White House Defends City of Flint Voyage as Legal
The White House said the American freighter City of Flint was on a legal voyage when seized by a German warship. State Department cables to Oslo and Moscow seek the ship’s whereabouts and crew safety, with cargo listed and voyage details from New York to Liverpool Manchester Dublin and Glasgow.
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Washington
White House
City of
Flint
Stephen T. Early
State Department
Early
City of Flint
Germany
British Isles
Oslo
Norway
Moscow
Maritime Commission
U. S
Berlin
New York
Liverpool
Manchester
Dublin
Glasgow
Seizure of Vessel Spurs Action on Neutrality Bill
Washington AP reports leaders aim to limit debate on the neutrality bill after the seizure of the Government owned S. S. City of Flint by a German vessel. Sen. Hiram W. Johnson and others press for quick action to reinstate cash and carry provisions before the act expires May 1. Minton assails Nye over munition disclosures and arms embargo history.
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Washington
S. S
Flint
Hiram W. Johnson
Calif
Uicy
Alben W. Barkley
Kentucky
Lewis D. Schwellenbach
Wash
Congress
Senate
Sherman Minton
Ind
Gerald P. Nye
N. D
Special Munitions Investigating Committee
Minton
Nye
North
Taft Invites Editor To Nominate At 1940 Convention
Washington U P Grove Patterson editor of The Toledo Blade has been invited by Senator Taft to deliver the nominating speech at the 1940 Republican national convention. He had previously been chosen to nominate Taft at the 1936 Cleveland convention but the effort collapsed as Landon moved to the front. Bury Grey Tomorrow Pasadena Zane Grey will receive private funeral services tomorrow afternoon.
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Washington
U.P
Grove Patterson
Toledo Blade
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Patterson
Taft
Cleveland
Alfred M. Landon
Kansas
Bury Grey
Pasadena
Calif
Zane Grey
Annesville
Crosley heiress leaves estate of 1.29 million in probate
Mrs. Gwen dolyn A. Crosley wife of Powell Crosley Jr head of the Crosley Corp filed a probate schedule showing an estate worth 1,289,802. The figure was disclosed in the probate court today and lists the assets under her estate.
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Cincinnati
U.P
Gwendolyn A. Crosley
Powell Crosley, Jr
Crosley Corp
To Investigate Steam Deaths In Perth Amboy Hospital
Authorities investigated the steam deaths of five babies at Perth Amboy General Hospital. Four infants suffocated when steam escaped from a blown steam valve before their 2 a.m. feeding. a fifth died the previous night. The valve, taped with worn threads, likely ruptured due to jar or system pressure.
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Perth Amboy
N. J
Perth Amboy General Hospital
Hitler Avoids Peace Moves
Berlin officials deny reports of new peace attempts and backchannel moves after Allied rejection of Germany's proposals. They state no Nazi ambassadors were recalled for consultations and no monarchical plot was suppressed. Generals Von Stuelpnagel and Hammerstein have not been arrested. Stuelpnagel is retired and Hammerstein commands a reserve division in Southeast Poland.
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Berlin
WUP
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Rome
Moscow
Reich
Joachim von Stuelpnagel
Curt von Hammersteineguard
Knox Urges Free Trade With South America
Col. Frank Knox publisher of the Chicago Daily News urged free trade with South America and removal of trade barriers as steps toward prosperity and world peace. He spoke before the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, saying we should make South America an economic part of the system.
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Cleveland
U.P
Col
Frank Knox
Chicago Daily News
Today
South America
Knox
Cleveland Chamber of Commerce
Wife Slayer Goes on Trial in Oklahoma
The state opened first degree murder proceedings against Roger Cunningham for the strangling of his socially prominent wife. After disposing of the body in a ditch he feigned grief for 19 days before confessing, revealing a calculated plan and sensational motive.
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Oklahoma
Olkahoma City
Chicago Police Will Question Fascist Leader
Chicago police said Dr Homer Herman Maerz 25 leader of the Silver Shirts and two associates were arrested after four plate glass windows were broken at a Goldblatt Brothers department store branch. Maerz Heppner 35 and Schimpp 45 were held and to be questioned by Captain Martin Mullen and FBI agents.
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Chicago
U.P
Homer Herman
Maerz
Silver Shirts
Congressional Committee On
Unamerican
Martin Dies
Tex
Midwest
Martin Mullen
George Heppner
Joseph Schimpp
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Goldblatt Brothers
Ex Seaman Kills Wife Nurse Then Personal Crisis
Authorities linked the pending divorce of a wealthy wife to a retired sea captain who once was her gardener. On a remote road near Pyramid Lake he killed Mrs. Lillian Hawthorne Webster of New York City about 55, her nurse Miss Louise Daniels about 50, and then died by suicide. The third victim was Nils Ablin Almgren Webster, 60.
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Reno, Ney
U.P
Pyramid Lake
Lillian Hawthorne Webster
New York City
Louise Daniels
Nils Ablin Almgren Webster
Communist Leader Is Released From Jail
Earl Browder general secretary of the Communist Party in America and its 1936 presidential candidate leaves jail under a 7500 dollar cash bond. He faces charges of making false statements to obtain passports, offenses punishable by ten years in prison. The bond was provided by Mrs. Hester Huntington, a social register philanthropist who pooled funds though claiming no personal acquaintance with Browder.
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NEW York
U.P
Earl Browder
Communist Party In America
Hester G. Huntington
The
Social Register
Browder
German Raider Sunk British Steamer Stonegate Report
Aftenposten says the German pocket battleship Deutschland roved the Atlantic as a Nazi raider and sunk the British steamship Stonegate. Earlier reports claimed a U-boat sank Stonegate and that its 38 crew were saved by the American freighter City of Flint, later taken as a German prize.
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Oslo
Norway
U.P
Aftenposten
Atlantic
French Army Honours Patriotic Matriarch of France
In Paris a woman named Mrs Francois Tournay of Poincon is identified as the most patriotic in France for having 38 sons grandsons and sons-in-law serving in the army. The government plans to award her a medal. The latest family member to go to the front is a son-in-law of Italian origin.
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Paris
U.P
France
Francois Tournay
Poincon
Tax Rise Is Seen in Plan For Pension
The Ohio State Grange warned members that the Bigelow old age pension amendment would nullify the 10 mill real estate tax limit. It would also tax land and improvements at two percent on land valued at $20,000 per acre and more. The Grange says the plan could create an open season on taxes and leave a large state deficit.
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Columbus
Ohio State Grange
Ohio
Grange
Herbert S. Bigelow
W. F. Kirk
State Grange
Long Removes Two Officials
New Orleans reports state police loyal to Gov Earl K Long oust Attorney General David M Ellison and first assistant James J O Connor from their offices. Gardiner and Heath installed as new attorney general and assistant, with troops defending the offices to prevent disturbance. Ellison had filed for re election in defiance of the political machine.
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New Orleans
U.P
Louisiana
Judicial Department
Huey P. Long
David M. Ellison
James J. O'Connor
L. P. Gardiner
Edward M. Heath
Earl K. Long
Kingfish
Ellison
Long
O’connor
Bricker Asked to Name Ohio State Study Commission
An open letter in the Toledo City Journal urged Gov. John W. Bricker to appoint and fund a state study commission to examine city government problems in Ohio and propose a program to restore municipal government to its intended basis. The letter warned that cities have never been so powerless in Ohio’s history.
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Toledo
U.S
John W. Bricker
Ohio
Toledo City Journal
City Commission
Griffiths Names Pike County Election Board Change
Secretary of State Earl J. Griffith appoints a new Pike County election board after ousting previous members amid an investigation of election irregularities. The move follows the dismissal of mandamus action challenging Griffiths over following Pike County Committee recommendations. Pike County Common Pleas Court denied an injunction blocking further election actions.
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Columbus
U.P
Earl J. Griffith
Pike County Election Board
Pike County
State Supreme Court
Griffith
Pike County Committee
Pike County Common
Myles Hee-Haw as Rain Halts Mechanized Army
Torrential rains on the Western Front hinder German offensive plans and revive debate over motorized versus animal transport. British labor crews prepare to repair roads as mules and horses are praised for reliability in poor conditions while gasoline shortages threaten motorized units.
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Myles Hee-Haw
Webb Miller
United Press
France
U.P
Maginot
Great Britain
Animal School
Textile Mill Owners Fight Pay Increase
Washington U P An estimated 690000 American workers received pay raises today as the national minimum wage rose from 25 to 30 cents an hour. The wage hour law entered its second year under Lt Col Philip Fleming as a legal challenge targeted a 22 cent textile wage order. a circuit court stayed it for three firms, while the administration said the 32 1/2 cent minimum would be enforced elsewhere.
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Washington
U.P
Philip Fleming
U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Referendum on Civil Service Reform on Ballot
Ohio voters will decide in November on the 1939 civil service reorganization act. Secretary of State Earl Griffith says the Democratic petition sponsors collected more than the required signatures to place the referendum on the ballot. The act expands the civil service commission from two to three members and allows the appointing authority to discharge provisional employees without cause.
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Columbus
U.P
Ohio
Earl Griffith
Democratic Committee
Civil Service Law
Civil Service Commission
German Troops Offer Peace to Poilus on Rhine Front
A German informant says German troops have launched a peace offensive along the Rhine inviting French poilus to end the war, claiming no vital issues separate France and Germany. The French high command reportedly plans to jam the broadcasts.
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Paris
U.P
Rhine
France
Germany
Bellevue hardware dealer dies from fall during home inspection
A P Charles W Schug aged 55 a Bellevue hardware dealer and bank director died yesterday from injuries delayed three weeks by a fall he suffered while inspecting the construction of a new home he was building.
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Bellevue
Charles W. Schug
Miami University student dies from auto crash injuries
Jack Barrick, 19, of Toledo and a Miami University student, died in a hospital here yesterday from injuries suffered in an automobile accident on Sunday.
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Hamilton
U.P
Jack Barrick
Toledo
Miami University
Freighter City of Flint Seized Ahead of Maginot Line Action
Adolf Hitler orders intensified sea offensive as the German cruiser Emden seizes the American freighter City of Flint and sends her to Murmansk. The action follows a plan to pound the Maginot Line and break British naval power, with 37 British sailors left ashore in Tromsoe.
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Flint
Hitler
Adolf Hitler
France
Maginot Line
Emden
United States
City
Nazi Sea Raiders Reported Active in South Atlantic
News reports say the Emden may be the only true sea raider at large with persistent chatter of the pocket battleship Admiral Scheer roaming the South Atlantic. Liaison from South American ports cites moving German ships, while French and British observers weigh a Maginot Line strike soon amid muddy conditions and patrol skirmishes on the Rhineland. Soviet Finland talks head toward a showdown over Aland Islands and three Finnish isles, with Helsinki consulting on a possible sharing of control as Stalin and Molotov oversee Helsinki negotiations. The timing may hinge on Ribbentrop’s Danzig speech later today.
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Emden
Admiral Scheer
South Atlantic
Clement
Rnidere
Eee Tree Osprowe
Colombia
Chile
Hitler
Maginot Line
Rhineland
Russia
Finland
Josef Stalin
Viacheslav Molotov
Moscow
Helsingfors
Aland Islands
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Danzig
Frank Gates Former Gallia Judge Dies at 75
Gallia County mourns Frank S. Gates former probate judge age 75 who died of apoplexy midnight Monday He leaves two sons Arnold of Cleveland Lawrence of Gallipolis and a daughter Mrs Anna White of Gallipolis Funeral arrangements pending with a probable Thursday service
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Gallipolis
Frank S. Gates
Gallia County
Arnold
Cleveland
Lawrence
Anna White
Greek steamer sunk in North Sea rescue of 23 crew
London report says the Greek vessel Konstantinos Hadjipateras sank in the North Sea. Fifteen crew members reached a lifeboat, twenty three rescued in total, four missing.
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London
U.P
Konstantinos Hadjipateras
North Sea
Plane Outlasts fliers in endurance flight over Muncie
Kelvin Baxter and Robert McDaniels ended their record endurance flight of 535 hours 45 minutes in Muncie Indiana citing pilot fatigue and eye strain rather than mechanical failure. They said the 55 horsepower Piper Cub engine, running since October first, could have continued despite a knocking sound.
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Muncie
Ind
Kelvin Baxter
Robert McDaniels
McDaniels
Baxter
Two Killed in St Wayne Train Collision at Depot
Two people died and eleven were injured in a switch engine collision with a Chicago New York Express at the downtown Fort Wayne depot. Deceased are Robert Byres don, 54, Windsor Canada, and Erven B Falkheld, 46, Birmingham Michigan. One seriously injured man is identified as Mr B Deihl, Crescent Pennsylvania, and another man is unnamed.
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Fort Wayne
Ind
Robert Byresdon
Windsor
Can
Erven B. Falkheld
Birmingham
Mich
B. Deihl
Crescent
Chicago U Publication Blasts Grid Defeats
The Chicago student daily editorializes that the university looks silly in the eyes of the American people after back to back football losses. Harvard beat Chicago 61 to 0 and Michigan followed with an 85 to 0 defeat.
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Chicago
U.P
University of Chicago
Today
Harvard
Michigan
Bulgarian bands clash with Romanian gendarmes reported
In the Dubrudja area a serious clash occurred between Bulgarian outlaw bands and Romanian gendarmes, with officials reporting the incident today.
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Bucharest
Rumania
U.R
Dubrudja
Boy Dies After Eating Rat Poison Candy Misperception
In Lisbon Oklahoma Gary J Ward two years old son of Mr and Mrs Lloyd Ward died here today after ingesting rat poison in a tablet he thought was candy.
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Lisbon
O.R
Gary J. Ward
Lloyd Ward
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