High Point Becomes Convention Hub for Year Ahead
High Point convocation push gathers pace as Ted Barrow reports 11 meetings scheduled this year plus many more in prospect. January opens with Southern Furniture show January 18 to 80th. February hosts A A U basketball tourneys. March Golden Gloves boxing. April trap shoot and track meet. May safety and Red Men conventions.
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High Point
Ted Barrow
Chamber of Commerce
North and
South Carolina
Central Piedmont
Central Carolina Golden Gloves
Baraca-Philathea
North Carolina Safety Conference
International Magicians
Winter Storm Parcels Midwest and Neighboring States
A sweeping winter storm cripples Midwest travel from Kansas to Minnesota with heavy snow and ice. Nebraska highways, Minnesota side roads, and Utah to Idaho routes halt traffic. 300 Navajo stranded in New Mexico. Floods force 100 Murfreesboro families to evacuate. Union talks with General Motors continue amid claims of evasive tactics and plant spies.
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Kansas
Minnesota
South Dakota
Nebraska
Iowa
Wisconsin
Illinois
Utah
Idaho
Brighton
Salt Lake City
New Mexico
Town Creek
Murfreesboro
Tenn
Strikers Ordered to Leave General Motors Buildings
Strikes at General Motors halt lines with over 30,000 workers idle as stop orders threaten more closings. Union leader Homer Martin plans a Flint meeting with ten city reps to push for a general collective bargaining agreement, despite GM’s stance to negotiate per plant. Knudsen said he would meet if timing allowed.
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Martin
Flint
Detroit
Pontiac
Lansing
Mich
Anderson
Ind
Norwood
Toledo
Cleveland
Ohio
Janesville
Wis
St. Louis
John Brophy
John L. Lewis
Committee For Industrial Organization
The
Automobile Union
Adolph Germer
Allan Haywood
CIO
Pittsburgh
Brophy
General Motors Corporation
General Motors
Knudsen
Guide Lamp Company
Automobile Workers’ Union
Homer Martin
Williams
England Italy Agree On Policies In Mediterranean
Virginio Gayda notes that the Italo German pact to consult on European issues remains independent of the Mediterranean accord. He asserts the Italo British agreement does not change Il Duce's stance toward Spain or Franco. He adds France tried to join the Mediterranean pact before the last moment.
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Virginio Gayda
Il Duce
Spain
Francisco Franco
Gayda
France
Mediterranean
Italy
Mussolini
Milan
Britain
Anthony Eden
England
Plans for Opening Of City Schools Monday Morning
All preparations completed for city schools opening tomorrow morning. Regular routine schedules will be followed as schools reopen after the Christmas holiday. High Point college resumes classes Tuesday morning. Holiday period officially closes Monday at 5 pm with students required back in dormitories.
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High Point College
Mussolini Moves Toward Peace With Britain Over the Mediterranean
The article outlines Italy’s shift from hostility to a general Mediterranean accord with Great Britain after Mussolini’s Milan speech and Eden’s signals. It notes France’s earlier shifts, Laval’s Franco-Italian talks, and the later Germany-Italy cooperation including Ethiopia and Spain.
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Mussolini
Great Britain
Mediterranean
Italy
Britain
France
Morocco
Pierre Laval
Rome
Laval
Ethiopia
England
League of Nations
Germany
Hitler
Spain
House Members Discuss Profiteering War Measure
House members debate outlawing profiteering by war workers and paying all agricultural and industrial workers the same as soldiers. One member argues this would end bonuses and strip shipyard pay disparities, while Rep Faddis warns that legislative neutrality creates an impossible situation.
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Representative Faddis
Dpa
U S Mayors Seek 877 5 Million Relief Plan
U S mayors press for 877 5 million in relief for public works and a 2 7 million minimum national workload despite industrial upturn. City authorities praise WPA projects as useful and warn relief levels may not drop in five months.
Black attacker targets couple in field amid city hunt
A man approached a car carrying a young white woman and her Black escort, brandished a public safety item, stole about $24, forced them into a field, and coerced payment and threat. The assailant warned to avoid newspaper reports and is linked to three white women and two Black girls attacked in a month as Sheriff Shore's team searches.
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Ernie Shore
Final Week Of 1936 Retail Trade Higher Than 1935
The Commerce weekly survey of 365 cities shows year end retail activity stronger than 1935 in many areas with holiday trade up despite looming strikes in motor and allied industries. Steel at 77 percent capacity. power output up 12 percent. freight carloadings index noted. notable regional gains and wage disputes shaping near term production.
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Thomas EB. Flanangan
Associated Press
Department of Commerce
Pacific Coast
American Iron & Steel Institute
Edison Electric Institute
Cram
Federal Reserve
St. Louis
Richmond
Federal Reserve District
Dallas
Atlanta
Birmingham
Bodies of Army Fliers Located After Plane Crash
In Munford Alabama two service officers are found dead in the wreckage of an army pursuit plane that crashed in Cheaha State Park. The aircraft commanded by Colonel F J Eglin carried Lieutenant Howard K B Shelton Jr a naval officer en route from Langley Field to Maxwell Field. After an overnight Southeastern search locals reported the wreckage sighted with three bodies originally misreported. Eglin was 48 a New York native and Shelton a United States Naval Academy graduate headed for the San Diego base.
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Munford
Ala
Cheaha State Park
F. J. Eglin
Howard BK. Shelton, Jr
Langley Field
Maxwell Field
Forestry Service
OCC
Eglin
New York
Shelton
United States Naval Academy
San Diego Naval Base
Spanish air chase and war scare cloud Europe
Diplomatic circles gloom over the Seton incident as Spain and Germany clash in the civil war. The Soton freighter was shelled by a Nazi warship and a Basque vessel seized, prompting Spain to call the act an act of war and seek reprisals. Ambassador Araquistain urges the Hague line and international law to justify searches and justify Basque actions.
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Germany
Russia
Francisco Franco
Konsomol
Franco
Luis Araquistain
Valencia
Soton
European Non-Intervention Committee
Aaraquistain
Bilbao
Turkey
Congressional debate on wage and hour reform options
Representative Robinson urges constitutional amendment to grant public authority power over maximum hours and minimum wages. He questions current court rulings and calls for action to protect workers, while acknowledging debate and time required for a potential amendment.
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Congress
Supreme Court
Robinson
Bar
New York
Aircraft engines create high noise due to lack of muffling
Airplane motors generate more sound than car engines because they operate without mufflers.
Keeps Resolution And Fined $26.45 For Hitting Lady
Baltimore January 2 William Taylor admitted to Magistrate Grace Hartnett that he hit a woman after vowing to keep a resolution to pop the next person he saw. He had been drinking and was fined $26.45 for the assault on Cecilia Clemm.
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Baltimore
William Taylor
Grace Hartnett
Taylor
Cecilia Clemm
Reich Says Ships Will Fire Again in Spanish Tensions
German officials argued that rough treatment of Spanish shipping was justified and insisted the Palos incident was piracy. The Palos was seized near the Spanish coast, parts of its cargo marked war material were held, and a Spanish passenger remained aboard. Diplomatic spokesmen warned Red Spain against retaliatory measures and urged international attention to restore civilized conditions in Spain.
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Konstantin von Neurath
Germany
Foreign Office
Diplomatische Politische Korresponder
Red
Spain
Red Spain
Mysterious Stranger Sought in Kidnapping Probe
Police tracked a stranger linked by appearance to an abductor in a kidnapping case involving Dr. W. W. Mattson and his relatives. A poultry ranch tied to the family was inspected, a tenant’s wife provided limited details, and ink analysis focused on ransom notes while a former convict detained for selling a cameo ring was questioned.
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John Mattson
W. W. Mattson
Olympia
Mill
South Bend
Wash
Dr. Mattson
Seattle Times
Tumwater
Cliff Osborne
Catholic Layman Dies Of Pneumonia
James A. Flaherty aged 83, longtime Catholic lay leader and supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus for 18 years, died of pneumonia in Philadelphia. He directed wartime activities for the order and earned decorations from the United States and France. He had practiced law in Philadelphia for 62 years.
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Philadelphia
James A. Flaherty
Flaherty
Knights of Columbus
France
Wall Street Faces Year Start With Market Retreat
Wall Street opens the New Year with selling as unions press on General Motors and production cuts threaten across sectors. Volume drops to its lowest since Oct. 24 with 690,660 shares traded while the Associated Press index slips and many leaders follow the downbeat trend.
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Frederick Gardner
New York
General Motors Corp
Wall Street
Associated Press
Bitter Fights Slated Over Measure In North Carolina
The 3 per cent sales tax is projected to cut revenues by about 2.5 million dollars yearly and trigger proposals for new income. A special session will focus on liquor control, county stores, and a possible state referendum.
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Special Study Commission
Raleigh
Clyde R. Hoey
Highway and Public Works Commission
Supreme Court
Black Mountain
R. Greggs Cherry
Gaston
House
A. Hall Johnson
Buncombe
Senate
Pal
W. Baker
Pai
Ray Byerly
Hoey
W. P. Horton
Horton
Cherry
North Carolina
Vic Bryant
Oscar Rare
2Ham
Constitutionality Of Railway Labor Act Challenged
The Supreme Court heard a challenge to the Railway Labor Act provisions restricting deductions from employees’ salaries for labor union dues. The case, from Kansas federal district court to the Tenth Circuit, involves Chicago Rock Island and Pacific and Chicago Rock Island railroads and the Brotherhood of Railroad Crafts of America.
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Washington
Kansas Fede District Court
Tenth
Calt Court of Appeals
Chica
Rock Island and Pacific
Chicago
Rock Island
Brotherhood of Railroad
M Crafts of America
Rocky System
Grand Lodge
No. 2
Association
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Convention Headquarters
Central Carolina
Carolinas
North Carolina Council of Jewish Women
State Federation of Music Clubs
Binghamton
N. Y
North Carolina Federation of Women’s Clubs
May
American Legion Auxiliary
North Carooina Electrical Contractors Association
National Mirror Association
Glass Jobbers Association
General Conference Methodist Church, South, Daughters of America
Woodmen of the World
Dune State Lions Club
American Legion District Convention
Carolinas A. A. U
Southern Furniture Market
District Bar Association
Southern Hotel Association
National Carbon Company
Occidental Life Insurance Company
Standard Oil Company
Guilford County Medical Association
North Carolina Dancing Masters Association
Carolina Association Electrical Contractors’ District
Midwest
U. S
Reich
Pse One
Rubber Company
Chrysler
Oral Motors
Bethlehem
Nazi Steel
Republic
U. Rubber
Firestone
Goodyear
Western UN
Weetinghouse
Oral Electric
Santa
Great Northern
Roebuck
Montgomery W
American Locomotiv
Continental Oil
N. J
Schen
General
Western Pacific
Curtiss-Wright
Smith Deal Shreatry
Ens. Co
Bob 'O
Main Street
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