Federal Sacrifices Urged as Cost of Defense Program Mounts
Ohio Chamber of Commerce leaders urge immediate cuts in federal non defense spending amid a stated 100 billion dollar four year defense program. A Graves Williams portsmouth president and George O'Brien Columbus district councils warn of the burden on each employed person, citing red ink from 1931 to 1941 and a projected national debt over 100 billion by 1944.
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Conss
A. Graves Williams
Portsmouth
Ohio Chamber of Commerce
Hotel Berry
George O’brien
Columbus
Ohio Chamber
Christ
Karl S. Dixon
Arch D. Schultz
Gordon K. Bush
Athens
Athens County
Ohio
Williams
United States
Chamber
Curfew Ends as East Gas Stations May Stay Open
Washington reports the curfew on filling stations lifted with a forecast of oil supply improvement. Harold L. Ickes announced gasoline and furnace oil rationing and the nightly curfew would end, allowing stations to operate all night if desired.
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Washington
Harold L. Ickes
Defense Petroleum
Hiring Starts at Arms Factory in 10 Days
Trojan Powder Co plans to hire 2,000 workers within 10 days to run the Plum Brook ordnance plant near Sandusky. Initial production is scheduled for November 15.
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Sandusky
Trojan Powder Co
Plum Brook
Rent ads offer cheap daily slots this weekend
A local classified urges renters to place a three line ad three times for 72 cents to promote house and apartment rentals. It promotes scheduling for 3 P M Saturday November 1st and provides a dial number 0242 for charging.
E J Jones Jr Obituary and Ohio University Faculty Memo
Funeral services for Evan John Jones Jr. 53 longtime Ohio University faculty member will be Sunday at 2 PM at the family home 41 Park Place with Rev. Fred Luchs officiating. Interment in West Union Street Cemetery. He was born December 19 1888 in Athens son of Evan J Jones and Lucy Johnson Jones and graduated Ohio University 1910 BA Philosophy Ardor. He earned MA at Ohio University 1913 and later studied at Harvard University for a doctorate.
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Evan Johnson Jones, Jr
Ohio University
Detroit
Evan Johnson Jones Jr
Park Place
Fred Luchs
West Union Street
Professor Jones
Athens
Evan J. Jones
Lucy Johnson Jones
Evan Jones Jr
Muskingum College
Jones
Harvard University
Suggested Air Route To Include Ohio Cities
Washington State Airlines, Inc. asks the Civil Aeronautics Board to certify an air route from Detroit to Norfolk via Toledo Findlay Marion Columbus Chillicothe Ohio Huntington Charleston Beckley Princeton WV Roanoke Lynchburg Petersburg and Richmond Va.
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Washington
State Airlines, Inc
Charlotte
N. C
Civil Aeronautics Board
Detroit
Norfolk
Toledo
Findlay
Marion
Columbus
Chillicothe
Huntington
Charleston
Beckley
Princeton
W. Va
Roanoke
Lynchburg
Petersburg
Richmond
Emerson Martin Wins Prize With Rod and Reel Catch
Emerson Martin of Elkhart Indiana won first prize in a Wood Lake Michigan fishing contest by catching a six pound bass. He had lost a rod and reel there last year but this year claimed a rod and reel as the prize.
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Elkhart
Ind
Emerson Martin
Wood Lake
Mich
Martin
Does Democracy Mean Anything As Pitkin Says
A crowd over 3000 packed Memorial Auditorium at Ohio University for the Southeastern Ohio Education Association session. Dr. Walter B. Pitkin of Columbia, Dr. Morris R. Mitchell of Alabama State Teachers College, and Kenneth C. Ray spoke with C. W. presiding. Pitkin warned democracy risks becoming mere pleasure seeking as he contrasted three beaches and urged clarity between liberty and democracy.
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Southeastern Ohio Education Association
Memorial Auditorium
Ohio University
Walter B. Pitkin
Columbia University
Morris R. Mitchell
Alabama State Teachers College
Florence
Ala
Kenneth C. Ray
Ohio
C. W
The
Associa
Detroit Labor War Looms AFL Warning
Senators heard AFL spokesman warn of a civil war threat in Detroit labor if a defense housing contract went to a low bidder employing CIO workers. Sidney Hillman said this danger influenced him to oppose awarding the Wayne Michigan project to P. J. Currier Lumber despite the lowest bid. CIO leader A D Lewis charged Hillman with pressuring for a stabilization pact granting AFL unions control over defense projects and said CIO members could strike to enforce federal labor rights.
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Washington
Senators
AFL
Detroit
CIO
Sidney Hillman
Defense
P. J. Currier Lumber Company
Wayne, Mich
A. D. Lewis
Hillman
Lewis
John L. Lewis
Senate Committee
Paroled Ohio Convict Arrested in East Buffalo
Joseph Specs Russell a parolee from Ohio Penitentiary and former Cleveland gunpoint robber is arrested in Buffalo for mail fraud and magazine rack swindle. Police Lt Nowlin says Russell claimed to have repaid about 1200 dollars to victims. Ohio parole officer M. J. Hanchin confirms traveling parole allowed him to leave the state.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Joseph
Specs) Russell
Cleveland
Ohio Penitentiary
C. E. Nowlin
Russell
M. J. Hanchin
Ohio
Germany Heads Toward Starvation Says Doctor
Dr Seale Harris of Birmingham Alabama warns Germany faces slow starvation as hunger and shortages worsen across Europe. He cites 1918 conditions and predicts the German people may revolt within two to three years if supplies do not improve, arguing sacrifices now imperil future food security.
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ST. Louis
Germany
Seale Harris
Birmingham
Ala
Europe
Harris
Army Medical Corps
A.E.F
France
Austria
Denmark
Holland
Belgium
Roosevelt doubles U.S. tank production plan
President Roosevelt announced the American tank program would be roughly doubled at once. He said the full expansion would come later, possibly when Congress reconvenes, with new plants likely and current factories to increase output beyond prior goals. He declined to disclose current totals or the exact increase.
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Washington
Roosevelt
United States
Congress
Mr. Roosevelt
William S. Knudsen
Office of Production Management
Fifty More Hostages Shot By German Firing Squads
In Vichy France fifty French hostages were executed in Bordeaux as retaliation for the killing of a German officer, part of a 100 lives for one policy. Earlier, 50 hostages died in Nantes and 50 were spared reprieve in Bordeaux and Nantes, bringing total French hostage deaths to 184 from the occupation killings.
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Vichy
France
Bordeaux
Nantes
Paul Friedrich Hotz
Reimers
Ohio Schools Future Bright in Treasury Surplus
Ohio Congress of Parents and Teachers members voiced optimism for public schools. Harold W. Houston stated surplus funds in Ohio’s treasury reduce deficit concerns. At the banquet, Mrs. James Birrel was elected congress president, with other officers named from Rossmayne Mansfield Canton and Toledo.
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Columbus
Ohio Congress of Parents and Teachers
Ohio
Harold W. Houston
Urbana
Ohio House of Representatives
James Birrel
Rossmayne
Congress
C. Tracy Lacost
Toledo
I. W. Basinger
Mansfield
Harry C. Frank
Canton
L. D. Martin
Logan Home and Service Station Robbed in City
Two robberies occurred Thursday night in Logan. A private home on S High St owned by Mr. and Mrs. James Krieg was entered with a skeleton key and $29 stolen. The Sinclair filling station on W Main St was broken into, $8 taken, police report.
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Logan
James Krieg
S. High St
Sinclair
W. Main St
Athens Thermometers Sink To New Low 31
Athens felt cold last night as the temperature fell to 31 degrees the lowest this fall. Weather observer Mrs. C. N. France noted the previous low was 33 degrees about three weeks ago. Noon temperature was 58 and yesterday's high reached 75 with .11 inch of rain raising the Hocking to 2.78 feet.
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Athens
C. N. France
British and Free French Attack Jibuti
The Vichy governor general in French Somaliland reported that British and Free French troops began an attack on Jibuti. The dispatch said the assault started Thursday and had advanced about 300 miles into French territory.
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Vichy
France
French Somaliland
Jibuti
Fernch
Mansfield Plant Gets Second Defense Order
The Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Mansfield plant received a second defense order worth 2,750,000 for 37 millimeter armor piercing shells for the army. The contract is expected to reduce layoffs as about 1,000 of the plant's 5,000 workers have been furloughed in the last month due to production curtailments on refrigerators and defense metal shortages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mansfield
Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company
Mrs Spears of Logan Moves to Aid for the Aged Office
Mrs Fanny Spears of Logan will transfer from the Ohio State Resident Engineer office to the Aid for the Aged office. She will replace Mrs Frank Harden in the near future. No successor for Spears current post has been announced.
Defense Plant Swept By $100000 Blaze
A fire at the Leshner Division of the Philip Carey Co. destroyed the smaller building, with unofficial damages around 100000 dollars. The plant, which makes wiping cloths, held large navy contracts. Officials offered no comment pending investigation.
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Hamilton
Leshner
Philip Carey Co
Great Lakes Steel Strike Ends Today
An eight day stoppage at the Great Lakes Steel Corporation in a Detroit area suburb ended as strikers accepted settlement terms and began returning to work. The deal reinstates 16 Steel Workers Organizing Committee members and ends an 8,600 idle workforce amid broader labor actions across Alabama coal mines and Ohio aviation parts plant disruptions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Lakes Steel Corporation
Detroit
Alabama
Ohio Machinery
Bendix
N. J
CIO
Air Associates, Inc
Steel Workers Organizing Committee
Air Associates
Defense Mediation Board
AFL
Buckeye Traction Ditcher Company
Findlay
Ohio
Ship's Officer Tells of Raids
Honolulu report quotes quarter master John Stowe of Brooklyn New York stating freighters under the U S flag were bombed in the Red Sea by German and Italian planes. He describes 21 days of terror including a six hour raid by 300 aircraft and credits luck for survival.
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Honolulu
Britain
United States
Red Sea
John Stowe
Brooklyn
N. Y
Stowe
Death toll rises in Columbus after 66 year old hit by car
In Columbus the 1941 traffic toll climbs to 50 as 66 year old David Jones dies from injuries after being struck by an automobile on Monday.
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Columbus
David Jones
Lehigh Crew Rails To See Hit Run Sub
freighter Lehigh sunk 75 miles west of Freetown after torpedo strike from unseen submarine. Captain Vincent Atkins reports 8 55 a m Sunday blast on No 5 hatch. 2 injured, 39 aboard, 4 Spanish stowaways. Lifeboats launched, 5 rescued by British vessels. ship sinks after unloading manganese cargo.
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Freetown
Sierre Leone
Lehigh
Vincent Atkins
Atkins
New York
Bilbao
Spain
United States
Takoradi
Gold Coast
Majority for Revision in Senate on Armed Merchant Ship Bill
An administration poll shows at least 55 up to 60 senators would back a revision to allow armed merchant ships to sail worldwide. The move aims to broaden House approved arming provisions and pierce neutrality act limits, as hearings wrap up. Another GOP backed plan, led by Wendell L Willkie, seeks full repeal of the neutrality law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Seven Seas
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Wendell L. Willkie
Vandenberg Seeks Cash Reimbursement for Food Sent Abroad
Senator Vandenberg urged that Britain reimburse the United States in cash for one billion dollars of food under the new lend lease appropriation approved by the Senate. He argued the program would siphon funds to Britain, while Taft warned the plan risks becoming an international WPA. The bill moved back to the House after a brief debate.
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Washington
Vandenberg
Mich
Great Britain
United States
Senate
England
United States Treasury
Michigan
Declar
Taft
Ohio
Senator LaFollette
Wisconsin
House
Far East collision threat and Soviet front lines widen
Secretary of the Navy Knox warned that a collision in the Far East was virtually inevitable and could occur on 24 hours notice as Japanese expansion plans continue. In Moscow, Red Army gains and heavy casualties highlighted grave danger to Russia as German offensives press toward Moscow and Britain reports show air raids with limited damage.
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Knox
Far East
Tokyo
United States
Japan
Japan Times
Tokyo Foreign Office
Orient
Soviet Siberia
Manila
Shanghai
Russia
Ukraine
Rostov-on-Don
Moscow
Red Star
Kaiser Wilhelm
U. S. State Department
DNB
Joseph Stalin
Mozhaisk
London
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Berlin
70 Year Old Father of 27 Calls a Halt
Bedford Indiana story: Neal Garland, age seventy, says twenty seven children are enough after the birth of his day old son to his fourth wife Emma, age 35. He notes eight children are with his current wife and cites age and unemployment as reasons to stop expanding the family.
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Bedford
Ind
Neal Garland
Emma
Garland
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Moscow Front
Messeneer
E. J. Jones, Jr
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Ther
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East
U. S
Ohio Schools’ Future Bright
Mansfield Plant
Great Lakes
Associated Press
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