Republicans Work On Farm And Labor Planks For 1940 Platform
Republican groups in conference draft farm and labor planks for the 1940 platform. McNutt says Roosevelt would be nominated if he seeks a third term. McNary leads western-focused push, arguing to modify or scrap the reciprocal trade program. A second group forms in the House to study farm policy with a subcommittee headed by Horton and including Allen and Dworshak.
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Paul V. McNutt
Nutt
Hyde Park
McNutt
Federal Security
N. Y
McNary
Oregon
Senate
Hope Thcan
Horton
Wyo
Allen
Dworshak
Idaho
Woman shoots Dallas attorney on Main Street
A woman armed with two pistols shot Brooks Coffman, 39, an attorney, on Main Street in Dallas. He died half an hour later. Corrine Maddox, 26, Coffman’s alleged ice pick stabbing accuser, surrendered to police. Coffman faced assault to murder charges. Maddox survived a prior wound.
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Tex
Brooks Coffman
Corrine Maddox
Coffman
Jimmy Martin
Miss Maddox
Irving
George Lawton
Telegraph Company
Lawton
British Fliers Battle Invaders Over Essex and London
An unidentified German plane flew over Essex and near London as anti-aircraft fire pursued it. British fighters chased the craft eastward while crowds watched from a coastal town. A German scouting plane was driven off over North Scotland and Paris reported German scouts over France.
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London
Essex
Kent
Scotland
Paris
France
Sea Tragedies Claim 177 Lives In Weekend North Sea Toll
Nine ships were sunk in the North Sea over the weekend with 177 dead or missing. The sinking of the Wigmore Torchbearer and Pensilva was disclosed, and four Torchbearer survivors were landed at an English port. Total tonnage lost reached 32,006.
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North Sea
Pensilva
Pensilvn
Philadelphia
Glasgow
Neu
Dies Probes In Michigan During Secret Conference
Representative Martin Dies of Texas, head of the Un American Activities Committee, said Nazi and Communist agents had stolen important military information from Detroit plants. He noted a lecturer described as a Nazi spy was hosted by a patriotic group and gained access to plants to photograph and learn industrial processes. He planned to interview about ten informants secretly, four or five of whom were union members.
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Martin Dies
Dem
Texas
Congressional Committee
Parleery Dies
Germany
Dies
Communist Party
Two Die in Fire at Saint Nicholas Hotel Terre Haute
Terre Haute Indiana November 29 Two men perished when fire swept the three story Saint Nicholas Hotel near downtown trapping them on upper floors Warren Blair 76 a retired railroad conductor and J W Jewell about 60 both of Terre Haute were killed J W McCarty of Detroit suffered minor burns about 20 other guests fled in nightclothes wiremen rescued several
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Terre Haute
Ind
Saint Nicholas
Warren Blair
J. W. Jewell
J. W. McCarty
Detroit
Four WPA workers killed in New Britain car train crash
In New Britain Connecticut a train collided with an automobile killing four WPA employees. The victims were Richard McNamara Ronald Loo mis William Frazier and Jeremiah Lynch.
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New Britain
Forty six days without a traffic fatality record ends
Kansas City reports a new safety record for large cities as William E. Sheridan, 75, dies after being struck by a car last Thursday, ending a 46 day period without a traffic fatality. The incident occurred in Kansas City on a recent Thursday.
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Kansas City
William E. Sheridan
Sheridan
Reds Call For War Opposition
The Red Star warns against continuing the current capitalistic war led by the Communist International and claims youth in the United States Britain France and India oppose it. A Pravda dispatch notes growing anti war sentiment in the United States and cites the song The Yanks Are Not Coming.
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Red Star
Communist International
United States
Great Britain
France
India
U. S
New York
German scouting flights over France amid Rhine floods
German aerial scouts operated over France as the Rhine and other rivers flooded borders forcing local suspensions. British official Hore Belisha praised the front situation, while French forces reportedly repelled patrols near Blies with casualties and a capture.
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Paris
France
Rhine
Noth
Blies
Leslie Hore-Belisha
Britain
Man Found Dead In Pickle Vat At Mt Oliver Plant
James Bradshaw, 49, was found dead by drowning in a 15,000 gallon Mt Oliver Pickle Company's washing vat in Goldsboro. Coroner T. R. Robinson ruled death by his own action after deputies investigated. a note near his belongings claimed he could not overcome his troubles.
Correspondent Leaves Germany Over Nazi Restrictions
Beach Conger, correspondent of the New York Herald Tribune, left Germany with his wife. he said his usefulness was ended by Nazi restrictions after a dispatch on discontent among Hamburg submarine crews. Conger was denied cable, telephone and mail privileges and barred from conferences.
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Berlin
Beach Conger
New York Herald Tribune
Germany
Hamburg
Conger
Green appeals to public on AFL CIO split
President William Green of the AFL calls on the neutral public to judge the labor feud, says neutrality shelters the side to blame, and asserts the AFL did its utmost to prevent the split and seek peace. He releases a history of negotiations amid White House efforts and Roosevelt appeals.
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Washington
AFL
CIO
William Green
Creen
American Federation of Labor
John L. Lewis
White House
Green
Roosevelt
Lewis
Executive Council
Japanese Landings in Western Kwangtung Reach 10,000
Reports from Chungking say a Japanese force estimated at 10,000 landed on the South China coast in Western Kwangtung and are being reinforced by cavalry. The operation aims to sever Chinese supply lines through French Indochina and British Burma with progress noted toward Yambsien and Nan ning.
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Chungking
South China
Kwangtung Province
Indo- China
British
Burma
Kwangsi Province
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Kwangsi
Yambhsien
Third Term Talk Taken As Jake
Washington today treated the question of a Roosevelt third term with light banter at the White House. A secretary joked that reporters asked for advance information on the weather and sometimes were too subtle in seeking clues about the president's plans.
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Washington
Roosevelt
White House
Stephen Barly
German Troops Held Up By Violent Wind Storm
German forces on the Western Front faced delays as violent storms uprooted trees and hindered reconnaissance flights. DNB reported limited air activity with no major engagements, while naval units remained active in the Baltic and North Sea.
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High Command
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England
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North Sea
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Switsierland
Rhine
Hohenzollerns Back Germany. Prince August Wilhelm Speaks
Prince August Wilhelm, son of the former Kaiser and a high ranking Nazi stormtroop leader, told foreign correspondents in Berlin on November 20 that the Hohenzollerns remain solidly behind Germany in the present war effort.
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Berlin
Prince August Wilhelm
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Hohenzollerns
Germany
License applications mailed for 1940 automobile plates
The Motor Vehicle Bureau in Raleigh sent about 75 000 license card applications today and will mail 525 000 more this week. The 1940 tags go on sale December 1.
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The
Motor Vehicle Bureau
SBI Raleigh reports record 40 new October cases
Director Frederick C. Handy told Attorney General Harry McMullan that the State Bureau of Investigation was called into 40 new cases in October the highest monthly total to date.
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Sbiraleigh
Frederick C. Handy
Harry McMullan
State Bureau of Investigation
Narrow escape for Kaiser at Doorn Castle during storm
In Doorn Netherlands Kaiser Wilhelm III nearly was struck by a windstorm when three large trees toppled in the castle garden. he and a court official were within fifty yards of the fall and he returned to the castle in a nervous state. The storm also damaged ships with seven seamen dead and the Kaiser sent condolence to Queen Wilhelmina over the Simon Bolivar sinking off the British coast.
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Netherlands
Kaiser Wilhelm III
Germany
Doorn Castle
Kaiser
Queen Wilhelmina
Simon Bolivar
Nine Killed On Highways
North Carolina traffic accidents claimed at least nine lives over the weekend. Victims include L. A. Allen a 64 year old Zebulon farmer near Hillsboro. Mrs Law Cherry 47 of Greenville who died when her car overturned after skidding. her son Simon seriously injured. J Washington Hodges 71 of Dunn was struck by a car. Oliver W Farrington a Seagrove filling station operator died at a highway intersection. Lester Mace a Morganton textile worker died when his car skidded and overturned. Will Small of Valdese fatally injured in a skid. Thomas Sidney Waldrup 11 of Midway Cabarrus County died after a mill truck strafed his home vicinity. W D Wilson 35 of Asheboro killed in an automobile plunge. William Malcolm Hicks 27 died in a Leaksville hospital after a motorcycle crash.
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North Carolina
Hillsboro
L. A. Allen
Zebulon
Greenville
Law Cherry
Simon
Dunn
J. Washington Hodges
Seagrove
Asheboro
W. D. Wilson
William Malcolm Hicks
Leaksville
Czech Workers Anxious But Promise Made to Study Grievances
Prague workers ignore protest calls and go to work as Nazi rule continues. The protectorate government appeals for restraint and promises to study rising prices and other grievances. Martial law districts warn that strikes in sympathy will be crushed. Nine students and others executed over two days. arrests reported across Prague and four other centers.
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London
Eduard Beneg
Wladyslaw Sikorski
Schutzstaffel
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