Week end sea toll rises to 22 ships 350 lives feared
London reports a blockade order signed by King George amid fierce wartime sea actions. Over the week end 22 ships were sunk or damaged and more than 350 lives lost or missing as German exports were blocked and mines and naval actions dominated the Atlantic, Thames, and English Channel.
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London
George
Buckingham Palace
Germany
Great Britain
War Office
Paris
Britain
Royston Grange
Atlantic
Philadelphia man slays mother in law and sister in law
Stanley Kruger 30 entered his estranged wife Regina Meckowski's Philadelphia home and fatally shot his mother in law Florence Meckowski and sister in law Josephine Meckowski. He critically wounded Regina and her father Felix Meckowski before killing himself. Neighbors said he beat his wife from a second floor window and threw her to the sidewalk. He blamed the family for the separation after a January wedding.
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Philadelphia
Stanley Kruger
Josephine Meckowski
Florence Meckowski
Kruger
Regina
Felix
Greene Co Library Bans Grapes of Wrath
Greene County library board withdrew John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath from all branches citing a private board matter. Xenia report notes the book was not on shelves and has not been banned in other Ohio counties.
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Xenia
U.P
Greene County
Ohio
Joseph Steinbeck
F. H. Flynn
Greene County District Library Board
Deaf School Students Injured in Auto Crash
On Route 40 six miles west of Zanesville two 14 year old deaf school students from Zanesville Dolly Flanders and Hilda Bates were seriously injured. Hilda Bates was a passenger in a car driven by her father Charles Bates returning the girls after Thanksgiving. Four others were injured in the collision.
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Zanesville
Dolly Flanders
Tiffin
Hilda Bates
State School For the Deaf
Hilda
Charles
Transcontinental Broadcasting to Go On Air Jan 1
The Transcontinental Broadcasting system plans a January 1 launch with over 100 stations nationwide. President Elliott Roosevelt announced the new radio network today.
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New York
WUP
Trans- Continental Broadcasting System
Elliott Roosevelt
Federal Crop Insurance Sets Feb 29 Deadline for 1940 Spring Wheat
The Federal Crop Insurance Corporation announced February 29 as the deadline to accept applications for all risk insurance on the 1940 spring wheat crop.
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Washington
Federal Crop Insurance Corporation Today
Johnson assails reciprocal trade program as threat to domestic industry
Sen Edwin C Johnson accuses the administration of an insidious formula that undermines tariffs and invites cheap foreign labor, denouncing the U S foreign trade program as it hearings begin on a Chilean treaty. He joins critics including Sen Key Pittman in opposing concessions on copper.
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Washington
Edwin C. Johnson
Colo
Cordell Hull
Committee For
Chile
Congress
Key Pittman
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Pittman
Hull
Probe Heads To Crash That Killed Two Fliers
Civil Aeronautics Authority probes a Huntington collision at the Huntington-Ironton-Chesapeake airport where two men died Clark B. Matthews and J C Rothrock. Surviving pilot Dr H E Guthrie landed safely. The crash occurred about 400 feet while both planes attempted an approach at 2 15 pm It was the field's first fatality in 10 years. In Columbus a Purdue University student Emmett Hamer and Mary Lincoln were hospitalized in serious condition after a separate crash near Middleburg.
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Huntington
W. Va
Civil Aeronautics Authority
Huntington - Ironton - Chesapeake
Clark B. Matthews
Marietta
J. C. Rothrock
Ind
H. E. Guthrie
Matthews
Rotrock
Columbus
U.P
Middleburg
Emmett Hamer
Purdue University
Mary Lincoln
West Liberty
Hamer
Purdue
Middleburg-Bellefontaine Road
Bigelow Plans 1940 Revival of $50 Pension Fight
Rev. Herbert S. Bigelow of Cincinnati, a preacher and councilman, announced a renewed push in 1940 to amend the state constitution to guarantee a $50 monthly pension for ages over 60. The plan was rejected by voters at the November 7 election by more than a three to one ratio. The state committee of the Bigelow organization approved continuing efforts with clarified definitions and explanations.
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Columbus
Herbert S. Bigelow
Cincinnati
Bigelow
Police Hunt Chillicothe Fugitive Near Zanesville
One of four escapees from the U S reformatory remains at large after assaulting two guards in Chillicothe. Authorities narrowed search to the Zanesville area where the fugitive William Powell age 17 is said to have friends and may have stolen a car. The other escapees were recaptured.
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Chillicothe
U. S. Reformatory
Zanesville
William Powell
Two Killed in Elyria Car Collision
Edgar F. Hall Jr. 26 and wife Roberta 25 of Avon Lake Village died when their car struck a tree on a curve while returning from a party in Cleveland. The Sunday crash near Elyria ended both their lives.
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Elyria
U.P
Edgar F. Hall, Jr
Roberta
Avon Lake Village
Cleveland
Hall
Maneuvers by National Guard Called Success
Columbus Ohio 9000 guardsmen return to civilian jobs after a five day Thanksgiving training period Maj Gen Gilson Light reports high morale and 90 percent duty turnout He notes lack of coordinated training among infantry artillery and air corps with main concentrations at Camp Perry and Columbus and smaller units elsewhere
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Air Corps
Light
Camp Perry
Columbus
Germans Report Little Firing on West Front
Berlin dispatch says the German army high command reports little activity on the western front with only weak artillery fire. The D.N.B. agency notes a German patrol reached the Maginot Line at one point and produced observations and sketches.
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West Front
Berlin
U.P
D.N.B
Maginot Line
Cincinnati Cemetery Lot Fraud Trial Underway
Purchasers of lots in Arlington Memorial Cemetery testified as witnesses in a federal court trial against 12 defendants charged with cemetery lot sales fraud. The case resumed after a Thanksgiving recess in Cincinnati.
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Cincinnati
U.P
Arlington Memorial Cemetery
Plastic aircraft to be mass produced by California builder
Los Angeles based O W Timm announced a new plastic aircraft method using triple laminated spruce plywood and phenol formaldehyde like bakelite. The first prototype is nearly complete and plans call for affordable, repairable planes selling around 3500 dollars, about half the price of metal counterparts.
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Los Angeles
U.P
O. W. Timm
Timm
Police Escort 187 Back To Work at Dodge Plant
About 200 workers, mostly Black, entered Chrysler’s Dodge main plant under heavy police guard in a back to work move amid a 4,000 strong picket. The entry involved 187 workers including six whites, linked to UAW AFL and CINOs CIO factions amid a 53 day Chrysler dispute. Negotiations resumed with a CIO official present as police removed improvised weapons and kept pickets back.
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Dodge Plant
Detroit
Dodge
Chrysler Corporation
United Automobile Workers Union
American Federation of Labor
UAW
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Chrysler
Nawcio
CIO
SOS Call From Peter Kerr Off Japanese Kuriles
The steamer Peter Kerr issued a general SOS from off the Kurile Islands early today. Globe Wireless reports the vessel was in a rough sea with its hold full of water. Captain Katz said the ship broadcasting at 5:30 a.m. EST and 9 a.m. today.
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San Francisco
U.P
Peter Kerr
Kurile Islands
Globe Wireless
Katz
Youth Organization Proposes National Health Program
The American Youth Commission urged a government funded nationwide public health program to prepare the nation's youth for war crisis conditions.
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Washington
The
American Youth Commission Today
Ohio editors meet Bricker on relief drive
Governor Bricker invites 14 editors and publishers from Ohio newspapers to a Tuesday conference on local relief problems, aiming to coordinate city relief efforts across the state.
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Columbus
U.P
Bricker
Ohio
House Group Opens Study of FDR's Bid for Funds
The House Appropriations defiency subcommittee begins review of President Roosevelt's request for 271,999,523 more for national defense. The push would lift current defense spending above 2.0 billion for the year ending June 30 amid wartime measures and heightened security. General Marshall testifies as hearings proceed behind closed doors.
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House Group
Washington
Congress
House
Roosevelt
Europe
Federal Bureau of Investigation
House Appropriations Committee
Edward T. Taylor
Army
Navy
Coast Guard
George C. Marshall
Film Workers Win 10 Percent Pay Hike for 35,000
Hollywood producers agree to a 10 percent raise for 35 000 studio technicians and day laborers and pledge continued theater operations for 79 more days. They say on February 15 1940 the unions must prove studios can sustain the increases to a neutral board.
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Hollywood
Mrs Roosevelt Offers to Testify on Communist Link to Youth
Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt said she would be glad to testify before the Dies committee on alleged Communist influence in the American Youth Congress. She charged Chairman Martin Dies and the committee never asked her to respond to statements about her or the youth movement by witnesses.
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Washington
U.P
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Dies
American Youth Congress
Chatrrmeu Martin Dies
Tex
Truck Driver Killed by Train at Dayton Crossing
A Big Four passenger train struck a stalled light truck south of Dayton killing Charles Newburg a 50 year old feed dealer from near Miamisburg. The train was traveling from Cleveland to Cincinnati. A separate fatal crossing crash occurred at the same site a month earlier.
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Dayton
U.P
Charles Newburg
Miamisburg
Cleveland
Cincinnati
Lowther Again Seeks Court Aid in Romance
New York, UP: George Lowther III seeks another writ of habeas corpus to gain control of Eileen Herrick claiming the law can force marriage. He may also ask the court to hold her father in contempt for not obeying prior orders.
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New York
Romeo
George Lowther III
Juliet
Eileen Herrick
Lowther
Fremont Man Dies of Injuries from Crash
Leo Riedy 69 of Sandusky died in a hospital here from injuries suffered in a Sunday night automobile collision. He passed away today. Local authorities investigated the crash and announced details pending further report.
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Fremont
Leo Riedy
Sandusky
Operator Stays at Post To Bring Help in Blaze
In Warsaw Kentucky a night telephone operator remained at her switchboard as flames neared, summoning external aid that helped fight a fire destroying the village’s two largest buildings. Firefighters from multiple towns battled the four hour blaze, with losses around 10000 dollars. The fire began in the Warsaw motion picture theater and spread to the county agent’s office WPA offices and an adjacent apartment. Guests at the Brown Hotel affected by the fire escaped as furniture was moved from rooms.
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Warsaw
Covington
Fort Mitchell
Elsmere
Ghent
Carrollton
Lillian Whitehead
WPA
Roy Wilson
Brown Hotel
Withdrawal Demands Spark Soviet Mass Meetings Across Union
Moscow and Leningrad mass meetings demanded Finland withdraw troops from the Karelian Isthmus frontier or face retaliation. Russians cited artillery fire at Mainila and claimed casualties while Molotov pressed for 12 to 15 mile withdrawal, amid sharp Pravda attacks on Cajander.
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Moscow
Finland
Leningrad
Soviet Union
Karelian
V. M. Molotov
Molotov
Mainila
Maginot
Gulf of Finland
Lake Ladoga
A. J. Cajander
Pravda
Communist Party
Cajander
Esthenia
Latvvia
Lithuania
Russia
Karelian Isthmus
Finnish Hanga Peninsula
Petsamo
Helsingfors
U.R
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Southport
Lucille Marie Swails
Belleville
Ban
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U.S. Foreign Trade Program
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