Plan aims to train 50,000 youth for aerial armada
President Roosevelt approves annual 10 to 15 million dollar training plan for unemployed youths to build a civilian pilot reservoir and skilled ground crew for army navy air services. NYA centers will select top 2,500 for Charleston naval ordnance plant training to rebuild aircraft and engines.
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Italy
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Naval Ordnance Plant
Charleston
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Army de Corps
Ofticiaia
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Senate Group To Study New Relief Setup
Washington December 28 The Senate unemployment committee will meet next week to discuss immediate changes in relief administration. The group aims to determine unexpended WPA funds and reports that funds may run out February 7. Byrnes notes past funding shortfalls and urges equitable state distribution based on population and unemployment, plus requiring local project cost sharing.
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Byrnes
Aubrey Willams
Harry Hopkins
Roosevelt
Hopkins
Secretary of Commerce
WPA
Col
F. C. Hartington
Willams
National Youth Administration
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Senate Committee On
Sheppard
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South Carolina
Conarens
Britain Training 100000 Airmen
Britain plans to grow Royal Air Force personnel to about 100000 active airmen by June, marking faster peacetime expansion than the other services. From March to November the force rose from 69009 to 85000 as recruitment efforts intensified to support an accelerated airplane-building program.
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Royal Air Force
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Air Ministry
IAF
Debutante Brenda's New York Coming Out Party
Diana Duff Frazier a 17 year old publicized as America's No 1 debutante of 1988 attended Brenda's New York City coming out party. The event featured an anti hangover bar and multiple champagne and Scotch bars with a fizzy milk and soda mixture served at the A H division.
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Diana Duff Frazier
America
New York City
Hal Phyle
8 000 Reduction In Auto Deaths Seen by Council
Chicago reports the National Safety Council projects total traffic deaths in 1938 at about 11 500 if the first 11 months trend continues, down from a 39 500 peak in 1937. November toll was 3 110, a 17 percent drop, with 28 370 deaths in 11 months versus 35 770 in 1937, attributed to broader safety program gains.
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National Gafety Council
U. S
Antindelans
D.D. Fennell
Electrocution of Germs With Light Waves Told
In Richmond on December 28 AP reports a new method to kill disease germs by subjecting them to specific light waves. Researchers Rentachler and Nagy of Westinghouse Philadelphia say each germ type can be destroyed with a defined light intensity and exposure, with hospital use in mind. The work aims to target bacteria like gas gangrene, tetanus, and fever pathogens, though practical application depends on matching light to germ type. Duke University scientists previously explored a special light ray but lacked selective effectiveness across germs.
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Richmond
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Harvey C. Rentachler
Rudolph Nagy
Westinghowse Research Laboratories
Philadelphia
Duke University
Gen Riley 86 Dies at Home in Wheeling
Gen Thomas S Riley 86 long a West Virginia Democratic power and ally of Kenna Chilton Fleming Ohley McGraw Sinclair died after a lengthy illness in Wheeling Born January 8 1852 he practiced law from 1879 led state party for decades and served as attorney general in 1892 He ran for US Senate in 1887 and 1906 The widow and three sons James B Riley Robert J Riley and Thomas S Riley survive with funeral plans being arranged
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Thomas S. Riley
Old Guard
West Virginia
John E. Kenna
William E. Chilton
A. B. Fleming
W. A. Ohley
John T. McGraw
J. W. Sinclair
Marshall County
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Fairmount
West Liberty
U. S. Senate
Bloodhounds Pace Bank Bandit Hunt in Kentucky Mountains
In Freesurn Kentucky on December 28 officers from two states, aided by bloodhounds, hunted a lone bandit who cut wires and robbed Merchants and Miners Bank of DY. The suspect, armed with a pistol, eluded capture as the getaway car was found eight miles away on Peters Creek. Deputies from Pike and Buchanan counties, Virginia, led the chase through the mountains.
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Iy Merchants and Miners Bank of DY
W. H. Fitzpatrick
Peters Creek
Fike County
Buchanan County
Virginia
Fitzpatrick
Col
Bride at 14 Wins Divorce at 16 in City Court
In Louis, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Ersnte, age 18, obtained a divorce from Walter Scott Frais, 22, with custody of their 24 month old son. They wed July 22, 1938 and separated last July 29. Circuit Judge Eugene L. Pad berg granted the divorce on general indignities after her testimony of quarreling and lack of affection. Frais denied the charges.
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Mary Elizabeth Ersnte
Eugene L. Padberg
Walter Scott Frais
Saggeed
France Plans Double Defense In East Africa
Paris reports doubled French military and naval presence in Somaliland as new reinforcements head to Djibouti. A second warship, the destroyer Epervier, joins D'Iberville in the port, while Italian fears of invasion ease despite troop concentrations.
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Syria
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Five Continental Credit officials convicted in mail fraud case
Five men, all officials of the Continental Credit corporation of Winchester Indiana, were found guilty by a federal court jury today of using the mails to defraud. They face sentencing January 5 with potential maximum terms up to 47 years. Names include John W Moore senior and John W Moore junior.
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Foremer
Mineral Felt Company of
Kenneth F. Kimball
St. Louis
Kim-Murph Company
Lansing
Mich
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Vatican newspaper hails Lima Pact as civilizational milestone
L Osservatore Romano praises the Pan American conference declaration of spiritual unity and equality without race or religious prejudice. The Vatican paper contrasts Fascist press claims of a failed meeting, noting commentators called the conference shipwrecked may reflect bias, not reality. The director Count Giuseppe Bella Torre argues a vast program was anticipated and will endure beyond the equator cross.
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Giuseppe Bella Torre
Missing San Francisco Baby Reunited With Mother
Mrs James Brans’ baby Patricia, two, returned to her San Francisco home after friends of the family said they got lost while taking the child to buy a present. The child had been missing for 48 hours.
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Patricia
San Francisco
Keenan Favored for Attorney General Amid New Deal Tug
President Roosevelt trends toward appointing Joseph B. Keenan of Ohio as attorney general to succeed Homer S. Cummings. Keenan, current first assistant and longtime Capitol Hill liaison, led the Justice Department criminal division and prosecuted gangster cases. The Cardozo successor candidates are Harold M. Stephens and Sam G. Bratton, both Roosevelt picks.
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Roosevelt
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Ohio
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Keenan
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Department of Justice
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Justice Post
Supreme Court
Benjamin N. Cardozo
Harold M. Stephens
Utah
District of Columbia Court of
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Taxi Drivers to Help Make New Year Safe
Buffalo New York December 31 taxi drivers pledge to deliver safe rides home for New Year revelers. Three firms offer a cab with two drivers one to take the fare home and the other to drive the passenger's automobile. If asked the driver will also help the passenger to bed.
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Loyalist Line Being Flanked
Dispatches from the Catalonian front report Franco forces shaping a double flanking move to seize Barcelona area defenses. Rebels concentrate on the southern flank along the 31 mile line guarding approaches to Barca between Balaguer and Borjas Blancas, about 70 miles west of the capital. The north sees rapid progress with Arlesa the focus of heavy fighting as the line holds.
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Borjas Blancas
Roosevelt plans vast housing push survey committees in 1200 towns
President Roosevelt announced a national housing campaign to create year round jobs by forming 1200 local committees to survey needs and map plans. The plan includes a federal planning agency and an annual wage for labor, replacing high hourly rates, with broad industry and civic participation.
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INS
Roosevelt
International News Service
Federal Planning Agency
White House
27 Deaths Attributed To Wintry Onslaught And Treacherous Highways
The Associated Press reports a cold wave across many states with 27 fatalities from wintry weather and hazardous roads. Exposure deaths noted in Huntington West Virginia Parsons Kansas Waterbury Alabama Birmingham and other centers. Temperatures plunged, with New York City down to 19 above and Minnesota towns to deep subzero readings. International Falls suffered a devastating fire driving residents to shelter as cold persisted.
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100 Fire Blaze In Zero Weather
Fire driven by bitter cold and high winds destroyed two frame buildings housing 21 families in Crescent Heights near California, Pennsylvania. About seven miles north of here, residents fled in near zero temperatures as firefighters battled the blaze with low water pressure, saving larger homes and the Pittsburgh Coal Company bath house.
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Pittsburgh Coil Company
Priests Die After Skid In Weirton Car Crash
WEIRTON December 28 A Catholic priest Rev Girard Spencer 29 acting pastor of Denilton Ohio was killed in a night crash when his auto skidded on an icy stretch. Rev Hut Reedy of Colombes Ohio was injured. Both graduates of St. Vincents near Greensburg Pa. Spencer family lives in Columbus police said the car careened off the road. Reedy was rushed to a hospital where his condition was reported serious.
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