3 A Designation For Huron Cars Is Discontinued
Pierre, Dec. 21. Cars in two cities will bear letters on their license plates to distinguish them from rural cars in the same county. Secretary of State Clive Ringsrud says it is too late to change plans. only Minnehaha County had a letter series previously. Brown and Brown County protests and the system aims for uniform plates across cities. The plan to widen lettered plates was dropped to maintain uniformity with surrounding states. Miss Ringsrud regrets no local suggestions were sought earlier.
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Miss Ringsrud
Sioux Falls
Brown Frotest
Minnehaha County
Secretary of State
Brown County
S D Sells Bonds At 3 Per Cent
Pierre South Dakota sold twenty million four hundred twenty five thousand dollars of refinancing bonds to level rural credits debt. The plan aims to average about two and a half million dollars annually for twenty years to liquidate farm loans. New bonds carry three percent interest beyond maturity of outstanding bonds. Bond blocks of one hundred thousand dollars released as the issue is released.
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Pierre
South Dakota
Millard G. Scott
Rural Credits
Mary Christmas Sighs Over Too Few Hours in Racine
Mary Christmas, known for her festive charity, stood on a Racine street corner with a bell, lamenting the lack of hours to handle Christmas tasks. She described gifts for five children, Salvation Army duties, choir practice, letters, and needy baskets, noting a busier season than usual.
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Racine
Wis
Mary Christmas
Salvation Army
Mrs. Christmas
Sam Christmas
Myrtle
Farm Loan Policy Changes Loom After Wallace Win
Washington December 21 The farm credit administration faces policy changes as Agriculture Department officials seek closer tie with general objectives including soil conservation. F F Hill resigns as FCA governor and Roosevelt names A G Black to replace him, likely shifting balance between independence and department supervision, with implications for farm groups and Congress.
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Washington
Wallace
Farm Credit Administration
Agricultural Department
FCA
Agriculture Department
F. F. Hill
Credit Agency
Roosevelt
A. G. Black
Agricultural’ Department
Hill
Congress
Bureau
Grange
National Cooperative Council
Hill Aid
Les Farm Loans
Graf Spee Chief's Farewell Letter May Be Withheld
Buenos Aires dispatch reports Capt Hans Langsdorff, commander of the Graf Spee, died by his own hand after scuttling his ship. An Argentine naval commission recommends withholding his farewell letter to the German embassy. The admiralty in Berlin says Langsdorff wished to end his life after saving his crew. Public interest and wreaths surround the naval arsenal burial, with diplomats planning tributes. Germany protests Argentina's internment of Graf Spee officers and crew, urging release as shipwrecked combatants.
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Buenos Aires
Hans Langsdorff
Adolf Hitler
Graf Spee
Montevideo
Langsdorff
Naval Arsenal
Admiral Graspes
Admiralty
Otto Langmann
Uruguay
Hone
Berlin
Hitler
Germany
Admiral Graft Spee
DNB
Argentina
Netherland
Aboukir
Cressy
Fishing Boats to Get British Aid After Nazi Attacks
Britain considers arming unarmed North Sea fishing vessels after 35 ships were bombed or machine gunned in three days of German air strikes. The Admiralty called the raids senselessly inhumane, while the German high command claimed 23 British vanguard vessels were destroyed. Mine sinkings fell to two in four hours, with the Swedish steamer Mars missing seven and six rescued, and the Adolf Bratt also lost with five crew killed.
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London
Great Britain
Germean
Mars
Adolf Bratt
Prs
Netherlands
Copenhagen
Berlingdke
T‘dende
Ulosunk
Tdes
SES
Varfare
Nazi Ship Columbus Sinks Self in Final Stand
Survivors from the German liner Columbus described trained scuttlers and orders from Berlin to burn and sink ships rather than let them fall into enemy hands. Captain Wilhelm Daehne, among 576 rescued, said surrender was not an option as the vessel went down after sighting two British destroyers.
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New York
Berlin
Columbus
Ellis Island
Lnstaight
UW. .5
Tuscaloosa
Agriculture forecast guides 1940 winter wheat output
The Agriculture Department today forecast U.S. winter wheat production near 399 million bushels for 1940. Severe drought affected yields, suggesting a decline from earlier hopes and reflecting weather impact on the crop outlook.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Aioe
Cold grips Arctic battle oil stalls Soviet tanks
In Copenhagen on December 21, extreme cold near 25 degrees below zero slows oil in Soviet tanks and disrupts a 24 hour battle plan seen as Stalin’s birthday gift. Finnish forces gain ground while Swedish volunteers move to support with General Ernst Linder appointed commander in chief.
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Copenhagen
Russia
Joseph Stalin
Arctic Circle
Stalin
Helsinki
Ernst Linder
FDR Orders Health Officers to Finland for Epidemic Work
President Roosevelt ordered two United States Public Health Service medical officers to proceed to Finland to assist with combating an outbreak and other epidemic diseases. The exact extent and nature of the assignment were not divulged.
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FDR
Finland
Washington
Roosevelt
United States Publi Health
Stalin Birthday Celebrated Across Soviet Union
Moscow reports mark Joseph Stalin’s sixtieth birthday with praise from the press and state leaders. Kalinin’s new biography calls him a happy man who fed a sixth of the globe and now leads to communism. A million copies of the book were printed as factories and schools staged celebratory events.
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Moscow
Russia
Joseph Stalin
Red Army
Finland
Stalin
Michael Kalinin
Supreme Soviet
Unon
Poland
Baltic States
Hussia
Finns Reported Seeking Big Loan
Finland was reported to seek a 50 million dollar loan from the United States to buy war materials for use against Russian forces. A Finnish government representative reportedly sounded out congressional leaders after Wall Street financing failed. One congressman suggested Finns believed greater aid was needed than moral support to sustain resistance.
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Washington
Finland
United States
Wall Street
Congress
Bombing Raid Hits Helsinki Hospital Area on Birthday
Soviet air raid on Helsinki casualties rise as fifteen bombs strike the hospital zone. A five story dormitory and a five story clinic building suffer major damage. Two hospital patients injured, some deaths reported. Eight planes attacked, sirens sounded, anti aircraft fire, fires set, and debris widespread. A direct hit struck the Oktyabrskaya Revolutsiya battleship near Koivisto as battles raged on three fronts.
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Thomas F. Hawkins
Helsinry
Helsinkki
Joseph Stalein
Smilia
Helsinki
Sone
Copenhagen
Clinic
School For Blind
Tong
Oktaibrskaya Revolutia
Koivisto
Leningrad
Two Killed In Auto Wreck Near Beresford
BERESFORD Dec 21 Two young men are dead and two others in hospitals after an automobile accident seven miles north of Beresford last night Sanford Wilson 25 Beresford and Kermit Tweet 2 Inwood Ia are dead Morris Stephenson 21 of North Dakota was badly injured with skull fracture a broken leg and other injuries taken to a Sioux Falls hospital with little hope of survival
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Beresford
Here
Sanford Wilson
Kermit Tweet
Inwood
Morris Stephenson
North Dakota
Sioux Falls
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Brookings
Olive Ringsrud
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Graf. Spee
U.S
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Wilhelm Daehne
Unitchoo Coast
By Alvin J. Steinropf
Kirkenes
Svanvik
Salmijarvi
Lapland
Mannerheim
Karelian Isthmus
Witt Hancock
U. S
Haakow
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