Eastern Europe tensions mount as Nazis spread influence
News desk reports unrest from the Baltic to the Black Sea with Nazi and Fascist influence stirring turmoil in Europe. Germany may yet move east as Memel elections spark a plebiscite vote while Italy extends reach in the Mediterranean and North Africa amid shifting alliances.
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London
Baltic
Black Sea
Europe
Africa
Germany
Little Memel
Hohenzollern Empire
Romania
Drang Nach Osten
Italy
Great Britain
France
Mediterranean
Walther Funk
Berlin
Balkans
Turkey
Tunisia
Memel
Lithuania
Social security council considers three new liberalizing principles
The Social Security Advisory Council proposed Congress adopt three principles to expand the program. They include welfare for workers' families, welfare for disabled workers, and partial general revenue financing until a new tax system is devised. The council, with employer worker and public reps, aims to liberalize the act in the coming session.
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Washington
Social Security Advisory Council
Congress
Pblic
Jews Aid Child Of Nazi Sympathizer In New Orleans
Letthia Hahn-Korff a 2 year old child of a Nazi sympathizer in federal jail awaiting trial on charges of sending scurrilous materials through the mails receives care from Jewish doctors at Touro infirmary where she is treated for pneumonia. The girl's father Joseph Hahn 48 a former secretary of the League for Aryan Supremacy is to be tried on the federal charge and admitted writing notes to Jews asking to list their names for the ensnaring of unsusppecting Gentiles.
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New Orleans
Letthia Hahn-Korff
Joseph Hahn
United States
Reginald H. Carter, Jr
League For
Carter
Hahn-Kornf
Monroe Chamber Dinner to Feature Dr Gus Dyer
The Monroe and West Monroe Chamber of Commerce plans its annual banquet on the Hotel Virginia roof Friday night with about 400 expected attendees. Vanderbilt economist Dr. Gus W. Dyer will deliver the chief address, joined by local business leaders and invited guests from northeast Louisiana and southern Arkansas.
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Chamber of Commerce of
Monroe
West Monroe
Virginia
Louisiana
Arkansas
Gus W. Dyer
Dyer
Vanderbilt University
Nashville
Tenn
American Bankers’ Association
Chamber of Commerce
Colleges Share In Debates Honors In Louisiana Tourney
In Alexandria Louisiana College of Pineville and Louisiana State Normal of Natchitoches won top honors in the first annual Louisiana intercollegiate debate tournament. Normal captured the women's title while Louisiana College took both first and second in the men's division. Prothro and McNair led the Louisiana College men with Krieger also highly ranked. Parker and Crowder led the women for their respective schools.
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Alexandria
Louisiana College of
James McNair
John Norris
Gardener Krieger
Normal
Lee Jarrell
George Richardson
Henry F. Glass
Wallace Hunter
Louisiana State University
Louisiana Tech
Centenary
Southwestern Louisiana Institute
Louisiana College
Prothro
Krieger
Mary Helen Parker
Bertha Crowder
Opposition to Tobacco and Rice Referenda Stalls Cotton Support
Early returns from farmer referenda across 17 of 19 cotton states show strong approval for cotton marketing quotas with 582,695 in favor and 93,311 against. Tobacco quotas trail with 111,541 favor and 178,295 opposed, a 58.7 percent majority. Rice quotas show 2,911 in support and 1,968 opposed, 50.3 percent, well short of the 66.6 percent needed. Administration leaders await full results to guide 1939 policy recommendations.
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Washington
South
Far West
New Deal
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Congress
560 Jewish Children Separated From Mothers in Vienna Transport
A ten coach train carried 560 Jewish children aged three to seventeen from Vienna to England and the Netherlands. Four Jewish women accompanied them as house servants. mothers and relatives were barred from the station. Several mothers collapsed and one died of a heart attack after bidding farewell to a five year old, as the first child transport moved out shortly before midnight.
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Vienna
England
Netherlands
Minister's Wife Dies in Memphis at 88
Mrs Ivy Gass Bratton 88 wife of the Right Rev Theodore DuBose Bratton retired Episcopal bishop of Mississippi died in Memphis while visiting her daughter Mrs James R McDowell. Funeral tomorrow in Memphis with Bishops Green and Maxon officiating. Survived by two daughters two sons sister and stepfamily. She was born in Abbeville South Carolina and educated in Abbeville and Charleston. Married 1906. first husband the Rev Gass of Greenville died 1898.
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Memphis
Tenn
Ivy Gass Bratton
Theodore DuBose Bratton
Mississippi
William Mercer Green
James M. Maxon
Tennessee
Bratton
Jackson
Miss
St. Andrew's Church
James R. McDowell
Abbeville
S. C
Charleston
Bishop Bratton
Gass of
Greenville
France Swings to Right After Daladier Victory
Paris reports a 318 to 241 chamber vote approving Premier Daladier after a forceful defense by decree. The result signals a shift from the Popular Front dominated by Socialists and Communists toward moderates seen as reactionary by the left, with heavier taxes and tougher work ahead.
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Paris
Chamber of Deputies
Daladier
Popular Front
Chamber
France
Eden Tours New York with Police Escort and Sightseeing
Anthony Eden toured New York with a police escort visiting City Hall to meet Mayor LaGuardia, viewing the Hudson expressway and Central Park, lunching in Times Square, visiting the 1939 World’s Fair, and planning to attend the Broadway revue Hellzapoppin.
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New York
Anthony Eden
Geneva
Europe
Great Britain
Eden
City Hall
Fiorello H. LaGuardia
New West Side
Hudson River
Central Park
Times Square
Good Fellows Fund Shows Sudden Upward Spurt
A Saturday surge raises the Good Fellows fund by more than 132 to reach 69 with major boosts from Monroe Wholesale Drug and Monroe Furniture employees. Clergy and welfare officials report clothing is the chief need, followed by food and toys, as drives continue.
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Good Fellows Fund
Monroe Wholesale Drug Company
Monroe Furniture Company
G. Hughes
Parish Welfare Department
Responsibility of Free Press Put On Papers Declares Public Institutions
President Roosevelt asserts in a St Louis Post-Dispatch anniversary letter that a free press is a public institution essential to people and government. He says readers, via patronage, validate newspapers and deserve to be heard on press freedom. He doubts press danger from within and favors a national symposium on editorial obligations.
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ST Louts
Dec
Roosevelt
Memel Gripped by Nazi Fever in Baltic Election
Memel in Lithuania faces unofficial plebiscite atmosphere as Nazi storm troopers march and local flags fly. Germanic majority population, 1,099 square miles, and 152,999 residents mark a contested return to the Reich debate. Willi Bertuleit hinted a January demand, later denied as not the objective.
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Lithuania
Connectivas
Union
Germany
Baltic
League of Nations
East Prussia
Kaunas
Pastor Jeff Rogers Dies While Conducting Funeral
The Rev. Jeff Rogers of Armory Mississippi collapsed and died today after reading a Bible verse at a funeral service in Senithville. He served Vernenns Baptist Church for many years and conducted services at other area churches. Survivors include three sons and two daughters. Funeral arrangements pending arrival of relatives.
Roosevelt to donate family home to government after death
President Roosevelt announced that title to his family home and surrounding ten acres will pass to the government upon his death. His papers would be housed there in a fireproof building funded by public subscription and gifts from Roosevelt and Justice Rosenman. The arrangement requires approval by his mother, Mrs Sarah Delano Roosevelt, with the national archivist to oversee the collection.
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Washington
Roosevelt
White House
Samuel Rosenman
New York Supreme Court
Sarah Delano Roosevelt
Gravel Firm Head Killed by Train in Fluker La
E B Watson Sr year old president of the Watson Sand and Gravel Co. was killed when his car stalled on crossing and was struck by a passenger train at Fluker Louisiana. His son B B Watson Jr general manager survived him along with his widow and a sister. Watson was a longtime Louisiana political figure including sheriff and state senator. Services will be held Sunday at the Methodist church in Ilaasm.
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New Orleans
E B. Watson
Wataon Sand and Gravel Company
Fluker
B. B. Watson
Watson
Wateon
Watem
Louisiana
BE B Watson, Jr
Charles Pom
Clinton
Wataon
Helena Pariah
Vith
COR Law Lorieder
Funers
Ilasm
United States Secretary Warns Delegates of Serfdom Threat
US Secretary of State Cordell Hull tells Pan American conference in Lima that mankind faces a choice between freedom and serfdom. He pledges robust defense, urges nations to act for shared security while warning against any aggression or subversion by any power. Cantilo and Concha spoke on American solidarity and mediation for the Spanish Civil War.
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Lima
Peru
Cordel Mull
United State
Mull
Mullaid
United States
Jom Maria Cantila
Carioa Concha
Arso
Ornste Machie House of Representatives
Aps
Argentina
Menes
Cantilo
All American Nationa
Cantile
Italy
Keenan Seeks Federal Judgeships for Leche and Porterie
United States Attorney General hopeful Joseph B Keenan hints Louisiana Governor Richard W Leche and Louisiana Attorney General Gaston L Porterie could be named to two vacant federal judgeships in Louisiana with Porterie likely to the western district and Leche potentially to the eastern district. Keenan, returning from a state attorneys general gathering, says several other candidates are under strong consideration.
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New Orleans
Tonseph B. Keenan
Vierant
United States
Gaston L. Porterie
Louisiana
Richard W. Leche
Lowesiana
Loche
Mr. Keenan
Bey, Porterie
Chovernor Loche
Cowsiigton
Sarce An
Porteria
Mnisten
D.C
Keenan
Conservation Department
Pass « Coutre
Businness
Seymour Weiss
Porterie
Poe
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Monroe Wholesale Drug Co
Monroe Furniture Co
Missouri Pacific Women's Club
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R. G. Taylor
Wpee
Pro Union
JM. Nason G
Cronin
Bart J Rathermel, Jr
J. S. Hunt
Eve Eerne
James D
Contmand
Eievents
Tommy Manville
Playboy
Pollies
Lynn
Andrus
Leche, Porterie
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