Helsinki Hospital Area Bombed in Second Soviet Raid
Helsinki reports say Soviet fliers bombed a hospital area and attacked towns 25 miles around while Finnish forces claimed to have destroyed or captured 20 tanks and repelled many Russians. Two trains were machine-gunned and the battleship Oktyabrskaya Revolutsia reportedly hit by coast batteries near Koivisto.
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Helsinki
School For the
Joseph Stalin
School For the Blind
School For Blind
Lappvik
Nyvinkaene
Kerayva
Oktaibskaya Revolutia
Koivisto
Gulf of Finland
Leningrad
Captain Langsdorff's Farewell Letter Hidden From Public
Buenos Aires reports Capt. Langsdorff died by his own hand rather than renew battle with British forces near Montevideo. An Argentine inquiry urged impounding his farewell letter to the German embassy. The admiralty noted he chose death after saving his crew, as hundreds gathered to view the casket at the arsenal.
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Buenos Aires
Hans Langsdorff
Adolf Hitler
Graf Spee
Montevideo
Arsenal
Admiral Graf Spee
Monteviedo
Berlin
Langsdorff
Admiralty
Wiewhs
Idaho Senator Aims 90 Million for Western Reclamation
Senator Clark of Idaho outlined questions for the next Congress and urged House passage of a 90 million dollar irrigation and reclamation bill for the West. He criticized a prior spending bill for omitting reclamation and described a new plan tying payments to gross crop returns, offering higher in good years and lower in bad years, as a boon to western projects.
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Washington
Clark
Idaho
Congress
House
Senate
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
West
Christmas Mail Rush Hits Ogden Peak for 10 Years
An army of extra mail and express workers filled Ogden today with speed and precision to handle the seasonal peak. Ten special mail trains departed with some cars carrying mail sorted at the U.S. railway mail division terminal. Officials call this date the year’s peak as stacks of mail towered on sorting tables.
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Ogden
U.S. Railway
Oregon Judge Dies in Diner Stroke
Judge Charles W. Ellis of the ninth Oregon circuit court died after a sudden paralytic stroke suffered while dining. He was taken to an Ontario hospital and died three hours later at an Orofino facility.
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Ontario
Ore
Charles W. Ellis
Ninth Oregon Circuit Court
Orofino
Santa Plans Visit To Utah Indians Christmas Aid
In Monument Valley Utah 300 Navajo Indians will receive a Christmas food aid shipment stored at Goulding Trading Post. A truckload of staples from the state trade commission in Salt Lake City was prepared for distribution on Christmas Day after drought and crop failure threatened local settlers. Trader Harry Goulding, the only white man in the desert, appealed for assistance and Salt Lake City merchants contributed 3 000 pounds of food.
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Goulding Trading Post
Utah
Monument Valley
State Trade Commission
Salt Lake City
Harry Goulding
Snow blankets Boise foothills as McCall reports four inches
Snow fell across Boise and foothills today marking a rare white Christmas in the area. The mountains saw deeper coverage with the heaviest fall four inches at McCall and Atlanta close behind.
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Boise
McCall
Atlanta
Radio In Court In Maine Probate Case Cites Irritation
In Portland Maine probate court judge Carroll S Shaplin ruled a listener may express irritation at radio programs without being deemed insane. The remark came while he excluded a lawyer's question in a contested will case.
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Portland
Maine
Carroll S. Shaplin
Germans Continue March Toward Warsaw War News
The Associated Press reports twenty five years ago today on December 21 1914 that German forces advance toward Warsaw while the article notes generally fair weather in Idaho with little temperature change expected tonight and Friday.
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Associated Press
Warsaw
Daho
France Reveals Warning To Hitler From Ambassador Coulondre
In a French yellow book published today the last French ambassador to Berlin Robert Coulondre says he warned Hitler that a new war would only yield a real victor Trotskyism. He recounted to Hitler on August 25 that France would aid Poland if attacked and that despite likely victory, Trotsky would emerge as the sole winner. The account notes Coulondre named Trotsky rather than Stalin in explaining the feared outcome.
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Paris
Berlin
Robert Couldondre
Hitler
Poland
France
Couldondre
Monsieur Trotsky
Leon Trotsky
Joseph Stalin
Western lawmakers vow fight over reclamation cuts
Washington December 21 AP Western congressmen led by Representative Leavy vow to block drastic 1940-41 budget cuts for reclamation project construction. A 50 percent reduction would cripple Central Valley California Grand Coulee Washington and Colorado Big Thompson projects delaying completion and increasing overall cost by millions.
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Washington
Leavy
Budget Bureau
Reclamation Bureau
California
Grand Coulee Dam
Washington State
House
Subcommittee On
Interior Department Appropriations
Reds Observe Stalin Birthday in Nationwide Celebrations
Moscow marked Joseph Stalin’s 60th birthday with massive celebrations and praise from the press. A Kalinin biography extols him as a globe spanning socialist leader, while the Presidium awards him the Lenin Order and Hero of Socialist Labour title for his role in building the Soviet state.
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Moscow
Russia
Red Army
Finland
Stalin
Michael Kalinin
Supreme Soviet
Soviet Union
Poland
Baltic States
Presidium of the
Lenin
Socialist Labor
Bolshevik Party
Fifth Twins Arrive in Six Years at Logan West Virginia
In Logan West Virginia on December 21 a 24 year old mother Mrs Bud Chafin and her 41 year old husband a mine machinery man welcomed the fifth set of twins in six years, a six pound boy and girl named Don and Lola Mae. The couple has 11 children from previous births. One twin set died and two other siblings died. The next to last twins were born January 18.
State Studies Tax Sources in Idaho Hearing
E. M. Sawyer of Salt Lake City told Idaho's tax study committee that Utah's sales tax raises about 3 million dollars annually for relief and other uses and eased property tax burden. He noted Utah's lower auto license tied to paying property tax and access limits. The committee seeks fairer property tax distribution as Gov Bottolfsen and state officials attend. Sawyer urged centralized state control of tax proceedings and warned of county officials kept in office by inducements.
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Boise
E. M. Sawyer
Salt Lake City
Union Pacific Railroad
Idaho State Tax Study Committee
Utah
Pioneer Resident Henrietta Ressler Dies at 92 in Pocatello
Henrietta Ressler, 92, longtime Pocatello resident and former North Main grocery operator, died Wednesday after a lingering illness. Born in Canada, she passed away in a local hospital. Her body rests at Hall Funeral Home with arrangements to be announced.
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Henrietta Ressler
Pocatello
Canada
North Main Street
The
Hall Funeral Home
Public Enemy Faces Long Confinement
Louis Lepke Buchalter 42 faces narcotic and bribery charges with potential 104 years in prison and 180000 dollars in fines after a jury convicted him of conspiracy to violate narcotic laws. He appeared in New York federal court for sentencing January 2 and had not testified, while authorities pursued racketeering and other charges and a nationwide manhunt previously offered rewards totaling 50000 dollars.
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New York
Louis
Lepke) Buchalter
Buchalter
United States
France
Japan
China
Thomas E. Dewey
J. Edgar Hoover
Dewey
Tyhee Farmer Takes Own Life in Farm Shed
A 32 year old farmer Aksel Petersen of Tyhee shot himself through the heart with an old army rifle at 3 am in a shed on his farm near Tyhee. Deputy Sheriff Dave McNichols said Petersen had been ill since age 14 and recently suffered influenza. Petersen called his brother in law at 2:30 am to ask him to care for his dog before fleeing to the farm where he died. He was born June 20 1907 in Pocatello and lived there all his life. Survived by his mother Mrs Marie Petersen of Tyhee two brothers Andrew of Blackfoot and George of Tyhee and two sisters Mrs Edith Pearce and Mrs Anna Thomas of Pocatello.
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Tyhee
Dave McNichols
McNichols
Abot
Petersen
E. O. Thomas
Thomas
Mr. Petersen
Pocatello
Mitchell Peterson
Marie Petersen
Andrew Petersen
Blackfoot
George Petersen
Edith Pearce
Anna Thomas
Two UP Employes Die in Wreck
In Richland Nebraska on December 21 the engineers and fireman of Union Pacific eastbound mail train No 6 were killed when the locomotive and nine cars derailed after hitting a stalled automobile. Fireman Albert Lee Roberts of Council Bluffs Iowa was buried beneath the overturned locomotive near a grain elevator and engineer David Jones of Omaha was found in wreckage.
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Richland
Nebr
Union Pacific
Albert “Lee” Roberts
Council Bluffs
David Jones
Omaha
WPA to close sewing projects with seven or fewer workers
Boise announces the shutdown of WPA sewing projects employing fewer than seven women. About 50 workers will transfer to library and hot lunch projects as administrative costs on small sewing efforts were deemed too high. Dean W. Miller stated the move.
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Boise
Dean W. Miller
WPA
Miller
Idaho Endowment Funds Score Court Victory
The Idaho Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the endowment funds held from land grant proceeds are in trust and may secure foreclosed loans. the decision sustains earlier federal and state judgments and supports investment of funds for state institutions. The ruling impacts about 15 million dollars managed by the finance commissioner.
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Boise
Idaho
State Supreme Court
Raymond L. Givens
C. C. Cavanah
Charles E. Winstead
Otto F. Peterson
Peterson
J. W. Taylor
G. L. Jenkins
W. Scott Hall
Oneida
Z. Reed Miller
Multiple car crashes injure six in Utah and Idaho
In Salt Lake City a snow covered intersection left six injured when cars from Ogden and Montpelier collided. Among the injured are David Tueller and Parley Buehler of Montpelier and David L. Stine of Ogden with varied injuries. Several other international notices and local items follow.
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Salt Lake City
Ogden
Montpelier
Idaho
David Tueller
Mrs. Stine
Janet Stine
Henry James
Trinity Episcopal Church Presents Christmas Pageant
The annual Christmas Pageant by Trinity Episcopal Church and Sunday School airs at 7 30 p m Friday in the church with a parish house party to follow. Participants include Virgin Mary Betty Chester Joseph Dan Pilchard angels Nancy Pilchard and others plus a boys choir led by Charley Stoy Harry Hultgren Robert Taylor Mickey Lewis and Byron Jones.
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Trinity Episcopal Church
Virgin Mary
Betty Chester
Shepherds
Fargo Wells
Jack Craven
Fergus Ferguson, Jr
Wise Men
J. T. Doran
al Cordon
Ross Ruditi
Joseph
Dan Pilchard
Angels
Nancy Pilchard
Betty Rae Craven
Charley Stoy
Harry Hultgren
Robert Taylor
Mickey Lewis
Byron Jones
Floods Cause Heavy Losses in Northern Luzon Provinces
Manila reports relief efforts by government and Red Cross as floods from a string of typhoons devastate Isabela and Nueva Ecija. Eleven deaths with unknown numbers missing. losses exceed 1 million dollars across Isabela Camarines Sur and Cagayan. Seventeen towns near Ilagan remain underwater as the Cagayan River overflows.
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Manila
Red Cross
Luzon
Isabela
Nueva Ecija
Camarines Sur
Cagayan
Tlagan
Cagayan River
Philippines
Finland Seeks 50 Million Loan for War Materials
Washington reports that Finland is seeking a 50 million dollar loan from the United States to buy war materials for fighting Russia. Congressional leaders have been sounded out, but doubts persist due to policy against funding arms. Critics warn of potential U.S. entanglement in European affairs.
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Washington
Finland
United States
Wall Street
Congress
Russia
China
Europe
Texas Gal Learns Forgiveness After Nose-Smashing Fight
Comely Ginger Harrison, a former Texas cowgirl known as Tex and Ginger, is remorseful after a night in custody for assaulting her husband Tex who broke her nose. She offers to pay his legal defense if needed as the couple, radio hillbilly stars, remain jailed together in Canton Ohio.
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Martha Harrison
Texas
Tex
Pittsburgh County Detective Bureau
Pittsburgh
Ginger” Harrison
Canton
Dog
Pony
Detective Bureau
Jerry Deasy
Ginger
Potatoes Used To Make Auto Anti Freezing Alcohol
Idaho Falls reports at the state plant about 700000 pounds of call potatoes used in potato alcohol production. Superintendent Marvin Aslett says the output is roughly 7000 gallons, with 3000 gallons sold and 4000 gallons staged for wholesalers as motor vehicle antifreeze. He predicts spring production for motor fuel.
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Idaho Falls
Marvin Aslett
Aslett
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