Russia Rejects League Mediation in Finnish War
Moscow rejects a League of Nations bid to mediate the Russia Finland conflict and opens the path to the league condemning the Soviet Union as aggressor. Premier Molotoff replies to Avenol saying thanks but no participation in mediation.
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Geneva
Russia
League of Nations
Soviet Union
Molotoff
Joseph A. C. Avenol
League
Finland
Soviet
M. Avenol
Moscow
Argentina
Jakob Surits
Paris
Red Army presses attack as Finland braces for invasion
Half a million Soviet troops push toward key Finnish targets along a 200 mile front from the Karelian Isthmus to Tolvajarvi. Finnish defenses report severe fighting with heavy Soviet losses while Finland recovers from transport and road damage across Arctic fronts. Reports mention a submarine sinking and German freighter Bellheim attacked in the Gulf of Bothnia.
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Tornio-Rovaniemi
Arctic Circle
Stockholm
Dagens Nyheter
Helsinki
Red Army
Leningrad
Moscow
Gulf of Finland
Finland
Markajarvi
Markajarvi i
Salla
Rovaniemi
Kemijoki
Tornio
Karelian
Explosions Rip 32 Miles Of Shell Pipe Line Right Of Way
A series of blasts uprooted a 32 mile stretch of Shell Pipe Line's oil conduit through northwest Texas injuring one man and scattering broken pipe. Cars were hurled into holes and homes rattled as the line failed along Archer and Clay counties. Shell planned a full check to determine damage and cause.
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Texas
Wichita Falls
Shell Pipe Line Corporation
Roy H. Brinkley
Brinkley
Jimmie Young
Shell
St. Louis
R. P. Bascom
Shell Pipe Line
McCamey
Tex
Cushing
Okla
Oklahoma
Archer
Clay Counties
Red River
Henrietta
Burkburnett
Mapes Death Halts Oil Bill Hearings in New Orleans
In New Orleans the sudden death of Rep. Carl E. Mapes of Michigan at 64 halted a congressional subcommittee hearing on a bill to place control of the oil industry under a federal administrator. Rep. Cole of Maryland said the panel would likely reconvene after the next Congress opens, with Texas railroad commissioners and officials from multiple states scheduled to testify this week.
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New Orleans
Carl E. Mapes
Michigan
Congressional
Rep. Cole
Maryland
Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Texas Railroad
Conservation Departments
Louisiana
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Kansas
Illinois
Colorado
California
Inside Story on French Threats to U S Soldiers Remains
A multi part series by Vincent Lockhart opens in the News detailing questions raised by C M Spence of Alanreed about France exhuming American soldiers remains and burning them in lime pits. The report cites researchers and officials including Father Charles Coughlin Hon John G Alexander Bascom Timmons Cal Farley and News staff.
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America
A. EB. F
France
C. M. Spence
Alanreed
Vincent Lockhart
Europe
Charles Coughlin
John G. Alexander
C@gress
Minnesota
Bascom Timmons
Washington
Cal Farley
Amarillo
Mr. Lockhart
Amarillo Proposes Oil Leasing for Three City Lands
City officials in Amarillo vote to seek bids on oil and gas leases for three sites Thompson Park Municipal Airport and land west of the zinc smelter. The measure calls for a deep test well with bids due December 28 including bonus royalties and drilling start dates.
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Amarillo
Thompson Park
Ross D. Rogers
Joe Jenkins
H. Ernest Smith
Rogers
Fides
Businessmen Back Coronado Fete Plans for 1940 Pageant
Amarillo businessmen approve city cooperation in a three state Coronado Quatro Centennial celebration for 1940 and pledge 2400 toward a 7500 underwriting fund for a giant Coronado pageant. U S Will Aid. Plans outline an all southwestern chain of celebrations commemorating Coronado's 1540 41 explorations with major events in Santa Fe Albuquerque Amarillo and Phoenix. The US Coronado Commission may invest 8000 10000 and provide costumes lighting and scripts while local costs stay with Amarillo.
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Amarillo
Texas
New Mexico
Arizona
U. 8
Clinton P. Anderson
Albuquerque
U. S. Coronado Commission
Coronado
Anderson
Jerome Cargill
New York
United States
Congress
Kansas
New Mexico Highway Commission
Oil and Railroad
Santa Fe
Phoenix
Ariz
C. W. Farr
Roy Cullum
D Production Amerillo
Cullum
Jim Florey
Wade Brymer
Carl Hinton
Paul Edgquist
FDR Seeks Extension of Reciprocal Trade Pacts
President Roosevelt announced the administration will ask Congress to extend the Reciprocal Trade Agreement Act, whose authority to negotiate pacts expires June 12. He defended export gains and potential foreign markets, dodging questions on possible act modifications. He also noted WPA workers have the same right to organize as other government employees.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Senate
House
Hull
Taft
Frank Knox
Navy
WPA
Trotsky May Not Talk in America
Chairman Martin Dies of Texas told his secretary that Leon Trotsky may not be allowed to testify in the United States about Communist activities in the Western Hemisphere. The committee has not decided on next steps including possible travel to Mexico City to interview Trotsky. Diego Rivera and Trotsky had been invited to speak, and both indicated willingness to participate.
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Orange
Martin Dies
Texas
House
Tonigh
Leon Trotsky
United States
Trotsky
Mexico
Robert E. Stripling
Dies
Stripling
Mexico City
Lenin
J. B. Matthews
Matthews
Washington
State Department
Diego Rivera
Hemisphere
Finland Day Proclaimed in Kansas in Finland Relief Drive
Gov Ratner to issue proclamation designating Sunday in Kansas as Finland Day in response to an appeal by Herbert Hoover chair of the Finnish Relief Fund. The designation follows efforts to aid Finland amid postwar relief needs.
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Finland
Topeka
Kan
Kansas
Payne H. Ratner
Herbert Hoover
Finnish Relief Fund
Reel of Life Winds To End For Douglas Fairbanks Sr
Hollywood mourns as Douglas Fairbanks Sr dies at 55 of a heart attack at his Santa Monica Beach home. Funeral planned for Forest Lawn with tentative services, widow Lady Sylvia Ashley prostrate, son Douglas Fairbanks Jr. by her side, Mary Pickford offers tribute amid widespread tributes from film industry.
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Reel of Life
Douglas Fairbanks, Sr
Hollywood
Finis
Doug
Santa Monica Beach
Heather
Forest Lawn Memorial Park
Chicago
Fairbank
Mary Pickford
Douglas
Charles
Buddy) Rogers
Charles Chaplin
Fairbanks
USC
UCLA
Doug Jr
License Tags in Equation
Secretary of State Harry F. Kelly faces calls to streamline Michigan 1941 license plates after Prof. F. W. Pawlowski showed 1940 plates are 30.2 percent larger than 1939 models. He warned the size increase could raise gasoline use by about $2,000,000 in fuel costs.
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Lansing
Mich
UPI
Harry F. Kelly
Michigan
Kelly
F. W. Pawlowski
University of Michigan Aeronautical Engineering Department
Here To Stay Cars Replace Horse Drawn Travel
Automobiles replace horse drawn transport and the paper promotes modern late model cars for sale. Classifieds under classification 68 offer items including pens from Sheaffer Wahl or Parker and other goods at sub par prices from Russell Stationery.
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Sheaffer
Wahl
Parker
Russell Stationery
Weather Synopsis for Amarillo and Surrounding Regions
The bulletin notes fair weather for Amarillo and vicinity on Wednesday with west Texas and New Mexico showing partly cloudy and cooler conditions in the southern zones. Temperature readings across the day list highs near 57 and lows around 37, with reported values fluctuating in the mid to upper 50s at various hours.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
Yester
Macia Vanes
DS Me
Cleveland economist predicts 1940 business upturn with caution
Col Leonard P Ayres forecasts 1940 industrial output about 110 versus 105 this year and national income near 71 trillion after 69 in 1939. He cites imports down, exports up, department store sales above 1939 but below 1937, and rail freight rising though slower than 1939.
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Cleveland
Leonard P. Ayres
Cleveland Economist
Economic Outlook Notes Mixed 1939 Production
The report cites automobile output around this year’s level within ten percent. It warns commodity price inflation is unlikely and predicts new high records for petroleum refining electric power output tobacco products and airplane production.
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