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January 14, 1939

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RUPPERT DIES AT 71; ILL SINCE APRIL; Owner of Yankees Is Victim of Phlebitis--Babe Ruth Among Last Visitors Ruth Visitor at Home COL. RUPPERT DIES; ILL SINCE APRIL Calls to His Former Star Among Richest in Country Funeral Services Are Set

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226 T0 137 ON TEST; Roosevelt Request for $875,000,000 Beaten by Teller Vote PAY TO ALIENS FORBIDDEN Civil Service Order Barred-- South Wins Pay Rate Point --Senate Will Act Next Civil Service Move Blocked 16 Who Voted Against Passage HOUSE IN REVOLT CUTS RELIEF FUND Cannon Fights for $875,000,000 Conservatives in Full Control Arts Project Fund Howled Down More Changes Likely in Senate

By Henry N. Dorris Special To the New York Times

Amendment increasing supplemental relief appropriation defeated

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LOYALISTS GIVE UP THE TORTOSA ZONE; ATTACK AT MADRID; Withdraw Along Coast as Foe Presses Toward Tarragona, Reporting Valls Taken SMASH AT BRUNETE LINES Activity Near Former Capital May Be Fresh Diversion-- Rebel Warships Bombed Lines in Fluid State LOYALISTS GIVE UP THE TORTOSA ZONE Rebels Occupy Many Villages

By Herbert L. Matthews Wireless To the New York Times

BARCELONA, Spain, Jan. 13.-- As the military situation in Catalonia took a turn for the worse for the Loyalists today, their forces in the Brunete sector, west of Madrid, smashed through the Rebel lines there, it was announced here tonight.

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Four Perish as Airliner Plunges Ablaze In a Snowstorm Near Miles City, Mont.

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Mrs C Morris and 3, Miles City

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Murphy Defends Stand on Strikes; Points to Peace without Bloodshed; Warned Union Sit-Downs Were Illegal, He Says, Predicting There Will Be No More --Subcommittee Again Backs Him

By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.--A Senate Judiciary subcommittee unanimously approved for the second time today confirmation of Frank Murphy as Attorney General after hearing him, at his own request, explain...

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Notable Births

1939Kurt Moylan, Guamanian businessman and politician, 1st Lieutenant Governor of Guam^[†]

Kurt Scott Kaleo Moylan is a Guamanian politician who served as the first lieutenant governor of Guam from January 4, 1971, to January 6, 1975, and the seventh and last Secretary of Guam from July 20, 1969, to January 4, 1971, in the administration of Governor of Guam Carlos Camacho.

Historical Events

1939Norway claims Queen Maud Land in Antarctica.^[†]

Queen Maud Land is a roughly 2.7-million-square-kilometre (1.0-million-square-mile) region of Antarctica claimed by Norway as a dependent territory. It borders the claimed British Antarctic Territory 20° west, specifically the Caird Coast, Coats Land on the West, and the Australian Antarctic Territory 45° east, specifically Enderby Land on the East. In addition, a small unclaimed area from 1939 was annexed in June 2015. Positioned in East Antarctica, it makes out about one-fifth of the continent, and is named after the Norwegian Queen Maud (1869–1938).