Americans Attacked as They Leave Spain Frontiers
More than 300 American volunteers exit Spain crossing into France after Insurgent planes bomb a railway near Alp. Five insurgent planes attacked. casualties unknown. French authorities report 332 unwounded soldiers with 200 wounded expected to join on December 8.
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Washington
Spain
Alp
France
Barcelona
Puigcedra
la Tour de Carol
Floods in Urfa Region Drown 72 and Wreck Homes
Seventy two persons were drowned and thousands of cattle perished when floods swept the Urfa region in southeast Turkey near the Syrian border. Houses were wrecked and relief societies dispatched squads to aid the affected area.
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Istanbul
Turkey
Urfa
Ald
Fisher Body Plant No 1 Walks Out In Michigan Strike
Flint Michigan December reports say Fisher Body Company plant No 1 with 6000 to 7000 workers closed at 1230 pm as CIO United Automobile Workers strike after a vote of 3434 to 433. The action risks halting body supplies to Buick plant and GM operations across the area.
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Fisher Body Company
Flint
Mich
CIO
United Automobile Workers
Twe
UAW
General Motors
Monroe Doctrine 115th anniversary observed at Lima conference
Secretary Hull and the U S delegation marked the 115th anniversary of the Monroe Doctrine aboard the S S Santa Clara en route to Lima Peru The observance notes a potential reinterpretation at the Pan American Conference linking all western hemisphere states against external aggression Several Lima proposals aim at Pan American consultation and sanctions in war cases
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Andrue
S. S. Santa Clara
Lima
Peru
Hull
United States
Western Hemisphere
Uncle Sam
Weather forecast for South Carolina Georgia and Florida
South Carolina sees generally fair skies with slight warmth and increasing cloudiness tonight into Saturday with possible light rain in the extreme northwest. Georgia expects fair to warm conditions with Saturday cloudiness and likely rain in the northwest and extreme north areas. Florida remains fair to partly cloudy with a warm spell and mild rain chances mainly in the extreme north on Saturday.
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South Carolina
Georgia
Florida
Maryland teen abducted for ransom released after 30 hours
In Oxon Hill Maryland Mary Brown 18 was abducted by three men who believed her father William B Brown could pay a ransom. She was kept in a hut and driven in a truck before being dumped near her farm. She remained unhurt though exhausted and scared. The family said a doctor found no physical harm. The incident ended when she convinced the abductors her father could not pay.
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Oxon Hill
William B. Brown
Mary Brown
Brown
Mary
Hanson Branch
Georgia Governor Rivers Eyes Federal Works Cooperation
Governor Rivers met with President Roosevelt at Warm Springs to discuss enabling Georgia to cooperate with the federal government on public works and to seek approval for a state legislation plan. Builders include James L. Gillis U. S. District Attorney Lawrence Camp and WPA official Harry Hopkins as topics span PWA relations and financing. The governor cites stalled federal funds requests totaling about 15.75 million dollars for university building, hospital expansion, parks, farm to market highways and armories.
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Ef .D. Rivers
Roosevelt
Georgia
James L. Gillis
Democratic Executive Committee
U. S
Lawrence Camp
Senate
Rivers
White House
Warm Springs
Zell McGee
Camp
State Highway Board
F. P. VanStory
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WPA
Harry Hopkins
Public Works Administration
Rosevelt
PWA
Acta
State University System
State Hospital For
National Guard
Milledgeville
State Hospital
Mass School Bus Train Crash Leaves 23 Dead
Salt Lake City December 2 1939 the nation faces its worst school bus train disaster as 23 youths die after a diesel freight train plows into a Jordan High School bus near Midvale 10 miles south of Salt Lake City. The driver Farrold H Silcox is identified among the dead and 16 injured remain hospitalized.
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Here
Salt Lake General Hospital
Denver
Midvale
Ef. L. Rehmer
Farrold H. Silcox
Rverton
Jordan High School
Riverton
South Jordan
Bluffdale
Crescent
Silcox
Marjorie Groves
Rivers Talks With Roosevelt On Georgia Public Works Needs
Gov Rivers met with President Roosevelt at Warm Springs in a brief interview about enabling Georgia to receive its full share of federal public works funds. Roosevelt indicated agreement and said no constitutional amendment would be needed. The group discussed state projects and cooperation, but teachers’ aid was not part of the talk.
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Rehmer
Alfred Elton
D. Harold Olivier
Warm Springs
Roosevelt
Georgia
Rivers
Lawrence S. Camp
Walter
George
James L. Gillis
Ote Ols
Rivers Ieterjested
Camp
Gillis
European governments face turmoil across multiple fronts
In Brussels Daladier fights embittered labor and Italian colonial rumors as Spaak edges toward resignation. Romania arrests six student agitators amid anti-guard crackdowns while France wrestles with a new strike over Daladier policies. London hosts refugees talks with US Britain France Netherlands and Brazil to aid Jewish exiles amid Tunisia debates. Tokyo unveils a record budget of 4 94 752 000 yen for 1989 40.
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Africa
Brussels
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Spaak
Spain
Barcelona
Bucharest
France
Tunisia
Chamber of Deputies
George Bonnet
Djibouti
Corsica
Nazi Germany
Harwich
England
London
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Britain
Netherlands
Brazil
Germany
Judenknecht
Tokyo
Japan
Man Falls in Snowbank During Ice Skating Incident
William Dryen and companions watched as he quickly rose after slipping into a snowbank. A pocket match in his hip caused friction ignition and set his trousers on fire.
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Waynesburg
William Dryen
Long range weather forecasts gain ground
Pasadena Calif December 2 long range scientific forecasting expands. Dr Irving P Krick of the California Institute of Technology, who has advised Hollywood on location weather, announces a December forecast in the American Farm Digest. He predicts warmer than usual weather in New England Ohio Valley and the Southeast Great Plains. He explains storms arise from a conflict between polar cold and tropical warmth along a boundary between air masses.
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Irving P. Krick
California Institute of Technology
Hollywood Film Studios
American Farm Digest
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Ohio Valley
Great Plains
United States
Krick
Advances Seen in Payrolls and Farm Income in October Review
The Sixth Federal Reserve District reports stronger farm income payrolls pig iron and electric power activity in October rising residential contracts and government farm payments. October farm receipts up 75.3 percent from August to September while retail sales show October gains and loans climbed to the highest in over five years.
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Alabama
Florida
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Tennessee
Fascist Editor at Rome Warns France of Italy Move
Rome December 2 Fascist editor Virginia Gayda closely aligned with Premier Mussolini warned France that Italy is ready to march if necessary. The Giornale D Italia carried the declaration amid rising Italian French tensions after deputies demonstrated for recommittment of Italian interests in Tunisia, France s protectorate.
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Gayda
Giornale D'italia
Tunisia
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