Desperadoes Payne and Turner Nabbed in Sanford
Government agents arrest Bill Payne and Wash Turner for crimes since escape from Caledonia Prison Farm last February. They hoped to flee to the country after one more bank job. Fate of federal versus Buncombe county charges unsettled pending FBI input.
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Charlotte
Bill Payne
Wash Turner
North Carolina
Sanford
Caledonia Prison Farm
Ders Taat
Charne
Buncombe County
Carlyle Higgins
Greensboro
FBI
Payne
Turner
J. Edgar Hoover
Canford
Cummings Aims to Dissolve Power Plant Injunctions Soon
Attorney General Cummings announced plans to seek immediate dissolution of about fifty temporary injunctions blocking municipal power projects in 23 states. He cited the Supreme Court ruling upholding government grants and loans to municipally owned power plants, ending a three year legal contest.
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Washington
Cummings
Alabama
Duke Power
High Tribunal
Native Town of Confucius Captured in Shantung Struggle
AP reports ongoing battles as Japanese forces push toward central Shantung capturing Chufu the hometown of Confucius and advancing toward Tsinan. Allied reports detail widespread rail and city strikes with heavy casualties and air support aiding infantry.
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Confucius
Shantung
Tsingtao
Hongkong
China
Hankow
Shanghai
Japan
Holy Land of China
Shantung Province
Chufu
Sage
Tsinan
Yangtze River
Rival armies clash inside Teruel amid snow front fighting
Be leaguered insurgents and Spanish government troops fought through ice crusted streets in Teruel as snow halted large offensives. Both sides claimed gains, with government reports noting insurgent machine gun nests taken at Muela and dozens of frozen casualties reported on the ice.
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Hendaye
Teruel
Madrid
Muela
Waldeck expedition marooned while seeking vanished aviator
The Waldeck expedition pursuing American aviator Paul Redfern, missing since 1927 on a Georgia to Brazil flight, was marooned on a rock in the upper Cuyni river 150 miles from Georgetown. Porters deserted and food ran low as Theodore Waldeck led three boats into the jungle from Bartica December 13.
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Georgetown
British Guiana
Waldeck
Paul Redfern
Cuyni
Theodore J. Waldeck
Bartica
Here
Redfern
Georgia
Brazil
Detroit Man Declared Legally Dead After Ten Years
Redfern was declared legally dead in Detroit yesterday, wife Mrs. Gertrude 38. Hope for his survival lingered a decade amid rumors he was captured by a savage Indian tribe in the upper region.
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Redfern
Detroit
Gertrude
Fern
Eight Ford Workers Face Trial for UAW Injuries
Eight Ford Motor Company workers were ordered held for trial in Detroit on assault charges from a May 26 clash at the Ford Rouge plant. The defendants, including Everett Moore head of the Ford service department, pleaded innocent. bonds were set at $100 each.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Cam
Justice Court
Ford Rouge
United Automobile Workers
Everett Moore
Ford Service Department
Deficit In U S This Year Now Is 645 068 770
Treasury reports for the first half of the year show a deficit of 645,068,770 as of December 31. Revenue for six months reached 1,176,213,515,452 while the prior year’s six months totaled 1,158,805,452, and the federal debt rose by 854,677,785 to 887,279,201,518.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Treasury
The
Confidence Stimulated After Court Decision
Officials in High Point and the federal Public Works Administration push ahead on the Yadkin river power project after the Supreme Court validated federal financing. Henry Flood Jr. of Murray and Flood Inc. arrives for conferences with City Manager E. M. Knox before traveling to Clemmons.
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City
PWA
Henry Flood, Jr
High Point
Federal Public Works Administration
Yadkin River
United States Supreme Court
New York City
Murray and Flood, Inc
E. M. Knox
Clemmons
Swine Crop In State Leads All Southeast But Is Still Short
North Carolina led Southern states in value per capita of its 1937 swine crop, yet NC swine production failed to meet state demand. H. W. Taylor, swine specialist from NC State College extension, noted only eleven states in the nation had higher per capita swine value.
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Institute of American Packers
Institute
Raleigh
North Carolina
N. C
Tar Heelia
H. W. Taylor
No Disbarment Planned for North Carolina Bar Meeting
Henry M. London executive secretary said January 4 that no disbarment proceedings are booked for the January 14 meeting of the North Carolina State Bar Council in Raleigh.
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Raleigh
Henry M. London
North Carolina State Bar Council
Norris aims seven regional planning agencies in Congress
Senator Norris said he expects action on a bill to create seven regional planning agencies modeled after the Tennessee Valley Authority. He also welcomed the Supreme Court ruling blocking Duke Power from halting public utility loans and urged a federal trade commission inquiry into the TVA.
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Congress
TVA
Washington
Norris
Ind-Neb
Tennessee Valley Authority
Nebraskan
Supreme Court
Duke Power Company
Federal Trade Commission
More Than 300000 License Tags Sold
Raleigh reports Capt Charlie Farmer of the highway patrol says many motorists cited for not obtaining 1938 auto tags face costs of 3 to 4 dollars set by magistrates. The tally shows substantial enforcement activity across the region.
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Raleigh
Charlies Farmer
Highway Patrol
Missing Girl Who Was Thought Kidnapped Marries
Gertrude Bennett 18 daughter of Harry Bennett Ford Motor Company personnel director and Russell Hughes wed at 6 p m yesterday in Auburn Indiana Capt Leonard Leonard said the couple have not been found marriage performed by Justice Miles Baxter and County Clerk Carl Waiters supplied the information Bennett's birth date is May 2 1918 and the notice continues on page two
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Donald
Fascists Fault Roosevelt Message for Worsening World Tension
Italian fascist editor Vir ginia Gayda criticized President Roosevelt in Giornale D Italia for deepening permanent international hostility by framing the world as democracies versus authoritarian regimes. He stated democracies reject peaceful solutions while authoritarian regimes seek conciliation. Berlin echoed that view, claiming the message would hinder peace.
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Rome
Virginia Gayda
Roosevelt
Congress
Gayda
Giornale D'Italia
Berlin
Foreign Office
Work to Begin Anew on Wage and Hour Bill
Chairman Norton of the house labor committee said she is ready to go to work alone again on a labor standards bill. The committee will meet next week to decide a course of action and reopen public hearings while drafting a new wage-hour bill, retaining the administrative feature of the rejected measure.
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Norton
D-Nj
House Labor Committee
Roosevelt
House
Britain Italy clash over air in Holy Land broadcasts
The BBC Arabic service extended its broadcasts into the Holy Land via Italian distributed sets. Italians, credited by Britain with supplying Arab broadcasts, could not receive Daventry short waves, prompting a BBC relaunch from Palestine. Fascists foresee Italy’s intensified broadcasts to reach India Australia and New Zealand.
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London
British Broadcasting Company
Holy Land
Bari
Italy
Daventry
England
BBC
Palestine
Britain
Near East
British India
Australia
New Zealand
Senate panel studies job creation efforts in wage relief plan
A special Senate committee opened a study on unemployment with Byrnes stressing no blame on labor or capital and urging cooperation to craft measures to create jobs. Lubin testified that unemployment fell sharply from October to mid December with 1.58 million displaced workers and only 400 thousand returning to payrolls from 1929 levels. He warned of further job losses into January amid declines in manufacturing and construction and only partial gains in railstores.
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Pittsburgh
Wallace
Colby M. Chester
National Association of Manufacturers
Gen Foods Corporation
Roosevelt
Copeland
D-Ny
Vandenberg
R-Mich
Johnson
Dcole
Congress
O'Mahoney
DD Wye
Washington
Jan
Senate
Man Byrnes
D-Sc
Byrnes
Igador Lubin
Labor Statistics
First Co Tee
Lubin
North Carolina Court May Deliver Opinions Tomorrow
RALEIGH in January the state supreme court may hand down opinions at a conference. The court opens its spring term February 8 with cases from districts one twenty and twenty one to be heard, and one or two more opinion dates may follow before the fall term adjourns. Forty nine cases are pending.
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Raleigh
State Supreme Court
Two Die as Train Hits Auto Near Erie Crossing
A New York Central passenger train struck an automobile a mile west of Erie killing two Erie Dispatch Herald workers, Irene Outwall Fry aged 31 a billing clerk and John McDonald an advertising salesman, in the crash today.
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Erie
Dan
New York Central
Erie Dispach Herald
Irene Outwall Fry
John McDonald
Senator Glass Refuses Rest On 86th Birthday
Senator Carter Glass of Virginia defies doctors and goes to work on his 86th birthday to hear President Roosevelt’s annual message. He notes the speech was agreeable and will share his views on the nation’s state with the Senate soon.
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Senator Glass
Carter Glass
Roosevelt
Capitol
Glass
Senate
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Raleigh hears bid for Wadburg Winston bus line expansion
The utilities commission heard arguments on W. L. Marshall Jr. of Wadeboro seeking a franchise for a bus route between Wadeboro and Winston-Salem via Albemarle and Thomasville. The Atlantic Greyhound and kin railroad opposed the plan. about 100 people attended, with lawyers and local supporters present.
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Raleigh
Utilities Commission
W. L. Marshal
Ijr
Wadboro
Winston-Salem
Albemarle
Thomasville
Marshall
Piledme Coach Company
F. Hanft
Commi Stanley Winborne
J. C. B. Ehhaus
J. M. Bailey
Atlantic Greyhound Lines
William Joyner
Atlantic and Kin Railroad
Paul Green
W._ May
George Hundley
M Margaret Thompson
Anh May
Bess the Utilities Commission
Constance Bennett Sues Jimmy Fidler for Libel
In Los Angeles on January 4, Constance Bennett files a $260,000 damage suit against radio commentator Jimmy Fidler. She claims his December broadcast contained false defamatory remarks about her and that she snubbed Patsy Screen, a co star, during filming.
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Los Angeles
Constance Bennett
James Fidh
Hollywood
Miss Bennett
Patsy Acreen
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U. S
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Oregon
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New York
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Ickes
Robert H. Jackson
United States
Davis
Woolwich Arsenal
Ford Company
Union
Senate Group
N.C
Thomasvill
Petit
Whoro
Winston Utilities Commission
Jimmy Fidler
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