League of Nations votes expulsion and Finland battle updates
The League of Nations assembly votes to expel Soviet Russia with ratification pending. Finnish troops claim counterattacks and raiding across Soviet lines as Britain pledges war material aid to Finland. The Graf Spee issue and Norwegian frontier movements add to a tense conflict picture.
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League of Nations Assembly
Russia
Great Britain
Germany
Geneva
Assembly of the League of Nations
Maisly
Finland
London
Neville Chamberlain
League Council
Britain
Uruguay
Graf Spee
Montevideo
Poin
Murmansk-Leningrad
Oslo
Norway
Salmijaervi
Petsamo
League Assembly
League Council of 15 Nations
Bricker To Defend Relief Policies In East Speech
Governor Bricker travels to New York City to defend Ohio relief policy before the Ohio Society of New York. He aims to rebut New Deal critics and may bolster his standing as a Republican presidential contender. He cites local autonomy and vows no Ohioan will starve while criticizing centralized relief.
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Bricker
Columbus
U.P
New Deal
Ohio
Ohio Society of New York
New York City
Paul M. Herbert
Roosevelt
Secre
Tary
Harold L. Ickes
Fiorello la Guardia
New York
Protests From South America Seen Over Warship Action
Washington officials expect South American governments to protest a German warship and British cruisers violating the inter allied safety zone near Uruguay and Argentina. The United States plans to seek a unified regional response via the Panama led declaration of the 21 republics to demand restraint.
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Washington
State Department
Great Britain
Germany
United States
Uruguay
Argentina
River Platte
Panama
Date Set for Liquor Trials in Columbus Federal Court
Forty four of sixty defendants arraigned in federal court pleaded guilty before Judge Mell G Underwood. The report lists several defendants with liquor charges including Sivilio Gerardis Clyde J Henderson Sylvester W Howard Marion Kemper Denver Davis and John Malcolm Brabham among others with bonds set at 1000 and trials scheduled for January 3.
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Columbus
Mell G. Underwood
Sivilio Gerardis
Athens
Clyde J. Henderson
McArthur
Sylvester W. Howard
Hamden
Marion Kemper
Gallipolis
Denver Davis
John Malcolm Brabham
Charles F. Mills
Rockbridge
Luther J. Barnett
Clyde W. Barnett
Otis K. Walker
Allensville
Homer S. Kemper, Jr
Pheasant Chicks To Be Distributed by State
The State Conservation and Natural Resources Commission approved distributing ringneck pheasant chicks for propagation. The panel also authorized rabbit trapping in overpopulated areas for propagation rather than importing hares from outside the state.
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Columbus
U.P
State Conservation and Natural Resources Commission
Mayo A Bobrick Dies Former Orioles Player at 67
Mayo A Bobrick aged 67 died yesterday. He played for the old Baltimore Orioles in the 1890s.
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Cleveland
U.P
Mayo A. Bobrick
Baltimore Orioles
Local business and public service contributions total over new amount
The listing shows additional contributors including Mickle Tire & Accessories The Imperial Ice Cream Co Dr C M Bowman and The Pure Oil Co with a total of 2605 27. Employees contributing an average of one dollar or more include Mickle Tire and Accessories Co City Water Works Department City Police Department in 4 Fire Department U S Forest Service N Y A Office.
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Mickle Tire & Accessories
Imperial Ice Cream Co
C. M. Bowman
The
Pure Oil Co
Mickle Tire & Accessories Co
City Water Works Department
City Police Department
U. S. Forest Service
Forest Commission Resumes Ohio Land Purchases
The National Forest Reservation Commission votes to restart buying forest lands in four Ohio zones Muskingum, Hocking Valley, McArthur, and Little Scioto Sims Creek. Purchases will proceed within priority zones until major portions are acquired, reversing a four year halt due to budget cuts.
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Washington
National Forest Reservation Commission
Ohio
Cmmission
Muskingum
Monroe
Hocking Valley
Hocking
Perry
Athens
McArthur
Vinton
Jackson
Little Scioto
Sims Creek
Lawrence
Gallia
Scioto
Secretaries of War, Interior and Agriculture
Congress
No Relief March Says Workers Alliance Head
David Lasser national president of the Workers Alliance of America denied plans to lead a march of relief clients on Columbus. He traveled from Washington to Toledo to review relief conditions with city officials and CIO leaders and wired Congressman Dudley White to deny that President Roosevelt backs his visit.
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Toledo
David Lasser
Workers Alliance of America
Columbus
Lasser
Washington
Yes
Se Putea
Georg Schoonmaker
Alliance
CIO
Dudley White
13Th
Roosevelt
Ohio
Ohio Banks in Sound State Says Squire
State Superintendent Samuel H. Squire told the Cincinnati Association of Credit Men's banking group that Ohio deposits are near a historic peak. He noted 168 banks were liquidating when he took office five years ago and that by year’s end only 10 will remain in liquidation with banks in strong condition and ready to make good loans.
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Cincinnati
U.P
Ohio
Samuel H. Squire
Cincinnati Association of Credit Men's Banking Group
Squire
Explosion Near Bucharest Kills Dozens In Mill Fire
A blast at a paper mill near Bucharest Romania killed forty people and injured many more. The event disrupted operations at the mill and drew swift attention to safety standards.
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Bucharest
Romania
U.P
Brenda Frazier
Zarnesti
New York Bathian Mountains
Trawler William Hallett Sinks After Mine Hit
The admiralty reports the trawler William Hallett struck a mine and sank with one survivor.
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London
U.P
Admiralty
William Hallett
Hijackers Abandon Two Stolen Trucks Near Dayton
Dayton police report two trailer trucks seized with merchandise valued at 11000 dollars were abandoned by hijackers early today. The drivers were blindfolded with taped eyes and their hands bound as suspects fled, possibly deterred by pursuing officers or siren alarms.
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Dayton
U.P
Cincinnati
Detroit
Ohio Grangers Hear Bricker Relief Stand
The Ohio State Grange urged more government help in marketing and financing farm products while opposing centralized government. They backed dairy support, rural electrification, and reducing national relief. Governor Bricker addressed 800 delegates, stressing local control as key to relief distribution.
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Columbus
U.P
Ohio State Grange
State Department of Agriculture
Grange
Bricker
Pensions Fund From Liquor Taxes Proposed in Ohio
Ohio Attorney General Thomas J. Herbert approved a proposed constitutional amendment to earmark all liquor and beer tax revenues and liquor store profits for old age pensions. The plan would place pension administration under a four member board with a fraternal, labor, farm, and public representative.
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Columbus
L.P
Thomas J. Herbert
Ohio
Agriculture
Mother and two children perish in farm blaze
Cambridge Batesville report says Mrs. Wilford Griffin thirty enters burning kitchen to save Maxine two and her infant daughter. A neighbor rescues another child. The fire destroys the Griffin farm home and all perished in the flames.
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Cambridge
U.P
Wilford Griffin
Maxine
Two Thousand One Hundred Tommies Die in War Report
Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain told the House of Commons that 2,100 British officers and men had been killed in active service in the first three months of the European war.
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Chamberlain
Russia
Britain
Soviet Union
Poland
Finland
Germany
North Sea
Admiralty
London
U.P
Neville Chamberlain
House of Commons Today
Government To Assume Muskingum Project Cost
A joint committee of the Ohio Legislature was assured by a U.S. Army engineer that the Federal Government will assume most of the remaining costs of the $42,000,000 Muskingum Conservancy District flood control project. The assurance came as appeals to dissolve the district were considered.
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Columbus
U.P
Ohio
U. S. Army
Muskingum Conservancy
Muskingum Valley Taxpayers’ Association
Conservancy District
Miner Chief Demands Probe of United Mine Workers
Miner Chief Joe Ozanic of the Progressive Miners Union urged a congressional investigation into John Lewis and the United Mine Workers of America over securing union shop contracts.
Demands Bias Probe Into NLRB Role in Union Contracts
President Joe Ozanic of the Progressive Mine Workers of America urged a congressional investigation into charges that the NLRB aided John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers in obtaining nation wide union shop contracts for both bituminous and anthracite coal. He testified before the House committee investigating the NLRB amid a dispute over CIO influence and a claim that Van A Bittner urged UMW organizers to shoot PMWA organizers.
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Washington
U.P
Joe Ozanic
Progressive Mine Workers of America
AFL
National Labor Relations Board
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers Union
Ozanic
House
NLRB
Labor Board
Congress of Industrial Organization Union
Charleston
W. Va
Pinkerton
Seeks Change In Trial Site In Pike County Case
Common Pleas Judge Fred H. Wolf moved a 10 day delay in ruling on a venue change in election fraud charges against Pike County Probate Judge Will H. Cord. The state argues an impartial jury is unavailable in Pike County and presented 42 affidavits claiming prejudice against a fair trial there.
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Waverly
U.P
Common Pleas
Fred H. Wolf
Wauseon
Pike County
Will H. Cord
Simon §. Leis
Leis
British Destroyer Duchess Lost After Collision
The Admiralty announced that the British destroyer Duchess was lost after a collision with another warship that sustained no damage. Only one officer and 22 enlisted men survived. the Duchess normally carried 145 crew.
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London
W.P
Admiralty
Jane's Fighting Ships
Brooklyn professor withdraws from Ohio State presidency
President James G. McDonald of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences has withdrawn his name from consideration as a candidate for the presidency of Ohio State University.
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NEW York
U.P
James G. McDonald
Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences
Ohio State University
Graf Spee Is Forced Into Uruguay Port After Long Chase
The British cruiser Achilles pursued the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee toward Uruguay. Exeter and Ajax joined the chase as the Graf Spee neared the Uruguayan coast, suffering armor and gun damage while trying to break out to raid Allied shipping.
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Graf Spee
South Atlantic
Montevideo
Uruguay
Achilles
River Platte
Exeter
Ajax
United Press
Graff Spee
Havre
Spee
New Dealers Distort Facts Charge GOP Official Critique
The Republican National Committee charged that Roosevelt administration officials distort relief facts in Ohio. The reply cites nonpartisan Ohio observers and Fulton Lewis Jr to dispute New Deal accusations against Gov. John W. Bricker and question the Cleveland relief coverage.
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Washington
U.P
Republican National Committee
Roosevelt
United States
Ohio
John W. Bricker
Cleveland
Fulton Lewis, Jr
Mutual Broadcasting System
Bricker
Lewis
Hitler ally Fritz Thyssen loses property to German government
Berlin report states the German government confiscated the property of Fritz Thyssen, the iron and steel magnate who helped Hitler rise to power. Thyssen is in Switzerland with his wife and child, having fled wartime Germany, and has said he disagrees with Nazi policies.
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Berlin
A.P
Fritz Thyssen
Fuehrer
Adolf Hitler
Thyssen
Switzerland
Germany
Cemetery Lot Fraud Case Nears Completion
In Cincinnati federal court the government neared finishing its case against twelve men charged with conspiracy and mail fraud tied to Arlington Cemetery lot sales. Testimony linked Dr. J Stewart Hagen, a notable Cincinnati Republican, to the cemetery project up to warrants issued in October 1935 during the trial's longest session to date.
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Cincinnati
U.P
Arlington Cemetery
J. Stewart Hagen
Storm Wrecks Indigirka with Massive Losses
Domei News Agency reports 350 bodies washed ashore at Wakkanai after the Russian steamer Indigirka ran aground off Hokkaido in a storm. The ship carried about 1,000 passengers and 36 crew. 402 survivors were brought to Otaru, and authorities fear total deaths could reach 600.
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Tokyo
Domei
Indigirka
Wakkanai
Hokkaido
Kamchatka
Russia
Otaru
Wittenberg Directors Vote Faculty Pay Hike
Wittenberg College directors approved a 10 percent faculty salary increase to take effect next September. They also refused the resignation of President Rees E. Tulloss and scheduled a home-coming celebration next June marking his 20th year as head of the college.
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Springfield
V.P
Wittenberg College
Rees E. Tulloss
Wittenberg
Russian Troops Press to 10 Miles From Finnish Norwegian Front
Oslo Dagbladet, via Svanik dispatch, reports Russian forces are within ten miles of Salmijärvi on the Finnish Norwegian border, signaling heightened frontier tension.
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Oslo
Norway
Salmijaervi
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