Chamberlain Repeats Vow To Crush Hitlerism Completely
Warsaw endures a brutal siege as Germany pounds the capital and 105,000 Polish troops are captured. France and Britain vow to fight Hitlerism to the end while Italy moves to form a neutral Balkans bloc. Turkey-Turkey alliance talks advance as Greece and Albania shift troop positions.
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Chamberlain
Rome
Italy
Balkans
Virginio Gayda
Foreign Office
Benito Mussolini
Albania
Greece
Agean Sea
Mediterranean
Turkey
Russia
Poland
Britain
Landon Urges Neutrality Policy Shift at Unity Conference
Gov Alf Landon heads GOP group at Roosevelt unity talks and backs scrapping arms embargo limits for cash and carry. Sen Nye signals war debt surcharge plan and opposition to embargo repeal while congress readies to review neutrality measures amid widespread mood favoring repeal.
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Washington
Alf M. Landon
Roosevelt
National Unity Conference
Congress
Landon
Gerald P. Nye
N. D
Senate
Foreign Relations Committee
Nye
United Press
Great Britain
France
Germany
Soil Erosion Projects Planned Along Ohio Highways
Columbus Ohio State Highway Department and the U S Soil Conservation Service announce cooperation on soil erosion projects within 20 miles of 10 CCC camps in Ohio. Projects use CCC labor and require cooperative adjacent property owners. none proceed without such cooperation.
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Columbus
Darwin Store and Stock Lost in Blaze
The general store owned by G. W. Lee at Darwin on Pomeroy Ath ens Road was destroyed by fire about 10 30 last night. Firemen from Pomeroy aided but reported nothing was saved from the burning building and the blaze origin was not determined.
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Pomeroy
G. W. Lee
Darwin
Pomeroy-Athens Road
Wheat Prices Rise on Chicago Grain Market Surge
Wheat prices jumped up to 3 12 cents on a flood of buying at the Chicago Board of Trade. Strength in the stock market and war news abroad spurred heavy demand.
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Chicago
U.P
Chicago Board of Trades
Poland to be partitioned as German lines advance
Berlin reports German high command outlining Poland's eastern third likely to fall under Soviet control with German withdrawal to the demarcation line after destroying remaining Polish forces. Oil fields at Drohobycz seized as Poles retreat toward Hungary. Hitler’s Danzig speech prompts Allied reaction. Estonia denies Soviet blockade while Finnish plans consider evacuation of Helsinki.
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Berlin
Poland
Ukraine
Dialyslukh
Sault OL Lne
East Prussia
Lithuania
Russia
Drohobycz
Lemberg
Lwow
Adolf Hitler
Danzig
Hitler
Britain
France
Fifth Corps Area Seeks Enlistments
The War Department orders Major General Daniel Van Voorhis to raise 2792 enlistments for the regular army in the Fifth Corps Area covering Ohio Indiana West Virginia and Kentucky.
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Fifth Corps
Columbus
U.P
War Department
Daniel van Voorhis
Army
Ohio
Indiana
West Virginia
Kentucky
Polish Government To Move To France
London reports plans under way for a Polish government to be established in France. Polish leaders are said to be in Romania, which wants them to move elsewhere, while Germany insists many be interned in Romania for the duration of the war.
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London
France
Rumania
Germany
Mnay
Romania
Canada Seeks Volunteers to Serve in Army
Ottawa reports Canada will form and train a volunteer expeditionary force for Europe if needed. Defense Minister Ian Mackenzie says enlisted men may reattach for service in Canada or abroad. a second division will be held in readiness. Cabinet reshuffle moves Mackenzie to pensions and health, Rogers to labor, Powers to postmaster general, McLarty to labor replacement.
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Ottawa
Ont
U.P
Canada
Europe
Defense
Ian Mackenzie
Mackenzie
Norman Rogers
Labor
Pensions
National Health
C. G. Powers
Norman McLarty
Rogers
Train Hits Gas Truck At Massillon Crossing
Oscar L. Rice driver of a Olentangy Oil Co semi-trailer gas truck leapt free as a Westbound Pennsylvania freight struck the vehicle at Third Street S. E. Crossing. Six parked cars and a truck burned while the cab detached containing 4220 gallons of gasoline.
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Massillon
U.P
Oscar L. Rice
Olentangy Oil Co
Columbus
Pennsylvania
Third Street
S. E
Elkader Eyes Three Thanksgiving Dates For Turkeys
Elkader officials consider up to five Thanksgiving days this year. President Roosevelt set November 23 as the national date while Governor Wilson named November 30. The Clayton County Board of Supervisors added a third date November 16 to avoid clashes with higher officials. Local trustees and town officials may announce November 9 and November 2 as additional observances.
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Elkader
U.P
Roosevelt
George A. Wilson
Clayton County
Board of Supervisors
RFC Reveals Finance Prop Under Nation’s Business Structure
Chairman Emil Schram of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation disclosed a 10 billion dollar prop under the nation’s business frame and an extra 1.25 billion dollars to speed recovery from wartime Europe. Total RFC authorizations through Aug 31, 1939 and tentative commitments stood at 13.361 billion, with 1.068 billion for other agencies and 1.8 billion for relief. Loans will target plant and equipment modernization and expansion to increase capacity.
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Washington
U.P
Emil Schram
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
FRC
Europe
Sehram
Heavy firing reported at entrance to Baltic Sea
Aalborg dispatches report heavy gun fire in Kattegat, the waterway between Denmark and Sweden linking the North Sea with the Baltic. The action centers near the entrance to the Baltic Sea with implications for regional maritime safety.
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Baltic Sea
Copenhagen
Aalborg
Kattegat
Denmark
Sweden
North Sea
Baltic
Port Clinton Educator Alfred Duff Dies at 63
Alfred L. Duff 63 attorney and president of the Port Clinton board of education died today from a heart attack. He served as a district leader and legal adviser to the school system.
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Port Clinton
U.P
Alfred L. Duff
War Claims Defenders of Warsaw Defy Siege
Amid a 12 day siege the defenders of Warsaw broadcast a call to resist the Germans and demand British aid while Polish forces hold Lwow. French reports note Western Front activity with solidarity rising between Franco British forces. Germans claim victory at Kutno with large Polish prisoner losses and oil field gains near Lwow. Russians report advances around Lwow and occupation claims across multiple towns in western White Russia and Polish Ukraine.
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Warsaw
Britain
Lwow
Blies
Kutnowon
Vilna
Velika
Berestoviska
Prushany
Kobrin
White Russia
Vladimir Olinsky
Sokal
Brosly
Bobrka
Rogatin
Dolina
Polish Ukraine
Roosevelt to urge AFL CIO unity for wartime labor peace
President Roosevelt plans a peace campaign between the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations as Europe’s war escalates. He will address the AFL convention in Cincinnati and likely send a peace message. Frances Perkins calls labor unity essential during the war emergency.
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Washington
Iu.p
American Federation of Labor
Congress For Industrial Organization
Europe
Roosevelt
AFL
Cincinnati
CIO
San Francisco
Labor
Frances Perkins
John L. Lewis
France Seeks Explanation on Soviet Poland Intervention
Paris asks Soviet foreign minister for a verbal explanation of Soviet Russia's intervention in Poland. France's charge d affaires Jean Payart met Vladimir Potemkin as four German officers led by colonels arrived in Moscow to discuss common Poland concerns.
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Moscow
France
Russia
Poland
Jean Payart
Vladimir Potempkin
Foreign Office
Adolf Hitler
Payart
Potemkin
Freighters to Be Sold to Brazilian Interests
The United States government reportedly agreed to sell 14 privately owned U S freight ships to Brazil. The decision signals solidarity of the Americas ahead of the Pan American meeting in Cristobal.
Mayor of Warsaw Appeals as German Bombardment Intensifies
Warsaw Mayor Stefan Starzynski voiced a urgent plea for help from Britain and France as the siege enters its 12th day. Refugees flood toward Bucharest, Poland’s government flees, and Polish leaders contemplate Malta and exile amid ongoing bombardment.
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Warsaw
London
U.P
Great Britain
France
Stefan Starzynski
Poland
Chamberlain denounces Soviet Poland action as U boats blamed
London reports Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain denounces Soviet intervention in Poland as cynical yet decisive and says six or seven German submarines have been destroyed. He cites Royal Navy and RAF gains against U boats, notes 139 British and neutral deaths, 44 missing, and 578 aboard the Courageous, with total 761 dead or missing.
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London
Neville Chamberlain
Russia
Poland
Adolf Hitler
Danzig
Chamberlain
Bodies of Two Drowned Girls Recovered in Ohio River
POMEROY Staff Special. The bodies of Dorothy Knightling 22 and June Ferra 17 were found this morning in the Ohio River below the Apple Grove Dam, after they drowned Sunday night with Lawrence Donahue and Robert Friend. Both homes were near Apple Grove. double funeral services likely.
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Pomeroy
Dorothy Knightling
June Ferra
Racine High School
Ohio River
Apple Grove Dam
Lawrence Donahue
Robert Friend
Ohio
Miss Knightling
Charles Knightling
Eva
Marie
James
Charles
Emily
Floyd Ferra
Joe
Floyd
Laura Catherine
Ferra
Knightling
Apple Grove
Apiple Grove
Taft Seeks End to Embargo Cash and Carry Plan
Senator Taft argued the United States should end the embargo by shipping goods to all belligerents on a cash and carry basis. He told the Commonwealth Club that strict cash terms prevent financial involvement and loans while keeping the nation out of war despite some Americans favoring intervention.
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San Francisco
U.P
Robert P. Taft
Ohio
United States
Taft
Commonwealth Club
Defense To Finish Case In Fink Trial Today
The defense in the Velma Baker Fink first degree murder trial is to finish its case today. Fink, 22, from Clyde, is charged with killing her 11 week old son Harden last June 13. Ben Dewey plans to call about a dozen witnesses including doctors to support temporary insanity.
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Fremont
Velma Baker Fink
Clyde
Ben Dewey
Miner Killed on First Day Back to Work
Coshocton report states 23 year old Mike Leonard died in an unusual coal mine accident at the Sucker Brothers mine on his first day back after 15 months. He sat down after several hours, his neck touched a 250 volt live wire, and he was electrocuted in a damp area.
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Coshocton
U.P
Mike Leonard
Sucker Brothers
Civil Service Fight Dropped In Ohio Politics
The Democratic state organization abandoned its bid for a 1939 referendum on the Civil Service Reorganization Act and redirected effort toward placing the issue on the 1940 ballot. State leaders cited delays from the secretary of state and petitions invalidation as key reasons.
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Columbus
Earl Griffith
Ohio Supreme Court
Secretary of
Arthur L. Limbach
Thomas J. Herbert
Secretary of State
Republicans To Meet In Columbus Election
In Columbus for the first time two Republicans mayoral rivals meet in the November election. Mayor Myron B. Gessaman received 22 768 votes and Floyd F Green 21 738 in the primary. Democratic candidate David A Shade led Democrats with 12 572.
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Columbus
Myron B. Gessaman
Floyd F. Green
Gessaman
Green
David A. Shade
Democratic Organization
Kermit Roosevelt May Take British War Post
Kermit Roosevelt offered to serve the British government and to become a naturalized British subject to take an official wartime post in London. Churchill reportedly found a suitable ministry role for Roosevelt, son of Theodore Roosevelt, during the war.
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Kermit Roosevelt
London
U.P
Winston Churchill
The
Admiralty
Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
States orders 18 Ohio cities to enforce anti gambling laws
The state liquor control board today ordered officials in 18 Northern Ohio cities to enforce anti gambling laws or forfeit liquor permit revenues.
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Columbus
State Liquor Control Board
Ohio
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