Uruguay Moves to Intern German Ship Tacoma
Montevideo authorities poised to order the German merchantman Tacoma out of Montevideo Harbor within 24 hours or face internment. The Graf Spee fate looms as observers weigh potential Allied naval show of force against the swastika flag.
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Montevideo
Tacoma
Alfredo Balbomir
Graf Spee
River Plate
Hans Langsdorff
Adolf Hitler
Buenos Aires
Langsdorff
Baldomir
Alberto Guiani
Germany
Argentina
Berlin
Milk Order Perils Bay State Relief Supply
Mayor Tobin and William O Hare urged Massachusetts Milk Control Board to rescind a minimum price order that would cut off low cost surplus milk to 200000 Boston residents and 27 suburbs. Secretary Wallace warned the move could withdraw federal support for the Bay State surplus milk program, risking 65000 quarts daily and access for low income families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bay State
Boston
Maurice J. Tobin
William G. O'Hare
Department of Public Welfare
Massachusetts *Mulk Control Board
Wallace
Washington
WPA
Massachusetts Milk Control Board
Age Key in Influenza Control Says Bacteriologists
New Haven Conn December 30 The Society of American Bacteriologists heard that age alone may be a control factor in influenza while certain nasal secretions could form a first line of defense Three Ohio State University scientists Dettwiler Hudson and Woollpert reported guinea pig experiments showing resistance to the disease starting before birth Thomas Francis Jr of NYU College of Medicine described nose and throat washings that neutralize influenza virus Bacteriologists noted that some people with specific secretions have escaped infection due to inactivating influenza
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Haven
Conn
Society of American Bacteriologists
Ohio State University
Herman A. Dettwiler
N. Paul Hudson
Oram C. Woollpert
Thomas Francis, Jr
New York University
College of Medicine
Deaths of Prominent Persons in America FIENRY 4. BELLOWS
Henry A Bellows, 54, director of public relations for General Mills and member of the first Federal Radio Commission, dies in Minneapolis on December 30.
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America
Bellows
Minneapolis
Henry A
General Mills, Inc
First Federal Radio Commission
Trombonist Sought In Knife Murder Case In California
Los Angeles reports police hunting John Frank Reavis 26, candy salesman and former dance band member, in connection with the slaying of 17 year old Jerry Burns known as the girl with the red rose. Her nude body with a mutilated face was found in an abandoned coal yard after a rooming house owner said Reavis left his room early Thursday. A four inch butcher knife fragment from the victim’s back matched one missing from the rooming house kitchen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Abeayecamean
Jerry Burns
John Frank Reavis
Nita Randall
France approves wartime budget for 1940 spending plan
France sets a 249.111 billion franc war budget for 1940 with allocations across war, armament, navy, air, colonies, agriculture and public works. A three month instalment of 54.937 billion francs was approved and funds will come from national defense bonds. The ordinary budget, about 80 billion francs, will absorb all government revenue from taxes as announced by Finance Minister Paul Reynaud.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Reynaud
Chamber of Deputies
Reynaud
Senate
French Volunteers Penetrate Behind German Lines In Raid
A small French volunteer patrol reportedly slipped behind German lines in the Western Front raid, captured a German officer and a noncommissioned officer, and returned to French positions. The unit used a Finnish style approach with three foot snowdrifts to muffle movement. German patrols were said to be active east of the Moselle River.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Moselle
Vatican Prepares Secret Golden Book On Peace Efforts
The Vatican issues a secret 37 page Golden Book detailing Allied Holy See diplomacy from Dec 1 1938 to Dec 15 1939. Copies go to Papal Nuncios Apostolic Delegates and Vatican officials. It notes Vatican aid to non Aryan refugees and arranging Brazil immigration of 3000 German Catholics.
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Vatican City
Vatican
Holy See
Pius XII
Vatican Secretariat
Brazil
Ford Gives Workers Wartime Allowance
The Ford Motor Company announced a wartime family allowance for employes with two or more dependents. Hourly workers will receive 2 cents more per hour, and those earning under 100 dollars a month will get about eight dollars extra to help meet higher living costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Ford Motor Company
Kress Trial Back From Holidays With Dismissal Pleas Denied
Five weeks of direct and cross examination ended as Judge McNaught granted a New Year recess in the conspiracy extortion trial of Mayor Charles W. Kress and Harold A Baylor. Prosecutors and defense will present summations Wednesday before jurors, who may hear the verdict late in the day. The court denied defense motions to dismiss indictments and to direct a not guilty verdict for insufficient evidence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Binghamton
Charles W. Kress
Harold A Baylor
Supreme Court
Andrew J. McNaught
Daniel J. McAvoy
Richard P. Byrne
Justice McNaught
Aginst Kress
Baylor
Seven cult members charged in five infant and child deaths
In Lawrenceburg Tennessee on December 30 seven members of a rural religious sect were indicted on involuntary manslaughter charges for refusing medical treatment in five deaths. Indicted are Joe Brady Ashley Lunn and his wife Charles Gray and wife Lowell McGee and wife. Each bond set at 500 dollars.
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Lawrenceburg
Tenn
Faith
Paul Bumpus
Joe Brady
Ashley Lunn
Charles Gray
Lowell McGee
Brady
Lunas
Grays
McGees
William Newton
Fisk Stockholders Approve Fisk Sale to U S Rubber
Fisk Rubber Corporation stockholders vote to sell to U S Rubber Company for cash and stock. The deal, approved by over five to one, values Fisk assets at about 11.2 million dollars with liabilities assumed by the purchaser. A potential anti trust challenge by authorities looms over the transaction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilmington
Del
Fisk Rubber Corporation
U. S. Rubber Company
Thurman Arnold
Fisk
New
German Girl Held In Canadian Prison Till War Ended
Fraulein Katherine Haidinger a 30 year old German girl held for weeks in a Toronto jail on suspicion as a spy was moved to Kingston Penitentiary to remain an enemy alien for the war duration. She escaped at Toronto Union Station but was recaptured by a guard. She allegedly entered Canada illegally at Niagara Falls and declined to answer questions from Dominion officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kingston
Ont
Fraulein
Katherine Haidinger
Toronto
Hardinger
Toronto Union Station
Canada
Niagara Falls
Dominion
United States
Law of Tomorrow Teaching Urged for U S Law Schools
Chicago December 30 INS reports that America's law schools should abandon teaching the old law and start teaching the law of tomorrow. The proposal argues for modernizing curricula to prepare students for future legal challenges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
America
Tower Magazines Trial Ends With No Verdict Yet
Federal jury in the Tower Magazines mail fraud case was locked up until 10 A M after six hours of deliberation produced no decision. Defendants include Catherine McNelis president John P McNelis general manager and J E Flynn advertising manager. Government says advertisers lost nearly 1 000 000 from unsold magazines tied to Woolworth Co. official oversight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Tower Magazines, Inc
Catherine McNelis
John P. McNelis
J. E. Flynn
F. W. Woolworth Five
Ten Cent
Highlghts
Tower
Woolworth
Mussolini Pope Visit Unconfirmed by Vatican Announcement
Rome report says Vatican release confirming Mussolini’s visit next Thursday could not be confirmed by Vatican authorities. They expect a visit to occur before January 10. Diplomatic circles monitor Italy Russia notes and possible return of Nicolas Gorelkin as ambassador.
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Rome
Vatican
Benito Mussolini
Pope Pius
Mussolini
Germany
Italy
Nicolas Gorelkin
Gorelkin
Moscow
Leon Helfand
Helfand
Ice Age Lobes Mapped North Cape Cod by Geologists
Geologists Prof. Kirtly F. Mather and associates described two great glacial lobes near Cape Cod in a lecture to the Geological Society of America. One lobe lay in Cape Cod Bay and the other headed for Martha's Vineyard, leaving ridges named the Sandwich Moraine and Buzzard's Bay moraine.
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Cape Cod
Minneapolis
Geological Society of America
Kirtly F. Mather
Harvard
Canada
Massachusetts
Cape Cod Bay
Martha's Vineyard
Mather
R. P. Goldthwaite
L. R. Thiesmeyer
Lawrence College
Sandwich
Buzzard’s Bay
House Construction Largest in Decade
Washington reports 1939 residential construction the largest since 1929 with an FHA record $960 million in home financing insurance and about 450000 non farm dwelling units built. T. D. Webb notes 1939 saw more families begin home purchases or property improvements than any year since the Depression. savings and loan loans for ten months total $817,195,000, surpassing all of 1938.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Stewart McDonald
Federal
T. D. Webb
Federal Home Loan Bank Board
Webb
Savings and Loan Associations
Germany and Netherlands discuss new wartime clearing pact
Amsterdam reports Germany and the Netherlands are considering a new financial clearing agreement. Since the war began the Dutch government demanded arrears be paid, and Germany has reciprocated with a simpler clearing method. Watom gone 44 years. Conneaut watch Olen from Miss Hazel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amsterdam
Germany
Holland
Netherlands
WATOM
Finnish Patrols and Russian Pushes on Karelia Front Reported
Helsinki dispatch says Finns killed about 3 000 Russians over two days as the Karelia line holds on the Isthmus. Russian planes reportedly bombed Vasa and surrounding areas while harsh cold and snow hinder operations in the far north. Reports conflict on regiments possibly isolated and on Russian transport continuing in Saranik Norway. General Waldenius brings reinforcements as Finnish ski patrols probe toward the Murmansk Railroad region.
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Copenhagen
Denmark
Helsinki
Politiken
Russia
Karelian
Stockholm
Petsamo
Hoeyjenjaervi
United Press
Saranik
Norway
mid-Finland
Salla
Mklandalaksy
White Sea
Murmansk
Kurt Wal Jenius
Far Northern
Leningrad
Finland
Social Democraten
Vasa
Gulf of Bothnia
Suspect Posts Bail In $30 Million Lottery Case
George Henry Garlick, 60, posts 15000 bond in Orlando pending a Boston hearing on March 18. Federal officials accuse him of promoting the Grand National Horserace Charity Fund of Liverpool. The 1938 Boston grand jury indictment lists Ernest S. Dallman, Lester R. Sprague, and Alan Burns as associates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orlando
Fla
George Henry Garlick
Boston
Tennyson Jefferson
Garlick
Liverpool
England
Jefferson
Ernest S. Dallman
Ottawa
Canada
Lester R. Sprague
J. A. Smith
Fitchburg
Alan Burns
Montreal
14 511 Deer Killed In State Sets Mark
Hunters killed 14 511 deer in New York during the 1939 fall season, the largest take on record. The State Conservation Department estimates the total 20 percent above last year, crediting a new open season in six southern counties. Five counties exceed 1,000 deer shot including Allegany Hamilton St. Lawrence Franklin and Essex.
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Albany
New York
State Conservation Department
Adirondack Mountain
Allegany
Hamilton
St. Lawrence
Franklin
Essex
Staten Island Clam Beds to Be Reopened
New York reports the State Conservation Department lifts a closure on Staten Island clam beds off the lower bay. The beds, closed for 15 years, will reopen effective January following a recent advisory and cleanup efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Staten Island
New York
Lower Tay
State Conservation Department
Janel
Bridges No Communist Affiliation Found by Landis
Landis, in a lengthy 75 000 word report, finds no proof that Bridges joined or affiliated with the Communist party. He questions credibility of witnesses and says Bridges’ aims are radical but his methods align with democratic and constitutional government. Bridges’ own statements reveal strong sympathies with some Communist objectives and support from Communist peers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Capper
Communist Party
Landis
Bridges
West Coast
C.0
Boy 15 Confesses Killing Father Over Neglect
Floyd-Devilbiss, 15, told authorities his father failed to provide for his 11 siblings and that he believed his father “had it coming.” He claimed the fatal shot from a .22 was accidental as he walked 10 miles through snow to the neighbor’s farm where his father worked.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brainerd
Minn
Floyd-Devilbiss
Mergil
U S Apples Shipped Into Apple Center
Northwest Arkansas authorities report the Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation shipped three carloads of Washington apples for distribution to relief clients. Local growers note surplus apples awaiting higher market prices amid a fragile agricultural market in Bentonville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bentonville
Ark
Arkansas
Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation
Washington
Aeee Sy
New York Delays Primary Election Candidacy Filings
Local officials report delays in candidacy filings for New York elections. Voters are urged to monitor deadlines as records show late submissions and potential adjustments to ballot access for multiple parties and districts.
Hitler Expounds Aims For New Europe and World Order
The document quotes Hitler asserting a greater injustice would rise if not checked, claiming 80 million could share world wealth. He accuses Jewish international capitalism and Western social reactionaries of allying against Germany, and says Poland’s Versailles fate no longer exists while Central Europe is pacified by 1939 events.
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Germany
Hitler
Great Britain
France
Poland
Central Europe
Bohemia-Moravia
Reich
Hermann Wilhelm Goering
Army
Walther von Brauchitsch
Navy
Erich Raeder
Heinrich Himmler
Konstantin Hier
Gandhi Declares Leadership in Civil Disobedience Push
Gandhi asserts his pivotal role in India's independence drive stating that the Congress Nationalist party will not move toward civil resistance without his word. He cites the upcoming January 26 independence day as a test of followers' temper and discipline before a decision on disobedience against British rule.
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Bombay
Mohandas K. Gandhi
India
Congress
Gandhi
Congress Party
CCC Forecasts 100000 Surplus In Applications
The Civilian Conservation Corps expects 100000 or more applicants for 61000 junior replacement jobs to be filled in the 20 days starting January 2. Acting director James J. McEntee said about 167000 applications were received for 61000 junior vacancies, with 3351 veterans to replace terms expiring soon, keeping CCC strength at 300000 in 1500 camps. State quotas include Connecticut 512 and New York 6741.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Civilian Conservation Corps
CCC
U. S
James J. McEntee
Connecticut
New York
Cheep Power And Houses
Secretary Hopkins argues mass production can lower prices for power and homes, boosting prosperity. He cites Tennessee Valley Authority rate cuts raising electricity use and outlines potential national gains if homes could be built and sold at 2500 dollars. Regional payroll data show wage changes across New York counties in 1937.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Harry, L. Hopkins
Hopkins
WFA
Roosevelt
America
Tennessee Valley Authority
Tennessee Valley
New York
Monroe
Nation
Onondaga
Broome
Westchester
Oneida
Herkimer
Richmond
Furnace Fire in Grace Causes Light Damage and Confusion
Fire in the Miles home in Grace Idaho caused an explosion from a clogged flue and light damage to floor joists. Residents and volunteers battled frozen hoses, with a bell scare and overturned carts, as Fire Chief John Van Vleet estimated losses at $1000 mainly to LDS Church welfare storage in the basement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grace
Idaho
Lillie Miles
John van Vleet
Latter Day Saints Church Welfare
Miles Home
Cab and Bus Owners Told to Get Plates
Albany taxicab and bus owners were warned by the Motor Vehicle Bureau to display 1940 license plates after midnight Sunday. The law requires use of the new plates after that time and prohibits use earlier.
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Albany
Motor Vehicle Bureau
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Associated Press
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Conti
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Kress
U. S. Rubber Co
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Reds
Mannerheim
Toole Wilpunt Catheaa Ds
Viipuri
Apple
New York, ‘de
Hgrenk
Sentil
Europe
Novi Coast Guard
Cheep Power and Houses
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