I. O. Delegates Set Meeting Ahead of State Convention
Delegates from C I O locals across North Carolina will gather at the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Hall in Greensboro on Sunday December 3 at 2 pm. E L Sandefur Carolinas director says the meeting will plan the February 2 and 3 state convention at the Sheraton Hotel High Point to establish a State Industrial Union Council and adopt a constitution.
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Amalgamated Clothing Workers Hall
Ashe Street
Greensboro
E. L. Sandefur
Carolinas
Sheraton Hotel
High Point
Sandetur
Confiscated Whiskey Sold To Durham Store For 496
Guilford County gained 496 dollars from the sale of 42 cases of confiscated whiskey to the Durham A B C store. Deputies seized the whiskey during a raid on A B Jordan’s premises in Deep River. County commissioners ordered the sale to fund the school system.
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Durham A. B. C
Guilford
Durham A. B.C
A. B. Jordan
Deep River
State convention may launch CIO drive in the South
Union delegates will be seated as delegates at the event. Mr Sandefur said the state convention could inaugurate a mass CIO organizational drive throughout the South. Reports from delegates on local activity will be heard and resolutions adopted on state and national labor issues.
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South
Sandefur
Carolinas
Organized Labor
Gravner Marsh Dies at 79 in Springfield Community
Gravner Marsh 79 died at his home on High Point route 4 after years of illness. Born November 28, 1860 in Guilford County he was a farmer and longtime Providence Wesleyan Methodist Church member. Survived by daughter Mrs. J M Thomas and three grandchildren. Body to be returned Friday. funeral Saturday at Providence Wesleyan Methodist Church. Interment Fairfield Cemetery.
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High Point
Springfield
Mr. Marsh
Guilford County
Isaiah and
Jane Kersey Marsh
Providence Wesleyan Methodist Church
J. M. Thomas
E. W. Jones
J. E. Swinson
Fairfield Cemetery
Finnish steamer Mercator sinks after mine off Scotland
Survivors from the 4,260 ton Finnish steamer Mercator say the vessel sank after striking a mine off the Scottish coast while headed to Finland. All but one crew member were brought ashore today.
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London
Mercator
Finland
World sympathy for Finland grows as invasion unfolds
Finland receives broad global sympathy for the Soviet Russian onslaught with limited concrete aid offered. Roosevelt meets Finnish minister Hjalmar Procope. Senator King calls for withdrawing U S recognition of Russia. Hoover condemns the attack as barbaric. Germany and Japan stay silent while Britain’s press cites possible strain with Russia.
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Utah
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Herbert Hoover
Ghengis Khan
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Daily Worker
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Chamber
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Times of London
Berlin
Poland
Leningrad
Yukichiro Suma
Foreign Office
Tokyo
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Oslo
Netherlands
Alexander the Great in Egypt and the rise of Alexandria
Uncle Ray relates how Alexander the Great conquered Egypt welcomed by locals after a border city fell. He founded a new Greek settlement named Alexandria in Memphis and planned a great trade center. He then moved on to Babylon and India, died after illness at 33, and his empire quickly fractured into regional realms.
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Alexander
Memphis
Alexandria
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Babylon
Earth
India
Persia
Mexico
Amsterdam arrests after Russia brick-throwing incident
A man who stoned a Russian bookshop in Amsterdam was arrested as the possibility of war loomed. Spain reported sympathy for the Finns while Madrid’s ABC dubbed Russia the brutal cynical neighbor of Finland.
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Amsterdam
Spain
Madrid
ABC
Finland
ICC Victory in Northbound Freight Rate Ruling
Governor Hoey of North Carolina hails ICC decision as a crucial win in the fight against discriminatory freight rates. He says the ruling establishes a principle that could lead to adjustments across the entire freight rate structure, bringing South relief.
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ICC
Raleigh
Interstate Commerce Commission
Hoey
North Carolina
South
Rates Discriminating Against the South Highlighted
The text notes longstanding rates discriminating against the South for many years, signaling a critique of unequal treatment. The fragment underscores regional bias and calls attention to persistent economic inequities tied to southern interests.
Literary speakers slated for Raleigh meeting December
Dr Archibald Henderson of the University of North Carolina and Dr D A Rockmiller of North Carolina State College will be among the speakers at the State Literary and Historical Association meeting in Raleigh on December 8.
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Raleigh
Archibald Henderson
University of North Carolina
D. A. Rockmiller
N. C. State College
State Literary and Historical Association
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