Franco declares Civil War won and outlines postwar Spain
In an interview at his Ebro field HQ General Francisco Franco says Nationalists have won the Civil War and will wind down fighting as Republicans fall. He envisions a strong state led society with equal rights but no liberal regime, rejects German or Italian models, and notes only a small foreign presence in the army. He predicts no mediation, stating criminals and victims cannot coexist.
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Francisco Franco
Spain
Franco
James I. Miller
United Press
Ebro
U.P
United States
Germany
Italy
Scot
Board Proposals Would Increase Pay for 75,000 Workers
Labor leaders said the public contracts board min wage proposals for iron and steel suppliers could raise pay for about 75,000 workers. The plan sets 62½ cents in the north and 45 cents in the south, with objections possible from steel companies before a final Labor Department decision. The CIO SWOC had urged 62½ cents in the east, 60 cents in the west, and 45 cents in the south.
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Washington
Public Contracts Board
Iron and Steel
North
South
Perkins
Industrial Organization
Walsh-Healy
Miss Perkins
Steel Comany
District of Columbia
CIO
Steel Workers Organizing Committee
SWOC
Philip Murray
Tobacco inspection planned at Ripley market opening Dec. 5
The agriculture department prepares to inspect tobacco at Ripley Ohio with 80 percent approval from growers in a referendum. Marketing begins December 5 and 6 as inspectors train in Lexington Kentucky, with eleven other barley markets to receive government inspection.
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Washington
U.P
Pley
Lexington
Draft Program For Aiding Railroads In Congress Plan
A committee of railway management and labor leaders, chosen by President Roosevelt months ago, met to draft a legislative program to aid railroads. The panel’s work was delayed by the 15 percent wage cut dispute. Roosevelt hopes to back the committee’s plan in the next Congress.
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Washington
U.P
Roosevelt
Beagle Entombed Seventeen Days Found Dead in Mine
In Spelter West Virginia curious townsfolk viewed the body of a five year old beagle hound named sport after diggers removed the carcass from a mine sink where it had been entombed for seventeen days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spelter
W. Va
U.P
Sandusky Man Drowns Under Bridge Incident
Franklin E. Songstock, 34, drowned in Sandusky Bay after falling from a boat near the New York Central Bridge. The tragedy occurred in Sandusky Bay and was reported by United Press.
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Sandusky
U.P
Franklin E. Songstock
Sandusky Bay
New York Central
Bevens Denies Violations of Old Age Pension Code
Wray Bevens Ohio old age pension chief sent a seven page denial to A J Altmeyer chair of the Social Security Board in Washington. He rejects claims of political discrimination while accusing the board of violating federal law by directing hires for the state aid for the aged division. He notes provisional appointees will be replaced and lamented lack of a federal instruction manual for pension administration.
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Bevens
Columbus
U.P
Wray Bevens
Ohio
Federal Social Security Board
Washington
A. J. Altmeyer
Social Security Board
Federal Board
Civil Service Commission
Board
Sanity of Confessed Slayer To Be Determined
Robert Irwin, son of an evangelist, stands trial in New York for a triple murder at Veronica Gedeon's home. Psychiatrists duel over his sanity as 150 jurors weigh verdicts that could send him to an asylum or the electric chair in a month long case led by Samuel Leibowitz and district attorney Jacob L. Rosenblum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
U.P
Robert Irwin
Veronica Gedeon
Irwin
Samuel Leibowitz
Jacob L. Rosenblum
Hold-Up Man Shoots Officer in Toledo
Patrolman Charles C. Hennessey, 22, and a would-be restaurant robber were in critical condition after a gunfight in Toledo. Hennessey and partner Patrolman Henry Krolak confronted the suspect, who shot Hennessey and fled. The man was later captured near Scott High School and wounded by a police squad, using the name Malcolm Hance, 25. Hennessey is the son of Police Captain Charles Hennessey and a Toledo University graduate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toledo
U.P
Charles C. Hennessey
Hennessey
Henry Krolak
Scott High School
Malcolm Hance
Charles Hennessey
Toledo University
Loyalist Army Stands Firm on Ebro Front
Loyalist forces on the Ebro River front stiffened their defense as Madrid marked the second anniversary of a major siege. Nationalist communiques say counterattacks were repulsed in some sectors, but the advance appeared slowed if not halted, now entering its ninth day.
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Hendaye
Ebro
Madrid
Pole Fire at German Ambassador’s Secretary in Paris
A deranged Polish citizen fired a single shot at the secretary to Count Johannes Vonnebzeck, the German ambassador to France, in Paris. Police outside the embassy detained the assailant and transported him to the Invalides police station for questioning.
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Paris
U.P
Johannes Vonnebzeck
France
The
Invalides
Nails in Tires Keep Youth Out All Night
Gallipolis dispatch reports 19 year old James Benson drove to Mercerville in Gallia County to visit a woman. He failed to return home by Sunday morning, prompting his father to alert Sheriff Hatfield. Investigators found Benson by the roadside near Mercerville, tending to four flat tires with nails driven into them during the night.
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Gallipolis
James Benson
Mercerville
Gallia County
Benson
J. H. Benson
Hatfield
Young Benson
Fire Destruction in Oslo Studio Claims Thirty Lives
Oslo authorities probe a fire that began during a ninth floor gay party in a large apartment building. The blaze trapped guests in a photographic studio where most died by burning or jumping from windows, with 29 bodies recovered.
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Oslo
Norway
U.P
First Snow of Year Blankets South Dakota
The season's first snowfall blankets southeastern South Dakota with as much as four inches in some areas. The storm moved in from the Rocky Mountains amid sub freezing temperatures across the region.
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South Dakota
Vermillion
S. D
Rocky Mountains
Russia Celebrates 21st Revolution Anniversary
Russia marks the 21st anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution with a Molotov speech and a purge in the fleet. He accuses Germany of fomenting conflict in the Far East, denounces Lindbergh, and frames Munich as a German-British victory over France and Czechoslovakia.
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Russia
Moscow
U.P
Kerensky
Nikolai Lenin
Leon Trotsky
Viacheslavy Molotov
Council of People's Commissars
Molotov
Georgi Dimitrov
Communist International
Brilai
Germany
Far East
Charles A. Lindbergh
Great Britain
France
Italy
Czechoslovakia
Britain
Ohio voters race toward deciding election in Columbus
Ohio campaign winds down with last minute charges over WPA coercion claims. 2,750,000 Ohioans expected to vote as weather forecasters warn of cold rain possibly snow. Senate and Governor contests along with constitutional amendment on appointive courts headline a broad slate of state and local races.
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Columbus
U.P
Ohio
Cuyahoga County
WPA
Robert J. Bulkley
Senate
Cleveland
Charles Sawyer
Robert A. Taft
Bulkley
Cincinnati
John W. Bricker
U. S. Senate
Congress
Ohio General Assembly
State Supreme Court
Supreme
Appellate Court
Monopoly Suits Are Dismissed
Consent decrees filed in U S District Court virtually ended federal anti trust action against Ford Motor Co and Chrysler Corp as government attorneys announced they will request dismissal of criminal indictments against the companies The decrees were filed in the VA 8 District Court at South Bend Ind and by mutual agreement cover certain activities of finance subsidiaries The action left in full force a similar indictment against General Motors Corp and its financing subsidiary General Motors Acceptance Corp
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Washington
U. S
Ford Motor Co
Chrysler Corp
VA. 8
South Bend
Ind
Department of Justice
General Motors Corp
General Motors Acceptance Corp
British Planes Break Long Distance Record
Three British air force bombing planes set a world long distance flight record. Two reached Port Darwin after a 7,162 mile flight from Ismailia, Egypt in just over 48 hours, landing at 4:02 and 4:05 a.m. Greenwich Mean Time. A third aircraft landed at Moepang in the Netherlands West Indies due to fuel shortage after flying about 6,600 miles, then proceeded to Port Darwin.
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Port Darwin
Australia
U.P
Greenwich
Ismailia Airdrome
Egypt
Moepang
Netherlands
Fast Indies
Fate of Parma Schools Depends Upon Teachers
Parma’s 108 teachers vote tonight on continuing work until January 1 with salaries earned in that period to be paid in installments during the 1939 school year. The vote will determine whether Parma’s schools stay open for the balance of the year.
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Parma
Cleveland
U.K
Messenger to provide Tuesday election returns
The Messenger will publish complete county and state results on election night Tuesday November 8. State and Ohio results will be carried via leased wire service starting 8:30 p.m. from editorial rooms, with Athens County precinct bulletins beginning about 9:30 p.m. Questions by telephone will be answered from 8:30 p.m. using numbers 0244 0245 and 0246.
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The
Messenger
Ohio
Athens County Board of Elections
Gallipolis Boy Hit by Car in Late Saturday Tragedy
Johnny Hill nine was struck by a southbound car driven by Delta Reed a twenty three year old WPA worker fifty feet south of Pine Street near Second Avenue. Reed stopped at a red light and faced no charge after witnesses backed his account. Johnny died en route to Holzer Hospital after funeral plans were announced for Tuesday at his parents home on First Avenue near Pine Street.
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Gallipolis
Second Avenue
Pine
Austin Hill
First Avenue
Johnny Hill
Delta Reed
WPA
Reed
Holzer Hospital
Hatfield
Pine Street
Hill
Hitler blasts democracy as war mongers in Weimar speech
Berlin dispatch reports Adolf Hitler denouncing democracies as war mongers during a Weimar address at a Thuringian Nazi party anniversary. He urged vigilance and warned against disarmament of spirit while criticizing freedom of speech as inciting war. Churchill was urged to topple the German regime and to seek German cooperation with likeminded exiles.
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Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Weimar
Hitler
Nazifuehrer
Thuringian
Nazi
New Deal Issue Clear Cut in West Virginia
West Virginia voters will go to the polls Tuesday to elect six Congressmen 17 state Senate members 94 House of Delegates members and to decide a constitutional amendment. The Congressional contest is viewed as a clear measure of public attitude toward the New Deal.
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Charleston
W. Va
West Virginia
State Senate
House of Delegates
Electors of 47 States To Go to Polls
New York reports the final campaign push as 47 states prepare to vote. Republicans seek gains amid fears of fascist influence while Democrats anticipate a possible sweep, with Dewey backed by Roosevelt in key states like New York and Michigan.
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Senate
New York
Pennsylvania
Massachusetts
Ohio
Michigan
California
New York State
Roosevelt
Thomas F. Dewey
Dewey
Herbert Lehman
Fra Murphy
Stroke Fatal to Former Ohio Episcopal Bishop
Mt Vernon reports the death of Rt Rev Warren Lincoln Rogers former Episcopal Bishop for Ohio at age 61 after a paralytic stroke at his Gambier estate and a Sunday night death in a Mt Vernon hospital He was known for liberal religious views and would have turned 61 next Monday.
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MT. Vernon
Warren Lincoln Rogers
Ohio
Gambier
Outside blast blamed for Nazi ship Vancouver explosion
Investigators in Oakland report the blast wrecking the Nazi steamer Vancouver originated outside the vessel. Refloating the ship proved difficult, raising fears of multiple holes and further danger.
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Oakland
Cal
Vancouver
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