Rail Workers May Strike For Vacations With Pay
About 750,000 Class 1 railroad employees across 14 unions faced a potential paid vacation strike. Spokesman George M. Harrison said ballots would go out Feb. 15 with 30 days for voting, plus a 60 day cooling off period delaying any walkout until late spring. Local strikes and talks continued nationally with some disruptions and settled trucking contracts in Dayton.
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Washington
George M. Harrison
National Defense
Chicago
International Harvester Company
Allis-Chalmers Co
Milwaukee
Wis
United Rubber Workers
CIO
Lieberling Rubber Co
Akron
Ohio
Dayton
Warns Against Easy Profits in Home Building
Cincinnati speech by John H. Fahey chairman of the Home Loan Bank Board warns the industry against quick profits. He predicts an 800 million to 1 billion dollar increase in defense housing this year and recalls the twenties when profit seeking led to deteriorating homes and losses for savers. He urges mortgage lenders to avoid repeating those mistakes.
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Cincinnati
John H. Fahey
Home Loan Bank Board
Defense
Fahey
Cincinnaati Federal Home Loan Bank
Airline Crash Probed After Nine Die In Ontario
Federal board members arrived from Toronto to investigate a Trans-Canada Air Lines transport that crashed two miles from Armstrong Ontario yesterday. Nine passengers and three crew members were killed and there were no survivors. The crash site is in a remote area near the town.
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Armstrong
Beightler to Return to Columbus for Brief Visit
Maj. Gen. Robert Beightler commander of the 37th Division Ohio National Guard will return to his Columbus home for a brief visit Sunday He is to speak Saturday in Cincinnati.
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Columbus
Robert Beightler
Ohio National Guard
Cincinnati
Kids Jump Gun Pick Own Academy Winners
Hollywood report says two thousand children at a dance studio chose 1940s film stars for Academy honors. Billy Lee was named best boy actor for The Biscuit Eater and Gloria Jean received feminine honors for A Little Bit of Heaven.
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Hollywood
Motion Picture Academy
Billy Lee
Gloria Jean
North Dakota couple welcome quadruplets
Fargo man Nick Brown celebrated after his 37 year old wife delivered quadruplets, a girl and three boys, between 1 06 and 1 15 pm. The babies weighed 4 pounds 10 ounces, 4 pounds 10 ounces, 4 pounds 9 ounces and 3 pounds ? ounces. The Browns already have seven sons aged 16 months to 12 years.
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Fargo
N. D
Nick Brown
Nick
Williams Faults Types In American Air Power Debate
Major Al Williams argues the United States lacks a single seater to match British and German fighters and criticizes three engine types for undermining air power. He opposes the lend-lease bill as House leaders pledge no more concessions while maneuvers over the measure continue.
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Washington
al Williams
Navy
United States
England
Williams
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Great Britain
White House
Roosevelt
Robert McCormick
Chicago Tribune
America
McCormick
Senate
House
Pacific
Far East
U. S&s
Britain
Foreign Affairs Committee
Rayburn
Bloom
N. Y
Rep
Dirksen
Congress
Marketing Quotas Do Not Limit Grain Sales
Washington officials said marketing quotas for the 1941 wheat crop would not affect the amount of grain sold by farms complying with AAA acreage allotments. With a large surplus and strong harvest prospects, the department plans a grower referendum on the quota proposal starting May 31.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Great Britain's Coast Lined With Guns of Every Size
British home forces in England defend Ca lais by a girdle of long range guns and coastal defenses. The observer notes vast numbers of field, heavy and light machine guns, mortars, grenadiers, barbed wire, and concrete obstacles facing potential invasion forces. An artillery colonel complains the supply of equipment is so great they do not know where to place it.
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Great Britain
Drew Middleton
England
Calais
Britain
Jerry
Public Works Projects to Plug War After-Employment Gap
President Roosevelt outlined a plan to stockpile public works projects such as highways hospitals airports and housing to provide jobs after the war. He said authorized projects would be saved for release when defense employment declines and would aim to return capital to the government. He noted a possible Washington to Baltimore highway linked to the program.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Baltimore
Fort Meade
Army
Aberdeen
Investigators Probe Bomber Crash Near Lovelock Neb
Army investigators seek to determine why a new type bomber crashed on a desert mountainside near Lovelock 12 miles southwest of town. Four motor bomber left Sacramento at 8 28 am en route to Denver with Capt Freeman at the controls. The War Department notes increased crashes with higher training value and stricter pilot standards.
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Lovelock
Neb
Here
F. C. Nelson
McClellan Field
Sacramento
Calif
Nelson
Denver
R. S. Freeman
Alaska
Wright Field
Dayton
War Department
Washington
Snow Blankets Most of Ohio
Snow flurries covered most of Ohio today with a three inch fall near Painesville. Hazardous driving followed as packed snow and ice affected Columbus Xenia Lebanon Wilmington Bellefontaine Springfield Mt. Gilead Marysville Delaware Youngstown London Circleville Washington Do H Lancaster Mount Vernon Newark Medina Bucyrus Mansfield Ashland Canton Warren Athens Ravenna. Snow plows and cinder trucks operated. temperatures ranged from 18 to 38 degrees.
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Columbus
Painesville
Ohio
State Highway Department
Xenia
Lebanon
Wilmington
Bellefontaine
Springfield
Mt. Gilead
Marysville
Delaware
Youngstown
London
Circleville
Washington
Do. H
Lancaster
Mount Vernon
Newark
Medina
Bucyrus
Mansfield
Ashland
Canton
Warren
Athens
Ravenna
Europe Death Rate Rises Ex War Deaths Not Counted
Metropolitan Life Insurance reports Europe’s death rate rising outside war losses with typhus fever blamed for up to 3,000,000 deaths in the World War era.
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Europe
New York
Metropolitan Life Insurance Co
One Time the Truck Driver Wasnt Right
FRANKFORT Kentucky A light delivery truck a passenger car and a police car collided at a crossing on East Main Street as the stop signal flashed red. The truck halted the car rammed it and the driver claiming the woman was his wife offered a terse remark about fixing the damage.
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Frankfort
Richard Glass
East Main St
Troops Guard U S Embassy in Rome as Demonstration Dims
Italian troops lined the perimeter of the U S Embassy in Rome to deter a planned student march but protesters dispersed before reaching the area. The scene marked a rare military protection since Italy declared war last June. Demonstrators earlier gathered at Fascist HQ and listened to an official speech amid antipathy to British propaganda.
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Rome
United States
Italy
Britain
France
London
Marshal Graziani
North Africa
Mussolini
Mediterranean
Libya
Sicily
Archibald P. Wavell
Sidi Barrani
Egypt
Bardia
Tobruk
Derna
Hitler
Maxime Weygand
French
Weygand
Bizerte
Tunisia
Germany
East Africa
Cheren
Asmara
Nye Wants Lindbergh To Run For Congress
Senator Nye suggests aviator Charles A. Lindbergh seek a seat in Congress after Lindbergh's questioning on the British Aid Bill. Nye calls him an amazing strength for the chamber.
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Nye
Lindbergh
Congress
Washington
Charles A. Lindbergh
N. D
Con
Suit Roads to Military Needs, Engineers Told
TOLEDO Ohio. G R Logue chief engineer of the State Highway Department warned the Ohio Society of Professional Engineers that it is too late to build new highways after it is found present roads are not suited to military needs. He urged adapting highways to military needs rather than adapting military equipment to existing roads.
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Toledo
G. R. Logue
State Highway Department
Logue
Ohio Society of Professional Engineers
Fortune Teller Prediction Fails as Purse Is Stolen
In Indianapolis a fortune teller warned Esther Byers that a purse grab would occur in two to three days. Minutes after leaving her home three young men knocked her down and fled with her purse two dollars and fifty cents and a ten dollar pen and pencil set.
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Indianapolis
Esther Byers
Ohio Senate Defers Action on Debt Plan Amid Battle
In Columbus the Ohio Senate postponed action on a debt refinancing bill after a two and a half hour debate between Democrats and Republicans. The measure would let local governments refund bonds without competitive bidding or public sale notice, prompting charges of inequity from opponents. The House proceeded slowly with new bills as sessions shift to Monday.
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Columbus
Ohio Senate
Grant P. Ward
R.franklin
James Metzenbaum
Cuyahoga
Frank E. Whittemore
Senate
House
Director of Education
Two Players Die in Crash Near Ravenna
A car carrying members of the Ohio College of Chiropody basketball team to a West Virginia game collided with another vehicle six miles south of Ravenna on Route 14. Detroit players Paul Wasser 19 and William Caplan 24 were killed. Teammate Jack Durant 24 was injured along with Theodore Rossen 20 of Pittsburgh and William Dougherty 28 of Hoboken. Durant was driving.
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Ravenna
Ohio College of Chiropody
Cleveland
West Liberty
W. Va
West Liberty State Teachers College
Paul Wasser
William Caplan
Detroit
Jack Durant
Theodore Rossen
Anticipate Lower Relief Expense in January
State Welfare Director Charles L. Sherwood said January relief disbursements would total about 1.904 million dollars, four percent below December and roughly 580 thousand under January 1940. He credited mild weather and accelerated defense industry activity for the drop.
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Columbus
State Welfare
Charles L. Sherwood
Sherwood
Federal Mine Inspection Hit By Operators
The National Coal Association opposes a new federalized compulsory mine inspection system. John Battle says explosions are being used to smear the industry but notes that investigations by state authorities and the U S Bureau of Mines failed to identify conclusive causes for the six 1940 explosions.
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Washington
National Coal Association
John Battle
Association
Battle
U. S. Bureau of Mines
Cleveland Man Freed Of Alimony Payments
Louis Hoce var, 61, freed from jail where he had been since October 51 after a psychiatrist said he cannot work and thus cannot pay alimony to his divorced wife.
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Cleveland
Louis Hocevar
Electrocutions of three Columbia men at state prison
Three young men convicted of assaulting a Columbia Society woman and another who killed a woman at an Easley textile mill were electrocuted at the state prison.
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Columbia
Columbia Society
Easley
State
Army Permits Drattee's Dog To Rejoin Master
Laddie the 10-year-old Airedale, once emaciated after Everett Scott joined the army, is allowed to travel from Chanute Kansas to California for reuniting with Scott. Veterinarian Druley treats the dog with nutrition tubes and milk beef and eggs to restore strength before any flight.
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Army
Drattee
Kansas City
Laddie
Everett Scott
Uncle Sam
Doc
Jerry Kustandorter
Chanute
Kas
Scott
Joseph W. Stillwell
Camp Ord
Calif
Tinental & Western Air
California
British Capture Bengasi as North Africa Drives Forward
British general headquarters announced the capture of Bengasi in eastern Libya and a shattered Italian defense. The victory forms part of a 400 mile desert advance and yields over 3,500 Italian prisoners with more expected.
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Britain
Bengasi
Libya
Red Sea
Eritrea
East Africa
North Africa
Meigs Shoe Co. workers return without raise but promise talks
About 400 employees at the Charles Meigs Shoe Co. resumed work today after accepting no 10 percent wage increase. They were assured that the proposal would be discussed later in a meeting labeled Lagex.
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Lebanon
Charles Meigs Shoe Co
Lagex
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