Nanking encirclement feared as Japanese press Jinling defense
Chinese defenders fight to hold Nanking with Tang Seng Chi reporting strong morale and continued resistance. Japanese forces hold Wuhu and Wukang positions along the Yangtze, aiming to cut off escape via railheads and press the city’s southeastern gate. Casualties mount as combat intensifies near Purple Mountain.
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Shanghai
Yangtze River
Wunhu
Yangtze
Nanking
Taiping
Wuhu
Wukiang
Pukow
Tientsin-Pukow
Wanking
Hankow
Tang Seng-Chi
Tang
Kuanghuamen
Purple Mountain
Perine Pioneer of Grafton and Reynolds Coal
Cecil W. Perine of Oakland California and his half sister Mrs Gordie Marple of Salem are noted as the late leaders in Grafton business and politics. Perine moved here 37 years ago from carpenter contracting to furniture and undertakings with Bartlett. He later formed Reynolds Coal Company and directed its affairs until a fatal illness ended his career.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cecil W. Perine
Oakland
California
Gordie Marple
Salem
Perine
Grafton
G. Thomas Bartlett, Sr
Perine and Bartlett
Mendelson Junk Company Ad Offers Top Prices in Grafton
Local ad from Grafton West Virginia promotes MENDELSON JUNK COMPANY offering the highest prices for beef hides and scrap junk. Customers urged to get quotes and sell before December 22, with contact phone 9643 and the business located in Grafton. Dates mention November 22 to December 22.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mendelson Junk Company
Grafton
W. Va
House Passes Crop Control Measure in Key Farm Bill Vote
Washington dispatch reports House approval of a compulsory crop control plan backing President Roosevelt’s program. The measure, 267 to 130, would curb marketing of wheat, corn, cotton, rice and tobacco, funded by farmer payments and soil conservation rules. Senate leadership expects early approval with minor differences.
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Washington
House
Senate
Wallace
Roosevelt
Congress
Jones
Tex
Agriculture Committee
Rep
Boileau
Agriculture Department
White House
Local Republican leader dies after years of public service
Obituary notes the death of a longtime Republican official who served on the city council and Taylor county court plus four years as county executive committee chairman. He was active in Andrews M E church and church affairs for many years.
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Taylor County
Republican Party
Perine
Andrews M. E. Church
Three West Virginia Men Face Counterfeit Conspiracy Sentences
Federal Judge R M Gibson announced sentencing for Manuel Garcia Vincezo Longe and Arthur D Watkins after a jury convicted Garcia of Clarksburg and Longe of Barrackville and Watkins of Clarksburg on conspiring to pass counterfeit money. They were arrested in Monessen last May after bogus $10 bills were received by merchants.
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Pittsburgh
R. M. Gibson
West Virginia
Manuel Garcia
Clarksburg
Vincezo Longe
Barrackville
Arthur D. Watkins
Monnessen
Mental Hospital Probe Costs 12 Their Posts
Jacksonville Ill December 11 A state probe disclosed that mental patients at the Jacksonville State hospital financed drinking parties for attendants. Twelve attendants were discharged and eleven others suspended for 15 days for borrowing money and not repaying. Inmates said loans were denied as figments of disordered minds when repayment was asked.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacksonville
Ill
Jacksonville State Hospital
Soviet Elections Seen as Farce in Moscow
Pravada reports 90 million citizens expected to vote in the first nationwide secret ballot for a federal legislature since the Soviet Union’s creation. turnout and voter checks planned. Stalin is the central issue with the slogan that a vote for any candidate equals a vote for Joseph Stalin.
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Moscow
Supreme Soviet
Pravada
Communist Party
Soviet Union
Joseph Stalin
Russia
Pravda
Stalin
Three West Virginians Held In Bad Money Case
Kansas City dispatch reports a tavern holdup near Union Station ended in a shootout. Two robbers and a customer Eddie Crocker, 42, were killed, a third robber escaped. Robber Henry Floyd Doc Shoemaker, with prior motor theft sentences, was identified. the other intruder remained unnamed.
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Kansas City
Union Station
Eddie Crocker
Tom Higgins
Henry Floyd
Doc
Complaint of Justice Probed By Col Tallman
Charleston dispatch reports Colonel Tallman stated Captain Rexroad completed an inquiry into Justice Elbert Smith of Logan who complained of not getting his share of state police business. Rexroad met with Smith but would not comment. Tallman noted Smith sought more cooperation from county officers in his duties.
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Charleston
C. C. Tallman
H. N. Rexroad
Justice of the Peace
Elbert Smith
Logan
Rexroad
Air battles claim major blows on Aragon front
Francoist dispatches report the insurgents downed 20 government planes in a major air clash near Zaragoza, while the government admits one insurgent plane lost. In another large engagement near Bujaraloz, six insurgent planes including two bombers were shot down, with one government plane reportedly lost. Three insurgent battle cruisers shelled the area.
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Hendaye
Aragon Front
Francisco Franco
Zaragoza
Bujaraloz
Batle
Canarias
Baleares
Almirante Cervera
Port of Alicante Coast Briefly Reported
Government sources reported a casual observation at the Port of Alicante on the southeast coast for half an hour. No further details were provided about the event or its implications.
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Alicante
Relief nears in cold wave across regions and nations
Reports detail subzero weather and relief efforts from North Carolina to the Pacific coast. The cold wave has killed 14 in Pennsylvania and left hundreds homeless after floods in the West while storms disrupt traffic from Montana to Utah. Rescue teams in Scotland search wreckage after a severe railway disaster, with 31 bodies recovered.
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Spc Huge i
Buffalo
N. C
Pennsylvania
West Coast
Pacific Coast
Sacramento Valley
California
Montana
Uta
Idaho
Catlecary
Scotland
Britain
Turbulent Storm Strikes Coasts and Flood Hits Towns
News notes a Scottish express wreck in a blizzard rear collision, wild gales along the Pacific, and deadly floods in Downiesville California with 400 to 500 homeless and 16 houses swept away. Also details Vatican reshuffle naming new dioceses and bishops for Patterson Newark Camden Owensboro and Ky.
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Pacific Coast
Downiesville
Cadf
Istoric
Yuba River
North Fork
Pope Pius
United States
Pope
Newark
Rouse
Tes Iy
Bela SleyRie
Patterson
Camden
N. J
Owensboro
New Archbishops Named For Newark Louisville
Archbishop Amleto Cicognani is named to oversee Newark and Louisville in a Washington dispatch dated December 11. The announcement confirms new archbishop appointments for both sees, reflecting shifts in American Catholic leadership.
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Newark
Louisville
Washington
Amleto Cicognani
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Joe Penner
Gene Raymond
Parkyakarkus
Victor Moore
Harriet Hilliard
Helen Eof Manee
Party
Billy Gilbert
Ann Miller
Miller’s Shoe Store
Col. Tallman
Aragon
Miller's Shoe Store
Sivas
NORGE
Norge Rollator
Petit Poichiar
West Main Sts
Loar Jewely Store
Florida
Millers Shoe Store
Ott
Pill
Myrna
Myra
Thi Man
Rovell
Florence Rice
John Beal
Jessie Ralph Edgar Kennedy
Jo Swerling
Richard Thorpe
Joseph L Manklawicz
Dixie
the Perfect Specimen
Errol Flynn
Joan Blondell
Beverly Roberts
Edwin Everet Horton
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