Germany Says Sea and Air Campaign Only Beginning
United Press reports Nazi warnings stating Allied sea power will face more surprises as Germany readies a larger offensive. Mussolini urges armed peace in Venice Square while U boats sink ships and neutral ships face dangers. British air reconnaissance over Germany stresses intensified blockade aims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Berlin
Shetland Islands
Adolf Hitler
Fuehrer
Royal Air Force
Reich
Sweden
Finland
Russia
Helsingfors
Red Army
Fire rips Langunillas oil town killing hundreds
In Maracaibo Venezuela divers searched the oily Lake Maracaibo waters for victims of a blaze that leveled Langunillas, a stilt town serving oil wells. Up to 1,000 feared dead with 28 bodies recovered. 2,000 escaped as rescue crews, led by President Manuel Maldonado, battled the inferno and perilous conditions.
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Cracas
Maracaibo
Venezuela
Lake Maracaibo
Langunillas
Here
Thad
Len
Esuinales UL
Manuel Maldonado
Zulia
FD Lays Cornerstone of Jefferson Memorial
President Roosevelt lays the cornerstone of the $3,000,000 Thomas Jefferson Memorial a marble Panthon style structure. Controversy earlier centered on the Pantheon like design on the tidal basin and claims it would spoil symmetry and require cutting cherry trees attracting tourists.
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Washington
U.P
Roosevelt
Tital Basin
Paid Up Insurance Called Life-Saver
A Pennsylvania railroad crossing collision in Columbus left a car a pile of broken metal after a locomotive hit it. William Barker, 23, was thrown clear with only facial cuts and scratches, saying his escape came because he paid up his life insurance yesterday.
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Columbus
U.P
Here
William Barker
Barker
Await German Reply To New Peace Offers
The Hague report says Germany’s reply to the Belgian Netherlands peace mediation was due in The Hague Brussels. A polite rejection was expected but hope remains for revival with Pan American moral and economic pressure. Davies and Gordon engaged with Belgian and Dutch leaders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hague
Netherlands
U.P
Germany
Brussels
Americas
Holland
Belgium
United States
Joseph E. Davies
Leopold
George A. Gordon
Wilhelmina
Trapped Boy Dies in Waxed Paper Fire
Seven year old Billy Steele died from burns and suffocation after catching his foot in bales of waxed paper during a game of hide and seek in a basement. A 7 year old playmate and his mother Vera Womeldorf tried to rescue him but were driven back by flames. Firemen controlled the fire with little structural damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Billy Steele
Robert Clark
Vera Womeldorf
Billy
Womeldorf
East Felt Strong Earthquake Across Five Eastern States
An earthquake of considerable intensity was felt in parts of five eastern seaboard states last night but caused no damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East
Philadelphia
Seaboard States
Decentralize Government, Tabor Says
Master Louis J. Taber told 1,000,000 farmers in 36 states at the National Grange meeting that America must remain neutral in the European war and pursue decentralization of government plus a balanced budget. He urged broader tax base, warned against concentrating power, and called for fair farm prices and prudent debt management.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peoria
Louis J. Tabor
Columbus
National Grange Today
America
Taber
United States
Coal Industry Seeks PAYG Social Security Plan and Tax Repeal
The Bituminous coal industry asks for a pay as you go Social Security system and the repeal of the one cent tonnage tax under the Guffey Coal Act. National Coal Association Executive Secretary John D. Battle urged under secretary John W. Hanes to consider the impact of payrolls and taxes on weekly coal output and labor costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.P
John D. Battle
National Coal Association
Battle
Bricker May Decide On Special Session For Relief Funds
Governor Bricker may decide before week’s end to call a special session of the Legislature to raise more money for relief costs. He heard from Cleveland officials who halted relief orders except for emergencies and urged city and county leaders to craft a joint program and send representatives to meet lawmakers next week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
U.P
Bricker
Cleveland
Toledo Public Schools Face Six-Week Closure Over $600,000 Deficit
Toledo's public schools will close for six weeks starting November 23 to cover a $600,000 operating shortfall after voters defeated a two mill tax levy. Teachers' salaries will run at 88 percent during the break, while the district seeks new funding. The Toledo Central Labor Union urged the closure, praising teachers for past sacrifices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toledo
U.P
Board of Education
E. L. Bowsher
Toledo Central Labor Union
Labor Organization
Court Order Defined by Girl's Father in Marriage Bid
In New York a custody style dispute unfolds as Romeo Lowther seeks to wed Eileen Herrick. Eileen is hospitalized, father Walter Herrick challenges a habeas corpus writ, claiming she is not prisoner and may be ill but free. Judge Isadore Wasservogel will hear arguments on whether consent exists and who may decide Eileen's fate.
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Acme
Eileen Herrick
New York
George Lowther III
Miss Herrick
Lowther
Romeo
Juliet
George Lowther, III
Walter Herrick
Herrick
Orders Miner Back To Work
The National Labor Relations Board ordered Kelleys Creek Colliery Co. to reinstate miner Eugene Shifflett with back pay. Employment must comply with a collective bargaining contract requiring union membership in the United Mine Workers of America. The company was found to have discharged Shifflett to discourage UMW membership and must cease such actions, subject to existing or future contracts with labor groups.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.P
National Labor Relations Board
Kelley’s Creek Colliery Co
Ward
W. Va
United Mine Workers of America
CIO
Eugene Shifflett
UMW
Progressive Mine Workers of America
UFL
Shifflett
AFL
End of Nationwide News Service Disbands Amid Indictment
Attorneys for M. L. Annenberg prepare to dissolve Nationwide News Service Inc at noon tomorrow. The publisher and associates face federal lottery charges, ending the central source of horse racing results used by handbooks in the U S Canada and Cuba, crippling their operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
U.P
M. L. Annenberg
Philadelphia
Inc
United States
Canada
Cuba
Annenberg, Associates
Long Beach Mayor Fatally Shot After Political Fight
Mayor Louis N. Edwards was shot on his home steps and died at Long Beach Hospital at 10 40 am. Detective James Walsh, the bodyguard, was critically wounded. Police say the attack followed a police department political clash and Alvin Dooley surrendered for questioning.
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Long Beach
N. Y
U.P
Police Department
Louis N. Edwards
Long Beach Hospital
James Walsh
Alvin Dooley
Permanency of New Revival Is Doubted
Cleveland analyst Col. Leonard P. Ayres says investors doubt the staying power of the current industrial revival. He notes safety seeking buyers, stock prices failing to exceed early war-era highs, and slow new capital issues under 1930s SEC rules.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
U.P
Col
Leonard P. Ayres
Cleveland Trust Co
Ayres
Securities and Exchange Commission
Small Force Returns to Work at Chrysler Plants
Chrysler Detroit plants reopened under a UAW AFL back to work effort, but only small numbers returned. At the Dodge plant a 700-man CIC picket lined the gate while police guarded entry, and at Plymouth only a few hundred workers reported to work with minimal police presence.
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Chrysler
Detroit
Chrysler Corporation
United Automobile Workers
AFL
Dodge
UAW
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Plymouth
Indiana Senator Urges Roosevelt To State 1940 Plans
Senator Frederick Van Nuys of Indiana called on President Roosevelt to declare his 1940 intentions. He opposed a third term and linked his demand to recent political maneuvers, noting the President should not be secretive about his plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Frederick van Nuys
Ind
Roosevelt
van Nuys
Indiana
Merwin H. Browne
The
Buffalo
N. Y
Evening News
John N. Garner
Browne
Bigelow Counsel Alleges Exploitation in Election Campaign
Edward Lamb attorney for Rev. Herbert S. Bigelow charges in a letter to Paul V. McNutt that old age pension rolls were used to influence the campaign against Bigelow pension and initiative amendments. He asserts an investigation will reveal flagrant political exploitation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Edward Lamb
Herbert S. Bigelow
Federal Security
Paul V. McNutt
Lamb
McNutt
Velma Fink Adjudged Sane Paroled for One Year
Velma Baker Fink, 22, of Clyde Ohio, acquitted eight weeks ago of first degree murder in her infant son’s death, was released from Lima State Hospital for Criminal Insane. Judges and doctors testified she is sane and she is paroled to her family physician for one year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lima
U.P
Velma Baker Fink
Clyde
Ohio
Lima State Hospital
Neal Lora
Woman Recovers From Prolonged Frozen Sleep At Hospital
A 46 year old cancer patient at Jewish Hospital in Cincinnati regained consciousness after 108 hours in a medically induced extended sleep. Doctors report stable condition and expect further recovery as treatment continues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Jewish Hospital
Industry Reform Call From Republic Steel Leader
Cleveland 350 steel men heard Tom M. Girdler, chairman of Republic Steel, urge industry to prove it is not reactionary and to support honest reform and necessary regulation in the public interest. He warned against eroding confidence in private enterprise as the main threat to business gains this year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland —LLP
Tom M. Girdler
The
Republic Steel Corporation
Chamber of Commerce
Girdler
Europe
Czech Students Rally For Liberty in Prague
About two hundred Czech students gathered near the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier shouting for freedom. German storm troopers and police broke up the demonstration and arrested ten.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prague
Geauga County Deploys Armed Constables at Hunting Lands
In Geauga County a corps of special constables with rifles and sidearms was deployed to guard posted hunting lands after the shooting of farmer Robert Fenwick last Saturday. City hunters from Cleveland Warren or Youngstown were suspected, with rewards totaling 725 dollars for the assailant's arrest and conviction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chardon
U.P
Geauga County
Robert Fenwick
Claridon Township
Fenwick
H. O. Hill
Cleveland
Warren
Youngstown
George Meyer
Claridon
Man Dies Defending Self Before Delaware Grand Jury
Sylvanus McAfee, 80, charged with a statutory offense, collapsed and died Tuesday after presenting his account to the Delaware County grand jury. He had requested permission to address the jury and fell dead as he finished speaking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Delaware
Sylvanus McAfee
Delaware County Grand Jury
First Byrd Expedition Vessel Leaves Boston
The motor vessel North Star sailed from Boston at 6 13 a m to serve as supply ship for Byrd’s first Antarctic expedition funded by the U S government. About 75 aboard including wives, led by Captain Isak Lystad, plan an 11 000 mile journey via Philadelphia for airplanes and equipment to support the Arctic and Antarctic work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
U.P
U. S
Richard E. Byrd
Byrd
Barkentine Bear
North Star
Philadelphia
Panama
Isak Lystad
North
Star
Antarctic
South Pole
Arctic
Rich Strike Found in Georgia Gold Mine
Discovery of a new ore pocket in one of America's oldest gold mines was announced by Capt. Garland Peyton of the Georgia Department of Geology. The strike, made Saturday near Dahlonega in North Georgia, could be worth at least 60 000 dollars per ton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
America
Garland Peyton
Georgia Department of Geology
John C. Calhoun
Dahlonega
Georgia
Peyton
Pioneer Louisa Bime ler, 77, Zoar Separatists member dies
Mrs Louisa Bimler aged 77, longtime member of the Zoar Separatists Society that founded Zoar village in 1817 and ran it as a communal settlement until 1898, died today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zoar
U.P
Louisa Bimeler
Zoar Separatists Society
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Acme Telephoto
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Tabor
Miner
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Hits Handbooks
Hoosier
FDR
Bigelow
Velma Fink
Geauga
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