WPA Funds For Cleveland Relief Crisis Approved
President Roosevelt approved 1 248 991 for WPA projects to relieve Cleveland relief crisis with three new projects plus existing ones. Over 14 000 people to gain six months of work yielding 18 027 man months for about 3 000 workers. Funds fund most labor costs on publicly owned properties.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Cleveland
White House
Stephen T. Early
Early
John Carmody
Ohio Home
Carmody
Harold H. Burton
G. A. Gesell
Sinking Fund Commission
Council
Burton
Bricker Plans New York Address On Ohio Relief Policy
Governor Bricker will travel to New York on Thursday and speak Saturday evening to the Ohio Society to defend Ohio relief policies. He aims to address state governmental issues with emphasis on relief and respond to criticism from Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia in a renewed exchange from the prior week.
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Columbus
U.P
Bricker
Ohio
New York City
New York
Ohio Society
Fiorello LaGuardia
Pioneer in Field of X Ray Dies at 88 in Euclid
Dr George S Iddings aged 88 a pioneer in X ray research died last night at his Euclid home after two months illness. His early work in the X ray field required amputation of three fingers from burns and two fingers were amputated a year before.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
U.P
George S. Iddings
Euclid
Rumors of German Peace Move Circulate in Europe
Reports from European capitals claim Germany opened peace talks via Italy with concessions on war aims. Soir dispatch suggests Poland would restore within racial limits, Danzig corridor kept, Czechoslovakia reestablished minus Sudetenland, Austria plebiscite under supervision, and Italy gain influence in the Mediterranean as a Balkan buffer forms.
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Brussels
le Soir
Geneva
Germany
Soir
Europe
Poland
Russia
Danzig
Czech
Czechoslovakia
Sudetenland
Munich
Austria
Hungary
Rumania
Italy
Balkan
Mediterranean
Supreme Court Rejects Wire-Tapping Evidence
The Supreme Court ruled the government may not use evidence developed from wire tapping in criminal cases. The decision was in the second appeal of three New York men convicted of liquor smuggling, clarifying that actual evidence obtained by wire tapping cannot be admitted at trial.
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Washington
U.P
Supreme Court
New York
Unfair Trade Charges Hit Sherwin Williams Firm
Federal Trade Commission charged the Sherwin Williams Company of Cleveland and two subsidiaries with price discrimination under the Robinson Patman Act. The FTC alleged discounts on paint products were offered to some dealers but not others in competition with them. An infant named Ethels Thorine Howard, nine months old, drowned in Springfield after falling into a tub of water on Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
U.P
Sherwin- Williams Company
Federal Trade Commission
Commission
Springfield
Ethels Thorine Howard
Busy Christmas Rush Strains Santa Claus Post Office
In Santa Claus Indiana the Christmas rush fills the village as over 1,000 people crowd the post office to mail letters and packages for the Santa Claus postmark. The small office runs 24 hours with extra workers amid a wishing well toy village and a 20 ton Santa statue in the square. The statue stays despite a court battle between rival promoters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Claus
Ind
U.P
League Studies Finland Appeal Amid Russia Tensions
The League of Nations assembly with 45 nations discussed Finland’s appeal for aid against Russia. Russia was not represented. Debates on penalizing or expelling Russia circulated as new peace offensives were reported, with Argentina and Uruguay threatening departure if Russia stayed.
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London
Germany
Italy
Geneva
League of Nations Assembly
Finland
Russia
A.P
Argentine
Uruguay
League
Firemen Battle $30,000 Oberlin Blaze Eight Hours
Firemen fought a basement blaze at the T. O. Murphy plumbing shop in Oberlin for eight hours. The two story frame building in the business district suffered about $30,000 in damage. The fire was discovered last night and officials said the cause was not yet determined.
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Oberlin
U.P
T. O. Murphy
O. G. Graham
Toll of Ships Increases as Six More Sink
London reports six more ships wrecked by mines or torpedoes. Bay of Hope sank with four dead and five missing. Willowpool sank after mine strike with crew of 36 saved by a lightship. Kabinda broke up on a reef. Diark and Immerman suffered mine or torpedo damage with varied crew outcomes. an unidentified British tanker broken in two off the southwest coast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Admiralty
Navy
Bay of Hope
Willowpool
North Sea
Kabinda
Diark
Immerman
Kallandsoog
Holland
Mackay Radio
New York
Winnie Ruth Judd Sought Near Hospital Asylum Grounds
The search for the mad trunk murderess Winnie Ruth Judd moved to the state asylum grounds after a prowler tapped ward doors and vanished into a maize field where she earlier hid. Bruno Hanks, 25, escaped hospital Friday and was captured in El Paso riding a freight train. A second item notes Msgr. Thomas Francis Mahon, 76, founder of St. Thomas Aquinas parish, dies in Cleveland.
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Phoenix
Ariz
U.P
Winnie Ruth Judd
Winnie Ruth
Bruno Hanks
el Paso
Cleveland
Msgr
Thomas Francis Mahon
St. Thomas Aquinas’ Catholic
Cleveland Catholic Diocese
Tragedy in Iowa High School Feud Ends in Homicide
A 14-year-old Colwell High School freshman Dorothy Carter was killed by her 17-year-old boyfriend Warren Blewett after a moving picture date. Blewett attempted suicide with strychnine but survived. He admitted the slaying, citing no motive, and described moving the body to a farm garage before poisoning himself.
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Charles City
Dorothy Carter
Colwell
Warren Blewitt
B. F. Atherton
Floyd County
Blewett
Miss Carter
Finland Receives 10 Million Credit for U S Goods
Washington reports the United States extends 10 million dollars in credits through the Export-Import Bank and RFC for Finland to buy surplus American foods and civilian supplies during the war with Soviet Russia. Credit approved by President Roosevelt to assist Finland, with consideration of similar credits to Norway.
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Washington
U.S
Finland
United States
Soviet Russia
Jesse H. Jones
Roosevelt
Export - Import Bank
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Finnish- American Trading Corporation
Jones
RFC
Export
Fremont Officers Seek Clues in Snyder Death
Walter Snyder 24 sugar beet worker was found in the Sandusky River. Prosecutor A L Hyzer said exhumation possible as investigation shifts from self inflicted death. Police pursued leads from a 25 year old friend and a married mother of four.
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Fremont
U.P
Walter Snyder
A. L. Hyzer
Snyder
Sandusky River
Hyzer
Herman Schneider
Community Chest Supporters and Local Firms Contribute Broadly
Businesses and professionals including Wheaton Hardware Phillips Furniture Store Kroger Logan's Book & News Store and A. B. Wells donate to the Community Chest drive. The goal is 12 975 00 with today’s total 8 376 63 leaving a balance of 4 598 37. Some items reference New York U P and a separate mention concerns Miss Eileen Herrick seeking employment after gaining freedom from her parents.
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New York
U.P
Walter R. Herrick
Eileen
George Lowther III
Miss Herrick
Lowther
Russia Rejects British Export Blockade and Demands Compensation
Premier Molotov informed the British embassy in Moscow that Russia would not accept the blockade on German exports. He called the blockade unprecedented and unlawful, and warned Russia reserves the right to seek compensation for losses if its ships are forcibly diverted or foreign trade is damaged.
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Moscow
Russia
Viacheslav Molotov
Great Britain
Britain
Molotov
Dr Poindexter of Middleport Dies Suddenly
Dr C A Poindexter 68 longtime Middleport physician and NY Central Railroad doctor died of a heart attack at a Weisman home after a confinement call He was a Gallia County native who practiced in Meigs and Dexter before moving to Middleport Survived by wife Kathryn Daniels Poindexter sister Nell O Hara Columbus and brother James Poindexter Gallipolis Funeral arrangements were pending this afternoon.
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Middleport
C. A. Poindexter
Carl Weisman
Rggersville
Gallia County
Poindexter
Meigs County
Dexter
New York Central Railroad
Kathryn Daniels Poindexter
Nell O’hara
Columbus
James Poindexter
Gallipolis
Two Candidates Gain OSU Trustees favor
The Ohio State University board of trustees meeting to pick a president shows three of seven trustees favoring Dr. Rees E. Tulloss of Wittenberg College Springfield Ohio and three trustees favoring Dr. Wilson Compton of George Washington University. Compton has previously conferred with the trustees.
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Columbus
U.P
Rees E. Tulloss
Wittenberg College
Springfield
Ohio State University
Tulloss
Wilson Compton
George Washington University
Compton
Pope Warns Against Communism and Atheism
Vatican report says Pope Pius gave secret directions to cardinals on resisting Communism and atheism in posts worldwide. He reportedly deplored the danger of these ideas spreading in Europe as a result of the recent Russian Finnish war.
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Vatican City
U.P
Pius
Europe
Chamber of Commerce Attacks Investment Banking Hearings
The United States Chamber of Commerce accuses the Federal Monopoly Committee of trying to terrify private business with tougher antitrust penalties as hearings on investment banking operations begin. Morgan Company executives and other top bankers are set to testify.
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Washington
U.P
United States Chamber of Commerce
Federal Monopoly Committee
House of Morgan
Lare
Dies Charges Reds Run Consumer Cooperatives
The Dies committee charged that 13 consumer organizations act as transmission belts for the Communist Party to destabilize the middle class and undermine free enterprise. J B Matthews, its research director, said the party uses consumer protests to overthrow capitalism and install a Soviet system.
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Washington
U.P
Dies Committee
Communist Party
J. B. Matthews
Ohio Relief Allowance Varies by State Across U.S.
Government figures show average monthly relief payments in August range from 3.38 in Oklahoma to 34.28 in New York with Ohio at 16.18, West Virginia 8.90, and Indiana 11.96. The council of state governments released the data.
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Chicago
U.P
Oklahoma
New York
Council of State
Ohio
West Virginia
Indiana
U. S. Rubber To Take Over Fisk Business
New York Decs United States Rubber Company will acquire Fisk Rubber Corporation. Directors approved the sale and stockholders are called to meet December 29 to vote on the action in the Fisk firm’s announcement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S. Rubber To
Fisk Business
New York
AU P
Fisk Rubber Corporation
United States Rubber Company
Finland Defies Russia in Karelia as War Stretches On
Finland holds back a fifth day of attack despite Russian pressure on the Taibela River and Vuoski Lake system. Mannerheim extends martial law to eastern and northern provinces while Finland appeals to the League of Nations for aid. Soviet advances stall amid harsh winter, disrupted supply lines, and heavy Russian casualties.
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Helsinki
Finland
League of Nations
Russia
Karelian
Taibela
Vuoski Lake
Ladoga
Mannerheim
Lake
Baron Carl Gustav Mannerheim
Tallinn
Esthenia
Baltiski
Baltic
Finnish Gulf
Kassa
Vlince Hakkila
Arctic Circle
Savukusuki
Kusanvo
Moscow
Red Army
Petsamo
Lake Ladoga
mid-Finland
Suomussalmi
Gulf of Bothnia
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WPA
Defense of Ohio Policies
Jesus
St. Francis of Assisi
Martin Luther
Rome
Col
Frank Knox
Alf Landon
Landon
Indiana Village
Finns’ Appeal
Winnie Near Hospital
Iowa
Community Chest Supporters
Juliet
Acme
Dr. Poindexter of
OSU
Pope
Dies Charges
Reds
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