Beheader of Woman Held To Be Sane
Cleveland police say Frank Dolezal, linked to 13 torso murders, was found sane by two court psychiatrists after a mental examination. He confessed to one murder and investigators seek charges for twelve more. Dolezal, 1930s suspect, faced the lie detector and jail self harm. sheriff plans to present findings to prosecutors.
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Cleveland
Frank Dolezal
K. S. West
S. C. Lindsay
Dolezal
Martin L. O’donnell
Kingsbury Run
Florence Sawdey Polillo
Martin L. O'Donnell
Polillo
Paul Beck
East Cleveland
O'Donnell
Harry S. Brown
FDR McNutt Alliance Signals 1940 Nomination Strategy
Washington reports growing ties between President Roosevelt and Philippine High Commissioner Paul V. McNutt with a possible nomination as director of the new Federal Security Administration. The move is seen as broadening backing against the conservative Garner faction in the 1940 Democratic race.
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Washington
U.S
Roosevelt
Paul V. McNutt
McNutt
Federal Security Administration
Rules Allow Drunken Drivers to be Arrested
Ohio Attorney General Thomas J. Herbert ruled that highway patrol can arrest drunken drivers but cannot arrest other intoxicated car occupants or intoxicated pedestrians. The decision limits patrol officers to specific drunken driving offenses and does not grant general peace officer arrest authority.
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Columbus
U.P
Thomas J. Herbert
Herbert
Col
Lynn Black
Clipper Lands at Port Washington on Regular Flight
The Atlantic Clipper arrived in Port Washington at 8 14 a m EST today following a scheduled passenger service from Marseilles via Lisbon and the Azores.
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Port Washington
U.P
Marseilles
France
Lisbon
Azores
Dies committee plans Aug 1 hearings through Christmas
The Dies committee on un American activities prepared to resume hearings on August 1 and continue without interruption until Christmas, aiming to scrutinize suspected subversive groups and individuals.
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Washington
U.P
Dies
UN American Activities
President's Lending Plan Faces Senate Opposition
The Barkley Steagall bill backing Roosevelt's 3.46 billion loan program drew Republican charges of pork and a slush fund. Senate hearings may start late this week, with Morgenthau likely to testify. others expect passage to slip to next year if the session ends.
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Washington
Barkley-Steagall
Roosevelt
Congress
Senate
Alben W. Barkley
Henry B. Steagall
Ala
House Banking and Currency Committee
Steagall
Secretary of the Treasury
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
Senators Seek Restoration of WPA Wages
A group of New Deal lawmakers led by Sen. James E. Murray seeks to restore the prevailing wage basis for WPA workers. The bill would ensure monthly earnings are not reduced from June 30, 1939 levels and end the 130 hour month provision that lowered pay for skilled labor.
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Washington
U.P
James E. Murray
Mont
Senate
Murray
Adolf J. Sabath
Ill
Begin Work on Water System at Straitsville
Weather permitting the WPA water distribution project in Straitsville will start on Wednesday July 12. The $55 041 system aims to provide complete water supply and will employ the local jobless along with the mine fire project. Drilling of wells is finished and bond funding was approved by residents with 80 percent in favor.
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New
Straitsville
WPA
Perry County
PBY-4 Seaplane Forced Down In Buffalo Harbor
A PBY-4 military seaplane en route from Consolidated Aircraft in San Diego to Britain was forced to land in Buffalo harbor due to headwinds exhausting its fuel. The craft will be flown from Newfoundland across the Atlantic to England.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Consolidated Aircraft Company
San Diego
Cal
Buffalo Harbor
Newfoundland
Atlantic
England
RAF Plans Non-Stop Training Flights To France
Twelve Royal Air Force squadrons with over 100 medium and heavy bombers took off under sealed orders for the first in a series of non stop training flights to Southern France and back.
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France
London
U.P
Royal Air Force
OSU Seeks New President After McNutt Plan Fails
Ohio State University trustees renewed their search for a president after a plan to offer the post to Paul V. McNutt failed. The board had sounded out McNutt before Aug. 14 but he accepted Roosevelt’s offer to become federal security administrator. Wilson M. Compton of Washington remains a candidate for the vacant presidency.
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Columbus
U.P
Ohio State University
Paul V. McNutt
Indiana
Philippines
McNutt
Washington
Roosevelt
George W. Rightmire
Wilson M. Compton
American Forest Products Industries
Constable Arrested on Drunk Driving Charge
Gallipolis Ohio Township Constable Pete Phillips was held to the grand jury under $300 bond for operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated. He was arrested near Sugar Creek Sunday by Deputy Sheriff Wood and remanded to jail after arraignment.
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Gallipolis
Pete” Phillips
Ohio Township
F. E. Milliser
Sugar Creek
Wood
Fugitive From Lima Faces Life at Joliet
Frank Haines aged 37, fugitive from Lima State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, faced a life term at Joliet Penitentiary as an habitual criminal. He was sentenced yesterday by Judge James F. Fardy after escaping the Lima hospital on New Year’s Day with four companions.
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Chicago
Frank Haines
Lima, O., State Hospital
Joliet Penitentiary
James F. Fardy
Haines
Lima, Hospital
Navy names new battleships Iowa and New Jersey
The navy announced the two new 45,000 ton super battleships will be named the Iowa and the New Jersey. Both vessels are part of the latest fleet expansion, reflecting postwar naval modernization plans.
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Washington
U.P
Navy
Iowa J
New Jersey
Hocking County Solon Urges Ohio Coal To Cut State Relief Load
Dr. Walter E. Brehm of Hocking County urged Nelsonville citizens to boost Ohio mined coal to shrink the state relief burden and lower taxes. He argued Ohio coal saves money for schools and private citizens, citing 1939 40 school costs and the need to advertise local coal advantages against out of state rivals.
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Hocking County
Solon
Ohio
Nelsonville
Walter E. Brehm
Logan
General Assembly
Tthe High School
Ohio Coal Foundation
Brehm
Free
America
Jones of Ohio Attacks FDR Foreign Policy
Rep. Robert F. Jones of Lima Ohio denounces President Roosevelt in a radio address critiquing U S neutrality. He says the public seeks simple honest neutrality and opposes open letters to foreign governments and State Department protests linked to perceived bias. He asserts neutrality laws grant executive overreach and fear of the current president’s bias.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Robert F. Jones
Lima
United States
Jones
State Department
Ohio
No Action on Longer Hours by WPA Union
Local labor union members say no action will be taken against the ruling raising monthly hours from 107 to 130. Several union members are among 152 released from duty yesterday by orders from the Zanesville office.
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Gallipolis
WPA
Zanesville
Neutrality bill defeated in Senate committee vote
The Senate Foreign Relations panel rejected the administration’s neutrality revision, voting 12 to 11 to shelve the measure for this session. The move delays neutrality action until the next session and ends hopes for a bill without embargo provisions. Senators Walter F. George and Guy M. Gillette led the opposition.
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Washington
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Roosevelt
Congress
Senate
House
Sens
Walter F. Georges D
Guy M. Gillette
Bridges Seen As Communist By Guard Chief
Major Lawrence Milner of the Oregon National Guard Intelligence Unit testified at the Bridges deportation hearing that he had access to Communist Party circles and observed Bridges paying dues and making anti US naval statements. Judge Dean Landis ruled the key questions are Bridges’ party membership and whether the party advocates overthrow by violence. Milner affirmed both. the government argues Bridges is a Communist and thus undesirable.
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SAN Francisco
U.P
Lawrence Milner
Harry Bridges
Communist Party
Bridges
Milner
Oregon National Guard
United States
Dean James Wii
Landis
Harvard Law School
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Maritime Labor Federation
Police Asked to Handle Pickets at Pontiac Plant
Pontiac City Manager William P Edmonson asked state police aid to control massed UAW CIO pickets at the Fisher Body plant amid fears of a violent clash. The strike against General Motors idled 11 plants and about 7000 skilled workers after a second day of defiance against the back to work order.
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Pontiac
Mich
U.P
William P. Edmonson
Pontiac Fisher Body
United Automobile Workers
CIO
General Motors
U S Renews Protest to Japan Over Bombing
The United States today renewed its attempts to obtain Japanese respect for American rights in China. The State Department disclosed new and emphatic representations to Tokyo against repeated aerial bombardments endangering American life and property at Chungking, provisional capital of China.
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Washington
U.S
United States
China
State Department
Tokyo
Chungking
Townsend Group Backs Changes in Security
The Senate considers House approved amendments to the Social Security Act to liberalize benefits and ease business taxes. Key figures include Senator Pat Harrison projecting no material fights, while Byrnes pushes a plan to raise federal grants to states by income levels. The changes would freeze old age insurance taxes for three years, move to pay as you go, broaden worker coverage, and exempt individuals earning over 3000 from unemployment taxes.
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Washington
Senate
Pat Harrison
Miss
Senate Finance Committee
Francis E. Townsend
Claude Pepper
Fla
Harrison
James F. Byrnes
S. C
Elks Meet Focus on militant Americanism and Democracy
At the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks 75th national convention in St. Louis, grand exalted ruler Dr. Edward J. McCormick urged defense of democracy against godless "isms" and warned educators and labor leaders could spread Communism. Over 5,000 Elks and guests listened.
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ST. Louis
U.P
Germany
United States
Elks
Country's Corn Crop Will Be Up Slightly
Agriculture Department estimates the 1939 Ohio corn crop at 157,550,000 bushels and the national crop at 2,570,795,000 bushels. This rise could trigger marketing quota restrictions this fall versus last year and the 1928-37 average of 2,309,647,000 bushels.
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Washington
U.P
Agriculture Department
Ohio
McReynolds Tennessee Representative Dies at 58
Washington report says Sam D. McReynolds Democrat of Tennessee died at his home after a months long illness. Serving in Congress since 1922 he chaired the House Foreign Affairs Committee and was a key figure in administration foreign policy decisions.
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Washington
U.R
Sam D. McReynolds
Tenn
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Congress
McReynolds
National Christian Endeavor Concludes Five Day Convention
The National Christian Endeavor wound up a five day convention in Cleveland with forums on the theme Christ calls for personal consecration.
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Cleveland
Uu.rp
National Christian Endeavor
Taxi driver found shot dead in cab loot revealed
Lawrence Linn, 18, a taxicab driver, was found shot to death today in his cab. His pockets had been looted and turned inside out.
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Hamilton
U.R
Lawrence Linn
Taxpayers Resume Payments After Temporary Injunction
Newcomerstown property owners flocked to the county treasurer to pay delinquent real estate taxes after a temporary court injunction allowed payment without Muskingum Conservancy District assessments. For six months residents had boycotted these assessments, triggering a taxation strike until the injunction eased the legal requirement.
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Newcomerstown
U.P
Muskingum Conservancy District
J. H. Lamneck
Common Pleas
E. E., Lindsay
Radio censorship is protested by chains reduces free speech
Seven major broadcasting companies charged the FCC with violating the American tradition of uncensored broadcasting. They spoke ahead of Friday's hearing on a rule requiring stations that broadcast internationally to air only programs that promote international goodwill understanding and cooperation.
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Washington
U.P
Federal Communications Commission
FCC
Springfield teen dies from July 7 car fall injuries
Annette Harstead, 17, died today from injuries suffered when she fell from a moving automobile on July 7. Authorities reported the incident occurred in Springfield as the vehicle was in motion.
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Springfield
Annette Harstead
Britain Deploys 100 Bombers as Poland Ties to Danzig
United Press reports Britain sent over 100 powerful bombers to deter a possible Nazi move to seize Danzig and threaten Poland. Chamberlain signaled support for Poland while Berlin accused Britain of encircling Germany.
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Great Britain
Europe
Adolf Hitler
Britain
Danzig
Poland
Neville Chamberlain
House of Commons
Free City
Reich
Chamberlain
Berlin
Germany
Protests Over Civil Service Dismissals By Bricker
Francis Durbin of Lima leads protest against salary payments to provisional civil service workers moved in by Bricker administration. He represents about 100 discharged employees and cites a State Supreme Court ruling clarifying provisional employment status.
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Columbus
Bricker
Francis Durbin
Lima
State Supreme Court
Gas tax money sent to 1338 Ohio townships
Columbus Ohio state officials distributed 535200 in gasoline excise tax funds to 1338 townships. Each township received 400 as directed by law. Auditor Joseph T Ferguson supervised the distribution from Columbus.
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Columbus
U.P
Ohio
Joseph T. Ferguson
Farley Addresses Ohio Postmasters at Convention Banquet
Postmaster General James A. Farley was welcomed to the Ohio Postmasters Association convention in Columbus. He is scheduled to speak at a banquet during the event.
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Columbus
O.R
James A. Farley
Ohio Postmasters’ Association
Reverend Harold Clerke Dies At 59 In Columbus
Columbus reporter notes the death of Reverend Harold Clerke age 59, pastor of Grand View Methodist Church, announced today.
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Columbus
Harold Clerke
Grandview Methodist Church
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