Rail labor strike halts movement on L A T and Louisiana Arkansas lines
Greenville Texas reports 500 workers from the Louisiana Arkansas and Texas and the Louisiana and Arkansas railways walking out. About 600 engineers firemen conductors brakemen and switchmen quit. Key dispute cites failure to reinstate 1933 wage and working conditions agreements. Mail delayed trains stopped guards on site. Replacement crews rush to operate trains.
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Greenville
Tex
Louisiana, Arkansas and
Texas
Louisiana and Arkansas
Big Four” Brotherhood
L. A. and
Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas
McKinney
New Orleans
Hope
Ark
Ethiopian Delegates Face League Admission Struggle
At Geneva the League Council debates admitting Ethiopian representatives as Assembly opens. A compromise proposal would let Italy speak while delaying verdict on Ethiopia membership, amid fears among smaller powers of a precedent affecting them. The council plans to reconvene to discuss covenant reforms before the Assembly meets.
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Geneva
League of Nations
League Assembly
League Council
Haile Selassie
Italy
Ethiopia
Rome
Council
Europe
Circle of Nations
League
Negus
Moore Ruling Expected Soon In Buncombe County Case
Raleigh dispatch reports the Martin Moore capital case from Buncombe county awaiting Supreme Court action on two motions. The defense seeks certiorari to docket the case while the state seeks dismissal for improper appeal procedures. The issue centers on timing allowed for filing and the legality of a confession obtained after Moore’s Raleigh confession. If certiorari fails, Moore faces execution. if it succeeds, further hearings proceed.
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Enterprise Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
Raleigh
Supreme Court
Martin Moore
Buncombe County
Helen Clevenger
Superior Court
Moore
Edwin M
Titulescu Resting After Restless Night In Ni Ch
The condition of Nicholas Titulescu former Romanian foreign minister remained unchanged today doctors said after a restless night. Titulescu is suffering from a form of blood poisoning in Moritz Switzerland.
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Moritz
Switzerland
Nicholas Titulescu
Titulescu
Hurricane Passes North Carolina Coast With No Deaths
Reports indicate no known loss of life from the West Indian Hurricane across a 200 mile NC coastal strip. About 50 WPA workers aboard two barges were relieved when all but three were accounted for. the missing trio likely returned to the WPA camp near Coitock. Damage was extensive to property, especially in Elizabeth City and Hatteras Island, with crops and trees down.
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Elizabeth City
North Carolina
Comtack
Coitock
Albemarle Sound
Popeye
Cape Lookout
Hatteras Island
Six Hurt as Car and Truck Clash Near Asheboro
A morning crash at Cobl's filling station on the Asheboro highway left six injured. The front seat passenger Fred Proctor was thrown through the windshield. Pepper Martin the driver and five others sustained various injuries. State Highway Patrol identified H S Bivins as the tobacco truck driver.
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Cobl
Asheboro
Fred Proctor
McCrary Hosiery Mill
A. R
Pepper) Martin
Adams-Millis Corporation
Pepper Martin
P. A. Ledberry
Best Street
J. E. Alsebrook
H. A. Meacham
H. 8. Bivins
North Main Street
School Teacher Granted Bond in Killings Case
BIG STONE GAP VA Sept 19 Judge H A W Skeen granted Edith Maxwell former school teacher bond of 6000 pending new trial on charge of killing her father. The 22 year old defendant is released under bond as she awaits court proceedings.
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Big Stone Gap
H. A. W. Skeen
Edith Maxwell
Legion Head Is Still Uncertain At National Convention
Cleveland September 19 delegates from all sections converge for the 18th American Legion national convention opening Monday. Speculation on the next National Commander centers on Harry W. Colmery of Topeka Kansas and Quimby Melton of Griffin Georgia with elections imminent.
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Cleveland
American Legion
United States
Harry W. Colmery
Topeka
Kan
Quimby Melton
Griffin Georgia
Alcazar Siege Advances as Loyalist Fire Rages
From Toledo Alcazar the government forces unleash cannon and mines in a bid to crush the besieged fascist defenders. Estimates place 1,200 killed of 1,700 fascists including cadets and civilians with hundreds more trapped in the fortress. Government commander General Jose Asensio says they are moving forward amid continuous resistance. In Madrid the Syndicalist supporters clash with the Socialist Communist regime over regional governance proposals, labeled traitors by officials.
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Associated Press
Bpain
High Command
Toledo
Alcazar
Jose Asensio
Madrid
Syndicalata
Lewis Rebels Win Backing From Two Sources
The John L. Lewis rebels suspended by the American Federation of Labor receive pledges of support. The International Typographical Union in Colorado Springs offers moral and financial help, while the California State Federation of Labor votes unanimously to back the CIO and oppose the AF L's suspension of ten CIO affiliated unions. The dispute centers on organizing methods within the federation.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
American Federation of Labor
International Typographical Union
Colorado Springs
Lewis Committee On Industrial Organization
California State Federation of Labor
Executive Council
C. I
Charles P. Howard
Lewis Group
A. F. of L. Executive Council
William Green
Federation
Howard
Lewis Committee
Green
Ship captain drowns as long hoped crew saved in storm
In a Delaware storm the fishing steamer Long Island sank after 44 aboard. Coast guardsmen tally 37 saved and three bodies found, including Captain Romey George. The skipper’s son Delmar George and others were treated at Lewes hospital.
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Maritime Exchange
Delmar George
Foxwell
Lewes Hospital
Richard and
George McQuillen
Wilmington
N. C
Norfolk Negro Is Storm Victim
Norfolk counts one dead from the hurricane that struck with 56 mile per hour winds and an eighty foot tide. Udell George, 23, a Norfolk County Negro, drowned in Southern Branch while trying to recover a rowboat. Estimated damage ranges from 250000 to 500000 across Norfolk and adjacent areas.
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Norfolk
Virginia
Udell George
South Hill
Norfolk County
Southern Branch
Willoughby
Ocean View
Cape Henry
Virginia Beach
Four fined for creek fish killings near Tarboro
In Tarboro on September 19 four Black men were fined after confessing to killing fish by striking them with sticks as they surfaced in a local creek.
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Tarboro
Here
North Carolina Democrats Open Fall Campaign at Lake Park Rally
A large North Carolina Democratic rally opened the fall campaign at Lake Park High Point with Senator Bob Reynolds greeting attendees. State Chairman J. Wallace Winborne hosted, as 5 000 to 6 000 party members gathered after a long wait for speeches.
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High Point City Lake Park
North Carolina
Bob Reynolds
J. Wallace Winborne
High Point City Lake
Clyde R. Hoey
Enterprise
French Dairy Workers Strike Sparks Turmoil Across Regions
Dairy workers in the Marne department walked out for higher wages today. A worker was injured in a clash at a plant while authorities sent conciliators to halt spreading walkouts. Lille saw a 6 percent wage gain for textile workers amid celebrations. Toulon street cars halted by police and Epinal’s 30,000 textile workers kept a folded arms stand. Saint Die saw 10,000 employees halt most production.
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Paris
Marne
Lille
Toulon
Epinal
Vosges
Saint Die
Storm Damage To Highways Slight
RALEIGH September 19 J C Gardner Tarboro district highway engineer said the tropical storm across the northeast of the state did little road and bridge damage. Route 34 near Nags Head washed out with repairs costing about 20000 dollars. The New Inlet bridge was the only damaged span. Repair work on Route 34 delayed by remaining floodwater.
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Raleigh
J. C. Gardner
Tarboro
Nags Head
L. W. Payne
New Inlet
Gardner
Payne
Greensboro Woman Named To Office
Governor Ehringhaus announced the appointment of Mrs. Myer Sternberger of Greensboro to the North Carolina State Commission for the Blind for a term ending June 21, 1941. He also named C. L. Mann of Raleigh to the state board of registration for engineers and land surveyors for a term ending December 31, 1938.
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Raleigh
Ehringhaus
Mra
Myer Sternberger
Greensboro
North Carolina State Commission For the Blind
C. L. Mann
State Board of Registration For Engineers and Land Surveyors
Feng tai taken as Japan gains rail control in north China
Japanese authorities seal control of Feng tai a key rail hub in north China after Chinese troops evacuate their barracks. Incident sparked by conflicting reports of an attack on a Japanese officer and orderly. an evacuation and apology followed under terms settled with Chinese and Japanese commanders.
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China
Peiping
Fengtai
Frank Smothers
Far East
STFU seeks acts in probe in Arkansas tenancy inquiry
The Southern Tenant Farmers Union urged Arkansas Governor Futrell to face facts at the Hot Springs tenancy inquiry. The group claimed Memphis is hosting over twenty people driven from Arkansas by threats, and called for abolishing plantation commissaries, free tenant trading, strict 8 percent interest enforcement, and a democratic poll tax policy. It favored replacing Rural Resettlement admins with officials with real problem knowledge and criticized the Bankhead bill as unsound, urging cooperative farming for improved rural life.
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Memphis
Tenn
Southern Tenant Farmers Union
Arkansas
J. M. Futrell
Hot Springs
Futrell
The
Tenancy Commission
J. R. Butler
Federal Rural Resettlement Administration
Bankhead
STFU
South
White House Denies Planned Plot by Notorious Newspaper Owner
The White House released a sharply worded statement denying a scheme by a certain notorious newspaper owner to imply President Roosevelt accepts alien groups hostile to the American form of government. The owner was unnamed and the claim framed as malice and political spite.
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Washington
White House
Roosevelt
Stephen T. Barry
Harvard University
Grippe
Vessels Warned to Steer Clear of Storm's Path
A powerful Atlantic hurricane forced ships to flee its route from the Carolinas to New England. The storm left at least seven dead, with fifteen missing, and caused hundreds of miles of disrupted coastlines as coast guards mobilized to aid.
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Vessq
Atlantic
U. S
Delaware Bay
Longland
New Je
Pen Vania
Connecticut
New England
England
Wall
Chatteras
N. C
Coast Guard
Massachusetts
Rhode
Nova Scotia
Maritime
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Romola Colozza
George R. Zorn
Balti
Longport
N. J
Norf Va
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