Italy Demands German Support For Tunis Corsica Clash
Paris reports indicate Italy pressed Germany for overt support of its Tunis and Corsica claims. Ribbentrop met French leader Bonnet amid talks on Rome Berlin axis and possible German pressure on Italy. Economic talks set for Saturday. discussions included memorial inscriptions and a Compiègne landmark.
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Italy
Corsica
Tunis
Paris
U.pi
Germany
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Fuehrer
Adolf Hitler
Hitler
Benito Isolini
Galeazzo Ciano
Georges Bonnet
Ribbentrop
France
Djibouti
Reich
Rome-Berlin
Bonnet
Berlin
Invalides
Compeigne
Patent Laws Change Looms
Washington reports that the senate monopoly investigating committee may recommend patent law changes after a two year survey of monopoly in American industry. Chairman O Mahoney has not decided on changes though questions to motor manufacturers and patent attorneys hint at compulsory licensing of patents being discussed.
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Washington
LLP
Senate
Congress
O'Mahoney
Wyo
Dem Senators Split On Minority Leader
In Columbus eight Democrats selected for the new Senate remained divided after 51 roll calls over a minority leader choice. After hours of wrangling they adjourned without a candidate and only Sen. William J. Zoul can reconvene the caucus. The split leaves the group without official representatives to meet Republican leaders on patronage matters.
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Columbus
Senate
William J. Zoul
Cleveland
Officials Seek Private Funds for Gov Davey Car
Columbus Ohio state highway director Irvan R Ault announced letters to department heads inviting contributions to a fund to buy Gov Martin L Davey a new automobile. Contributions were to be sent to Xenophon G Hass enplug chief engineer of maintenance in the highway department.
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Columbus
U.P
Irvan R. Ault
Martin L. Davey
Ault
Xenophon G. Hassenplug
Glouster Miner Killed in Millfield No 6 Cave-In
Glouster miner Marcellus Mathews age 53 was killed instantly in a cave-in at the No 6 Mine of Sunday Creek Coal Co at Millfield. Harold Showers 21 of Millfield was injured and removed to Sheltering Arms Hospital. Mathews leaves a large family and burial is planned in Maplewood Cemetery near Glouster.
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Sunday Creek Coal Co
Millfield
Marcellus Mathews
Glouster
Harold Showers
Sheltering Arms Hospital
Mathews
Showers
Ronald
Grafton
W. Va
Corning
No. 10
Anna Andrews
Raymond
Lancaster
Bernice O'Neal
Columbus
Violet Gibbs
Beatrice
Clyde
Wilfred
Glenford
Arthur
Betty
Maplewood Cemetery
Disaster Gets Toast As Plane Gear Jams
An American, British and French party aboard a British airliner circling Croydon airport toasted to disaster as the landing gear jammed. The craft landed safely after the gear was freed and crews stood by while passengers returned to a hotel for continued revelry in the early hours.
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London
Croydon
Bob Feller Appeals For License Return
Bob Feller 20 year old star pitcher for the Cleveland Indians instructed his attorney to appeal to the State Supreme Court for reinstatement of his Iowa automobile driver's license. His license was suspended for three months after a reckless driving fine of 100 dollars.
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Des Moines
U.P
Bob Feller
Cleveland Indians
State Supreme Court
Iowa
Feller
California Shakes Near Hollywood With Strong Quake
An earthquake centered near Hollywood jolted the area northwest of Los Angeles last night. No injuries or damage details are provided in the report.
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California
Hollywood
Los Angeles
Government’s Meddling With Business Hit
Charles R. Hook president of the National Association of Manufacturers told the Congress of American Industry that government participation in industry cannot reduce unemployment or speed recovery. He said all sectors erred in the past and urged cooperation, distinguishing regulation from control. Anthony Eden will close the congress Friday night.
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New York
U.P
Charles R. Hook
National Association of Manufacturers
Hook
Congress of American Industry
Congress
Anthony Eden
Great Britain
United States
Former warden of Ohio Pen dies at 83
Thomas Hart Benton Jones longtime Ohio Penitentiary warden from 1909 to 1913 died of heart disease at his home in Ironton U P last night at age 83.
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Ironton
U.P
Thomas Hart Benton Jones
Ohio
Roosevelt Seeks Pay As You Go Rearmament Plan
President Roosevelt plans to implement an expanded rearmament program without significantly raising the 1940 budget. Officials say defense costs will be kept separate from relief and public works spending, aiming for a postwar defense outlay between 1.5 and 2 billion dollars.
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Washington
U.P
Roosevelt
Congress
PWA
WPA
Warns Against Outlaw Strikes in Auto Union
Detroit President Homer Martin of the United Automobile Workers warns the union will not tolerate unauthorized walk outs in the motor car industry. He says any member or officer failing to oppose such strikes will be held accountable for their actions.
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Detroit
U.P
Homer Martin
United Automobile Workers Union
Martin
Detroit Workers End Brief Sit-Down Strike at NashKelvinator
Detroit plant workers resumed the day shift after a short sit-down strike protesting the four week layoff of Ernest Bowman MESA Steward for alleged disrespect to a foreman. The action followed disciplinary measures against Bowman at the Nash-Kelvinator Corporation plant.
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Detroit
4U.P
Nash-Kelvinator Corporation
Ernest Bowman
MESA
Findlay Vet Patrick Mullane Dies in Office Building Fall
Patrick J. Mullane, 52, a World War II veteran and member of the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Regiment, was killed yesterday after falling about 20 feet while washing windows at an office building in Findlay.
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Findlay
Patrick J. Mullane
Princess Pat
Governor Davey Refuses Intervention In Hahn Case
Ohio Governor Davey declares he will not intervene in the Hahn case. He explains his belief in female character, contrasts chivalry with treachery, and says Mrs. Hahn’s crimes were deliberate for money. He acknowledges mothers’ grief and accepts legal responsibility for his decision.
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Columbus
Davey
Hahn
Federal Funds For Pensions Expected Soon
The Social Security Board delays a 1.3 million dollar federal share for Ohio old age pensions in November to audit and obtain a current estimate of beneficiaries from state head Wray Bevens. Officials expect funds to Columbus within two days as pension payments resume after last month’s suspension over administration concerns.
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Washington
Ohio
Social Security Board
Columbus
Wray Bevens
Killing Charge Faced by Boy in Officer's Death
Rex Bush 19 Mentone Ind held in San dusky County Jail on first degree murder charges in the death of Marshal Neal D Fowler 49 Clyde Ohio. Bush captured after a Bellevue police pursuit near U S Route 20 following a gasoline station robbery and confessed to using a shotgun.
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Fremont
U.P
Rex Bush
Mentone
Ind
Sandusky County
Neal D. Fowler
Clyde
Bush
Bellevue
Fowler
Capone Has Six Weeks To Serve in Alcatraz
Government records show Al Capone has six weeks left to serve in Alcatraz on his 1931 tax evasion sentence. He will not gain full freedom then, as he still must serve a one year term on a related misdemeanor charge likely in Cook County Jail, Chicago.
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Washington
U.P
al Capone
Chicago
Alcatraz
Cook County
Ohio Speaker Sees Low Chance of Tax Special Session
Columbus Ohio Speaker Frank R Aible says a special session seems unlikely if Governor Davey relies on house sentiment. Aible met with Governor Davey and lobbyist Harry Wilson to discuss a gross receipts tax within the retail sales tax and the need for Senate confirmations to trigger any session.
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Columbus
U.P
Frank R. Aible
Ohio House of Representatives
Davey
House
Aible
Harry Wilson
Wilson
Senate
Hatchet
Two Officers and Convict Slain in Burlington Hold Up
In Burlington North Carolina sheriff M P Robertson who began a four year term Monday and veteran officer S W Vaughn were killed during a holdup at a filling station as two escaped convicts robbed the site Roy Huffman of Greensboro fired through a station window killing one convict Roy Kelly the other offender escaped Roy Huffman had been in the Greensboro force for 20 years and Robertson was 45 Vaughn 55 Baliff another officer fired from outside.
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Burlington
N. C
U.R
Burlington City
M. P. Robertson
Alamanace
S. W. Vaughn
Roy Huffman
Greensboro
Anson County
Roy Kelly
Robertson
Vaughn
F. B. Baliff
Huffman
Judge Riecker Appointed in Nelsonville Electric Case
Chief Justice Carl V. Weygandt named Judge Carlos M. Riecker to hear the Columbus and Southern Ohio Electric Co. versus the City of Nelsonville. The move came at the request of Common Pleas Judge F. Rowland who was reluctant to proceed after a pre election incident tied to the case.
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Carl V. Weygandt
Carlos M. Riecker
Columbus and Southern Ohio Electric Co
Nelsonville
Common Pleas
F. Rowland
Good Neighbor Policy Tested at Pan American Conference
At Lima the United States begins a real test of the Good Neighbor policy as Secretary Hull attends the Pan American Conference. Officials expect endorsement of a unity against foreign aggression and the creation of a hemispheric family of 21 republics, though Latin suspicion of Yankee imperialism remains.
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Roosevelt
Joe Alex Morris
United Press
United States
Americas
Cordell Hull
Lima
North
Canada
Europe
South America
Rio Grande
Washington
Equator
Brazil
Nazis Purge Report In Germany At High Levels
The Daily Express quotes sources saying a extensive purge is underway in Germany. It claims about 40 army officers including generals and senior officials in Leipzig Duesseldorf and Vienna have been arrested. Economic strain and political tension threaten regime stability.
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London
U.P
The
Daily Express
Germany
Leipzig
Duesseldorf
Vienna
Elder couple ties knot in Marietta ceremony
In Marietta a groom 83 and a bride 72 wed regardless of prior marriages. George B. Ruth of Parkersburg West Virginia and Maggie Rollins of Belpre Ohio were joined by Justice of the Peace O. G. Warner. Both have been married twice before.
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Marietta
U.P
George B. Ruth
Parkersburg
W. Va
Maggie Rollins
Belpre
Justice of the Peace
O. G. Warner
Striking Truckers Warned of Immediate Arrest in Cleveland
Police warned striking WPA haulers they will be arrested on sight for identification purposes after fingerprints and statements were taken from six men jailed during a truck blockade on the lower mall project in Cleveland.
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Cleveland
U.P
WPA
Experts Predict Lower Winter Wheat Harvest 1939
Chicago based crop experts forecast a 1939 winter wheat yield of about 524 million bushels, over 150 million less than this year. They estimate winter wheat acreage at roughly 46.75 million acres versus 57.32 million seeded in fall 1937.
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Chicago
U.P
Hahn seeks habeas corpus to halt Ohio execution
In Columbus U S District Court Anna Marie Hahn's lawyers filed a habeas corpus petition arguing 14th Amendment due process violations from evidence of four murders at her trial rather than one. Hahn, convicted of poisoning an old man, faced impending execution as Gov Davey refused clemency despite family appeals. Oscar Hahn, her 12 year old son, pressed for a meeting with the governor.
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Columbus
U.P
Anna Marie Hahn
United States District Court
Joseph Houdin
Sidney Kahn
Sidney Brant
Hahn
Oscar
Martin L. Davey
Houdin
Davey
Court blocks removal of institution head
A temporary restraining order prevents State Welfare Director Margaret Allman from removing Dr. E. A. Baker as superintendent of Longview State Hospital Cincinnati. The order was issued as Mrs Allman seeks removal charges against the physician with the State Civil Service commission accusing him of employing non state staff at state expense and failing to supervise hospital management.
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Columbus
Margaret Allman
E. A. Baker
Longview State Hospital
Cincinnati
Court of Appeals
Supreme Court declines review of injury suit in Ohio
The Ohio Supreme Court refused to hear Eleanor Voelkl's appeal seeking damages from the estate of Harry Horst for injuries in an automobile accident. She and her husband were hurt. A Common Pleas Court awarded $10,000, but the Court of Appeals reversed.
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Columbus-Hup
State Supreme Court
Eleanor Voelkl
Harry Horst
Common Pleas
Voelk
Court of Appeals
New England Rivers Surge Owing to Melted Snow and Rain
Flooding swollen rivers across New England prompted river gauges to rise as snowmelt and heavy rainfall unleashed high water. Officials warned residents to monitor conditions and expect continued river cresting in the coming days.
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Boston
New England
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