Peace Move To Halt Red Drive Seen
AMSTERDAM December 10. A new peace offensive by Hitler through Mussolini aims to unite Europe’s major powers against Soviet Russia with a possible German peace offer. Italy reportedly sounds out Geneva The Hague and Brussels on concessions to meet Allied terms, including independence plans for former Polish lands, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Austria, Ruthenia, and eastern Galicia as buffer states. Brussels report adds details of the plan’s five points and intended redrawn borders.
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Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini
Europe
Russia
Italy
Geneva
The
Hague
Brussels
Soviet Union
Berlin
Czechoslovakia
Sudetenland
Germany
Poland
Danzig
Austria
Reich
Ruthenia
Ussr
Galicia
Germany Denies Aiding Finland Peace Terms Declared
Berlin reports Nazi sources rebut foreign stories of a Finnish peace offensive on terms set by Adolf Hitler. Germany denies continuing direct or indirect arms shipments via the Reich to Finland since the Russo Finnish war began and calls Swedish reports groundless. Pravda notes rumors in Moscow about Soviet German tensions.
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Germany
Adolf Hitler
Finland
Reich
Moscow
Pravda
Three Neutral Ships Sunk As Mines Or Subs
London report says two more neutral ships were sunk today by mines or submarines while a British oil tanker was torpedoed off the southwest coast of England. An incomplete radio SOS described the tanker exploding and breaking in two after a torpedo strike. two crew members were aboard. The Belgian tanker Alexandre Andre’s master reported standing by to assist in rescues. The Swedish steamer Vinga also sunk after an explosion in unidentified waters with all 21 crew lost.
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London
England
Alexandre Andre
Vinga
Stockholm
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U S Rubber to Purchase Fisk for 11 Million
U S Rubber Co has approved an offer to buy Fisk Rubber Corp properties for about 11 million dollars. The deal would acquire Fisk plants in Chicopee Falls and New Bedford Massachusetts to boost tire production under Fisk and U S Rubber trade names.
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U. S. Rubber Co
Fisk Rubber Corp
Banking House of Dillon, Read & Co
Fisk
Chicopee Falls
New Bedford
Mass
Finland receives $5000 anonymous donation for relief
Pittsburgh report says the Post-Gazette received a certified check for 5000 dollars from an anonymous donor via a local bank for Finland relief. The donor asked the name not be disclosed. Former President Herbert Hoover urged newspapers nationwide to help raise relief funds for embattled Finland.
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the Post-Gazette
Herbert Hoover
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Glass Trust Charged in US Antitrust Suit In Glassware
The Department of Justice announced a civil suit in Toledo Ohio charging 13 corporations and 103 officers with conspiring to restrain trade in the glassware industry. Owens-Illinois Glass leads the list, with Hartford Empire linked through patent licensing to control 97 percent of the U S glass container market worth about 160 million dollars annually. A New York grand jury will also probe patent abuses as part of a broader inquiry into anti trust violations across industries.
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Toledo
Ohio
Department
New York
Owens-Illinois Glass Company
U.S
Federal District Court
Owens-Illinois
Hartford Empire Company
Connecticut
National Economic Committee
Weather Adds Oddities To Week's Wacky Doings
New York dispatch highlights a string of oddities from a wacky week. Weather caused early blooms in the South, while Jersey faced limited baths. Scranton saw strip-tease week at stores. Eagles members wore only one new-member badge per member recruited. A San Francisco man was shot by a prevention bureau officer. A 13th championships meme ran through incidents in multiple states, with 13s appearing in hunts, trains, and timings. The Jamestown fire chief filed a false alarm, Detroit police faced parking tickets, and Oklahoma City sheriff’s office reported a lull in business.
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Virginia
R. C. Keenan
Columbia
S. C
Russell Harris
Richmond
Washington
Jamestown
Detroit
Oklahoma City
GOP to Study Reciprocity Policy for 1940 Campaign
A Republican study committee, led by Rep. Allen T. Treadway, will examine the New Deal reciprocal trade policy and its effects on U S manufacturing, farming and labor as the 1940 campaign looms. Five panels will tackle major issues including agriculture, national defense, debt and presidential powers, with hearings shaping the GOP platform.
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Joseph W. Martin
Massachusetts
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Congress
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Allen T. Treadway
Ways and Means
Roosevelt
Sec
Hull
Sec. of Agriculture
Wallace
Republican Agriculture Committee
Rep
Clifford Hope
Kansas
House Agriculture
French Retake Strategic Outpost In Fierce Front Battle
Paris reports a 24 hour engagement over a single strategic outpost in a wooded sector. German artillery opened with heavy bombardment, the post changed hands after German occupation for 12 hours, then French forces recaptured it. Separate patrol clashes occurred in the Moselle Saar and Vosges regions as both sides exchanged small skirmishes.
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Nordic bloc seeks league aid for Finland at Geneva
Norway leads a Scandinavian bloc pressing the League of Nations to aid Finland and to bar Russia from the league, aiming to stop supplies to Moscow while Finland presents its case. Argentina demands Russia’s ouster after Finland’s testimony, with Britain and France hinting support. A 15 member committee would demand Russian withdrawal before a league decision. Jakob Surits may depart Geneva tonight.
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Finland
Russia
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Argentina
Rodolfo Freyre
Assembly
Karl J. Hambro
Hambro
A. Costa du Rels
Bolivia
Ireland
Eamon de Valera
Venezuela
Peru
Spain
Britain
France
Rudolf Hosti
League Council
Jakob Surits
Soviet Protest Demands End to Allied German Blockade
Moscow protested Britain over the Allied blockade on German exports. The note warned Britain would be responsible for damage to Soviet trade and shipping, citing state ownership of all Russian ships and cargoes. Russia is the ninth neutral power to challenge the Anglo-French move to throttle Reich trade.
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Soviet Union
Great Britain
Germany
Britain
William Leeds
Russia
U. S
Japan
Italy
Belgium
Holland
Sweden
Norway
Denmark
Increased Italian Aid to Finns Seen
Geneva reports from Italian sources indicate 560 Italian planes accompanied by pilots and ground crews to Finland. Premier Mussolini is expected to offer aid within reason, aligning with his stance on the Spanish Civil War. Regular army personnel exceeded the initial plan for training experts, suggesting growing Italian support as Finns resist.
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Finland
Mussolini
Il Duce
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Clyde H. East Dies in Hospital
Clyde H. East 40 a long time Gazette political writer died in a Charleston hospital from a stomach ailment and complications of diseases. Funeral services set for Tuesday at St. Mark's Methodist Church with interment at Sunset Memorial Park. Survived by widow Pearl East a son C. H. East Jr a daughter Mrs. Mary Frances Grandin two sisters and four brothers. East born White Sulphur Springs April 7 1899 began journalism in Marlinton Parkersburg News then joined Gazette in Charleston where he remained a leading statehouse reporter and former editor of the New Deal Democratic.
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Casto-Wilson Mortuary
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C. H. East
Mary Frances Grandin
Dunbar
Ellen Grandin
Ora McNeil
Marlinton
Clyde Idleman
Chelyan
Vernon R
Elkins
Theron R
Everett
Durbin
Cecil East
Portsmouth
Robert L. Smith
G. F. Beane
Robert L. Jamison
William Maginnis
Kendall Vintroux
Sol Padlibsky
Harry Flournoy
W. E. Connell, Jr
White Sulphur Springs
East
Benjamin A
Marybelle Campbell East
Pocahontas County
Parkersburg News
Parkersburg
West Virginia
Statehouse
New Deal
25 000 Red Soldiers Reported Killed Or Wounded Since Fighting Began
Soviet forces launched a major attack on the Karelian Isthmus with heavy casualties reported by Finnish sources. Finnish defenses repelled land sea and air assaults around Hango as the high command appealed for international aid, while Italian pilots were rumored to participate.
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Helsinki
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Finland Lent: $10,000,000 credit approved by RFC
Washington Dec 10 The Reconstruction Finance Corp and the Export Import Bank approved a 10 million dollar credit to Finland for purchasing agricultural surpluses and civilian supplies in the United States The Finnish American Trading Corp organized with paid in capital of 1 million and guaranteed by the Bank of Finland will handle purchases The Finnish minister said the specific purchases are not yet decided and the credit is to be used in full Similar credits to Norway were also under consideration by RFC and the president’s approval was noted
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Finland
Reconstruction Finance Corp
Jesse Jones
RFC
Export-Import Bank
Norway
Roosevel
Sec. Morgenthau
Congress
20 Month Old Girl Adopts Spanish War Waif
Monika Feuermann the 20 month old daughter of cellist Emanuel Feuermann became the youngest foster mother on record by adopting Antonia Canosa Cara a three year old Spanish war waif. The Feuermanns plan to make Monika a real American girl and have taken out citizenship papers. The waif walked over the Pyrenees to join a refugee camp after Barcelona battles. her parents were lost and she remains in care awaiting recovery with proper food and attention.
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Austria
New York
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Emanuel Feuermann
Antonia Canosa Cara
Monika
France
Feuermanns
Pyrenees
Barcelona
Fighting intensifies on Karelian front and new air grads
Russian forces faced heavy resistance as battles raged across the Karelian isthmus and near Lake Ladoga. Unofficial Finnish counts estimate Soviet casualties in the tens of thousands, citing wounded and care delays. Italian volunteers and foreign airmen reportedly join Helsinki’s skies amid a surge in bombing and naval exchanges along the coast.
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Gazette War News Guidance About Censorship
Readers are told war news is censored and to distinguish facts from propaganda. It notes that a lack of frontline reporting can be good news and argues it is better to have armies clash with no bloodshed than suffer massive slaughter in indecisive attacks.
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