Near East flashpoint as troops mass along Caucasus
Massing Anglo French Turkish Soviet forces along the Caucasus Syria Palestine border with partial mobilization in Iraq and Iran spurs American military talk of possible action but expects no immediate war. Allies seek to defend Turkey Iraq Mosul oil Suez route and curb potential German Russian moves toward India.
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Lloyd Leheras
Washington
Faucasus
Syria
Alestine
Iraq
Iran
Persia
Near East
Ar East
Acre
Turkey
Dardanelles
Caucasus
Runia
Bulgaria
Tish
Mosul
Suez Canal
Italy
Libya
Egypt
Germany
India
Regional Weather Summary From Coastal Stations
A fragmented weather bulletin reports cooler conditions in the southeast with occasional rain and thunderstorms this afternoon and tonight. Georgia and South Carolina show showers, with generally fair conditions Sunday. Virginia expects rain this afternoon and cooler air, with snow flurries in the northwest. Winds shift from southeasterly to westerly near the coast, with strong gusts and diminishing rain overnight into Sunday.
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Lina
South Portion
South Carolina
Georgia
Hatteras
Jacksonville
Virginia
Sandy Hook
Cherokee tribal council delays right of way for state road
Cherokee February 10 tribal council session reverses policy to grant a right of way to the state for the Blue Edge Parkway over the reservation. State efforts to obtain the right of way had been blocked by prior councils since 1936.
Albany Tornado Strips City. Death Toll Unconfirmed
Twister devastates Albany area sweeping blocks on Highland and Oglethorpe Avenues. Hospitals overwhelmed with hundreds injured as four emergency stations open. Businesses, hotels, and the post office area damaged. power, water, and communications fail. Guardsmen, Red Cross relief rush to aid.
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Highland and
Oglethorpe Avenues
Pryse
Big Star
Southland
Dixie Flyer
Florida
National Guardsmen
E. D. Rivers
W. B. Bryan
Telephone Company
New Albany
Gordon
St. Nicholas Hotel
Royal Building
WGPC
Pine Avenue
Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital
Dougherty County
Martha Percilla
Atlanta Journal
Oglethorpe and
Highland Avenues
Albany
Washington
Red Cross
Stone Crane
Beatrice Vines
Pelley says Kuhn proposed absorbing Bund into Silver Shirts
Witness recounts meeting Fritz Kuhn in Los Angeles in June 1936 and Kuhn urging absorption of the German Bund into the Silver Shirts. Pelley notes Kuhn gave the Nazi salute and was familiar with his writings, but Pelley rejected the idea and did not join the proposal.
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Silver Shirts
Black Shirt Legion
Michigan
Kuhn
Fritz Kuhn
Bund
Silver Shirt Legion
Los Angeles
New York
Representative Dempsey
D-Nm
Pelley
Rescue Averts Loss As Sea Rambler Crew Saved
New York report says twenty six crew members of the British steamer Sea Rambler were rescued 540 miles east of St Johns Newfoundland after heavy seas crippled the ship. Two Norwegian vessels rushed to aid and bring them to safety.
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New York
St. Johns
Newfoundland
Destructive Albany Storm Wrecks Downtown Buildings
A night tornado cut power and flooded streets in Albany, sweeping away the Elks Club and major stores. Rosenberg Brothers Sears Roebuck Woolworth A P supermarket and Binns Hotel were wrecked. The death toll included a white woman and reported large fatalities in the Negro district.
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Elks Club
Rosenberg Brothers
Sears-Roebuck
Woolworth
A. and Pr
Binns
Pryse
William Godley
Godley
Youth Congress Hoots Down Teddys Grandson
Reports from WHITE WOMAN, NEGRO HELD GOLDSBORO show Fred Lawson a Negro and Mrs G Irby Holmes widow of a taxi operator charged with operating a numbers racket. Holmes released on $1,000 bond after a habeas corpus hearing tied to Holmes death found bludgeoned December 31 near his car. Witnesses say Lawson worked for the Holmeses for five years. Archibald Roosevelt Jr plans renewed anti Communist push at the American Youth Congress with President hinting on expelling Communists. Roosevelt walked out amid threats of eviction. two New Jersey Young Democrats ejected after booing a Finland invasion resolution. Roosevelt says action not tied to family or party.
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Holmeses
Washington
Roosevelt
American Youth Congress
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Congress
Archibald Roosevelt, Jr
Theodore Roosevelt
New Jersey
Labor Department
Finland
Soviet Russia
Red Front
Dies Committee
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Jackson
Warren
Albert Fall
Joe Ew
Reid Thwarts Reid Thwarts The Communite No Special Events On Front
The report states six British ships or ships in British convoys totaling about 15 million tons and two patrol boats were sunk or wrecked by German air units over the North Sea. Only one German plane was lost. German defenses repelled British air attacks on Helgoland Bight.
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Communite
Western Front
North Sea
Weber's Weather Outlook and New Power Plant Survey
South Atlantic states see fair and warmer weather early week with scattered rains and a trend toward colder, unsettled conditions later. New Bern board of aldermen orders a survey of power plant needs as the existing facility is valued at over 1.6 million dollars.
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Weber
Atlantic
New Bern
Baptist regional conference slated for Bladenboro
Bladenboro hosts a southeastern North Carolina regional Baptist Church conference on Friday. The event gathers church members and leaders from area congregations for a day of worship and community discussion.
Soviet Warns On Nazi Plot Amid Turkish Shipyard Seizure
The article reports Soviet accusations that a Nazi sabotage plot was exposed in the Near East as Turkey seized the German Krupp shipyards on the Golden Horn. It notes government advisory postings and purges in the war and navy ministries.
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War and Navy Ministries
Krupp
Golden Horn
Near East
South's Roads Damaged By January Freeze Across South
The January cold caused multi million dollar highway damage from Virginia to Texas with repairs starting on major routes. Georgia estimates two million and Florida one million for coastal highway work while North Carolina projects over two million as spring surveys await.
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Atlanta
Virginia
Florida
Texas
Georgia
N.C
North Carolina
W. Vance Baise
Mississippi
Tennesee
Arkansas
Louisiana
South Carolina
Nazis and French Clash in Western Front Skirmishes
Paris dispatches describe a German infantry assault northwest of Sarrelouis halted by French fire. over 200 Nazis involved, with deterring losses. In Forbach fringes house to house fighting cost French 10 dead and over 15 enemy casualties as Western Front activity intensifies along the Moselle Saar line.
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Paris
Sarrelouis
Nied
Forbach
Moselle
Saar
Rhine
Peace mission to Vatican and neutrals sparks Congress debate
President Roosevelt announced that Welles will go to Vatican City as personal representative to coordinate peace study with the pope and the government signals strong interest in a new neutral-led effort. Hull says talks with neutrals cover economics and arms reduction but not current war conditions. Senators discuss a possible league of neutrals and the implications for U.S. policy and economy.
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Vatican City
Congress
Roosevelt
Welles
Hull
Johnson
D-Cole
State Department
League of Nations
Oil fields target eyed in allied plans amid port fears
The report notes minefields laid off Russia’s Black Sea ports and a notice that Russian pilots must be taken inside Russian waters. Turkish authorities warn of an Allied strike on Russia’s oil fields and Batum port with coordinated fleet action.
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Rusia
Black Sea
Russia
Batum
Ancient wooden mill gear may date oldest machinery in U S
State College Pa Feb 10 AP a set of wood mill gears dug up in South Carolina may be one of America’s oldest pieces of machinery and could hint at Roanoke Island colony according to Prof B W Dedrick. The gears found near Orangeburg are possibly 200 to 300 years old and may predate 1670 if a buried bullet in a gear segment is confirmed.
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State College
South Carolina
America
Roanoke Island
N. C
B. W. Dedrick
W. Glover
Orangeburg
Glover
Dedrick
Pennsylvania Sta College
Smithsonian Institute
Washington
Institute
Roanoke Islan
Lee
Stratford
Reynolds Will Address Sons of Revolution
Senator Reynolds of North Carolina was named speaker for the Washington birthday celebration of the Sons of the Revolution in St Louis on February 22 and outlined a five point All American program including immigration limits. He will also speak in Cincinnati March 5 for the local chamber of commerce and address North Carolina Beta Clubs at Raleigh March 9.
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Washington
Reynolds
N. C
Sons of the Revolution
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Ohio
Chamber of Commerce
North Carolina
Raleigh
Beta Clubs
Washington Society Plans Annual Dance
The annual Valentine dance of the North Carolina Society of Washington will be held February 16. A reception committee includes Dr. Fred W. Morrison and Mrs. Morrison Brigadier General Albert L. Cox and Mrs. Cox Mrs. W. Roy Evans and Mrs. Evans Mrs. John K. Slear and Mr. Slear along with board members and their spouses.
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The
North Carolina Society of Washington
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Morrison
Albert L. Cox
Cox
W. Roy Evans
Evans
John K. Slear
Slear
Board of Governors
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John W. Hanes
Major A. L. Fletcher
Thomas Offenbacher
Johns. Brookbank
Annie Lee Chisholm
Josiah W. Bailey
John Wilbur Jenkins
Giles Yeomans Newton
William R. Stroud
Vera Millsaps
Robert A. Erwin
Nazi Pact Critic Says Allies Fight Against Repression
A speaker describes the Red Nazi pact and Germany s plan to decimate national leaders. He cites torture and appalling concentration camp conditions as religion is persecuted, while Britain and France fight to end such acts.
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Germany
National Movement
Britain
France
Finns Report Russian Wounded Stranded by Transport Breakdown
Finnish reports from the front say Soviet wounded were left on the field due to a breakdown in transportation hindering casualty removal. Military observers questioned recent Russian air attacks as air raid alarms sounded at Turku yesterday with no Soviet planes sighted elsewhere.
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Turku
Crush Nazi threats prompt cautious diplomatic notes
The text outlines preliminary conditions to any negotiations with Nazi Germany, insisting that wartime threats must be eliminated for any future peace plan. It contrasts French demands for a radical end to German aggression with the U S distinction between Sumner Welles’s war reporting mission and Cordell Hull’s neutral talks on future peace organization.
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State Department
Germany
Europe
Guilford County Realty Transfers Listed by Townships
Real estate transfers across Guilford County noting buyers and sellers by township. Entries include High Point and Morehead areas with plats on streets such as Council Carter James Baker Avenue and West Gaston and partners like M B Stroupe W J Russell Laura Johns Abbot C A Crutchfield Jr Starmount Co and J E Cast among others.
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High Point Township
High Point Perpetual Building Loan Association
M. B. Stroupe
Council Street
HM. L. Baumgardner
W. J. Russell
Carter
James
Conrad
Frank M. Calhoun
Baker Avenue
A. E. Tate
Annie M. Evana
Rotal Street
Morefhead Township
W. Bolling
Mary Hill
Oakwood
C. A. Crutchfield, Jr
Womack
Laura Johns Abbot
J. A. Do
West Gaston Street
Starmount Company
A. L. Fost, Jr
Beverly Place
Gilmer Township
Alwyn W. Long
Jen Spry Russell
Summitt Anne
Flint Captain Fights Crew Impediments in German Sea Action
Captain Gainard reported several opportunities to contact American authorities but refused. He allegedly threatened to place the crew in transit when asked to ashore at Tromsoe Norway. The City of Flint rescued 216 Athenia survivors after a 113 day voyage ending in Baltimore.
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City of
Flint
Athenia
Britain
Baltiman
Baleship Deutschland
Tromsoe
Norway
Mransk
Russia
Gainard
New Businesses Open in Kernersville in Early February
Two new businesses opened in Kernersville within a week. Gulf Service Station on West Mountain Street and Linville’s Silk Shop on the first floor of Holthouse Building on Main Street are listed as new enterprises in town.
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Kernersville
West Mountains Street
Linville
Main Street
Maine records highest cancer heat rate in the nation
The report places Maine at the top for cancer heat rate among states while Arkansas registers the lowest figure. The finding highlights geographic disparities in cancer incidence and related risk factors across the United States.
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Maine
Union
Arkansas
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