C I O completes draft constitution to govern labor body
Pittsburgh officials report the C I O has adopted a constitution creating the Congress of Industrial Organizations with broad leadership powers and a projected annual revenue from member dues. The plan names a five union leadership core and outlines voting strengths among the 42 affiliated unions. Potential per capita tax of 50 cents for small industrial unions discussed. The move follows warnings from John L. Lewis to press forward without delay.
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Pittsburgh
Congress of Industrial Organization
John L. Lewis
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Committee For Industrial Organization
Maritime Workers Union
British Trade Pact Signing Is Due Tomorrow
The State Department announced that trade agreements with Great Britain and Canada will be signed at the White House tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock. Secretary of State Hull will sign for the United States while Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King signs for Canada. The UK agreement results from six months of negotiations and increases the total number of concluded trade agreements to 19. The Canadian agreement expands the existing Canadian sale, which expires December.
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Washington
State Department
Great Britain
Canada
White House
Hull
United States
Mackenzie King
United Kingdom
State and Commerce Departments
Handley Martins burg high school banquet at George Washington Hotel
The Kiwanis hosts from two cities serve as banquet hosts for Handley Martins burg high school football. The event honors the Bulldogs with a toast to the Judges and the team. The remarks celebrate Thanksgiving and the boys’ hard clean fight regardless of outcome.
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Handley-Martinsburg
Kiwanis
George Washington Hotel
New York State Official Blamed for Bribery Case
Charles A. J Hartnett state commissioner of Motor Vehicles was arrested in the district attorney’s office on bribery and extortion charges. Dewey’s office says Hartnett accepted about 67 000 in bribes from 1934 to 1938 via Parmelee Transportation and subsidiaries National Transportation Yellow Taxi and Hamilton Peters Operating. Indictment prepared since September but delayed until after a political campaign. Hartnett, also Rhode Island? no, chairman of theassociated council appeared voluntarily.
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New York
Charles A. J
Thomas E. Dewey
Hartnett
Parmelee Transportation Company
National Transportation Company, Inc
Yellow Taxi Corporation
Hamilton Peters Operating Company, Inc
Dewey
Aeyster Codenate
Wey
Carol appeals for British aid during visit to London
King Carol of Romania urged Britain for financial and economic support to steer his Balkan nation toward peaceful understanding. The appeal came during his state visit's first public speech at London's Guildhall, attended by Prime Minister Chamberlain, Foreign Minister Lord Halifax, and the Lord Mayor.
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London
Carol
Romania
Balkan
Ancient Guildhall
Chamberlain
Lord Halifax
Desirable brick residence to be sold at Court House
A desirable brick residence at 515 South Loudoun Street is scheduled for sale in front of the Court House at noon on November 19. The notice appears in the local classified listings dated November 16.
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Loudoun Street
Court House
Beautiful young female Collie and tortoise shell kit advertised
Wanted at once good homes for a beautiful young female Collie and a fine half grown female tortoise shell kitten. Phone numbers 41 or 1182. Photographs available. Includes a special holiday lay away plan for Christmas offered by Barr's Studio.
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Barr
Daladier Restates France Will Not Cede Colonies
Paris November 16 Premier Daladier declared France would not cede colonies to Germany and would protect colonial integrity. He said no such measure had been considered and Parliament would be consulted on any future issues.
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Daladier
Germany
France
Chamber of Deputies
Hitler
Togoland
Cameroons
League of Nations
Italy
Foreign Office
Prance
Djibouti
Eritrea
Suez Canal
Tunisia
General Confederation of Labor
Communist Party
Georges Rivelett
Italy Triumphs in Economic War Over Ethiopia
Rome reports a two nation peace agreement ending Britain led sanctions over Italy's 1935 Ethiopian campaign. Britain recognizes the conquest and opens trade, while Soviet Russia and the United States have not yet recognised the victory.
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Rome
Italy
England
Britain
France
League of Nations
Ethiopia
Russia
United States
Chamberlain
Anthony Eden
Entrance To City Complete At Fairmont Avenue
City workers will finish improvements to Fairmont Avenue at the city limits adjoining the Loy property tomorrow. Total expenditures run about 1200 dollars, the final estimate before council. Work removed a bottleneck on Route 7, lowered grade, and rebuilt a retaining wall with grading and paving by the State Highway Department.
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Fairmont Avenue
Loy
State Highway Department
Man Is Held In Accident
Berryville Virginia November 16 Harry Rankin 26 employed on the Humston place near Berryville has been arrested by Deputy Buckner and State Officer Landis in a hit-run case. Rankin admits driving the car that struck Mrs Harold Castleman as she crossed a Berryville street, knocking her to the ground. The car fled the scene. Rankin was with his brother. Vehicle registered to Mrs Virgie Agin of Brucetown. A hearing may be held today or tomorrow before Trial Justice Loring Kackley.
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the Star
Berryville
Harry Rankin
Humston Place
Charles Ralston
Robert Buckner
Landis
Rankin
Harold Castleman
Virgie Agin
Brucetown
Reconciliation or separation for Fay Wray and John Saunders
Fay Wray and John Monk Saunders agreed to travel to California to attempt reconciliation or pursue legal separation. If reconciliation fails they will seek custody of their three year old daughter Susan Cary Saunders in court. The family, all hospitalized at University of Virginia Hospital, depends on Saunders's recovery.
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Charlottesville
Fay Wray
John Monk Saunders
California
Susan Cary Saunders
University of Virginia Hospital
Saunders
Miss Wray
Hollywood
New York
University Library
America
Protection Always Given Foreigners
Secretary Hull said it is usual for the government to exercise diligence at all times in protecting foreign representatives. He did not confirm that governors were asked to protect German consulates.
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Washington
Hull
State Department
Urges Revision Of Farm Statute
Louis J. Taber, National Grangemaster, urged in a national convention address that the government revise farm measures to remove regimentation and simplify the farm law. He called for continued soil conservation and crop loans, reduced red tape, and a tariff draw-back to support exports, plus Senate ratification of trade deals before effect.
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Portland
Ore
Louis J. Taber
Taber
Grange
High Command
Ac- Taber
Columbus
Ohio
United States Senate
G Men Called To Probe Cash Sent To SC Electric
Columbia officials report G-men were summoned after a package mailed through the Uncle Sam system delivered $1,700 in twenty ten and five dollar bills to the South Carolina Electric and Gas Company. Norman H. Coit, vice president and general manager, said the sender was unidentified and officials have no idea who sent it.
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Columbia
S. C
South Carolina Electric and Gas Company
Uncle Sam
Norman H. Coit
Coit
Stein Faust Opera Libretto Prompted by Devil Dialogue
Paris dated record notes Gertrude Stein writes an English style Faust libretto with Lord Berners composing a new opera. The piece features Mephistopheles tempting Faust and Marguerite accused of biting a viper as the plot unfolds amid electric stage lights.
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Faust
Miss Stein
Lord Berners
Mephistopheles
Devil
British Seek Means To Aid German Jewry
The British cabinet considers aiding German Jews and weighs a mass migration plan to North and South America and parts of the British Empire. Talks involve the United States and several European nations as pressure grows from Nazi anti Jewish measures. Emergency talks may lead to a conference with Colijn proposing relief via the Evian refugees program.
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United States
Joseph P. Kennedy
North
South America
British Empire
Great Britain
Frances
Belgium
Netherlands
Denmark
Switzerland
Germany
Hendrikus Colijn
Adolf Hitler
Y. Row
White Chapel
East End
Hitler
Chamberlain
Hitler Oswald Pirow
Union of South Africa
Berlin
Britain
Intergvernmental Committee On Refugees
Evian-Les- Bains
France
Roosevelt
Rome
Il Tevere
Royal Gymnastic Society of
Trieste
Fire Loss Put At 500 On Reardon Timber Tract
A timber lot of about 10 acres owned by James P Reardon part of the Harry K Russell farm near Salem ane sustained an estimated 500 in damage after a fire swept the virgin timber late yesterday. More than twenty neighbors fought the blaze through the night preventing greater loss and hunters were blamed for starting the fire. Fire observation continued past 9 PM with guard kept to deter a restart.
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James P. Reardon
Mr. Reardon
Harry K. Russell
Salem Ane
Vom Rath's Funeral Delayed National Mourning in Dusseldorf
Ernst Vom Rath's body arrived in Dusseldorf for burial after his Paris assassination sparked a Nazi response. The city halted, crowds lined the road to Rhineland Hall as the casket lay in state, with Hitler expected at the state funeral.
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Dusseldorf
Germany
Ernst Vom Rath
Paris
Nazi Gemany
Rhineland Hall
Hershel Grynszpan
Hitler
Friedrich Florian
Vom Rath
Count Johannes von Welczeck
Death of Danville Mayor Ends 46 Year Tenure
Mayor Harry Woodring aged 94 who led Danville for 46 years died at his home in Danville Virginia. A Surviving Confederate veteran born near the city he enlisted at 17 and served through the Civil War. He had been in declining health since the July Gettysburg celebration and died after a recent sinking spell.
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Danville
Harry Woodring
United States
Woodring
Berlin News Reports Jewish Seclusion Amid Nazi Editorial Attack
In Berlin on November 16, Jews sought seclusion as the United States embassy filed a formal note protesting property destruction of American Jews during last week's attacks. An Essen Nazi paper attacked US officials, tying the embassy's actions to Roosevelt and Goering's regime.
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Berlin
United States
Foreign Office
Chlorinator Arrives for Rouss Spring Water Plant
The city council authorized and received a new chlorinator to install at Rouss Spring pumping station. The old unit was partially paid off by the manufacturer, and an ammoniator was sold to Norfolk with proceeds applying to the new equipment. The cost is reported at 630 dollars.
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Rouss Spring
Norfolk
Ceeneris
Grange Meeting Rescheduled To Monday Night At 7 30
B I with Brumback master of the Frederick County Pomona Grange announces the Middletown meeting is postponed from Thursday to next Monday at 7 30. The bi annual election of officers and other business will be conducted. representation is urged. Aunt Jemima in person at the Market tomorrow. Antiques: sofa tables cedar chest. Farms listed with equipment and livestock sale items.
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Brumback
Frederick County
Pomona Grange
Middletown
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