Mrs Dorotha Jones Found Dead in Chauncey Home
Mrs Dorotha Jones 33 daughter of Mr and Mrs Pearl Wood was found dead in bed at her Chauncey home by her husband Harold Jones after his mine shift. Coroner A L Pritchard said she died by swallowing strychnine after written notes and letters showing ill health and plans. Funeral set for Wednesday at Alexander Presbyterian Church Hebbardsville with Rev Gilbert Courtney.
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Dorotha Jones
Pearl Wood
Chauncey
Harold Jones
A. L. Pritchard
Jones
Pritchard
Navy orders silence on submarine warfare reports
The Navy forbids officers and men to report to families whether ships sunk German submarines. Officials said disclosures breach long standing regulations and may invite disciplinary action. The move follows Senator Wheeler’s claim of aggressive warfare and letters alleging submarine sinkings and captures.
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Washington
Navy
Wheeler
D-Mont
St. Louis
United States Navy
Pacific
Atlantic
America
Roosevelt
Hunters Find Body of Missing Woman in Pool
Three hunters discovered the body of 60 year old Mrs. C. G. Doerfler in a shallow 18 inch pool near Greenwood Cemetery. She had been missing since Saturday and coroner J. D. Bradish ruled accidental drowning after an apparent stumble and fall.
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Willard
C. G. Doerfler
Greenwood Cemetery
169 Acre Farm Sold Through Classified Ad
Mr. Woods of New Marshfield Ohio reports the sale of a 169 acre farm via a single classified ad. The notice notes good buildings and a flexible down payment option with balance like rent.
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M. G. Woods
New Marshfield
Ohio
Classified Ad Principles for Buyers and Sellers
What the Classified Ad did for Mr. Woods it can do for you. Include all important points in your ad and wait for results. Use clear details, accurate prices, contact information, and any deadlines to attract the right buyers or offers.
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Mr. Woods
French Paper Warns Discontent Spreading
Le Temps in Lyon warns that discontent is spreading in major French cities as shortages worsen. The paper notes urban residents have faced vegetable scarcity for months while meat rations fell a quarter and delicacies by a third this month.
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Vichy
France
le Temps
Lyon
Delicates Sen
Envoys Keep Hope for Peace as Washington Talks Continue
In Tokyo Tojo declares army ready for any eventuality while Shimada says navy prepared for changes. Nomura arrives in Washington optimistic that settlement is possible as Kurusu negotiates with Roosevelt and Hull. Reports say Germany pushed back at Tula despite Axis solidarity in Europe.
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Far East
Japan
Hideki Tojo
United States
Russia
Navy
Shigetaro Shimada
Tokyo
Washington
Kichisaburo Nomura
State Department
Nomura
Saburo Kurusu
Roosevelt
Cordell Hull
Japan Time and Advertiser
Japanese Foreign Office
Pacific
America
Ohio hunting deaths rise to twelve in three days
The Ohio autumn hunting season saw 12 deaths after a Bowling Green shooting killed William G. Mouch, a 49 year old Columbus insurance man, when a shotgun discharged as his wife Lois handed it from their car. Four men died on the second day including Charles Schroeder 68 of Miamisburg Albert Ceol 20 of Lorain William Hen 50 of Reading and Walter Hartsfield 28 a Delphos patrolman.
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Columbus
Ohio
Bowling Green
William G. Mouch
Mouch
Lois
Charles Schroeder
Miamisburg
Medway
Albert Ceol
Lorain
William N. Hennear
Reading
Greenfield
Walter Hartsied
Delphos
Hoover Eyes Strong Speech for Chicago Radio Address
Former President Herbert Hoover told Attorney Joseph Scott he aims to deliver the strongest speech of his life in a Chicago radio address set for Wednesday night.
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Los Angeles
Hoover
Joseph Scott
Chicago
War Today and the Neutrality Act’s Reach
A column argues the revised Neutrality Act sharpens US war underwrite capacity. It asserts the US is the arsenal of democracy able to deliver ships and goods to belligerent ports with naval convoy protection, expanding participation already underway since the Lend Lease Act, and notes potential shifts in delivery routes to Britain and the Mediterranean.
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United States
Uncle Sam
Hitler
Globe
British Isles
Mediterranean
No AEF Will Be Main GOP Election Hope
Senator Taft warns Republicans could gain House seats by pledging to reject sending American expeditionary forces abroad. Senator Nye says GOP prospects hinge on how they handle Wendell L. Willkie, whose influence they blame for lost confidence. Willkie supported administration policy but many Republicans oppose it in Congress.
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AEF
Washington
Taft
Ohio
Nye
R-Nd
Administration
Wendell L. Willkie
Willkie
Congress
Churchill Sees Limited Russian Aid Under War Strain
Prime Minister Churchill told the House of Commons the cooperation with Soviet Russia was as close as geographic and other conditions allow. MPs pressed for drastic labor conscription measures as Churchill and cabinet members faced a wide range of domestic questions.
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London
Churchill
House of Commons
Great Britain
Soviet
Russia
19 Men Sentenced for Counterfeit Lottery Conspiracy
Nineteen men who pleaded guilty to conspiracy in the sale of counterfeit lottery tickets received suspended sentences from six months to one year and were placed on one year probation by Federal Judge John W. Clancy. Fourteen others pleaded innocent, including Chester O Bruskrud of Chester Ohio.
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NEW York
John W. Clancy
Chester O. Bruskrud
Chester
108 Letters to Soldiers as Thanksgiving Gesture
Miss Eleanor Lach, secretary treasurer of Friends of the 37th Division, wrote 108 letters to soldiers at Camp Shelby Mississippi as a Thanksgiving gesture. She clipped names from a list printed in The Cleveland Plain Dealer and mailed ink stained messages to boost morale.
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Cleveland
Eleanor M. Lach
Camp Shelby
Miss
Lach
Friends of the 37Th Division
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Man Pleads Innocent to Manslaughter Charge
Louis J Christian 21 surrendered during a police search for a car linked to an accident that killed a school girl. He pleaded innocent to a second degree manslaughter indictment filed yesterday.
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Canton
Louis J. Christian
Budget Bureau Bans Bronze Markers on Soldiers Graves
Washington reports the budget bureau prohibits the erection of bronze grave markers for soldiers arguing cost and policy concerns. No replacements or new memorials are described.
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Washington
Budget Bureau
CIO Delegates Back FDR Foreign Policy At Convention
Delegates to the CIO national convention considered endorsing President Roosevelt's overseas policy and debated opposing aid to Britain Soviet Russia and China. CIO President Philip Murray urged full support while criticizing lagging arms production and defense unemployment. He cited 63 billion defense funds with only 10 billion spent in 14 months and 5 million unemployed amid idle plants and idle machine tools.
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Detroit
CIO
Roosevelt
Britain
Soviet
Russia
China
Philip Murray
Famous Nazi Flier Ernst Udet Killed Testing New Weapon
Berlin reports Lieutenant General Ernst Udet famed World War I ace and Nazi air force chief of supply died in an aircraft accident while testing a new weapon. Udet shaped the Luftwaffe’s development and balance of air power, once flying over Hell Gate Bridge on a U.S. visit and performing stunts in national races.
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Berlin
Ernst Udet
Udet
Germany
Chhief
United States
New York
Hell Gate Bridge
East River
Los Angeles
Cleveland
Ringling trainer held in elephant poisoning deaths
A Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus train crew employee, E B Michael of Graettinger Iowa, is under arrest in St. Petersburg Florida on an open investigation into the arsenic poison deaths of 11 elephants valued at 125000. O Dell Griffie and Claude Bolick of Gastonia North Carolina identified Michael as the man seen giving capsules to an elephant in Charlotte while the keeper slept. The autopsy in Atlanta confirmed arsenic poisoning as the cause of death.
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Ringling Brothers
Barnum & Bailey Circus
John C. Siers
E. B. Michael
Graettinger
Iowa
Charlotte
N. C
Siers
O'Dell Griffie
Claude Bolick
Gastonia
Michael
G. Neal Ellis
Atlanta
Roosevelt to Convene Talks to Avert Rail Strike
President Roosevelt invites leaders of management and labor and key government executives to a White House conference to head off a nationwide railway strike set for December 5. Unions rejected a proposed compromise wage increase while carriers accepted the mediation board's recommendations.
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Washington
Roosevelt
White House
National Railway Mediation Board
Belle Sears Dies At Home In New Jersey
Mrs. Belle Allison Sears longtime Chillicothe resident with ties to Athens buried in South Orange New Jersey. She died at a cousin’s home in Maplewood and is survived by her brother W H Allison of Houston and several cousins including Mrs C B Beverage Mrs Fred Herron and others in Athens New Marshfield.
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Belle Allison Sears
Chillicothe
Athens
South Orange
N. J
Ida Allison
Sears
Herman Herron Holm
Maplewood
W. H. Allison
Houston
Texas
C. B. Beverage
Fred Herron
Minnie Boden
Mattie Baughman
New Marshfield
Lonitz appeals Ohio gambling evidence ruling to Supreme Court
Columbus lawyer Arthur William Lonitz appeals his gambling conviction to the Ohio Supreme Court challenging the use of numbers slips as evidence. In Montana, daily snow closed several state sections, disrupting travel and access.
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Columbus
Arthur William Lonitz
Ohio Supreme Court
Helena
Mont
Montana
FDR Seeks Six Billion Army Appropriation
Washington report states President Roosevelt requests an army appropriation of 6.687 billion dollars. The House Appropriations Committee began immediate work on the proposal after its late yesterday submission.
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FDR
Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Roosevelt
President Roosevelt Ready to End Mine Disruptions
Disorders and a shooting at strike-affected captive coal mines in West Virginia and Pennsylvania were reported as President Roosevelt prepared to use full government power to resume defense production.
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Washington
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Roosevelt
Roosevelt urges CIO to push war armament output without interruption
President Roosevelt pressed the CIO at its Detroit convention to increase armaments production without delay or interruption while UMW miners in captive mines face strikes. Governors mobilize Home Guard units as clashes erupt in Gary West Virginia. Two miners wounded as pickets block work at U S Coal and Coke No 10 mine.
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Detroit
Mich
Roosevelt
CIO
Eurato Reeter
URN Aoc
Illinois
UMW
Capitol Hill
John JT. Lewis
Montgomery
Ala
Frank Dixon
Alabama
Birmingham
Gary
W. Va
Big Steel
No. 10
U. S. Coal and Coke Company
No. 6
Gary Hollow
Pickets clash with nonstrikers at Pennsylvania mines
Pickets and nonstrikers clashed at the Red Lyon Mine in Fayette County and at the Rosedale Mine in Cambria County as the two day old captive mine strike began to spread. UMW leaders warned of a sympathy walkout threatening commercial pits in the region. United States Steel and Bethlehem Steel pressed to keep mines operating while President Roosevelt weighed a government role. Capitol Hill debated the defense strike issue as White House guidance awaited.
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U. S. Steel
Fayette County
Pennsylvania
United Mine Workers
H. C. Frick Coke Company
Red Lyon
Uniontown
Frick
Johnstown
Cambria County
Rosedale
Bethlehem Steel Company
UMW
CIO
United States Steel
Bethlehem
Youngstown Sheet & Tube
Benjamin Fairless
New York
Roosevelt
Capitol Hill
White House
Serb Terrorists Active As Civil War Looms
Reports from across Axis-ruled Yugoslavia describe widespread terrorism and mounting violence. In Croatia armored trains patrol rails, Montenegro villages burned, and Serbia sees increased attacks on German troops amid mass executions and hostage shootings. An unofficial tally cites 814 executions since June.
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Yugoslavia
Croatia
Black Mountains
Montenegro
London
Serbia
Macedonia
Grange Urges Congress to Halt Defense Industry Strikes
The National Grange at Worcester urged Congress to stop strikes that hinder defense production. In a unanimous resolution by 73 delegates from 37 states, the convention called defense strikes detrimental to national welfare and public morale. Louis J. Taber, retiring master, appealed for joint effort among labor, industry, finance, and agriculture to boost production.
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Worcester
Mass
National Grange
Congress
Farm Organization
The
Grange
Louis J. Taber
Six Die as Fire Hits Long Island Hospital
Six elderly patients three men and three women were missing and presumed burned to death as a fire destroyed the Brunswick Home private sanitarium in Amityville. About 30 others were rescued, many bedridden and screaming, as the blaze swept the building on the south shore of Long Island.
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Amityville
N. Y
Brunswick Home
Long Island
Thanksgiving Feast Costs Rise Across Nation
Chicago reports wholesale food prices climbed to record levels this year, signaling higher costs for the traditional Thanksgiving feast. Despite wholesale increases, retail counters show prices lagging, with some items unchanged from last year.
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Chicago
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