Germany Imposes 20 Percent Jewish Levy to Pay Fine
Berlin reports the government orders a 20 per cent tax on Jewish fortunes over 2000 to cover a 400 million dollar fine for the Vom Rath assassination. Foreign Jews excluded. payments due in four installments. Insurance payouts to Jews for damages may be credited or confiscated if exceeding the levy. Pro Nazi rhetoric signals intensified persecution.
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Berlin
Ernest Vom Rath
Paris
Germany
Vom Rath
Goebbels
Kroll Opera House
Das Schwarz Korps
United States
Landslides in St Lucia Leave Dozens Missing After Torrential Rains
Rescue workers in St Lucia report a growing list of missing people after a series of landslides on steep mountain slopes. Three weeks of heavy rainfall wrecked homes and cut remote communities, with authorities confirming many believed dead as search efforts continue.
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St. Lucia
Brit- West Indies
Congress may consider taxes to fund armament program
Senator King said Congress may consider taxes to finance the armament plan. He suggested levies on luxury and consumer goods as a means to raise revenue. Secretary Wallace asked the Interstate Commerce Commission to reject any express rate increases for agricultural products. Railway Express Agent Inc. sought approval to revise its rate structure to add about 810,000 yearly in revenue.
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Washington
King
Utah
Congress
Sea- Finance Committee
Wallace
Interstate Commerce Com Today
E Railway Express Agent Inc
Trade pact debate hovers over Britain Canada ties
Senator Shipstead charged the new trade pact with Great Britain rests on internal politics rather than economics and favors industry over agriculture, while the Cumberland County officials granted indefinite leave to Smith, superintendent of County Home, pending grand jury charges and a $500 bond.
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Ashington
Shipstead
FL N
Great Britain
Avetteville
Cumberland County of Commissioners
Es Smith
County Home
Commercial Bank Suit Judgment Paid In Full
A judgment totaling about 145000 in the John D. Biggs receivership against Commercial National bank officers and directors was paid in full at Greensboro's Superior Court clerk's office. The payment covered 80300 principal on 60000 from 1931 into 1932 interest 7500 to Special Master Kenneth Brim and 1708.90 costs. The 60000 item tied to a dividend improperly declared by directors. The 20300 item was ruled preferential by Judge Hayes though approved by Chief Examiner Chorpening. The case began in 1933 with Brim as special master, who held 24 hearing days and reviewed 853 documents. The judgment was assigned to Owen Reece as trustee. Payments came from several parties including R R Ragan estate and Dr D A Stanton among others.
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Greensboro
John D. Biggs
Commercial National Bank
High Point
Superior Court
Kenneth Brim
Johnson J. Hayes
Hayes
I. P. Chorpening
Brim
Clerk of Superior Court
Owen Reece
R. R. Ragan
D. A. Stanton
Eila Carr Peacock
Dred Pea
Southern Conference for Human Welfare Study Aims Established
A permanent group to study the South's social and economic ills and propose cures convenes in Birmingham. The session closes with an address by Associate Justice Hugo L. Black. Mrs. Roosevelt urged national unity over sectionalism before about 7 000 attendees, including 2 000 Black attendees segregated from Whites. Delegates adopted resolutions for freight rate parity, end to poll taxes, public defenders for the indigent, anti-lynching legislation, and uniform voter registration.
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Birmingham
Ala
Southern Conference For Human Welfare
Hugo L. Black
United States Supreme Court
Franklin D. Roosévelt
Roosevelt
Alabama
South
May Ask Congress For Aid In Creating Civil Plane Pilots
May ask Congress for financial aid to build a large civilian pilot reserve to back air rearmament plans. The move parallels efforts in Germany and Britain, with the Civil Aeronautics Authority promoting private flying to increase pilots and aircraft in national service.
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Congress
New York
Rosevelt
Germany
Italy
Great Britain
Army Corps
Civil Aeronautics Authority
Bureau of Air
Edward J. Noble
Authority
United States Army
Navy
Air Corps
Hoover urges moral revival to stem world violence
Former U S president Herbert Hoover told a Toronto Bible class dinner that democracies must restore individual morals as the foundation of real progress. He cited Nazi Germany, Communist Russia, Spain and China, warning intolerant ideologies and a Fifth Horseman threaten peace while democracies suffer delusions of economic security.
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Toronto
Herbert Hoover
United States
York
Germany
Spain
Russia
China
Taylor to sail for London on refugee evacuation talks
Myron Taylor vice chairman of the inter governmental committee on political refugees will sail for London on Saturday to confer with British officials about evacuating Jewish refugees from Germany.
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New York
Myron
Taylor
Inter-Governmental Committee On
London
Germany
Strange Malady Strikes Eastview Junior High Students
Health officials in White Plains report a mysterious intestinal illness affecting 500 of 1400 Eastview junior high students within a week. Dr Edward H Marsh said symptoms included nausea vomiting dysentery and abdominal cramps and all victims were recovering.
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White Plains
N. Y
Eastview Junior High School
Edward H. Marsh
Westchester County
Pope Names Apostolic Delegate to London
Pope Pius appointed Monsignor William Godfrey rector of the Venerable English College in Rome as apostolic delegate to London and titular archbishop of Asia Minor. This marked a historic move, aiming to bolster British church ties amid tensions with Germany over German Catholics. The delegate will function similarly to the Vatican’s Washington envoy.
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Vatican City
Pius
London
Vatican
William Godfrey
Rome
Asia Minor
Germany
Great Britain
Holy Herstood
France
Italy
Washington
Mon Signor William Godfrey Appointed Papal Delegate
London reports William Godfrey named new apostolic delegate to London. He will be a church official without diplomatic privileges, chosen by the pope in his spiritual capacity, with no approval required from the British government. Only a nuncio acting as sovereign would need state consent.
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London
William Godfrey
Protests Over Absentee Ballots Mark North Carolina Board Hearing
The State board of elections heard protests from Ashe and Graham counties along with Alexander Cherokee Clay Tyrrell counties about alleged absentee ballot misuse. Defeated Democrats in Cherokee accused a registrar of fear and gunfire at Unaka, while ballots allegedly discarded and ballots stuffed were alleged in other counties. Certification of results was delayed to next Tuesday.
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Raleigh
State Board of Elections
Ashe
Graham
Alexander
Cherokee
Clay
Tyrrell
Cherokee County
Gene Alley
Murphy
Maude Crowe
Unaka
Hot House
Anderson
Clay County
G, L. Houk
Franklin
Jewish relief groups press fast refugee aid from Germany
Jewish charities backed by the National Council of Palestine Jewry urge immediate emigration to Palestine rather than to colonies proposed by Britain. They warn tens of thousands in camps cannot wait for tomorrows schemes while Britain weighs Africa and British Guiana plans.
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London
Germany
United Palestine Appeal Organization
Washington
M. L. Perlzweig
World Jewish Congress
Africa
British Guiana
Chamberlain
Palestine
National Council of Palestine Jewry
Britain
Jury Deliberates in Henis Trial in Newton
A Superior court jury considers the murder case of Sam Bost James Ennis Mose Brown and Mary Boyd accused in the slaying of R O Hawn former constable and car salesman. The jurors deliberated after the judge denied a non-suit defense motion as testimony concluded.
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Newton
R. O. Hawn
Wilson Warlick
Warlick
Sam Bost
Hickory
James
Jack) Ennis
High Point
Mose Brown
Burke County
Mary Boyd
Hawn
Brookford School
18000 French Metal Workers Occupy Valenciennes and Lille
In Paris on November 23 eighteen thousand metal workers occupied plants around Valenciennes and Lille defying Daladier's decree against occupation strikes. The mass action tests the government's power to enforce new laws as officials report insufficient police to intervene.
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Paris
Valenciennes
Lille
Daladier
Green Opposes Profit Sharing Without Bargaining
William Green of the American Federation of Labor told a Senate committee that labor rejects Social Security act tax credits for profit sharing unless paired with collective bargaining. He supported genuine union organization to study work relations and compensation standards. Senator Vandenberg said Congress would consider indirect subsidies to sustain jobs during depressions.
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Washington
William Green
Senate
Green
American Federation of Labor
Herring
Iowa
Vandenberg
Mich
Labor
Congress
East West Plane Route Sought for Mail and Passengers
A new association convenes in Raleigh to push regular air mail and passenger service from Norfolk to Knoxville via Elizabeth City Rocky Mount Greensboro Charlotte Hickory and Asheville. J A Horne named permanent chairman with Laurence N Duncan as secretary. North Carolina leaders Harold Cooley and Lindsay Warren back the project.
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Raleigh
N. C
J. AL. Horne
Rocky Moon
Norfolk
Knoxville
Andrews to Crack Down on Wage-Hour Violations
Washington November 23. Administrator Elmer F Andrews says the Wage Hour program will move from warnings to prosecutions. He notes a quarter of the 1 200 complaints have basis as employers juggle wages to dodge overtime and min imum wage rules under the new law.
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Washington
Elmer F. Andrews
Andrews
Hie
Congress
France and Germany Sign War Renunciation Pact
Paris reports a Franco German pact to settle future disputes by consultation and acknowledge no French German frontier claims to Alsace Lorraine. The accord, seen as Munich spirit reaffirmed, anticipates British involvement with Chamberlain Halifax set for talks and potential wider Anglo French military cooperation.
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Paris
Chamberlain
Viscount Halifax
Munich
Hitler
Germany
Alsace - Lorraine
France
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Edouard Daladier
Mussolini
Czechoslovakia
Daladier
Georges Bonnet
Great Britain
Alsace-Lorraine
Berchtesgaden
Britain
Purge of Soviet Youth Movement Ousts Kosarieff Leaders
Moscow reports a drastic purge of the Komsomol leadership with the removal of Alexander Kosarieff and four high officials for allegedly protecting morally corrupt and traitorous elements within the organization. The article notes prior purges and ongoing reorganization dating back to 1937 and 1938 amid charges of over vigilance and unjust expulsions among millions of members.
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Moscow
Komsomol
Alexander Kosarieff
Communist Party
Kosarieff
Supreme Court Hears More Arguments in District Cases
The Supreme Court heard additional oral arguments today from cases in the eighth and thirteenth judicial districts. Opinions were expected to be handed down late in the day.
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Raleigh
Supreme Court
Eighth
Thirteenth
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