Reciprocal Trade Program Reported Boosting American Jobs
Labor Department testimony to the House Ways and Means Committee asserts the reciprocal trade agreements program created many more U S jobs than it displaced and aided American workers. Isadore Lubin cites 189 percent gain in agricultural machinery and 152 percent in agricultural instruments for export. He links factory migrations to tariffs and cites returns after tariff reductions.
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Washington
Labor Department
Congress
Isadore Lubich
Commissioner of
Labor Statistics
House
Ways and Means Committee
Labin
Lubin
Woodruff
R-Mich
United States
European Wars Headed For Early Crises In North
Relief efforts by the American Red Cross focus on Finland and Poland as war displacements surge. The article notes relief plans, medical aid, clothing, and supplies coordinated with European Red Cross societies, plus a $1,000,000 emergency fund and Swifts return from Europe.
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North
Poland
Berlin
Finland
Red Cross
London
Russia
American
Kiwanis President Knudson to Speak Across Carolinas
Dr. C C W Armstrong announces Bennett O Knudson international Kiwanis president will visit High Point on February 16 Raleigh on February 17 Columbia South Carolina on February 18 for night meetings. He may also speak in Charlotte at noon February 19 if a Pinehurst weekend plans work out.
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Salisbury
Cc. W. Armstrong
Carolinas
Kiwanis
Bennett O. Knudson
Albert Lea
Minn
Knudson
Charlotte Club
Pinehurst
Charleston
D. C
Funeral Services Held for Miss Ad die Cable
Funeral services for Miss Addie Cable 52 a former resident who died at her Greensboro home after a weeks long illness were held at Sechrest Funeral Home chapel Saturday at 2 pm. Rev D V Howell of Calvary Methodist Church officiated with burial in Oaklawn Cemetery. Pallbearers were Melvin Gable Weldon Cable Ralph Byerly Vernon Brown Aaron Hucks and Oscar Doggett. A male quartet and Miss Virginia Elder on piano sang Precious Memories Farther Along and Nearer My God To Thee.
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Addie Cable
Greensboro
Sechrest
D. V. Howell
Calvary Methodist Church
Land
Oaklwood Cemetery
Melvin Gable
Weldon Cable
Ralph Byerly
Vernon Brown
Aaron Hucks
Oscar Doggett
Fred Green
Are Green
George Pike
Charles Agner
Virginia Elder
Alfred C. Davis funeral to be held this afternoon
Final rites for Alfred Cyrus Davis a well known retired farmer who died at his home High Point route one will be held this afternoon at 1 30 at the home with the funeral proper following at Abbott s Creek Primitive Baptist Church The service will be conducted by Rev Virgil Willard Rev E F Mumford Rev O L Easter and Rev J W Grace Interment will be in the family plot in the church cemetery.
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Alfred Cyrus Davis
High Point
Route One
Abbotts Creek Primitive Baptist Church
Virgil Willard
E. F. Mumford
O. L. Easter
J. W.grace
South's Truck Crops Suffer Heavy Losses
The Marketing Service of the U S Department of Agriculture reports widespread cold and freeze damage to southern truck crops in January 1927. Louisiana ides show losses in beets carrots collards mustard turnips spinach with cabbage losses of 35 percent head cabbage 30 percent and orange damage undetermined.
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Baton Rouge
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Louisiana
Frank Orders Nazis To Coerce Czechs In Prague Speech
Karl Hermann Frank at a Nazi meeting urged SS members in the protectorate to use coercion if needed to aid the Reich. He warned that Czechs who refuse will face harsh measures as the SS will crush opposition. Meanwhile the protectorate finance ministry tightens control of Jewish financial resources.
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Prague
Karl Hermann Frank
Protectorate
Schutz Staffel
Frank
War relief production rises as refugees flood Europe
Wayne Taylor in Finland reports civilian evacuation due to bombing. Supplies, not money, are most needed in Europe amid restrictive trade, with tens of thousands of chapter volunteers sewing refugee clothing and surgical dressings for war zones. By Jan 1 preliminary chapter reports show about a quarter million garments and over a million dressings produced for relief, sent to New York for shipment to belligerents.
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Helsinki
Red Cross
Wayne Chatfield Taylor
Norman H. Davis
Europe
United States Public Health Service
Finland
Hungary
Roumania
Lithuania
Yugoslavia
Latvia
Poland
American Red Cross
United States
Trieste
Cracow
Polish Red Cross
Ernest J. Swift
Washington
Russia
Swift
Baltic States
Germany
France
England
Balkan Countries
Wayne Taylor
New York
Japan Puppet Parley Ends in Shanghai Plan
At Tsingtao the three day conference of Japanese dominated Nanking and Peiping regimes concluded. Wang Ching Wei left for Shanghai to head a council forming the new central Chinese government with local regimes and Orthodox Kuomintang backing. He said the peace would protect foreign rights in China.
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Tsingtao
China
Peiping
Wang Ching- Wei
Shanghai
Tokyo
Wang
Kuomintang
Japan
Chiang Kai-Shek
Chaongking
Income Payments Show Big Increase
Secretary Hopkins reported total income payments to individuals in the past year at 69.683 billion dollars, up 3.412 billion from 1938. Salary and wage payments rose five percent to 48.783 billion, while dividends and interest climbed 15 percent to 9.081 billion. December payments reached 6.898 billion, the largest monthly total since 1936, exceeding November by over one billion and December 1938 by about 0.75 billion.
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Washington
Hopkins
Hospital Worker Is Accused in Lover's Death Tragedy
Huntington New York January 27 A hospital employee Joseph Dowd says he awoke on a country road beside his slain fiancée Mary Mills 29 with signs of a struggle and the victim strangled. Authorities say Dowd denies knowledge of the death and cites a night of drinking and a lovers quarrel. Dowd and Mills worked at King's Park State Hospital for the insane and planned to wed soon. Police found bruising and skin under Dowd's nails. he is detained without charge.
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Huntington
N. Y
Joseph Dowd
Long Island
Mary Mills
Dowd
Lindsay Henry
Suffolk County
Insane Hospital
King’s Park State Hospital
Gardner
Mass
Lawrence
Henry
Tom
Mary
Edward Schieferstein
U S Army to Honor Oldest Soldier With Purple Heart
Brookline Mass January 27 The United States army will honor its oldest retired officer on his 100th birthday with a Purple Heart decoration. William H Bisbee who rose from private to brigadier general before retiring in 1902 will receive the award from Major General James A Woodruff for extraordinary performance of duty.
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Brookline
Mass
United States Army
William H. Bisbee
James A. Woodruff
George Washington
Proctor Infant Dies at Thomasville
Funeral services are set for 2 PM Sunday at Oak Hill Memorial Baptist Church for the infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Proctor who died today at their Thomasville route 2 home. Rev. J. A. Cox will officiate. Burial will be at Fair Grove Cemetery. Surviving are the parents two brothers Robert and John two sisters Lorraine and Shirley and grandparents Mrs. J. A. Hoover and Mrs. Lela Proctor.
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Proctor
Thomasville
Oak Hill Memorial Baptist Church
John Proctor
Route 2
J. A. Cox
Fair Grove
Robert
Lorilene
Shirley Proctor
J. A. Hoover
Lela Proctor
Colorado Governor Denies Extradition of Noted Ex-con
Gov. Ralph L. Carr refused Missouri’s request to extradite Orville Butner 36 who escaped a penitentiary seven years ago and built a Denver transfer and hauling business. Carr said reformation ends punishment and noted Butner must return to complete a ten year sentence for a street car holdup.
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Denver
Ralph L. Carr
Orville Butner
Missouri
Carr
Lloyd Stark
Butner
Woman Burned Here Is In Critical Condition
Mrs. J. W. Neal of 909 North Main Street was hospitalized at Guilford General with severe burns after her clothing caught fire beside a heater. Hospital staff described her condition as critical late Saturday night. Sechrest’s ambulance responded to the emergency and transported her to the hospital.
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J. W. Neal
North Main Street
Guilford General Hospital
Prisoner hides drug tablets in oranges
In Charlotte a drunken woman was jailed last week and remained in custody for days. Police found during a search she had hidden drug tablets inside oranges, absorbed by the juice. The prisoner sobered just before the discovery, leading to the revelation of the hidden tablets.
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Charlotte
Woolworth Donahue Weds Mrs Hearst in Palm Beach
Mrs Gretchen Wilson Hearst former wife of John Randolph Hearst married Woolworth Donahue heir to five and ten wealth in a Palm Beach ceremony. The wedding surprised 22 friends after a luncheon and the couple left for a Havana honeymoon aboard the groom’s brother Jimmy Donahue’s plane. The bride wore a short blue afternoon dress and Countess Barbara Hutton and Robert Sweeny attended among others.
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West Palm Beach
Fra
Gretchen Wilson Hearst
John Randolph Hearst
Woolworth
Wooly
William Randolph Hearst
Barbara Hutton Haugwitz-Reventle
Robert Sweeny
Charles M Avra Rites Held in City
Funeral services for Chas. M. Avra 41 who died at Gallinger Hospital Washington D C were held Saturday at 2 pm from the home of his father in law D J Smith 210 Thurston Street. Rev C Francis Noble and Rev Cecil Haworth officiated. Interment followed in Floral Garden Cemetery with pallbearers Marion S Nunn Delmar Pierce Carl Hatley Noah Myers Chas Craven and L C Crenford.
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Chas. M. Avra
Gallinger Hospital
Washington, D. C
D. J. Smith
Thurston Street
C. Francis Noble
Pentecostal Holiness Church
Cecil Haworth
Central Friends Church
Floral Garden Cemetery
Marion S. Nunn
Delmar Pierce
Carl Hatley
Noah Myers
Chas. Craven
L. C. Crenford
CCC Ordered to Cooperate in Feeding Wildlife
Civilian Conservation camps were instructed to cooperate with civic groups to feed wild birds and game animals during the present cold weather.
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CCC
Washington
University Extension Division May Promote Adult Education
University of North Carolina officials envision a statewide network of adult education centers using existing school buildings for after hours classes. Director Russell Grumman reports nationwide growth in informal non credit programs and urges expansion to include industrial, labor, consumer, and agricultural groups with part time field staff and extended outreach.
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R. W. Maday
Chapel Hill
North Carolina
Tar Heelia
Russell M. Grumman
University of North Carolina
Grumman
Frank Graham
House
South Orange
New Jersey
Boston Center
Pinehurst Bridge Tourney Faces Final Boards
Final stage of the Pinehurst Mid Southern bridge tournament brings 16 teams to the last boards. Defending champion Bowker of Pinehurst failed to qualify, as South Carolinians lead with Chester Ward and James Earle of Spartanburg posting .608 after two rounds.
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Pinehurst
J. R. Bowker
P.S.P. Randolph, Jr
Tom Howe
Chester Ward
James Earle
Spartanburg
S. C
L. M. Daniel
E. W. Bush
Southern Pines
Carter Harrell
Cheraw
Philip Sowers
Heyward Miller
Salisbury
Haddon Kirk
C. F. Matton
Winston- Salem
W. H. Holderness
Newton Farnell
Greensboro
A. L. Breeden
Bennettsville
P. P. Smith
Fayetteville
W. A. Lang
Raleigh
J. Crawford Biggs
Ralph T. Lovell
Chapel Hill
Holderness
Mr. Farnell
Warner
Pine Bluff
Fred M. Patterson
Swiss Arrest German Agent in Espionage Ring
Swiss police announced the arrest of Col. A. Fonjallaz a retired army officer and alleged Nazi movement member near Schaffhausen on the way to Germany. He carried information on French war plans and was to rendezvous with a German operative at Schlethein, as part of a broader German espionage ring operation.
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Berne
Switzerland
France
Col
A. Fonjjallaz
Fonjallaz
Schaffhausen
Zurich
Germany
Schlethein
Germarr
Japan Seeks Mexican Oil as U S Treaty Ends
Reports say the expiry of the Japan United States commercial treaty sparks a drive by Japan to expand trade with Mexico especially in oil. Japan eyes Mexican oil to avert potential embargo and notes Mexico's iron resources and 18 million barrels of unsold oil as leverage. Japanese delegations have obtained new oil well drilling permits.
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Mexico City
Japan
Mexico
California
United States
Orl
Swimming Meet Postponed By Travel Delay
Inability of the North Carolina State team to reach Blacksburg by highway caused the postponement of the State Virginia Tech swimming meet in Blacksburg Virginia today. The teams probably will meet here Feb 10.
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Blaksburg
North Carolina
Blacksburg
Virginia Tech
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