Hopkins May Face Battle In U S Senate
President Roosevelt elevates Harry L. Hopkins to secretary of commerce while naming F C Harrington to head the Works Progress Administration. The move sets Hopkins against Republican critics and conservative Democrats who seek an investigation into WPA funding and activities amid post election backlash.
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Washington
Harry L. Hopkins
Roosevelt
William
F. C. Harrington
Works Progress Administration
Hopkins
Barrington
Aubrey Willams
WPA
Mopkins
Cheerless Holiday Faced by Jews
Berlin dispatch reports thousands of Jews, many frostbitten or injured, released from concentration camps in the past two weeks to spend a cheerless Christmas. About 7,000 estimated in Jewish quarters. veterans with decorations favored for release. Those who left before December 18 were shaven head and bandaged.
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Berlin
Germany
India
Woman Bank Robber Caught in Chicago Heist
Margaret Allen, once listed by federal agents as dangerous, is jailed after stealing an $18 item from Toop store. Detectives Duffy and O Regan nabbed her on the street after a brief pursuit. Fingerprints identified her as a fugitive with two aliases and a history of bank robbery conspiracy pleas and prior escapes.
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Chicago
Margaret Allen
Marvin Duffy
Charles O'Regan
Toop
Alien
D. BM
Ladd
Father of 2 Killed Stealing Yule Tree
In Elyria Ohio on December 2 17 a farmer William Case killed William Rousseau a 37 year old unemployed trucker and wounded his wife 29 during a dispute over a stolen Christmas tree. Case told authorities I have never refused to give a tree away but when people steal them it’s different. Rousseau died and Mrs Rousseau was hospitalized with life threatening wounds after a transfusion from Sheriff Finegan who later retrieved details from Case.
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Elyria
William Rousseau
William Case
Rousseau
Morocco Aids Franco Drive On Barcelona
Morroccan forces of Generalissimo Franco’s northern army may have begun the long hoped for offensive to end the Spanish civil war now in its 30th month. Dispatches from both sides report Insurgent attacks along the east bank of the Segre near Tremp and that the Catalonian line was broken in four places about 60 miles from Barcelona. Government sources say Moroccans fought in snow and cold but were repelled. observers await full details to determine if this is a local feint or a broader breakthrough.
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Hendaye
France
Zaragoza
Barcelona
Segre
Business Boom Seen in 1939
President Roosevelt and Treasurer Morgenthau expect a 1939 boom in business and revenues. They will delay treasury tax revision proposals to assess the undistributed profits tax impact and defer a year the proposed $45 billion federal debt limit, while seeking early action on social security codification and existing tax laws.
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Washington
INS
Roosevelt
Lee
Morgenthau
Tate
Congress
Treasury
Sec. Morgenthau
Roosevelt Family Christmas Party Honors Jimmy’s Birthday
Washington dispatch reports a lively White House gathering for the Roosevelts four generation Christmas reunion. President and Mrs Roosevelt welcomed relatives and friends including Harry Hopkins, newly named secretary of commerce. Jimmy Roosevelt marked his birthday with candles, while baby Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr and other family members joined the festive scene amid garlands and Christmas trees.
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Washington
Roosevelt
White House
Thale Aldeet
Tami
Harry Hopkins
Secretary of Commerce
Diana
Hopkins
Roosevelts
Diane
Brophins
James
Jimmy” Roosevelt
Jimmy
Santa Claus Help Makes Avaritt Wish Come True
Ten year old Gladys Avaritt of Santa Monica, seeking healing for anemia, pleads for blood and care while hospital volunteers in Nashville and beyond answer with meals, toys, and generous aid from war veterans and community members.
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Gladys Avaritt
Santa
Nashville
Santa Claus
Noted Budapest eye specialist commits suicide over ill judged law
Prof. Leo Lichermann, a renowned eye specialist at the University of Budapest, shot and killed himself today in Budapest. The act followed an impending law that would strictly restrict Jewish activities and force Jews from many professions. Dr. Liebermann was described as a half Jew.
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Budapest
Insi
Leo Lichermann
University of
Hungary
Liebermann
Transportation Plan Proposed for Broad Federal Reform
President Roosevelt prepared to submit a 14 point program to revamp federal regulation of transportation on land sea and air. It calls for an independent agency to regulate all transportation facets and limits the Interstate Commerce Commission to rate making. A special federal court would aid railroad industry reorganization, with hearings set for mid January.
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Washington
INS
Roosevelt
Congress
Interstate Commerce Commission
Special Court
House
Senate Interstate Commerce Committees
Sen
Wheeler
Montana
Senate Interstate Commerce
Self-Defense Plea In Father's Killing
In Lewisburg a 22 year old Earl McClintic testified he shot his 44 year old father Seldan H McClintic after the elder man threatened the family and aimed a rifle. Prosecutor H Nickel Kramer said Earl fired when his father leveled the gun, wounding him in the neck and face. A murder charge was filed.
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Earl McClintic
H. Nickel Kramer
Seldan H. McClintic
Greenbrier County
Gvan
Ander's Valley
C. F. McCntic
State Penitentiary
Kramer
Earl
Fee McCuntic
McClintle
Atlantic Fleet Is Permanent One-Sentence Navy Note
The navy announced the temporary Atlantic squadron would become a permanent fleet unit of 35 warships by January 6 amid tensions with Germany. A study on economic weapons including a complete embargo was noted, with the State Department warning relations could worsen if Germany agred.
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Washington
Germany
Atlantic
State Department
Merce
See
Ickes
Austria
Lewie
D-Il
Rey
Automobile Clue To Girl's Slayer
State police guard a used automobile linked to the slaying of Margaret Martin as they widen a search into the mountains west of the Kingston area. The car, held at Scranton sales agency, involved a man who lured the girl from Kingston with a job offer. Police seek the owner who traded it in and removed a woman's coat from the rumble seat. Investigators follow the trail as they hunt for the suspect and missing clothing.
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Tunkhannoge
Margaret Martin
Kingston
Scranton
Business College
Traonera
Miss Martin
Aerial Santa Claus To Visit Lighthouses
Boston dispatch reports Edward Rowe Snow a harbor historian and teacher will deliver aerial Christmas packages with Pilot Charles Cowan to lighthouse keepers from Boone Island Maine to Provincetown Massachusetts. The mission replaces the late Willam Wincapaw and his son previously set to fly.
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Boston
Santa Claus
Latte Edward Rowe Snow
Boston Harbor
Cant
Willam Wincapaw
Snow
Charles Cowan
Mighty House Keepers
Boone Island
Provincetown
Maan
Wincapaw
South America
Argentina Helps Forge Pan American Solidarity Accord
Lima Peru December 23 The Argentine delegation finally signed a solidarity declaration at the Pan American conference after hours of hesitation bringing 21 republics into unanimous agreement on a mutual resistance formula against any aggressor. Ruiz Moreno noted Buenos Aires approved a near verbatim Argentine proposal with minor changes establishing united opposition to oppression from any source.
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Lima
Peru
INS
America
Garagg
U.S
Argentina
Ruiz Moreno
Solidarity
Buenos Aires
Moreno
Europe
Asia
Hitler weighs action in Berlin US diplomatic tiff
Berlin dispatch notes Hitler delaying Christmas trip as Berlin weighs next step in tense standoff with the United States. German officials say diplomacy will continue for now, while Nazi press blasts Roosevelt and Ickes. Authorities warn a rupture could disrupt German economic plans for 1949.
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Berlin
INS
Hitler
Knight
Germany
U. S
Washington
Cleveland
Harold L. Ickes
Ickes
Roosevelt
Sumner Welles
Berlin-Washington
FDR Expected to Address Nazi Repression in Congress
The piece reports that Roosevelt plans a foreign affairs focused message to Congress on January 4, framed by Secretary Ickes and State Department tensions with Germany over anti Jewish policies. It notes U S observers expect a sterner tone and a moral stance against Nazi repressions, aiming to rally world opinion.
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Washington
Berlin
Ickes
Roosevelt
Congress
State Department
Germany
Welles
White House
U. S
Lima
Sen. Pittman
Americas
Lon H. Kelly Rites Planned This Afternoon
Lon H. Kelly 67 prominent Democratic teacher and former U S district attorney under Woodrow Wilson died at his home 1416 Quarrier Street after a year long illness. Primary cause listed as kidney ailment. Services set for 5 p m at the residence with Rev Wallace Alston and Rev Ernest Thompson officiating. Burial planned in Sun Cemetery.
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Lon H. Kelly
U.S
Woodrow Wilson
Quarrier Street
West “Virginia Bar Association
New York
Kelly
Wallace Alston
the Firet' Presbyterian Church
Ernest Thompson
Four Army Fliers Killed in Crash Near Uniontown
Four soldiers died when a twin motor army bomber crashed in a field southeast of Uniontown Alabama during a storm. The B-18 type plane, after departing Henaley field Dallas, flew over Barksdale field without landing before plunging and exploding. Maj. Warren A. Maxwell of Maxwell Field tentatively identified two victims as James Dennis Underhilt, 28, and Lieut. John H. Hydle of Highland Falls, N.Y.
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Als
Here
Warren A. Maxwell
Maxwell Field
Montggomery
Henaley Field
Dallas
Tex
Montgomery
Barksdale Field
Shreveport
Maxwell
James Dennis Underhilt
John H. Hydle
Highland Fails
Two Santas Will Visit Camp Fairchance Today
Two Santa Clauses will distribute gifts to 150 children from destitute families at Camp Fairchance near Madison this Christmas Eve. Captain Charles Marsh will introduce the program as Maj. Turner is expected to attend, marking the fifth annual party sponsored by 40 and 8 and The Gazette for needy children statewide.
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Gazette
Camp Fairehance
Madison
Umaga
Wo Vaan Inne Veese
Charles Marsh
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