House Debates Trade Plan Tomorrow in Close Vote
Ways and Means panel opens hearings on the reciprocal trade act with Secretary Hull first witness. Democratic and Republican split shows 10 for, 10 against, five Democrats undecided. Opponents cite excise taxes treated as tariffs, and regional industry impacts.
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Lloyd Leheras
Washington
House
Ways and Means Committee
Doughton
D-Nc
Hull
Rep
Disney
D-Okla
State Department
Boland
D-Pa
Pennsylvania
West
D-Tex
Robertson
D-Va
Argentina
Uruguay
Norwegian Sets Up Aid Stations For Finns
New York dispatch reports Nansen aid stations are revived to help homeless Finns on the Karelia Isthmus. The effort is led by Odd Nansen with a team including Woodruff Jenking McLean Gearhart Carlson and Jarrett, referencing his father and Hoover’s famine relief work.
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New York
Norway
Karelian
Finland
Hoover Odd Nansen
Woodruff
Mich
Jenking
Ohio
McLean
Gearhart
Calif
Carlson
Kans
Jarrett
Hoover
Austria
Czechoslovakia
Nansen-Hjelp
Planting Borders to Vegetation Eases Erosion and Boosts Wildlife
Soil Conservation Service advises installing erosion resistant vegetation along field and woodland borders near High Point to reduce erosion and improve wildlife habitat. County Agent J I Wagoner and R C Mullen note lespedeza sericea and annual lespedeza with hbrowntop millet as hardy border picks.
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Soil Conservation Service
High Point
J. I. Wagoner
R. C. Mullen
Van Nuys Chief Declares Rescue Squad Veteran
Battalion Chief William B Seekins has led the emergency rescue squad for years and saved many from burning homes and unstable structures. He slipped in his garage and broke an arm, while described as the Queen of Ferns in local lore.
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van Nuys
Calif
William B. Seekins
Fire Department
Son of Nansen Joins Hoover Drive for Finland Aid
Fridtjof Nansen’s son travels to America to join Herbert Hoover in raising funds for Finland relief. He notes 2,000,000 stateless people carry Nansen passports, a scheme begun by the elder Nansen and backed by the League of Nations five years before his death.
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Fridtjof Nansen
America
Herbert Hoover
Finland
Nansen
Nansen-Hjelp
League of Nations
Europe
Turkey
Young Nansen
Norway
Germany
Fremden
Odd Nansen
Vienna
Czechoslovakia
FHA Applications For 1939 Showed 20 Per Cent Gain
Greensboro reports 1939 FHA insured mortgage applications totaling 13 163 400 on 3 045 North Carolina homes, a 20 percent rise in number and about 18 percent in volume from 1938. Since 1934 FHA has insured 10 088 loans totaling 42 million, with 70 percent for new homes in 1939.
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Greensboro
FHA
North Carolina
Federal Housing Administration
Aubrey G. McCabe
McCabe
Chest Directors Meet Friday in Elwood Hotel
The Community Chest board of directors will meet Friday night at 7 30 at the Elwood Hotel with Miss Gladis Kivett speaking on welfare operations. The Junior Service League will show a 30 minute film Tom Jordans Family. President R K Young presides as the group discusses the fall drive for 1940 and budget plans.
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Community Chest Board of Directors
Elwood
Olin W. LeBaron
Gladis Kivett
Junior Service League
Tom Jordan
R. K. Young
Budget Committee
LeBaron
Chest
Executive Committee
Attendance in City Schools Rising Quickly
The superintendent C F Carroll Jr says attendance in the city schools is increasing and with warmer weather normal turnout is expected soon. John Temple Graves II of Birmingham will address the Greens boro Junior Chamber of Commerce banquet on January 19. Keats wrote Ode to a Nightingale in under three hours.
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C. F. Carroll, Jr
Keats
North Carolina Council of Churches to Hold Annual Meeting
The North Carolina Council of Churches plans its annual meeting in Durham on January 10 preceding the Interdenominational Convocation in Greensboro. Bishop Edward A. Penick will preside, with executive committee members from multiple cities and ten denominations, totaling sixty-one leaders representing over a million Christians.
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Durham
First Presbyterian Church
Greensboro
North Carolina
Murray Co. Johnson
Clare Purcell
Charlotte
Guilford County Realty Transfers Highlights
Guilford County real estate transfers list deeds in High Point and nearby townships. Transfers include R B Terry to Raymond D Cook on Grace Street. A Ray Idol to A F Hiatt and M T Hiatt on Clarkson Mendenhall adjacent land. Ethie L McKinnon to Jerry Barbour on Burton Ring properties. W F Motsinger to H I Dean on Mendenhall road. Herbert B Winston to Clarke C Coble trustee on Tuscaloosa Street. W H Holderness to Martha B Holderness on West Market Street. H R Hopkins to J W Hopkins on Shaw estate. Edward W Hartsook to James B Fleet on North Elm. and back and forth between James B Fleet and Edward W Hartsook on North Elm Street.
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High Point
R. B. Terry
Raymond D Cook
Grace Street
A. Ray Idol
A. F. Hiatt
M. T. Hiatt
Clarkson Mendenhall
Ethie L. McKinnon
Jerry Barbour
Lotsa
Burton
Ring Property
W. F. Motsinger
H. I. Dean
Mendenhall Road
Gilmer
Herbert B. Winston
Clarke C
North Carolina Fruits and Vegetables Market Report
North Carolina shipping point data and Tuesday wholesale sales are listed by the United States Agricultural Marketing Service and North Carolina Department of Agriculture. Prices cover bulk merchantable stock. Florida crates and New York markets show steady to dull conditions across berries lettuce apples and potatoes with various regional prices and pack sizes.
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North Carolina
United States Agricultural Marketing Service
South Carolina
Tennessee
Louisiana
Pittsburgh
U. S
North
Georgia
Baltimore
New York
Philadelphia
Florida
Norfolk
Virginia
KALE
Rochester
N. Y
Washington
West Virginia
Maryland
Pennsylvania
Presque Isle
Aroostook Coun
Ty Points
Maine
F.o.b
Pompano
Lake Okechobee
Bliss
Idaho
Crooks to Perform at East Carolina Teachers College
Metropolitan Opera tenor Richard Crooks, star of the Firestone Hour, will give a concert at East Carolina Teachers College on February 23. The Greenville event highlights a radio linked star visiting the campus for a public recital.
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Greenville
Richard Crooks
Metropolitan Opera
Firestone Hour
East Carolina Teachers College
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Guilford County Realty
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U. S&s
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Times Square
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Governor Clinton
Seventh Ave
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Robert J. Glenn
Studebaker
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Winter Comfort
Shell Tire & Batery Station, Inc
Harry Pleming
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