Finns Destroy Three Giant Enemy Tanks In Baltic Front Fighting
Finnish army communique reports the destruction of three 30 ton Soviet tanks with several more tanks and a motorized column smashed by field batteries near Lake Ladoga. Attacks on the Karelia isthmus and Taipale river were repulsed as Finnish forces slowly advance near Tolvajarvi and Aegilaejarvi. Patrols, air activity over Petsamo and Lapland raids are noted.
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Helsinki
Lake
Doga
Lake Ladoga
Red
Finland
Mannerheim
Karelian
Taipale
Suvanto Lake
Kareliar
Limola
Tolvajarvi
Aegilaejarvi
Ladoga
Petsamo
Lapland
Pravda accuses U S of influencing Latin states on Soviet expulsion
Pravda accuses the United States of guiding Latin American nations to back the expulsion of Soviet Russia from the League of Nations. It also charges Britain with manipulating league machinery to oust Russia and says the assembly met behind closed doors with an American observer present.
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Moscow
U. S
Communist Party
Pravda
Soviet Russia
League of Nations
Britain
League
Russia
Soviet Union
Edgar
Mexico
Donald B. Edgar
Willie Willis Birthday Party Comment
A terse remark about Willie Willis referencing a birthday party and his friend’s mother. The line hints at humor or social embarrassment in a casual, conversational tone.
Mutiny and Finnish Counterattack Reported in Finland
A Russian battalion mutinied north of Lake Ladoga and surrendered to Finnish forces. Finnish HQ states two Russian divisions totaling 36,000 men were smashed in a counterattack on the northern central fronts with most captured or killed or wounded.
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Copenhagen
INS
Lake Ladoga
Finland
Helsinki
London
Daily Telegraph
Rovaniemi
State Is Next In NLRB Probe
The congressional committee investigating the National Labor Relations Board will question Philip G. Phillips of the NLRB Cincinnati office about secret files. He charged frequent violations of the law and the board’s inaction, while recognizing the United Mine Workers as the miners’ bargaining unit in West Virginia.
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Washington
INS
Congressional
National Labor Relations Board
West Virginia Coal Mine Organization
NLRB
Philip G. Phillips
Cincinnati
Ozank
United Mine Workers
Congress of Industrial Organizations
West Virginia
Progressive Mine Workers Union
American Federation of Labor
Philics
Two German Planes Sink British Steamer Serenity
Two German warplanes attacked and sank the British steamer Serenity eight miles off England's east coast. A fishing boat rescued the eight crew members with no injuries reported. watchers also reported a Nazi plane shot down as British fighters repelled the raid. The Norwegian steamer Strindheim was sunk near the Scottish coast, eight lives presumed lost, with two crew saved by the Finse and the captain’s body recovered.
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London
INS
England
Strindheim
Holt Accuses UMWA Leaders of Hitler Tactics
West Virginia Governor Holt blasted UMWA leaders Van A Bittner William Blizzard and CIO head John B Easton as using Hitler tactics to dominate miners. He distributed a 79 page booklet urging miners to defend democracy and the labor movement while denying any aim to cripple the union. The feud with CIO-UMWA figures has been ongoing since June over broader power and control within the labor ranks.
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UMWA
Hitler
van A. Bittner
District 17
United Mine Workers of America
William Blizzard
John B. Easton
CIO
West Virginia
Holt
Cio-Umwa
Page Seven Briefs From The Local Desk
The fragment notes a turn to page seven part one column one with no further readable details. No names dates places or events are legible in the provided text.
Doctor and Divorcee Slain by Ice Pick in Missouri
Investigators pursued the trail of Dr J P Vickery and Mrs Frances Murphy who were slain with an ice pick after a party they attended Friday night. The bodies were found in Vickery's car hidden behind a dike in New Madrid County. Sheriff A F Stanley and Coroner L A Richards Jr reported that both victims, ages about 60 and 45, showed stab wounds and brutal beating. two felt hats were the only clue.
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New Madrid
J. P. Vickery
Steele
Frances Murphy
Steele. Dr. Vickery
L. A. Richards, Jr
Anxious Wait for Fairchance Party Sponsor Reports
The 40 and 8 Gazette prepares its sixth annual Christmas party for state wards at Camp Fairchance near Madison. Kenneth Heys presses sponsors to report by tomorrow to meet a quota of 150 children as shortages in requested items and delayed committee reports threaten the event.
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Charleston
Logan
Camp Fairchance
Kenneth Heys
Camp Fairdance
Madison
Santa Claus
Heyl
United Fuel Gas
Weaknesses of Spee Hidden by death by own action
The Graf Spee's demise raised questions why it chose destruction over internment. Observers note practical reasons: internment would reveal plans to foreign agents, and her armament flaws, especially the disabled 11 inch tower, were likely exposed. The captain may have destroyed clues to major details before sinking.
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Associated Press
Graf Spee
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Deutschland
Admiral Scheer
France
Britain
Spee
CIO Seeks Three NLRA Changes in Labor Act Proposal
The Congress of Industrial Organizations backs three amendments to the National Labor Relations Act. Led by John L. Lewis, the CIO aims to stop the labor board from carving up industrial units and to safeguard Wagner Act policy promoting collective bargaining.
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Washington
Congress of Industrial Organizations
National Labor Relations Act
Congress
CIO
John L. Lewis
National Labor Relations Board
American Federation of Labor
Mexican Cabinet Shakeup Expected
Mexico City reports a Cabinet shakeup for President Lazaro Cardenas with Ambassador Castillo Najera recalled for urgent talks at the Merida estate. The move follows tension over oil expropriation and U.S. tariff policy, with Najera possibly staying as foreign minister in a reconstituted cabinet.
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Mexico City
INS
Lazaro Cardenas
U. S
Castillo Najera
Cardenas
Merida
Yucatan
National Palace
Najera
Mexico
Venezuela
France Aims to Buy Italy From Axis with Large Africa Concessions
Washington dispatch reports negotiations in Paris and Rome for France to buy Italy away from the Rome Berlin axis. Britain’s stance unclear, but the plan would grant Italy vast African territories and a corridor across the Nile to the Red Sea, disrupting Britain’s Cape to Cairo trade route and redefining colonial power balance.
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Africa
Washington
INS
France
Italy
Paris
Rome
Chamberlain
Conference Board
Libya
North Africa
Sudan
Ethiopia
Italian Somaliland
Mediterranean
Nile
Red Sea
Cairo
London
Cecil Rhodes
French
Tunisia
Raider Sunk Near Where Admiral Died
MONTEVIDEO Dec 17 The pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee named for a German naval hero who died near the Falkland Islands when her crew blew her up instead of surrendering to the British. Von Spee led a squadron in 1914 and went down with his flagship Schornhorst after a stout fight with Admiral Sturdee. Dresden escaped.
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Montevideo
INS
Graf Spee
Germany
Maximilian
Graf
Count) von Spee
Sturdee
Falkland Islands
Argentine
von Spee
Schronhorst
Dresden
Coronel
Chile
British Losses Exceed Nazis in Uruguayan Sea Battle
The British admit heavy casualties from the clash with the German pocket battleship Graf Spee off the Uruguayan coast. Exeter suffered 61 dead and 23 wounded, Ajax and Achilles also in action with 36 German dead and about 70 wounded aboard Graf Spee. Exeter severely damaged. ambulance ship sent from Buenos Aires to meet the Exeter.
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London
INS
Graf Spee
Admiralty
Exeter
Alg Aona
Achilles
Argentina
Buenos Aires
War News Censorship Reminder From The Gazette
Readers are urged to distinguish facts from propaganda in war coverage and to note that lack of front-line news signals confidence. The piece argues avoiding bloody, indecisive attacks is preferable to mass slaughter witnessed in past conflicts.
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Gazette
Morgenthau Peace Plan Aims to Curb War Supplies
Washington report reveals Henry Morgenthau Jr proposed buying strategic war materials to hinder aggressors. Cost estimated at about 100 million dollars a month, plan deemed impractical after White's memo. Congress later allowed purchases for U S use, not for peace aims.
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Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
Morgenthau
Harry D. White
Monetary Research
The
Treasury
White
U. S
Great Britain
Russia
Congress
Graf Spee Sinks After Battle Near Montevideo
The Nazi pocket battleship Graf Spee is blown up and sunk near Montevideo after a battle with British forces. Captain Hans Langsdorff and most of the crew evacuated to smaller boats before the 10,000-ton ship sank in 25 feet of water three miles off the shore as explosions lit the wreck.
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Montevideo
Graf Spee
Hans Langsdorff
Tacoma
Inos Aires
Buenos Aires
Adolf Hitler
Langsdorff
Quick
Hitler orders scuttling of Graf Spee says German agency
Berlin reports Adolf Hitler as supreme commander ordered the raid ship Graf Spee blown up and destroyed. DNB says the Graf Spee was scuttled after Uruguay refused time to make it seaworthy. Public unaware of the scuttling as papers appeared and radio was silenced.
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Adolf Hitler
Germany
Admiral Graf Spee
DNB
Graf Spee
Montevideo
Uruguay
Graf Spee sinks after Montevideo scuttling
The Graf Spee, with about 700 crew aboard, left Montevideo harbor and sank within minutes after detonations as rescue tugs and the German crew abandoned ship. Captain Langsdorff reportedly ordered the scuttling to avoid internment, with some officers reaching Buenos Aires on a launch and the Tacoma guiding later actions.
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