Memel Seizure Expands Nazi Reach Across Europe
Nazi Germany seized Memel expanding into the Baltic region after Lithua nia handed over the city. The advance follows Austria and Czechoslovakia as Britain and other powers weigh a possible defensive alliance to halt Hitler's momentum. Memel hosts 130000 Germans and signals further pressure on Poland and the Baltic coast.
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Europe
Atlantic
Black Sea
Adolf Hitler
Memel
Reich
Lithuania
Baltic
Czechoslovakia
Berlin
Hitler
East Prussia
Vienna
Prague
Austria
Great Britain
Soviet Russia
Poland
Solons Suggest New Revenue Options for Urban Areas
Lawmakers discuss authority to raise funds in 12 counties via an amusement tax up to 10 percent and billboard taxes, plus a one cent sales tax and occupational levy. Other proposals include reallocating motor vehicle tax shares, adjusting real estate levy thresholds, and tax reforms urged by the Ohio Farm Bureau.
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J. M. Hodson
Ohio Farm Bureau
Hodson
Farm Bureau
Senate
Parole Board
Pardon and Parole Commission
Conservation Committee
Conservation Division
Conservation and Natural Resources Commission
Roosevelt weighs withdrawing ICC nominee Amlie
Rumors say President Roosevelt may drop Thomas R. Amlie from the interstate commerce commission post if he objects. White House denial followed but senators and business leaders urged withdrawal after Amlie’s 1920s Progressive record provoked senate protests.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Thomas R. Amlie
Amlie
White House
Wisconsin
Senate
Toledo Hospital Receives $589,082 Bequest
The will of Florence Fiske Collins widow of a Toledo industrialist provides a $589,082 bequest to Toledo Hospital. The donation supports hospital funding and patient care improvements as directed by the deceased.
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Toledo
U.P
Florence Fiske Collins
Toledo Hospital
Papa Tubbs Meets Wash Tubbs Fiancee on Comic Page
Wash Tubbs discovers his long lost father meeting his fiancée Carol McKee. The moment adds humor and pathos as Wash, ever the orphan, contends with family and romance in the comic strip.
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Papa” Tubbs
Carol McKee
Wash Tubbs
Wash
Senate votes to probe Ohio milk marketing practices
The Senate approved a resolution to investigate milk marketing practices in Ohio amid alleged Cincinnati area abuses. A six-member committee of three senators and three representatives is formed and $1,000 is appropriated for expenses to study practices and propose corrective legislation.
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Columbus
Senate
Ohio
Cincinnati
Youth Gets Life for Slaying of Marshal
Eighteen year-old Hiram York was sentenced to life imprisonment for the slay ing of Marshal William Simpson of New Miami during a robbery on January 13. Arthur Meyers, 18, pleaded innocent before Judge P P Boll. John Frazee, 19, the reputed trigger man, pleaded guilty to first degree and faces trial for the sentence.
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Hamilton
U.P
Hiram York
William Simpson
New Miami
Arthur Meyers
P. P. Boll
John Frazee
Wife Beater Flogged At Jail Whipping Post
Louis Woolshlager, convicted wife beater, was lashed five times at Baltimore city jail, tied to a six foot whipping post. Judge Emory H. Niles sentenced him to the flogging and 30 days in jail after he struck his wife in the eye.
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Baltimore
Louis Woolshlager
Emory H. Niles
Hlager
Eleanor Holm to Wed Rose Eleanor Holm to Wed Rose
Broadway showman Billy Rose and Olympic swimming champion Eleanor Holm announced plans to marry on September 19, with a New York judge or Mayor LaGuardia performing the ceremony. They will move to a country house and raise chickens while he builds a swimming pool for her. Holm had previously been dismissed from the Olympic team after a controversy over training with champagne.
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New York
Billy Rose
Eleanor Holm
Comedienne
Fanny Brice
Rose
F. H. LaGuardia
Miss Holm
Art Jarrett
American Olympic Committee
Brokers Must Repay Losses of Embezzler
Fenner & Beane must reimburse 22628.74 lost by William A. Butler, a Cleveland bank teller who embezzled to trade stocks. Butler, serving six years in Chillicothe for a 70000 theft from Central National Bank, caused the bond firm to sue for the bank's losses. Public Auction of dwellings and farms set for Monday March 27 1939 at Court House.
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Cleveland
U.2
Fenner & Beane
Cleveland Bank
William A. Butler
Chillicothe
Central National Bank
Court House
$28,000,000 Slashed From Defense Program by House
The House Appropriations Committee trimmed nearly 28 million dollars from the president's defense recommendations while approving 36 million for continuing work on 53 war vessels and allocating funds for the War Department. The panel rejected 7 million for the Civil Aeronautics Authority pilot-training program, while favoring Army control of military pilot reserves. The debate highlighted tensions between Roosevelt's relief aims and congressional push for broader cuts and tax revision.
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Washington
White House
House Appropriations Committee
United States
House
War Department
Civil Aeronautics Authority
Roosevelt
Congress
James Knox Killed in Mine Slate Fall at Chauncey No.25
James W. Knox age 58 of 105 1 2 W Union St was killed instantly when a slate fall trapped him at the No 25 Mine in Chauncey during the night shift. A longtime miner and former Athens police deputy, Knox left a widow Elizabeth Shuler Knox and several children. Funeral at Clarks Chapel Friday at 2 pm with viewing at Dowler and Ferguson Funeral Home.
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Chauncey
James W
Wink) Knox
Union St
Knox
Athens City
William Williams
Jennie Brown Knox
Chester
Woodrow Knox
Athens
Ila Bertina
Elizabeth Shuler
William
Angeline Knox
Dayton
John
California
Thurman
Athens Rfc
Bessie Hartley
Clarks Chapel
Dowler and Ferguson Funeral Home
Killer of Two Hangs Himself in Jail Cell
George W. Beebe, 69, Indianapolis, was jailed for the Greenville Michigan farm couple killings. He died by hanging in his jail cell, after being arrested minutes after Ralph Huntley, 59, and Frances Huntley, 57, were fatally shot on their farm.
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Killer of Two
Stanton
Mich
U.P
George W. Beebe
Indianapolis
Ind
Greenville
Chris Hansen
Beebe
Ralph Huntley
Frances
Negro Numbers Writer Is Arrested Each Week
In Columbus, Robert Green a 34 year old man described as a Negro numbers writer was arrested for the 20th time in five months. He was fined 25 dollars plus costs, paid the amount, and anticipated another arrest the following Monday. The pattern began on November 1 with only one exception, yielding total fines of 500 dollars and costs of 100 dollars.
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Columbus
U.P
Robert Green
Green
Fort Hayes Corporal Dies in Auto Crash
Corp. Raymond Saunders age 28 of Fort Hayes Barracks was killed when an automobile driven by Sergt. Samuel Buck, age 34, struck a concrete post at a sharp curve in Columbus.
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Columbus
U.P) —Corp
Raymond Saunders
Fort Hayes Barracks
Sergt
Samuel Buck
Ohio farmers to cut corn and oat production in 1939
Columbus report from the Federal State Crop Reporting Service shows farmers plan smaller corn and oats crops for 1939.
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Columbus
O.R
Ohio
Amendment Passes in Senate for Presidential Reorganization
Senate votes 52 to 51 to require congressional approval of all presidential reorganization orders. Wheeler amendment, backed by 21 Republicans 23 Democrats and 2 Farmer-Laborites, fails by party lines with 41 Democrats and others opposing. Taft and Donahey support amendment.
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Washington
Senate
Burton K. Wheeler
Mont
House
Robert Taft
Len Vic Donahey
Minimums Set By Committees
Chairman Donald M. Nelson of the textile industry committee estimated a 32 12 cents per hour national minimum wage would raise pay for more than 120 000 workers. The committee voted 13 to 6 to send the recommendation to Wage Hour Administrator Elmer F Andrews for approval. The woolen industry proposal of 36 cents an hour for about 150 000 workers will be reconsidered with the textile plan.
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Washington
U.P
Donald M. Nelson
Textile Industry Committee
Nelson
Elmer F. Andrews
Andrews
Argentine government buys ambulance planes
The Argentine government ordered three standard cabin planes to serve as ambulance planes in the army medical corps. Waco Aircraft Corp. of Troy announced the first ever order from Argentina, with delivery promised in 60 days.
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TROY
A.P
Army Medical Corps
Waco Aircraft Corp
Trainman Dies of Heart Attack After Shifting Train
J. F. Trimmer aged 53 of Bucyrus a New York Central Railroad brakeman died of a heart attack in Bremen after climbing down from his train en route to Corning.
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Bremen
J. F. Trimmer
Bucyrus
New York Central Railroad
Corning
May Ask Dies Committee Aid In Red Hunt
In Columbus the Senate Rules Committee recommended asking the Dies Congressional Committee to probe alleged un-American activities in Ohio instead of a state led inquiry. The panel met with the Ohio Council of Civic Patriotic and Fraternal Organizations which sought a Little Dies Committee. Col William Mumm said the push targets subversive elements in schools, not OSU or other universities.
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Columbus
U.P
Senate
Dies Congressional Committee
Ohio
Rules
Ohio Council of
Civic, Patriotic
Little Dies
William Mumm
Ohio State University
Six men questioned in fatal moonshiner fight near Scioto County
In Scioto County a fight near a moon shiner's still left 23 year old Charles Welch of Nauvoo dead after a rock shattered his neck. Welch and three companions were accused of stealing mash from barrels near the still. Two companions, James Evans and Alva Riley, were held as material witnesses.
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Portsmouth
U.P
Earl Brander
Charles Welch
Nauvoo
Welch
McEltree Creek
Scioto County
Brandel
James Evans
Alva Riley
Joan Crawford Divorce Set As Routine Procedure
Hollywood reports Joan Crawford and Franchot Tone approach a routine dissolution as her sworn testimony about Tone pouting due to fatigue will be read in court next Tuesday while she travels to South America. Tone remains in New York City.
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Hollywood
U.P
Joan Crawford
Franchot Tone
South America
Tone
New York City
Lewis Threatens Real Fight If Peace Fails
John L. Lewis, head of the Congress of Industrial Organizations and president of the United Mine Workers Union, warned that CI0 and UMW may pursue an organizational fight against what he called the hide bound aristocrats of the AFL if peace talks fail. He spoke at a tri district anthracite convention insisting CI0 would not swallow poison or die to please craft union advocates.
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New York
John L. Lewis
Congress of Industrial Organizations
United Mine Workrs Union
American Federation of Labor
U.M.W
Brazil Bans Cotton Exports for Nazi Aski Marks
Rio de Janeiro reports the government forbids cotton exports from northern Brazil in exchange for German Aski marks until further notice.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Brazil
Mussolini Ready To Make Demands for Concessions
The article outlines three potential flashpoints as Axis powers press for concessions. It cites Poland and the Polish Corridor amid fears of encirclement, Mussolini moving to press France in the Mediterranean, and a potential joint Axis push from Germany Italy and Japan. Paris signals a possible peaceful Italian settlement, while a broader Axis threat looms if Western powers resist.
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East Prussia
Reich
Warsaw
Britain
France
Russia
Europe
Mediterranean
Benito Mussolini
Italy
Fascist Grand Council
Mussolini
Adolf Hitler
Hitler
Czechoslovakia
Germany
Berlin
Paris
Japan
Tokyo
Former Federal Judge Denies Bribe Charges
Martin T. Manton former senior judge of the Second U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals pleaded not guilty to federal charges that he accepted bribes to influence court decisions. He appeared before U. S. District Court Judge John W. Clancy after being indicted twice on identical counts.
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NEW York
U.P
Martin T. Manton
U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Manton
U. S. District Court
John W. Clancy
UMW Contract Talks Stall Over Wages Clash
In New York eastern coal negotiators and United Mine Workers officials review all 17 clauses of the proposed contract amid mutual distrust. Philip Murray urges thorough consideration before a vote as wage talks bog down on Clause 2 with a 50 cent raise demanded by the union and a 50 cent cut insisted by operators.
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New York
United Mine Workers Union
Philip Murray
U.M.W
Auditor Blasts Bricker Over False Economy In Ohio Reform
State Auditor Joseph Ferguson accused Gov. John W. Bricker of false economy at an Eastern Ohio rally. He called the unemployment commission reorganization unconstitutional and noted no salaries have been paid or will be paid until the attorney general rules the law constitutional.
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East Liverpool
Joseph Ferguson
John W. Bricker
State Unemployment Commission
Ohio
Democratic Club
Unemployment Compensation Commission
Ferguson
Four Are Accused of Illegal Collection
Findings of master Gail H Butt show two attorneys and two trustees illegally collected and held 17103 as compensation and expenses during the Fraunfelter China Co reorganization in Zanesville. Federal Judge Mell G Underwood confirmed the order naming William D Holliday Florien Frazier Horace F Crew and John B Whittlock all of Zanesville.
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Columbus
Gail H. Butt
Fraunfelter China Co
Zanesville
Mell G. Underwood
William D. Holliday
Florien Frazier
Horace F. Crew
John B.whittlock
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