Heavy Gains in Ukraine Claimed by Nazis
The War Department outlined new plans for National Guardsmen and selectees to be released after an average of about 18 months of total active service, with a maximum 30 months allowed by law. Priority for release includes hardship cases, older service members, and married men seeking discharge after 12 months. Roosevelt signed a law boosting reenlistment bonuses and allowing indeterminate wartime service for navy and Marine Corps personnel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
War Department
Roosevelt
Army
Regular Army
Regular
Department
National Guard
Navy
Marine Corps
Congress
Roosevelt urged end to shipyard strike and yard takeover risk
President Roosevelt appealed to Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock to accept National Mediation Board recommendations and end a 12 day strike halting 493 million dollars of work at the Kearny New Jersey yard. If refused, the government may take over the yard to run navy contracts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roosevelt
Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company
National Mediation Board
Kearny, N. J
CIO
Mediation Board
L. H. Korndorff
Navy
Baltimore
Bethlehem Steel Company
Sparrows Point
Nicholas Fontecchio
Steel Workers Organizing Committee
Woman held in baby case at Springfield detention home
A 41 year old woman was held in detention home as detectives probe two diverging stories about a six month old baby she turned over yesterday. She first said she found the child in her car after leaving a restaurant in Illinois but could not name the restaurant or city. She later told probation officers that two hitch hikers forced the baby on her.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Walter Sweet
Sweet
Illinois
Alice L. Stewart
Condemned Dog Flees As Owner Collapses Dead
In Hugo Oklahoma W E Leonard a 65 year old watchmaker helped police prepare to shoot his dog suspected of rabies. He suddenly collapsed and died of a heart attack. The dog escaped amid the commotion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hugo, Okla
W. E. Leonard
Leonard
Summers to Succeed Ray as Zanesville School Chief
Donald F. Summers principal of Theodore Roosevelt Junior School will succeed Kenneth C. Ray as superintendent of Zanesville public schools. Ray has left to become state director of education.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ray Zanesville
Donald F. Summers
Theodore Roosevelt
Kenneth C. Ray
Zanesville
Ray
State plans to double free school lunch total in Ohio
The Ohio Welfare Department announced a 100 percent expansion of its free lunch program for the 1941-42 term. Using improved storage facilities, about 20 million meals are planned through district warehouses in Akron Canton Athens Portsmouth Columbus Dayton and Toledo. The program will extend beyond relief families to include more needy students.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
State Welfare Department
Ohio
Carl Graves
Charles L. Sherwood
Akron
Canton
Athens
Portsmouth
Dayton
Toledo
Graves
Law Smuggler Granted Release From Ohio Institution
Lenora Leach age 27 was paroled by the Ohio Pardon and Parole Commission on Sept 15 with orders to relocate to West Virginia once probation arrangements are set. She had been jailed at Marysville Marysville Reformatory since May 22 1939 for carrying contraband to aid an escape attempt involving Virgil Sigler who is serving 10 to 25 years. A jail attendant found hacksaw blades she tried to pass to Sigler.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Lenora Leach
Gallia County
Marysville
Virgil Sigler
Ohio
Sigler
Rural Mail Carriers Open National Conclave
The 38th annual convention of the National Rural Letter Carriers Association opens in Columbus with Gov. John W. Bricker welcoming about 4000 delegates. The meeting runs through Friday as carriers from rural routes nationwide gather for sessions and talks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
National Rural Letter Carriers’ Association
John W. Bricker
Liabilities Over Million Says Bankrupt Wife
Philadelphia woman Gertrude Simon Hirshorn files for federal bankruptcy showing liabilities of 1,485,015.20 with assets of 50. She lists herself as a house wife with no income for two years and no bank account. Debts largely stem from mortgage transactions dating to 1929.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
War Today Inside a Ukrainian Garageside Forecast
An Odessa observer speaks of the war’s pace as he chats with a Ukraine-born attendant at a public garage. He notes German air assaults on Odessa and gauges Hitler’s advance toward the Volga and Russo-Persian border, calculating about 800 miles to the Volga and 600 more to the border with roughly 800 miles of good weather remaining.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ukraine
Carpathians
Hitler
Odessa
Black Sea
Red Army
Volga
Caspian
Caucasus
Berlin
Soviet Losses Reported In Odessa Area
German and allied forces claimed near Odessa and the Dnieper front as Soviet losses mounted. They said 60,000 Red Army prisoners were taken with ships, guns, and bombed transports disabled, while fighting raged around Odessa and Leningrad loom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Odessa
Adolf Hitler
Ukraine
Dnieper River
Black Sea
Red Army
Leningrad
Nikolaev
London
Semeon Budgonny
Hitler
Lower Dnieper
Flanders
Kiev
Korosten
Westerville Man Slated To Head Ohio Legion
Delegates to the Ohio convention of the American Legion met to elect officers with Floyd Hartpence of Westerville reported as the leading candidate for state commander. Legionnaires voted to seek ROTC in all Ohio high schools and urged a law requiring student pledge of allegiance to the flag.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Youngstown
Ohio Convention of the American Legion
Floyd Hartpence
Westerville
Legionnaires
Ohio
Ohio soldiers burned as lightning hits wire
Five Ohioans from the 147th Infantry, 37th Division, were jolted and mildly burned when lightning struck a telephone wire in their maneuver area at Lake Charles yesterday. Named were Corp. John R. Thompson of Loveland, Pvt. Cyril Weibel, Sgt. Lester Kin ner, and William Mahaffey, all of Cincinnati, and Sgt. Dewitt Horine of Easton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lake Charles
147Th Infantry
Corp
John R. Thompson
Loveland
Cyril Weibel
Lester Kinner
William Mahaffey
Cincinnati
Dewitt Horine
Easton
U S Plans South Atlantic Ferry for Warplanes to Africa
President Roosevelt announced a new South Atlantic ferry to move American warplanes to West Africa and on to the Middle East. Pan American Airways would operate the flight and transport services, avoiding active war zones and supplying spare parts and personnel as needed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Britain
Middle East
West Africa
Roosevelt
Dakar
Mediterranean
White House
Africa
Pan American Airways
Pan American
State Defense Council To Be Named Today
Gov. Bricker to announce the appointment of a State defense council aimed at securing national defense work for Ohio small industries. The advisory board, effective tomorrow, may supervise investigations into state needs and propose legislation while local councils may also be created.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
John W. Bricker
Ohio
Bricker
Hospital and nurses home planned at Ravenna Ohio
A $250000 defense public works project was approved for Ravenna Ohio to fund a hospital addition and a nurses home under the Roosevelt administration. The federal works agency announced the plan as one of the first under the program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ravenna
Washington
Defense Public Works Program
Roosevelt
Federal Works Agency
Detention of Americans in Japan Discussed by U S Envoy
U S Ambassador Joseph C. Grew said he had been talking with the Japanese government about restrictions on Americans leaving Japan and other problems affecting United States citizens. Koh Ishii, cabinet information bureau spokesman, denied that Japan intends to hold Americans as hostages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Japan
Washington
Tokyo
United States
Russia
Vladivostok
Siberia-Manchukuo
Kokumin
Great Britain
U. S
Joseph C. Grew
Koh Ishii
Cabinet Information Bureau
Death Toll in Brooklyn Pier Blaze Reaches Seven
Seven people are dead and about forty feel missing after a devastating Brooklyn pier fire that consumed cargo and the Cuba Mail Line ship Panuco. At least 55 remain seriously injured as the Marine Inspection and Navigation Service opens a formal inquiry. Sabotage is considered unlikely by fire officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brooklyn
New York and Cuba
Brooklyn Pier
New York
Cuba
U. S. Marine Inspection and Navigation Service
Panace
Free 22 Years Convict Reenters Ohio Penitentiary
Leslie Burgermeister, 62, released after 22 years of freedom is back in the Ohio Penitentiary. He was arrested in Manchester Indiana and admitted escaping from a Junction City brick plant in 1919. Warden Henderson will seek a two year extension to his forgery sentence of one to 20 years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Leslie Burgermeister
Ohio
Frank C. Henderson
Burgermeister
Manchester
Ind
Junction City
Henderson
Lucas County
Churchill Returns From Atlantic Conference With Roosevelt
Churchill arrives in London reporting his talks with President Roosevelt and the aim to intensify the fight against Hitler. He chairs a war cabinet meeting and shares assessments from the sea parleys while observers note the peril and jubilation of his return aboard the Prince of Wales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Churchill
London
Fdr
Atlantic
Roosevelt
War Cabinet
Daily Herald
Hitler
Reuters
Britain
Army Officer's Death Probed in Rio Grande Camp
Lt. John M. Barnhart 28 a former NYA medical supervisor died at a Rio Grande tourist camp nine hours after notifying officers of illness. First Lt Clarence E Northrup sent to Rio Grande with an ambulance returned the body to Fort Hayes Post for investigation. Barnhart married six weeks earlier to Rush Consisto of Charleston and was visiting Wet Virginia on week end leave. His mother Mrs Maude Barnhart lives in Clendenin, W Va.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Army
Fort Hayes Post Hospital
John M. Barnhart
NYA
Charleston
W. Va
Barnhart
Rio Grande
Clarence E. Northrup
Rush Consisto
Virginia
Maude Barnhart
Clendenin
Woman Claims Friend Pushed Her From 85-Foot Cliff
Cleveland report says a 21 year old divorcee identified as Jane Hunt is in serious condition after tumbling 85 feet onto a rocky Lake Erie beach. Patrolman Schmidt states she alleges her companion on a date threw her off the cliff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Lake Erie Beach
Eugene H. Schmidt
Jane Hunt
Draft Age Limit To Affect Ohioans
Columbus reports indications that about 15,000 Ohio men in Class I for military training would be affected by a new law exempting those past age 28. The measure moves through state proceedings and could alter draft eligibility for thousands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Also Mentioned on This Page
THE
Associated Press
Brotherhood of Railway Carmen
Michigan City
Pullman Standard Car Manufacturing Company
Carmen
Western Electric, Inc
America
Claude Smith
George Smith
By Dewitt MacKenzie
Ohio Legion
U.S
South Atlantic
State Defense Council
Prince of Wales
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!