Bloody Fighting South of Madrid Deepens Civil War Fronts
Reports from Spain describe fierce combat southwest of Madrid as government forces defend the capital’s approach in Talvarera de la Reina. Basque factions clash with Anarchists in San Sebastian amid bombardments and fears of destruction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Sebastian
Associated Press
United Left Front
Madrid
Talvarera de la Reina
Iran
Toledo
Alcazar
Burgos
Spain
Oviedo
Tobacco sales report show gains and unsold stock
Tobacco market reports in Golsboro and Rocky Mount indicate rising sales with high totals for the season. In Golsboro 187,840 pounds sold for 53,660.09 dollars at 23.09 per hundred, while Rocky Mount logged 888,524 pounds for 195,459.08 dollars at 21.99 per hundred.
Tobacco market sets new season sales total
Wilson town market officials reported 1,106,900 pounds sold yesterday, bringing season totals to 6,544,556 pounds. Yesterday’s leaf brought 24126.04 dollars for an average of 21.84 per hundredweight, while season sales reached 1,556,416.20 dollars at an average of 23.78.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Goldsboro
George Dixon of
Lenoir
Injured Man In Automobile Crash Near Bear Harbor
Henry A. Shoots of Newton Massachusetts was injured when his automobile overturned near Bear Harbor in Washington North Carolina on September 12. He sustained unspecified injuries and was treated at the scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, N. C
Henry A. Shoots
Newton, Mass
Liberal Party Starts Drive for Roosevelt
Chicago reports the National Progressive conference endorsing Roosevelt for re election. La Follette chairs a 15 member executive committee to organize units nationwide and raise funds. notables include Norris Costigan Abbott Walsh LaGuardia Lewis Hillman and Hillman among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roosevelt
Robert M. LaFollette
Wisconsin
Progressive
LaFollette
George W. Norris
Nebraska
Wis
Black
Ala
Schwellenbach
Washington
Benson
Minnesota
Phillip LaFollette
Hjalmar Peterson
Fiorello LaGuardia
New York
John L. Lewis
Committee For Industrial Organization
United Mine Workers of America
Sidney Hillman
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of New York
Morgenthau Denies Republican Charge
Secretary Morgenthau denies a Republican claim that his nephew works for the Agricultural Adjustment Administration. He says the statement is untrue and released the denial in a press statement cited by the Republican National Committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Morgenthau
Republican National Committee
Secretary of the Treasury
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Power Balance Becomes Key Issue at Little Entente Summit
In Brat Bratislava the Little Entente statesmen from Yugoslavia Romania and Czechoslovakia convened to decide whether Southeastern Europe would align with Russia France Germany or Poland. Titulescu’s absence signaled German leverage while Romania debated ending the Danube commission as a major agenda item.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bratislava
Czechoslovakia
Europe
Yugoslavia
Rumania
Russia
France
Germany
Poland
Nicholas Titulescu
Romania
Titulescu
Danube Commission
Hamilton attacks Roosevelt on false fiscal figures at Wawasee
John Hamilton, chair of the Republican National Committee, accuses top Democratic officials of deliberately juggled government finances. He criticizes Roosevelt's non political tours and warns of possible political moves after the Maine returns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lake Wawasee
Ind
John Hamilton
Republican National Committee
Hamilton
Indiana Republican Editorial Association
Roosevelt
Maine
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Treasury
Henry Morgenthau
Roosevelt's New PWA Projects Approved Nationwide
President Roosevelt approved 124 PWA projects with an estimated total cost of 17.14 million dollars. The federal grant portion amounts to 7.721 million dollars, based on 45 percent of total cost, with ten loans totaling 395 thousand dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
PWA
Roosevelt
Last words plead innocence in frontier murder case
In Walla Walla the condemned Leo Hall, 34, used his final statement to claim Jack Justice did not hire him to kill Frank Akin. Hall, who took part in the Erlands Point sextuple murder during a March 1934 robbery, was hanged at 11 16 p.m. Pacific time as spectators watched the execution unfold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walla Walla
Wash
Leo Hall
Erlands Point
Hall
Jack Justice
Oregon
Frank Akin
Portland
Ore
Death
Akin
Coughlin Attacks New Deal Handout In Radio Speech
The Rev. Charles E. Coughlin resumed national broadcasts after urging a New York crowd to reject the New Deal handout. At Ebbets Field he called for an annual wage of 1800 dollars for a father with a wife and three children and argued production has solved poverty while the system keeps want alive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Charles E. Coughlin
Ebbetsfield
Detroit
Mass Duction Industries
Lawyers Rush To Prepare TVA Constitutionality Challenge
In Cookeville Tennessee on September 12 attorneys for the Tennessee Valley Authority and 19 private electric utilities mobilized to file briefs within two weeks. Judge John J. Core ruled jurisdiction hinges on whether the TVA act is constitutional, delaying the case and signaling a later hearing on the act’s validity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cookeville
Tenn
Tennessee Valley Authority
John J. Core
U. S. District Court
TVA
Alabama
Core
Maybe His Pedals Will Be Revoked
Plymouth report states Clinton Pailin, 52, held on 100 bond for operating a bicycle on the highway while intoxicated. The charge stems from a bicycle incident as authorities pursued the case today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Plymouth
Clinton Pailin
Western North Carolina Conference rotation set for 1940
The Western North Carolina Conference of the Methodist Church plans a five year rotation. 1940 to be held at Wesley Memorial in High Point with Winston Salem hosting 1941. 1937 Asheville 1938 Charlotte 1939 Greensboro 1940 High Point 1941 Winston Salem. J B Craver asks pastors to seek board approval before Salisbury conference vote.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wesley Memorial Method Episcopal Church
South
North Carolina
M. EB. Church
Centenary Methodist Church of
Wintson-Salem
Asheville
Central Methodist Church
Charlotte
First Methodist Church
Greensboro
West Market Street
High Point
Wesley Memorial Church
Winston- Salem
Centenary Methodist Church
J. B. Craver
Western North
Salisbury
Ambulance Plane Flew Safe Back To Base
A Coast Guard ambulance plane forced down at sea on a mercy mission returned safely to Miami base. Five crew members survived after radio trouble forced the pilot Lieutenant Commander R L Raney to land on water and ride out the night awaiting repairs. The craft Are turus responded to a call from the Alaskan, 200 miles east at the time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miami
Fla
Coast Guard
R. L. Raney
Areturus
8. 8
Federal agent loses arm in swamp gunfight near Kingstree
A federal alcohol tax agent, C. M. Foxworth, was wounded when three Negro suspects tried to flee with a bag near the Santee swamp. One suspect, Buddy Smith, was captured after bloodhounds led officers to his home. Foxworth remained in very low condition after an amputation at the hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kingstree
Williamsburg County
Santee
C. M. Foxworth
Buddy Smith
Sterix Ravenel
Foxworth
Louis Staggers
Smith
Gourdin
Fat Ned
W. D. Wilson
Williamsburg
Landon 10 Make Speech Tonight in Portland
Maine Republicans greet presidential nominee Alf Landon in Portland as the party winds down its Maine election campaign. Gov. Louis J. Brann challenges the Republican treasurer to return J Pierpont Morgan’s $4000 campaign contribution amid calls to curb big donations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland
Maine
Alf M. Landon
Kansas
Louis J. Brann
U. S. Senate
Republcan
J. Pierpont Morgan
Brann
Landon
Senate
Insull
Morgan
Boy 11 Fatally Struck by Car in Asheville
Joe Davis, 11, was fatally injured last night when an automobile struck him in Asheville. Police and investigators are examining the incident and forwarding details to the county coroner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Asheville
Joe Davis
Hitler Eyes Rich Soviet Territory
Adolf Hitler spoke in Nurnberg asserting Germany would prosper if it gained the rich agricultural lands and ore mountains of Soviet Russia as Nazi warplanes roared overhead in a show of force.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Opyright
Associated Press
Nurnberg
Adolf Hitler
Soviet Russia
Power Meeting Hears Plan for Social Accounting
George Soule urged a national system of social accounting to guide public works and conservation. The World Power Conference heard his proposal for a national bookkeeping scheme to test resource use and include idle resources and labor costs in budgeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roosevelt
Washington
George Soule
World Power Conference
Colee
Soule
Ocean Flight Is Again Pos
Heavy rain and strong westerly winds forced Harry Richman and Dick Merrill, American transatlantic fliers, to postpone their return flight to New York. Takeoff was tentatively planned for dawn Sunday in Liverpool.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Liverpool
Eng
Harry Richman
Dick Merrill
New York
Rivers Quits As WPA Administrator
J C Rivers director of the sixth district of the Works Progress Administration in North Carolina has resigned effective September 14. Acting director EB W Cole will oversee until further notice. Rivers, co publisher of the Watauga Democrat at Boone, had held the post since September 1935.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winston-Salem
J. C. Rivers
Works Progress Administration
North Carolina
George W. Coan, Jr
WPA
EB. W. Cole
Coan
Rivers
Watauga Democrat
Boone
New Paragraph Added To Chapter On Ocean Flights
Captain Hans Werner von Engel lands his Aeolus seaplane at Port Washington Long Island completing a 2,833 mile Atlantic crossing since 9 17 p m Eastern Standard Time The flight supports evidence of transport planes operating on schedule through Atlantic weather The Aeolus covered 2 063 miles to Bermuda with 770 miles remaining to New York The sister ship Zephir arrived earlier from the Azores Both planes tested weather maps and logged winds rain clouds and fog to verify observed conditions
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Hans Werner von Engel
Port Washington
Long Island
Aeolus
Schwabenland
Atlantic
Bermuda
Zephir
Azores
Enfield Women Injured After Car Overturns on Curve
Mary Louise Harris and Patt Ruth Neal of Enfield were lured into danger when their automobile overturned on a curve near here. Harris was taken to Roc Mount hospital for treatment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hart
Enfield
Mary Louise Harris
Patt
Ruth Neal
Miss Harris
Roc Mount Hospital
Local Weather Summary North and South Carolina
North Carolina sees fair to partly cloudy conditions with cooler temperatures in the north late afternoon. South Carolina forecasts fair conditions tonight then Sunday with scattered thundershowers in the extreme northwest late day or night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Carolina
North
South Carolina
Also Mentioned on This Page
Carolina
Rocky Mount
Liberal Party
Chicago
National Progressive Conference
Alf H. Landon
Entente
Roosevelt UK
New Pwa
Talmadge Power
Richard B. Russell, Jr
D. Rivers
Eugene Talmadge
Old South
Georgia
Charles D. Redwine
Talmadge
New Deal
Coughlin
N. C
GOP
Hitler
Tsands
der Fuehrer
Urals
Siberia
Ukraine
Noheless
Nazi Germany
Soviet
Atlanta
Augusta
Birmingham
Charleston
Columbia
Denver
Ansville
Galveston
Hatteras
Jacksonville
Key West
Ever
Los Angeles
Meridian
Mobile
New Orleans
Nee
Raleigh
San Antonio
Oreeee
San Francisco
Spartanburg
Tampa
Seetenrre Washingtom
Eecses
Soman Sneer Wee
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!