U S Warns Britain Over Ship Seizures in War Ports
The United States warns Britain it will seek compensation for damages if American ships are forced into British control ports. The Moormacsun was seized at Kirkwall, and Hull notes emphasize US rights and possible action. London reports neutral shippers protest dangers from bombs and delays in port examinations.
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Washington
Great Britain
State Department
Department
London
Britain
Hull
United States
Roucht
Japanese Gendarme Shot at Peiping Embassy Compound
An American marine sentry wounded a Japanese gendarme inside the Peiping American embassy guard compound early today. A joint American Japanese communique says the intruder was attempting to scale the wall and did not halt when challenged. the wound is described as superficial.
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Peiping
Ireland Senate OKs powers to suppress IRA
Ireland's Senate passes legislation giving the government authority to intern citizens on suspicion of IRA activity. President Douglas Hyde signs the measure as police conduct mass roundup of IRA leaders amid the vote.
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Dublin
Ireland
Senate
Douglas ‘Hyde
I.R.A
France Pounds German Towns Ten Miles Behind Front
Paris reports French artillery pounded German villages ten miles behind the western front as patrols intensify along the northern flank. 75 millimeter shells targeted no mans land to disrupt German scouting while both sides maintained patrols and automatic fire. Local front lines described as unchanged by the morning communique.
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Paris
No Man’s Land
High Command
Berne
Switzerland
Hunt for Negro killer-suspect after Knoxville killings
In Meadville Mississippi on January 5 over 100 farmers and 35 National Guardsmen hunted a Negro known as Red and another named Oklahoma for the Monday night killings of Hillard Hall, and wounding of Constable Philip Shell and his brother. The posse, directed by Adjutant General O Keefe and ordered by Governor White, scoured a Homochitto forest near Knoxville as residents feared a lynching. A cabin search yielded ammunition and valuables. Oklahoma has not been seen since the shooting.
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Meadville
Miss
Mississippi
Homochitto National Forest
Here
John A. O’keefe
Hugh White
Red
Oklahoma
Hillard Hall
Philip Shell
J. W. Shell
Knoxville
Grahame Herring
Shoe Fund Near Goal With Post Holidays Push
The Shoe Fund to buy warm shoes for needy children surpassed the halfway point today with an added total of 150.50 dollars. Miss Electa Kindlesperger hopes to reach 300 dollars as she notes more than a hundred urgent cases. Local clubs and lodges plan meetings after the holidays and are expected to donate. Shoe stores partner with the Social Service League to sell reduced price shoes and even offer a 10 dollar credit at Fischer's. Contributions continue to be mailed or brought to the Journal-World office.
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Electa Kindlesperger
Social Service League
Miss
Fischer’s
Oftfice
Willard Brown
Esther Wilson
Richard Harline
E. F. Caldwell
M. EL
Mandy
Paul A. D
Excelsior C P A Wolf Hunt Bags One Coyote
Hunters in the Excelsior C P A wolf drive bagged one coyote in the southern county area. About 250 men participated as rabbits were reported plentiful and several coyotes reportedly got through the lines.
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Excelsior C. P. A
Romeo Lowther And Eileen Herrick Wed In New Hampshire
North Conway New Hampshire January 5 The Rev Raymond Phelps of the North Conway Congregational church says he married Eileen Herrick and George Lowther known as New York Romeo and Juliet shortly after their arrival by plane The couple dined at the Eastern Slopes Inn and took a cottage on the hotel grounds They plan to stay in the area for some time while Lowther and Herrick media reports describe their elopement and subsequent travels by car train and plane The parents of Miss Herrick criticized the match and police were asked to intervene in previous separations but the couple now wed despite scrutiny from New York sources
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North Conway
N. H
Raymond Phelps
North Conway Congregational Church
Eileen Herrick
George Lowther
New York
Eastern Slopes Inn
Hans Schneider
Phelps
Romeo” Lowther
Juliet” Herrick
Counle
Eli Johnson
Manhattan
Walter R. Herrick
Juliet
Johnson
Herrick
East Side
Lowther
Eileen
Din
Lowether
George
Heaviest December Snow Since 1924 in Kansas Report
January 5 Topeka reports December weather extremes across Kansas. The month opened hot and dry then ended with sub normal temperatures and the heaviest December snow since 1924. Temperatures reached 86 degrees on the 6th in Johnson and Ulysses, with a mean 39 degrees. Wheat remained in poor condition as subsoil dried out and water shortages worsened.
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Topeka
Kansas
Jjesvile Winltty
Federal Weather Bureau
Johnson and Ulysses
Syracuse
Burr Oak
Congress weighs own budget and tax plan proposal
Chairman Doughton endorsed a plan for Congress to formulate its own budget and tax program after Roosevelt submitted a budget. A joint Senate-House committee was proposed to study budget needs and defense requirements, with calls for cooperation among finance and appropriation panels and possible delays to appropriation bills. Opposition to new taxes was widespread, favoring retrenchment through spending cuts.
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Washington
Doughton
D-N.c
House
Ways and Means Committee
Harrison
Congress
Roosevelt
Coughton
D-Miss
Senate Finance Committee
Senate
White House
Finance, Ways and Means
McNary
Oregon
Vandenberg
R-Mich
Congressional
Unity Freeman-Mitford unaware of Britain at war
London Jan 5 Unity Valkyrie Freeman-Mitford daughter of Baron Redesdale and idol of the Fuehrer arrived from Germany and rests in England unaware that Great Britain is at war. Her father says she is worn out and does not know England is at war. Local crowds greet her return amid whispers of a neck wound alleged by some British press reports.
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London
Germany
Fuehrer
Unity
Valkyrie Freeman-Mitford
Great Britain
Baron Redesdale
Folkestone
England
High Wycombe
Redesdale
Hitler
Carloadings Above 1938 Figures in 1939 Railway Report
The Association of American Railroads reports 1939 carloadings up 12 percent from 1938 but down 9.5 percent from 1937. Grain shipments fall 1.4 percent. coal up 123.1 percent. coke up 40.4 percent. forest products up 11.7 percent. ore up 10.9 percent. Weekly loaded cars total 550,270, down 15 percent from the prior week, up 10.2 percent from a year ago, and up 21 percent from 1937.
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Washington
Association of American Railroads
Relief Bill Leaders Agree on Roosevelt Budget Plan
Washington, Jan. 5. UP Two lawmakers Byrnes and Woodrum backed the Roosevelt relief appropriation of 1.3 billion dollars. Byrnes said the WPA could stretch a one billion dollar allotment through the next fiscal year with large cuts in CCC NQA and Farm Security funds. Woodrum had similar estimates.
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Washington
Byrnes
D-S.c
Woodrum
D-Val
Roosevelt
WPA
CCC
NQA
Farm Security Administration
Severe Kansas cold set records as eastern winds fade
Frigid readings across eastern Kansas hit new season lows with Leavenworth at 10 below and Topeka 6 below. Federal Meteorologist A D Robb warned of zero to five below tonight in the east while the west saw 10 to 15 below and forecast light snow. A white blanket is expected tomorrow with Lib eral already reporting an inch of new snow.
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Topeka
Kansas
Leavenworth
A. D. Robb
Atchison
Concordia
Kansas City
Ottawa
Fort
Scott
Pittsburg
Salina
Cherryvale
el Dorado
Fredonia
Chanute
Newton
Coffeyville
Great Bend
Sedan
Dorge City
Goodland
Canada
Robb
St. Joseph
Omaha
Williston
N. D
Dodge City
Garden City
Colby
Wichita
Liberal
May Pardon Convicts Who Risked Lives in Quake
In Ankara 15 convicts serving long sentences at Erzincan prison were recommended for pardons after risking their lives to rescue more than 1,000 women and children buried by the December 27 earthquake. The government praised their “magnificent courage” and noted they organized rescue squads and housed victims in the ruined town.
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Ankara
Erzincan
Don Fauret Rehired as Missouri Coach
Don Fauret head football coach at the University of Missouri was reappointed by the board of curators. He guided the 1939 team to a Big Six championship and received a salary increase.
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Don Faurét
St. Louis
Don Fauret
University of Mussouri
William Vowell and Diana Lewis wed at ranch near Las Veras
MGM announced the marriage of screen star William Vowell to young actress Diana Lewis at a dude ranch near Las Veras today. The ceremony joined two prominent film figures in a private Hollywood nuptial disclosed by the studio.
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William Fowell
Hollywood
William Vowell
Diana Lewis
Las Veras
M.G.M. Studio
Fresno Farmer Pleads Guilty to Drunken Wheelbarrow Ride
Jess Overton age 59 confessed to Justice of the Peace Earle J. Church his guilt in drunken operation of a wheelbarrow on a public highway. He said he was returning home from town with groceries when he had several drinks. Judge Church placed him on 30 days probation.
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Fresno
Calif
Jess Overton
Justice of the Peace
Earle J. Church
Overton
Finnish Victory on Salla Front Threatens Murmansk Line
Copenhagen reports say Finnish forces defeated the Russian 163rd division on the Salla front 125 miles north of Lake Kianta, with Russians fleeing toward Alaska border. Observers say the win may allow Finns to threaten the Murmansk Leningrad railroad, potentially severing critical supply runs. Helsinki notes continued eastern-front success with 400 Russians killed and 40 taken prisoner in two encounters. Soviet bombers attacked Finland, killing 18 and injuring others, but caused no major damage to Helsinki area.
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Copenhagen
Salla
Lake Kianta
Red Army
Arctic Circle
Kandalaska
Murmansk - Leningrad
Russia
Finland
Karelian
Leningrad
Murmansk
Helsinki
Voika
Kovala
Viipuri
Turku
Hanko
Finland in Hit and Run War Deep in North Forests
Finnish ski patrols reportedly cut the Murmansk railroad at various points after deep raids into Soviet territory. Aimed at remnants of the 163rd Russian division, the maneuvers marked an encircling push as both sides pause large scale clashes. Guerrilla skirmishes unfold with swift, silent Finnish assaults in winter woods along the frontier.
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Lake Kianta
Murmansk
Kianta
Red Army
Finland
Russia
Four British Cruisers Off Montevideo Seek New Raider
Four British cruisers converged off Montevideo stirring talk of hunting a second German raider. Ajax departed harbor while observers sighted two warships possibly Cumberland and Shropshire two hours offshore. Achilles left Buenos Aires to join Exeter and Ajax in pursuit, the group having defeated the Graf Spee earlier.
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Montevideo
Graf Spee
Ajax
Cumberland
Shropshire
Achilles
Buenos Aires
Exeter
Graf Pee
Taft Slams Government Chaos and 1949 Clean House Call
Senator Robert A. Taft told the Union League Club of Chicago that federal departments and housing bureaus suffer utter confusion and misaligned goals. He urged a balanced budget stance while criticizing deficits and the administration for spending in the name of prosperity.
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Chicago
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Union League Club of Chicago
U.S.H.A
Department of the Interior
F.I.A
Federal Home Loan Bank
Tugwelltown
Farm Security
Taft
Morgenthau
Jeans
Marriner Eccles
Federal Reserve Board
Treasury
Fire Hits Downtown Winfield in Million-Dollar Blaze
A downtown Winfield Kansas fire destroyed the Johnson variety store and a basement blaze gutted the building with a second floor dance hall. Loss estimated at 50 000 to 75 000. Bitter cold hindered firefighters who battled the flames for hours after midnight. the Rembauch hardware and Bergevin drug stores were damaged while the Winfield National Bank building nearby escaped damage.
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Winfield
Kan
Mercury
Johnson Variety
Rembauch Hardware
Bergevin
Winfield National Bank
Johnson
Three of UT students expect jobs after graduation
Two of three University of Texas students say they would reject pensions at age 65. The survey shows graduates expect starting pay of 100 dollars or more a month and then entering the workforce directly after graduation.
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Austin
Tex
University of Texas
Contrasts of Heat and Cold Are Made by Wedge From the Plains
A wedge of sub zero weather moved eastward from the plains bringing the coldest spell of the season. Temperatures dropped to six below in Michigan and 25 below at Bismarck North Dakota while Ohio reported zero readings in Cincinnati and Toledo. Four people died from the cold and ice halted river steamers on the Ohio.
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Associated Press
Plains States
Weetee
Indianapolis
West Virginia
Illinois
Ohio River
Green Line
Missouri
Iowa
Bismarck
N. C
Minnesota
New England
Boston
Mt. Washington
N. H
Pennsylvania
Syracuse
N. Y
New York City
South
Midwest
Tennessee
Georgia
Kansas Electric Power
Bowersock Dam
Donald Palmateer
Elm Street
Earl
Mercury Dips to Seven Below Zero the Coldest Since 1936
Lawrence residents endured a seven below zero morning as subfreezing temps lingered since Christmas. Three traffic crashes and two fires were traced to icy streets and thawing pipes, with details of local incidents and past records noting rare subzero readings in leap years.
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Lawrence
Robbers Lock Silk Plant Workers In Steam Room
Six armed men trapped seven Silk Company employees in a steam chamber at the Supreme Skein Dying plant in Brooklyn. Under 120 degree heat the superintendent Louis Wachter urged the robbers to turn off the steam before they fled with 15000 dollars in silk after the truck left the loading area.
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New York
Silk Company
Supreme Skein Dying Company
Brooklyn
Louis Wachter
Wachten
Silk
Kanwaka Township Post Publishes Annual Financials
The Journal-World prints Kanwaka township first annual financial report listing all receipts and expenditures from the last year. Officials named are Ralph L. Colman treasurer Frank W. Houk trustee and Elmer Bahnmaier clerk.
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Kanwaka Township
The
Journal-World
Ralph L. Colman
Frank W. Houk
Elmer Bahnmaier
Stock Market Index Falls Near Week’s End
The average of 60 stocks stands at 51.7, dipping from yesterday's 52 as trading closes.
Weather Summary for Kansas Regions
Forecast calls for cloudy conditions with light snow in most areas and warmer temperatures tonight. Saturday brings light to moderate snow mainly in the east and central, with warmer readings in those regions.
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Kansas
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