Woodworth Leads Republicans in Athens Election Victory
Franz Woodworth, a Republican businessman and former safety director, elected mayor as the GOP slate won across Athens. Unofficial results show Woodworth with 1,457 votes to 977 for Democrat E. F. Sells, with precincts varying. council and trustee seats also go to Republicans. County jail levy passes in the city, with county totals pending final tabulation.
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Franz Woodworth
Republic
Athens
Woodworth
E. F. Sells
East Side
Sells
J.R. Sands
Charles Bolin
Athens Township
Sands
Bolin
J. H. Grosvenor
Athens City
Election Board
P. F. Good
Council
Donald Barstow
Foster Cornwell
Sherrard
Pat B. Burns
Minameyer
Studer
Wilson
Grove Sams
Harry Cokenougher
Clyde McVay
Kelley
Lloyd Hutchins
Russell
Leo Merchant
Stocklin
William H. Sisson
Oscar Fulton
Walter Rohrer
Wood We
Franz J. Woodworth
George Bateman
Nelsonville
Bateman
Predict Nazi Winter Drive
London observers forecast a winter assault by Germany likely targeting the Caucasus to thrust before weather and supply lines slow action. The plan could force Britons and Russians into a joint front, risking wear on German eastern forces and Archibald P. Wavell’s Indian command.
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London
Adolf Hitler
Caucasus
Archibald P. Wavell
Empire
Germany
Britain
Six Coal Producers’ Memberships Revoked in Midwest
The bituminous coal division said six producers in Ohio Indiana and Iowa had their code memberships revoked for violations of the coal act and regulations. Names include T. E. Luman of Rosaville Ohio.
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Washington
Ohio
Indiana
Iowa
T. E. Luman
Roseville
Quiet election day in Kentucky yields no shooting
Louisville report notes Kentucky elected 100 state representatives and 19 state senators without a shooting, in a rare violent free election day marking a surprising political shift.
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Kentucky
Louisville
Harold Vore First Democratic Athens Co Casualty
Harold M. Vore 22 of Hollister Trimble Township is Athens County s first World War II casualty. Fireman First Class in the U S Navy he was lost when the U S S Reuben James was torpedoed and sunk. He enlisted Oct 10 1939 and family last heard Sept 17 1941. He is survived by parents a brother a sister and grandparents.
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Navy Department
Harold M. Vore
U. S. Navy
U.S.S
Reuben James
Vore
Navy
Vores
Jack
Dayton
Bonnie Snyder
Maude McGee
Glouster
Ed Vore
Morgan County
Ohio Stronghold Shifts As Democrats Win Major Cities
Ohio voters in an off year produced a mixed result with Democrats seizing Cleveland and Akron mayors and nine other cities while Columbus elected nine of ten GOP candidates. Lausche defeated Blythin in Cleveland, Harter won Akron, and Burton selected as U S Senator. Voter turnout was light. bond issues and levies were split.
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Ohio
Cleveland
Akron
G.O.P
Columbus
Frank J. Lausche
Cuyahoga County
Edward Blythin
U. S
Harold H. Burton
Blythin
Burton
Senate
Lausche
Ray T. Miller
Roosevelt
La Guardia Wins Third Term as New York Mayor
In New York City Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia is elected to a third consecutive term, the first in history to hold the post three times. The vote underscores a broad Roosevelt era defense profile while regional results show mixed gains for Republicans in Virginia and Pennsylvania and continued Democratic leadership in some cities.
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New York
Fiorello H. la Guardia
Roosevelt
Virginia
Colgate W. Darden
Norfolk
Fairfax County
George Washington
Mt. Vernon
Col. R. R. Farr
House of Delegates
Pennsylvania
Supreme and
Boston
James M. Curley
Special Program Salvages Ohio Apple Crop
Ohio apple growers salvaged about 190000 dollars worth of wind damaged fruit through a special marketing program. Within 10 days inspectors graded windfall apples for shipment to emergency markets or processing plants for dehydration, apple butter, or other uses, according to Agricultural Director John T. Brown.
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Columbus
Ohio
John T. Brown
Sergeant Found Shot in Ft. Lewis Supply Room
Fort Lewis Washington police reported Walter L. Hull 25 son of Mr and Mrs George Hull of Elmore Ohio found shot to death yesterday in the supply room of the 752nd Tank Battalion two revolvers found near the body Hull had arrived at Fort Lewis as a selectee in June
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Fort Lewis
Wash
Walter L. Hull
George Hull
Elmore, O
752Nd Tank Battalion
Hull
Ore unload record shattered at Conneaut harbor
A total of 9,697,125 tons of ore have been unloaded at Conneaut harbor since the first of the year, breaking all existing seasonal records in the 49 year history of the industry.
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Conneaut
Conneaut Harbor
Right of Way Not Yielded By Slowing Down Supreme Court Rules
The Ohio Supreme Court reversed the Union County Appellate Court and affirmed the common pleas court ruling in favor of Charles I. Nicholas. The suit, by the administratrix of Lawrence Pitt, claimed damages after a collision at an intersection where Pitt did not yield to an eastbound truck. The court held slowing down does not waive the right of way, so the truck owner was not liable.
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Columbus
Supreme Court
Union County Appellate Court
Common Pleas Court
Lawrence Pitt
Charles I. Nicholas
Pitt
Nicholas
Supreme Tribunal
Pacific Coast Strike Expands to So California Aircraft Plants
The Pacific Coast welders strike spreads into Southern California aircraft plants. A naval shutdown at a $3 million graving dock gate at the San Diego destroyer base follows a jurisdictional dispute between AFL boilermakers and iron workers over who installs the gates. The Navy will seek a decision from Washington. A mediation board report notes no change in UMW(CIO) or operator positions on the captive mine dispute.
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Pacific Coast
California
Navy
San Diego
Naval
AFL
Navy Department
Washington
Mediation
Davis
United Mine Workers (Cio
Malta McConnelsville voters trade politics in election
In Malta voters elected Republican mayor Donald B. Morton over Democrat Ezra Daniel. On the east side of the Muskingum River in McConnelsville Democrat Walter A. Derrick defeated Republican incumbent John S. McBride for mayor.
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Malta
Mcconnelsville
Donald B. Morton
Ezra Daniel
Muskingum River
Walter A. Derrick
John S. McBride
Official Says Son Is I A Classified In Draft
Columbus Ohio Industrial Commissioner James A White head of Draft Board 19 classified his son Thomas 23 former Muskingum College football player and now Ohio State University law student as 1 A He told surprised board members that My boy belongs in 1 A and that's where he stays.
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Columbus
James A. White
Ohio
Draft Board
White
Thomas
Muskingum
Ohio State University
Knox Mine Planter Becomes Marietta Plant First Vessel
PT. PLEASANT West Virginia The Knox first of sixteen army mine planters built by Marietta Manufacturing Co was launched on the Ohio River. The 180 foot steamship named for Gen Henry Knox was christened by Mrs Harold Sayre daughter of company president C O Weissenberger. Cost about 1 million dollars.
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PT. Pleasant
W. Va
Knox
Marietta Manufacturing Co
Ohio River
Harold Sayre
C. O. Weissenberger
Henry C. Knox
Gallipolis Election Fight Ends in Knife Stabbing
Lewin Davis age 32 was arrested by Gallipolis police after stabbing Henry Baird age 30 in the abdomen during an election dispute Tuesday night. Baird was taken to Holzer Hospital where attendants reported he would recover.
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Gallipolis
Lewin Davis
Henry Baird
Baird
Holzer Hospital
1276 Men Rescued From Axis Submarines
London reports the Admiralty announced 1,276 officers and men were rescued from an unspecified number of sunken Axis submarines.
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London
Admiralty
Cincinnati Pair Pleads Guilty in Interstate Auto Theft
Albert Belville aged 24 of Millersport Ohio and Melgie Wiltes aged 21 of Valdosta Georgia pleaded guilty to transporting a stolen automobile from Georgia to Ohio and were held for federal grand jury action.
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Cincinnati
Georgia
Ohio
Albert Belville
Millersport, O
Melgie Wiltes
Valdosta
Nazis making Teeland waters major war center
Washington reports Germany plans to push the waters west of Iceland into a major Atlantic theater using wolf pack U‑boats. U‑boats have torpedoed four American ships and damaged the destroyers Kearny and Salinas while attempting to sink Greer. Reuben James loss toll rises to 97 dead and missing.
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Teeland Waters
Washington
Germany
Iceland
Reuben James
Kearny
Salinas
Greer
Navy Department
Navy
North Atlantic
Victim Not On Board Sub Victim Not on Board
PHILADELPHIA The Navy Yard listed Everett Howell among the missing from the torpedoing of the destroyer Reuben James while Howell reports his transfer to Philadelphia. The Navy said lists may change after confirming who was on board. LIFE BEGINS AT 70 DUBLIN Ind Riley Layman, 71, becomes father of twins by a 29-year-old wife.
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Philadelphia
Vernon Everett Howell
Thornville
Perry County
Philadelphia Navy Yard
Navy
Reuben James
Howell
Ohio
Navy Department
Dublin
Ind
Riley A. Layman
Armory Delay Probe Promised for Ohio University Project
Senator Burton announced acting WPA commissioner Francis H. Dryden would probe Bush's complaint about a 15 month delay and misrepresentations in building an ROTC armory at Ohio University Athens. WPA Ohio said lack of skilled labor limited progress while Ohio Univ contract was repudiated.
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Washington
Harold H. Burton R
Ohio
WPA
Francis H. Dryden
Gordon K. Bush
Ohio University
Reserve Officers Training Corps
Athens
Bush
Zanesville
Burton
Sen
Robert Taft
Dryden
Carl Watson
Athens County
Camp Wolters Men Transferred to Shelby
Maj. Gen. Robert S. Beightler announced 485 men from Camp Wolters Texas would arrive at Shelby between November 16 and 22 to replace troops released. Armistice and Thanksgiving Days will be holidays for the soldiers.
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Camp Shelby
Miss
Robert S. Beightler
Ohio Division
Camp Wolters
Texas
Beightler
Armistice Day Parade Delayed to 5 30 PM for Defense Work
Officials announced the city will hold the Armistice Day parade at 5 30 p m instead of 11 a m to avoid interfering with accelerated defense production.
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Battle Lines Form Over Crimea as Air Power Bends Defenses
The Crimea battle unfolds with German air dominance reducing Russian naval support and slicing defenses along the south coast. German reports claim Russian ships withdrew after shelling positions, while forces advance to isolate Kerch and threaten Krasnodar oil regions.
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Crimea
Peloponnesus
Crete
Perekop
Red Riviera
Mediterranean
Yaila
Feodosya
Kerch
Caucasus
Hitler
Krasnodar
U Boats Sighted Off Newfoundland Coast
German U boats were reported operating off the coast of Newfoundland within sight of shore, less than 900 miles north of Boston, as Canada confirms increased submarine activity near North America. The alert followed Berlin claims of Red Army gains and strategic moves on the Soviet front, while Japan seeks a Pacific accord.
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Newfoundland
Canada
Navy
Angus MacDonald
MacDonald
Boston
Berlin
England
Percy Nelles
Newffoundland
Moscow
Gregory K. Zhukov
Kalinin
Mozhaisk
Leningard
Hitler
Neva River
Leningrad
Sevastopol
Yalta
Kerch
Stefani
Donets
Far East
Saburu Kurusu
Germany
Washington
United States
Tokyo
Kurusu
Joseph C. Grew
Hull
Hongkong
Japan
Pacific
Russia
Britain
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Foster B. Cornwell
George Minneyer
R. J. Studer
Harry L. Wilson
L. W. Kelley
W. N. Russell
E. F. Stocklin
Cliff Cornell
Robert Tompkins
Franz L. Woodworth
Harold Vore
First Democratic Athens CO. Casualty
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Associated Press
Harter
George J. Harter
Lee D. Schroy
Herbert S. Bigelow
la Guardia
Ft. Lewis
Ohio Harbor
Miss X
Malta-McConnelsville
Marietta Co
NEA Telephoto
Joseph Haraway
Roman
Estelle
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Harold
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