Hoover Mobilizes National Drive for Finnish Aid
Hoover organizes a nationwide effort to raise funds for Finnish non-combatants and refugees. He appoints state chairmen to recruit local leaders and coordinate with newspapers and radio to minimize expenses while boosting contributions. The drive follows a $100,000 cable to Prime Minister Ryti and aims to aid up to 500000 civilians.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Altho
Finnand
Finnish Relief and, Inc
Herbert, Hoover
Edgar Rickard
Ickard
Apeals
Hoover
Risto Ryti
Finland
Treasury Department
Railroad Officials Hone to Complete Market in Six Months
Kansas City Kansas market terminal project advances with four railroads funding $265 000 each for new yards and docks. Union Pacific serves the first market, while Santa Fe and others contest and assure no disruption to existing Kansas City markets. Centralized facilities aim to speed perishables movement, with work due to start by February 1 and completion expected within six months. The December 93 report notes ongoing agreements and nonexclusive use by other lines.
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Kansas City
Kan
Union Pacific Railroad
Missouri Pacific
Burlington, Santa Fe
Pacific Coast
Santa Fe
FE. J. Enel
Engel
Anthony Fokker Dies in New York Hospital
Anthony H. G. Fokker airplane designer and builder dies at Murray Hill hospital at age 49 from pneumococcal meningitis after three weeks of illness. He had been in a coma and received multiple blood transfusions. Fokker famed as an aviation entrepreneur with unorthodox methods and noted for sketches of planes on scrap and wrapping paper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Anthony H. G. Fokker
Murray Hill Hospital
Fokker
Robert M. Cushing
Army
Maitland and
Hegenberger
California
Hawaii
Richard E. Byrd
Atlantic
Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith
Earhart Passenger in 1928 Transatlantic Flight
The text notes Amelia Earhart rode as a passenger in her first transatlantic flight in 1928. It also mentions Anthony Fokker born in Java on April 6 1890, son of a wealthy coffee planter, and that his wife died ten years ago with no children.
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Amelia Earhart
Fokker
Java
Draft a New Tax Code Legislative Council Committee to Present It
Topeka December 23 1940 1941 tax code draft grows from hearings led by Sen Rolla W Coleman Overland Park The committee has studied tax methods and discussed full time assessors and transferring delinquent tax collections from sheriffs to the state.
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Legislative Council
Topeka
Rolla W. Coleman
Overland Park
San Jose College Cancelled Denver Bowl Plans
San Jose California December 23 Coach Dud De Groot said plans for a New Year’s Day football game in Denver were abandoned due to non receipt of funds from Denver promoters to cover expenses for a game with St Marys University of San Antonio Texas.
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San Jose
Calif
Denver
Dud de Groot
St. Mary’s University of San Antonio
Tex
de Groot
Candle in the Window Echoes a Christmas Hope
Abram Star Tec Jennings Elbert Mc Cullen and others rise as a narrator reads a heartfelt letter from Paris on Christmas Eve. A child’s candle warms distant homes, symbolizing peace and good will beyond poverty and darkness. The tale ends with a quiet town farewell.
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Elbert
District 33
Ruth Ravenston
Ruth
Paris
America
Sonn
Abram Star
Tec Jennings
Elbert McCullen
Ted
Estate distributes shares to churches lodges and charity
Mrs. Belle Daugherty's estate is divided among six churches, four lodges, one charitable group, and relatives. Each church receives 932.01 while Odd Fellows lodges share 319.27 532.12 and 1064.24 to different branches. The Social Service League gets 559.21 and about 8599.02 goes to organizations overall. The estate is settled.
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Belle T. Daugherty
Charles Daugherty
Lisle Eby
First Methodist Church of
Lawrence
Eudora
First Baptist Church of
First Presbyterian Church of
First Christian Church of
Plymouth Congregational Church of
Eudora Lodge
Independent
Order of
Odd.Fellows
Lawrence Lodge
Mount Oread
Odd Fellows
Daughters of Rebekah
Social Service League
Osage Oil Wealth Mixed With Holiday Hardship
In Pawhuska Oklahoma the Osage tribal oil royalties total 2.5 million dollars for the year with a 1925 peak near 29.6 million. quarter payments fell to 230 dollars per headright from 260 due to a 15 day oil well shutdown.
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Pawhuska
Okla
GPI
Osage
WPA Employment in Kansas Reaches 26 900 This Week
Topeka Kansas WPA employment totals rose to 26 900 this week helping brighten Christmas relief for about 325 000 on the rolls since December. Officials said only part of the 5 000 drought quota remains unused as some projects lack adequate work. If unfilled by December 31 the remainder may be spread into next year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Kansas
WPA
Kaiser Wilhelm II Donates For Air Raid Precautions
The former German emperor contributed 300 florins about $160 for air raid precautions at Amsterdam and Doorn, his retreat, as reported by Algemeen Handelsblad. A special holiday rate on a scholarship at Lawrence Business College is offered if purchased this week.
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Amsterdam
Kaiser Wilhelm II
Doorn
Algemeen Handelsblad
Lawrence Business College
Six survivors found after British airliner missing
Six survivors rescued by a French ship from a Lockheed flight from Egypt to England. The craft had been hunted by warships off Sollum and Malta. Three passengers and two crew members remained missing. Among the saved was Canadian born commander Cres Peter C Fair, 33, slightly injured. Flight Engineer J. J. Broome was seriously hurt. Steward Ernest W. Smith was also rescued. Names not disclosed, no women aboard.
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London
Hoa
Sicily
Malta
Imperial Airways
Cres Peter
C. Fair
F. Fair
Marion
J. J. Broome
Ernest W. ‘Smith
Lockheed
Egypt
England
Sollum
Ben
Finnish Communist Government Reported Arrested by Russia
Stockholm December 23 The Social-Demokraten reports that the Terijoki Finnish communist people s government has been arrested by Russian authorities. The notice lacks independent confirmation and presents a contested claim from wartime propaganda sources.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stockholm
Social-Demokraten
Terijoki Finnish Communist “People’s
Communists Aid Finland Crisis After Russian Invasion
The article notes arrests by Russia over alleged misleads to Joseph Stalin about Finland's strength. A people’s government led by Otto Kuusinen operated from Terijoki near the border, with a mutual assistance pact later signed. Kuusinen sent birthday greetings to Joseph Stalin on Thursday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russia
Joseph Stalin
Finland
Otto Kuusinen
Terijoki
Kuusinen
Joseph Jalin
Pansies Bloom In Dooryard Big As Half Dollars
Connecticut man Thomas P. Hanford reports a bed of pansies blooming in his dooryard with some flowers described as large as half dollars as winter begins. He notes questioning his calendar and the weather forecast as Santa approaches.
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Connecticut
New Britain
Conn
Thomas P. Hanford
Santa
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Hadley
Merry Christmas
Terry Cupists
Zephyr Bakery
Belle Daugherty
Aan
Bec
Nee
Witenee
Deshly
Green Bros
Terrace
Ohio
Radio-Electric Hospital
Jeffries
Lawrence National Bank
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp
Foot of
Vermont
Merry
Christmas Merry Christmas
Merry Merry Merr
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