Swedish aviator backs off to Sweden from Canada
Carl Backman the 27 year old Swedish flyer took off from Botwood Airport at 5 10 am local time in a 90 horsepower single engine monoplane bound for Stockholm He arrived in Botwood from Bangor after a hop from St Louis He said he was among three aviators racing from America to Sweden His plane carries 170 gallons of fuel and no radio or instrument gear and the cockpit is very cramped with limited visibility
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St, John's
Newfoundland
Carl Backman
America
Sweden
Botwood
Backman
Bangor
St. Louis
Stockholm
Former Minnesota Governor Addresses NC Pharmacists Session
Theodore Christianson, former Minnesota governor and current public relations head for the National Association of Retail Druggists, opened the 60th annual North Carolina Pharmaceutical Association convention in Greensboro. He criticized price competition, urged adherence to fair trade laws, and called retailers to champion fair pricing to protect consumers and the industry.
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Theodore Christianson
Minnesota
North Carolina Pharmaceutical Association
Woman’s Auxiliary
C. C. Fordham, Jr
Greensboro
J. A. Goode
Asheville
Christianson
National Association of Retail Druggists
America
United States
Royal visit prompts tight police rules in Quebec City
Canada’s Royal Northwest Mounted Police impose the strictest security in Dominion history to guard King George and Queen Elizabeth aboard the Australia express as they arrive tonight. I R A placards alarm residents, but officials call them a prank amid London bombings. A wage hour case in North Wilkesboro sees Sanford Furniture indicted on 24 counts with Fred Voncannon Mrs Voncannon and a Mr Allman named.
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Quebec
Canada
Royal Northwest Mounted Police
Dominion
George
Queen Elizabeth
Australia
Irish Republican Army
London
Charlotte
W. F. Gaffney
North Wilkesboro
Sanford Furniture Company
Sanford
Gaffney
Fred Voncannon
Voncannon
Allman
North Carolina
North Carolina sells revenue bonds for UNC projects
The state sold 250000 in University of North Carolina Revenue bonds at 2 982 percent, called the best sale by buyers. The Council of State awarded the issue to Lewis and Hall of Greensboro and planned to sell 2250000 to 2500000 in state bonds on June 15 to fund textbook purchases and work at institutions after bond-law defects were fixed by the 1939 legislature.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
University of North Carolina
Council of State
Lewis and Hall of
Greensboro
Western
North Carolina Tubercular Hospital
Coal union contract signed as Guard protection spreads
The Big Sandy Elkhorn Coal Operators Association signed a union shop contract with United Mine Workers in Ashland, reducing dissent from the Bloody Harlan and Hazard groups. National Guard protection was extended to Bell County in southern Kentucky.
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Harlan, Ky
Big Sandy
Harlan
National Guard
Bell County
A. B. Chandler
Frankfort
Harlan County
Chandler
United Mine Workers
J. C. Stras
Kentucky Cardinal Coal Corporation
Bell-Harlan County
Martin Green
Harlandoft
Ellerbe Carter
Totz
C. V. Bennett
Harlan Central Coal Company
Bennett
William Turnblazer
Harlan United Mine Workers District
Black Mountain Coal Corporation
Kentucky
Hazard
Lexington
Big Sandy-Elkhorn
Ashland
New York
Roy W. Easley
Turnblazer
George Titler
Harlan U. M. W
Carter
Titler
John L. Lewis
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Philadelphia
Appeal for Help as Tokyo Forces Reach Amoy Area
The Municipal Council of the International settlement on Kulangsu Island near Amoy appeals to foreign powers led by the United States and Britain for aid after Japanese invasion threats. The council rejects Japanese demands to control local government.
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Shanghai
International Settlement
Kulangsu Island
Amoy
United States
Great Britain
Younger officers needed in army says Woodring
Secretary Woodring told the House Military committee that the army must have younger officers in higher ranks to be ready to defend the Western Hemisphere. He testified on plans to vitalize officer strength by forcing retirement of over age officers, calling the current promotion system a weak link in national defenses.
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Washington
Woodring
House Military Committee
Army
Western Hemisphere
Harrison Leads Senate Bloc To Write New Tax Program
A Senate coalition led by Finance Committee Chairman Harrison pledged to draft a new business tax plan unless President Roosevelt orders a full revision of levies. Key aides met at the White House, with differing views on repeal of the undistributed profits tax and a flat corporate levy, while Morgenthau reportedly supports a Treasury blueprint.
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Washington
Senate
Harrison
D-Miss
Finance Committee
Roosevelt
White House
Doughton
House
Ways and Means Committee
Rep
Cooper
D-Tenn
Morgenthau
Hanes
The
Treasury
Coughton
Congress
Vast Murder Ring Inestimable Says G Man
In Philadelphia Judge Harry B McDevitt urged J Edgar Hoover to visit for a personal survey of a vast insurance murder ring. He noted 50 known deaths and potential totals over 100 as authorities push for indictments against multiple ringleaders.
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G-Man
Philadelphia
Gman
Harry 8. McDevitt
J. Edgar Hoover
Federal Bureau of Investigation
McDevitt
FBI
Hoover
Hermon Petrillo
WPA
Castoday
A. Bernard Lackie
Charles F. Kelley
Hitler Continues Fort Inspections Across Western Front
Adolf Hitler toured Siegfried fortifications opposite France on May 16 in the western fortified zone. He spoke briefly after a televised mock battle praised as proving invincibility, while generals Brauchitsch and Keitel accompanied him from Aachen to Trier. A 25,000-strong Nazi convention in Vienna urged colony restoration.
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Berlin
Adolf Hitler
France
Hitler
Aachen
Trier
Walther von Brauchitsch
Wilhelm Keitel
von Brauchitsch
Fuehrer
Germany
Vienna
Duce Surprises Alpine Village on Piedmont Whirlwind Tour
Il Duce Mussolini tours seven Italian border towns in the Piedmont region stopping at Susa and other Alpine hamlets. He reviews border guards, unveils a statue of Augustus, and salutes peasants as his streamlined train heads toward the Doria Valley. The visit underscores fascist focus on France frontier fortifications and cross border proximity with Germany.
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Ena
Remier Mussolin Ag
Aetet
Reata
Ceulane 3 Cenis
France
Mussolini
Hitler
Germany
Il Duce
Turin
Doria
Piedmont
Susa
Alps
Italy
Rome
Augustus
University Dean Nominated as Federal Judge for Virginia
President Roosevelt named Armistead M. Dobie dean of the University of Virginia Law School to the new post of additional federal judge for the Western District of Virginia. Virginia Senator Byrd praised Dobie as eminently satisfactory and qualified, noting his support contrasted with the Senate rejection of Floyd H. Roberts earlier.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Armistead M. Dobie
University of Virginia Law School
Western
District of
Virginia
Floyd H. Roberts
Bristol
Senate
Glass
Byrd
Roberts
Dobie
Labor Board backs CIO in hosiery strike case
Fred Werner president of the Berkshire Employer Association of Reading alleges NLRB officials biased in a hearing before the Senate Labor Committee about a Berkshire Knitting Mills strike from October 1936. The dispute centers on representational moves by a CIO union in PA.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Independent
Senate Labor Committee
National Labor Relations Board
CIO
Pennsylvania
Fred Werner
Berkshire Employer Association of
Reading
Berkshire Knitting Mills
Democratic women plan regional conference at Winston-Salem
A regional conference of Democratic women will be held here May 23 and 24. The event brings together party activists from the region to discuss issues and mobilize support ahead of upcoming elections.
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Winston-Salem
Apologies To Governor For Remarks
Former Tennessee state employee Kuhne told a House WPA inquiry he did not say Governor Prentice Cooper owned land tied to WPA lake projects. He apologized for any implication and corrected hearsay involving Lake Bedford County and landowners, noting later statements credit Howell Buntin and denying Cooper's involvement.
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Tennessee
Cooper
Washington
Eugene R. Kulne
Prentice Cooper
Kuhne
State Department of Conservation
Harry S. Barger
House Committee
WPA
House
Kahne
Bedford County
Commissioner of Conservation
Mpop
Howell Buntin
Game and Fish
J. Charles Poe
Buntin
Division of Game and Fish
Marshall Priest
Clear Creek Lake
Carroll County
Priest
Browning
Gordon Browning
Humble Aliquippa Street Sweeper Gets Hero’s Burial
Mario Izzo 63, a poverty stricken street sweeper who died when his bathrobe caught fire was honored by the town. Residents exhumed his body and gave him a burial at St Joseph cemetery after a memorial service at St John’s Church attended by over 700 people. A memorial is planned for next August with his own words likely to become the epitaph.
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Aliquippa
Mario Izzo
Potter's Field
Mario
America
Old Mario
St. Joseph's Cemetery
St. John’s Catholic Church
A and T Students Read Riot Act After Disorder
Greensboro May 16 Maj L P McLendon member of the A and T College personnel committee read the riot act to the student body in the main building at 2 pm warning against a recurrence of last night’s disorder and destruction during a student demonstration over the alleged discharge of Coach Inman A Breaux. He cited a telegram from Gov Clyde Hoey and urged grievances be taken up through college channels, including a student committee before the personnel committee meeting Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greensboro
L. P. McLendon
A. and
T. College
Inman A. Breaux
Clyde Hoey
Major McLendon
Southern Cotton Textile Federation to Open District Office
Spartanburg South Carolina May 16 Gordon Chastain president announces district offices to open here serving the Carolinas as an affiliate of the American Federation of Labor and representing the Southern Cotton Textile Federation in the region.
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Spartanburg
S. C
Southern Cotton Textile Federation
American Federation of Labor
Gordon Chastain
Carolinas
France Seeks Breakthrough With Britain and Soviet Russia
Paris reports efforts to form a three way accord among France Great Britain and Soviet Russia. Talks aim to bridge differences ahead of a Geneva meeting of foreign ministers. Russia reportedly rejects British terms while considering a Moscow backed pledge plan.
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Paris
France
Great Britain
Russia
Foreign Ministry
London
Geneva
Viscount Halifax
Daladier
Bonnet
Poland
Rumania
Britain
Governor Chandler Extends Guard to Bell County Mines
National guard troops guarding coal mines extend into Bell County as part of a broader Harlan County deployment to deter union shop strife. Gov. A. B. Chandler said a detachment sits near the Bell-Harlan line, with sheriff and local officials cooperating.
Harvard Economist Urges Tax on Savings to Spur Investment
Alvin H. Hansen, professor of political economy, told the Monopoly Committee that taxation should fall more on savings to push idle capital into investment. He urged expanding and creating new construction to avoid chronic unemployment and to provide an outlet for the nation's savings.
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Washington
Harvard
Monopoly Committee
Alvin H. Hansen
Bryson Reelected as Asheville Mayor
Holmes Bryson has been reelected mayor by the Asheville city council, with the vote confirming his leadership. The decision solidifies Bryson's position and outlines the council's continued stance on local governance.
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Bryson
Asheville
Holmes Bryson
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