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March 4, 1940

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CITY'S FALL DENIED; Hamlet and IsIand Taken as Invaders Close In From Two Sides FINNS FACE CRUCIAL TEST Hope to Hold Lake System-- New Offensive Hinted on East Frontier

By Unknown Author

USSR repts taking hamlet and island north of Viborg; Finns still claim Viborg; rept line holds in East Karelia; League com arrives at Helsinki to write rept on bombings

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Farm Migrants Again on March; California's Problem More Acute; Additional Okies and Arkies Seek Land of Milk and Honey Only to Increase the Number Already Without Work or Hope

By Byron Darnton By Air Mail To the New York Times

Natl Resources Com survey shows population increased more slowly than available workers, 1930-40

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WELLES QUITS REICH AFTER GOERING VISIT; American Also Calls on Hess on Last Day in Berlin--Talks Marked by Cordiality

By Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Welles conf with R Hess and Field Marshal Goering; leaves Berlin for Switzerland; German pub not enlightened on conf results; Roosevelt gets Welles rept on Rome visit

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PRESIDENT ENTERS ON 8TH YEAR TODAY; Will Attend Church Service as He Did Before '33 Inaugural-- Friend, Foe Debate New Deal

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Radio s on New Deal record

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AIR BASES PLEDGED BY THREE NATIONS TO DEFEND CANAL; Assurances Given Roosevelt on Cruise by Panama, Colombia and Presumably Costa Rica KEY TO PARLEY 'MYSTERY' Meeting Neighbors of America, Not Europeans, Disclosed as President's Objective

By Frank L. Kluckhohn Special To the New York Times

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Notable Births

1940Wolfgang Hoffmann-Riem, German scholar and judge^[†]

Wolfgang Hoffmann-Riem is a German legal scholar and a former justice of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany.

1940David Plante, American novelist^[†]

David Robert Plante is an American novelist, diarist, and memoirist of both French-Canadian and North American Indian descent.

Notable Deaths

1940Hamlin Garland, American novelist, poet, essayist, and short story writer (born 1860)^[†]

Hannibal Hamlin Garland was an American novelist, poet, essayist, short story writer, Georgist, and psychical researcher. He is best known for his fiction involving hard-working Midwestern farmers.