Dewey Taft Rivalry Shapes Republican Strategy in campaign
Gleanings from the convention reveal a tense race between Dewey and Taft backed by donor factions. Rumors of support for Van, ongoing organization building, and a push toward a broad campaign that could influence the nomination. Analysts note private criticisms and public posturing as contenders test their lines ahead of the decisive scrapes.
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Dewey
Vanhas
Taft
Van
Republcs
Almanac Fragment on Page Seven Dates and Prices
Readable almanac fragment shows time stamps and price hints, listing 1.14 4.12 35 dollars and 10 09 p.m. with 328 a. Mm. It indicates a page seven almanac snippet with numbers and periods but few clear facts.
Reds Bomb Finnish City Blockade Hits Scandinavia
Copenhagen reports a heavy Russian air raid on Hongoe a fortified Finnish port on the southwest coast. Finland defies the blockade and minors report Gulf of Bothnia mines and Aaland fortifications. Submarines are said active in the Bothnian gulf as Swedish Danish and Norwegian trade feel war pressures. Finnish troops claim halting a 200000 Russian army on the Karelia Isthmus and confirm loss of Hogland island with fierce fighting near Tapale river.
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Copenhagen
Hongoe
Finland
Gulf of Bothnia
Sweden
Aaland Islands
Stockholm
Estonia
Gulf of Riga
Baltic
Germany
Karelian
Hogland Island
Gulf of Finland
Lake Ladoga
Tapale
Freakish Weather Over United States
AAP reports a chameleon weather day across the nation with high winds uprooting cars in New England and houses in Oregon, unseasonably warm Midwest and West, record warm in Salt Lake City, and scattered effects from storms. Fatalities, injuries, and property damage followed as tides, fires, and storms disrupted travel and power from Florida to Vancouver Island.
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Associated Press
United States
New England
Oregon
Alma
Florida
California
Midwest
Southwest
Salt Lake City
Weather Bureau
North Atlantic
North Pacific
Seattle
Warrenton
Ore
Vancouver Island
B. C
Vineland
N. J
Atlantic
Hudson River
Tarry~town
New Hampshire
Lincoln Fark, N. J
All-America and Bowls Spark New Year's Day Fervor
The piece reflects on football bowls becoming a national New Year’s Day staple, noting Walter Camp’s All-America antecedent and the evolving bowl culture across regions. It laments American fan focus on games and the booming concessions economy, while many spend New Year’s Day in bed.
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Walter Camp
Sea War Toll Mounts as British Sink Two U Boats
London reports intensified naval losses in the North Sea eclipse by British successes. A German submarine was sunk after a German ship was captured, while the 6,646 ton Japanese freighter Azuma Maru vanished after reporting a sea crossing. Danish steamer Scotia sunk with 21 dead, and other vessels including Corea and Brandon suffered explosions or torpedo strikes. Herming Oldendorff towed to port as the 19th Nazi ship captured.
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London
North Sea
Yar
Harry Needham
England
Brandon
Herming Oldendorff
Local Taxpayers Association To Meet Monday Night
Portsmouth Taxpayers Association will hold a meeting Monday at 7 PM in the Hotel Rockingham. Donald J. Reet, secretary of the New Hampshire Federation of Taxpayers Associations, will speak on taxation at city county and state levels.
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Portsmouth ‘Taxpayers’ Association
Rockingham
Donald J. Reet
New Hampshire
Federation of Taxpayers Associations
Three Lobster Boats Towed After Gale Strikes Harbor
Three lobster fishing boats ranging from 25 to 35 feet were towed back to their moorings in Hampton Harbor by Hampton Beach Coast Guardsmen. Gale force northwest winds yesterday tore the vessels loose and blew them ashore.
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Hampton Harbor
Hampton Beach
Wolfeboro Man Held In Fatal Hunting Mishap
Wolfeboro December 9 James Douglass was arraigned before Judge Erroll F Hall of Farming ton charged with accidental shooting death of Donald Bennett Tuftonboro while hunting deer in the Copple Crown Mountain district of New Durham on December 3 He was bound over in $1000 bonds for the February term and released on his own recognizance
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Wolfeboro
Erroll F. Hall
Farmington
James Douglass
Strafford County
Douglass
Donald Bennett
Tuftonboro
Copplecrown
New Durham
Trees topple from truck in high wind near Sagamore Creek
Heavy winds along the Lafayette Highway caused a West Somerville, Massachusetts truck to tip over and spill 40 Christmas trees onto the road near Sagamore Creek. State troopers and motor vehicle inspectors directed traffic around the pile after the 9:30 p.m. accident.
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Sagamore Creek
Lafayette Highway
West Somerville
Mass
Woman fails holdup in Haverhill store
In Haverhill Massachusetts on December 9 Herbert W Peters 21 of 16 Green Street was arrested on assault with intent to commit robbery while armed less than a day after a planned East Broadway grocer holdup. Police seek four alleged accomplices. An abandoned stolen car tied to the crew was found on Blaisdell Street after the robbery attempt at Walter Chapman 3 East Broadway. Chapmans wife alerted police foiling the masked gunmen.
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Haverhill
Mass
East Broadway
Herbert W. Peters
Green Street
Peters
Blaisdell Street
Edith Brindis
North Avenue
Walter Chapman
Chapman
U. S. Seeks partial blockade relief with Britain
Washington report says the United States will be content with Britain adhering to the note on the blockade rather than full abandonment. It argues safe passage for German origin goods with proper owners and payments, and export of hard to obtain German items like precision tools and surgical instruments. Continued on Page Six.
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Washington
United States
Britain
Russian Member Stays In Hotel During Session
The League of Nations trial of Soviet Russia over Finland’s charges opened behind closed doors with Russia’s delegate absent. Rudolf Holsti presented Finland’s demand for moral condemnation while Jakob Surits remained in his Geneva hotel. Britain and France pledged support for Finland’s appeal, and expulsion discussions loomed as Moscow faced possible expulsion amid broader European tensions.
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Geneva
Russia
League of Nations
Finland
League Council
Rudolf Holsti
Soviet Union
Jakob Surits
V. K. Wellington Kao
Kao
Ching
Russa
China
Japan
Richard A. Butler
Joseph Paul Boncour
Great Britain
France
Helsinki
League
Britain
United States
Latin America
Moscow
Soviet
Pittsfield Youth Survives Two Crashes in Half Hour
Maurice Curtis a 13 year old Pittsfield truck driver escaped death twice within thirty minutes on the Alton Barnstead highway. His truck burst into flames after the first crash and both he and Harold Ellis were thrown from a car in a second collision. Ellis suffered only a superficial chest injury and was later released. Curtis remained at Huggins Memorial hospital for observation with an arm injury and possible internal damage.
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Alton
Maurice Curtis
Pittsfield
Curtis
Barnstead-Alton
Huggins Memorial Hospital
Alton-Barnstead
Harold Ellis
Inter
Stockbridge Corner
Gordon Berwick
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Bob-Laine
Hi- French Purchasing Commission
Paul Mallon
Herald
Finnish
Reds
Scandinavia
Council
Karélian Isthmus
Scandinavian Countries
Bothnian Gulf
Neal O’hara
Europe
Mutual
Cantor
Preas Phate
Paramount
Local Taxpayers’ Association
Haverhill, Mass
U. S
Holsti
League Assembly
Baltic States
Fae
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