Clark brands lease-lend bill a de facto war risk
Idaho Senator Clark denounces the aid bill as a de facto declaration of war asserting Britain fights for commercial supremacy not democracy. He predicts Senate approval but warns it could imperil liberties. An AP poll shows a Senate majority may form, with debate resuming toward a Friday vote. Taft says the bill puts the President in charge of war details.
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Senate
Clark
Idaho
Aramount
Britain
Associated Press
Ublicans
House
Roosevelt
Great Britain
Germany
Poland
Ackade
Sen
Robert A. Taft
Ohio Republican
British Army
Imperial Airways Pilots Enter Atlantic Flight Photos
A captioned wartime photograph shows five Imperial Airways pilots Capt. G Buxton Capt. L V Messenger Capt. J T Percy Capt. A B Youell arriving in New York aboard S S Georgic. They pilot bombers across the North Atlantic from Canada to England.
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North Atlantic
Canada
England
G. Buxton
L. V. Messenger
J. T. Percy
A. B. Youell
New York
S. S. Georgic
Imperial Airways
Fifteen Rescued From Plane Forced Down in Peru
Fifteen persons rescued after a flight across the Andes ended in the Sechura Desert. Three of them walked 50 miles in two days seeking help and reached the Pacific coast with only a banana and soda. Fishermen guided them to safety while rescue fliers located and evacuated the remaining occupants.
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Lima
Peru
Andes
Sechura
Pacific
Hear Final Arguments In Ohio Murder Case
Attorneys faced a jury for closing arguments in the trial of Goodmich M Court 22 charged with the shotgun death of neighbor Andrew Jana 17. Co A Lindsley defense attorney entered a plea of innocence and insanity claiming McCourt acted in a jealous rage and legally irresponsible at the gravel pit killing.
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Jefferson
Goodmich
Relief and Sales Tax Debate Shapes Ohio Legislature
The Ohio Legislature enters its eighth week with a 12 million dollar sales tax bill and a 2.2 million dollar relief appropriation at center stage. Senate Finance fixes local government aid at 5.9 million annually while Democrats push for relief in the House. Republicans seek passage of a highway bill in exchange for Democratic backing, but House delay persists amid partisan pressure.
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Columbus
Ohio
Senate Finance Committee
House
Senate
Harold W. Houston
Roosevelt asks over three billion for emergency Army defense
Speaker Rayburn said President Roosevelt sent a special letter requesting Congress appropriate more than 3 billion dollars immediately for emergency army defense needs. Rayburn could not recall the exact amount or detailed purposes.
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Washington
Rayburn
Roosevelt
Congress
House
Former Russian Officer and Bomb Inventor Found Dead in Manhattan
The body of Michael Borislavsky a 55 year old former colonel in the Russian imperial army and inventor of a bomb was found outside a convent in upper Manhattan last night with a bullet wound in the head. A friend said the device had been submitted to the U S War Department.
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New York
Michael Borislavsky
U. S. War Department
Upper Manhattan
Roosevelt asks Congress for 150 million defense housing
President Roosevelt urged Congress to authorize 150 million dollars to build community facilities in towns facing acute shortages that hinder national defense activities. The message cited shortages of housing and public services due to influx of workers and proposed additional defense funding for the year.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
White House
English Leader Criticizes U S Worker Training Policy
Sir Walter Citrine of the British Trades Union Congress told reporters that American and British production of planes and war materials would exceed Germany's by September. He warned Americans have not adequately tackled worker training and noted a lack of a real national effort in training.
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London
Sir Walter Citrine
British Trades Union Congress
Germany
Walter
United States
Youth Killed in Crash on Route 62 Mount Vernon
Ed ward Wenders aged 16 died in a highway wreck when a car carrying two companions went off Route 62 rolled down an embankment and onto railroad tracks near Mount Vernon. The survivors were injured in the same incident.
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Mount Vernon
Edward Wenders
Route 62
Kentucky Farm Woman Mother of Quadruplets
Beulah Mildred Martine and John Lasley, born at a Leitchfield farm, were rushed by ambulance to Louisville after four births in a single day. Mother in good condition. quartet weighed 5 pounds 4 ounces for Beulah. Mildred and the sisters weighed 4 pounds each. Dr Tucker and nurse team assisted.
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Leitchfield
Kentucky
Stork
Porter Lasley
John C. Tucker
Beulah
Mildred
Martine
John Lasley
Big City
Louisville
Burt Zianamon
U S Flier Among Missing Trio After Canada Flight
An intensive search sought a military plane missing since Friday morning with Dr. Sir Frederick Banting aboard. The craft carried Capt. Joseph C. Mackey, navigator William Bird, and William Swaitham. Mackey had ferried bombers to England and once ran Findlay Ohio airport.
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Montreal
Frederick Banting
Canada
Sir Frederick
Joseph Creighton Mackey
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Kansas City
William Bird
Kidderminster
England
William Swaitham
Bedford
N. S
Joseph C. Mackey
Frederick Bawling
Findlay
S. L. Willits
CAA
Mackey
Athens
Gallipolis
Claud J. Dry
Former Pomeroy Councilman William Hetzel Dies at 78
William Hetzel, 78, longtime Pomeroy furniture dealer and nine year village council member, died Sunday at his daughter’s home in Charleston West Virginia. Funeral services will be Tuesday at 2 PM at Ewing Funeral Home, with Beech Grove Cemetery interment. He was born in Mason City West Virginia and studied at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. He leaves three daughters Edna Hetzel Nora Nye and Grace Weir, one brother George Hetzel, and three sisters Kathryn Monahan Mary Leifheit and Anna Schneider.
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Pomeroy
William Hetzel
Nora H. Nye
Charleston
W. Va
H. L. Carr
Ewing
Beech Grove Cemetery
Mason City
Hetzel
Cincinnati Conservatory of Music
Nye
Edna Hetzel
Grace Weir
Washington, D. C
George Hetzel
Kathryn Monahan
Columbus
Mary Leifheit
Wheeling
Anna Schneider
Denver
Colo
Pegler Attacks Labor Policy of Government
Washington columnists claims the government forces unwilling workers to join unions and abuses them. He testifies before a judiciary committee on labor problems raised by the defense program and says the government refuses to protect unwilling union members.
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Washington
Westbrook Pegler
House Committee Today
Pegler
Judiciary Committee
Japs Seek Answer To British Far East Policy
Japanese Ambassador Mamoru Shigemitsu asked Prime Minister Churchill for clarification of Britain’s Far East stance, especially after the mining of approaches to Singapore. Churchill then met with the Turkish Ambassador in London while Foreign Secretary Eden was in the Middle East.
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Far East
London
Mamoru Shigemitsu
Churchill
Singapore
Anthony Eden
Middle East
Bethlehem Steel Strike Threatened Over Lackawanna Plant
Union officials backed by a strike referendum threaten a walkout at Bethlehem Steel's Lackawanna NY plant where 14 000 workers stay on defense orders as CIO SWOC seeks a 25 percent wage raise and other grievances. A vote of 6411 to 1001 authorized officials to call a strike immediately if needed.
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Bethlehem Steel Company
Lackawanna
N. Y
CIO
Steel Workers Organizing Committee
Lorne H. Nelles
SWOC
Allis-Chalmers
Milwaukee
Marion
Ind
AFL
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Farnsworth
Civil Service Extension Proposed by Supreme Court Panel
A committee headed by Associate Justice Reed proposes extending the classified civil service to all federal workers except policy makers and those needing Senate confirmation. President Roosevelt sent the report to Congress. The panel also suggests a 70 year mandatory retirement and 60 year optional retirement after 15 years of service.
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Washington
Senate
Justice Reed
Supreme Court
Roosevelt
Congress
Reed
Student Pilots Held For Theft of Plane
Maurice Burnett age 26 and Bert Noel age 28 unlicensed student pilots are held on grand larceny charges after taking a plane owned by Richard Russell from Gallipolis airport without consent. The damaged craft was found in Portsmouth and the pair were returned to Gallipolis as airport superintendent Jerry Verdon asserts they ignored his protests.
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Gallipolis
Maurice Burnett
Bert Noel
Jerry Verdon
Richard Russell
Portsmouth
Noel
Burnett
Verdon
King Alfonso Improves Yet Remains Gravely Ill
Rome report says former King Alfonso XIII is gravely ill with some symptoms relieved after a quieter night. Personal physician Dr. Giovanni Colazza noted a general examination showed progress but the ex-monarch’s condition remains serious.
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Rome
Giovanni Colazza
Alfonso XIII
Spain
Committee Recommends Rubber Wage Increase
Labor Department wage hour division appoints a 15 member committee to study minimum wages up to 40 cents an hour for rubber products manufacturing. About 10 000 of 130 000 workers in the industry earn less than 40 cents.
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Washington
Labor Department
Indus
U S Minister Hurt In Brawl In Bulgarian Cafe
U S Minister George H Earle said a washroom dispute over the song Tipperary led to a champagne fight in a Sofia cafe. He suffered an arm injury while a man described as German was knocked unconscious, and Earle defended his actions as self defense. State department officials in Washington said they had no report but were interested.
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Sofia
Bulgaria
U. S
George H. Earle
Tipperary
Legation
State Department
Washington
Gillette urges anti smear measures in campaign literature
Senator Gillette elected as head of the special Senate committee on elections says Congress should consider alternate legislative remedies to curb race and religious prejudice in political campaigns. He cites nationwide samples of scurrilous material and acts on his own initiative.
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Washington
Gillette
Congress
Senate
Ohioan Not Likely Named To Sixth Circuit Bench
Washington reports little chance an Ohioan will be named to the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals due to Buckeye Democrats failing to agree on a choice.
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Washington
Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals
Railroad suit seeks 50000 in damages over deadly doodle bug crash
Administrators of Miss Lois Perry of Akron filed in federal court a $50,000 damages action against the Pennsylvania Railroad. They seek $40,000 for wrongful death and $10,000 for conscious pain and suffering from the July 31, 1940 doodle bug crash in Cuyahoga Falls.
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Cleveland
Pennsylvania Railroad
Lois Perry
Akron
Cuyahoga Falls
Nazis Transform Dutch Into Economic Colony
Washington reports say Nazi authorities are turning the Netherlands into an economic colony by shifting major shipping to German ports Hamburg and Bremen. Occupation controls extend to finance industry and agriculture as Germany pursues a directed economy within its new European order.
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Washington
Netherlands
Germany
Europe
Hamburg
Bremen
British Shipping Will Suffer From Allied Submarine Campaign
Hitler warned of a joint German Italian submarine offensive starting next Monday and announced an expanded U-boat campaign that has sunk 215,000 tons of enemy ships. He vowed to target British ships wherever they fight as Italy and Germany press a strongest cooperation in a new phase of wartime underwater warfare.
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Adolf Hitler
Hitler
Britain
Germany
Italy
National Socialist Party
Sukru Saracoglu
Turkey
Bulgaria
Sofia
Duce
Mussolini
Rome
Italian North Africa
Libya
Sicily
Il Duce
Suez Canal
Albania
Athens
United States
Western Hemisphere
Dover Straits
Channel
London
Boulogne
Calais
Africa
Shoghai
Blue Nile
Ethiopia
Italian Eritrea
Freight Train Tragedy Claims Harry Smith in Newark
A freight train fatally crushed 45 year old Harry Smith in Newark last night. Police and investigators probe the accident scene for details.
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Newark
Harry Smith
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