Food Stamp Plan Extends to More Ohio Counties
SMA surveys move to eight northeast Ohio counties to expand orange and blue stamp use, boosting low income purchasing power by about 1.65 million dollars annually. Plans aim to extend to Franklin and beyond Cleveland area. blue stamps may lift Trumbull and Stark counties by 300 000 and 200 000 dollars respectively.
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Cleveland
Surplus Marketing Administration
Ohio
SMA
L. B. von Spach
Cuyahoga County
Cincinnati
Darke
Preble
Butler
Montgomery
Warren
Clinton
Clermont
Toledo
Williams
Defiance
Fulton
Henry
Wood
Ottawa
Sandusky
Franklin County
Hamilton County
Marietta
Washington County
Dayton
Akron
Barberton
Cuyahoga Falls
von Spach
Trumbull County
Stark
Young Mother and Child Missing in Colorado Wilderness
In Montrose Colorado a young mother Laura Boyd age 22 and her six year old daughter disappeared after leaving their ranch for Montrose. Scattered signals of a search through snow filled the Horsefly Basin marked by a handbag stockings and leggings as rangemen searched the Uncompahgre Plateau Basin for clues amid melting snow.
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Montrose
Colo
Laura Boyd
Burl Herman
Boyds
Herman
Otis Boyd
Telluride
Army Finds Definite Evidence of Sabotage at Fort Meade
Construction quartermaster officers at Fort George G. Meade Md report definite photographic evidence of prolonged and skillful sabotage. They cite acts such as sawing uprights to weaken barracks and driving spikes into power cables and telephone lines. The officials say the acts seem designed rather than driven by a personal grudge.
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Fort George G. Meade
U. S. Army
Fear of Draft Drives Man to Take His Life
Coroner W. W. Lynch believes fear of military service led 28 year old John Colne Jr to commit suicide yesterday in Ironton. Police found no other signs of foul play and a note was reportedly left.
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Ironton
W. WW. Lynch
John Colne Jr
Yester
War worry fatal: Kenton man ends life over defense boom collapse
L. C. Povemire, 66, killed himself due to anxiety over the future of the United States after the defense boom collapse, Coroner J. A. Mooney stated. The death is ruled a suicide.
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Kenton
L. C. Povemire
J. A. Mooney
United States
Hood College Dean to Lead Erie College as President
Dr. Helen D. Bragdon dean of Hood College Frederick Md will succeed Dr. Vivian B. Small as president of Erie College next September.
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Painesville
Helen D. Bragdon
Hood College
Frederick, Md
Vivian B. Small
q@are Erie College
Rough Sea Delays FDRs Fishing Trip
President Roosevelt boarded the White House yacht Potomac with escort destroyer Benson at Port Everglades Florida but rough seas and a strong off shore wind kept the vessel tied to the dock awaiting better weather for a week long fishing cruise.
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Potomac
President Roosevelt
Roosevelt
White House
Benson
Takes Fire Truck Home, Gets Prison Sentence
Frank Paul Boron, 23, was sentenced to two years in jail after taking Moscow Pennsylvania’s only fire truck to drive to his Farmdale Pennsylvania home. He admitted finding the borough hall unlocked and taking the vehicle with keys in the ignition while near sleep on the truck.
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Warren
Moscow
Farmdale
Frank Paul Boron
Boron
Will Leach
New York
Borough Hall
U S Studies Nazi Panzer Divisions Tactics
Washington reports new data on how Germany used Panzer divisions in France as the Army General Staff studies lessons for possible growth of the armored force, revealed to Congress during discussions of expanding the army.
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Washington
Germany
France
Army General Staff
Congress
Defense Leaders Prepared To Spend Gigantic Sum This Year
Defense leaders plan $4.07 billion more for Army and Navy to boost capacity for a 4 million man combat force. Army funds cover 3600 bombers at four plants, 1425 other bombers and transports, ordnance, and Atlantic base development. Navy allocation funds anti aircraft guns and merchant vessel arming for war zones.
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Washington
Army
Navy
House
Appropriations Committee
LIS Pmuwopl
Air Corps
Atlantic
Link Chosen Board Clerk
In Athens County Draft Board No 1 the eighth call for 14 men from Athens left at 8 00 this morning. Edward Lee Yeager 21 The Plains unemployed single went in place of Harry Allen Hope Athens Route 1 whose physical exam was incomplete. Board Chairman G D Gorham announced Henry Wheatley Link 134 N Congress St had been appointed chief clerk succeeding Dorothy Parmiter who resigned.
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Athens
Athens County
Edward Lee Yeager
the Plains
Harry Allen Hope
G. D. Gorham
Henry Wheatley Link
N. Congress St
Dorothy Parmiter
Registration of School Busses Questioned in Suit
Mrs. Dorothy Walls of Youngstown sues in the Ohio Supreme Court to compel Cylan W. Wallace state registrar to license all school buses. The mandamus action argues the exemption from annual motor vehicle license fees is unconstitutional as discriminatory.
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Columbus
Cylan W. Wallace
State Registrar of Motor Vehicles
State Supreme Court
Dorothy Walls
Youngstown
Mandamus
Senate considers marketing quotas for corn and wheat
A Senate bill by Chairman Smith would let corn and wheat farmers choose a two year or one year quota or no quota for marketing control. The bill raises penalties to 30 cents per bushel for corn and 50 cents for wheat for excess marketing while a referendum will be held among growers this year due to large stocks and government loans.
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Washington
Senate
Smith
D-S.c
Senate Agriculture Committee
Agriculture Department
Congress
Dutch Nazi Decree Grants Seyss-Inquart Emergency Powers
A Berlin dispatched Netherlands item reports German High Commissioner Arthur Seyss-Inquart authorized to establish machinery for summary justice and to suspend Dutch officials as needed for public security. The emergency administration could cover all Holland or parts, and its use was stated to be in response to potential riots strikes and conspiracies against German authority.
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Amsterdam
Netherlands
Berlin
Arthur Seysz-Inquart
Holland
Pastor Faces Sanity Test in Whipping Case
Rev. William E. Rooney 47 faces trial in Ashland County for whipping Virginia Barrett 16, a ward living in the parish house. Indicted by the Ashland County Grand Jury after Judge Culbertson overruled a probate court order that had found him mentally ill and committed to Massillon State Hospital.
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Common Pleas
William E. Rooney
Virginia Barrett
St. Edward’s Catholic Church
Ashland County
Grand Jury
H. E. Culbertson
Massillon State Hospital
Treasury Starts Campaigns for Sale of Defense Securities
The Treasury launches a drive enlisting 500000 volunteers to sell defense savings securities to the public. Promotions target employers, schools, unions, banks, and general investors with stamps and bonds in multiple denominations from 10 cents to 10000 dollars. Series F and G bonds cannot be cashed before six months with 30 days notice.
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Treasury
Washington
The
Defense Savings
F. Johnston
St. Louis
Morgenthau
Whitmore and Maccecombs Fail To Get Parole
Former Athens County commissioners Whitmore and Walter Maccombs must serve at least five more months in prison on one to 10 year sentences for soliciting bribes in county purchases. The Ohio Parole Commission continued their cases to August after a first parole hearing since April 5.
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Columbus
4Ra Whitmore
Walter Maccombs
Athens County
Ohio and Parole Commission
London Prison Farm
Athens
Chris Handley
Congress Gets Orders on Bill
Roosevelt sent Congress the text of an agreement with Canada to develop the St Lawrence waterway power project. The plan estimates costs over 500 million dollars and aims to create 2 206 000 horsepower for both nations. The previous treaty failed to win two thirds in 1934. this time only a majority vote is required in the American Congress.
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Roosevelt
Congress
United States
Canada
St. Lawrence Waterway
Great Lakes
Atlantic
United States Senate
Steel contract awarded by Navy Department
A $315 786 contract for steel pipe and special couplings was awarded yesterday by the Navy Department to the American Rolling Mill Company, Middletown Ohio.
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Washington
Navy Department
American Rolling Mill Company
Middletown
Bobcats Meet CCNY in NIT Semi Final at Madison Square Garden
Ohio University Bobcats, riding a wave of popularity after defeating Duquesne, face Nat Holman’s Beavers from CCNY in the national invitation tournament semi final at Madison Square Garden Saturday night. Ohio and CCNY are closely matched in size with Pete Lalich a potential edge for the Bobcats.
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CCNY
Pete Lalich
City College
Nat Holman
Ohio
Beavers
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Niagara
Santa Clara
Ohio State Ohio University Semi Final NIT Clash
The Messenger will delay Saturday night edition to report G E Mitchell sports editor on Ohio University versus City College of New York in the National Invitation Basketball Tournament semi finals at Madison Square Garden. The game starts 9 30 p m and should finish about 11 p m. Sunday edition will carry the Ohio OCNY result Long Island Seton Hall game and Monday title and consolation lineups.
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G. E. Mitchell
NEW York
Duquesne
Ohio University
Bobcats
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Madison Square Garden
Nat Holman
Beavers
Seton Hall
Orange
N. J
Long Island
City College
Virginia
Ohio
CCNY
the Messenger
Messenger
Injuries Fatal To Paul Wright
Nelsonville youth Paul Wright aged 20 died in Barberton hospital from injuries suffered in a March 5 automobile crash. Five others were hurt and one killed. Wright, a Nelsonville High School graduate of 1937, leaves parents, two sisters, and a brother. Funeral services set for Monday at Stout Funeral Home with burial at Green Lawn.
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Nelsonville
Paul Wright
Barberton
Earnest Wright
Wadsworth
Young Wright
Clarice
Hene
Don
Nelsonville High School
Stout Funeral
Greenlawn
Woman Exhanges Babies After Hospital Mix Up
Mrs. James Kirtpatrick in Manlius recounts being handed an infant at the hospital after giving birth to a daughter. A hospital attendant asked for an exchange, saying she had received the wrong baby.
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Manlius
James Kirtpatrick
Progress in Coal Scale Parley Reopens Talks in New York
A joint sub committee of miners and operators resumes talks on a new coal contract to replace the expiring agreement set for March 31. Both sides report some progress in the New York discussions.
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New York
Airplane Shipments To England Increased
A report in Aeroplane notes 1,875 American-made airplanes were shipped to England in 1940, up from 300 in 1939, underscoring growing wartime airlift capacity.
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England
London
Aeroplane
Gay
Yugoslav Split Over Axis Pact Sets Stage for Greece Invasion
Yugoslavia’s crown council decides to join the Rome Berlin Tokyo alliance prompting Hitler to plan an invasion of Greece while a cabinet crisis erupts as three ministers resign. Belgrade reports warn of internal strife as anti Axis sentiment grows.
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Crown Council
Tokyo
Adolf Hitler
Greece
Belgrade
Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
Germany
Britain
George V
Queen Elizabeth
Plymouth
Berlin
Vienna
Ten Draftees Appeal to President for Release
Only ten selective service eligibles out of about 2 600 000 drafted to date have appealed to President Roosevelt from local draft board rulings. The announcement came from Washington today.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Ohio youths gather for farming association meeting
Columbus hosts a two day gathering of the Ohio Young Farmer Association and Future Farmers of America to discuss Be a Better Farming Community efforts.
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Columbus
Ohio
Ohio Young Farmer Association
Future Farmers of America
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