Axis leaders meet as Mediterranean offensive rumors swirl
Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini held an undisclosed meeting amid claims of a large new German Italian push in the Mediterranean. A German communique praised the close alliance as Britain faces intensified pressure, with speculation on Greece Africa Britain aid and U boat threats. Casualties rise. Kassala falls to British forces amid East Africa fighting.
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Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini
Britain
Hitler
Italy
United States
Roosevelt
Rome
Virginio Gayda
Mussolini
Mediterranean
Mario Appellus
Winston Churchill
East Africa
Kassala
Sudan
London
North Africa
Igh
Suez Canal
Far East
Tepelini-Klisura
Hese
Dukati
Chira
Kimara
Valona
Uater
Klisura
Pierre Laval
Vichy
Val
Fees of Lease-Lend Bill Propose Gift to Britain
Washington AP news summary notes opposition senators considering a substitute that would gift Britain 1 to 2 billion dollars as part of the anti lease-lend effort. Willkie met Roosevelt and Hull, discussed War aid policy, and prepared for a trip to assess conditions in England. Churchill received a note from Willkie urging nonpoliticized defense policy.
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Britain
Washington
Wendell L. Willkie
Roosevelt
Willkie
Hull
England
Churchill
President
Second Quota Affects 9 958 Ohio Draftees
Ohio begins the second call for 9 958 inductees with 84 shifted to Fort Knox and a main group headed to Camp Shelby to bolster the 37th Division. Inductees report to centers in Cleveland Toledo Columbus and Fort Thomas for examinations and will be deferred only if ill with flu.
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Camp Shelby
Miss
Ohio National Guard
Fort Knox
Cleveland
Toledo
Columbus
Fort Thomas
Carl G. Wahl
Price reduction sought for steam coal in Ohio
Cleveland petition filed by the Consumers' Council of the Department of Interior asks the Bituminous Coal Division to reduce minimum prices for steam grades of coal by 25 cents per ton. A Cleveland hearing is requested to let consumers and producers present evidence of injury to Ohio mining from current minimum prices.
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Cleveland
Consumers’ Council
Department of Interior
Ohio
Propose Tax on Juke Boxes and Chance Games
A Democratic senator in the Pennsylvania Legislature proposes taxing juke boxes bingo games and bank rights at the movies to fund larger pensions. The plan would lower the eligibility age from 65 to 60 and raise the monthly maximum from 30 to 60 dollars.
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Chicago
Pennsylvania
Kentucky Burley Price Dip Sets New Weekly Low
Louisville report shows the Kentucky burley tobacco season average at 16.29 per cwt after a further fall to 14.38 per cwt, a 94 cent drop from the prior low. The slump continues from the prior week.
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Louisville
Kentucky
Mrs. Luther Reisinger 72 Dies After Heart Attack
Mrs. Luther Reisinger age 72 died here last night following a heart attack Funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon at 1 30 at the Presbyterian Church with burial in Harrisonville cemetery
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Gallipolis
Luther Reisinger
Presbyterian Church
Harrisonville Cemetery
State Would Benefit by Budget Plan
Columbus report analyzes a proposed budget juggling to free funds for the state treasury. The plan would shift 6 million dollars yearly from local sales tax to the state general fund while allowing 9 million from auto license tax to be used by cities for general expenses, potentially hurting street and highway maintenance. opposition noted from automobile clubs and highway interests plus the Cuyahoga County Mayors Association.
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John W. Bricker
Cuyahoga County Mayors Association
Dame Margaret Lloyd George Dies in Criccieth at 75
Dame Margaret Lloyd George widow of Britain's wartime prime minister died at Criccieth Wales. She was over 75 and a Criccieth native who married David Lloyd George in 1888. He could not reach her bedside before her death. A noted prohibitionist she campaigned with her husband and in 1920 became the first Welsh woman magistrate at Barnarvon.
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London
Margaret Lloyd George
Britain
Criccieth
Wales
David Lloyd George
Churt
Surrey
Midlands
Margaret
Barnarvon
Military Board To Probe Death by Own Action of Guardsman
Maj. Harold Newland named head a military board to investigate the hanging of Private Harold H. Wamsley 23 of Canton found dead in Fort Hayes guardhouse. Offense for which he was jailed was not reported.
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Columbus
Harold Newland
Harold H. Wamsley
Canton
Fort Hayes
Wamsley
Fifteen Die As Ice Clamps Ohio Roads
Treacherous ice spread across Ohio after rain and snow causing at least 15 highway deaths and several other fatalities. The state patrol warned roads were especially dangerous near the lake and in the east while temperatures rise to ease the ice. A bus overturn near Cadiz left one driver and 14 passengers lightly injured.
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Ohio
State Highway Patrol
Cadiz
Clifford P. Riley
Springfield
Hog Prices Seen Rising This Year in Ohio Report
Ohio State University researchers project higher hog prices in the coming year, unless farmers overrun spring pig crops. The 1940 pig crop was reported off about 110 percent overall.
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Columbus
Ohio State University
Quadruplets Born To Indiana Woman
Mrs Eva Swanson of Michigan City Indiana delivered quadruplets three girls and a boy by Caesarean section today. Dr R A Gilmore said the 35 year old mother, 4 feet 11 inches tall and weighing 98 pounds, is fine. The babies were placed in incubators with oxygen. the last-born died a few hours after birth.
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Michigan City
Ind
Eva Swanson
R. A. Gilmore
Bloodhounds Used In Manhunt For House Boy Murder Suspect
Police in Nyack New York deployed bloodhounds in a woodland chase for a house boy suspect after Percy W. Whittlesey 45 and former associate of Pierre A. Bernard known as Oom the Omnipotent was shot six times yesterday. The youth was hitchhiker Whittlesey had befriended and employed.
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Nyack
N. Y
Percy W. Whittlesey
Pierre A. Bernard
Whittlesey
Scioto County backs McCowen for state education post
The Republican executive committee of Scioto County endorses Edward C. McCowen, in his 27th year as county school superintendent, for the position of state director of education to replace E. N. Dietrich whose term ends August 15.
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Portsmouth
Scioto County
Edward C. McCowen
E. N. Dietrich
California Legion Defends Pair In Nazi Swastika Desk Flag Case
The California American Legion pressed to commend two Navy enlisted men jailed in San Francisco for removing a Nazi flag from a consulate. The Legion argues the act upheld California law against propaganda for extremist causes while the State Department and German officials demand punishment. Harold Sturtevant and E G Lackey, both 22 and 23, were released on habeas corpus.
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Washington
State Department
San Francisco
Berlin
United States Naval
Adolf Hitler
Legion
Harold J. Sturtevant
Sturtevant
E. G. Lackey
Mare Island Navy Yard
Navy
Pennsylvania Alien Law Is Ruled Invalid
The Supreme Court held that the 1940 federal aliens registration law validates a 1939 Pennsylvania statute, stating registration is a federal matter. Justice Black delivered the opinion. Justice Stone dissented with Chief Justice Hughes and Justice McReynolds. The court also refused to review FTC action against General Motors Acceptance Corp over alleged misleading financing ads.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Pennsylvania
Justice Black
Justice Department
Justice Stone
Hughes
Justice McReynolds
Federal Trade Commission
General Motors Acceptance Corporation
General Motors
Temperature Dips to Nine Degrees in Area
A nine degree low was recorded early this morning. The cold snaps neared the season’s low of seven degrees set on Jan. 6. Sunday’s high reached 34, with noon today at 18 degrees, according to weather observer Mrs. C. N. France.
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C. N. France
Three Ohioans Victims Of Influenza Epidemic
Influenza caused the weekend deaths of Mrs. Harriett W. Lash of Mansfield and Cecil L Marmet 46 of Lakeville Holmes County. The disease also claimed Alex Comrie 91 at Ada.
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Mansfield
Harriett W. Lash
Cecil L Marmet
Lakeville
Holmes County
Alex Comrie
Ada
Royal Arch Mason Leader Conover Dies in Coldwater
Charles Arthur Conover 76 general grand secretary of the Royal Arch Masons died in Coldwater Michigan yesterday. He served in multiple ceremonial and administrative roles within the organization and was a prominent figure in Masonic circles.
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Coldwater
Mich
Charles Arthur Conover
the Royal
Arch Masons
Democracy Not Dying Says Roosevelt After Oath
President Roosevelt swore in for a third term in the Capitol under a sunlit dome as crowds cheered. He defended democracy as enduring, built on free individual initiative, and urged Americans to maintain faith and active duty in defending the republic.
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Amgubulgl
Garner
Wallace
Roosevelt
John N. Garner
Henry A. Wallace
Iowa
Guration
United States
America
Washington
Roosevelt Sworn In For Third Term Amid Capitol Crowds
President Roosevelt and wife Eleanor attend a dawn church service at St. John’s before proceeding to the Capitol for his third inauguration. Chief Justice Hughes administers the oath at 12:11 p.m. as 75,000 spectators cheer and the Marine Band plays Hail to the Chief. Charles Chaplin and Raymond Massey attend in the presidential section.
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Washington
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Capitol
Charles Evans Hughes
Mr. Roosevelt
St. John's Episcopal Church
White House
Lafayette Park
Garner
Wallace
Justice Black
Roosevelt
William S. Orthman
Raymond Massey
Abraham Lincoln
Charles Chaplin
Marine Band
Supreme Court
Douglas
Democrat Laderman Wins Lucas County House Seat
In Columbus the Democrat Louis N. Laderman of Lucas County is set to be seated after a House recount. A special committee found Laderman the winner by 16 votes over Republican J Willard Farnsworth, who had contested the election.
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Columbus
Louis N. Laderman
Lucas
House of Representatives
House
Lucas County
Laderman
J. Willard Farnsworth
Farnsworth
Police Call Leads To Rendezvous of Death
Police were called to the home of Vincent Trzemzalski in Saginaw Michigan where four persons were found dead and a fifth critically wounded. Three victims were shot through the head while they slept and John Gryzbowski the 71 year old father in law lay on the kitchen floor with a .45 revolver in his hand.
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Saginaw
Mich
Vincent Trzemzalski
Trzemzalski
John Gryzbowski
Zemzalski
Ohioan Says FD Seeks Full Control of Lt. 5
Rep Robert F Jones of Ohio accuses President Roosevelt of aiming for unconditional surrender of Congress likening it to a Vichy government under German control. He says Roosevelt would then dictate international policy and reveal total power.
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Ohioan
Washington
Robert F. Jones
Ohio
Roosevelt
Centenarian Civil War veteran dies in Los Angeles
William W. Church a Civil War veteran and the oldest University of Wisconsin alumnus died today in Los Angeles He would have turned 101 on March 3.
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Los Angeles
William W. Church
University of Wisconsin
Movie Pioneer Ward Lascelle Dies in Los Angeles
Ward Lascelle, 58, a pioneer director and former actor and independent producer, died last night in Los Angeles. He helped shape early film ventures and influenced emerging cinema during his career.
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Los Angeles
Ward Lascelle
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