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with speeches in :
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d this year's trip
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:he tlreat S -.: >kv
•u:! par!: in North
Tennessee.
Nazis Admit
fighting
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:he disembarking Brit-!
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!.•: nes sank before
■ being hit squarely.
- were said to have
club which was shot
: hones in March al
:.a't shot.
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■John Wayne
■ —in—
'Sagebrush Trail"
—Also—
• To The Rescue'
\"o\ elty
TOMORROW
Shirley Temple
—in—
-■ Around the Corner''
STEVENSON THEATRE
LAST TIMES TODAY
"The Grapes Of Wrath"
Admission: Matinee—Children 10c: Adults 35c
Night—All seats 40c
ON THE STAGE
en THE SCftEEn.
' \:id One Was Beautiful"
with
Jean Muir
Stage show at 4:00, 7:30, and 9:45 P. M.
■n's Smartest Revue—"Hollywood Scanties'
fcll-l.V FARRELL—
Ma-tec of Ceremonies.
' " f »!»FKN SISTERS
'riful beautiful girls—
. ; ul double acrobatic*
TAKKTA
"t kcr from The Land
y Blossoms—Remark
i<le down-balancer and
:•">t barrel juggler.
" >' \ f \ J-.
, , hythm tap dancer.
1 »--» UTO BROTHERS—
rut-wits—All comedy
'i'■■--Bumps and falls—
'•aiding comedy offer
FARRLL—BUU i 5 ami
Three aristocrat nuts—Here is
a real honest-to-goodness big
time act—Singing — Dancing—
Comedy. Their comedy antics
and frantic efforts to get laughs
at any cost is sure fire with the
patrons.
HOLLYWOOD SCANTIETTES—
Vaudeville's Darling Sextette'
Six youthful—shapely dancing
girls.
JACK MAYNARD and HIS
RHYTHM MAKERS—
Flashy modern stage band.
The War to Date
I" . i—I—- —
This map shows latest developments in the wax- between Germany and
the Allies, fought on Norwegian soil. Nazi forces are reported Seeing
Narvik along the railroad as British troops occupy the key seaport. Nor
wegian soldiers outside Narvik are said to have trapped the retreating
Nazis. Germans reported driving successfully northeast and southeast
from Oslo and breaking through. Germans also reported cutting Norway
in two along a line from Trondheim to Swedish border.
Cotton Prices
Are Higher
New York, April 23.— (AP)—Cot
tun futures opened 2 higher to 1
lower.
Mid-dav prices held 1 to 3 points
higher in quiet dealings.
Closing Grain
WHEAT
Mav
July
Sept
CORN:
May
July
Sept
OATS:
May
July
Sept
Sugar: 4.50.
'/repress of Schools Shnv/n
By Rapid Increase In List
Meeting Minimum Standard
(Continued trorr. Pa2e One)
So actually there were only 151
schools which passed this test and
were otherwise eligible.
A total of 1.028 white schools like
wise had less than seven teachers,
leaving only 855 otherwise eligible
ior accredited honors.
In order to be an accredited school
the following minimum standards
111
109 1-8
109 1-4
84 3-4
65 1-2
(jf) i-2
42 3-8
38 1-8
35 1-4
must be met. in addition tu the
length of course mid teacher per •
grade essentials already mentioned:!
(1) A majority of teachers holding
Class A certificates: (2) a minimi m
term of 1(50 actual teaching c«ys; (3) 1
an average attendance of 32-36 pupils
per teacher: (4) an accurate scho- \
uistic. attendance and health record
lor each pupil enrolled: (5) mini
mum equipment with reference to
(a) library, (b) supplementary read
ers. (c) dictionaries, (d) maps and
globes, (e) special classroom for gen- I
eral equipment including materials
lor art. music, pemnansino. etc.: fpd
Mi) an adequate and sanitary build
ing.
v >nlv one county system in the state
(Lenior) has all its white schools on 1
the accredited list, while at the other;
end there are a dozen (Alleghany,!
Camden. Cherokee, Chowan. Clay.!
Dare, Halifax, Hertford, Hyde,)
Watauga, Wilkes and Wilson) which
have no accredited schools at all.
In the city groups there are 17 of.
35 system-; with 10U per cent ac-1
credited schools (Asheville, Durham,
Gastonia. High Point, Rocky Mount.
Goldsboro, Kinslon, Salisbury, Shel
by, Concord, Elizabeth City, Green
ville, Hamlet, New Bern, Roanoke
Rapids, Slatesvilie, and Turboro).
This refers to white schools.
There are only four county systems
with any accredited Negro schools
(Lee, Warren, Nash and Hertford).
Five city systems have all Negro
schools on the accredited list (Gas
tonia. High Point, Salisbury. Hickory,
and Lexington). At the other end 21
city systems have no accredited
Negro elementary :chools (Asheville.'
Winston-Salem. Coldsboro. Kinston,!
Burlington, Oxford, Wilson, Leaks-j
ville, Henderson, Concord, Green
ville. Hamlet, New Bern, Roanoke j
Rapids. Statesville, Turboro, Ml.
Airy, Washington, Marion, Canton,
Reidsvillc and Tnomasville).
Isolationists Take Exception
To Roosevelt's Condemna
tion of Norway Invasion
(Continued From Paee One?
ry to attack on never was very
• in my mind.
I a keci r'razier about it, inquiring 1
. he didn't think we should resist |
vcn if invaded. His reply was that
no country <;n earth would be bar
barous enough to attack another
ountry where war was unconstitut
ional. Such, a thing, he said, liter- ■
dly would be an impossibility. I j
•/a'-n't altogether convinced. Neither,
was congress; it didn't vote to sub
nil the proposed Frazier amend- J
I
Quarrels With Japs
Father James F. Kearney
Father James F. Kearney, Kansas
City Jesuit, is disputing ownership
of mission property in Nanking,
China, with the Japanese army and
the puppet ruler of China, Wang
Ching-Wei. When the Japs tried to
turn the property over to the new
government, the priest and tfiree
Franciscan nuns moved in and re
fused to budge.
iyway. it'-, unrler-tandahle why
, ;.•(ui|)lt- uf senators with these back
• Mind: are adv ersely critical of the
: it-..i presidential utterance on the
i.bjt'd of Germany's Danish and
.. n \. i';;ian invasions.
The tact that Nye and Frazier
■nit! are Nmth Dakotans is a mere
.incidence.
Foresee Danger
Incidentally, Nye and Frazier have
considerable congressional support
it: their contention that the presi
dential statement at best was un
necessary and that, at worst, it's a
dangerous direction, from the stand
point of LTucle Sam's continued phy
. \cui r-ev.tf-i.ty.
The- Allies .il o ore arcuced of hav
ing inore or les: jirtiiied Germany's
1 Scandinavian move l,y mining Nor
' way's ierritorial water*. in violation
i* Norwegian neutrality. The argu-■
i ment i- that Norway, ii' really neu-'
tral, ought to have prevented it. To
be : lire, the N*-»rv. couldn't do
i so. They hadn't the .strength to
i chare off the British mine-layers.
So, alter oil, wasn't Britain the
first neutrality-violator?
International lawyers find it dif
ficult to answer t!>i- question nega
tively.
Denmark's Position
n.- nmark wa: n't dointi any neu
trai sty-viol j ting.
Ti.j' Danes ar? in=ide the Ger
man's Baltic pond. You . can
lhat by a glance at the map. They
didn't need to be invaded by Ger
many except tn give the Germans a
s:.fe seaway into Norway.
Norway is .Germany'*; objective.
Denmark simply is stepped on in
cidentally.
In the long run, the Dane.5; doubt
less are good German grabbing, but,
for the purposes of this particular
war, they're just a highway to an
other goal.
Sv/t den—it would appear—can be
attended to later by the Germans.
At; to northern Sweden and Nor
' way (Narvi'D: pivtumatly the G31
1 man*, and Rii.-:v/.rv will dr.agrr.* i -
nu.ttl>. Juf.t now they're acting in
conqert. • • • . . »
REPAIRS PROCRI-:SS!\G
1 Raleigh, April 23.— (AP)— Chi<»»
| Highway Engineer W. Vance liaise
i said today that, barring <.int'uvora-;i.»
j weather, repairs to the Wright Me
morial bridge to Manteo wuld be
i completed by July 1. .a total of
i 200 "bents"—supports composed of
three piles each—already have been
! erected, he added. The bridge was
I damaged last -winter by an ice jam
and a wind-tossed barge.
o wing—~
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