China
Foochow
Canton-Hankow
Tientsin-Pukow
Dr Raymond Yokeley Dies in Thomasville at 53
Thomasville May 14 Special Dr Raymond V Yokeley 53 year old physician and civic leader died at City Memorial hospital after months of illness He led the Davidson County Medical association and served in the North Carolina Medical association He was chief of staff at City Memorial Hospital and practiced in Thomasville 17 years Surviving are his widow former Miss Maude Link a son Raymond three brothers and three sisters Funeral will be Sunday at Community Methodist Protestant church with burial in Pilgrim Cemetery
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Thomasville
Raymond V. Yokeley
City Memorial Hospital
Ufe
Rotary Club
Masonic Order
VU. A
R. L. Yokeley
Welcome
Charles M. Yokeley
Lexington
John Yokeley
Fletcher Wagoner
Will Miller
Midway
Joe Meredith
Community Methodist Protestant Church
Pilgrim Cemetery
Travel ers Group Nominates R B Davis NC T O Wilson
Fayetteville was chosen as the 1939 meeting site and R B Davis of Pilot Mountain was unanimously elected president of the North Carolina division of the Travelers Protective Association at the closing session. Officers elected include O E Wilson of High Point first vice president J M Bailey Wilson second vice president W F Beck Durham third vice president J M Fitzgerald Rocky Mount fourth vice president and J F Gilliard Wilmington fifth vice president.
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Hickory
Fayetteville
R. B. Davis
Pilot Mountain
North Carolina
Travelers Protective Association
BE. Wilson
High Point
J. M. Baily
Wilson
W. FE. Beck
Durham
J. M. Fitzgerald
Rocky Mount
J. FE. Gilliard
Wilmington
Nazis Protest Arrest Of 6 In Brazil
Rio de Janeiro May 14 German government protests to Brazil over the arrest of six German citizens suspected in a failed fascist uprising against President Getulio Vargas. Brazil says the arrests were individual and not of foreign agents. Vargas accuses the greenshirts of foreign help without naming sources.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Brazil
Getulio Vargas
Vargas
Brabaut
Greenshirts
Mysterious Shooting Claims 16YearOld Girl in Rocky Mount
In Rocky Mount on May 15 a 16 year old girl Ethel Davis died en route to hospital after a shooting at her aunt’s home. Two local youths Charles Inscoe Jr 14 and Robie Lamb 17 were jailed as investigators consider murder or self inflicted death. Police seized a .38 caliber pistol linked to the incident for ballistic testing.
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Rocky Mount
Ethel Davis
Pearlie Davis
Nash County
M. C. Gulley
Gulley
Charles Inscoe, Jr
Robie Lamb
Josephine Kelly
Ethel
Young Inscoe
Davis
H. C. Sellers
G. L. Pittman
Inscoe
Feimster Appointed To State Alcoholic Control Board
Raleigh May 14 Feimster Newton attorney appointed by Governor Hoey as associate member of the state board of alcoholic control to begin a three year term Monday He will succeed Thomas J Murphy of Greensboro whose term expired Hoey said Murphy was not reappointed due to physical inability to continue on the board
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Raleigh
N. C
W. C. Feimster
Newton
Hoey
State Board of Alcoholic Control
Feimster
Thomas J. Murphy
Greensboro
Murphy
Totalitarian States Unite Speech Pushes bloc claim
Premier Mussolini warned that totalitarian nations would form a bloc and march together if attacked by democratic powers. He blasted U S criticism as anti fascist bias and urged readiness in defense of peace, referencing Woodring Ickes and Kellogg Briand pact debates.
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Genoa
Italy
Benito Mussolini
United States
Il Duce
Harry H. Woodring
Woodring
Secretary of the Interior
Harold Ickes
State Departments
Ethiopia
Bailey Seeks Aid for Merchant Marine Obligation Speech
Senator Josiah W. Bailey of North Carolina argues in Washington that rebuilding the American merchant marine is a congressional obligation. He notes broad opposition to subsidies but says shipbuilders need public funds to obtain loans for wartime ships and peacetime commerce, keeping freight at home.
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Washington
Congress
Josiah W. Bailey
North Carolina
Senate
Weather Outlook for South Atlantic States This Week
Weather outlook for the week starting Monday May 16 shows few scattered afternoon showers in south and central Florida all week. The rest of the district experiences showers midweek, otherwise generally fair conditions with near normal temperatures and cooler in the northern part early in the week.
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South Atlantic
Florida
Von Cramm Tennis Star Sentenced To Prison
Baron Gottfried Von Cramm Germany's top tennis player was sentenced to one year in prison for violating a Nazi moral delinquency law by improper relations with an 18 year old Jewish youth Manasse Herbst who emigrated to Jerusalem. Two months were deducted for time served and the court noted his achievements and confession as extenuating circumstances.
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Berlin
Baron Gottfried von Cramm
Germany
von Cramm
Manasse Herbst
Jerusalem
Baron
Herbst
Herbet
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Senator Byrd
Hancock
Winston
U. S. Net Star
Immanuel Episcopal Church
LaGrange
Charles N. Burch
Brussels
Paul Henri Spaak
Leopard
Paul Emile Janson
Spasak
Janson
Travelers Group
O. E Wilson
America
Bailey
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