McNary Urges Modification of Lend-Lease Bill
Oregon Senator and Willkie running mate John H. McNary calls for changes to the administration's lend-lease measure. He argues the bill grants excessive power to one person and should be altered by committees or debate. Norman Thomas and Joseph P. Kennedy are cited opposing or clarifying positions.
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Washington
Ator McNary
Oregon
Wendell L. Willkie
McNary
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Norman Thomas
Great Britain
Congress
Thomas
Police Hold Mother For Shooting Husband
Portsmou th a mother of five faces charges after she shot and killed her husband Lee Pauley 42 a WPA worker at their Candy Run home. Goldie Pauley 30 told Sheriff Brande she fired a shotgun into his back after he threatened her life. The couple lived on a small isolated hill side farm fifteen miles north of the city.
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Portsmouth
Goldie Pauley
Earl Brande
Lee Pauley
WPA
Candy Run
Here
Last Civil War veteran Enoch McDonough dies in Ripley
Enoch C. McDonough age 92, native of New Market Ohio, died in Ripley West Virginia. He was Jackson County’s last Civil War veteran and served for the Union from Iowa.
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Ripley
W. Va
Jackson County
Enoch C. McDonough
New Market, O
Iowa
Lift Embargo on Soviet Trade Aims for Better Ties
Washington reports the end of the 13 month moral embargo that barred the Soviet Union from buying American planes, aluminum and molybdenum. Officials say it is largely a diplomatic gesture with no immediate surge of exports to Soviet ports. American factories are focused on defense orders and Britain trade.
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Washington
Russia
Britain
Agreement Averts Strike At Ryan Aeronautical Plant
A strike at the Ryan Aeronautical Co. plant was averted when the company and CIO representatives reached a new contract. CIO negotiator Richard T. Frankensteen announced plans to organize Consolidated’s larger San Diego plant, which has a backlog of about 350 million in government and foreign orders and employs over 15,000 workers.
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San Diego
Calif
Ryan Aeronautical Co
CIO
Richard T. Frankensteen
Justice McReynolds resigns from Supreme Court
Justice James Clark McReynolds of Tennessee announced to President Roosevelt his plan to retire February 1 after 26 years on the Supreme Court. At 78, he leaves a vacancy that could prompt a sixth Roosevelt appointment to the nine member court.
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James Clark McReynolds
United States Supreme Court
Roosevelt
Tennessee
Wilson
Washington
Supreme Court
Ae “Sancarvatiuv
Mr. Roosevelt
Hughes
Robert H
Jackson
McReynolds
Supreme Bench
Act To Block Price Rise in Canned Goods
The War Department asked for a temporary exemption from the Walsh-Healey public contracts law to allow 40 hour overtime for canning perishables for four to six weeks. The move, intended to prevent price spirals on canned goods, faced CIO and AFL opposition over labor shortages. A hearing was set for January 27.
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Washington
War Department
Labor Department
Walsh-Healey
Four Killed in Mine Explosion Near Kimball
Four miners died and 14 were injured in a blast at Carswell Mine of the Koppers Coal Company near Kimball West Virginia. The explosion occurred about 4 30 a m trapping 18 men on night shift conveyors. Carl Michem a 43 year old foreman said he and nine others were loading coal when the fire erupted from a spark igniting dust or gas.
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Welch
W. Va
Carswell
Koppers Coal Company
Kimball
Carl Michem
To Break Ground for Cleveland Laboratory
Officials from the Army and Navy Air Corps the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics the State of Ohio and City of Cleveland will assemble tomorrow for ground breaking ceremonies on the site of the government aviation engine research laboratory in Cleveland.
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Cleveland
Army and Navy Air Corps
National Advisory Committee For Aeronautics
State of Ohio
City of
Anglo Allied drive in Africa threatens Mussolini Libya hold
War day by Dewitt Mackenzie notes fierce Anglo Allied strikes across Africa as the Army of the Nile seizes Italian bases on the Libyan coast. Tobruk and Bengasi are key upcoming targets as Balkan upheavals and Romanian military rule shape the Mediterranean balance amid Nazi maneuvering.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Africa
Mediterranean
Britain
Marshal Graziani
Mussolini
Italy
Tobruk
Derna
Bengasi
Stra
Tegic
Tripoli
Libya
Romania
Iron Guard
Rumania
Reich
Russia
Maybe Hubby Is Right for Once
Albany readers note a motor vehicle bureau letter about a 1941 registration renewal. A husband claims memory lapse and asks for a low license number while the sender forgot to sign, enclose the check, or forward the renewal stub.
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Albany
N. Y
State Motor Vehicle Bureau
Brehm Pushes State Bureau of Investigation Plan
Logan report notes Dr. Walter E. Brehm introduces a bill in the Legislature to create a State Bureau of Investigation patterned after the FBI. The proposal calls for 50 agents led by a governor appoint ed director, with lawyers and accountants as investigators. The agency would take on unsolved murder cases and coordinate with local officers to seek solutions.
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Logan
Walter E. Brehm
Hocking County
Bureau of Investigation
FBI
CBI
Senate
State Department of Investigation
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Ohio State Academy of Medicine
Rising Grain Surplus Poses New Problems
Record Western Hemisphere grain surpluses grow larger due to favorable weather and higher yields. Increased acreages and yields raise carryovers as storage spaces fill. Export markets vanish from wartime blockades, intensifying the surplus issue for producers and lawmakers.
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Chicago
Western Hemisphere
North America
Europe
Five Ohio Soldiers Injured in Collision at Camp Shelby
Five Ohio soldiers were injured when a gravel truck collided with a station wagon transporting them to sentry posts. Private William Gaiser of Covington Kentucky and Private Horace Stanley of White Oak Ohio were listed as critically hurt. The remaining injured were Second Lieutenant Haley Light of Lima Ohio Corporal Everett Hawes and Privates Allen Durham and Lee Mitchell, all from Cincinnati.
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Hattiesburg
Miss
Camp Shelby Base Hospital
William Gaiser
Covington
Horace Stanley
White Oak
Haley Light
Lima
Everett Hawes
Allen Durham
Lee Mitchell
Cincinnati
Drunken Driving Case Dismissed On Legal Technicality
In Milwaukee district court the defendant was intoxicated and driving but the drunken driving charge was dismissed. The judge ruled that police actions on a private right of way along railroad tracks did not violate public highway drunken driving prohibitions.
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Milwaukee
Harvey L. Neelen
Formation of Tragic Gas Death in Columbus Hotel
A man and a woman were found asphyxiated in a Columbus North Side apartment hotel from gas heater fumes. Relatives identified the man as Edward L. Morris of Columbus and the woman as salé.
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Columbus
North Side
Edward L. Morris
Columbus, Salé
Local Relief Bill Shelved By Solons
Ohio lawmakers shelved a $2.2 million local relief grant mid passage. The measure would reimburse 1940 indigent relief costs to cities and counties, aiming to raise state contributions to 50 percent. House inaction followed questions on local finances and prior pledges.
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Columbus
Ohio
General Assembly
John W. Bricker
Senate
House Finance Committee
House Republicans
Draft Evasion Scheme Fails To Save Draftee
Ottawa officials investigated a guaranteed draft evasion racket after a draftee paid 75 to a man selling a correspondence course in airplane mechanics. The course allegedly promised exemption from the draft, but the draftee was still drafted. Sheriff Arnold Potts reported the case and the men involved.
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Ottawa
Arnold Potts
Willkie Heads to England in Private Citizen Mission
Wendell L. Willkie departed New York for England aboard a Clipper plane describing himself as a private citizen seeking answers. He told about 300 supporters he would be away a few weeks to assess Britain’s survival and its impact on American involvement, stressing he travels not as an envoy for any group.
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Roosevelt
Fish Os A
England
Fish
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Joseph P. Pacts
Great Britain
Atlantic
British Isles
New York
Wendell L. Willkie
America
Britain
Winston Churchill
Meigs Man Dies After Heart Attack Driving Horses
Charles Houdashelt, 45, of Minersville, died near noon today after a heart attack struck him while driving a team down the Dutchtown Hill near his home. He was carried into Ed Parker’s house after falling from his wagon and died almost immediately. Survived by wife, his mother, two sons, and three brothers Harry, William and Walter. Funeral arrangements to be announced later.
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Pomeroy
Charles Houdashelt
Minersville
Dutchtown
Ed Parker
Houdashelt
Harry
William
Walter
Oberlin Coeds Plan Aid to U. S. Soldiers
Four Oberlin girls organize a Committee for Intercollegiate Aid to American Soldiers to collect playing cards and games for draftees and urge other colleges to form similar units to support troops in army training camps.
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Oberlin
Somerset Boy Rescued as Two Drown in Thin Ice
In Somerset near New Lexington three-year-old Don Emmet survived after ice broke on a pond while his brothers Earl six and Robert Clouse five fell in. Firemen drained the 30 foot wide pond to recover Robert's body as Earl Middaugh the mechanic saved Don and Earl.
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New Lexington
Don Emmet
Somerset
Don
Earl
Robert Clouse
Wilbur Emmet
Earl Middaugh
Clouse
Tax Privileges Granted for Defense Plant Expansions
The National Defense Commission says it granted tax privileges to 67 companies for about 120.19 million dollars in expansions producing warplanes tools and other defense products. Certificates allow faster amortization of expansion costs over five years to boost defense industry growth during the emergency period.
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Washington
National Defense Commission
Commission
Congress
Reward Offered for Youth Slaying Identification
Wood County commissioners post a $25 reward for information identifying a youth found slain in Cygnet on January 2. The case remains under investigation by local authorities.
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Bowling Green
Cygnet
Wood County
Mulliken's plan would make farmers part time manufacturers
Paul M. Mulliken proposed at the Western Implement and Hardware Association convention that farmers become agricultural processors. He urged canning, quick freezing, and processing on farm land to cut middleman profits, with farmers later producing plastics and other goods from soybeans, cotton seed, and cellulose, easing reliance on markets.
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Mulliken
Kansas City
Paul M. Mulliken
National Retail Farm Equipment Association
Western Implement and Hardware Association
St. Louisan
Tobruk Falls as Allied Forces Break Axis Siege
From Sidney dispatches the Libyan desert stronghold Tobruk is reported captured after a dawn assault led by Australian forces with British and Free French support. Italian garrison surrenders quickly as 30,000 troops are surrounded and the town lies rubble under naval and air bombardment. Churchill signals invasion plans and a labor registration drive to bolster overseas forces.
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Britain
Army of
Libya
Medean Sea
RAF
Bad Weather Halts Army Bomber Endurance Flight
Bad weather and icing forced an 18 hour Army bomber endurance flight to end early. The four engine bomber landed at Patterson Field at 7 30 a m after taking off 6 p m Tuesday from Salt Lake City as part of a series of tests. The crew consisted of six Salt Lake City fliers commanded by Captain J M Wallace.
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Dayton
Patterson Field
Salt Lake City
Dayton Civil War veteran Alexander Cols dies at 96
Alexander Cols, 96, one of Dayton's last Civil War veterans, died. He joined a New York regiment as a drummer boy at 16 and later rose to captain before discharge.
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Dayton
Alexander Colsins
New York Regiment
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