Economic Debate Threatens Neutrality Bill Vote Delay
Senate debate over the neutrality act stalls a planned preliminary vote. Sen. Downey warns embargo repeal could cause $5 billion war trade disruption while Sen. Tobey seeks to split the bill for immediate title action. House members prepare to discuss proposed changes as leaders push for a showdown this weekend.
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Washington
Sheridan Downey
Cal
Senate
John W. Tobey
N. H
Alben W. Barkley
Tobey
Czechoslovak Aviator Kills 67 Germans in Airdrome Mine
Paris Soir from Zurich reports a Czechoslovakian aviator killed himself and 67 German airmen by triggering a mine at an airdrome near Prague. He had been questioned by the Gestapo about alleged mining of the airfield and led police and German aviators into a hangar before the blast.
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Paris
Paris Soir
Zurich
Prague
Gestapo
Sabotage Plot Is Investigated on Arizona
In San Pedro California the 1300 officers and sailors on the battleship Arizona were free to board or depart as usual as unverified rumors of sabotage circulated. Navy secrecy persisted while reports said the FBI and naval intelligence were probing a sabotage plot with alleged acts including oil line tampering and water poisoning, all described as fantastic rumors by navy personnel.
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San Pedro
Cal
U.R
Arizona
Navy
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Naval Intelligence
Train Wreck at Gesundbrunnen Station Stops Berlin Blackouts
A North Berlin rail crash at Gesundbrunnen Station killed over 20 and wounded many as the Berlin Sassnitz express rear-ended a crowded passenger train. Rescue torches lit the scene marking the first nightly blackout suspension since the war began.
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Berlin
Gesundbrunnen
OSU Trustees Consider Kettering for President
Ohio State University trustees discussed Charles F. Kettering candidate for the presidency during the 19th meeting since President Rightmire’s resignation. The panel aimed to narrow the field of contenders and evaluate the GM research director.
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Columbus
Charles F. Kettering
General Motors
Ohio State University
George W. Rightmire
Sub sightings off East and West Coasts raise tensions
The White House reported navy patrols sighted a small foreign submarine about 20 miles west of Key West Florida and two foreign oil tankers in the area. President Roosevelt noted a prior sighting near Miami and said the submarine may be same as the Key West vessel. Details remain classified under neutrality rules.
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Washington
White House
Navy
Key West
Fla
Stephen T. Early
Roosevelt
Hyde Park
Miami
Early
Panama
Maine
Boston
Pacific
Alaska
AFL Convention Faces New Deal Dilemmas in Second Week
The American Federation of Labor reconvened its annual convention in Cincinnati for a second week to debate its stance on the New Deal and Wagner Act revisions. Leaders foresee alternating praise and condemnation of President Roosevelt as committees report on resolutions urging AFL support of the administration and changes to labor law. Senator Robert A. Taft is among the scheduled speakers.
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Cincinnati
U.P
American Federation of Labor
AFL
Roosevelt
Robert A. Taft
Signers Petition Rejection Slows Civil Service Referendum
Columbus U P County election boards report about 17 percent of signatures rejected on Democratic petitions for a referendum on the civil service reorganization act. Sponsors may file additional signatures within 10 days after the secretary of state issues his final report to cover any shortage.
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Columbus
U.P
Secretary of State
Supreme Court Sets Hearings On New NLRB Challenges
The Supreme Court agreed to hear a series of new challenges to the power and authority of the National Labor Relations Board in its first business session of the 1939 40 term. The cases topped a lengthy list of causes for argument.
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Washington
U.P
Supreme Court
National Labor Relations Board
New Labor Board
McNutt to Leave State Education Post for Cincinnati Job
Dr. Frank Lin McNutt director of the division of instruction for Ohio's Department of Education will resign Feb 1 1940 to join the University of Cincinnati.
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Columbus
U.P
Franklin McNutt
Division of Instruction
State Department of Education
University of Cincinnati
Neutrals Seek British Protection for Food Ship Convoys
London reports neutral nations led by Belgium Denmark Sweden and Holland studying naval protection for their cargo vessels. Experts say extending the convoy system to neutral ships could nearly end submarine threats as neutral losses rise with about 47000 tons sunk by September and 23000 tons in recent days including the 6873 ton Holland America freighter Binnendijk.
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London
U.P
Britain
England
Belgium
Holland
Sweden
Denmark
Chandler Named to Senate Seat in Kentucky
Albert Chandler, 41, former "Boy Wonder" of Blue Grass politics, resigns as Kentucky governor to accept appointment as U S Senator to fill the Logan vacancy. Lieutenant Governor Keen Johnson succeeds Chandler as governor and issues Chandler's senatorial commission.
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Frankfort
U.P
Albert Benjamin Chandler
Kentucky
United States
M. M. Logan
Keen Johnson
Richmond
Chandler
A. B
Happy) Chandler
U. S
Washington
Senator Logan
Woman Killed and Six Hurt In Highway Collision At Cornfield Intersection
A crash at a cornfield obscured intersection killed Mrs. George McFerren 60 of Tiffin with a broken neck. Her sister Mrs. Irene Smith 25 of Cleveland suffered broken ribs and collarbone. Five other people were injured.
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Tiffin
U.P
George McFerren
Irene Smith
Cleveland
Wheat falls on rain outlook at Chicago Board of Trade
Good rains in the Southwest and a forecast of continued showers pushed wheat prices down more than a cent at the opening of trading on the Chicago Board of Trade in Chicago.
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Chicago
U.P
Chicago Board of Trade
Finnish steamer Indra sinks after mine strike near Terschelling
The Finnish timber carrier Indra, part of a three ship convoy bound for Holland, struck a mine and sank near Terschelling Island. All crew were rescued in the incident.
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Terschelling Island
Holland
U.P
Indra
Dies Files Room Entered After Mail Seizure
Congressional investigator Martin Dies reports the file room of his committee was broken into over the weekend. He fears undercover foreign agents and urges FBI cooperation, noting seized mail, subpoenas from the Communist Party, and lists of people tied to potential sabotage in aircraft and munitions facilities.
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Washington
U.P
Martin Dies
Tex
UN- American Activities Investigating Committee
Dies
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Robert E. Stripling
Chicago
Communist Party
American League For Peace and Democracy
Light Sub on Iroquois Route
Maine sea and shore fisherman Arthur Greenleaf reported sighting a gray 200 foot submarine five miles southeast of the Portland lightship early yesterday. Navy officers declined comment saying no American submarine was in the area. United States subs are painted black.
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Portland
U.R
Navy Land Coast Guard
Iroquois
Arthur Greenleaf
Maine
Navy
United States
Chicago police blame racketeers for Bertolini slaying
Chicago police accuse slot machine racketeers in the death of Amerigo Bertolini, 42, a hoodlum and ex convict, killed in a gang gun attack last night.
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Chicago
U.P
Amerigo Bertolini
Townsend Denounces Bigelow Pension Plan in Ohio
Dr Francis E Town send founder of the Townsend Old Age Pension Plan denounces the Bigelow pension proposal as utterly unworkable under capitalism and predicts its defeat He cites Colorado and Texas as examples of strained finances and notes the Ohio Legion opposes both amendments including guaranteed monthly incomes and eased petition requirements.
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Columbus
Francis E. Townsend
Townsend Old Age Pension Plan
Ohio
California
Colorado
Townsend
Texas
Department of the American Legion Today
Herbert S. Bigelow
Cincinnati
Legion
Break in Weather and Rain Expected in Ohio Tuesday
The weatherman predicts a break from the heat today with a scorcher this afternoon then a general rain Tuesday lasting several hours. An 83 degree start gives way to clouds tonight, followed by cooler weather after the rain, benefiting agriculture across Ohio and nearby states.
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Ohio
Columbus
Great Lakes
Plains States
Texas
West Virginia
Frank C Kayser Dies After Brief Illness at 58
Frank C Kayser sales manager of Athens Ice and Storage Co died after a short illness in White Cross Hospital Columbus. He served as secretary and director and was active in civic and religious groups. He taught in Meigs County earlier, worked for railroad from 1903 to 1919, then joined Athens Ice and Storage Co. He married Jessie McKnight in 1903. leaves a widow, a daughter Bernice, a son Harold, and grandson Jimmy. Funeral at 87 Lancaster St Wednesday at two with Masons assisting. Burial at W Union St Cemetery.
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Frank C. Kayser
Athens Ice and Storage Co
White Cross Hospital
Columbus
Mr. Kayser
Carpenter
Meigs County
Kamawha and
Michigan’ Railroad
New York Central
Athens
Gallipolis
Gauley Bridge
Charleston
W. Va
First Methodist Church
Kiwanis Club
Chamber of Commerce
Modern Woodmen of America
Knights of Pythias
Isaac Walton
W. Union St
Soviet Baltic Control Seen In Hitler Move
Helsinki reports German ships in Estonian and Latvian harbors to start repatriation of 120000 Germans as Russia pushes to dominate the Inner Baltic. Russia has naval and air bases in Estonia and Latvia and seeks bases in Lithuania while inviting Finland to an accord granting base rights in the Aaland Islands and Hoagland Island in the Gulf of Finland. Finland resists with diplomacy, state media noting potential confrontation.
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Helsingfors
Finland
U.P
Esthenian
Rusia
Baltic
Russia
Esthenia
Latvia
Lithuania
Aaland Islands
Sweden
Hoagland
Gulf ‘of
Leningrad
Kronstadt
Dayton man admits arson over Bible command
Charles Leathley, 68, of Dayton, told authorities he set fire to a barn near Dayton because the Bible told him to. He said his father hanged himself in that barn about 40 years ago.
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Dayton
U.P
Charles Leathley
Urge Speed-Up To Give Army Its Crucial Needs
Administration studies speedier production on critical army orders as 52 district executives meet with Assistant Secretary of War Johnson. Talks focus on 24 hour shifts, cutting output time by months, and bearing up to 25 percent higher costs to equip a mobile, ready army.
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Washington
Army
Louis Johnson
War Department
Congress
United Press
Roosevelt
Harry H. Woodring
Nazi Raids On Western Front Hint At Impending Attack
Paris dispatch reports German patrols armed with sub machine guns rifles bombs and knives conducting 48 hour raids along the Western Front. The French claim the raids aim to seize prisoners for interrogation and test French lines as if planning an attack, but the objective has not been achieved.
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Paris
U.R
Roosevelt silent on mediation proposal in European war
President Roosevelt returned to the White House and again avoided commenting on semi official German suggestions that he take a peace mediation role in Europe. He indicated he was not ready to respond to Nazi hints that Hitler would accept his mediation.
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Washington
U.P
Roosevelt
White House
Hyde Park
Europe
Adolf Hitler
Berlin
Hitler
Reichstag
Fuehrer
Tidens Tegn
Mussolini
Oslo States
Russia
Dayton Bank Robbery by Three Men Net $2000 Loot
Three clean shaven men robbed Lincoln Federal Savings & Loan in Dayton and fled by car with about $2000. They ignored an open safe and took cash from a drawer, officials said.
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Dayton Savings Bank
Dayton
U.P
Lincoln Federal Savings & Loan Company
French Communist Deputies Targeted in Postwar Crackdown
At least 40 Communist deputies were in Sante Prison as military police hunted 13 others suspected of possible intelligence with the enemy. The 53 are those not in the armed forces who helped form the Workers and Peasants Party, seen as a bid to revive the Communist group. A letter advocating Soviet German peace terms, signed by 43 deputies, triggered the case.
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Paris
U.P
Sante
Chamber of Deputies
Workers and Peasants Party
Chamber
Edouard Herriot
GM Anti-Trust Case Starts at South Bend
South Bend Ind. General Motors Corporation three affiliates and 19 individuals including Alfred P Sloan Jr and William S Knudsen go on trial in federal court today on a charge of conspiring to violate the Sherman Antitrust Law. The indictment accuses defendants of promoting a monopoly by pressuring dealers to finance automobile sales through GM financing affiliates, hindering interstate commerce.
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South Bend
Ind
General Motors Corporation
Alfred P. Sloan, Jr
William S. Knudsen
Witness resigns from Communist Party during Dies committee hearing
Kenneth Goff a Delavan Wisconsin salesman testifies before the Dies committee and resigns from the Communist Party and the Young Communist League He says he joined in Milwaukee on May 2 1936 under the name John Keats and cites the German Russian pact and what he calls the U S party un American ways as reasons for leaving.
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Washington
W.P
Kenneth Goff
Delavan
Wis
Communist Party
Young Communist League
Dies
Goff
Milwaukee
John Keats
U. S
Explosion at Saint Etienne coal mine kills 37
In Saint Etienne Loire region an underground blast at the Loire De Saint Etienne mine killed 37 miners and left many injured. Rescue teams battled smoke and debris as authorities opened inquiries into the cause.
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Saint Etienne
France
U.P
Loire de Saint Etienne
Soviet Russia Calls For End To War Through Nazi Soviet Peace
Soviet Russia urged Allied powers to accept Nazi and Red Army conquests to end European war, signaling support for Hitler's peace offensive. Izvestia argued continued Western Front fighting is senseless and urged restitution for Poland and Czechoslovakia, while Britain and France echoed unified aims against Hitlerism.
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Russia
Poland
West
Soviet
Moscow
Izvestia
Germany
Adolf Hitler
Europe
Lzvestia
Radio Priest Battles To Keep Embargo Clause
Detroit U P reports Father Charles E Coughlin intensified his attack on the neutrality act revision on Sunday He warned that refusing to lift the arms embargo would push Europe to settle its quarrels at a conference table He said the cash and carry clause would mean war for Europe and war for America and a defeat for democracy.
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Detroit
U.P
Charles E. Coughlin
Europe
America
250 Steel Workers Recalled at Republic
Four sheet mills idle since 1937 resume operation in Niles returning 250 steel workers to jobs at the Republic Steel Corporation plant.
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Republic
NILES
U.P
Republic Steel Corporation
Kent State survey finds gambling with sway in town
The Kent States publication reports a survey showing gambling has full and uncontested sway in Kent, highlighting local concern over gambling influence and its reach in the town.
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KENT
U.R
Kent States
Kent State University Publication
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