Prominent Americans Urge Roosevelt to Defeat Axis
More than 150 editors lawyers actors educators clergy and labor leaders signed a letter urging President Roosevelt to pursue whatever is necessary to defeat the Axis powers. They warned Britain must stay strong and warned apathy endangers national security as the war effort continues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peay
Washington
White House
Roosevelt
Ethone
Britain
Ting
Maury Maverick
San Antonio
Dwight Morrow
Charles A. Lindbergh
Dorothy Thompson
Walter Wanger
Frederick C. Walcott
Leni R. Angell
Yale
The Driver Who Hit A Pedestrian On Christmas Eve
MA Winchester questions the driver responsible for a fatal pedestrian crash on Christmas Eve along a Kernstown highway. She condemns the suspected cowardice and incomplete conscience of the driver for fleeing the scene and not facing accountability.
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Kernstown
Holiday Trade Believed To Be Best In History in City
A reader notes the holiday trade in the city is the best ever, with firms reporting strong sales and savings funds around 100000 dollars. The source claims most Christmas savings money circulates locally and cites a businessperson asserting revenue near a quarter of a million.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frome
Man Who Penned Alone Is Dead
Newsman and Sun editorial writer for 1925 era died of a heart attack on a subway platform after leaving his office. He gained fame for a three paragraph tribute to Col. Lindbergh’s Paris flight in 1927.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Sun
Christmas Holiday Gala At White House Stirs Teens
The White House hosts a holiday party with a debutante dance in the East Room honoring 17 year old Joan Morgenthau daughter of the secretary of the treasury. President and Mrs Roosevelt host a young guest list including Hopkins daughter of a former commerce secretary and royal youngsters as holiday crowds fill the mansion.
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Gayety
White House
Big East
Joan Morgenthau
Hopkins
Harry ‘Hop
Ander Ragnhild
Astri
Alva Crown Mi
Eine
Sara Roosevelt
Death Curtain Falls On Dean Of Stage
New York December 2 Daniel Frohman 89 dean of American stage died today at Leroy Sanitarium from bronchial pneumonia after a fall that caused a hip fracture He had been in the hospital since November 4 and remained a presence in theatre circles as a producer and studio owner lingering in touch with the foot lights and philanthropic actors groups amid a long career shaping leading stars and productions
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Daniel Frohman
American Stage
Leroy Sanitarium
Frohman
American Theatre
Jacques C. Presner
Pendales
Lyceum Theatre
Charles Froh
Lusitania
Footlight Folk
Punch
I . Agate
Mortuary
Fellen Museum
Sudden Death on Xmas Eve Mystery near Kernstown
Police seek driver after fatal hit and run on U S Route 11 near Kernstown Christmas Eve. Victim tentatively identified as Vern Lee Jones or Moses Jennings, possibly from Raphine Virginia. Clues include shattered right headlight lens from a 1935 Ford or 1935–1939 Ford truck.
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Kernstown
Vern Lee Jones
Moses Jennings
Raphine
County
Himelright
Homer Welch
Stephens City
Winchester
Aloe
Sot Ramee Tt
Jones
Jen
Defense Program Cuts Relief in Senate Budget Vote
Congress approved 975 million dollars for the current fiscal year with reductions to relief programs. Several senators welcomed the move as easing burdens while defense gains were highlighted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aes
Congress
Ten Coast Guard Searchs On Christmas Day
Ten Coast Guard units battled heavy seas on Christmas Day while trying to recover the waterlogged schooner Stanwood. The Stanwood was towed toward San Francisco for repairs as waves hampered the motor lifeboat’s effort from Pointio.
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Pointie
Pointio
Stanwood
Thomas
Seton
San Francisco
Ig Hety
Malek
Ste
Francisco
Hunt For Plane Wreckage Near Johnstown Abandoned
An organized search for a plane said to be in difficulty near Johnstown was abandoned after a three hour fruitless hunt. Pennsylvania Railroad workers and police formed the search party and reported the sighting appeared to have flown past the nearby mountain near Conemaugh Furnace station.
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Johnstown
Pennsylvania Railroad
Conemaugh Furnace Station
Three of Family Are Found Slain in Kentucky Farm
Three members of the John Lovett family were found dead at their Benton area farm home with throats cut. Sheriff Edwards suspected the husband, John Lovett, 45, a farmer and WPA worker, killed his wife and five year old daughter then committed suicide, while Lovett's brother said John claimed the wife killed the daughter and was then slain by her husband.
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Benton, Ky
John Lovett
Here
Jack Edwards
Lovett
W. P. Afi
Burn
John
Officer Slayer Is Apprehended
A five day manhunt in two states ends as Charles Coates, 28, jailed in Fulton County after admitting to shooting Patrol Corporal W. F. Black in Ringgold Georgia on Friday night. Coates, an escaped life term convict, eluded bloodhounds and a posse before surrendering. Public Safety Commissioner Lou Sullivan confirmed the arrest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
Georgia
Fulton County
Georgia Public Safety
Lou Sullivan
Charles Coates
W. F. Black
Ringgold
Black
Two Workmen Killed In Crash Near Neffs Ohio
Two Ohio railroad workers were killed when a Baltimore and Ohio freight train collided head on with a work train west of Neffs. John Paisley 35 section boss and Paul Robey 40 were killed. engineer William Beall 55 survived with severe burns and was hospitalized in Wheeling West Virginia.
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Bellaire
Ohio Railroad
Baltimore and Ohio
West of Neffs
John Paisley
Paul Robey
Paisley
William Beall
Wheeling
W. V
Seaman Dies as Fire Levels Barracks in Canadian Port
A blaze at an East Coast Canadian port destroys three wooden navy barracks. One seaman dies and seven others are injured, none seriously, as authorities contend with many crew on Christmas leave.
Midget Rider Injured in Buffalo Rodeo Incident
Brownie Rogers a 58 pound midget rodeo performer was hospitalized in Swedish Hospital Minneapolis with possible basal skull fractures and a broken left leg after being thrown from a wild buffalo during a bareback ride last night.
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Minneapolis
Brownie Rogers
Food price drops after execution in Szechuen
Prices in Szechuen and west China fell 0.15 percent since Monday’s execution of Guan Yu, former mayor, who was convicted of hoarding rice.
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Chungking
Szechuen
West Shina
auan-Yu
Gtu
Nazi-Romanian War Material Drive Skirts Balkans
Diplomatic dispatches report Nazi leaders ordering a rapid expansion of Romania’s war production as 300,000 German troops move through Hungary toward Bulgaria. Two large Romanian plants to build aircraft for Germany. broader Balkan tensions rise amid the troop advance. British defense notes say a German plane attacked Sheppey, causing little damage or casualties.
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Budapest
Rumania
Hungary
Balkan
Mihai
Balkans
Bucharest
Germany
Thames London
Britain
Isle of Sheppey
Thames
Hopes a British Victory In 1941
London reports Sir Walter Layton of the ministry of supply saying Britain can endure through 1941 and that U S war material output will rise next winter, leading to ultimate victory. He cautions against expecting a miracle from the United States and notes the delay in full American realization of the war effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Walter Layton
Ministry of Supply
Britain
United States
Sir Walter
America
Warns Against Ship Transfers
Representative Woodruff warns in the House that transferring German or Italian merchant shipping now in U S waters to Great Britain would be an act of war with grave consequences. He says such an act would be hard for Germany and Italy to view as noncombatant and could provoke retaliatory actions.
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Washington
Woodruff
R. Mich
House
Germany
United States
Great Britain
Italy
Bucharest
Danube
Red Army
Britain
Corfu
Ionian Sea
High c
I Fiiers
Illene
Orkney Islands
British freighter Waiotira torpedoed off Irish coast
The British refrigerated steamer Waiotira, 12,823 tons, reported by radio that she had been torpedoed about six miles northwest of the Irish coast.
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New York
Storm warnings lifted along Atlantic coast and New England
The Weather Bureau lowered storm warnings at 6 30 a m from south of Block Island to Cape Hatteras. A slight disturbance over Central North Carolina is moving slowly northeast with little change in intensity and will bring fresh east and southeast winds north of Delaware breakwater, strong at times off the coast today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Weather Bureau
Block Island
Cape Hatteras
North Carolina
Delaware
Gable Heads to Johns Hopkins for Shoulder Exam
Clark Gable planned to depart for Baltimore with wife Carole Lombard to enter Johns Hopkins Hospital for examination of an ailing shoulder. The actor aimed to arrive by noon today for medical evaluation.
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Hollywood
Clark Gable
Baltimore
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Carole Lombard
Iron prices and ship meet at Wren Chester Junk Co
Prices for iron and meeting details listed by Wren Chester Junk Co at 13 E Fairfax Lane with phone 254. Includes multiple numeric references and a postal style notation.
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Wrenchester Junk Co
Fairfax Lane
Britain strengthens Dover defenses amid invasion fears
Britain doubles guards on the Dover coast and imposes beach barricades as Bren light machine guns patrol white cliffs. Traffic and travellers are searched while troops display ID cards. NATO era style battle reports link Balkan and Danube tensions with Romanian and Hungarian troop movements amid a broader European crisis.
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Britain
Strait of
Dover
Adolf Hitler
Fngary
Rumaniia
Balkan
Danube River
Rumania
Ignitioa
Budapest
Reich
Soviet
Slovakia
Ladies' Specialty Shoes Sale Highlights Prices
A local sale advertises ladies' specialty shoes priced up to 2.98 with sale prices shown. The deal emphasizes value and selection for purchasers seeking affordable footwear options.
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Mr. Roosevelt
Miss Monkey
Phyllis Page
New York City
Greenwich Village
Harold Anderson
Lindbergh
Rockbridge
Defense Program
Hunt
Officer Slayer
Thames Island
Albania
Sir Walter Layton
U.S
Gable
Valona
Adriatic
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