Farm Bureau Officials Claim White House Backing on Program Revision
American Farm Bureau Federation officials said high administration quarters back a revision of federal farm programs. The plan would peg crop prices at higher levels and eliminate parity payments. President Edward A. O Neal said he was not worried about White House support, while others cited discussions with President Roosevelt but offered no confirmation of approval.
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Baltimore
American Farm Bureau Federation
Federation
Edward A. O'Neal
White House
Roosevelt
Roosevelt outlines wealth distribution plan for farmers
President Roosevelt told 4000 farmer delegates that wartime strain requires equitable wealth distribution and a pl an to stabilize prices for wheat corn cotton and tobacco at 85 to 100 percent parity via crop loans and strict production controls. The O Nea l plan would set loans at not less than 85 percent parity with penalties for non cooperation and elimination of parity subsidies.
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Baltimore
Roosevelt
American Farm Bureau Federation
AAA Details 1941 Crop Acreage Goals and Soil-Building Payments
The Agricultural Adjustment Administration sets 1941 acreage goals for soil-depleting crops at 270 to 285 million acres, same as 1940, with slight pay-rate changes to favor soil-building practices. Rates rise for soil-building on general crops in deficit areas to 70 cents per acre, while surplus areas pay 50 cents. other allotment payments adjust for corn Wheat potatoes tobacco vegetables and other crops. Administration head R M Evans calls the policy a move toward more conservation.
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Washington
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
R. M. Evans
AAA
Mrs Roosevelt Attacks Union Initiation Fees
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt told a House migration hearing that initiation charges of some unions are a racket if they bar entry for those lacking funds. She cited a migrant worker’s wife whose husband could not work on Fort Meade projects due to a $300 initiation fee. She called it deplorable that migrant children may not understand democracy.
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Washington
Franklin D. Roosevelt
House Committee On
Fort George G. Meade
Nda
Marriage Date Makes No Difference in Draft
Cincinnati reports draft chief letters that there will be no distinction between men married before October 16 and those married after registration day. Local boards may act as they think best on this policy clarification.
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Cincinnati
Leroy Ballinger
Adj
Gilson D. Light
The
Selective Service
Light
Seek To Identify Body Found Twice in Creek
Louis Griesheimer pulled a man's body from Mill Creek and left it at the creek bank then called police. A three hour search recovered the body again from the creek with Griesheimer aiding officers as they worked to identify the victim.
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Cincinnati
Louis Griesheimer
Mill Creek
Greisheimer
Griesheimer
Plague and Bombings Take Chinese Lives
A report from the Southern Baptist Mission says Japanese bombing of Kinhwa in Chekiang Province killed hundreds. The same source says bubonic plague has broken out in Kinhwa, claiming many more lives.
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Shanghai
Kinhwa
Chekiang Province
Southern Baptist Mission
Idarwald Sunk After Prize Crew Fails to Prevent Scuttling
The 5033 ton German freighter Idarwald sank after a prize crew from the British cruiser Diomede failed to stop her crew from scuttling. An official announcement stated the vessel went down following the attempted intervention.
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London
Mrs Roosevelt Invites Mrs Willkie to White House Party
Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt said Mrs Wendell L Willkie wife of the defeated Republican candidate for President had been invited to the White House for a Gridiron Club widows party next Saturday night Willkie will be the gridiron dinner main speaker Roosevelt will be unable to attend due to a Caribbean cruise
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Washington
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Wendell L. Willkie
White House
Willkie
Roosevelt
Execute Two German Spies In London Dawn
Two German spies were hanged at Pentonville Prison after dawn. Identified as Jose Walberg born Mainz and Karl Meier born Koblentz, they were arrested soon after arriving in England. This marked the first wartime execution for espionage under the civilians treachery act.
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London
Pentonville
Jose Walberg
Mainz
Karl Meier
Koblentz
England
20,000 More Reserve Officers To Be Called Up
The War Department announced that about 20,000 additional reserve officers would be ordered to extended active duty before June 30. By month end the army expects nearly 30,000 reserve officers on active duty due to the expansion of the land forces.
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Washington
War Department
Army
Expensive Child Finds Dad's Coins Eats 'Em
Kansas City report: two year old Mary Jo Josephine Wonsetler swallowed a quarter after finding 40 cents in a dresser. She then swallowed a dime and later a nickel as parents rushed in. Her father took her to a hospital for care.
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Kansas City
Mary Josephine Wonsetler
BUC Reports 3801 Defense Occupation Placements
The Bureau of Unemployment Compensation reported 3801 placements in defense occupations between Oct 26 and Nov 23 lowering Ohio's jobless reservoir from 21356 to 17555.
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Columbus
Bureau of Unemployment Compensation
Ohio
Congress weighs treason option to stop defense strikes
House members consider making any stoppage of preparedness production punishable as treason if needed. Rep Hobbs notes deterrent limits and urges cooperation to avoid extreme measures. A Paterson, New Jersey contract between Wright Aeronautical and a large union bans strikes and work stoppages and sets arbitration for major grievances.
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Washington
House
Congress
Representative Hobbs
D-Ala
Paterson
N. J
Wright Aeronautical Corporation
Wright
U S Bonds To Finance Preparedness Program
The government invites investors to subscribe to a fully taxable 500 million dollar defense note issue, the first wholly taxable federal issue. Morgenthau argues tax exempt bonds are “slacker money” and that all money should support national defense. He says Congress will be asked to lift tax exemptions on future bonds and to launch a nationwide Baby Bonds campaign with stamps and small denominations.
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Washington
United States
Treasury
Morgenthau
Palm Beach
Roosevelt
Congress
United States Savings
Grange Chief Calls for Luxury Tax Increase
Ohio State Grange leader Master Walter F. Kirk urged against raising local or state tax burdens as federal spending grows. He proposed funding any new income through higher luxury taxes and warned that farm prices and incomes remain strained.
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Cleveland
Ohio State Grange
Walter F. Kirk
Grange
Kirk
Set Up Tank Testing Field in Southern Indiana
Washington reports a new proving ground for army tanks and weapons to be built just north of Madison Indiana. Quartermaster Corps agents have orders to buy about 50 000 acres for the facility to be run by commissioner officers and around 800 civilian employees of the Ordnance Department.
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Washington
War Department
Indiana
Madison
Quartermaster Corps
Ordnance Department
WPA Worker Killed in Road Project Accident
Thomas Quinlan, 54, of Niles, a WPA laborer, died from a crushed skull after a slag truck at a road project backed into him. The incident occurred during unloading operations and is being investigated as a workplace accident.
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WPA
Warren
Thomas Quinlan
Niles
Miami welcomes Duke and Duchess for dental operation
The Duchess of Windsor arrives in Miami with Prince for a major dental procedure. They docked on the yacht Southern Cross and met newsmen before heading to St. Francis Hospital for X rays. A crowd gathered on Biscayne Boulevard as police managed traffic near the pier used by President Roosevelt a week earlier.
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Miama
Fla
Duchess of Windsor
Miami
Southern Cross
St. Francis Hospital
Biscayne Boulevard
Roosevelt
Soliciting Accelerated in Community Chest Drive
Community Chest Head quarters urged solicitors to finish their assignments and report. A daily list highlights new business firms and professional contributors and, for employee groups, those achieving 100 percent participation or at least $1 per person. New names include Athens Buick Co and Josten's Cigar Store among others.
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Community Chest
H. W. Roach
the Messenger
Drs. Merwin & Goldsberry
Dr. T. H. Morgan
Athens Credit Bureau
Dosten’s Cigar Store
Campaign canvass urged to start Thursday
Mr Roach urged an immediate clean up of the campaign and said the house to house canvass should begin on Thursday after targeting business and industrial places public offices schools and institutions before completing all contacts.
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Roach
Blame Faulty Ventilation in Blast Inquiry
Federal mine engineers testified in Cadiz as Ohio investigators probe the Nelms Mine disaster that gas buildup stemmed from a faulty ventilation system. Officials of the Ohio and Pennsylvania Coal Company may not testify until Wednesday as experts discuss mine design and gas deposits surrounding the site.
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Cadiz
Nelms
J. J. Forbes
Pittsburgh
Nelson Hovey
Ohio
Ohio and Pennsylvania Coal Company
Marcus Kerr
Ohio Division of Mines
Striking Taxi Drivers Fined in Disturbance Case
Four striking taxi drivers were fined ten dollars and costs and had their licenses suspended after stopping a non striking driver taking eight crippled children to classes. Traffic Officer Frank Brogley said the children were frightened and two were in hysterics. Fined: John Popio 20, John Adamovich 27, John Dinello 25, Howard Clark 21.
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Youngstown
Frank Brogley
John Popio
John Adamovich
John Dinello
Howard Clark
Open Trial of Twenty Liquor Law Violators
Huntington, West Virginia. The joint trial of 20 defendants accused of conspiring to violate federal liquor laws enters its second day. Assistant District Attorney Hereford says hundreds of gallons of moonshine whiskey moved into Huntington from Kentucky and Ohio. Six others to be tried later pled guilty. Fifteen of the 42 defendants have not been apprehended.
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Huntington
W. Va
John W. Hereford
Kentucky
Ohio
Huntington Federal Court
Nislys and Yoders Lead East Eureka School Class of 33
In Hutchinson Kansas the East Eureka grade school's 33 pupils include 21 Nisly pupils and 9 Yoder pupils. The three remaining students carry the surnames Miller Glenn and White.
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Nislys
Hutchinson
Kas
East Eureka
Nisly
Yoder
Miller
Glenn
White
Sawyer Seeks Role in Ohio Appointments
Cincinnati Democrat Charles Sawyer, national committeeman, says he will foster no quarrel about federal patronage but expects to have a hand in Ohio appointments for the next four years.
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Columbus
Charles Sawyer
Cincinnati
Ohio
4000 Fascists Captured as English Cut Behind Lowther at Sidi Barrani
Allied dispatches say British forces cut behind Graziani’s Italian army at Sidi Barrani, with 4000 Italian prisoners reported in Western Egyptian desert. Churchill indicated risks of isolation but offered no forecast on overall outcome. Simultaneously Britain pledged 40 million to China and Free French forces aided Nile offensive.
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Lowther
Sidi Barrani
Winston Churchill
House of Commons
Britain
Egypt
Rodolfo Graziani
Churchill
Mediterranean
Pascis
Charles de Gaulle
Free French
Tured
Albania
Greece
Piqueras
Porto Folda
Italy
Ardriatic Sea
Hitler rallies 12000 Berlin workers in defiant war speech
Adolf Hitler addressed 12,000 Berlin munitions workers declaring resolve to defeat the world and denouncing democracies as lies. The British Radio called it a defensive speech as Italy faces home discontent and Mussolini reshapes leadership. RAF strikes target German submarine bases at Lorient.
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Adolf Hitler
Berlin
United States
Fuehrer
America
England
France
Hitler
Germany
Britain
Italy
Egypt
Albania
Mussolini
Rome
la Vita Italiana
Roberto Farinacci
Fascist Party
Fascist Grand Council
London
Royal Air Force
Lorient
Nazis Credit Raider With Sea Successes
Berlin reports a German submarine sank two armed British merchantmen totaling 14 500 tons and a surface warship operating overseas raised its tally of British and Allied shipping to over 100 000 tons. Weather limited aerial activity and British raids over occupied Europe caused only immaterial damage.
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Berlin
High Command
Come Munique
Germany
London
Burley Tobacco Sales Open Higher in Kentucky
Kentucky burley tobacco markets opened the second week of 1940 with higher averages on 15 of 22 markets. A Lexington meeting of several state growers voted to seek a federal loan from the Commodity Credit Corporation to buy unsatisfactory grades and bolster prices.
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Louisville
Burley
Kentucky
Committee of Growers
Lexington
Commodity Credit Corporation
Pole Dies of Italian's Stabbing in Argument
In Cleveland Sylvester C. Bylenski aged 51 died after a quarrel over the European war. Police say he was stabbed with a potato knife by an Italian who later received hospital treatment for head wounds. The assailant pleaded self defense.
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Cleveland
Sylvester C. Bylenski
Fred Walker
Bylenski
Bath Tubs Block Route 35 After Wide Truck Crash
Traffic on Route 35 near Leon blocked by a barricade of bath tubs when a truck overturns while transporting the tubs from Mansfield Ontario to Clinton Ontario. Local reports note no serious injuries though cleanup halted travel.
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PT. Pleasant
W. Va
Leon
Mansfield
Clinton, & C
Destroyer Saguenay torpedoed. 21 missing in Atlantic clash
Ottawa reports the 1 337 ton Canadian destroyer Saguenay was damaged by a torpedo from a submarine in the Eastern Atlantic. Twenty one men are missing and 18 wounded. Total Canadian naval dead or missing since the war began rises to 281.
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Ottawa
Saguenay
Atlantic
Naval Service Headquarters
Canada
Il Popolo Di Roma Calls for Defeatist Suppression
A front page editorial in Il Popolo Di Roma urges beating defeatists alarmists pessimists and rumor mongers in Italy. It frames the stance as a strong response to wartime fear and rumors.
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Rome
Il Popolo di Roma
Italy
Italian War Casualties Reach 3428 in November
Rome reports Italian losses in war with Greece for November totaling 3 428 with 780 dead 731 missing and 1 917 wounded according to an official tally released today.
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Rome
Greece
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Josten’s Cigar Store
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