Goebbels Promises New Tasks Each Year In Reich Speech
Berlin dispatch notes Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels stating the seventh year of Nazism will bring new tasks annually as Germany and Europe await Hitler's speech. He claims the Reich is respected or feared and emphasizes national recovery built on the people's strength amid rumors of Mussolini support and colonial ambitions.
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Berlin
Paul Joseph Goebbels
Germany
Europe
Adolf Hitler
Reich
Goebbels
Fuehrer
Hitler
Benito Mussolini
France
Italy
East
Roosevelt
United States Senate
Interior
Harold S. Ickes
Kroll Opera House
Reichstag
Mussolini
Austria
Sudetenland
Great Britain
Blizzard Sweeps Across Midwest and Northeast States
A paralyzing blizzard swept across Chicago and the Midwest today with at least two deaths and two elevated train wrecks injuring more than a dozen. The storm stretched from Missouri and Illinois through Indiana and Michigan, with freezing rain and extreme cold forecast for the Great Lakes region.
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Missouri
Illinois
Michigan
Indiana
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
U. S
C. A. Donnel
Chicago
Great Lakes
North Dakota
Minnesota
Buffalo
N. Y
Iowa
Arkansas
Louisiana
Tennessee
Mississippi
Alabama
Georgia
Pain Dream Blamed by Man Who Shot Himself
Greenfield report states John Holland a 64 year old cobbler said a nightmare dream caused him to shoot himself. He described heart pain and a bedside machine that would stop it before a gunshot ended the torment. Doctors say his left lung wound may heal.
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Greenfield
WUP
John Holland
Holland
Albert Borreson
Dewey Charges Circuit Judge With Influence Peddling
District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey in a letter to Rep. Hatton W. Sumners accused Martin T. Manton senior judge of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals and related entities of accepting money and loans from firms with matters before the court. He said he would appear before the House Judiciary Committee to elaborate on the charges.
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NEW York
U.P
Thomas E. Dewey
Rep
Hatton W. Sumners
House Judiciary Committee
Martin T. Manton
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Manton
Warner Bros. Pictures
Dictograph Products Corp
Schick Razor Company
American Tobacco Co
Dewey
Newark Man in State Economy Merger
The chief probation and parole officer post held by Charles Haslop of Newark was abolished by state welfare director Charles L. Sherwood effective February 1. William K. Mackey of Mansfield will assume duties, with salary rising from 3600 to 4000 dollars. Haslop earned 5000 dollars.
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Columbus
W.P
Charles Haslop
Newark
Charles L. Sherwood
Haslop
William K. Mackey
Mansfield
Civil Service
Mackey
Bricker to Speak at Kansas GOP Meeting in Topeka
Gov. John W. Bricker will be the principal speaker at a Kansas Republicans gathering in Topeka, seen by observers as the start of his push for the 1940 Republican presidential nomination.
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Columbus
John W. Bricker
Kansas
Topeka
Bricker Economy Policy Praised by Ohio Tax League
Samuel P. Bush of the Citizens' Tax League of Ohio praised Governor Bricker for an economy drive that he said saved 3 million dollars in three weeks and could save 50 million annually if local governments cut expenditures. He urged other tax spending agencies to follow the governor, noting a four percent reduction in state costs.
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Columbus
U.P
Samuel P. Bush
Citizens’ Tax League of Ohio
Bricker
Bush
League
Ohio relief needs projected at 15 to 20 million annually
Ohio House leaders outlined a biennial relief plan totaling between 15 and 20 million dollars per year for 1939 and 1940, including the existing 5 million emergency appropriation. They expect gradual WPA layoffs and private employment rise, with redistribution to target needs and avoid surpluses in rural counties. Legislative actions include reorganizing the Parole Board and Tax Commission, and replacing the Unemployment Compensation Commission with a new bureau and board.
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Columbus
House of Representatives
Ohio
J. H. McGregor
Coshocton
House
R. R. Bangham
Clinton
Finance Committee
Bricker
McGregor
Congress
Senate
State Parole Board
Tax Commission
Civil Service Commission
Unemployment Compensation Commission
Board of Appeals
Senate Taxation Committee
Taxation Committee
Big City
Cotton Trade For Wartime Materials Proposed in House
Chairman Carl Vinson introduced a bill to trade up to 1.875 million bales of surplus government cotton for 100 million dollars worth of minerals needed for national defense. The plan envisions storing tin manganese chromium and other minerals in naval warehouses for use in emergencies by 1942, with foreign supplies secured through the trade.
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Washington
Carl Vinson
House
Naval Affairs Committee
Vinson
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw Performs With Injured Arm
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw performed at the Gayety Theater in Cincinnati despite a broken right arm. She carried it in a blue silk sling while delivering jokes and songs, the injury resulting from a Saturday accident after visiting Ethel Barrymore, when she tripped and fell into an alley behind the theater.
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Cincinnati
U.2
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
Ethel Barrymore
TVA Wins Court Test
Washington. The Supreme Court dismissed a suit by privately owned power companies challenging the Tennessee Valley Authority program. The court ruled the plaintiffs lacked standing to claim illegal competition and damages and thus failed to prove the challenge.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Tennessee Valley Authority
TVA
Tremors Reported Again After Chile Earthquake
In Chillan the Ministry of Interior estimates total dead could reach 50000 as new tremors strike the devastated area. Unburied bodies lie on streets and in ruins of homes theaters jails churches and convents as relief agencies work to relieve suffering amid collapsing walls.
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Santiago
Chile
U.P
Chillan
Ministry of Interior
Bricker Names Health Director Cabinet Filled
COLUMBUS Dr Roll H Markwith of Akron named state health director by Gov John W Bricker He has spent 18 of his 44 years in public health and is Summit County health commissioner He succeeds Dr Walter H Hartung of Toledo who has held the post for four years and completes Brickers cabinet
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Columbus
Roll H. Markwith
Akron
John W. Bricker
Markwith
Summit County
Bricker
Walter H. Hartung
Toledo
Davey
Detroit breweries resume deliveries after settlement
Delivery service from major Detroit breweries returns to normal after an employment dispute that had crippled operations for nearly two weeks. The accord ends a production halt affecting local beer distribution and city markets.
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Detroit
U.R
Desperation Stand Is Aim of Loyalists
Loyalist forces reorganized along a line 40 miles north of Barcelona for a final stand against Nationalists. French guards rush to frontier towns to shield hunger and disease threatened refugees. Nationalists push to sever Barcelona routes and force Loyalists toward France or the sea as International Brigade remnants rejoin Loyalists.
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Perpignan
U.P
Barcelona
Catalonia
Spain
France
Napoleon
Barcelona-Vich- Ripoll-Puigcerda
International Brigade
Madrid
Workers Taking Time Off on Compensation
Gallipolis employers question the Federal Unemployment Compensation Act as workers allegedly quit jobs to draw compensation for 16 weeks without working. Two cases are cited a monument firm employee and a broom factory worker both claiming quitting due to benefit eligibility.
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Gallipolis
Federal Mediator Calls In Ohio Strike At Heller Brothers Plant
James Miller a national Labor Relations Board conciliator from Cleveland was to meet again today with leaders of the two labor factions that have caused a 16 day shutdown at the Heller Brothers tool plant in Newcomerstown Ohio.
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James Miller
National Labor Relations Board
Cleveland
Heller Brothers
Carter Case To Be Taken To President Carter
Cincinnati based public relations counsel James W. Beckman said Captain Oberlin M. Carter, once of Gallipolis, will be presented to President Carter within two weeks. Beckman, who spoke after returning from Washington, noted that Col. James E. Cassidy of Wilmington testified defense witnesses and criticized the court martial as irregular with inaccuracies and evidence of perversion of facts.
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Cincinnati
U.P
Oberlin M. Carter
Dreyfus
Gallipolis
Roosevelt
James W. Beckman
Washington
Carter
Beckman
James E
Cassidy
Wilmington
Del
Savannah
U. S. Engineers Corps
WPA Fraud Cases Opened In N. Mexico Court Today
In Albuquerque, Senator Dennis Chavez’s sister Anita Tafoya and his son-in-law Stanley Miller lead a group of 46 defendants charged with diverting Works Progress Administration jobs for political purposes. A federal grand jury also indicted 68 others, with 47 facing conspiracy counts. Twenty four more defendants await later trials.
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Albuquerque
N. M
U.P
Dennis Chavez
Works Progress Administration
Chavez
WPA
Harry L. Hopkins
New Mexico
Fred Healey
Anita Tafoya
Stanley W. P. Miller
Joe Martinez
Press Inquiry Into France Plane Buying Investigation
The Senate Military Affairs Committee may request a Roosevelt letter on cooperation with France to buy American planes. The panel met in secret over France’s latest aircraft purchases and the Paris air ministry official aboard an experimental bomber that crashed near Los Angeles. National defense and foreign policy figures dominated the congressional agenda as relief bill passage settled and preparedness programs moved forward.
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Washington
Senate Military Affairs Committee
Roosevelt
France
Air Ministry
Los Angeles
Congress
Senate
Six Die in Early Sunday Fire at Newtown Home
Hamilton County authorities investigated a fire that killed Everett Frost 32 and his wife Gladys 28 along with four children Ernest 10 Eugene 9 Velma 4 and Kenneth 9 months in Newtown ten miles east of Cincinnati. Autopsy showed suffocation before the fire. no violence marks found.
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Cincinnati
Hamilton
Newtown
Here
Everett Frost
Gladys
Ernest Everett
Eugene
Velma
Kenneth Lyle
Frank Coppock
Hamilton County
Vital Witness in Hines Trial Ends Life Sunday
District Attorney Dewey pursued the Hines case with key witnesses including J Richard Davis and Harry Schoenhaus. George Weinberg, a gangster alleged to pay protection money to Hines, killed himself with a selfinflicted shot in a White Plains mansion bathroom.
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Hines
NEW York
U.P
Thomas E. Dewey
Tammany
James J. Hines
George Weinberg
Weinberg
White Plains
N. Y
J. Richard
Dixie) Davis
Harry Schoenhaus
House To Accept Bill On Deficiency Relief
Washington report notes the $725 million deficiency relief bill returned to the House with the Senate’s $150 million cut kept and tighter WPA exclusions. Leaders poised to decide on Senate passage or conference. The measure includes stricter amendments on politics relief and a provision making soliciting political contributions from federal employees a felony.
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Washington
House
Senate
Courts To Rule On Candy Sales Tax Question
The Ohio Supreme Court was asked to decide if candy is a food for sales tax exemption. The state tax commission appealed a Summit County ruling that candy qualifies as food and is exempt from the three percent retail sales tax.
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Columbus
Ohio Supreme Court
State Tax Commission
Summit County
AFL Council Meets to Discuss Peace Moves
AFL president William Green convened the federation executive council for ten days of sessions. The group will review developments in the labor civil war since the Houston convention and consider steps to end the bitter division among organized labor.
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Miami
Fla
U.P
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Federation Executive Council
Green
AFL
Houston
Columbus City Auditor Dies After Operations
Columbus City Auditor John E Davies 45 and president of the American Bowling Congress died in a city hospital after two emergency appendectomy operations. He collapsed in his office and underwent surgeries on January 18 and the previous Saturday.
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Columbus
U.P
John E. Davies
The
American Bowling Congress
Rickenbacher Cousin of Ace Dies After Illness
Albert Rick enbacher aged 80 died after a six week illness. He was a cousin of Capt. Eddie Rickenbacher World War I flying ace. Funeral arrangements not yet announced.
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Ace
Columbus
Albert Rickenbacher
Eddie Rickenbacher
Eva Tanguay Ill With Anemia and Arthritis
Eva Tanguay age 60 a famed vaudeville star of pre war days is seriously ill today with complications of anemia and arthritis in Hollywood according to hospital reports.
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Eva Tanguay
Hollywood
U.P
Irish poet Yeats dies at 73 in Riviera resort
William Butler Yeats, renowned Irish poet and playwright aged 73, died at a resort on the Riviera near Mentone France on Saturday. The Nobel laureate, long a central figure in 20th century literature, passed away after a period of illness.
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Mentone
France
U.P
William Butler Yeats
The
Riviera
Here
Nation Dances to Aid Fight on Infantile Paralysis
Americans will dance nationwide tonight to honor President Roosevelt and raise over 1 million dollars for the fight against infantile paralysis. More than 10,000 dances will be held in cities and towns as stage and screen stars join Mrs Roosevelt at seven Washington hotels.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Mrs. Roosevelt
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