Rain Beats Down on Drought Stricken Midwest
Forecaster Donnel says a million dollar rain spreads over a wide drought area from San Antonio to Lake Superior. Heavy falls at Wichita Concordia and Oklahoma City ease heat wave. Rain or snow forecast for Illinois Indiana Michigan Missouri Wisconsin Iowa with cooler air after a record November heat in Chicago and other cities.
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Chicago
C. A. Donnel
San Antonio
Tex
Dallas
Oklahoma
Kansas
Missouri
Nebraska
Iowa
Wisconsin
Lake Superior
Wichita
Kan
Concordia
Oklahoma City
Donnel
Illinois
Indiana
Michigan
Minnesota
Washington
Weather Bureau
Midwest
Rockies
Appalachians
A. B. Chandler
Kentucky
The
Mercury
Little Rock
Ark
Kansas City
Professor Grills Durham Nomination in UNC Fight
Dr. E. J. Woodhouse of the University of North Carolina warned that if Carl Thomas Durham does not resign his nomination he will organize a write in campaign for Oscar G. Barker of Durham in the election. Woodhouse called the committee's action a violation of democratic principles and said he would convene a district meeting to oppose Durham and push Barker's bid.
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Chapel Hill
N. C
E. J. Woodhouse
University of North Carolina
Carl Thomas Durham
Oscar G. Barker
Durham
Democratic Committee
Lewis Teague
High Point
Woodhouse
Barker
Teague
Executive Committee
Carl T. Durham
Sixth District
Democratic Executive Committee
Congress
Mr. Durham
Greensboro
Lewis E. Teague
Troop Ordered to P For MidState Plant Reopens
In Middletown Ohio on November 3 guardsmen restored operations at the P Lorillard tobacco plant after a CIO strike, with about 500 workers returning at 8 a.m. The plant normally employs 1,100 and had been closed since October 3. CIO organizer Sponseller reported a 557 to 1 vote to return to work.
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Middletown, CO
Martin L. Davey
P. Lorillard Co
CIO
Davey
Pioneer Tobacco Workers Union
Owens
Middletown
C.I.0
Ohio
Walter J. Braun
Hudson County Furor Over Voter Registration Law
Fragmentary note reports Hudson county voting tensions and registration law debates. Mentions pranks, elections, and eligibility concerns tied to the senatorial race and the November Tuesday election.
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Jersey
N. J
Hague — Eo
Cannes
Ee Teat
Hudson
Hudson County
Players depart squad with Villanova for Miami trip
Mobile press reports that Neil Whatley and Max acc ends, previously with the Aurora football squad, arrived in Mobile and stated they do not intend to return to the team. They计划 to leave for Miami, Florida.
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Mobile
Ala
Neil Whatley
Max Acc Ends
Aura
Philadelphia
Villanova
Miami
Fla
Newspaper Man Plunges to Death at New York Hotel
Victor Watson 65, long identified with the New York American, is believed to have jumped from an eleventh floor room of the Hotel Abbey in midtown Manhattan. The hotel manager said the man registered ten minutes earlier as L. Jones of 643 North State Street Chicago, with papers confirming his identity.
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W York
Victor Watson
Edi
New York
Fawba College Student in Serious Condition After ER Train Accident
In Newark New Jersey on November 3 193? a Fawba College student Earl Edelman 29 amateur operator and Salisbury North Carolina resident was found near the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks in Harrison near Harri son. Captain Peter Higgins said investigators work to determine if Edelman fell or jumped a train while en route home to Astoria New York.
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EWARK
N. J
Peter Higgins
Rison
Edelman
Astoria
L. 1
Trans Atlantic Air Mail Apr Deliveries Planned
William H. Coverdale president of American Export Lines announces next April start of transatlantic mail and freight service under an American flag. Routes include New York Baltimore and Boston to Paris via Azores and Bordeaux then Berlin Rome Athens and Alexandria. Nonstop New York to Paris passenger service hoped within two years with 20 passengers and 18 to 20 hour flights.
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New York
William H. Coverdale
American Export Lines, Inc
Baltimore
Boston
Paris
Azores
Bordeaux
Berlin
Rome
Athens
Alexandria
Coverdale
American Export Airlines, Inc
House Bishops to Pick Haiti and Cuba Chiefs
The House of Bishops met in executive session in Memphis to elect a Suffragan Bishop of Haiti and a Bishop of Cuba to replace Rt. Rev. Hiram R. Hulse who died recently. The final session concluded the deliberations after a gathering that began last Tuesday.
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Memphis
Tenn
House of Bishops
Protestant Episcopal Church
Haiti
Cuba
Hiram R. Hulse
Dies Says Committee Having Troubles Since FDR's Rebuke
Chairman Dies reports the House committee facing trouble obtaining witnesses after President Roosevelt criticized the probe. He notes many potential witnesses hold government jobs and fear retaliation. The panel plans ten days of hearings starting after Armistice Day in various southern and western cities.
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Dies
Fdr
Washington
D-Tex
House Committee Investigating
Roosevelt
J. Roosevelt
Texan
Ohio
South
Atlanta
Asheville
N. C
Birmingham
New Orleans
San Antonio
Dallas
Texas
Mexico
Link Between Levine Kidnap Case And Syndicate Probed
New York federal investigators explore a possible tie between the Peter Levine child kidnapping slaying in Westchester and a newly captured group accused of three kidnappings two robberies and a murder. Police find bone fragments in a Ukrainian Hall basement amid a widening probe into a crime syndicate.
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New York
Dwight Brantley
FBI
Peter Levine
New Rochelle
N. Y
Ukrainian Hall
Lower East Side
Arthur Fried
White Plains
Brantley
Fried
Levine
Westchester County
William Jackins
WPA
John Virga
Demetrius Gula
Samuel Mooney
Benjamin Farber
Brighton Beach
Norman Miller
Brooklyn
Farber
Miller
Joseph Sacoda
J. Edgar Hoover
Sing Sing
Man Charged With Attempted Murder In Greenwich Village Fire
Ralph Mosher 31, sailor and amateur writer, held on 25000 bail for allegedly trying to burn to death Orrick Johns 61, one legged poet and head of WPA writers project, by dousing him with whisky and setting flames after an unpaid job dispute. Mrs Johns assisted after flames rushed over Johns. Police say Mosher had worked in the South as a waterfront organizer.
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New York
Ralph Mosher
Orrick Johns
Johns
Mosher
Greenwich Village
WPA
Federal Writers Project
Veteran Hospital Site Is Selected Near Fayetteville
The $1,500,000 veteran hospital project gains approval with President Roosevelt signing the ordering confirming the Fay etteville Raleigh highway site two miles from Fayetteville. Myrtle Hill spans 146 acres donated by local Fayetteville interests and includes Civil War breast works and a Cape Fear Canal section.
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Fayetteville
Raleigh
Roosevelt
Myrtle Hill
Raleigh Highway
Cape Fear River
Robert Strange
Kirkland Huske
Great Neck
Long Island
Cape Fear Canal
Winston Market Tobacco Prices Reported in Wake of Small Volume Sale
The Winston-Salem market sold about 812000 pounds of tobacco at an estimated average of 24.56 dollars yesterday, slightly higher than Tuesday. Supervisor J. T. Booth noted demand firm for good to select types, with numerous house and buyer lots listed at varied prices.
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Winston-Salem
J. T. Booth
Skinner & Meadows
C. B. Shackleford
Smith & Green
C. R. Hedgecock
J. R. Shelton
W. E. McKinney
M. G. Lane
Rose Stone & N
W. M. Lackey
Dale Idol
Knight & W
L. W. Dodson
R. L. Evans
8. Be, Payne
H. J. Gentry
B. L. Alley
R. Sechrest & Lowry
Japan May Reject Nine-Power Treaty Open Door Demands
Tokyo report says Japan will reject U S claims for open door and equal China rights if pressed under the Nine-Power Treaty. Premier Konoye's address on Meiji birthday outlines a new order with Japan, Manchukuo, and China as the tripartite core, while separate talks with the United States may occur on China rights amid Britain and France concerns.
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Tokyo
Yomiuri
United States
China
Japan
Washington
East Asia
New Order
Prince Konoye
Meiji
Manchoukuouo
Britain
France
Quota Penalties About $500000 In Flue Cured Tobacco
Officials of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration announced preliminary estimates of penalties for flue cured tobacco sales exceeding quotas in Georgia and Florida this year totaling less than 500000 dollars. Georgia and Florida growers faced quotas for the first time after a beltwide referendum approved quota application in March and while both states lacked the required two thirds, other majorities approved the system. A three judge court at Macon, Ga., ruled the penalty law valid amid dissatisfaction and a legal challenge.
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Athens
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Georgia
Florida
Macon
Campaign Note Draws Ire of Senate Group
The Senate Campaign Expenditures committee derides a Democratic letter to WPA workers as indefensible. The missive warned workers that no excuse would be accepted for missing a rally in Norristown on October 29. It cited Senator Guffey and David L. Lawrence as directing the gathering.
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Washington
Senate Campaign Expenditures Committee
WPA
Norristown
Joseph F. McElwee
Senator Guffey
Dpa
David L. Lawrence
Democratic Committee
McElwee
Pennsylvania State Compensation Board
Democratic Party
Guffey
Lawrence H
Arrest Rosie’s husband in Kentucky
Ann-Fleming Tackett, 34, a coal miner, was jailed in Prestonsburg after a warrant charged him with rape following his Oct. 24 marriage to ten year old Rosie Columbus. He faces civil and criminal action in an annulment suit filed by a court appointed guardian for the girl.
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Prestonsburg
Ann—Fleming Tackett
Mountaineer
Rosie Columbus
Tackett
Paintsville
Forrest D. Short
Rosie
Grace Columbus
State Welfare Division
Kentucky Children's Home
Louisville
Cornea From Executed Slayer May Help Three Patients
A cornea from John Deering the Utah slayer executed in Santaquintin may restore sight for a 4 year old Stockton boy a 25 year old man and a 65 year old woman Doctors held off operations to refrigerate the eye for 24 hours longer and said one cornea would serve all three cases Names of the patients were not disclosed
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San Francisco
John Deering
Utah
Stockton
China trains 300000 to halt Japanese invasion in Szechwan
In Szechwan province a new 300000 strong recruit army trains to join 400000 seasoned troops to thwart Japan. Chiang Kai-shek bases operations here amid feverish mobilization with requisitioned food, factory openings, and mines, while guerillas harass Japanese forces on wide fronts and Manchurian troops in South Suiyuan switch allegiance.
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Chengtu
China
Szechwan Province
Chiang Kai-Shek
Japan
Szechwan
Chungking
Yunnan Province
Hunan
Kwangtung
Canton-Hankow
Suiyuan
Britain Faces Air Defense Criticism as War Expands
Laborites in Parliament urge censure over Britain's air defenses amid rising insurgent and Japanese advances. Insurgents seize Pinell near Gandesa as Spain's front tightens. Japanese forces breach defenses beyond Hankow and claim Puchi on the Canton Hankow railway.
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Associated Press
Spain
China
England
House of Commons
Britain
Pinell
Gandesa
Catalonia
Hankow
Puchi
Canton- Hankow
Herbert
Morrison
London
Germany
Italy
Czechoslovakia
Europe
Hungary
Sudetenland
Poland
Frantisek Chvalkovsky
Prague
Yugoslavia
Romania
Chamberlain
Cantabria
Cromer
Ebro
Now Sane Man to Face New Trial
Governor Hoey announced he would sign an order to turn James McCluer of Beaufort County from the state hospital for the insane to the Beaufort sheriff for a hearing before a Superior Court judge related to a slaying he was acquitted of by reason of insanity. The action resolves conflicting statutes on transfer procedures for mentally committed defendants. McCluer would appear before the resident judge of the first district or a presiding district judge.
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Raleigh
Hoey
James McCluer
Beaufort County
State Hospital
McCluer
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U. S
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Fleming Tackett
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