Japanese Advance Near Nanking Gates Amid Stalled Siege
Report from Shanghai and surrounding areas say Chinese defenders repulsed Japanese forces at two Nanking gateways, inflicting heavy casualties. Around 200,000 Chinese troops massed near Nanking as 75,000 Japanese advanced, with artillery and 90 planes in the bombardment. Civilians and foreigners flood the capital area as exits are sealed and river traffic halts.
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Nanking
Yangtze River
Artilery
Tokyo
Renzy
Nankini
Hunan
China
Chiang Xai-Shek
Chiang
Insurgent Bombard Madrid and Barcelona Causing Heavy Casualties
Insurgent shells hit central Madrid killing a number of people as battles raged near the city market. In Barcelona insurgent planes killed about 50 and wounded more than 100 with further coastal town bombardments reported by the government.
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Madrid
Barcelona
5 Deaths Laid To Cold Wave
The southern United States faced a severe cold wave with at least five deaths attributed to freezing temperatures. Frost extended to the Everglades as Florida crops suffered and fruit and vegetable losses mounted. The New Orleans weather office warned of plummeting temps for tomorrow, while cities from Savannah to Jacksonville recorded record lows.
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Associated Press
New York
Virginia Capes
Portland
Everglades
Louisiana
Florida
New Orleans Weather Bureau
South
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Maryland
Virginia
Savannah
Jacksonville
Companies Fight Rail Rate Boost Protest Heard
Coal coke and chemical firms argued before the public service commission against proposed intrastate freight rate increases to align with Interstate Commerce Commission interstate levels set November 15. Over 20 protests were filed by groups including Truax-Trace Coal Kanawha Coal Operators and New River Coal Operators. Witnesses said denying the increases would not hurt interstate coal shipments. A Wilson of Charleston testified.
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Public Service Commission
Interstate Commerce Commission
Truax-Trace Coal Company
Kanawha Coal Operators’ Association
New River Coal Operators’ Association
Commission
Flashes of Life In These U S Speechless For Week
In Montreal a three year old girl Jeannine Carriere was tonguetied for a week by a ring stuck on her tongue. Surgeons removed the ring with a file at a city hospital. In Fort Deposit Maryland 180 Jacob Tome Institute students struck to protest headmaster Dr Charles J Keppel's resignation demand.
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Jeannine Carriere
St. Jerome
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Fort Deposit
Jacob Tome Institute
Charles J. Keppel
William Fitch
Jacksonville
Fla
Tome
Keppel
Mellon Cleared Of Tax Fraud By U.S. Board
The U S board of tax appeals unanimously voided the government tax fraud charge against Andrew W Mellon and reduced the 1931 tax claim from 3 075 103 to about 706 000 dollars. The lengthy decision may take days to finalize exact amounts as it covers multiple issues. Mellon died Aug 26 after donating a 50 million dollar art gallery in his final months.
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Washington
Andrew W. Mellon
U.S. Board of Tax Appeals
Circuit Court of Appeals
Melton
Pittsburgh
Mellon
Donald D. Shepard
Baby Plague Under Control In Chicago
Chicago reports the baby plague outbreak at St Elizabeth's hospital is under control after a conference of 12 physicians with Dr. Herman Bundeser. Eleven infant deaths are noted but nurseries wards are said to be recovering and no current hospital cases exist. The infection remains dangerous and can be fatal within 24 hours. The death germ mystery continues after injections into animals caused rapid death.
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Chicago
St Elizabeth's Hospital
Herman Bundeser
Board of Health
Wags
St. Elizabeth's
Seeping Gas Kills Rare Animals and Birds in Manhattan
A defective heater released gas in lower Manhattan killing 54 wild animals and birds and injuring a dozen others. A pulmotor crew revived four alligators three monkeys an Australian cow three red doves and an anteater. The dead animals including 46 monkeys two gibbons a tiger cat a deer three finches were valued at over 4000 dollars by Ferdinand Cochu president of Amazonlea Inc animal importing firm.
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New York
Dee
Lower Manhattan
Ferdinand Cochu
Amazonlea, Inc
Bald Fellow Named in Kidnapping Case Testimony
Deputy U.S. Marshal M. E. Ketehum testified about Dr James Seder describing one of the abductors as a baldheaded felon. Booth, 46, ex convict, is accused in the plan to force a $20 check from the minister and has rented a Montineton apartment. Seder died Nov 15 four days after being found.
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Tee
Bild Arnott Booth
James Te
Sider
M. E. Ketehum
Wayne County
U.S
Benth
Tole
Ketehum
Misc Aionarys
Nepers
Booth
Gank
Seder
Montineton
Ketchum
Treasury Official Assails Spending
NEW YORK December 7 an administration fiscal officer denounced congress members for failing to halt untimely uneconomic expenditures and to balance the budget. Wayne C Taylor fiscal assistant secretary of the treasury said retrenchment is a minimum national welfare requirement and urged public works and subsidies cuts. The president the treasury secretary and others have urged restraint with broad support from lawmakers and public sentiment.
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New York
Congress
Tun Iit
Saidwayne C. Taylor
the Treasury
Economic Club of
Treasury
U.S. Seeks Reciprocal Trade Pact With Britain
Secretary Hull announced ongoing talks for a reciprocal trade treaty with Great Britain. He said war debts are not a condition of the negotiations, despite reminders due December 15 from 12 European defaulters led by Britain. Germany has also shown interest in a similar pact.
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Washington
Dec
INS
U.S
Great Britain
Hull
House
Britain
Germany
Farm Bill Debate Shifts as Senate Rejects Limiting Clause
In Washington the Senate voted 31 to 25 to reject Senator McNary’s amendment to limit the farm bill to three years, a setback for opposition to President Roosevelt’s program. The House earlier favored discarding compulsory wheat marketing controls, signaling another test of support for the bill’s provisions. Eleven Democrats joined 14 Republicans in backing McNary’s time-frame, as debate widened and Senator Johnson urged careful consideration.
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Senate
House
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Oregon
Friends of the
Hoostvelt
Agriculture Committee
Sen
Jolson
Coli
Father Divine Denies Extorting Woman in Court
Father Divine testified in a New York supreme court on December 7 denying taking 4 dollars from former angel Ian Brown who sues for that sum. He claimed no records and called the claim stressful. The examination was adjourned until next Tuesday after minor legal skirmishes.
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New York
Father Divine
Supreme
Marlen
Angel
Ian Brown
Heaven
Rul
Verinda
DuPont outlines plan to create 3,000,000 jobs nationwide
Lammot Du Pont told the National Association of Manufacturers in New York that a two to 10 year program could generate 3,000,000 new jobs and $25 billion in capital through planned expansion and research, demanding government certainty for industry planning. He urged labor, capital, management, and government to work together with stable rules and predictable policies.
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DuPont
New York
Lammot du Pont
E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
National Association of Manufacturers
du Pont
Bright Outlook Seen by Leaders
New York leaders of industry forecast a bright outlook if the path to progress is cleared of uncertainty at the congress of American industry and the National Association of Manufacturers. Lammont Du Pont urged fair opportunity for achievement as the next decade would outpace the past. Other speakers, including William B. Warner and Robert L. Lund, echoed optimism about prosperity, employment, and stable business conditions in 1938.
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New York
Congress of American Industry
National Association of Manufacturers
Lammont du Pont
E. J. du Pont de Nemours and Company
America
Willam B. Warner
Robert L. Lund
St. Louis
U. S
Mark Graves
Roosevelt shows jaw lines and dodges plan talk
President Roosevelt, in good humor, tells reporters his jaw is fine and demonstrates no tooth trouble affecting his answers. He says the business recession is getting worse but declines to announce a program, noting people argue the issue both ways.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Mr. Roosevelt
Laing Coal Miners Aid Santa Claus in District
Laing coal miners in the Cabin Creek district plan a collective effort to prepare gifts for children. Each loader and day wage worker will load a coal car for the Christmas party with no exemptions. Officials James Gilchrish and R T Evans joined the effort, and every child 15 and under is to receive about two dollars worth of candy and toys.
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Laing
Santa Claus
Cabin Creek
James Gilchrish
R. T. Evans
Soviet Secret Police Chief Yezhoff Called Most Feared Man
Nikolai Ivanovich Yezhoff, 43, chief of the Soviet secret police, is described as the most feared man in Russia during the purge. He rose from a factory worker at 14 to war commissar and later headed personnel for the central committee, gaining access to life records of old Bolsheviks.
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Moscow
INS
Nikolai Ivanovich Yezhoff
Soviet Union
Yezhoff
Central
Dorn le
Leningrad
Communist Party
Secret Police
Meaded
Yerholf
Central Committee
The
Straus Approved To Head U S Housing Authority
Nathan Straus of New York won Senate labor committee approval to lead the U S Housing Authority. He urged earmarking funds for projects and questioned whether bathrooms and certain utility rooms count as rooms in the slum clearance and low rent housing program, noting the law omits larger family units of up to four rooms.
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Dec
T—i
Nathan Straus
New York
Senate Labor Committee
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