Chinese Armies Counter-Attack In Defense Of Nanking
Heavily reinforced Chinese troops counter attacked the Japanese along the Hindenburg line near Nanking. Fresh interior troops marched east to bolster forces southeast of the capital as civilians fled westward and government offices began evacuation. Chiang Kai-shek proclaimed defiance and vowed to fight to the last ditch.
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Shanghai
Nanking
Japan
Chiang Kai-Shek
Szechwan Province
Yangtze
China
Eighth Army
North Carolina Methodist Conference Opens in Raleigh
The 101st North Carolina Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South opens with an Aldersgate service in Raleigh. About 400 ministers and laymen attend from the Piedmont and Coastal Plain. Key addresses by Bishop Paul B. Kern Governor Hoey and Bishop John M Moore. The day includes committee meetings and a 7 30 p m business session with unification on the agenda.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Durham
Hoey
John M. Moore
Dallas
Texas
Board of Christian Education
Greensboro College Glee Club
Kern
Conference Board of Missions
Seven Convicts Escape Grant County Jail in West Virginia
Seven convicts escaped Grant county jail by removing bricks under a cell window and sawing iron from a bed to use as a bar. Sheriff W A Beach said the group fled about 36 hours earlier. Notable fugitives include George Shank of Pendleton County and George Beeman of Alleghany County Maryland.
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Petersburg
W. Va
Grant County
W. A. Beach
George ¥. Shank
Pendleton County
George Beeman
Alleghanyounty
Baptist Convention Plea For Expanded Orphan Care
At the 107th annual session in Wilmington, I G Greer urged extending Baptist care for orphans. 135 children from Kennedy Memorial Home joined a musical highlight led by the orphanage choir. The convention also discussed acquiring the Biblical Recorder.
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Wilmington
N. C
State Baptist Convention
Biblical Recorder
First Baptist Church
I. G. Greer
Thomasville
Kennedy Memorial Home
State
Kinston
State Board Awards Advertising Funds and Honors J P Rawley
The North Carolina Board of Conservation and Development approved 16000 for state advertising. It adopted resolutions paying tribute to the late J P Rawley former publisher of The Enterprise who died during a second term on the board. Other allocations included 7000 for industry ads 1500 for home seeker campaign and 5560 to attract winter tourists.
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Raleigh
Board of Conservation and Development
J. P. Rawley
Enterprise
Mt. Mitchell Game Refuge
Lunar Eclipse Seen Across U S Tomorrow Morning
Delaware report states the 1937 lunar eclipse will be visible nationwide before dawn. Dr. Ernest Cherrington Jr of Perkins Observatory says the moon enters the earth shadow at 2 37 a m EST and darkening grows until 3 19 a m with the shadow leaving at 4 a m.
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Delaware, CO
United States
Ernest Cherrington, Jr
Perkins Observatory
Ohio Wesleyan
Ohio State Universities
Cadillac Plant Hit By Sit Down Strike
Seventy five workers at the Cadillac Motor Car Co foundry began a sit down strike in Detroit on November 17 over a wage dispute. Plant officials warned a parts shortage could force closure and lay off about 4,000 workers. The United Automobile Workers Union said it did not authorize the strike.
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Detroit
Cadillac Motor Car Co
United Automobile Workers Union
Barnes to Run Against Kerr in 1938 Election
Rep Troy T Barnes of Wilson County announces his candidacy for the second district representative seat challenging Rep John H Kerr of Warrenton in the 1938 elections.
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Wilson
N. C
Troy T. Barnes
Wilson County
John H. Kerr
Warrenton
Elmer Roberts AP War Writer Dies After Illness
Elmer Roberts veteran AP war correspondent and long chief of the Berlin and Paris bureaus died at his Jacksonville Florida home after years of illness. He was 74 and had forty years in newspaper work and eighty two in AP service. Most of his career was abroad and he covered the World War. He retired eight years ago. His wife died during the final journey to the United States. There are no surviving blood relatives.
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Jacksonville
Fila
Elmer Roberts
Associated Press
Berlin
Paris
Roberts
United States
Duke Moves Against PWA Power Funds
The Duke Power company argues before the Supreme Court that federal funding for municipal electric plants is unconstitutional as an effort to control local electric rates. The case includes a $2,852,000 loan and grant to Greenwood County South Carolina for an electric plant at Buzzard Roost and parallels Alabama Power Company litigation.
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Washington
Duke Power Company
Supreme Court
Public Works Administration
Greenwood County
South Carolina
Buzzard Roost
Alabama Power Company
Alabama
Newton D. Baker
United States
Franco Builds Air Bases to Support Aragon Offensive
Franco reportedly accelerates airport construction behind the Aragon front with Tudela as the latest insurgent base. Additional sites span from the French frontier to Cuenca, as Madrid pressures a southern drive toward Almeria and coastal targets. Insurgent aims include a joint thrust toward Valencia and Barcelona with Moroccan reinforcements. Government forces countered near Carabanchel as fighting continues.
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Hendaye
Franco
Francisco Franco
Aragon
Tudela
Cuenca
Almeria
Mediterranean
Tradc
Africa
Valencia
Barcelona
Madrid
Carabanchel
Washington Would Have Backed Aid to Farmers, FDR Says
President Roosevelt argued that George Washington would have favored modern government action to aid farmers. He spoke by reading remarks at Washington's home to land grant college presidents marking the agriculture department's 75th anniversary.
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Mount Vernon
Roosevelt
George Washington
Agriculture Department
White House
Wallace
Wash
Police capture two NC convicts in Columbia
Columbia police said two escaped North Carolina prisoners Tick Proctor and Sam Thompson were arrested in a Columbia hotel Monday night. Authorities said warrants exist for four men including the captured pair over a series of robberies in South Carolina and decide on their return to North Carolina later.
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Columbia
D. C
W. H. Rawlinson
North Carolina
Leo Jenkins
South Carolina
Rawlinson
Worth
Tick) Proctor
Sam Thompson
William
Bill) Payne
Jack Borden
Roll Call Fund Tops $540 On Opening Day
The High Point Red Cross reports $546.01 raised on the first day of the Roll Call drive led by Mrs. E. T. Harrison. Clubs and business districts contributed most, with residential and industrial canvassing expected to boost totals as the campaign continues.
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E. D. Steele
High Point
A. V. Sapp
W. F. Ross Company
Greensboro
Mr. Steele
Tilda
Oasis Cafe
Rosen
George Stefanos
The
American Red Cross
E. T. Harrison
High Point Red Cross
Red Cross
Three Escapees Captured in Syracuse Kidnap Plot
Syracuse detectives said John Oley and Harold Crowley, two of three convicts who escaped Onondaga penitentiary yesterday, have been recaptured. Police launched a house-to-house search with Chief George S. Peacock ordering all available men on duty to canvass the city for the trio linked to the 1933 John J. O Connell Jr. kidnapping.
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Syracuse
N. Y
Sergt
William Metzger
Syracuse Police Department
John Oley
Harold Crowley
O'Connell
Onondaga Penitentiary
John J. O'Connell, Jr
Albany
George 8. Peacock
Eight Dead in Sinking of Greek Freighter Tzenny Chandris
Norfolk Va November 17 eight crew members of the Greek freighter Tzenny Chandris said to have died in the sinking off Cape Hatteras after a deported Greek seaman was found among the crew. The death toll rises from seven to eight and the total crew is now 29.
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Norfolk
Cape Hatteras
Morehead City
N. C
Cold wave hits south with snow and frost likely
A strong north wind brought winter to the south with snow sleet and sub freezing temperatures reported in several states. The weather bureau forecast the cold continuing into Thursday with freezing readings from Louisiana to Georgia and snow in Tennessee and Arkansas.
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Weather Bureau
Louisiana
Alabama
Mississippi
Gulf Coast
Tennessee
Mercury
Nashville
Knoxville
Memphis
Georgia
Florida
Arkansas
Deep South
Bentonville
Little Rock
Texas Panhandle
Oklahoma
Grange seeks policies to keep US from war
At the National Grange convention in Harrisburg on November 17, the foreign relations committee urged seven points to prevent US involvement in war. Proposals include opposing entangling alliances, supporting armament for defense, stronger neutrality laws, and drafting capital, industry, and manpower to take profits out of war. Woodlot farming and cellulose demand are noted as stabilizers for cotton farmers facing plunging prices.
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Grange
U. S
Wood
Harrisburg
National Grange Convention
United States
Labor Wage Hour Bill Faces Push in House
Washington Nov 17 The House Labor Committee renewed effort to force consideration of the administration wage hour bill as Congress spends time on talk rather than law. Chairman Norton said only two of 21 members favored recalling the bill for revision and a petition seeks 218 signatures to bring the measure to the floor. The senate filibuster blocks anti lynching legislation while Justice Hugo Black’s 14 page speech is read.
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Washington
House Labor Committee
Congress
Norton
D-Nj
Labor Committee
House
Capitol
Senate
Connally
D-Tex
Black
Hugo L. Black
Alabama
Representaives Taber
Congress of the
United States
Ramspeck
Dga
House Agriculture Committees
Secre
Four Arrested in Murder Case at Sylvania Georgia
Four men including former congressional candidate Albert L. Cobb were arrested in a September murder case of Charile L. Daughtry, a Screven County landowner. Daughtry’s body was found shot four times in a swamp near Rocky Ford. estate motives cited.
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Sylvania
W. G. Neville
Congress
Charile L. Daughtry
Screven
Neville
Daughtry
Albert L. Cobb
Savannah
Joe Newton
Bloomingdale
Ralph
Osborn Newton
Rocky Ford
Cobb
Three-Year World Cruise Starts Aboard Ketch Name
Charles Cox 26 sails from Boston on the 87 foot Name with two companions John Gagnon 19 and Everett Macdonald 22 for a 60,000 mile three year voyage around the world. The group plans to reach New York, Florida, the Panama Canal, New Zealand, Australia, Africa and England to visit Cox’s family in Sussex.
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Boston
Charles Cox
Cox
John Gagnon
Everett Macdonald
Sheburne
New York
Atlantic
Florida
Panama Canal
New Zealand
Australia
Africa
England
Sussex
Cross Trial Opens in Raeford Juror Fails to Seat
Hoke county superior court opened with difficulty as jurors from the first batch of five men drawn today could not be seated for the trial of Rise Cross of Asheboro and two codefendants. The case concerns the shotgun arrest of John Mott, Fort Elevation Ranger, with proceedings continuing.
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Raeford
Hoke County
Rise Cross
Asheboro
John 8. Mott
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