Americans Evacuated From Tsingtao As Japan Advances
The U S gunboat Sacramento carried American refugees from Tsingtao in Shantung Province as Japanese armies advance. About 180 Americans left the city with the Sacramento and other ships standing by, while Shanghai and nearby areas faced intensified warfare and shifting front lines.
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Shanghai
U. S
Sacramento
Tsingtao Harbor
Shantung Province
Taingey
Pope
Marblehead
Tsingtao
Isinan
Weihsien
Shantang
Han Fu-Chu
White Horse Mountain
Tsinan
Han
Central Army
Taian
Lincheng
Kiangsu
Tokyo
Li Tsung-Jen
Chiang Kai-Shek
Tsiwan
Hankow
Ivan Tenfimovitch Lugenets-Orelsky
Red Army
China
Russia
Associated Cross
Teruel
Miguel Aranda
Aranda
Barcelona
Macao
South China
Weather brief for Tennessee Virginia and Kentucky
Occasional rain probable tonight and Wednesday in Tennessee with little temperature change. Virginia mostly cloudy tonight, then Wednesday cloudy with possible rain and cooler conditions. Kentucky mostly cloudy and somewhat colder tonight, then Wednesday cloudy with likely rain or snow.
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Tennessee
Virginia
Kentucky
Woman Tenant Confesses Killing Child Of Landlord
A 21 year old woman, Sophie Arcuri, confessed to slitting the throat of the landlord's five month old baby with a paring knife after a dispute over a heater. Police said she acted erratically since childbirth and was angered by a recent fire. The family lived in a small community near Plainfield.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Allegar
Sophie Arcuri
Bordelors
Plainfield
Kingsport Savings and Loan Officials Plan Dividends Meeting
Officials of the Kingsport Federal Savings and Loan Association scheduled an afternoon meeting to declare dividends for 1937. Last year the company paid four percent in dividends, and today officials indicated a similar payout is likely for the current year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kingsport Federal Savings and Loan Association
Germless world shown as impossible in tests
INDIANAPOLIS December 2 A miniature germ free world made of stainless steel units created at Notre Dame was shown to the AAAS. Researchers Reyniers and Trexler reported animals born there with no germ or virus traces, challenging health without germs though results are preliminary.
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Howard W. Blakeslee
Associated Press
Indianapolis
Dec
Notre Dame
American Association For the Advancement of Science
J. A. Reyniers
B. T. Trexler
Dodd
Tn Hamburg
Washington
Berlin
Foreign Office
Dodds
Hitler
Knnstantin von Neurath
von Neurath
von Newrath
Germany
Northwest storms bring record rain and damage across Pacific Northwest
Storms lash the Pacific Northwest with heavy rain reaching 4.47 inches in Portland and strong winds. A tugboat capsized in Portland harbor while moving a barge, rescuing the crew. Snow piles up in Idaho and Oregon as Willamette rises threatening families near Grand Island and Wheatland. Dam weakened and road cuts occur as coast gale peaks near Astoria.
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Seattle
Cales
Run
Pacific Northwest
Portland
Ore
Gen Hur
Idaho
Vanhandle
Wallace
Lookwit Summit
Idaho Entral Divide
Giri Curtist
Jennie Carle
Willamette River
Grand Island
Wheatland
Oregon Coast
Astoria
Refugees Led by Relief Column Near Teruel Front
Dispatches report Gen. Miguel Aranda’s relief column moving from Hendaye toward Teruel to break the siege. Insurgent forces press a strenuous advance as they near the seminary fortress and civil governor’s palace where thousands of civilians and combatants endure hunger and bombardment amid heavy fighting outside the provincial capital.
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Hendaye
Miguel Aranda
Teruel
Aranda
Arande
Banns of Spain
Cosmic Rays Not Cosmic Says Scientist
Theories that cosmic rays come from space are contradicted by a U S Bureau of Standards physicist. Dr L F Curtiss showed balloons carrying cosmic ray registers rising to 23 miles, revealing an atmospheric layer of maximum radiation and a gradual decrease beyond.
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Stephen J. McDonough
Science Iter
Indianapolis
U. S. Bureau of Standards
American Association For the Advancement of Science
L. F. Curtiss
Bureau
Curtis
Southern Industry Hire Growth Across 1937 Survey
NASPIVILLE Dec 23 The southern states industrial council said southern industry expanded by 165 million during 1937 creating permanent employment for 63,755 workers. Report notes new manufacturing expansion in paper and pulp pottery dairy machinery and chemical plants with growth in rayons acetates fertilizers and acids and increases in dairy products bottling and lumber but job figures held steady due to plant shutdowns and seasonal layoffs.
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Naspiville
Southern States Industrial Council
Georgia
Alabama
Chilled Farewell Given Envoy Dodd in Berlin
Berlin December 23 William Dodd and Mrs. Dodd resigning U.S. ambassador to Germany departed for the United States amid a cold farewell. Relations with Berlin were strained after Dodd objected to U.S. representation at the Nazi Party Congress in Nurnberg last September and few officials attended.
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Berlin
William’ & Dodd
S&s
United States
Dodd
Nurnburg
Last Minute News Flashes Predict Unber Will Stick
Washington dispatch reports Senator Pane of Idaho predicted that senate conferees will insist on retention of a wheat crop insurance rider in the farm bill. Also reported are continued U S purchases of Mexican silver through January and Governor Hoffman saying the Lindbergh reward claims may not require further conferences. The army paid tribute to Newton D Baker by flying flags at half-staff nationwide.
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Washington
Pane
Idaho
Senate
Lindbergh
Trenton
N. J
Dee
Hoffman
New Jersey
Baker Washington
Army
Todey
Newton D. Baker
Continental
United States
Beverley to stand trial in death of young cyclist
William H. Dean, a 5 year old Kingsport route boy, was struck on Walnut Street and died. Beverley, a resident of Borden Mill village, faces a Sullivan circuit court January term on operating an automobile with reckless disregard causing death. Bail set at 2500 dollars.
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William H. Dean
Kingsport Times
Marshall Beverley
Borden Mill Village
Sullivan Circuit Court
T Mack Ketron
Kelly Estep
Beverley
Dean
Walnut Street
T. A. Dodson
Holyoke Street
Walnut ‘Street
Pederat
Frankie Pickens
Pickens
Paul MacKinsey
Federal
Beverley Cir
Younger Bingham Controls Papers After Will Probate
Louisvile December probate filings show Barry Bingham as co publisher gaining control of the Louisville Times and Courier Journal under his late father Robert W. Bingham’s will. The will names Barry executor with bond set at 4.59 million dollars and provides 700 thousand for his widow plus set trusts for other heirs.
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Louisville
Des
Barry Bingham
Robert W. Bingham
U.S
Court of St. James
Louisville Times
Courier-Journal
Bingham
Aleen M. Bingham
Loulaville Times Company
Henrietta
Rob
Ohio girl freed as coroner rules shooting accidental
Warren Ohio December 28 Miss Louise Campbell was ordered freed from county jail after Coroner J G Henshaw ruled the gunshot death of her mother Cordelia Campbell accidental She had been jailed since Saturday and the coroner's inquest found the shooting an accident enabling her to attend private funeral services in Youngstown The case followed witnesses statements that supported the accidental verdict and Mrs Campbell reportedly wished to die after the funeral plans were discussed
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Warren
Ohio
Louise Campbell
J. G. Henshaw
Campbell
James A. Campbell
Cordelia Campbell
J. ©. Henahan
Youngstown
Paul Hodge
Miss Campbell
Joseph A. Luarde
Bricker Mother Dies Trying to Save Son in Auto Fall
In Mateo California on December 28 Louise Bricker aged 39 died after plunging from a moving automobile while trying to prevent her four year old son Donald from falling out. The mother sacrificed herself as the car continued.
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San
Mateo
Calif
Louise Bricker
Donald
Bricker
Alee
Budget balance depended on relief costs in 1938
Washington officials said President Roosevelt would tell Congress next week that the 1938-39 budget could balance if relief expenditures stay within bounds. The budget to be sent Jan 4 may be tentative on relief due to uncertain recession depth, with some lawmakers fearing high relief costs could prevent a balance.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Capitol Hill
Treasury
Bronday
Orfers
Norris
Ind.-Neb
House
Senate
Pew
Breans
New German Leader Brings Worry To Czechoslovakia
New York dispatch profiles Konrad Henlein as a Nazi leader whose Vienna backed campaign for autonomy for the German minority in Czechoslovakia unsettles Prague. The piece hints Henlein may open a path for Hitler to influence Czechia and possibly threaten Ukraine, with fate implying greater geopolitical maneuvering.
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Czechoslovakia
Bewity MacKenzie
Crean Pureln
New York
Central Europe
Konrad Henlein
Adolf Hitler
Henlein
Berlin
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Atlantic City
American Statistical Association
Homer Jones
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Jones
Waoaman
Greenbrock
Slam
Isi
Louis Beérdason
Christina
Port Chester
Banking Officials
Martha Man
Younger Bingham
Will
Claire Brandeis
E. John Brandies
Los Angeles Court
Brandeis
Freed
Schubert
London
Ivor G Gurney
Eingland
Kent
Gurney
Carnegie Trust
Czechslovakia
Ukraine
Heinein
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