Meigs County Shooting Probed After Eva Cummings Killed
Eva Cummings a 45 year old woman was killed by a bullet while walking near Long Run Road Bashan. Her sister in law Oakie Cummings and husband Albert Cummings are held for investigation. Arlie Gandee reported finding the revolver and gunshot mystery unfolds with conflicting statements.
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Cummings
Pomeroy
Ss . Wea
Matt Taylor
Sheriff's Office
Albert Cummings
Oakie Cummings
T Teir Son
Arlie Gandee
Ohio
West Virginia
Meigs County
Athens County
Emings
Leahy Sails To Take Post of Ambassador
Norfolk report says Admiral William D. Leahy sails with Mrs. Leahy for Lisbon aboard the Tuscaloosa to become ambassador to France. He carries a personal note from President Roosevelt to Marshal Henri Petain seeking acceptance by the Vichy government.
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Leahy
Norfolk
William D. Leahy
France
West Virginia Flying Cadet Dies in Crash
Flying Cadet James C. Cavendish, 22, from Huntington West Virginia, was killed when his training plane crashed two miles from Maxwell Field Alabama. He had completed a 370 mile solo flight over Alabama and Mississippi before the accident occurred late last night.
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Montgomery
Ala
James C. Cavendish
Huntington
W. Va
Maxwell Field
Alabama
Mississippi
Child Killed by Auto in Spencerville
Lima dispatch reports four year old Emerson Wierwille died after being struck by a car in Spencerville. The tragedy occurred today as the child was near the roadside with no further details released.
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Lima
Emerson Wierwille
Spencerville
Drowns in Pool Lorain Man Found Dead in Pool Water
Nick Nikora aged 54 was found drowned in a pool rain water in Lorain. The coroner S C Ward returned an accidental death verdict.
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Nick Nikora
S. C. Ward
Battery C Guardsmen Return Home for Christmas
Fifty four members of Battery C 134th Field Artillery 37th Division arrive in Athens for a ten day Christmas furlough with families after training at Camp Shelby. Captain Carmichael reports the unit healthy and working well with others. back in Athens they will return January 2 to units in new permanent quarters.
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Mississippi
Athens
134Th Field Artillery
Bale
Hearty
Camp Shelby
Iss
E. E. Carmichael
Ohio National
Robert S. Beightler
Carmichael
134Th
William A. Larch
Clarence Parker
Parker
Richard W. Corwin
Bernard Matheny
Kenneth M. Smith
Shelby
Howard Davidson
W. Washington St
Louisville
Pvtett Welch
Lexington
Welch
Corp
David White
Elmer Lehoe
Turkey
Second Draft Call Issued For Fifth Army Corps Area
Columbus AP reports 15 823 men are called for the second draft in the Fifth Corps Area with Ohio supplying 9 958. Recruits report January 20 to centers in Cleveland Toledo Fort Hayes Columbus and Fort Thomas. Ohio to form most of the 37th Ohio division at Camp Shelby and 84 to join 152nd Tank Battalion at Fort Knox.
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Columbus
Fifth Corps
Ohio
Indiana
Kentucky
West Virginia
Cleveland
Toledo
Fort Hayes
Fort Thomas
Fort Benjamin Harrison
Indianapolis
Louisville
Fort Knox
Huntington
Ohio Division
Camp Shelby
Miss
152Nd Tank Battalion
Athens
Miner Chauncey Man Fatally Struck by Car in Chauncey
Martin Cap Barstow age 68 died in Mari etta hospital after being hit by a neighbor Edward Myers Saturday night. Funeral at M E Church Tuesday 10 30 conducted by Rev Lester Stanley. Barstow a miner at Mine No 25 survived by wife Minnie sister Mattie Weed New Plymouth and brother Joseph Barstow.
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Converse St
Abdella
Myers
Chauncey
Barstow
Mattie Weed
New Plymouth
Joseph Barstow
Peak in Movement of Hogs to Market Seen
Chicago based livestock experts predicted a drop in hog production early in 1941 after a three year cycle. They based forecasts on hog receipts at Chicago and other main corn belt markets and noted a peak in heavy hogs moved to slaughter in the fall and early winter.
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Chicago
Thousands of Italian Prisoners Interned in Front Camp
Cairo dispatch reports 35,949 Italian prisoners removed from Sidi Barrani area with several thousand more held in camps near the front. The notice quotes a general headquarters communique announcing the large internment amid ongoing operations.
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Cairo
Egypt
Sidi Barrani
See No Snow For Christmas See No Snow For Christmas
The weather bureau predicts a white Christmas is unlikely for most of the nation with light precipitation and rain in many areas. Forecaster H A Downs notes possible snow in Nebraska and the Dakotas while northern states have ice and existing snow.
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Associated Press
Weather Bureau
H. A. Downs
Chicago
Nebraksa
Dakotas
Downs
Wisconsin
Upper
Michigan
Delaware man dies after auto crash near Magnetic Springs
Harry Logan, 65, of Delaware, died last night when his car overturned on a curve near Magnetic Springs. His wife waded through mud for help and suffered cuts and bruises.
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Marysville
Harry Logan
Delaware
Magnetic Springs
Indiana Santa Claus Uses Nine Extra Helpers
In Santa Claus Indiana, the post office led by Postmaster Oscar Philipps expanded staff by nine as Christmas mail surged. An estimated 500000 pieces of mail would be cancelled by Christmas Day, with 18 hour shifts and two shifts in operation. The town expected 6000 visitors Sunday to Annie Martin's general store post office hub.
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Santa Claus
St. Nicholas
Indiana
Annie Martin
Oscar Philipps
Philipps
Parliament House Damaged by German Bomb
A Nazi bombing raid left a central section of the Parliament building a heap of twisted girders and masonry. The public bills office on the east side the votes office on the south side and the old members staircase to the inner lobby were destroyed.
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London
Houses of Parliament
Public Bills Office
Votes
Holiday Shutdowns in Steel Mills Curtailed
Steel magazine reports a tightening of holiday shutdowns in the steel industry this year. Most plants will close only on Christmas Day with few consuming plants remaining shut for a week for inventory and machine repairs.
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Cleveland
Steel
Steel Is Scattered in Eaton After Crossing Crash
In Eaton Ohio, George H. Kochel, 31, of Detroit was killed when a Pennsylvania passenger train struck a vehicle at a crossing. Several tons of sheet steel were scattered along the rail line, with the locomotive and baggage car seriously damaged. The train was three hours late resuming its trip.
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Eaton
George H. Kochel
Detroit
Pennsylvania
Canadian Railroaders Die in Sunday Wreck
Two Canadian National Railways workers were killed and a third injured when a freight train derailed at Willow Grove, 20 miles southwest of Hamilton. The deceased were engineer William C. Laycock and fireman William C. Wilson, both from Hamilton.
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Hamilton, Ont
Canadian National Railways
Willow Grove
Here
William C. Laycock
William C. Wilson
Hamilton
Freight Plane Service To Be Started Tonight
United Air Lines will inaugurate a high speed freight plane service between Chicago and New York with Cleveland as the sole intermediate stop tonight. The service marks a new fast cargo link, leveraging nonstop city pairs with a single layover en route.
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Chicago
New York
Cleveland
United Air Lines
Flier Dies in Dayton Crash
Dayton report confirms second fatal army plane crash in a month. Lieut. P. L. G. Moore, 27, of Selfridge Field Michigan, died after a P-39 Aircobra suffered a broken wing tip during a snap roll, sending the craft into a flat spin. Moore had been in Dayton on detached duty at Patterson Field and planned to return to Michigan. He leaves a widow and his mother in Wichita.
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Dayton
Air Corps
Wright Field
P. L. G. Moore
Selfridge Field
Michigan
Moore
Patterson Field
Wichita
Kas
Army
Union Seamen Oppose Loans To Belligerents
In Buffalo the Great Lakes conference of the national maritime union CIO adopted resolutions opposing loans to belligerents and any sacrifice of social progress. Delegates from 32 Great Lakes ship crews urged organizing nonmember seamen and sought higher wages next season to offset higher living costs.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Europe
United States
Great Lakes
National Maritime Union
CIO
Murray Plans Mass Production of 500 Planes Daily
President Philip Murray of the CIO announced he submitted to President Roosevelt a plan to build 500 all metal pursuit planes each day by pooling facilities of the automobile industry. The plan rests on a survey by Walter P. Reuther of the CIO United Auto Workers to apply mass production methods to aircraft.
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Washington
Philip Murray
CIO
Roosevelt
Walter P. Reuther
United Auto Workers Union
Army Seeks Volunteers for Pilot Training Surge
The Army Air Corps reports ample volunteer interest after earlier difficulties. More than 2,100 qualified for a 1,600 pilot class to begin January 2, with another group entering primary training five weeks later. Officials say weekly volunteer recruitment remains essential to build fliers, amid talks of lowering standards and using enlisted men or young officers as pilots.
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Washington
Army Air Corps
War Department
Henry H. Arnold
Fugitive Leonard Dunfee Captured in Scatter Ridge
Leonard Dunfee, 23, of Scatter Ridge, indicted by the Athens County Grand Jury for robberies at Curtis Jansen and James Thompson homes, was captured at noon today at his father William Dunfee’s home. He had been abroad in New Orleans and returned this morning to surrender. Sheriff Charles Bayless and Deputies Evans and Day led the arrest, with Rolland Ruth of the prosecutor’s office present.
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Leonard Dunfee
Scatter Ridge
Athens County
Grand Jury
Curtis Janseen
James Thompson
William Dunfee
New Orleans
Dunfee
Charles Bayless
Charles Evans
B. C. Day
Rolland Ruth
Prosecutor’s Office
Two Italians Executed as Spies in Taranto Network Bust
In Rome two men Aurelio Cocozza a Taranto traveling impostor and Francesco Ghezzi a naval officer were shot at dawn after being condemned for spying. Twenty two others including two women were imprisoned in a case described as a network of informers possibly tied to the Taranto raid on the British Navy base.
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Rome
Taranto
Aurelio Cocozza
Francesco Ghezzi
Greeks Capture Chimara in Albanian Coast Advance
Greek forces report the seizure of Chimara and 800 Italian troops with 30 officers of the Fascist 153rd Battalion, as Italian reinforcements retreat toward Valona. Allied air raids pound Manchester after German attacks on Liverpool and Mannheim raise destruction and casualties.
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Msypl
Biving Tauan Marsnal
Rodolfo Graziani
Rumania
Balkan
Chimara
Valona
Adriatic
Adolf Hitler
Manchester
London
Bristol
Liverpool
Southampton
Portsmouth
RAF
Germany
Mannheim
Rhineland
Saar Valley
Italy
Ludwigshafen
Dunkerque
Calais
Athens
Argirocastro
Albania
Britain
Alps
Venice
Porto Marghera
Mussolini
Adoption of European Conscription Plan Urged
Washington reports a congressional argument over reforming the draft. Senators Adams Vandenberg and Gurney debated moving to an annual class system training youths at 16 18 or 20 instead of 21 to 35. Administration views on the lottery call from 21 through 35 remain unclear.
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Washington
Adams
D-Colp
Vandenberg
R-Mich
Gurney
R-S.d
Eden Replaces Halifax as Foreign Secretary in Cabinet Shuffle
London Anthony Eden assumed the foreign secretary post after a cabinet reshuffle that sends Lord Halifax to Washington as ambassador early next year. Halifax had steered policy through appeasement and wartime tensions, with Eden seen as hinting at firmer diplomacy toward the Soviet Union and a broader British stance abroad.
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London
Anthony Eden
Russia
Lord Halifax
England
Washington
Eden
Halifax
Churchill
Chamberlain
Moscow
Foreign Office
Italian torpedo plane sinks British cruiser near Libya front
An Italian communique says a Fascist torpedo-shooting plane sank a British Auxiliary cruiser off the North African coast while Libya land front remains unchanged. Garrison at Bardia under Gen Bergonzoli fights to the end amid seven days of bombardment. Graziani reports to Mussolini blaming tank delays for setbacks as British momentum prevails toward Suez.
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England
Manchester
Greece
Chimara
North Africa
Bardia
Libya
Desert Post
Venice
North African
Italy
Annibale
Bergonzoli
Marshal Graziani
Mussolini
Suez Canal
Prominent Ohio Republican Leader Dies at 77
William H. Miller, 77, longtime attorney and noted Republican figure in Ohio, has died in Columbus. Miller mentored Taft's 1912 campaign in Ohio, directed Carmi Thompson's 1922 gubernatorial bid, and served as first assistant attorney general under three Ohio administrations, with a stint on the U S Attorney General staff.
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Columbus
William H. Miller
Miller
Wilmington
Ohio
William Howard Taft
Carmi Thompson
U. S
Wickersham
Murder Suspect Hangs Self in Jail Cell
Clyde C. Wheeler 60 a funeral director accused of killing his brother in law Okey Leasure 34 was found dead in a Noble County jail cell shortly before noon. Coroner Jack Berry said Wheeler had threatened suicide and guards had been watching him.
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Caldwell
Clyde C. Wheeler
Okey Leasure
Noble County
Wheeler
Jack Berry
Bodies of Two Sailors Lost in Storm Found
Lake Michigan recovery reports identify two sailors who perished in the Armistice Day storm. Irvin Galliano, 19, of Britt Ontario, served aboard the steamer Anna C. is named. the other sailor from the Steamer Wi Davock remains unnamed pending identification by Coroner George E. Dorrell.
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Ludington
Lake Micheigan
Irvin Galliano
Britt, Ont
Anna C
Uni
George E. Dorrell
Wi Davock
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