Republicans Win Big as House Gains Restored and Governors Rise
The election yields a Republican surge with 78 House seats gained and 11 governors plus eight senators. New tally shows Democrats 260, Republicans 166, Progressives 2, Farm Labor 1, GOP gain 78. California and New York bucked trend with GOP losses in NY and Merriam defeated in CA. Roosevelt faces a stronger, more complex political landscape for 1940.
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New York
House of Representatives
Farm
Far West
Senate
House
Republicns
Wlifornia
Indiana
Illinois
Minnesota
Maryland
Washington
Bennett C. Clark
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Arthur H. James
Pennsylvania
Everett Saltonstall
Massachusetts
John Bricker
Thomas E. Dewey
Herbert H. Lehman
California
Culbert L. Olson
Frank R. Merriam
Sheridan Downey
Roosevelt
Fiorello JJ
la- Guardia
American Labor Party
Refugees Escape Train in Sudetenland Transit Capture
Six anti Nazi refugees from the Sudetenland leapt from a speeding train bound for Germany on Wednesday night and fled into the woods, evading immediate capture. Their escape highlights ongoing resistance movements amid forced relocations.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
Sudetenland
Germany
Appendix Gone After Stick-Pin Found in Appendix
NORWALK UP Frank Linder lost his appendix and a two and a half inch pearl stick-pin swallowed two years earlier. Doctors found the pin adhered to the intestinal wall and forced it into the appendix, which was then removed along with the pin.
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Norwalk
Frank Linder
Governor Order To Borrow Funds For Ohio Pensions
Governor Martin L. Davey ordered the transfer of about 1 million dollars from the General Revenue Fund to pay old age pensions due since October 25. Checks were prepared by State Auditor Joseph T. Ferguson and mailed to 112 000 pensioners alphabetically, starting with districts by county. The governor condemned the Federal Social Security Board for withholding federal pension funds, calling centralization of power in Washington a grave danger to state rights.
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Columbus
U.B
Martin L. Davey
M. Ray Allison
General Revenue Fund
Joseph T. Ferguson
Davey
Federal
Social Security Board
Ohio
Fed
Washington
Unseasonably Warm Weather Confuses Fish
Atlantic City fishermen report unusually warm water has confused mackerel causing them to head north and linger inshore, a rare deviation from the usual southward winter migration.
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Atlantic City
N. J
U.P
Hamilton Sees Great Responsibility on GOP
Chairman John D. Hamilton of the Republican National Committee said election results place great responsibility on the party. He noted the victories show a national trend, not local or sectional, in sentiment.
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Washington
U.P
John D. Hamilton
Republican National Committee
Britain urged to lead for peace by Chamberlain
Prime minister Neville Chamberlain told the Lord Mayor's banquet that Britain should be a go getter for peace without policing the world. He said if peace is threatened, Britain will use its influence, and if war comes, will do what it can to halt it while preferring democracy over dictatorship.
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London
U.P
Neville Chamberlain
Chamberlain
Athens Countians Indicted by Federal Grand Jury
A Columbus AP report says the Federal Grand Jury returned 103 indictments in 77 true bills and four no bills. Liquor charges include Carol N Truex Lelia Van Fossen Laurelville John A Pummel Nelsonville John K Oss man Fred Loudner Deanville Floyd Bryant Glouster Eddie Jones Glouster Hobart E Cook Leonard Butler Glouster Treasury violations include Clarence E Siders Gallipolis forgery and uttering forged government check.
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Columbus
A.P
Federal Grand Jury
Carol N. Truex
Lelia van Fossen
Laurelville
John A. Pummel
Nelsonville
John K. Ossman
Fred Loudner
Deanville
Floyd Bryant
Glouster
Eddie Jones
Hobart E. Cook
Leonard Butler
Treasury
Clarence E. Siders
Gallipolis
Judges Open Hearing of Helwig Case
Three common pleas judges met this morning to review the Sunrise Filling Station where Carl and Gilbert Helwig confessed to killing John O'Brien on July 23. The hearing opened at 10 a.m. and adjourned to 1 p.m. after the judges inspected the crime scene with defense and prosecution outlining their positions.
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Common Pleas
Carl
Gilbert Helwig
John O'Brien
Frank M. Acton
Lancaster
Carlos M. Riecker
McConnelsville
O. F. Rowland
Athens
Helwits
Acton
John J. Woolley
Harold J. Rose
Helwigs
Foreclosures Are Reduced 73 Percent Since 1936
Milwaukee HOLC official Col Harold Lee reports foreclosures cut 73 percent in two years, from 8000 in June 1936 to 2162 in September 1938, and says moratorium agitation has no foundation. Agriculture Department to estimate 1938 farm production and corn loan pace.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Home Owners Loan Corporation
Harold Lee
HOLC
National Real Estate Boards Convention
Lee
Washington
Agriculture Department
Armistice Anniversary Reflections Across Two Decades
A historic Armistice Day is marked twenty years after 1918 with silence at 11 11, while the world reflects on contrasts between peace and rising totalitarianism. The piece contrasts Foch in Compiegne forest and Hitler in Munich amid shifting powers and fragile democracy.
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Joe Alex Morris
Germany
League of Nations
Ferdinand Foch
Compiegne Forest
Republicans Face Heavy Tasks for Bricker Inauguration
Ohio voters delivered a strong GOP wave as John W Bricker prepares to take office, with Republicans winning most state offices and broad majorities in the General Assembly While Democrats kept two Supreme Court seats and a handful of posts, the party gains forecast a sweeping Republican agenda.
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Columbus
U.P
Ohio
John W. Bricker
Bricker
Charles Sawyer
Robert A. Taft
Robert J. Bulkley
Edward S. Matthias
van Wert
Supreme Court
William L. Hart
Alliance
Robert N. Gorman
Cincinnati
James Metzenbaum
Cleveland
Senate
Paul M. Herbert
General Assembly
Cuyahoga County
House
William McCulloch
Miami County
Slaying of Nazi Diplomat Signals Antijew Rioting in Berlin
Berlin reports describe a government halt to Nazi violence after synagogues burned and Jews harassed across Germany. Goebbels promised laws and decrees in retaliation for the embassy attache’s assassination in Paris. SA and SS mobs, in civilian clothes, attacked Jews and torched synagogues in multiple districts.
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Berlin
U.P
Germany
Paul Joseph Goebbels
Paris
Goebbels
Reich
Austria
Community Chest Campaign Opens in Athens Led by I. W. Roberts
Leads Drive I. W. Roberts of Athens will direct the Community Chest campaign starting Monday November 14. The goal is $11 785 to fund 12 months of minimum needs for seven Athens agencies. details are on Page 5.
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Athens
Community Chest
Election results threaten Roosevelt foreign policy
Washington dispatch reports Republican gains threaten key elements of Roosevelt policy. Tests loom for the reciprocal trade agreement, defense zone expansion to cover the Western Hemisphere, and neutrality law changes granting the president greater discretion in wartime.
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Roosevelt
Washington
U.P
Congress
United States
Western Hemisphere
20 000 More Out of Work
HYDE PARK New York United States President Roosevelt studied a report by Elmer Andrews wages and hours administrator showing less than 50 000 workers, mainly in the south, have lost their jobs due to the act. The report says these workers are less than one half of one percent of affected workers and that total employment may rise after readjustments. Most layoffs occurred in pecan shelling tobacco stemming lumber and bagging.
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Hyde Park
N. Y
Roosevelt
Elmer Andrews
South
Andrews
FCC Reorganized as Two Divisions Abolished
The Federal Communications Commission began operating under a new plan that abolished two divisions and led to the dismissal of three officials. Commissioner T A M Craven protested, accusing the seven member body of not establishing a clear communications policy amid ongoing turmoil.
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Washington
Federal Communications Commission
T. A. M. Craven
FCC
Commission
Japanese editor Furuto dies by own action in Manchuria report
Domei News from Dairen says Maj. Gen. Tanehide Furuto chief editor of the Manchuria Daily News died by his own hand. The report notes Furuto’s position and the fatal event in Manchuria.
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Tokyo
Domei News Agency
Dairen
Tanehide Furuto
Manchuria
Olson Outlines Major Plans for California
Culbert L. Olson, California's first Democratic governor elect in 44 years, proposes two plans. One redirects relief funds to self-help programs for the unemployed. The other calls for a hearing to test if Tom Mooney was framed, with a life sentence on perjured testimony or possible pardon if proof fails. Olson aims to mirror Sinclair's end poverty program but faces a Republican legislature.
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San Francisco
Culbert L. Olson
California
Tom Mooney
Olson
Upton Sinclair
Murray City Armistice Day Program Scheduled
American Legion armistice day ceremony from 10 30 a m to 11 15 a m on the Murray City school ground features the Murray City School Band on the program.
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Murray City
E. G. Biddison Former County Official Dies at 75
Elmer Grant Biddison age 75 former state mine inspector Athens County official mine superintendent and teacher died at his son in law and daughter home 22 Franklin Ave Tentative funeral services set for Saturday at 2 pm Church of Christ with interment in West Union Street Cemetery He was born in Trimble Township one of eleven children survived by three children and several siblings with his wife Elizabeth Sands Biddison predeceased him three years ago.
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Ae Elmer Grant Biddison
Athens County
Charles D. Bill
Franklin Ave
Church of Christ
West Union Street
Mr. Biddison
Thomas and
Delilah Bryson Biddison
Trimble Township
William Biddison
Sunday Creek
Moxanala
Elmer Biddison
Ray
Lilly
Elizabeth Sands Biddison
Joshua
Lucy Johnson Sands
Biddison
C. D. Bill
Marc
Athens
Lucy Dreibelbis
Jacksonville
Fla
T. G. Biddison
Akron
S. M. Biddison
L. Biddison
Clarksburg
W. Va
S. J. Biddison
Stewart, O
Delilah Thompson
Chester Davis
Huntington
Probe Planned Into Vancouver Steamer Blast
The U S Bureau of Marine Inspection will hold a formal hearing into the bombing of the Nazi steamer Vancouver off Oakland Estuary. Investigators say the blast originated outside the hull and likely came from a black powder time-bomb. how the device was placed and by whom remains undetermined.
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San Francisco
AUP
U. S. Bureau of Marine Inspection
Vancouver
Oakland Estuary
San Francisco Bay
Italy Bans Marriage of Jews and Aryans
Rome reports a cabinet decree establishing fines and punishment for violations of new marriage laws. The regulation forbids marriages between Italian Aryan citizens and persons of other races and renders such unions invalid if performed.
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Italy
Rome
Voters Split On Old Age Pensions And Labor Referenda
The survey shows California Oregon Washington ballots rejecting old age pension and labor regulation measures. North Dakota approves $40 monthly minimum, Colorado efforts to repeal liberal pension law fail, and Oregon backs pre marriage medical exams amid other measures.
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New York
California
Oregon
Townsend
Colorado
North Dakota
Washington
Prosopals
Maryland
Elkton
Gretna
Pearl Buck Wins 1938 Nobel Prize in Literature
Stockholm announces Pearl S Buck, former missionary in China and author of The Good Earth, receives the 1938 Nobel Prize in Literature. The prize, worth about 40000 dollars, honors her literary contributions including The Good Earth which boosted her prominence and won the 1931 Pulitzer Prize.
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Stockholm
AUP
Pearl S. Buck
China
Clayton C Kohl Dies at 63 in Bowling Green
Dr. Clayton C. Kohl, 63, educator and speaker, died today in Bowling Green after an apoplectic episode.
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Clayton CC. Kohl
Bowling Green
U.P
Clayton C. Kohl
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