Farmers May Get Financial Aid From Resettlement Office
The Resettlement Administration in Lincolnton NC announces loans available to farmers not on relief if they cannot secure financing elsewhere. Eligible purchases include livestock feed seed fertilizer and farm equipment with limits on real estate and debt refinancing. Emergency aid may also assist distressed farm workers for temporary relief. Office hours are 9 to 4:30 Thursday and Friday and 9 to 1 Saturday.
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Final Vote Shows 62 Percent Against New Deal
The Literary Digest poll reports 1 907 681 ballots with 62.66 percent voting no to Do you now approve the nets and policies of the Roosevelt New Deal With 37.34 percent voting yes Utah and eleven southern states favor the New Deal while thirty six states register majorities against it Twenty two states representing over half the US population give more than 60 percent against the New Deal in the poll Eight southern states with 96 electoral votes back the Administration’s policies The survey notes a decline in support since the first report and contrasts with an earlier 61.15 percent in favor
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Marietta hosts pet tagging and inoculation drive
All Marietta dogs invited to a February 1 pet party but the event is run by officials. Owners must bring their dogs for tagging and inoculation at 1 dollar per service or face fines.
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Edith Maxwell Denied New Trial in Patricide Case
Wise Virginia January 18 Edith Maxwell 21 a mountain school teacher under 25 year sentence for patricide was denied a new trial by Judge H A W Skeen as defense new evidence failed to contradict the original verdict The defendant was convicted of beating her father to death with a high heel slipper
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H. A. W. Skeen
Woman Clubs Three Children to Death in West Chester
In West Chester on January 18, 50 year old Mrs. Sarah Oberle, driven by worry over ill health, struck her three sleeping children with an iron bar fatally. The victims were Mary 17 a senior class vice president, Louise 7 and Joseph Jr 9. She attempted suicide but survived. Dr Leroy Barber found the scene and said she will recover.
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Sarah Oberle
Mary
West Chester High School
Louise
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Leroy Barber
Plan to extend federal farm payments proposed at White House
Washington January 18 officials at a White House conference outlined a tempo rary farm legislation to continue federal payments. The plan calls for retirement of cropland as soil conservation, rental payments to farmers, amendments to laws, and an appropriation of 300 to 490 million dollars. A permanent program could follow later this session or next year. Provisions untouched by the Supreme Court decision would be strengthened and expanded.
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Rock Springs School Honors Rolls Readied for New Year
Rock Springs School reports strong academic effort with new year goals. Honor rolls list A and B recipients across grades including Mary Long Omar Long Anita Higginbotham Kathleen Barker and Josephine Rudisill among many others.
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James Rhyne
Newton Smith
Pat Howard
K. C. Whitener
Jimmie Shelton
Blair Dellinger
H. L. Wilkinson
John McCorkle
Frank Cline
Billy Barker
Mary Hovis
Josephine Abernethy
Sue Wilkinson
Anna Bolick
Betty Little
Vertie Lee Setzer
Katherine Little
Kathleen Barker
B. Honor
Horace Hester
Frances Abernethy
Nora Lee Barker
Elizabeth King
Mabel Ruth Mundy
Christine Williams
Honor
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Virginia Ballard
Vera Hager
Pansy McCorkle
Myrtle Sherrill
Leila Wilkinson
Paul Sherrill
Margaret Sue Howard
H. N. Abernethy
Kenneth Brotherton
Christine Harkey
Macie Lawing
Inez Johnston
Ellen Wilkison
Nellie Rees
Mary Long
Josephine Rudisill
Betty Reinhardt
Gladys Schronce
Ann Howard
Anita Higtinbotham
Margaret Falls Edwards
Frances Shellem
Edith Shelton
Omar Long
Laura Ellen Canipe
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Hoffmans Reprieve Stirs Impeachment Debate In Hauptmann Case
Gov. Harold G Hoffman defended his 30 day reprieve for Bruno Hauptmann and attacked prosecutors and critics. He questioned Hauptmann’s link to the Lindbergh nursery as controversy grows. Attorney General Wilentz condemned the move while Hauptmann’s wife Anna visited him before the scheduled execution.
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Jassie) Condon
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Foster Due for First Gas Shot
Raleigh January 18 Allen Foster a young Negro from Birmingham appears set to become North Carolina’s first lethal gas chamber execution replacing the electric chair The governor has said he will not intervene to stop Foster’s January 24 execution He was convicted of assaulting a white woman in Hoke County and was a CCC camp member in Robeson County.
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Coroner to opened inquest into taxi driver Leatherman death
Coroner Frank Hovis will hold a Tuesday inquest at the county courthouse into the Christmas day death of Charlotte taxi driver G B Leatherman. Jurors J Marston Crump and others sworn after the discovery will hear witnesses including Braxton Wingate in custody and a released hotel companion. Detectives report no conclusive leads and a pocketbook and coins linked to the deceased were found in Wingate's possession.
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Frank N. Littlejohn
Frank Hovis
J. Marston Crump
B. N. Andrews
J. P. Irwin
T. S. Simpson
T. B. Henderson
C. B. Muse
Braxton Wingate
Lincolnton
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W. F. Simpson
W. W. Fisher
North Myers Street
Wingate
Paul Rhodes
West 9Th Street
Harp Cab
Negro dies in electric chair at North Carolina prison
Raleigh January 17 Robert Dunlap 27 a divorced Buncombe County negro was electrocuted for poisoning his sweetheart Pauline McMillan. He was the first to die in the reconstructed death chamber at State's prison as gas executions loom next Friday.
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Raleigh
Robert Dunlap
Buncombe County
Dunlap
State’s Prison
Pauline McMillan
H. H. Honeycutt
More Than Million Men in Soviet Army
Moscow reports the Red Army now numbers 1,300,000 troops, reflecting a year of buildup amid tensions with Japan and Germany. Officials say a trained reserve pool equals that of the czar era, signaling a major military expansion.
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Jury awards 23700 in Newton truck wreck cases
In Newton on January 17 a superior court jury awarded $23,700 to the administrators of ten African American victims killed when a collision on Highway 10 east of Newton occurred June 22, 1984. The jury found L L Hunsucker and C H Setzer not liable for the accident involving W G Burdant's transfer truck and Ed F Alred, the other driver.
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L. L. Hunsucker
C. H. Setzer
North Newton
Highway 10
W. G. Bondurant
Ed F. Alred
Mt. Airy
Hunsacker
Setzer
Lincolnton Sweeps Shelby In Final Half Scoring Burst
Lincolnton High five rallied to a 29 to 10 victory over Shelby after a rough first half. Shelby led 9 to 3 at the break as Whitener and Proeto paced the 12 point effort. Lincolnton’s late surge, aided by Proctor and Leonard, sealed the win.
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John Leonard
Coffee term bunc from The Savannah Press cited
In Ethiopia coffee is called bunc according to The Savannah Press. The note suggests they may have tried that particular brand.
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Savannah Press
White House Kitchen Gadgets Prompt GOP Help
JOE GISH notes the White House kitchen is filled with gadgets and jokes that a future Republican president would need Roosevelt help to cook. He highlights the abundance of appliances in a light political aside.
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