Russian air raids strike Tampere and Turku in new bombing wave
Soviet bombers hit Tampere vital Finnish munitions city and Turku seaport in a fresh raid. Twelve bombers attacked Tampere at 9 58 am then returned two hours later dropping about 50 bombs with one dead and one wounded. Helsinki and other cities sighted bombers. no explosions reported and overall activity considered a poor flying day.
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Helsinki
Tampere
Turku
Abo
Viipuri
Hameelinna
Detective and Suspect Die in Gun Battle Near Tourist Camp
Clyde J. Shipley, city detective, died in a gunfight at a tourist camp near Mallamuuga after police confronted two holdup suspects. A man killed in the cabin was identified later as Joseph Orson Rogers or Sonny White. a second suspect, James Charleston, fled into the woods. A 19 year old Minneapolis woman Patricia McDonald was critically wounded, another woman Marian Lindquist unharmed. Police described a six officer pursuit joined by nineteen more officers from county and state patrol.
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Mallamuuga
Clyde J. Shipley
Here
Ray Bryan
Joseph Orson Rogers
Chicago
Louisville
Sonny White
Sonny
Bryan
Shipley
Patricia McDonald
Minneapolis
Marian Lindquist
James Charleston
Finns Try to Cut Soviet Supply Line in Arctic Front
A Finnish ski battalion moved about 115 miles into Russia near Lieksa to disrupt the Murmansk railroad. Finnish reports say 300,000 Red Army troops mass for a counteroffensive as weather remains bitterly cold and Russian losses mount in Arctic fighting.
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Copenhagen
Russia
Lake Ladoga
Lieksa
Murmansk
Arctic Ocean
Joseph Stalin
Finland
Nautsi
Hoyhenjarvi
Kamijarvi
RED
Red Army
Arctic
Earthquake Ravages Black Sea Coast of Turkey
An earthquake struck northern Anatolia with its center on the Black Sea coast. Reports say hundreds killed and villages destroyed while four shocks hit Ankara between 2 and 5 a.m. local time. Communications were disrupted, delaying full casualty tallies and damage details.
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Black Sea
Turkey
Ankara
Anatolia
Financier Henry L. Doherty Dies in Philadelphia
Philadelphia reports the death of Henry L. Doherty at 69 from bronchial pneumonia at Temple University Hospital. He led Cities Service Company and built a vast business empire from early work in Columbus, Ohio, rising after age 40 to immense wealth and influence.
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Philadelphia
Henry L. Doherty
Amerin
Cities Service Company
Temple Univrsity Hospital
Rs. Grace Doherty
W. A. Ones
Ities Service
Herty
Ndition
Harles Leonard Brown
Nored
Doherty
Columbus
Gas Company Main
Doerty
Quake Jolts San Salvador Sighting No Local Damage
A fairly heavy earthquake shook San Salvador at 6:55 a.m. today with frightened inhabitants but no local damage. It followed an earlier tremor in the provinces. no casualties or damages were reported.
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San Salvador
Salvador
Two More Reds Are Indicted
A federal grand jury indicted Bookniga Inc and two officers Boris Nikolsky and J A Ilyin on foreign agent registration act violations. Nikolsky was Bookniga president and ex export chief of Mezhkniga Moscow, Soviet propaganda agency. Ilyin served as Bookniga secretary treasurer and Am tortor Trading Corp treasurer and chief accountant in New York. Both are Russian citizens.
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Washington
Bookniga, Inc
Boris Nikolsky
J. A. Ilyin
Justice Department
Nikolsky
Bookniga
Mezhkniga of
Moscow
Ilyin
Amtorg Trading Corporation
New York
Brief Sit Down Strike At Nash-Kelvinator Plant
In Detroit on December 27 a brief sit down at the Nash-Kelvinator Plymouth road plant halted production. 1,400 workers were ordered to leave by the Mechanics Educational Society, and police were called to eject them. Production resumed after the afternoon shift. The dispute stemmed from a power struggle within MESA over control of the local union and funds.
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Detroit
Plymouth Road
Nash-Kelvinator Corporation
Mechanics Educational Society
MESA
Byrd Flagship Reaches New Zealand Port Before Antarctic Run
The North Star, Byrd Antarctic expedition flagship, arrived at Wellington New Zealand after leaving Philadelphia November 21. The Bear of Oakland is due in Dunedin in about two weeks and the two ships will depart for the Antarctic together.
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Dunedin
New Zealand
North Star
Richard E. Byrd
Wellington
Philadelphia
Bear of
Oakland
Antarctic
Winter Storm Sweeps East Across Nation
Snow and cold sweep from Missouri and Iowa toward Ohio as Utah Utahns report heat waves and Michigan records the coldest December high in 66 years. Utah rainfall and California frost warnings accompany the storm with 10 to 18 inches in Oklahoma panhandle and New Mexico passes.
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Midwest
Southwest
Michigan
Deront Weather Bureau
Wasatch Mountains
Utah
Salt Lake City
California Citrus Belt
New Orleans
Clayton
N. M
Highway Department
Guymon
Okla
Boise City
Texas Panhandle
Amarillo
Kansas
Garden City
Oklahoma
Missouri
St. Louis
Kansas City
Springfield
East St. Louis
Iil
Louisville
Britain Lays 500 Mile Mine Belt Off Its Coasts
Britain announces a 500 mile mine field from the Orkneys to the Straits of Dover to shield coastal shipping from German mines. The belt spans 30 to 40 miles wide offshore and may deter German mine laying by submarines and surface craft. Officials expect over 200 000 mines and note overlapping with German fields near Denmark and the Netherlands. Aerial training teams arrive as part of a wider empire war program to train 25 000 pilots and support personnel annually.
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London
Great Britain
British
Orkney Islands
Straits of Dover
Admiralty
North Sea
Thames Estuary
Flamborough Head
Hull
England
Denmark
Netherlands
Sylt
Helgoland Bight
Cuxhaven
Wilhelmshaven
Bremerhaven
Germany
Jutland
Britain
Dominions
Canada
Firemen battle gasoline spill and storage danger
Quincy firemen toiled after two gasoline tanks ruptured spilling fuel on the street. They flooded the area to prevent explosion, then tamed a nearby burning gasoline pool near a pond. On returning they found street water had frozen and aided sand scattering to curb hazards.
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Quincy
Mass
Chinese Deny 13 000 Killed in Kwantung and Kwangsi
Hong Kong dispatch reports Chinese deny Japanese claims of 13 000 deaths in Kwantung and Kwangsi while acknowledging some territory gains. Japanese claim 7 000 killed at Wuming near Nanning and 6 000 farther north around Canton.
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Hongkong
South China
Kwantung
Kwangsi
Wuming
Nanning
Canton
Shanghai
Central China
Hankow
Kweilin
Liuchow
East Kwantung Province
Earthquake Felt in Los Angeles at 11 29 A.M.
An earthquake was felt in Los Angeles at 11 29 A.M. Pacific today. It rocked the Associated Press office on the fourth floor of the Herald Express Building.
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Los Angeles
Associated Press
Herald-Express
Coast Guard Rushes To Aid Of Steamer Margaret Sykes
The Coast Guard cutter Mojave speeds toward Diamond Point in the Bahama area to refloat the 3,500 ton steamer Margaret Sykes. The ship of 324 feet carries 40 crew and is listed as property of Sykes Brothers and Ripley Steamship Companies. The vessel, home port Houston, Texas, was in San Juan on December 18.
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Jacksonville
Fla
orPi
Coast Guard
Mojave
Diamond Point
Bahama Island
Margaret Sykes
Old Bahama Channel
Marine
Sykes Brothers Steamship Company
Ripley Steamship Company
Miami
Margaret Lakes
Houston
Texas
San Juan
Puerto Rico
Governor Grants 30 Day Reprieve for Slayer
RALEIGH Dec 27 4 Sheprose Holland a 50 year old Duplin County man on death row for the murder of his stepson received a 30 day reprieve from Governor Hoey Paroles Commissioner Edwin Gill said the stay allows further investigation of the case Holland death date had been February 16 No decision yet in cases of two Negroes Nathaniel Bryant and William Young both convicted in Hoke County of murder and burglary
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Raleigh
Sheprose Holland
Duplin County
Hoey
Edwin Gill
Holland
Nathaniel Bryant
William Young
Hoke County
Exports Lead Imports by 57 32 Million in November
Secretary Hopkins reported November merchandise exports exceeded imports by 57 32 million, lifting year exports to 738 532 million. November trade showed 292 734 million in exports versus 235 402 million imports, with year totals 2 809 725 million exports and 2 071 193 million imports. The November decline versus October was 12 percent, attributed to seasonal factors and stronger imports for raw materials and semi manufactures.
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Washington
Hopkins
United States
Germany Frees British Minister After Diplomatic Check
German sources report George Vereker, former British embassy counselor in Moscow, released after a German warship intercepted him on an Estonian ship December 9. Vereker, en route to Bolivia, reached Oslo Christmas Day and is now heading to London. Britain allegedly confirmed diplomats passing Allied controls are not detained.
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London
Germany
George Vereker
Moscow
Bolivia
Vereker
Oslo
Norway
Britain
Un American Probers Disagree On Report
Washington December 27 Members of the Dies Committee reportedly disagree over the draft report on un American activities to be presented to the House. Chairman Dies D Tex faces opposition over emphasis on Communist references and whether to include legislation to curb subversive activities.
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Washington
Dies
House
D.-Tex
Communist Party
Earthquake Noted Near Russia Border by Swiss Seismographs
Neuchatel Observatory scientists reported a terrifically strong earthquake recorded at 1 02 a m near the Europe Asia border region. It was the most violent in twenty years and registered early today, marking a major seismic event in the European theater.
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Geneva
Neuchatel Observatory
Russia
Eastern Anatolia Quake Triggers Mass Abandonments Across Towns
Authorities report thousands fled towns in the Ordu Samsun Tokat Amasia Sivas and Yozgad area as a week long series of shocks began April 19 1938. Relief agencies rushed aid to the region about 100 to 250 miles east and northeast of Ankara with casualties and missing estimated over a hundred.
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Ordu
Samsun
Tokat
Amasia
Sivas
Yozgad
Ankara
Anatolia
Federal panel weighs life insurance regulation options
Members of the Federal Monopoly Committee discussed potential federal regulation of life insurance companies. They have not settled on proposals, but hearings suggest regulation could supplement state laws. They note life insurers hold about 27 billion dollars in assets and consider options including bankruptcy act amendments and a federal insurance fund.
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Washington
Federal
Soldiers on lookout for prowler at Army air field
Soldiers at Hamilton Field in San Rafael California increased their watch for a prowler after a sentry surprised a figure last night near a bombing plane. The plane stood in the open due to insufficient hangar space and the prowler fled after three warning shots.
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Army Air Field
San Rafael
Calif
Hamilton Field
Hait
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British Line
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Bulletin
Capitol
Rep. Voorhis
D.-Calif
Switzerland
Federal Monopoly Committee
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