War Worry Curtails White House Dinners for Diplomats
President and Mrs. Roosevelt will hold the December diplomatic reception but drop five dinners due to wartime strain. Losses include functions for the cabinet, vice president, chief Justice and supreme court, and the House speaker, with about 90 guests per event. Dates: December 14 diplomatic, January 4 judicial, January 11 congressional, January 18 officials, February 1 army and navy.
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Roosevelt
White House
Supreme Court
Garner
Wilson
Army
Executive Mansion
Treasury
Post Office
Interior, Agriculture, Commerce, and Labor Departments
Army and Navy
Royal Oak sunk tests British naval convoy risk debate
The Royal Oak armor and submarine attack questions frame risk to British convoys carrying vital supplies. London correspondents note convoys incur significant naval losses, amid reports of Turkish and Soviet pact alignment and Italian envoy arrival to London.
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Royal Oak
London
Britain
Sunday Times
Admiralty
Turkey
Russia
France
Giuseppe Bastianini
Folkestone
Lord Halifax
Nazi leaders' front line bases described in siege context
Report details Allied eyes on German fortifications and bridge demolitions at Brisach Nurenburg Wintersdorf as French and British forces prepare for a potential winter offensive. Engineers dig in, air photos map emplacements, and Saarland targets remain central to the strategic gains.
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Brisach
Nurenburg
Black Forest
Wintersdorf
Karlsruhe
Germany
Saarland
Germans Celebrate Royal Oak Link and War Effort
German crowds cheer on the streets as Royal Oak related festivities and war relief drives unfold. Goersen Zeitung hails a new sub war success while Berlin notes unknown sinking sites and anti torpedo measures.
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Royal Oak
Berlin
Goersen Zeitung
Ballet Caravan to Appear at WCMC Greensboro
The American Ballet Caravan led by Lincoln Kirstein brings twenty one dancers on a two performance visit to Aycock Auditorium Woman's College October 18. An afternoon 3 15 program for students and an 8 30 evening show for Greensboro attendees feature Charade Filling Station and Citys Portrait with music by Pittman Thompson Brandt and Loring.
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Tion
United States Ballet
Aycock
Woman's College
Lincoln Kirstein
Trude Pittman
Lew Christensen
Virgil Thompson
Paul Cadmus
Harry Brandt
Forrest Theyr, Jr
Eugene Loring
Greensboro
Modern grocery of gay nineties
The article depicts an A P store as an up to date and progressive shop in 1800 with gas lamps large coffee bins and mahogany fittings. It notes the first chain store by George Huntington Hartford opening in Vesey Street New York in 1850 and marks the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company 80th anniversary this month.
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A&p
America
George Huntington Hartford
Vesey Street
New York
Meredith College to stage 25th annual Stunt Day
Meredith College will hold its 25th Stunt Day on Saturday October 21 honoring homecoming alumnae. Former students gather at 10 30 a m in Vann Hall for the fall council meeting with alumna Mrs Bernice Kelly Harris reviewing her novel Purlane. The Palio of Siena parade features four classes with horse themed floats.
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Meredith College
Vann Hall
General
Bernice Kelly Harris
Seaboard
Meredith
University of North Carolina Press
Wingate M. Johnson
Winston-Salem
Mae Grimmer
Siena
Lindeen Suggests U S Take Colonies
Debated was Lindbergh's call to end arms embargo on offensive weapons for warring nations. Senators Pittman Danaher Reynolds Vandenberg Clark Connally weighed risks aid to Axis and questioned defensive offensive distinctions while Hoover backed sale of defensive arms. Senate leaders considered longer hours to speed neutrality bill vote.
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Nev
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Lindbergh
Danaher
Conn
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France
United States
Reynolds
N. C
Bermuda
Bahamas
Trinidad
Labrador
Newfoundland
Canada
Seattle
Alaska
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Tex
Hoover
Herbert Hoover
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Chamber
Byrnes
S. C
FDR To Lead Refugee Conference
A 1930s report notes 405000 refugees in Great Britain 50000 in France and 50000 across Belgium Holland and Switzerland with 150 in Shanghai and hopes to resettle many in Mindanao Philippines Neutral nations including the United States would carry the refugee burden as Britain France and others focus on war production The inter governmental committee will present recommendations to 30 governments and the U S route.
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France
Belgium
Holland
Switzerland
Neutra
Shanghai
Philippine
Mindanao
Roosevelt
Davao
Mitnao
Inter- Government
Spain
Frank
Britain
Fra
U States
United States
South Carolina approves 18 fertilizer analyses for farmers
At a September meeting in Columbia the South Carolina Experiment Station urged 18 minimum fertilizer analyses to replace over 200. The formulas were endorsed by educational and commercial groups to overcome defects in fertilizer practices.
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Columbia
South Carolina
Woman Returns Home After Neuritis Treatment
She has recovered sufficiently to return to the Burkemont Hotel where she makes her home after a period of treatment for neuritis at Grace Hospital.
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Burkemont Hotel
Grace Hospital
Headless body found near murder swamp in Youngtown
Police report a headless body discovered by boys gathering nuts in a swamp area nicknamed Murder Swamp, a lonley spot tied to multiple past unsolved slayings. Officers previously followed tramps from a hollow in the swamp connected to the case.
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Youngtown
Britain faces rising sea worries with fleet and ships
Britain reports growing sea concerns as its fleet of 11 ships includes three battlecruisers and several capital ships. Four or five newer faster George V class battleships are expected to join the fleet possibly next year.
Global Trends Mix Across Nations From Prices To Health
A fragmented summary notes varied global topics including price regularities in Switzerland, Russian agricultural and flight legality, Guatemala launching housing costs, a world total of 75 million horses with 11 500 in America, rising American cough remedies in Mexico, a Calcutta scare triggered by a mouse and plant, and Australian beer versus liquor consumption per a recent government report.
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America
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