Midwest Snow Blanket Stuns Chicago and Midwest
Heavy snow and record lows sweep the Midwest with five inches in Chicago and Milwaukee, over five inches in Central Illinois, and up to six inches in other areas. Two deaths reported in Atlanta as travel remains perilous. Pacific Coast rain continues. Kansas City, Ohio, and Michigan also see widespread snowfall.
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Navy chief urges 4.2 billion fleet boost to deter Far East risks
Admiral Harold R. Stark told the House Naval Committee that Congress must approve a 4.2 billion increase to expand the fleet amid international tensions. He warned the United States could drift into a weak naval position without rapid action as hearings opened on the expansion plan to strengthen the world’s most powerful navy. Secretary Edison described the revision as necessary in light of grave international situation.
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Navy
Congress
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Laval
House Naval Committee
United States
Edison
Fark
Fave
Theavy
Brimery Executive and Dog Slain in Massachusetts
Frederic D Huntington a 50 year old hosiery executive and his German shepherd were found shot dead at the entrance of Hadley cemetery. Medical examiner says death by own action. Huntington treasurer of Real Sick Hosiery, lived Bedford Village Westchester County. Authorities suspect he came to Briley last night to visit his brother, Dr James L Huntington of Boston.
War updates claim Finnish victory, new Soviet losses
Reported Finnish forces crushed a Soviet division in the Sudmussald area with 15,000 to 170,000 men, killing many and capturing tanks and guns. A 160th Russian division was reportedly annihilated as Finland’s defense held near Lake Ladoga amid harsh Arctic conditions. Hungary and Italy discuss anti-Russian pacts while Rome denies formal agreements.
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Dnday
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Europe
Budapest
Hungary
Maly
Germany
Count Istvan Csaky
Con
Karelian
Dual Injuries Reported After Washing At Home
Mrs. Alice Hunt, 48, of 416 Mor ales street, sustained two injuries while washing clothes when her left hand was caught in an electric wringer and a ring was surgically removed from her finger at Robert B. Green hospital. James Bennett, 52, of 212 Granedo street, cut his right hand on a moving planet device and was treated at Robert B. Green hospital. Mrs Leonora Barrera, 33, of 2123 Patusi sulzeet, was said to have suffered a hip issue on Monday after rains.
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Morales Street
Robert B. Green Hospital
James Bennett
Granedo Street
Robert 'B. Green Hospital
AL Posritle
Mre
Leonora ‘Barrera
Patusi Sulzeet
War 25 Years Ago Today Compiled by ANS
General Joffre's troops checked four German assaults near Paris as fighting raged at Lassigby, forty miles from the capital. Austrians admit their army is retreating before Ragslang in Bukowina. Von Hindenburg masses a million troops for an attack on Warsaw. In Poland, German assaults on the Bug river slowed by Russians.
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Joffre
Paris
Lassigby
Ragslang
Duchy of Bukowina
von Hindenberg
Warsaw
Bawka
Torture Death of Woman Probed in Aberdeen
In Aberdeen Washington Jam 8 Luke G May Seattle criminologist directed an inquiry into the brutal slaying of Mrs Richard Law a 24 year old wife and mother of a 3 year old boy. Autopsy showed blows to the skull multiple lacerations and bruises. Fingerprint evidence and room clues are being studied to identify the killer amid hints of torture prior to her death while her husband attended a CIO meeting.
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Wash
Luke G. May
Seattle
Richard Law
Attrac
Tive
Washington
Dn. Ee
Unico
U S Peace Efforts To Be Theme Of Meeting
The Cayn Jew of Jewish Women hosts a Tuesday session at council chambers 1023 Poplar Street. Mara thon Round Table leads the discussion with Mrs. Martin Arnold speaking on governmental changes and influences in the United States. Mrs. G W Hawley and Mrs Wilkinson will discuss peace efforts. Tea will be served after the open forum. Mrs Perry Faison chairs the fund.
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Cayn
Council Chambers
Poplar ‘Street
Marathon Round Table
Martin Arnold
The
Round Table
G. W. Hawley
J. =. Wilkinson
Round Tale Group
Gily Federation of Women's Clibs
Perry Faison
Capone Leaves Hospital Bed for House in Baltimore
Al Capone left his hospital bed on Friday and moved to a house in Baltimore after a long siege of medical treatment for a lingering brain malady contracted in prison. Dr. Joseph G. Moore announced the move and said it was too early to tell if hospitalization would benefit him.
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Serrence al Capone
Joseph GB. Moore
Capone
Three Killed in Auto Truck Crash Near Brownfield
Relatives planned burial for three people killed yesterday in an auto truck crash on a lee covered highway near Brownfield. The dead are Omega Murphy 27 daughter of Arthur Murphy of near Ropesville James Snyder 10 of near Ropesville and Katherine Lewis 16 of Ropesville.
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Brownfield
Omega Murphy
Arthur Murphy
Ropesville
James Snyder
Gid
Katherine Lewis
520 Jews Fleeing Europe Are Seized
Five hundred twenty Jewish refugees seeking to enter Palestine without permits were arrested last night within Palestine territorial waters aboard a schooner and brought to Haifa. They were from Germany and other parts of Central Europe.
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Palestine
Kermiks
Hatta
Germany
Europe
Mrs Henderson's Final Rites Held for Clubwoman
Funeral services will be held today for Mrs. Tom Henderson who died Saturday night. She was the widow of a former chairman of the University of Texas board of regents.
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Cameron
Tom
Henderson
University of Texas Board of Regents
It’s Whe Light Row for Want Ad Resulted Dial F1231
A listing notes a “Dial F1231” tied to a want ad outcome in a local page item. The brief item records activity around an exchange or contact reference without further detail. Readers are directed to the classified section for fuller context on this code.
Nazis Close Path to Italian Planes
In Berlin on January 8 authorized Nazi sources said Germany refused to let Italian planes bound for Finland transit through the raid area. They argued Russia would object violently and Germany chose to block the transit to prevent expanding the war.
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Germany
Finland
Russia
British Censor Chief Osborne Resigns Amid War Cabinet Turmoil
London January 8. Vice Admiral Osborne resigns as chief censor as Britain’s trade unions rally over the Hore-Belisha dismissal. Dual censorship control reportedly hindered Sir Walter Monckton’s press department work and a new government role is expected for Osborne. The Trades Union Congress debates immediate recalls of Parliament amid the upheaval.
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Wang
Chiang Kai-Shek
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Trade’ Unions Congress
Leslie Hore-Belisha
London Daily Herald
Osborne
Walter Monckton
Dismissal Reverberates Through British War Office
The piece notes Hore-Belisha's dismissal triggering Labor and Labor-aligned groups to worry about a march toward democracy in the army. Parliament faces a January 14 date for recall as Attlee and Citrine discuss the crisis and Hore-Belisha is cheered by crowds outside the War Office.
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Mauter
Oliver Stanley
Clement Attlee
Labor Party
Walter Citrine
Bedembians Congress
Neville Chamberlain
Hore-Bellshy
War Office
Britain in Drive for German Trade
Britain outlines a drive to trade with Germany through treaties with German customers as part of economic warfare to sustain neutral trade while limiting German access to foreign exchange. The disclosure followed a Dutch delegation and rising wartime rationing as households receive new coupons for butter bacon ham and sugar.
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London
Gan
Germany
Netherlands
Paul van Zeeland
Weather and War News From Berlin and Across Regions
Public funds are raised for a new German warship Admiral Graf Spee. Reports note repulse of a scouting patrol and enemy bases to the west along the border near Metzig. Weather outlook includes icy conditions in several U.S. cities and Europe with mixed snow and clouds.
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Pune
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Ala
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Western Front
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Mass
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Flac
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Herasiona
Congregation Aids Finn Fund Campaign Prayer
The Finnish Relief Fund drive led by Herbert Hoover received local support from Rev. O B Sanford and his Alamo Heights church. The campaign raised 32.16 dollars from the congregation and 421 dollars nationally, with two other Austin contributions listed.
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Alamo Heights Presbyterian Church
Ward Elmer Righter
Lam Boulevard
Austin
H. Ms. Davis
Yucca
Financier Freed at San Quentin
San Quentin Calif Jan, 54 year old Gibert Beesemyer, financier of the Plundered and Hollywood Finace Company, jailed for defalcations totaling about 3 million dollars, has won parole after nine years of a 40 year sentence. He will exchange prison clothes for a new suit and receive ten dollars upon release, with employment expected in Chicago under a secret arrangement, despite Governor Olson opposing the parole.
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Jan
Gibert HL Beesemyer
Hollywood
Lastrainule
Guaranty Building and Lawn Association
Goat Smith
Culbert L. Olson
Beesemyer
Chicago
Trunk Slayings Unfold In Chicago Police Probe
Police in Chicago guard 49 year old Sarmel Delno after his confession to killing his mother in law Nellie Sharp 63 and hiding her body in a trunk. A neighbor Natale Pintero who hauled the trunk then confessed. The trunk was found in an alley near White Sox Park with the body badly injured and clothing altered. Delno threatened self harm while in custody as officers prepared for trial.
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Delno
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Jap Airmen Bomb French Rail Line
Japanese airmen attacked the Haiphong Kunming railway linking French Indo China and the sea. The raid hit a bridge and smashed tracks on the Chinese side near Mengts area. Chinese reports say several hundred Japanese troops were attacked with machine guns and drove back across a river south of Yingtek on the Canton Hankow line amid wider Chinese advances in northern Guangdong.
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