Plans For Spanish War Armistice Move Forward
London May 21 plans for a Spanish civil war armistice and withdrawal of foreign volunteers advanced with assurances no outside European power would object. Germany and Italy were cited as major hurdles, yet diplomats said they would join general discussions as a 27 nation hands off Spain group pressed for formal approvals. The Spanish government sought League of Nations action but faced cool reception in Whitehall amid talk an armistice before Geneva would limit demands.
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London
Spain
Germany
Italy
League of Nations
Whitehall
Geneva
League of Nations Coun
President to push 40 hour week and 40 cent wage law
Washington May 21 The administration plans to seek a 40 hour work week and a maximum wage of 40 cents an hour into law this session President Roosevelt will back the measure in a special message and it would be introduced by Chairman Connery of the house labor committee The plan allows flexible industry adjustments and predicts a flat ban on child labor Meanwhile Hopkins and officials aim to move Roosevelt's 1 5 billion relief bill through the house unchanged
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Connery
D-Mass
House Labor Committee
Works Progress
Harry Hopkins
House
Representative Boland
Pennsylvania
Auto Workers Return to Jobs at South Bend
In South Bend Indiana a Studebaker Corp union vote by acclamation orders a return to work after five weeks of talks. About 1600 in the service parts division will return this afternoon and over 6000 idle workers plan to resume Monday. The proposed contract avoids a closed shop and check-off but designates Studebaker local No 5 as the collective bargaining agent.
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South Bend
Ind
Studebaker Corporation
United Automobile Workers of America
Studebaker Local No. 5
The Squeezer Threat Letter To Tarboro Mill Worker
Tarboro scene as cotton mill worker Seatton G. Flint reports a pencil letter signed The Squeezer threatening to kidnap his wife or child if he does not behave. The warning sets a 11 PM meet at Bass's warehouse with police told not to inform the authorities. Police chief Worsley will forward the letter to the FBI for investigation.
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Tarboro
Seatton G. Flint
Bass
W. Robert Worsley
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Washington
Aubrey BK. Shackell
The
Southerner
Worsley
Four Escape As Balloon Blazes Near Fort Bragg
Four army officers from Fort Bragg escaped serious injury when their balloon caught fire during a routine training landing three miles south of Donn. A gust of wind saved the men as the bag blew toward the ground and Staff Sergeant Kenneth L. Theyer was slightly injured by the debris. Captain Sheldon B. Edwards led the flight with Major John H. Ball aboard.
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Donn
Fort Bragg
Kenneth L. Theyer
Sheldon B. Edwards
John H. Ball
Field Artillery
Here
Edwards
Contract Presented as Steel Workers Win Union Recognition
The Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation faces bargaining with the S W C after a National Labor Relations Board supervised vote by 24 412 J and L workers. The S W U C edged ahead with 17 928 votes to represent all employees, and a contract signing was planned for tomorrow. Overnight sit down at Ecorse Michigan plant paused output before resumed under a United Automobile Workers agreement. An eight cent per hour wage rise ended a strike at Globe Machine Stamping in Cleveland impacting 900 workers and possibly 12 000 Detroiters. The U A W designated bargaining agent pending a NLRB decision. Striking workers at 16 San Francisco hotels rejected the employers' offer to return.
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Associated Press
Steel Workers Organing Committee
Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation
National Labor Relations Board
J. and L
Ecorse
Mich
Murray Corporation
Ford Motor Company
Chrysler
United Automobile Workers of America
Globe Machine & Stamping Company
Cleveland
San Francisco
Student Shot by Unknown Man in Raleigh
Anthony Sorracco, 22, of Newark New Jersey was shot in the side while hitchhiking on a Raleigh street. He was taken to Rex hospital after seeking a taxi at the scene. Police say no clues yet and that the wound is superficial though the bullet narrowly missed vital organs.
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Raleigh
N. C
Anthony Sorracco
Newark
N. J
N. C. State College
Bruce Poole
Sorracco
Rex Hospital
Poole
A. C. Campbell
Thompson Fights Nutty Letters to Governor Hoey
Raleigh May 21 Thompson private secretary to Governor Clyde R Hoey reads through a daily flood of letters sometimes called nut letters He must reply to every piece whether the request is serious or silly and the governor only sees a fraction of them Thompson notes most are opened by him before passing on only the most important reach the governor
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Enterprise Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
Raleigh
Bob Thompson
Clyde R. Hoey
Nerts
Governor Hoey
Thompson
Hoey
Geomeone
Nazisired By Attack Of Cardinal On Third Reich
Berlin dispatch reports Gestapo seeking sources for Cardinal Mundelein's criticism of the Third Reich. Nazi press attacks Jews Catholics and Mundelein, urging Vatican action and linking Brooklyn high school immorality to New York Mayor LaGuardia.
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Berlin
Gestapo
George Cardinal Mundelein
Third Reich
Nazi Presse
Vatican
Chicago
Adolf Hitler
Fiorello H. Laguardia
New York
Germany
Brooklyn
Board of Education
Dispatch
Laguardia
William F. X. Geoghan
Cardinal Mundelein
Reichschancellor
Clarkton Bank Robbed by Two Unmasked Bandits
The Waccamaw Bank and Trust branch in Clarkton North Carolina was robbed of 2000 to 3000 dollars by two unmasked men who forced workers including cashier R. M. Troy into the vault and fled in a car after a ten minute hold up triggered by a burglar alarm.
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Clarkton Bank
Clarkton
N. C
Waccamaw Bank and Trust Company
Troy
James H. Wooten
Isabelle Cromartie
Baruch Defends Pittman Act Laments Its Neutrality Claims
Bernard M. Baruch, former war industries board chairman, said in Cleveland that the Pittman neutrality bill is not a neutrality measure. He warned it could force the United States to play a decisive wartime role while not truly preventing involvement in any future world conflict. Baruch noted the act bans certain war materials, loans, and travel on belligerent ships, arguing no nation is fully self contained in war and civilian supplies are at risk.
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Cleveland, CO
Bernard M. Baruch
War Industries Board
Baruch
Foreign Affairs Council
Pittman
Teace
Protection of Truckers Asked
Agriculture Commissioner W Kerr Scott said he asked the Interstate Commerce Commission for protection of North Carolina truck crop growers harmed by the Philadelphia teamsters strike. He named strawberries peas and mixed vegetables from multiple counties facing price and movement disruption.
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Raleigh
W. Kerr Scott
Interstate Commerce Commission
North Carolina
Philadelphia
Scott
John L. Rogers
Commissioner's Bureau of Motor Carriers
Columbus
Pender
Duplin
Wayne Counties
New Hanover
Washington
Beaufort
Wayne
Pasquotank
Pamlico
Currituck
Rivers D. Johnson
Faison Board of Trade
Teamsters
Canada Likely Start Point for Trans Atlantic Air Race
Chicago pilot Jimmy Mattern said Canada will probably host the start of a trans Atlantic race to Paris after New York was rejected by the Department of Air Commerce. He noted Canadian businessmen are interested and he cabled French officials to revise plans. Mattern and Henry T. Merrill met Toronto business leaders.
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Chicago
Jimmy Mattern
Canada
Paris
New York
Department of Air Commerce
Mattern
Henry T. (Dick) Merrill
Toronto
Hog Gives Birth To Score Of Pigs In Morganton
Morganton North Carolina May 21 Horace Saulman reported his sow birthed twenty piglets in a single litter the largest on record in the area. The 20 piglets were described as hale and hearty.
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Morganton
N. C
Horace Saulman
Presbyterians Report Big Membership Gain
The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States reported a net membership increase of 10,664 for the year ending March 31, bringing total members to 493,328. The body urged support for a 1.375 million budget, promoted social welfare reforms, and elected Dr. D Clay Lilly as moderator as it pursued reforms in child labor, racial relations, and public morality.
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Montreat
N. C
General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church In
United States
E. C. Scott
Dallas
Homer McMillan
Atlanta
Home Missions
Foreign Missions
D. Darby Fulton
Committee On Stewardship and Finance
B. K. Tenney
D. Clay Lilly
Winston-Salem
Permanent Committee On Social and
Pershing Recovered Heads to Paris After Coronation Swing
General John J. Pershing sails for Paris after saying he was quite recovered from fatigue that caused him to cancel attendance at the Pilgrim Society dinner. He was en route to attend the coronation of King George VI.
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Pershing
John J. Pershing
U. S
King George VI
Paris
Pilgrim Society
Blind persons to receive aid under social security plan
Lieutenant Governor W P Horton told the North Carolina Blind association that about 1500 blind people may get aid by need rather than blindness under social security. The meeting opened as Horton stressed that aid programs are relief not pensions and that state funds should total about $370000 yearly to provide $18 to $20 per month for each beneficiary.
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Raleigh
W. P. Horton
North Carolina Blind Association
Horton
North Carolina
Governor Appoints Blind Commission Members
Governor Hoey named Wall C. Ewing of Fayetteville Guy O. Bagwell of Charlotte and Robert H. Cooke of Shelby to the state blind commission for five three and one years respectively Sam M. Cathey chairman of Asheville Dr Howard E B Jensen of Durham Mrs Myra Sternberger of Greensboro and Dr Roma Cheek head the commission as director in Raleigh May 1.
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Raleigh
N. Cc
Hoey
Wall C. Ewing
Fayetteville
Guy O. Bagwell
Charlotte
Robert H. Cooke
Shelby
Ewing
Bagwell
Cooke
Sam M. Cathey
Asheville
Howard EB. Jensen
Durham
Myra Sternberger
Greensboro
Roma Cheek
Millionaire philanthropist Sir Alexander Grant dies
Sir Alexander Grant aged 72 a London born philanthropist died at his Edinburgh home after a long career in business and charity. His death marks the end of a prominent era in British finance and public benevolence.
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London
Sir Alexander Grant
Edinburgh
Edward and Wallis Warfield marriage plans halted in France
In Monts France May 21 a spokesman said there will be no religious ceremony for the Duke of Windsor and Wallis Warfield. The church opposes remarriage of divored persons and the British government reportedly refused to permit a religious service. The couple seeks an Anglican wedding but no prelate is available.
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Hugh L. Thomas
Paris
Chateau de Cande
Windsor
Mrs. Warfield
Church of England
Heyman L. Rogers
Windsor seeks foreign protection for Spain honeymoon
A source close to the Duke of Windsor reports Britain denied navy protection for his honeymoon cruise along civil war ridden Spain. The duke, advised by a friend, was considering turning to a foreign escort.
Funeral rites planned for aged veteran George Hughes
Relatives prepared for the funeral of George Isaac Hughes a gaunt Confederate veteran who twice fathered children after his 94th birthday. Services were planned at Tabernacle Baptist church with interment at Cedar Grove cemetery in New Bern North Carolina.
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Newbern
N. C
George Isaac Hughes
Tabernacle Baptist Church
Cedar Grove
Highes
Hughes
Longer Exemption Granted to Cotton Textile Industry
Secretary Perkins granted the cotton textile industry an indefinite extension from the Walsh Healey act child labor provisions. Conditions require no workers under 16, no under 18 not employed before Oct 15, no night work or hazardous duties for under 18, and a set lunch period for women workers.
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Washington
Perkins
Walsh-Healy
King Inspects British Fleet Ahead of Coronation
King George VI spent his last day with the fleet in Portsmouth during the coronation review. He personally examined Britain's notable warships, surveying Betts vast line of battleships and cruisers as part of preparations for the event.
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Portsmouth
Eng
George VI
Bettain
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Steel Workers Organizing Committee
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