Allies Fall Back From Thermopylae in Bitter Fighting
British and Greek forces retreat from the Thermopylae Pass as Nazi drive toward Athens presses on with six inch guns and heavy bombardment. Berlin claims the pass has fallen while Allied losses are described as light and evacuation to Greece continues.
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Thermopylae Pass
Adolf Hitler
Athens
Hitler
Berlin
Middle East
B.E.F
London
Greece
Stuka
Dunkerque
Balkans
Flanders
France
Paris
Luftwaffe
BEF
English Channel
Germany
Britain
Plymouth
Ohio Baby Secures Movie Contract for 37000 Dollars
Six year old Carolyn Lee daughter of Mr and Mrs Warren Copp of Martins Ferry Ohio will earn at least 37000 dollars in the movies during the next year. Superior court today approved a contract paying 1250 dollars weekly for three pictures annually.
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Los Angeles
Carolyn Lee
Warren Copp
Martins Ferry
Superior Court
Private Loses Hand in Shell Explosion
CAMP SHELBY MISS An exploding 37 millimeter shell yesterday tore off the left hand of Private Harold Greiner 21 of Brookside Ohio stationed at Camp Shelby with Battery H of the 136th Field Artillery.
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Camp Shelby
Miss
Harold Greiner
Brookside
136Th Field Artillery
Nazis Warn They Fall To Liability If War Zone Attacks Escalate
A German radio broadcast in New York claimed that Hitler's threat to sink or bomb ships entering the British war zone relieves Germany of liability should unforeseen events occur. The broadcast cited U.S. speeches by Knox and Hull and contrasted them with Lindbergh's antiwar stance, asserting tensions between Germany and the United States.
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New York
Adolf Hitler
Britain
Germany
Navy
Knox
Hull
England
U.S.A
America
United States
Fuehrer
Berlin
Hitler
Lindbergh
Medical Care Bill Approved by Senate Vote
In Columbus the Senate passed a bill to provide medical care for low income wage earners with single men under 1800 dollars and married men under 2400 dollars as the ceiling. All amendments were rejected including removal of the 2400 limit. Senator H T Phillips who opposed it before voted for it, citing doctors’ advice and a chance to revisit the proposal next year. Farm interests strongly opposed the measure.
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Columbus
Senate
Sen
H. T. Phillips
Athens
State Mediation Board Awaits Conciliation Call
Ohio's State Mediation Board, led by Chairman Wil T. Blake, stands ready to exercise arbitration and conciliation powers if requested to settle labor disputes as work stoppages continue to affect defense production nationwide.
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Columbus
Ohio
Wil T. Blake
State Industrial Commission
Toledo Tomato Prices Rise Dollar Per Ton
Field prices in the Toledo area rise to 14 dollars per ton for firsts and 9 dollars for seconds, from 13 and 8, announced at the J. Weller Co. Grower banquet in Oak Harbor by company president L. L. Teagarden.
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Toledo
J. Weller Co
Oak Harbor
L. L. Teagarden
Nazis Claim To Have Confiscated 872 Ships
Berlin reports the German high command announces the navy has brought into port or seized in occupied ports 872 enemy ships totaling about 1.9 million tons since the war began.
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Berlin
High Command
Sandusky County Deputies Seize Gambling Devices
A truckload of varied gambling devices was collected in Sandusky County yesterday by sheriff's deputies. The seizure underscores local enforcement efforts during a period of renewed crackdowns on illegal gaming activities.
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Fremont
Sandusky County
Cat Returns After Classified Ad Sent In
In Warsaw Indiana Robert Slocum posted a classified ad three days after losing his cat. The same afternoon the cat wandered into the newspaper office and the ad-taker handed it to the owner, reuniting them.
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Warsaw
Ind
Robert Slocum
Banking Forum Concludes With Good Neighbor Policy Talk
The seventh annual Banking Forum hosted by Group VII Ohio Bankers Association and Ohio University College of Commerce wrapped up Thursday at Hotel Berry with a dinner. Richard Pattee from the State Department spoke on In Defense of the Good Neighbor Policy to 80 delegates and guests. Mexican consul general in Cleveland Carlos Hernandez and assistant consul Ricardo Perez attended the dinner. Ohio University President Herman G. James and Dean A. H. Armbruster presided as forum officers elected next year’s committee: Paul Perry, W A Metzger, R W Parks, F H Sands and Carl O Hanson. The afternoon session opened with Roger Connor of The McBee Co. on personal loan accounting followed by Benjamin E Grant on American investments south of the border.
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Ohio University
Group VII
Ohio Bankers Association
College of Commerce
Hotel Berry
Richard Pattee
United States Department of State
Carlos Hernandez
Cleveland
Ricardo Perez
Wilfred J. Smith
A. C. String
Marietta
Herman G. James
A. H. Armbr
Ohio
Roger Connor
The
McBee Co
Athens
Benjamin E. Grant
Duquesne University
Inter- American Institute of the United States
String
Parks
C. B. Smith
Malta
Perry
Hanson
Theodore T. Reed
Pomeroy
OSU Installs College Plan for Short-Course Education
OSU announces a new two-year college plan offering wide human interest study as a five-year experiment. Sixty short-term students will enroll this fall to aid those unable to complete a full four-year program due to economic or personal reasons.
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Columbus
Ohio State University
Bomb wrecks Cleveland food market in blast on Clark Avenue
A dynamite bomb shattered Zannoni's food market on Clark Avenue in Cleveland today. Police blamed business competition as damage reached about $5,000 with numerous windows in the district broken.
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Cleveland
Zannoni
Clark Avenue
Mediation panel eyed to press coal mine reopenings
The Associated Press reports a three member mediation panel may urge immediate reopening of soft coal mines after a disruption that reduced production by an estimated 30 million tons since April 1. CIO unions threaten or plan strikes at Martin Baltimore and General Motors across 61 plants, potentially affecting defense orders.
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Predict Board
THE
Associated Press
National Defense Indus
Roosevelt
CIO
Baltimore
General Motor Corporation
Martin Airplane
Glenn L. Martin
Martin
United States
Great Britain
General Motors
C. E. Wilson
Settle Bakery Strike At Middleport Today
An agreement satisfactory to both sides ends the dispute between Covert Baking Company and union bakers. Twenty bakers and one engineer will return to work late Saturday night after concessions by both sides and a conference.
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Middleport
Covert Baking Company
Falling Tree Kills Logger Near Chester
Charles Slater, 62, was instantly killed when a tree crushed him on a Stillwater farm near Chester where he worked with a logging crew. A dead hickory toppled on Slater as crewmen sawed a felled tree. George Moore escaped injury. Slater, never married, lived alone on Long Run and is survived by four sisters and two brothers.
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Pomeroy
Charles Slater
Stillwater
Chester
Sloter
Forrest Showalter
George Moore
Showalter
Moore
Long Run
Bashan
Elsie Taylor
Long Bottom
R. D
Anna Fankhouser
New Martinsville
W. Va
Cleta Kimes
Hartville
Edna Powell
Portland
Marion
Clinton
WPA Shows Decrease in Cleveland WPA Rolls
WPA rolls in Cleveland fall below 17 000 for the first time since the defense program began, signaling a notable drop in participation and local relief efforts.
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WPA
Cleveland
Roosevelt Brands Lindbergh as Copperhead in Critique of New Deal
President Roosevelt labeled Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh a Civil War copperhead during a press conference. He contrasted Lindbergh’s anti New Deal stance with vigilance for democracy, warning against appeasers and dictatorships and urging support for democratic processes.
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Roosevelt
Lindbergh
New Deal
Washington
Charles A. Lindbergh
Vallandighams
Clement L. Vallandigham
Ohio
Union
Roosevelt hints at possible Axis occupation of Greenland
President Roosevelt disclosed in a surprising statement a possibility that Axis forces partially occupy Greenland, while defending U S neutrality patrols as reconnaissance and not convoy service. He warned against assuming Greenland is fully under American protection and noted uncertainty about Axis occupancy.
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Washington
Greenland
Roosevelt
Roosevelt answers questions on neutrality patrol and hemispheric defense
President Roosevelt discusses the Atlantic neutrality patrol extending up to a thousand miles from Maryland and the shift in perceived risks since 1939. He emphasizes hemispheric defense and U S obligations under the Monroe Doctrine, while sidestepping specifics on potential belligerent encounters or broader aid strategies. Secretaries Hull Knox and Wickard advocate stronger and more effective aid to Britain.
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United States
Greenland
Neutrality Patrol
Atlantic
Maryland
Roosevelt
Bermuda
Newfoundland
Trinidad
Ican
Canada
Bahamas
Antigua
British West Indies
British Guiana
Britain
Hull
Knox
Wickard
Cabinet members urge decisive action in war crisis
Secretary Hull, Secretary Knox, and Secretary Wickard spoke to diverse audiences urging rapid aid to Britain and stronger US resolve. Each warned against delaying invasion response and emphasized a united front to sustain Britain and win the fight. Senator Nye suggested Britain preferred peace talks, but the cabinet rebutted that Britain would fight on.
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Hull
Navy
Knox
Agriculture Wickard
Atlantic
Wickard
United States
Nye
R-Nd
Britain
Turkey
200 Year Old Suite Rescued From Farm Fire
Mr and Mrs Charles Gaw saved a 200 year old gold veneered French furniture suite from a night fire that destroyed their farm home west of Sandusky The suite valued around $10000 had been handed down in the family for generations
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Sandusky
Charles Gaw
Here
Army Not Temporary, Officer Tells Congress
A general staff officer told Congress the army is not temporary and does not know if demobilization will occur in five or thirty years, explaining why temporary accommodations are not being used.
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Congress
Washington
Army
Xenia Native Killed in Stewart Motorcycle Collision
Corporal Francis Rayburn of Xenia Ohio, assigned to a service battery station, was killed in a motorcycle collision near Camp Stewart Georgia yesterday. Police report details are incomplete and the incident is under investigation.
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Xenia
Camp Stewart
Francis Rayburn
Soybean Futures Rise as Trading Expands at Board
Activity in soy bean futures listed on the Chicago Board of Trade since 1936 grows rapidly with only wheat trading more volume. The bean’s rising importance is marked by moving trading to the second largest pit on the floor, previously used by corn.
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Chicago
Chicago Board of Trade
Union Treasurer Freed In Embezzling Case
Grover Botti, treasurer of the Fostoria United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Jobbers, was given a suspended one to ten year sentence in the Ohio Penitentiary after admitting to using 400 dollars of union funds for his wife's operation.
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Tiffin
Grover Botti
Fostoria United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Jobbers
Ohio
Schenck Sentenced To Three Years In Tax Evasion Case
New York police report: Joseph M. Schenck, a wealthy movie executive, was sentenced in federal court to three years in prison and fined $20,000 for income tax evasion.
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New York
Joseph M. Schenck
Army to Release Worker for Defense Production
Private Frank H. Sallot age 23 a pattern worker whose skill is essential to national defense work will shortly be discharged from the army to return to civilian duties and resume work in a defense related role.
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ARMY
Cleveland
Frank H. Sallot
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