Last Minute News Flashes: Eaton Killed in Glider
Warren E. Eaton of Norwich New York president of the Soaring Society of America and brother of Melvin Eaton Republican state chairman of New York was killed instantly today in a glider accident near Miami Florida as winter weather halted flight activity.
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Warren E. Eaton
Norwich
N. Y
The
Soaring Society of America
Melvin
Eaton
New York
Roosevelt weighs relief bills as weekend conferences begin
President Roosevelt faces a pivotal weekend as advisers split over a trillion dollar relief push or a scaled back strategy. Harold Ickes plans public works expansion while Hopkins pushes an eight to nine billion dollar federal work relief program. Some advisers favor private sector stimulus through loan guarantees.
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Roosevelt
Congress
Harold L. Ickes
Warm Springs
Hopkins
Federal Work Relief Corporation
Dole
Ickes
25 Rescued From Sinking Ship In Muskegon Gale
Twenty five crew members of the whaleback hull Henry Cort were saved after striking the Muskegon harbor breakwater in a sixty mile gale. Coast guardsmen aided by firing a line to the ship and rescuers crossed the breakwater to shore, where the men reached the Civilian Conservation Corps camp. Only fatality was coast guardsman John Dipert who drowned when a small boat swamped during the rescue attempt.
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Muskegon, Mich
Henry Cort
Muskegon Harbor
Cort
John Dipert
Coast
Civilian Conservation Corpus
Muskegon Dunes State Park
Roosevelt weighs NRA relief plans during New Deal talks
President Roosevelt reviews relief and NRA questions with Hopkins and Richberg as he plans a January Congress briefing. A wholesale overhaul of relief aims to boost work relief, fund slum clearance and rural housing, while keeping key NRA principles like child labor bans and minimum wages under review. Emergency spending remains unsettled.
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Francis M. Stephenson
Warm Springs
NRA
Roosevelt
Harry L. Hopkins
Donald Richberg
National Recovery Executive Board and Emergency Council
White House
Congress
Morgenthau
Farley
Democratic National Committee
Frank C. Walker
New York
Emergency Council
Morganthau
Navy Beats Army 3 0 in Muddy Rivalry Clash
Navy edged Army 3 to 0 at Franklin Field as Slade Cutter connected on a 19 yard field goal in the first quarter. Fred Buzz Berries starred for Navy with key runs and defensive plays, while both teams struggled in rain soaked conditions.
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Franklin Field
Philadelphia
Navy
Army
Cadets
Service Academies
Slade Cutter
Fred
Buzz) Berries
Bill Clark
Midshipmen
Borries
Pratt
Clark
Simons
Buckler
Stancock
Stancook
Grohs
True
Tom King
Berries
Barries
Miller
Meyer
Byries
Missing Man Found After Amnesia Mystery
Herman B Wisby once Kannapolis N C School superintendent reappeared in Abbeville S C after weeks missing from a Baltimore Norfolk steamer. Found in Augusta Ga claiming amnesia he was taken home by his uncle C B Crave of McCormick. Wisby about 30, married with two children, in ill health. Augusta police withheld discovery details.
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Abbeville
8. C
Herman
Wisby
Kannapolis
N. C
C. B. Crawe
McCormick
Augusta
Erskine College
Atlanta
Weather forecast by states North Carolina forecast
North Carolina: fair and much colder with frost along the coast. Sunday mostly fair with rising temperatures inland. The northeast coast turns colder tonight. Monday may bring rain in the western portion.
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North Carolina
Carolina
Flooded Rivers Drive Widespread North Carolina Damage
East North Carolina rivers swelled towns and lowlands as the Roanoke and Tar neared record levels. Weldon saw the Roanoke 10 feet over banks with a 41 foot depth, and the Tar rose rapidly at Rocky Mount. State officials estimated 60 to 100 bridges washed away or damaged, with Wake Warren Vance Franklin and Brunswick counties reporting major losses. Lake Rim dam breached at Fayetteville’s fish hatchery.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Roanoke
Cape Fear
Weldon
Lee A. Denson
United States Weather Bureau
Rocky Mount
State Highway and Public Works Commission
Wake
Warren
Vance
Franklin
Brunswick
Lake Rim
Fayetteville
Negro Physician Held For Operation Murder Charge
Dr. C. C. Stewart, a Greensboro Negro physician, faces a murder charge in the death of a young white woman after an alleged illegal operation. Ollie Parrish, considered an accomplice, is to have a hearing with him. Both are imprisoned without bail in the county jail after their Novem ber 12 arrest. the woman died Monday following treatment at a local hospital.
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Greensboro
C. C. Stewart
Ollie Parrish
Policeman Dies of Automobile Injuries
Aiken South Carolina December 1 W P Courtney age 60 aiken policeman died early today from injuries after a car driven by J D Weatherford superintendent of city streets failed to make a curve and struck a telephone pole Weatherford escaped serious harm.
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Aiken
8. C
W. P. Courtney
Aiken Poiceman
Courtney
J. D. Weatherford
Weatherford
Senate probes gangland guns supply amid rising submachine gun output
Washington investigators probe the source of cheap sub machine guns after 800 believed in criminal hands. Senators press for details on direct sales and supply channels as they resume hearings amid the killings of federal agents Cowley and Hollis.
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Washington
Senate
Samuel P. Cowley
Herman Hollis
Brooklyn
Underworld
Stephen Raushenbush
Pope
Idaho
U S And Britain Protest Japanese Oil Monopoly
Tokyo reports that Great Britain and the United States filed third protests over Manchoukuo oil control. Ambassadors Clive and Grew delivered notes to Japanese officials while Tokyo insists the dependency remains independent and business negotiations should resolve the dispute.
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U. S
Great Britain
Tokyo
Robert Clive
Kohi Hirota
United States
Foreign Office
Joseph C. Grew
Japan
China
Manchoukuo
London
Washington
P. W. Parker
Stanford Vacuum 1 Company
Yokohama
New York
Parker
Shanghai
Standard Oil Company of
Asiatic Petroleum Company
Hsinking
Manchoukuo Oil Company
State Revenue Shows Increase Amid Fiscal Year Rise
Raleigh reports revenue department gains as five month tax collections total 1 076 866 74 with a 12 24 percent rise from the prior year. November receipts rise 33 14 percent led by sales tax and a record gasoline tax month, with 1 511 124 gallons more sold than ever.
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Raleigh
State Revenue Department
A. J. Maxwell
North Carolina considers anti lynching bill and social work reforms
The North Carolina legislature will be asked to enact an anti lynching bill in the next biennial session. The Commission on Inter racial Cooperation instructed its legislative committee to draft the measure for the general assembly. Members include Dr Edwin McNeil Poteat, Dean M T Hecke, and Dr Howard E Jensen. The group also backed expanding support for the Efland industrial school for Negro girls and improving care for mental defectives of both races.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
North Carolina Commission On Inter-racial Co-Operation
General Assembly
Edwin McNeil Poteat
M. T. Hecke
University of North Carolina
Howard E. Jensen
Duke University
State Legislative Council
State Conference For Social Work
Industrial School For
Efland
Football Scores Reported From Games
In the second quarter Georgetown tied 0-0 while Western Maryland trailed 6-75. Also in the second Duke led State 12-0 midway through the period.
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Georgetown
Western Maryland
Duke
State
Will Ers Says on Taxes and Lords in Beverly Hills
In Beverly Hills, a letter quotes Will Ers deriding the House of Lords for resisting taxes on liquor and landed estates. The writer hints at political tensions under Roosevelt and references a printing press that could halt government activity.
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Beverly Hiulas
Calif
House of Lords
Ested
Mr. Roosevelt
Hitler's Peace Offer Questioned by Laval in France
In Paris Pierre Laval pressed Germany to translate peace words into deeds. He urged an Eastern Locarno pact with Russia and Italy while signaling France’s readiness to back mutual defense with eastern Europe. Von Ribbentrop carried a private Berlin response.
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Germany
Laval
France
von Ribbentrop
Hitler
Berlin
Flandia
Russia
Italy
Europe
Entente
Slavia
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