British May Seek U S Help To Avert War With Italy
London reports Britain may request American cooperation to resolve the Italo Ethiopian crisis. An emergency cabinet meeting is planned to discuss coordinating League of Nations sanctions and Anglo American action.
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London
Britain
League of Nations
Italy
Paris
Laval
Mussolini
Rome
East Africa
Addis Ababa
Downing Street
Foreign Office
George Lansbury
Lloyd George
Ramsey MacDonald
Balmoral
Clive Wigram
Premier Laval
Juniors Elect Officers at Annual Convention in Wilmington
In Wilmington North Carolina on August 21 the Junior Order United American Mechanics elected officers for the upcoming year. Monroe Ada Statesville was named state councillor with E L Gavin Sanford as vice councillor and other posts filled by L T Perry Windsor Edgar C Johnson High Point Moses M Goodwin Durham and Rev J A Satterfield Rocky Mount. The afternoon ballot pends on outside sentinel nominees W E Montgomery Durham and Norwood P Parker Clinton. A resolution created a $1000 student loan fund for graduates of the Junior Order Home High School in Lexington.
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Wilmington
N. C
United American Mechanics
Monroe
Ada Statesville
E. L. Gavin
Sanford
L. T. Perry
Windsor
Edgar C. Johnson
High Point
Moses M. Goodwin
Durham
Inside Sentinel
J. A. Satterfield
Rocky Mount
W. E. Montgomery
Norwood P. Parker
Clinton
Outside Sentinel
Junior
Order Home
Lexington
Velasco Ibarra’s Coup Fails in Ecuador Colloquial Dictatorship Attempt
In Guayaquil on August twenty first Velasco Ibarra lost office as president and became a military prisoner. Army leaders rejected his bid for dictatorship, seizing the presidency without bloodshed and imprisoning key aides including Colonel Ricardo Astudillo. Col. Solis assumed the presidency as congress reviews the crisis.
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Guayaquil
Ecuador
Jose M. Velasco Ibarra
Velasco Ibarra
Ricardo Astudillo
Congress
Roosevelt hopes to announce 1035 cotton loan figure soon
President Roosevelt expressed hope that he could soon announce the cotton loan figure for the 1035 crop in Washington today.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Naval Board Stenographer Murder Puzzles Police
Long Beach California August 21 police sought a tall well dressed man after the body of Gladys Glenn Fair a 34 year old naval board stenographer was found draped over the rim of her bathtub at her eleventh floor apartment The killer fired from close range as they sat together on an arm chair A hallway sighting and lack of struggle along with a blood trail to the bath point to a careful assault and homicide with possible motive linked to her recent separation from Evan A Farr.
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Long Beach
Calif
Gladys Glenn Fair
Naval Board
W. H. Wray
San Francisco
Evan A. Farr
Farr
W. W. Hastings
Senate Approves Neutrality Bill Amid Italo-Ethiopian Tensions
The Senate adopted a seven point resolution to safeguard US neutrality in a foreign war. It authorizes a arms embargo and licensing of munitions, restricts belligerent ships and passengers, and creates a national munitions control board chaired by the Secretary of State with key agency members.
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America
Washington
Senate
House
Roosevelt
Foreign Relations Committee
Special Munitions Investigating Committee
Nye
R.nd
State Department
National Munitions Control Board
Secretaries of State
Treasury, War, Navy and Commerce
House Foreign Navy Relations Committee
Rogers Family Reunited After Loss in Los Angeles
The Rogers family returns to Los Angeles to mourn Will Rogers. Mrs Will Rogers and children Will Jr Mary and Jim travel from the east to Forest Lawn chapel where the comedian lies in a simple bronze casket. Gov Merriam plans a state moment of mourning and Hollywood events mark the funeral day with Nagel and Hughes in charge. Cherokee Indians seek tribal ceremony details to be decided by Mrs Rogers.
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Los Angeles
Rogers
Will Rogers
Will
Mary
Jim
Forest Lawn Chapel
Wiley Post
Alaskan Wilds
Frank F. Merriam
Hollywood Bowl
Conrad Nagel
Rupert Hughes
Supreme Court To Convene Next Tuesday in Raleigh
RALEIGH, Aug. 21. The state supreme court will begin its full term here next Tuesday. Appeals from the first and twentieth judicial districts will be heard the first week.
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Raleigh
State Supreme Court
Haile Selassie Warns War Could Involve World
Emperor Haile Selassie, speaking emotionally to The Associated Press in Addis Ababa, predicts a war between Italy and Ethiopia could broaden to a world struggle. He warns that a conflict pitting black and white races endangers humanity and vows, "we will be back in 1914."
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Ascociad Press
Addis Ababa
Haile Selassie
Associated Press
Italy
Ethiopia
Fire damages Swiss consulate. fifteen injured in Munich
A blaze gutting the upper part of the Swiss consulate in Munich injured fifteen people and caused about 100000 dollars in property damage. In Washington a move to resign Housing Administrator James A. Moffett was postponed at President Roosevelt’s request.
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Munich
Washington
James A. Moffett
Roosevelt
Florida school appoints J W Alexander as faculty and athletic director
Dr J C Settles announces the appointment of J W Alexander of Salada North Carolina to join the faculty at the Florida State School for Deaf and Blind in St Augustine as athletic director for boys.
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ST. Augustine
Fila
J. C. Settles
Florida State School For Deaf and Blind
J. W. Alexander
Salada
N. C
Clipper 18 Ready Midway Island
Aircraft crew prepares Pan American clipper at Midway Island station en route to Honolulu then Alameda California.
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Midway Island
Pan Plane
Atoll
Honolulu
Alameda
Calif
Papers Honor Return of Suspect Walter Gladys
A requisition from South Carolina for the return of Walter Gladys, wanted in Marlboro County for assault and aggravated battery, was honored today at Governor Ehringhaus’s office in Raleigh.
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Raleigh
South ‘Eneilen
Walter Gladys
Marlboro County
Ehringhaus
Dividends Declared by New York Company
The company announced a distribution totaling about 42 million dollars to its 675000 stockholders.
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New York
Homes destroyed as fire sweeps Nova Scotia forests
A massive blaze near Halifax roared through farmyards and timberlands destroying farm buildings and thousands of acres of timber. The sun blistered volunteers as they fought the flames.
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Halifax
Maritime Vinces
Reward Offered In Robeson County Case
J B Bruton farmer of Robeson county offers 200 reward for arrest and conviction of James Watson a Black man accused of an attempted criminal assault on Bruton's young daughter. Watson fled the area Sunday after the girl reported the incident to her father two weeks prior.
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Lumberton
J. B. Bruton
Robeson
James Watson
U Bruton
Watson
Market Hits Forward Stride Led by Steels and Industrials
The market shrugged off legislative worries and moved forward with steels and other pivotal industrials in the lead. Other official markets offered support as the commodity trend strengthened with wheat leading grains and cotton rising on optimistic views of a government loan policy for the next crop.
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New York
None Accounted For In Subway Disaster
Berlin reporters reported that 22 men remained unaccounted for after a subway collapse. Rescue workers with searchlights worked through a second night to find the victims amid twisted rails and planking.
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Berlin
Broughton Elected President of North Carolina Bar Association
J M Broughton of Raleigh was elected president for the coming year at the NC Bar Association convention cruise to Nova Scotia. Vice presidents named were Irvin Tucker Guy Roberts and Frank Hackler. Executives include Fred Sutton and Alson Stubbs. A state department of justice was endorsed.
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Reliance
Norfolk
J. M. Broughton
Raleigh
North Carolina Bar Association
Nova Scotia
Irvin Tucker
Whiteville
Guy Roberts
Marshall
Frank Hackler
Wilmington
Fred Sutton
Kinston
Alson Stubbs
Durham
State Department of Justice
A. A. F. Seawell
National Bar Program
American Bar Association
Ehringhaus
North Carolina
Oklahoma pays tribute to Wiley Post in state funeral
Oklahoma City witnesses a solemn homecoming for Wiley Post with the largest funeral flight in history. Joe Crosson and W A Winston transport the body, which will lie in state in the capitol before services at First Baptist and burial at Fairlawn with aircraft dropping flowers.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Wiley Post
Joe Crosson
Will Rogers
America
Lonely Point Barrow
Seattle
W. A. Winston
Post
Maysville
Little Landmark Missionary Baptist Church
First Baptist Church
Fairlawn
Control Jap Import Of Cotton Goods Included Special Group's Report
A cabinet committee report urges gradual curbs on Japanese cotton imports and acts to reduce textile industry excess capacity and obsolescence. It favors a voluntary agreement with Japan, new regional wage studies, and broader measures to modernize merchandising, labor standards, and cotton finance policies.
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Japan
Roosevelt
Congress
Agriculture and Commerce Departments
NRA
United States Tariff Commission
Robert Lincoln O'Brien
Cabinet
John Dickinson
Commerce
Alvin H. Hansen
Department of State
Paul A. Porter
Cabinet committee on cotton textiles reports to Roosevelt
A cabinet committee report on cotton textiles was transmitted to President Roosevelt in a public letter dated August 20 1935. The panel, formed April 26 1935, held conferences with industry, labor and agriculture representatives and public officials to discuss plant locations and conditions and to propose possible remedies.
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Washington
Cabinet Committee On Cotton Textiles
Roosevelt
Roper
Hull
Wallace
Perkins
White House
Judge James E. Boyd Dies After Long Federal Career
Greensboro, Aug 21 Judge James E. Boyd a member of the federal bench since 1900 died at his home after an extended illness. The funeral will be held Thursday at 4 PM at Reich funeral home with Rev J M Millard and Rev B M Rankin officiating. Interment in Green Hill cemetery. Masons will conduct rites at the grave. Boyd had been in failing health for years and saw no active service in the last decade. He helped open the middle district courts when created and witnessed Judge Johnson J Hayes inducted into office.
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Greensboro
James E. Boyd
Federal Bench
Reich Funeral Home
J. M. Millard
Alamance Presbyterian Church
M. Rankin
Green Hill Cemetery
Masons
Boyd
Federal Courts of
Middle District
John
Bus Route Decision Will Be Announced
Raleigh August 21 The State Utilities Commission plans to announce a formal decision on Atlantic Greyhound lines petition to operate a Raleigh to Greensboro to Chapel Hill route within a few days. Chairman Stanley Winborne signaled approval at the hearing but formal ruling was postponed at another commissioner’s request for more study time.
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Raleigh
Atlantic Greyhound Lines
Greensboro
Chapel Hill
State Utilities Commission
Stanley Winborne
North Carolina and South Carolina Weather Update
Local showers expected tonight and Thursday with little temperature change in North and South Carolina. Winds vary from fresh southerly to westerly, with overcast skies and intermittent showers across the coast from Sandy Hook to Hatteras and from Hatteras to Jacksonville.
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North Carolina
South Carolina
North Portion
Sandy Hook
Hatteras
South Portion
Jacksonville
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