Pageant Inauguration Draws Huge High Point Crowd
A vast parade crowds High Point for Progress Week as citizens flocked to see the kickoff. The pageant at High Point Stadium begins 8 16 p m with 400 locals in a two night show recounting the city’s journey from pioneer days to today. Traffic officers guide throngs from Main to Rusell Street and visitors arrive from Greensboro Thomasville and Winston Salem.
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High Point
High Point Eye Stadium
Helen Buch
Spirit of
High Point Ufacturing
Winston-Salem
Bugle Corps
Main
Shirley Avenue
Rus 1
College Stadium
At of Progress Headquar
South Main Street
North Street
South Main
Reensboro
Thomasville
Win—Salem
Rebels Drive Attacks Along Ebro Front in Spain
Insurgent dispatches report a new Franco offensive pushing Government lines back about four miles along the Ebro front from Gandesa to Corbera. The Government concedes strong attacks but claims only limited gains, citing the capture of two hills and heavy losses as both sides exchange artillery and trench assaults.
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Hendaye
France
Francisco Fran
Ebro
Spain
Gandesa
Corbera
Corra
Two Syracuse Flyers Set Endurance Flight Record
Syracuse flyers Merrill Koenix and Harold Allen broke a endurance flight record, their cabin line surpassing 68 hours 44 minutes after 3 a.m. and continuing to accumulate more hours as the event persisted.
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Syracuse
N. Y
Merrill Koenix
Harold Allen
Prize-winning floats in Pa geant of Progress parade
Thousands witnessed the Pa geant of Progress parade this morning. First prize went to the Carolina Container Company float, with Coca-Cola second. Globe Parlor and High Point Furniture received honorable mention for their figures in the rear and front of the lineup.
Labor Leaders Announce Gain In Labor Unity Message
Washington reports on Labor leaders marking the year with calls to push for higher living standards and a fairer share in national income. William Green notes Labour gains and warns against disruption while John L. Lewis links the CIO to opposition within the movement.
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Washington
William Green
American Federation of Labor
John L. Lewis
Committee For Industrial Organization
Perkins
Green
Lewis
A. F. of L
C. LO
Federation
Co. S. O
Labor Movement
America
Newspaper man Hartley found dead with pistol wound
Rocky Mount Telegram circulation manager T A Hartley Jr., 31, was found dead in his apartment with a self inflicted gunshot wound. Coroner Dr J G Raby said death was by own action. Hartley, a Winston-Salem native, had worked in newspapers there before relocating to Rocky Mount two years ago. He leaves a wife two children and his parents.
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Rocky Mount
T. A. Hartley, Jr
Winston-Salem
Inquest Set After Fatal Bus Automobile Crash Near Charlotte
Five people died and 28 were injured when an Atlantic Greyhound bus collided with a car and plunged down a 25 foot embankment. Driver W Ray Householder lay seriously injured and unable to be questioned as coroner weighed when to hold the inquest.
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Charlotte
Here
W. Ray Householder
Atlantic Greyhound
Householder
C. C. Wallace
Gaston County
Mexico rejects Hull plan straining U S Mexico ties
Washington reports that Mexico refuses to fund compensation for expropriated American farm lands and will not halt further seizures pending settlement. Officials fear prolonged stalemate could unsettle trade and financial relations between the two nations.
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Washington
Mexico
Hull
United States
Great Britain
Holiday Death Toll Nears Three Hundred
The Labor Day weekend violence and accidents pushed the national death toll toward 300 with at least 200 killed in highway crashes during peak travel. Additional drownings homicides and unusual accidents occurred from Pennsylvania to California. Ohio led with 26 auto deaths and three plane fatalities.
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Pennsylvania
New York
New Jersey
Missouri
Charlotte
N. C
Meredith
California
Ohio
Human Eye Model at New York World's Fair 1939
A giant walk in model of a human eye will be built at the 1939 New York World's Fair. The spectacle will feature a huge pupil that allows several visitors to enter simultaneously and view the fairgrounds through the eye.
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New York
Thompson Classic Feature Race at 300 mph
Cleveland reports the Thompson classic is the final 300 mile segment of a three day air races meet. Roscoe Turner and Earl Ortman renew a rivalry as the world’s richest purse of 45000 dollars awaits eight finishers on a 10 mile closed course with the danger of crashes already claimed a racer. Turner seeks revenge after being edged in previous meets and twice losing the race by cutting pylons.
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Cleveland
Russell Chambers
Los Angeles
Firt
Roscoe Turner
Chicago
Earl Ortman
Turner
Ortman
Rainbow Colors at Fair New York 1939 Avenue Lighting
The New York World's Fair 1939 main thoroughfare Rainbow avenue curves across the northern area. Daytime blue buildings near the Theme Center shift to purple toward Central Mall and red toward the left. Red transitions to orange and yellow dominates far left with colored flood lighting at night.
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New York
Central Mall
Charlotte chosen to host 1939 Moose conclave
J H Fullerton was elected president of the Carolina Moose association at the Sheraton in Charlotte. Charlotte will host the 1939 conclave as hundreds from NC SC VA and Baltimore attend events through the day concluding with a ball.
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Sheraton Hotel
Carolina Moose Association
J. H. Fullerton
Mr. Fullerton
Charlotte
Walter L. York
W. P. Troutman
Wilmington
Co. C. Ricker
Asheville
H. Way Russell
Thomasville
Ben Hill
Spartanburg
Tommie Lewis
North Carolina
South Carolina
Virginia
Baltimore
Raleigh Lodge
E. Z. Jones
Elmer Hedrick
High Point
C. C. Rich
Charlotte Lodge
Charlotte Chamber of Commerce
Fuller
Association
H. L. Oust
Women of Moose
York
Castine
City Lake Park
Women of the Moose
Sheraton
Solemn Rites For Catholic Cardinal
Nation mourns Patrick Cardinal Hayes archbishop of New York died in sleep at Monticello. Funeral rites planned with body lying in state at Cardinal’s residence then St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Prominent mourners include George Mundelein Amleto Celsognani and Stephen Donahue.
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New York
Patrick Cardinal Hayes
Cardinal of Charity
United States
St. Joseph's Camp For
Monticello
N. Y
St. Patrick's Cathedral
George Cardinal Mundelein
Chicago
Amleto Cleognani
Stephen J. Donahue
Orange County Ballot on Liquor Stores Tuesday Referendum
Orange County voters will decide in a special referendum on Wednesday whether to legalize liquor stores. If the county goes wet, an old law forbids whiskey sales within four miles of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Durham County nearby has had liquor stores about a year.
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Raleigh
Orange County
University of North Carolina At Chapel Hill
Durham County
Orange
Prizes Awarded For Floats In Pageant Parade
The Pageant of Progress awarded first prize to Carolina Container Company for the best float. Coca-Cola Bottling Company and Globe Parlor Furniture Company won second and third prizes. Honorable mentions went to High Point Furniture Company Adams-Millis Tri angle Hosiery Mills High Point Overall Automobile Dealers' Merchants Marine Oil and H P T and D Railway.
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Carolina Container Company
Coca-Cola Hottling Company
Globe Parlor Furniture Company
High Point Furniture Company
Adams-Millis Corporation
Triangle Hosiery Mills
High Point Overall Company
Automobile Dealers’ Association
Merchants Association
Marine Oil Company
H. P. T. & D. Railway Company
Miss High Point
Miss Columbia
Chamber of Commerce
City of
Greensboro
British Plane Falls On Crowded Street
A crippled Royal Air Force plane crashed and exploded in a London suburb, killing at least 11 people and injuring nearly 30. Among the dead were four members of the Saunders family and six from the Callaghan family. a child named Jimmy Tant died as the plane struck a house roof.
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London
Royal Airforce
Benjamin Saunders
Saunders
Roy
Derek
William Callaghan
Terence
Dennis
Jimmy Tant
Bambe
Roosevelt Praises Lewis in Maryland Address
President Roosevelt voiced support for Maryland senator hopefuls and praised Rep David J Lewis while omitting names in a farmers gathering on the Eastern Shore. He urged unity beyond liberal and conservative labels and urged workers from farms to mills to share a humane standard of living.
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Denton
Ept
Roosevelt
Maryland
David J. Lewis
Lewis
Millard Tydings
White House
Tydings
Chesapeake Bay
America
Japanese plan to seize Hankow before October first
Reports from Japanese circles say the army high command expects to capture Hankow, the Chinese provisional capital, within three weeks without naval help. They claim victories along the Yangtze, with about 10 000 Chinese killed in a week of heavy fighting since Shanghai fell.
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Shanghai
Hankow
Yangze
Yangtzee
Lushan
Kiukiang
Nanchang
Teian
Kiuklang
Kiafeng
Sunhai
Shansi
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Ture Company
GLORE
Howard Rhodes
Billy
Hall M. Austin
Rhodes
Austin
New Orleans
Gastonia
U. S
Moose
Cardinal Hayes
Cordell Hull
Tokyo
Yangtze River
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