Nazi Plan Seeks Jewish Emigration For Trade Boost
A Nazi editor disclosed a scheme to ease Jewish emigration in exchange for higher German exports. Goering may announce details soon as iron fences from Jewish graves are torn down to supply scrap iron, while German papers attack pro Jewish sympathizers. The Jewish publication urges repurposing grave fences to aid reuse.
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Berlin
Herman Wilhelm Goering
Goering
Germany
Juedisches Nachrichtenblatt
Belgian government collapse averted after minister resigns
Brussels reports a crisis over Belgian economic policy ended when Finance Minister Max Leo Gerard resigned following a rift with Premier Paul Henri Spaak. The liberal minister cited fiscal policy criticism amid a $40,000 budget deficit, allowing Spaak to pursue closer ties with Spain.
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Brussels
Max Leo Gerard
Paul Henri Spaak
Gerard
Leopold
Spaak
Spain
West Virginia deer season tops 400 killed in two days
Clarksburg reports the open season's first two days yielded at least 405 deer killed, including 253 on day one. One accident caused the death of 20 year old Lee Hoak of near Lee in Hampshire County when his gun discharged after he fell from a stump. Last year’s total was about 400.
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Clarksburg
W. Va
West Virginia
Lee Hoak
Lee
Hampshire County
Hoak
The
Conservation Commission
No Evidence To Back Girl Kidnap Tale In Maryland
Oxon Hill Maryland December 2 police indicated they will withdraw from the Mary Brown kidnapping case if no corroborating evidence emerges. Major Elmer F Munshower said they will pursue leads until nothing more can be done. Brown's daughter Mary aged 18 is said to have been held in a hut and released after injuries to her legs were reported. The family says she was unharmed apart from scratches and torn hose and her father urges arrest of those responsible.
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Oxon Hill
Mary Brown
Elmer F. Munshower
Maryland
William B. Brown
Miss Brown
Perkins backs Wagner Act as is
Secretary of Labor Perkins expressed support for the Wagner labor relations act as currently written. She said she does not favor amendments based on her present knowledge, aligning with the National Labor Relations Board and the CIO against revision. The AF of L, Chamber of Commerce, and NAM seek changes for various reasons.
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Washington
Perkins
National Labor Relations Board
C.I.O
American Federation of Labor
Chamber of Commerce of the United States
National Association of Manufacturers
Daladier Faces Colonial Claim Of Italy and Nazis
Paris reports Daladier warning employers to treat workers with leniency after the abortive strike. He defends labor contracts, while Italy and Germany push colonial ambitions. A French protest over Italy’s Tunisia and Corsica claims follows Ciano’s Fascist speech.
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Daladier
Italy
Paris
Germany
Dalqdier
France
Rome
Andre Francois-Poncet
Galeazzo Ciano
Tunisia
Corsica
Ciano
Georges Bennett
Charles Pomaret
Tragic Freight Train Fatality In Clarksburg
In Clarksburg West Virginia on December 2 a Baltimore and Ohio freight train struck and killed 43 year old John Charles Consorchik as he stepped onto the track to avoid an oncoming train. Rail road police said they were investigating the incident in the siding area.
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Clarksburg
W. Va
Baltimore and Ohio
John Charles Consorchik
Consorchik
Wall Streeter Denies Using Beauty Lobby in Capital
William P. Buckner a 31 year old Wall Street financier and friend of Loretta Young denied using New York chorus girls to influence congressmen at Washington parties. He was released on 2000 bail on mail fraud charges claiming he swindled investors out of 100000 in Philippines railway bond manipulation and said he telephoned Miss Young to reassure her. Federal agents seized Buckner as he left the Queen Mary. Assistant U. S. Attorney Maloney said Buckner created a beauty lobby in Washington to push redemption of defaulted bonds and sent five chorus girls from Paradise Night club to a hotel party in August 1937.
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New York
William P. Buckner
Wall Street
Loretta Young
Washington, D. C
Young
Philippines
Miss Young
Hollywood
Scotland Yard
Buckner
Loretta
Washington
U. S
William P. Maloney
Paradise
National Capital
Hitler confident on Nazi future in Sudeten rally
Reichsfuhrer Adolf Hitler addressed 20 000 Sudeten Germans in Reichenberg vowing the new generation will sustain Nazism. He outlined youth organization pathways from age ten to the storm troops and claimed only a strong, united people can defend its rights. He urged expansion ahead of Sunday elections for deputies in former Czechoslovakia.
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Reichenberg
Germany
Hitler
Sudetenland
Thefuehrer
Nazi
Hitler Youth
Black Gun
Works Service
Army
Black Guards
Salem College furnace blast injures janitor in class
A Salem College janitor, Okey W. Davis, 57, was seriously injured when a gas furnace exploded in the main building during classes. About 50 students were present as books toppled and chairs toppled in the blast. Davis was rushed to a hospital in serious condition. The cause is under investigation.
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Salem
W. Va
Salem College
Okey W. Davis
Radical agitation blamed for Nash strike shutdown
Kenosha Wisconsin December 2 a Nash Kelvinator spokesman attributed a labor dispute to radical agitation outside union control sparking a shutdown of the Nash automobile plant in Kenosha and the Seaman Body division in Milwaukee. About 4250 workers were idled as 300 men sat down in the assembly department amid the agitation.
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Kenosha
Wis
Nash-Kelvinator Corporation
United Automobile Workers’ Union
Nash Automobile
Seaman Body
Milwaukee
R. A. Devney
Nash Motors
Assembly
Hit-Skipper in Wayne crash kills 80 year old man
In Wayne West Virginia an automobile failed to stop and struck Wiley Queen an 80 year old resident of Echo. Sheriff O L Booten said the driver’s identity is unknown. Witnesses reported several or apparently hunters were in the car.
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Wayne
W. Va
Wiley Queen
Echo
O. L. Booten
Navy orders high pressure boilers for new battleships
The General Board endorsed high pressure super heat boilers for six 35 000 ton battleships amid a long standing dispute over warship designs and delays. Navy officials say the change improves efficiency and economy as construction delays continue since 1933. Congress may hear of the controversy as Rep Maas calls for reform and a navy general staff proposal. Admiral Leahy notes delays hampered fleet strengthening amid a billion dollar expansion approved this year.
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Washington
Navy
General Board
Swanson
Roosevelt
Congress
Maas
Minn
House Naval Committee
Navy Department
Army
William D. Leahy
DUN ADMITS HI SLEW PREACHER
Bainbridge Ohio December 2 Sheriff Joseph Vincent said Robert Bready 29 confessed shooting to death his minister Russell Hready 62 while in a drunken stupor near their home as his father walked him to sober him up. Prosecutor Reid had quoted Bready saying he was too drunk to remember the details.
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Bainbridge, O
Joseph Vincent
Robert Bready
Russell Hready
Young Bready
Lester
Reid
Pontiac
Mich
Chillicothe
RITES PLANNED FOR BUS VICTIMS
Parents of Utah school bus disaster victims decide private funerals over mass rites. Twenty three killed, including bus driver Farrold H. Silcox. Interstate Commerce Commission investigators en route. Salt Lake doctors report 16 seriously injured and four in critical condition. no inquest planned.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Mormon Tabernacle
Farrold H. Silcox
Interstate Commerce Commission
Washington
Venue
Rio Grande Western Railroad
Salt Lake County General Hospital
Harold E. Wallace
Silcox
Americans Leave Spain As Rebels Bomb Border Lines
The Lincoln and Washington battalions of the 15th international brigade, 332 strong and unwounded, marched to La Tour de Carol after front line service, leaving Spain a few hundred yards ahead of rebel bombs. Aerial attacks at Alp followed, while a follow‑up group of about 300 wounded and unharmed personnel prepared to complete repatriation under Madrid’s policy. Major Milton Wolfe led the unit, keeping his home address private. Ted Schneider, Dr Francisco Silvestre Lacruz, Benjamin Kutler, and Guy Thorp were among the volunteers awaiting final flight home.
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la Tour de Carol
France
International
Spain
Lincoln and Washington
Ternational
Alp
Milton Wolfe
Ted Schneider
Francisco Silvestre Lacruz
Benjamin Kutler
New Yorker
Guy Thorp
Frankfort
Ill
First California use of lethal gas executes two prisoners
At San Quentin five death row inmates faced the gas chamber. Albert Kessell and Robert Cannon died after inhaling the gas, with witnesses including Warden Court Smith and the prison chaplain criticizing the method as inhumane. The other three convicts remained to be executed.
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San Quentin
Calif
California
Folsom
Albert Kesseill
Robert L. Cannon
L. L. Stanley
Cannon
Kessell
Court Smith
George O'Meara
Kessel
Father O'Meara
Four Convicted Spies Sentenced for Selling U S Secrets
Federal Judge John C. Knox imposed prison terms from two to six years on four defendants for passing U S military information to Nazi Germany. Johanna Hofmann received four years, Otto Voss six years, Erich Glaser and Guenther Rumrich two years each. Rumrich pleaded guilty and testified. Hofmann cried as the judge noted her misguided service to her government.
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New York
Germany
John C. Knox
United States
Nazi Germany
Knox
Johanna Hofmann
Europa
Otto Herman Voss
Erich Glaser
United States Army
Mitchellfield
Long Island
Guenther
Gustav Rumrich
United States Army de
Miss Hofmann
Voss
Glaser
Rumrich
Professional pauper class in U S seen
An expert in governmental research warned at a National Municipal League conference that a professional paupers class is developing in the United States. Carl P. Herbert, director of the St Paul bureau of municipal research, said relief costs now match local tax collections and will remain a dominant problem despite business improvement.
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Baltimore
United States
Carl P. Herbert
St. Paul
Confessed Hold Up at Gas Station Leads to More Robbery Confessions
Three youths, Jack Hansbarger, Elbert Oxley, and William Mastin, admitted planning and taking part in armed robberies in Princeton and nearby areas. They confessed to robbing Ralph Wade at James Hoge's station for 28.05 dollars, assaulting and robbing Walker G. Anderson for 40 dollars, and robbing an unidentified man for 8 dollars. They also discussed plans to steal a taxi in Bluefield to aid further holds ups and to rob Sarver Candy and two Princeton jewelry shops. Police arrested them late Thursday, with Mastin turning over Wade’s money and revealing a stash. The trio faced arraignment following questioning by troopers.
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Princeton Bureau Daily Telegraph
Princeton
Jack Hansbarger
Elbert Oxley
Athens
William Mastin
Ralph Wade
James Hoge
South Walker
Roscoe Pendleton
Walker G. Anderson
Princeton Avenue
Anderson
Cook
Bluefield
Oxley
Sarver Candy Company
H. E. Martin
G. T. Davis, Jr
Hansbarger
Martin
Mastin
Wade
Japan Army Poised for Impending Drive in Yangtze Valley
Shanghai dispatch reports a Japanese army spokesman stating the imperial army is arrayed on a 150 mile front between the Canton Hankow and Kiukiang Nanchang railways for a southward offensive into Hunan and Jiangsi provinces. An attack at Tungshan near Kiangsi Hunan line was repulsed with heavy Chinese casualties.
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Shanghai
Yangtze Valley
Canton-Hankow
Kiukiang-Nanchang
Hunan
Kiangsi
Kiukiang
Hankow
Tungshan
Kiangsi - Hunan
Tured Lintsing
Shantung
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le Havve
Jouhaux
General Confederation of Labor
Wall
Marseilles
Fuehrer
IK Salem College Hall
High Command
Solon
Dun
Salt Lake Tabernacle
Ment
U.S
Main Street
Japan
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