Political Upheaval Redirects 1940 Presidential Hopes
The Associated Press reports sharp GOP gains in Tuesday elections, with 11 new governors and eight new Senate seats, signaling a bid to win the presidency in 1940. Democrats claim losses reflect Roosevelt era backlash while preparing to maintain national leadership. Indiana and Iowa races show tight contest, as Republicans gain ground and set the stage for a party balance shift in Congress.
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Associated Press
Senate
Indiana
Frederick van Nuys
Raymond E. Willis
Guy M. Gillette
Iowa
Lester J. Dickinson
Last Minute Dunkelberger Surges At White Open
Last minute play by Dunkelberger ties for the lead over par and heads to the White Open with three thousand dollars at stake. Early contenders include Maury Casper of China Mass and others from Point, N C, with several bogeys and bridging gaps surfacing as the field moves to the back nine.
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Dunkelberger
W. Va
High Point
N. C
Cay
Dulies
Maury Casper
Chinen
Mass
Roosevelt for Washington at 12:55 BST today
Dr off por Washington Hyde Park Nevada Roosevelt for Washington at 12 55 BST today.
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Washington Hyde Park
M. Y
Nev
Roosevelt
Washington
President Roosevelt heads to Washington from Hyde Park after quiet stay
At Hyde Park New York on November 10 President Roosevelt kept a noncommittal stance about election gains and prepared to depart by special train for Washington for Armistice Day events. A long government wage report showed 30,000 to 50,000 industrial workers laid off since the October 24 minimum wage law took effect.
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Hyde Park
N. Y
Roosevelt
Washington
Rotary Mervin McIntyre
Agee
Elmer F. Andre
Perham
Wwapstate Industries
Gola Ta Eetien
Davis Cup Star Don Budge Turns Pro Tour Ready
Walter Pate, captain of the US Davis Cup team, announces Don Budge will turn professional for promoter Jack Harris. Budge secures a flat £75,000 plus $25,000 paid now with $25,000 due March 1 and a final portion at tour end, plus potential gate percentages. Tour starts January 2 at Madison Square Garden against Ellsworth Vines, about 50 matches nationwide, with Bruce Barnes and Dick Sween accompanying.
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New York
Walter L. Pate
United States
Don Budge
Jack Harris
Harris
Oakland
Calif
Budge
Madison Square Garden
Ellsworth Vines
Bruce Barnes
Dick Sween
Ataturk Dies in Istanbul at 58 Ends Modern Turkey Era
Turkish President Kamal Ataturk died at 9:05 a.m. in Istanbul after a long illness. He forged a Westernized Turkish state from the Ottoman ruins and his death prompts Abdul Halik Renda to assume interim presidency. Ismet Inonu expected as next chief executive as Istanbul mourns with flags flying and mosques crowded. The body to lie in state at Dolma Bagtce Palace before burial in Ankara.
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Istanbul
Kamal Ataturk
Modern
Ataturk
Palestine
Grey Wolf
Ismet Inonu
Dolma Bagtce Palace
Djelal Bayar
Ankera
Bayar
Despairing Jews Die By Own Action And Vienna Mob Turmoil
Vienna reports describe widespread anti Jewish violence as mobs destroy synagogues and loot Jewish properties. Police arrest numerous men outside the British consulate while women remain detained. Damage in Vienna surpasses 10 million marks with several synagogues destroyed or set afire.
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England
Vienna
Paris
Ernst Vom Rath
Seegasse
Frans Josef
Reuep
Gruene Gesse
Mueldeer Gasse
Sexton
Zirkus Gasse
Once Insane Killer Is Freed by Court Order
James McClure a 48 year old former city official acquitted by reason of insanity of a second degree murder last year and confined at the state hospital was released after a second sanity hearing. He had been tried for the pistol slaying of Arch Doughty a 56 year old local fisherman. The Superior Court ordered his release with witnesses Dr J W Ashby and Dr C C Liles present.
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Washington, N. C
James McClure
State Hospital For
McClure
Arch Doughty
Superior Court
G. W. Cowper
J. W. Ashby
State Hospital For the Insane
Raleigh
C. C. Liles
British Failure In Holy Land Disappoints Jews and Arabs
In Jerusalem and amid Arab and Jewish leadership circles bitter disappointment arose over Britain's failure to offer an immediate solution to 31 months of intercommunal strife. Leaders called the London conference plan unworkable and lamented the absence of a peace path as Bethlehem bells fell silent.
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Holy Land
Jerusalem
Great Britain
London
Palestine
Bethlehem
Batista Is Given Great Reception
Washington honors Colonel Ignacio Batista the Cuban army field marshal with a grand White House welcome. Roosevelt will host him at tea tomorrow as part of a three visit sequence. Batista rose from sergeant in 1918 to a celebrated leader, echoed by former rank as “Sergeants” of 1923.
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Washington
Igencio Batista
White House
President Roosevelt
Datista
Andrews Reelected Editor Of M. P. Church Herald
Greensboro November 10 Dr R M Andrews of High Point was re elected editor of the Methodist Protestant Herald at the 111th session of the church's annual conference He has served two years as editor Members of the subscription committee include Dr Bates Brown Summit Dr Bethea F R Stout Greensboro Dr Shipley Baltimore The day covered devotional services pastoral reports and committee work Mrs R M Andrews will preside at the evening meeting where missionaries to Japan S A Stewart will speak Dr G L Humphreys president of High Point College preached last night on What I See In Jesus President J E B Pritchard of High Point and other officers were re elected unanimously
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Greensboro
R. M. Andrews
High Point
Methodist Protestant Herald
Co. W. Bates
Brown Summit
N. G. Bethea
F. R. Stout
R. L. Shipley
Baltimore
Methodist Protestant Reader
Jesus
J. EB. Pritchard
Hich Point
Desperate Tennessee Convicts Recaptured After Prison Escape
Seven desperates escaped from the Tennessee state penitentiary after tying up guards and taking two as hostages. A gun battle with state county and city officers in Nashville wounded all seven inmates and two officials, Deputy Warden Wooda and Captain Sampson, who were later treated at the prison hospital.
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Nashville
Tenn
State Penitentiary
M. A. Warren
State Highway Patrol
C. C. Wooda
H W. Sampson
Strickland
Dick Smith
Tolley
Pearl Buck Wins Nobel Prize for Literature
The 1938 Nobel Prize in literature was awarded to Pearl Buck American author of The Good Earth. Born in 1892 in West Virginia she spent much of her life in China and had a first husband J Lossing Buck later divorced in 1935. The prize totals 145000 kroner about 37975 dollars.
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Pearl Buck
China
American Academy of Arts and Letters
Stockholm
Buck
Pearenstrucker
Richard J. Walsh
Great Neck
New York
Hellsboro
West Virginia
Pearl Buck Wins Nobel Prize in Literature 1938
Pearl Buck, informed from Stockholm by cable, has won the 1938 Nobel Prize in literature. She follows Sinclair Lewis and Eugene ONeill as American laureates and will publish The Patriot, set in China, next February. Buck previously won the Pulitzer Prize in 1931 and the Howells Medal in 1935.
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Pearl Buck
Stockholm
Richard J. Walsh
Miss Buck
China
French War Veterans Press For Strong Government March
Paris reports 45 thousand veterans, representing nearly 6 million mobilized in World War I, awaiting leaders Pichot and Guy to signal Armistice Day demonstrations. They threaten a march on the Elysee Palace to demand a firm government stance, prompting Interior and police to prepare for possible mobilizations.
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Paris
Paria
France
Henri Pichot
Jean Guy
Elysee Palace
Alberta
Albert Sarraut
Edouard Daladier
Pitchot
Goy
Goebbels Pleads Restraint After Nationwide Anti Jewish Riots
Propaganda Minister Goebbels appeals to the German people to stop anti Jewish demonstrations as synagogues are burned and damaged across cities including Berlin Vienna and Munich. He cites the Paris murder of a German diplomat and warns that laws may be used to reply to Jewry.
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Berlin
Paul Joseph Goebbels
Paris
Goebbels
Ernst von Rath
Germany
Vienna
Munich
Associated Press
Aufhausers
Election slows tobacco sales in Winston-Salem market
The Winston-Salem tobacco market sold about 50 000 pounds with an average of 24.60 per hundred as election activity delayed deliveries. Sales supervisor J T Booth noted leafy and wrapper grades fetched higher prices, while overall volumes declined and warehouses expect to clear by day’s end.
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J. T. Booth
L. Jones
Nae Ue
John Ee Med
Ph Mosley
Hege and
Cole
C. W. Weatherly
G. J. Watts
Sam and Lowe
L. L. Bowman
MGM
J. B. Mitchell
Calloway and
Myer
Wes
Men
Weed
Telley
D. S&s Priddy
Knight
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