Europe Faces Munich Peace Tests and Franco-German Tensions
London dispatch reports a tense week ahead as Prime Minister Chamberlain debates foreign policy before his Rome talks with Mussolini. Labour seeks a censure vote while Conservative voices press Germany’s Hitler, and rumors of British Somali land are denied. Edouard Daladier weighs Bonnets ask on war claims.
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London
Europe
Munich
Neville Chamberlin
House of Commons
Benito Mussolini
Rome
Chamberlain
Germany
Adolf Hitler
Nl Duce
British East Africa
British Somaliland
Edouard Daladier
France
Georges Bonnet
Lewis seeks to name candidates for 1940 Democratic convention
John L. Lewis as chairman of Labor's Non Partisan League announced a program to influence the 1940 Democratic national convention with endorsed candidates and policy goals. He said the league would not back a third party now and noted a league convention in 1939.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
League
CILO
Lewis
Roosevelt
U.S. policy accused of sowing distrust among nations
Berlin reports claim American diplomacy aims to fuel distrust to gain economic or hegemonic advantages. Korrespondent argues Washington seeks aims beyond cordial relations and seeks to estrange peoples across continents, reflecting domestic political influence on foreign policy.
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Berlin
Diplomatisch Politische Korrespondenz
Foreign Office
Korrespondent
United States
Washington
Monroe Post Office Preps for Yuletide Mail Rush
Postmaster J. R. Wooten says ten to twelve extra workers and five or six vehicles will handle the holiday mail surge. Parcels marked as Christmas gifts will be delivered Christmas Day and December 26. Parcel post windows stay open into December 24 and beyond as needed with large outbound packages expected tomorrow and Tuesday.
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Monroe
J. R. Wooten
Orm
Crile explores life’s spark in Guatemala journey
Cleveland surgeon Dr. George W. Crile continues his study of life’s basis, tracing a 1887 patient story to energy at the cellular level. He cites a hospital post mortem where normal anatomy persisted despite fatal shock and now travels Guatemala to observe slow-motion energy in animals like the sloth anteater and armadillo.
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Cleveland
Guatemala
George W. Crile
William Lyndman
Crile
Dyer Addresses Monroe Chamber Banquet on Democracy
Dr. Gus W. Dyer of Vanderbilt spoke at the Monroe Chamber of Commerce achievement banquet on the Hotel Virginia roof. He praised the U S Constitution as a bill of rights and outlined changes from industrial revolutions. The event drew about 330 members and guests, withmusical interludes and civic leaders in attendance.
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Chamber of Commerce
Monroe
West Monroe
North Louisiana
South Arkansas
Virginia
Gus W. Dyer
Vanderbilt University of Nashville
Tenn
United States
Florence Ziegier Albritton
W. H. Anders
L. T. Hastings
Monroe First
Retail Business Gains Continued
Washington reports a brisk Christmas shopping surge lifting the nation's retail trade above last week's levels. The motor industry hit a new peak for 1938 while steel and freight car loadings dipped slightly and electric power output rose to a year high. Gains appeared in New England central and west central areas as analysts focus on year end retail and wholesale trade.
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New England Central
West Central
Garner silent on Roosevelt meeting in Washington
President Roosevelt discussed congressional prospects with Vice President Garner in a conference that fueled talk of reunifying the party on national defense. Garner kept a joking, brisk pace as he left the White House after a brief lunch with a planning committee for Hyde Park storage of the president's papers.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Garner
Congress
Hyde Park
N.Y
White House
Navy to Stage Vast East Coast War Game
The navy announced a massive drill off the east coast featuring 140 fighting ships and 600 planes. The exercise, first Atlantic test in five years, will run after the new year with a mock White fleet invading coast bases against a Black defense, involving about 3 000 officers and 5 000 sailors and stretching to the Caribbean and South America.
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Washington
Europe
South America
Atlantic
Roosevelt
Panama Canal
Caribbean Sea
Brazil
Colombia
E. C. Kaibfus
Adolphus Andrews
Pacific
West Indian
Christmas Carols from Monroe Tower and Church Broadcast
Joyous Christmas carols will peal from the city hall tower in Monroe next Saturday at 7 pm and from the First Methodist church via a special hookup with the Hammond organ. The program, arranged by the Monroe recreation department and directed by Clyde Sanders, will be broadcast from the city hall tower through the church to listeners.
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City Hall
Monroe
Monroe Recreation Department
First Methodist Church
Clyde Sanders
Axe Slayer Kills Texas Farm Couple and Wounds Daughters
A knife or axe killer murdered Mr. and Mrs. Paul Kennedy on a Texas farm and critically wounded two of their daughters. The third daughter Wilma, 17, is missing and believed kidnapped. A bloodstained axe was found in the Kennedy garage. Earl Kennedy reported the deaths after noticing neglected cattle.
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Miles
Tex
Paul Kennedy
Weet
Texas Peace
Wilma
Kennedy
Kenedy
Hutchins Resigns From New York Stock Exchange
Robert M. Hutchins resigns as public governor of the New York Stock Exchange after a board vote on the Richard Whitney case. He cites the need to determine members’ responsibility amid Whitney's misconduct and the SEC findings of knowledge of the firm’s problems before its failure.
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Board
Whitney
New York
Robert M. Hutching
University of Chicago
New York Stock Exchange
Richard Whitney
Hutchins
Exchange
Federal Securities and Exchange Commission
Mutching
SEC
Board of Governors
Delegates Seek Agreement On American Solidarity
In Lima Peru Pan American delegates from 21 nations work toward a preliminary accord to prevent a split over continental solidarity. A midnight deadline loomed as talks stalled between United States and Argentina proposals with hopes for a unanimous consensus.
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Lima
Peru
Landers
Howe
United States
Argentina
Chieta
Hull
Laudoro
Tugwell helps Good Fellows at auction raise funds
A. P. Tugwell auctioned property in Crecent Bend to aid the Good Fellows fund, bidding the center lot at 160, with the final high bid of 155. The fund rose to 772.4 dollars, aided by community support and a Wednesday dance planned at Three Mile Inn.
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A. P. Tugwell
Good Fellows
Good Fellows Fund
Acme
Creacent Bend
Tugwell
Pat
Probe of Great Swindle Reaches All Over World
Authorities meet to coordinate inquiries into a vast misdeal linked to McKesson and Robbings figures. U S attorney Gregory F Noonan says federal officials expect conclusive proof of the Musica family head’s assumed aliases and global gun running schemes. Subpoenas target Wall Street operators and firm officials as investigations broaden.
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New York
Hoterion Musica Brothers
McKesson
Gregory F Noonan
United States
Muaien
Philip Musica
Hierwelf Fo
Donald Coster
S#7
Wee
Jeer Kroeger
Mateh
Serge Stavisky
Coster-Musscaut
Federel
Great Drug Corporation
Bolivia
Paraguay
Iran Chaco
Couter-Mualea
Tveir
Coeter-Musiea
Wall Street
Connecticut
Coster
Ambrose V. McCall
Jot Kantor
Montreal
Kantor
McKeston
Kanter
Alan
Securities and Exchange Commission
Eden visit stirs American press as world implications rise
Washington observers weigh Anthony Eden's December visit amid talk of Anglo American unity against totalitarian threats. Some compare the trip to past diplomatic gestures by Alf Landon and link it to broader aims beyond Latin America, noting Eden's ability to captivate U S public imagination.
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Washington
Thony Eden
Casue
Alf Landon
United States
Lima
Lana
Rone
Berlin
Tokyo
Eden
Downing Street
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R. D. Kellogg
Henry Haas
Hattie Levy
Luther Reed Insurance Agency
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