Japs Plan To Tighten Trade Grip in China
In a sweeping shift, Japan signals greater control over Chinese trade under new treaties with China and Manchukuo. Europe leans toward peace while Nazi fascist powers push to consolidate gains. Germany and Italy push for calm as Roosevelt’s mediation earns praise. Franco’s forces push toward the Ebro as unrest in the region continues. Vatican discussions hint at possible US relations. More than 100 Romanian Fascists jailed amid regional tensions.
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Europe
Far East
King George
Roosevelt
Benito Mussolini
China
East Asia
Manchukuo
Foreign Office
Tokyo
Germany
Italy
Munich
George
United States of America
Mussolini
Rome
Rome-Berlin
Vatican City
Cardinal Mundelein
Chicago
Pope Pius
Cardinal Pacelli
United States
Spain
Francisco Franco
Ebro
Shansi
Changsha
Hankow
Rumania
Carol
Paul
Yugoslavia
Foreign Ships Warned as Japanese Planes Operate in China
Shanghai report says Japanese authorities require notification of all foreign ships in China due to expected air operations. The British gunboat Chala, defying warnings, continued down the Pearl River in the south.
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Shanghai
U.P
China
Chala
Pearl River
Bricker’s Sister to Speak at Athens Republican Meeting
A large crowd is expected at the Courthouse in Athens tonight at 7 30 to hear Mrs Ella Mooney sister of John W Bricker Republican nominee for governor speak at a meeting sponsored by the Athens County Republican Women s Club John J Woolley an Athens attorney will also speak The meeting will be in the courtroom
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Athens
Ella Mooney
Sterling
John W. Bricker
Athens County
Republican Women's Club
John J Woolley
President Roosevelt to Speak Tonight on Democratic Ticket
President Roosevelt will address the nation by radio at 7 30 EST appealing for the Democratic ticket in New York and for other forward looking candidates elsewhere. The appeal seeks support for candidates across the nation.
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Hyde Park
Roosevelt
New York
Southerland Killed Swan Injured In Auto Crash Near Cincinnati
M L Southerland 35 of Port Arthur Texas was killed and Robert Lee Swan of Houston seriously injured when their car crashed into a telephone pole on Route 50 near Cincinnati last night.
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Cincinnati
M. L. Southerland
Port Arthur
Tex
Robert Lee Swanson
Houston
Route 50
Here
Nip on the job ends in arrest at Cleveland liquor store
Ray Riley and Regis Kennedy, both with prior records, were caught after entering Sophie Hoag's hard liquor emporium by climbing a transom. They stopped to drink inside, then lay drunk behind the bar when police arrived following a passerby report of a wavering flashlight.
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Cleveland
U.P
Ray Riley
Regis Kennedy
Sophie Hoag
Reil
Kennedy
Car Gets Kick From Mule Calf Friendship
Hillsboro paper reports farmer Burch Penn of Highland County said a mule formed a bond with a Shorthorn calf on his farm. When Penn tried to separate them the mule kicked him and then kicked his car, causing $140 in damage.
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Hillsboro
Burch Penn
Highland County
Penn
Hit-Skipper Kills Aged Man Pushing Bicycle
William Jennings aged 61 of Leipsic was found dead on a highway near Vollmar’s Park on the Maumee River after a hit and run. Coroner Halford Whitacre said Jennings was pushing his bicycle toward Perrysburg when struck, suffering a fractured skull, a broken neck, and crushed ribs.
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Bowling Green
William Jennings
Leipsic
Vollmar's Park
Maumee
Halford Whitacre
Jennings
Perrysburg
Two Die in Fire at St. Anthony Church Rectory
A blaze partially destroying the rectory of the Church of St. Anthony of Padua in New York killed two men, including a Franciscan brother, early today.
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NEW York
U.P
Railroad Heads To Decide Out Dispute Today
Chicago report says 139 Class 1 railroads faced a decision to withdraw or enforce a 15 cent wage cut for 960 000 employees. A national strike could occur if the action continues, but sources indicate carriers may cancel the cut to back a new management labor program endorsed by President Roosevelt.
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Chicago
U.P
Roosevelt
Ship Blasting To Be Probed
Investigators opened today on the explosion that crippled the Nazi steamer Vancouver and endangered 17 passengers and 60 crew members. The 8269 ton vessel was running from Oakland Alameda to San Francisco toward Bremen when it ran aground in shallow mud. Four men were slightly injured and refloating was expected so experts could identify the blast source.
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San Francisco
Vancouver
Oakland-Alameda
Bremen
San Francisco Bay
British Airliner Crash Kills Fourteen at Jersey Airport
A Jersey Airways plane crashed near St Helier Jersey in fog while landing. Fourteen people died including 11 passengers one infant the pilot and the wireless operator and a map worker.
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London
U.P
Jersey Airways
St. Helier
Jersey
Channel Islands
Campaign Committee Probes Republican Charges In Ohio
The Senate Campaign Expenditures Committee opened an inquiry into Republican claims that WPA workers in Ohio were pressured to back Democratic candidates Bulkley Sawyer and others. Governor Davey aides clashed with Sawyer forces as Bricker and Taft touted affidavits and political integrity amid a heated gubernatorial battle.
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Columbus
U.P
Senate Campaign Expenditures Committee
Ohio
WPA
Robert J. Bulkley
Charles Sawyer
Morris Sheppard
Texas
Ane
Washington
Robert A. Taft
John W. Bricker
Davey
Sawyer
A. B. Cook
Cook
Clarence Burk
New Philadelphia
Highway Division
Harry Sharp
John J. Jaster
James M. Cox
Dayton
Bricker
Cleveland
Springfield
Taft
Senator Bulkley
Loss Heavy In Midwest Forest Fires
Nearly 5 000 volunteers WPA workers and CCC enrollees battled fires across Illinois Indiana Kentucky West Virginia and Virginia. Fires burned 1 500 acres near Columbus Indiana and over 100 000 dollars of timber in Southern Illinois and Southeastern Kentucky threatening homes farms and coal mine tipples. Families evacuated as 700 men fought in Kentucky and about 2 000 on lines in West Virginia and Virginia with fires reaching near St Charles and St. Charles area farms damaged.
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Cincinnati
U.P
WPA
CCC
Illinois
Indiana
Kentucky
West Virginia
Virginia
Wayne
Hamilton
Cumberland Mountain
Forest Rangers
Harlan
Bell
Leslie
Whitley
Jackson
Letcher
Pike
Columbus
Ind
H. B. Leonard
St. Charles
Gifts To Keep Schools Open For 2 Months
Parma civic leaders and educators in Cleveland suburb agree to keep public schools operating from November 9 to January 1 by pass the hat fundraising. The Parma Business and Professional Men's Association will cover $3,500 for fuel power and supplies, while staff will work for free during the period.
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Cleveland
U.P
Parma
Parma Business and Professional Men's Association
George P. Aligan
Wrong Grave Opened, Mystery Still Unsolved
In Westminster Abbey at the Poet’s Corner workers opened the wrong grave while a Baconian search for the true author of Shakespeare’s plays continues. Experts of the Baconian Society conclude the tomb they dug into was not Edmund Spenser’s, leaving the case unresolved.
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London
U.P
Westminster Abbey
Edmund Spenser
Francis Bacon
William Shakespeare
Baconian Society
Man Dies En Route To Cleveland From CO Poisoning
Harry J. Barber aged 39 died at Harrisonville from carbon monoxide fumes in a truck exhaust while being taken to Cleveland. His death occurred today as the vehicle traveled.
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Fames Martins Ferry
U.P
Harry J. Barber
Cleveland
Harrisonville
CIO Aff il iates to Fight WPA Roll Reduction in District
In Nelsonville strong opposition from the CIO and affiliates was voiced to potential WPA roll cuts. The Athens County WPA workforce stands around 2 800 with 300 to 400 certified as eligible but not employed. A permanent CIO committee will form in Pittsburgh starting Nov 14 with resolutions drafted to protest WPA reductions and Theisen named delegate to the national convention.
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Athens County
Committee For Industrial Organization
Pittsburgh
Herman Theisen
Labor Council
WPA
Theisen
CIO
Athens County Association
Blame Shift Sought Over Dayton School Closing
Dayton public schools face a funding crisis with a calendar year budget shortfall. Legal counsel for the school board and defendants agreed to meet Probate Judge William C. Wiseman to transfer responsibility to county government and keep the district closed for now. The suit by board member Richard Withrow seeks reopening, with the conference taking the case out of common pleas court.
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Dayton
William C. Wiseman
Richard Withrow
Withrow
Common Pleas Court
Killer of Policemen Dies in Electric Chair
Carl Ferri aged 21 from Cleveland was executed in the Ohio Penitentiary last night for killing two Cleveland policemen Gerald V. Bode and Virgil T. Bayne.
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Columbus
Carl Ferrito
Cleveland
Gerald V. Bode
Virgil T. Bayne
Ohio Penitentiary
Communist Invasion of Ohio Schools Reported
Washington report says an American Legion investigator testified before Congress that the Communist Party tried to hire Ohio grade school teachers to teach Communistic doctrines. Edgar Herzog of Elyria stated he joined the party under a pseudonym and headed a Legion committee 1937–38 to probe un American activities. He alleged primers were distributed to first and second graders through sympathetic teachers to pass ideas to parents. He named Dorothy Cannon as running a Toledo teachers’ school for such doctrines.
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Washington
American Legion
House Committee
Communist Party
Ohio
Edgar Herzog
Elyria
Ohio State Department
the American Legion
Dorothy Cannon
Toledo
Assure Repair of U. S. 33 in West Virginia
West Virginia highway officials will use the full appropriation for U S Route 33 after talks with Blue and Gray Trail Association leaders led by W A Compton. A possible relocation to bypass Millwood to Ripley would shorten the route and avoid hills. The group says West Virginia needs highway improvements more than any other section.
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Pomeroy
Millwood
Ripley
Blue and Gray Trail Association
West Virginia
U. S. Files Gas Monopoly Suit
The Department of Justice filed an antitrust suit against Columbia Gas and Electric Corporation in U S District Court Wilmington for conspiring to monopolize natural gas in four states Kentucky Ohio West Virginia and Michigan and for acquiring 75 percent of a former rival’s stock. The case covers conduct dating back to February 1930.
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Wilmington
Del
U.P
Department of Justice
Columbia Gas and Electric Corporation Today
U. S. District Court
Kentucky
Ohio
West Virginia
Michigan
Murray Rites To Be Held Sunday Afternoon
Funeral services for Mrs. Essie Elvira Murray age 42 of Canton who died Wednesday evening will be held Sunday at 1 p m at the home of her daughter Mrs Josephine Williams 50 Central Ave Athens She is survived by her daughter Mrs Williams two sisters Mrs Ota Woods of Detroit and Mrs Mary Lero a brother Milton Bud Williams of Athens and three nephews and one niece Burial will be in the W State St Cemetery
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Essie Elvira Murray
Canton
Josephine Williams
Central Ave
Athens
Murray
Williams
Ota Woods
Detroit
Mich
Mary Lero
Milton “Bud” Williams
Three Men Rob Bank In Columbus Suburb
Three men robbed the Grandview Heights suburban branch of the Ohio National Bank today. They escaped with between $2 000 and $3 000.
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Columbus
U.P
Grandview Heights
Ohio National Bank
Boy, 3, May See With Cornea of Murderer
A three year old boy in San Francisco received a cornea transplant from John W. Deering, an executed Utah murderer. Doctors reported the child has only a one in one hundred chance to see, and it may be the first time a patient so young underwent such a procedure.
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San Francisco
U.P
John W. Deering
Utah
Plans Nearing Completion for Student Voting at Athens
Preparations for the student election at Athens Senior High School are nearly finished. Precinct officials met to discuss voting mechanics and election day duties while bulletin boards display party literature. Instructors will cover voting mechanics, how to vote, and issue stances under the direction of Mr. Carl Roberts.
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Athens
Carl Roberts
Former Employee Held In Night Club Shooting
In Newark Ohio Donald Hatfield 30 a night club employee died after being shot while dining in the Four Mile Inn Mrs Mattie Nies 46 owner was in critical condition with a chest wound Max Heck 50 a Vernon gas station employee was to be questioned by Licking County officers He was formerly employed by Mrs Nies
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Newark
U.P
Donald Hatfield
Mattie Nies
Four Mile Inn
Max Heck
Vernon Gasoline Station
Licking County
Heck
Nies
SEC Ends Probe of Insurance Companies
The Securities and Exchange Commission completed a preliminary investigation of life insurance firms today and plans to present evidence at public hearings of the monopoly study committee in January. The SEC may later examine casualty marine and fire insurers and fraternal benefit organizations, which hold about 8 billion dollars in assets.
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Washington
U.P
Securities and Exchange Commission
SEC
Ohio PTA congress wraps up with winner announcements
In Columbus the Ohio Congress of Parent-Teacher Associations concluded its final session announcing election winners and voting on resolutions.
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Columbus
Ohio Congress of Parent-Teacher Associations
Federal Funds Charged With Illinois Vote Tactics
A Senate inquiry reports Democrats and Republicans in Pennsylvania and Illinois used federal road funds to influence the Illinois primary. About 450 workers were hired and most dismissed on April 13, with 70 doing no highway work and instead sent to precincts to assist the Horner Courtney Lucas ticket.
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Washington
Senate Campaign Expenditures Committee
Pennsylvania
Illinois
A. H. Greening
Springfield
Ill
Horner-Courtney-Lucas
Horners Courtney-Lucas
Minnesotan Wins U 8 Husking Championship
Ted Balko of Redwood Falls Minnesota won the 15th National Corn Husking Tournament title for the second time by harvesting 22.24 bushels in mud rain and intermittent snow, earning $100 and a silver trophy as he defeated 20 rivals from 11 states.
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Dell Rapids
S. D
Ted Balko
Redwood Falls
Minn
Beagle Rescue Stalled By Half Meter Rock in Sink Hole
In Clarksburg West Virginia a rescue team seeks Sport a beagle trapped 16 days in a Speltzer Mountain sink hole. Five feet of solid rock lie between the dog and rescuers as effort continues with no sign of progress.
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Clarksburg
W. Va
Speltzer Mountain
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