Lighting project at W. W. Howes Airport awaits WPA approval
The city awarded a 5041.37 materials contract to Westinghouse Electric Supply for an airport lighting upgrade at W. W. Howes Municipal Airport. WPA funds will fund about 46 workers, including a 51 foot beacon tower northwest of the administration building, boundary and range lights, and runway markers to improve night operations. Final WPA headquarters approval is pending.
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Works Progress Administration
W. W. Howes Municipal
City Commission
Westinghouse Electric Supply Company
Sioux City
WPA
Mitchell
Washington
Westinghouse Company
Air- Port Administration
Huron
Elks Charity Play Sells Baskets Funds for Huron Poor
Huron lodge No 4 urges all to see The Trial of Mary Dugan at the senior high school auditorium Thursday and Friday. Proceeds support the Ells Christmas basket fund for needy residents, with final touches by director G W Chitty and an excellent cast.
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Elks Lodge
Huron Tod
Mary Duga
Huron Lodge
Mary Dugan
G. W. Chitty
Ells Christmas Basket Fund
Sweden orders 500000 gas masks for air raid units
Stockholm government announced the purchase and distribution of 500000 gas masks to air raid precautions units. An allotment of 13,000,000 crowns (about $2,989,000) funds the air raid program as citizens buy masks. Volunteer women workers are being enlisted while men are drafted.
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Stockholm
Mundt Criticizes New Deal Policies
Congressmen Karl Mundt of Madison denounces state socialism under the New Deal at the South Dakota Farmers Elevator Association Convention opening. He argues for an economic democracy and free enterprise within government standards, calling for a return to American liberties and limiting government competition.
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South Dakota Farmers Elevat Association
Karl E. Mundt
Madison
Washington
Mundt
Wil Carstein Mantlands
Telet
Karl Mundt
South Dakota Farmers Elevator Association
America
Association
C. G. Anderson
Aberdeen
Marvin Hugutt
Asia
Russia
Doug Fairbanks dies of heart attack at 56 in Hollywood
Hollywood mourns Douglas Fairbanks a famed film star aged 56 after a daylong illness ending at his Santa Monica beach home. He died at 1 am with widow Sylvia Ashley and brother Robert by his side. Once the era’s top male lead, his later years were quiet amid travels with Mary Pickford and subsequent divorce battles involving Lord Ashley-Cooper.
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Hollywood
Douglas Fairbanks
Don Juan
Santa Omia
Sylvia Ashley
Robert
Douglas, Jr
Fairbanks
Mary Pickford
Anakae
Mary
Sious Fairbanks
Doug Fairbanks
Doug
Lord Anthony Ashley-Cooper Ashley
London
Lady Ashley
Finn Resistance Shames Reds in Finnish Standoff
The article notes the Finns' unexpected success against Russian forces in the Russo Finnish war. It discusses how the League of Nations and Moscow would welcome a quick negotiated end, while many nations condemn the Soviet aggression. It contrasts Moscow's prestige loss with doubts about the Red army's efficacy.
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League of Nations
Moscow
League
Soviet Union
Russia
Charles A. Lindbergh
Intensify Hunt For Missing Clark Man
Hoyt Nicholas a 40 year old Clark salesman has been missing since November 21. Authorities intensified the search in the northwest after a postcard to his wife was misread as from a former schoolteacher. Fred Searls heads the investigation division.
Dust Blizzard Sweeps Over City From Northerly Wind
A 23 mile per hour north wind swept across the city, lifting clouds of dirt and cutting visibility for pilots in parts of Minnesota and the Dakotas. Temperatures barely moved, with a noon reading of 39 degrees. The state weather bureau forecast fair and colder weather tonight and Wednesday.
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Huron
Mother Nature
Mercury
State Weather Bureau
Yid
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Dakotas
Airport Weather Bureau
Rapid City
Pierre
S.D
Twin Cities
Pembing
N. D
Reds Open New Drive To Bring Finns To Knees
Finnish authorities announce heavy Russian offensive halted along the eastern front with many enemy dead before Finnish positions. Reports from Mantyluoto say German freighter Bollheim sunk by a submarine as part of a Russian blockade, with casualties among officers and crew reaching land by lifeboats. The Red invaders pursue parallel offensives along Lake Ladoga and the isthmus, while Finnish defenses withdraw to forested areas and defend key points like Pitkaranta and Loimola amid heavy fighting and losses.
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Sulletin
Helsinki
Mantyluote
Bollheim
Gulf of
Boih+nin
Finland
Hamburg
Lake Ladoga
Karelian
Gulf of Finland
Mannerheim Line
Salla
Suomussalmi
Labor Day Opening Set for 1940 South Dakota State Fair
The South Dakota State Fair Board announced a Labor Day opening for 1940, with dates set from September 2 to 7. Secretary C. B. Hansen confirmed the plan as Labor Day Monday through Saturday, noting prior profitable exhibitions despite earlier weather challenges. major outport amusements will again headline next season’s grandstand entertainment.
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South
Dakota
C. B. Han- Sen
Geneva Report Says France Could Break With Russia If Expelled
Geneva dispatch reports the League of Nations considers a report condemning Russia as aggressor in the Finnish war. Russia warned to reply by tomorrow. France may sever ties and close the Soviet embassy in Paris if Russia is expelled. Daladier government cited as ready to act.
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London
Reuters
Geneva
Russia
League of Nation
Finland
Moscow
At & P.m
E. S
League of Nations
Soviet Union
League
League Assembly
United States
Donald D. Edgar
Argentina
Britain
France
Hessia
Paris
T He Winns
Daladier
Communist Party
Second Man Dies In Miller Wreck
Miller December 12 special correspondent Arthur Uglestad, 30, a Miller creamery employee, died Monday night in a Miller hospital from injuries sustained in a car crash about a mile west of here early Sunday. L. W. Fox was killed instantly. two others, A. B. Cahalan and Clinton Titus, were injured. Cahalan, bank president, had a compound leg fracture. Titus, a fractured collar bone and shock. Uglestad survived by wife and four children. burial for Fox at Federal, other details pending.
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Arthur Uglestad
Miller Creamery
Miller
Here
L. W. Fox
A. B. Cahalan
Clinton Titua
Produce House
Miter
Ree Heights
Cahalan
Titus
Miller Hospital
Agiestad
Watertown
Oakes
Fox
Federator
Bremen Safe In German Waters
The great liner Bremen steamed safely into German waters tonight escaping the British navy on her homeward voyage from Murmansk. German authorities said she arrived within a safe zone under Captain AL Ahrens who took her out of New York on August 30. Harder officials expected her at a German port, presumably Bremerhaven.
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Bremen
Berlin
Murmansk
AL Ahrens
New York
Bremerhaven
Finns Seek War Aid Promises on Mediation Push
Finns led by League Delegate Rudolf Holsti opened talks with Britain France and Latin American nations for war supplies while Moscow mediation hopes linger. Britain reportedly pledged planes and French guns to help Finland as Latin American states offered nitrate wheat and beef. China’s stance loomed as the key obstacle to ousting Russia from the League by unanimous vote.
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Kusia
League
Rudolf Holsti
Red Army
Moscow
Britain
Norway
Sweden
Russia
China
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Bronx City
Elks Charity
S. D
Congressman
Doug, Jr
Ee Sivas
Ashley
MacKengie
By Dewitt MacKenzie
Clark
Ostend
Belgium
Reds
Welbinks
Ernie Young
Miller Wreck
Uglestad
Fedora
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