Relations of U. S. and Soviet Have Cooled
Washington dispatch notes a cooling of U S Soviet ties as Roosevelt delays appointing a new ambassador to Moscow. The Moscow post has stood vacant since June when Davies moved to Brussels, and Troyanovsky won’t return. Ambassadors’ absence signals diplomacy without explicit breaks, with ambiguity in U S Soviet and U S Germany relations and signs of friction dating to the 1930s.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Moscow
Russia
Germany
United States
Joseph E. Davies
Brussels
Kremlin
Alexander A. Troyanovsky
Lenin Hills
Bol‘sheviks
William C. Bullitt
Paris
Davies
Soviet Union
Spasso House
France Deals Sternly With Strike Heads
Daladier’s government moved to discipline strikers as calls for a 24 hour nation wide protest grew. Officials planned immediate discharge of strike leaders in public services and suspensions for others while unions backed sympathy actions across northern France. An official estimate put total dismissals at up to 70,000 with rehiring beginning but uneven progress.
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St. Nazaire
St. Na‘zaire
France
Daladier
Ministry of Interior
Three Cabinet Members Untouched By Gossip Plan to Quit
Roosevelt's cabinet, intact for six years, faces rumors of resignations as talks circle Secretary Ickes about Chicago mayorship with Hull Morgenthau and Wallace still linked to potential departures. Cummings led the way with retirement. Farley expected to step out. insiders say Roosevelt will not publicly shake the circle before 1940.
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Kirke L. Simpson
Washington
Roosevelt
Ickes
Chicago
Hull
Morgenthau
Wallace
Cummings
Farley
White House
New York
Methodist Meeting At Nashville Closes
In Nashville Tennessee Dr J Calloway Robertson of Norfolk Virginia urged members to embrace social and economic questions as part of Christian nurture. The educational council of Southern Methodism closed its December meetings with plans for a joint gathering with northern Methodists and the Methodist Protestant church in April 1959 at Excelsior Springs Missouri prior to the unification conference in Kansas City.
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Nashville
Tenn
J. Calloway Robertson
Norfolk
Educational Council of Southern Methodism
Robertson
Methodist Episcopal Church, South
Council
Methodist Protestant Church
Burned Up by Fall While Ice Skating
Waynesburgh Pa December 11 UP Bill Dryer was burned when he fell on the Ten Mile creek ice a box of matches ignited in his trousers He escaped with a slight scorching by sitting quickly in a snow bank His handkerchief shorts and trousers burned before the fire was extinguished
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Waynesburgh
Bill Dryer
Ten Mile Ereek
Pole Finally Gets Flag At Lorain Police Flagpole
Lorain police secure a flag for their 92 foot flagpole after Edgar Ellis, a flagpole repairer for the school board, agrees to outfit the pole with pulley and rope and install a top flag. The 2 year old pole had no flag until now.
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Edgar Ellis
Premier outlines punishment plans for strike leaders
The premier and aides discussed punitive measures against labor Socialist and Communist leaders, excluding government employees. Informed sources say ministers proposed prosecution of Communist leaders and inclusion of Jean Blum and Socialist followers, the former People's Front premier, in punishment amid meetings with center and right party leaders.
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Jeon Blum
People's Front
86 875 Pay Premiums On Wheat Risk Policies
KANSAS CITY Dec 1 AP W A Talbot branch manager for the federal crop insurance corporation said today 96975 farmers in the winter wheat belt have paid premiums on 1939 wheat insurance policies and he expected the number to reach 100000 Missouri with 15468 leads in number of premiums paid Kansas Nebraska Ilinois Indiana and Ohio follow in the order given
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Kansas City
W. A. Talbot
Federal Crop Insurance Corporation
Missouri
Kansas
Nebraska
Ilinois
Indiana
Ohio
Auditor promoted to chief accounting officer for railroad
Martin Eckert, general auditor for Missouri Pacific Railway since February, was named chief accounting and financial officer. He will succeed the late Fred P. Johnson. Eckert resides in St. Louis.
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M. P
ST. Louis
Dec. Jr
Martin Eckert
Missouri Pacific Railway Company
Eckert
Fred P. Johnson
Vast Monopoly Hearing Opens In Washington
A Washington hearing examines the depression era economy with economist Lubin arguing durable goods downturns, wage shifts, and consumer demand limits. He outlines how a small income group sustains only about half of U S families and estimates potential uplift if wages rose, highlighting broad losses across wages, production, and stockholder incomes.
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Lubin
State of
New York
United States
Insurgents Attack Spain In Scattered Air Raids
In Hendaye France on December 1 AP reports scattered insurgent air raids unsettled Spain as Franco awaits a new offensive. Five planes dropped 70 bombs over Barcelona with one killed and ten wounded, while fronts remained quiet except for anticipated drives toward Valencia before winter weather.
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Hendaye
France
Spain
Francisco Franco
Barcelona
Valencia
Problem of Finding Home for Jews to Be Taken Up Today
London dispatch reports an international meeting to study resettlement for Europe’s persecuted Jews, led by Britain’s Earl Winterton and Americans Rublee and Taylor. Delegates from 32 nations assess refugee intake limits, money constraints, and split responsibilities as 300 Jewish children head to Harwich, with Australia pledging 15,000 places over three years.
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London
United States
France
Great Britain
Netherlands
Brazil
Europe
Germany
Evian- Les-Bains
Frances
Roosevelt
Earl Winterton
George Rublee
International Committee
Myron C. Taylor
England
Harwich
Australia
Poland
Hit by Wes Sponge, She Gets $1,038 in Court
In Oakland California a woman named Gladys L. White received a $1,038 damages award from superior court after being struck on the head by a wet spouse falling six stories. She sued Latham Square Corporation and window washer Peter Massaro for injuries including strained ligaments in her neck and shoulders.
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Oakland
Calif
Gladys L. White
Latham Square Corporation
Peter Massaro
New York Bakers Strike Sparks Early American Labor Action
The bakers of New York City led America’s first strike in 1741. Early strikers faced charges as conspirators, but convictions were rarely secured.
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Bakers
New York City
America
Train Hit Bus Kills 22 Children Near Salt Lake City
A foggy Utah crossing tragedy left 22 youths dead when a freight train struck a bus carrying Bluffdale Riverton South Jordan Crescent and Herriman students. Officials counted 26 dead at first, later revised. 20 survivors included several hospitalized. Governor Blood ordered sympathy proclamations and state county probes. rail signals had been delayed despite frequent calls for one.
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David Witter
Denver
J. S
W. E. Speakman
Denver and Rio Grande Western
Henry H. Blood
W. K. Granger
Wage Act Head Frowns On Term Cracking Down
Elmer F Andrews administrator of the wage and hour act arrives in San Francisco on an inspection tour. Interviewers press him on enforcement. He calls cracking down a terrible term and says the act is being interpreted for employers’ good. He hints at action against fly by night firms and a strong court case ahead.
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San Francisco
Elmer F. Andrews
New York
Andrews
Supreme Court
Hamburger Out of Germany
SYDNEY Australia Dec 1 AP Germany faces food shortage as Australians respond with measures affecting trade and consumer choices amid continued wartime disruption.
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Hamburger
Germany
Sydney
Australia
Two Refugees Arrive Aboard Shared Ship
A remark notes two refugees named Hamburger and Frankfurter arriving together on the same ship. The line hints at a discussion on why Nazis permitted emigration to proceed. The snippet frames a historical immigration moment with irony through the names.
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Hamburger
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