High Point Considers Preliminary Survey for Yadkin Hydro Plant
High Point city council authorized City Manager E M Knox to seek a Public Works Administration advance grant not to exceed 250000 to fund a preliminary survey assessing the hydro electric plant on the Yadkin River. Knox cited state laws and a court ruling supporting feasibility and stated unspent funds would be refunded if the project ends. The measure followed a favorable utilities committee report and passed unanimously.
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High Point
E. M. Knox
Public Works Administration
Yadkin River
Knox
PWA
H. Hoyle Sink
Public Utilities Committee
Thousands Of Coal Miners Stop Work In Sympathy Move
In Panth er Creek valley about seven thousand five hundred coal miners halted work in a sympathy action for 39 sit down strikers at Coaldale Colliery. The Lehigh Navigation Coal Co shut all local workings. wives urged action. Peter Flyzik conveyed a message to return to surface. two collieries planned mass meetings and possible parade to Hazleton to seek Hugh V. Brown’s guidance.
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Lansford
Panther Creek
Coaldale
Lehigh Navigation Coal Company
Peter Flyzik
United Mine Workers
Flyzik
Hazleton
Hugh V. Brown
Stricter Laws Govern Fliers with New Certificates
Washington Oct 8 The Bureau of Air Commerce issued new rules effective after Nov 1 requiring certificates of competency for pilots replacing licenses. Solo time rises to five hours for private rating and hours increase for other ratings. new instrument and instructor ratings create added qualifications. instrument rating applies to private, limited commercial and commercial pilots while the instructor rating applies to commercial and private pilots.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Bureau of Air Commerce
Duke enrolls record 8316 students in fall term
Duke University reports fall enrollment of 3,316 students, a new record, with the medical school adding 245. Overall undergraduates total 2,543, and total fall tally is 114 above the previous high in 1935.
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DUKE
Durham
Duke University
Roosevelt says will discuss with advisers before policy decisions
President Roosevelt told reporters he will not make major political decisions until consulting leaders and advisers. He hesitated on a special congressional session before Hyde Park departure and had no plans to confer with Justice Black. He cited constitutional issues on a proposed surplus crop plan and expected to name an administrator for the new low cost housing division.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Hyde Park
Interior Department
Ortiz
Argentina
Wiltshire in jail kills himself after indictment
Richmond Va Oct 8 Sheriff T Wilson Seay said A B Wiltshire railroad bookkeeper indicted for slaying his wife shot himself in his jail cell using a razor blade. He left a note thanking the jailer for care and explaining how he got the blade.
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Richmond
T. Wilson Seay
Henrico County
A. B. Wiltshire
Wiltshire
Louise B. Wiltshire
Seay
Cotton crop forecast tops 17.5 million bales for year
The agriculture department projects the current cotton crop at 17,573,000 bales of 500 pounds each based on October 1 conditions. Census data show 8,259,445 bales had been gathered before Oct. 1, with last year at 12,399,000 bales by that date.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Agriculture Department
Census Bureau
Agriculture Alga
Rural population drop hits South states
An Agriculture Department survey shows the central South has a high rural share as many quit farming. Dr. Carl C. Taylor notes a 30-year farm exodus resumes, with workers moving to southern urban areas or other regions. West South Central Oklahoma Arkansas Louisiana Texas lost 31,000 farm residents last year. East South Central Kentucky Tennessee Mississippi Alabama lost 5,000.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Central South
Carl C. Taylor
Agricultural Economics Bureau
United States
Taylor
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Louisiana
Texas
Kentucky
Tennessee
Mississippi
Alabama
Wounded British Ambassador Gets American Salute
Sir Hugo Knatchbull-Hugessen, British ambassador to China and recent machine gun wound survivor, arrived in Manila from Shanghai and was greeted by a 19 gun salute before reviewing the U S troops honor guard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manila
Hugo Knatchbull-Hugessen
China
Shanghai
United States
Six Executed in Moscow Terrorist Killings Case
Six alleged bourgeois nationalist terrorists were executed for killing a communist party organizer and the manager of a grain collection office in Rusaievka Central Russia. The execution was announced today in Moscow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Communist Party
Rusaievka
Central
Russia
Yankees Dominate Giants 5-1 In World Series Thriller
New York Yankees rout the Giants 5 to 1 at Polo Grounds as Hall Schumacher struggles and New York capitalizes on four Giants errors. Batting highlights include Crosetti drawing four straight balls and DiMaggio and Gehrig contributing early, with Mancuso injured and Bartell protesting calls.
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Yankee Stadium
New York
Lou Gehrig
Myril Hoag
Gehrig
Otto
McCarthy
Hoag
Polo Grounds
Yankees
Giants
Hal Schumacher
Schumacher
Monte P P
Danning
Crosetti
Danang
Bartell
Gus Mancuso
Rolfe
DiMaggio
Whitehead
Crosett
Moore
Art
Tobacco brings high of 37.50 at Reidsville market
The Reidsville tobacco market opened with heavy activity as initial sales topped 37.50 per hundred pounds and better grades fetched about 82 a hundred more. Estimates put 500000 pounds on warehouse floors with over half expected to sell that day.
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Reidsville
Council defers widening of High Street project
City council adjourned session defers action on Seborn Perry proposal to widen High street between Main and Wrenn to 50 feet. Finance committee will meet Monday with power to act. estimated cost $9,000 deemed prohibitive unless Perry reduces price on property tied to relocating the Southern Railway freight station. Perry available property price $20,000. council also approves $155 to refloor the Negro library building.
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Seborn Perry
Elwood
High Street
Main
Wrenn Streets
Perry
Wrenn
Coun Nt
Loyalists Launch Counterattack Near Gijon Front
Spanish government militiamen shifted from guerrilla tactics to a counter-offensive against insurgent forces encircling Gijon in eastern Asturias. Battle centered on Covadonga near Gijon where both sides suffered heavy losses, government claims insurgents repulsed counter-attacks while reporting over 500 insurgent deaths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hendaye
Asturias
Gijon
Covadonna
Governor Seeks Extradition Of Man Regarding Thomasville Bribery Case
Governor Hoey sent extradition papers to Ohio Governor Davey asking that Co. L. Armon, held in Bryan Ohio, be returned to Thomasville to face 52 counts of commercial bribery and secret commissions. The affidavit alleges Armon accepted bribes and passed funds to plant foremen to favor a preferred material at the Thomasville Chair company between 1936 and 1937.
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C. L. Armon
Thomasville Chair Company
Raleigh
Hoey
Martin L. Davey
Ohio
Co. L. Armon
Bryan
Thomasville
Armon
Thomanville Chair Company
Garr Brothers Free on Bond in Denhardt Murder Case
Shelbyville Kentucky October 8 The Garr brothers Jack and Roy are free on $20 000 bonds each pending their trial October 18 on a murder charge in the slaying of Brig Gen Henry H Denhardt. Their third brother Dr B S Garr has bond forfeited after failing to appear due to a doctor’s affidavit declaring him of unsound mind.
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Shelbyville
Jack
Roy Garr
Henry H. Denhardt
Charles C. Marshall
B. S&s. Garr
Marshall
Garr
Oldham County
H. B. Blaydes
la Grange
Denhardt
Kentucky
Verna Garr Taylor
Garr Brothers
Kosher Butchers Claim Victory in Price Strike
In New York 5000 Kosher butchers announce a victory after a one week stoppage. They plan to reopen shops tomorrow night as attorney David H. Greenwald says the Federation of Kosher Butchers secured a price reduction in meat.
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New York
David H. Greenwald
Federation of Kosher Butchers
Carloadings Rise This Week, ARK Reports Freight Cars
The Association of American Railroads announced 847 245 cars of revenue freight loaded for the week ending last Saturday. This marks an increase of 6 799 cars from the prior week and a 3 4 percent rise versus a year ago, with a 12 8 percent drop from 1920 levels.
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Washington
Association of American Railroads
Chicago dairy prices hold steady as market shows little change
Chicago list shows butter at 11,868 units with easy demand, prices unchanged. Eggs tally 7,167 units with weak demand and stable prices.
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Chicago
Rae
Revision of Social Security Sought by Board Officials
Social Security board officials expect to ask Congress next year to overhaul the act. Research by the board may yield fundamental changes after analysis at the advisory council, with late November as the likely reveal. Chairman Arthur J. Altmeyer cited plans to broaden insurance, raise and advance benefits, and extend support for widows orphans and disabled workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Society Security Board
Congress
Arthur J. Altmeyer
American Federation of Labor
Social Security Advisory Council
Altmeyer
A. F. of L
Local Concern Is Awarded Contract For Courthouse Addition
Dermont Construction of High Point Rockingham County bids $29,565 to build a courthouse addition in Wentworth. County commissioners announced the award today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wentworth
UP -Dermont Construction Company
High Point
Rockingham County
Court House
Roosevelt Considers National Efforts to End Sino Japanese War
In Washington President Roosevelt returns to the capital and calls aides to discuss national efforts to end the Sino Japanese war. Tokyo announces Japan will respond to US criticism and Nine-Power Treaty concerns while General Matsui declares a declaration of war on the Chinese front amid heavy artillery duels.
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Associated Press
Washington
Oo Dent Roosevelt
Tokyo
J Pan
United States
of Nations
China
Shanghai
Iwane Matsui
Britain Sees Roosevelt Speech as Real Contribution to Peace
London reports Eden expresses gratification over Roosevelt's address to the American chargé d'affaires and says Britain views it as a real contribution to peace. The shift hints at the United States increasingly assuming a broader international balance role, while Britain remains silent on Mussolini's delay in a power conference on foreign expulsions from Spain. Attlee, Labour leader, commented in Parliament today.
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London
Anthony Eden Day
Roosevelt
Scel V. Johnson
Great Britain
United States
Britain
Il Duce
Spain
Clement Attlee
Tod
Reverend Coughlin Reproved by Detroit Archbishop
In Detroit on October 8 Rev Charles E B Coughlin was reproved by Archbishop Edward Mooney for comments on public affairs. Mooney acknowledged his own appointment as head of the Detroit archdiocese after Gallagher’s death and said Coughlin’s remarks were not submitted for approval by him or his appointees.
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Detroit
Charles EB. Coughlin
Edward M
Mooney
Royal Chest
Vest
Hugo L. Black
Coughlin
Galllagher
Bis Michael J. Gallagher
Det
Father Coughlin
Japan to issue formal reply to condemnation
Tokyo reports the foreign office is drafting a formal statement of attitude toward U.S. and League of Nations censure for China policy. Sources say Japan may denounce the nine power treaty as obsolete and refuse to attend any signatory conference. Stock market reacts as Roosevelt calls to quarantine aggressors. An army report follows.
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Tokyo
Japan
United States
League of Nations
China
Tokyo Stock Exchange
Roosevelt
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U. S. Aval Academy
Panopets
Philadelphia
Revision Social Security
U. & Britain
France
Eden
Rev. Coughlin
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