WPA backs down on ROTC armory project at Ohio University
WPA repudiates defense contract for an ROTC armory at Ohio University. After 15 months of negotiations, the WPA will provide only 35 000 of a total cost estimated at 88 635, forcing a cancellation of the project and leaving a sponsor share of 104 729. telegrams from Athens urge state and federal officials to investigate the delay and misrepresentation by the Ohio WPA district office.
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WPA
Ohio University
Athens
Bricker
United States
Ohio PA
Zanesville
Gordon K. Bush
Messenger
Taft
Burton
Jenkins, Secrest
Claypool
Baumhart
Ohio
Board of Trustees
Ohio Wpa
Washington
Onio Wpa
Ohio Board of Control
University
Herman G. James
George C. Parks
B. T. Grover
Thomas Larrick
James B. Golden
WPA Chief Cites Labor Shortage For Armory Delay
Dr. Carl Watson Ohio WPA administrator said the armory at Ohio University was abandoned due to insufficient labor. He noted a 50 percent drop in WPA rolls last summer and men leaving for defense jobs, leaving Athens County with little skilled labor. He questioned if the university wanted to keep skilled workers on WPA rolls to finish the project rather than place them in private industry.
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Columbus
Carl Watson
Ohio
WPA
Ohio University
Athens County
Watson
Manufacturing groups show pay increase in Ohio
Ohio State Bureau of Business Research reports seven of eleven major manufacturing groups in Ohio posted payroll gains from August to September while four saw declines. The report highlights differing regional economic trends across the state.
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Columbus
Ohio
Ohio State Bureau of Business Research
Absence of Major Issues Cuts Voting in Columbus Ohio
Ohio voters chose local officials and tax questions in an off year election. Secretary of State estimated fewer than 2,000,000 of 3,900,000 qualified voters would cast ballots. Last municipal elections saw 2,294,000 votes amid pension amendment talk. Bricker closed state offices at noon. no alcohol sales after 6 AM.
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Columbus
Ohio
Secretary of State
John W. Bricker
Body of Army Private Found by Roadside
The battered body of an army private was found today at the intersection of Routes 28 and 50. Coroner R. E. Oliver said he discovered a letter addressed to Robert Lee Laine of the Military Police Co., 9th Division, Fort Bragg, N. C. The man evidently was struck by a hit and run driver, the coroner reported.
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Chillicothe
R. E. Oliver
Robert Lee Laine
Military Police Co
Fort Bragg
N. C
Chest Headquarters Open for Three Days
The Athens Community Chest office at The Messenger will stay open through Friday. Solicit ors who have not filed final reports are urged to complete them as soon as possible.
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Athens
The
Messenger
Germans Shell Sevastopol and Clash Across Front
German field batteries shelled Sevastopol as Axis forces push across Crimea after driving 90 miles in seven days. Red Army losses were tallied by dispatches as high as 250,000 to 500,000 with many fleeing to the sea. In the Channel British ships clashed with Axis convoy escorting a supply ship, while Moscow’s front-line units regrouped and Arctic reinforcements moved west. Far East papers urged a final showdown as Japan weighed its stance on Germany being attacked by the United States.
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Associated Press
Russia
Black Sea
Sevastopol
Crimea
Dunkerque
Ukraine
Odessa
Red Star
London Admiralty
South Africa
Admiralty
Vichy
France
Channel
English Channel
Brit
London
Arctic
Siberia
Moscow
Rostov-on-Don
Far East
Koh Ishii
Japan
Reich
United States
Reuben James
Fire Fighter Rescues Son On Sixth Street Bridge
Pittsburgh firefighters respond to a suicidal man on the 70 foot Sixth Street Bridge over the Allegheny River. Leroy McIntyre arrives and finds the man is his son Edwin 25. He climbs the ladder and reaches Edwin, then they both come down and embrace in the street.
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Pittsburgh
Leroy McIntyre
Sixth Street
Allegheny River
McIntyre
Edwin McIntyre
Edwin
Army May Establish Air Base at Groveport
War Department officials in Washington confirmed a Franklin County site southwest of Groveport is under consideration for a new 6 million dollar Army air base. Officials said the site is among several studied by a survey board and no final decision date was given.
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Columbus
War Department
Washington
Groveport
Franklin County
Air Force
Farmer Sentenced to One to Twenty Years in Manslaughter Case
John Browning a Point Pleasant farmer pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the shooting of Warren Wellington after a long quarrel. Common Pleas Judge Charles G White sentenced Browning to one to 20 years in the Ohio Penitentiary. Browning was initially indicted for first degree murder.
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Batavia
Warren Wellington
John Browning
Point Pleasant
Ohio
Common Pleas
Charles G. White
Browning
Finland Trapped in Dual Wars and Arctic Blockade
The piece argues Finland cannot escape its Two War predicament as Russia presses Britain to declare war, while Germany blocks Finnish exit. It notes US warning Helsinki of abandoned friendship if fighting Russia continues, and cites a German Arctic army near Murmansk aiming to hinder Allied supply routes through Archangel and maintain pressure.
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Finland
Russia
Britain
Germany
United States
Helsinki
Arctic
Murmansk
Europe
Archangel
America
Long Distance Wire Workers Plan Walkout
Fifteen thousand long lines telephone workers authorized a strike for November 14 to press for higher wages. If not certified to the defense mediation board the walkout would be canceled. The action could disrupt civil and military long distance wires nationwide and affect news transmission services across 42 states. The mediation board in Washington focuses on captive coal mine disputes in steel company operations.
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Washington
Defense Mediation Board
John J. Moran
Pittsburgh
Detroit Women Hurl Eggs at Lord Halifax in Detroit
Women peace demonstrators pelted eggs and tomatoes at Lord Halifax as he entered the Chancery Building in Detroit for a meeting with Archbishop Mooney. Police broke up the protest amid a two day tour of the city’s defense industries.
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Detroit
Lord Halifax
United States
Chancery
Washington Boulevard
Edward Mooney
Charles F. Searle
Book-Cadillac
Halifax
England
Vichy Extends Death Penalty to American Colonies
The Vichy government extended summary trials and the death penalty for Communistic and Anarchistic activity to its American colonies and empire. A decree set up special courts in Guadeloupe French Guiana St Pierre and Miquelon and military tribunals elsewhere to sentence offenses in the last decade up to the death penalty.
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Vichy
France
American
Empire
Guadeloupe
French Guiana
St. Pierre and Miquelon
Gunman Robs Alameda Store Pours Ink on Owner
A gunman entered Mrs. Mabel Adams grocery in Alameda California last evening took 167 dollars from the till and departed after calmly emptying a bottle of ink over Mrs Adams.
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Alameda
Calif
Mabel Adams
Norwalk Truck Crash Kills Former St. Pauls Star
A head on collision on Route 20 six miles east of Norwalk killed Paul Reneck age 25 a former football standout at St. Pauls School. He was the driver of one truck and the other vehicle involved carried unknown occupants. The accident remains under investigation by local authorities.
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Norwalk
Route 20
Here
Paul Reneck
St. Paul’s School
Steel mills operate at 98.2 percent capacity this week
The American Iron and Steel Institute estimated that U S steel mills will run this week at about 98.2 percent of capacity. The figure reflects current demand and production levels across the industry.
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New York
United States
American Iron and Steel Institute
Athens City Election Returns By Telephone
The Messenger will obtain returns tonight from the county election board for Athens city voting. Early returns arrive by 5 p.m. with no tabulation then for votes in nearby municipalities townships and school districts and the jail repair levy. Call 0244 0245 or 0246 for updates as races are settled.
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Athens City
County Election Board
P. m
Nazis Condemn NU and Pressure on Finland
Berlin denounces Washington for pressuring Finland over its war with Russia. A German Foreign Office spokesman blasts U S policy as meddling and compares it to “ghetto methods” as Cordell Hull warns Finland risks losing American friendship.
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Finland
Berlin
Washington
Cordell Hull
United States
Russia
Two Illinois Men Win Cornhusking Contest
In Tonica Illinois Floyd Wise of La Salle County won the national husking title with 45371 bushels and runner-up Leland Klein of Woodford County had 4521 bushels, weighing 11 pounds less.
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Floyd Wise
Prairie Center
U.S
Tonica
Ill
Illinois
la Salle County
Leland Klein
Woodford County
Lancaster Pilot Hurt After Plane Crashes Into Wires
Robert Manbour g 24 of Lancaster escaped with injuries after his small plane plunged into high tension wires and burst into flames.
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Lancaster
Robert Manbourg
War as World Domination Fight Warned by Ex-ambassador
Hugh Wilson former United States ambassador to Nazi Germany told the Crichton Club in Columbus that the war is a struggle for world rule. He said Russia’s entry dispels ideology and that substantial American aid could hasten Germany’s downfall, while a German attack on the United States remains unlikely unless the British navy is seized and Japan is provoked.
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Columbus
Iran
Hugh Wilson
United States
Nazi Germany
Russia
Crichton Club
Wilson
Germany
Norris Favors Arming Ships to Sail to Friendly Ports
Senator Norris declared the United States must arm and permit ships to sail to our friends as part of a neutrality act revision. He recalled he was the lone Senate vote against entry in the prior war. Administration leaders aimed for a final vote tomorrow amid mixed expectations from Taft and Wheeler.
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Washington
Norris
United States
Senate
Taft
Ohio
Wheeler
D-Mont
New Trial Sought After Columbus Driver Convicted
W. J. Barnes of Columbus was found guilty of driving while under the influence in Athens County Common Pleas Court. He filed a motion for a new trial claiming insufficient evidence and legal errors affected fairness.
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W. J. Barnes
Columbus
Athens County Common Pleas
New York Exchanges Closed for Mayor's Election Day
Security and commodity exchanges in New York remained closed today because of the mayoralty election.
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New York
Torpedoing of U S Naval Tanker Salinas Reported in Atlantic
The Navy announced the torpedoing of the U S naval tanker Salinas in the North Atlantic southwest of Iceland. No lives were lost beyond the 97 presumed aboard the sunken destroyer Reuben James, with 45 known survivors and eight injuries among the Salinas crew.
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U. S. Naval
Atlantic
Washington
Navy
North Atlantic
United States
Salinas
Iceland
Five Ohio Sailors Are Probably Lost
The U S destroyer Reuben James was torpedoed in the North Atlantic the night of Oct 50 81. Fireman Roy Virgil Bush 18 from Ashtabula and Machinist's Mate Joseph Haraway 21 from Akron were rescued uninjured. Also aboard were James Brantley Clark 20 from Akron electrician C C Hayes 19 from Akron seaman Herbert Burrell 18 from Cleveland Carl E Cooperider 21 from Bucyrus seaman Corwin Porter 21 from Wauseon gunner.
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Columbus
U.S
Reuben James
North Atlantic
Roy Virgil Bush
Ashtabula
Joseph Haraway
Akron
Navy
Atlantic Bomber Loss Heightens Midnight Disclosure
James were made public shortly after midnight intensifying the impact of the earlier disclosure that one of the Atlantic command's huge bombers had been lost with all aboard.
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James
Atlantic Command
Twelve Navy Patrol Bomber Tragedy Claims Twelve Lives
A patrol bomber crash into the ocean killed twelve men including two navy officers nine enlisted sailors and an army officer passenger. The wreckage and bodies were reportedly recovered with uncertainty about the ship type and crash location. The incident follows prior U-boat and merchant-sinkings shaping wartime naval policy.
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Navy
Army
Department
Iceland
Navy casualties announced hours after German damages reply
The report notes heavy navy casualties announced soon after the State Department said Germany would not respond to a damages request in the case.
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State Department
Germany
Treasury Plans Advance Tax Withholding on Wages
The Treasury explores collecting income tax in advance from workers by deducting taxes from pay envelopes weekly or monthly. If adopted, employers would withhold estimates from every paycheck, surrender the funds to the government, and annual tax returns would settle any remaining amount with refunds for overpayments.
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Treasury
Washington
The
John Doe
Sam
Treasury debt tops 54 billion after refunding notes issued
The Treasury said its total debt rose to a record 54.093 billion dollars, up 509 million, due to new notes refunding RFC and CCC obligations. The report notes collecting large sums in a single jump is impractical and suggests installment taxes for workers.
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Washington
Treasury
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Commodity Credit Corporation
New Trial Granted in Son Poisoning Case
Cleveland report states 21 year old mother Catherine Keiper, convicted of giving a poisonous disinfectant to her four month old son Andrew to harm him so a hospital would care for him while she worked, will get a new trial. She faced a two to 15 year sentence at the Marysville Reformatory.
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Cleveland
Catherine Keiper
Andrew
Marysville Reformatory
Secretary Margaret Lehand Leaves Hospital After Nervous Illness
President Roosevelt’s longtime personal secretary Margaret Lehand has left hospital after four months of treatment for neuritis.
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Washington
Margaret Lehand
Roosevelt
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