Pickets and Police Clash in Auto Strike Across Nation
Five hurt as pickets confront unionists at Cadillac unit in Detroit during a weeklong General Motors strike. Carney says crowd blocks USW meeting. GM plans to resume 39,900 idle workers amid nationwide walkouts. Secretary Perkins accuses GM of failing to meet in good faith for peace talks.
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Washington
Perkins
General Motors ‘Corporation
Detroit
Cadillac
Ind
United Automobileers of America
Union Mtatives
Union
General Motors
Oseph Carney
Anderson Pochieffi
United Ohile
Pld
Weather Boosts Buying Pace at Southern Furniture Market
The Southern Furniture and Bug market reports increased activity as better weather spurs registrations and floor buying. Early trading gave way to a busy day with 125 registrations by noon and expectations of surpassing 200, mostly buyers from Georgia, Virginia, and South Carolina, plus anticipated visitors from Florida and other states.
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Frank Barfield
Rawine
Leesale Nangy
Georgia
Virginia
South Carolina
Florida
Mississippi
Louisiana
West Virginia
Maryland
Neutrality Plan Pushed Amid Spain War Echoes
Neutrality talks in London push for pricing measures as Spain faces pressure from factions. The plan aims to avert wider involvement by governments or public, with European powers debating support for the nationalist and republican sides. Reports describe fighting around Madrid and efforts to sever communications to Valencia as the conflict intensifies.
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Paras
Spain
London
Madrid
Valencia
Mid-Summer Market Dates Announced for Southern Furniture Show
Paul W. Casey, manager of the Southern Furniture Exposition Building, announces the mid-summer market will run July 19 through 21. The High Point show will follow Chicago, with exhibitors showing solid interest in the mid winter event.
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Paul W. Casey
Chicago
Prosecutor and judge clash in 17 plotters trial
In Moscow the prosecutor and judge argued over referencing a foreign official in the case of 17 men accused of plotting to overthrow the Soviet government. The presiding judge allowed testimony with a secrecy warning while the official’s name remained undisclosed.
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Moscow
Andrey Vishinsky
Vassily Ulrich
Supreme Court
Ulrich
8. Strailoff
Kemerovo
Gastonia Man Faces Murder Charge In Unexplained Slaying
Gastonia January 26 John W Childers 60 a lumber plant employee was charged with murder in connection with the January 9 bullet wounds that killed George Hamrick 25 Hamrick a textile plant worker will be buried today Police said Childers remains at large on a 2000 bond and may be rearrested today authorities noted the shooting remains unexplained.
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Gastonia
John W. Childers
George Hamrick
Childers
Hamrick
Gable Denies Father Claim in London Woman Case
Violet Wells Norton, 47, a Canadian, is arrested in Los Angeles for trying to claim Clark Gable fathered her 13 year old daughter Gwendolyn Edith. Norton says Frank Billings tutored her in England in 1922 and fathered the child. Gable says he never was in England and will cooperate with officials.
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Los Angeles
Violet Wells Norton
Clark Gable
Norton
Frank Billings
Long Shorewood
Billericky
England
Gwendolyn Edith
Billings
America
Winnipeg
Gable
Portland
Oregon Woods
Armco Finishing to Build $100000 Plant in Greensboro
Armco Finishing company of Burlington will call for bids after February 1 to erect a $100,000 plant in Greensboro that will finish silk and rayon textile flat work. The mill would employ 100 to 150 workers with an annual payroll around $150,000 and start in early spring if weather permits.
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Greensboro
Armco Finishing Company
Burlington
Flood Threat Puts Cape Fear Neuse Tar Roanoke Rivers On Watch
Weather chief Lee A. Denson warns heavy rains in the last 24 hours may push a fifth flood rise this month on the Cape Fear Neuse Tar and lower Roanoke rivers. Roanoke expected rise below Weldon not threatening Caledonia dyke at prison farms. Oscar Pitts notes dam risk passes as Roanoke falls eight to nine feet. dyke patrolled and sandbagged.
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Raleigh
Lee A. Denson
Weather Bureau
Cape Fear
Neuse
Tar
Roanoke
Weldon
Pres
Denson
Caledonia Prison Farms
Oscar Pitts
Penal Division
Relief Bill To Be Passed By Tonight
Washington January 26 Congress moves to rush a 790 million dollar deficiency relief appropriation through the House before nightfall to aid flood sufferers. White House says government will share relief costs. Hopkins reports improving Ohio river conditions but risk of rise remains. Senate inquiries into labor espionage and antiwar sentiment continue amid broader Capitol activity. A Fed board panel studies credit to gauge inflation risk.
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Washington
White House
National Resources Committee
Harry L. Hopkins
WPA
Louisville
Cincinnati
Ohio River
House
Capitol
Senate Civil Liberties Committee
Labor
Senate Committee
National Labor Relations Board
Carnegie-Illinois Steel Company
Senate
Harry W. Conery
American Legion
House Military Committee
Federal Reserve Board
High Point Appeals For Flood Fund Growth
Roosevelt calls three labor conferences for late today to discuss labor legislation not aimed at settling the automobile strike. Red Cross flood relief funds surge with many donations from workers and citizens in High Point and across flood regions, as residents face mounting devastation and needs.
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Washington
Roosevelt
White House
Red Cross
Harriss and Covington Hosiery Mills
Triangle Hosiery Mill
Bay Street
Annette D. Coltrane
American Red Cross
High Point
Rose Furn. Co
Security Problem To Last For Years Declares Bane
Raleigh January 26 Frank Bane executive director of the Federal Social Security board told a North Carolina legislature grappling with old age and child aid measures that the problem would continue for years He said the act is not perfect but a constructive effort in the right direction He urged competent state boards and warned of dangers from incompetent administration before the joint legislative committee on public welfare Also noted a House judiciary committee recommendation on a Dellinger bill and a Senate judiciary committee report on a charter amendment in High Point.
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Raleigh
Frank Bane
Federal Social Security Board
North Carolina
Bane
Joint Legislative Committee On Public Welfare
House
Dellinger
Senate Judiciary Committee
Gold
Guilford
High Point
Postmaster Nominations Sent to Senate
President Roosevelt sent to the senate the nominations for postmasters in North Carolina including Conway Rufus Jennings White Dobson Hazel A. Martin Pinetops Claude W. Walston Robbinnville Oliver L. Ammons Swepsonville Ella Kate Phillipa. The notice lists several towns and individuals awaiting confirmation.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Senate
North Carolina
Conway Rufus Jennings White
Dobson Hazel A. Martin
Pinetops
Claude W. Walston
Robbinaville
Oliver L. Ammons
Swepsonville
Ella Kate Phillipa
Death inquest may be delayed in Westmoreland case
In Statesville on January 26, Solicitor Charles L. Coggins said the inquest into Mrs. Herman Westmoreland may resume in a few days. The 20 year old bride was found dead in a 60 foot well on her father in law’s farm near Amity Hill after disappearing from her room at breakfast. She had been married to Herman Westmoreland since November 28 and attended Troutman high school with him, graduating in 1933.
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Statesville
Charles L. Coggins
Herman Westmoreland
Brunet
Amity Hill
Mooreaville
Troutman High School
Fourteen Reported Drowned Rescued Near Ripley
J W Hedgepeth of Ripley reports 14 people officially listed as drowned when their house collapsed into Mississippi flood waters last night. They had been rescued 12 miles west of Ripley after floodwaters swept the area.
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Ripley
Tenn
J. W. Hedgepeth
Mississippi
Evacuation at Evansville Station as Water Floods Waiting Room
The L. and N. Railroad evacuated the Evansville passenger station today after water poured into the waiting room.
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Evansville
Ind
L. and N. Railroad
Fort Knox Shelter Cares for 1800 Flood Refugees
The Fort Knox base in Kentucky escaped flood damage and is housing about 1,800 refugees. Army personnel continue to receive more arrivals as disaster relief operations proceed at the U S Gold depository site.
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Fort Knox
U. S
Flood Swallows 11 States as Ohio River Rises
The flood drenches vast areas across 11 states with the Ohio River cresting and Mississippi flooding widening. Officials warn the worst is yet to come as 132 dead and 550,000 evacuated mark a mass exodus of towns and cities along the swollen waterways. Red Cross and government agencies scramble to mobilize relief with funds and shelters as the disaster deepens.
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Cincinnati, O
Ohio
Roosevelt
Congress
Associated Press
Ohio River
Mississippi
Cincinnati
Tennessee
Kentucky
South
Arkansas
Missi
Red Cross
Fred Duncan
TVA
George Pace
Pilals
Pittsburgh
Miss
Reybold
Harry L. Hopkins
WPA
Hoey appeals for funds for flooded area
Governor Hoey appeals for contributions as North Carolina Red Cross quotas are met and surpassed. A relief train carrying 25 surfmen seven boats and supplies heads to Louisville while Asheville others depart for Kentucky. WPA sewing rooms ready 120 mattresses and medical units smallpox typhoid vaccination underway.
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Charlotte
Midwest
Red Cross
North Carolina Coast Guard
Louisville
Wilmington
Asheville
Edwin Burge
Kiffin Rockwell American Legion Post
Hoey
Raleigh
WPA
Durham
105Th Medical Regiment
R. B. Rodman
Forsyth County
Wilkes County
Hosiery Workers Pose Fight Over Constitutional Proposals
Delegates at the American Federation of Hosiery Workers convention forecast sharp disagreement over proposed constitutional amendments. Eastern delegates reportedly oppose recommendations before the law committee to extend discretionary powers of federation officers, including allowing the executive board to close negotiations with employers without first showing contract terms to rank and file.
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Washington
American Federation of Hosiery Workers
Law Committee
Police recover majority of city theft losses
Durham police report recovering 64.7 percent of $42,740.16 worth of property stolen in the city last year.
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Durham
Bus Tragedy Investigated in Everglades Crash
Miami investigators led a three way probe into the bus disaster that drowned 17 of 50 aboard near the Tamiami trail. Experts from civil authorities the railroad commission and the operator examined the mud crusted vehicle 35 miles west of Miami amid claims of mechanical failure possibly a tire blowout or broken front spring shackle.
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Miami
Fla
Everglades
State Railroad Commission
Florida
Tamiami Trail
Glades
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