British Crew Allows German Freighter to Pass Canal
The British prize crew on the German freighter Duesseldorf secured U S Army approval to sail to Jamaica after a diplomatic protest over the hospitalization of Hans von Appen. Von Appen refused emergency surgery at the Canal Zone hospital, while the ship completed its transit amid the controversy.
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Colon
Planama
Cristobal
United States Army Command
Canal Zone
Walter Schmidt
David L. Stone
Cane Zone
Duesseldorf
Valparaiso
Jamaica
General Stone
Hans von Appen
Panama City
Hapag- Lloyd
von Appen
Santo Tormas Hospital
Republic of Panama
Gorgas Hospital
Van
World war weariness as year ends amid Christmas contrasts
AP reports a grim Christmas across war zones with Finland under siege and Soviet air raids. Western Europe holds a fragile front truce while French troops receive small festive comforts and Daladier pledges resolve as nations count down to year’s end.
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Europe
Finland
Russia
Rench
Daladier
Blind girl makes Broadway debut in The World We Make
Miss Lilian Hillman, blind since birth and secretary for the New York Association of the Blind, makes a brief Broadway appearance at the Guild Theater in The World We Make by Kingsley. Her scene shows a psychiatrist testing her reaction as the curtain rises and she is guided away.
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New York
Liljlian Hillman
Barbara Fritchie
Guild Theater
New Orleans Storm Ravages Yacht Club and Nearby House
A Gulf disturbance gust tore through New Orleans damaging the Southern Yacht Club on Lake Pontchartrain, moving a four room house fifty feet and injuring Mrs. Jennie Zanco. Commodore David S. Wuescher and manager King Landry pegged club damage near $500 as debris littered the grounds.
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New Orleans
Gulf of Mexico
Southern Yacht Club
Lake Pontchartrain
Jennie Zanco
Sir Thomas Lipton
Gulf Coast
Sugar Bowl
United States
South
David S. Wuescher
King Landry
Zanco
Carmelo
New Or
Murphy Says Roosevelt May Seek Third Term Only If National Emergency
Detroit December 26 Attorney General Frank Murphy predicts President Roosevelt would seek a third term only in a dire national emergency He doubts a liberal third party would help the progressive cause and says he cannot see himself as Democratic vice president or a Supreme Court appointee He says he is an obscure tired public official who enjoys his present job.
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Detroit
Frank Murphy
Washington
Roosevelt
Murphy
Harold Ickes
White House
Supreme Court
Odd items and unlikely acts from across the nation
A humorous run of odd local items includes Burke’s golf ball misfires with a heavy concrete left shoe gift from Hap Slater and a Kansas snow delay tale. Indiana notes a revived juvenile curfew law lacking a bell or clear enforcement, while a Missouri man claims spring by a hen’s eight chicks.
Noe outlines five point platform for Louisiana governor bid
P James A Noe, campaigning in Monroe, releases a condensed platform. Five headings cover farm aid with roads and marketing, a complete tax survey and repeal of sales and oil taxes, industrial development with no new taxes, expanded public welfare including old age pensions and health facilities, and strict respect for the bill of rights protecting homes and individuals from illegal searches and seizures.
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New Orleans
James A. Noe
Monroe
Louisiana
Roper Golden Wedding Attended by White House Crowd
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt joined the White House Christmas events as Daniel C. Roper former secretary of commerce and Mrs. Roper celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. About fifteen hundred guests attended and the couple's seven children were all gathered for the first time since 1917.
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Washington
Franklin D. Roosevelt
White House
Daniel C. Roper
Retirement Pensions to Start Soon
The federal government begins monthly retirement pensions next month under the social security act with January payments by February 1. Estimates anticipate about 1,000,000 beneficiaries in 1940 receiving over 100 million dollars in total. Average payments for retirees range from 26 dollars for single men to 39 dollars for married men with a wife supplement, with a maximum of 85 dollars a month requiring 40 years in the system and high earnings. The program marks the final phase of the 1935 act, alongside unemployment financing and aid for the aged and dependent children.
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Washington
WPA
Christmas shooting leaves two wounded in Worcester
Mrs. Stella Jaques, 42, faces $30,000 bail after pleading innocent to three counts of assault with intent to kill. The incident at a Worcester Christmas dinner left Benjamin Jaques and Edward Heitzler critically wounded as Jaques fired a .22 pistol at her estranged husband and others.
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Worcester
Mass
Stella Jaques
Superior Court
Benjamin Jaques
Edward Heiitzler
Jaques
Christmas Holiday Death Toll Rises Across Nation
Violent deaths and traffic accidents spanned the country over a three day Christmas period, totaling 633 fatalities. Illinois led with 64 deaths, followed by California 47 and Ohio 35. Traffic accounted for 418 deaths, with trains, fire, and other causes making up the remainder.
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Associated Press
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Nevada
Vermont
Rhode Island
Wyoming
Delaware
Illinois
California
Ohio
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Tennessee
North Carolina
New Mexico
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Georgia
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New York
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Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
South Carolina
South Dakota
Utah
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Norris says work is done after 37 years in Congress
Washington Dec 26 Senator George W Norris Independent Nebraska announced he will not seek public office after his present term ends in 1943. At 78 he reflects that his work is finished and his friends understand he will not run again. Norris, famed for filibustering Wilson's armed neutrality bill in 1917 and voting against entering World War I, vows no reelection despite past assurances.
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Washington
George W. Norris
Nebraska
Congress
Wilson
America
Norris
Shipping clerk denies death rumor in Biloxi trip
Bill Ferguson a lumber company shipping clerk arrived at his Lake Charles office after a Christmas holiday in Biloxi and learned coworkers had started a flowers fund for his funeral after a Mobil Alabama crash rumor. Ferguson denied the report.
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Lake Charles
Bill Ferguson
Lumber Company
Biloxi
Miss
Mobile
Ala
Feesguson
Sugar quota proclamation again issued
President Roosevelt announced a proclamation restoring sugar marketing quotas, ending the wartime suspension due to consumer purchases and speculative activity. He noted the decline in sugar prices and a renewed duty of 90 cents per hundred pounds on Cuban sugar, down from $1.50 during the suspension.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Europe
Cuba
United States
Eye Offer Supposed to Halt Deportation in Wakefield Tale
Mrs Gladys Northup, who is blind, says an Albanian detainee in Boston offered to donate an eye to save him from deportation. The man Fern Hayden of Waterbury, Conn., wrote she would sacrifice an eye for his stay. Her specialist could not comment on feasibility as he has undergone eight operations. Her husband has never seen her as lights returned for the first time since the Christmas tree was lit.
Economy axe likely to be hard to swing in 1940
Washington reports congressmen debate trimming federal outlays as 1940-41 appropriations loom. Despite calls for a balanced budget and reduced relief and defense spending, election year concerns and bipartisan bloc resistance likely keep spending bills afloat. President Roosevelt cites $500 million in unfunded farm benefits, with farm bloc expected to resist new levies.
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Washington
White House
Congress
Roosevelt
Treasury
Christmas Child Born in Bethlehem
Bethlehem Pa December 26 A child was born in Bethlehem at dawn as three physicians confirmed to Gen Czapa that his wife Mary had given birth to a son. He prayed and walked home under a starry sky, the city’s only Christmas nativity this year in a 60 000 population town.
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Bethlehem
Führer crosses into France on Christmas Day
Adolf Hitler reportedly walked across the frontier into France while with German forces on Christmas Eve near Spicheren Heights between Saarbrucken and Forbach. The visit, led by a sector captain, included inspecting French dugouts before Hitler returned to German lines. He promoted the sector captain to major during the patrol.
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Berlin
Adolf Hitler
France
West-Wall
Fuehrer
Hitler
Spicheren Heights
Saarbruecken
Forbach
Finnish Shelled Viipuri as War Front Shifts Near Murmansk
Russian guns pounded Viipuri as Finnish forces on another front advanced into Soviet territory. Across Europe Christmas clashes continued with several raids and a British ship torpedoed off England. The Duesseldorf case prompted a German protest as prize crews maintained control.
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Associated Press
Finland
Viipuri
Karelian
Murmansk
Russia
Red
Jolomantsi
Suomussalmi
Stanholme
England
Germany
Moselle
Australia
United States Army Command
Panama Canal Zone
Duesseldorf
Sentencing Set for Five in Shushan Mail Fraud Case
Five men convicted in the Shushan mail fraud case face formal sentencing on January 2 before Federal Judge Wayne G. Borah after motions for new trial and arrest of judgment are argued. If denied, sentences would be imposed immediately. Defendants include A. L. Shushan, Robert J. Newman, Norvin Trent Harris Jr., Herbert W. Waguespack, and Henry J. Miller.
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New Orleans
Shushan
Wayne G. Borah
Orleans Levee Board
Federal Penitentiary
A. L. Shushan
Levee Board
Huey P. Long
Robert J. Newman
Norvin Trent Harris
Newman, Harris and Company
Herbert W. Waguespack
Henry J. Miller
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