Japs Meet Stiff Resistance Near Tsingtao in China Fronts
Japanese armies faced fierce Chinese resistance along Shantung fronts near Tsingtao and Weihsien while Taian outskirts burned as Tai Shan endured fire. The U S S Sacramento docked at Shanghai to evacuate American refugees, with 25 Americans plus nurses and dependents leaving from Tsingtao aboard the Shantien and more planes ready aboard Marblehead and Pope vicinity.
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Associated Press
Shanghai
Shantung Province
Tsingtao
United States
Sacramento
Marblehead
Pope
China
Wall Street 'Boy Wonder' dies in Sing Sing prison
Harold Russell Ryder once labeled the Wall Street wonder boy died of a heart attack at age 41 in the Sing Sing prison hospital. Freed on parole after a 1930 larceny sentence, he had returned to the penitentiary two weeks earlier to serve a 12 to 17 year term amid reports of his lavish lifestyle including flashy gifts to entertainers.
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N. Y
Harold Russell Ryder
Boy Wonder
Wall Street
Sing Sing
Hilltop
Ryder
Rebels Claim Progress In Teruel Drive
Franco-Spanish frontier dispatch says insurgent high command reports breaking government lines northwest of Teruel as they press to relieve the besieged garrison. A Barcelona communique centered on Celadas about 12 miles northwest of Teruel but denied ground gained despite air and infantry assaults. The besieged garrison, about 3 000 men, remained in radio contact with Zaragoza as the siege continued.
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Teruel
Barcelona
Celadas
Romania Sees King Carol Move Toward Dictatorship
In Washington dispatched from New York dated December 3, DeWitt MacKenzie reports Romania’s cabinet crisis as King Carol seeks greater autocratic power with a pro Nazi tilt. Premier Ta tarescu resigns and Carol names Octavian Goga, raising fears of fascist dominance and a Berlin Rome axis alignment.
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New York
Romania
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Yugoslavia
Rumania
Germany
Hitler
Carol
Chamber of Deputies
Octavian Goga
National Christian Party
Goga
Data sought on Moscow missing couple amid citizen questions
The U S state department intensified efforts to identify a woman matching the Moscow disappearance description It sent a photo to the American embassy in Moscow The image matches Ruth Marie Rubens of New York born Ruth Boerger in Philadelphia If confirmed Soviets may disclose their whereabouts The case involves Donald L Robinson and a possible espionage detention The Rubens surname appears on passports cleared through New York City official Albert Marinelli The Rubens father spoke from Miami saying the last letter from Ruth was from Paris on November 3
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Donald L. Robinson
Moscow
State Department
Department
Ruth Marie Rubens
New York
Ruth Boerger
Philadelphia
Troyanovsky
Adolph Arnold Rubens
Naples
Bens
Robinsons
Chicago
Rubens
Albert Marinelli
New York City
Marinelli
Miami
Fla
Frederick Boerger
Paris
Boerger
Eny
Roosevelt 10 Make Address in Person to Congress
Washington reports show high administration officials delivering pointed critiques of big business ahead of President Roosevelt's annual address to Congress. Assistant Attorney General Robert H. Jackson and Secretary Ickes sharpen the line as observers note a prearranged push to shape policy amid the business recession.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Philadelphia
Robert H. Jackson
NBC
Ickes
Ouachita River Flood Floods South Arkansas Oil Wells
Flood waters in south Arkansas shut down about 100 oil wells as the Ouachita River rose above flood stage at Camden and crest near 28 feet. In Griffin high water inundated the village, while rail lines at Griffin and El Dorado faced washouts and service continued on two tracks. County leaders reported many dirt roads washed away and several bridges destroyed or damaged.
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Ark
South Arkansas
Ouachita
Camden
Smackover Creek
Griffin
Missouri Pacific Railroad
el Dorado
Rock Island
Clyde E. Bird
Wesson
Dry Creek
Voters Urged to Secure 1937 Poll Book Receipts
About 4000 Quachita parish residents have not obtained their 1937 state poll book receipts and risk losing voting rights if not claimed at the courthouse before midnight Friday. Receipts can be issued at the sheriff’s first floor office or the auxiliary office in the tax assessor’s space, with both open Friday until midnight.
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Quachita Parish
Joe Hanna
Ship subsidies will continue past January 1
Federal subsidies now support 17 steamship lines to help compete with foreign lines and are expected to continue beyond the January 1 contract expiration. The Maritime Commission aims to reduce subsidies to about a dozen lines but faces obstacles in arranging the cut. Dollar and Munson lines are expected to be included in the permanent program.
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Washington
Maritime Commission
Dollar
Munson
Death by own action rate in Japan drops after war impact
Tokyo reports the first decline in Japan's death by own action rate in years with 1937 total 2,681, down 380 from the previous year. Officials credit warfare spirit for the drop while noting warfare caused many suicides among wives and mothers seeking to relieve dependents' distress.
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Tokyo
Japan
Pictures Tell Story Of Bombing Of Panay
The Panay bombing is depicted in a stark photographic sequence shown to executives at a New Jersey facility. Newsreel cameraman Norman Alley explains the film records the sinking and the ensuing dramatic resistance, highlighting tensions between the United States and Japan.
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Panay
Fort Lee, N.J
Norman Alley
Washington
Tokyo
Heflin Improves But Not Out Of Danger In Hospital
Lafayette Alabama December 30 Dr N A Wheeler said former Senator J Thomas Heflin aged 78 suffering from lobar pneumonia was much improved but not yet out of danger Wheeler noted he showed more improvement during the night than since admission on Christmas day as he competes for the Senate seat vacated by Justice Hugo L Black
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Lafayette
Ala
N. A. Wheeler
J. Thomas Heflin
Wheeler
Senate
Hugo L. Black
Traffic Deaths in Orleans Reach 66
New Orleans police report 66 traffic fatalities this year after 41 year old municipal repair plant employee Franklin Stingili was crushed when a car struck the truck he stood beside. Lionel Darmestre, 26, a state conservation department painter, was arrested for involuntary homicide after allegedly hitting the rear of the truck.
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New Orleans
Franklin Stingili
Muniitipal Repair Plant
John Adams
Lionel Darmestre
State Conservation Department
Darmestre
Farouk Dissolves Cabinet and Plans Elections in Egypt
King Farouk dismisses Premier Mustapha Nahas Pasha and appoints Mohamed Mahmoud to form a new government. Mahmoud moves to dissolve parliament and set elections within two months while drafting a coalition cabinet, amid palace and Wafd nationalist tensions and railway worker strikes. Rumors of deploying British troops from Palestine circulate as stability tensions rise.
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Cairo
Farouk
Mustapha Nahas Pasha
Mohamed Mahmoud
Mahmoud
Oxford
Egypt
Palestine
Nahay
Nahas
Fatal shooting on high seas aboard schooner Aaffe near Los Angeles
Coast guard on Persea to dock the crippled schooner Aaffe after discovering the body of Dwight L. Fauling 49 Santa Barbara hotel operator. Six survivors and Fauling’s body were taken ashore off the Mexican coast as discovery details emerge. Names include Gertrude Turner and her son Robert, Jack Morgan and others from Goleta and Santa Barbara.
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San Pedro
Calif
Coast Guard
Persea
Los Angeles Harbor
Federal Bureau of Investigation
W. H. Osborne
San Diego
Dwight L. Fauling
Santa Barbara
Here
Gertrude Turner
Robert Tufor
Dog Pueblos Ranchs
Goleta
Jack Morgan
Regain Checks Taken by Two Negro Bandits
Checks totaling 44.97 stolen by two unidentified Black men during a hold up of a salesman for Monroe Wholesale Drug Company were recovered from a gutter at Louisville Avenue and North Seventh Street. They were found by W. Folden and turned to police. About $300 in cash remained missing.
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Manroe
Comepany
Louisville Avenue
North Seventh Street
W. Folden
Lidell Avenue
United Gas Pipe Line Comepany
Folden
Polo
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