Churchill Pledges British Aid to U.S. Against Japs
Winston Churchill pledged Britain will stand by the United States if Japan threatens U S interests in the Far East. He warned Japan to halt its expansion and urged U S readiness while stressing a common front against Nazi expansion and pledging aid to Russia in the Soviet theater.
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Churchill
U.S
Washington
Winston Churchill
Far East
United States
Japan
Britain
Kent
Roosevelt
Singapore
Philippines
Asia
Itler
Russia
United Nd
Great Britain
Pacific
Europe
Soviet
Ohio Crop Outlook Seen as Very Good for Harvest Yields
Columbus reports the Ohio crop outlook as very good with an estimated 155 million dollar corn harvest. Farmers also expect 2.5 million in sugar beets 11 million in soybeans and gains in vegetables and fruits per the state crop reporting service.
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Columbus
Ohio
Boy Dies in Cave-In During Digging Job
A 12 year old, Carlton Lewis, was killed when a cave collapsed at a pit where he was digging. Authorities say the incident occurred in Dayton.
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Dayton
Carlton Lewis
Under Fire for Fort Bragg Commander Removal Demand
Several members of Congress demand Col. Charles B. Elliott be removed as Fort Bragg post commander after judge advocate sentences Private John Habinyak to a 10 year term for refusing orders six times.
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Congress
Charles B. Elliott
Fort Bragg
N. C
John Habinyak
New Pig-Iron Plants To Be Built in Ohio
Three of four new pig iron plants under a 58 million program will be built in Ohio with starts within 15 months. Cleveland Youngstown Warren and Birmingham will host the plants under a Defense Plant Corp Republic Steel contract, delivering 1.572 million tons annually. The facilities include four blast furnaces and will be owned by the Defense Plant Corp and operated by Republic under a five year lease. Two furnaces to be built locally in Youngstown and in Gadsden Alabama. The plan aims to address scrap metal shortages and expand mining at Port Henry New York and Birmingham.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Youngstown
Warren
Birmingham
Ala
Defense Plant Corp
Republic Steel Corp
Jesse Jones
Republic
Gadsden
Jones
Port Henry
N. Y
Vote To Lower Tax Exemption
The Senate Finance Committee voted to broaden the income tax base by lowering exemptions to $1,500 for married persons and $750 for single individuals. Senator Clark D-Mo called the move substantial as it would bring about 6,000,000 more people into the tax structure and add $300 to $350 million to federal revenues, mostly from existing taxpayers.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
Clark D-Mo
Draft Board To Guard Jobs of Ex Soldiers
Washington reports that local draft boards must protect returning soldiers' employment rights. Brigadier General Lewis B. Hershey directs each board to appoint a re employment committeeman to ensure fair rehiring. The law requires rehire unless employer circumstances have changed to prevent it.
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Washington
Lewis B. Hershey
Hospital hunts radium capsule lost in sewer search
Youngstown South Side hospital officials sought a Geiger counter and a galvanoscope to locate a radium capsule valued at 4000 to 5000 dollars dumped into a sewer with gauze after patient treatment. Sewage pipes around the hospital were torn up without success.
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Youngstown
South Side Hospital
Farmer Michael Yaniec fatally gored by bull
Trampled by a bull, 57 year old farmer Michael Yaniec of Eagleville suffered fatal injuries. The incident occurred on his farm and authorities are investigating the circumstances.
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Ashtabula
Michael Yaniec
Eagleville
Thousands Return to Work as Navy Takes Over Kearny Shipyard
About 3,000 workers resume at the Federal Shipbuilding plant in Kearny New Jersey under navy management after CIO shipyard workers end their strike. AFL transit crews also end walkouts as bargaining elections are agreed at seven Great Lakes yards. A CIO insulator plant strike at Barberton seeks presidential takeover to end delays on defense orders.
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Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company
Kearny
N. J
National Mediation Board
AFL
Detroit
Amalgamated Association of Street, Electric Railway and Motor Coach Operators
CIO
State
County
Great Lakes
American Shipbuilding Company
Hugh E. Sperry
National Labor Relations Board
Cleveland
Buffalo
Toledo
Lorain
Chicago
Superior
Wis
Barberton
Ohio Brass Co
Roosevelt
Defense Mediation Board
Chadwick Takes Command Of Anti-Tank Company
First Lieutenant Harold E. Chadwick of Athens has been appointed commanding officer of the Anti-Tank Company, 166th Infantry, 37th Division, now in major army maneuvers. He is a Fort Benning graduate and began as a private with a commission dated May 17, 1937.
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Harold E. Chadwick
Athens
166Th Infantry
United States
Chadwick
Fort Benning
East Liverpool Train Service at Risk of Abandonment
East Liverpool could lose passenger service if the Pennsylvania Railroad’s request to abandon the East Liverpool Alliance line is granted. The railroad argued the line is lightly patronized and that cars are needed for troop transportation.
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East Liverpool
Ohio Public Utilities Commission
Pennsylvania Railroad
East Liverpool Alliance
Two Year Old Found After Night in Woods
Donald Bunn aged two was found in a wooded area about a mile from his Twinsburg home after 300 searchers scoured the woods overnight. The wet crying boy, son of widow Dorothy Bunn, was treated by a physician for fever after vanishing near a friend’s home while his mother worked.
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Cleveland
Donald Bunn
Twinsburg
Dorothy Bunn
Probe Hatch Act Violations In Cincinnati
The first federal inquiry into Hatch Act violations involving funds from federal sources opens in Cincinnati. Eleven Ohio Bureau of Unemployment Compensation employees are called to answer charges, including Cincinnati manager Harry J. Patterson and Cleveland adj ustment supervisor E B Boggs. The state probes 90 Cincinnati BUC employees under oath, with potential loss of federal funds and dismissal as penalties.
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Cincinnati
Civil Service
Ohio Bureau of Unemployment Compensation
Harry J. Patterson
E. B. Boggs
Lakewood
Cleveland
Harold M. Baron
Ohio
Harry Nail
Howard Bernstein
Fight Brewing Over Pensions
Washington sources say senate pension advocates plan to back administration aims to modify the Townsend Plan within the tax bill. Senator Downey of California, a Townsend adherent, will push for a minimum $30 monthly federal pension for those over 60 before the senate finance committee this week. The plan reportedly seeks Roosevelt backing but has not secured it.
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Washington
White House
Senate
Downey
Calif
Senate Finance Committee
Roosevelt
Republic Steel tin mill to be idle for a few days
Officials said the Warren plant's tin mills would be out of operation for a few days due to a steel shortage affecting production.
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Warren
Republic Steel Corp
Anglo Russian Move to Send Expeditionary Forces to Persia
The war report outlines a joint Anglo Soviet plan to move expeditionary forces into Persia to block Nazi plans. It links the push to Hitler advancing via the Caucasus toward Persia and possibly Turkey, highlighting Persia’s oil and strategic value as a lifeline to the Soviet Union and a potential base to threaten India and the Suez Canal.
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Iran
Persia
Ukraine
Caucasus
Britain
Hitler
Turkey
Fuehrer
Russia
Persian Gulf
Baltic
Black Seas
Vladivostok
India
Middle East
Egypt
Suez Canal
Biddle Nominated for Attorney General Post
President Roosevelt nominated Francis Biddle solicitor general of the Justice Department to be attorney general of the United States. He will fill the post left by Robert H. Jackson’s Supreme Court appointment, with Charles Fahy expected to succeed him as solicitor general.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Francis Biddle
Justice Department
United States
Biddle
Robert H. Jackson
Supreme Court
Charles Fahy
Good Neighbor Day at Fair Highlights Latin America Ties
Ohio Governor Bricker hosts a luncheon in the Henry Harrison building honoring Paraguay envoy Juan Jose Soler. Soler will attend Ohio’s $25,000,000 agricultural exposition and address will be broadcast to Latin American nations at 8:30 p.m. on WLW short wave.
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Columbus
WLW
Gasoline Shortage Puts Dobbin Back in Army
Chicago report notes horses and mules, once blamed for inefficiency, may return to work as fuel and machine shortages rise. Wayne Dinsmore of the Horse and Mule Association cites rural and urban dependence on animal power, with 11 million head currently at work and only 400 thousand off farms.
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Dobbin
Chicago
America
Wayne Dinsmore
Horse and Mule Association of America
Dinsmore
Seven Die as Bus Hits Auto in New Jersey
In Waldwick New Jersey seven members of a Jersey City family were killed when a bus collided with their car and four other autos. The bus driver Carl Ramsey 30 of Albany was charged with reckless driving.
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Waldwick
N. J
Joseph Bason
Blanche
Charlotte
Marian
Ursula
Bason
Elizabeth
Ann
Jersey City
William
Carl Ramsey
Albany
N. Y
New York
Three 4-H Youths Die in Ohio Auto Mishap
The Associated Press reports three 4-H Club youths died in a Sunday crash near Fostoria while four others were injured. The fatalities occurred as the group returned home from the state fair, with the accident also part of a weekend spate of Ohio crashes that claimed at least 21 lives. The dead were members of 4-H clubs from near Grand Rapids in Wood County.
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Associated Press
Ohio
Grand Rapids
Wood County
Fostoria
Former Teacher Found Murdered in Sandusky
Mrs. Prussia Singleton 43 a former Mt. Sterling Kentucky teacher and longtime Sandusky resident was found murdered in a nude condition in a one room shack at Homeville. Sheriff William Souter said the skull was crushed and the face lacerated by a sharp instrument.
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Sandusky
Prussia Singleton
Mt. Sterling
William Souter
Homeville
Finnish coastal artillery sinks Soviet transport in Gulf of Finland
Finnish coastal artillery sunk a 5,000 ton Soviet transport loaded with men guns and trucks in the Gulf of Finland Sunday according to DNB.
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Berlin
Gulf of Finland
DNB
Iran Invaders Face Likely Short Iran Resistance Amid Oil Threat
A London AP report states Iran's army of about 190000 resists British-Russian invasion as veteran desert troops move from Iraq toward Baluchistan. Anglo Soviet aims include securing Gulf access, protecting oil pipelines, and deterring German fifth column sabotage with limited Iranian air strength and German aids.
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London
Iran
Persian Gulf
Caspian Sea
Iraq
Baluchistan
Cairo
Middle East Command
Bandar Shahpur
Yunis Bagri
Berlin
U.S.S.R
Ukraine
Caucasus
Reading Bullard
Teheran
Red
Baku
Bushire
Bandar
Jasmid-i-Sulaiman
Abadan
Basra
Red Army Repels German Push Near Leningrad In Bold Counterattacks
Soviet dispatches claim heavy Red tank counterattacks south and southwest of Leningrad undercut German advances. They report over 100 German armored losses in the Gomel front and 26,000 Romanian troops hurt near Odessa, with renewed northern fighting near Kakisalmi and Novgorod. German raids hit Britain’s commerce as bombers range from England to the Faeroes and sabotage grows in occupied France.
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Red Army
Leningrad
Gomel
Smolensk
Kiev
Black Sea
Odessa
Kingisepp
Novgorod
Kakisalmi
Dnieper
Dnieperopetrovsk
Dnieper River
High Command
Britain
Gibraltar
Lisbon
Germany
England
Faeroe Islands
France
Paris
Roosevelt Returns To Capital With Royalty
President Roosevelt and the Duke of Kent reached Washington by special train and planned a conference with congressional leaders before flying to Norfolk to inspect defense operations. The Duke would depart from the station to the naval air station and then to Norfolk, with Roosevelt returning to the White House for dinner and a night at the capital.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Duke of Kent
Norfolk
Naval Air Station
White House
Relief Office Burglary Steals Food Stamps in Cleveland
Burglars damaged three safes at city relief offices over the weekend and took more than $72,000 in federal food stamps plus $200 in cash. Assistant Commissioner S. T. Rowley said the theft is the third in district offices nationwide and suspected a national ring colluding with certain food dealers to redeem stamps for cash without supplying groceries.
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Cleveland
S. T. Rowley
Crew of Four Killed in Canadian Bomber Crash
Liverpool Nova Scotia report says four Royal Canadian Air Force personnel died when their training bomber crashed during a search for a missing aircraft of the same type from which five airmen had parachuted to safety.
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Liverpool
Nova Scotia
Royal Canadian Air Force
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