Speedy Change of Neutrality Act Urged by Hull
Secretary Hull urged prompt revision of the Neutrality Act to allow arming American merchant ships and possibly repeal sections restricting combat-zone passage. He warned Nazi conquest and the sinking of neutral vessels, urging swift action in the House Foreign Affairs Committee hearings. House leaders predicted a substantial majority for amendment, while Republicans pressed for broader inquiry and longer hearings.
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Hull
Washington
Congress
United States
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Hitler
High Seas
Rep
Fish
McCormick
Mass
House
McCormack
War Stimson
Navy
Knox
Harold R. Stark
Naval Operations
Emory S. Land
Maritime Commission
Senate
Little Steel Firms Sign CIO Contracts
Youngstown reports that Republic Steel Corporation and other Little Steel companies have signed contracts with the Steel Workers Organizing Committee. The announcement is expected at the Ohio Congress of Industrial Organizations state convention opening here Friday, with Ted F. Silvey noting Youngstown as CIO headquarters during the 1937 strike.
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Youngstown
Republic Steel Corporation
Little Steel
Steel Workers Organizing Committee
Ohio Congress of Industrial Organizations
Ted F. Silvey
CIO
Farm State Senators Oppose Agriculture Price Ceilings
Treasury Secretary Morgenthau calls agriculture a public enemy as Senator Bankhead asserts farm state congressmen will oppose any move to clamp price ceilings on agriculture.
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Washington
Treasury
Morgenthau
Bankhead
Ala
Woman Surrenders to Denver Police After Escape
Florence Sheline, who escaped the Marysville Reformatory for Women two years ago, surrendered to police in Denver Colorado yesterday. Sheline had been working as a waitress in Denver and was sentenced in 1937 to one to 15 years for burglary.
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Florence Sheline
Marysville Reformatory For Women
Denver
Colé
Marysville
Gallia Fugitive Surrenders to Police in West
Florence Sheline, 25, of Gallia County who aided Velma West in 1939 killings, surrendered to Denver police. Sheline cited fear of pursuit and desire to repay her debt to society. Four women who escaped Marysville during a June storm are now in custody. Sheline had worked as a waitress and completed a secretarial course before her Marysville term.
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Marysville
Florence Sheline
Gallia County
Marysville Reformatory
Velma West
Denver
Colo
Marguerite Reilly
Reformatory
O. A. Carter
Denver Police
Defense Plant Burns in East Mass fire destroys Rubber & Latex plant
FALL RIVER MASS Fire at the Firestone Rubber and Latex plant scars the waterfront factory, wiping out $13 million in government rubber and equipment. Firemen from about 30 cities labored over eight hours as latex and crude rubber fed the flames. Roger Firestone said production of gas masks barrage balloons and cartridge belts may resume early next week at nearby mills.
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Fall River
Mass
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Firestone Rubber & Latex Corporation
Roger Firestone
Twelve Die in Ohio Traffic Over Week-End
A train auto collision in Butler County killed twelve people over the week end, including four youths from Hamilton. A Pennsylvania Railroad freight train struck the car at Seven Mile north of Hamilton and dragged it a half mile along the tracks.
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Columbus
Hamilton
Butler County
Ohio
Pennsylvania Railroad
Seven Mile
Duchess Brings Ex King to Maryland for Welcome Home
Baltimore staged a formal welcome for the Duchess of Windsor and her royal husband. The visit marks Wallis Warfield Warfield Windsor’s first in eight years since the abdication saga that tied her to the former king.
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Duchess
King
Maryland
Baltimore
Duchess of Windsor
Wallis Warfield
Commander Berenschot Killed in Java Plane Crash
Gen. G. J. Berenschot 54 chief of the Netherlands East Indies army was killed when an agency Lockheed aircraft crashed in Batavia East Indies today. The war leader died with others aboard as rescue teams searched the wreckage.
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Batavia
Harry Daugherty dies at 81 former U S attorney general
Harry M. Daugherty once Washington Township clerk and a key figure in Harding’s rise died in Columbus at 81 from congestive heart failure. He faced heart attacks and pneumonia last year and will be buried in Washington D C after funeral services led by Rev. James Thomas.
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Columbus
Harry M. Daugherty
Washington D. H
Belfast
United States
James Thomas
Broad Street Methodist Church
Washington D. C
Warren G. Harding
Marion
Harding
Daugherty
Teapot Dome
Coolidge
Senate
Hit-Skip Driver Strikes Gallia Man Statiton
Edgar Cordell a 30 year old farmhand was fatally injured in a hit and run on Route 35 near the County Home in Gallia County. He died hours later at Holzer Hospital. Cordell was reported struck twice with investigators tracing the vehicle to Jack Owens and Charles DeLille of Rodney. The missing body was found with Cordell’s hat and cigarette pack nearby.
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Gallipolis
Edgar Cordell
Elwood
Chickamauga Park
Holzer Hospital
Cordell
Jack Owens
Charles DeLille
Rodney
E. E. Hatfield
Jenkins Supports War Plant at South Point
The War Department is expected to announce survey results for a proposed ammonia plant site at South Point Lawrence County Ohio. Representative Jenkins who recommended the site furnished data and predicted South Point would be selected. The area is also under review for an army depot.
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Washington
War Department
Jenkins
Ohio
South Point
Lawrence County
Ohio Printers Protest Ohio University Plant
The Ohio Typo graphical Conference protested to the OPM today against placing paper and printing materials on priority lists. The conference also opposed the setup of a printing plant at Ohio University in Athens. The women's auxiliary re elected Mrs. W. H. Smith of Athens as first vice president.
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Canton
Ohio Typographical Conference
OPM
Ohio University
Athens
Women’s Auxiliary
W. H. Smith
Livestock Production Nears New U S Record
Chicago reports show hogs cattle and sheep prices acting as economic barometers. A daily $1.5 million more flows into marketings than a year ago fueling a cycle of record meat production. Piglets import and a large fall crop push beef population toward a new high despite softer cattle prices.
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Chicago
Court Refuses To Interfere In Bridge Deal
Charleston West Virginia supreme court refused to restrain Pt. Pleasant from buying the 1 050 000 Silver Bridge over the Ohio River. Taxpayers argued tolls would persist after debt discharge and maintenance costs would burden taxes. City officials said upkeep tolls would be small andInsurance would cover accidents.
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Charleston
W. Va
Supreme Court
Pt. Pleasant
Ohio River
J. O. Shinn
R. E. Eschenaur
W. H. Vaught
Pt. Pleasant-to- Kanauga
West Virginia-Ohio
Bricker Readies New Airing on Unemployment Fight
Gov. John W. Bricker plans to address the Ohio Society in New York over the clash with the Federal Government. He charges the U S Civil Service Commission with attempting a political raid on the state's unemployment compensation agency. Bricker barred the commission from setting up headquarters to question agency staff.
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Columbus
John W. Bricker
State Bureau of Unemployment Compensation
Ohio Society
New York
Bricker
U. S. Civil Service Commission
Commission
BUC
Unions Tie Up Tank Production at Spicer Toledo Plant
Federal mediators seek to end a jurisdiction dispute that could halt Army tank output at Spicer Manufacturing in Toledo Ohio. After more than ten hours of talks with union and company reps progress was reported and sessions were to continue. The friction arose from an inter union clash with CIO United Automobile Workers at Spicer boycotting.
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Spicer Manufacturing Company
Toledo
Ohio
James J. Spillane
Detroit
Cios United Automobile Workers
Spicer Company
Hillsdale
Mich
AFL
United Automobile Workers
Spicer
Cleveland
White Motor Company
Cio-United Automobile
Midland Steel Products Co
James P. Dewey
Dewey
Midland
Hudson
Buick
Wage talks loom as railroads offer emergency plan
Chicago dispatch reports railroad management proposed an emergency compensation plan tied to living costs and revenues to a Roosevelt fact finding board amid a broad industry standoff. The move followed plant halts at Spicer transmissions and a Cleveland shutdown threat at White Motor, with auto workers and related plants facing potential layoffs as steel frame shortages loom.
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Chicago
Krailroad Management
Roosevelt
War Today: Moscow Crucial as Russian Defense Holds
Dewitt Mackenzie weighs conflicting signals from Moscow as Hitler’s advance presses toward the capital. He notes Russians show stiff resistance amid German strength, raising doubts whether the invaders will sweep to victory or face a staged collapse from organized defense. The outcome remains uncertain.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Hitler
Moscow
Berlin
Death of Golf Star Is Solved By Confession
Fort Worth reports that Tom Penney confessed involvement in the September 28 robbery slaying of golf star Marion Miley and her mother in Lexington Kentucky. He said he and Robert H. Anderson shot them during the robbery attempt. Anderson was arrested on murder charges and denied complicity. A Lexington carrier identified a sedan matching the night of the crime.
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Tom C. Penny
Marion Miley
Lexington
Penny
Fort Worth
Tex
Ina
Robert Anderson
Louisville
Miss Miley
Kentucky
Tom Do. Penney
Robert H. Anderson
Penney
Hendricks Brown
Anderson
Homer Cramer
Explosion Kills Five at Sitka Naval Air Station
An explosion of 43 000 pounds of dynamite at Sitka naval air station killed five soldiers and a marine and injured at least 15 others. The blast shattered windows on Baranof Island three miles away and caused glass cuts to civilians, with a grass fire starting the blast. The six firefighters, rushing to contain the fire near an underground magazine, died.
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Sitka
Alaska
Sitka Naval Air Station
Baranof Island
Navy
Seven Feared Dead in Army Bomber Crash
An army B 23 bomber crashed on a mountain pass near March Field California in fog and rain during a return flight from Albuquerque New Mexico. Seven men are believed killed. The Douglas built 13 ton two motor aircraft was the only heavy plane attached to the 9th Pursuit Wing at March Field.
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March Field
Calif
9Th Pursuit Wing
Albuquerque
N. M
Shortage of Metals Triggers 700 Stark County Layoffs
Stark County factories will lay off 700 workers over the next few months due to a metal shortage needed for defense production. John M. Hayne of the Bureau of Unemployment Compensation confirms the plan.
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Canton
Stark County
John M. Hayne
Bureau of Unemployment Compensation Office
Elm Tree Work Starts In Athens Meigs Area
Forestry Service enlists 100 WPA workers for elm tree preventive work in Athens and Meigs counties.
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Athens
Meigs Area
Gallipolis
United States Forestry Service
Meigs
Fresh Troops Thrown Into Lines as Snow Blankets War Front
Soviet reports claim German thrusts slowed and counterattacks launched as winter blankets the battlefield Vyazma area sees intensified fighting. London sources say German advance momentum waning after 12 days, with Moscow braces for a potential pre winter halt.
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Germany
Moscow
Red Army
London
Vyazma
Third Drive Against Soviets Reported in Battle of Moscow
German reports claim a third spearhead thrust toward Moscow from the northwest pushing Russians back to about 140 miles from the capital. Berlin cites rapid armored advance and encirclement tactics while battles continue in the south near the Sea of Azov.
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Moscow
Adolf Hitler
Vyazma
Hitler
Bryansk
Berlin
Sea of Ozov
Leningrad
B and O Limited Hits Freight in Jackson County
Eight people were injured slightly when the Baltimore and Ohio streamlined National Limited collided with a freight locomotive 24 miles east of Chillicothe in Jackson County. Postmaster General Frank Walker and wife were among the injured. Walker received a minor head abrasion. The train, traveling from New York to Cincinnati, was not heavily damaged and all cars remained on the track.
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Frank Walker
National Limited
Baltimore & Ohio
Here
Jackson County
Walker
New York
Cincinnati
Byer
West Junction
Toledo
Ohio Division
Columbus Man Missing From Matsonia Deck in Oct Disappearance
Relatives of Roger E. O Connor aged 37 of Columbus have been advised by Matson Steamship Line officials that he disappeared from the deck of the S S Matsonia on Sunday October 5 two days before the liner arrived at Los Angeles from Honolulu.
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Columbus
Roger E. O'Connor
Matson Steamship Line
S. S. Matsonia
Los Angeles
Honolulu
Ohio Draft Calls 3 615 More Men in November
Ohio selective service issued a draft call for 3 615 more men to be inducted between November 3 and 24. The total includes 3 512 white soldiers and 103 Negroes, marking the 30th white and 31st Negro draft calls. Ohioans inducted to date reached 44 999 by Sept 27.
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Columbus
Ohio
Selective Service
Resolutions Back Pay Increases At AFL Convention
A dozen resolutions urging pay increases for public employees were presented at the AFL convention. President William Green warned that civil service workers cannot strike against the government.
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Seattle
American Federation of Labor
William Green
German Plane Strikes Mountain in Ireland
A German plane crashed on Blackstairs Mountain in County Wexford near Kilkealy at midnight Saturday. All four occupants were killed, the Eire information bureau announced today.
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Dublin
Blackstairs Mountain
County Wexford
Eire Government Information Bureau
Kilkealy
Kidnap Suspect Admits Thefts in Ohio Cities
Milton Height 25 of Alliance confessed to robbing the B and L Grill for 5000 dollars in Columbus August 22 and a 3000 dollar holdup in Springfield a month earlier, police reported.
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Ohio
Columbus
Milton M. Height
Alliance
Akron
B. and L. Grill
Springfield
Leo Phillips
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Mount Vernon
Charles L. Sherwood
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High Command
England
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Channel
Nuernberg
British
Air Ministry
Russia
France
RAF
Japan
Sunday Chronicle
Hsueh Yueh
China
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Manchoue Kuo
Siberia
B& O Limited Hits Freight
Chillicothe
Green
Ireland
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