Turkey Signs Finance Pact With Britain
London reports a new British Turkish financial agreement as a strategic move against Germany in the Balkans. Britain aims to boost trade with Turkey, with payments in sterling and a plan for special accounts to speed commerce, while Turkey seeks agricultural exports in exchange for woolen goods locomotives and munitions.
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Greece Valor Praised by Home Secretary in Southampton
London December 5 Home Secretary Herbert Morrison paid tribute to Greek valor for what he called the Allies first major land victory Greece is praised for courage brains and unwavering determination that can defeat a bully Morrison noted the Italian overthrow is not finished but Greeks supported by Allied arms have shown a spirit that will bring greater triumphs in the war efforts at Southampton today
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London
Southampton
Herbert Morrison
Home Secretary
Greece
David
Italy
Morrison
Drastic Tax Shifts Urged by Monopoly Group Official
Washington reports a Monopoly Committee official released a 355 page study arguing that local state and federal tax systems need substantial revision as debt and expenditures rise. Dr Dewey Anderson said reforms center on an income tax with levies on business privileges and a thorough revision of income estates profits and gifts taxes to stabilize the economy in war or peace.
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Washington
Monopoly Committee
Dewey Anderson
Anderson
Corn Displayed By City Feller At Chicago Show
Frank Whipple a Chicago barber known as a city feller has an exhibit at the International Livestock Exposition. His display features 100 ears of unusual corn varieties collected as a hobby over several years.
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Chicago
Frank Whipple
Odd News From Cities Across the Nation
In Minneapolis a dinner guest drops a diamond from a hostess's ring into a potato dumpling but stays calm. in Rochester a man asks forgiveness for chicken theft from years ago after revival conversion and promises restitution. in El Paso a private swallows a wrist watch to keep it from Juarez authorities, requiring surgery. in Fresno a man is fined one cent for an out tail light after a patrolman notes it was out.
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Ddasepa Rimaman
George N. Stillman
Rochester
Ind
William Thompson
Thompson
el Paso
Tex
Fort Bliss
Mexico
Juarez
Fresno
Calif
John Giles Turner, Jr
Earle J. Church
Turner
Roosevelt Visits West Indies Aboard Tuscaloosa
President Roosevelt arrived in Kingston Jamaica aboard the USS Tuscaloosa on a Caribbean cruise to inspect sites for potential U.S. air and naval bases in exchange for destroyers loaned to Britain. The visit follows talks at Guantanamo Bay on expanding Caribbean defenses with officers including Capt. Weyler and Col. Rupertus as Marines conduct landing exercises near Puerto Rico.
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U.S
U. S
Miami
Fla
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Guantanamo Naval Base
United States
Caribbean Sea
Tuscaloosa
Guantanamo Bay
George L. Weyler
Hooper
William Rupertus
Culebra Island
Puerto Rico
Trippe
Cuban
Guantanamo
WCTU Score Sheet On Repeal Discloses Rise in Drunkenness
Evenston Illinois December 5 The National Woman's Christian Temperance Union releases a score sheet marking seven years since repeal. It cites a rise in liquor consumption and arrests for drunkenness nearly doubling, alcoholism deaths up 42 percent, traffic deaths up 80 percent over 1919 to 1925, and liquor trade revenues totaling 21.5 billion dollars, noting losses in other industries serving basic goods.
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WCTU
Evenston, Ill
National Woman's Christian ‘Temperance Union
$6 000 Spree Revealed at Hopson Trial
New York December 5 Howard C Hopson faced mail fraud charges as a witness said he traveled to Florida on a $6,000 spree and charged it to the utilities system The witness Lilian Nicki Hopson’s former bookkeeper testified of expensive Palm Beach and Miami trips in spring 1935 Hopson showed interest but stayed silent A witness Alexander Speer alleged cost hikes at Florida Power Corp and Virginia Public Service Co after Hopson took control alleging prior padding of bills to profit by over 7 000 000 from 1928 to 1938
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St. Germain
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Howard C. Hopson
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Associated Gas and Electric System
Lilian ML
Micki Hopson
Palm Beach
Miami
Hopson
Alexander ‘Speer
Florida and
Virginia
Florida Power Corporation
Speer
Virginia Public Service Company
Nicki
Co-defendants Not Involved in Bill Padding Allegation
The statement clarifies that Hopson’s co-defendants Garrett A. Brownback and Charles M. Travis, both attorneys, were not involved in the alleged bill padding. No further charged actions or connections to the scheme are cited.
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Hopson
Garrett A. Brownback
Charles M. Travis
Cooperation Urged To End Sabotage By Jackson
Attorney General Robert H. Jackson called for concerted action between municipal officers and the FBI to combat espionage and sabotage. He stressed indispensable cooperation among city, state, and federal officials in defense law enforcement in a message to the National Institute of Municipal Law Officers. President Roosevelt greeted the institute, noting emphasis on national defense at this year's convention.
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Robert H. Jackson
Federal Bureau of Investigation
National Institute of Municipal Law
Roosevelt
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