Soup kitchens urged as Athens County relief stretches thin
A telegraphed appeal to President Roosevelt from Athens County unemployed warns relief offices are closed and WPA workers are in peril. The message cites 1,100 WPA workers, 3,300 relief clients needing food fuel and clothing, and urges swift help with soup kitchens as the county seeks funds and jobs. Lott Bricker Doug Locke Charles Cochran and Vinton Huston sign the plea.
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Roosevelt
Athens County
WPA
Bricker
Peace Hopes Rise From Papal Rome Visit
Reports from Rome say Pope Pius and Italian King Victor Emmanuel the third held a 35 minute audience reinforcing church state ties and a peace driven policy. Mussolini plans a Vatican homage on January 4 while Goering stories hint at a German political rebound.
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Vatican
Italy
Victor Emmanuel
Chicago Recommended For 1940 Conventions
Prominent Republican and Democratic senators recommended that the 1940 national political conventions be held in Chicago or another western city to be near the important farm belt. The proposal aims to align the conventions with rural interests and agricultural priorities.
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Washington
W.P
Chicago
Peace Pleas Not Expected To End War
Roosevelt Christmas peace letters to Catholic Protestant and Jewish leaders along with a Vatican envoy assignment were described as unlikely to shorten hostilities. Critics say the move is a gesture not timed for an immediate peace effort, with domestic figures calling it political trimming.
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Washington
U.P
Roosevelt
Vatican
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Ernest K. Lindley
United States
Myron Co. Taylor
Rome
Argentina Rejects German Protest on Graf Spee Crew
Argentina informed Germany the internment of 1039 officers and crew from the scuttled Graf Spee was legal, denying Germany’s claim that survivors were distressed seamen immune from internment under international law.
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Buenos Aires
U.R
Argentina
Germany
Numbers Racket Nets Four Million a Year
Cincinnati crime coverage reports city prosecutor James Conway stating the numbers racket nets about 4 million dollars annually. In municipal court he cites a case where three African American defendants were fined for policy operations, calling the racket four times larger than bingo.
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Cincinnati
U.P
James Conway
Conway
Body of Slain Girl Found in Los Angeles
A young blonde woman about 19 was found in a vacant lot in Los Angeles with stab wounds and part of her scalp removed. An artificial red rose lay beneath her, indicating a brutal homicide scene. Investigators are pursuing leads in the case.
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Los Angeles
U.P
Steinmetz Pleads Guilty in Waynesburg Bank Robbery
Youngstown report says Charles Steinmetz aged 36 pleaded guilty to robbing the Waynesburg bank on July 10. Entry was gained by cutting an oil window above the bank. grand jury action awaited.
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Youngstown
U.P
Charles Steinmetz
Waynesburg
New Year's Eve 1940 expected brighter than 1930
New Year’s Eve in 1940 is anticipated to differ from 1930 with legal liquor, lower club prices, and improved stock markets. The 1930s began with Prohibition and a crash, while 1940 promises more celebratory mood and higher spending at night spots.
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New York
U.P
United States
Miss Lancaster beauty winner aids jail break attempt
A 17 year old Miss Lancaster confessed to smuggling saw blades into Fairfield County Jail. Sheriff Belhorn reported a hole in a cell used by William Hart 19 Middletown Ohio and Robert Lee 18 Norwood Mass linked to last summer’s killer of Axel Stromstead, a Boys Industrial School worker. The girl’s mother and Alice Leach held on forgery charges were said to have received the blades via notes exchanged through a crack in a heating pipe.
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Lancaster
A.P
Fairfield County
William J. Belhorn
William S. Hart
Middletown
Robert E. Lee
Norwood
Mass
Axel Stromstead
Boys’ Industrial School
Nellie Erick
Buckeye Lake
Jennie Erick
Alice Leach
Hart and Lee
Belhorn
Probers File Spy Charges Against Ross Nazi Propagandist
The Dies Committee labeled Dr. Colin Ross a Nazi propagandist who toured the U S in a car with motion picture cameras and tried to photograph industrial plants. It urged he be barred from the United States and noted he was last in the country on March 17 sailing for Japan aboard the Asama Maru.
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Washington
U.P
Dies Committee
Colin Ross
United States
Ross
Japan
Prison Guard Killed In Attempted Break Out
Two condemned men Clarence Rogers and William Young confessed to killing guard J. S. Chesser during an attempted escape at the State Prison. Chesser, bound and gagged, was found last night after the break thwarted by fellow guards.
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Raleigh, N. C
J. S. Chesser
Chesser
Clarence Rogers
William Young
Nash-Kelvinator Plant Reopens After Dispute
Detroit U P reports the Nash Kelvinator plant reopened today after a factional dispute. About 2,200 workers returned to their jobs. Also noted is Thomas Northcott observing his 95th birthday, a former farm foreman for President James A Garfield.
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Detroit
U.P
Nash-Kelvinator
Thomas Northcott
James A. Garfield
United States
Turkeys Eastern quake leaves thousands homeless
An earthquake of vast reach devastated towns across more than 25 000 square miles in Eastern Turkey. Erzincan, 550 miles east of Istanbul, was nearly obliterated with many towns reporting heavy casualties and extensive destruction while communications collapsed and relief efforts began.
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Welfare Levy Passed By Cleveland Voters
Cleveland voters approved a 3.4 mill special levy to fund statutory welfare services in Cuyahoga County for two years. The measure funds care for tubercular cases the blind insane indigent hospitalization mothers pensions crippled children and soldiers and sailors relief. Direct poor relief is not financed by the levy but its passage is expected to ease pressure on poor relief rolls.
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Cleveland
U.P
Cuyahoga County
Wheeler Emerges as CIO Nixon (1940) Presidential Backer
Washington sources say Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana appears likely to receive CIO backing for the 1940 presidency if Roosevelt does not seek a third term. CIO leaders are studying Democratic contenders and may launch new political machinery. The United Mine Workers convention starts January 23 in Columbus, likely signaling Lewis plans and possible third term debates.
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Washington
Burton K. Wheeler
Mont
John L. Lewis
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Roosevelt
United Press
CIO
Wheeler
United Mine Workers Union
Columbus
Lewis
Drought Predicted for Dust Bowl Next Summer
University of Nebraska experts Dr J E Weaver and Dr F W Albertson warned at the A A A S meeting that the middle west dust bowl could suffer the most ruinous drought in history next summer unless heavy rains come soon. They surveyed 88 grazing ranges across Nebraska Kansas the Dakotas Wyoming Colorado and the Oklahoma Panhandle. They described the worst areas as desert like with life seemingly extinct.
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Columbus
U.P
J. E. Weaver
University of Nebraska
Weaver
F. W. Albertson
Kansas State College
Oklahoma Panhandle
American Association For the Advancements of Science
Rehabilitation of Arctic Land Claimed Possible
Dr. Helmut Landsberg of Pennsylvania State College described a method to prod Arctic land into productivity by sprinkling coal dust on polar surfaces. He claimed the dust absorbs 90 percent of solar energy, melts snow and ice, lengthens growing seasons, and could improve highway safety. Experiments reportedly show treated ice absorbs far more energy than adjacent ice.
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Columbus
A.P
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Helmut Landsberg
Pennsylvania State College
Langsberg
Polar
Landsberg
Cleveland Relief Chief Jones Found After Vanishing
Cleveland officials located City Relief Commissioner Frank G. Jones after his wrecked car was found by Parma police at 4 30 am. Three men who admitted drinking with Jones were questioned about his whereabouts following the early morning incident.
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Cleveland
U.P
Frank G. Jones
Jones
Parma
James Roosevelts To Separate, Paper Says
The Philadelphia Evening Ledger reports James Roosevelt and his wife Betty Cushing have begun separate lives. James spent Christmas on the West Coast while Betty stayed with her mother Mrs Harvey Cushing in New Haven Connecticut.
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Philadelphia
U.P
Philadelphia Evening Public Ledger
James Roosevelts
the Ledger
James Roosevelt
West
Betty Cushing
Harvey Cushing
New Haven
Conn
Great Britain Extends Rationing to Sugar and Meat
London based official announcement states Britain will extend rationing to sugar and meat. Sugar rationing begins January 8 with a 12 ounce per person weekly limit.
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Great Britain
London
U.P
Japanese Air Raids Reported on Lanchow
Shanghai dispatch says the Japanese army and navy announced major air raids against Lanchow on the Yellow River.
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Shanghai
U.P
jLanchow
Yellow River
Despondency Blamed for Man's Death by Own Action
Augustus Miles Young, 55, of Nelsonville, died Wednesday afternoon from a self inflicted gunshot wound in his basement. Coroner A. L. Pritchard ruled death by own action due to illness and despondency. He leaves wife Lana Rosser Young, father John H. Young, two brothers Orville and Hubert, and sister Maude Raybould. Funeral at 2 p.m. Saturday at his home, Rev. Lawrence Crawford officiating. burial in Greenlawn.
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Augustus Miles
Gus) Young
Short
A. L. Pritchard
Lana Rosser Young
John H. Young
Orville
Finns Unable To Buy Arms Amid U S Restrictions
Washington dispatch reports Finland cannot obtain immediate delivery of American guns due to federal restrictions and tight stock. A Finnish mission led by Lieut. Gen. Vilho Petter Nenonon has conferred with War Department and other agencies to secure armaments, but statutes bar army and navy procurement of foreign orders and US plants lack sufficient stock for defense needs.
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Washington
U.P
Finland
Vilho Petter Nenonon
War Department
Navy
United States
Increase Reported in Holiday Liquor Sales
Ohio state liquor control reports Christmas week liquor sales at 2,714,673.08 dollars, up 154,580.51 dollars or 6.4 percent from the same week in 1938.
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Columbus
U.P
State Liquor Control Department
Ohio
Bride of Six Weeks Murdered In South Bend
Authorities in South Bend Indiana said Irene Smith age 26 a bride of six weeks was murdered. Her body lay across the tracks of an interurban electric line and was run over yesterday as investigators sought clues. Relatives identified her late yesterday.
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South Bend
Ind
U.P
Irene Smith
Ohio electric bills fall to near nation’s low levels
A Federal Power Commission study shows average Ohio electric bills declined about 10 percent over four years and now compare favorably with the nation’s lowest rates, except where government subsidized service applies.
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Washington
Ohio
Federal Power Commission
912 000 To Get Social Security
The Social Security Board expects about 912,000 Americans to receive new annuity payments totaling 114 million dollars in 1940. Checks will begin mailing around January 25 to eligible men aged 65 and over, their wives widows and dependent children under a law effective January 1.
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Washington
Social Security Board
Lenin Ban Squashed By Cambridge Mayor
Cambridge Mayor John A. Lyons refused to sign a council resolution to remove the words Lenin and Leningrad from city prints. Councilor Michael J. Sullivan had pushed the measure saying the terms aid communist influence.
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Lenin
Cambridge
Mass
John A. Lyons
Leningrad
Michael J. Sullivan
Sullivan
Lima Banker Named To Succeed Squire
Rodney P. Lien 38, president of the national bank of Lima, was named state banking superintendent by Governor Bricker, effective Jan. 15. He will replace Samuel H. Squire of Elyria, who has held the $7500 a year post since 1935 appointed by former Governor Davey.
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Columbus
U.P
Rodney P. Lien
National Bank of Lima
Bricker
Lien
Samuel H. Squire
Elyria
Davey
French Patrol Presses Sunks Submarines Claim
The high command announced that a French patrol boat and two destroyers have sunk two German submarines in the last three weeks. This claim underscores ongoing Allied naval actions amid U-boat operations in European waters.
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Paris
U.P
High Command
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