Winnsboro Man Hatfield Dies in Head On Truck Crash
A head on collision at the Jonesville Jena route junction near Harrisonburg killed Tom Hatfield, 23, Winnsboro lumberman and Hatfield Lumber partner, who drove an empty southbound truck. Worsham of Jonesboro was seriously injured in the lumber truck collision.
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Winnsboro
Jonesville-Jena
Harrisonburg
Tom Hatfield
Worsham
Jonesboro
Hatfield
Hatfield Lumber Company
Chaos as Chinese force routs from Nanking siege
Aboard the destroyer Tsuga correspondent C Yates McDaniel reports that Chinese troops broke from orderly retreat and stampeded into Nanking. Soldiers shed gear and civilians fled as panic spread through the capital, with many trampled in the rush to escape past the river gate.
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Yates McDaniel
Associated Press
Nanking
Tsuga
C. Yates McDaniel
War Ministry
Japan protests over Japanese arrests in Soviet Russia
Tokyo charges Moscow with arrests without trial of Nipponese in Russia and seeks a responsible response. Yomiuri reports Russia strengthening forces at Vladivostok with two cruisers 18 submarines six destroyers and 600 pilots and 110 planes moved there last week.
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Tokyo
Japanese Foreign Office
Soviet Union
Russia
Foreign Office
Japan
Yomiuri
Vladivostok
Moscow
Shanghai
Racket Buster Triumphs Over 3 for Unions
John Harlan Amen, famed federal investigator, helps convict three unions and six individuals in a $75 million dressing industry racketeering case. The verdict marks his 195th conviction in two years under the Sherman act. Sentencing set for January 10. several leaders face clemency considerations. William Cohen and Joseph Marmell acquitted.
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New York
John Harlan Amen
Amen
United States Attorney General
International Fur Workers Union
United States
Canada
Nat Rosse
Fur Dressers Factor Corporation
Rosse
Morris Kaufman
International
Pietro Luccho
Morris Reiss
Philip Silberstein
Isaac Hertzberg
Corporation
Dresser
William Cohen
Joseph Marmell
John C. Knox
Postoffice Extends Hours for Christmas Packages
Postmaster J R Wooten announced the Monroe post office will keep parcel post general delivery and stamp windows open Saturday until 8 p m to handle rising Christmas business. Extra clerks and windows keep operations moving forward without interruption.
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Monroe
J. R. Wooten
Mr. Wooten
Big bills loom as houses vote on tax and housing measures
In Washington on December 17 a Republican substitute for the undistributed corporate profits tax was defeated in a house sub committee by 3 to 0 along party lines. The plan would have reduced federal revenues by 416 million dollars this year. Concurrently the house rules committee granted first priority to the administration housing bill as the wage and hours debate continued. Senate members considered crop control substitutes including a cost of production benefit program and a domestic allotment plan.
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Washington
House
Vinson
New York
Representative Crowther
House Rules Committee
Senate
McAdoo
California
Lee
Oklahoma
Senate debates McAdoo farm measure on commodity markets
Washington December 17 4 The senate after four weeks of discussion on the ever normal Granary farm bill debated today a separate measure by Senator McAdoo Democrat California. The proposal would require the secretary of agriculture to ascertain the market for farm commodities.
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Washington
Senate
McAdoo
California
Secretary of Agriculture
Convicted Seamen Seek New Trial After Mutiny Verdict
Fourteen seamen were found guilty of mutiny for a sit down strike aboard the government freighter Algie at Montevideo on September 10. Most remain jailed as defense counsel files a motion for a new trial. Judge Chestnut will rule Monday.
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Baltimore
Montevideo
Uruguay
W. Calvin Chestnut
Wilfred T. McQuaid
Chestnut
John H. Croghan
Pawtucket
R. 1
Charles Hansen
The
National Maritime Union
C. I
Croghan
Invasion Presses South as Nanking Falls
Japanese forces vow to continue the campaign beyond Nanking with plans to strike southern Guangtung and Canton. A victory parade marks Nanking’s fall while Chiang Kai-shek urges continued resistance amid reports of tensions with Western powers after an incident at sea.
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Kwangtung
Canton
Hongkong
Kiyoshi Hasegawa
Nanking
Kiangsu
Shanghai
Chiang Kai-Shek
Noted Georgia Lawyer and Wife Shot Dead in Home
Lee W. Branch a former Georgia Bar president and his wife were killed at their Quitman home by Livingston Snow, Mrs. Branch's brother. Patrolman Grady Marable said Snow, described as mentally ill, was captured after neighbors summoned police. Russell Snow, another sibling, was present during the shooting.
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Quitman
Lee W. Branch
Georgia Bar Association
Grady Marable
Livingston Snow
Branch
Marable
Snow
Branches
Russell Snow
Steel Workers Organizing Committee Sees Policy Shift at Convention
Four delegates face murder charges as police probe the nude body of 19 year old Rose Ault found in a Pittsburgh hotel room. The union wraps its first national congress, directing officers to temper wage and contract positions as steel outlets remain closed for six to eight months.
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Pittsburgh
Steel Workers Organizing Committee
Rose Ault
Organized Labor
Wall Street
Drownings in Rome Rise as Flood Besieges City
Rome reports six drownings as the Tiber swells to 55 feet seven inches at noon. Troops aid evacuations in central areas while King Vittorio Emanuele Queen and Premier Mussolini tour affected districts. Bridges Sublicio and Milvio feared. hospitals evacuate patients as priests are rescued from rising waters.
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Rome
Tiber
Vittorio Emanuele
Benito Mussolini
Sublicio
Horatius
B. C
Pisa
Naples
Milvio
Tiber Island
Fatetene Brotherhood
Countess May Escape Heavy Taxes in U.S. Five
Countess Haugwitz von Reventlow heiress to Woolworth millions faces U.S. tax scrutiny after renouncing American citizenship. Experts warn treasury losses as Denmark’s laws and dual citizenship could affect inheritance for her 22 month old son Lance. The countess, aboard a vessel returning to London, appeared briefly before a federal judge to renounce her citizenship.
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New York
Haugwitz von Reventlow
Woolworth
Mortis Greenbaum
Labor Audit Bureau
Treasury
United States
Denmark
Barbara Hutton
Lance
London
WARDEN TAKES VIEW TWO WHO FLED ALCATRAZ DROWNED
Two desperadoes Ralph Roe and Theodore Cole escaped Alcatraz in dense fog. Authorities fear they drowned after plunging from the cliff into the bay while attempting a coastward escape. Warden Johnston noted the odds against survival and coastal searchers scoured the waters and caves for bodies or signs of a raft or boat.
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Alcatraz
San Francisco
San Francisco Bay
Alcatraz Island
Federals Penitentiary
James A. Johneston
Johnston
Golden Gate
Jess Dunn
Oklahoma
McAlester
Comevicts
Roe
Cole
Maine
Proson
Convieta
Cole and
Pala
United Gas Employees Make Large Gift To Good Fellows Fund
The United Gas Pipe Line and Union Producing company staffs gave 134.5 to the Good Fellows Fund, about 106 percent of parish employees, boosting the fund toward 700. Individual donors include Ray Rhymes Earl Stevenson C. L. Francis J. N. McGuiness and many others in the Twin Cities community. (Continued on second page)
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United Gas
Good Fellows
W. J. Quigles
R. A. Reeder
Jack Walker
C. L. Francis
T. E. Smith
B. G. Barnes
C. G. Wall, Jr
Earl Stevenson
Allen Rowland
Roy Banister
J. N. McGuiness
Sarah Larche
R. C. Stokes
C. W. Shumate
Mary Benoit
J. T. Smith
Mra. Alma McGee
Joe Westmoreland
Catherine Nance
MS Womack
Miss Dorothy
Mildred Wiggins
R. T. Conway
B. U. Hood
F. By Winbery
W. M. Lawrence
Sam
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Leslie Ford
John D. Wilkes
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Bradstreet
Soviet Russia
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Leopold
Anne Cavendish-Bentinck
England
Madoo
Panay
South China
Verybody
Girl Scout
King
King Leopold
Prince Baudoin
Prince Albert
Josephine Charlotte
U. 5
Good Fellows Fund
Martha Grafton
Bettye Grafton
First Presbyterian Il Church
Seymour Insurance
Marry, Jr
Jean Elstner
Fraver
Bernice Wright Jam
A. B. Oakland
J. E. Peters
Women's Benefit Association
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