Woman Dies After Clothes Catch Fire at Fire Grate
Mrs Minnie Woodard 57 of 844 11th street died after clothes caught fire while standing by an open coal grate. Found by her son about 5:30 p m, she was burned fatally and died at 8:15 p m in Portsmouth General hospital. Survived by husband John and five sons Millard Clifton Morris Nathan Robert. Funeral at Lynn's Funeral Home Monday at 2 p m. Burial Greenlawn Cemetery.
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Minnie Woodard
11Th Street
Portsmouth General Hospital
Woodard
Nathan
Walter J. Lauter
Everett Weghorst
Edward McManaway
Joseph Cook
Three Injured In Auto Accidents In Portsmouth
Three people were injured and three drivers arrested in Portsmouth traffic incidents. A man named Charles Bell, 29, of Sciotoville, was jailed on a driving while intoxicated charge after a Star Yards crash. Passengers Me and Mrs J Richard Farmer, Sciotoville residents, sustained injuries. Mr Farmer, Scioto vile High School instrumental director, bruised. Mrs Farmer with a back injury. George Daum, 1529 11th Street, a Sciotoville High School teacher, was Westbound when his car side swiped Bell’s. Lieutenant Edward arrested Bell. Roy Imms processed the other driver, Stanley D Collins, 37, of 1524 Ninth Street, on DWI charges at Second and Market.
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Portsmouth
Charles Bell
Farney Avenue
Sciotoville
Star Yards
J. Richard Farmer
George Daum
11Th Street
Farmer
Big Russo Finnish Battle Is Expected
Anvik Norway near the border reports a likely decisive clash as a Russian motorized unit advances toward Pitkajarvi. Finnish forces reportedly set up new lines near the frontier after a southwest retreat from Salpa.
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Associated Press
Anvik
Norway
Pitkajarvi
Tkajarvi
U S Tightens Moral Embargo On Aircraft Materials
Washington reports the United States will expand its moral embargo to curb shipments essential to aircraft production. The State Department lists molybdenum and aluminum as restricted, amid calls that public opinion enforce the ban. Russia and Japan are named targets by implication as analysts assess impacts on Germany and the broader war economy.
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United States
Russia
Japan
Germany
State Department
American Red Cross
Finland
Hjalmar J. Procope
Bricker Blames U S for Relief Setback in Ohio
Governor John W Bricker of Ohio told Ohio friends in New York that the federal government bears the blame for relief breakdowns in Ohio. He spoke to insurance leaders during the Ohio Society of New York event and addressed the Life Insurance Presidents convention.
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New York
John W. Bricker
Ohio
Buckeye
Ohio Society of New York
Association of Life Insurance Presidents’ Convention
Recaptured Winnie Judd Seeks Self Defense Story
Winnie Ruth Judd, recaptured in Yuma after a desert trek, demands to testify from the witness stand that she killed two women friends in self defense. She alleges an accomplice hired a physician to dissect one body and was placed in an Arizona state hospital for the insane, escaping twice recently. She described events in a five hour drive to Phoenix and said her letter details the murders of Agnes Ann Le roi and Hedvig Samuelson on October 16.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Winnie Ruth Judd
Arizona State Hospital For
NLRB Member Back On Stand In House Inquiry
Washington dispatch reports NLRB member Edwin S. Smith facing further questioning by a House committee amid charges of attempting to promote a union boycott at Berkshhire Knitting Mills Reading Pa. Testimony tied to correspondence with Louis E. Kirstein Boston official and literature from John W. Edelman of the American Federation of Hosiery Workers involving a handbill urging customer action.
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Washington
Edwin S. Smith
National Labor Relations Board
House
James Miller
Cleveland
Philip G. Phillips
Cincinnati
Miller
Phillips
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Progressive Mine Workers
Smith
Berkshire Knitting Mills
Reading
Louis E. Kirstein
William Filene
Observer Schirrmans reper Today at 11 a.m.
A brief weather notice records today’s forecast with an 11 am observation. It lists a low of 38 and yesterday’s high of 45 along with a single pear age entry.
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Schirrmans
Taft Offers Plan for Budget Balance in Two Years
Darien Conn December 16 Senator Robert A Taft of Ohio seeking the Republican presidential nomination told New England Republicans that the nation could reach a balanced budget in two years if the executive will. He urged a businessmen s committee to study the budget piece by piece and named Governor Raymond E Baldwin of Connecticut as a fit member for such a panel. He spoke after a tour of Maine Rhode Island Massachusetts and Connecticut.
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Darien
Conn
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
New England
Connecticut
Raymond E. Baldwin
Marysville Mayor Dies After 6 Year Legal Career
Marysville reports the death of John Ville, longtime mayor, marking the end of a six year career in law and service to the city. The obituary notes his influence on local policy and governance.
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Marysville
Johnville
Geryseucier
Britain Presses Air Supremacy Over North Sea
Britain accelerates aerial operations to dominate the North Sea skies amid ongoing battles. Royal Air Force aircraft claim downing five German planes, while three British bombers are lost. Rotterdam reports sunk ships Ursus and Germaine, with Pennland rescuing crew. 80 lives feared.
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London
Royal Air Force
Great Britain
Conie
North Sea
Rotterdam
Holland
Ursus
Germaine
Atlantic
Netherlands
Pennland
Two Norwegian Ships Strike Mines Sink Off Britain
Two Norwegian steamers struck mines off Britain's northeast coast and sank. Ten men were reported dead with seven injured and 30 unaccounted for amid ongoing wartime losses.
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London
Britain
Graf Spee Given Deadline to Sail or Be Interned
The Admiral Graf Spee faces internment or death at sea as Uruguay orders the pocket battleship to sail by Sunday 5 p.m. if seaworthy. British cruisers Ajax Achilles Exeter and Cumberland press the hunt, with Dunkerque en route as crews report hull damage and a struck hospital chamber from earlier British fire. Captain Langsdorff cites fuel shortage as a handicap in the recent battle.
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Spee
Montevideo
Ajax
Achilles
Exeter
Associated Press
Germany
Hans Langsdorff
Portsmouth
Great Britain
Cumberland
Dunkerque
Britain
Uruguay
Foreign Office
Naval Board
Rodriguez Vare
Mario Fontana
Langsdorff
Panama’s President Arosemena Dies Suddenly at 59
Panama's president Dr Juan Demostenes Arosemena died of heart disease at Penonome after an earlier November attack. Elected in 1936, he began the final year of his term October 1 and had been active as keynote speaker at Panama's September conference on neutrality zones for shipping amid the European war.
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Panama
Juan Demostenes Arosemena
Republic of Panama
Penonome
Arosemena
Bender denies Schora aid in 1940 Senate bid claim
Former Gov Bender rejects a charge that he aided Schora in 1940 to bolster a possible Senate run. The denial labels the story as false and aims to set a clear record of political maneuvering surrounding early campaigns.
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Bender
Schora
Senate
Russia to Ignore Finns Peace Appeal Says Moscow
Moscow officials and Soviet media indicated Russia will snub a Finnish radio appeal by Foreign Minister Vaino Tanner for a halt to hostilities and resumption of talks. Observers cite Moscow’s commitment to its campaign and note League of Nations expulsion as an absurd decision.
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Russia
Vaino Tanner
Foreign Office
Helsinki
Pussia
League of Nations
Finland
Tass
Great Britain
France
Tageenia
Haan
League Council
Soviet Union
Democratic Republic of Finland
People's Government
Terijoki
Tanner
Finns Fire and Blow Mines As They Fall Back
Stockholm reports Finnish forces retreating in the Arctic Circle as Soviet troops advance. Bridges are dynamited and lakes blown to hinder pursuit. Salmi jarvi nickel mine properties, largely owned by International Nickel Co. of Canada, are said to have been wrecked before the Finns’ withdrawal. A Finnish commander predicts a long war while noting strong Soviet artillery and undertrained air force.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Salmijarvi
Petsamo
Rovaniemi
International Nickel Co
Canada
Leningrad
Finland
Kurt Wallen Fintinder
Helsinki
Taipale
Ciano Declares Italy Keeps Neutrality With Germany
In a chamber address Ciano asserts Fascist Italy will stay out of the European war in alignment with Germany while protecting Italy’s interests in air, sea, and land traffic. He says three years are needed to ready war means and reiterates aims for peace and order in the Danubian and Balkan regions.
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Associated Press
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Count Galeazzo Ciano
Italy
Germany
Mussolini
Ciano
Chamber of Fasces and Guilds
Great Britain
France
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Salzburg
Ciane
Balkan
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Berlin
Quelliner
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