Germans Smash Near Rostov as Reds Slow Drive on Moscow
German and Italian forces push toward Rostov as Stalino falls while Soviet defenses halt the central front push toward Moscow. Reports say Rostov near the Caucasus and heavy battles on the Donets Basin amid winter operations and leadership losses.
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Rostov
Reds
Moscow
Russia
Donets River
Stalino
Rostov-on-Don
Hitler
Caucasus
Donets
Imand
Petrov
Supreme Soviet Council
Bryansk
Lake Ladoga
Leningrad
London
Farm Field Clinic Opens to Help Juvenile Problems
Muskingum College authorities announce a field clinic to guide problem children of 10 counties in cooperation with the Ohio Farm Bureau of Juvenile Research.
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New Concord
Muskingum College
Ohio Farm Bureau of Juvenile Research
Hero of Dog Rescue Dies In Accident
Frank DeWeese known for a river rescue of a dog died after a fall from a truck near the Hobson Bridge in Middleport. He was thrown from the truck he was riding when it hit a rough patch, suffering a fractured skull and dying at Holzer Hospital. He leaves two brothers George and Charles.
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Middleport
Frank
Chug) DeWeese
Ohio River
Hobson Bridge
DeWeese
Roy Casto
Tom Jones
Gallipolis
Holzer Hospital
George
Charles
Bricker Visits Camp Shelby Sees Troop Improvement
Gov. John W. Bricker of Ohio tours Camp Shelby in Mississippi and says the 37th Division is better trained and in trimmer shape than a year ago, noting the officers show the most improvement after a year of training.
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Camp Shelby
Miss
John W. Bricker
Ohio
Buckeye State
Small City Reports Tax Bill Paid in Full
Westerly Rhode Island reports all real estate taxes paid up to Jan 1 1941 with no defaulters. Tax collector Lewis Stanton says the town of over 11 000 residents has fully collected the current assessment totaling 450 750 dollars.
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Westerly
R. I
Lewis Stanton
Strikes Hit Birmingham Steel Area
Strikes in the Birmingham steel area halt coal and blast furnace work. CIO United Mine Workers call 4,000 laid off as six Alabama mines close and four Sloss Sheffield furnaces stop. Thomas M. Finn arranges talks with Bell Aircraft while a presidential fact finding board probes railroad wage disputes involving 1,260,000 workers.
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Birmingham
Alabama
U. S. Conciliation Service
Buffalo
N. Y
Bell Aircraft Corporation
Roosevelt
CIO United Mine Workers
UMW Chemical Division
Sloss- Sheffield Steel and Iron Company
CIO
Thomas M. Finn
U. S
United Automobile Workers
Niagara Falls
Doctors Vaccinated at Lima Memorial Over Rabies Precaution
Lima pathologist Dr John Locricchio and an undisclosed number of physicians and nurses at Lima Memorial Hospital receive rabies vaccine as a precaution after a patient who died Friday is linked to a rabies infection. Death cause determined yesterday by routine brain exam at the State Health Department Laboratory in Columbus reported by State Health Director R H Markwith.
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Lima
John Locricchio
Lima Patholgist
Lima Memorial Hospital
State Health Department
Columbus
State Health
R. H. Markwith
Missing First Words Signal Navy Reports Sailors Lost
The Navy for the first time uses the phrase next of kin have been notified in this war as three sailors from the destroyer Kearny are reported missing after a torpedo off Iceland. Dobnikar of Cleveland is a water tender and 18 year veteran, Calvert of Gillespie Illinois a fireman, Gate way of Troy New York a water tender.
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Volga
Russia
Kuibyshev
Moscow
United States
Laurence A. Steinwrdt
Britain
Germany
Royal Air Force
Bremen
Wilhelmshaven
Emden
Hull
Liverpool
U. S. Navy
Kearny
Iceland
Dobnikar
Cleveland
Calvert
Gillespie, Ill
Gateway
Troy
N. Y
New Flood Hits Kansas
Water weary Kansas farmers faced renewed floods as overcast skies threatened river towns along the Smoky Hill Cottonwood and Neosho. Cloudbursts dropped up to a foot, raising water in Salina Emporia Abilene McPherson Council Grove Dunlap and other communities while rail lines bottlenecked with hours overdue trains and cancellations.
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Kansas
Smoky Hill
Cottonwood
Neosho
Salina
Emporia
Abilene
McPherson
Council Grove
Dunlap
Union Pacific
Santa Fe
Rock Island
Missouri Pacific
Kansas City
Wealthy Texan John Scharbauer Dies at 89
John Scharbauer of Fort Worth aged 89, once a restaurant dishwasher, built a vast fortune from ranching, banking, oil and real estate after buying a flock of sheep that launched his rise. He died last night.
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Fort Worth
Tex
John Scharbauer
Nazi push in Rostov threatens Caucasus access
The German drive toward Rostov at the Caucasus entrance intensifies as Nazi forces claim progress on Rostov and Stalino. Allied observers consider a new front through Iran to block the Nazis and safeguard oil and Middle East bases in the anti German campaign.
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Moscow
Rostov
Caucasus
Hitler
Middle East
Stalino
Germany
Iran
Persia
Black Sea
Caspian
FFA Star Farmer Named From Ohio at National Convention
Milton Fox of Prospect Ohio was named Star Farmer for the 13 state North Atlantic region at the 14th national FFA convention in Kansas City. He receives a $150 prize. his father died in a car crash when he was a freshman, and he helped his mother run a 40 acre farm with livestock and crops.
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Kansas City
Milton Fox
Prospect
North Atlantic
Future Farmers of America
Fox
Hull Urges Repeal of Neutrality Act Provisions
Secretary of State Hull told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the neutrality act should be repealed or modified to allow arming American merchant ships and to remove bans on entering specified combat zones. He argued US ships are attacked unlawfully and must defend themselves, warning against relying on outdated law as the Atlantic approaches.
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Washington
Hull
Congress
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
State Department
United States
Senate
Farkley
White House
Barkley
Roosevelt
Connally
House
Foreign Relations Committee
Hitler
North Atlantic Ocean
Atlantic
Hemisphere
Fatal head on collision near Logan on Route 33
A two car crash on U S Route 33 one mile south of Logan at 4 15 Monday afternoon killed William F Call 73 of Nelsonville instantly and his wife Elizabeth Ellen Call 71 died three hours later at Cherrington Hospital. Errol Collison 44 of Logan is seriously injured with death expected. Witnesses were questioned by Sheriff Floyd Duffy and Prosecutor Harley Meyer.
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Logan
William F. Call
Nelsonville
Elizabeth Ellen Call
Cherrington
Erroll Collison
Collison
Floyd Duffy
Harley Meyer
Call
Roosevelt Returns to Washington Faces Russian Aid Urgency
Washington leaders pressed to speed arms and war supplies to Russia as President Roosevelt convened meetings after Hyde Park. W Averell Harriman, back from Moscow with a mission’s findings, expressed great confidence in the Russian situation and hinted a public statement may follow.
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Washington
Russia
Roosevelt
Hyde Park
White House
W. Averell Harriman
Moscow
Harriman
Mr. Roosevelt
Aid Is Urged for Mansfield
A Senate committee heard Floyd B. Odlum of the Office of Production Management say seven communities face severe unemployment without defense work. The towns named are Grand Rapids and Greenville Michigan Easton Georgia Ripon Wisconsin Newton and Kellogg Florida and Mansfield Ohio.
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Washington
OPM
Senate
War and Navy Departments
Defense Investigating
Floyd B. Odlum
Odlum
Grand Rapids
Greenville
Mich
Easton, Ga
Ripon, Wisc
Newton and Kellogg, Fla
Mansfield
Ohio
WCTU Attacks Magazines Promoting Women and Youth Drinking
Miss Mary B. Ervin president of the Ohio WCTU opening its 68th annual convention in Columbus denounces magazines that portray women and youths drinking and invites protests to all current magazines encouraging feminine and youthful consumption.
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Columbus
Ohio Women's Christian Temperance Union
Mary B. Ervin
WCTU
Canine Globe Trotter Judge Dies at 17
Denver owners Har rison Cale and wife mourn the fox terrier Judge who traveled the world twice with them. The dog and family spent seven years in China exploring ancient civilization for the British Museum before Judge died last night at age seventeen.
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Denver
Judge
Harrison Cale
China
British Museum
Driver Escapes Death In Coal Truck Wreck
Harvey Alexander aged 60 of Westerville RD escaped serious injury when his six ton coal truck overturned on State Route 75 at Mt Pleasant Hill. Tire marks show the vehicle left the ground, rolled 120 feet, and Alexander was found 20 feet from the wreck with head cuts on a sharp curve. Howing County officers reported this afternoon.
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Logan
Harvey Alexander
Westerville RD
Mt. Pleasant Hill
Alexander
Nazi candidate sparked by surprise speaker at Canton rally
Democratic mayoral hopeful Charles Weeks refused to comment as a Republican rally was disrupted by a surprise speaker claiming to be Weeks sister Winifred Weeks Gardner of Knoxville Maryland. She urged Canton voters not to elect Weeks while on stage with incumbent Mayor Edward S S Folk.
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Canton
Charles W. Weeks
Weeks
Charles Weeks
Winifred Weeks Gardner
Knoxville
Edward S.S. Folk
Lindbergh Accused of Having Nazi Connections
In Cleveland Max Lerner of Williams College urged a congressional probe into the America First Committee and Charles A. Lindbergh. He called Lindbergh “the principal Nazi fellow traveler” in the U S and said Lindbergh must have Nazi ties or follow the Nazi line closely. He urged discovery of who funds America First and its backers.
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Cleveland
Max Lerner
Williams College
America First Committee
Charles A. Lindbergh
Lerner
United States
Lindbergh
Cleveland Foreign Affairs Council
America First
Panamanian Ships Authorized to Arm Against Raiders
Arnulfo Arias left Panama for exile on a Pan American Airways flight via Nicaragua. The new government authorized ships flying the Panamanian flag to arm against raiders, affecting many United States owned vessels sailing to Britain and its empire.
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Panama
Arnulfo — Arias
Pan American Airways
Nicaragua
Arias
Britain
Study of Priorities on Shutdowns Across Small Firms
Seven Republican congressmen in Columbus gathered to examine how defense priorities affect plant shutdowns and unemployment in small non-defense businesses. Rep. Charles Halleck said hearings show it is possible to defend national needs without wiping out the small independent sector. He noted defense orders use about 17 percent of capacity, while 83 percent remains for civilian production, suggesting no need to erase that 83 percent to sustain defense output.
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Columbus
Charles A. Halleck
Indiana
Republican
Small Business Defense Committee
Ohio
Halleck
Florida Rain Sets Record
Northern Florida faced widespread rainfall as a tropical system lingered over the region. Hastings and rural Gainesville suspended schools due to flooded roads while Gainesville recorded 9 3 inches in the past 24 hours and Cross City logged 14 01 inches in 48 hours ending today.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Florida
Hastings
Gainesville
University of Florida
Cross City
Execution of Elst Frenchman Reported by Vichy Authorities
German forces in unoccupied France announced the execution of an eighty first Frenchman by firing squad. Paris issued a report naming Hubert Tuffery of Deauigny as executed for illegal arms possession and nine sticks of dynamite. The same periodical silence followed news of the assassination of General Holtz at Mantes.
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Vichy
France
General Holtz
Mantes
Paris
Hubert Tuffery
Deaugency
Franco Moves to End Spain Black Market
Generalissimo Francisco Franco decreed bootleg food dealers and other essentials will be tried by military courts and face execution on conviction as he aims to curb Spain's black market.
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Franco
Spain
Madrid
Francisco Franco
Wickard Backs Parity Price Bill for Farm Goods
Secretary of Agriculture Wickard voiced support for price control legislation proposing ceilings on farm products at not less than 110 percent of parity. He warned inflation risks and urged increased production as the surest preventive, noting the bill accepts the parity principle and that farm prices have been bargain levels for much of the past two decades. He spoke before a House banking committee amid debates on the measure.
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Wickard
Bellefontaine Girl Dies From Film Explosion
Bellefontaine reports the death of 10 year old Phyllis Joann Piper from a film explosion in a theater projection room. She was burned while delivering a message from her mother Mrs Roscoe Piper of near DeGraff to her brother Neal, a projectionist.
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Bellefontaine
Phyllis Joann Piper
Roscoe Piper
Degraff
Neal
Copper ban in non-defense building work begins Nov 1
Washington reports a nationwide restriction effective November 1 forbids use of copper in all non-defense building construction. The policy targets materials for civilian facilities while defense projects remain exempt.
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Washington
Poultry Sale Ad by F. W. Cone Runs Three Days
The notice advertises 40 White Leghorn pullets, 6 months old, priced at $1 per head. Buyers could choose 25 or 30 birds, with sale arranged by F. W. Cone via Messenger Classifieds. Phone 650. An ad taker offers help turning livestock into quick cash.
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Mr. Cone
F. W. Cone
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George A. Calvert
Louis Dobnikar
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Herman A. C. Gajeway
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