Hopkins Named Secretary of Commerce in Roosevelt Cabinet
President Roosevelt named Harry K. Hopkins to succeed Daniel Roper as Secretary of Commerce and Hopkins will be sworn in tomorrow in the White House study. Col. F. C. Harrington to take over as WPA Administrator with Aubrey Williams advancing to National Youth Administrator. Hopkins’s Senate confirmation awaited. Harrington returns to Army pay with WPA duties.
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Roosevelt
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Daniel ©. Roper
Stephen Early
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WPA
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Congress
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Army
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Harrington
War Department
France
Spanish War Flames Anew In Big Area
Spanish insurgent high command said Government Catalonian front is broken in four places as Moorish troops attack strong fortifications along the Segre River near Tremp. Government troops repulse six assault waves amid heavy snowfall. insurgents threaten hydroelectric power sources serving Barcelona industries. International issues loom as Germany US tensions grow and Daladier faces Mussolini over Tunisia.
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France
Segre
Tremp
Barcelona
Germany
United States
Italy
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Sumner [Nots
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Ickes
Chamber of Deputies
Daladier
Paris
Tunisia
Smallpox Epidemic Report in Shanghai
Shanghai officials declare a smallpox epidemic as the disease reaches citywide proportions. A vigorous preventive drive is underway with 10,000 vaccinations administered daily.
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Shanghai
Jewish Medal Brings Nazi Scorn In Berlin
Nazi controlled papers ridicule President Roosevelt over an American Hebrew magazine honoring him with a medal. Berlin notes the Ickes controversy and Sumner Welles rebuff as Germany waits to see if Hitler will act. The press shifts from attacks on Ickes to scorn for Roosevelt amid German-American tensions.
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Roosevelt
Germany
Hitler
Ickes
Sumner Welles
Cleveland
Confessions of a Nazi Spy to be filmed by Warner Brothers
Hollywood announced production will begin immediately on Confessions of a Nazi Spy despite protests from the German Consul. Edward G. Robinson will star in the title role as Ottawa also reports Prime Minister Mackenzie King appointing a five member commission to study an international highway project from British Columbia through Yukon to Alaska. Members include Hon. Charles Stewart chairman International Joint Commission Brig Gen T L Tremblay J M Wardle Arthur Dixon and J W Spencer. The commission will work with a similar one set by President Roosevelt.
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Arthur Dixon
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Public Works Department
J. W. Spencer
Vancouver
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Roosevelt
Twenty Saved From Ship In Atlantic Gale
Twenty people including two women were rescued from the Norwegian freighter Smaragd in a gale about 600 miles southeast of New York. The Smaragd, bound from Norfolk to Fort William, sprang a leak and radioed for help as the Schodack stood by overnight. The rescue completed this morning after a tense night.
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Smaragd
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Schodack
Schodac
Norfolk
Fort William
Scotland
Defenders Defeating Invaders In Shanghai Fronts
Chinese authorities report gains over the Japanese on two fronts in interior China. Guerilla fighting has inflicted 2,000 casualties along the Yellow River in the past two weeks. A London notice records the marriage of Sir Andrew Hislop Pettigrew aged 81 to Joan Cottam aged 26.
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Jnterior
China
Yochow
Hunan
Yellow River
London
Andrew Hislop Pettigrew
Joan Cottam
Roosevelt Seeks Good Will With New Japanese Ambassador
President Roosevelt met with new Japanese Ambassador Kensuke Horinouchi in Washington on December 23. They left with mutual assurances of cooperation to promote goodwill between the United States and Japan.
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Roosevelt
Kensuke Horinouchi
Governor Troy Returns to Seattle Plans Alaska Trip
Governor John W. Troy has returned from a California visit and will spend the holidays in Seattle. He intends to sail north after the first of the year and arrive in Juneau in time to open the Territorial Legislature biennial meeting.
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John W. Troy
California
Juneau
Territorial
Post Office Cracks Down On Obscene Ads In Mail
Washington reports the Post Office Department is enforcing anti obscenity and fraudulent advertising laws. It bans magazines and ads promising lascivious books for 25 cents to a dollar, prosecutes even when the material is not obscene, and notes many cases rely on department evidence rather than protest.
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Post Office Department
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Rail Committee Proposes Broad Transport Regulator Board
The Roosevelt era Rail Committee urges creation of a transportation board to regulate all transport modes. It would include three railroad managers and three labor representatives and aim for immediate rehabilitation of carriers. The report notes Canada has more railroad miles per population than the United States.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Committee On Railroads
Canada
United States
Fishermen Seek Back Wages for 1938 in Alaska
Seattle December 23 The Alaska Fishermen's Union says it will file suit to recover wage increases denied to Cook Inlet fishermen after the 1938 season The suit could exceed 100000 and hinges on the Copper River and Prince William Sound cases where a declaratory judgment was begun against three canneries Edward Medley attorney cites incomplete facts in the Fact Finding Commission findings and notes letters from two commissioners admitting gaps The union suggested reopening the wage scale adjustments but was rejected by Medley
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Alaska Fishermen's Union
Cook Inlet
Copper River
Prince Williams Sound
King County
Edward Medley
Medley
Prince William Sound
Girl Santa Claus Fatally Burned Dies in Hospital
In Louisville Miss Mary Curran Day a 20 year old handicraft worker volunteered as Santa Claus at the Community Center. A spark from a spectator's cigarette ignited her costume, setting her ablaze. She was rushed to a hospital and died from burns shortly after. The Anchorage school building progress is ahead of schedule and may be completed by early February.
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Alice Harris
Santa Claus
Goodies
Uniontown
Louisville
Dee
Mary Curran
Haida Rescues Patterson Survivors After 26 Mile Trek
Exhausted survivors of the Patterson reaching Lituya Bay after a brutal march through snow and swollen rivers. Two Navy bombers and Coast Guard Haida rescue nine men by surf boat, with rest flown to Sitka by Navy planes. Capt Harry Bune and eight others listed among survivors aboard Haida this morning.
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Lituya Bay
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Gulf of Alaska
Sitka
North Pacific
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Lone
Harry Bune
Lester Campen
Freeman Hobart
Edward K. Boyce
R. M. Ingram
P. Malkolff
Ray Neilson
L. R. McCourtry
Ludwigson
Motorship Pern Runs Aground Near False Pass
Unalaska Alaska reports the motor ship Pern carrying Christmas mail and foodstuffs ran aground near False Pass. A radio note says mail and passengers were rescued by a P. E. Harris Company tender and taken to Pelee Pass. Master Pete Wold. Henry Peterson hiked to report conditions. The vessel is not considered in immediate danger.
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Alaska
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False Pass
P. E. Harris Company
Pelee Pass
Henry Peterson
Ikatan
Pete Wold
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