Ciano Explains Italian Stand In European War
Italian Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano declared Italy would stay out of the European war by agreement with Germany while preserving its own interests. He told the Chamber of Fasces and Guilds that Mussolini’s regime aims to maintain peace, build national strength, and protect Italy’s role as a great power, warning against Allied actions that could draw Italy in. He cited three years to prepare war means, stressed neutrality with Russia, and criticized British French Russian agreements while noting Italy’s diplomatic ties with Germany and Austria.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Galeazzo Ciano
Italy
Germany
Mussolini
Ciano
Chamber of Fasces and Guild Haly
Mary
Duce
Great Britain
France
Russia
Europe
Adolf Hitler
Waly
Fuchrer
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Salzburg
Moscow
Bny
von Ribbentrop
Bussia
Berlin
Ciany
Lini
Vittorio Emanuele
Chamber
Poland
Percy Loraine
Haiy
President of Panama Dies at 59
Panama City Dec 16 Dr Juan Demostenes Arosemena president of Panama died of heart disease at Penonome after a recent illness. He had resumed duties on Dec 4 and suffered a fatal attack an hour after midnight. He was elected in 1936 and will be succeeded by Vice President Augusta Boyd. The death ends a period of active leadership during a time of regional neutrality talks.
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Panama
Juan, Demostenes Arosémena
Republic of
Penonome
Carlson Brin
Brin
Arosemena
Augusta S. Boyd
Republic
Washington
Graf Spee Battles Through Fuel and Damage Updates
The Graf Spee showed wounded by prior hits and incomplete refueling with Langsdorff citing fuel shortages as a handicap in Wednesday’s engagement. Naval officials said the ship could sail from the harbor yet remained at anchor. The ship’s damage center stage was the ruined two scouting planes and a shell hit to the central tower. News from Montevideo and Buenos Aires claimed repairs would push sail before the deadline, but the vessel stayed at its original position as crew activity remained normal. Thirty six sailors died with critically wounded being treated ashore. Albert Guani, Uruguayan Foreign.
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Admiral Graf Spee
Langsdorff
Naval Board
Admiral Graft Spee
Montevideo
Buenos Aires
Olta Langhmann
Albert Guani
Broun Rallying After Pneumonia Attack at Hospital
New York December 16 Columnist Heywood Broun, 41, president of the American Newspaper Guild, was hospitalized with pneumonia after a lingering cold. He later suffered a heart attack induced by illness, but by midnight showed improvement. early today doctors reported him very sick though improving.
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New
York
Heywood Broun
American Newspaper Guild
Harkness
Columbia
Presbyterian Medical Center
Emaivedl
Mate Wapua
Sid Braun
Finns Hold Defensive Posture in North as Raids Continue
Reported advances by Russians toward Balmigarva and Bathia prompt Finnish defense. A Finnish destroyer sunk in recent actions. Moscow says Russia may ignore Finnish proposals for ceasefire talks. North Sea conflict widens with German planes shot down, British losses listed, and several merchant ships sunk or damaged with crews saved.
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Balmigarva
Bathiia
Moscow
Russia
Vaing Tanner
Ledowe
Natan
Conneil
Aehon Ia
League
Tass
North Sea
Minister proposes joint statement on neutrality at Panama conference
A minister said he was consulting foreign ministers of other American nations and believed a joint statement should be issued. He noted the combat occurred within the neutral zone established by the Panama conference and emphasized collective responsibility.
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Panama
London and Paris Under Blackouts and War News
In wartime dispatches from New York reporter Robert P. Dorman describes London and Paris during blackout nights. London nightlife persists with pubs and clubs, despite danger and higher accident risk, while Paris shifts to dimmed lighting and shelters. Dorman notes mobilization in France, interactions with M. Astory, and subdued hostilities toward Germany.
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Robert P. Dorman
Acme
New York
London
England
Paris
Man Held in Deaths of Five in Pasadena
Pasadena, Calif. Dee ig- Laurel H Crawford, 4, remained jailed in Los Angeles on suspicion of murder as funeral services were held for his wife and three children. The body of a fifth victim, Ralph Barnett, 61, a cousin of former Judge James Barnett, was to be sent to Harrisburg, Pa. A coroner jury could not decide if the five died in the car plunge down a mountainside last Monday but recommended continued investigation.
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Pasadena
Calif
Dee
Laurel H. Crawford
Los Angeles
Ralph Barnett
Yoomer
Crawford
Harrisburg
Barnett
James Barnett
Perry-duniat
Atlanta Premier of Gone with the Wind Draws Big Crowds
Atlanta reported a gala premiere of the epic Gone with the Wind, with Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable drawing praise. Hattie McDaniel shone in her scenes as Mammy while audiences applauded at Loew's Grand Theater, acknowledging the film's departures from the novel and the spectacle of the event.
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Atlanta
Hollywood Preview Chilies
Vivien Leigh
Scarlet O'Hara
Yen
Clark Gable
Rhett Butler
Hattie McDaniel
Scarlett
Sud
David ©. Selznick
Hollywood
Rhett
Loew
Grand Theater
Aight J
100 Orphans Face Eviction In Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh Housing Authority seeks to eject 100 orphans and babies from their home to clear space for low rent housing. The Jewish orphanage was purchased last August with a 35 day vacate clause, extended due to zoning limits. Officials say the home may be dismantled if housing work continues amid legal action.
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Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh Housing Authority
Sallie Mazer
J. Alfred Wilner
The
Housing Authority
Obituary Dora Viola Scullough of Burnside dies at Pittsburgh
Dora Viola Scullough died December 19 after a brief illness at her home in Pittsburgh where she had lived 27 years. Born April 29, 1880, she is survived by siblings Lucy Barclay Buchanan, Oliver Strong, Grace Borabaugh, and Warren McQuillough. Services at McCardle Funeral Home Burnside at 2 p.m. Sunday with burial at the local cemetery.
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Dora Viola Scullough
Burnside
Pittsburgh
Lucy Barclay Buchanan
West Virginia
Oliver Strong
Derry
Grace Borabaugh
Lancaster
Warren McQullough
Wilkinsburg
McCardle
Cevelery
WPA Laborer Charged With Murder In New Milford
A 59 year old WPA laborer, Jacob Foss of Lithrap Townships Susquehanna County, admitted killing his wife Nellie Foss and burying her body on their farm after a quarrel fueled by alcohol. Foss led investigators to a shallow grave about 200 yards from their eight year old home off the Lackawanna Trail near Binghamton, New York. The murder charge will be presented to the Susquehanna County grand jury in January. The wife died after a fall in a New York hospital, according to Foss, but police found she had not been a patient there.
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New Milford
WPA
Joseph L.carvigg
Carrigg
Jacob Foss
Lithrap
Susquehanna County
Nellie
Foss
Brooklyn
Scranton
Thei
New York
Charles Regal
Lackawanna Trail
Binghamtop
N. Y
Hop Bottom
Chim
Susquehanna County Grand Jury
Veteran clerks remembered by Boggs and Buhl VP
J Frank McCandless a former store clerk who became vice president of Boggs and Buhl Department Store wills away 2.9 million dollars to veteran clerks with over five years service each receiving 50 dollars. Gifts extend to club attendants noted as Guscad Nell in his will.
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Pittsburgh
J. Frank McCandless
Boggs and Buhl Department Store
Boggs
Buhl
Gus
Speer Earns 60 Year Medal For Rail Service
William A. Speer, a Conemaugh Division conductor, received a gold service button from G. W. Sixsmith as he marks 60 years with the Pennsylvania Railroad. Born near Indiana, Pa, on January 23, 1871, he began as a rampman at 19 and rose through signal repair, yard clerk, and passenger brakeman to conductor by 1907. He now runs a local between Apollo and Pittsburgh, lives in Indiana, is married, and enjoys gardening and auto touring in his spare time.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
William A. Speer
G. W. Sixsmith
Conemaugh
Mr. Speer
Indiana
Speer
Apollo
Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
Labor Board Member Questioned Over Union Boycott Ties
Washington December reports that a Labor Board member faces further questioning by House investigators over actions linked to pressuring Berkshire Knitting Mills during a hosiery strike. Testimony tied him to letters and literature urging customers to avoid Berkshire products via Filene's Son's Company. The committee sought to determine if policy and legality were breached.
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Washington
Dec
Edwins. Smith
Kiambe National
House
Gehials
James Milloy
Cleveland
Philip G
Philips
Cincinnati
Smith
Berkshire Knitting Mills
Reading
Louis 5
Kirstein
William Filene
Boston
John W. Edelman
American Federation of Hosiery Workers
Berkshire Mills
Eistein
Filene's
Routzohn 'Pr-Ohia
Apil Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners
vPhal
Hloutheahn
He Wagner
Filene’s
Berkshire
Edmund M.toland
Toland
Smith-Kirstein
Stock market rundown and industrial names list
A dense OCR fragment lists numerous corporations across industries including Allied, Am Can, Chrysler, General Electric, General Motors, Eastman Kodak, Colgate Palmolive, Chase, Dow, and many others. It also includes partial stock figures and a weather note mentioning cloudy conditions, warmer today and tomorrow, with rain and colder Sunday night and readings of 38 at Reading, 20 minimum, 39 maximum.
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Allied Sirs Allis
Ain
Anatanda Armour Il Armstrong Cork Assd
Au Refining
Atlas Tack Bald Loco Ct Barnsdall Oil Bendix Aviat Beth Steel
Blow-Knox Borden Co
Borg-Warner Briggs Mtg
Calumel and Hee Canad Pacific
Celanese Corp
Cerra de Pas
Ohio
Chrysler Corp
Coca-Caia
Colgate
Colum
Corp! Invest
Salvents Coomwith
South
Cons Edison Cansol Oil Container Corp
del Corn Products Crane Co
Curtis Publishing
Curtis Pub Pt
Curtiss-Wright Curtiss-Wr A Deeree Co
del Lack
West Distil Corp-Seag- Douglas Aircraft
Eastman Kodak
Auto
el Power
Evie RR
Elec
Gen Foods
Gen Motors Gen
Goodrich
Goodyear
Gt North Ry Pe
Hard-Walker Hecker Prod
Hood-Hershey
Houston Oil Hudson Motor
Uliness Central
Int Harvester Tit
Nick Can
Johns-Manville Kennecott Cop Kresge
Leh’ Val RR
Glass Liggett’ and
Loew's Inc
Lorillard
Macy
Cg McCrory
Mcintyre
Montgom Ward Murray Corp
Wash-Kelvinator
Nat Biscuit
Nat Cash
Nat Distillers
Nat Pow
Natl Steel
NY Central RR
North Ame
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Minol
Arovivaa
Graf Spee
Broun
H.C. Flood
Ragni
Lms
Orher
Ursus
Britain
Germaine
Atlantic
Patis
Garde Mobile
M. Astory
France Presse
Robbert P. Dorman
Aicines Newspicture
Phono Agency
Department of Propaanda
Verely
Blairsville
Andrews
Keisterville
Fayette
Forest County
Adam Andrews
Uncle Larr
Martha Nordling
Stanford University
Volo One
Farm Grove
P.R.R
David Wayne Hatton
Labor Board
Northern Pac Ohio Oil
Packard Motor
Penn RR
Phillips Petta Proctor & Gam
Ye Pullman
Rand
Repab Steel
Reynolds Tob
Schenley Distill
Sears Roebuck Beha Shell Union Oil
Simmons Co
Socony-Vacuum
Southern Pacific
Southern Ry
Sperry Corp
Stand Oil Cal
Stand
Ind
Stand Oi NJ
Studebaker Corp
Swift & Co
Nahum Tate
Pryden
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