GOP National Committee Prepares 1940 Campaign
The Republican National Committee met to review 1938 victories and plan the 1940 bid. Chairman John D. M. Hamilton announced the slogan On to 1940, as three new members join the committee led by Kenneth F. Simpson, whose shift may spark a liberal versus conservative clash in selecting a presidential nominee. Dewey’s loss frames the battle ahead.
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Washington
U.P
Republican National Committee
Thata Ie
Driffawannan tadAnes
Uy Cmll
G.O.P
John D. M. Hamilton
Kenneth F. Simpson
New York
Charles D. Hilles
G.O.P. Com
Simpson
Thomas E. Dewey
Herbert H. Lehman
Mine Blast Fatalities At Unity Coal Mine
Salem reports two miners John Sutherin 65 and Charles McDade 23 died from suffocation after an explosion at a small Unity area mine. Willis Bable 45 warned others, but timbers blocked escape. Harold French 34 WPA worker pulled bodies and was hospitalised.
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Salem
U.P
John Sutherin
Charles McDade
Unity
Arnold W. Devon
Devon
Willis Bable
Harold French
WPA
Judge Sentences Plea D defendants in Mail Theft Case
In Columbus federal court Judge Mell G. Underwood continues sentencing after pleas of guilty to grand jury indictments. Three Laurelville inmates receive terms for U S mails theft and forgery: Beman Tisdale four months Roy Tisdale three months Carl E Thompson 30 days.
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Columbus
U.P
Mell G. Underwood
U. S
Beman Tisdale
Roy Tisdale
Carl E. Thompson
Laurelville
Hocking County
Reopening Yangtse Navigation Refused by Japan
Shanghai dispatch reports Japan formally refused to reopen the Yangtse River to commercial navigation. Admiral Koshiro Oikawa delivered the memorandum to naval commanders of the United States Britain France and Italy, outlining Japan’s position on the access issue.
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Shanghai
U.P
Japan
Yangtse
Unitedates
Britain
France
Italy
Koshiro Oikawa
China
Belgium Pushes Mediation Plan for Spanish Civil War
Premier Paul Henri Spaak told the senate that Belgium intends to seek mediation of the Spanish civil war by Belgium Great Britain and France.
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Brussels
U.P
Paul Henri Spaak
Senate Today
Belgium
Great Britain
France
Airliner Crashes in Pacific. Five Believed Dead
United Airlines mainliner en route Seattle to San Francisco crashes into the Pacific near Point Reyes. Pilot Charles Stead and stewardess Fiona Clay survived by ropes from a 6500-foot cliff, while five others aboard are missing. rescue efforts hampered by rough seas and rugged coastline.
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San Francisco
U.P
Coast Guard
United Airlines
Pacific Ocean
Charles Stead
LR. Edelstein
Seattle
Point Reyes
Calif
California
Golden Gate
Coast
San Rafael
Crissey
Oakland Fields
Airlines
Lloyd Jones
Fiona Clay
Alameda
S. L. Shonts
Spokane
Wash
J. B. Hefelb
Siskiyou Mountains
Oakland
San Francisco Bay Area
Stead
John N. Buckley
H. J. Pfleghaar
Woman Hangs Self in Logan County Jail
Bellefontaine Ohio Monday night Mabel Kindle 24 of Beaver Dam Ohio hanged herself in the Logan County jail. She was jailed last week on suspicion that laws in her possession were intended for a male prisoner she had tried to visit. Sheriff Bewley said she left a note saying she loved the man.
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Bellefontaine
U.P
Mabel Kindle
Beaver Dam
Logan County
Charles Bewley
Evatt Appointed Ohio Finance Director by Bricker
Governor elect John W. Bricker names William S. Evatt chief counsel in the attorney general's office as state director of finance. Evatt, a Republican veteran of the AG's office since 1929, will begin work soon at a salary of 6500 dollars per year and will help shape the next state budget. Bricker may announce another cabinet choice this week and will meet a citizens committee on school financing.
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Columbus
A.P
John W. Bricker
William S. Evatt
Ohio
Bricker
Evatt
Attorney General
Walton Bliss
Ohio Education Association
Citizens’ Committee
Road Blockade To Catch Game Hogs Approved
Columbus AP reports state highway patrolmen and conservation officers will maintain road blockades to check for game law violations. Lawrence Wooddell, conservation commissioner, said officers will not require warrants unless motorists consent, despite a prosecutor’s ruling, and the measure has sportsman approval.
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Columbus
A.P
Lawrence Wooddell
Wooddell
Ralph J. Bartlett
Franklin County
Ohio
Tech To Meet Texas Champs In Sugar Bowl Bid
Carnegie Tech accepted an invitation to play Texas Christian University in the New Orleans Sugar Bowl on January 2. The team voted to accept over other bowls like the Cotton Bowl in Dallas. In Cardington, Mrs. Almina Reese, 95, MorRow County’s elder resident, died Monday night.
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Pittsburgh
U.P
Carnegie Tech
New Orleans
Texas Christian University
Dallas
Tex
Cardington
Almira Reese
Morrow County
Hunters Trapped by Maine Blizzard Reach 62 of 100
State police report that 62 of 100 hunters snowbound in Northeastern Maine have been accounted for. Rescue crews from three sides plan to finish rescuing stragglers tonight. One injured woman was dragged 14 miles to a rescue base. autos and cabins were dug out and fueled by rescuers as a scout plane surveyed the area. Temperature hovered near zero.
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Bangor
Maine
Nicatous Lake
Condemnation Hearings Set for Gallipolis Land
Condemnation proceedings for about 30 parcels of land near Gallipolis along the Kanawha River in the federal improvement project will begin March 9. The date was set at a conference with Gallipolis landholders and their attorneys, announced by assistant U S district attorney Loren G Windom.
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Gallipolis
Columbus
Kanawha River
Loren G. Windom
U.S
New OWU Chooses Herbert J Burgstahler as President
Delaware Ohio Wanda Ohio Wesleyan University selects Herbert J Burgstahler 52 current president of Cornell College Mt Vernon Iowa as eighth president to start September 1 1939 after a year long search by trustees and faculty.
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Delaware
U.P
Ohio Wesleyan University
Mid-Western
Herbert J. Burgstahler
Cornell College
Mt. Vernon
Iowa
Ohio Wesleyan
Mexican Miners Demand Big Wage Increase
The miners union called a strike on December 7 involving 5,000 workers at the American owned Real Del Monte Mine in Hidalgo State. They demanded an annual wage increase of about 1.6 million dollars.
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Mexico City
Real del Monte
Hidalgo State
Jenkins Seeks Minority Leadership in House
Ohio Congressman Thomas A. Jenkins attracts support from the state delegation in a bid for Republican minority leadership. Other contenders include Rep. Joseph W. Martin Jr. and Rep. James W. Wadsworth. Jenkins, ironton born and aligned with moderates, considers a formal announcement soon as party caucus sets the leadership vote before Congress opens on January 3.
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Ohio
Congressman Jenkins
House
Washington
U.P
Thomas A. Jenkins
Joseph W. Martin, Jr
Massachusetts
James W. Wadsworth
New York
Jenkins
Congress
Ironton, O
Conciliators Meet for Third Time on CIO Strike
Federal and state conciliators and CIO officials meet in Chicago to push a settlement of the strike at the Union Stock Yards and Transit Company. The walkout by livestock handlers began November 21 over bargaining in good faith. CIO seeks a written contract as condition to ending the walkout.
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Chicago
U.P
CIO
Congress of Industrial Organizations
American Federation of Labor
U S May Push United Defense Plan At Pan American Meet
Lima Peru reports that the United States is expected to seek Latin American backing at the eighth Pan American Conference for a coordinated defense of the Western Hemisphere under President Roosevelt. Latin states supportive of the plan will urge Secretary Hull to secure a general resolution before the December 9 opening, avoiding a formal treaty.
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Lima
Peru
U.P
United States
Roosevelt
Cordell Hull
Hull
Pension Probe Opens in State
Four agents of the Federal Social Security Board began an independent investigation of Ohio old age pension system in Columbus. They met with state pension administrator Wray Bevens and are to decide if Ohio has met the board’s stipulations to resume federal pension aid.
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Columbus
U.P
Federal Social Security Board
Ohio
Robert C. Goodwin
Cleveland
Social Security Board
Wray Bevens
Bevens
Goodwin
Court Orders Sparks Reinstatement by State Court
Franklin County Common Pleas Court ordered Harry A. Sparks reinstated as state highway engineer after his dismissal followed his testimony before the graft investigating committee. Sparks charged the state paid excessive prices for hot mix road materials.
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Columbus
U.P
Harry A. Sparks
State Senate
Franklin County Common Pleas Court
Sparks
Dancing Aviator Launches Transcontinental Flight
John M. Jones known as the dancing aviator left Los Angeles Municipal Airport at 6 31 a m in a $2000 Air Scooter bound for New York on a nonstop nonrefueling journey.
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Los Angeles
John M. Jones
Municipal
New York
Miners Trapped After Fire Hits Fuchs Grube Germany
Twenty two miners were trapped and believed killed when a fire struck the Fuchs grube in Waldenburg Germany. Rescue workers had already recovered nine bodies.
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Waldenburg
Germany
Fuchsgrube
Mrs Esther Bash Dies in Columbus Hospital
Esther Bash age 39 co proprietor of the Berwick Golf Course with her husband Herbert W Bash died in a local hospital today in Columbus.
Divine Cure Fails Mother Guilty in Manslaughter Case
In Los Angeles a mother, Lillian Volstad, was convicted of voluntary manslaughter for withholding medical care from her dying son Francis, nine, after a court-ordered hospital transfer. Minister Rev. Wilbur Alvis was acquitted, with the judge labeling him a religious racketeer. Probation hearing set for December 20.
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Los Angeles
A. A. Scott
Wilbur Alvis
U S Defense Leaders Meet for Mobilization Conference
More than 180 high ranking Army Navy and Marine officers will gather in Washington for a secret conference on President Roosevelt s industrial mobilization plan. Officials say the meeting will reveal weaknesses in men equipment and sources of supply and act as a stock taking review.
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Washington
U.P
Army
Navy
Marine Corps
Roosevelt
War Department
War and Navy Department
Estate Hidden Funds Found In Charity Patient's Rooming House Death
Robert Mooney 65 died in a Cleveland rooming house. Authorities found 900 in cash in a trunk and over 20 000 in bank deposits. Mooney, a charity patient recently treated by a city physician, had lived there since 1910 and had not worked.
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Cleveland
Robert Mooney
Mooney
Germany Mobilizes 110000 Soldiers Cites Ruthenia Ties
The London News Chronicle reports Germany secretly mobilizing about 110000 troops. It ties the move to Polish and Hungarian claims on Ruthenia, a Czechoslovak autonomous region, and suggests motives linked to triggering incidents on Czechoslovakia’s eastern frontier to gain leverage and possibly seize Prague with German support.
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London
U.P
London News Chronicle
Germany
Ruthenia
Czechoslovakia
News Chronicle
Prague
Pair Commits Death By Own Action In Car
The bodies of Miss Mary Haynes and Emerson Radcliffe were found in an automobile in Sheffield Lake Village with a carbon monoxide connection from a vacuum cleaner tube. Coroner Sherman Ward ruled death by own action and noted the two had been friends for about a year and Radcliffe had recently divorced.
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Lorain
U.P
Mary Haynes
Emerson Radcliffe
Sheffield Lake
Sheffield Lake Village
Sherman C. Ward
Radcliffe
Petit Jurors To Begin District Term Monday
Sixty petit jurors for the U.S. District Court term start Monday after the marshals office completed summons. Names include Ralph Williams Carbondale William Haptonstall Middleport William Barry New Straitsville W D Thomas Pomeroy G A Lash Albany Melrose Harbaugh Logan Charles A Gardner Amesville W I Krieg Logan.
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Columbus
U.P
U.S. District Court
Marshals Office
Ralph Williams
Carbondale
William Haptonstall
Middleport
William Barry
New Straitsville
W. D. Thomas
Pomeroy
G. A. Lash
Albany
Melrose Harbaugh
Logan
Charles A. Gardner
Amesville
W. I. Krieg
Seek Bandit and Woman Companion Seen Near Chicago Heights
State police pursued Denny Dickson, Kansas bank robber, and his wife Esther after they eluded roadblocks. They allegedly kidnapped three men and stole two cars and were last seen near Hammond Indiana en route to Chicago Heights.
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Chicago
U.P
Denny Dickson
Kansas
Esther
Hammond
Ind
Chicago Heights
Farmers Organize Hunt Against Raiding Wolves
Farmers in northeastern Champaign and southeastern Logan Counties plan a large wolf hunt after raids on sheep and poultry. Two wolves were shot by Leo Grimes and Roscoe Green from a party of 16, with sightings of multiple wolves in local woods and swamps. No date has been set for the expedition amid ongoing reports of wolves and a previously proposed bounty bill.
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Urbana
Ohio
Champaign
Logan
West Liberty
Leo Grimes
Roscoe Green
William Bates
Jack Hale
Herman King
Green's Swamp
Mac-O-Chee
William Jordan
Government of Daladier Is on Trial
Five million workers plan a Wednesday strike against Daladier's social reforms and 40 hour week as Paris braces for a clash with Mobile Guards. The crisis pits Daladier’s middle ground against the left, with potential government collapse or recovery hinging on the protests. Meanwhile Chamberlain faces a Rome visit to reset European peace efforts and Japan’s naval expansion prompts U S defense boosts in the Pacific and Caribbean.
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Joe Alex Morris
United Press
France
Europe
Edouard Daladier
Paris
Daladier
Neville Chamberlain
Rome
Chamberlain
Italy
Munich
Mussolini
Czech
Germany
Senator Jones To Lead Republican Caucus In State Senate
POMEROY Staff Special describes a caucus of 27 Republican state senators set for Friday December 2 called by Senator Tom W. Jones of Middleport. As ranking member he chairs due to long service, with aims to select officers and discuss policy and plans of the majority in the Senate.
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Pomeroy
Tom W. Jones
Middleport
Senate
Meigs County
Advances new plan resettling German Jews abroad
Arthur Kuffler, a Jew and Austrian industrialist, will submit to international authorities in London a plan to resettle German Jews abroad, it was learned today.
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Berlin
AUP
Arthur Kuffler
London
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