Finns Put the Red Army on the Spot
Dewitt Mackenzie notes that the Finns’ resistance exposes gaps in Soviet power, prompting international doubt about the Red Army. He cites potential League of Nations expulsions of Russia and rising morale in Scandinavia and the Balkans as the war prolongs.
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RED Army
Dewitt MacKenzie
New York
League of Nations
Moscow
League
Soviet Union
Russia
Joseph Stalin
Europe
Poland
Germany
Balkans
Japan
Nippon
Finland
Scandinavia
Moscow Faces Pressure to Postpone Controversy
A fragmentary quote suggests Moscow may prefer to clear a contentious issue quickly. The wording implies urgency and political sensitivity within Soviet leadership discussions.
Seventeen Hours Reading of New Testament at McLouth
Seventeen and a half hours were taken to read the New Testament at the Methodist church in McLouth Sunday. About 919 people attended from Lawrence Topeka and Kansas City as bells tolled to mark the start at 3 a.m. Rev Robert Alexander led the first reading with 71 readers taking roughly 15 minutes each. The session ended at 10 p.m. A decorated church and a noon basket dinner with coffee throughout accompanied the event.
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Methodist
McLouth
Lawrence
Topeka
Kansas City
Robert Alexander
Methodist Church
Oil Field Fire Burns Dresser In Russell Area
Russell Kan December 12 Jud son Bradford 44 a tool dresser at a well in the Gurney field six miles south of Russell was burned critically in an oil field fire last night. He was sprayed with butane gas which caught fire from a spark in the engine house where he worked. The blaze caused between 10000 and 12000 dollars damage to Parker drilling company’s rig.
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Russell
Kan
Judson Bradford
Great
Bend
Great Bend
Bradford
Gurney Field
Parker Drilling Company
Get Chaser for Whisky Thieves Break Into Warehouse
Thieves broke into a Louisville trucking company warehouse during the night and stole 20 cases of whisky and two cases of nerve tonic. No injuries reported. Local police investigate as a theft incident in Louisville Kentucky on December 12.
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Louisville
WPA Projects Approved for Sedgwick and Chase Counties
Kansas congressmen were notified that President Roosevelt approved Works Progress Administration projects totaling 108 548 dollars for airport construction and improvement in Sedgwick County near Wichita and 57 795 dollars for road construction in Chase County. Projects may be executed at the state WPA administrator's discretion.
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Washington
Kansas
Congress
Roosevelt
Works Progress Administration
Sedgwick’ County
Wichita
Chase County
WPA
Midgets Interned as War Prisoners Reported
Italian newspaper reports a French warship captured 11 German midget submarines aboard the Italian liner Saturnia on December 4 and interned them as prisoners of war. ten women from the troupe were allowed to proceed to Genoa.
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Milan
I Popolo, d'Italia
Saturnia
Genoa
Miss Peabody to Present KU Recital on Radio
Miss Irene Peabody, KU voice professor, will give a recital over station KFEU tomorrow night at 6 15. Winifred Hill will accompany as pianist. The program includes Allerseelen by Richard Strauss Die Nacht Befreit and Cacilie with Strauss works.
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Irene Peabody
University of Kansas
Winifred Hill
Richard
Strauss
Strauss Cacilie
Cécily
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Billy Wingate Ill After Emergency Appendectomy
Billy Wingate son of Mr and Mrs Charles R Wingate and senior at North High Wichita is seriously ill in St Francis Hospital after an emergency appendectomy Thursday.
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Charles R. Wingate
North High School
Wichita
Str Francis Hospital
Boy Injured in Incident Aids Recovery Progress
The article notes a boy injured December 7 in an accident, with recovery expected though not yet out of danger. His father, formerly a University of Kansas student, is now assistant superintendent at a new five million dollar Ripley power plant in Wichita.
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Dane
University of Kansas
Ripley _ power plant
Wichita
Gwinn Henry to Address Texas High School Banquet
K U coach and athletic director Gwinn Henry will address a Denison Texas high school banquet Thursday night. He was expected to return today from Miami Oklahoma where he spoke last night and will leave for Texas tomorrow. The Cottebie High School event is set for December.
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Gwinn Henry
K. V
Denison
Tex
Henry
Miami
Okla
Texas
K. U
Cottebie High School
Odd Fellows Suspend Tonight Meeting
Local lodge announces suspension of all business for the evening pending further notice.
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Odd. Fellows
Walgreen Founder Charles Walgreen Dies at 66 in Chicago
Charles R Walgreen founder of the Walgreen drug empire died after several months of illness in Chicago He rose from an $18 a week clerk to a chain of nearly 500 stores in 39 states with annual sales around 50 million dollars He was born October 9 1873 near Galesburg Illinois and had recently relinquished the presidency with his son succeeding as president.
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Chicago
Charles R. Walgreen
Tll
Walgreen
Walgreen Company
C. R. Walgreen, Jr
Galesburg
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