Roosevelt Warns Liberalism Remains Core Policy
In Chapel Hill North Carolina President Roosevelt addressed UNC students and faculty warning against dictatorship while pledging a continuing liberal program despite New Deal reverses. He praised democracy as a model for world leadership and emphasized faith in liberal political philosophy.
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N. C
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South
University of North Carolina
America
United States
Demo Leaders Addressed By Roosevelt In South Carolina
President Roosevelt spoke on the State House steps in Columbia recalling World War ties and the late Senator Tillman. He addressed a crowded, rain-soaked gathering after a two hour visit en route from Warm Springs to Washington. Senator Smith, absent from a Democratic breakfast, had won a sixth term after defeating Governor Johnson. Johnson claimed the invitation issue.
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South Carolina
Roosevelt
Tillman
State House
Washington
Warm Springs
Smith
Dogs Bite Cows In Lorain County Farm Woes
A stray dog depredation in Lorain County causes cows to be bitten while tethered in pastures. Farmers face anxious moments and the sheriff's office extra workload as authorities investigate and seek to curb the ongoing problem.
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Elyria
Lorain County
Sheriffs Office
Farmers in Debt Trick Slips as AAA Loaned Corn Sits
In a light feature from Washington a Iowa farmer names Joe Doakes keeps 1000 bushels of surplus corn as an AAA loan security. The loan at 60 cents a bushel is worth more than present market price, so he plans to surrender the loan and let the government own the corn, then buy it back at market to feed his hogs.
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Washington
Joe Goakes
Iowa
AAA
Weil
Joe
Doakes
Kova Loan Agency
Joan Agency
Joe Doakes
Department of Agriculture
Red Bat letter barred so far in murder case
Defense efforts to place home violation and sanity in issue dominate testimony in Forrest W. Smith first degree murder trial in District Court. Witness Arley Mullins recalled Smith claiming to work for federal narcotics cleanup in Juneau about ten years ago. Carter testified on Smiths sanity assessment, remarking on past impressions. Continue on Page Eight.
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Arley Mullins
Charles W. Carter
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Mullins
Federal Bureau of Narcotics
Juneau
Hope
Carter
Paul Danzig
Flier Cheats Death by Few Seconds Over Brookline Flight
Daniel Cleveland a 24 year old from Somerville was tossed from a pilotless plane at 1800 feet while leaning on a door. The door gave way and he dangled by a leg strap until the strap halted his fall and he reentered the craft just before crashing.
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Mass
Daniel Cleveland
Somerville
Cleveland
New Crop Loans Trigger Farm Belt Debate
A farmer named Joe Doakes contemplates storing a new corn crop and using government loans of 57 to 60 cents per bushel to finance the entire harvest. He plans to avoid feeding to hogs by selling to the government and buying cheaper corn elsewhere, a move critics say exploits AAA crop control while satisfying the farm act’s aims. Continued on Page Five.
France Defies Italy as Riots Sweep Corsica and Tunisia
Anti-Italy mobs march in Corsica and French Tunisia as Premier Daladier vows no lands will be ceded. Police reinforce Tunis and Ajaccio amid demonstrations while Italian expansion aims at Djibouti and Savoy. Daladier plans visits to Corsica and Tunisia next year.
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Associated Press
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France
Corsica
Tunisia
Italy
Ajacio
Rome
Djibouti
French Somaliland
Savoy
Nice
Mooney Losses Bid for Habeas Corpus in High Court
The Supreme Court denied counsel for Thomas Mooney the right to file a petition for writ of habeas corpus to compel California officials to show lawful imprisonment. The next step in Mooney’s long fight for freedom is likely a pardon application to Governor-Elect Culbert Olson after his January 3 take office.
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Supreme Court of the Uniited States
Thomas Mooney
California
Mooney
San Francisco
Culbert Olson
Sudetenlanders Back Hitler in Sunday Election
In Reichenberg Germany Sudetenlanders favored Hitler as Liberator from Czechoslovakia by a landslide. Of 66 districts Munich partition returns show 2 152 256 yes votes and 26 497 no votes endorsing the Fuhrer and the Nazi party.
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Germany
Sudetenlanders
Hitler
Czechoslovakia
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Munich
Fuhrer
National Socialist Germany Labor Party
Loyalists Beat Off Air Attack on Barcelona
Barcelona December 5. This citys new air defense squadron broke up another Insurgent raid in a brief dog fight. Loyalists are now better equipped to repel air raids and insurgents are rapidly finding it out. Many insurgent planes have been shot down recently.
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Barcelona
General Franco Celebrates 46th Natal Day in Spain
Burgos dispatch says General Franco, Spanish Insurgent leader, marked his 46th birthday as newspapers in Insurgent Spain ran editorials praising his regime. The report notes coverage of reconstruction progress in territories rebuilt after the Civil War under Franco's control.
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Burgos
Spain
Francisco Franco
James Roosevelt Enters Movie Industry as VP at Goldwyn
Hollywood reports James Roosevelt, eldest son of President Roosevelt, has joined Samuel Goldwyn, Inc. as vice president. The duties and salary remain undisclosed. Roosevelt recently left a $10,000-a-year post as personal secretary to his father.
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Cal
James Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Samuel Goldwyn, Inc
Four Hundred At Armour Plant Walk From Jobs
In Indianapolis four hundred workers at the Armour and Company packing plant walked out this morning causing the plant to halt operations. The strikers refuse to work more than a forty hour week and the walkout leaves the plant reportedly completely tied up.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Te Armour and Company Packing Plant
Strike Ends in Chicago Stock Yards Action
Chicago December 5 The two weeks long strike by CIO Stock Handlers paralyzed trading at the stockyards. Local members voted to accept a peace proposal from the Union Stock Yards and the Transit Company after CIO leaders said the strike was not justified and public indignation rose.
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Chicago
Ill
CTO
CIO
Third Term Talk Given Big Boost From Sen Guffey
Senator Joseph P. Guffey of Pennsylvania declared that the Pennsylvania delegates to the 1940 Democratic Convention will back Roosevelt for nomination. He said we are to a man for Roosevelt and the Pennsylvania Roosevelts want nothing to do with any middle-of-the-road candidates.
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Washington
Joseph P. Guffey
Pennsylvania
Roosevelt
Senator Guffey
New Way Flier Wins Bendix Trophy Flight
Jacquelin Godh, the flier, asserts important flights like the Bendix Trophy race, which she just won, are good streamliners and fun. She typically loses five to ten pounds on each such flight.
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Washington
Jacquelin Godhran
German Jews Face New Threat Amid Blamed Death Reports
In Berlin the German Jewish community fears blame for the deaths of guards shot recently. The report notes deer as the most common big game in the United States, with an estimated 1,450,000 in national forests.
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Berlin
Tren Guardisie
U. S
Supreme Court decision expands NLRB authority over interstate commerce firm
The Supreme Court ruled that the National Labor Relations Board has supervision over a company operating in one state but selling products to others in interstate commerce. The Consolidated Edison case extends Wagner Act powers, with Chief Justice Hughes delivering the opinion. The court also found the Board exceeded its authority by directing abrogation of certain collective bargaining contracts between the company and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.
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Supreme Court of the United States Today
National Labor Relations Board
Tou State
Consolidated Edison Company of
New York
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International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
AFL
United Electrical Radio Workers of America
CIO
Federation
Snake Pays Victim Hospital Bill in Cal Rattle Saga
In Rolling Hills, Franklin French, 15, kept seven rattlesnakes as pets and was bitten. After hospital care, his mother decided he should pay his own bill. He raised funds by selling the very snake that bit him.
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Rolling Hills
Cal
Franklin French
Franklin
Ancient race sought in Guam by Laura Thompson
Laura Thompson, a young research associate at the University of Hawaii, sails for Guam to spend six months unraveling the mystery of the Chamorro race Magellan found on the island. She will study two puzzling rows of ancient stone slabs among the archaeological remains.
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Honolulu
T. H
Laura Thompson
University of Hawaii
Guam
Magellan
Globe Starts Fire in Richmond Gift Shop Window
Firefighters blamed the sun for starting a blaze at a Richmond gift shop when a water globe focused sun rays on a window drape. The incident caused damage but no injuries were reported.
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Richmond
Ind
Roosevelt Starts Project Revival for Alaska Air Base
Washington reports renewed talk of a major Alaska air base to defend the Pacific. Congress authorized a base plan but funding was cut. proponents led by Anthony Dimond urge an Alaska site inspection before any appropriation. Details cite Sitka and Kodiak naval plans, with Fairbanks and Juneau as possible air base locations.
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Alaska
Meninos
House Appropriations Committee
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Congress
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Alaska Air Base
Budget Bureau
Anthony J. Dimond
Pacific
Hawaii
Panama Canal
Dimond
Great Circle
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Navy Departments
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Louis Johnson
Navy
United States Navy
Sitka
Kodiak Island
War Department
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Fairbanks
Juneau
Tobin August L. Tobin Dies in Ketchikan Alaska
August L. Tobin, 73, longtime Ketchikan resident, died after several days illness in a local hospital. Born in Bo ho Sweden, he came to Alaska 40 years ago from Boston and lived above the Arctic Circle longer than any other man. Survivors are his widow, son Emery F. Tobin, daughter Florence Tobin, and two sisters and a brother in Sweden.
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Sweden
Emery F. Tobin
Florence Tobin
Ketel’kan
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