Evidence completed in Reynolds tobacco advertising trial
Evidence was completed today in the $1,600,000 scientific advertising trial against the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. in federal court. The defense also renewed its motion for a directed verdict. Secretary Woodring seeks approval to purchase vast forest reserves across 24 states and Puerto Rico, including Pisgah in North Carolina and Croatan in North Carolina among others.
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Winston-Salem
WN. C
R. J. Reynolds Toco Company
Cisef
Tobly Forests
Washington
Woodring
Zinal Forest Reservatory
T*uerto
North Carolina
Pisgah
North Carolanta
Hala
Tennessee
North Lina
Cherokee
South Carolina
Sum
Croatan
Supreme Court Rejects Jury Exclusion Challenge in Carolina
The court disapproved attempts to bar women from jury service in Carolina as a constitutional infringement in death row cases. The ruling followed appeals by Ben Negro sentenced to die for murder, and by Bill and Wash Turner, convicted killers linked to a highway patrolman slaying near Asheville.
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Aleigh
Carolina
Supreme Court
Ben Negro
Bill
Wash Turner
Penn
Asheville
Jersey City Faces Federal Injunction in CIO Case
Jersey City counsel agreed to a federal injunction covering five points of controversy in its dispute with the CIO and others. Major questions remain over holding meetings without permits as city officials deny wrongdoing but consent to a training order.
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Teware
N. J
Jersey City
H the Cio
Ames A. Hamil
Franke
William Clark
Bpaulding
Navy Moves Entire Fleet Across Ocean for 1939 Maneuvers
The Navy Department announced the full fleet will shift from the Pacific to the Atlantic in early January for six months of exercises and a New York World's Fair visit. The May NY stop is planned amid memories of Admiral Laady's 1938 testimony on anti communist alliance concerns shaping US defenses.
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Washington
Navy Department
Pacific
Atlantic
New York
America
Eea
Lexington Man In Critical Condition
Roswell B. Robbins prominent Lexington manufacturer and municipal official remained in critical condition after a difficult night in a Charlotte hospital. Robbins was brought in for observation and treatment last Saturday amid reports of an unstable health status.
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Lexington
Charlotte
N. 2
Roswell B. Robbins
Robbins
Britain Opens New Efforts To Keep Peace Amid Bombing
London reports the fish-propelled non-intervention committee meeting to ease Spain’s civil war crisis while observers note potential ties to Anglo-Italian diplomacy. In Alicante the market massacre leaves at least 250 dead and 1,000 injured as six insurgent bombers strike civilians.
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Ndon
Spain
Fnte
France
Italy
Compro
Pyrenees
Mussolini
Barcelona
Alicante
Yesteray
Insurgent Reinforcements Halt Catalan Offensive
At the Spanish frontier near Hendaye on May 26 insurgent reinforcements threatened to halt the government push along a 60 mile Catalan front. Government losses were estimated as high as 15,000 men in four days as Barcelona troops reportedly abandoned their attack except at Tremp in the center.
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Hendaye
France
Catalan Front
Barcelona
Tremp
Carroll Suffering Mental Disorder, Say Psychiatrists
In New York on May 26 two defense psychiatrists testified that Donald Carroll a 16 year old boy was suffering a temporary mental disorder when he formed a death by own action pact and shot 18 year old Charlotte Matthiesen. They said the shot snapped him back to his senses and Charlotte was under his influence. State expert Dr John Byrne Jr asserted Carroll knew what he did and that the act was wrong. Carroll testified he did not plan the killing to save Charlotte.
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New York
Donald Carroll
Joseph V. Loscalzo
Sydney Rosenthal
Carroll
Samuel Feigin
Edward M. Gould
Charlotte Matthiesen
Feigin
Loscalzo
Byrne
Mayerling
Donald
Charlotte
Fouraelf
Baker Leads Typographical Union Election Remains Undecided
Claude M. Baker of San Francisco led incumbent Charles P. Howard of Chicago in early unofficial returns for president of the International Typographical Union. With data from 64 cities including New York Chicago and San Francisco Baker had 15 401 votes to Howard 8 713 though several cities still reported incomplete tallies.
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Indianapolis
Claude M. Baker
San Francisco
International Typographical Union
Charles P. Howard
Chicago
New York
Baker
Howard
Mars Hill College President Resigns After 41 Years
The board of trustees accepted the resignation of Dr. R. L. Moore the college president for 41 years. He said he wished to retire to allow others to lead and to devote time to teaching and strengthening ties with students and alumni.
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Mars Hill
Mares Hill College
R. L. Moore
Moore
House Warned Foreign Moves Against U. S
Representative Dies disclosed to the House that a German American Bund member in a U S Nazi camp urged assassination of President Roosevelt. He also cited Rep Scott saying the Rome Berlin Tokyo axis is active in Central and South America with possible war aims and German agents in Mexico Central America and the Panama Canal Zone.
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Washington
Dies
Dtex
House
Bund
Roosevelt
Scott
D-Cal
Congress
Central
South America
United States
Western Hemisphere
Germany
Europe
Africa
Mexico
Central America
Panama Canal Zone
State Builds Murder Case Against DeJournette Family
The state resumes evidence in the murder trial of Bat DeJournette and his wife Kate for slaying Garland Mangum on April 30. Prosecutors pursue motive and material evidence while Elmer Williams, a third defendant, faces forthcoming testimony after pleading guilty to accessory before the act. Justice Strickland testified about a hit-and-run warrant and liquor-laden car linked to the incident.
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Greensboro
Bat DeJournette
Kate
Garland Mangum
Crme
Bat
Elmer Williams
John C. Strickland
Joe P. Shore
Superior Court
Japanese Deny Fishermen Invading U S Fishing Area
Tokyo officials rejected claims of a Japanese invasion of Bristol Bay and the Bering Sea. A government spokesman said only one crab vessel operates and Japan will honor the Alaska fishing agreement while reports of widespread boats and nets north of Black Hills remain unsubstantiated.
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Tokyo
Bristol Bay
Alaska
Bering Sea
Japanese Bureau of Fisheries
Japan
United States
Seattle
Charlies R. Wilson
Japan’s fishing boom hit by pivotal agreement
A sweeping accord disrupted a vast global network built by Japanese fishermen who expanded beyond home waters, creating a large sector essential to Japan’s economy. The industry, likened to the American auto sector in importance, underpins exports and related allied industries from pearls to sharkskin goods.
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Japan
Court Holds Local Clerk Not Entitled To Fee Collections
The North Carolina Supreme Court rules that High Point Municipal Court clerk cannot deduct five percent from fines forfeitures and penalties. Opinion by Justice Seawell holds such fees violate a constitutional use for school purposes. The ruling could affect statewide clerks’ fee practices in other counties. City Attorney Grover H. Jones argued the case.
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Supreme Court of
North Carolina
High Point Municipal Court
A. A. F. Seawell
High Point Court
Grover H. Jones
Supreme Court
Bases Gained For New Drive Say Japanese
Japanese forces claimed bases for frontal attacks on Lunghai railway cities Kwehteh and Kaifeng after occupying Tanghshan and Lanfeng areas. They reported Chinese casualties in a Lowang battle while Chinese counterattacks eased pressure in central Henan. Naval informants noted 40 planes bombing villages south of the Lung Hai.
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Shanghai
Lunghai
Kwelteh
Kaifeng
Tanghshan
Lanfeng
Lowang
Henan Province
Central China
Czechs Track Talks as Warplane Spotted Over Skoda Plant
Prague dispatch reports a German warplane seen over Czechoslovakia’s Skoda Works in Plzen. A government spokesman says the sighting casts doubt on German-Czechoslovak peace prospects and leaves Czechs wary while studying French and British peace moves.
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Praha
Czechoslovakia
Skoda
Platen
Pilsen
Czechoslovakia seeks end to crisis over Sudeten demands
Prague reports coordinated talks with France and Britain on a plan to resolve the Sudeten dispute after Hitler's threats. Stefan Osusky and Jan Masaryk confer with President Benes as London signals observers option. Heartened by diplomacy, Prague keeps frontier troops mobilized and awaits further meeting with Henlein.
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Praha
Adolf Hitler
Stefan Osusky
Paris
Kamil Krofta
Jan Masaryk
London
Krofta
Eduard Benes
Osusky
Masaryk
Fuehrer
Britain
Germany
Czechoslovakia
Eger
Karl Hermann Frank
Ernst Pfrogner
Konrad Henlein
Milan Hodga
Ernst Eisenlohr
Foreign Office
Carolina Beach Plans Opening for 1938 Season
Congressman Harold D. Cooley will be the principal speaker at the Carolina Beach season opening announced by Mayor R. C. Fergus. The formal opening is set for the night of June 3 with a street dance starting at 9 p.m. and Newell Campbell and his orchestra providing music.
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Carolina Beach
Harold D. Cooley
R. C. Fergus
Newell Campbell
Pulitzer Prize winner injured in Fayetteville crash
Dr. Douglas Southall Freeman, 52, noted historian and editor of the Richmond News Leader, and his daughter Mary Plyler Freeman, 21, were injured in a collision near Fayetteville. Their driver Howard Carter died at the scene after a northbound car and a southbound truck collided on a slick highway.
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Fayetteville
Douglas Southall Freeman
Richmona Va
News-Leader
Mary Plyler Freeman
Here
Freeman
Miss Freeman
Howard Carter
Directors Hit Back At TVA's Ousted Leader
TVA director David E. Lilienthal testified before a congressional committee that former TVA chairman Arthur E. Morgan tried to defeat and obstruct the authority in litigation over its constitutionality. Harcourt A. Morgan also testified of a dissenting campaign to discredit the TVA program.
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Washington
David E. Lilienthal
Tennessee Valley Authority
Arthur E. Morgan
TVA
Harvard Law School
Morgan
Harcourt A. Morgan
Arthur Morgan
Farmers Cotton Dealers Indicted In RF C Loan Scheme
A federal grand jury charged 21 South Carolina farmers and cotton dealers with violating the Reconstruction Finance Corporation act by making false statements in cotton loan agreements. Eleven faced false statement counts, five faced inducing others to falsify, and eighteen faced conspiracy counts for allegedly underpricing cotton to inflate loan proceeds.
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Charleston
D. C
South Carolina
Powerful Tammany Leader Arrested In Dutch Schultz Policy Ring
James J. Hines a top Tammany Hall figure aged 61 faces a $20,000 bail after being charged by District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey with conspiring in a $100 million policy racket and coercing officials. The case ties Hines to Schultz allied operators and a broad racket network, with potential felony counts and further indictments anticipated.
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New York
James J. Hines
Dutch Shultz
Hines
Thomas E. Dewey
Dewey
Justice Ford
Pecora
George Weinberg
Harry Schoenhaus
J. Richard
Dixie) Davis
Schultz
Mintriet
Charlies
Grimes
Independent Policy Bank
Joseph Shalleck
Grand Jury
Upper West Side
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FDR
Fred Matthiesen
Payne
Sey City
Dmits Point
Grees
Iattle
CIIO
Enies
Pacific Ocean
By Mary E, Plummer
Mars Hill College
U. S
Americas
DeJournettes
Bulletins
Henlein
Lilienthal
Chattanooga
Berry
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