Army to Ask Three Billion In New Defense Funds
The Seventy Sixth Congress faces a new year with an Army plan to seek about 3 billion dollars for expanded armament. Proposals include 1 billion for 3,600 bombing planes, 1.6 billion for guns tanks and planes, and 400 million for more munitions plants to support up to 4 million troops in an emergency. The move follows 6.6 billion appropriated last year with most already obligated.
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Army
Washington
Congress
Britain
Germany
Roosevelt
Navy
Kitchen Mechanics Sought by Army in Ohio
Cooks bakers butchers and other food prep workers are needed by the army. Robert E. Williams executive secretary of the Ohio State Restaurant Association mailed questionnaires to restaurant operators seeking potential kitchen personnel.
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Columbus
Robert E. Williams
Ohio State Restaurant Association
Navy to Expand Pilot Training Amid Fleet Growth
The Navy Air Service plans a further expansion of its pilot training program to ensure a larger pool of qualified pilots as the fleet expands. The initiative follows the ongoing current training expansion and aims to meet anticipated demand across naval aviation.
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Naval
Washington
Navy Air Service
Skier Missing in Wasatch Landslide Near Alta
Kenneth C. Wright of Salt Lake City is missing after an avalanche at Rustler's Peak in the Wasatch Mountains. Four skiers were said caught in the slide, which occurred after noon yesterday as 1,500 people watched from the Alta winter sports area. Recovery teams from the sheriff's office CCC and volunteers dug through a 50 foot snow pile with floodlights and heavy machinery.
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Salt Lake City
Werknen
Wasatch Mountains
Kenneth C. Wright
Alta
Wright
Salt Lake County
Rail Workers To Get Raise
A wage order raises the minimum to 36 cents an hour for track workers red caps dining car waiters and related staff on trunk line railroads and 33 cents for similar workers on short lines. About 70 000 railroad workers will gain and 65 000 of trunk line employees are expected to receive increases. The change takes effect March 1 and follows a wage hour committee recommendation.
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Washington
Philip B. Fleming
Fleming
Baby dies in incubator fire at City Hospital
A two pound infant in City Hospital Louisville was burned to death when oxygen fed to the newborn in an incubator ignited. The tragedy occurred as the baby received oxygen in the hospital ward.
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Louisville
City Hospital
Controversy Marks Final Day of Historic 76th Congress
The 76th Congress adjourned with disputes over defense, taxation, foreign policy, and domestic economy. Senate leader Barkley pressed Madden for the Court of Claims seat, Taft opposed, and lawmakers planned automatic sine die adjournment. Deficit and defense outlay talks plus Britain aid were key early topics.
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Washington
Senate
Barkley
D-Ky
J. Warren Madden
National Labor Relations Board
Court of Claims
Taft
R-O
Madden
Congress
Great Britain
37th Resumes Active Drills After Holiday Leave
Soldiers of Ohio's 37th Division return to active drills at Camp Shelby Mississippi after a 12 day Christmas furlough. Eight thousand men travel by train bus and auto amid spring like weather. Construction at Camp Shelby finishes with cream colored paint on mess halls and new crockery replacing old kits. Mud is reduced by miles of newly surfaced roadways.
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Camp Shelby
Miss
Ohio
Women urged to form home defense groups nationwide
Washington reports Mrs. Florence Keer, an assistant WPA commissioner, urges women to mobilize for home defense. she calls for voluntary training in skills from cooking to map reading to support national security.
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Washington
Florence Keer
WPA
Meigs County Stands Alone in Ohio Traffic Toll Report
Ohio's 1940 traffic deaths reach 1,890 statewide, up from 1,777 in 1939, with Meigs County reporting no fatalities. The year saw more deaths from auto crashes, pedestrian incidents, and auto train collisions, as Cleveland notes 65 percent of its 114 victims pedestrians.
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Meigs County
Associated Press Today
State Highway Patrol
State Highway Department
Monroe
Morgan
Harrison
Licking
Cuyahoga County
Cleveland
Summit County
Athens
Fairfield
Gallia
Hocking
Jackson
Lawrence
Perry
Vinton
Washington
200 Are Killed In New Year's Day Accidents
NEW YORK more than 200 deaths by violence marked the nation's welcome to 1941. Traffic accidents caused most fatalities with 210 deaths overall and 149 in traffic. The year began with heavy tolls from violent deaths across Christmas and New Year periods, including eight train fatalities and twelve suicides.
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New York
Naoy Safety Council
Bettman Takes Oath as Supreme Court Judge
Former attorney general Gilbert Bettman of Cincinnati was sworn in as judge of the Ohio Supreme Court for a six year term. Chief Justice Carl Weygandt administered the oath. He succeeds Arthur H. Day of Cleveland. Charles B. Zimmerman of Springfield began a second term.
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Columbus
Gilbert Bettman
Cincinnati
Ohio Supreme Court
Arthur H. Day
Cleveland
Bettman
Carl V. Weygandt
Charles B. Zimmerman
Springfield
Nurse Dies in Mishap Driver Faces Charge
Circ leville reporting that Willard Thargott of Columbus, 24, is charged with second degree manslaughter after a car plunged 15 feet near Harrisburg on New Year’s Day, killing 25 year old nurse Leota Snyder of University Hospital Columbus. Thargott, a Franklin University student, is accused of intoxicated driving.
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Circleville
Willard Thargott
Columbus
Leota Snyder
Harrisburg
E. P. Wells
Thalgott
Franklin University
Miss Snyder
University Hospital, Columbus
Ohio to Supply 9 958 Of Nation's Selectees
Ohio will provide 9 958 of the nation's 100 000 selectees in the second draft call this month. Induction starts January 20 and runs to February 8. Recruits join Ohio's 37th Division, then training at Camp Shelby Mississippi, to reach full war strength. On the first call 996 Ohioans were taken.
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Columbus
Ohio
Camp Shelby
Miss
He's Ready for Spring Plowing Four Months Early
Washington First Selectman Leo Pickett started spring plowing on New Year’s Day to test feasibility. He plans to harrow the field in spring, surmising minimal work will remain after the initial plow.
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Washington
Conn
First
Ohio local officials seek more revenue from sales tax
Ohio Local Government Officers Association planners meet to craft a legislative program for the 1941-42 biennium. They demand a larger share of the 50 million dollar yearly retail sales tax receipts, facing opposition from Bricker. Governor Bricker proposes keeping 12 million to cities and counties and adding about 2.25 million to boost state relief matching to fifty percent for 1941, aiding local relief programs.
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Columbus
State
Local Government Officers’ Association of
Ohio
General Assembly
Increased Social Security Benefits for Aged Studied
Washington lawmakers weighed two reform ideas for elderly benefits. A flat federal payment of 20 to 30 dollars monthly for those over 60 or 65 was proposed, plus possible continued state supplements. Another plan would adjust the federal to state matching from 1 to 1 to 2 to 1 up to a cap, with a 40 to 50 dollar range for individual benefits.
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Washington
Downey
D-Calif
White House
Senator Connally
D-Tex
Finance Committee
Connally
Veteran Coroner Ed Cook to Retire After 74 Years
Hamilton veteran coroner Dr. Ed ward Cook, age 74, plans to retire Sunday night after decades in office. He notes supervising investigations of more than 3,900 violent deaths and laments traffic accidents. He calls for tougher laws and harsher penalties for reckless driving.
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Hamilton
Edward Cook
Butler County
Dr. Cook
Curb on FD's Power Likely
Washington congressional reaction favored a broad monetary bill from the Fed officials as a shield against inflation from defense spending. The plan would repeal greenback rules and curb presidential power over dollar valuation to help balance the federal budget. Senator King called it largely wise and warned the current powers are a sword of Damocles over the financial system.
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Washington
Federal Reserve
King
Utah
Damocles
Luggage workers to gain 35 cent minimum raise
About 4900 workers in Ohio and Michigan in the luggage and leather goods sector will receive a 35 cent per hour minimum wage increase effective today, set by the wage and hour division.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Michigan
Nazis Scorn Wheeler Peace Plan Communique
Berlin notes dismiss U S Senator Wheeler plan as outside official German policy. An unofficial Nazi source says Europe’s New Order needs no foreign advice and Germany has no plans for America’s future. Official circles avoid authoritative reply to U S politicians outside the administration.
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Berlin
U. S
Burton K. Wheeler
Europe
America
United States
Names Witness to Nazi Peace Proposal Here
Verne Marshall said Walter A. Jones a Pittsburgh oil operator was present when an agenda for peace was delivered to the State Department from Germany in 1939 Marshall, on CBS radio, repeated that the agenda had been delivered by William Rhodes Davis, an international oil operator.
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New York
Verne Marshall
No Foreign Wars Committee
Walter A. Jones
Pittsburgh
State Department
Germany
Marshall
CBS
William Rhodes Davis
No Foreign War Committee
Roosevelt
Washington
Defense Land Buying Triggers Farm Shortage Across Midwest
The government has acquired over 250000 acres in Ohio Indiana Illinois Iowa and Missouri for defense plants and bases. Farmers worry about spring planting as owners and tenants seek new farms and 2000 displaced families face relocation assisted by 15 Farm Security Administration staff. Many tenants hope to move nearer industrial jobs as leases begin March 1.
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Chicago
Ohio
Indiana
Ilinois
Iowa
Missouri
Phil Beck
Farm Security Administration
FSA
Beck
Corn Belt
Soldiers Escape Bus Fire Near Bluefield Return to Camp
Twenty six soldiers returning to Fort Bragg after leave in Cleveland area escaped injury when their chartered bus caught fire near Bluefield West Virginia. The driver Peter Love of Fayetteville North Carolina said the blaze started from the engine and became unmanageable within minutes.
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Bluefield
W. Va
Fort Bragg
N. C
Cleveland
Peter Love
Fayetteville
Gable to Have Tooth Extracted to Help Shoulder Ailment
Dr Louis Hamman announced Clark Gable will undergo a tooth extraction as a treatment for a shoulder problem that has plagued the actor since 1937. The decision reflects ongoing medical efforts to improve his condition.
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Baltimore
Louis Hamman
Clark Gable
Federal probes price rules impact on Ohio coal mining
Interior Department agents began a Ohio coal market inquiry to see if minimum price controls since Oct. 1 hurt Ohio mines. Investigator William Dougherty visited Cleveland and Akron and said slack coal sales and reduced mine hours threaten workers while Ohio quality and costs compare unfavorably with other regions.
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Cleveland
Department of Interior
Ohio
William Dougherty
Consumers’ Division
Department
Akron
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Dougherty
Bituminous Coal Commission
Indus
Bituxanous Coal Commission
RAF Attacks Bremen With Incendiaries
RAF bombers carried out extensive overnight raids on Bremen and other targets as part of Britain’s counteroffensive. Rome Radio reported Adolf Hitler sent warplanes and crews to bolster Italy’s campaigns in the Mediterranean while Italian fliers were recalled from the siege of Britain. An Italian announcement said German planes and pilots were dispatched to Italy to aid the aero naval fight in the Mediterranean Basin.
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Mediterranean
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Britain
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Dublin
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Kildare
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Berlin
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Africa
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English Channel
London
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Balkans
Bogdan Philoff
Bulgaria
Vienna
Belgrade
Philoff
Romania
Germany
Greece
Dardanelles
Boris III
Nazis Claim 25 to 1 Bomb Ratio Against Britain
Berlin says German bombs totaled nearly 100 million pounds dropped on Britain since August 8 with a 25 to 1 ratio to British bombs. The high command notes 80 major raids and 325 smaller attacks on munitions centers since November 16, mainly in the Midlands.
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Berlin
Britain
Nazi High Command
Germany
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