Balkan Entente Faces Strain From Global Powers
Balkan foreign ministers from Romania Turkey Greece and Yugoslavia gather amid rising pressure from Britain Germany and the Soviet Union. UK suspends oil license exports to Romania over oil policy as Nazi measures tighten control of Romanian supplies and Italy seeks coal and Romanian oil. Japan's parliament revisits foreign policy amid a budget and tension with the United States over treaty relations.
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Joe Alex Morris
United Press
Europe
Finland
Yugoslavia
Romania
Turkey
Greece
Jugoslavia
Germany
Balkan States
Russia
Italy
Balkans
Hungary
Bulgaria
Balkan
Reich
London
Great Britain
Rumania
Bucharest
Britain
65 000 Troops to Maneuver in Wisconsin Exercise
Secretary of War Woodring announced more than 65 000 regular and national guard troops forming the second army will maneuver Aug 11 to 31 near Sparta Wisconsin. The force includes units from Illinois Michigan Wisconsin Indiana Ohio Kentucky and West Virginia under Lieut Gen Stanley H Ford. Regular and guard elements from the fifth and sixth corps areas will participate, including the fifth infantry division and seventh mechanized cavalry brigade along with guard divisions 32nd 33rd 37th and 38th.
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Washington
WUP
Harry H. Woodring
Sparta
Wis
Air Force
Illinois
Michigan
Wisconsin
Indiana
Ohio
Kentucky
West Virginia
Stanley H. Ford
Regular Army
National Guard
Civil War Veteran Weatherhead Dies in Champaign County
Urbana report states James Adam Weatherhead aged 92, one of Champaign County’s last Civil War veterans, died at his daughter’s home in Woodstock. He ran away at 15 to enlist in the Union Army three times before his father relented.
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Urbana
James Adam Weatherhead
Champaign County
Guy Coffey
Woodstock
Census shows nearly half U S babies born in hospitals in 1938
Washington report from the Census Bureau states that in 1938 almost fifty percent of all babies were born in hospitals. The finding highlights a growing trend in birth locations across the United States.
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Sirths
Washington
U.P
Census Bureau
United States
Maroon and White Plates for Columbus-Upper Ohio Cars
Ohio officials announced 1940 automobile license plates will feature a maroon background with white letters and numerals. The change applies to Columbus and surrounding areas as part of a statewide reform.
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Columbus
Ohio
Vandenberg Proposes Foreign Trade Board to Replace Reciprocal Deals
Senate introduces a bill by Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg to create a foreign trade board that would manage commercial and financial relations with foreign nations. The plan aims to unify scattered trade promotion efforts and operate under the general direction of the President and Congress, not the State Department.
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Washington
Arthur H. Vandenberg
Mich
Senate
Vandenberg
Congress
State Department
House
Ways and Means Committee
GOP Delegates Chosen for Ohio at National Convention
The Republican State Central Committee adopted a slate of eight delegates-at-large for Ohio’s national convention, with Taft and Bricker approval. The list includes Governor Bricker, Ed D. Schorr, Grove Patterson, Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Lawrence Payne, Myers Y. Cooper, John Galvin, and David S. Ingalls. District delegates are chosen locally.
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Columbus
U.P
Republican State Central Committee
Ohio l
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
John W. Bricker
Bricker
David S. Ingalls
Cleveland
Senator Taft
Ed D. Schorr
Cincinnati
Grove Patterson
The
Toledo Blade
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Lawrence Payne
State Pardon and Parole Commission
Myers Y. Cooper
John Galvin
Lima
Safety Council Reports Drop in Accidents for 1939
The National Safety Council closed its 1939 ledger noting a 1 percent overall decrease in accidental deaths. Fatal public accidents fell 6 percent and occupational deaths 3 percent, while highway deaths were nearly unchanged. Home deaths rose, with total accidents at 32,000, up 2 percent from 1938.
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Chicago
National Safety Council
Puerto Rico to be American naval and air defense base
Commander Leland P. Lovette announced Puerto Rico is being developed as a nerve center for strategic air and submarine bases for Western Hemisphere defense. He spoke at a national defense conference outlining Caribbean defenses for the U S southern region and the Panama Canal.
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Washington
U.P
Puerto Rico
Leland P. Lovette
Lovette
Navy
United States
Panama Canal
Women’s
National Patriotic Conference On National Defense
Woolley Named Candidate for Fourth District Court of Appeals
Logan County Bar Association members voted to request Athens attorney John J. Woolley to become a candidate for judge of the Fourth District Court of Appeals. George W. Christmann was elected county president with Carlos Brashares as vice president and Forest E. Weinrich as secretary.
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Logan
Hocking County Bar Association
John J. Woolley
Athens
Court of Appeals
George W. Christmann
Carlos Brashares
Forest E. Weinrich
Trapped by Flames Seven Die in Pennsylvania Home
A Fire in Freeport Pennsylvania killed seven members of the Brown family in a two story frame dwelling. Victims: Omar Brown 38 Marian Brown 35 Betty Lou 116 Helen 14 Omar Jr 12 Thomas 10 and Joseph 8.
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Freeport
U.P
Omar Brown
Marian
Betty Lou
Helen
Omar, Jr
Thomas
Joseph
Hero's home destroyed in Mt Vernon fire
Walter E Ackerman, who earned a Carnegie hero award last year for rescuing three children from a fire, saw his own Mt Vernon home burn down yesterday.
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MT. Vernon
Walter E. ‘Ackerman
Strike Rioters Freed Thanks to Roosevelt
President Roosevelt’s decision that 125 WPA workers indicted for strike rioting last July led to their dismissal. The defendants faced charges of violating the emergency relief act by depriving relief benefits.
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Minneapolis
Minn
U.P
Roosevelt
WPA
Pittman Denounces Japan Threats to U.S. Rights
Senate Foreign Relations chairman Key Pittman accuses Japan of intimidating Congress and violating American treaty rights in the Far East. He warns that yielding to Japanese threats would erode citizens' rights abroad as Tokyo officials decry a U S embargo and Japan reforges its Asia order.
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Washington
U.S
Key Pittman
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Japan
Congress
Far East
United States
Pittman
Toyko
Hachira Arita
Asia
China
No Change Seen in Gallia Flood Danger
Gallia County residents see no flood danger as river ice slowly melts with rising temperatures and no rain. Eureka lock and dam officials and U S engineers say the structure can withstand ice pressures and will not suffer damage as ice moves past the piers. Water remains clear of ice for a mile below the dam and rapid downstream flow prevents re freezing.
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Gallipolis
Ohio River
Gallia County
Eureka Lock and Dam
U. S
State Toll Bridges Net Greater Profit in 1939
The State Bridge Commission reported higher gross revenues and profits from state toll bridges in 1939 due to increased traffic. The Pomeroy-Mason Bridge on the Ohio River earned profits of 8927, up from 1938 but well below 1937 levels.
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Columbus
State Bridge Commission
Pomeroy-Mason
Ohio River
Findley Harrison Dies At Home Near Dexter
Findley Anderson, 80, died last night at his home near Dexter. He is survived by his wife, three sons and one daughter. Funeral arrangements have not been completed.
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Pomeroy
Findley Anderson
Dexter
Don
Rutland
Cleveland
Pearly
Columbus
Frank Halliday
Harrisonville
Miners Press for More Union Relief at Convention
At the United Mine Workers convention in Columbus delegates urged higher relief funds for families during strikes and rejected a proposed uniform special assessment. West Virginia and Alabama miners described hardships from last spring’s six week stoppage and called for a uniform policy financed by a $2 to $3 per member assessment.
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Columbus
United Mine Workers Union
West Virginia
Alabama
International Union
Joe Samargo
Fairmont
W. Va
J. E. Jones
Worthington
E. D. Hosey
Minden
Virgil Moncrief
Birmingham
Ala
International Executive Board
Thomas Kennedy
Kennedy
Toledo Gas Strike Shuts Off Plant Service
About 200 members of the Gas Workers Local Union CIO walked out over a stalled contract with Northwest Ohio Natural Gas and Ohio Fuel Gas. Toledo city officials convened a meeting with the firms and union reps to mediate.
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Toledo
U.P
Toledo Industries
Gas Workers’ Local Union
CIO
Northwest Ohio Natural Gas
Ohio Fuel Gas Companies
George N. Schoonmaker
E. W. Tharpe
Ohio
Tharpe
Americanism Keynote By Grand Chancellor At Pythian Hall
Grand Chancellor Harry Wilkenson of Ohio Cleveland told more than 100 Knights of Pythias from Meigs Gallia and pene counties that fraternal organizations must ground themselves in Americanism. He condemned un American activities and praised Pythianism as 100 percent American. A 7 o clock dinner preceded a half hour of cowboy music and local members heard from A W Ripple district deputy grand chancellor. Delegates from Gallipolis Bowling Green Athens Logan Chauncey Glouster Sardis and Carbondale attended. district membership stood at 650 at end of 1939.
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Nelsonville
Knights of Pythias
Pene, Meigs
Gallia
Pythian Castle Hall
Harry Wilkenson
Grand Domain
Ohio
Cleveland
Gallipolis
Bowling Green
Athens
Logan
Chauncey
Glouster
Sardis
Carbondale
A. W. Ripple
Pastors Hear John L. Lewis At Ohio Convention
In Columbus the 21st annual Ohio pastors convention neared its close as committees prepared reports on international and industrial relations. John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers argued that the value of the new labor movement is proven by the strong opposition it faces, noting Hitler’s bread for the German people as an example of church failure to provide sustenance.
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Committee For Industrial Organization
Congress of Industrial Organizations
CLO
International Auditors of the Union
Treasury
CIO
Columbus
U.P
Ohio
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers Union
Ohio River at historic low threatens Steubenville industries
With the Ohio River at three feet three inches, the lowest recorded level, Steubenville faces a water shortage that imperils a dozen or more large local industries and could force shutdowns.
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Steubenville
U.P
AFL Says Unemployed Still Foremost Problem
The AFL executive council declares unemployment remains the nation’s top domestic issue. It urges parties to include jobs plans, favors private industry creation of work, a national advisory council, shorter work weeks, and clearer unemployment figures, noting about 9 million unemployed.
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AFL
Miami
Fla
U.P
American Federation of Labor Executive Council
Congress
Future of U.S. Government Up to People, Hughes Says
Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes told services marking the 150th anniversary of the first Supreme Court meeting that the future of American government rests with the people who created the system not with the court. He cited John Marshall and urged that the people can unmake the Constitution if needed.
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Washington
Charles Evans Hughes
Supreme Court
Hughes
John Marshall
R. H. Jackson
Charles A. Beardsley
American Bar Association
Congress
John Jay
British Government Requisitions Vessels
London report states the government seized ship building and repair capacity and requisitioned 9,000,000 tons of cargo liners to direct routes and cargoes, a wartime measure revived to prevent shortages amid ongoing supply concerns.
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London
U.P
Four of ten Arlington cemetery fraud defendants face new trial
A federal court hung jury left four defendants facing a new trial while six co defendants were acquitted on the Arlington cemetery fraud case.
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Cincinnati
Arlington Cemetery
Rutland Native Reverend G M Bing Dies at 69
POMEROY Staff Special Rev. G M Bing age 69 former Meigs County resident and Rutland native died suddenly at his Wolback Nebraska home. He served in Simpson Methodist Church Pomeroy and Rutland Methodist Church and planned to visit Pomeroy this summer. He is survived by wife three married children mother age over 90 four sisters and two brothers with one brother deceased.
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Pomeroy
G. M. Bing
Meigs County
Wolback
Nebraska
Bing
Rutland
Iowa
M. E. Bing
Gertrude French
Arlington
John C. Chase
Clara Bing
Nell Bing
Alfred E. Bing
Waterloo
James Bing
Simpson Methodist Church
Rutland Methodist Church
Conservation Discussed At Annual Farm Meet
Ohio farmers week at Ohio State University scheduled a panel on conservation. James Rush of Canal Winchester won the Future Farmers of America public speaking contest with Daniel Friedly of Tully Convoy School taking second in Van Wert County.
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Columbus
U.p—Conservation
Ohio
Ohio State University
James Rush
Canal Winchester
Future Farmers of America
Daniel Friedly
Tully-Convoy
van Wert
State Welfare Director Takes Two-Week Florida Vacation
State Welfare Director Charles L. Sherwood departed today for a two week vacation in Florida.
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Florida
Columbus
WUP
Charles L. Sherwood
Senator's Wife Finds Fortune in Safety Box
Mrs William E Borah widow of Idaho Senator discovered a safety deposit box contained 207000 in thousand dollar bills and government bonds after his death The funds backed by a joint account with her late husband covered immediate funeral travel costs.
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Washington
U.P
William E. Borah
Idaho
Engineer in Hospital After Illness at Holzer
Frank Buck of Antiquity in Meigs County, an engineer at a driver lock, is a patient at Holzer Hospital likely suffering from alaremia, according to reports.
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Gallipolis
Frank Buck
Meigs County
Holzer Hospital
Alaremia
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