Local Negroes Sentenced in Guilford County Cases
In Guilford County Superior Court Rebecca Ball of High Point received five to seven years for larceny and receiving after pleading to larceny and receiving following an amended warrant. Eddie Montgomery also drew four to six years for second degree burglary in a High Point home robbery. Charles Cannon of High Point was found guilty of breaking into Andrew Carter’s home and stealing cash and goods, receiving two to three years.
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Greensboro
Guilford County
Hubert E. Olive
George Wilson
High Point
Eddie Montgomery
W E. Tilley
Charles Cannon
Bynum Street
Andrew Carter
Walnut Street
Olive
Greensbo ro Concern Told to Reinstate Union Man
The Labor Board directed Blue Bell-Globe Manufacturing Co in Greensboro North Carolina to reinstate Virgil T Kivett with back pay and cease discouraging union membership in the CIO Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union. The board found Kivett was discriminatorily discharged for union activities in February 1939 and that officials sought to impede union organization.
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Washington
Blue Bell-Globe Manufacturing Company
Greensboro
N. C
Virgil T. Kivett
CIO
Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union
Kivett
Dunkerque Corridor Holds Amid Grave But Not Desperate Fight
Allied forces report Dunkerque holding solidly with French British trenches and naval bombardment repelling German pressure. German concentrations push toward Mounts Cassel and des Cats as Prioux’s army withdraws in a two‑section retreat along the Yser corridor and front lines from Cassel to Poperin ghe.
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Mount
Cassel
Mount Des Cats
Godewaersvelde
Flanders Plain
Prioux
Dunkerque
Flanders
Calais
Somme- Aisne-Meuse
Somme-Aisne-Meuse River
English Channel
Maginot Line
Sommer
Aisne
Rethel
Argonne Forest
Meuse
Moselle
Nieuport
Yser Canal
Lambartryde
Dixmude
Ypres
Bergues
Rene Jacques Adolphe Prioux
Poperinghe
Roosevelt Urges Immediate National Defense Measures
President Roosevelt pressed urgent national defense actions including mobilizing reserve personnel, expanding production facilities, and training large numbers of skilled workers for a modern, mechanized armed force. He outlined funding for tanks guns planes and civilian pilot schooling to build a 60 000 plane sky fleet if needed.
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National Guard
Roosevelt
Army
Navy
Congress
National Defense Commission
Shipbuilders Strike Halts Naval Shipbuilding in New Jersey
Six thousand workers at Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Co. in Kearny NJ walked out halting six warships and other naval contracts including a cruiser and two destroyers on the ways. Local 16 leaders and John Dempsey opposed the strike but backed the action as timely for national interests. Secretary Edison and mediator aides anticipated a quick settlement as talks continued.
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Kearny
N. J
Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company
Industrial Union of Maritime and Shipworkers of America
John Dempsey
Washington
Edison
Kerney
Navy
White House
Perkins
John R. Steelman
Conciliation Service
Morgenthau Deficit Forecast Driven by Defense Spending
Treasury Secretary Morgenthau testified that the 3.7 billion dollar deficit for 1941 would be required due to defense expenditures beyond the January budget. He noted Congress debates a defense tax bill aiming to raise about 656 million annually for five years to offset debt, while lawmakers consider a broad tax revision and potential spending cuts.
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Morgenthau
Roosevelt
Congress
Treasury
Bureau of the Budget
Doughton
D-Nc
House
Ways and Means Committee
Coughton
Barkley
Rayburn
Texas
DNC
Senate
Sessions
Lafollette
Byrd
D-Va
Bay Street School Boosts Red Cross Mercy Campaign
Bay Street School again advances its frontier role in the Red Cross Mobilization for Mercy reporting 8109.14 in noon contributions. The school had recently said it would skip the annual graduation to fund civilian war relief in Europe, with that donation separate from the 8109.14 total.
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Red Cross
Mercy
Bay Street
Europe
ACL Ordered Natl Railroad Reduces Wage Deductions
The Coast Line agreed to an injunction after reinvestigation found rent and facility charges were beyond allowed limits in six states. Wage restorations will follow after calculations and approval by authorities. The order limits deductions for housing standards and lays out required notices to employees. Five maintenance workers sued for improper wage deductions, with Meeks U S district court ruling for $1,079. a similar Georgia suit also ended in a judgment against the railroad.
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Coast Line
Denny
Relief Department
Isaac M. Meekins
U.S. District Court
Fayetteville
N. C
Waycross Ga
Britain moves to mobilize under martial law and evacuate children
Scotland Yard tightens Fifth Column probe as raids seize suspects and warehouse searches extend along the Thames. Home Secretary warns of imminent bombing as Health Minister plans broadening front line areas and evacuation of 39 000 children to safer districts in west Wales. Armaments census aims to boost production while B E F withdrawals bring cautious cheer to families of fallen soldiers.
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Scotland Yard
Thames
London
John Anderson
Malcolm MacDonald
John Somerville
Ministry of Health
England
Wales
MacDonald
Flanders Trap
Battle in Flanders and Dunkerque Hold Tightens
German forces tighten trapping Allied units in three pockets across French and Belgian Flanders as Dunkerque air and sea withdrawal continues. Goebbels linked announcement rumoured as Italy's entry into war looms, with unclear casualty figures and uncertain prisoner counts.
Italy's Entry Looms as Goebbels Trip Sparks War Talk
Berlin reports Goebbels may visit Hitler to coordinate Italy's entry into the war after Italian moves. Britain and France issue exit visas while Americans in Italy rush letters home. US liners shifted routes with Washington not calling at Italian ports, Manhattan and President Harrison seen as potential final sailings before hostilities.
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Paul Joseph Goebbels
Adolf Hitler
Berlin
Italy
Germany
France
Balkan
Greece
Turkey
Britain
United States
Washington
Bordeaux
U. S
Manhattan
Harrison
America
French report cites Germans losing half a million
Paris dispatch says Telefrance reports Germans have lost about 500000 men since invading the Low Countries on May 10. The agency claims the figure comes from authentic German documents. A separate note says air over Dunkerque is forbidden to German anti aircraft while cooperation with British squadrons from England continues.
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Prioux
Dunkerque
England
Paris
Telefrance
Low Countries
AIR
Flanders
Weather Outlook for North and South Carolina
Partly tonight and Saturday in North Carolina with possible drizzle in extreme north. South Carolina fair tonight and Saturday with partly cloudy skies and continued mild. Winds from Hatteras to Jacksonville moderate and variable, mostly southerly to westerly, with overcast tonight and Saturday and scattered showers offshore. Sandy Hook to Hay: moderate southwest winds variable, partly cloudy tonight and Saturday.
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North Carolina
South Carolina
Sandy Hook
Hay
French Armor In Frightful Desertion At Avesnes Battle
Eyewitness accounts describe German and Stuka coordinated assaults at Avesnes where French tanks on caterpillars were wrecked and rolled into gutters. German infantry and armor exploited cover and used grenades against exposed crew, with tanks and anti armor slits targeted. A French driver nicknamed Zephyr faced the fight beneath a grim joke about Chamberlain.
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Avesnes
France
Zephyr
Chamberlain
Thos F Wre Wrenn Dies. Noted Furniture Pioneer
Pearl Wrenn died in January 1930. He left half brothers Arthur Kirkman and P V Kirkman and a sister, Fr E Wrenn, plus a step son Perry and daughters Mary Perry Dale of Jamestown and Mrs Henry M Jr of this city. Wrenn helped found the High Point furniture plant in 1888 and later owned the Wrenn Hose Company and interests in banking and manufacturing firms.
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Pearl Wrenn
Henry M. Jr
North Carolina
Wrenn
Wat
High Porniture Company
Marion
Carolina
Ttawba Furniture Company
Ests
Wrenn Hosiepany
Thomasville
Air Observers See Nurses Enjoy Rooftop Baths
At KALEIGH on May 31 aviators are admired by nurses who bathe on the roof of the pitol. A State college student pilot flew the building once, after which lower planes became more frequent and sunbathing grew common among the nurses.
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Kaleigh
Rex H
Pitol
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