United States applies financial pressure to enforce oil embargo
Washington reports use of financial pressure against Italy and Ethiopia to stop oil sales amid renewed tensions. Italian critics call the move sanctionist as Addis Ababa reports Ethiopian advances near Makale and heavy Italian losses. A British note to Italy confirms sanctions remain in effect.
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Devon Francis
Associated Press
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Ethiopia
Washington
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Rome
Ickes
Interior Department
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America
Makale
Womberta
Ras Seyoum
Mussolini
Haile Selassie
Il Duce
Daggah Bur I
Agaden
France
Great Britain
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Kolel
Timbien Mountains
Timbien
Tembien
London
League of Nations
Dino Grandi
Foreign Office
Grandi
Samuel Hoare
Britain
Scott Gets Road Contract in New Settings Today
Atlanta reports bids opened by the state highway department for 32 miles of paving 12 miles of grading and eight bridges totaling 621454 funded by federal funds. Apparent low bidders include W F Scott and Company Thomasville for grading 9608 miles on McRae Milam highway and R E Taylor Cuthbert for four bridges on the same route.
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State Highway Department
Telfair County
McRae-Milam
W. F. Scott and Company
Thomasville
Florida Georgia Alabama Weather Forecast
Weather forecast for Florida Georgia and Alabama notes cloudy skies with showers in parts tonight and Saturday in Florida and extreme north and central areas may see frost. Georgia expected to be generally fair inland with frost and possible near freezing conditions in north and central areas, colder Saturday. Alabama forecast calls for fair but colder conditions with frost tonight and rising temperatures in the north on Saturday.
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Georgia
Alabama
Roosevelt Enjoys Warm Springs Visit And Navy Talk
President Roosevelt spends Thanksgiving at Pine Mountain Georgia enjoying sun and the Warm Springs pool. He says naval personnel will rise to a total of 100000 to meet ship replacement needs while noting the London conference talks. He plans quiet days, receptions avoided, and continues White House links.
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White House
Grace Tully
Atlanta
Georgia White House
Francis M. Stephenson
Associated Press
Warm Springs
Georgia
Mail
Washington
Pine Mountain
London
Congress
Georgia Hall
Warm Springs Foundation
Pine Mountain Homestead
Hyde Park
New York
Wilhoit Addresses Thomasville on Freight Rate Inequities
Jud P. Wilhoit chairman of the Georgia Public Service Commission spoke to civic business and farming leaders at the Thomasville courthouse about freight rate differentials. He urged a southern front against unfair IC burden and noted rates influence the price of every commodity. The talk stressed simplifying railroad pricing and highlighted the economic, not political, nature of the issue.
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Georgia Public Service Commission
Jud P. Wilhoit
Thomasville
Thomas County
Court House
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Wilhoit
Public Service Commission
Claude Rountree
J. A. Bowers
Meiga
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Turn
Thomas K. Davis
Davis
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Georgia WPA Funds Put To Work On Local Projects
Atlanta reports an early start for Georgia Works Progress Administration projects with a $5,817,012 federal grant. Miss Gay B. Shepperson will select eligible ventures across Colquitt Daugherty Lowndes Thomas and Tift counties including community centers parks schools courts farms airports and sewer and water systems in multiple municipalities.
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Georgia
Works Progress Administration
Treasury
Gay B. Shepperson
WPA
Colquitt County
Moultrie
Wright Attacks 15-Mill Tax Limitation Plan in Georgia
In Atlanta on November 22 Tait Wright of Athens and Rush Burton of the Lavonia Times denounced Georgia's proposed 15 mill tax limit at a state convention of city and county school officials. They warned the plan would reduce state school funding and empower the legislature to control tax methods, with projected losses across multiple counties totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars per year.
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Tait Wright
Athens
Georgia Association of County Commissioners
Rush Burton
Lavonia Times
Mily
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Burton
General Assembly
Malcolm Byran
University of Georgia
S. V. Sanford
University
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Alma
Fulton County
Decatur
DeKalb County
Clarke County
Augusta
Richmond County
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Bibb County
Savannah
Chatham County
Columbus
Muscoree County
Unification urged of the three American Methodist groups
Opelika Alabama November 22 The 193rd annual Alabama Conference session heard Rev Casady of Montgomery urge unification of the Methodist Church northern branch the Southern Methodist and the Methodist Protestant to form a single body of more than 9 000 000 members The conference also postponed a decision on leasing Methodist Memorial Hospital to Dr S D Suggs of Montgomery until 1946 on a fifty fifty basis.
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T. C. Casacdy
Montgomery
America
Casady
Methodist Church
Southern Methodist
Methodist Memorial Hospital
Florida Couple Die in Crossing Crash
Fort Lauderdale Florida November 22 A elderly couple Mr and Mrs J M Weirick were killed when their car was struck by the Florida East Coast Day Light Express at a grade crossing south of Fort Lauderdale. The couple's car was tossed 27 paces from the track and Mrs Weirick was flung 20 feet farther as the train plowed into the vehicle.
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Fort Lauderdale
Fla
J. M. Weirick
Here
Wierick
Austin
Miami
Storm in Southern Italy Kills At Least Twenty
A brutal southern Italy storm today left at least 20 dead and many injured. Catanzaro reported nine fatalities, Serra San Bruno saw ten, and a man drowned in a flooded Messina stream as houses collapsed and fishing boats were lost.
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Rome
Italy
Catanzaro
Bea
Serra San Bruno
Messina
Ships With War Supplies Now Held In Port
Washington reports that ships carrying war materials were held in port as the Shipping Board warns shipowners owing it money that shipments to Italy and Ethiopia violate U S policy. Letters citing Hull’s November 15 statement prompted vessels to delay, including oil tankers.
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Washington
J.C. Peacock
The
Shipping Board
Merchant Fleet Corporation
Italy
Ethiopia
U. S
Hull
City of Norfolk Rams Calmar in Chesapeake Bay Collision
The Chesapeake Bay Line reported that its bay steamer City of Norfolk struck the motorship Calmar in fog near Sparrow's Point. Calmar sustained negligible damage while City of Norfolk’s prow was damaged. Five ships, including Calmar, docked at Sparrow's Point today.
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Baltimore
Chesapeake Bay Line
City of
End Unemployment Goal Still Out of Reach
Washington reports the Works Progress Administration says 2,367,242 needy had jobs on November 16, leaving 1,132,758 short of the 3,500,000 goal. The weekly gain was 359,120 with CCR and other federal employments shifting modestly. December 1 relief direct payments remain limited to states, and the target requires over 500,000 new jobs weekly.
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Dole
Works Progress Administration
Aubrey Williams
Works Progress
Relief Administration
Civil Conservation Corps
Mussolini sacrifices metal busts to dodge sanctions
Rome November 22 Premier Mussolini ordered an assortment of his likenesses melted down for national defense against sanctions. He delivered three truck loads of old metal including busts of himself to the Fascist federation to substitute for imported iron and bronze.
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Mussolini
Fascist Federation
St. Marks Tides For November 25 At Apalachee Bay
Predicted tides at St. Marks lighthouse in Apalachee Bay show high tide at 42 33 p m and low tides at 6 21 a m and 9 45 p m tomorrow November 25.
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Apalachee Bay
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