Newest Slow Down Strike Under Fire
Washington reports business and labor spokesmen denounce the slow down strike as coercive illegal and revolutionary. The House committee tasked to overhaul the NLRB may investigate the tactic used by unions tied to CIO with prior instances in the far west northeast and midwest including lumber industry slow downs disrupting production.
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Washington
U.P
House Committee
National Labor Relations Board
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Northeast
Midwest
Liquor Stores to Close Armistice Day Tribute
State liquor stores will close until 3 p.m. Armistice Day as a tribute to World War soldiers. They will reopen at 3 p.m. and operate to usual hours. All stores were closed today due to the election.
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Columbus
Jacob B. Taylor
Supreme Court declines WLW superpower claim
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to review Crosley Radio Corporation of Cincinnati's bid to keep its WLW station on super-power broadcasting footing. The session did not rule on four civil liberties cases anticipated for today.
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Washington
U.P
Supreme Court
Crosley Radio Corporation
Cincinnati
WLW
Atlantic Boats Warned Of Tropical Storm
Weather Bureau cautions vessels along the Atlantic seaboard about a tropical storm moving up the coast at about 50 miles per hour. The storm brings strong gales and travels northward and northeastward, expected to cross steamer lanes last night or early today.
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Washington
U.P
Atlantic Seaboard
Weather Bureau
Mother Kills Daughter Then Commits Suicide in Cleveland
Emma Meszaros aged 28 killed her eight year old daughter June and then died by her own hand. Alex Meszaros 34 returned from a night shift at a steel plant to find the bodies.
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Cleveland
U.P
Emma Meszaros
June
Alex Meszaros
French Fliers Sink Nine German Planes Above Saar
The War Office reports nine French pursuit planes bought in the United States attacked a squadron of 27 German fighters yesterday, downing nine while the French suffered no losses. French troops hold the Forbach Spicheren salient dominating the Saar Valley despite five days of German shelling.
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Paris
War Office
United States
Forbach-Spicheren
Saar
Salient
Germany
Denmark
Sweden
Belgium
Switzerland
Finland
Russia
Moscow
Red Square
Klementi Voroshilov
Berlin
Saar Valley
Virginio Gayda
Giornale D’italia
Benito Mussolini
Iternational
Hermann Goering
Walther von Brauchitsch
Wilhelm Keitel
Feuhrer
Hitler
300 Jobless Recalled By Toledo Glass Co
Libbey Owens Ford Glass Co recalls 300 workers at Toledo plant to start production on a new grinding and polishing line. The East Broadway facility already employs 1,200, driven by higher demand for plate and window glass for buildings and for store fronts.
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Toledo
Libbey Owens Ford Glass Co
East Broadway
Former Meigs County Man Dies in Columbus
Henry J. Newberry longtime Meigs County resident died Sunday night at his son H Newberrys home in Columbus. Funeral services are set for Wednesday at Sutton M E Church at two in the afternoon with burial in the adjoining cemetery. He is survived by a daughter Mrs Absterman and three grandchildren.
More Defense Funds To Be Asked by Roosevelt
Washington report says the administration will ask Congress for funds to boost the regular army and navy to full peace time strength as part of a defense program estimated at 3 billion dollars for 1941. Army leaders seek 280000 active troops and 320000 guard. Navy may raise to 191000 personnel. A 1300 million naval expansion is planned, with a navy appropriation above 773 million for 1941. Overall 3 billion target includes nearly 1 billion more for the army.
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Roosevelt
Washington-Hup
Congress
Carl Vinson
House Naval Affairs Committee
Ohio off year vote seen with record turnout forecast
Ohio voters cast ballots on the Bigelow pension plan and three statewide issues as early returns and officials reported unusually heavy turnout for an off year. Reports from Cleveland, Columbus and Steubenville noted high interest, with scattered violence rumors denied by police.
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Ohio
Earl Griffith
George M. Neffner
Secretary of State
Neffner
W. C. Brown
Steubenville
Robert ‘Calabrese
Thomas M. Carey
Cleveland Board of Elections
Cleveland
Theodore M. Williams
Booth
12Th Ward
Harold H.rron
John E. O'Donnell
Columbus
Herbert S. Bigelow
Cincinnati
U. S. Ships Sought Change to Panama Flag
The Maritime Commission was to consider United States Lines request to transfer nine vessels to Panamanian registry to carry cargoes including arms to European war zones. Critics warn neutrality act violations. U S Lines to hire alien officers and crew amid protests from the National Maritime Union and lawmakers Nye and Clark.
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Washington
U.S
Maritime Commission
United States Lines
Gerald P. Nye
N. D
Bennett C. Clark
National Maritime Union
John Franklin
Domestic Fight Blamed In Double Death At Thornport
In New Lexington a 68-year-old woman refused to rise for breakfast at 4 30 am triggering a fatal argument. Coroner William Moody ruled H L Collins killed his wife four times then shot himself in their home. Neighbors said quarrels over early meals had persisted.
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New Lexington
U.P
William Moody
Perry County
H. L. Collins
Thornport
James Adrian
Collins
Wage and Hour Suit Filed in Federal Court
In Cincinnati the wage and hour division filed the first U.S. suit on behalf of Railway Terminal Porters in federal district court against the Cincinnati Union Terminal Company. The action seeks to stop alleged Fair Labor Standards Act violations and enforcement of the $12.60 weekly minimum wage.
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Cincinnati
United States
Cincinnati Union Terminal Company
Meigs County Man John J Roberts Dies in Rochester Pa
John J Roberts about 50 died Saturday night in Rochester Pennsylvania while with the crew of an Ohio River sand boat. Funeral services will be held at the family home in Antiquity Wednesday at ten in the morning followed by interment in Letart Cemetery.
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Pqmeroy
John J. Roberts
Rochester
Antiquity
Letart
Roberts
Dies to Seek $100000 for Un American Activities Probe
Chairman Martin Dies of Texas said he will ask Congress at the next session to appropriate $100,000 to continue the investigation into un American activities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.P
Martin Dies
Tex
Congress
Belgian Planes Scout Brussels Pursuit
Belgian pursuit planes carried out extended flights overnight around Brussels as reconnaissance activity was announced today. The operation involved multiple aircraft and aimed to monitor potential threats over the region.
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Brussels
Children and Aunt Die in House Fire Tragedy
In Plainfield New Jersey three motherless children Raymond six Dorothy seventeen and Margaret four and their aunt Miss Anna Finkbeiner twenty died when trapped on the upper floor of a two story frame house. Father Edward Harris fifty slept on the first floor unable to reach them due to heavy smoke. Another son Robert fifteen leaped from a second story window and was taken to Muhlenberg Hospital with severe burns.
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Plainfield
N. J
A.P
Edward Harris
Raymond
Dorothy
Margaret
Anna Finkbeiner
Robert
Muhlenberg Hospital
Army warrant officer hurt as wife dies in crash
Joseph R. Downing 38 a warrant officer in the U S Army was in critical condition at Findlay hospital with internal injuries from a car crash in which his wife was killed.
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Findlay
U.P
Joseph R. Downing
U. S. Army
Findlay Hospital
Sabotage Charge Filed At Newport Torpedo Station
Joseph Demers Jr a civilian worker at Newport torpedo station is held in Case Free on five hundred dollar bail on sabotage charges.
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Joseph Demers, Jr
Newport Torpedo Station
The
Election Returns To Be Given At Messenger Office Tonight
The Messenger will provide complete state wide and Athens County election returns tonight by telephone. Call 0244 0245 or 0246 for early bulletins on state issues and county measures. State issue results to come first, with Athens city results delayed until after statewide totals are compiled.
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Athens County
Athens City
Athens
Deficiency Request for WPA Declared Unnecessary by Woodrum
Washington D C. Chairman Clifton Woodrum of the House Deficiency Appropriations Subcommittee announced that there will be no deficiency appropriation for the Works Progress Administration at the next session. He said the investigation into WPA would not resume until January while field reports arrive. He noted WPA officials were told to live within current appropriations as expanding industry should ease relief needs.
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Washington
Clifton Woodrum
D., Va
House
Works Projects Administration
Congress
Woodrum
WPA
Norway Plans Imprisonment of Nazi Crew
The government announced in Oslo that the German prize crew taken from the American freighter City of Flint would be moved tomorrow to Kongsvinger Castle near the Swedish border for internment for the war. Norway refuses to release the crew or hold the ship. negotiations with Germany over cargo loss continue amid waterfront excitement and cargo bids.
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Bergen
Norway
U.P
Oslo
Flint
Kongsvinger Castle
Germany
United States
GOP Study of Trade Program Begins Today
House Republicans opened an in depth review of the New Deal reciprocal trade agreement program in Washington. Minority Leader Joseph W. Martin Jr of Massachusetts said he would appoint a committee to probe industrial aspects of the program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.P
House
G.O.P
Joseph W. Martin, Jr
Massachusetts
Hunting Season Opens in Columbus
About 500000 Ohio citizens prepare to take up arms tomorrow to invade domains held by Prince King Neck Pheasant Count Hungarian Partridge and Sir Peter Rabbit in a satirical regional notice.
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Columbus
Ohio
Prince King Neck Pheasant
Hungarian Partridge
Peter Rabbit
War Profit Taxes Deleted From Revenue Study
A House Ways and Means subcommittee barred consideration of war profits taxes while reviewing a Treasury revenue study by Undersecretary John W. Hanes. Chairman Jere Cooper said the nation is not at war, so war profits taxes are not an issue today. Two such bills sit in the Senate Finance Committee and 12 have been referred to the House committee.
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Washington
U.P
the Treasury
John W. Hanes
Jere Cooper
Tenn
Senate Finance Committee
House
Ways and Means Committee
Killer Confesses Murder After Vagrancy Arrest
Frank E. Potts a 17 year old from Catawba South Carolina was indicted for first degree murder in the strangling and beating of Warsaw widow Florence Potter age 62 whose death occurred October 13. Prosecutor Jacob Koontz said he would seek the death penalty. Potts confessed Sunday after arrest for vagrancy in Atchison Kansas. Kosciusko County authorities transported him from Atchison yesterday.
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Warsaw
Ind
U.R
Frank E. Potts
Catawba
S. C
Florence Potter
Jacob Koontz
Potts
Atchison
Kan
Kosciusko County
Head G Man Urges Spy Conscious Nation in War on Democracy
FBI Director J Edgar Hoover says Americans are becoming more spy conscious and urges lawful cooperation. He notes over 200 daily complaints on espionage and sabotage but warns against hysterical witch hunts and vigilante action in wartime.
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Washington
U.S
J. Edgar Hoover
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Neutrals Move To End War Via Peace Initiative
The Hague report says Queen Wilhelmina and King Leopold will push a new peace effort in Europe after talks with their foreign ministers. The German side accuses neutrals of blocking the blockade and hints at pressures to break the stalemate.
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The
Hague
Wilhelmina
Netherlands
Leopold
Europe
Berlin
Holland
Foreign Office
Britain
Germany
Belgium
Maginot Line
Poulter Skipper Hopes Repair Finished for Antarctic Run
Erie Pa Dr Thomas C Poulter commander of the snow cruiser for the Byrd Antarctic expedition expected mechanics to complete repairs by this afternoon allowing him to resume his journey to Boston.
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Erie
Thomas C. Poulter
Boston
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