Nazi Counter Attacks On West Front Reported
United Press reports German forces renewed large scale land sea and air attacks on the Saar and Moselle areas, relieving pressure on the Siegfried Line. British bombers potentially retaliated with air raids on Emden while U-boats were sunk. Diplomatic moves in Stockholm and Berlin touched on Finland Hogland Island and German Soviet settlement plans.
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Nazi Germany
Saar
Moselle
Rhineland
Siegfried Line
Zweibruecken
Grimsby
Kentish
Germany
Holland
Administration Ready To Tweak Neutrality Bill Shipping Rules
The administration plans changes to shipping restrictions in a new neutrality bill compromise. Senator Key Pittman said a plan would allow merchant ships to trade with nominally at war nations in the Pacific and parts of the Atlantic while opposing a policy permitting seamen into actual war zones.
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Washington
U.P
Senate
Key Pittman
Nev
Foreign Relations Committee
Australia
New Zealand
Pacific
Trinidad
Martinique
Atlantic
Pittman
German Offense Pushes French From Saar Front
Berlin reports that French troops have withdrawn behind their frontier along the Saar sector and avoided contact with the Maginot Line. French high command says 76,000 German troops pressed east of the Saar and Moselle, driving the French back to prepared defensive positions. The Royal Oak and Repulse were sunk and damaged respectively at Scapa Flow after a German U-boat torpedoed the ships. German air raid on the Firth of Forth surprised observers as planes arrived unopposed and troops watched from the coast.
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Germany
Admiralty
London
Norwegian
Denmark
Sweden
Norway
Finland
Stockholm
Berlin
Saar River
Moselle
Royal Oak
Repulse
Scapa Flow
Greatritish
Sudbury Airport Watchman Bound by Unknown Flier
An unidentified man bound and gagged the Sudbury airport watchman, smoked, drank, then gassed a sea plane and fled. Police found him freed hours later and sought the missing aircraft and bandit, suspected in a planned bank robbery or similar crime.
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Sudbury
Roosevelt names Fleming to replace Andrews as Wage-Hour head
President Roosevelt announced the resignation of Wage-Hour Administrator Elmer F. Andrews effective yesterday and said Col. Philip Fleming of the Army engineers will take over the post.
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Washington
U.P
Roosevelt
Elmer F. Andrews
Col
Philip Fleming
The
Army Engineers
Andrews
Ohio September job placements rise and claims decline
State Employment Service reports September placements in private industry totaled 14 655, up 27 percent from August and 120 percent from a year earlier. Initial unemployment claims hit a record low at 21 209, down 17 percent from August. Unemployment benefits totaled 1 602 369, down from 2 225 479 in August as checks fell from 52 000 to 39 000.
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Columbus
AUP
State
Bureau
Commission
Girl Killed Two Injured When Auto Hits Culvert
Marietta Ohio report says Jean Hager of Akron was killed and Ruth Call and Norma Belle James were seriously injured when a tire blew out on their automobile and it struck a cement culvert near Marietta.
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Marietta
A.P
Jean Hager
Akron
Here
Ruth Call
Norma Belle James
Machine and Field Guns Stop Nazis Advance
Paris reports armored German forces attacked French lines behind tanks but were repelled by machine gun and field gun fire. Claims say about 1,000 Germans fell in the Moselle assault, while another large attack also suffered heavy losses. Germans briefly held a dozen villages in Moselle and Saar after the fighting.
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Paris
Moselle
Saar
Spiritualist swindle targets sisters in Cincinnati
Two young women posing as Spiritualists swindled Miss Anne E. Davis and her sister Kate Herancourt of 2000 dollars and a 75 diamond pin. The con artists persuaded the sisters to withdraw their savings and bless the money, then left after promising to return the jewels.
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Cincinnati
U.P
Anne E. Davis
Kate Herancourt
Miss Davis
Taft Protests Tariff Reduction on Argentine Goods
Senator Robert A. Taft criticized lowering tariffs on agricultural products from Argentina. He told the reciprocity committee that Ohio would lose farm purchasing power despite potential manufactured goods exports. He opposed reductions on dairy products live stock wool fats oils and turkeys. Ohio agricultural groups and milk producers associations shared concern over the proposed South American trade deal.
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Washington
U.P
Argentina
Robert A. Taft
Committee On
Ohio
Taft
Rehabilitating Ohio Pen Inmates Under New Program
Columbus reports 4000 inmates at the Ohio Pen will enter a rehabilitation plan modeled on federal work. A prison committee will classify prisoners and propose corrective measures including work, education, recreation, transfers to farm or brick plant, and medical or psychiatric treatment. Warden Frank Henderson notes most inmates will be released and aims to reduce repeat offenses.
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Columbus
AUP
Ohio
Frank D. Henderson
Henderson
Mrs. Earl Webb Dies At Coolville
Mrs. Earl Webb died Sunday after an illness of four months in Coolville. Funeral services will be at the U B Church in Jackson Wednesday after short home services at ten o clock in the morning. Interment in Fairmont Cemetery. Survived by husband Arthur Webb and children Alexandria Virginia Paul Orland Grace Lucas Washington DC Glendon Everett and one granddaughter. Mrs Webb was sister in law of Mrs William Howell of Parkersburg.
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Coolville
Earl Webb
U. B
Jackson
Fairmont Cemetery
New Straitsville Man Dies of Heart Attack
Hubert Stephenson age fifty nine died Sunday night after a heart attack in New Straitsville. He is survived by sister Miss Jane Stephenson brother Charles and another sister Mrs Scotia Howdyshell of Oroville. Funeral services set for Wednesday at 2 PM at the Methodist Church with Rev Novel Rompe to officiate.
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New Straitsville
Hubert Stephenson
Jane Stephenson
Charles
Scotia Howdyshell
Oroville
Methodist
Novel Rompe
Army Enlistments Rise In Fifth Corps Area
In the Fifth Corps area Ohio West Virginia Kentucky and Indiana saw a record weekly enlistment of 711 recruits as the regular army aims for 227000 strength. Major General Daniel Van Voorhis announced the surge in Columbus.
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Columbus
U.P
Daniel van Voorhis
Ohio
West Virginia
Kentucky
Indiana
FOE Denies Endorsement of Bigelow Pension Plan
Ohio Fraternal Order of Eagles President O Lee Thomas of Canton denied reports of an endorsement for the Bigelow old age pension amendment. He said the group backs amending current laws so maximum Ohio pension is 40 dollars, with the federal government paying half the cost.
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Canton
U.P
Order of Eagles
O. Lee Thomas
Ohio State
Aenue
Thomas
Eagles
Ohio
Maverick Indicted by Grand Jury Five Felony Counts
SAN ANTONIO Texas U P Mayor Maury Maverick former congressman was indicted today by a County Grand Jury on five felony counts and many misdemeanor charges. The nature of the charges was not immediately made public.
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San Antonio
Tex
U.P
Maury Maverick
Slayer commits death by own action at Lima State Hospital
Mrs. Joseph Vojtezh, 50, of Dillonvale, who was under observation for criminal insanity after killing her neighbor Ida Koenigsmark, committed death by own action yesterday at Lima State Hospital, hospital officials reported.
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Lima
Joseph Vojtezh
Dillonvale
Lima State Hospital
Ida Koenigsmark
Mrs. Miller Cites Bank Distrust For Cash Theft Claim
Chicago police report Mrs. Benjamin Miller a 41 year old relief client receiving $12 monthly for five years says she carried $900 in her purse because she could not trust banks. The statement frames a local cash theft claim under investigation.
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Chicago
Benjamin Miller
Scots Eat Fish After German Air Raids
In Edinburgh Scotland a number of fishermen kept a calm mood after a German air raid as they consumed fish for breakfast. Once the raid ended a fleet of small craft went out into the Firth of Forth to gather fish killed by bomb explosions.
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Edinburgh
Scotland
U.P
Firth of Forth
Dies Seeks One Year Expansion of Red Probe
The Dies Committee has filed a formal request with House leadership for a one year extension of its un American activities probe and for extra funds to continue. Established in 1938 with 25000 dollars, its life was extended to Jan 3 1940 with an additional 100000 dollars. The administration seeks no action while the neutrality bill moves in the Senate and President Roosevelt hopes for no legislation beyond neutrality this session. The committee says important witnesses must be heard beyond the time left under the current resolution.
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Washington
Dies
House
Senate
Roosevelt
Roosevelt Holds Talks With Refugee Aid Leaders
President Roosevelt meets with executives of the Inter-Governmental Committee for Political Refugees to discuss relocating thousands of European refugees. He will lunch with six of 32 nations, then open a two day conference to outline a coordinated effort to find homes for the unwanted and displaced amid ongoing war.
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Washington
U.P
Roosevelt
Inter-Governmental Committee For
White House
Gas Kills Woman and Son On First Day in U. S.
Angelo Michieli a kitchen worker greeted by his wife Emilia and their four year old son Bruno arriving from Italy. He left for work and returned to a gas flooded apartment. the coffee pot boiled over extinguishing the flame. Both Emilia and Bruno were dead.
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New York
Angelo Michieli
Emilia
Bruno
Italy
Michieli
Lorentz W. Hansen Sunk in North Atlantic Sighting
The Norwegian steamship Lorentz W. Hansen traveling from Canada to England was sunk in the North Atlantic today. The report comes from Bergen, the vessel’s home port.
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Oslo
U.P
Lorentz W. Hansen
Canada
England
North Atlantic
Bergen
English Bomb Scapa Flow Raid Sends Royal Oak Fallout
German raids on Scapa Flow and Firth of Forth are reported as British retaliatory actions. First Lord Winston Churchill and Lord Chatfield describe the Royal Oak sinking by a U-boat with 800 losses, while other ships suffer limited damage. Churchill notes German air losses and ships sunk, highlighting strategic implications.
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Scapa Flow
Royal Oak
Iron Duke
Jutland
Lord Chatfield
Neville Chamberlain
Firth of Forth
Chamberlain
Southampton
Edinburgh
the Admiralty
Winston Churchill
Churchill
Chamberlin
Germany
Admiralty
North Sea
Major Parties Oppose Bigelow Pension Plan in Ohio
The Republican State Central Committee in Columbus met in a special session to oppose the Bigelow pension plan of 50 dollars a month and a companion amendment easing referendums. The Democratic organization planned a meeting to consider the amendments, with cross party joint opposition anticipated. Leaders backed Taft as favorite son for the GOP nomination and Bricker for reelection.
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Columbus
Republican State Central Committee
Ed D. Schorr
U. S
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
John W. Bricker
Billings Free, Joins Mooney in Freedom After 22 Years
Cal A P Warren K Billings known as the Forgotten Man of the San Francisco Preparedness Day bombing case is freed today after 22 years for complicity in the 1916 tragedy. Gov Culbert Olson commuted Billings life murder sentence to time served on a supreme court backed recommendation.
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Folsom
Cal.a
Warren K. Billings
San Francisco
Tom Mooney
Freedom Today
Culbert L. Olson
Mooney
Billings
Olson
State Supreme Court
Byrd's Snow Cruiser to Cross Northern Ohio
The Byrd snow cruiser headed for the Antarctic will traverse Northern Ohio early next week. The 60 foot long 20 foot wide craft will take three days to cross the Buckeye State with state police escort to minimize traffic disruption.
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Byrd
Ohio
Columbus
U.P
Richard E. Byrd
Antarctic
Buckeye
Britons Hold Nerve Awaiting Second Air Raid
Britons tense as sirens loom for a larger Nazi assault after the Firth of Forth raid. Admiralty says 15 killed and 14 wounded, claims a defensive victory, while officials cite limited damage to the burg and the Mohan destroyer. Experts say the raid favored Germany by risking ships over aircraft.
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London
A.P
Germany
Firth of Forth
Admiralty
Southampton
Edinburg
Mohan
New Business Result of War
Cleveland economist Col. Leonard P. Ayres of the Cleveland Trust Co. says recent gains in employment and industrial output stem from expectations of war orders rather than actual orders. Inventories have been built up and profits may not sustain unless demand from war orders or domestic use of goods continues.
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Cleveland
U.R
Leonard P. Ayres
Cleveland Trust Co
Monthly
Business Review
Europe
Freshman Rebellion Beats Findlay College Leader
A Freshman rebellion is suspected of beating Martin Monroe, president of the Sophomore Class and student council at Findlay College. Monroe was taken for a one way ride into the country last night, beaten and left on a lonely road to find his way back to town.
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Findlay
U.P
Harling
Martin Monroe
Celina
Findlay College
Monroe
Soviet Aid to Germany Despite Neutrality Pledge
Izvestia reports the Soviet Union remains neutral in Europe but will continue supplying raw materials to Germany despite its declared neutrality.
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Moscow
U.P
Soviet Union
Germany
Izvestia
Bilbo says Roosevelt pledges aid to drought flood victims
Senator Theodore Bilbo of Mississippi reports that President Roosevelt promised federal aid to destitute farmers in 24 states hit by drought and flood damage.
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Washington
U.P
Theodore G. Bilbo
Miss
Roosevelt
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