President backs budget study and tariff renewal say Harrison
Senator Harrison said at the White House that President Roosevelt favored a special Congressional budget study and agreed on renewing the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act. They discussed financing emergency defense costs, tax policy, and the need for joint committee cooperation to balance the budget.
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Washington
Harrison
Dmiss
White House
Roosevelt
Congress
America
Five Children Leap From Fire in West Asheville
Five Grainger children aged five to thirteen escaped a West Asheville fire by leaping from a second story window into the front yard around 8:30 this morning. Two youths were injured slightly, a lip cut and a back sprain, as fire tore through the home.
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Asheville
Jan
West Asheville
M. K. Grainger
Assassination Try Fails in Shanghai
Shanghai January 6 C Godfrey Phillips commissioner general and secretary of the Shanghai municipal council escaped injury today in a bold assassination attempt. While driven on Avenue Haig in the French concession two men in rikshas blocked the car and fired six bullets as the vehicle slowed. Phillips dropped to the floor while the chauffeur sped away.
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Shanghai
C. Godfrey Phillips
Admiral James Otis Richardson Takes Command Of Fleet
In San Pedro California on January 6 Admiral James Otis Richardson age 61 a Paris Texas native relieves Admiral Claude C Bloch Kentucky born officer who has served as the navy’s top man at sea for two years command changes occur as the fleet chief assumes duties away from Bloch
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San Pedro
Calif
United States Fleet
James Otis Richardson
Paris
Texas
Claude C. Bloch
Navy
Hopes Of Early Peace Blasted by Cabinet Shakeup
Berlin reports these changes in the British Cabinet end any faint hope for peace. Leslie Hore Belisha resigns as war secretary and Oliver Stanley, seen as anti-German hawk, becomes his successor. Sir John Reith heads information with a reputation for anti racist views.
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Louis P. Lochner
Berlin
Leslie Hore- Belisha
Oiver Stanley
John Reith
British Broadcasting Corporation
Stanley
Linville Lodge to Be Managed by Florida Hotel Man
Nelson McRae president of the Linville Company announced B. R. Howe a Florida hotel man would manage Esceola Lodge this season at Linville, the summer resort.
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Linville
Nelson McRae
Linville Company
B. R. Howe
Florida
Esceola Lodge
Harvard Alumni Meet to Hear Boyce F. Martin
Harvard University official Boyce F. Martin assistant dean of the graduate school of business administrators will speak at a Harvard alumni gathering in Charlotte Monday night.
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Charlotte
Boyce F. Martin
Graduate School of Business
Harvard University
Harvard
Mother and three children die in Lake Hiawatha fire
A young mother Mrs Ralph Cipriani 80 and her children Albert 11 Phyllis 7 perished when a fire destroyed their one story frame home at Lake Hiawatha Boonton N J. A garbage collector heard her screams and said she tried to escape through the front door before fleeing to the rear. An oil stove explosion is suspected.
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Boonton
N. d
Dan
Lake Hiawatha
Ralph Cipriani
Albert
Phyllis
Nazis Aim for Quiet Western Front in Brief War Communique
Berlin dispatch from DNB reports German officials expect quiet along the Western Front soon. The high command communique limited itself to No special events and notes the Rhine to Moselle area has been most active, with stagnation anticipated there as well.
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Berlin
DNB
High Command
Rhine
Moselle
Seventeen Year Old Sentenced for IRA Pamphlet
Joseph Nevin aged 17 was sentenced to 18 months in prison for possession of an Irish Republican Army pamphlet titled Prison Bars. The prosecution said the pamphlet contained statements aimed at causing disloyalty to the king.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
Joseph Nevin
Irish Republican Army
Steel King Schwab Died Poor Man Reports Say
Pittsburgh report notes Charles M. Schwab died September 18 in New York with his fortune vanished. Executors in New York file accounts within six months. Pennsylvania and Cambria County officials found no taxable property. Schwab left a life interest in his Loretto estate to his wife, with relatives set to inherit. Edward Schwab and Empire Trust Company named as executors.
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Schwab
Pittsburgh
Charles M. Schwab
The
Post-Gazette
New York
Edward Schwab
Pennsylvania Revenue Department
Cambria County
Pennsylvania
Loretto
David Barry
Mrs. Barry
Empire Trust Company
W. A. Mitchell
Germans Warn Scandinavians Over Neutrality Aid
Berlin Nazi press warned Norway and Sweden to observe strict neutrality as Britain aids Finland and theories spread that Scandinavian aid could draw Sweden and Norway into the war. British Swedish trade links sparked suspicions of military supplies, while Stockholm asked Moscow to investigate a submarine attack on the Fenris in the Gulf of Bothnia.
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London
Sweden
Finland
Berlin
Norway
Britain
Germany
League of Nations Covenant
Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung
Dienst Aus Deutschland
Stockholm
Moscow
Fenris
Gulf of Bothnia
Girl Dies From Blood Infection in Camden Hospital
Jean Herriot a 16-year-old Sumter County girl died at Camden Hospital after more than 22 blood transfusions in three months for a staphylococcal infection. Donors came from the Sixth Division US Army in Columbia and from South Carolina and North Carolina. The rare disease prompted transfusions from others with the same illness.
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Camden
S. C
Jean Herriot
Sumter County
Camden Hospital
Sixth Division
United States Army
Columbia
South Carolina
North Carolina
Britain reshuffles war and trade ministers in cabinet shakeup
In London today new ministers take over major posts in a cabinet shakeup. Oliver Stanley becomes secretary of state for war replacing Hore-Belisha who resigns after friction with generals. Sir John Reith and Sir Andrew Rae Duncan take key posts, while Chamberlain reportedly urged a different placement but Hore-Belisha refused.
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London
Leslie Hore-Belisha
Army
Oliver Stanley
Board of Trade
John Reith
Imperial Airways
Hore-Belisha
Lord Gort
France
Hore- Belisha
Western Front
Maurice Gustave Gamelin
Kingsley Wood
Neville Chamberlain
Stanley
War Office
CIO Official's Wife Murdered in Aberdeen Home
Mrs. Dick Law wife of Grays Harbor County CIO official was slain at her parents home while her infant daughter slept. Coroner Dr John W Stevenson said the skull was crushed by a double bladed axe with a violent struggle and ransacked rooms. Law had denounced a mob that wrecked the Finnish Workers Federation Hall.
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Aberdeen
Wash
Dick Law
Grays Harbor
Winter siege forecast on the Kare lian Isthmus and Finnish actions
Russian forces on the Karelian Isthmus face a protracted winter siege while fighting on nearby fronts remains fluid. Reports claim heavy bombardments, Finnish counterattacks, and significant casualties as the conflict spreads across Koivisto, Viipuri, and Volka. The Hoover aid committee links relief for about 500,000 people with $300,000 in U.S. funds for food and clothing.
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Mannerheim
Karelian
Finland
Arctic
Salla
Leningrad
Koivisto
Viipuri
Gulf of Finland
Red Army
Volka
Kirvesmaki
Petrozavodsk
Lake Ladoga
Committee For the Aid of
Herbert Hoover
United States
Dorsey Stephens
Stephens
Jackson Given Senate Okay
Roosevelt nominated Robert H. Jackson for attorney general and the Senate judiciary subcommittee approved the nomination in about five minutes without a hearing. He will assume the post when Frank Murphy moves to the Supreme Court after Senate confirmation. Norris approved by letter from a Baltimore hospital, as panel acted on other nominees.
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Roosevelt
Washington
Robert H. Jackson
Senate Judiciary
King
Utah
Senate
Jackson
Frank Murphy
Supreme Court
Murphy
Neely
W. Va
Miller
Ark
Wiley
R. Wis
Norris
Ind
Neb
Baltimore
County grand jury urges new jail
Marion January 6 The McDowell County grand jury has recommended the construction of a new county jail.
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Marion, Jan
McDowell County Grand Jury
Carol Vows Romania Will Fight As One If Bessarabia Attacked
In Chisinau King Carol warned Soviet Russia that Romania will rally as a united front if Bessarabia is invaded. He reviewed a vast parade and pledged the eastern border will be defended by the entire army. Minority leaders pledged loyalty to Romania and the king.
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Chisinau
Rumania
Carol
Russia
Bessarabia
Kishinev
George Argesanu
Third
George Tatarescu
Mihai
Air
Tatarescu
Constanta
Black Sea
Romania
Pruth
Finland
Red Army
New Cold Wave Strikes East
A cold wave pushes temperatures toward zero in the East with snow flurries to 10 inches across the region. The Southwest snow storm stretches from western New Mexico to Wichita and Abilene as Utah and southern Idaho report 1 to 2 inches and strong winds deepen drifts.
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Associated Press
Rockies
Middle West
East
Southwest
Rocky Mountain
Weather Bureau
Albuquerque
N. M
Continental Divide
New Mexico
Wichita
Eas
Oklahoma City
Abilene
Tex
Utah
Idaho
Nebraska
Talks on Argentina Trade Treaty Suspended
Negotiations for a U S Argentina trade treaty were halted amid U S congressional debate over extending the reciprocal trade agreements act. Disagreement centered on quotas for canned meats wool linseed and other products with hearings set to begin next week led by Rep Doughton and Secretary Hull. The current negotiating authority expires June 12.
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Argentina
State Department
Buenos Aires
United States
Congress
Chile
Doughton
D-Nc
House
Ways and Means Committee
Hull
Coughton
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United United States
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James Richardson
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Finnish Workers Federation
Finnish Socialist Society
Carolinas
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