Ohio Congressman Accuses Lasser of Ohio Relief Plot
Rep. Dudley A. White charges David Lasser head of the Workers' Alliance used the White House to plan an Ohio invasion and unrest over relief policy. Lasser exits for Cleveland and Toledo to press relief talks while Roosevelt defends workers’ rights but limits actions against strikes.
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Washington
U.P
Dudley A. White
David Lasser
Workers’ Alliance
White House
Ohio
White
Lasser
Roosevelt
Ohio official accuses New Deal relief of graft and racketeering
Ohio Lieut. Gov. Paul M. Herbert attacks the New Deal relief policy as graft ridden while defending state relief funding and opposing tax levies. AFL PMWA leader Joe Ozanic contends NLRB denied miners' rights and cites coercive union affiliation amid a House inquiry.
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Herbert
New Deal
Columbus
U.P
Paul M. Herbert
Ohio
Time
Bricker
General Assembly
Assembly
Cleveland
Toledo
Cincinnati
British Soviet Parleys to be detailed in white paper
Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax will prepare a white paper outlining the British Soviet negotiations conducted earlier this year, as stated by Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain in the House of Commons. The House cheered an announcement that Britain had issued export licenses for British planes to Finland.
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London
U.P
Viscount Halifax
Neville Chamberlain
House of Commons
Great Britain
Finland
Christmas Ships and Lore Across Regions
The verses recount the Christmas carol I Saw Three Ships and note legends of ships bearing gifts. It contrasts Greek traditions with St Basil supplying a ship and St Nicholas using a reindeer sled, tracing origins to the 14th century.
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Greece
St. Basil
St. Nicholas
Doctor's Order Lets Drunk Driver Escape Bigger Penalty
Tony Uhl, 41, claimed whiskey was prescribed for pain and was fined 100 dollars plus costs for driving while intoxicated. Judge Elmer N. Davidson suspended 50 dollars and ordered no driving for 10 days, urging restraint on his painful days.
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Hamilton
Tony Uhl
Elmer N. Davidson
30 Year Secret Marriage Revealed by Death in Cincinnati
Nora Butler Doscher, 65, died yesterday in Cincinnati. Her husband John H. Doscher Jr disclosed that she had been his wife for 30 years, though the marriage had been kept secret since 1909. Friends believed she was his housekeeper.
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Cincinnati
John H. Doscher, Jr
Nora Butler Doscher
Doscher
Truck Crash Claims Payne Man In Altoona Ditch Fall
Luther Owens aged 26 of Payne Ohio died from a skull fracture after a large trailer truck failed to negotiate a mountain curve and plunged over an embankment, the second fatality in the accident near Altoona Pennsylvania.
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Altoona
Luther Owens
Payne, O
J Frank Rickey Dies at 84 Father of Branch Rickey
J Frank Rickey aged 84 father of Branch Rickey and former vice president and general manager of the St Louis Cardinals died at his home here late yesterday.
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Portsmouth
WU P
J. Frank Rickey
Branch Rickey
St. Louis Cardinals
Taber Urges Self Defense For Farmers
L. J. Taber, master of the National Grange, told 3,000 Ohio State Grange delegates that farmers should adopt a safety program and build an adequate rural defense while urging labor and finance to meet around a council table to resolve differences and craft a new program for America. He noted farming has absorbed unemployed and drawn over 2,000,000 people back to the farm.
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Columbus
U.P
L. J. Taber
National Grange
Ohio State Grange
Taber
America
Relief Orders Are Prepared in Cleveland
City relief officials began drafting fresh relief orders for 16 000 people previously off direct relief and full orders for 40 000 cases on curtailed relief. Assistant City Relief Commissioner Sydney T Rowley said orders dated Dec 15 would be mailed tonight and tomorrow. Buron said full relief would be restored, funded by $1 050 000 in delinquent tax bonds to the city sinking fund commission.
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Cleveland
U.P
Sydney T. Rowley
Harold H. Burton
City Sinking Fund Commission
Former Ohio Governor Buys Atlanta Newspaper
The Atlanta Journal and its 50 000 watt Radio Station WSB were sold to James M. Cox former governor of Ohio The FCC approved transfer of control of WSB and its portable unit WEGG to Cox The Cox interests also publish the Dayton Daily News Springfield News Sun and Miami News
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Atlanta
Fairbanks Rites Closed To All But Intimates
SANTA MONICA California Douglas Fairbanks Sr will receive family and close friends at the Wee Kirk O Heather Forest Lawn services likely tomorrow or Friday with interment in a crypt at Forest Lawn memorial park as the world remembers his screen career.
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Santa Monica
Cal
U.P
Douglas Fairbanks, Sr
Don Juan
Forest Lawn Memorial Park
Forest Lawn
Opera tryout results in celebration for singer Olga Smith
Mil dred Olga Smith, a 29 year old singer, received a letter from Lauritz Melchoir of the Metropolitan Opera offering her an audition after ten years of waiting. She told Judge A Frey she would have celebrated too and pleaded guilty to drunken driving. The judge noted costs of ten dollars with costs suspended and wished her good luck.
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Cleveland
U.P
Lauritz Melchoir
Metropolitan Opera
Mildred Olga Smith
A. Frey
Taft Proposes Study to Trim Federal Budget
U S Senator Robert A Taft of Ohio urged a study by practical businessmen and administrators to curb the federal budget by 25 to 30 percent and craft a plan to eliminate bureaucratic duplication. He named governors and other leaders as possible participants and said cuts could bring the budget from 10 billion to about 7 to 7.5 billion. Roosevelt challenged Taft to show a two year path to balance.
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Boston
U.P
U. S
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Taft
Women’s Republican Club of
Massachusetts
Roosevelt
Study Aims at Municipal Finances in Ohio
The Ohio Senate taxation committee asked the State Taxation Department to conduct a special study of municipal finances. City representatives from Cleveland Toledo and Dayton warned that relief costs and expansion amid shrinking revenue threaten bankruptcy. Chair Sen Kane expects partial findings by the January 15 meeting.
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Columbus
U.P
Ohio Senate Taxation Committee
State Taxation Department
Cleveland
Toledo
Dayton
Lawrence A. Kane
Hamilton
Logan Woman Second In Pastry Competition
Mrs. Fred Graham of Logan finished second in the pastry contest at the Ohio State Grange convention held in Columbus. Mrs. John C. Bowman of Canal Winchester won first, while Mrs. Marion Reynard of Dillonvale took third.
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Columbus
U.P
John C. Bowman
Canal Winchester
Fred Graham
Logan
Marion Reynard
Dillonvale
Sparks Fly as House Probes NLRB Biased Handling
Dr William Leiserson accuses fellow NLRB members of incompetence as the House inquiry opens. Witnesses from the Progressive Mine Workers of America allege bias toward CIO United Mine Workers in the board's actions and removal demands target secretary Nathan Witt.
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Washington
Joe Ozanic
AFL
Progressive Mine Workers of America
National Labor Relations Board
Ozanic
PMWA
House
NLRB
O Hen Eden Stan Tlaléntd
Ain
William M. Leiserson
Nathan Witt
Eugene Shifflet
Ward
W. Va
Kelly’s Creek Collieries Company
UMWA
Labor Board
Lewis
Shifflet
William Leiserson
Leiserson
CIO United Mine Workers of America
Probers Hear Roosevelt Kin on NLRB Paper
A House committee revealed John Boettiger, son-in-law of President Roosevelt and Seattle publisher, complied with a board order to avoid embarrassing the Roosevelt administration. A confidential memo from NLRB Seattle director Elwyn Eagen notes Boettiger’s sympathy with the act but blame toward the board’s decision.
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Washington
U.P
House
National Labor Relations Board
John Boettiger
Roosevelt
Seattle
Edmund M. Toland
NLRB
Elwyn J. Eagen
Nathan Witt
Boettiger
Nazis Claim Capture of French Outpost
German high command says SS storm troops raided a French outpost in French territory southeast of Saarbruecken. Five defenders killed and 16 captured, including an officer, 10 men, with the raiders suffering no losses in the operation.
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Berlin
U.P
Saarbruecken
Goebbels Urges Germans to Limit Christmas Cards
Berlin action by Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels asks Germans to renounce Christmas greeting cards except those purely personal and to donate the saved funds to winter relief through newspapers.
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Berlin
Paul Joseph Goebbels
Wood County road boss dies in auto crash
John Vollmar 53 of Haskins Wood County road superintendent was killed late yesterday when his car struck a bridge abutment at the scene authorities reported.
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Bowling Green
U.P
John Vollmar
Haskins
Wood County
Boy Cyclist Alfred Connelly Killed in Lorain Auto Crash
Alfred Connelly age 11 died in a hospital after being struck by an automobile while riding his bicycle in Lorain United Postal District last night.
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Lorain
U.P
Alfred Connelly
Hollywood Premiere Opens Gone With the Wind in Atlanta
Hollywood flies to Georgia for the world premiere of the 3.957 million dollar Civil War epic. David O. Selznick Vivien Leigh Olivia de Havilland Clark Gable Carole Lombard lead a star studded Atlanta debut with technicolor spectacle and dramatic battlefield scenes. The film caps a road show release at ten dollar admission before wider U S release early next year.
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Hollywood
U.P
Georgia
Margaret Mitchell
Atlanta
David O. Selznick
Vivien Leigh
Star
Scarlet O'Hara
Olivia de Haviland
Clark
Rhett Butler
Miss Mitchell
Selznick International
Sherman
Fleming
Miss Leigh
Gable
Leslie Howard
Miss de Havilland
Ona Munson
Barbara O'Neill
Thomas Mitchell
United States
Community Chest Drive Extended by Local Leaders
Community Chest campaign extended to Saturday due to incomplete solicitations. E. Paul Cotton, chairman, announced the extension. The Junior Chamber of Commerce will sponsor the drive at Hotel Berry tonight.
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E. Paul Cotton
Hotel Berry
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Drive to raise funds for The Chest benefits a children’s charity
The drive shows a goal of 12 975.00 with 8 898.23 raised today as supporters fill the hall. Business firms and professionals including Westfall's Lunch Dr Edward H Sprague Dr C R Hoskins The Hocking Corporation F L Woodworth Son Elmer E Jacobs Jr Schine's Athena Theater and Schine's Ohio Theater pledge contributions. Individual donors include H H Townsend L W Roberts with company staff averaging more than one dollar per employee.
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Cotton
Westfall
Edward H. Sprague
C. R. Hoskins
The
Columbus Grocer Fends Off Robber Twice in Six Weeks
W P Gray haired Charles E Hunter proprietor of a neighborhood market in Columbus thwarted a pair of holdups in six weeks. Last night a man identified as Frank Pierce 61 of Columbus was in critical condition after attempting to rob Hunters store Hunter shot him in the stomach.
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Columbus
W.P
Charles E. Hunter
Frank Pierce
Hunter
Ohio Supreme Court Rules License Plate Fee Requirement
The Ohio Supreme Court ruled that automobile owners must pay a 25 cent license fee when obtaining license plates from a deputy motor vehicle registrar.
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Columbus
U.P
Ohio Supreme Court
Oxford Ex-President’s Grandson Peter Bishop Dies at 85
Peter Bishop aged 85 died after a short illness. He was the grandson of Robert Hamilton Bishop, Miami University’s first president. Funeral arrangements were not announced.
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Oxford
U.p
Peter Bishop
Robert Hamilton Bishop
Miami University
Red Troops Advance in New Finnish Drive
Soviet forces push through central Finland toward the Gulf of Bothnia as the League of Nations moves to expel the Soviet Union. Argentina urges expulsion while Sweden reorganizes to solidify neutrality amid broader Baltic front fighting and harsh winter conditions.
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Russia
Finland
League of Nations
Red Army
Gulf of Bothnia
Special Committee
Geneva
Soviet Union
League
Argentina
Assembly
Council
Rodolfo Freyre
Germany
Per Albin Hansson
R. J. Sandler
Sweden
Arctic
Karelian
Leningrad
British Exchange Telegraph
Riga
Two Women Die In Route 2 Car Crash Near Sandusky
A tire blowout caused a fatal automobile accident on Route 2 east of Sandusky killing Mrs. Emaline Christofel 45 and Mrs. Rose L. Wall 60 both of Old Homestead Beach Huron. Christofel's children Peggy 12 James 9 and an 18 month old baby in their care escaped unharmed.
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Sandusky
U.P
Emaline Christofel
Rose L. Wall
Old Homestead Beach
Huron
Christofel
Peggy
James
City Manager Proposes Tax Law Allowing Bonding for Relief
Dayton city manager Fred O. Eichelberger urged the senate taxation committee to authorize cities to borrow against 1941 revenues to fund poor relief. He spoke before the special committee yesterday, recommending legislation for the next session.
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Columbus
U.P
Fred O. Eichelberger
Dayton
Senate
Union proposal discussed by Northern Ohio church leaders
About 500 Episcopal and Presbyterian church leaders met at Trinity Cathedral in Cleveland to discuss a proposed union of the two denominations.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Trinity Catheral
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