Christmas Holiday Death Toll Tops Six Hundred Thirty Three
The Christmas holiday period across the nation produced 633 fatalities with traffic crashes causing 418 deaths. California led with 47 deaths, including 34 in traffic, while South Dakota reported multiple highway and local incidents. Notable South Dakota losses included three Madison WPA workers and several high school students in crashes, and Rapid City fire deaths.
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Associated Press
Nebraska
Nevada
Island
Vermont
Wyy
Delaware
California
Iowa
Minnesota
North Dakota
South Dakota
Wisconsin
Merchants Asked to File County Bills by Thursday
The county commission plans an end of year meeting Friday to clear remaining 1939 docket items. Merchants with claims against the county must present them by Thursday, and a special meeting tomorrow will address compromise applications for delinquent personal property taxes. Delinquent taxpayers should obtain abatements from the sheriff and file at the session to avoid extra penalties and potential impact on other property.
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County Commission
Christmas Child Born In Bethlehem
In Bethlehem Pennsylvania on Christmas morning a woman named Mary gave birth to a son to the joy of Gen Czapa who wept softly after physicians confirmed the birth. He walked home beneath a starry sky as the city of sixty thousand marked its only Christmas Day nativity.
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Bethlehem
Economy Axe Unlikely To Fall
Washington Dec. 26 Congressmen debate trimming federal outlays as new session opens Jan. 3. Despite a bipartisan push for budget balance, past trends suggest administration requests may win. Election-year politics and district interests complicate tax cuts. The deficit ceiling of 41.0 billion looms, with options to raise, tax, or cut spending.
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Washington
White House
Congress
Roosevelt
Treasury
WPA Worker Attacked by Fellow Worker Injures Skull
Louis B. Sowles of 738 Illinois Avenue Southwest was hospitalized after an attack by Willie Schultz, a WPA sewer project coworker. Police say Sowles suffered a fractured skull pending X ray results. State's Attorney Tom H. Luby indicated possible aggravated assault charges against Schultz.
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Louis B. Sowles
Ilinois Avenue
Willie Schultz
Snid Lowles
Tom H. Luby
Schultz
WPA
Jensen Urges Public Inquiry Into Two State Departments
Former South Dakota governor Leslie Jensen calls for a bi partisanship public inquiry into the highway and state auditing departments. He urges completion before the May 1940 primary and argues for six weeks to finish a thorough probe. Jensen names Andrew Norstad and J B Dennis as figures tied to questioned transactions and advocates immediate action despite Attorney General Temmey’s six month estimate.
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Hot Springs
Jetties Eaisen
Harlan Bushfield
Jensen
South Dakota
Temmey
Bushfield
Norstad
FDR Peace Plea Wins Wide Backing Across Faiths
The Associated Press reports President Roosevelt’s push for world peace draws grateful responses from Protestant Catholic and Jewish leaders. Archbishop Cicognani says Pope Pius XI will receive Myrone Faylor the peace emissary to the Vatican. Protestant and Jewish leaders agree to meet tomorrow for talks on global issues.
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Associated Press
Roosevelt
Washington
A. G. Cicognani
Pius XI
Myrone Faylor
Vatican
Marner
Tomorow
Russia
Finland
Adolf Hitler
Santa Claus
French
Berlin
Fuehrer
France
Snow Blankets Western South Dakota In White Christmas
Snow covered northern and western South Dakota after weekend flurries, with several inches in towns like Pierre Presho Chamberlain Rapid City Lead Deadwood Sturgis and Aberdeen. Most areas saw a white Christmas as temperatures cooled after a long dry spell. flurries were forecast eastward with hazardous driving in the west river district.
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Associated’ Press
South Dakota
Missouri River
Pierre
West River
State Highway Department
Warras Nutting
Huron
State Weather Bureau
Wessington
Beadle County
German Ship Taken By British Prize Crew Under U S Clearance
The German freighter Duesseldorf, captured off Chile and moved through the canal with a British prize crew, was cleared for Jamaica by U S Army commands at the Canal Zone despite a German diplomatic protest. The ship’s passenger Hans Von Appen declined treatment, prompting a humanitar ian release to a Panama hospital after doct ors deemed emergency surgery necessary.
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Chatobal
United States Army Command
Canal Zone
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David L. Stone
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Chilean
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Canal
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Isthmus
Stone
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Panama City
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Santo Tomas
Repl
Panama
Gorgas Hospital
Ysicians
General Stone
Sanholie
Engelang
Germany
Moselle
Australia
England
New World
Panama Canal Zone
Nandy
Spanish boat sinks Lisbon coast amid German losses
A fragmentary report notes a Spanish vessel sank near Lisbon with part of its crew missing and presumed lost. The source text is garbled but indicates German agency coverage and a fatal maritime incident abroad.
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Lisbon
Dev
Biter
Lara
Spee
Rites Wednesday For Huron Youths Killed In Collision
Two 17 year old Huron High School seniors died in a highway crash early Saturday near Huron. Arthur Wagner and Jadseer Ball were the victims and seven others injured. Double funeral services are planned for Wednesday at 2:30 PM at the Methodist Church with interment at Riverside Cemetery.
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Sioux Falls
South
Jim Cade
Ray Burrill
Faulk County
Aberdeen
Faulkton
Huron High School
Judson Ball
Arthur Wagner
Huron Ball
Wagner
Rapid City
George L. Madison
Michael Reagan
Highway 43
Platte
Ralph Holmes
Geddes
Reagan
Binder Brothers
Yankton
William A. Wagner
Third Street
Young Wagner
Huron Hospital
Jadseer Ball
Huron
Ball
BE. R. Ball
Methodist Church
C. E. Wilcox
F. E. Morrison
Riverside Cemetery
Judson Bail
Bob Fisher
Jim Bailor
Max Oviatt
Lorrain Ketelson
Carroll Ray
Bill Saxton
Robert Ma Jone
Charles Hoffman
Bob Vanderharr
Y Tommey
Bud Ebert
Andrew Palm, Jr
Raymond Walsh
Jack Welch
Kenneth Johnson
Jack Shearer
John McCord
Randall
Taylor's Selection Generally Lauded As Envoy to Vatican
President Roosevelt named Myron M. Taylor to serve as personal representative to the Vatican to foster world peace efforts. Pope Pius XII welcomed the move. some critics questioned potential diplomatic ties, while others urged continued caution on formal recognition.
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Myron C. Taylor
United States Steel Corporation
Vatican
United States
Taylor
Washington
Stephen Early
White House
Pius XII
Myron 2. Taylor
United States Steel
George A. Butterick
Federal Council of Churches of Christ In America
BB 2
Cyrus Adler
Jewish Théological Seminary of America
Herpones
Louis D. Newton
Atlanta
Paul B. Kern
Methodist Church
Nashville
Tenn
Olive Explains Sudden License Plate Policy Shift
Secretary of State Olive Ringsrud explains in a letter to Gene Denning of the Huron Chamber of Commerce that returning to the 1939 A design is too late. The 1940 plate plan follows the governor’s economy program, with a number and letter format that leaves waste ends.
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Olive
Olive Ringsrud
South Dakota
Istate
Gene’ Denning
Huron Chamber of Commerce
Finns Reach Within 73 Miles of Murmansk Rail Line
Finnish forces pressed into Soviet territory near the Karelia Isthmus as long range artillery pounded Viipuri and air raids hit several cities. The push places Finnish troops about 73 miles from the Murmansk railway, Russia's northern supply line, while Russian reports claim recent Finnish setbacks elsewhere.
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Associated Press
Finland
Viipuri
Viipact
Karelias Ishamus
Murmansk
Russia
Red
Jolamantsi
Suomassaini
Viipurs
Vitpure
Vitpuri
Karelian Isthmus
Murmansk Raiiway
Liisa
Lieksa
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