German protest over Ickes speech rejected by U S
Assistant Secretary Sumner Welles announced the United States rejected Germany's protest over Interior Secretary Ickes speech. He warned Berlin that continued German attacks on U S officials hinder relations and noted Nazi press criticism of Roosevelt and his cabinet as unwarranted and provocative.
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Germany
Ickes
Washington
Sumner Welles
United States
Interior Ickes
Roosevelt
Welles
Hans Thomsen
Berlin
Wgic
Thomson
Nagtench
Cleveland
U. S
Man Press
Welloe Be
Propaganda Ministry
Reich
Hamburger Fremdenblatt
Charles Chaplin
James A. Farley
Pension delay blamed on state official in Columbus
State Auditor Joseph T. Ferguson said pension recipients may not receive December checks before Christmas if delays occur. He blamed State Finance Director M. Ray Allison for the holdup while noting Allison must judge liquor profits and tax revenue to avoid depleting funds for liquor operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
U.R
Joseph T. Ferguson
M. Ray Allison
Llison
Liquor
Miners Rescued After 19 Hours Trapped Underground
Two Copper Range Mining workers Tony Paulson and Oliver Genovesi, both from Painesville, were rescued after 19 hours beneath the earth in the Campaign Mine at Hancock Michigan. A crew of 15 miners blasted and hammered through a 50 foot rock and timber wall to reach them.
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Hancock, Mich
U.P
Capaign
Copper Range Mining Company
Tony Paulson
Oliver Genovesi
Painesville
Father and Daughter Die in Church Area Car Crash
Samuel V. Wolfrom aged 78 and his daughter Mable aged 40, a Dola teacher, were killed when struck by an automobile as they exited a church. Double funeral services to be held Friday in the Dola school auditorium. The father died in a Lima hospital after the Sunday evening crash.
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Dola
Samuel V. Wolfrom
Mable
Wolfram
Lima
Richwood Village Robberies Hit Five Stores At Night
Five stores in Richwood village were robbed overnight, authorities said today. Police continue to investigate the motive and identify suspects.
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Marysville
Richwood
May Act on Complaints Against Wage-Hour Act
Washington U P Wage Administrator Elmer F Andrews may call a hearing to cushion overtime rules under the Fair Labor Standards Act for well paid permanent employees. Officials seek to exempt workers paid 300 to 400 dollars a month who face no time clock and get paid vacations. They consider amending definitions rather than a Congressional change to regulate administratives and executives.
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Kashington
U.P
Elmer F. Andrews
Andrews
Ickes Attacks Nazi Medals in Cleveland Radio Speech
Secretary Harold L. Ickes told the Cleveland Zionist Society that Americans who accept Nazi honors aid a regime unworthy of the United States. He cited Henry Ford and Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and said Germany’s Jewish persecution returns it to a dark historic era.
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Cleveland
Harold L. Ickes
United
Department of State
Reich
Ickes
Cleveland Zionist Society
Henry Ford
Col
Charles A. Lindbergh
Germany
Woman’s Bank Hold-Up Fails
Chicago report says Mrs. Mary Cheek Schuch a 36 year old nurse master chemist detective story writer and mother planned to rob the Drexel State Bank of 5000 dollars. She produced vials claimed to contain nitroglycerine and threatened to blow up the bank. A Negro detective Chris Covington detained her outside the front door and the money was recovered. the vials contained water.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
U.P
Mary Cheek Schuch
Drexel State Bank
R. J. Neal
Chris Covington
Red Cross Seeks $600000 to Ship Wheat to Spain
Washington: Red Cross requests 600000 dollars to distribute 3000000 bushels of wheat to war impoverished Spaniards. Government donated wheat will be milled into flour and shipped on U S Maritime Commission vessels, which provide space free of charge.
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Washington
Red Cross
Spain
Surplus Commodities Corporation
U. S. Maritime Commission
Pomeroy Truck Driver Dies of Spinal Meningitis
Private burial held at The Plains Ath ens County for Elmer Terrell 28 of Pomeroy who died Wednesday night at home after a few hours illness of spinal meningitis. He leaves his father James Terrell six sisters and five brothers and was employed as a truck driver.
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Pomeroy
the Plains
Athens County
Elmer Terrell
Wetzgal St
James Terrell
Terrell
Irish Plotters Nabbed in Belfast Arrests
The Home Office announced that 34 leaders and members of the Irish Republican Army were arrested overnight in Belfast on charges of plotting violence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belfast
Northern Ireland
Home Office
Irish Republican Army
Lorain Tragedy Claims Father of Two
Joseph Petit, a father of two young daughters, was killed when his body became caught in crane cables yesterday in Lorain Ohio. Police and investigators are pursuing details of the incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lorain
O.R
Joseph Petit
Pennsylvania girl believed victim of white slave ring
Authorities suspect 19 year old Margaret Martin was kidnapped and murdered by white slavers after her nude body was found in a gunny sack in a creek near Keelersburg Pennsylvania. Detectives link the case to recent Wilkes Barre ring activity.
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Keelersburg
Margaret Martin
Here
Miss Martin
Kingston
Williamsport Road
Keelerburg
Coster admits blame for McKesson fraud amid brothers cleared
New York report says ex president Philip Musica known as F Donald Coster took full blame for a 21 million dollar shortage at McKesson and Robbins and exonerated his three brothers described as stooges. Police hint ties to 1932 Cohen murders as investigators seek links to bootlegging and narcotics trading.
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New York
Samuel Reich
Philip Musica
Donald Coster
McKesson and Robbins, Inc
Stooges
Michael McDermott
Joseph
Barney Cohen
McDermott
Coster-Musica
Cohens
Coster
Musica
Former Canton Police Chief Seeks 15000 Damages
The State Sundry Claims Board took under advisement the request of Sejanus A. Lengel former Canton police chief for 15000 damages claiming wrongful conviction and illegal imprisonment after seeking new testimony from Floyd Streitenberger a life term convict in the murder of Don R. Mellett Canton Daily News editor. Lengel was convicted and imprisoned but later acquitted on a new trial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
4U.P
State Sundry Claims Board Today
Sejanus A. Lengel
Canton
Floyd Streitenberger
Ohio
Streitenberger
Don R. Mellett
Canton Daily News
Lengel
Winter Wheat Planting Shows Large Decrease
The Agriculture Department reports winter wheat plantings at 46,173,000 acres for next fall, down about 10,000,000 acres from last year. Dec 1 crop condition at 72 percent of normal, below 76 percent last year and the 1926-35 average of 80 percent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Agriculture Department
Dissension in Rebel Ranks Reported by British Press
British press reports from the French Spanish frontier describe broad disaffection in Nationalist Spain. Claims include hundreds arrested at Burgos and San Sebastian, with Italian soldiers allegedly executed and high ranking officers possibly executed as part of an insurrectional crackdown. Diplomatic notes cite near thousand arrests with uncertain details.
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London
U.P
Spain
London News Chronicle
Burgos
Daily Telegraph
Hendaye
San Sebastian
Not Wanted Walter Pipple Faces Eviction Over Alaska Co operative
Walter Pipple seeks exit from the Matanuska Alaska colony marketing trust after reporting $11 000 earnings in two years. He may be evicted in court proceedings set for January 9.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Pipple
Matanuska
Alaska
War Referendum Fight Reopened in Senate Plan
A bipartisan group of U.S. senators in Washington announced plans to renew efforts in the next Congress to draft a war referendum amendment to the Constitution. A new Senate resolution would mirror the Ludlow Resolution defeated in the last session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.P
Congress
Senate
McArthur Man Killed As Horse Runs Away
Shine Thompson 69 of McArthur was killed when a coal wagon horse bolted throwing him, breaking his neck. Authorities reported the accident occurred Wednesday near McArthur and the horse escaped.
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McArthur
Shine Thompson
Thompson
Broadcasters Decry Religious and Racial Broadcasts as Abusive
President Neville Miller of the National Association of Broadcasters condemns religious and racial broadcasts as an abuse of free speech. He says stations are not obliged to air speeches that inflame prejudice and cites the Detroit radio priest case. He urges media responsibility and public-interest use of air waves.
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Washington
U.P
Neville Miller
National Association of Broadcasters
Miller
Charles E. Coughlin
Detroit
Stallions
Argentina and United States In Deadlock
In Lima Peru United States and Argentina remain deadlocked over a solidarity declaration for 21 American republics. Secretary Hull chaired midnight talks with Brazil Peru and Uruguay as negotiators push for a compromise formula. Talks resume today with no agreement in sight on a unified stand against European dictatorships.
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Lima
Peru
United States
Chtef
Cordell Hull
Brazil
Uruguay
Say Insurance Is Impossible Say Insurance Is Impossible
The Chicago Dental Society reports that a satisfactory national health insurance program is impossible due to the cost of proper dental care being beyond the federal government's reach. It says some schemes claiming to cover dental care cannot deliver adequate care within set expenditures. The society is part of the American Dental Association representing most U S dentists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Chicago Dental Society
American Dental Association
County Engineer Held On Embezzling Charge
Columbus, Ohio county official Don Appleton of Box County faced embezzlement charges for cashing 25 township warrants totaling 1490 dollars and diverting funds. An affidavit and report to State Auditor Joseph T. Ferguson indicate Appleton admitted the embezzlements and was discharged last month.
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Columbus
U.R
Don Appleton
Vernon
Nbox County
Joseph T. Ferguson
H. H. Hastings
Appleton
Meigs Residents Receive $21 261 in Pensions
Meigs Countians over 65 years old received 21 261 in old age assistance awards in November. The average grant was 2.82, reflecting an increase of 4 000 from the prior year. In November 1937, 901 recipients got 17 315.
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Pomeroy
Meigs
Division of Aid For
Meigs County
Dwarf Admits Hatchet Slaying of Wife in Los Angeles
Police say Billy Spinelli, 19, coaxed his father William Spinelli Sr., 54, to confess to killing his wife Rosy. The suspect said they fought after she hit him with a hatchet. he struck her and then burned the body after cutting it up.
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Los Angeles
U.P
Billy Spinelli
Billy
William Spinelli
Spinelli
Homicide Bureau
Rosy
Japan Alters China Policy
Premier Fumimaro Konoye announced a new government policy to ward China. Japan will abandon extra territorial rights in exchange for a China settlement, aiming to abolish foreign concessions and form an anti Communist bloc with Manchukuo and China. The New Asia policy envisions an Orient for Orientals with Japanese hegemony and reduced foreign influence.
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Tokyo
Fumimaro Konoye
China
Japan
Manchukuo
Konoye
Bank Robber Dies for Slaying of Policeman
Stephen Figuli 21, a Cleveland bank robber, died in the Ohio Penitentiary electric chair for his part in the murder of Detective Robert Cline after a Columbus hold up on February 4. He said nothing in the death chamber. a Columbus policeman witness described the execution as as he predicted, calling Figuli tough and refusing quarter.
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Columbus
Stephen Figuli
Cleveland
Ohio Penitentiary
Robert Cline
Figuli
WPA Funds Vote Sparks Anti-New Deal Clash in Congress
In Washington the WPA seeks emergency funds to avert a Feb. 7 shutdown amid opposition from Anti-New Deal Democrats led by Sen. King who calls for abolishing the agency. Wheeler backs a house cleaning while Williams warns funds may run dry by early February as Ohio reports about 265,000 WPA workers could lose jobs without new appropriations.
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Washington
U.P
Works Progress Administration
Congress
King
Utah
Senate
House Appropriations
Sen
Wheeler
Mont
Roosevelt
WPA
Aubrey Williams
Treasury
Williams
John L. Lewis
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Columbus
Ohio
District No
Athens
Belmont
Carroll
Coshocton
Gallia
Guernsey
Harrison
Hocking
Holmes
Jackson
Jefferson
Lawrence
Meigs
Monroe
Morgan
Muskingum
Noble
Perry
Tuscarawas
Vinton
Air Force To Feature Next Defense Program
Speaker Bankhead predicted aviation increases would be a main feature of the next national defense program. He said he expected measures to boost air strength rather than further navy expansion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Air Force
Washington
A.P
Bankhead
Sales Tax Machinery Re Organization Urged In Ohio
State Treasurer Clarence H. Kinsley urged a non partisan four member commission to oversee a force of civil service examiners to enforce the sales tax law. He noted Ohio 1938 collections near 24.96 million so far and compared California results to argue for restructuring to boost yearly receipts.
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Columbus
U.P
Clarence H. Kinsley
Ohio
Civil Service
Kinsley
California
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Glenview
Ill
A .A
Allison
Pennsylvania
Argentina
Dwarf
White House
Works Progress
Harry Hopkins
Commerce Roper
F. C. Harrington
Hopkins
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