Shaver Makes 22 Yard Gain Just Before Touchdown
Japanese forces entered CHINCHOW Manchuria after weeks of retreating Chinese evacuation as the first victorious brigade marched in at 1 p m. The city offered cheers as Japanese troops seized the provincial headquarters and urged civil officials to stay in place.
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Shaver
Chinchow
Manchuria
Shanaikwan
Great Wall
Taling River
Peiping-Mukden
Onhaikwan
Honjo
Gaius Shaver
U. S
Tulane
Pasadena
Banks Profit Big From Postwar Bond Float
Senate figures show banks earned millions from foreign bonds sold in the United States after World War II. A single firm netted over 29 million from 1.625 billion in bonds, with banks overall earning more than 37.5 million on 1.071 billion. If the rate applied nationwide, profits could reach about 200 million.
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Washington
Jan
Senate
United States
Finance Committee
Johnson
California
Otto Kahn
New York
Clarence Dillon
Dillon, Read and Company
W. W. Aldrich
Chase National Bank
Brazil
Chile
Peru
Bolivia
Colombia
Uruguay
National Credit Corporation Ready to Supply Funds
John M. Miller Jr a director of the National Credit Corporation says the group has assets of about half a billion dollars and is prepared to place funds wherever needed to assist banks. He urged prompt applications before emergencies and noted the Charleston bank has already received support and could obtain more cash with collateral approval.
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John M. Miller, Jr
National Credit Corporation
Richmond
John M. Miller
Fed
Goamieh Y
Miller
First and Merchants Bank of
People’s State Bank of
Charleston
South Carolina
National Credit Association Number Six
Fifth Federal Reserve District
New Bern Fire Damages Landmark Drug Store Building
A two story building housing Shaw's drug store cafe and Wootten Moulton Photographic studio burned in New Bern North Carolina early today causing about $50 000 in damage with $30 000 to Shaw's drug store The wooden landmark building located at Pollock and Middle streets cannot be repaired due to fire district rules.
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New Bern
N. C
Shaw's
Wootten-Moulton
Pollock and
Middle Streets
Shaw
Hill
Holiday toll on New Year deaths exceeds 100
United Press survey shows violent deaths across the United States over the New Year holiday, autos causing the largest toll. Illinois reports over 30 fatalities, with Chicago’s Calumet River auto plunge killing nine. Other deaths cite head on auto streetcar crashes, poison liquor, ice falls, and suicides.
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Chicago
United States
United Press
Calumet River
Los Anmng
Illinois
Mobile
Missouri
Alabama
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Tennessee
Louisiana
New York
New Hampshire
Massachusetts
Maryland
Pennsylvania
Michigan
Colorado
Oregon
Washington
California
Minnesota
Arkansas
Indiana
Wisconsin
Aged Father Kills Son in Liquor Quarrel
In Knoxville Tennessee Jim Gattis 37 was killed in a New Year liquor dispute. His 76 year old father Henry Gattis is jailed after claiming self defense. Jim Gattis 10 year old son said his grandfather fired after the boy set down a shotgun and asked for mercy. Four other children survive.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Jim Gattis
Henry Gattis
Gattis
Virginia U. Professor Wins 1000 Award for Nerve Growth Study
Dr. Carl Caskey Speidel of the University of Virginia wins the AAAS $1000 prize for insights into how nerves grow. Using a dark field microscope, he showed a nerve begins from a single cell and grows by spinning threads, with directed movement and automatic repair responses as flesh develops around it.
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Virginia U
New Orleans
Carl Caskey Speidel
University of Virginia
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Speidel
Association
Plans for trans Atlantic air service eyed by Pan American
J A Thomas of Pan American Airways says the airline and the U S Post Office are studying passenger and mail routes between the American mainland and the Azores. Imperial Airways of Britain reportedly plans a Europe Bermuda service, with possible Bermuda or Azores connection. Pan American has tested seaplanes for 14 months and may announce details soon, with Atlantic City as a potential home port to avoid heavy fog.
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Miami
Fra
United Press
J. A. Thomas
Pan-American Airways
United States Post Office Department
American
Azores
Paris
Imperial Airways of
Great Britain
Thomas
Pan-American
Imperial Airways
Bermuda
Thames
Post Office Department
Atlantic City
Snow Clad Peaks as Heavy Snow Falls in Balsam Range
Snow blanketed the high Balsam range in Jackson county today with a heavy fall on the peaks while valleys saw rain. The wintry scene came on January 2 as officials noted the contrast between mountain and valley weather conditions.
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N. C
Cowarts
High Balsam Range
Jackson County
Taft Letter Praises China Reforms and Modern Exchange
In a New Year message from Shanghai Taft criticizes outdated stereotypes and asserts Chinese as equal, noting missionary and business influence bringing modernity. He dismisses old hoaxes about Chinese integrity and promises ongoing engagement with China.
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Taft
Shanghai
Brooklyn
Ricksha
China
Nevada
England And Gandhi May Effect Truce To Avert Disobedience Campaign
Indications point to a possible truce between Mahatma Gandhi and the British government in India to avert a renewed civil disobedience campaign. Viceroy Lord Willingdon readiness to meet Gandhi without preconditions is debated as business and peacemaker Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru press for peace. Gandhi waits calmly while both sides mobilize for a confrontation, with decision expected today.
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England
Gandhi
Bombay
India
Mahatma Gandhi
Lord Willingdon
Mr. Gandhi
Tej Bahadur Sapru
Sir Tej Sapru
Lord Irwin
Round Table
London
Congress
Mahatma
Nearly Forty Seamen Saved From Sinking Japanese Freighter
In a 60 hour battle with severe seas the crew and officers of the Japanese freighter Tamako Maru abandoned ship. Upwards of forty seamen and officers were rescued to safety in the North Pacific.
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Seattle
Wash
North Pacific
Hamilton Fish seeks probe into fascist activities here
Representative Hamilton Fish of New York proposed a congressional investigation into fascist and anti fascist activities in the United States. He called the bombings that killed three people a diabolical conspiracy and drafted a House Foreign Affairs Committee inquiry resolution based on a telegram from Dr. Charles Fama of New York City, defender of the constitution.
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Washington
United States
Representative Fish
New York
Fish
Thear
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Charles Fama
New York City
Defenders of the Constitution
Authorities strive to end mail bomb menace nationwide
Federal and local authorities in many cities pressed efforts to stop the mail bomb threat that has swept the east and Midwest. Since Wednesday the first internal device exploded in Easton Pennsylvania post office killing three, at least a dozen bombs have been found or exploded.
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Associated Press
East
Middlewest
Easton
Cross Arm Company to Resume Operations Monday
Elkin North Carolina plant resumes work Monday after two months idle The Carolina Cross Arm Company a major producer of telephone pole cross arms will restart production at its Elkin facility after a period of idleness spanning two months
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Cross Arm Company of
Elkin
N. C
Carolina Cross Arm Company
United States
Famine Fear Grows as Mississippi Floods Rise at Glendora
In Glendora Mississippi refugees face famine fears as floodwaters threaten supplies. Convicts and farm laborers shovel sandbags against creaking levees while Red Cross workers assess relief needs. Tallahatchie Quitman and Panola counties remain submerged as rivermen watch a possible breach.
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Glendora
Miss
Mississippi Delta
Red Cross
Tallahatchie
Quitman
Panola
le Flore
Swan Lake
Sumner
Webb
Glendora Bend
Phippis
Leflore County
Matthew Bayou
Lawrence Tibbett Marries Thrice Divorced Woman
NEW YORK Jan 2 Lawrence Tibbett Metropolitan opera baritone and motion picture star wed Mrs Jennie Marston Adams Burgard in a quiet civil ceremony. The union marks his second marriage and the wife’s third with Reno decrees ending both previous marriages. Radio and opera engagements will delay their honeymoon until early spring.
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New York
Lawrence Tibbett
Metropolitan Opera
Jennie Marston Adams Burgard
Tibbett
Robert J. Adams
John Clark Burgard
Elsie Janis Mulling Quick Marriage to Gilbert Wilson
New York January 2 Actress Elsie Janis says she has found a regular fellow in Gilbert Wilson and may marry soon. She clarifies their friendship has progressed toward matrimony more than any other relationship she has had and indicates a marriage could occur within weeks or months.
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New York
Elsie Janis
Gilbert Wilson
Miss Janis
Wilson
Mr. Wilson
Navy Academy Official Denies Resumption Pact
Rear Admiral Thomas C. Hart superintendent of the Naval Academy denied that an agreement for resuming athletic relations with the Military Academy had been reached. The denial came amid ongoing discussions on interservice sports in Annapolis.
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Annapolis
Thomas ¢. Hart
Naval Academy
Military Academy
Police arrest 30 in Midwest kidnaping ring operation
Chicago police and regional authorities rounded up 30 suspects including 12 women tied to 17 abductions across Illinois, Missouri, and Peoria. Five captives confessed, with the group guarded at the Congress Hotel while investigations continued.
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Chicago
Pat Roche
State’s Attorney's Office
Roche
Peoria
St. Louis
Congress Hotel
Midwest
Enous!evi
Russia Opens New Large Auto Plant to Challenge U S
In Nizhni Novgorod a vast Soviet auto plant begins operations with Ford cars to be produced locally. Officials claim the factory signals a motorized era, as a new city rises nearby for workers and families. Plant cost 119 million dollars. initial output limited, with plans to reach 144000 machines yearly and jump to eighth in global production by year end.
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Russia
Gorod
Middle Asia
China
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Chang
Holiday
Atlantic
Hamilton Fish
Bulletins
Nizhni-Nov
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