France Orders Fleet To Fire On Attackers In Mediterranean
Gravely anxious after pirate attacks on two French vessels the government issues orders for all fleet units to fire on any war craft targeting French merchant shipping in the Mediterranean. An Italian air raid allegedly aided Spanish Nationalists and three incidents draw diplomatic tension over Mediterranean communications.
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Paris
Mediterranean
French Morocco
Port Vendres
France
Barcelona
Spain
Africa
Bay of Fornells
Minorca
Porcidas
Sete
Morocco
Coughlin Back On Air Campaign Under Way
Followers of Father Charles E. Coughlin rally to restore his radio program after censorship by Archbishop Mooney. Walter Baertschi of Toledo heads the campaign and owns Social Justice. a Detroit group plans letters to Archbishop Mooney and Pope Pius XI urging Coughlin’s return.
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Detroit
A.P
Charles E. Coughlin
Royal Oak
One Million Christians
Walter Baertschi
Toledo
Social Justice
Coughlin
Baertschi
Hawaiian Prince Held For Murder of Girl
Prince David Kawananakoa grandson of Hawaii’s last king was charged with second degree murder in the death of Arvilla Kinslea a 21 year old girl who bled to death from cuts suffered at a drinking party in his Waikiki Beach apartment on Saturday night Prosecutor John C Kelley filed the charges after the prince was questioned for about 48 hours.
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Honolulu
T. H
Prince David Kawananakoa
Hawaii
Arvilla Kinslea
Waikaiki
John C. Kelley
Prince David
Roosevelt Approves Ohio Road Allotment
Senator Bulkley announced Roosevelt approved a $1.805 million WPA road grant for Ohio projects. Allocations include Hocking County roads $323,269 and Washington County roads $464,099, with final approval pending at the comptroller general.
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Washington
U.P
Robert J. Bulkley
Roosevelt
Works Progress Administration
Ohio
Comptroller General
Hocking County
Washington County
Ohio parole board frees 44 inmates from Penitentiary
The Ohio Board of Parole released 44 inmates from the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus. None of the freed prisoners came from Southern Ohio.
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Columbus
O.R
Ohio Board of Parole
Ohio Penitentiary
Ohio
Ohio University graduate to join Northwest Territory caravan
Long Jaunt Ohio University will be represented in a caravan celebrating the Northwest Territory's founding by William J. L. Farrell of Athens. Farrell, a June graduate, will travel with 36 graduates from higher education institutions. He belongs to Playshop, Green and White staff, Sigma Pi, and Der Deutsche Verein and will report in Ipswich, Massachusetts on November 1 for training.
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Ohio University
Northwest Territory
William J. L. Farrell
Athens
Farrell
Sigma Pi
der Deutsche Verein
Ipswich
Mass
England Promises Peace While Re-arming For Defense
King George in his first speech from the throne to Parliament pledges steady pursuit of peace in Spain and the Far East while maintaining rapid rearmament with emphasis on anti aircraft defense. He says defense expansion proceeds and a bill to formalize civilian air raid protections will be introduced.
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London
George
Spain
Far East
Pork Drops To Help Housewives Budgets
Chicago news says hog prices fell sharply at the livestock market aiding household meat budgets. Cattle and sheep prices held steady but were lower than the 1937 peak, with some buyers predicting further declines across the market.
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Chicago
INS
Hoover to rally GOP at Massachusetts Republican Club dinner
Herbert Hoover plans his first major post election address to spark the anti New Deal effort. He will speak at the Republican Club of Massachusetts semi annual dinner with a nationwide radio broadcast at 9 p m EST.
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Boston
RUP
Herbert Hoover
Republican Club of
Massachusetts
Giant New Gallia County Dam Completed and Accepted
Gallia County’s twelve million dollar dam by Dravo Co. is finished and accepted by the United States Government. The site on the Ohio river near Dam 26 is being landscaped as work crews move lines away from Route 7 and Teen’s Run. Officers Nathan Childers and Worthy Bright now head the dam operations with a corps of assistants.
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New Gallia County
U.S
Gallipolis
Gallia County
Dravo Co
United States
United States Engineers
Ohio
Nathan Childers
Worthy Bright
West Virginia
Eureka
Raccoon Creek
Teen
Montague Denies Robbery Charge As Trial Continues
John Montague, flushed and angry, testifies he was at home during the robbery he’s accused of. He asserts four men fled from a roadhouse crime with his golf clubs and suitcase found in their car. Several California associates, including Bing Crosby and Oliver Hardy, testify to his good reputation, while co-defendant Roger Norton’s accomplice is said to have used a different man’s identity.
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Elizabethtown
N. Y
U.P
John Montague
West
Montague
California
James Noonan
Mark Kelly
Guy Kibbee
Richard Arlen
Andy Devine
Trem Carr
Bing Crosby
Oliver Hardy
Robert McGowan
Victor J. Follen
Thomas McDonald
Roger Norton
Hana's
William Carleton
Hana
Carleton
Burns
Mechanicville
Norton
Thief shoots stockbroker during department store heist
Philadelphia police hunt a Bird gang linked thief after C. Morgan Knight, a stockbroker, was shot and wounded when he confronted A. W. Gregg who had just taken $1240 from a departmental cashier cage and fled down eight floors. Gregg, 49, claimed Joliet prison release.
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Philadelphia
U.S
Bird
C. Morgan Knight
A. W. Gregg
Joliet
Ill
Gregg
Knight
Donahey Backs Federal Regulation of Interstate Gas
U S Senator Vic Donahey of Ohio announces support for federal regulation of interstate natural gas transport in the coming Congress. He says thorough federal investigation and control will ensure taxpayers know what they pay for and where the money goes.
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Columbus
U.P
U. S
Vic Donahey
Ohio
Donahey
Temperature ties to cancer development studied by temple doctors
Two Temple University researchers told the American College of Surgeons that cooling malignant tissue slowed growth and reduced pain. They reported body temperatures vary by region with higher head and neck temperatures correlating to greater cancer occurrence, and slower growth on colder hands versus breasts.
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Chicago
Temple University
American College of Surgeons
Heart Attack Kills Motorist After Mishap
William L. Koenig 64 chief engineer of the Floodwood plant Columbus and Southern Ohio Electric Co died after an automobile collision at Route 31 and Kimberly Road Nelsonville Monday afternoon. Frank Stover 25 involved in the crash. Hamley Run uninjured died later at a local physician's office. Elizabeth Stover 83 suffered scalp injuries and lacerations and was taken home after treatment. grandson suffered a torn thumb.
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Nelsonville
Route 31
Kimberly Road
William L. Koenig
Columbus and Southern Ohio Electric Co
Koenig
Frank Stover
Hamley Run
Elizabeth Stover
WPA Guard Charged With Check Thefts
A WPA school guard, Dewey Joseph, 29, was held to a federal grand jury in Cleveland for stealing 843 in teachers checks from the mails after his wife reported him to postal inspectors. The Riverside School worker had been entrusted with delivering mail and took five teachers checks last Friday.
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Cleveland
U.P
Dewey Joseph
Riverside
Fourth Invader Shot by Grocer in Cleveland
Angelo Marcelino owner of a Cleveland grocery store shot and killed a burglar during an attempted entry. The assailant William Thomason age 29 died from the confrontation, marking Marcelino’s fourth shooting of burglars in eight years. Separate item notes Ohio film censorship board approved two newsreels showing firing on the Spanish front.
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Grocer
Cleveland
U.P
Angelo Marcelino
William Thomas
Marcelino
Columbus
State Division of Film Censorship Today
Ohio
Japan Apologizes for Shanghai Outpost Air Attack
London announced a formal apology to Britain today for an aerial attack on a British Army outpost near Shanghai in which a rifleman from the Royal Ulster Rifles was killed. In Toledo a Willys-Overland Motors plant halted operations due to sheet metal part shortages, affecting about 6,400 workers.
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London
U.P
Japan
Great Britain
Shanghai
Royal Ulster Rifles
Toledo
U.R
Willys-Overland Motors, Inc
State's Property Tops 132 Million
Ohio holds land and property totaling 132,245,683.40 in a report to Governor Davey. John H. Turner led the Cleveland accounting team auditing the state auditor's department. Inventory includes Buildings 68,712,426.98 land 35,413,031.72 equipment 21,149,471.38 liquor stocks 2,481,797.89 supplies 1,668,045.82 materials 1,594,940.31 museum collection 1,225,971.30.
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Columbus
AUP
Ohio
Davey
John H. Turner
Cleveland
State Auditor's Department
Girl Kills Father in Self-Defense Faces Juvenile Delinquency Charge
New York report says 15-year-old Gladys Brietfeller would attend her father Charles Brietfeller’s funeral. She claims self defense after he threatened her mother Minnie. Gladys allegedly stabbed him with a carving knife during a beating incident.
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New York
U.P
Gladys Brietfeller
Children's Court
Minnie Brietfeller
Charles
Gladys
Merit In Plain Drug Sparks 47 Deaths Recall Wide Search
Testimony highlights life saving effects of plain sulfanilamide as 47 deaths are linked to a glycol based elixir. Authorities recall 375 shipments after deaths from ethylene glycol contamination. FDA agents and state officials conduct nationwide recoveries of unaccounted elixir.
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Chicago-Au
Food and Drug Administration
Liquidation of 15 Banks Expected Before Jan 1
The State Banking Department said it will complete liquidation of at least 15 closed banks before Jan 1. Final dividends will be paid in banks including Glouster State Bank with dividend not yet determined and First City Bank Pomeroy with a 70 percent payment expected.
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Columbus
U.P
State Banking Department
Glouster State Bank
First City Bank
Pomeroy
Dayton Detective Links Escape to Ga Prison Break
A detective identified chain scars on the leg of William A. Carroll age 30 while he was held in Dayton and linked Carroll to an escape from Gainesville Georgia prison in April 1944.
Shanghai Battle Escalates as Japanese Drive Through Defenses
Japanese shock troops shattered Chinese lines at two key points in the Shanghai front. Foreign experts warned the next 24 hours would reveal if China could withdraw orderly to a proposed second line five miles west or face disaster. Chinese casualties cited around 250 000 with 67 000 dead. Japanese gains included 6300 rifles and 1200 machine guns.
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Shanghai
U.P
Shanghai Battle Front
International Settlement
Black Avoids Challenge To Court Rights
Washington AUP The question of why Justice Hugo L Black disqualified himself from the Supreme Court's Scottsboro case drew speculation. His nonparticipation blocks a new prejudice based challenge, as the court denied a plea for a third review of Haywood Patterson's 75-year sentence.
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Washington
AUP
Hugo L. Black
Supreme Court
Scottsboro
Justice Black
Alabama
Haywood Patterson
Black
Mrs Hahn Seen With Man Before Death in Cincinnati Trial
State witnesses testified Anna Marie Hahn visited attic room of 67 year old George Gsellman the night before his death on July 6. August Schultz and his wife said they saw Hahn with Gsellman on July 5 and that he returned ill, gripping the bannister on the stairs.
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Cincinnati
U.P
Anna Marie Hahn
George Gsellman
August Schultz
Gsellman
Parents deny notice given on Beloit sterilizations
In Topeka 62 girls sterilized at the State Industrial School faced protests from parents who said no advance notice or right to object was provided. Kathryn McCarthy urged a formal investigation while W H Burke said sterilizations at penal or corrective institutions would halt except in extreme cases. Former superintendent Lulu Coyner defended the operations as a societal service.
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Topeka
Kans
U.P
State Industrial School
Beloit
Kathryn McCarthy
Kansas
State Board of Administration
W. H. Burke
Board of Administrators
Lulu Coyner
Board of Administration
Religious Meet Condemns Aggression at Disciples Convention
In Columbus the international convention of Disciples of Christ opened with a plan to introduce a resolution condemning aggression in China and Spain. The gathering drew about 3,500 delegates and an equal number of visitors from the United States and Canada for the six day meeting.
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Columbus
U.P
China
Spain
International Convention of Disciples of Christ
United States
Canada
Changes To Be Made In Loyalist Cabinet
Loyalist government expected in Barcelona with nationalist reinforcements arriving in Northeast Spain for a big push to the sea. Authorities report cabinet changes would be made coinciding with the move, the second relocation since the 15 months old war.
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Hendaye
Barcelona
Spain
Boulay Named Associate Director of Chicago PWA Division
L A Boulay Ohio PWA director is appointed associate director for a new regional PWA division centered in Chicago. He will keep offices in Columbus Ohio.
CIO proposes new department to bind Lewis unions AFL split
The CIO offered a three point plan to end the AFL Lewis faction dispute. It calls for an industrial basis for organizing workers, a new CIO department within the AFL with autonomous control, and a joint national convention to approve the agreement.
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Washington
U.P
Committee For Industrial Organization Today
American Federation of Labor
A. F. of L
CIO
John L. Lewis
Lewis
Committee For Industrial Organization
Conference on Chinese Japanese War Delayed by Belgian Crisis
The nine power treaty conference was postponed from Saturday to November 3 due to a Belgian cabinet crisis affecting Brussels.
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Brussels
U.R
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W. J. L. Farrell
England
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WPA
Leonard Compton
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Franklin Poorman
Mrs. Hahn
Man
PWA
Lewis Group
AFL
C.so
United States Senate
White House
Union Label Trades Department
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