First Day of Free Cooking School Draws 600 Women
More than six hundred women attended the Rose Theatre opening session of a three day free cooking school led by Mrs. Alva Moore. Attendees came from Thomasville and nearby towns, with sponsors including Georgia Packing Co and Watt Building Material Co guiding staged equipment and displays. The event runs through Friday with colored attendees welcomed at Douglas High School in an evening session.
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Rose Theatre
Alva
Moore
Thomasville
Cairo
Bainbridge
Belham
Camilla
Boston
Metcalfe
Coolidge
Whigham
Ochlochmee
Meigs
Pavo
Barwick
Quitman
Monticello
Thomasville Tce & Manufacturing Company
Rose City
Coca-Cola
Thomasville Coca- Cola Company
Georgia Packing Company
Jerger
Douglas High School
Thomasville Ice & Manufacturing Co
Georgia Packing Co
Flowers Baking Company
Watt Building Material Co
City Water & Light Department
Parramore’s Dairy
John Dixon
Richelieu
Bailey's Supreme Coffee
Southland Coffee Co
Crine
Concord Corp
South Georgia
Pillsbury’s
House Committee Backs $100 Million WPA Funding
The House appropriations committee rejected Roosevelt's relief estimate and passed a $100,000,000 WPA appropriation through July 1. It criticized WPA operations as liberal, aiming to curb excess while recognizing urgent need to fund relief. It noted administrative expenses were high and cited the World Fair exhibit as an example to restrain relief funds use.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Roosevelt
House
Wage Hour Funds Debate Rages as Perkins Fights CIO AFL Split
Washington March 29 The House Appropriations Committee approved a 30 847 770 labor department budget for next year and recommended restoring wage hour funds to Secretary Perkins. The panel warned against independent administration by wage hour chief Elmer Andrews, citing cost increases and potential confusion. Andrews outlined three points including a court challenge to the act and 7000 cases awaiting investigation.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Labor Department
Perkins
Senate
House
Elmer Jt. Andrews
Budget Bureau
Cio-Afl
House Appropriations
Elmer F. Andrews
Supreme Court
Andrews
Congress
FDR Reports On National World Affairs Before Warm Springs Trip
President Roosevelt conducts final checks on foreign and congressional matters before leaving for a ten day stay at Warm Springs Georgia He meets with Postmaster General Farley Senator Barkley House Ways and Means Chairman Doughton and Senate Interstate Commerce Chairman Wheeler He plans stops at Tuskegee Institute Auburn Alabama Polytechnical Institute and Tuskegee Veterans Hospital en route and reviews neutrality labor relief farm aid social security and tax issues while abroad The Spanish Civil War and embargo on arms to Spain loom as issues to be resolved Secretary Hull reviews Spain questions ahead of policy decisions The defense program faces hurdles but WPA funding remains a flash point in congressional debates.
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Roosevelt
Warm Springs
Farley
Barkley
Kentucky
Senate
Hull
Doughton
DNC
House
Ways and Means Committee
Wheeler
D-Mont
Senate Interstate Commerce
White House
Daniel J. Callaghan
Chehaw
Ala
Tuskegee Veteran Hospital
Tuskegee Institute
Tuskegee
Booker T. Washington
Auburn
Alabama Polytechnic Institute
South
Opelika
Spain
Sercretary
Britain to double field army strength to 340000
Prime Minister Chamberlain announced in the commons that Britain's territorial field army would be increased to 340000 men without conscription. He argued voluntary service could meet needs while preparing Britain for a leading role in uniting nations against dictatorship.
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London
Chamberlain
Commons
United States’ National Guard
Britain
Queen Elizabeth
House of Commons
Georges Bonnet
Robert Boothby
Soviet Union
Moscow
County Welfare Boards Ordered to Trim Rolls
Atlanta officials report county welfare boards must remove 50 to 1100 beneficiaries from social security rolls as part of a 38 percent May and June cuts. About 15,650 statewide beneficiaries face suspension under Director Braswell Deen’s budget deficit rules.
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Atlanta
Braswell Deen
State Welfare Department
Olfl
Deen
Directe l
Louisa FitzSimmons
Public Assistance Division
Welfare Department
General Assembly
E. D. Ivers
Missing Hope Brewster Narrowly Survives Mississippi River Trip
Helena Arkansas March 29 Miss Hope Brewster 24 year old musician who left Memphis Monday in a skiff reached Helena after a 90 mile solo ride down the Mississippi River. She told reporters she aimed to work in Helena and may continue downstream, showing no signs of distress or fear. Police and boat patrols had sought her as friends rushed to her hotel.
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Helena
Ark
Memphis
Tenn
Mississippi River
New Orleans
Miss Hope Brewster
Southwestern College
Nationalists Claim Control Of All 52 Spanish Provinces
Nationalist forces announced control of all 52 Spanish provinces as Madrid Valencia and Cartagena fell. Franco's troops imposed occupation while Republican leadership fled to French Algeria and a large prisoner tally grew across the Madrid sector.
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Rafael Henche
Madrid
Valencia
Catalonia
Spain
Franco
Educators Seek Federal Funds to Aid Georgia Schools
A 4 A group of Georgia educators met with Works Progress Administrator Harrington to obtain federal money for public school teachers and possible loans from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. State Superintendent M. D. Collins led the delegation, citing a 1934 relief fund total and a looming 5 200 000 deficit.
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Washington
F. C. Harrington
Works Progress Administrator
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
M. D. Collins
Georgia
E. G. Kirby
Carroll County
J Scott Davis
Floyd County
Georgia School Department
Georgia Association of Rural Superintendents
Collins
Georgia High School Accrediting Commission
Atlanta
Summer
County Board of Education
L. Bridges
T. Hicks Fort
Columbus Board of Education
Nationalist Victory Report From Cartagena
Burgos Spain March 29 reports say Cartagena the last major republican stronghold has abandoned resistance to General Franco. The nationalist headquarters announced radio advices confirming the fall of the naval base to Franco’s forces.
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Burgos
Spain
French
Algeria
Albacete
Cartagena
Absent-Minded Merchant Locks Out Customers In Lunch Time Heist
In Big Laurel Virginia a clothing merchant Oscar Laverty left his shop during lunch. He locked the door and the trapped customers waited for a clerk with a key. A thief had broken in earlier, stealing merchandise and escaping through another exit.
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Assert
Frankfort
Arts
Oscar Laverty
Laverty
Big Laurel
Willard Gibson
Rural customers to read meters and pay by mail
Prosser Washington rural electrification customers will switch to an honor system. They will read their own meters figure their own bills and pay by money order to their postman. Superintendent J B Whitehead says the plan will save about 1200 dollars annually from meter readers.
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Prosser
Wash
Benton County
Weather Forecast By Regions South and Southeast
South Carolina shows cloudy skies with occasional rain in the northwest and portions, warmer in the northwest and extreme north portions tonight, showers Thursday, and cooler in the extreme northwest in the afternoon. Georgia expects cloudy skies with showers in the north and west central areas, slightly warmer in west central and extreme northeast tonight, then Thursday showers with a coldest reading in the north and west portions. Extreme Northwest Florida anticipates showers tonight and Thursday with cooler west portions and winds turning from southerly to northerly Thursday. Alabama remains cloudy with showers tonight and Thursday morning, cooler Thursday with fresh southerly winds along the coast shifting to northerly tonight.
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South Carolina
Georgia
Westcentral
Florida
Alabama
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Centry Wood Preserving Company
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Alva’ Moore
Mrs
Alva Moore
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Maharaja Yeshwant
Indore
India
Los Angeles
Hope Brewster
John P. McKnight
Francisco Franco
Miaja
Algiers
Jose Miaja
la Senta
Oran
National Defense Council
WPA
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