High Point Housing Project Seeks Expanded U S Funding
The United States Housing Authority earmarked 1.5 million for High Point residents housing effort led by the city council. Congressman Carl T. Durham reported the amount as tentative and future approval depends on a formal feasibility study and funding appeal to Washington.
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United States Housing Authority
High Point Housing Authority
High Point
Nathan Straus
USHA
Straus
Mr. Straus
Capus Waynick
Carl T. Durham
Durham
Housing Authority
Washington
Four Speakers At Convocation in Greensboro
At the North Carolina convocation of churches in Greensboro four speakers addressed the morning session. Rev. Harry C. Munro and Rev. Roy McCorkle presented talks on building a new world with adults and youth working together. The program included talks on prisoner rehabilitation and church roles in changing rural culture.
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Greensboro
North Carolina
First Presbyterian Church
Harry C. Munro
Chicago
Roy McCorkle
New York
Lawrence A. Watts
Raleigh
Thomas A. Tripp
Mr. Munro
God
Naval Fliers Death in Plane Crash During Patrol
Ensign Malcolm Charles Kirby 27 of Sayre Oklahoma, naval reserve flier attached to the aircraft carrier Ranger, was killed when his plane fell into the sea yesterday afternoon. The accident location was not disclosed under patrol policy. His body was not recovered. he earned naval aviator designation on September 20 last year.
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Washington
Malcolm Charles Kirby
Naval Reserve
Ranger
Navy
Kirby
Sayre
Oklo
Senate Fears Over Finland Aid Hit Neutrality Policy
Senate Banking Committee to question Secretary Hull on how extending non military credits to Finland would affect neutrality rules. Roosevelt urged limited non military aid via Export-Import Bank with Congress authorization. Hoover urged support. Jones cited a 10 million loan already granted and noted further loans under debate.
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Washington
Senate Banking Committee
Hull
Finland
Roosevelt
Congress
Hoover
New York
Herbert Hoover
Jesse H. Jones
Jones
Brown
Dmich
United States
Jones Gains in Bayou Race in Louisiana Runoff Battle
New Orleans voters show Governor Earl K. Long facing a runoff with reform candidate Sam H. Jones after a split first primary. Incomplete returns suggest Long falls short of a majority by 20 000 to 30 000 votes with Jones surprisingly close in rural parishes. John W. Hanes named top speaker for Winston-Salem banking group banquet on March 9.
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New Orleans
Earl K. Long
Louisiana
Huey P. Long
Long
Sam H. Jones
Reform
Lake Charles
Jones
Hanes
Winston-Salem
John W. Hanes
The
Treasury
Winston- Salem
American Institute of Banking
Fear Of War Hanging Over Fascist Leaders
Ettore Muti secretary of the Fascist party told Italians they may be forced to fight in the European war at any moment. The warning followed a conference with party leaders from 26 provinces and urged not to rely on recent international sympathy. He said Fascist Italy may face the necessity and duty of taking up arms and must be prepared in resources and spirit.
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Rome
Ettore Muti
Fascist Party
Italy
France
Great Britain
Muti
Southern Train Wreck Near Lynchburg Involves Five Sleepers
Five sleeper cars and a diner of southbound Southern train 37 jumped the track near Evington, 14 miles south of Lynchburg. No injuries were reported as traffic remained open and crews cleared wreckage after a broken switch caused the incident.
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Lynchburg
Southern
Evington
Odyssey On Stolen Funds Ends In Jail
Na omi Taylor 28 confessed to taking 447.62 from her employer and vanished on November 4. After a snowbound journey she told police of leisure travels to New York Washington San Francisco Los Angeles and Hollywood before surrendering at Summerdale Avenue station. She said she planned a brief jail stay to lose weight and blamed lack of will power for the theft.
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Chicago
Naomi Taylor
Summerdale Avenue
Michael Ahern
Miss Taylor
New York
Washington
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Hollywood
Taylor
Cudahy Assumes Ambassadorship in Belgium Amid Tension
John Cudahy becomes the U S ambassador to Belgium, arriving in Brussels after a hurried sending to speed his post under invasion fears. He presents credentials to King Leopold and meets Foreign Minister Spaak as Belgium maintains mobilization. A separate report notes a Spartanburg farmer W J Berry, 35, killed in a truck collision.
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Brussels
United States
Belgium
John Cudahy
Netherlands
Cudahy
Ireland
Germany
Paul Henri Spaak
Leopold
Henri Denis
Farmer
Spartanburg
W. J. Berry
Spartanburg County
Two Men Killed in Nitro Explosion at Du Pont Plant
An explosion at the Repauno plant in Gibbstown New Jersey killed Earl Harbison and Edward Bundens both 30s 31s and injured Raymond Hicks as the blast rocked a 20 mile radius. Investigators from state police and the FBI opened inquiries amid fears of sabotage.
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Gibbstown
N. J
du Pont Company
Earl Leslie Harbison
Clayton
Edward M. Bundens, Jr
Paulsboro
Repauno
Raymond Hicks
Paul C. Kaiser
Hicks
New Jersey
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Philadelphia
Eugene Horan
Red Cross
Woodbury
Frankford
Navy Yard
Philadelphia City Hall
British Lose Submarines Seahorse Undine and Starfish
The admiralty disclosed 198 officers and men missing aboard three British submarines Seahorse Undine and Starfish after German action. Some crew may have been rescued per German reports, lowering the death count.
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London
Admiralty
Germany
Seahorse
Undine
Starfish
Britain
Finnish Troops Reported Winning In Salla Region
Helsinki Jan 17 AP Finnish forces in sub zero weather were said to drive Russians back toward Salla near the Arctic border and press toward victory. They claimed routing a Russian company north of Lake Ladoga with seventy killed and two tanks captured while air raids hit enemy columns and a Russian plane was shot down. Swedish police study notes captured maps showing routes from a Soviet airfield to Sweden and Norway.
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Helsinki
Salla
Lake Ladoga
Leningrad
Sweden
Norwe
Norway
Ernst Fontell
Gothenburg
Fontell
Turku
Abo
Cowboy Bank Holdup Fails in Frisco
SAN FRANCISCO January 17 A Nevada cowboy attempted a bank robbery in the financial district triggering a gun battle on Market Street. The bandit Carl Metzler, 32, was shot twice and believed near death after firing a self inflicted chest wound. Guard Oliver Durr aged 54 was wounded but not critically in the exchange with police and the suspect.
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San Francisco
Market Street
Oliver Durr
Ango-California National
Pat Walter
Carl Metzler
NLRB Bribery Charge Brought to House Committee
Evidence shows NLRB examiner Whittemore and aide Warren Woods gave four one dollar bills to Sam Bailey before Christmas 1938 as a gift tied to a case against Alma Mills in Gaffney South Carolina. The letters describe walking five miles to the shack and sending a Christmas favor.
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Washington
House
National Labor Board
Smith Committee
C. W. Whittemore
Examiner
Sam Bailey
Alma Mills
Gaffney
8. C
Shack
Whittemore
Warren Woods
NLRB
Sam
de Judge
Bailey
Roger Robb
CIO Textile Workers’ Organizing Committee
Finnish Front Holds Against Red Assault in Siberian Cold
Reporter from Lieksa reports Finnish troops guarding two key highways in Soviet Russia as 400 Russians launch a frontal attack in 51 degrees below zero. Finns halt the charge with machine gunners delaying fire until slaughter of attackers is most efficient. casualties unknown.
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Finland
Here
Salla
Red Army
Commissara
Four Men Die In Texas Fire
Four men burned to death and five injured when a fire demolished the Salvation Army industrial home in Houston. Victims were Arthur Speed Al Wilson Ernest McGill and James Melton all workers at the home. Thirteen were rescued from the second story by ladders and two firefighters were injured.
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Houston
Tex
Salvation Army
Arthur Speed
al Wilson
Ernest McGill
James Melton
G. Bamper
R. O. Upper
G. Finley
Finley
Slippery Rock College Head Sentenced For Fund Misusage
Slippery Rock State Teachers College president Dr Charles B Miller was sentenced by Judge John H Wilson to pay court costs after two trials for misfeasance and nonfeasance in handling school funds and property He was praised for developing the college and an undefeated football team and denied arrest of judgment.
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Butler, Pa
Slippery Rock
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