Prominent Attorney Roberson Dies at Local Hospital
Roberson 63 a leading local attorney and former legislator died last night at 10 o clock in local hospital after a months illness He was a partner at Roberson Haworth and Reese and noted as a keen legal mind He survived by his mother two sisters and a brother with services set at First Church this afternoon and burial in the Chapel Hill family plot
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ol. Wescott Roberson
Inent
Foy Roberson
Bam
Nellierson
Chapel Hill
C. Woollen
Mary Roberson Mason
York
A. B. Dowpastor
H. Norwood
Episcopal Church
Ctive
RK. Amos
W. H. Slane
F. Toma
O. BE. Kearns
J. E. Millis
Rochelle
Carter Dalton
C. Idol
High Point
Broad Street
D. Steele
Matt Hedge
W. P. Ragan
Roberson Ws
Adama
Tomlinson
Wachovia Fik and Trust Company
Sunset Park
Sheraton Hotel
Southern Way
American Telephone
Jews Defy Arab Threat in Palestine Crisis
The Jewish agency in Palestine rejected the Arab defense committee warning urging Jews to face grave trouble if immigration continues. It urged recognition of Jewish rights and spoke of possible Arab Jewish cooperation, while reporting rising violence that has killed about 1,850 in 12 weeks. British reinforcements and MacMichael’s return were expected to shift military initiative.
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Jerusalem
Jewish Agency For Palestine
Palestine Arab Defense Committee
Arab Committee
Palestine
Jewish Agency
Holy Land
Harold Mac Michael
London
Tobacco Sales Near High Mark
Winston-Salem tobacco market nears a 16,000,000 pound target after 14 selling days as warehouse officials report 985,000 pounds offered yesterday. Growers average 25.50 per hundredweight with good to select types rising to 45 to 50, while low to common grades stay steady. All houses cleared their floors.
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Winston-Salem
Winston- Salem
J. T. Booth
Hitler Seeks Amicable Czechoslovakia Solution in Munich
Prague foreign minister Frantisek Chvalkovsky met with Adolf Hitler at the Fuehrerhaus in Munich to assure Germany of a loyal future by Czechoslovakia and discuss the Hungarian minority issue. The meeting followed the Komarom talks with Hungary, which ended without agreement.
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Munich
Frantisek Chvalkovsky
Czechoslovakia
Fuehrer
Chvalkovsky
Hitler
Prague
Komarom
Hungary
Slovakia
Berlin
Rome
Tokyo
Germany
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Wilhelm Keitel
Hungary halts mobilization amid diplomacy with Germany
Diplomatic circles report Hungary postponed army mobilization at the request of great powers including Germany to preserve European peace. A Hungarian delegation flew to Berlin for talks with Adolf Hitler on possible territorial demands from Czechoslovakia. The cabinet had planned to mobilize at 11 a.m. and cited Czech pressure at the dissolved Komarom conference. A Budapest University demonstration of 500 students demanded arms to oppose Czechoslovakia.
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Budapest
Hungary
Germany
Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Czechoslovakia
Goloman Daranyi
Andras Meceser
Nicholas Horthy
University of Budapest
Liberty Square
Funeral crowds attend self styled Czar Cyril heir
Russian workers in threadbare clothes and generals in faded uniforms gathered in Paris for the funeral of Grand Duke Cyril Vladimirovitch, who styled himself Czar of all the Russias. He died Wednesday at 62.
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Paris
Cyril Vladimirovitech
Russias
Resignations Hit Romanian War Ministry Leaders
In Bucharest on October 14 General Alexander Argenianu minister of war and General Giatz undersecretary for war resigned today.
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Bucharest
Romania
Alexander Argenianu
Giatz
Ulster Irish Seek Hitler Aid for Union Effort
Belfast report says Ulster Irish leaders appealed to Chancellor Hitler to back Northern Ireland Ireland unification. After an Armagh mass meeting the group urged Hitler to persuade Prime Minister Chamberlain to grant freedom for the minority and end partition.
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Belfast
Hitler
North Ireland
Ireland
Eire
Irish Free State
Armagh
Chamberlain
Northern Ireland
Free on Bond Davis faces new liquor charges in Caswell county
O M Davis of High Point free on a 3000 dollar bond while appealing a six month prohibition sentence faces additional charges after nearly five hundred cases of whiskey are seized in Caswell county near the Virginia line. Hubert M Walker of High Point is held on similar charges as investigators report two truckloads of liquor bound from Baltimore to Charleston.
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Greensboro
O. M. Davis
High Point
Supreme Court
Yanceyville
Hubert M. Walker
8. L. Willard
Burlington
U. 8
Caswell County
Virginia Line
Willard
J. D. Lee
Alamance County
T. J. Horner
Davis
Grover C. Doby
Columbia
D. C
Danville
Walker
Doby
Baltimore
Charleston
North Carolina
J. F. Hudspeth
Elkin
South Carolina
Kentucky
Davin
Utilities Action Pleases President
President Roosevelt praised the Electric Bond and Share Co for planning to comply with the holding company act. He said the move shows business cooperation with the government and that the so called death sentence was a propaganda term, harmful to utilities rather than a government or press invention.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Electric Bond and Share Company
Holding Company Act
C. E. Groesbeck
Unusual Step in 8th District Nomination Certification
North Carolina state elections board asks the North Carolina Supreme Court to mandamus Wake County Judge W C Harris to certify C B Deane of Rockingham as the Democratic nominee for the Eighth district. The filing cites a Supreme Court remand and alleges the Davidson and Richmond county returns affecting the race.
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Supreme Court
Harris
Deane
Raleigh
State Elections Board
W. C. Harris
Wake Superior Court
C. B. Deane
Rockingham
Eighth District
Harry McMullan
J. C. B. Ehringhaus
W. O. Burgin
Lexington
Ehringhave
Edward Murray
High Court
Davidson
Richmond
State Board
Davidson County Elections Board
Mexico to compensate U S landowners expropriated lands
President Lazaro Cardenas disclosed Mexico will pay American owners for expropriated lands while stating no compromise on British and American oil property. He said only payment details remain to be negotiated with the United States, as Mexico seeks to preserve U S friendship.
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ST. Louis
The
Post-Dispatch
Mexico City
Lazaro Cardenas
Cardenas
Marquis W. Childs
Mexico
United States
Defense study delays budget and regional industry notes
President calls for a full restudy of national defense needs delaying next year’s budget estimates. The review covers mass production standardization and new defense elements. Southern Furniture Manufacturers Association reports costs rise from the Fair Labor Standards Act. Major Fletcher urges uniform enforcement with regional considerations.
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A. L. Fletcher
Department of Labor
Southern Furniture Manufacturers Association
Sedgefield
J. R. Smith
Mount Airy
Association
R. M. Simmons
Martinsville
J. T. Ryan
Enterprise
Southern Furniture Market News Bureau
Washington
Roosevelt
Bernard M. Baruch
World War Industries Board
America
Major Fletcher
H. L. Shuey
Morganton
High Point
Fletcher
Sedgefield Inn
Congress
South
Evacuations Underway as Japanese Force Advances Toward Canton
In Hongkong 14 Oct preparations rush 400000 women and children to interior districts as a 40 000 strong Japanese force presses toward Canton. Bombing and artillery ruin Waichow and Tamehui while bridges are destroyed cutting Canton from inland supply routes. Foreign residents remain in Shameen as Mindanao and allied vessels are confined near Canton.
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Hongkong
Canton
South China
Arena
Tamehui
Bias Bay
Canton-Kowloon
Waichow
Tamehul
Macao
Government Forces Driven From Pandol Mountain Positions
Insurgents aided by heavy reinforcements forced government militiamen from strategic spots in the Pandol mountains on the Ebro front. Madrid was shelled for over an hour as frontier reports said the insurgents may renew a long dormant offensive on the Madrid front.
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Pandol Mountain
Hendaye
France
Pandel
Ebro
Madrid
Jury Chosen for Spy Ring Trial in New York
A federal jury of ten men and two women was selected in an hour and a half in New York for the trial of three defendants charged with being members of a spy ring that sold United States military secrets to a foreign government.
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Canton
Yungyuen
Kwantung
Cheungmutau
Canton-Kowloon
Kaichow
Kwangtung
Shameen Foreign Settlement
Lanenen University
Shameen
United States
Mindanao
New York
North Carolina Corn Crop Forecast Seen At 43.5 Million Bushels
Raleigh October 14 report from federal and state crop services projects North Carolina corn output at 43 478 000 bushels based on October 1 conditions, about four percent below the 1937 yield.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Montgomery manslaughter case dismissed in Lake Summitt drowning
Hendersonville date October 14 Judge J Will Press Jr granted a motion to non suit manslaughter charges against Walter S Montgomery of Spartanburg South Carolina in the 1926 drowning of three persons in Lake Summit.
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Hendersonville
J. Will Press, Jr
Montgomery
Spartanburg
Lake Summitt
Pleads Guilty In Espionage Case In New York
Guenther Gustav Rumrich a former U S Army sergeant pleaded guilty to espionage charges in federal court as three co defendants faced trial. He stole a military aviation code and deserted from the Army in 1935. Judge John C Knox deferred sentencing until after the trial.
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New York
Guenther Gustav Rumrich
United States Army
Rumrich
Chicago
John C. Knox
United States
Knox
Detours Ahead To Raleigh-Durham Grid Games
Detours are in effect on two main highways to Raleigh and Durham football games this Saturday. US Route 64 is closed between Pittsboro and the Wake County line, with a 46 mile detour via Chapel Hill and Nelson to US 70. Route 54 is closed for an underpass project between Reidsville and Burlington, with a three mile dirt road detour.
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Raleigh
Durham
W. W. Hampton
State Highway and Public Works Commission
Wake Forest
Duke
Reidsville
Burlington
Spies Executed in Berlin for Espionage
Franz Backes and Joseph Baranek were beheaded at Ploetzensee Prison for long term espionage, the 16th such execution this year, as reported from Berlin.
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Berlin
Franz Backes
Joseph Baranek
Ploetzensee
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U. S
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Kwangtung Province
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