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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1939
Page
4
Reds Smash Finn Lines In Far North
Russians launched a heavy attack in the far north opposite Bofoss Norway with air power artillery and infantry. They broke through Finnish lines near Hyanjarvi and advanced toward Salmijaervi amid large tank waves and ongoing border fighting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reds
Svanvik
Bofoss
Eee
Hyanjarvi
Salmijaervi
Petsamo
Wam
Pasvik
Paskamo
Finland
Rovaniemi
Salla
Borisgleb
Piskaejaervi
Soviet Press Blames U S for League Ouster
Moscow reports inclement weather spares Finland attack while Soviet land forces push 80 miles into Central Finland. Izvestia says expulsion of the USSR from the League gives it a free hand and Pravda accuses the United States of influencing Latin American states to back the ouster. Donald Edgar attended the assembly as observer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Finland
Russia
Izvestia
League of Nations
Communist Party
Pravda
United States
Edgar
Mexico
League Assembly
Aaloo
Wise
Ks Lomsul
Donald Edgar
Sek Sion
Sevestia
Empire Air Training Program Launched Center of Canada
Ottawa reports Canada will host a three year joint air training program with the United Kingdom Australia and New Zealand. Canada will provide facilities and most of the funding and personnel for 67 bases with a 40 000 strong staff. Hundreds of aircraft will be supplied and 60 new airports built to train thousands of pilots observers and gunners annually. Recruits will come from New England New Zealand and Australia, with most drawn from Canada.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
Dominion
W. L. Mackenzie Ae
United Kingdom
Canada
Australia
New Zealand
Mackenzie King
New England
Bridegroom Killed During Stopover. Body Left in Coal Yard
George Ramsey 27 was beaten to death while taking his bride of four months to visit relatives. Ramsey’s body was found in an Independence, Missouri coal yard after a late night disappearance between train connections. His wife, 23, later told authorities in Evansville, Indiana that he had left Union Station for a walk and did not return.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
George Ramsey
Independence
Evansville
Ind
Union Station
Olney
Dalhart
Tex
Ramsey
End of Spec Pocket Battleships Leads to Drop in Accuracy
Continued Rawlpinch avenged by end of spec pocket battleships caused much vibration that impaired fire accuracy. The ships of this type were not as maneuverable as had been claimed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rawlpinch
British trawler Campagnus sunk in North Sea air raid
Aberdeen reports that the British trawler Campagnus was sunk and one crewman killed when German planes attacked a fishing fleet in the North Sea last night. The trawler Caraigilea was struck by a bomb that did not explode, while survivors from Campagnus were rescued by another trawler as planes swept low and machine-gunned the vessels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aberdeen
Scotland
North Sea
Three Men On Trial In Million Dollar Extortion Ring
In New York the courtroom prepares for the trial of Charles Farcier 28 Salvatore Andinoici 27 and Edward Sheehan 59 on extortion charges tied to a large blackmail ring police say collected up to 10 600 per case over two years from socially prominent victims. The ring allegedly centered on a figure nicknamed The Chicken who gained access to victims by impersonating police or reporters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Vic- Wehedade
the Chicken
Charles Farcier
Salvatore Andinoici
Edward Sheehan
Two Hitch Hikers And 3 Others Hurt In Ontario Crash
Five people were injured seven miles north of Brantford Ontario in a highway crash Saturday night. Allan Ross of Rochester New York and Edwin Humphrey of Seneca Falls New York students at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor are hospitalized in Galt with brain injury and serious cuts. William Lawrence and Mr and Mrs George Lockett of Galt were also treated after the collision between Lawrence’s car and a vehicle driven by Lockett’s wife as she attempted a left turn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brantford
Ont
Here
Allan Ross
Rochester
N. Y
Edwin Humphrey
Seneca Falls
University of Michigan
Ann Harbor
Galt
Ross
Humphrey
William Lawrence
George Lockett
Lawrence
Lokett
Finns Repel Soviet Attacks as War Rages in Finland
Reports from the Taipale front describe Finnish dugouts holding against repeated Soviet artillery barrages and tank supported assaults. In other sectors, Finns rout Russian forces near Lake Ladoga and around Suomusalmi while Beria and Meklis travel from Moscow to Leningrad to assess the stalled advance. President Kallio appeals for aid as Finland braces for a hard Christmas under siege conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mannerheim
Taipale
Red Army
Lake Ladoga
Lake Suvanto
Maat Amaotes
Fes
Finland
Beria
GPU
Moscow
Leningrad
Meklis
Suvanko
Ladoga
Europe
Arctic
Lake
Ist
Suomusalmi
Helsinki
Petsamo
Lapland
Eyvesti Kallio
Great Lakes fishers seek season extension to December 31
Dunkirk December 18 Commercial fishermen urged the State Conservation Department to allow pike and herring catches in Great Lakes waters through December 31. The season ends December 20. Thomas Desmond, spokesman, cited mild winter and strong hauls as reasons to extend the period to lift earnings for 1939. He noted boats bringing in thousand pound catches and averages of about 200 pounds per boat in early December.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dunkirk
State Conservation Department
Great Lakes
Thomas Desmond
Desmond
Spee Sinking Seen as Signal of German Defeat
London officials interpret the scuttling of the Admiral Graf Spee as evidence that the German government expects defeat. An official spokesman said if the Graf Spee had been interned she would have returned to Germany if it won, but since she was scuttled on government instructions it implies the Nazis do not anticipate victory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Great Britain
Graf. Spee
Graf Spee
Germany
Ark Royal Hit By Nazi Bomb Says Crew
A reliable informant who visited the Ark Royal in port says Britain’s newest aircraft carrier was struck by a large bomb in the North Sea. He spoke of wrecked gun, damaged plates, and mid air plane crashes killing seven crew. The ship arrived for refueling and sailed the same day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rio de Janeiro
Ark Royal
Britain
North Sea
Chamberlain
Derwent Hall Caine
New York
Germans Mobilize 100000 Peasants for Polish Corridor Repatriation
The van guard of 100,000 German peasants begins moving from the Russian to the German parts of former Poland this week. Mass migration must finish by March 1, 1940, under Hitler and Himmler agreements. Most travel by farm wagon. Germany will compensate for livestock and land left behind. In spring they will farm former Polish Corridor land alongside Baltic Germans repatriated from Latvia and Estonia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Poland
Adolf Hitler
Russia
Heinrich Himmler
Gestapo
Luck
Germany
Latvia
Estonia
Engineers Pick Harrell for ASCE Mohawk Hudson Post
City Manager Charles A. Harrell will serve as president of the Mohawk Hudson section of the American Society of Civil Engineers next year. He succeeds Edward W. Wendell, assistant chief engineer of the Public Works Department.
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Harrell
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