Guilford Democrats Endorse Roosevelt Plan on Senate Stance
Greensboro May 14 Guilford county Democrats in convention here re elected T C Hoyle Jr and Walter E Mann as county chairman and vice chairman and endorsed President Roosevelt. They approved a resolution to study ending the Guilford Rockingham county agreement on state senate representation amid long running reapportionment battles. The plan calls for a three member committee to probe scrapping the existing pact and possibly shifting to separate districts in the upper house.
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Greensboro
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T. C.oyle, Jr
Walter E.man
C - Cairman
Roosevelt
Guilford
Ford
Rockingham
State Senate
Vention
Amittee
Extire
Uilford
Legistare
Rupert T. Pickens
Igh Point
Senarial Districta
Waw House
Guilfordocrats
Hasen
Kingdom
Hoyle
Thomas ©. Hoyle, Jr
Guilford County
Walter E. Crissman
High Point
Britain Ends Diplomatic Ties With Mexico In Oil Expropriation
Britain's minister to Mexico Owen St Clair OMalley announced recall and withdrawal of staff, leaving the legation to the Acting Counsel General J Dalton Murray. Mexico seeks buyers for expropriated oil properties valued at 400 million dollars, peso declines, and nationalistic support gathers around President Lazaro Cardenas amid broader economic disruption.
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Mexico City
Owen St. Clair O’malley
Great Britain
Mexico
Britain
O'Malley
Legation
J. Dalton Murray
London
New York
Lazaro M. Cardenas
Cardenas
Knox Points Out New Deal Mess
In Oshkosh Wisconsin Col Frank Knox a Chicago publisher and Republican vice presidential candidate in 1936 addressed the Wisconsin Young Republicans convention saying the New Deal is trimmed to size by economic law and that its policies have brought bread lines heavy taxes idle farms and 12 000 000 idle people He urged a return to economic realities and criticized deficits as a false path to prosperity.
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Oshkosh
Wis
Col
Frank Knox
Chicago
Young Republicans
Wisconsin
Knox
Hancock Predicts Landslide Victory in Senate Race
Winston-Salem reports Frank W. Hancock Jr. predicts a landslide over incumbent Robert R. Reynolds in the June 4 Democratic Senate primary. Hancock calls Reynolds an accidental statesman and urges focus on wages, hours, and industrial peace while defending NC workers’ living standards. He cites Reynolds’s foreign travel and questions his ties to North Carolina.
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Winston-Salem
N. C
Frank W. Hancock, Jr
U. S. Senate
Robert R. Ids
Reynolds
Hancock
States
Oxford
North Carolina
Arest
Congress
Russia
India
China
Virgin Islands
South America
Samuel Johnson
High Pointers Hurt in Atlantic City Crash
Elizabeth F. Mooney 30 of Trenton died from a fractured skull after a collision near the Absecon state police barracks on the White Horse Pike. Agnes Weinmann 22, a noted Trenton horsewoman, suffered a fractured right leg. Two passengers, David John 63 and son Harry 40 of High Point North Carolina, were injured.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Elizabeth F. Mooney
Trenton
Absecon
White Horse Pike
Agnes Weinmann
Mooney
David John
Harry
High Point
N. C
La Follette Joins Roosevelt On Potomac Cruise
President Roosevelt and Senator La Follette traveled the Potomac River on a weekend outing. The trip fueled political speculation tied to La Follette’s push for a new national third party movement.
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Washington
Roosevelt
la Follette
Potomac River
New National Third Party
American ships depart Honolulu for Midway seaplane base
American naval forces push defenses westward with ships leaving Honolulu for a $1,041,000 seaplane base project at Midway Island, carrying men and supplies for construction.
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Midway Honolulu
Honolulu
Vessela
Midway Island
Mexico Breaks Off Diplomatic Ties With Britain
London reports Mexico severs diplomatic relations with Britain in a move described as an era of international rudeness. President Lazaro Cardenas’ action is noted as a painful twist with few precedents since the War of 1812, while experts debate possible economic fallout.
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London
Britain
Mexico
The
Evening News
Lazaro Cardenas
Great Britain
Senate backs unrestricted FDR spending control on relief program
In Washington on May 14 strong Senate appropriations committee backing emerged to grant President Roosevelt direct control of a 3.154 billion relief public works fund. The bill would let lending and spending agencies receive money, with the president approving or vetoing projects. Chairman Adams argued the president should allocate funds to agencies to ensure responsible spending.
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Washington
Senate Appropriations Committee
Roosevelt
House
Adams
D.-Cole
Senate
Dame
Strike Of Actors Delays Action Of Biggest Circus
New York May 14 The American Federation of Actors AFL strikes Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey as the big show folds from Brooklyn to Washington. After a union management conference Ralph Whitehead hands a union man a key and orders picket signs. Wagons stayed on lot laborers idled as loading halted no show opening this season on the road.
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New York
American Federation of Actors
AFL
Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus
Brooklyn
Washington
Ralph Whitehead
Convict Strikers In Partial Win At San Quentin
San Quentin California May 14 111 convicts voted 62 to accept Warden Court Smiths compromise on restoration of mid day rest periods after authorities talked 300 others out of the strike and confined over 30 ringleaders in solitary cells.
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San Quentin
Calif
German Paper Charges U S Back Of Brazil In Anti German Move
Berlin reports claim Brazil with United States support pursues an anti German policy. Brazil accuses German citizens of inciting unrest and presses for protection of Germans. Rio de Janeiro notes six Germans jailed and police seize Green Shirt materials and 80 bombs near Rio.
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U. S
Brazil
Berlin
Deutsche Allegemeine Zeitung
United States
Sao Paulo
Pantaleno Pessoa
Getulio Vargas
Chamber of Forty
Fireenshirt Integralists
Rio de Janeiro
Strong League Bloc Formed Behind China in Far East War
In Geneva the 101st League council session closed with signs of a France Britain Soviet bloc backing China. Chile announced it will resign, and Switzerland gained freedom from penalties while an autonomous refugee office was created. The council urged league members to aid China amid abstentions by China and the Soviet. Poland abstained on key votes.
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Geneva
League of Nations Council
France
Great Britain
Soviet
Russia
China
Chile
League
Switzerland
United States
Poland
League Assembly
Japan
V. K. Weillington Koo
Koo
Uprising Nears in Mid-Mexico
Federal troops guard key government sites in San Luis Potosi amid rumors of a Cedillo led revolt. Reports say Cedillo resigned as agriculture secretary last year and the military commander role for Michoacan expires tomorrow. authorities remain tight lipped as speculation grows about a governmental shakeup in San Luis Potosi.
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Mexico City
San Luis Potosi
Saturnino Cedillo
Mexico
Cedillo
Michoacan
Lazaro Cardenas
Cardenas
Defense Ministry
San Juis Potosi
Japanese Columns Move Forward For Attack On Suchow
Shanghai dispatch reports Chinese forces pressing counterattacks to break Japanese lines around Suchow as Japanese claims of rail severing and air bombardment disrupt Chinese logistics. Heavy fighting south of the Sunghai railway targets Yungcheng and Mengcheng in Anhwei while Japanese air and naval activity pursues Fukien operations and Amoy landings. The Chinese high command remains optimistic, labeling Tangshan and southern fronts as vulnerable to counterattacks despite fierce losses.
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China
Suchow
Sunghai
Yungcheng
Mengcheng
Anhwei
Lunghai
Canton - Hankow
South China
Fukien
Canton-Hankow
Min River
Foochow
Amoy
Iwane Matsui
Shangehai
Quemoy Island
Hankow
Formosa
Tangshan
Japan
Hoey and Finch Honored by Duke Circle of Omicron Delta Kappa
At Duke University on May 14 the Circle of Omicron Delta Kappa initiated Governor Clyde R. Hoey and six other honorary members during a ritual ceremony before the annual dinner. The group had previously extended its key to Governors Ehringhaus and MacLean.
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Durham
Circle of Omicron Delta Kappa
Duke University
Clyde R. Hoey
Ehringhaus
MacLean
Raymond 8. Chispell
Duke School of Medicine
Frank T. Devyver
Duke Economics Department
T. Austin Finch
Thamesville
W. C. Parker
Duke Endowment
New York
Harden F. Taylor
Atlantic Coast Fisheries Company
A. P. Williams
Barton Heights Methodist Episcopal Church
South
Richmond
America Refuses To Recognize Conquered Territory
Secretary Hull reaffirms U S policy of non recognition for conquered territories amid Britain Italy and Japan actions. Officials say the stance signals no shift toward European democracies and maintains support for Chiang Kai-shek's government in China.
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Andrub
Washington
Hull
Japan
China
League of Nations Council
Great Britain
France
Ethiopia
United States
Manchukuo
Germany
Italy
Chiang Kai-shek
Hankow
State Department
Britain
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