George VI Becomes King as Edward Abdicates for Love
The British public accepts George VI as king after Edward VIII abdicates for Wallis Simpson. George V’s son, the royal family’s pageantry marks the transition while Edward sails to Boulogne and Cannes. The Irish Free State and other dominions adjust to the new monarch in foreign affairs.
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Frank H. Kingsdon
Britain
George VI
Edward VIII
London
Edward
George
St. James’ Palace
Gerald Wollaston
Great Britain
Ireland
India
New Alto
George V
Wallfield Simpson
Boulogne - Sur - Merce
the F of Windsor
Fury
Portsmouth
England
Cannes
Plan for American peace and security agreed by 21 republics
The conference announced unanimous support for a peace and security plan among 21 American republics. U.S. Secretary of State Hull hailed it as providing the strongest guarantees of peace on the continent. Plenary session to sign all agreements set for December 23 with preceeding meetings through December 21 and 19.
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Buenos Aires
United States
Brazil
Argentina
Cordell Hull
America
Fragmentary verse snippet hints at holiday mood
A short, unclear verse fragment references twinkling eyes and merry dimples with a gruesome contrast to corpses and a cherry, labeled as continued in the next issue. The text is fragmented, offering little concrete context or names.
Edward Renounces Throne Instrument of Abdication
Fragmentary OCR shows a royal abdication statement naming Edward VIII of Great Britain and Ireland. The obscured text references presenting the instrument of abdication and signing, indicating the historic resignation context.
North Carolina lawmakers eye quick pass on unemployment bill
In Raleigh, during the first special session since 1924, the unemployment compensation payroll tax bill drew strong movement after the house approved it in a brief session. Senate readings and potential amendments could push ratification by Wednesday or Thursday ahead of Christmas holidays. Governor Ehringhaus received a warm ovation during the joint assembly.
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Robert B. Pell
Raleigh
North Carolina
House
Senate
Social Security Board
Ehringhaus
George C. Perry
Madrid Faces Siege of Starvation Under Fascist Pressure
Fascist insurgents abandon direct assault on Madrid and pursue a surrounding siege to cut off food, as city evacuation figures top 300000 with 200000 more to go. artillery bombardment kills ten. main goal is seizing supply lines toward Valencia, with pushes near Aranjuez and Guadalajara.
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Alexander H. Uhl
Madrid
University City
Tte
Valencia
Aranjuez
Guadalajara
Forecast For 1937 Farmers Promises Gains Amid Weaknesses
A forecast for a favorable 1937 farming year notes cash income could reach 7.85 billion dollars, up from 4.33 billion in 1932, with a fourth straight annual gain. Yet drought and imbalances in supply and demand signal the need for vigor and action to erase drought scars and avoid overproduction.
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Washington
A. G. Black
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Wallace
Black
Bissett Begins Two Year Sentence Amid Murder Case
Jessie Bissett, 35, of Bailey, started a two year sentence suspended here for breaking into an alcohol beverages control store. Officials said insufficient evidence existed to hold him for the axe slaying of his 60 year old mother Mrs Mariah Bissett. He is reported very ill and will remain at the Raleigh jail rather than a county camp.
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Raleigh
Jessie Bissett
Bailey
H. H. Honeycutt
C. V. Faulkner
Nash County
Bissett
Mariah Bissett
Honeycut
Momentous Decisions Will Face Roosevelt
Roosevelt returns from South America to confront a second term’s pivotal choices. He must interpret a broad mandate on NRA AAA budget and expenditures, amid divergent pressures from labor business and local governments. The budget for next year hinges on relief spending and potential tax law revisions.
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Washington
Phelver W Roosevelt
Southmerica
France and Britain Back Effort to End Spanish War
The League of Nations council unanimously backs France and Great Britain to end the Spanish Civil War quickly. It calls for a strengthened non intervention accord to keep foreign soldiers and munitions out of Spain and endorses the Franco British mediation proposal to the European neutrality committee in London.
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Geneva
League of Nations Council
France
Great Britain
Eewaae
League
Italy
Germany
Spain
Valencia-Madrid
European Neutrality Committee
London
Mass Meeting Urges Safer School Buses For State Action
In Fayetteville Cedar Creek township citizens call for steel bodied buses and shatter proof glass after a bus crash killed four Stedman high students. Rev Joel Johnson leads demands for married drivers ages 80 to 50 who are fathers of riders and can arrest violators. They seek $15 weekly pay, eight hour limits, and drivers made special officers.
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Fayetteville
Cedar Creek Township
Joel 8. Johnson
Cedar Creek
Stedman High School
Power Plant Loan Ruling Awaited
The Supreme Court faces four decisions on New Deal disputes, including Duke Power’s challenge to PWA loans for a publicly owned hydro plant in Greenwood County South Carolina, a Bolivia Paraguay war munitions embargo, legality of labeling prison made goods under the Ashurst-Sumners act, and a 50 percent tax on profits from silver traders before the 1934 silver purchase act. Lower courts favored the PWA and prison goods rulings but ruled against the other two cases.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Duke Power Company
PWA
Greenwood County
South Carolina
Chaco
Bolivia
Paraguay
Marshal Chang Seizes Premier as War Proclamation Issued
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek is held prisoner at Sianfu by mutinous forces led by Marshal Chang Hsiao-Liang. Domei reports Nanking confirms detention with several top generals captured. Chang calls for war against Japan, restoration of Manchuria, and recognition of Sun Yat Sen’s policy to re embrace Communism.
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James A. Mills
Tokyo
Chiang Kai-Shek
Sian- Fu
Shensi Province
Chang Hsiao-Liang
Manchuria
Domei
Shanghai
Nanking
Japan
Executive Yuan
Chang
Marshal Chang
Manchukuo
China
Shensi
Kansu
Northwestern ” Frontier
Lianfu
Huanchengchi
Farmers In Nash County Back AAA Type Farm Plan
About 350 Nash County farmers met in Nashville to press for a crop control program and farm organization like the AAA with adjustments for 1937. They spoke with Rep. Harold D. Cooley and State Reps W. E. Fenner and CC Abernethy, urging farm bureaus and wary of immediate permanent relief. Cooley warned of no near term permanent solution, citing risks in southern tobacco state compacts.
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Nashville
Nash County
AAA
Harold D. Cooley
W. E. Fenner
CC. C. Abernethy
Abernethy
Fenner
Rep
Cooley
Labor Leader Blames Unions for Wage Increases Pressure
Thomas F. McMahon of the Unite Textile Workers charges wage raises in textiles were forced by union pressure not voluntary. He cites weakly organized mills as prone to pay increases then reduce work through higher machine load. He criticizes absent textile employers and urges passage of a national textile act to protect small manufacturers from monopoly.
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Washington
Thomas F. McMahon
Unite Textile Workers
UTW
McMahon
Former ruler bound for Switzerland aboard Zurich Express
Edward VIII, former King of England, travels with a small staff and his dog in a private Pullman car from Boulogne toward Basel and Zurich. Officials say his ultimate refuge remains secret and may be Austria or Switzerland as he seeks private life after abdication.
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Zurich
France
Kdlward
David Wind
England
Windsor
Vienna
Switzerland
Switzerand
Edward
Austria
Wallis Warfield Simpson
Nisi
Ernest Simpson
Boulogne
Fury
Amiens
Weather outlook for Carolinas with fair in North region
North Carolina shows generally fair conditions Sunday with unsettled coast and warmer readings in the west. Monday brings partly cloudy skies. South Carolina remains partly cloudy with cooler conditions in the south and unsettled trend inland.
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North Carolina
South Carolina
South
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