Dewey Opens Campaign for GOP Nomination in Minnesota
Thomas E. Dewey told Minnesota Republicans that the Roosevelt administration pursues defeatism and a crisis of faith, arguing the nation must choose growth over shrinking and reject dividing up benefits from the New Deal while stressing Republicans can win through. He urged belief in the party and country and warned against defeatism.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Thomas E. Dewey
Roosevelt
Inn
Def
Bluefield to Build Sidewalks and Walls on Princeton Avenue
City Manager Emory Mitchell announced WPA funds totaling 49 617 were released December 5 to construct sidewalks and retaining walls from Lee Street to the city limits. Work will start after current dirt street project ends, likely early next year.
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East
Princeton Avenue
WPA
Lee Street
East End
Emory Mitchell
Mitchell
Bluefield
Works Progress Administration
GOP Committee Meeting Signals High Spirits Ahead
Washington reports the Republican National Committee meeting as Chairman John D. M. Hamilton says party morale is higher than in 1932 or 1936. Enthusiasm among members arriving for the gathering hints at strategy talks for future nominees and convention plans.
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Washington
John D. M. Hamilton
Republican National Committee
Cays
Prairie Fire Threatens Wyola Hamlet in Montana
A 50 000 acre prairie fire swept the dry lands along the Little Horn River in south central Montana endangering Wyola population about 600. Wind at 30 miles per hour carried the blaze across the Crow Indian Reservation, but the flames spared the town after a narrow creek barrier held. Corps enrollees joined local residents to fight the blaze as several ranch buildings were reported destroyed.
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Wyola
Mont
Little Horn River
Montana
Crow Indian Reservation
Thirteen Italian Army Fliers Die in Crash Near Lucca
In Rome a farmer reported thirteen army fliers killed when three Italian bombers crashed while en route from Milan to Rome. Five crew members survived by parachute. a civilian was crushed by a falling aircraft. Cause not yet determined.
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Rome
Dec
Milan
Lucca
U S Plan Indirect Help For Finland In War
The Roosevelt administration outlined indirect aid to Finland as it fights Russia. Jesse Jones reported potential support via the Red Cross for medical supplies from Britain, with $15,000 more set aside for Finnish relief. A draft bill to transfer Finland’s war debt was also discussed.
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Washington
Finland
Roosevelt
Jesse Jones
Federal Loan Administration
I Norman
American
Jones
British
Red Cross
Britain
Red Cross Eheers
United Statill
Mich
Treasury
Morgenthau
Kallio
Russia
Messag Bnt Kallio
Governor commutes death sentence after twelve years
Ossining New York December six governor Lehman intervenes in the case of Harry Wichinitzer once sent to Sing Sing death house for killing two police officers. Alienists reported improvement and he is returned to the death house but his sentence is commuted to life imprisonment.
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Death House
Ossining
N. Y
Harry Wichinitzer
Sing Sing
New York
der Wing Terror
Lehman
Bluefield Girl Hit By Speeding Car in Hit-Run
Edith girl was struck and injured by a speeding unidentified auto on a hit-and-run last night in Bluefield. Violet and Raymond Sergeant nearby reported the car as a black Chevrolet sedan. Edith sustained possible fractures of the right arm and minor cuts and bruises.
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Bluefield Lass
Edith Underwood
Marks City
Bluefield
Edith Girl
Violet
Raymond Sergeant
Edith
Chairman Plans Hearing On Trotsky Testimony In Texas
Texas congressman says a House committee may invite exiled Leon Trotsky and Diego Rivera to testify on Communist inroads in Latin America. Hearing could occur before January 3 on documents about Soviet instructions to agents in Mexico and other nations, aiming to curb Western powers.
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Tex
Leonorsky
Diego Rivera
Texas
Latin America
Sgh Dies
House——— Committee
Ths Trotsky
Dies
Robert E.ling
Rivera
Mexico
Stalin
Trotsky
Lenin
Poseuime
Stripling
Communists in Mexico Threaten Global Peace Says Rivera
Rivera warns that Communists in Mexico plan to spread to other nations, a threat to peace and security. He notes Trotsky's influence and discusses the controversial reception of his murals amid political tensions.
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Trotsky
Mexico
Rivera
Trot
Fritz Kuhn Placed in Gloomy Sing Sing Cell
Ossining N Y December 6 Fritz Kuhn leader of the pro Nazi German American Bund entered a prison within Sing Sing a secure cell block for fear of reprisals. He faces a sentence of two and a half to five years in prison on larceny and forgery convictions.
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Ossining
N. Y
Fritz Kuhn
Bund
Sing Sing
New York
Pris
Girl Victim Of Bridge Crash Dies At 15
Virginia Thorne of Maybeury dies after a truck collision near Poplar Street Bridge. Fritz Kuhn Pitt and others report the wreck occurred Monday night as she rode with Martha Blankenship. Clinton Owens of Pulaski waives preliminary hearing on manslaughter warrant. Magistrate Carl Jones sentences W. Owens for leaving the scene and wrecking the vehicle.
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Clinton Owens
Pulaski
Virginia Thorne
Maybeury
Thore
Martha Blankenship
Poplar Street
Carl Jones
Owens
Owen
Quesenberry
J. R. Belcher
Long Lost Poet Francis Carlin Found in New York
The New York World Telegraph reports Francis Carlin, famed poet of My Ireland and A Cairn of Stars, located after 16 years, living in a $3 weekly furnished room while working as a floorwalker at Macy's. He disappeared in 1918 at the peak of his fame and had been penniless, now seeking menial work amid Sixth Avenue agencies.
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New York
New York World-Telegram
Francis Carlin
Ireland
Macy's Department Store
Carlin
Sixth Avenue
Commons approves government war conduct in vote
London December 6 the house of commons approved the government's conduct of the war by 303 to 125. MPs backed the administration and rejected a labor motion criticizing manpower and resource organization for the conflict.
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London
House of Commons
German plan to unite southeastern Europe as supply hubs
An economics expert writes in The Four Year Plan that Britain’s blockade chokes German overseas trade. Germany aims to develop southeastern Europe and Scandinavia into supply and market bases for Reich goods. Helferrich says England’s power has left German trade in a ruinous, export or die situation.
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Berlin
Hermann Wilhelm Goering
Germany
Europe
Emil Helferrich
England
Mrs Ruth Judd Dodges Capture Nearby Wild Wandering
Phoenix reports a woman acting strangely near the Arizona state hospital area led searchers to believe Winnie Ruth Judd the 34 year old murderess may be wandering nearby. State patrol officials say there is no evidence she is duplicating her first escape behavior. Dr W C Judd cautions she is likely in mental confusion and not dead by her own hand.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Arizona State Hospital
Winnie Ruth Judd
Jack Buzard
State Highway Patrol
Winnie Ruth
Areunas
Buzard
W. C. Judd
Les Tansies
Dr. Judd
Russians Break Main Defenses In Karelian Front
Stockholm dispatch reports huge Russian forces on the Karelian Isthmus front advancing with heavy losses. Finnish machine gunners and artillery mow down advancing units while reinforcements pour in. Villages burn as Finns retreat, revealing scorched cottages and exhausted troops.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Karelian Isthmus
Viipuri
Dagensnyheter
Leis
Alexander Meelblom
Helsink
Near East and Balkans Loom As Red's Goal
The article cites Soviet expansion aims in the Near East and Balkans as Moscow seeks influence in Romania and the region. It notes a Communist International urging Romania to sign a mutual assistance pact with the Soviet Union, similar to those with Estonia Latvia and Lithuania, while Bucharest shows little interest.
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Near East
Balkans
Red
Moscow
Selubeny
Rumania
Finland
Communist International
International Communist Organization
Russia
Estonia
Latvia
Lithuania
Bucharest
Turkey
India
Munist
Romania
Soviet Union
Vnc
Rumanian
Communist Party
West Virginia Man Declared Dead Returns to Fork Ridge
Renzo M. Conners, long declared legally dead and missing 20 years, returns to Fork Ridge, West Virginia, to claim a share of his father’s estate. He says he lived in Ohio and Colorado before coming home and seeks a six way division of the estate among six siblings.
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Moundsville
W. Va
Renzo M. Conners
Fork Ridge
Conners
Ohio
Colorado
German Consulate Attache Slain in Brooklyn Food Rooms
German Consulate Attache Wal Engelberg a 42 year old secretary was found battered to death in a Brooklyn rooming house with food and wine supplies to last a year. Police said the attack showed vengeance and the killer was not found. Neighbors and FBI comments noted mysterious tenants and unusual activity at the house.
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Brooklyn
New York
Wala Engelberg
Manuel E. Martin
Engelberg
Martin
William P. X. Precenent
Kings County
Mee
Engelbe
Fred Doell
Hans Borchers
Doell
Deel
Lashbors
Federal Bureau of Investigation
FBI
Setee
V Bigelbere
Tives Laaepeey
Ted
Soviet forces breach Finnish defense on Karelian isthmus
Moscow reports a breakthrough on the eastern Karelian isthmus as Soviet forces, after artillery preparations, cross the Taipale River and advance northward against Finnish White Guards along the Maginot Kirke line. The communique notes heavy fighting and movement from Leningrad military district units.
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Moscow
Karelian
Leningrad
Militas Ry Ts
Taipaleen
Britain reports rapid Nazi U boat losses and ship rush
In a December 6 address to Parliament Winston Churchill said Britain sank five U boats in the past week and averages two to four per week. He noted tripling submarine fleet output since the war began and rapid completion of nearly 1,000,000 tons of warships. The report also mentioned advances against magnetic mines and British naval actions in the South Atlantic and Thames estuary with Royal Air Force activity.
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London
Germany
Admiralty
Ston Churchill
Churchill
Britain
House of Commons
Sawer Ussukuma
Britiships
South Atlantic
Huntsman
Nce
Geman Ourvey
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Virginia Thore
Paris
Helferrich Con- Tpanies Setae
Fuehrer
Lue
Ruth Judd
By Witt Hancock
West Virginia
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Robert E. Bunnelle
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