Reds Fight Desperately To Avoid Finn Trap
Finnish forces claim to repulse heavy Red attacks on the Mannerheim line and central fronts. The war communique notes more than 100 tanks in a new central thrust, heavy Russian casualties north of Lake Ladoga, and reports of Russian divisions cut off or in danger of being trapped. Finnish troops reportedly destroyed a detachment of 50 parachutists near Rovaniemi during a bold counteraction.
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Helsinki
U.P
Mannerheim Line
Lake Ladoga
Red Army
Mannerheim
Karelian
Pitkaranta Islands
Rovaniemi
Oil proration row fuels Texas oil commission move
Texas railroad commission chair Lon A. Smith seeks to rescind the February statewide oil proration order and restore the January schedule to allow public input before the next hearing. He asked the attorney general for an partial sign-by-proxy ruling while 200-plus complaints drive reconsideration.
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Austin
Lon A. Smith
Texas Railroad Commission
Ernest O. Thompson
Washington
Smith
Jerry Sadler
East Texas
Sadler
Thompson
National Capital
House
Dear Tack seeking work and household help in 1930s notices
A collection of classified pleas from a 41-year-old man offering yard work and cleaning services, a colored girl seeking half day work, a cafe waitress with four years’ experience seeking immediate employment, a dairy and farm worker seeking work, a couple seeking farm help with housework, a family seeking a dependable girl to manage a home, and a reader returning a found 1936 high school ring.
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Tack
Roy Pyles
Tam
George Slaughter
N. Harrison
W.T. Brown
Cameron
N. M
Alabama
Lions Club Programs Highlight Admonitions and Civic Service
The Long Beach Lions Club heard Walter Warmbold, first president of the club and organizer of the Officers' Association, give a talk titled Admonitions with musical accompaniment by his wife Evangeline S. Warmbold, NBC artist. A Preventorium representative introduced a sponsored child, and members were urged to save tin foil from wrappers to aid the facility, which has saved half a carload and hopes to reach a full carload.
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Lions Club
Walter Warmbold
Long Beach
Cal, Lions Club
Lions Club Officers’ Association
Evangeline S. Warmbold
NBC
J. L. Scott
Cancel City Commission Meet Scheduled Tonight
City commission meeting is not to be held tonight as postponement was announced by city manager H. R Smith at noon. No urgent matters were submitted for consideration.
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H. R Smith
Wallace Plans Cotton Clothes Distribution to Needy
Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace announced that cotton goods will be distributed to needy families through a stamp plan modeled after the surplus foods program. The tentative plan aims to reach low income households and is awaiting implementation details.
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Wallace
Washington
Secretary of Agriculture
Henry A. Wallace
This Fellow Was Meaner Than Man Who Took Baby's Candy
A U P report from Dallas highlights police seeking a theft of 25 diapers, described as a more vital crime than candy theft from a baby. The note contrasts with other brief items from Paris and Britain on war, floods, and divorces, and ends with a historical note on the avoirdupois pound by King Henry VIII.
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Dallas
U.P
Henry VIII
England
Hungary and Bulgaria Oppose Boundary Safeguard Policy
Hungary and Bulgaria oppose the Balkan Entente's policy of safeguarding national territory and seek explanations on whether it means upholding current southeastern Europe boundaries. They pursue peaceful settlement of disputes over Romania and its postwar losses, asking Entente foreign offices for clarification on territorial concessions.
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Budapest
Hungary
Bulgaria
Balkan Entente
Europe
Romania
Entente
French Radical Socialists Back Finland War Aid
Paris February 6 Premier Daladier's radical Socialist party adopted a resolution urging the French government to take all necessary measures to permit Finland to continue fighting and winning against Russia. The group tied Finland's outcome to Western Europe and argued Soviet defeat would weaken enemies in power and prestige.
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Paris
Daladier
Radical Socialist Party
Finland
Russia
Europe
Doris Dudley Plans To Divorce Husband After Barrymore Stir
Doris Dudley, 22, revealed in New York that she will divorce her Beverly Hills restaurateur husband Jack Jenkins. She is leaving her role in John Barrymore's play My Dear Children to Elaine Barrie after Barrymore reconciled with his fourth wife.
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New York
U.P
Doris Dudley
John Barrymore
Elaine Barrie
Jack Jenkins
Beverly Hills
Cal
Judge Testifies Before Himself in Jury Hearing
In Salt Lake City on February 6 Judge Oscar W. McConkie testified before himself. He stated that negroes were called for jury service in earlier terms and then resumed his judicial role to deny a motion to quash the jury list alleging racial exclusion.
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Salt Lake City
Oscar W. McConkie
Two Accidents in Nine Years One at Each Bridge End
William Snapp, 28, has had two truck accidents in nine years. Three years ago his truck hit one end of a Muddy Creek bridge. yesterday the same truck struck the opposite end.
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Winchester
William Snapp
Muddy Creek
Two Arrests Linked to Loyalist Spain Recruiting
United States District Attorney John C. Lehr announced that 12 people have been arrested on charges of recruiting soldiers for the Loyalist Army during the recent Spanish Civil War. Eleven were arrested in Detroit and one in Milwaukee after months of investigation begun in 1938.
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Detroit
U.P
United States
John C. Lehr
Lehr
Milwaukee
Wholesalers Urged to Submit Amarillo Census Sales
Amarillo chamber urges wholesalers and warehousemen to obtain company permission to report Amarillo sales figures for the business census. Critics say coast cities claim coast sales, depriving Amarillo of credit for its own business. The census is under way as figures from Amarillo will be aggregated by the coast. A last note mentions the Panama sunrise to sunset across the Atlantic and Pacific.
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Amarillo
San Francisco
Kansas City
New York
Hugh Norman
Chamber of Commerce
Norman
Bayshore City Votes to Disincorporate Amid Dog Racing Ruling
Bay shore City in San Mateo County votes 274 to 86 to disincorporate after dog racing treatment becomes illegal. The town of 1,000 people had received about $10,000 yearly before disincorporation. Attorney General Earl Warren had ruled dog racing illegal.
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Bayshore City
Calif
San Mateo County
Earl Warren
Track for the hounds ends as plant closes
Citizens react to the closure of a local plant and the loss of municipal government services seen as a costly luxury. The snippet notes financial strain on residents as the facility shuts, triggering concerns over public spending and local employment.
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American Power
Aviation Corpse
Baldwin Locomotive
Stal
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Barnedall Oil
Bendix Aviation Veneee
Bethlehem Stee
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Borden & Co
Borg-Warner
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Case J I & Co
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Beers & Co
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Penney Co
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Aya
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Schenley Distillers
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Texas Pacific Land Trust
Thompson Products
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Transcon & West
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Wilson & Co
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Walworth Co
Zenith Radio
Cosden Petroleum Corp
Electric Bond
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Hecla Mines
Humble Oil
Niagara Hudson Power
Pantepee
Southland
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London
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Newport
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Harry Paisley
Pittsburgh, Pa
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Panama
Long -Bell Lumber Co
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