Roosevelt Urges Law to Safeguard Oil Supply
President Roosevelt calls for federal legislation to protect the nations petroleum supply amid defense needs and global risk. He backs continued House oil inquiry led by Rep Cole and notes no justification for further domestic fuel oil price hikes.
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Roosevelt
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Asia
Dutch East Indies
Cole
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House
National Defense Commission
Harriet Elliott
Decfnse
White House
Congress
77Th Congress
Miss Mary Boss Granted Translator Rating by Civil Service
Miss Mary L Boss of 215 Stratford Street, a private language teacher, received notice of a translator rating by the Federal Civil Service Commission. She took a written exam on Aug 14 covering German French Italian and Spanish with top grades and an overall 93.25 average. Her name is placed on the eligibility list for government service.
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Mary L. Boss
Stratford Street
Federal Civil Service Commission
Civil Service Commission
Miss Boss
Father and two daughters die in Christmas tree fire
Baltimore reports a father John A. Healy, 32, and his two daughters Mary, 4, Kathleen, 2, burned to death in a Christmas tree fire. He entered the room to rescue them after his wife Kathryn woke to smoke. Firemen blamed faulty wiring on the tree.
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John A. Healy
Mary
Kathleen
Kathryn
Japan Names Minister to Australia
Tokyo reports Tatsuo Kawai, former Foreign Office spokesman with U S experience, named as Japan's first minister to Australia. He may depart late next month to visit the Philippines Indo China Thailand and the Netherlands East Indies. A Navy spokesman denied Japan aids German raiders and US Russia oil ties.
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Foreign Office
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Indo-China
Thailand
Siam
Netherlands East Indies
Rawali
Far East
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Yomiuri
Pacific
Russia
Vladivostok
Seattle
Britain
Netherlands Indies
Man Takes Life in Crematorium Chamber of Urns
Peter Paul Water, 61, shot himself in a room at Fresh Pond Crematory containing 12,000 urns with ashes of the cremated, a self-inflicted death recorded as a suicide by action.
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New York
Peter Paul Water
Water
Fresh Pond
Spring Plowing Began Bit Early In Connecticut
An unusually mild winter let First Selectman Leo Pickett start a New Year plow test in Connecticut. He plans to harrow the field in spring, showing the work can begin early and with minimal effort.
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Washington, Comn
First
Peggy Jean McCroaden Ranks Second in Waialae Japanese Contest
Peggy Jean McCroaden a 15 year old of Irish Scottish Portuguese parentage placed second in a Japanese song and dance contest at Waialae among 40 competitors all Japanese Peggy began learning melodies months ago aided by Japanese friends but cannot speak the language
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Honolulu
Peggy Jean McCroaden
Waialae
Peggy
Three Missourians celebrate 50th birthday
In Kansas City on New Years Day three Missourians born January 1, 1861, marked their 50th birthdays with turkey dinner. Dr Calvin Atkins of Independence Jerry Johnson a retired Tarsney farmer and George P Dougherty of Kansas City joked they were too smart to make resolutions.
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Independence
Jerry Johnson
Tarsney Farmer
George P. Dougherty
Jap Apology Demanded in Marine Case
In Peiping, Col. Allen H. Turnage delivered three protest demands to a Japanese official over the arrest and alleged mistreatment of five U S Marines at a cabaret. The Marines charge they were insulted and threatened by armed Japanese civilians and gendarmes, with four injured and hospitalized.
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George Petroff
Washington
D. C
Francis A. Barber
Dorchester
Mass
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Waxahachie
Tex
Hubert Sims
Big Creek
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Merlin W. Ankrom
Portland
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Corp
Washington, D. C
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Peiping
China
Engaged Couple Killed in Bloomingdale Car Crash
David Hall 27 and Anna Carlson 23, engaged on Christmas Day, died New Year’s morning when their car crashed into an Erie Railroad locomotive at a crossing as they fled from a police chase sparked by excessive speed through Bloomingdale. Radio Patrolman Peter Mosier reports the chase began after the couple fled at high speed.
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David Hall
Anna Carlson
Erie Railroad
Peter Mosier
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