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January 7, 1939

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Jury in Brooklyn Ousts One of Own Members For Refusal to Ride in a Non-Union Taxicab

By Unknown Author

Dropped from jury lists for refusal to ride in non-union taxicab while on jury duty

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CHAMBERLAIN PLANS FINAL PARIS TALKS ON ROME DEMANDS; Conference With Daladier and Bonnet Is Arranged as 'Tea' While Awaiting Train UNITY TO BE EMPHASIZED Briton Will Ask Mussolini to Use Influence With Hitler to Aid Jews' Flight

By Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Chamberlain to seek Mussolini's aid to induce Reich to permit orderly evacuation of Jews; U S Amb Phillips, on Roosevelt's orders, has asked Italy's good offices during negotiations between Rublee and Reich officials

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LOYALISTS DRIVE ON IN SOUTHERN SPAIN; Fast-Moving Troops Report Capture of Valsequillo, Granjuela and Blasquez

By Herbert L. Matthews Wireless To the New York Times

BARCELONA, Spain, Jan. 6.--The Loyalists' advance on the Estremadura front carried them today within four miles of Rebel-held Penarroya and Fuenteovejuna, about fifty miles southwest of the...

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SCHOOL RALLY CURB STARTS NEAR-RIOT; Disorderly Factions Disrupt Board Hearing, Boo Speakers --Building Is Picketed

By Unknown Author

Anti-Semitic epithets shouted at N Y C Educ Bd hearing on barring of controversial meetings in schools

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CZECHS SHELL TOWN AT HUNGARIAN LINE; DOZEN DIE IN CLASH; Budapest Makes a Vigorous Protest to Prague After DayLong Fight at MunkacsREICH UKRAINE MOVE SEENGermany Accused of StirringStrife to Further Aims for'Greater' Region

By G.e.r. Gedye Wireless To the New York Times

Czechs shell Munkacs; several killed; Hungary protests; Czech Govt expresses regret; joint comm set up to study situation; Hungary fears it is Reich move to further plans to gain control of Carpatho-Ukraine; map

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