New Naval Battle Looms on Atlantic Murder Details
Ruth Judd, recaptured after escapes, breaks eight years of silence to detail the trunk murder of two Juneau women Agnes Ann LeRoi and Hedvig Samuelson in 1931. She says self defense and an accomplice aided disposal, describes stabbing and shooting, and notes bodies were dismembered to fit trunks mailed to Los Angeles. The two women had moved from Juneau, Alaska, nine years earlier.
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Winnie Ruth Judd
Arizona Hospital For the
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Yuma
Newman
Agnes Ann LeRoi
Juneau
Alaska
Hedvig Samuel
Rare deck-cut coincidence ties six married couples
In Roanoke on December 16 statistics show such a pairing event would occur only once in 54 000 card deck cuts. The Sleepy Hollow Bridge Club, made of six married couples, has met 11 years to cut for partners each night. Recently the cuts again paired husband and wife as partners in all six tables, matching the initial pairing from over a decade ago.
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Roanoke
Sleepy Hollow
Russia Eyes Sea Power After Finland Domination
An authorized dispatch from Moscow argues Soviet Russia plans to become a great sea power by dominating Finland. It calls the League of Nations expulsion an absurd decision and predicts expansion toward the Balkans, with Finland acting as Act I of a broader conquest. The piece notes potential bloody coercion and strategic gains along the Baltic coast and toward Atlantic ports, leaving the next steps uncertain.
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League of Nations
Great Britain
France
Tass
Aaa Ee
Washington
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Lithuania
Latvia
Estonia
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Norway
Arctic
Stock Quotations from New York and Dow Averages
Closing quotes show Alaska Juneau mine 6 percent C an 113 American Can 113 American Power and Light 444 Anaconda 31 Bethlehem Steel 83 4 Commonwealth and Southern 1 Curtiss Wright 10 Kennecott 38 New York Central 18 Northern Pacific 9 General Motors 54 International Harvester 62 3 4 United States Steel 67 Pound 3934 Dow Jones averages listed as industrials 149 36 tails 21 78 utilities 24 86 Miss Mary VanderLeest returns to Capital City aboard the steamer Yukon after weeks of travel
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American Power and Light
Anaconda
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Commonwealth and Southern
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Kennecott
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Northern Pacific
General Motors
International Harvester
United States Steel
Pound
Democrats End Territorial Convention Backing Roosevelt and Labor
The Democratic First Division Convention in Alaska endorsed the Roosevelt Administration and leaders including Anthony J. Dimond. It urged Territorial Labor Department creation, occupational disease coverage, medical fee standardization, and unemployment compensation reform. It backed Dimond measures in Congress and endorsed Sitka marine hospital. Juneau officers were elected to lead the divisional committee, with P J Gilmore of Ketchikan as chairman. Most Juneau delegates planned return home by North Coast or Yukon.
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Alaska
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Aluka
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John W. Troy
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Harley J. Turner
Juneau
John Covich
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Robert Bender
P. J. Gilmore
P. Jenne
Frank A. Boyle
James V. Davis
North Coast
Yukon
McCain to File for Atty Gen in Alaska Primary
Authoritative word from Juneau says Harry McCain mayor of Ketchikan will file for Attorney General on the Republican ticket in the April primary. A Fairbanks attorney is also expected to announce candidacy for Delegate to Congress on the Republican ticket, with the statement to come in Fairbanks. Mrs. Fein returning Mrs Sam Penn wife of an AELP employee sails back aboard the steamer Yukon.
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Harry McCain
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Fairbanks
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The
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Yukon
Japanese Destroyer Sent Down near Kinking
Chinese Nationalist papers report Japanese destroyer sunk on the Yanwite River near Kinking last Tuesday with about 100 officers and men lost. Wheat prices rose nearly four cents a bushel to the highest since October 1937, led by Argentina coop prospects, continued dumping in the U S grain belt and Norway buying 250 000 bushels. December wheat closed at 1 07 a bushel on the Grain Market Exchange.
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Kinking
Chicago
Til
Argentina
Earthquake Registered at Weston College in Japan Event
A seismograph at Weston College recorded a moderately strong quake likely from Japan at about 5 46 this morning EST. The item mentions legend and anathyst protection against thieves and drunkenness in unclear context.
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Mass
Weston College
Japan
Panama President Dies From Heart Condition
Panama's president Juart Demos Jenes Avesemena died today from a heart condition after a reported illness in Panama City. The death ends his term amid national mourning and prompts succession considerations.
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Juart Demos
Jenes Avesemena
German Ship Captured in Pacific by British Prize Crew
BANAGO Chile Dec 1 The German freighter Dusseldorf once rumored sunk by the British Dixpatch is now described as a war prize in British hands. A Japanese freighter report says the British cruiser fired on the freighter and ordered a halt, then boarded it and towed the Nav ship northward with a prize crew aboard.
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Banago
Chile
Dusseldorf
Finns Repulse Arctic Attack By Two Forces
HELSINKI December 16 The Finnish High Command says Russian attacks on the Karelia Isthmus backed by 50 tanks and heavy artillery were repulsed with great enemy losses. London reports Finland orders general mobilization to meet rising pressure, with about one tenth of the population entering the defense forces and evacuations ordered in the Aaland Archipelago and southern towns.
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Karelian Isthmus
London
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Pinland
Aaland
Battleships Gather in 50 Waters Vainly for Graf Spee
Reuters from Nome reports German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer and escort seek the mouth of the River Plate where an Allied flotilla led by French battleship Dunkerque waits for the Graf Spee. Uruguayan authorities set a Sunday deadline to sail or intern.
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Reuters
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River Platte
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Graf Spee
Montevideo
Uruguay
Hans Langsdorff
Tangadortt
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