Europe Ready For Another War Christmas
Associated Press reports Europe faces a war time Christmas with no official truce at the front. French British and German troops observe customs across no mans land while Finns in snow covered forests face bleak prospects. Finnish leader Mannerheim pledges victory and Lotta Svärd members vow to endure. Allied efforts include large meat and pudding stocks and Christmas leaves for sailors and soldiers.
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Associated Press
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No-Man’s-Land
Lotta Svard’ Organization
Finland
France
Navy
Dixie World's Fair Proposed
Southern Governors' Conference unveils a ten year plan to enrich the South through a 1950 World’s Fair of the South. Governor E. D. Ivers leads a program pushing balanced prosperity via farming, livestock, forestry, and improved marketing and transport.
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Atlanta
South
Southern Governors’ Conference
E. D. Ivers
Georgia
Ivers
Rivers
Rob Em Good Christmas Tree Robbery in Venice
A motorist in Venice California approached roadside salesman James W Raridon and offered to buy a Christmas tree Then the robber drew a pistol seized the tree and robbed Raridon of 36 dollars calling Merry Christmas as he fled
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Venice
Calif
James W. Raridon
Raridon
Myron C Taylor Named Envoy to Vatican City
President Roosevelt announced the appointment of Myron C. Taylor, a retired steel magnate and head of the Inter-governmental Refugee Committee, to go to Rome as his representative. He will have ambassadorial rank in social status and was joined by religious leaders invited to confer on future peace efforts.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Vatican
Myron C. Taylor
Inter-governmental Refugee Committee
Rome
Taylor
George A. Butterick
Federal Council of the Churches of Christ In America
Cyrus Adler
Jewish Theological Seminary of America
Europe
Navy Orders Large Fleet of Long-Range Flying Boats
The Navy ordered a fleet of 50 or more four motor flying boats with 5000 mile range in a 20.02 million dollar deal to Consolidated California plant. The ships will supplement 15 existing four motor models and over 200 two motor craft. The planes develop PB2Y2 design with 118 foot wingspan and nine crew, weighing about 30 tons.
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Edward E. Bomar
Washington
Navy
Pacific
Hemisphere
California
Consorl- Diego
Calif
Aircraft Corporation
San Navy
Consolidated Concern
Twenty One Republics Protest Belligerent Naval Acts
Twenty one American republics join in protest to England France and Germany over naval engagements in the American neutrality zone and discuss penalties for future violations. They vow stronger regional protection through agreed rules and consultative procedures under the Panama Declaration.
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Washington
England
France
Germany
of SX Aes
Don Augus
Panama
Graft Spee
Uruguayan
River Plate
Republic of
Finland Loses 16 Planes in Russian Communique
Moscow reports aerial combat results from December 23 with the Leningrad district army headquarters saying Russian air forces shot down 16 Finnish planes. The communique notes no major changes on the front and ongoing aviation activity in several districts.
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Moscow
Leningrad
Roosevelt Cuts Defense Estimates in Presidential Saving Move
President Roosevelt reportedly trimmed more than 700 million dollars from War and Navy Department budgets to keep defense costs just over 2 billion next year. Army and navy plans to raise forces may be delayed while equipment for expanded forces proceeds. Opposition grows in Congress to further military spending as budgets for recurring expenses and critical items are outlined.
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Roosevelt
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Congress
Mr. Roosevelt
Navy
War Department
Vinson
D-Ga
House Naval Committee
Higher Income Rate Forecast for 1939 National Income
Secretary Hopkins projected 1939 national income at 70.0 billion dollars up 3.7 billion from 1938, with November income payments at 5.8 billion the largest for the month since 1929 and indicating a yearly rate above 72 billion. He noted relief and non service disbursements are excluded from national income.
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Washington
Hopkins
Commerce Department
Hop
Caudle Nominated for Western North Carolina District Attorney
Senator Reynolds announces the recommendation of Lamar Caudle of Wadesboro North Carolina for United States District Attorney for Western North Carolina Caudle a Wake Forest graduate and former Anson County solicitor would replace the late Marcus Erwin Reynolds urged immediate favorable consideration and noted regional representation aims Caudle’s appointment would recognize the Eastern section of the Western District and Western and Central Districts now served by assistant district attorneys.
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Reynolds
Noth Carolina
Lamar, Caudle
Wadesboro
N. C
United States
North Carolina
Caudle
Wake Forest College
Anson County
Marcus Erwin
Murphy
Salmon a la Molotoff Serves Finnish Hotels After Bombs
In Helsinki on December 23 authorities note many Finnish hotels offer a dish titled sal mon a la Molotoff. The fish were reportedly killed by errant Russian bombs amid wartime disruptions and shortages.
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Helsinki
Finland
Allies Lie In Wait For Returning Nazi Ships
Allied warships intensified intercept measures as French naval sources report about 500 German merchant vessels in neutral ports ordered to return to the Reich, risking captures and longer conflict.
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John Lloyd Paris
Reich
Release of Radziwill family by Soviet Russia
War reportage notes the Radziwill family and 21 members freed by Soviet authorities and allowed to return to Warsaw. It links Prince Janusz Radziwill to wartime acts in Lyka Wolhynia while Italian royalty aided by King Vittorio Emanuele and Queen Elena. mentions Moscicki refuge at Lyka. Reports on naval raids, scuttling orders, and German merchant losses as war impacts widen. Weather on the western front cites cold disrupting patrols amid dogfights.
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Vittorio ‘Emanuéle
Elena
Italy
Janusz Radziwill
Radziwill
Soviet
Russia
Radziwills
Prince Radziwill
Lyka
Wolhynia
Ignace Moscicki
Poland
Fench
Desperate man finds work after death threat note
A dispirited Pittsburgh man who threatened suicide over unemployment and his ill wife was offered a $35 weekly job and support after Santa arrived early. He praised kind strangers and credited Dr Clausen and Rev Quinn with saving his life by guiding him away from self harm.
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Pittsburgh
Santa Claus
Santa
Sun-Telegraph
Meepetean
Bernard C. Clausen
First Baptist Church of
J. J. Quinn
Catholic Church of the Resurrection
Clausen
America
Father Quinn
Finnish Forces Gain Ground In Aggressive Baltic Front
Helsinki dispatch reports a major battle near Agla on the southeastern front ended with a surrounded Russian force surrendering. Finnish troops say their push along the era and southeastern fronts produced several advances, prisoners, guns, and equipment seized. Red forces were said to be repulsed at Suomussalmi while another Finnish offensive on the Karelian Isthmus claimed tank losses for the Russians and prisoner captures.
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Helsinki
Agla
Msh High Command Conique
Iian
Finnish Ady
Aglajarvi
Aglajarvindae
Tolvajarvi
Lake Ladoga
Aglaijarvi
Karelian
Édon Thée
Sthayis
Aitéth
Lake Ladnga
Siaus
Suomsalmi
Ses
Semi Holiday Toll Across Cities Before Christmas
A holiday period deadly across several states leaves 79 dead from various causes. Traffic crashes account for 59 fatalities including four train deaths, with Missouri electrocution and Nebraska crashes also mentioned. Georgia reports four accidental deaths. Ohio notes five traffic fatalities. Massachusetts sees four burns and two vehicle crashes. Mrs Cora McB 83 of Toledo dies when her leash pulls her into a trolley path. A pedestrian in Indiana is killed by a car. Four die in a wreck.
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Associated Press
Georgia
Ohio
Missouri
Nebr
Illinois
Massachusetts
Toledo
Cora McB
Santa
Indiana
Hoover cables second fund to Finland relief effort
New York December 23 Former President Herbert Hoover cabled a second donation of 100000 dollars for emery civilian relief in Finland. The report notes the aid supports war veterans and civilian relief as the country faces hardship.
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New York
Herbert Her
Finland
Emery
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