Curran Declares NMU Free of Communists at Conference
Joseph Curran president of the National Maritime Union told Great Lakes delegates last night that no NMU member is in the Communist Party and dismissed Rep Dies’ claim of 85 percent leadership as false. He urged a stand on the Neutrality Act and a WPA program for seamen and forecast full union organization in the Great Lakes within two years.
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Buffalo
Joseph Curran
National Maritime Union
Communist Party
Martin Dies
Curran
RG OG
Beegee Union
Great Lakes
H. A. Wiley
Federal Maritime Commission
New York City
Commission
Washington
Philip G. Phillips
National Labor Relations Board
Cincinnati
House
Phillips
Smith
Labor Board
Congress
Arctic Town Is Occupied By Reds In Finland Front
Moscow reports Russian air action against Finland after weather delays. It says Pitkajaervi, 53 miles south of Petroskoi, was captured and that heavy fighting raged on the Karelian Isthmus with intensive artillery. Russian warships shelled Bierkoe island as the Black Sea fleet held large maneuvers.
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Moscow
Finland
Red Army
Pitkajaervi
Arctic
Petsamo
Karelien
Bierkoe Island
Kronstadt
Baltic
Black Sea
Mexico Pays Bonus To Oil Men In Government Plan
Mexico's oil industry workers receive a $2.6 million bonus this year and the government vows to protect it from confidence men. Over 500 soldiers reportedly converged on Veracruz and Tampico fields to protest the 19,000 workers affected. The bonus comes from a savings account funded by workers and the government controlled industry, each contributing 10 percent But the text notes the event as a government and labor measure.
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Mexico City
Mexico
Veracruz
Tampico Selds
Hoover Cables $100000 for Finns Relief Fund
Herbert Hoover, director of the Finnish Relief Fund Inc, cabled $100,000 to Prime Minister Risto Ryti for civilian evacuees in central and eastern Finland. The money supports 500000 noncombatants with towels bed clothing infant wear sugar and coffee. The fund aimed to complete nationwide organization by week’s end.
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New York
Herbert Hoover
Finnish Relief Fund, Inc
Risto Ryti
Finland
Ryti
Helsinki
Centrala Finlands Hjaelpen
Hoover
Coal Stolen From Rural School in December Burglary
Burglars ransacked a rural school at Pana Illinois stealing the entire coal supply along with coal shovels and several books likely to read by the fire. The incident occurred in December and the thieves left few clues.
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Pana
Mexico's Envoy to Washington Likely Next Foreign Minister
Reports from Mexico City say Ambassador to Washington Dr. Francisco Castillo Najera would succeed Dr. Eduardo Hay as foreign minister in a Cabinet shakeup. President Cardenas expected a year end change with Najera returning for holidays and a personal conference with the president.
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Mexico City
Mexico
Washington
Francisco Castillo Najera
Eduardo Hay
Lazaro Cardenas
Foreign Ministry
Castillo Najera
Cardenas
Chamberlain Attends Paris War Council
The Allied Supreme War Council, with Prime Minister Chamberlain and Premier Daladier present, pledged moral and material aid to Finland without hampering the Allied fight against Germany. The meeting discussed aiding Finland against Russia and included top diplomats. A French patrol conducted a daylight raid deep in German lines, capturing four officers.
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Paris
Allied Supreme War Council
Finland
Germany
Russia
Daladier
War Council
League of Nations
League
Council
Auguste de Champetier de Ribes
Alexis Leger
Foreign Office
Wrestler Bob Gregory to sue for divorce from Princess Baba
English wrestler Bob Gregory plans to file for divorce from his wife Princess Baba daughter of the White Rajah of Sarawak. He will charge desertion and expects to file before Christmas. Princess Baba visited Syracuse in 1938 with Gregory to watch him wrestle Sailor Jack Curry. During the stay she learned her father relented and restored her $3 000 yearly allowance.
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Hollywood
INS
Bob Gregory
Will
Baba
Rajeh
Sarawak
Gregory
Syracuse
Jack Currey
Charles W. Brooke
Q. H. Merrell
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Lecealily Stree 1823
Ere
Clie
Edmund M. Toland
Mink Muskrats
Blue Fox Muskrats Pony Skunk
Hoover Cables
Ohio
NLRB
U.S
Wells. & & Coverty, ‘Inc
Renee Eee
Yuluos
Hill City
Kans
Harold Neal
Neal
Chamberlain
France
Wells & Coverly
Bostonian “Slax
Garks
Shaw
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