Treasury Coordinated Drive Against Foreign Espionage
Treasury investigators nationwide are ordered to spearhead a wartime anti spy campaign under Elmer Irey. The directive unites Customs Narcotics Income Tax Intelligence Alcohol Tax and Coast Guard and Secret Service agents to report suspected espionage to supervisors and then to Irey.
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Treasury
Washington
U.P
The
Elmer Irey
Treasury Order
Customs and Narcotics
Income Tax Intelligence Unit
Alcohol Tax
Secret Service
Coast Guard
F. E. Pollie
Paris moves to reinforce Somaliland amid secret war freight
Two large French freighters loaded at Marseilles docks secretly to reinforce the garrison in French Somaliland. Senegalese riflemen join French troops. destroyer Epervier and dispatch boat D Iberville ordered to bolster navy units there. Daladier and Bonnet deny plans to meet Chamberlain in Rome while continuing cross‑channel talks.
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Paris
Marseilles
Somaliland
Epervier
D'Iberville
France
Edouard Daladier
Georges Bonnet
Chamberlain
Rome
Job Insurance Choices Eyed
Washington reports the Social Security Board assigned a representative to observe Ohio's unemployment compensation selection of personnel but found no irregularities. Director R Gordon Wager noted he would not comment on reports that non top three civil service exam scorers were being certified, expressing confidence in merit-system preservation.
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Washington
U.P
Social Security Board
Ohio
WPA Worker and Son Missing After Lake Erie Rowboat Vanishes
Coast Guards resumed search for a small rowboat missing in Lake Erie off Gordon Park Cleveland with WPA worker William Novak and his 14 year old nephew Thomas J. Pickett Jr aboard. They had gone out to haul in fishing lines. Novak previously survived a pier robbery in Lorain a year earlier.
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Cleveland
U.P
Coast Guards
Lake Erie
Gordon Park
WPA
William Novak
Thomas J. Pickett, Jr
Novak
Lorain
Dayton youth confesses 1932 murder aiding inmate
Loren Stephens aged 21 of Dayton admitted shooting A. W. Dare during a Christmas Eve 1932 holdup. Dare, a shoe store manager, was killed when Stephens was 15. Virgil Dackin, 34, is serving an indeterminate Mansfield term for the same case. Stephens was arrested today on burglary charges.
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Dayton
O.R
Loren Stephens
Virgil Dackin
Mansfield
Stephens
Phil Kloos
A. W. Dare
Dare
Bishop Thomas Lillis Dies in Kansas City at 77
The Rt. Rev. Thomas F. Lillis, 77, Catholic bishop of Kansas City, died today after a short illness. He had been seriously ill only a few days.
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Kansas City
U.P
Thomas F. Lillis
Rebel Artillery Plays Big Role In Offensive
Spanish National forces unleash heavy artillery in Balaguer on the Catalonian front to start the campaign’s second phase. Artillery breached barbed wire and trenches while Aragonese infantry, aided by tanks, cleared machine gun nests to reach the fourth trench line. Nationalists claim 19 Loyalist planes downed today, total 55 since the start.
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Hendaye
U.P
Balaguer
Hold Three on Musica Blackmailing Charge
New York dispatch reports McKesson & Rob bins Inc faced a swift countrywide inventory of 77 warehouses after its swindling president F Donald Coster killed himself while facing charges. Three suspects Walter Cragg Joseph Brandino and Mary Brandino were held on bail for blackmail related to the case.
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NEW York
U.P
McKesson & Robbins, Inc
F. Donald Coster
Philip Musica
Walter H. Cragg
Joseph Brandino
Mary Brandino
De Valera to Visit Roosevelt on May 6 1939
Dublin announced that Prime Minister Eamon De Valera will visit President Franklin D. Roosevelt on May 6, 1939. The trip to the United States was confirmed today.
Bowman Named President of Ohio Education Association
George A. Bowman superintendent of Lakewood schools was elected president of the Ohio Education Association over C. M. Howe and Clyde D. Van Tassel. The assembly authorized a bill for a state wide school insurance plan covering buildings equipment and buses. Delegates urged a constitutional amendment for a state board of education and removal of earmarked state taxes. They also supported amending the school foundation law to end higher per pupil allowances for small high schools under 60 pupils.
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Columbus
U.P
George A. Bowman
Lakewood
Ohio Education Association
C. M. Howe
Cincinnati
Clyde D. van Tassel
Toledo
Board of Education
School Foundation
Cincinnatian Killed in Southern Car Crash
Kentwood La Rev P J Siemer of St Gregory Seminary Cincinnati Ohio and Mr and Mrs Arthur Washick of Mundelein Illinois among three dead after an automobile collision near Kentwood Louisiana today injuries to four others reported by United Press.
Priest Killed as Car Goes Over Bank Near Steubenville
Rev. Gerard Spencer 29 of Dennison Ohio was killed and Rev. Edward J. Reedy 30 of St. Charles Seminary Columbus Ohio was injured when an auto skidded and went over a 70 foot embankment east of Steubenville. Father Spencer formerly served as assistant pastor at St. Marys Lancaster.
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Steubenville
U.P
Gerard Spencer
Dennison
Edward J. Reedy
St. Charles Seminary
Columbus
Here
Father Spencer
St. Mary’s Church
Lancaster
Gas Explosion Kills Two Miners in Virginia Coal Mine
In Christianburg Virginia officials say sparks from blasting preparations caused a gas explosion at the Merrimac Anthracite Coal Mine. Two miners were killed Robert Huff aged 22 and Vernon Peele aged 21. Five others were critically injured.
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Christianburg
U.P
Merrimac
Robert Huff
Vernon Peele
Burglar-Proof Mint Is Easy for Two Youths
Two 15 year old boys in San Francisco broke into the United States Mint at Buchanan and Market Streets, entering through a second floor window after climbing a pipe. They said they hoped to prove it could be done and claimed no harm was intended. A guard alerted authorities after discovering them. Both youths identified themselves as Paul Francis and William Gallagher.
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SAN Francisco
U.P
United States Mint
Cuchanan
Market Sts
Octavia Street
Paul Francis
William Gallagher
1938 Traffic Deaths Hit Five Year Low
The National Safety Council estimates 1938 traffic deaths will total 32,000, at least 7,400 fewer than 1937 and the lowest since 1933. November recorded 3,110 deaths, marking the thirteenth straight month of decline and the greatest annual reduction in U. S. history.
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Chicago
U.P
National Safety Council
Holt demands probe of anti Smith charge
Washington senator Rush D Holt a member of the education and labor committee said he would push for open hearings on the renomination of Donald Wakefield Smith to the National Labor Relations Board He argued that allegations Smith favored the Congress of Industrial Organizations over the American Federation of Labor should be investigated.
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Washington
Rush D. Holt
W. Va
Senate Education and Labor Committee
Donald Wakefield Smith
National Labor Relations Board
Smith
Congress of Industrial Organizations
American Federation of Labor
Senate group seeks higher age pensions under Social Security Act
A bipartisan Senate group proposes liberalizing old age pensions, with plans for 40 to 60 dollar monthly payments. Sen. Borah recalls earlier 45 dollar proposals and notes possible Congress sympathy toward higher pensions funded by raised taxes or income surcharges.
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Washington
William E. Borah
Ida
Congress
Borah
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr
Mass
Edward R. Burke
Ohio May Escape New Cold Wave
A new Arctic cold wave swept the Western and Central Plains into the Mississippi and Ohio valleys. Forecaster Lloyd said the front would reach Kansas and Missouri by night, bringing temperatures near 10 above zero and snow flurries. Snow fell across New York and the Midwest with more expected. Ontario reported five deaths linked to the storm and Edmonton, Alberta, registered 44 below zero. Northern Florida faced sub freezings.
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U.P
U. S
J. R. Lloyd
Atlantic
Mississippi Valley
Montana
Dakotas
Seaboard
Maine
Boston
Mississippi
Ohio River
Lloyd
Kansas
Missouri
New York
New England
Michigan
Wisconsin
North Dakota
Minnesota
Illinois
Canada
Ontario
Edmonton
Alta
Florida
Package liquor sales by restaurants urged in Ohio
Columbus reports the secretary of state approved initiative petitions backing a bill to allow night clubs and restaurants to sell liquor in packages for off premises use. If 75 000 signatures are collected the measure goes to the 94th general assembly in 1941 42.
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Columbus
Secretary of State
94Th General Assembly
Goebbels Beaten by Actress’s Boyfriend Reported
Greenwich Times reports Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels was severely beaten in Berlin by an actress’s boyfriend. The blow, likely a horsewhip, sent him to a hospital and prompted Frau Goebbels to flee to Switzerland for an indeterminate stay amid health rumors.
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Greenwich
Conn
Greenwich Times
Wythe Williams
Joseph Goebbels
Berlin
Goebbels
Frau Goebbels
Switzerland
Grippe
Sherwood Named to Bricker Public Welfare Post
Columbus report says Governor-elect Bricker will appoint Charles L. Sherwood, former executive secretary of the Ohio Mental Hygiene Association, as director of public welfare in his cabinet. Sherwood was previously assistant welfare director under Myers Y. Cooper a decade ago.
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Columbus
U.P
Charles L. Sherwood
The
Ohio Mental Hygiene Association
John W. Bricker
Sherwood
Goy
Myers Y. Cooper
Japs to Hold School Shanghai Remain With Hold Until War End
A Japanese spokesman announced Japan will refuse to return Shanghai University to its American Baptist owners until after hostilities in China cease.
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Shanghai
Japan
Shanghai University
China
Protection for Yankees Asked
The American Embassy asked Berlin's Foreign Office for assurances that American citizens would be exempt from the December 14 law barring Jews from managing business enterprises, even if Jewish owned. The note reportedly sought assurances only and did not cite the German American friendship treaty. The law sets trustees for Jewish enterprises with Aryan managers for former Jewish-run businesses.
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Berlin
Foreign Office
Tree Stealer Not Killed on Slayer's Land
Elyria, U P report says William Rosseau was killed while stealing a Christmas tree for his children. The tree lay eight feet five inches from William Case's property line in the road right of way. Prosecutor says under Ohio law the tree is Case's. Case remains under $1000 bond on manslaughter charge. Rosseau buried in Grafton. wife in critical condition.
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Elyria
U.P
William Rosseau
William Case
Case
Howard R. Butler
Ohio
Rosseau
Grafton
Girl 15 Admits Extortion Plot in School Case
A frail 15 year old girl wife of a WPA worker admitted to attempted blackmail breaking and entering robbery and forgery in an extortion plot against West Bolivar School principal Mrs Lawrence Shirey of West Bolivar The girl was free on 1000 bail pending juvenile court hearing because authorities said the case cannot go to criminal court due to her age. She told investigators she was inspired by detective stories.
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Greensburg
WPA
West Bolivar
Lawrence Shirey
Joseph J. Conwell
State Motor Police
Columbus Lawyer Appointed Special Counsel to PUC
Kenneth L. Later of Columbus named by Attorney General-elect Thomas J. Herbert as assistant attorney general and special counsel to the Public Utilities Commission. The 39 year old son of ex Federal Judge John E. Sater, a Dartmouth and Harvard Law School graduate, will earn 5000 dollars annually after 14 years of practice in Columbus.
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Columbus
U.P
Kenneth L
Public Utilities Commission
Thomas J. Herbert
John E. Sater
Dartmouth College
Harvard Law School
Explosion Fatal to Lancaster Worker at Sugar Grove
Lester N. Patrick, 28, a production line employee at a local company, died after sustaining burns from a gasoline engine explosion at Sugar Grove near Lancaster yesterday evening. Police investigated the blast and the cause remained under study.
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Lancaster
Lester N. Patrick
Oll
Burns
Sugar Grove
Labor Act cited as affecting worker strikes and union growth
National Labor Relations Board Chairman J Warren Madden told the American Political Science Association in Columbus that 1938, the act's first full year, saw fewer strikes and fewer workers involved. He noted union membership rising to about eight million and argued workers may become a stabilizing force in society amid debates on self government and demagoguery.
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Columbus
J. Warren Madden
National Labor Relations Board
American Political Science Association
Madden
Roosevelt seeks civil service plan to placate WPA foes
Washington sources say the Roosevelt administration may shift the vast relief program to civil service to placate congressional opponents of the Works Progress Administration. A parallel proposal would create nonpartisan county boards to investigate WPA political activity.
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Washington
U.P
Roosevelt Administration
Civil Service
Works Progress Administration
Senate
Congress
Alben W. Barkley
WPA
Barkley
Bailey
Hopkins
Rush D. Holt
W. Vas
New York
Holt
Commerce Committee
Aubrey Williams
National Youth Administration
Kentucky Bank Bandits Hunted in Mountains
FREEBURN Kentucky sheriff's posse of 15 deputies and 25 citizens armed with machine guns shotguns rifles and pistols combed the wooded hills for bandits who robbed the Merchants' and Miners' Bank of more than 5000. Two bloodhounds aided the search as Sheriff Earl Scott said the posse neared its quarry after a hunt that began after yesterday's robbery.
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Freeburn
Earl Scott
Cadiz farmer’s estate valued at fifty thousand left for the needy
W. C. McLain, a retired farmer from Cadiz who died recently, left an estate valued at about 50 000 dollars to be administered for the benefit of needy persons. The will was revealed today.
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Cadiz
Uu.r
W. C. McLain
Memorial elms planted for Governor Martin L. Davey in State House yard
Two 50 foot elms were planted today in the State House yard as a memorial to Governor Martin L. Davey by employees of the Davey Tree Expert Co of Kent.
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Columbus
U.P
State House
Martin L. Davey
Employes
Davey Tree Expert Co
Kent
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