Bremen luxury liner spared by British subs in war rules
The Admiralty said the $20,000,000 Bremen en route from Murmansk to a German port was not torpedoed without warning. A submarine sighted the liner but could not warn first, and the Bremen reached Murmansk after leaving New York Harbor Aug. 30.
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London
Admiralty
Germany
Murmansk
Russia
Bremen
New York Harbor
Britain
North Atlantic
Motorman and trolley lose way in traffic
Cincinnati report says Thomas Widaman a street car motorman for 27 years piloted trolleys from downtown to Madisonville ten miles out. A traffic tie up forced a straight run when a right turn was due. with no turn around, he unloaded passengers and continued to College Hill five miles farther out where an inspector found him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
U.P
Thomas Widaman
Madisonville
College Hill
Christmas Carols Through the Ages at Queen’s College
A feature on the Boar’s Head Carol performed annually at Queen’s College Oxford where a boar’s head is served at Christmas. The article recalls the medieval tale of a student fighting a wild boar with Aristotle’s book to survive, and notes the carol’s first print in 1521.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Queen’s College, Oxford
Fire Demolishes Skating Rink at Chesterhill
A fire of undetermined origin destroyed the Castle wood skating rink in Chesterhill late Sunday night. Discovered by the Hallowell sisters after closing at 11 p m, the McConnelsville department arrived too late to save the building, located on the old fairgrounds. Ownership by Dr and Mrs A H Whitacre Mr and Mrs J A Pickering and Mrs Almeda Starling insured.
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Chesterhill
Castlewood
Hallowell Sisters
McConnelsville
Fairgrounds
A. H. Whitacre
J. A
Dr. C. Ross Niday Dies At Home In Gallipolis
Dr. C. Ross Niday, 65, died at his Gallipolis home after an extended illness. He is survived by his wife and son Verne. Funeral services are expected to be held Thursday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. Ross Niday
Gallipolis
Niday
Verne
Troy Amusement Company Bank Night Appeal Weighed
The court of appeals deliberates the appeal from Judge R L Cameron of Marysville ruling that bank night operated by the Troy Amusement Company constitutes a lottery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Troy
Court of Appeals
R. L. Cameron
Marysville
Troy Amusement Company
Former slave Perkins dies in Sum merford at 93
Thomas Perkins once enslaved in Virginia died at his Sumnerford home aged 93. He passed away yesterday, per reports from London.
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London
Thomas Perkins
Virginia
Summerford
Hand Cars Collide in Tunnel Near Cairo
In a tunnel near Cairo, Ritchie County, two Baltimore and Ohio hand cars collided head on injuring ten. One man is in critical condition while nine others suffer injuries. The bridge gang and tunnel gang riders were brought to Parkersburg for medical treatment.
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Parkersburg
W. Va
W.P
Baltimore and Ohio
Cairo
Ritchie County
Bridge Gang
Tunnel Gang
Soviet Prepared To Quit League And Press On Finnish Front
United Press reports Moscow ready to withdraw from the League of Nations if forced, while red army advances threaten Finnish territory. Dispatches note snowbound central front actions and village burnings as Finns counterattack and retreat on Salla. Patkaeranta seized as Russians maneuver around Lake Ladoga amid Allied German sea war updates.
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United Press
Soviet
Russia
League of Nations
Finland
Geneva
Moscow
Red l
Gulf of Bothnia
Red Army
Salla
Patkaeranta
Lake Ladoga
Admiral Scheer
Germany
Man Killed on Mountain Turn
A large truck and trailer failed to negotiate a mountain curve on Cresson Mountain. Vern Mathis, 26, of Mansfield Ohio, was killed. Luther Owens, 26, of Payne Ohio, suffered a fractured skull. The rig, carrying 10 tons of merchandise, went out of control and demolished after tipping over an embankment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Altoona
U.P
Vern Mathis
Mansfield
Luther Owens
Payne, O
Cresson Mountain
OSU Trustees Continue Search for President
Ohio State University trustees will meet January 8 to continue seeking a new president. The board met yesterday but did not name a successor to Dr. George W. Rightmire, who resigned in 1938 upon reaching retirement age. The university has been without a permanent president for 18 months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
U.P
Ohio State University
George W. Rightmire
Liquor Employees Fight To Gain Former Jobs
Fifty former state liquor store employees began court action to reclaim their jobs. Attorneys general office representatives agreed to group their cases to speed hearings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
U.P
Attorney General’s Office
Cedarville College Names Walter Smith Kilpatrick President
The Cedarville College board of trustees announced the selection of Rev. Walter Smith Kilpatrick as president. He succeeds Dr. W. R. McChesney who resigned last June.
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Cedarville
Walter Smith Kilpatrick
Cedarville College
W. R. McChesney
Athens County Adopts Single District Health Plan
The Athens City Council and the Advisory Council of the Athens County Health District approve a single general health district to take effect December 31, 1939, dissolving the county board and assigning funding shares. Federal Social Security aid for Athens County is suspended after January 1, with plans for a new county budget.
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Athens County Board of Health
Athens City Council
Athens County Health District
Athens City-County
Cliff Cornell
Athens
W. D. Hines
Chauncey
Harold J. Rose
State Department of Public Health
Athens County
R. H. Markwith
Ralph Leonard
Dorothy Bache
Rose
Advisory Council
Markwith
Social Security Administration
Cleveland's Industrial Front Quiet for Change
Cleveland sees no strikes or lockouts today the first time in at least three years. Detective Henry T. Cowles, head of the police labor relations detail, says records of labor troubles go back only to 1937.
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Cleveland
U.P
Henry T. Cowles
Police
Douglas Fairbanks Dies Sudden at 55 in Santa Monica
Hollywood mourns Douglas Fairbanks a silent screen icon who died of a heart attack at his Santa Monica home at age 55. His wife Lady Sylvia Ashley, former wife Mary Pickford, son Douglas Fairbanks Jr, and brother Robert rushed to the scene as news spread.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Monica
Calif
U.R
Douglas Fairbanks
Sylvia Ashley
Mary Pickford
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr
Pacific
Fairbanks
Robert
Hollywood
D. W. Griffith
United Artists Studios
Clarence Erickson
Lady Ashley
Denver
Colorado School of Mines
Doug
Beth Sully
America
Mary
Owen Moore
Mayor Returns Full Relief To Clevelanders
Cleveland officials move to restore full relief by Friday after approving 1 050 000 dollars in delinquent tax bonds. Mayor Burton plans Dec 15 relief restoration for 16 000 single and childless couples and 40 000 other cases on curtailed orders to avert a new relief crisis in 1940.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
U.P
City Sinking Fund Commission
Harold H. Burton
Edward L. Pucel
Burton
Pucel
Assistant cashier loses $575 to missing pen ruse
In Cincinnati a Title Guarantee and Trust Co assistant cashier Oscar Spohr answered a desk phone call from a supposed customer asking for a fountain pen. He searched the rear office and returned to find the line dead and $575 in cash missing, a likely theft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
U.P
Oscar Spohr
Title Guarantee and Trust Co
Spohr
CIO Campaigns for Special Relief Session
The Ohio Industrial Union Council CIO urged members to push for a special legislative session on relief and to fund relief by taxing large incomes, criticizing Governor Bricker's stance as economic nonsense.
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Columbus
U.P
Bricker
Ohio Industrial Union Council
CIO
Business Outlook Fears Uncertain 1940 Growth From War and Election
Col. Leon ard P. Ayres of the Cleveland Trust Co reviews 1939 results and warns that European wars and the presidential election cloud 1940 prospects. He expects durable recovery only with changes in government business relations and notes possible all time highs in airplane production electric power tobacco and petroleum refining. He sees 1940 national income around 71 billion with autos within 10 percent of 1939.
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Cleveland
U.P
Leonard P. Ayres
Cleveland Trust Company
Senate Studies Ohio Municipal Finances in Columbus
In Columbus the senate taxation and revenue committee prepared to hear a briefing on municipal finances. Mayor Harold Burton of Cleveland and Earl Hagerman of Dayton, president of the Ohio League of Municipalities, along with other city officials, would present league drafted recommendations. The panel was directed to craft a fiscal program to assure adequate revenues for state and local government, with a report due to the next Senate in 1941 or earlier if a special session is convened in 1940.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
O.P
Ohio
State Senate
Harold Burton
Cleveland
Earl Hagerman
Dayton
Ohio League of Municipalities
League
Senate
Findlay Woman Reaches 100th Birthday Today
Mrs. Mary Guy celebrated her 100th birthday in Findlay. She recalled Ohio’s earlier days while partly hearing and seeing, noting longevity in her family with her father David Troyer dying at 98 and a brother in Nashville Michigan at 97.
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Findlay
U.P
Mary Guy
Guy
Ohio
David Troyer
Nashville
Mich
Truck Driver Wounded In Drugstore Holdup
Cincinnati report of a 57 year old Hamilton ice cream truck driver Robert Roberts wounded seriously when entering a prescription pharmacy during a looting incident. Two young robbers fled with cash from the register as police investigated.
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Cincinnati
U.P
Hamilton
Robert Roberts
Housing plan approved for Pershing Road project
The U S Housing Authority approved bids totaling 1 274 710 for construction of 324 dwelling units of the Pershing Road low rent housing project in Zanesville Ohio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.P
U. S. Housing Authority
Zanesville
Legislator Mapes Dies in New Orleans Hotel
Rep. Carl E. Mapes a Michigan Republican died in his hotel room in New Orleans from a heart attack. The congressman was in the city for a legislative event. He served in the state delegation and was known for his work on fiscal policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
U.P
Carl E. Mapes
Mich
Ohio Grangers Meet To Study State Problems
Three thousand delegates gather for the 67th annual Ohio State Grange convention in Columbus to weigh rural and urban issues. Sessions plan tax, highway, conservation, and education debates with Mayor Harold H. Burton and national Grange secretary Harry A. Caton to speak.
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Columbus
Ohio State
Grange
Harold H. Burton
Cleveland
W. F. Kirk
Port Clinton
Harry A. Caton
Coshocton
National Grange
L. J. Taber
Agriculture
United Front
Europe
Governor Bricker
Edmund Secrest
Ohio Experiment Station
Chest Donors List Update Shows Contributors to Community Chest
A partial list presents names of individuals who donated to the Community Chest since the last publication. The note states a complete donor roll by business firms and professionals will follow at campaign end.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Community Chest
Bricker Assails Ickes Over Relief Policy Criticism
Ohio Governor Bricker accuses Interior Secretary Ickes of trying to smear Ohio to boost Roosevelt for a third term. He cites Ickes remarks and notes Cleveland relief funding actions, WPA transfers, and anticipated state relief cost share rising toward 49 percent.
Athens Chest Campaign Urges Full Participation
The Chest fundraising drive reports Drive Goal 12975.00 and Total Today 8651.23 with Balance 4323.77. E Paul Cotton urges immediate reports from solicitors and listing of firms contributing 25 or more or averages of 1 per employee. Firms include Taylor's Stores Inc. Hope's Dairy entities and government offices.
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Messenger
E. Paul Cotton
Cotton
Athens
D. T. Hope’s
Holland Furnace Company
Hope’s
East Side Dairy
Taylor’s Stores Inc
F. W. Woolworth Co
U. S. Revenue Office
J. T. Hope’s Dairy
New Old Age Pension Proposal Is Drafted
Ohio lawyers completed drafting an amendment to the state constitution for new old age pensions. The proposal will be submitted to the attorney general’s office soon. Attending the meeting were M. H. Wolf of Cleveland, A. R. McNamara of Cleveland, Edward Lamb of Toledo, Louis Tyroler of Athens, and Frank Krebbiel of Dayton. Tyroler supported the Bigelow proposal defeated in November.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Ohio
Attorney General's Office
M. H. Wolf
Cleveland
A. R. McNamara
Edward Lamb
Toledo
Louis Tyroler
Athens
Frank Krebbiel
Dayton
Tyroler
Bigelow
Toledo Officials Meet To Prevent Evictions
City Manager George N. Schoonmaker conferred with Toledo officials to prevent eviction of relief tenants. He said landlords were owed $22,000 in rentals and that no relief provisions had been made yet. No relief clients had been evicted so far.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toledo
U.P
George N. Schoonmaker
Torpedo Sinks Swedish Vessel Near Falsterbo
The Swedish steamship Torpe struck a mine and sank within Swedish waters south of Falsterbo. All crew were saved.
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Copenhagen
Denmark
Torpe
Falsterbo
Drug magnate Charles Walgreen dies at 66
Charles R. Walgreen founder of a drug store empire dies at his Chicago home after a long illness. The Walgreen Company title holder led the firm to national prominence with a vast chain of pharmacies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Charles R. Walgreen
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Susannah Salminen Goodby
New York
Talse
United States
Adel
OSU
Ohio Grangers
John W. Bricker
Secretary of the Interior
Harold L. Ickes
Ballyhoo
Roosevelt
Ickes
Federal Surplus Commodities Administration
White
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