Violent Death Toll Rises After Weekend Tragedies
Since Saturday the state reports 65 violent deaths with 30 fatalities in the holiday period. Highway crashes caused 24 deaths while a plane crash at Vienna killed two Youngstown workers, 19 year old Eugene Kalaczky and 24 year old John Fox, injuring a student pilot from Youngstown. A separate stabbing in Cincinnati left Raymond Williams dead.
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Mildweather
Ohio
Youngstown
John Henry Fox
Eugene C. Kalaczky
Vienna
Alfred Rossi
Roy Hardman
Trumbull County
Raymond Williams
Cincinnati
One Age Conscription Plan Seen Premature Officials Say
Washington officials say discussing limiting conscription to 21 year olds is premature by at least three years. They warn such a shift would bias casualties toward 21 year olds and argue the current law covers ages 21 to 36 to maximize manpower.
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Washington
Congress
Europe
United States
Cut in Relief Spending Seen
Rising defense outlays could allow reductions in relief spending though the WPA will likely continue payments to July 1. Senators noted $975 million approved for the present fiscal year and emphasized employment data showing few relief recipients qualify for defense jobs.
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W. Ngton
WPA
Ohio Third in Holiday Deaths Amid Christmas Toll
A holiday toll of at least 382 violent deaths was reported across the nation with New York leading at 41 and Ohio totaling 30. Traffic fatalities in Ohio include several auto crashes in Cleveland, Lorain, Mayfield Heights, Findlay, and Toledo, along with a stabbing in a Cleveland dance hall. Christmas temperatures rose to 61 in Columbus and 60 in Cleveland.
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New York
District of Columbia
Illnois
Gaynor White
Cleveland
Lorain
Bruce Lara
John Hemminger
Julius Kolesar
Stanley Kaye
Ohio Canal
Lonnie A. Wilson
Cuyahoga County
Mayfield Heights
William Dye
Toledo
William Smith
van Wert
Lionel G. Griffin
Findlay
John Opp
Vernon
Lester W. Brant
Belleville
John McCarty
Ann Arbor
Mich
Springfield
Charles Owens
Donald
Columbus
Christmas Burglar Robs Jewelry Store
A burglar dressed as Santa Claus robbed a downtown jewelry store in Dayton early today, taking jewelry and watches valued at $15,000. A safe with Christmas receipts was tampered with but not opened.
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Dayton
WRC Official Ida McBride Dies at 90 in Indianapolis
Mrs. Ida S. McBride age 90 longtime resident of Plymouth Ohio and former national president of the Women's Relief Corps died at her Indianapolis home. She led the organization in national service and charity work.
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WRC
Indianapolis
Ida S. McBride
Plymouth
The
Women’s Relief Corps
Coast Guardsmen Missing After Distress Call
Ten Coast Guardsmen reported missing after their small lifeboat was forced to turn back amid distress calls from the lumber schooner Stan, as the Coast Guard launched a search from Point.
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San Francisco
Coast Guard
Coast
Section Boss Is Killed In Rail Crash West of Neffs
A section boss was killed and another railroad worker critically injured when a Baltimore and Ohio freight collided with a work train one mile west of Neffs Belmont. The crash occurred near the Willow Grove mine where men had died in a prior explosion last March.
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Bellaire
Baltimore and Ohio
Neffs
Belmont
Willow Crove
Cinema Star Dies Overnight in Unclear Report
A noted film star died last night with early reports naming roles in The Rudolph Valentino Commandments and Shie. The fragmentary notice provides few details and leaves confirmation pending from officials.
Christmas in Jail For Williams Family
Homer Williams and his mother Mrs Blanche Williams spent Christmas in the Meigs County jail cell after her confession to the shooting death of Mrs Eva Cummings near Bashan. The jail received gifts from Sheriff Beards and Meigs officials including a tree and a holiday meal.
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Pomeroy
Blanche Williams
Eva Cummings
Bashan
Homer
Junior) Williams
Santa Claus
Sheriff
George Beards
Manning Webster
Meigs County
Williams
Mrs. Williams
Cummings
Arthur Beegle
No Foreign War Adds Helen Dortch Longstreet to Board
Verne Marshall announces Mrs. Helen Dortch Longstreet joins the No Foreign War Committee board of directors. Mrs. Longstreet, national organizer for Defenders of the Republic, says the United States cannot be attacked if defense is built up on land sea and in the air. Marshall says the nation will know how to end the war if Roosevelt shares details during his Sunday night address on The Present Emergency.
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New York
Verne Marshall
No Foreign War Committee
Helen Dortch Longstreet
Defenders of the Republic
Longstreet
United States
Roosevelt
Rain and Snow Slow Fighting in Albania Front
Rain and snow slowed fighting on the Albanian front today. Greeks reported they continued their advance along the Adriatic coast north of Chimara without contact with the main Italian line. A captured Italian lieutenant colonel said fascist troops suffered from weather and supply issues, with battalions reduced from 700 to about 200 men.
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Chimara
Bucharest
Danube
Red Army
Britain
Germany
Corfu
Ionian Sea
Orkney Islands
George VI
Washington
Berlin
Albania
Valona
Bardia
Britain Needs Another Year to Win War Says Layton
Sir Walter Layton of the ministry of supply told Britain that if the country holds on through 1941 the volume of United States war material production will peak next winter and that ultimate victory is certain.
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London
U.P
Walter Layton
Ministry of Supply
Britain
United States
Motorcyclist Dies in Crash Near Cheshire
Victor Bradbury a 22 year old Ryger resident died from injuries after a Christmas Eve motorcycle collision with a car driven by Morris Hawley at the Cheshire village south end. Bradbury died three hours after at Holzer Hospital. survived by his parents a brother and a sister. Funeral services will be held Friday at the family home in Kyger with Gravel Hill Cemetery interment.
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Gallipolis
Victor Bradbury
Wymond Bradbury
Ryger
Holzer
Bradbury
Morton Dickey
Morris Hawley
Cheshire
Hawley
Hobson Shops
Kyger
John
Betty
Gravel Hill
Six in Family Die in Blaze
Washington mourns as a Christmas Eve fire destroys the Heinbach home killing a father, his wife and five children. Only the father and immediate relatives will attend funeral services at an undisclosed cemetery. burial place requested kept private by the family.
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Washington
Alton Heinbach
Upper Marlboro
Heinbuch
Georgia Patrolman's Slayer Captured After Five Day Manhunt
A five day multi state manhunt ended at Fulton County Jail with Charles Coates, 28, booked on murder charges for shooting Patrol Corporal W. F. Black after a traffic stop in Ringgold, Georgia. Coates was an escaped life term convict who reportedly fled bloodhounds and posse during the pursuit.
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Atlanta
Georgia
Fulton County
Georgia Public Safety
Lon Sullivan
Charles Coates
W. F. Black
Ringgold
Black
Daniel Frohman Noted Stage Producer Dies at 89
Daniel Frohman, renowned American theater figure and dean of stage producers, died today in a sanitarium at age 89 from complications after a fall. He had been confined since November 4 following a broken hip sustained in his hotel suite.
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New York
Daniel Frohman
Frohman
American Theater
140 Women Elected to 29 State Legislatures
A League of Women Voters survey shows 140 women elected to legislatures in 29 states in November. State senators seats dropped from 11 to 9. Eighty five Republicans and three Democrats will take seats in Congress January 3.
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Washington
League of Women Voters
Congress
Boy Drops Dead During Christmas Visit in Hastings
Joseph Krummery ten year old from McGuffey Ohio collapsed and died while playing after arriving with his parents for a Christmas visit in Hastings Michigan. Authorities attributed death to overexertion from running up a hill.
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Hastings
Mich
Joseph Krummery
McGuffey, O
Car Crash Injures Soldier in Battle Creek
Private Frank Combs age 21 from Portsmouth Ohio was seriously injured when an army reconnaissance car collided with another automobile in Battle Creek Michigan.
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Battle Creek
Mich
Frank Combs
Portsmouth
Roosevelt to Speak on War Aid to Britain Sunday Night
White House secretary said President Roosevelt will be very specific about war aid to Britain in his nationwide radio address Sunday night. No figures will be given that could aid other nations. The talk, from 9 30 to 10 p m EST, will also outline efforts to speed up domestic war production.
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Washington
White House
Roosevelt
Britain
Stephen Early
Early
Christmas Intruder Clings to Air Shaft Window
New York man Joseph Tompkins attempted to break into a home on Christmas night. He climbed across a five foot air shaft and clung to a window frame until police and fire crews arrived to assist.
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New York
Joseph Tompkins
Mrs. T
Safari in Alley Prompts City Police Pickup
Neighbors complained a man was firing a pistol in an alley. when questioned, he claimed he was shooting elephants.
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Miniseapolis
Huntsman
Pension Petition Delay For $40 A Month Plan
Ohio society leader says plans to file immediate petitions for a flat 40 a month old age pension are postponed. The committee expects a friendly legislature next month and will gather signatures, about 94 000 needed, to start a bill if needed.
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Columbus
Raymond J. Jeffreys
Ohio Society of Old Age Pensioners
Jeffreys
General Assembly
Britons Face Reduced Meat Ration This January
London reports Britain's meat ration likely to drop from one shilling tenpence per week to one shilling sixpence per week per person early in January. The current allowance buys about a pound and a half of beef.
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London
Britain
A Christmas Truce Tale From War Correspondent Mackenzie
The War Today columnist recalls a Passchendaele moment showing humanity amid conflict. A British Tommy spares a German prisoner boy rather than kill him, illustrating that most civilized men dislike bloodshed despite wartime pressures.
Showdown on Danube Delta Seen
Britain tightens coastal security along the Dover Strait amid fears of a German invasion as 300,000 Nazi troops move via Hungary into Romania. Roving reports suggest a major power struggle over the Danube Delta with potential Soviet or Axis moves against Greece or Turkey.
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Balkans
Russia
Danube River
Rumania
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Strait of Dover
Adolf Hitler
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Turkey
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Osten
Dover
Walther von Brauchitsch
Channel
England
Budapest
Germany
Reich
Soviet
Slovakia
Italian Plane Losses Top British by 39 to 9
Italy lost at least 39 airplanes to nine British losses in operations in the Greek Italian conflict from Nov. 7 to Dec. 21. The air ministry news service reported details of Royal Air Force activities in support of the Greeks.
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London
Italy
Air Ministry
Royal Air Force
Christmas Cablegram From London Brightens Mrs. Fiske
Mrs George Fiske of Kansas City received a Christmas cablegram from her London sister bearing the message Love cheers well confident. The brief note reflects holiday greetings sent across the ocean.
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Kansas City
George Fiske
London
Registration Finishes For Aliens In U S And Possessions
Washington reports the completion of a four months program to register and fingerprint every alien in the United States and its possessions, with results leading tonight.
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Washington
United States
Mi T
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