Teruel Taken as Bloodiest Battle Rages
Insurgent forces claim complete control of Teruel after a massive Civil War battle. Four war correspondents were wounded. Bradish Gaillard Johnson Jr. and E. F. S. Sheepshanks died, others injured. The press party was scouting the advance near Caude when a shell struck their automobile. Funeral services for Johnson and Sheepshanks planned in Zaragoza.
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Associated Press
Hendaye
Spain
Teruel
America
Francisco Franco
Bradish Gaillard Johnson Jr
Spur
News Week
E. F S. Sheepshanks
Reuters
Edward J. Neil
Harry Philby
Times of London
Havas
Caude
Feruel
Philby
Johnson
Zaragoza
Middle Aragon
Sheepshanks
Geoffrey Thompson
Thompson
New Year Reflections Across Nations Mark 1938 Welcomes
The New Year arrives with mixed mood as leaders and crowds greet 1938. Roosevelt celebrates at home. Pershing and staff send greetings while New York’s Times Square sees frantic crowds. International notes include Tokyo seeking U.S. friendship and changes in divorce law in England.
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Associated Press
China
Spain
Washington
Roosevelt
New York City
Bedlam
Broadway
Times Square
John J. Pershing
Malin Craig
Far East
Tokyo
U.S
England
Rome
St. Peter's
Adolf Hitler
Bob Daniell Opens Independent Insurance and Bonding Agency
J R Bob Daniell announced the opening of a personal and independent general insurance and bonding agency in the Hotel Lyons building. He has spent 21 years with the Tennessee Valley Company in a managerial role and is well known in Decatur for civic and business interests and wide friendship.
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J. R
Bob” Daniell
Hotel Lyons
Daniell
Tennessee Valley Company
Daniels
Decatur
Sea Wolf May Have Been Ex-Convict, Agents Hint
In a San Quentin interview a convict linked Jack Morgan known as the Sea Wolf to an older plot to reach a distant island. Morgan allegedly killed the Aaffe owner Dwight Faulding and ruled the ship until his captives killed him. survivors say Horne and Spernak dumped Morgan overboard.
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Los Angeles
San Quentin Penitentiary
Jack Morgan
San Francisco
San Quentin
Morgan
South Seas
Central America
Aaffe
Faulding
San Pedro
Catalina Island
Robert Horne
George Spernak
Horne
Spernak
Privacy Of Felons To Be Curtailed At Joliet Prison
Joliet and Stateville penitentiaries will tighten privacy rules starting Monday as Warden Joseph E. Ragen introduces a photo electric cell gadget. Guards will wheel past cells daily, inspect mattresses, and search for contraband including small electric trains tin soldiers pistols saws and similar items.
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Joliet
Statéville
Joseph E. Ragen
Coops Gather Across Alabama for Annual Meetings
Decatur hosts a gathering of farmers cooperative representatives on January 11 as the New Orleans Bank for Cooperatives holds its annual stockholders meeting. Delegations from North Alabama and Selma districts attend with D. Sanders of the Cooperative Bank Commissioner as guest speaker and Washington officials present. The program includes the bank’s four year annual report and remarks from New Orleans Bank for Cooperatives reps.
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Decatur
Farmers’ Cooperative
New Orleans Bank For Caives
Eeeration
Farmers’ Tives
North
Ala’ i
Selma
Alabama
D. Sanders
Cooperative Bank
Washington, D. C
Washington
New Orleans Bank For Cooperatives
Farmers’ Cooperative Associations
Disney Brothers Celebrate Golden Wedding Anniversary
Hollywood reports Walt Disney and his three brothers visiting parents Mr and Mrs Elias Disney of Portland Oregon to mark a golden wedding anniversary with a New Year's home gift and family gathering.
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Hollywood
Walt Disney
Mickey Mouse
Tymariag
Elias
Disney
Portland
Ore
Next Senator to Be Chosen Next Tuesday
The 18,000 voters in Morgan Limestone and Limestone counties go to the polls next Tuesday to choose Alabama's next U S Senate member. Possible candidates are Hill Heflin and Williams, each with distinct New Deal stances and records. Williams is a dirt farmer and Federal Land Bank advocate. Hill is a longtime congressman with New Deal ties. Heflin is a former senator with Roosevelt sympathy depending on policy. The campaign has centered on New Deal support and rivalries persist as Heflin recovers from pneumonia, leaving Hill and Williams to campaign locally. The Morgan Limestone and Lawrence counties vote could determine Alabama’s next U S Senator.
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Morgan
Limestone
Lawrence
Alabama
United States Senate
Dixie Draves
Lister Hil
Tom Heflin
Charles Wiliams
Hill
Heflin
Williama
Federal Land Bank
Voters of
Citzen
Pen Sal Grou
Senate
Roosevelt
Washington
Congress
LaFayette
Ala
United States
Fear Of Chinese Campaign Of Terror Grips Shanghai Crowd
Five grenades exploded amid a marching crowd of Japanese soldiers and gendarmes in Shanghai's international settlement injuring four. Police and troops surrounded the area, questioned Chinese detainees, and hunted for those responsible as reports tied the incident to a broader Japanese push in Shantung and nearby railway actions.
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Shanghai
Fukien
Hankow
Shantung Province
Tientsin- Pukow
Taian
Tsingtao
Pingyin
Peiching
Yengchow
Tseyang
New Year plans at Central Baptist Church and safety patrol report
Central Baptist Church announces a heavy New Year schedule with a Sunday school session at 9:46 a.m., a 11:00 a.m. New Year message, the observance of the Lord's Supper, and an ordination of Homer Britton at 7:00 p.m. A patrol report highlights 83 drunk driving arrests and 400 reckless driving arrests in North Alabama in the past year, plus three years of declining traffic deaths on the Bee Line highway.
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Central Baptist Church
J. C. Cowan
John c
Homer Britton
Britton
Moody Bible Institute of Chicago
Ft. Madison
Iowa
First
Fort Madison
Moody Bible Tnistitute
Calvary
South
Institute
J.F. Ray
First Baptist Churc
J. W. Meyers
Southside Baptist Church
CL. Dobbs
Sixteenth Avenue Baptist Church
North
Alabama
van B. Gilbert
North Alabama
van Gilbert
Tennessee River
Limestone County
Birmingham
Tennessee Line
Mississippi
Georgia
Limestone
Jackson
Morgan
Birmingham papers raise subscription rates in new year
Birmingham Post reports rate increases effective January 3. The Birmingham News and Birmingham Age-Herald raise weekday six day subscriptions from 12 to 16 cents. The Sun paper price changes apply to News and Herald combined editions.
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Birmingham
Ala
Birmingham Post
Birmingham News
Birmingham Age- Herald
Birmingham Daily
Sunde
News
e-Herald
Theatre-Herald
Ras Elkins Hit In Head In Front Of Home
Police investigate a mysterious attack on Ras Elkins on Church Street last night. He was struck with his own walking stick and taken to Benevolent hospital in Brown's ambulance. He is not believed to be critically hurt as bedside reports say he is getting along fine. A witness described two men fleeing. one suspect was questioned and released.
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Ras Elking
Church Street
Elkins
Grove Street
Benevolent Hospital
Brown
Miss Virginia Walker Dies at Noon in City
Miss Virginia Louise Walker 22 daughter of Dr and Mrs D C Walker died at noon today at the family home 336 Johnston street after a six week illness. Funeral arrangements to be announced by Brown.
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Virginia Louise Walker
D. C. Walker
Johnston Street
Brown
Walker
Sugar Bowl Clashes LSU and Santa Clara in Light Rain
A light misty rain dampened the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans as LSU meets Santa Clara in the annual football classic. Temperatures are forecast to fall later tonight.
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N. O
New Orleans
Louisiana State University
Santa Clara
Escape attempt uncovered in Lawrence County murder case
This chapter of the Bert Rutherford case details an attempted jail escape at the Lawrence County jail after hacksaws were smuggled in. Deputy Sheriff Roy K. Byars and officers halted the attempt as Rutherford faced a 35 year sentence in the state peniton. Whisenant awaits trial.
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Bert Rutherford
Lawrence
Andrew Dutton
Hip
Rutherford
Glenn Wh
Lawrence County
Roy Byars
Roy K. Byars
AL Griffith
Byars
Buford
Pictures of Panay to Be Shown Here
Manager G P Ae at Princess theatre announces the news reel feature Pictures of Panay will be shown Sunday and Monday. The film premiered in New York Thursday and is described as three and a half minutes long. A cameraman who covered the Panay bombing is credited with the film.
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G. P. Ae
Princess Theatre
U. S
New York
Coupe
United States Navy
United States
Weather summary from Tennessee River region
Weather notes show the Tennessee River at 166 feet with 7 o'clock reading. Temperature high 74, low 42 with 0.45 inches rainfall. Alabama mostly cloudy with rain and cold nights, Sunday mix of sun and showers in south and east regions. Tennessee generally fair with some rain in east tonight and colder conditions inland. Weekly outlook predicts unsettled middle of week with slightly cooler temperatures.
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Tennessee
Alabama
Central
East Gulffalo
Southern Plain
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