Roosevelt Victory Seen in First House Vote on Neutrality
London reports rationing plans for Great Britain with bacon and butter limited to four ounces per week per person from mid December. In Washington, administration leaders forecast a safe margin for repeal of the arms embargo as the House sent neutrality legislation to conference. Proposals and votes stir debate over embargo scope and funding limits.
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Roosevelt
London
Great Britain
William S. Morrison
House of Commons
Germany
Washington
House
Senate
Sam Rayburn
Tex
Adolph J. Sabbath
House Rules Committee
James A. Shanley
Conn
Will Consider Defense Fund
Washington the House Appropriations Committee plans a November 27 session to review President Roosevelt’s 275 million dollar deficiency defense request. The funds would add 103000 soldiers, 150 FBI agents, and rearm World War destroyers for neutrality patrol. The president urged Congress to study the measure during recess with no further special session proposals.
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Washington
U.P
House Appropriations Committee
Roosevelt
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Congress
Capitol Hill
Police Use Gas on Halloween Revelers in Glendale Riot
Police and firemen used tear gas early in the day to disperse about 2,000 Halloween celebrants who damaged a downtown block. Roughly 75 elementary school aged youths were seized and held in the city jail as cells filled.
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Glendale
Calif
U.P
Funeral rites for Mrs Bessie Householder at Richland church
Mrs Bessie Householder died Tuesday morning at her Richland Avenue home. Funeral services are scheduled for 2 p.m. Thursday at Richland Avenue Methodist Church, with burial in W Union Street Cemetery. Friends may call at the residence any time.
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Bessie Householder
Richland Ave
Richland Ave. Methodist Church
W. Union St
Mansfield Milk Price Increase Announced
Mansfield U.R. Milk distributors announce a one cent rise per quart effective today. The move affects local shops and consumers amid ongoing cost pressures.
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Mansfield
U.R
Davey condemns Bigelow pension plan in Ohio
Former Ohio governor Martin L. Davey joined state leaders in denouncing the Bigelow old age pension proposal ahead of next Tuesday’s voter decision. He warned the plan would raise taxes, drive away industries and the wealthy, and impoverish those not receiving the $50 monthly benefit.
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Columbus
Martin L. Davey
Ohio
Davey
John W. Bricker
George White
James M. Cox
Myers Cooper
U. S
Robert A. Taft
Vic Donahey
Arthur L. Limbach
Ed OD. Schorr
Herbert S. Bigelow
Plasterer and Sweethearts Wed Before Death in Chattanooga
After two and a half years of striving to earn enough to marry, Lloyd Vernon Clark a skilled plasterer, attempted suicide by poison in a Chattanooga hospital. He survived long enough to wed his beloved Margaret Ellington age 20 amid efforts to seal their life together.
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Lloyd Vernon Clark
Chattanooga, Tenn
Margaret Ellington
Taft says the United States will stay neutral
U S Senator Robert A Taft told reporters in Columbus that there is no longer any reason to fear entering a war He stressed domestic happiness outweighs foreign concerns and urged focus on halting the downward slide into bankruptcy He noted conservatives differ with Roosevelt on domestic policy but agree on neutrality legislation's value.
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Columbus
U.S
U. S
Robert A. Taft
Roosevelt
League Posts Rewards For Capture of Spies
The National Protective League posted rewards here today for the capture of industrial spies and saboteurs. Rewards go from $25 upward for arrests of suspected foreign agents, with the league aiming to function like the World War era American Protective League.
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Toledo
U.P
National Protective League
League
Hatfield Feud Survivor Tolbert Hatfield Laid To Rest
RANSOM Ky Burial of 89 year old Tolbert Hatfield recalled the Hatfield McCoy feud along the Kentucky West Virginia border. He was a first cousin of Anders Devil Anse Hatfield who took a firing line role in the feud which began over testimony in a murder trial.
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Ransom
U.P
Tolbert Hatfield
Kentucky-West Virginia
Anders
Anse” Hatfield
1940 State Fair dates set for Columbus
The 1940 State Fair in Columbus will run from August 24 through August 30, announced Fair Manager Win H. Kinman today.
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Columbus
U.P
Win H. Kin‘nan
Group Hospitalization Law Wins Court Fight
Columbus reports that Common Pleas Judge John R. King sustained the demurrer of state officials to a suit by the Mutual Hospital Association of Ohio. The association claimed the group hospitalization insurance law was unconstitutional by allowing payroll deductions for state employees who buy the plan.
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Columbus
L.P
Common Pleas
John R. King
Mutual Hospital Association of Ohio
Cleveland
Group Insurance
Protection Against War Demands Urged
Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold told the federal monopoly committee that the national economy must be protected from distortion by extraordinary demands of the European war. He urged the steel industry to meet its wartime responsibilities with patriotic spirit to help avert a war-time economy.
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Washington
U.P
Thurman Arnold
Federal Monopoly Committee
Justice Department
Cadiz Woman Delivers Twins Reaching 25 Children
Mrs Clyde Dunlap 45 wife of a miner in Cadiz gave birth yesterday to twins. The births mark her 24th and 25th children in a long line of offspring.
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Cadiz
U.P
Clyde Dunlap
Defeat Won't Stop Bigelow
Cincinnati Democrat Herbert S. Bigelow, sponsor of a $50 a month pension plan, vows to push a new proposal if his current plan is defeated next Tuesday. He accused the Chamber of Commerce, newspapers, and what he called the 5.4 percent of rich people of opposing his plan during a Cincinnati campaign stop.
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Cincinnati
U.P
Herbert S. Bigelow
Ohio
Bigelow
Chamber of Commerce
UMWA levies two $1 assessments for 1940 labor actions
The United Mine Workers of America executive board voted two $1 special assessments expected to raise about $800,000. Bituminous workers face December and January dues, anthracite workers in January and February. The union cites depleted reserves due to bituminous lockouts and frames 1940 as pivotal for labor and social legislation.
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Washington
United Mine Workers of America
CIO
UMWA
Thomas Kennedy
Kennedy
UMW
John L. Lewis
Philip Murray
Senate Plans Hearings on Jenkins' Bill
The Senate recommitted a House approved bill to pay Ohio 1 338 000 dollars in old age pension funds for October 1938. Sen. Hatch requested hearings. Sen. Burke supported recommittal for review noting the funds are badly needed by Ohio seniors and urging questions be answered.
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Washington
U.P
Senate
Judiciary Committee
State of Ohio
Carl A. Hatch
N. M
Edward R. Burke
Ohio
Snow Cruiser To Get Spare Tires in Akron
The Byrd snow cruiser resumes its Chicago to Boston run after a 3.5 day delay at Gomer Ohio. It aims for Mansfield by nightfall and Akron by Wednesday night to take two spare tires for its 10 foot wheels before continuing to Erie Pennsylvania.
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Akron
Lima
U.P
Gomer
Chicago
Boston
Mansfield
Erie
Three Princeton Residents Die In Crash Near Princeton
Three Princeton residents were killed when their car collided head on with a truck trailer near Princeton Indiana last night. The accident occurred on a rural road outside the town. Police said the victims were pronounced dead at the scene.
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Princeton
Ind
U.R
Here
Bigelow Plan Would Up Taxes $24 on Thousand
Columbus Ohio Citizens Tax League reports that the Bigelow pension amendment would raise taxes by 24 mills on each 1000 dollars of property plus a 2 percent land tax. They estimate 199 million dollars extra needed beyond Bigelow plans, plus 40.5 million for administration, swelling the total tax load to 345 million. They project a 24 mill average state levy to cover a 199 million deficit and 36 million for pension distribution in 1940.
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Bigelow
Columbus
U.P
Citizens Tax League of Ohio
Ohio
State Department
S. P. Bush
League
Bigelow Pensions Administration
City of Flint Captured US Freighter Near Norwegian Coast
Reported by U P that the American freighter City of Flint, under a German prize crew, moved slowly southward near Bodoe and Lofoten with the crew safe and the ship in good condition. Authorities noted the vessel stayed close to the three mile limit amid many islands and shoals.
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Copenhagen
Denmark
U.P
Bodoe
Baltic
Lofoten Islands
City of
Flint
Chrysler Closes Plant Leaving 3500 Idle in New Castle
The Chrysler Corporation shut its New Castle plant today, idling about 3,500 workers amid a 27 day dispute with the United Automobile Workers CIO. Officials said the shutdown would last indefinitely. The plant produced parts for Detroit factories.
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New Castle
Ind
U.P
Chrysler Corporation
United Automobile Workers (Cio
Detroit
Electric lineman electrocuted on 69 000 volt line
Frank Neuen schwander age 36 a lineman for the Toledo Edison Company was electrocuted by a 69 000 volt power line at Fayette yesterday.
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Wauseon
U.P
Frank Neuenschwander
Toledo Edison Company
Fayette
Nazi U-boat Sinks British Ship Bronte
A U-boat sank the 5,317 ton British steamship Bronte. A survivor arrived in England with the report confirming the sinking.
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London
England
Soviet Molotov speech tied to House vote on arms embargo
Presidential Secretary Early charged that Molotov timed a Russian policy speech to influence the House vote on the administration bill to repeal the arms embargo. The Coulamore was attacked by a submarine east of Boston and rescued crews searched for the freighter as British reports blamed German commerce raiders.
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John M. Vorys, R
Shanley
London
North
South
Atlantic
Viacheslav Molotov
Great Britain
France
United States
Finland
Moscow
Rhineland
North Sea
Saar-Blies
Molotov Speech Sparks Mixed European Reactions
Molotov denounces Britain and France as imperialists while Berlin sees possible Soviet aid for the Reich. Allies doubt immediate Red Army help but warn Finland and Turkey about shifting alliances as fighting resumes on the Rhineland front.
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London
Finland
Russia
Europe
Viacheslav Molotov
Benito Mussolini
Molotov
Great Britain
France
Reich
Adolf Hitler
Red Army
Turkey
Britain
Pennsylvania Crude Oil Prices Rise Again
Pennsylvania crude oil prices advanced for the second time in three weeks with Allegheny and Bradford crude up to $2.40 a barrel, Southwest Pennsylvania Pipe Line to $2.05, Eureka at $1.99, and Buckeye line Pennsylvania grade crude at $1.95.
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Pittsburgh
U.P
Pennsyvania
Pennsylvania
Joseph Seep
South Penn Oil Co
Allegheny
Bradford
Southwest Pennsylvania
Eureka
Quaker State Refining Co
Buckeye
Oklahoma Man Reads Hope In New Cancer Cure Test
A 50 year old Oklahoma man travels to Pryor to be the second subject in Dr. Van Dolph Herrington's cold therapy cancer trial. He follows Mrs. Homer Stout who died while awaiting results as her husband and four children cope with the loss and funeral plans.
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Pryor
Okla
U.P
Oklahoma
van Dolph Herrington
Homer Stout
Locust Grove Farm
Stout
Dr. Herrington
Husband and Wife Die After Pact to Self Destruct
New York report notes Samuel Wilson and his wife leaped from a 27th floor window of the Hotel New Yorker. Their bodies landed on a fifth floor extension. officials say they entered a death by own action pact due to illness and poverty.
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New York
U.R
Samuel Wilson
New Yorker
Authorities Plan State of Siege in Netherlands
The Hague reports U.S. Army authorities intend to announce soon a state of siege in frontier areas and flooded zones to deter any German attack on France via Holland and Belgium, according to sources.
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Netherlands
Hague
France
Holland
Belgium
New York World's Fair Ends Season With Hefty Loss
The 1939 World of Tomorrow World Fair closed at 2 a.m. after a six month run. It drew 23,811,733 paid attendees and posted a net deficit of 23,440,909 dollars. It plans to reopen on May 25 for another season.
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New York
U.P
Bank Robbers Wound Officers and Escape in Missouri
Two men held up the Rosier Bank in St Genevieve Missouri and fled in City Marshal Henry Drury’s car after wounding him and Sheriff Louis Ziegler in a gun battle outside the city.
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ST. Genevieve
Henry Drury
Louis Ziegler
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John M. Vorys
Jennings Randolph
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