Nations plan new drive to move Jews from Germany
A six nation committee led by United States diplomat Myron C Taylor agreed on a renewed effort to obtain German cooperation to emigrate some 600,000 Jews. The plan would ease flight taxes and seek 100000 Jews to Palestine with French offers to admit 10000 refugees in colonies.
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London
Men of Six Nations
Germany
United States
Joseph P. Kennedy
Intergovernmental Committee On Refugees
Great Britain
France
Netherlands
Brazil
Argentina
George Rebbe
Intergovernmental Committee
Berlin
Myron C. Taylor
Britain
Italy Threatens Move Against France in Press Tirade
The Giornale d Italia publishes a harsh anti French warning signed by Virginio Gayda signaling Italy may march against France if needed. Debates in the Italian chamber demand the return of former territories aggravate Italo French strains and diplomats fear further deterioration.
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Rome
U.P
France
Giornale d'Italia
Benito Mussolini
Virginio Gayda
Il Duce
Chamber of Deputies
Tunisia
Paris
Corsica
Nice
Raffaele Guarigna
Andre Francois-Poncet
Chinese Youth Flocks to Anti Jap Universities to Learn Guerrilla War Art
In Northwest China near Yenan the Chinese Communist party runs anti-Japanese military universities drawing over 9,000 students from provinces. Trainees study guerrilla warfare and mass organization for frontline service, knowing many will die. the movement reports a 28 percent officer loss this year.
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Yenan
Hensi
Northwest
China
Chinese Communist Party
Communist Party
Hitler Defends Nazi Youth in Mass Speech in Reichenberg
Reichsfuehrer Hitler addressed 30,000 Sudeten Germans in a 55 minute campaign talk. He praised Nazi youth programs saying the new generation will never be free and will be educated to serve the state. He outlined a path from age ten into the Hitler youth and storm troops. He urged voters on Sunday for 30 deputies from former Czechoslovak territory.
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Hitler
Reichenberg
Germany
Nazi
Hitler Youth
Works Service
Army
Black Guards
One Hundred Parish CYO Members to Receive Communion
One hundred members of the Junior Catholic Youth organization at St. Patrick parish will attend the 8 o'clock mass and later join in a communion breakfast at the school hall. The mass is celebrated by Rev. Edward J. Moran with Holy Communion in a body.
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St. Patrick Parish
St. Patrick Church
Ladies of
Edward J. Moran
St. Patrick's
Jack Egan
Kevin Clarke
Tom Joyce
Gerald Coleman
Isabel Harrington
Dolores Morgan
Ruth McDonald
Evelyn Rouleau
Virginia Buckwardt
June Rogers
Jean Thomas
Madeline Shannon
Sis Gleason
Mary Dougherty
Dan
State WPA sewing room project consolidates 175 sites
Presidential approval of a 685 151 statewide WPA sewing room project consolidates some 175 city and county sewing rooms. State WPA Administrator Joseph E Parker announced the plan after months of coordination with the State Board of Public Welfare planning and welfare boards and county and city officials. Since its start the sewing program has produced over a million relief articles.
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WPA
Joseph E. Parker
State Board of Public Welfare
Planning Board
Welfare Board
Parker
Montana Weekend Forecast Shifts to Snow Flurries
Partly cloudy Saturday and Sunday across Montana with likely snow flurries in the western portion. Temperature expected to hold steady with little change.
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Montana
Testimony Opened in Mayer Case
Seattle prosecuting attorney B Gray Warner opened the James Eugene Bassett murder trial detailing the death and alleged dismemberment in King County. He sought the death penalty for Decasto Mayer and Mary Eleanor Smith, accusing them of killing Bassett a decade ago for money.
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Seattle
B. Gray Warner
James Eugene Bassett
Mont
Warren Hardy
Fraud scheme targets age pensioners in solicitations
Har old O Braun, county welfare head, disclosed subscribers were pressuring elderly old age assistance recipients to pay $3 for a publication claiming it affects ongoing pension payments. The welfare department issued a warning and denounced the solicitations as harmful and to be stamped out.
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Harold O'Braun
Public Welfare Department
O’braun
Welfare Office
O'Braun
High Winds and Rain Disrupt Pacific Northwest Coast
High winds sweep the Pacific Northwest disrupting shipping and aviation. Columbia River bar shoaling halts vessels while Portland records over an inch of rain. Eastern regions see rain and snow with six inches of snow in parts of northern Idaho. Seattle reports winds to 49 mph uprooting trees and damaging structures.
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Portland
Ore
Pacific Northwest
Columbia River
Oregon
Washington
Idaho
Seattle
Car Wreck Reported on Anaconda Highway
Sheriff Barney Larson said state trooper Joe McKenzie reported a car believed to belong to George O’Brien Silver Bow county treasurer was wrecked four miles east of Anaconda on the Butte Anaconda highway last night. The vehicle had turned over several times with few details available.
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Barney Larson
Anaconda
Joe McKenzie
George O'Brien
Silver Bow County
Butte-Anaconda
Mother Believed Dead in Epidemic Reappears Alive
Mrs Marie Hill of Lockport New York returned from Gallipolis Ohio after months believed dead in an epidemic tied to last spring’s Ohio River flood. She explained a hospital cot neighbor with the same name died and she was reported in a letter to her former employer. She now says she was alive and has resumed work at a Gallipolis hospital.
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Lockport
N. Y
Marie Hill
Hill
Gallipolis
Ohio
William Frane
Daladier orders amnesty for locked out workers
French Prime Minister Edouard Daladier granted sweeping amnesty to about 700,000 workers locked out after the 24 hour general strike. The government ordered reopening of nationalized arms and aviation plants and urged private employers to end lockouts and resume normal production Saturday. The move aims to curb protests and sporadic strikes while ensuring respect for contracts and wages.
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Paris
U.P
Edouard Daladier
Ministry of Labor
General Labor Confederation
Armas
Daladier
Thousands of Books Loaned by Library in Past Year
The Butte public library loaned 190,765 books in the year ending November 30, up from 152,216 the prior year. Librarian C. B. Jackman notes no cost to borrowers and urges more cardholders, with about 8,000 current borrower cards and rising monthly circulation.
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Butte Public Library
Jackman
Butte
Silver Bow County
Train collision kills 22 in Utah bus crash
A collision between a freight train and a Jordan school district bus near Midvale, Utah, killed 22 people including the bus driver. Investigators from federal and state agencies, the railroad, and local authorities are probing why the crossing lacked active warning devices. Funeral services are planned for the victims.
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Salt Lake City
U.P
Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Henry M. Blood
State Public Service Commission
State Highway Patrol
State Insurance Division
Ealt Lake County
Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad
Jordan
Farrold Silcox
Lethal Gas Execution Condemned in California
The first use of the lethal gas chamber in California executed two of five death row inmates at Folsom. Albert Kessell and Robert Cannon faced gas for over 15 minutes with Cannon dying 12 minutes after inhalation and Kessell reportedly 15 to 44 minutes. The process drew condemnation from prison officials and clergy alike.
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San Quentin
Calif
California
Folsom
Albert Kessell
Robert L. Cannon
L. L. Stanley
Cannon
Kessell
Court Smith
George O'Meara
WPA Projects Approved by President in November
The Montana WPA announced 44 projects totaling 3,260,196 in November, including 40 local, three statewide and one federal, lifting total allotments since April to 19,456,829. An additional 630,920 was set for eight local and one statewide undertaking in the latter half of the month.
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Montana Works Progress Administration
WPA
Joseph E. Parker
Parker
State Board of Health
U. S. Public Health Service
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U. S
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Robert Bready
Russell H. Bready
Young Bready
CYO
Moronto
Mayer
Karl Allen Drummond
Anaconda Highway
Otrikero
Marjorie Groves
Salt Lake
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