Six Year Old Girl Meets Her First Playmates in Hospital
Annabelle a six year old girl with deformed legs begins hospital care at Children’s Hospital. Psychologists will teach her to talk and she adapts from fear of strangers to friendly gestures while her mute mother visits, communicating in sign language.
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Annabelle
Eva Janson
Children’s Hospital
Miss Janson
Columbus
A.P
Annabelle Barton
Mt. Vernon
Community Chest Total Reaches 8323 62 In Athens Drive
Athens Community Chest stands 70 percent filled at noon with 8323 62 in reported contributions. Campaign Director L W Roberts says 3461 38 remains to be raised as solicitors push assignments and prospects. The drive extends to Friday and Saturday to contact remaining contributors.
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Athens
Dies Group To Quit Dec 16
Chairman Martin Dies of the House committee investigating un American activities announced public hearings would end December 16 after more civic, religious, and fraternal testimony. He said plans for Pacific Coast hearings were abandoned due to time and money constraints, with Congress expected to fund a continued probe and possible coast travel later.
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Washington
U.P
Martin Dies
Tex
House
Pacific Coast
Congress
City Asked to Pay Prevailing Wages for Public Works
A mandamus suit filed today in the State Supreme Court seeks to force Cincinnati to pay prevailing wage rates to semi skilled laborers in the municipal public works department. The petition, by William A. Kunick, a city welder, covers himself and about 300 workers.
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Columbus
U.P
State Supreme Court
Cincinnati
Municipal Public Works Department
William A. Kunick
Supreme Court Upholds Home Superintendent
The Ohio Supreme Court ruled that Fred T. Babbitt of Columbus is entitled to his post as superintendent of the Franklin County Home. The decision sustains lower court rulings recognizing his right to withdraw a resignation dated March 31, 1937 submitted to the county commissioners.
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Columbus
U.P
Ohio Supreme Court
Fred T. Babbitt
Franklin County
Babbitt
Canada eyeing farm settlement for Jewish refugees
Ottawa sources report Canada weighing a plan to admit a limited number of Jewish refugees from Germany and locate them on farms as a resettlement measure. The approach aims to ease immigration while providing agricultural work opportunities.
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Canada
Ottawa
Ont
Germany
AFL Opposes Profit Sharing Methods in Tax Plan
AFL President William Green told a Senate finance subcommittee the federation opposes using federal tax powers to promote profit sharing. He urged extending collective bargaining to profit sharing and insisted profits and costs be transparently shared between labor and management with equal access to records and decisions.
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Washington
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Senate Finance
Green
Community Chest Honor Roll List Honors 100% Contributors
The Athens 1938-39 Community Chest honors business concerns and their employees with 100 percent participation and notes individuals who gave $25 or more. Listings include U. S. Post Office Athens Lumber Co. and Employes Gallagher's Drug Store Plains High School and Faculty and many others with 100% or substantial gifts.
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Athens
Fred R. Beasley
U. S. Post Office
Athens Lumber Co
Snowy Thanksgiving Forecast Across Ohio
Ohio faces a cold Thanksgiving with fair skies in western areas and snow in the east. A cold snap brings possible snow this afternoon and below freezing temperatures tonight. Four inches of snow were reported in Toledo last night.
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Columbus
U.P
Ohio
U. S. Weather Bureau
Toledo
Aged Pensions Dilemma Hits Ohio Again
Ohio faces a pension funding crisis as the state auditor begins issuing November checks while withholding part of payments awaiting federal funding. The dispute between Gov. Davey and the Social Security Board keeps pension disbursements uncertain. About $1,000,000 was borrowed from the general revenue on November 12 to cover October payments.
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Columbus
UPJ
Ohio
Davey
Social Security Board
General Revenue
Rebels Claim Loyalist Advances Reversed Near Segre River
Nationalist headquarters says all Loyalist gains west of the Segre River were wiped out. Insurgents retook territory and reportedly rescued a nationalist lost battalion trapped for 10 days.
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Hendaye
Segre River
Fitzgerald Wins County Auditor after Recount by Seven Votes
A recount in Logan shows Kenneth R. Fitzgerald Republican wins the county auditor race by seven votes, overturning an earlier three vote plurality for Everett Jacoby. Jacoby filed a general exception after the result was announced.
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Logan
Kenneth R. Fitzgerald
Everett Jacoby
Jacoby
Fire damages Marguerite Apartments in Fort Thomas
A defective flue is linked to a fire at the Marguerite Apartments in Fort Thomas, causing about $10,000 in damage. Tenants from six units found shelter in nearby homes as firefighters contained the blaze.
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Fort Thomas
O.R
Marguerite
Threatened extension of Chicago stockyards strike looms
Striking union workers threaten to broaden their action to a nationwide scale paralyzing the packing industry. Ben Brown of the Livestock Handlers' Union says the battle will continue until demands are met, including a 40 hour week and higher wages. O. T. Henkle prepares to resume normal business as the yard runs are halted ahead of the International Livestock Exposition. The stockyards may see no market today as talks proceed.
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Chicago
U.P
Ben Brown
Livestock Handlers’ Union
Congress For Industrial Organizations
O. T. Henkle
Union Stock Yards and Transit Company
Brown
Hoover Raps Nazi Campaign at York Bible Class Banquet
Former President Herbert Hoover urged moral rearmament to save the world from disaster in a Toronto address to the York Bible Class banquet. He linked intolerant ideologies to fear and warned the German anti Semitic campaign as the era’s most hideous since medieval expulsions.
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Toronto
U.P
Herbert Hoover
York Bible Class
Germany
Spain
Navy inspector Kennedy dismissed as useless job critique cited
Cleveland reports Raymond Kennedy a Navy inspector who resigned saying his post was useless was notified today he has been dismissed. The notice dated Tuesday follows Kennedy’s charges that naval inspection is outmoded, inefficient and unable to cope with modern manufacturing methods.
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Cleveland
U.P
Raymond Kennedy
Navy
Kennedy
Naval
Sale of Government Barges Demanded by Conference
A transportation conference debating railroad rehabilitation recessed after demanding the federal government sell its barge lines to eliminate unfair competition with railroads and trucks.
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Washington
U.P
Practices Law 10 Years After Flunking Exams
Charles A. Mulligan Jr a Staten Island lawyer faces indictments accusing him of having no license to practice. Investigations revealed he did not pass the 1928 exams after a mistaken notice said he had. He had claimed credentials and begun practice amid political and legal appointments.
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New York
U.P
Charles A. Mulligan, Jr
Richmond County
Staten Island
Frank H. Hines
Sing Sing
William B. Herlands
Mulligan
Thomas B. Maloney
Lator
Herlands
Jap Fishermen And Philippine Officials Clash
In Coron Palawan 200 Japanese fishermen clashed with local authorities after a Japanese fisherman was shot dead for not showing a license. Six officials were bound to coconut trees and mistreated as protests erupted. Philippine reinforcements were sent as the Japanese consulate reported the incident to Tokyo.
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Manila
P. I
U.P
Japan
Coron
Palawan
Philippines Herald
Kamechi Kanashiro
Philippine Constabulary
Tokyo
Landslide Buries Island Village in 150 Die Toll
In Poisson Ravine nine miles from Castries St Lucia rescue crews hunted for bodies after a mountain slide buried a village and killed at least 150. Heavy rains loosened slopes. the major slide struck Monday night. Officials estimate damage at 300000 dollars as new slides were feared.
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Castries
St. Lucia
U.P
Poisson Ravine
Ohio Supreme Court Upholds Death Sentence for Akron Murder
The Ohio Supreme Court affirmed the death sentence for George Wells, convicted of the first degree murder of William Pantages in Akron during an attempted holdup. The court fixed the execution date for December 14.
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Columbus
U.R
Ohio Supreme Court
George Wells
William F. Pantages
Akron
Dee
Bandits Take $2694 In Grill Holdup at Warren
Three men obtained 2694 dollars in a holdup of Stone's Grill in Warren. Manager Herman Goldstein was forced to open a safe while a clerk and two customers were guarded in the kitchen. The money was kept in the grill to cash steel workers pay checks.
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Warren
Stone’s Grill
Herman Goldstein
Clark not candidate for president in 1940
U S Senator Bennett Champ Clark of Missouri announced that he will not seek the presidency in 1940. The statement came from St. Louis in a dispatch dated today.
Men Held for Plot Against Film Actress
In Hollywood two men, Martin L. Riley and Paul C. De Long, were jailed on suspicion of perjury for allegedly plotting against film actress Genevieve Tobin. The district attorney’s investigator charged them after Riley claimed Tobin caused a reckless driving incident and fled.
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Hollywood
U.P
Genevieve Tobin
Martin L. Riley
WPA
Paul C. de Long
Riley
Miss Tobin
de Long
Justice of the Peace
C. D. Holland
Aid
Imredy Loses Vote as Resignation Expected in Hungary
In Budapest the parliament overruled Premier Bela Imredy by 118 to 95 as many deputies defected from the government. The key issue was his plan to curb debate on major bills and his policy toward Jews, signaling his likely resignation.
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Budapest
Hungary
U.P
Bela Imredy
Imredy
Chamber of Deputies
Suspect Promises Guilty Plea On Auto Theft Charge
MIAMI Florida The sheriff s office said Frank Garner Jr 20 of Ashtabula Ohio sought for questioning in the citrus grower slaying case in central Florida had promised to plead guilty to auto theft charges Garner was expected to plead while a state attorney s office representative en route from Bartow to discuss the Best death had not yet arrived
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Miami
Fla
O.P
Frank Garner
Ashtabula
Florida
Bartow
Garner
F. A. Best
Mother Charged With Murder of Infant
Oakland mother of three children charged with murder after her newborn was found abandoned in a vacant lot. She told police she sent the infant there via her nine year old daughter to avoid her husband’s suspicion of infidelity and hid her pregnancy by claiming a tumor.
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Oakland
Calif
Rose Bozich
Plea Denies Padding Expense Accounts
Former State Representative Julian Schweller of Fort Jennings pleads not guilty in common pleas court to padding expenses for the 1935 36 biennium. He allegedly added 400 dollars to his expense accounts and remains free on a 500 dollar bond.
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Columbus
Julian Schweller
Fort Jennings
General Assembly
Common Pleas
Schweller
Liberty
Government tax receipts rise in October totals
The Internal Revenue Bureau released October collections of 135,061,299 dollars, up 30,811,374 from the same period a year ago.
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Washington
Internal Revenue Bureau
France and Germany Reach No More War Accord Amid Labor Strikes
Daladier's government faces a potential general strike as France seals a no more war pact with Germany. Labor unrest, tax hikes, and working-hour increases fuel protests while Chamberlain and Halifax arrive for foreign policy talks.
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Paris
U.P
France
Nazi Germany
Edouard Daladier
Valenciennes
Cail
Lillie
National Committee
Federation of Labor
Neville Chamberlain
Viscount Halifax
Daladier
Chamberlain
Germany
Munich
Six Die After Italian Train Plunges Into Torre River
Rescue workers recovered six bodies after a train fell from a viaduct into the Torre River at flood stage. Thirteen people were injured, with several expected to die, as crews searched for victims and cleared wreckage.
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Udine
Italy
UPR
Torre River
Barcelona Raid Injuries and Casualties Reported
Sudden air attack on Barcelona’s lower district twice today injures 100 and 60 fatally. Officials describe rapid strikes disrupting Central Barcelona and surrounding areas. Police and emergency services respond to the scenes amid ongoing investigation.
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Barcelona
Upi
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