Chest Drive Set To Launch In Downtown November Events
A downtown Chest drive is announced with dates November 8 and 4 for fund raising. A line of red banners along Main Street and at the Sheraton hotel reminds passers-by of the six agencies involved Red Cross Boy Scouts Girl Scouts Y M C A Y W C A Salvation Army. A Memorial church meeting at 6 30 p m will organize the industrial division to promote gifts and outline agency roles.
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Down
Main Street
Sheraton Hotel
Partiai
Red Cross
Boy Scouts
Girlets
Chiang Kai-Shek Backing Shows Unified Resolve
Support across major segments of the nation backs General Chiang Kai-Shek in continuing the struggle against Japan. Backing follows his statement that there can be no end to the war until the final objective is won.
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Ungking
China
Chiang Kai-Shek
Japan
People's Political
Generalissimo
Wage chief hints at overtime rules for family papers
F R Andrews the wage administrator told news executives he is studying the act's overtime provisions for family papers. He said the problem of overtime compensation for reporters on continuing assignments is being carefully considered in a letter to Elisha Han attorney for the American Newspaper Publishers Association.
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Ashington
Er F. Andrews
Feily
Elisha Han
Associ- the
Court Schedule Sets Special Criminal Term in Guilford County
December term ordered by Hoey with Judge F D Ips presiding in Guilford County. The special term replaces the previously planned November 7 session.
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Leigh
R Hoey
Guilford
F. Dips
Board of Education Could End City School Blockade
A 12 member committee agreed with Judge Hodapp to work with the board on a plan to end the city’s school blockade. The move seeks a five day grace period and aims to keep the schools closed at least until December 8 as authorities address contempt citations.
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UTON
Board of Education
Hodapp
Con
Chamberlain asks House to approve Anglo-Italian pact
Prime Minister Chamberlain urged early enforcement of the Anglo-Italian accord and pushed for economic peace with Germany in southeastern Europe. He announced Sir John Anderson as minister for civilian defense and national voluntary service, while France faced internal splits over emergency finance measures.
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London
Chamberlain
House of Commons
Germany
Europe
John Anderson
Iron Man
Bengal
Privy Seal
Paul Marchandeau
Daladier
Marchandeau
France
England
Mussolini
Chinese admit loss of Teian in bitter campaign
Shanghai dispatch reports Chinese forces concede Teian 125 miles southeast of Hankow after more than three months of heavy fighting. Japan claimed Teian capture last week, with Chinese comparing losses to Taierhchwang. A new defense line south of Teian protects Nanchang as Japanese forces press from Hankow tri-city area.
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Shanghai
Teian
Hankow
China
Taierhchwang
Nanchang
Hanyang
Wuchang
Hanchwan
Railroads Consider Federal Aid To Avoid Wage Cuts
Washington reports management officials hinting that federal aid may replace wage cuts for railroads amid economic relief talks. Leaders say a strike is distant, while a six point program covering IC C rates, government loans, and regulatory reforms remains under discussion with labor and railroad executives seeking a peaceful settlement.
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Washington
H. E Knochs
J. J. Pelley
Association of American Railroads
Pelley
Chicago
Roosevelt
Labor and Management
Hey
George Harrison
Railway Labor Executives’ Association
Railroad Association
Interstate Commerce Commission
Groesbeck Sees Heartening Progress in Deal With Utilities
Clarence B. Groesbeck after a White House talk with President Roosevelt said the rapprochement between government and utilities is promising with wide national implications. He noted progress from the national defense power committee talks and cited a $2 billion private power expansion plan supported by federal aid. Groesbeck said his firms have complied with the wage hour law.
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Washington
Clarence B. Groesbeck
Electric Bond and Share Corporation
White House
Groesbeck
Rooseevlt
National Defense Power Committee
Utilities
Roosevelt
Treasury
Morgenthau
Hanes
The
Stewart DcDonald
Gerard B. Lambert
FHA
Abner H. Ferguson
J. M. Daiger
Czechs Poles Reach Border Accord Amid Court Case
In Westport New Jersey Judge Wakeman hears a probate case over Betty Lou Frances adoption. Simultaneously Prague reports a border accord with Poland, resolving disputes in Silesia and outlining future joint commissions and territorial handovers under German and Italian supervision.
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Westport
Conn
Austin Wakeman
Solomon
Wakeman
Betty Lou Frances
W. R. Brown
William H. Huttery
Browns
Butterys
New York
Howell F. Fuller
Anna Frances
Frydek
Teachen
Frystat
Prague
Silesia
Bratislava
Slovakia
Ruthenia
Germany
Italy
Vienna
Dewey Says He Will Serve Full Four Year Term
Republican gubernatorial candidate Thomas E. Dewey declared in Buffalo that he would certainly serve a complete four year term if elected New York governor. He dismissed Democratic hints he would seek the presidency in 1940 and said his New York County work would be finished in four years to revitalize the state government.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Manhattan
Dewey
New York County
United States
Goering’s Rome Berlin axis to shape new southeast Europe
German Italian talks on dismembering Czechoslovakia set for tomorrow with Goering’s press predicting a decisive one day session. The conference aims to align southeastern Europe on racial-national lines and appease Hungary, with Ribbentrop and Ciano refereeing alongside Hungary and Czechoslovakia ministers.
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Kurt Schuschnigg
Austria
Czechoslovakia
Foreign Office
Hungary
Hermann Wilhelm Goering
Paris
Europe
Danubian
Goering
National Zeitung
Essen
Joachim Vonribbentrop
Germany
Galeazzo Ciano
Italy
Kolomon Kanya
Frantisek Chvalkoveky
Forest Fires Menace Homes Near Asheville
Roaring forest fires on two fronts near Asheville drive back firefighters. The Walkertown Ridge slope and Brushy Knob area threaten the Montreat slopes and the Asheville watershed as residents and tourists’ homes are at risk. City workers combat the blaze along Piney Branch and the ridge line.
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Asheville
Walkertown Ridge
North Fork
Little Piney Branch
Montreat
Black Mountain
Brushy Knob
Walkertown
Graybeard Mountain
As Ridge
Ybeard Mountain
Frame-Up Claims At German Espionage Trial
George C. Dix defense attorney for Fraulein Hofmann charged a frame-up and government corruption in the federal court espionage case. Dix asserted Hofmann was framed by ex agent Leon G. Turron, while cross examination of Vetterli was allowed despite objections from prosecutors. The judge ruled on the admissibility of Turron’s resignation details after indictments were returned.
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New York
Navy
George C. Dix
Fraulein Johanna Hofmann
Dix
John Knox
Vetterli
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Otto Hermann Voss
Fraulein Hofmann
Leon G. Turron
FBI
Knox
Atttorney
Turron
North Carolina Probation Commission marks first year with 1140 placed
Raleigh reports the North Carolina Probation Commission, created in 1937, completed its first eleven months with 1140 persons placed on probation and only five revocations. The system saved state costs by keeping offenders under supervision, with 126,982 dollars earned by probationers for living expenses and 51,255 dollars paid in fines and restitution.
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Enterprise Bureau
Raleigh
North Carolina
Probation Commission
General Assembly
J. Harry Sample
Sample
Superior Court
W. H.S. Burgwyn
Compromise Candidate In North Carolina 6th District Dilemma
A four member committee in Greensboro continues deadlocked over a Democratic congressional candidate to replace the late Judge Lewis E Teague after eleven hours of discussion. Nine names have been considered including Bryce Holt Thomas Gold and R M Gantt as possible compromise picks with Barker Waynick Holt Gold and Gantt viewed as strong options. The group plans to reconvene after a midday break with no clear decision in sight and telegrams pouring in supporting various candidates.
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Greensboro
Lewis E. Teague
Oscar Barker
Durham
C. M. Waynick
High Point
Bryce R. Holt
Edney Ridge
George T. Penny
Thomas J. Gold
Sedgefield
R. M. Gantt
Barney P. Jones
Earl Horner
Burlington
Holt
Gold
Mr. Gantt
Oscar Bundy
Jamestown
C. J. Coffin
Chapel Hill
Cooper Hall
S. G. High
O. M. Bundy
Waynick
W. E. Crissman
High Point Township
Democratic
Lee Fentress
Wade F. Renfrow
Harper Barnes
Graham
Alamance
Barker
L. P. McLendon
Marion B. Fowler
B. Hanford
EE. J. House
Ben T. Ward
Frank A. Brooks
George A. Younce
Penny
Robert Woolsey Taken by Death
Malibu Beach Calif November 1 The film colony and a world of fans mourn the top comedian Robert Woolsey of the Wheeler and Woolsey team He died at his beach home after an 18 months illness ending his screen career Bert Wheeler rushed from Chicago to attend the funeral services set for Friday
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Malibu Beach
Calif
Robert Woolsey
Wheeler and Woolsey
Bert Wheeler
Chicago
Dies says Un-American probe may end over lack of funds
Chairman Dies of Texas told the House committee on un American activities may halt hearings if its $25,000 expense fund runs dry. He blamed the Roosevelt administration and departments for not supplying lawyers and staff as ordered, and said appeals to Perkins and Ickes yielded no results.
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Washington
Dies
D-Tex
House Committee On un-American Activities
Roosevelt
Congress
House
Justice and Labor Departments
WPA
Perkins
Ickes
October Tobacco Sales Set Mark on Winston-Salem Market
Winston-Salem leaf tobacco market set a record in October with about 23 million pounds handled, yielding farmers an average of 25.50 dollars per hundred. Sales yesterday topped 1.15 million pounds with similar averages and some grades reaching seventy dollars per hundred.
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Winston-Salem
James T. Booth
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