Eastern Europe seen widening Italian German ties via Ribbentrop visit
Italian quarters forecast closer Italian German economic cooperation across Eastern Europe after Ribbentrop's Rome visit. Dr Klaus Clo dius stays behind as talks aim to extend cooperation through the Danubian and Balkan states and possibly Russia and the Baltic.
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Rome
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Europe
Danubian
Balkan
Russia
Baltic Countries
Karl Clodius
Germany
Ribbentrop
Balkans
Italy
Pope Pius
Cardinal Maglione
Vatican
Benito Mussolini
Mussolini
Senate panel seeks probe of spy wire tapping by government police
The Senate Interstate Commerce Committee urged a $25,000 inquiry into wire tapping and a rising spy system claimed to be run by government police. It urged investigation of tapping by federal, state, and local bodies and by private agencies involved in industrial and political espionage.
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Senate
Washington
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
United States
FBI
George Norris
Ind
Nebr
Detroit
Sucoort
Athens Eagles treasurer Fred Brown dies by own action
Fred Ernest Brown 40 of 66 Maplewood Drive was found dead by a bullet in the Eagles Building basement at N Court and E Carpenter Streets. Coroner ruled death by own action. Brown, ill for five years, managed Chauncey store of New York Coal Co. He leaves wife Grace Creamer and four children, with funeral at First Methodist Church Friday.
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Fred Ernest Brown
Maplewood Drive
Eagles
N. Court
E. Carpenter Sts
A. L. Pritchard
Brown
Chiauncey
New York Coal Co
Mr. Brown
Sand Ridge
Athens
Coal Company
Union Grocery
Grace Creamer
Frederick
Mary Louise
Phyllis
Evelyn Jo
Edgar
Saunders a celebrated writer hanged himself in Florida cottage
Hollywood novelist John Monk Saunders age 42 and ex wife Fay Wray could not explain his suicide in his Fort Myers Florida cottage. Friends said he may have brooded over the end of his decade-long marriage, they were divorced last December. Saunders wrote Wings Dawn Patrol and A Yank at Oxford among other films.
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Hollywood
U.P
John Monk Saunders
Fay Wray
Fort Myers
Fla
Saunders
Wings
Ank
Oxford
Dawn Patrol
Saturday Sentence Is Lawful, Judge Says
Judge John Ring ruled Saturday afternoon sentencing is lawful for Harry Daugherty of Newark who is serving a robbery term in Ohio Penitentiary. The court rejected his claim that a so called legal holiday on Saturday after noon invalidates the sentence.
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Columbus
Harry Daugherty
Newark
Ohio
John Ring
King
Daugherty
Coroner's verdict awaited in Meigs death
Meigs County authorities probed the double shooting of Elmer and Mrs. McCarty at their Cole Street home. Neighbors noted lights on Saturday night. powder on McCarty’s hand suggested he fired first, then shot himself. The coroner’s verdict was pending as reports described the scene and health issues.
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Middleport
Henry Ewing
Elmer McCarty
Cole St
Roy Lansbury
McCarty
Fire Department
Will Reynolds
Meigs County
New York Central Railroad
Explosion damages Booth Memorial Hospital in Cleveland
An explosion wrecked part of Booth Memorial Hospital just before noon in Cleveland. Initial reports say at least eight staff members were injured as about 80 patients and employees were in the building. The blast hit the first floor near the laboratory or laundry room, with the maternity division on the fourth floor.
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Cleveland
U.P
Booth Memorial Hospital
Fractures Skull After Taunting Incident In Cleveland
Doctors in Cleveland performed emergency surgery on 16 year old Michael Nemitz of West Technical High School after a fight left him with a fractured skull and brain injury. The assailant, also 16, is held at the juvenile detention home. Police say the attack followed taunting of the assailant's 15 year old brother over his walking.
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Cleveland
U.B
Michael Nemitz
West Technical High School
Michael
Nemitz
Burton Files Petitions for Senate Nomination
Mayor Harold H. Burton of Cleveland filed petitions with the secretary of state in Columbus in support of his Republican bid for the United States Senate nomination.
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Columbus
U.P
Harold H. Burton
Cleveland Today
Secretary of State
United States
Ice jam hits Maumee Bay and western Lake Erie
Unusual winds create the worst ice jam in 35 years in Maumee Bay and western Lake Erie. Captain Ralph Millard of the Great Lakes Towing Co. said the jam poses difficulties for navigation and shore safety.
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Toledo
Maumee Bay
Lake Erie
Ralph Millard
Great Lakes Towing Co
Economist Hopes Thief Returns Manuscript
Harold H. Malcolm of Norwalk asks the thief who stole his briefcase in Elyria to return the 45 000 word manuscript. Malcolm, an economist and lecturer, had spent three years on the work and it was ready for the printer.
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Elyria
Harold H. Malcolm
Norwalk
Malcolm
Resolution on Income Quiz Before Senate
The Senate Commerce Committee approved 9 to 7 a resolution opposing personal income questions in the 1940 census. Sen. Charles Tobey of New Hampshire led the charge against “census snooping.” A Maloney substitute to urge reconsideration failed 8 to 9, leaving the resolution to the full Senate.
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Washington
U.P
Senate Commerce Committee
Senate
Charles W. Tobey
N. H
Francis T. Maloney
Conn
Inmate to Testify in CIO Damages Case
Federal Judge Mel G Underwood ordered Herman Herzog a 39 year old prisoner to testify in the 7.5 million damage suit brought by Republic Steel against the Congress of Industrial Organizations. The ruling bars Stark County prosecutor A C L Barthelmeh from interfering with depositions likely Friday. Herzog, jailed since 1937 for illegal possession of explosives tied to the Little Steel strike, is a key defense witness.
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Columbus
U.P
Mel G. Underwood
Herman Herzog
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Republic Steel Corporation
Stark County
A. C. L. Barthelmeh
Steel Workers Organizing Committee
CIO
Herzog
Farley Not Entering Ohio Delegates Contest
Postmaster General James A. Farley will not seek the Ohio delegates to the Democratic national convention. Francis W. Poulson, former state chairman, announced the decision and suggested he may try to win some votes if Roosevelt does not run.
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Columbus
U.P
James A. Farley
Ohio
Francis W. Poulson
Roosevelt
Poulson
Ohio Ex Congressmen Dies at Springfield
Arthur W. Aleshire 40 former representative of Ohio Seventh District died in a Springfield hospital where he had been ill since December 27. He campaigned for Congress in 1936 from a wheelchair and had been an invalid since a 1923 injury. In 1938 he lost reelection to Clarence Brown.
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Springfield
Arthur W. Aleshire
Ohio
Congress
Clarence Brown
Citizens Tax League of Ohio appoints purchasing agents
The Citizens Tax League of Ohio appoints eighteen purchasing agents for private firms and government units to assist as an advisory body in their survey of Ohio government purchasing problems.
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Columbus
U.P
Citizens Tax League of Ohio
Ohio
Girl Slain by Constable Bert Mays in Ironton Area
Eloise Roberts 15 was shot in bed at her Dog Fork home. Bert Mays 28, a Lawrence Township constable, wounded himself after entering the bedroom at 6 am and dying two hours later in an Ironton hospital. A blind sister was present in the room.
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Ironton
Eloise Roberts
Dog Fork
B. R. Monte
Bert Mays
Lawrence Township
Miss Roberts
James Roberts
Mays
Kitts Hill
Roberts
Firm Forced To Pay Overtime To Workers
In Cleveland a consent order directs Monarch Aluminum Manufacturing Co to pay 8 000 immediately to 600 employees under the wage hour act for overtime work. Grace G. Glascott, regional wage hour administrator, said the company admitted a bookkeeping system showed overtime payments were met when they had not.
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Cleveland
U.P
Federal District Court
Monarch Aluminum Manufacturing Co
Grace G. Glascott
Sacred Articles Stolen From Catholic Church
In Newport Kentucky a theft at Corpus Christi Church yielded $500 in sacred items. The tabernacle on the altar was forced open and the sacristy was ransacked. Stolen were two gold ciboria vessels used to hold blessed hosts for Holy Communion.
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Newport
Corpus Christi Church
House Debates Navy Expansion Bill in Congress
The House opens debate on a second naval expansion bill, adding 167000 tons of fighting strength at an estimated cost of 654 million dollars. No appropriations are included. future separate bills will fund construction, keeping private shipyards and navy yards busy for two years.
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Washington
House
Congress
Great Britain
Gas rate compromise rejected by Columbus officials
Columbus today rejected a compromise from Ohio Fuel Gas Co to end rate litigation. The offer proposed an average 63.76 cents rate and a $959,000 refund of $2,000,000 collected under bond, while residents paid 56.22 cents per 1000 cubic feet under PUC fixed terms. City council called the proposal unreasonable.
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Columbus
Ohio Fuel Gas Company
Public Utilities Commission
Grocer's Alibi Fails To Gain Court's Mercy
In Columbus Mel De Pietro argued that his customers were too poor to pay sales tax so he did not issue stamps. Judge Joseph M. Clifford dismissed the charge of failing to cancel stamps but fined him $25 and costs for not having stamps in the store.
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Columbus
Mel de Pietro
Joseph M. Clifford
Man Kills Sweetheart Then Attends Meeting
Louis Grondine a 46 year old WPA nurse at Harlem Hospital killed his blond young sweetheart about 20 hours earlier. He said he did not surrender because he had to attend a fraternal order meeting in Poughkeepsie.
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New York
Louis Grondine
Harlem Hospital
Pough_keepsie
Jackson Day dinners clear Democratic loans total $126,500
The 1940 Jackson Day dinners enabled the Democratic National Committee to pay off all loans totaling 126,500 dollars, a report filed with the clerk of the House showed today.
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Washington
U.P
Democratic National Committee
House
Berlin Confident Moscow Talks May End Finland War
Berlin optimistic Moscow talks could yield an armistice in the Arctic conflict. Finland delays final decision as Allied hopes rise of expedition aid and peace terms, with Soviet forces reportedly encircling Viipuri. Premier Daladier announces 50,000 French troops ready to move to Finland if requested.
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Moscow
United Press
Finland
Soviet
Russia
Europe
Reich
Red Army
Viipuri
Bay of
Helsinki
Fin
Germany
Scandinavia
Edouard Daladier
French
Chamber of Deputies
Lon
Daladier
English Channel
Atlantic Ocean
Britain
France
Debate Extends on Hatch Clean Politics Act Fight
Senate opponents of extending the Hatch clean politics act threaten to debate for weeks. **Sherman D. Minton** Democratic leader assails the bill while Sen. Carl A. Hatch defends the original law. The Senate refused to lay aside the agriculture appropriation bill 36 to 47.
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Washington
U.R
Senate
Sherman D. Minton
Ind
Carl A. Hatch
N. M
Agriculture Department
Minton
Edwin C. Johnson
Cole
Hatch
Inmates at Oregon State Hospital Strangled in Bed
Three male patients at the Oregon State Hospital were found strangled in their beds in Salem. Victims were Jack Leavy 21 Levi Haggren 34 and Sol Green 23 among seven inmates in the ward. Another patient is suspected in the killings.
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Salem
Ore
State Hospital For the Insane
Jack Leavy
Levi Haggren
Sol Green
Ask FBI Aid in Hunt For Missing Bank Clerk
Columbus bank president requests FBI help to locate Durward F. Barnes a teller at City National Bank & Trust Company missing since last Thursday. Barnes accounts show a shortfall of 4061 dollars authorities are asked to investigate potential foul play or misconduct.
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FBI
Columbus
U.2
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Durward F. Barnes
City National Bank & Trust Company
John H. McCoy
Barnes
Canadian Boxer Ernie Haas Faces Long Prison Term
Ernest Kehler known as Ernie Haas, 24, a Canadian boxer, faced a possible 20 year prison term in New York for killing Dr Walter Engelberg 42, an attache of the German consulate.
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New York
U.P
Ernest Kehler
Ernie Haas
Walter Engelberg
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