Corsica and Tunis Pledge Loyalty to the Tri Color
Premier Daladier defended France’s territorial integrity amid Italian agitation over Tunis Corsica Savoy and Nice. Demonstrations in Corsica Ajaccio and in Tunis showed French resolve as groups pledged allegiance to France and resisted Italian domination.
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Corsica
Tunis
Paris
U.P
Edouard Daladier
Africa
France
Jaladier
Italy
Chamber of Deputies
Savoy
Nice
Virginio Gayda
Benito Mussolini
Giornale D'Italia
Tunisia
Ajaccio
Britain Warns Italy Against Colony Grab
Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain told the House of Commons Britain warned Italy that recent colonial demonstrations against France could disrupt the drive for friendship. Lord Perth was instructed to tell Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano that Italian annexation demonstrations in the chambers threaten collaboration prospects.
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London
Britain
Italy
France
Neville Chamberlain
House of Commons
Chamberlain
Lord Perth
Galeazzo Ciano
Tunisia
Corsica
Savoy
Nice
Death Sentence Review Sought by Ohio Killer
John W. Cline aged 24 of Middletown appealed to the Ohio Supreme Court for review of his death sentence for the slaying of Aaron Laubach a Hamilton policeman. Cline was sentenced to die January 9 26 in the electric chair for the January 27 killing.
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Columbus
U.P
John W. Cline
Middletown
Ohio Supreme Court Today
Aaron Laubach
Hamilton
Cline
Striking WPA Truck Drivers Block Brookside Park Work
Sixty truck drivers struck blocking WPA Brookside Park project in Cleveland. A picket line of owner drivers halted hauling operations. five police cruisers were dispatched but no trouble was reported.
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Cleveland
WPA
Brookside Park
Truce Signed In Stockyard Strike Sunday
Chicago Livestock Exchange returns to normal operations under a temporary agreement with union Local 567. About 350 strikers voted to resume work, with 600 yard workers to be represented by the union. The deal covers recognition as exclusive bargaining agent and ongoing talks on hours wages and conditions.
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Chicago
Chicago Livestock Exchange
Congress For Industrial Organizations
Hearst Newsmen Strike in Chicago Over Firings
Hearst newspaper employees in Chicago including the Chicago American and the Chicago Herald and Examiner walked off the job protesting mass firings and alleged contract violations. The strike involved Hearst evening and morning papers as workers demanded negotiation with management.
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Chicago
American Newspaper Guild
Chicago American
Chicago Herald and Examiner
Hearst
Aged Couple Die From Gas Leak In Newark Bedroom
Titus Jones 87 and his wife Alice 77 died Sunday from carbon monoxide from a stove in their bedroom. Their bodies were found by daughter Mrs. Eleanore Sprouse when she came to wake them for breakfast. Funeral services set for Tuesday.
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Newark
V.P
Titus Jones
Alice
Eleanore Sprouse
Nash-Kelvinator Reopens After Strike Settlement
Nash-Kelvinator and its Seaman Body unit in Milwaukee reopen after a settlement ends an unauthorized strike by 300 United Automobile Workers members. The move follows a weekend agreement resolving the labor dispute.
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Kenosha
Wis
U.P
Nash-Kelvinator Company
Seaman Body Company
Milwaukee
United Automobile Workers Union
Auto Patents Investigation Gets Started
Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold opened a federal inquiry into automobile patents as part of a two year study of monopoly by the National Economic Committee. He cited that antitrust enforcement must aid mass production and orderly markets. The hearings will highlight Ford General Motors and Chrysler with other major manufacturers testifying.
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Washington
Thurman Arnold
National Economic Committee Today
Edsel Ford
Ford Motor Company
New Deal
Willard Thorp
Commerce Department
Thorp
Ford
General Motors
Chrysler
William S. Knudsen
General Motors Corporation
K. T. Keller
Chrysler Corporation
Son Who Slew Pastor Is Held
Robert Bready age 29 charged with the slaying of his father a Methodist minister at Bainbridge pleaded not guilty to a first degree murder charge and was held for grand jury action. The grand jury likely to meet Jan 3 with trial about 30 days hence.
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Robert Bready
Top
Bainbridge
Russell Bready
Chillicothe
U.P
Paul Horstenstein
Bready
Justice of the Peace
Samuel G. Briggs
Ross County
Lester S. Reid
Expect Decision Soon In Anna Hahn's Case
Gov. Martin L. Davey to decide before Wednesday whether Anna Marie Hahn will die in the electric chair at Ohio Penitentiary. Hahn, 32, of Cincinnati, was convicted of the poison murder of Jacob Wagner, 78, with execution scheduled for Wednesday night.
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Columbus
U.P
Martin L. Davey
Anna Marie Hahn
Ohio Penitentiary
Japanese Boats Escort U.S. Ship Down Yangtze
A Japanese spokesman said the American gunboat Luzon and the French escort vessel Admiral Charner left Hankow for Shanghai, guided by three Japanese torpedo boats and a Japanese airplane. Japan cited river danger from Chinese mines as the reason Luzon could not travel downstream.
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Shanghai
U.P
Luzon
Admiral Charner
Hankow
Yangtze
Zanesville Music Teacher Dies After 21 Years Serving District
C Lee Hetzler longtime music professor in Zanesville Public Schools died Sunday. He taught in Zanesville for 21 years and previously held posts in Piqua Troy and Wells ville.
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Zanesville
Apri
C. Lee Hetzler
Zanesville Public
Piqua
Troy
Wellssville
Warren WPA worker murders wife and neighbor with hatchet
Nick Babich 54 confessed to killing his wife Barbara Babich 54 and Dan Gross 55 after a dispute over a family car. Babich, who previously survived self harm and served two years for an earlier attempt, killed Mrs Babich on Sunday night and Gross in the driveway after a pursuit in the woodshed incident. Babich was arrested by officers hiding in a cellar.
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Warren
Nick Babich
Barbara Babich
Babich
Dan Gross
Ohio
Andy
Logan Woman Dies After Car Collision
Elizabeth Evans 86, of Logan, was struck Sunday evening at Hunter and Market, died hours later at Cherrington Hospital. Driver Walter Gathers Jr. is being questioned. She leaves sons William and Roscoe, and daughters Mrs. Kemmerling, Mrs. Hicks, Mrs. Smith, and Charles, Dick, and Arthur. Funeral set for Tuesday at 2 p.m. at Carbon Hill home.
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William
Henry Kemmerling
Carbon Hill
Arthur Hicks
Athens
Charles
Willard, O
Roscoe
Albert Smith
Logan
Kemmerling
Publisher Slugged and Robbed by Hitch-Hiker
Donnie Henderson, 34, publisher of Price Hill News in Cincinnati, was attacked by a hitch-hiker. He was slugged robbed of 400 dollars and left in his burning car at the base of an embankment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
U.P
Donnie Henderson
Price Hill News
Henderson
Robs Hotel While Clerk Hunts Fire
Mrs Lee Shepard clerk at the Cowles Hotel in Painesville rushed out when a man shouted fire at the front of the building. There was no fire. She found $80 missing from the cash register after returning to her desk.
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Painesville
U.R
Lee Shepard
Cowles Hotel
Film Job Goes To FDRs Son
Hollywood reports James Roosevelt son of the President joined Samuel Goldwyn Inc as vice president breaking White House precedent. He moves from a White House secretariat post to a top film industry role amid a public press conference.
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Fdr
Hollywood
U.P
James Roosevelt
White House
Samuel Goldwyn, Inc., Ltd
Roosevelt
Elliott
FCC takes no action on War of the Worlds broadcast
The Federal Communications Commission announced it will take no punitive action against Columbia Broadcasting System and its member stations for airing Orson Welles The War of the Worlds on October 30. The decision ends weeks of public comment and FCC review.
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Washington
AUP
Federal Communications Commission
Columbia Broadcasting System
Orson Welles
Minister Advocates State Legalized Gambling in Sermon
Rev. John Malick of the First Unitarian Congregational Church urged Ohio state legalization of gambling. He argued there is a natural desire to take chances and criticized church groups opposing gambling as misinformed. He contended laws are class legislation and that the state must provide roads and services regardless of moral views.
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Cincinnati
John Malick
First Unitarian Congregational Church
Malick
Ireland
Rev. Malick
Fire Rages Through Gallipolis Building Damaging Murphys Stock
A morning blaze at the G. C. Murphy Co. building on City Park Square caused losses exceeding 100000 dollars. The 75000 dollar Murphy stock and 25000 dollar building were damaged and tenants LO O F Lodge Jr O U A M and Daughters of America suffered loss of equipment and records. Water damage was heavy as flames started in a lodge kitchen and the roof collapsed while walls remained intact.
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Gallipolis
G. C. Murphy Co
Murphy Co
Morgan Says To Show Huge Annual Deficit
Former TVA chairman Arthur F. E. Morgan testified before a joint committee that TVA power will lose about 3.16 million dollars yearly when seven dams operate fully. He warned rates must rise to cover costs, citing residential overselling of electrical appliances to boost the agency’s power business.
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Morgan
Washington
A.P
Arthur FE. Morgan
Tennessee Valley Authority
TVA
Joint’ Congressional Committee
Pennsylvania backs Roosevelt in 1940 renomination push
Pennsylvania senator Guffey declares state will support Franklin D Roosevelt as standard bearer at the 1940 Democratic convention. He asserts Pennsylvania’s 72 pledged votes for Roosevelt and warns the party faces a third term debate that could shake the new Congress.
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Washington
Pennsylvania
Roosevelt
Congress
Republican Party
Sen. Guffey
Democratic National Committee
Jacoby Named Hocking County Relief Director
Everett Jacoby, recently defeated in the race for county auditor, was named county relief director by the Hocking County commissioners. He replaces Frank Brown who was named district office manager for the unemployment compensation commission of Ohio.
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Logan
Everett Jacoby
Hocking County
Frank Brown
Unemployment Compensation Commission of
Ohio
Gallia Boy Killed. Kanauga Traffic Accident Fatal
Orlan Cremeens 17 and Woodrow Cremeens 22 of Poplar Ridge were hit by a car driven by Robert Bunce 25 near Kanauga while walking toward Gallipolis. Orlan died from injuries. Woodrow severely injured as Bunce reported foggy, rainy conditions and heavy traffic. Bunce's car damaged. he was questioned by sheriff's officers.
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Gallipolis
Orlan Cremeens
David Cremeens
Poplar Ridge
Cheshire
Woodrow Cremeens
George Cremeens
Robert Bunce
Georges Creek
Kanauga Village
Kanauga
Bunce
Post Mortem Sought In Youth's Death In Middleport
John Ely 24 died at home in Middleport and a post mortem was requested by his mother Mrs Velma Ely. She suspects ptomaine poisoning from sandwiches bought at a roadside stand Sunday. Survived by three brothers one sister and his father. He worked for the state highway department.
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Middleport
John Ely
Velma Ely
Ely
William Ely
Charleston
W. Va
The
State Highway Department
Police To Question Girl Again in Kidnap Case
In Oxon Hill Maryland police plan to question 18 year old Mary Brown about a 30 hour kidnapping claim. Despite no evidence supporting the story they have not found clues to discredit it and continue to investigate the case.
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Oxon Hill
U.P
Elmer F. Munshower
Maryland State Police Today
Mery Brown
Mary
Lucy
Roosevelt Leaves Columbia After Breakfast With Johnston
President Roosevelt departed Columbia at 10 30 a m after a two hour breakfast with South Carolina Governor Olin D Johnston en route to Chapel Hill North Carolina.
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FDR
Columbia
S. C
Roosevelt
Chapel Hill
N. C
Victims Die In Crash At New Route 33 Bridge
A car plunged from the Enterprise bridge end onto a 50 foot embankment on Route 33. Milton R. Merritt 81 of Columbus and Elizabeth Webb 70 of Reynoldsburg died later at Cherrington Hospital. Other occupants were injured.
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LOGAN
Enterprise
Milton R. Merritt
W. Goodale St
Columbus
Athens
Meigs
Merritt
Albany
Ellen Martin
M. R. Merritt
Will C. Merritt
Merritts
Webbs
Pt. Rock
Meigs County
T. C. Gregory
Joe Farbearn
J. A. Iselstein
Deanville
Worley Merritt
Harold Palmer
Buick Plant Closure Hits Flint Workers
General Motors says the Buick plant in Flint will close due to supply shortages from the Fisher strike. The strike ended and the plant is set to reopen Tuesday at 10 AM, with 13,000 GM employees affected and 3,000 laid off last Friday night as the line halted.
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Detroit
U.P
General Motors Corporation
Buick
Flint
Fisher
General Motors
Fifteen Missing After Ship Sinks in Collision
London reports the Greek freighter Akti with 3,960 tons and cargo of ore bound for Rotterdam from Rio de Janeiro sank after colliding with the German steamer La Plata 8,056 tons en route to Buenos Aires from Hamburg. La Plata was badly damaged and towed to Brest, likely to be beached.
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London
U.P
la Plata
Rotterdam
Rio de Janeiro
Buenos Aires
Hamburg
Brest
Bricker Accepts Invitation to National Gridiron Dinner
Governor elect John W. Bricker said he will attend the national gridiron dinner in Washington on December 17, joining other dignitaries at the event.
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Columbus
John W. Bricker
Washington
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Anna Hahn
U.S
Dollie Board
Joplin
Odd Fellows Lodge
Gallia
Kananga
Worley L. Merritt
Cherrington Hospital
Hebbardsville
Athens County
Howard Coe
Reynoldsburg
Charles Congreve
Laurelville
Circleville
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