CIO Seeks Roosevelt Third Term Endorsement At Union Meeting
The Congress of Industrial Organizations debated endorsing the New Deal and a third term for President Roosevelt at a Pittsburgh convention. Delegates supported social security and elder care while loudly booing a Dies investigation motion, but no action was taken on the resolution.
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Pittsburgh
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Roosevelt
George Bucher
Philadelphia
United Furniture Workers Union
C.S
Lee Pressman
Bucher
Resolutions Committee
White House
National Health Committee
Martin Dies
House Committee
Dies Committee
J. E. Crossland
Industrial Union Council of Texas
Dies
Huey Long
Crossland
Insurgent advance signals prep for new Franco blow
From Zaragoza Spain insurgent dispatches say reconquest of the western bank of the Ebro river opens the way for a major operation against the government. Leaders claim government forces are strained by recent heavy sea and air losses and predict a decisive second phase in the civil war.
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Zaragoza
Spain
Ebro
Franco
Supreme Court Stays Executions in Indiana Slaver Case
The Supreme Court today issued a stay of execution for James Dathover, the former slaver convicted of killing an Indiana policeman. The ruling delays the punishment as appeals proceed.
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Washington
Supreme Court
James Dathover
Indiana
Fiscal 4 month debt rises amid drug program boost
Washington reports debt reached 4 month total starting July 1 with 4,089 in the first period. The debt grew by 1,088,774 from July 1 and about 1,476,000 higher than a year ago due to the drug program authorized by the last Congress.
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Washington
North Carolina Seeks Arrest of Robbery Suspect in La.
Raleigh report states Harryton is under arrest in Baton Rouge Louisiana as authorities in North Carolina seek to trial him in Greensboro on charges of robbery with fire.
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Raleigh
N. C
Isiana
Harryton
Ba- Rouge
North Carolina
Greensboro
Highway Commission Allocates 200000 for Atrium Building
The highway and politics commission voted to set aside 200000 from the PWA II fund for buildings to construct an atrial building at Central here.
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Raleigh, N. C
Highway and Politics Commission
PWA ii
Here
Maud of Norway Hospital Update After Abdominal Surgery
London reports Maud of Norway underwent abdominal surgery yesterday and had a fair condition. Doctors say her general status is satisfactory but the next few days bring anxiety as her 69th birthday nears on November 26.
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Quepen
London
Mn Maud
Norway
Royal Baby Born to Egyptian King Fa and Queen Fa
A daughter was born to King Fa and Queen Fa in Cairo Egypt on November 1. The royal announcement confirms the birth as a new princess joining the royal family.
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Catro
Egypt
Nazis honor Rath as world faces challenge
In Düsseldorf on November 17 the Nazi regime held a martyr's funeral for Ernst vom Rath. Adolf Hitler and top officials addressed the ceremony by radio and echoed the Reichsführer's vow to meet the world challenge. Vom Rath's death spurred violent anti semitic unrest across Germany.
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NEA
Germany
Ernest Vom Rath
Paris
Dusseldorf
France
Duesseldorf
Ernst Vom Rath
Adolf Hitler
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Rheinland
Financier Morgan Cautious As Usual
J P Morgan returned to New York aboard the Queen Mary after a summer in England. He declined to discuss business or politics, saying the outlook remained unclear while noting English relief over Prime Minister Chamberlain's handling and the election rumors carried by English papers.
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New York
J. P. Morgan
England
Chamberlain
Morgan
Loyalists Drive to Reclaim Tremp Power Plants
Spanish Government forces push north from the Ebro to retake Tremp power plants supplying Barcelona. Troops along the Segre river and Sierra de Fatarella threaten insurgent positions while both sides report heavy losses and disputed casualty tallies in a widening Ebro valley campaign.
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Hendaye
France
Ebro
Tremp
Barcelona
Segre
Spain
Mediterranean
Francisco Franco
Valencia
Ebro Valley
South Holds Promise and Threat Says Daniels at Duke
Jonathan Daniels editor of the News and Observer described the South as both a promise and a threat for America due to its enduring problems. He spoke at Duke on The Changing Economic Base of the South, noting illiteracy and poverty fuel national concerns over future neglect and hunger.
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Durham
Jonathan Daniels
The
News and Observer
Raleigh
South Today
America
Daniels
Duke University
South
Howard W. Odouma
University, of North Carolina
Gerald Johnson
Baltimore Sun
Johnson
Henry A. Wallace
Bankers Close Annual Session Discuss Key Banking Bills
The American Bankers Association closes its annual session in Houston with plans to outline policies on banking legislation for the upcoming Congress. Topics include the Barkley corporate trustee duties bill and a move to bring Federal Reserve member banks under Social Security. Dr. Compton cites unemployment as a national concern beyond tech job losses.
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Houston
Tex
American Bankers Association
Barkley
Federal Reserve
National Association of Supervisors of State
Arkansas
Patman
Federal Reserve Banks
Smathers
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
Treasury Department
McAdoo
Karl T. Compton
Massachusetts Institute of Technology of Cambridge
Mss
James E. Freeman
Episcopal
Washington, D. C
Compton
U S Attache in Berlin Recalled to Washington
Douglas Miller commercial attaché at the U S embassy in Berlin was ordered to report to Washington by January 1. The move follows the departure of Ambassador Hugh R Wilson and signals reduced U S commerce interest in Germany for now. Wilson arrived in Paris after being summoned to report on the German anti Jewish campaign.
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Berlin
Douglas Miller
United States
Washington
Hugh R. Wilson
Miller
United States Department of Commerce
Germany
Great Britain
Canada
Wilson
Roosevelt
Paris
le Havre
Manhattan
Edwin C. Wilson
Roooevelt
Franklin Attorney Advocates New Type Of Crime Treatment
Franklin attorney Gilmer A. Jones urged a reform plan at the Asheville Optimist club proposing minimum sentences with no maximums, thorough records and ongoing physical and mental exams, segregation by crime type, and graded rehabilitation aimed at releasing only when inmates become productive citizens. A NC commission would study and report to the legislature.
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Franklin
Asheville
Gilmer A. Jones
Twentieth District
Jones
North Carolina
Simms Renamed Baptist Prexy
R N Simms Sr of Raleigh was re elected president of the North Carolina Baptist state convention. Dr Hoyt Blackwell of Mars Hill College was named first vice president and Dr A J Barton of Wilmington became second vice president. B A Bowers of Gastonia was elected third vice president. The pensions committee will continue talks with the Southern Baptist board on ministers over 65.
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Raleigh
R. N. Simms
B. A. Bowers
Gastonia
Convention
Committee On Pensions
Board of Relief and Annuity
The
Southern Baptist Convention
Daladier May Dissolve Parliament in French Crisis
Paris reports Premier Daladier plans to dissolve the Chamber of Deputies and rule without parliament if the three year plan is not ratified. Socialists and Communists mobilize against decrees while labor groups threaten a general strike to block the reforms.
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Paris
Daladier
Chamber of Deputies
General Confederation of Labor
Albert Lebrun
Paul Reynaud
Federation
Radical Socialist Party
Lebrun
Senate
Chamber
Leon Blum
Henri Pichot
Federation of War Veterans’ Associations
Radical-Socialist
Great Britain
United States
Kermersville Gets WPA Aid to Improve Water
The WPA allocates 22 705 31 for nine projects putting 902 people to work. Major uses include Pitt county road work 93 391 Ashe county 23 675 71 and Yancey county 42 204. Kerns ville receives 8 323 for reservoir improvement Carthage 14 060 60 water supply Richmond 3 028 Hertford 2 898 free school lunch matron service Pender 5 600 and Catawba county 29 545 for sanitation.
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Raleigh
WPA
Pitt County
Ashe County
Yancey County
Kernersville
Carthage
Richmond County
Hertford County
Pender County
Catawba E County
Wallace urges farmers to keep AAA plans for economic lifeline
Secretary Henry A. Wallace told cotton and tobacco growers in Macon Georgia they must maintain Agricultural Adjustment Administration programs to save their economic life. He likened AAA to ships in a sheltered haven amid rising winds and urged stay by the ship. Georgia and other states vote December 10 on continuing marketing quotas for 1939.
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Macon
Henry A. Wallace
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
AAA
United States
Wallace
United Georgia Farmers
The
Georgia Cooperative Council
Georgia
Britain weighs Kennedy plan to move Jews from Germany
London officials said Prime Minister Chamberlain supported urgency in settling refugees. The Kennedy plan aims to relocate about 600,000 German Jews to North and South America and distant empires, with Britain, France, the Netherlands and Latin America involved in forthcoming talks. The effort would cost roughly 600 dollars per family and focus on colonies and British territories as soon as possible.
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London
United States
Joseph P. Kennedy
Nazi Germany
Chamberlain
House of Commons
Tanganyika
German East Africa
Palestine
Kennedy
Germany
South America
Britain
France
Netherlands
Inter-Governmental Committee On Refugees
Evian-Lesbaines
Malcolm MacDonald
Colonies
Dominions
Anthony Eden
Labor Party
British Guiana
Brazilian Lands FDR Defense Plan
Dr Oswaldo Aranha Brazil's foreign minister praised President Roosevelts defense plan as a step toward world peace and civilization He said Brazil would cooperate with a British US plan to aid Jewish emigration within Brazilian law and with the refugee committee He stressed Brazil would distribute newcomers across the country rather than concentrate one group in a small district
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Rio DE Janeiro
Oswaldo Aranha
Brazil
Roosevelt
Aranha
United States
Intergovernmental
Evian-Les-Bains
France
Civic Leader Harry Boate Dies in Charlotte
Charlotte memorial marks the passing of Harry Boate a longtime church and civic leader who formerly worked for the federal Bureau of Printing and over 30 years before his death at his home today.
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Charlotte
Harry Boate
Federal Bureau of Printing
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