Rough, Tumble Fight Expected By Legislators
President Roosevelt faces a rough election year battle as lawmakers prepare to pressure for curbing federal road funds and push wage hour reform. Secret White House talks with liberal senators hint at aggressive leadership. The session shows a divided outlook with narrow margins on key votes and a trend toward frank governance.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
House
Cartwright
D-Okla
House Roads Committee
Wallace
White House
Senate
Mr. Roosevelt
Mexico City Earthquake Kills Two Edges Adobes Crumble
A heavy quake rattled Mexico City at 7 18 a m lasting one minute killing at least two people and damaging adobe homes on the outskirts. Toluca Puebla Cuernavaca reports were uncertain while the lake beds of the capital dampened the shock and residents remained calm despite scattered collapses.
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Mexico City
Toluca
Puebla
Cuernavaca
National AAU to Stage 400m Relay in High Point
High Point has been awarded the 400 meter national junior outdoor relay championships for women for 1938 by the Amateur Athletic Union. Carolinas President W F Bailey was told by AAU secretary treasurer Daniel J Ferris. No date yet. event may combine with Carolinas AAU meet at City Lake Park next summer. This will be the first national AAU event hosted in North or South Carolina. Leading junior women swimmers from across the United States are expected to attend.
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High Point
Amateur Athletic Union
Carolinas
W. F. Bailey
Daniel J. Ferris
New York
AAU
United States
Pedestrian Killed Near Rigeland DC
A deaf mute about 60 identified only by a card with the name W. A. Martell of Columbia was fatally injured when struck by a car while walking along a highway near Rigeland DC.
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Rigeland
D. C
W. A. Martell
Columbia
Here
Four teen death sentences for alleged anti Soviet wrecking
Moscow reports four teenagers were sentenced to death on charges tied to anti Soviet wrecking in the lumber and grain storage sectors.
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Russia
HO Hum
Moscow
Chaingang fugitive captured after two-week escape
Grady Bradberry a High Point youth and chaingang fugitive was found in an attic at 420 Mangum Avenue this morning after local officers located a hidden entrance. He had served two years for breaking and entering a local A and P store and was shot in the calf during his escape.
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Grady Bradberry
High Point
Rockingham County
Mangum Avenue
Bradberry
Terim
Guilford Superior Court
CIO warned in New Jersey over public parades and assemblies
In Jersey City James A. Hamill warned CIO and Labor's Non-Partisan League leaders they would be punished for public parades or assemblies without permits and for circulars in public places. He sent letters to William J. Carney and Carl Holderman after CIO organizers were escorted out and jailed for unlawful assembly and circular distribution.
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Jersey City
N. J
Corporation
James A. Hamill
CIO
Labor
NonPartisan League
Hague
William J. Carney
Newark
Carl Holderman
Paterson
New Jersey Labor
Man Pleads Innocent Of Murdering Kin In Massachusetts
Salem Mass December 23 Oliver Alden Thayer 24 son of a Topsfield family pleaded innocent in district court to murdering his 17 year old aunt Miss R Thayer on the prior night He had earlier pleaded innocent to slaying his sister Katherine 32 The university graduate faces homicide charges in the family killings
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Salem
Mass
Oliver Alden Thayer
Topsfield
R. Thayer
Katherine
Britain to move Mediterranean fleet for Orient if needed
England weighs naval reinforcements in the Far East after Japanese notes on Yangtze attacks. Cabinet decisions delay any large immediate moves, awaiting Japan's reply and Chamberlain’s and Eden’s holiday talks. UK trade to China reported at £12 million in nine months. total Far East investment about £240 million. Cont. on Page Two.
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London
Great Britain
Mediterranean
Orient
Far East
Admiralty
Neville Chamberlain
Anthony Eden
Japan
Yangtze River
Suez Canal
Board of Trade
China
Manchoukuo
Hongkong
Two Million On Jobless Rolls In Four Months
Washington reports WPA estimates that 2,000,000 persons have become unemployed since September 1 with potentially 1,000,000 more out by February. Officials note a 5.8 percent drop in industrial employment last month and 570,000 laid off. WPA rolls to be expanded to aid 850,000 additional unemployed.
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Washington
Works Progress Administration
Leon Henderson
Senate
Henderson
Labor Department
Harry L. Hopkins
WPA
Norris Warns Roosevelt Opponents Could Drive Third Term Demand
Senator Norris of Nebraska denounces delay and coercion by opponents of the Roosevelt administration. He cites propaganda and press control as tools to block the program and warns repeated obstruction may spur calls for Roosevelt to seek a third term.
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Veteran Independent
Washington
Norris
Nebraska Independent
Roosevelt
Roosvelt
Congressional Investigation Of TVA Situation Is Wanted
Knoxville reporters describe a rift at the Tennessee Valley Authority with Chairman A E Morgan inviting a congressional probe into the general situation. Directors H A Morgan and David E Lilienthal critiqued Morgan’s testimony on Berry dam marble leases, accusing him of false inferences and prejudicial account of a conciliation plan. Morgan urged any broader evidence be reserved until a condemnation decision, while Lilienthal and Morgan defended conciliation, arguing Berry group bad faith is unproven.
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Knoxville, Tenn
Tennessee Valley Authority
A. E. Morgan
H. A. Morgan
David E. Lilienthal
Norris Dam Reservoir
George Berry
D-Tenn
Morgan
TWA
TVA
Federal Commission
Berry
Lilienthal
Berry Group
Christmas Baskets To Go To Needy Families Here Friday Morning
Final preparations are underway for the annual Christmas basket and toy distribution to High Point’s needy families under the Empty Stocking Fund chairmanship of Mrs. M. J. Wrenn. The buying committee purchased goods for 350 families. baskets include apples, oranges, candy, nuts, meat, flour, corn meal, potatoes, lard, vegetables, sausage and bread. Boy Scouts and Major R. M. Cowan will deliver items tomorrow. a few items remain to be bought if about $100 is donated.
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High Point
M. J. Wrenn
Joe F. Hoffman
C. H. Rhodes
Ray Smith
Boy Scouts
B. W. Hackney, Jr
R. M. Cowan
Congressmen Plan To Form Program To Balance Budget
Representative Dies reports a House group will caucus to draft a concrete plan to balance the budget after Congress reconvenes. He expects at least 100 Democrats to join but warns liberal members may oppose. The aim is to win conference approval and transmit a budget balancing resolution to the President.
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Representative Dies
House
Washington
Dies
D-Tex
Roosevelt
Congress
Representative Cartwright
Dokla
Cottonseed Rises as Major Southern Cash Crop
The agriculture department reports cottonseed, once nearly waste, now ranks second to cotton as a southern cash crop. A 1937 output of over 8 million tons, with nearly 6 million sold to mills, boosted farm earnings. Average price for August to October was 21.28 dollars per ton.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Insurgents Break Siege at Teruel Amid Counterattack
A Teruel radio dispatch said insurgent artillery and troops broke the government siege and began a counter-offensive. Government forces pushed into the city behind tanks as civilians were evacuated and 1,500 insurgents were captured while 4,000 civilians and fighters received first aid.
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Hendaye
Teruel
Terwel
Irun
Aragon
Alcazar
Salamanca
Villastar
Toledo
Madrid
Bingham Honored at Westminster Abbey Memorial
At Westminster Abbey on December 28 a memorial service for United States Ambassador Robert W. Bingham drew cabinet members and foreign diplomats. Foreign Minister Anthony Eden appeared moved. King George was represented by the Earl of Cromer with Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain abroad.
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London
Westminster Abbey
Great Britain
United States
Robert W. Bingham
Anthony Eden
George
Earl of Cromer
Lord Chamberlain
Neville Chamberlain
C. G. L. Syers
Lord
Amialty
Alfred Duff Cooper
Ernest Brown
Dominions
Malcolm MacDonald
Home
Leslie Hore-Belisha
Kingsley Wood
Baron de Cartier de Marchienne
Japanese siege threat widens in China as foreigners flee
Foreigners evacuate Hangchow and Hankow amid Japanese siege warnings. Japan forms autonomous government at Nanking and Peiping as Chiang Kai-shek shifts inland. Diplomatic strains grow with Britain and the United States seeking responses to attacks on ships. Evacuation routes on the Hangchow river are being prepared.
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Associated Press
Hangchow
Chekiang
Gulf Hangchow
Hankow
Yangtze River Valley
Hongkong
Japan
Nanking
Chiang Kai- Shek
Peiping
North China
China
Chiang Kai-Shek
Great Britain
United States
Chientang
Trains Collide Injuring Many Near Emporium
The Pennsylvania Railroad reported 18 passengers two firemen and an express messenger injured in an early collision between an eastbound Buffalo to Philadelphia express and a westbound freight east of Emporium Pennsylvania. None seriously hurt and all continued on their way. Passenger names unavailable.
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Railroad
Buffalo
Emporium
Christmas Eve Babies Gift of Gab in Vosges Superstition
A Vosges Mountain superstition in Germany claims babies born on Christmas Eve have a ready tongue while those born on Christmas Day lack talkativeness but gain stronger logic.
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Vosges
Germany
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