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HENDAYE, France (at the Spanish frontier), Jan. 17.--Spanish Government forces in mountain strong
WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.--The munitions plant at Kingsland, N. J., was one of twenty-one ammunition factories officially reported by the German High Command to have been destroyed prior to the entry of this country into the World War,...
Completion urged by Roosevelt, lr to River and Harbors com chmn
Valentine questioned by Councilman J C Baldwin and others on work of dept; denies Baldwin's hint of rift with LaGuardia; Council votes to ask for more staff
Delaney ridicules Dewey's estimate of thefts; 8 held and arraigned on suspicion of grand larceny; 9 witnesses held; several said to have confessed; Dewey investigates failure to prosecute E J Rigney and L J Spellacy, former employes dismissed in 1937 for turnstile fraud; defendants' pors