Joint Action Speeds War Toward End
Britain and France recognized Franco's Nationalist government in Spain, accelerating the civil war's end. Negrin accepted a British plan to evacuate Republican leaders from Madrid with help from allied warships. Franco pledged no reprisals, while Amnesty for evacuees remained a key condition.
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London
Great Britain
France
Francisco Franco
Spain
Franco
Council of Ministers
Neville Chamberlain
House of Commons
Barccelona
Catalonia
Chamberlain
Paris
Juan Negrin
Madrid
United States
Manuel Azana
Negrin
Azana
Mariano Gomez
Suspreme
French Council of Ministers
Georges Bonnet
Sen
Leon Berard
Burgos
Foreign Office
Buregos
Berard
Francisco Gomez Jordana
Spanish Chamber of Commerce
Quinones de Leon
Britain
Supreme Court
Joseph Garido
Labor Parley Aims for Truce Over Wagner Act Rift
Early talks between the AFL and CIO under President Roosevelt aim for a peace accord outlining spheres of influence and a halt to a bitter push for labor law changes. A formal CIO acceptance is awaited, with committees named by Green and Lewis.
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American Federation of Labor
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Roosevelt
White House
CIO
John L. Lewis
AFL
William Green
Elbert D. Thomas
Utah
Senate Education and Labor Committee
NLRB
Labor Unity
National Labor Relations Board
Green
Federal savings loans back Ohio home purchases in January
The Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation announced that 221 insured associations in Ohio funded 1,899 loans for Ohio homes in January totaling 4.587 million dollars.
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Washington
U.P
Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation
Ohio
Doctors to decide on 18 year embedded needle in jaw
Columbus physicians prepared to operate on Thomas C. Snyder a 28 year old man whose right jaw holds the hooked end of a crochet needle embedded for 18 years. The needle broke off in a childhood tussle with his brother Clarence and only recently caused pain. An X ray shows the needle nearly an inch long.
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Columbus
U.P
Thomas C. Snyder
Clarence
Dewey wins big as Hines conviction bolsters reform effort
New York Republicans celebrate James J. Hines conviction by a jury on 13 counts linking him to the Dutch Schultz lottery mob. Hines plans appeals while his attorney Lloyd Paul Stryker eyes a possible new trial. Sentencing set for March 13 with bail at 20000. Dewey, a rising GOP star, lauded the verdict amid 1940 presidential buzz.
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New York
O.R
James J. Hines
Tammany
Thomas E. Dewey
Hines
Lloyd Paul Stryker
Sing Sing
Thirty Arabs killed in Palestine riots as Jewish violence erupts
In Haifa Jerusalem and along highways bombings and shootings left thirty Arabs dead and 45 Arabs and two Jews wounded. The violence followed Arab celebrations in response to reports that Britain planned an Arab dominated state in Palestine.
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Haifa
Palestine
U.P
Jerusalem
London
Great Britain
Chicago Primary Vote Set in Mayor Election
Chicago campaigns for four candidates in a mayoral primary with over a million votes at stake and voter registrations reaching an all time high near two million. Democrats and Republicans ran on local issues while observers expect the result to influence the 1940 presidential race.
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Chicago
William J. Kirkpatrick Dies in Zanesville at 72
William J. Kirkpatrick long time secretary of the Zanesville Manufacturers' Association since 1920 died Sunday at age 72. He will be buried Wednesday at Lakewood, his former home.
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Zanesville
William J. Kirkpatrick
Murder of Blonde Dancer Stuns City College Campus
Police investigate Anya Sosoyeva a drama student dancer and ex film star killed on City College campus Friday night. Detectives consider jealous suitor or a dangerous man from the campus after dark as possible motives. Evidence includes blood stained suede gloves and a green painted board found beneath shrubbery.
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Los Angeles
U.P
Anya Sosoyeva
City College
Fortune poll says FDR has little chance in 1940 run
Fortune Magazine reports in its March issue that President Roosevelt would have a very small chance of reelection in 1940 if he runs again. The survey notes only about one third would vote for him, with 70.5 percent undecided about a Roosevelt successor.
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New York
U.P
Roosevelt
Fortune Magazine
Fortune
Mr. Roosevelt
Farmer Dies in Fire as Wife and Children Burned
Mont Cook a 52 year old farmer of Buss inessburg west of Bellaire died in a Sunday night fire that destroyed the family home. His wife Mrs Cook was in serious condition at Bellaire City Hospital and daughter Mrs Garnet Messer 21 and son Artes Cook 23 were treated for burns to hands and arms after attempting to save their parents.
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Bellaire
U.P
Mont Cook
Businessburg
Here
San Francisco Shipping Resumes After Strike Settlement
Normal shipping activities resumed in San Francisco and Oakland as the dispute between the Waterfront Employers Association and the Congress of Industrial Organization cargo clerks ended. The agreement ends a strike that had disrupted ports on the Pacific coast.
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San Francisco
U.P
Oakland
Waterfront Employers Association
Congress of Industrial Organization Cargo Clerks
Train Kills Clergyman In Ohio Collision
Reverend Raymond J. Gordman 48, pastor of St. Pauls Catholic Church in Euclid, was killed when his car was hit by a freight train on Nickel Plate tracks early today.
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Cleveland
U.R
Raymond J. Gordman
St. Paul’s Catholic Church
Euclid
Logan Man Held in Hit Skip Death Near Buchtel
Carl A Howdyshell 25 of Logan charged with second degree manslaughter in the hit and run death of Herbert Archer 61 of Bessemer near Buchtel on Route 216 Saturday. Archer and Robert Jackson 32 of Buchtel were walking when struck. Howdyshell confessed after being found in Logan.
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Buchtel
Herbert Archer
Bessemer
Carl A. Howdyshell
T. R. Bennett
Athens
Archer
Route 216
Howdyshell
Robert Jackson
Buchtel School
State Patrol
Nelsonville
Cap Beal
Beal
Sand Run
Corporal Grogan
Twin Boys Die From Kerosene Stove Fumes
Cleveland dispatch reports police blaming kerosene stove fumes for the deaths of two months old twins Melvin and Marvin Whatley. The infants were found dead in their crib by their mother Bertha Whatley, 20.
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Cleveland
U.P
Melvin
Marvin Whatley
Bertha
Cupid Scores Hit After Long Wait in Delaware
Miss Ida M. Loop aged 65 wed William Frank Whittier aged 72 in Delaware after a 48 year wait. They were sweethearts when she was 17 but Whittier married another and is now a widower. They plan to live in Columbus where she runs a rooming house. Ceremony at the groom's sister Miss Alice Whittier's home.
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William Frank Whittier
Whittier
Delaware
Mansfield
Nelsonville
Columbus
Alice Whittier
Senate Opens Debate Today On Arms Bill
The Senate began consideration of a 358 million national defense bill to boost Army Air Corps strength to 6000 planes, defend the Panama Canal, and educate industry in war material manufacture. Majority Leader Barkley predicted action within two or three days amid opposition to the Air Corps expansion and to a Walsh Healy Act wage exemption for educational order manufacturers.
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Washington
Senate
Roosevelt
Army Air Corps
Panama Canal
Alben W. Barkley
Air Corps
Jews Reject Britain's Plan Ahead of Palestine Conference
Jewish delegates in London denounced a British proposal for a Palestine state as a violation of mandatory obligations and a repudiation of the Balfour Declaration. They predicted an Arab dominated state under British sovereignty and refused an invitation to a government luncheon as a sign of anger, likening it to attending a function hosted by a betrayer.
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London
U.P
Palestine
House Moves Standard Wage Bill for WPA Workers
Rep Earl Lewis of Ohio planned to introduce a bill in the House to standardize wage scales for WPA workers within each state. The proposal aims to equalize pay across counties, with potential variation still allowed between states.
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House
Washington
Earl Lewis
St. Clairsville
Ohio
Lewis
Ohio lawmakers push bills to overhaul tax and parole boards
Columbus reports lawmakers reconvened as leaders aim to speed major reform bills. The tax commission “ripper” would replace the three member panel with a single commissioner and appeals board. Parole board overhaul plans reduce four members to three with new personnel administrator powers. Governor Bricker calls the tax reform key to cleaner government and better collections.
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House
Senate
Tax Commission
State Parole Board
Ohio
Ronuhlisan
Pr Menreenenae High
Civil Service Commission
Board of Appeals
Senate Taxation Committee
Bricker
Underground Strike Continues At Wolfe Collieries Mine
Fifty three miners at Wolfe Collieries Company in Oneida Pa continue their underground sit down strike despite illness. Reverend Joseph Baran of St. Joseph's Sheppton visited the self entombed workers and reported they are in excellent health and spirits.
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Oneida
U.P
Wolfe Collieries Company
Joseph Baran
St. Joseph’s
Sheppton
Widow of Lenin Krupskaya Dies in Moscow at 70
Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya widow of Nikolai Lenin and longtime Bolshevik leader died in Moscow Tass announced. She celebrated her 70th birthday Sunday.
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Lenin
Moscow
U.P
Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya
Nikolai Lenin
Tass
GOP claims 21 states now Republican in nationwide tally
GOP statisticians publish an analysis claiming 21 industrial and agricultural states are now unquestionably Republican with 221 electoral votes, while 23 states favor Democrats and four border line states are debatable. The study uses nationwide House votes to argue the New Deal front is broken coast to coast ahead of the 1940 election.
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Washington
U.P
GOP
Republican National Committee
Solid South
York
Idaho
Illinois
Montana
New York
Ilinois
White House
Democrats Claim Bricker Delays Civil Service Reform Vote
Democrats in Columbus allege the Ohio legislature delays action on reorganization of the Civil Service Commission. They cite a prior service by Ralph Emmons’s brother, W D Emmons, and say Bricker was confirmed to the State Utilities Commission in January 1931 after defeating Gov. Myers Y. Cooper. The statement notes Emmons was ill and votes to confirm Bricker were gathered in his hotel room.
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Columbus
A.P
Civil Service Commission
Ralph Emmons
Bricker
State Utilities Commission
Myers Y. Cooper
W. D. Emmons
Civil Service
Senate Utilities Committee
Emmons
Senate
Cincinnati Laundry Strike Could Involve 1100 Workers
Deadlock in talks over a new contract may trigger a strike of about 1,100 laundry workers in Cincinnati. A mass meeting tonight could set a strike date. union president William Noth chairs the AFL laundry workers locals, while laundry owners’ association official J Neal Wheeler declined to comment. Negotiations have dragged since early December, with general representative Charles G. Goldstein noting the stalemate.
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Cincinnati
U.P
American Federation of Labor
Laundry Workers Union
William Noth
J. Neal Wheeler
Laundry Owners’ Association of
Greater Cincinnati
Charles G. Goldstein
San Francisco
The
Collision sinks freighter Lillian as crew saved
The American freighter Lillian, damaged in fog off Barnegat Light near Cape May New Jersey, rammed the German freighter Wiegand 12 hours out of New York. The Lillian sank with a 32 man crew rescued. the Wiegand returned to port unharmed with its crew.
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New York
A.P
Lillian
New Jersey
Barnegat Light
Cape May
N. J
Japan
Miners Trapped in Snowslide near Hopir Utah
Rescue crews dug through tons of snow for two missing miners after a Sunday night slide buried the Hidden Treasure Mine complex. William Harris 26 was recovered four feet down, while two other miners remained unaccounted for as teams searched the debris.
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Hopir
Utah
U.R
William Harris
Hidden Treasure
U. S
Wife of WLW Head Dies at Florida Estate
Mrs Gwendolyn Aiken Crosley 48 wife of Powel Crosley Jr died Sunday at their Sarasota estate Florida. She had a long lung ailment but was believed to have improved recently. She accompanied her husband to the airport Saturday and he was informed of her death upon arrival in Louisville.
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Cincinnati
U.P
Gwendolyn Aiken Crosley
Powel Crosley, Jr
Sarasota, Fla
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