Insurgents Claim Advances on Catalan Front as Steamer Bombing Stirs Protest
Reports from Hendaye state Franco’s insurgents pushed gains in the Balaguer sector of Catalonia while a British protest looms over the bombing of the steamer Maranga off Castellon de la Plana. Casualties from the earlier fighting are uncertain, with both sides claiming heavy losses.
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International News Service
Hendaye
France
Francisco Franco
Balaguer
Barcelona
Castellon de la Plana
Balearic Islands
Para Two
New Year Observances Rise In City and District
The community plans a midnight New Year greeting with whistles and bells at many plants and institutions. Street sign conditions are noted as needing urgent repair to improve the city’s appearance. January bears a Friday the 13th label, but no dire events are noted. Charles C. Strickler of Raymond Street shows improvement after a possum bite infection from trapping. Some drivers report salt mixed with ashes on icy roads, confirmed by the highway office as a method used to keep ash piles from freezing tightly.
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Pennsylvania Highway Department
Ington
America
Babson Predicts 20 Percent Business Rise in 1939
Babson forecasts a 20 percent rise in total business by end of 1939, with gains in jobs wages retail sales stocks and farm prices. He sees 1939 as a year of moderate prosperity continuing the uptrend since 1932 and notes confidence returning amid lower costs and expanding production.
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Roger W. Babson
Publishers Fiudal Bureau
Babsonn Park
Mass
Babson
International News Service
New York
American Business Today
Tom L. Girdler
Republic Steel
Spanish Destroyers Battle Off Gibraltar Ends in Losses
Seven crewmembers of the Spanish government destroyer Jose Luis Diez were killed and 11 wounded as it fought Insurgent warships near Gibraltar. The ship ran aground under fire from Canarias and an insurgent destroyer after ramming and sinking the minelayer Jupiter.
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International News Service
Gibraltar
Jose Luis Diez
Canarias
Jupiter
Europa Point
Jose
Luis Diez
Vance
Ceuta
Catalan Bay
Legislature to Open Session with Farewell Address
Harrisburg reports the legislature will convene on Tuesday with Gov George H Barle delivering a farewell address. Rep Ellwood J Turner is expected to become speaker of the house and Robert Woodside floor leader. In the senate Frederick T Gelder is tipped to be president pro tem with G Mason Owlett as floor leader.
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Harrisburg
Ellwood J. Turner
Delaware
House
George H.barle
Turner
Senate
Robert Woodside
Dauphin
Frederick T. Gelder
Susquehanna
Woman Takes Fatal Plunge From 35th Floor Over Central Park
Mrs Miriam Rieber 55 wife of oil executive Capt Torkid Rieber leapt from a Central Park area apartment shortly before midnight. A nervous disorder treated her during the two weeks prior led to the fatal plunge after she broke from a nurse. Rieber, board chairman of Texas Corp and director of nine oil firms, is en route home from Europe.
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New York
Central Park
Miriam Rieber
Torkid Rieber
The
Texas Corp
Daily Weather Report for 24 Hours Ending Thursday
United States weather statistics show a maximum temperature of 35 and a minimum of 15 with trace snow. River stage is 5.2 feet. A year ago the high was 41 and the low 24 with no precipitation.
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United States
Report Goebbels Is Badly Beaten
In a London dispatch the Daily Mirror reports Goebbels was severely beaten by associates of Gustav Froelich, husband of film star Lida Barova. Goebbels, hospitalised with grippe, allegedly faced a duel after pursuing Barova, with Froelich later sent to a concentration camp.
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London
Hitler
Joseph Goebbels
Germany
Daily Mirror
Goebbels
Lida Barova
Grippe
The
Mirror
Gustav Froelich
Barova
Froelich
Mireror
Proelich
Tragic Double Murder and Suicide Shocks Terre Haute
In Terre Haute Indiana on December 30 Ralph Kendall 39, his 15 year old daughter Betty, and William Query 33 a state highway truck driver died in a triple tragedy. Police say Query killed the girl and her father then took his own life after marrying Betty in a secret Christmas Eve union. The girl's mother Minnie Belle Dobson of Greencastle had Query arrested for contributing to the delinquency of a minor and the girl was later returned home. Betty Kendall was last seen drying dishes with her stepmother when the incident occurred.
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International News Service
Terre Haute
Ind
Ralph D. Kendall
Betty
William Query
State
Query
Minnie Belle Dobson
Greencastle
Death Notice Fragments From December 30 1938 Record
William Hazen Williams 62 of 225 East Laurel Avenue and M Dean 85 Ellwood City and Carl Landon Jordan 2 of 237 West Falls Street are named in a decedent list. The fragmentary notice reproduces a local death record of multiple individuals with incomplete details.
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William Hazen ‘Williams
East Laurel Avenue
Zolak.m. Dean
Ellwood City
Carl Landon Jordan
West Falls Street
Sawmill Scene Feared In Girl's Kidnap Murder
Authorities in Kingston Pennsylvania intensify hunt for 19 year old Margaret Martin’s killer. State police report cloth fragments and a metal ornament found near a sawmill boiler as possible evidence. Tracks show a man and woman leading to the mill, with signs of dragging.
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Kingston
Margaret Martin
Kingston Business School
Wyoming County
Wiliam Clark
Martin
Clark
Gov Elect James Heads Back East
Gov Elect Arthur H. James returned east after meetings with Western Pennsylvania leaders over 48 hours. He declined to reveal cabinet names before inauguration next month. Visitors included former Attorney General Charles Margiotti and Republican Walter Hallanan praising James as a stabilizing political figure.
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James
International News Service
Pittsburgh
Des
Arthur H. James
Pennsylvania
Mariotti
Charles J. Margiott
House
Walter S. Hallanan
Republican National
West Virginia
Berlin Denies Goebbels Beaten
Berlin government spokesmen denied the report from the Lendety Daily Mirror that Paul Joseph Goebbels had been beaten by a supposedly jealous husband. They also denied pending divorce rumors between Goebbels and his wife.
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International News Service
Berlin
Lendety Daily Mirror
Paul Joseph Goebbels
Ans
Goebbels
Diplomatic Break From Pun Provokes Iran and France
Iran broke off relations with France over a pun in Parisian press using chat the French word for cat. Tehran cited insults in Petit Parisien excelsior and a weekly, prompting anti French demonstrations. The rupture was announced by the French foreign office after Iran's ambassador submitted a formal note.
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Kenneth T. Downs
Sufel
Paris
Iran
Persia
France
Teherean
Foreign Office
Sepah
Petit Parisien
Excelsior
Second Severe Cold Wave Hits Nation With Short Lull Ahead
The second brutal cold spell moves east across the middle west bringing subzero readings and frost fears to southern fruit growers. The death toll reaches 41 from the Rockies to the Atlantic and a Chicago forecast predicts zero by daybreak, promising a brief yet harsher stretch before relief.
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International News Service
Middle West
Mackenzie River
Rockies
Atlantic Seaboard
Chicago
Pittsburgh Chamber Objects to Seaway Project
The Pittsburgh chamber of commerce filed a formal protest to Senator Joseph F. Feed and President Roosevelt arguing the St. Lawrence seaway would raise unemployment by cutting railroad tonnage and coal mining, enable cheaper foreign imports, undermine American industry, and cost about 1 billion dollars.
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International News Service
Pittsburgh
St. Lawrence Seaway
Great Lakes
Atlantic Ocean
Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce
Joseph.f
Roosevelt
He. Chamber
United States
Chip And Howley Get Primary Appointments
Congressman Eckert announced two Lawrence County teenagers will receive primary appointments to Annapolis and West Point for the June 1939 class. William Chip of 108 Phillips Place is named for Annapolis and James Howley of 318 North Shenango Street for West Point. Both must pass exams for entry. No alternates named. This marks a first in years for Lawrence County.
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Charles R. Eckert
Beaver
Annapolis
West Point
Lawrene County
William Chip
George Chip
Phillips Place
James Howley
William J. Howley
North
She- Nango Street
Naval
Tao
Lawrence County
Woolslayer Improves After Carbo Monoxide Incident
Jack Woolslayer 42 of East Washington Street was reported improving after being overcome by carbon monoxide from a fire. Hospital attendants at New Castle reported today. In Washington, Gov. George H. Earle, unharmed after a recent airplane accident, flew into the capital at noon today.
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Jack Woolslayer
East Washington Street
New Castle J Hospital
Washington
George HH. Earle
Daring Youngstown Holdup Perpetrators Round Up 20
Three armed men held 20 people at Youngstown Railway Express in a morning heist. They seized 35 000 destined for the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland from a local bank bundle and escaped. one large bag remained unfound. Police began a roundup as workers were ushered into a warehouse.
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International News Service
Youngstown
Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
Youngstown Bank
Bandits Slay Store Owner in Front of Cleveland Shop
Louis Paster, 43, owner of a Cleveland meat market and grocery store, was shot and killed during a failed holdup in front of his shop. The bandit, seen nearby, accosted Paster as he opened the store and fled after a scuffle that also shattered a plate glass window. Hospital reports say the artery was severed by the gunshot.
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International News Service
Cleveland
Louis Paster
Paster
Old 38 Stands at Year’s Threshold as 39 Approaches
An aged man named Old 38 prepares to retire as the new year arrives. A younger man, 39, eager to take his place, stands ready to step into the role. The weather is described as thirty three.
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