TODA Y and DISARMAMENT a new concept
TODA Y and disarmament discuss a hopeful path after seven years of talks led by Norman Davis United States Ambassador at Large. The piece argues nations need not surrender defense but should curb weapons for invasion and large mobile guns and tanks. It notes progress in Europe population growth and farm land potential and praises civic acts by Edward Stevens Seattle who aided an Eskimo boy in need. It ends with Captain Hobson’s narcotics treaty drive under the League of Nations with 39 nations signing to limit production.
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Norman Davis
United States
Germany
Belgium
Geneva
Europe
Elizabeth
America
Czecho-Slovakia
Edward Stevens
Seattle
Kodiak Island
Alaska
Young Stevens
Kodiak
Anchorage
Stevens
Army
Richmond Pearson Hobson
Congress
Alabama
Hobson
League of Nations
North Carolina Milk Safety Improves and Deaths Report
News From Raleigh notes 80 per cent milk ordinance towns and no milk borne outbreaks in the past year. Tuberculosis remains top killer. July deaths 164, cancer 119, total 2,264 for the state, with births 6,031. Infant and maternal deaths fall. auto accidents rise. pellagra drops.
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Booker
T. B
North Carolina
State Bureau of Vital Statistics
Decline in Federal Aid Drops North Carolina Relief
A July report by Mrs. Thomas O Berry, state relief director, shows a 47 percent drop in families needing federal relief in North Carolina from June to July, from 92272 to 58937. The decline stems from better business, seasonal trends, and garden and small farm programs aiding 135000 families. Watauga County recorded 739 aid recipients in July.
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North Carolina
Thomas O’berry
O’berry
Watauga County
Seawell Denies Run for North Carolina Supreme Court
A. A. F. Seawell, assistant attorney general and former Sanford president now in Chapel Hill, denies any plan to run for NC Supreme Court to oppose Associate Justice Heriot Clarkson. Clarkson, and Chief Justice Stacy plus Justice Adams, face re-election next year with potential party primary in June. Separately, McDowell County reports 25 to 30 foals this year with some farms foaling two.
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W. J. Adams
Narcotics and the hope for reduced addictions
A speaker discusses narcotics policy and future access, predicting tighter controls may end new addicts and old ones dying out. He acknowledges the difficulty of breaking existing addictions and reflects on societal harm from the narcotic habit. Captain Hobson’s optimistic forecast is noted.
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Hobson
State Highway Force Receives First Shake-Up
Raleigh reports the first shake-up in the State Highway and Public Works Commission with personnel changes and expected further shifts in the Revenue Department under Dr. M. C. S. Noble Jr. and Governor Ehringhaus. The overhaul repositions officials, notes friction between key figures, and details new appointments in highway and prison sections, including Waldrop replacing Ames as highway engineer.
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Raleigh
State Highway and Public Works Commission
Revenue Department
M. C. S. Noble Jr
Ehringhaus
Noble
Brummitt
George Ross Pou
Highway and Public Works
Dr. Noble
E. B. Jeffress
Highway and Public Works Commission
Revenue
A. J. Maxwell
Pou
Jeffress
Mr. Pou
Consolidated Highway and
Ames
Leslie R. Ames
Commission
John D. Waldrop
Louisiana
Waldrop
J. H. Norman
Halifax
G. A. Coleman
Kenly
Oscar Pitts
Catawba County
J. Winder Bryan
John B. Bray
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Goodwill
State Insurance Department
Home Owners Loan Corporation
Insurance
Dan Boney
Federal Home Loan Bank
Thee Federal Home Loan Bank
Boney
McDowell County
Thad Eure
House of Representatives
Ross
Mr. Whedbee
C. B. Baughman
Elizabethton
Tenn
J. B. Hagaman
Boone
Watauga County Bank
Boone, North Carolina
Superior Court
Banks
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