Tobey urges split of neutrality bill to speed tide and carry
Sen. Charles W. Tobey calls for splitting the neutrality bill so tide and carry provisions can be acted on without delay while the arms embargo repeal is debated. He argues the move would empower Secretary Hull to shield ships in war zones. Debate hinges on votes and procedural maneuvering in the Senate.
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Washington
Charles W. Tobey
N. H
Senate
Tobey
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Cordell Hull
Gerald P. Nye
N. D
M. M. Logan
Alben W. Barkley
New York Times
Congressional Record
Woman Fined After Crash Near Athens
Mrs Edith M Watson 36 of Route 3 Coolville was fined 25 dollars and costs by Mayor Cliff Cornell for reckless driving after her car crashed with Clarence Hoffman 31 of Murray City on Route 33 about one mile north of Athens. Hoffmans car sustained 50 dollars damage and Mrs Watsons about 25 dollars. Hoffmans mother Mrs Gold Hoffman and a passenger suffered a minor back injury. no other injuries reported.
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Edith M. Watson
Coolville
Cliff Cornell
Clarence Hoffman
Murray City
Watson
Hoffman
Athens
Gold Hoffman
Deny Judgment To Fan Hart in Crosley Field
The Ohio Supreme Court denied Margaret Ivory a judgment against the Cincinnati Baseball Club for injuries from a foul ball at Crosley Field during a Cubs Reds game in 1935. Ivory had won $1,000 in common pleas court before the appellate reversal.
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Fan Hart
Crosley Field
Columbus
U.P
State Supreme Court
Margaret Ivory
Cincinnati Baseball Club
Cubs
Reds
Common Pleas Court
Court of Appeals
New System Aimed at Sales Tax Defrauders
State Treasurer Don H. Ebright announced a new sales tax stamp numbering system in Columbus to curb fraud by tax agents and vendors and boost receipts. All purchase orders will be numbered to trace stamp sales to their sources and eliminate many abuses.
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Columbus
Don H. Ebright
Ebright
U.S. Aviators Patrol Panama Canal District
U.S. airmen fly the Panama Canal neutrality patrol over more than half a million square miles of salt water. About a dozen naval bombers patrol from dawn to dark from Florida to South America, guarding Atlantic shipping entering the Caribbean Sea toward the canal.
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Washington
U.P
United States
Florida
South America
Caribbean
Canal
United Press
French Press Moves to Remove Communist MPs and Dissolve Municipalities
The government adjourned parliament to strip 43 communist deputies of immunity and dissolved 67 municipalities under communist control. Seventy municipalities lie in the Paris region's Red Ring with the rest in Seine Oise Pas de Calais and the northern mining area.
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Paris
Seine
Oise
Pas de Calais
Plan To Cut Highway Accidents Outlined In Columbus
Highway Director Robert S Beightler announced he would meet with assistants Friday to discuss a plan to reduce accidents on state highways. The plan aims to identify high accident areas and may lead to more intensive policing and regulation with special markings in those zones.
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Columbus
U.P
Robert S. Beightler
Ohio Pension Share Reaches 4.24 Million
The U S Social Security Board today granted Ohio 4 236 365 as the federal share of old age pension payments for the quarter ending December 1 1939. The grant was 173 322 higher than the previous quarter.
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Columbus
WAP
U. S. Social Security Board
Ohio
Deny Pamphlet Raid Claim Over Berlin Potsdam
The air force staff denied the British assertion that planes dropped propaganda leaflets over Berlin and Potsdam on Tuesday or any other night, saying no such missions occurred.
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Berlin
Air Force
Potsdam
Hitler Takes Warsaw Into Nazi Domain
Berlin reports Adolf Hitler flew to Warsaw and reviewed Nazi troops entering the Polish capital. A radio broadcast announced the Fuehrer’s triumphal entry as he prepared a Reichstag speech likely to issue a peace ultimatum to Britain and France.
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Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Warsaw
Fuehrer
Hitler
Reichstag
Great Britain
France
West Wall
Hermann Goering
Glass Factory Strike Delayed at Crystal City Plant
A 2000 worker protest at the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Crystal City Missouri plant is postponed. CIO district president Robert McVay said union company and a federal conciliator will meet to discuss recognition as the bargaining agent.
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ST. Louis
Crystal City
Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company
Robert McVay
CIO Federation of Flat Glass Workers
Bricker Backs VFW Peace Plan Drive in Ohio
Governor John W. Bricker officially endorses the Veterans of Foreign Wars statewide campaign opposed to U S participation in Europe. He proclaims October 29 to November 4 as Neutrality Week and urges citizens to join the effort.
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Columbus
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Ohio
John W. Bricker
Veterans Organization
Hundred Japanese Officials Quit Over Trade Ministry Move
More than 100 officials and other employees of the foreign office resigned in Tokyo to protest the formation of an independent trade ministry. They argue the move will fail to unify diplomatic administration and hinder government policy coordination.
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Tokyo
WAP
Foreign Office
Dayton Detective Sergeant Dies From Wounds
Detective Sergeant Lucius J. Rice age 63 a senior Negro member of the Dayton police force died from wounds suffered Saturday night in a gun battle with fugitive Floyd McAlpin.
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Dayton
U.P
Lucius J. Rice
Floyd McAlpin
TVA Heads Accused of Union Discrimination at AFL Meeting
At a Cincinnati AFL convention workers accused the Tennessee Valley Authority of discriminating against labor unions and pressuring nonmembership. Delegates stated TVA officials refused to bargain with the Tennessee Valley Trades and Labor Council and urged union members to resign. Dean William F. Russell urged cross‑sector cooperation to defend democracy and schools as resolutions debated peace with the CIO amid national crisis.
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Cincinnati
American Federation of Labor Building and Metal Trades Departments
Tennessee Valley Authority
TVA
Tennessee Valley Trades and Labor Council
William F. Russell
Columbia University Teachers’ College
Convention
Roosevelt
AFL
CIO
James Invited to Washington Conference
Dr. Herman G. James, president of Ohio University, received a letter from Secretary of State Cordell Hull inviting him to a conference on inter American relations in Washington. He is accepting and will attend November 9 and 10.
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Herman G. James
Ohio University
Cordell Hull
Washington
James
Government Spending To Break Peacetime High This Year
Washington sources estimate federal outlays will exceed 9.6 billion dollars, surpassing the peacetime peak of 9.268 billion reached last year. Revenue gains from business improvements may be offset by reduced customs receipts due to wartime shipping disruption.
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Washington
U.P
Bricker Urges Return To Local Government
Gov. John W. Bricker of Ohio urged a return to local government rule and less reliance on state and federal authorities. He attacked federal policy for eroding individual responsibility and spoke at the 44th annual American Life convention of insurance companies.
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Chicago
U.P
John W. Bricker
Ohio
American Life Convention
Stark County to issue bonds for delinquent taxes relief
Stark County commissioners were approved to issue 72000 in bonds to anticipate delinquent tax collection for poor relief in the 1939 fiscal year. The city of Kenton was also approved to issue 11770 in bonds under the same statute for the same purpose.
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Columbus
U.P
Stark County
Board of Tax Appeals
Kenton
FDR Hands Off on Neutrality Debate as He Heads to Hyde Park
President Roosevelt, signaling a hands off stance, leaves for a weekend at Hyde Park home while Congress debates repeal of the arms embargo.
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Congress
Washington
Roosevelt
White House
Hyde Park
N. Y
Widow defrauds rich friends of $1 000 000 in New York
The New York attorney general charges widow Lydia B. Koch 55 with defrauding socialite friends and others of about 1 million dollars. She led Reenforced Paper Bottle Corp and Service Milk Bottle Corp, selling stock while delivering little product. Clients included Charles Schwab and J. and W. Seligman Co members.
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NEW York
U.P
Attorney General's Office
Lydia B. Koch
Reenforced Paper Bottle Corporation
Service Milk Bottle Corporation
Koch
Charles Schwab
J. and W. Seligman and Company
John Henry Hammond
Elma Rumsey Cartier
Adrian
Hollywood
Rudolph E. Wurlitzer
Cincinnati
Girl Escapes from School to Help Mother in Transit
A 14-year-old girl escaped Lancaster State School for Girls and walked 16 miles to Worcester City Hospital to give a blood transfusion to her mother Mary Knaab 40 who was critically ill. Police returned her to the school after the procedure.
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Lancaster
Mass
U.R
Lancaster State School
Worcester City Hospital
Mary Knaab
Germans Claim Air Victories In Early War
Berlin based DNB reports German pursuit planes and anti aircraft guns destroyed 27 British and 45 French aircraft in the war's first month. A Sept 30 aerial battle was re counted as causing 21 British and French losses on the Western Front and two in the North Sea, with Germany losing five planes in that clash.
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Berlin
A.P
DNB
North Sea
Germany
Nazi Submarine Rescues Crew Near Irish Coast
The German submarine U 35 surfaced near Dingle Ireland and launched a collapsible boat with 28 crewmen from the 8,000 ton Greek freighter Diamentis. Civics guards pursued but the U 35 submerged after torpedoing ships nine miles off the west Irish coast on Tuesday.
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Dingle
Eire
Civic Guards
League Appeals Against Dies Group Activities
The American League for Peace and Democracy denounces the Dies committee seizure of its membership records as illegal and asks Congress to end its unlawful methods. A statement to President Roosevelt urges reaffirming civil liberties and the U S commitment to protecting the bill of rights.
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Washington
American League For Peace and Democracy
Dies Committee
Congress
Roosevelt
United States
Burglary Hits Nine Women During Choir Practice
While choir practice occurred at Mrs. C. S. Heston's home in Columbus a burglar robbed nine women in a second floor bedroom. Police were informed today.
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Columbus
U.P
C. S. Heston
Police group opposes Bigelow pension plan in Ohio vote
The Ohio Association of Chiefs of Police announced opposition to the Bigelow pension plan, which is slated for a statewide vote in November.
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Pension Plan Youngstown
Ohio Association of Chiefs of Police
Bigelow Pension Plan
Ohio
Court Blocks Bricker Civil Service Choice
Ohio Supreme Court 4 to 3 nullified Governor Bricker’s appointment of Herbert W Mitchell to the State Civil Service Commission and held the new Civil Service Act remains under referendum. The ruling means the old law stays in effect pending the referendum and Secretary of State Earl Griffith erred in rejecting petitions as defective.
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Columbus
U.P
Ohio Supreme Court
Bricker
Herbert W. Mitchell
St. Clairsville
State Civil Service Commission
Thomas J. Herbert
Earl J. Griffith
Griffith
Four Guilty in Abortion Death
Four defendants Hudson physicians Dr. C. M. Daugherty Dr. Raymond C. Rush a barber and a practical nurse plead guilty on abortion charges in the death of 24 year old Dorothy Metzner a beauty parlor operator. They face sentencing next Tuesday before Common Pleas Judge E D Fritch after noting mitigating circumstances during the plea for leniency.
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AKRON
A.P
Hudson
Common Pleas
E. D.fritch
Dorothy Metzner
C. M. Daugherty
Raymond C. Rush
Sidney Lewis
Florence Lowe
Virginia Brawdy to be returned to Marysville
Virginia Brawdy of Akron who escaped from the Ohio Women's Reformatory last June is to be returned to the Marysville institution from Winchester Virginia. State Welfare Director Charles L. Sherwood said today. Miss Brandy was captured Sept. 25 in Van Wert and taken to Winchester with two men linked to a Virginia holdup.
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Columbus
U.P
Virginia Brawdy
Akron
Velma West
Hammer Slayer
Ohio Women’s Reformatory
Marysville Institution
Winchester
Charles L. Sherwood
Miss Brandy
van Wert
Virginia City
Butler County Slayer Must Die in Chair
State Supreme Court upholds death sentence for Lafe Williams for the murder of Butler County farmer Henry Graham. Execution set for October 25 in the electric chair after overruling appeals.
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Butler County
Columbus
U.P
State Supreme Court
Lafe Williams
Henry Graham
Supreme Court
Williams
Fever U-boat Victims Fall In First Week Of War
German submarine sinkings of British ships dropped from 65 000 tons in the first week of the war to 876 tons this week officials said today indicating a decline in U-boat activity.
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London
Soviet Balkans Strike Plans Face Setback
Europe braces as Turkey Belgium and Russia clash over Balkan strategy amid tensions before Hitler’s Friday Reichstag speech. Berlin denies Belgian neutrality breaches while Brussels weighs a potential pretext to repeat 1914 Belgium invasion.
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Turkey
Belgium
Europe
Adolf Hitler
Brussels
Agence Telegraphique Belge
Berlin
Germany
Russia
Balkans
Daily Herald Dispatch
Istanbul
Moscow
Britain
France
Dardanelles
Josef Stalin
Romania
Danube
Black Sea
Mediterranean
Rumania
Bessarabian
Bukowina
Dobrudja
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Bulgaria
Italy
Dodecansese
Pottery Trade Case Closed for National Pottery Distributors
The Federal Trade Commission closed its case against National Pottery Distributors of Roseville California after failing to locate the defendant. The inquiry cited unsuccessful efforts to locate the company and alleged unfair trade practices.
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Washington
U.P
The
Federal Trade Commission Today
National Pottery Distributors
Roseville
Commission
Sandusky Prepares for Ohio Grape Festival Opening
Sandusky readies for the Ohio Grape Festival opening on Friday with holiday atmosphere and local events.
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Sandusky
U.P
Ohio Grape Festival
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