Japs Push To Within 22 Miles Of Nanking Amid Invasions
Shanghai dispatch reports the Japanese army capturing Kuyung 22 miles southeast of Nanking and foretelling the capital's isolation. Refugees seek safety on Panay and on British and French ships as the Yangtse area endures air raids.
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Nanking
United States
Shanghai
Kuyung
U. S
Panay
Yangtse River
Wuhu
H. D. Barlow
Ladybird
Ninghai
Yangtse
School Too Modern for Amish Girl Rebecca King
Rebecca King a 14 year old Amish girl from Chester County Pennsylvania leaves Philadelphia federal court after her father spent a night in jail for refusing a $2 school attendance fine. He argued his religion forbids sending his daughter to school after age 14 to avoid modernistic influences.
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Rebecca King
Chester County
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
King
Republican leaders call for purge of party's committee
Vermont Governor George D. Aiken urged an immediate purge of the Republican national committee in a letter warning of a complete state of demoralization. He proposed a nine point program with social aims like the New Deal and opposition to large expenditures plus benefits. Senator H Styles Bridges challenged Republicans to solve democracy's survival amid social and economic strain, saying the party must respond to dislocation and avoid excessive government power.
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Montpelier
Republican Party
George D. Aiken
Vermont
Republican National Committee
Aiken
Springfield
H. Styles Bridges
United States
New Hampshire Republican
Young Republican Organization of
Ilinois
New Hampshire
Roosevelts Senate Aims Amid Farm Policy Debate
President Roosevelt returns to Washington as the Senate wrangles over crop control legislation. National Grange and National Cooperative Council push for changes, criticizing compulsion and penalties as undemocratic and destabilizing for farmers. American Farm Bureau seeks a stricter bill to avoid excessive surplus. Wallace voices concerns as the measure remains in debate.
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Grange
National Grange
National Co-operative Council
American Farm Bureau Federation
Senate
Roosevelt
Agriculture
Wallace
Lindbergh Returns to New York After Years Abroad
America's Lone Eagle Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and his wife secretly returned to New York aboard the S S President Harding ending two years of self-imposed exile. They disembarked quietly at the North River pier as photographers and reporters hunted for celebrities. The aviator left two children in England at the Lindbergh estate or with Mrs. Aubrey Niel Morgan in Wales.
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New York
America
Col
Charles A. Lindbergh
Lindbergh
S. S
Harding
England
Jon
Land
Seven Oaks
Kent
North River Pier
Bear market sparks clash between New York Exchange and Washington officials
After a rapid market fall in August, the New York stock exchange and the Washington securities commission exchange recriminations. Both sides have issued declarations and counter-declarations as investors seek a scapegoat for losses.
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Stock Exchange
New York
Securities Commission
Washington
Exchange
Showdown on Amish School Fight Near Smoketown
East Lampeter Township school board in Lancaster County will swear in new member David Zook an Amish man and decide whether five of ten one room schools replaced by a $125000 building will be repaired and reopened. The state agreed to pay repair costs but the board must rule on the dispute over bus rides and religious objections to debt and modern education.
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Lancaster
Pennsylvania
East Lampeter Township
David Zook
Smoketown
Harrisburg
Zook
Public Works Administrator
United States
PWA
Memphis Angels Sing Bass as Carols Go Wrong
Memphis on Main street displays large angel figures as carols float from loud speakers. A mix up in the central control box caused the angels to sing bass notes instead of the planned Christmas tunes.
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Memphis
Tenn
Main Street
Centrol
Moorish Boys Push To Front For Rebel Offensive
Reports from the Franco Spanish frontier claim five hundred Moorish boy soldiers around ages 12 to 13 landed at Algeciras and rushed to the Cordoba front for an imminent rebel offensive in Southern Spain. They allegedly crossed from Ceuta aboard the Ciudad De Algeciras, with Cadiz also reporting feverish activity and unloading of war matériel. Government bombing planes were said to disrupt insurgent concentrations on the Aragon front in Northern Spain.
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Hendaye
Algeciras
Cordoba
Spain
Gibraltar
Strait of Gibraltar
Ceuta
Spanish Morocco
Ciudad de Algeciras
Cadiz
Aragon Front
Butte Elks Honor Departed Members In Impressive Ceremony
Butte lodge No. 240 of the Elks held its annual memorial service with a large crowd and solemn, precise ritual. Frank L. Riley delivered the memorial address, honoring the lodge’s deceased members as the audience reflected on virtues and faults in the solemn rite.
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Butte Elks
Frank L. Riley
Butte Mines
Butte Lodge No. 240
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks
Butte
Montana outlook shows partly cloudy days ahead
A Montana forecast calls for partly cloudy conditions on Monday and Tuesday with cooler temperatures east of the divide on Tuesday.
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Montana
Divide
King Leopold II Won’t Marry Again Crown Prince Rumored
In London rumors swirled that Leopold II would not remarry but his brother the Count of Flanders might wed Lady Anne Cavendish-Bentinck. Prince Charles appeared incognito to join the meeting at the Marquess of Taichfield’s home amid public speculation.
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London
U.P
Mayfair Society
Leopold II of
Count of
Flanders
Ann Cavendish-Bentinck
Duke of Portland
Count de Granne
Elizabeth
Belgium
West End
Leopold
Prince Charles
Anne
Marquess of Titchfield
Ten Butte Boy Scouts to Receive Awards at Honor Court
Advancements and merit badges will be awarded to 16 Scouts at a court of honor tomorrow evening. F. L. Riley will preside in Judge J. J. Lynch's courtroom at 7:30. P. Frazier, Scout executive, announced awards per the board of review last Tuesday, including Lewis Burdick of Troop 36.
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F. L. Riley
J. J. Lynch
P. Frazier
Board of Review
Lewis Burdick
Churchgoers with muskets stage Vermont blue law protest
In Windham county Vermont residents parade with muskets in defiance of antique blue laws dating to 1770. Police list Sunday yard-rakers as theater manager’s arrest triggers protest to repeal the laws. State's Attorney Ernest Berry calls the act a satirical move to force repeal while noting no public kiss incidents were observed.
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Vermont County
Bellows Falls
Windham County
Ernest Berry
President Roosevelt Returns to Washington After Florida Cruise
President Roosevelt, tanned after a week in Florida waters, heads for Washington aboard the Potomac. He disclosed his jaw would be scraped if the gum did not heal soon after a tooth extraction. He planned to meet congressional leaders but set no conference dates.
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Roosevelt
Washington
Florida
Potomac
Miami
Tortugas Islands
Britain Holds Back on Far East Action Until April
London reports that after bombing of a British warship and four merchantmen in the Yangtse valley Britain will not seek armed retaliation against Japan before April or later. Officials say the navy must be superior to any possible foe, and policy remains conciliation to play for time.
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London
Yangtse Valley
China
Japan
South China
Hongkong
Far East
Europe
Africa
Britain
Orient
Russia
Brussels
United States
America
Man Acquitted in Glacier County Murder Case
George Arnoux was acquitted of first degree murder in the slaying of Leonard Connelly, who died last June 31. The jury in Glacier county district court deliberated seven hours after hearing evidence that Arnoux struck Connelly during an attempted home entry.
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Cut Bank
George Arnoux
Leonard Connelly
Glacier County District Court
Arnoux
Connelly
Third bad typhoon roars across Philippine islands
The third severe typhoon of the season roared across central Philippines with communications disrupted and feared damage and loss of life. Signals warned ships and sugar regions, as the storm moved from Samar through Romblom after lashing Panay and Negros.
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Philippine Islands
Manila
P. I
U.P
Philippines
Panay
Negros Sugar
Samar
Romblom
France Said On Verge Of Ending Soviet Alliance
Reports from Warsaw on December 5 indicate France contemplates abandoning the Franco Russian pact as a cornerstone of continental defense. Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos is said to have approved a Warsaw Bucharest axis and expressed pleasure at the Polish Romanian alliance, signaling a shift away from the Franco Soviet alliance long viewed with concern in Berlin Paris and London.
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France
Warsaw
Yvon Delbos
Bucharest
Delbos
Europe
Moscow
Edward Rydz-Smigly
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