Ten Killed In Mine Blast Brought From Harwich Surface
Rescue crews fought through snow to recover the last of ten men from the Harwich mine disaster. About 500 miners were at work as state inspectors prepared to descend for blast cause inquiry. The dead include Frank Diesiel and nine others. four injured. A later note mentions a ticket campaign for a presidential birthday event to support infantile paralysis research.
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Pittsburgh
Harwich
Yester
Frank Dieslel
Anthony Weilner
Ohn Kruszek
Joseph Lerch
Doss Nicholas
Thomas Effer
Joseph Koprivinkar
Frank Harpster
Joe Preik
Matt Anderson
Humanik
Keffer
Ead
Youthful pair found in car at ocean front
In Miami Florida on January 13 a 13 year old girl Edwina and 14 year old Keyser were found asleep in a car owned by Edwina’s family. Juvenile authorities prepared to place them in custody while awaiting parents to take them home to Bremen. The girl said they were in love and planned to run away together for a long trip. The boy claimed his father did not want him to see Edwina.
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Miami
Fila
Keyser
Lowell
Fie
Bremen
Kendall
Ocean
Edwina
Ted
Martene
Ing
Stevens to Seek Democratic Nomination for Sixth Judicial District Judge
Stevens former national commander of the American Legion announces plans to run for the Democratic nomination as resident judge of the Sixth Judicial District at the June primary in Warsaw North Carolina.
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Warsaw
N. C
Henry L. Stevens
The
American Legion
Marine on leave reports fighting in China
Lieutenant Eustace R. Smoak of the United States Marines says Japan’s mechanized forces are far superior to the Chinese army. The High Point native, visiting his parents at 314 Mont... avenue, recently completed two and a half years in the U S sector of the International Settlement, Shanghai, and witnessed fighting in the undeclared war. He describes Japanese drives the Chinese out.
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Japan
Eustace R. Smoak
United States Marines
High Point
Monthieu Avenue
Smoak
U. S
International Settlement
Shanghai
Warren urges new North Carolina coast guard air base
Congress received a wartime hearings record supporting Rep Warren's push for a coast guard air base at Elizabeth City North Carolina The testimony recalls German submarine visits to the North Carolina coast and seeks 1 131 000 dollars for the base to bolster national defense.
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Washington
Jan
Congress
North Carolina
Coast Guard
Elizabeth City
N. C
Warren
House
Payne's Mother Visits Charged Man in Jail
Asheville January report notes the 72 year old mother of William Payne visits in jail. Payne and J W Turner alias Jack Borden face murder charges for the August fatal shooting of State Highway Patrolman George Penn. Additional counts include kidnapping bank robbery and auto theft.
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Asheville
Willam
Bill) Payne
George Penn
Payne
J. W. Turner
Jack Borden
High Point
Taplin Wins County Grounds Beautification Bid
A. E. Taplin of High Point was awarded the contract to beautify the grounds around the new county building for 1750.00. The bid was opened by a county committee including George S.bury, Joe F. Hoffman, and Harry Weatherly, with two other bidders offering shrubbery only.
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A. E. Taplin
High Point
Mr. Taplin
George S.bury
Joe F. Hoffman
Harry Weatherly
Hide
B. Hodgin
High
Point
J. Lindley
Greensboro
Hodgin
Lindley
Taplin
Two Critically Hurt In Wreck In Rocky Mount
In Rocky Mount two locals remained in critical condition after an early day automobile crash. R. M. Phelps, 67, suffered a fractured skull, fractured rib, and internal injuries when his car collided with an Atlantic Coast Line engine at a crossing. Miss Lillie Hawkins, 14, sustained a fractured skull and three other riders had minor injuries.
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Rocky Mount
R. M. Phelps
Atlantic Coast Line
Lillie Hawkins
Phelps
Life Underwriters elect NC council officers in Greensboro
William H. Andrews Jr of Greensboro presided as president of the North Carolina Council of Life Underwriters at its annual sales congress closing session. D. D. Edmonds of Winston-Salem Salem was named vice president and A. P. Mulligan of Greensboro became secretary treasurer. About 200 delegates attended the reorganized council’s closing session.
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Greensboro
William H. Andrews, Jr
North Carolina Council of Life Underwriters
D. D. Edmonds
Winston-Salem
Roosevelt Seeks Curtailment of Installment Buying
President Roosevelt, in talks with business leaders, aims to curb installment buying credit. He reportedly pressed the motor industry to tighten sales credit and curb high pressure salesmanship while discussing plans with Alfred P. Sloan Jr. of General Motors and other prominent industrialists.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Alfred P. Sloan, Jr
General Motors Corporation
Post Office Budget Seeks 793 Million for Next Year
The Post Office Department estimates July 1 start year income at 775 million, 20 million below prior forecast. Expenditures of 793 million are asked, yielding an 18 million deficit before subsidies, with a net postal surplus of 30 million after deducting 48 million in subsidies and free mail.
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Washington
Post Office Department
Farley
House
Treasury-Post Office
Nazis Bund Not Facing Charge
Washington January 13 A 1000 page federal report on the Amerika Deutscher Volkesbund found no evidence of federal law violations by the organization. Informed persons predicted no criminal prosecutions for league members as the group is modeled after German Nazi groups.
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Washington
Amerika- Deutscher Volkesbund
League
Germany
Kai-Shek to Direct Army at Shantung
Shanghai dispatch says Generalissimo Chaing Kai-Shek flew to Suchow to direct an assault on Japanese invaders threatening the Lung Hai railway. General Han Fu-Chu and Shiang would lead a major counter-offensive along the Tsinpu railway meeting Lunghai at Suchow, about 3800 miles from Shanghai, with Chinese forces massed in the area for a week.
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Shanghai
Chaing Kai- Shek
Suchow
Lunghai
China
Han Fu-Chu
Shantung
Shiang
Tsinpu
Isinfu
Tientsin
Jukow
France faces monetary and labor crises in cabinet plan
Paris cabined announced Premier Camille Chautemps will present grave labor and monetary problems to the Chamber of Deputies after a three hour meeting. Bank of France Governor Pierré Fournier joined as the franc fell to 29.75 per dollar and 148.50 per pound while the stabilization fund remained active.
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Paris
Camille Chautemps
Chamber of Deputies
Pierré Fournier
Bank of France
France
Chautemps
United States
Britain
Tobacco Still Tops 36 Mark In North Carolina Sales
North Carolina tobacco sold in state warehouses by January 1 brought 137 million 634 thousand dollars from 554 million 727 thousand 722 pounds, averaging 24.81 dollars per hundredweight. The December sales report notes the average is 1.08 dollars higher than the prior year.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
State Department of Agriculture
Tony
Clergyman Dean Noe on Three-Wip Communion Fast
The Very Rev Israel Harding Noe, dean of St Marys Cathedral, endures a three weekly communion fast while subsisting on oranges since December 1936 and a wafer and sip of wine since January 2 1938. Friends fear his health may fail but he calls it a spiritual demonstration and a personal pioneering life philosophy in progress.
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Israel Harding Noe
St. Mary's
Episcopal
Dean Noe
Bremen youths sought for elopement marriage attempt
In Bremen Indiana police search for youngsters who ran away to marry, possibly seeking a state permit. Notes in a boy’s room, scrawled by children, indicate elopement intent and prompted police to investigate.
Taft Urges Federal State Relief Match Plan
Taft proposed a federal state fund matching relief program where federal allotments to states would be distributed by a fixed formula. He testified as chairman of the mobilization for human needs, urging Congress to adopt a nationwide approach to aid. Norman Thomas spoke in Chapel Hill denying that collective scarcity requires war and warned against entangling alliances and fascism.
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Chapel Hill
N. C
Norman Thomas
Socialist Party In America
America
Carolina Political Union
Thomas
Washington
Charles P. Taft
Congress
Mobilization For
Man Held for Blackmail Try
A man identified as T. G. Warren, 26, of Washington, N C, was jailed in Dunn under $1,000 bond on blackmail charges. The warrant noted a note demanding Miss Mary Alice Bishop of Raleigh receive 75 dollars or lose her laundry job at Henry D. Hood’s facility. The case ties to heirs of the late Edward W. Browning of New York.
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Mary Alice Bishop
Raleigh
Henry D. Hood
Mayor Hague Accused of Suppressing GI Union Activity
The Committee for Industrial Organization filed with the Senate Civil Liberties Committee forty affidavits accusing Mayor Frank Hague of City of using police violence to halt GI union organizing.
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Clo
Ireland Votes on Union Divide Prompts Early Northern Ireland Elections
Belfast reports unexpected dissolution of the Northern Ireland parliament set for January 20 and general elections planned for February 8. Prime Minister Lord Craigavon cites union with Ireland as the precipitating issue while Eamon de Valera plans talks in London with British leaders.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
Lord Craigavon
Ireland
Irish Free State
Eamon de Valera
London
House Group Passes Bill After Cuts
The House Appropriations Committee approved a Treasury and Post Office department appropriations bill totaling 1.516 billion for the next fiscal year, cutting 60.9 million from the prior total. The panel warned several deficiency items may be needed, particularly for the federal land banks and the farm mortgage corporation, reducing net savings.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Treasury-Postoffice Department
Federal Land Banks
Farm Mortgage Corporation
House
Treasury
post‘ff_lee
Budget Bureau
Senate Woman Member Denounces Anti-Lynching Bill
The Senate's only woman member Mrs Hattie Caraway of Arkansas denounced the anti lynching bill calling it a gratuitous insult to the South She said she never approved lynchings yet called the measure unconstitutional and aimed to destroy southern influence The speech noted political and business threats to the South as opponents prepared for further floor action by Senator Glass.
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Washington
Senate
Hattie Cara
Arkansas
Caraway
Glass
D-Va
Five Billion Miles Traveled By Autos In N. C. During 1937
Raleigh about 5.0 billion miles were traveled by motorists in North Carolina in 1937. E. W. Ayers head of the gasoline tax unit, announced the figure as an increase of 602,000,006 miles from 1936. Gasoline consumption reached 383,132,899 gallons, a new record.
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N. C
Raleigh
E. W. Ayers
Clear Proof Shows Samoan Clipper And Crew Destroyed
Pago Pago Samoa January 14 The Samoan Clipper and its seven crew members were destroyed by fire and an internal explosion after crashing in flames off Pago Pago. The Avocet swept the area recovering charred fragments as hope faded for recovering Capt Edwin C Musick and the six crewmen.
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Baeecente
Recove
Pago Pago
Samoa
Pago Tago
Avocet
Trans Pacific
Edwin C. Musick
Pan-American Airways
Pago Page
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Ounty
Rocky Mount Hospital
State Council of Life Underwriters
Nazi Bund
Lunghai Railway
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Edwina Keyser
Lowell Mast
Taft
Socialist Head
Senate Group
Dunn
Orth Ireland
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Treasury- Postoffice Department
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