Conclave Opens to Elect 262nd Pope in Vatican
Cardinals gathered in the Pauline Chapel as the conclave began to elect Pius XI’s successor. Balloting starts Thursday with two votes daily and is expected to conclude by Friday or Saturday, with a ceremonial crowning planned for Sunday, March 12.
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Vatican City
Pius XI
Elias Dallas Costa
Florence
Luigi Lavitrano
Palermo
Alessio Ascalesi
Naples
Maurizio Fossati
Turin
Giovanni Nasalli-Rocca
Bologna
Vatican
St. Damasus
Marshal
Holy Office
Cardinal O'Connell
Boston
Cardinal Capello
Buenos Aires
Cardinal Leme
Rio de Janeiro
Neptunia
Rome
Europe
Pauline Chapel
Msgr
Antonio Bacci
Pius
St. Peter’s Square
Kansas City Starts Vice Crime Drive Indicts 90
Citizens in Kansas City begin a sweeping vice and crime crackdown linked to Boss Tom Pendergast politics. A special grand jury, aided by Gov. Lloyd C. Stark, returned true bills against 90 persons, with Judge Allen C. Southern sealing the names until arrests occur.
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Kansas City
Tom Pendergast
Pendergast
Lloyd C. Stark
Allen C. Southern
Murder Told by Young Farm Girl in Indiana
A 12 year old girl in Edinburg Indiana described a midnight intruder who killed her father and mother with a .22 rifle as they slept. The assailant then attacked the eldest daughter and threatened the other children, who hid in bed until daylight. She fled to neighbors to report the killings of Mr and Mrs Paul Brand.
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Edinburg
Ind
U.P
Paul Brand
Massive Osaka munitions dump blast reported
Tokyo dispatch says a gigantic munitions dump exploded at Osaka, Japan. Casualties were unclear but feared large as fires spread from the site and troops were summoned to assist firefighters.
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Tokyo
U.P
Osaka
Japan
Three Sailed Vessels Lost Off Greenland Mystery
Oslo reported three sailing ships Nyken Selis and Quest were lost in a Greenland storm. Seventy crewmen were aboard the trio and are presumed lost with the vessels.
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Oslo
Norway
U.R
Nyken
Selis
Quest
Greenland
Nudism Bill Opposed By Clothing Workers in Ohio
The Cincinnati local of the Amalga mated Clothing Workers of America opposes the General Assembly bill to outlaw nudism in Ohio. Recording secretary W Arthur Ulmer told Rep Gordon Renner that members doubt such a bill benefits the public. Renner noted confusion over where a Nudist would wear a union label.
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Columbus
Cincinnati
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America
General Assembly
Ohio
W. Arthur Ulmer
The
Clothing Workers
Gordon Renner
Hamilton
Renner
Bricker Signs Bill To End Stream Pollution in Valley
Governor Bricker approved the bill ratifying an interstate compact to eliminate stream pollution in the Ohio River Valley. Senator Fred G. Reiners of Hamilton backed the measure in Columbus.
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Bricker
Columbus
Fred G. Reiners
Hamilton
Ohio River Valley
Governor pushes pollution bill to end stream contamination
The governor urges rapid passage of a progressive stream pollution measure, disputing coal interests’ claims of harm. He says existing mines need not close and warns of health risks from sewage tainting Ohio Valley water.
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Ohio Valley
Ohioan Named To Committee
Rep. L. L. Marshall of Ohio is named among 11 Republicans picked by House Republican Leader Joseph W. Martin to form a minority debt policy advisory committee. The group will study the growing national debt impact on the economy, unemployment, and living standards, and seek safeguards against inflationary policies.
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Washington
L. L. Marshall, R
House
Joseph W. Martin
Martin
United States
Street lights shine under extended power contract in Delphos
Street lights will stay on tonight and for two more nights in Delphos under a truce with Ohio Power Co extending the old contract that expired Tuesday. The agreement preserves lighting service during the interim period.
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Delphos
Ohio Power Co
Restriction Push on Military Plane Spending Faces Senate
Economy senators and isolationists attack the national defense bill to cap new plane expenditures at 170 million dollars. The War Department says 6,000 planes need that much, while critics demand a spending guarantee. Debate may push a Friday vote. Senator Nye accuses the admin of secrecy and shifts in foreign policy.
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Washington
U.P
War Department
Bennett Champ Clark
Economy Bloc
Gerald P. Nye
N. D
Senate
United States
Britain
France
Gallia Coal Operators Cite Labor Shortage
In Gallia County, a dozen coal operators report enough demand for their product locally and in other Ohio cities. Many miners who worked the Gallia mines have shifted to WPA projects, leaving owners to recruit workers rather than buyers.
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Gallia
Gallipolis
Gallia County
Ohio
Dishwasher Loses Job Starts Backward Walk in Denver
John Bollinger, 35, losing his job washing dishes, walked backward through Denver streets. Police stopped and retraced his steps. hospital tests found he was physically healthy. Psychiatrists diagnosed a hysterical reaction to job loss causing the backward gait.
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Denver
Col
U.P
John Bollinger
Bollinger
Denver General Hospital
Vacation Over Roosevelt Heads Home From Fleet
President Roosevelt sails the Houston toward Charleston where he will disembark Friday and motor to Washington to address a joint session of Congress. The trip ends a week and a half with the fleet after farewell with war vessels at Culebra Island.
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Miami
Fla
U.P
Roosevelt
Houston
Charleston
S. C
Culebra Island
Puerto Rico
St. Thomas
Virgin Islands
Navy Yard
Washington
House
Senate
Sit-In Miners Reach Surface in Pennsylvania
In Oneida and nearby Sheppton crowds greeted 49 bearded miners who came to the surface after nearly seven days underground at Wolfe Collieries Company Mine. They were paid current wages of 24,793 dollars and promised negotiations within days for 1937 back pay. the strike began over wage demands and expanded to back wages.
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Oneida
Sheppton
Wolfe Collieries Company
Kelly Is Renominated For Chicago Mayoralty
Chicago mayor Edward J. Kelly won renomination in the Tuesday primary with a larger vote than the combined total of one Democrat and two Republican opponents. Republican Dwight H. Green also won the nomination to face Kelly in the April 4 general election.
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Chicago
U.P
Edward J. Kelly
Dwight H. Green
U. S
al (Scarface
WLW Reduces Power After FCC Order
Cincinnati radio station WLW began broadcasting at one tenth its former power after removing a 500 kilowatt amplifier. The move comes in response to a Federal Communications Commission order that WLW must cease high power operations at 3 a.m.
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Cincinnati
U.P
WLW
Federal Communications Commission
Wheat Lands Absorb Snow Moisture for 1939 Prospects
The southwestern winter wheat region, short of moisture for months, began to absorb heavy wet snow today. The moisture may determine the success or failure of the 1939 crops, according to farm reports from Kansas City.
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Kansas City
Best Friend of Boy's Father Named as Kidnapper
New York story reports George Katz learns his longtime friend Charles Mitchell helped kidnap his four year old son Michael on February 20. Mitchell, Sol Schwartz, and Schwartz's sister Nellie Resnick were arrested after ransom of 180 dollars, with longer demand of seven thousand dollars. Katz believed Mitchell arranged the boy's release. detectives showed both men owed gamblers and schemed the kidnapping. Katz confronted Mitchell, who wept as he confessed.
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New York
U.P
George Katz
Charles Mitchell
Michael
Katz
Charlie Mitchell
Mitchell
Sol Schwartz
Schwartz
Nellie Resnick
Michael Katz
Mit
Medical bills in house for action today in ohio
The Ohio Public Health Association and Ohio Medical Association sponsor a bill to give the state health director a five year term and alter the appointment method to curb politics. A separate bill would allow physicians to form groups to provide services to participants at a fixed monthly rate. Charles Nelson of the Ohio State Medical Association spoke to the Senate Insurance Committee. The Senate rejected a proposal restricting justices of the peace to attorney certificates from common pleas courts.
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Columbus
A.P
Ohio Public Health Association
Ohio Medical Association
House of Representatives
Lawrence Kane
Hamilton
Charles Nelson
Ohio State Medical Association
Senate Insurance Committee
Senate
Justice of the Peace
Common Pleas Court
Bricker Picked For Radio Talk
Washington The Republican National Committee selected Gov. John W. Bricker of Ohio as a national leader for a Saturday night radio broadcast marking the 150th anniversary of the first Congress session. He will speak at 7 45 p.m. under a time slot arranged by Columbia Broadcasting Co. The invite followed complaints that Taft received more national exposure in recent weeks.
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Washington
Republican National Committee Today
John W. Bricker
Ohio
Columbia Broadcasting Co
Bricker
Robert A. Taft
Groom-To-Be Injured In Fall At Pt Pleasant
Ferrell Niday 28, a bakery truck driver from Gallipolis, was to wed Edna Canady this week. He suffered a possible back fracture in a fall at Pt Pleasant and was taken to Holzer Hospital for examination and treatment.
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Pt. Pleasant
Gallipolis
Ferrell Niday
Edna Canady
Niday
Stanley Niday
McKinley Niday
Holzer Hospital
Four Die in Hindu Muslim Riots in Rangoon
Four persons were killed and more than 50 wounded in Hindu Muslim riots in Rangoon Burma today. The clash erupted amid sectarian violence with casualties reported among civilians and bystanders.
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Rangoon
Burma
U.P
Real Brawl Over U S Role on Inter American Commission
Doris Stevens chairs the Inter American Commission on Women in Washington D C. She refuses to cede her seat to Mary Winslow an ex analyst in the Labor Department named by President Roosevelt in the first White House appointment to the commission.
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U. S
Inter-American Commission of Women
Doris Stevens
Pan-American
Washington, D. C
Mary Winslow
Lower
Labor Department
Roosevelt
White House
Inter-American Commission
Calendar Forces Delay Of Year In Celebration
LOGAN Staff Special M. S. Brown in charge of the parcel post truck at the Logan Post Office was born on Leap Year and did not celebrate his birthday today. His birth day will be observed in 1940.
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Logan
M. S. Brown
Logan Post Office
Airplane Workers in St. Louis Begin Strike
Seven hundred production employees at the Curtiss Wright Airplane factory in St. Louis walked out and halted manufacture of airplane parts reportedly destined for France, halting output.
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St. Louis
AUP
Curtiss- Wright
France
Army's New Battle Plane Called Best
In secret hearings General Arnold praised the XFM-1 twin engine fighter as a formidable, long range fighter able to challenge bombers with superior speed and fire positions. He warned production could reach 2,500 next year and the industry could exceed 12,000 airplanes annually if needed.
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Washington
U.P
United States Army
H. H. Arnold
Army Air Corps
Army
Long Island
Arnold
Carpenter Jack Foley 74 Dies After Heart Attack
Carpenter resident Jack Foley, 74, a lifelong farmer, died Tuesday night after a heart attack. Funeral services set for Friday at 2 PM at Carpenter Baptist Church with interment in School Lot Cemetery. He is survived by wife Adeline, two sons Frank and Clare, a half brother Charles Backus of Nelsonville, and a half sister Irene Von Schriltz of Toledo.
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Carpenter
Jack Foley
Carpenter Baptist Church
School Lot
Foley
Adeline Foley
Frank
Clare
Charles Backus
Nelsonville
Irene von Schriltz
Toledo
Canonization Sought for Mother Seton First U S Saint
The Vatican reports two American cardinals have recommended Mother Elizabeth Seton of Emmitsburg Maryland for canonization. A convert born in 1774 she founded the U S parochial school system and would become the first United States born saint. She died in 1821 at Emmitsburg.
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Vatican City
Mother Elizabeth Seton
Emmitsburg
Roosevelt
United States
Sacred Congregation of Rites
Mother Seton
Labor peace talks eyed between AFL and CIO begin soon
Secretary Frances Perkins announced that peace negotiations between the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations will start within a week after she confers with President Roosevelt upon his return from a naval cruise. Both sides named negotiating committees and the White House is expected to set the initial meeting date.
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Washington
ULP
Frances Perkins
American Federation of Labor
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Roosevelt
Navy
AFL
CI0
Miss Perkins
Mr. Roosevelt
CIO
John L. Lewis
William Green
Lewis
Philip Murray
Sidney Hillman
AFU
Daniel J. Tobin
Menthew Woll
Harry C. Bates
United Mine Workers Union Journal
John L. Lewis’ Union
Wall Street
Aliens on WPA Hit by Ruling in Ohio
About 6 000 aliens are to be dismissed from Works Progress Administration projects in Ohio by week end officials said. More than 5 000 have already left WPA payrolls since the checkup began. Dismissals represent roughly 2.5 percent of Ohio WPA workers under the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act amendment. Earlier WPA hires included foreign born citizens with first papers.
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Columbus
U.P
WPA
Ohio
Legislators Study Permanent Relief Plan For 1939 40
A 10 member special committee of five senators and five representatives begins work today to draft a permanent poor relief program for 1939 40. The prior $5,000,000 emergency relief measure was intended only to cover immediate county relief needs.
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Columbus
U.P
Street car crash in Boston kills six injures fifteen
Mechanics determine a broken valve spring in the air brake caused a city street car to jump the rails on a downgrade curve and strike a tree. The wreck left six dead and fifteen injured among the passengers.
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Boston
Goering Declares Luftwaffe Unbeatable on Fourth Birthday
Field Marshal Hermann Goering, Nazi aviation minister and air force commander, praised the Luftwaffe on its fourth anniversary. He claimed it would grow stronger amid a global arms race, cited Munich as evidence of its power, and urged youth to join air service.
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Germany
Goering
Aviation Corps
Berlin
Hermann Goering
Munich
Great Britain
France
Czechoslovakia
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