Recovery Gains Steam as 1939 Outlook Brightens
Washington reports a broad upswing in 1938 activity with June origin, led by Christmas trade, higher payrolls, and construction gains. Estimates predict private residential building up 30-40 percent, factory and light power growth, and total construction near 8.8 billion dollars.
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Washington
INS
Brak Paew
Daniel C
Roper
L.lowell J. Chawner
Commerce Department
Division of Economic Research
Chawner
Aregate
FHA
Stewart McDonald
Works Progress Administration
Liverpool
Lee Roper
Charlottetown Sees First Holdup In History
Two armed bandits robbed Grocer McPhee in Charlottetown Prince Edward Island marking the first holdup in the town. Police launched a search for the suspects as residents react to the rare crime event in the community.
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Charlottetown
P. EL
Prince Edward Island
McPhee
Atie
Three Die in Ohio Rest Home Fire Trapping 11
In Columbus Ohio three residents died and at least six others were injured, one critically, when a blaze trapped 11 elderly people at Kern Rest Home. Officials say the fire started in the basement from an overheated furnace.
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Ohio
Columbus
Kern
Miles
Bertha Kern
Ths Home
William Sisk
George W. Clark
Dolly Perkins
Sisk
Clark
Ed Welsh
Impeachment Talk Reemerges Over Bridges Case
In Washington on December 7, the House Un American Activities Committee revived discussion of impeachment of Labor Secretary Perkins. Witnesses accused CIO West Coast director Harry Bridges of Communist ties, while Stephen F Chadwick, American Legion commander, urged action after the Strecker decision. Rep. Rh N Jr warned of action if Perkins delays, implying impeachment.
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Washington
Sec. of Labor
Perkins
House Committee On un-American Activities
Harry Bridges
Bridges
West Coast
CIO
Communist Party
Stephen F. Chad Wick
American Legion
Deldges
Thomas Rh. N. Jr
Sec. Perkins
Supreme Courts
Strecker
Congress
Dies
Palmer heir to fortune despite wedding younger waitress
Weds Waitress Potter D Orsay Palmer, scion of a wealthy Chicago family, says he expects disinheritance for wedding his fourth wife Pluma Louise Lowery Abatrello in Sarasota Florida. Attorneys say Palmer’s grandmother’s will guarantees one fourth of her estate, estimated above $40 million, eventually.
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Potter D’orsay Palmer
Chicago
Pluma Louise Lowery Abatrello
Sarasota, Fla
Palmer
Poison-For-Profit Murderess Sentenced to Death
Anna Marie Hahn, the blonde poisoner known as Poison for Profit, was executed in the Ohio pen electric chair at 8 09 tonight after being found guilty of one of four poison murders. She plead and cried to warden Woodard and witnesses as guards prepared the chair. Her plea to help her and pleas for mercy mark the final moments of a high profile case from Columbus Ohio.
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Columbus
Anna Marie Hahn
Ohio Penitentiary
Hahn
Woodard
Polson
Jacob Wagner
Cincinnati
Telates
Gas Well Drilled On Stancre Tract In Grapevine Area
A new gas well with an estimated daily capacity of 15 000 000 cubic feet was drilled on the Stancre tract owned by Charien B Bohnert and F M Ray Jr on the right fork of the Pora river near Sixxonville. It reached 6 000 feet in Oriskany sand and was the second well by Mayes Of Company of Pittsburgh in Grapevine in recent months.
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Charien B. Bohnert
F. M. Ray, Jr
Pora
Sixxonville
Mayes
Preparations For Fifth Camp Fairchance Christmas
Camp Fairchance near Madison prepares for its fifth annual Christmas celebration sponsored by Kanawha Valley 40 and 8 and The Gazette. The center, begun in 1933 by the state department of public welfare, will host children from impoverished homes for reconditioning and placement in good homes. Local merchants and donors fund Christmas gifts and a celebration delivered by Gazette trucks, with A. L. McClain in charge and a committee including Harold Moore Joe Nolan and others coordinating volunteers from Charleston Montgomery Cabin Creek St. Albans and more.
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Camp Fairchance
Madison
Kanawha Velture No
the Gazette
State Department of Public Welfare
Francis W. Turner
Gazelle
McClain
A. ML McClain
Kanawha Vale
Widower Weds Widow of Son. Two Tales Tie by Marriage
John Roll, 56, a pattern maker and widower, marries Helen Elizabeth Murray 31, the widow of his late son. The ceremony was filed in Cumberland Maryland, with court clerk Robert Jackson confirming the license. Relatives say the couple plans to return to Pittsburgh, despite timing details not disclosed.
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Pittsburgh
John Roll
J. E. Mur
Mall
Jackson
Maryland
Reich Warned Again on U. S. Property Right
The United States cautioned Germany over anti Jewish decrees aimed at seizing property. Sumner Welles disclosed the embassy in Berlin protested immediately after the decree on Jewish assets. No reply from Germany was reported as Roosevelt and aides discussed the situation and refugee issues.
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Reich
U. S
Washington
U.S
Germany
Sumner Welles
Berlin
Welles
White House
Roosevelt
Hugh Wilson
William Phillips
Rome
William C. Bullitt
Paris
Arms Expansion For U S Asked By Sen Norris
Sen Norris of Indiana and Nebraska urged expanded U S armaments to deter attacks by “inhuman dictatorships” and to bolster peace protest effectiveness. He warned that unarmed nations suffer first and that Germany Japan and Italy pose red dangers to civilization. He said the United States cannot arm enough to go on the offensive and defend everywhere.
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Washingto Deo
Norris
Aar
Germany
Japan
Italy
China
Ethiopia
Austria
U.S
Col. A
Nazi Propaganda Drive Confronts Hull at Pan American Meet
In Lima Hull faced a German propaganda campaign urging totalitarianism over democracy as he arrived for the Pan American conference. He urged strengthening hemispheric peace and a collective security approach while meeting officials and foreign ministers including Argentina's Cantilo.
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Lima
Peru
Cor Deil Hull
U. S
Callao
Laurence A. Steinhardt
Falks
Cantilo
Sec
Hull
Jose Marin Cantilo
Argentina
Americas
Cantllo
Rio de Janeiro
Oswaldo Aranha
Brazil
Roosevelt
O Globo
Buenos Aires
Ford Heir Testifies At Monopoly Inquiry In Washington
Young Edsel Ford testifies before a federal monopoly inquiry in Washington claiming the Ford company's policy of urging inventors to manufacture their own inventions fosters competition.
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Edsel Ford
Henry Ford
Washington
Ford Company
Fascists March in Italian Cities Rallying for Tunisia
In Naples Florence and Perugia thousands shout solidarity with oppressed brothers. German visitors join 1 004 demonstrators at the German consulate in Naples while Italian leaders praise Mussolini. Italian and German supporters clash with police in Rome and Gallan students at the French consulate.
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Naples
Florence
Perugia
Tunisia
Germany
Genoa
Hitler
Mussolini
Rome
Der
Woman Seeks Assurance of No War Before Passport
A court clerk in the state department reported a woman abroad asked if a passport could be issued with a guarantee that there will be no war in Europe that summer. The clerk noted the inquiry but the response is not provided.
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Washington
State Department
Europe
Britain hardens stance on German demand for colonies
London December 7. Britain signals tougher line as Malcolm MacDonald declares no handover of colonies or mandates to Germany. He links any discussion of colonial issues to Nazi persecution of minorities, urging the government to consider Jewish oppression in policy.
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Wiliam Willman
London
INS
Nazi Germany
Malcolm MacDonald
Britain
House of Commons
Germany
Minoritles
MacDonald
Hitler
Father Must Decide On Daughter's Life In New York
Dee William Tewl faces a dire choice over his eight year old daughter Dorothy whose malignant thighbone growth could be treated with leg amputation to save her life. Doctors warned the operation may come before Christmas while the child longs only for her pet rabbit and Christmas.
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New York
Dee
William Tewl
Dorothy
French Eyeing Faster Planes To Counter German Tech
French air ministry pursues dual purpose water planes with speeds up to 469 mph as part of a broader rearmament push by Germany Italy and France amid a non aggression pact. The interceptor bomber design features fore and aft engines with the pilot between them and is expected to reach high speeds at 15000 feet. A third four engine prototype is planned.
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Devon Francis AP
New York
French
Air Ministry
Europe
Germany
France
Italy
Santa Is Run Out By Evanston Police
Santa Claus was run out of Evanston by police after a officer spotted him soliciting funds for a charity and demanded to see a permit. Santa complained Chicago was on the other side of the street, but authorities noted Evanston required the permit and he moved across the street to safer territory.
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Evanston
Til
Santa Claus
Santa
Chicago
Chileaeo
Castle criticizes U S continental policy in Latin America clash
William R. Castle former under secretary of State attacks administration policy toward Latin America calling it weak and warns it could invite repercussions. He argues the US must defend rights to be respected and cites Mexico expropriation of lands and bond defaults as example.
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Washington
William R. Castle
Latin-America
George Washington University
inter-American Forum
Castle
Cartle
Mexico
Latin America
Caalle
State Department
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