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...duty done, Kyösti Kallio walked approvingly into the Presidential Palace to congratulate his successor. Then, while cheering Finns crowded Helsinki's streets, waving torches, singing the Finnish Army march, Porilaisten Marssi, he drove slowly off to the station, heading for retirement on his model farm in the country...
...Haven's Dave Carlson, 26-year-old apprentice toolmaker, who joined a junior rifle club when he was 15, was high man on the U. S. team that outshot 21 other nations in the 50-metre (prone) event at the 1937 world's championships at Helsinki...
Finland, which last fall showed more spunk than the rest of the Baltic countries put together, was in line for more trouble last week. A gang from the Association-for-Peace-&-Friendship-Between-Finland-and-the-Soviet-Union (for which Moscow claims 20,000 members, Helsinki 200) started a fire in a public square in Helsinki. A Canadian volunteer who had fought in the Russo-Finnish War shot one of the Peace-&-Friendship boys. In Moscow, Tass began blustering against Finland and an incident appeared to be in the making...
...Helsinki 5. Petsamo
Died. Henry W. Antheil Jr., 27, attaché of the U. S. Legation at Helsinki, younger brother of noted Composer George Antheil; when the Finnish airliner in which he was flying from Tallinn, Estonia to Helsinki mysteriously exploded in mid-air and plunged into the Gulf of Finland...